Welcome to coveredcallETFs.com.
CoveredcallETFs.com is built to be a gateway that offers an introduction to Covered Call ETFs, how they work and which benefits they offer. ETFs are a relatively new type of investment that gives you the chance to use investment strategies previously only available to big hedge funds and investment banks due to the high cost associated with replicating these strategies. ETFs are now available to regular investors in the United States and Canada as well as a number of other countries. This offers small retail and institutional investors the chance to earn a good return on invested capital in slow-moving or falling markets.
Here are some of the questions we answer on this website:
What is a covered call ETF?
An ETF is a type of fund that owns a specific type of assets. SPY is the worlds largest ETF. The fund buys the 500 stocks listed on the S&P500 index. The funds results mirror that of S&P500.
A covered call ETF works in a similar way but put out Call options to increase the yield the fund gets each year. This increase the yield the fund gets when the market is going down or stands still but limits the upside in a bull market.
Lets look at a possible example: An ETF fund buys 100 shares of Microsoft stock. These shares provide a dividend yield of 3.2%. A Covered Call ETF would increase this yield by putting out a sell option on these 100 shares. They then sell this call option for 1% of the share value. (The exact price they get for their call options can vary). This allows them to increase the yield from 3.2% to 4.2% completely risk-free.
The only downside is if the stock quickly increases in value during the maturity of the option. In this situation, the ETF will be forced to sell their shares for a price below market value when the option is exercised. This limits the upside. The ETF will still make money but not as much as it would have made if they hadn’t put out the call option.
This makes the Covered Call ETFs an investment that is suitable for most market conditions except for bull markets where a covered call ETF might produce a lower return than regular ETFs and other funds.
Covered call ETFs will in other words offer:
- Limited upside
- Higher income.