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ETF Buy Opportunities

Research firm MarketGrader compiles the indexes that underly the Spa ETFs.

]]> Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:03:03 -0400 Tom Lydon Tom Lydon (ETF Trends) submits:

ETF Buy Opportunities

Research firm MarketGrader compiles the indexes that underly the Spa ETFs.


Complete Story »]]> BEO DTD IEF LQD Tom Lydon An In Depth Look at the New Covered Call ETFs http://seekingalpha.com/article/37478-an-in-depth-look-at-the-new-covered-call-etfs?source=feed 37478 They include:

Advent/Claymore Enhanced Growth&Income (LCM)
Enhanced S&P 500 Covered Call Fund (BEO)
Dow 30 Premium & Dividend Income (DPD)
First Trust/Fiduciary Asset Management Covered Call Fund (FFA)
Madison/Claymore Covered Call Fund (MCN)
S&P 500 Covered Call Fund Inc (BEP)

What do these funds do?
Their techniques vary and they utilize covered call strategy to varying degrees — enough to put them in the covered call category, but that is not necessarily all they do, as their descriptions and returns indicate.

]]> Wed, 06 Jun 2007 05:35:21 -0400 Richard Shaw Richard Shaw (QVM Group) submits: Several new ETFs were recently released offering the covered call strategy on different indices or types of securities. They include:

Advent/Claymore Enhanced Growth&Income (LCM)
Enhanced S&P 500 Covered Call Fund (BEO)
Dow 30 Premium & Dividend Income (DPD)
First Trust/Fiduciary Asset Management Covered Call Fund (FFA)
Madison/Claymore Covered Call Fund (MCN)
S&P 500 Covered Call Fund Inc (BEP)

What do these funds do?
Their techniques vary and they utilize covered call strategy to varying degrees — enough to put them in the covered call category, but that is not necessarily all they do, as their descriptions and returns indicate.


Complete Story »]]> BEO BEP DPD FFA LCM MCN Richard Shaw Barclays Launches BuyWrite Exchange-Traded Note, Hopes for Tax Efficiency http://seekingalpha.com/article/36477-barclays-launches-buywrite-exchange-traded-note-hopes-for-tax-efficiency?source=feed 36477

The CBOE index was launched in 2002 and represents the performance of a buy-write investment strategy as applied to the S&P 500. In a buy-write strategy, an investor buys stocks and then writes covered call options on them. The funds make money from the premiums on the calls, which in most cases, is paid out on a quarterly basis. Currently, closed-end buywrite funds, like the Eaton Vance Tax-Managed BuyWrite Fund (ETB), are yielding around 9%.

]]> Thu, 24 May 2007 12:10:01 -0400 Index Universe IndexUniverse submits: Barclays Global Investors expanded its iPath family of exchange-traded notes (ETNs) with the launch of the iPath CBOE S&P 500 BuyWrite Index ETN (BWV). The new products tracks—of course—the CBOE S&P 500 BuyWrite Index.

The CBOE index was launched in 2002 and represents the performance of a buy-write investment strategy as applied to the S&P 500. In a buy-write strategy, an investor buys stocks and then writes covered call options on them. The funds make money from the premiums on the calls, which in most cases, is paid out on a quarterly basis. Currently, closed-end buywrite funds, like the Eaton Vance Tax-Managed BuyWrite Fund (ETB), are yielding around 9%.


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