Ben Carlson
speaker
840 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 13 Aug
Ben Carlson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Right?
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Yes.
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And so so tell me how you are accessing that leverage.
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You're just using the futures markets?
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Exactly.
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If you just did a portfol uh an S block, you're borrowing at seven percent or something, eight percent maybe.
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It's a really high hurdle rate.
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Which essentially works out to what?
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Similar to treasuries or whatever library used to be, something like that.
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Yeah, like T
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Right.
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So you have a three or four percent hurdle rate or something right now, essentially.
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That's your borrowing cost.
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we're talking like five percent bond yields right it's it's it's it's a more normalized environment.
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Yeah you're right for you that has to make sense so
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With the futures you're buying, are you bu buying futures tied to the stock market or the bond market then?
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Right.
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And then the leverage on that h explain to us just how the I know we're getting in kind of wonky details here, but explain to us like how the leverage works in the futures market.
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Like how much leverage is it in the futures market when you buy something?
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So a lot of advisors want to add diversifiers to their portfolio, but then it becomes challenging to figure out where that allocation comes from.
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