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Why Autocallable ETFs Could Rival the Buffer Category

The broader U.S. autocall note market, issuing roughly $100 billion yearly, is beginning to migrate into an ETF wrapper. Only a fraction of the market has made the move so far.

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The Craft of Building Modern Investment Products

On Care, Constraint, and the Responsibility of Design

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Where Wall Street Meets Silicon Valley: Lessons from Building at the Edge of Markets and Technology

Trace the lessons from Vest's founding story, from the trading floors of Wall Street to the startup culture of Silicon Valley, and why the future of investing requires both worlds.

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The Great Derivatization of Investment Products: How Derivatives are Becoming the Design Language of Modern Investing

Trace the evolution of derivative-based investment products from institutional tools to mainstream retail solutions, chronicling Karan Sood's journey to co-founding Vest.

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The Uncapped Accelerator: A New Era of Target Growth Strategies

Downside protection strategies, once used by institutional investors to hedge equity volatility are now broadly available to investors in vehicles such as exchange-traded funds (ETFs). This paper explains the importance of selecting the appropriate benchmark when incorporating equity risk reduction strategies into an overall portfolio.

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The Case for Risk-Managed Bitcoin Exposure

Samuel Moore examines Bitcoin's past performance after hitting new highs, and shares how a volatility management strategy can give investors potential exposure to Bitcoin's upside while seeking to mitigate downside risk.

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Managing Downside Equity Risk as an Asset Allocation Strategy: A Look Back at Early Institutional Applications

Downside protection strategies, once used by institutional investors to hedge equity volatility are now broadly available to investors in vehicles such as exchange-traded funds (ETFs). This paper explains the importance of selecting the appropriate benchmark when incorporating equity risk reduction strategies into an overall portfolio.

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Fixed Income isn't the only income game in town

Target Income Strategies give investors an alternative way to monetize risk, potentially creating income from any type of tradable, risky investment alternative. That includes high growth, low dividend stocks, and even commodities.

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Risk Management 2.0: Looking Beyond Asset Allocation

The paper provides analysis and guidance for practitioners looking to make an allocation to specific buffer strategies and seeking to understand how the risk and return compares to an asset allocation portfolio.

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Calibrating Downside Risk to Investment Horizon and Volatility Regime

We explore the volatility/time horizon connection that can be critical to constructing downside-risk strategies.

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The Genesis of Target Outcome Investing

Learn how Target Outcome Investments are designed to deliver specific outcomes with a high degree of certainty.

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Targeting Income and Protection With Dividend Aristocrats

Learn how a new S&P Dividend Aristocrats strategy seeks to add a level of targeted income to dividend grower stocks with Vest's Karan Sood and S&P Dow Jones Indices' Shaun Wurzbach and Vinit Srivastava.

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