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Indexing Covered Calls for Insurance
How can an emphasis on rules-based predictability provide greater clarity in risk and return assessment? In an interview with Insurance Asia News, S&P DJI’s Priscilla Luk explores how an index-based approach to covered calls may help insurance companies to mitigate the impact of market volatility.
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How Is Indexing Informing Income Seekers?
S&P DJI’s Jason Ye and Altere Financial’s Andy Sharp join Nadine Blayney at Ausbiz to discuss how some advisors are using indices to help inform income-seeking clients as they plan for the future.
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Income Generation and the S&P/ASX BuyWrite Index
In my last blog, we discussed the performance characteristics of the S&P/ASX BuyWrite Index. We will now focus on the income-generating feature of this index. As a reminder, a covered call strategy involves selling a call option against an asset that is already owned by the option writer. A systematic long-term covered call strategy generates…
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18-Year Performance of the S&P/ASX BuyWrite Index
The volatile and unpredictable nature of the stock market is characterized by periods of ups and downs. Covered call option writing is a strategy aimed at generating income and mitigating loss, particularly in bear market environments. A covered call (or “buy-write”) strategy involves selling a call option against an asset that is already owned by…
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