“They can have lower betas… you don’t actually own the underlying stock”
Janus Henderson · Animal Spirits Podcast · Talk Your Book: The Next Generation of Income Strategies
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What was described
assert that auto-callable ETFs can have lower betas than covered-call strategies because they don’t own the underlying stock
Said nearby on the same subject
“Now imagine that this fund tracks something like an index. So something that has about 1% daily volatility. Now in this case, the break even return, the underlying stock is to be up, I think about 8.4% for the levered ETF and the underlier to have the same.”
“I personally own in between 30 and 35 companies, generally speaking, in our portfolio. So we'll have companies that are 4% of the portfolio at purchase and some that are 1.5% to 2%. We don't go lower than that because we want it to matter.”