Enhanced indexing strategies : utilizing futures and options to achieve higher performance

Index funds are among the highest performing and most reliable investments available in the marketplace. Over the past several years, literally hundreds of index-related products have been introduced to the marketplace, most designed to provide investors with the capability to mix and match different funds in order to build custom portfolios. At the same time, leveraged investment products for the retail investor - which use borrowed capital to increase the returns within the structure of a passive investment strategy - are also one of the fastest growing products in the financial world. In Enhanced Indexing Strategies, Tristan Yates shows how to successfully combine these products using leveraged indexing to deliver better risk-adjusted returns than conventional approaches