A brand new ETF designed to protect traders from the chance of market volatility begins buying and selling on Wednesday.
The Calamos S&P 500 Structured Alt Safety ETF (CPSM) guarantees to ship traders “100% draw back safety” towards the index’s losses over a one-year final result interval, in accordance the agency’s information launch.
Calamos’ head of ETFs Matt Kaufman helped construct the brand new product.
“There isn’t any methods. There isn’t any magic,” he instructed CNBC’s “ETF Edge” on Monday. “That is the key sauce.”
Kaufman defined the brand new ETF enters into three choices positions. Buyers within the fund are topic to limits on the extent to which they’ll seize good points tied to the S&P 500.
“All of them work collectively. It is a totally funded choices bundle that delivers the upside of the S&P 500 to a cap with 100% capital safety over a 365-day final result interval,” he mentioned. “Then on the finish of that 12 months, the choices reset, keep within the ETF and carry on going.”
The fund could have an annual expense ratio of 0.69%.
So as to obtain the complete draw back safety towards losses within the S&P 500 that the fund guarantees, Kaufman famous traders should purchase it Wednesday when it hits the market.
“If you happen to purchase in on day one, you get that 100% safety,” he mentioned. “[But] even day two [or] day three, there’s most likely alternatives to purchase in all alongside the best way.”
The fund is only one of a collection of 12 structured safety ETFs the agency plans to launch over the course of the following 12 months. Upcoming funds embrace these aiming to guard towards losses tied to the Nasdaq 100 and Russell 2000 benchmarks.
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