They both graduated from the INSEAD MBA program in Singapore, and together they now manage the Index Roll, an investment advisory, research group, and web resource created to help individual investors build and manage long-term leveraged index portfolios using LEAP call options.

INSEAD is an international business school with a highly rated MBA program and campuses in Fontainbleau, France and Singapore and an alliance program with the Wharton Business School in the US. The two met while taking the courses Applied Corporate Finance and Investments, and their professor was the infamous Pierre Hillion.

Tristan lives in Bethesda, MD, right outside Washington, DC.
Lye lives in Berkeley, CA, near the Haas business school.

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1) What do you invest in?

LEAP Call options on index ETFs.

2) Will you manage my money?

Sure, we'll be right over to pick it up. Yes, we plan on managing money at some point, but not at the individual, retail investor level.

3) What do you have against real estate?

We haven't said a word about real estate - yet there are a lot of people out there that think that Real Estate is the only decent investment for the working professional and that anything else is a scam, a threat, lies, etc.

The Index Roll is actually inspired by real estate investing. It is a financial solution to the problem of getting the leverage and tax treatment of real estate and the long-term appreciation and low transaction and low holding costs of stocks.

4) Are you rich? I don't want to take investing advice from anyone who's not rich.

Well, this isn't one of those websites where we brag about how much money we have and then say that you can have it all too for just four easy payments of $99. All of the ideas here are free, take them or leave them.

But if it helps you to imagine that we both sit around in mansions lighting our cigars with $100 bills, then please go ahead, we don't mind.