Not exact matches
Essentially the
arbitrageur will acquire said asset
from one market.
As noted earlier,
arbitrageurs obtain a twofold gain: the margin between Brazil's nearly 12 % yield on its long - term government bonds and the cost of U.S. credit (1 %), plus the foreign - exchange gain resulting
from the fact that the outflow
from dollars into reals has pushed up the real's exchange rate some 30 % —
from R$ 2.50 at the start of 2009 to $ 1.75 last week.
Like carry trade «
arbitrageurs» who thought parity was suspended just for them, these guys thought risk had become unmoored
from return.
Do you mean risk in the sense that when you buy and sell mutual funds, you get the exact NAV price calculated at the end of the day; when you buy and sell ETFs you have a free market price that while it's unlikely to diverge much
from the underlying NAV because
arbitrageurs gonna arbitrage, it theoretically could?
Can we explain what factors are inhibiting
arbitrageurs from jumping in with capital to arbitrage away the opportunity?
The reason is that you can exchange a large block of ETF shares for the underlying shares and
arbitrageurs would exploit any profitable deviation
from NAV.
Spreader: A commodities trader who attempts to profit
from a change in price differences between commodities, futures contracts, or options contracts; a commodities
arbitrageur.
ETFs do not vary much
from the underlying NAV because when they do
arbitrageurs step in to redeem or create ETF units, a feature not available with CEFs.
A wide gap between spot and futures prices increased inventory demand as
arbitrageurs sought to profit
from the difference between warehousing costs and the gap between spot and futures prices.