Exploring options and options-based investing strategies

In this episode of Alternative Angles, host Steve Rosen, a former portfolio manager in Fidelity’s High Income & Alternative Investing division, talks equity options with Eric Granat, Fidelity portfolio manager and derivatives analyst. Eric has spent more than twenty years trading, analyzing, and investing in options and shares his insights on how he constructs options-based strategies to enhance portfolio performance and risk attributes. Listen in as Eric and Steve dive into options-based investing strategies, including: The attributes, benefits, and risks of put and call options and their use cases for investors.How an investment portfolio appropriately built with an options-based overlay is a method to create a more stable return profile.Eric’s rationale for why options-based strategies are worth considering as an alternative to the traditional 60/40 portfolio mix.New developments in a dynamic options-based marketplace.