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SCG's Merrill on how derivatives mitigate risk and goose equity returns.
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Ian Merrill, president of SCG Asset Management -- which runs The Alternative Strategies Income Fund, a continuously offered closed-end interval fund -- says that investors can change the risk-reward picture in equities by using derivatives to reduce risk but also set up the potential for higher income. He suggests that using derivatives allow a classic 60-40 balanced investor to go to 50-30-20, with derivatives representing the last part of the allocation and generating returns that normally would require a lot more equity exposure. Merrill says that the explosion in derivative products -- driven in part by the success of defined outcome ETFs -- makes it incumbent on investors to avoid confusion and make sure they know the investment intentions are for any manager using derivatives.
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