Protect your gains, retain upside.
WHY HEDGE APPRECIATED STOCK WITH AN OPTIONS COLLAR?
De-risk today. Defer the tax.
A tailored hedging strategy can give you:
- Downside protection — we build the floor where you want it: tight or wide
- Growth participation — you stay invested in further appreciation
- Financial flexibility — unlock capacity for income, borrowing, and diversification
Compound your gains, tax-deferred
TAX-DEFERRED DIVERSIFICATION
A well-designed hedge can lock in a downside floor while preserving meaningful upside — often at zero net premium — without triggering an immediate sale.
How zero-cost collars work: Premium collected from selling an upside call funds the protective put. Strike selection sets the floor, the ceiling, and the net cost — calibrated to your tax basis, holding period, and downside tolerance.
For investors with large embedded gains, a properly structured hedge can unlock borrowing capacity against the position — providing diversification or liquidity without realizing the capital gain.
Hedge with a fiduciary
RIA: Registered Investment Advisor
Gain access to leading concentrated-stock hedging structures — options collars, prepaid variable forwards, exchange funds, and tax-aware liquidity strategies — selected as a fiduciary, nothing else. No proprietary products, no lock-in: best-fit structures, competitively priced.
IMPACT Direct
Direct
“Access + fiduciary oversight”
Full access to the IMPACT Protect℠ suite with fiduciary oversight — without the full-service wrapper.
- Full access to best-of-breed tax-aware solutions
- Fiduciary onboarding
- Streamlined onboarding
- À la carte advisor support if you need more
Who IMPACT Direct is for
The full IMPACT Protect℠ suite is now available to sophisticated investors who want fiduciary access to options collars, prepaid variable forwards, exchange funds, and other concentrated-stock hedging structures — without the full-service wrapper of financial planning, education, and 'white glove' onboarding.
If you've already climbed the learning curve, you may qualify for IMPACT Direct, with streamlined onboarding. You may be a fit if:
- You seek a fiduciary who can navigate a myriad of options but not the full package of comprehensive wealth management and planning.
- You no longer need the 'white glove' service level and pricing of your existing advisor.
The initial consultation is complimentary — a chance to determine mutual fit. IMPACT Direct clients get three onboarding calls with a fiduciary to smooth the onboarding, with additional advisor support available à la carte.
Comprehensive Wealth Management
Full-service
“Integrated wealth management”
Concierge onboarding, end-to-end fiduciary handling, ongoing oversight. We are the coach and quarterback.
- End-to-end account set-up
- Hedge structure & strike selection
- Ongoing position oversight
- Integrated tax & financial planning
Why full-service for hedging
Hedging a concentrated position is disciplined risk management that delivers powerful results — precisely because of its complexity.
Strike selection, expiry calibration, vol sensitivity, and tax-lot consequences all interact. As your fiduciary, we handle it end-to-end: structure design, counterparty selection, execution, and ongoing oversight as the position and the market evolve.
Your position, defended.
OUR CONCENTRATED STOCK SOLUTIONS
- Protection — Options collars and other structures lock in a downside floor — defining your worst-case outcome while preserving room to participate in further upside.
- Diversification — Exchange funds, custom baskets, and tax-aware liquidity strategies let you reduce single-stock risk without realizing the embedded gain.
- Liquidity — Cashless hedging plus low-cost portfolio-margin borrowing against the hedged position — for diversification, withdrawals, or new investment.
The case for hedging.
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“Hedging a concentrated position isn't about timing the market — it's about defining your downside while leaving room for the upside you still believe in.” — Jason Escamilla, ImpactAdvisor
ImpactAdvisor · Client Briefing
“When tax-aware investment technology gets this good, the question for concentrated-stock holders shifts from 'should I diversify?' to 'can I afford not to hedge?'” — Jason Escamilla, ImpactAdvisor
Wealth protection — and tax deferral tech:
- “One of the top-10 trades, all time on Wall Street.” — Mark Cuban's Concentrated Stock (video: Concentrated Stock Risk Video Series Intro)
- Is tax-aware investment tech getting TOO GOOD? — A sports tech analogy — “tech doping” (video: What is Tech Doping?)
Best-of-breed, strategy by strategy, for high-tax-bracket investors and entrepreneurs.
About ImpactAdvisor
Private wealth management · alternatives · tax strategy.
Our client mix
- 40% — $10M+ in assets
- 40% — $2.5M–$10M in assets
- 20% — Up to $2.5M in assets
Source: Q1 2026 AUM client-revenue mix, segmented by client-asset profile.
Experience: Our client-facing advisors each bring 25+ years of experience.
Do you seek to protect your gains while achieving liquidity and/or diversification?