IPS In The News

by Dominick Paoloni, CIMA® IPS Strategic Capital published a white paper on a systematic approach to low cost tail risk hedging through the use of VIX options.  This white paper was featured in the Journal of Investment Consulting magazine, Vol. 17, No. 1, 2016. Click here to read the paper.

Asset allocators and portfolio managers (PM) have had many sleepless nights in 2015 with the global markets being very volatile. The S&P 500 has been essentially flat for 2015, the bond markets have been under press anticipating a rising interest rate environment, commodities have been under strong downward pressure and Europe is teetering on recession. The question is, where does a PM diversify? Read More…

By: Yakob Peterseil from Structured Products Magazine Like someone who believes that what he is saying should be plainly obvious to all, Dominick Paoloni rattles off the shortcomings he sees with the structured products sold by Wall Street. These firms charge excessive fees, he says, have long tenors and point-to-point payouts, and expose investors to unacceptable levels of counterparty risk. In fact, Paoloni dislikes these products so much that six…

    May 22, 2014 By: Yakob Peterseil Structured Products Magazine “It was too good to be true. I couldn’t sell them quick enough,” Dominick Paoloni of IPS Strategic Capital says as he remembers some of the first indexed annuities, which were rolled out by the Sun Life insurance company in 1996. The Denver-based financial adviser is now fond of saying most annuities are not worth the paper they are…

By: Libby Dubick Dubick & Associates for OIC Advisor Publications “We just got audited,” said Dominick Paoloni, President of IPS Strategic Capital, in Denver, Colorado. “After determining that the vast majority of my clients were retirees, and that they were all in options-driven strategies, the auditor asked me if I thought it was prudent. “Options were originally designed as a hedge. It is true that people use them to leverage…

By: Dominick Paoloni, CIMA®   The popularity of structured investing is slowly moving its way through the financial community mainstream. Structured investing is a sophisticated technique that allows investors to reduce or eliminate the downside market risk, or leverage the returns, of the underlying asset class. By blending structured investments into a portfolio mix that may include traditional ETFs, or mutual funds, advisors can provide a suitable risk versus reward…

By: Dominick Paoloni, CIMA® Managing money is extremely difficult and ever changing. According to AARP, the two greatest concerns of their members are outliving their income and not having enough savings to retire. During the last twelve years the capital markets have exacerbated this problem with volatile stock markets and crashing real estate values. Good money managers lost less, which gives little solace to the investors whose main concern is…

Dominick Paoloni, CIMA® CIO & Founder Portfolio Manager, IPSAX Adjunct Professor, University of Denver & University of Colorado Over the years I have written many articles on the good, the bad, and the ugly of annuities. As I always point out, there are many kinds of annuities, and the terms can vary widely depending on the individual contract. In the mid-1990’s IPS Strategic Capital was one of the first financial…

By: Illana Polyak, Morningstar Advisor At least once a year, Dominick Paoloni flies to the British Virgin Islands, rents a 50-foot catamaran for a week, and sails the Caribbean Sea. The trips, which tend to coincide with favorable winds, take him to one or two islands a day. The rest of the time is spent watching the sailboat slice through still, glassy waters. On a few occasions, the seas have…