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Options are a powerful tool in building your business. They provide you with more alternatives and greater versatility for managing your clients’ portfolios. At OIC Advisor you'll learn everything you need to know about options, and how they can help your clients achieve their investment goals. OIC is ready to help you build your business offering the following items:

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    • Generate Income. Write covered
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    • Hedge a Position. Create a collar, protect price.
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    Client Strategies for Advisors

    Time May Be Right for Hedging Strategies

    "Clients and financial planners were able to blow off the dot.com bubble as a once in a lifetime event, but after 2008 they can't ignore the facts.  The 1990's were the aberration, not what is happening now."

    "Looking back we can see the buy and hold strategy was a creation of the 80's and 90's but it doesn't work today.  People understand that there are times when you need to look at hedging strategies and that can be a positive for advisors who use options."


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    Fundamentals

    The Value of Options Clients

    The Value of Options Clients

    By almost every measure, clients that invest in options are more attractive. They are more affluent, better educated, and more likely to hold diversified portfolios. Get the full picture of options clients in the Harris Interactive Survey.

    Advanced Concepts

    Collar Strategies Outperform Buy and Hold

    Collar Strategies Outperform Buy and Hold

    This study reaffirms the risk management potential of options, finding that during the entire 10-year study period, including the sub-periods around the tech bubble and credit crisis, collars significantly outperformed the QQQ, providing much needed capital protection. Read the summary version or the full white paper to learn more.
    Options Can Aid in Portfolio Recovery

    Options Can Aid in Portfolio Recovery

    With this one-by-two options strategy—also called an option repair strategy—you can help a badly damaged portfolio break even without taking on additional risk. Find out more in this Q&A with Alex Jacobson, an instructor for The Options Industry Council.