Suppose you have invested $100,000 in a stock portfolio that can approximately represent the S&P 500...

Suppose you have invested $100,000 in a stock portfolio that can approximately represent the S&P 500 index. Now you think that you should invest 1⁄2 of your money in gold synthetically and the remaining would still be invested in the stock portfolio. How can you achieve this without selling a single stock from your portfolio? Explain your strategy in detail.

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If you wants to transfer the beta exposure from equity market to gold market without sell any stock, then Futures comes into play and you have to sell the $50'000 S&P 500 Index Futures and buy $50'000 Gold Futures so that synthetically you invest only $50'000 in portfolio and 1/2 of the portfolio ie. $50'000 in gold synthetically.

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