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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Transferring Risk

"We tell our clients there are three things we can do with risk;" says advisor Mark Cortazzo, "Avoid it, manage it or transfer it. People understand the word avoid, and may understand how in the past risk could be managed through asset allocation. But with the traditional correlation between the markets eroded, using asset allocation is not as effective, and we are looking at ways to transfer risk."
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Half of All Advisors Used Options in 2010

Brochure Now Available on Study of Advisors' Use of Options

"Options and the Financial Advisor" has the highlights of the OIC's recent benchmark study which measured options usage among advisors, examined how, when and why they used them and compared the practices of advisors who use options with those who do not. Learn more about the brochure here. Read the full study here.

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To acknowledge someone as an expert people will often say "he wrote the book", but when it comes to options and Larry McMillian, he really did write the book. Options As A Strategic Investment, first published in 2001, is one of the best-selling option books of all time. In May 2011 his contributions to the business were recognized when he was awarded the Joseph W. Sullivan Options Industry Achievement Award by OIC. Read more

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Best Practices Highlight

Adding Options To Your Practice In Seven Simple Steps Ready to Add Options to Your Practice?

Advisors that use options strategies with their clients have larger, more successful practices. Isn't it time that you joined their ranks?

Learn the 7 Simple Steps here.

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THE STRIKING PRICE

The Volatility Illusion
Posted on January 21, 2012
Investors and pundits are greatly overstating the extent of market gyrations. Why that bodes well for U.S. Stocks.

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