Sentences with phrase «index call options»

The fund also writes index call options, typically on broad - based securities market indexes.

In the current indexed annuity world, there are over 40 index choices (some made up out of thin air) and over 700 index call option versions to choose from.

When market conditions are viewed as favorable, the Fund may use index call options to leverage its exposure to general market fluctuations.

Market action continued to demonstrate good breadth (advancing versus declining issues), prompting us to hold about 1 % of assets in index call options on that basis, but the overall price - volume behavior still appears more consistent with a standard bear market rally, punctuated by periodic short - squeezes like we observed on Friday.

The Strategic Growth Fund can be viewed as being hedged with slightly in - the - money put options, or alternatively, as having a full hedge, plus a position in slightly out - of - the - money index call options (because of how options work, those descriptions are essentially identical).

The strategy is to hold a diversified portfolio mid - to large - cap value stocks, mostly domestic, and to hedge part of the stock market risk by selling a blend of index call options.

The new FIAs seem to focus solely on the accumulation strategies of the one - year index call options, and the ability to get your money back in a few years if you don't like the product.

The bad news is that index call option gain can only be locked in one day a year with most FIA policies.

Indexed universal life relies on the performance of the insurer's hedged investments that contain index call options — a highly sophisticated and complicated investment strategy.

When market conditions are viewed as favorable, the Fund may use index call options to leverage its exposure to general market fluctuations.

Writing index call options is designed to reduce the fund's volatility relative to U.S. equity securities and provide the fund with gains from premiums received.

The left hand side with variable annuities is the separate accounts (i.e. mutual funds), and with indexed annuities it is the index call option (normally on the S&P 500).

The options portfolio is index call options.

Option overlay: An investor that sells an index call option incurs a liability in exchange for the up - front receipt of the option premium received.

You could buy an index call option, or go long of the futures, to satisfy your view.

The other positive news is that if the markets go down, and the index call option expires worthless, you don't lose any money.

Hopefully, we will see these hidden expenses built back into the index call option return potential.

Well, remember, the insurer uses both index call options and bonds to secure investment earnings.

With an index call option, insurance companies buy the value of an entire stock market index (i.e. the S&P 500, the Dow, or the NASDAQ).

Instead, it uses a very precise mix of bond investments and index call options to pay interest based on the upward movement of a stock market index.