Accumulating Wealth by Combining Exchange Traded Funds (EFTs) and Options Income

The central theme of this book is the use of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), Index tracking and options writing strategies as a tool to diversify your investments, to reduce portfolio volatility and to achieve an attractive rate of return.

Managing Risk is one of the most important elements in the process of accumulating wealth. Options can be used as a tool to control risk. The tremendous increase in the popularity of index investing by individual investors, institutions and money manager, together with the huge number of new exchange traded funds (ETFs) and the large increase in options and derivatives trading volume have created new ways to add income, reduce volatility and improve the management of risk.

This book is not an attempt to teach you how to make a "home run" investment. Rather, it is an attempt to show you how the cumulative effect of small incremental gains can help you to "make money and keep it".

This book is written for both individual investors and professional portfolio managers who are risk- averse and are looking to invest a portion of their assets using an ETF equity income strategy to provide additional income and at the same time reduces portfolio volatility. In addition, pension funds and institutional investors who are also looking to enhance portfolio returns and lower volatility of their portfolios and who are willing to forgo some upside potential in order to improve risk-adjusted returns.