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The Best Investment Writing Volume 5: Selected Writing from Prominent Investors and Authors

The Meb Faber Show - Better Investing

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The Reliability of Put Options in the 500 Index

The more reliable a security, and insurance security is, for example, a put option, typically the more upfront cost you have to pay. Put options in the 500 index are probably the most reliable way of hedging downside risk condescent by 500 index because it doesn't suffer from the basest risk that might come fo diversification. And correspondingly, because it's so reliable, it costs a little bit more.

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