Profiting with Synthetic Annuities: Option Strategies to Increase Yield and Control Portfolio Risk

Acknowledgments

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to several people who made this book possible. At Pearson/FT Press, my editor Jim Boyd, who believed in the material and understood better than me what the scope of the book should be; Michael Thomsett, who gave the project invaluable guidance and direction from beginning to end; Lori Lyons, for her dedicated and patient production management; Krista Hansing, for copyedits; and all those who helped with marketing, illustration, and production.

I would also like to thank Don DePamphilis at Loyola Marymount University for giving me the idea to write the book and being a mentor; Cooper Stinson, a gifted writer who reviewed early manuscripts and asked all the right questions; Leslie Soo ...