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Advisory Services

We provide comprehensive derivative advisory services for clients that include investment managers, trust officers and trust administrators, managers of portfolios for high-net-worth individuals, as well as other investors.

Our team works to understand the particular needs and objectives of each client. Then we develop a strategy to achieve their goals. In addition, we constantly monitor derivative markets to identify developing trends in the underlying securities, analyze their impact on the portfolio and recommend adjustments when necessary.

Our derivative strategies allow investors to maximize their fundamental and technical goals of the underlying security. We utilize proprietary models designed to analyze and compare volatility and investment return to assist in this function.

The primary listed equity derivative strategies used by our group include:

• Covered call writing — sale of call options against long shares
• Protective put — purchase a put as insurance on an existing position
• Protective collars — purchase put option/sell covered call option to fund the put purchase
• Sale of a put option to acquire shares below current share price