Market Perspective

Quality and High Yield?

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 ...
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Environment Remains Strong for Option Writing

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 ...
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Volatility & The Fed

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 ...
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Half Full

Investors familiar with options-based strategies may also be familiar with the Cboe® S&P 500® BuyWriteSM Index (the BXMSM), which represents a covered call writing approach...
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The Election Episode

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 ...
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Summertime Volatility

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. ...
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Options & Rates

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 ...
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All About The Rates

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 ...
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Quality Comparison: Minimum Volatility and High Dividend

In a world full of uncertainty, the familiarity and durability offered by the quality factor is increasingly important for investors...
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Quality Matters

In the world of investing, factors are nothing new and are often used as a tool for diversification. With factor-based approaches, however, many investors often ...
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