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Mar 2025
59m 24s

Unlocking the Equity Risk Premium with D...

RCM ALTERNATIVES
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In this episode, Jeff Malec sits down with Rick Silva, the co-founder of Metaurus Advisors, a boutique asset manager. Rick walks us through Metaurus Advisors' innovative approach to understanding and trading the equity risk premium using dividend futures markets.

Rick Silva provides insights into the firm's background in derivative markets and their goal of bringing fixed income securitization techniques to the equity space. He explains the concept of parallel tranche securitization applied to the S&P 500 using dividend futures, which offers visibility into how the market prices equity cash flows and the equity risk premium.

Rick and Jeff discuss the strategies Metaurus has developed to harvest risk premiums in the front-end of the dividend curve across different markets, as well as the introduction of new futures contracts based on sequential tranche securitization of a 100-stock index. The episode also addresses the challenges and opportunities in the dividend futures market, including differences across regions, and for a little fun, we fall down a political rabbit hole - SEND IT!


Chapters:

00:00-01:02=Intro

01:03-09:57= Bringing Fixed Income Securitization Techniques to the Equity Markets

09:58-21:53= Harvesting Equity Risk Premiums through Dividend Futures Strategies

21:54-35:36=Introducing Sequential Tranche Securitization in Equity Futures Contracts

35:37-44:06=Dividend Futures Markets Across Regions and Regulatory Challenges

44:07-54:07=Implied growth rate & data analysis
54:08-59:22=Rabbit Holes: Political Impacts


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