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By Marc Odo, CFA, FRM, CAIA, CIPM, CFP
2022 illustrated the need for a capital preservation...
Randy Swan developed the Defined Risk Strategy in 1997 to help protect clients from large losses. Before founding Swan Global Investments, Randy was a CPA and senior manager for KPMG’s Financial Services Group, primarily working with insurance companies and risk managers. His experience at KPMG helped him in designing the DRS, as he was able to see firsthand how insurance companies manage risk. The DRS seeks to use options strategically and tactically to structure particular risk/reward parameters in portfolio management.
Randy is a frequent speaker at industry conferences such as the Options Industry Council’s Wealth Summit, the Alternative Investment Summit and more. Additionally, he serves on the Advisory Leadership Council of the Options Industry Council (OIC). The initiative is designed to support education within the financial advisor channel, specifically focused on advancing the awareness and use of options in building a superior portfolio.
Randy is a 1990 graduate of the University of Texas with a master’s degree in professional accounting.
Rob manages and implements the Swan Defined Risk Strategy as Co-Portfolio Manager, including investment management and trading as well as development and maintenance of proprietary technology, enabling Swan to scale and execute the DRS across multiple platforms and thousands of accounts. He also provides daily oversight of Swan operations as COO.
Prior to joining Swan, Rob’s previous positions have ranged from flight-test engineering and computer aided design software development at the Boeing Company, to director of operations and part owner of Object Publisher Web Services, the leading web service automation provider for custom brochure and catalog publishing. His analytical, technical, and computing skills have been developed and applied since 1988 in production software development, computer automation, process design and standardization, business and technical process modeling, and aerodynamics engineering.
Rob’s outside interests include mountain biking, fishing, skiing, scuba diving, and sailing. He took a one-year sabbatical with his wife, Michelle, to sail their 40’ boat from Seattle to Mexico, across to French Polynesia, up to Hawaii and back to Seattle. (Rob now understands why people invented airplanes.) Rob and Michelle spend time trying to keep up with their two boys, Jackson and Austin, who are quite a bit faster than their sailboat.
By David Lovell, Managing Director – Head of Marketing
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By Marc Odo,CFA,CAIA,CIPM,CFP,Swan Global Investments
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By Marc Odo,Swan Global Investments
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An allocation to fixed income has traditionally been present in all but the most aggressive of...
In the midst of a bull market, investors tend to forget that markets can and do sell off. The...
By Marc Odo,Swan Global Investments
Options-based strategies have been growing rapidly over the...
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One of the new strategies attracting attention and assets these days is “low volatility”...
It can be discouraging when an active manager’s short-term up capture isn’t on par with their...
With all of the volatile political events happening domestically and internationally, the low...
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What Hawthorne said about American families can just as easily be applied to American companies....
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Exchange traded fund strategists behind the growing group of ETF managed portfolios in the...
Recently, Swan held its second annual CIO Summit where over 80 participants converged in Chicago...
Consistency of returns is an important driver of overall investment results, just like in sports...
For decades the standard representation for a balanced portfolio has been the “60\/40”- 60%...
Virtually every portfolio manager claims to invest in a risk-controlled manner. However,...
The battle between active and passive management has been raging for years, but in 2016 the...
“In life, as in football, you won’t go far unless you know where the goal posts are” (Arnold...
Turn the frown upside down! Options on the SPDR Gold Trust ETF (GLD) can exhibit a different type...
We have focused on equal sector weighting as Swan believes there are numerous benefits to an...
ETFs provide investors a wide range of choices to access world markets via a liquid,...
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On any given day, ETF trading volume is usually some of the heaviest in the world. Increased...
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Everybody loves math, right? Such an exciting topic, said very few people ever.
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