Retirees Can Maintain Income, Manage Risk with This ETF

“At retirement, other than Social Security, the regular income is gone (other than for the rare individuals who have guaranteed pensions). Now you are mostly dependent on a pool of savings. This money must supply enough annual income to support your desired lifestyle and do so for your entire remaining (maybe joint with a spouse) lifetime. And you have so much more time to ‘watch’ your portfolio and worry about it,” Steven Podnos, a financial planner in Central Florida, writes for Florida Today.

Consequently, the gyrations in the markets, especially during corrections or a steep bearish pullback, could cause some anxiety.

Most retirees need to remain disciplined and stay invested during the market volatility, or investors will require someone to help them.

“Trying to time the market’s swings will almost certainly accelerate your losses,” Podnos said.

Additionally, retirees could maintain safer fixed-income assets to help weather the storm or remain a solid foundation for an investment portfolio.

“Many advisors favor a ‘retirement bucket’ approach-which is a pool of fixed income that can provide several years of desired distributions regardless of what the stock market is doing. This may be a drag on performance (especially now with ultra-low interest rates) but adds a great deal of safety.” Podnos added.

ETF investors can look to something like the Nationwide Risk-Managed Income ETF (NYSE Arca: NUSI), which seeks to provide current income with a measure of downside protection.

NUSI follows a rules-based options trading strategy that seeks to produce high income using the Nasdaq-100 Index, an index of the 100 largest non-financial stocks on the Nasdaq exchange. The ETF potentially may complement traditional equity and fixed income allocations or function as a possible hedge for investors.

The Nationwide Risk-Managed Income ETF establishes a collar strategy to generate monthly income. Collar strategies involve holding shares of the underlying stock while at the same time buying protective put options and writing calls for the same security. A put option gives its owner the right but not the obligation to sell the underlying asset at a specified price and on a specified date. A call option gives its owner the right but not the obligation to buy that asset instead.

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Collar – an options trading strategy that is constructed by holding shares of the underlying stock while simultaneously buying protective puts and selling call options against that holding.

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