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What Are Market Makers?
Learn from Zachary Shiller, Director of ETF Sales & Trading at BMO Capital Markets, on what Market Makers are and why they are important to the ETF industry.
What is ETF Liquidity?
David Wysocki, VP of National Sales at Harvest ETFs, explains ETF liquidity, why it’s different from stock liquidity, and how to manage liquidity when trading ETFs.
Choosing the Right Covered Call Strategy
Covered call funds have become popular in recent years as investors look for higher yielding investment strategies to add to their portfolios. A covered call option strategy involves investing in a portfolio of stocks and then selling call options on the same stocks that are held in the portfolio. This strategy allows a fund to generate additional income from the premiums received when selling call options, which reduces the volatility of the portfolio and allows the fund to pay out higher distributions than it would otherwise be able to do.
What Is ETF Regulation?
In this video, Andrew Clee, VP of Product at Fidelity Investments, will walk you through how ETFs are regulated in Canada.
Overview of ETF Market
In this video, Andrew Clee, VP of Product at Fidelity Investments, will provide an overview of the Canadian ETF industry.
Myths of ETFs
In this video, Thomas Grant, VP of ETF Capital Markets at TD, will debunk several of the ETF myths that continue to circulate.
What is an ETF and ETF Facts?
In this video, Kevin Prins, Managing Directoor, Head of ETF & Managed Accounts Distribution at BMO Global Asset explains what ETFs and ETF Fact Forms are. The ETF Fact Form is a valuable document that provides data points to be used in your evaluation of ETFs.
What is CETFA?
Welcome to the Canadian ETF Association and our new ETF video series. In this video, Pat Dunwoody, Executive Director of the Canadian ETF Association (CETFA), explains who CETFA is and what they do.
Canadian Lifecos – Well-Positioned for Higher Rates
Canadian life insurance companies (“lifecos”) have significant exposure to various macroeconomic factors including interest rates, equity markets and corporate credit. Interest rates typically have the biggest impact on the sector as lifeco reserves and earnings have historically had a high degree of economic sensitivity to changes in interest rates. This is the result of a duration mismatch between a lifeco’s insurance liabilities and its invested assets. Most life insurance products result in a long duration liability for the insurer that writes the policy. This occurs since buyers of life insurance policies are often in their early 40s and are therefore expected to live for several decades. A lifeco’s invested assets, on the other hand, typically have a shorter duration profile. This mismatch means that lifecos are generally helped by rising interest rates and hurt by declining interest rates.
Safety in Tech?
The tech sector (S&P 500 Info Tech Index) has outperformed the broader market and all other sectors year-to-date, with a 21.5% total return vs 7.0% for the S&P 500 Index, despite macro headwinds and volatility in the bond market due to recent bank failures. Many investors are wondering whether the tech sector, particularly mega cap tech, is the new safety trade.