Market Perspective

With the return of the Trump Administration, there is uncertainty about the potential impact of recently implemented policies and impending changes...

In 2024, the S&P 500® Index achieved its first consecutive 20%+ return since 1998-1999 while the Cboe® Volatility Index (the VIX®) reached crisis-like levels, supporting ...

The Gateway Quality Income strategy seeks to provide equity market participation and consistent income with reduced risk using two components. The first component is to ...

A departure by the Fed from expansive quantitative easing and economic management to more normalized and core-mandate driven policy has generated more uncertainty for the ...

Investors following along this year witnessed higher average levels of volatility compared to the post-crisis quantitative easing era. However, until August, it was a relatively ...

Investors familiar with options-based strategies may also be familiar with the Cboe^® S&P 500^® BuyWrite^SM Index (the BXM^SM), which represents a covered call writing approach...

In recent Perspectives, stock market volatility trends and impact on options market pricing has been reviewed. Summertime Volatility highlighted the seasonality of implied and realized ...

Spring has turned to summer and offers a chance to sit back, unwind, and find even the smallest escapes from the routines of the year. ...

There has been much discussion about the aberration of the low interest rate period that prevailed throughout much of the period following the Great Financial ...

In modest fashion, the U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed) often dominates headlines, and it has been no different during the recent period of transitioning monetary ...