Leveraged Anchor is Boosting Performance
A “normal” Anchor portfolio uses about 90% of its available cash to purchase long equities, most commonly ETFs. The other 10% is used to purchase the hedge. This means, even if the strategy performs “perfectly” by paying off the hedge, in the best case scenario, it will still lag the market by at least ten percent – and we all know perfect performance is unlikely. In other words, if the market goes up 20%, Anchor will, at absolute most, go up 18% -- prior to accounting for the cost of the hed
In our last article on the Anchor Strategy, we discussed what the strategy is and what it is not, as well as attempting to set expectations for investors. In this piece we’ll examine the possibility of “boosting” performance through the use of additional options to gain leverage.