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# A User's Guide to Buffer ETFs

 

 

Financial advisor Stuart Chaussee talks about the driving forces behind the popular strategy.



 

 

 

 

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In this episode of Advisor Insider, etf.com Wealth Management Editor Jeff Benjamin talks with Stuart Chaussee about his extensive research and writing about buffer ETFs.

Chaussee, a financial advisor based in Beverly Hills, Calif., published an easy-to-follow guidebook on buffer strategies. He identifies the advantages and disadvantages of applying buffers that limit downside and cap upside performance.

“Most advisors will use buffer ETFs as a sleeve of an overall portfolio,” he said, acknowledging these strategies are best suited for investors in or near retirement.

Chaussee also sees [buffer ETFs](https://www.etf.com/topics/buffer) are a proxy for fixed income in certain instances.

Here is a link to a free pdf file of Chaussee’s book, [*Investor’s Guide to Buffer ETFs*](https://preservingwealth.com/book-campaign/).



 

 

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