If you write a billion dollars of 5 - year credit default swaps on Microsoft bonds, that counts as a billion dollars of «
total leverage exposure,» because credit default swaps are scary.
The Direxion Daily Small Cap Bull ETF provides
3x leveraged exposure to a market - cap - weighted index of US small - cap companies.
The VelocityShares Daily VIX Mid Term ETN provides
2x leveraged exposure to an index that tracks the price performance of futures contracts in the VIX with a weighted average maturity of 5 months.
Even worse, there's $ 100's of billions
of leveraged exposure lurking behind of the insidious facade of off - balance - sheet accounting at the big banks.
With a 5 % Initial Margin, you are able to gain up to 20
times leverage exposures to the most actively traded shares listed on the World Stock Exchanges.
CPDOs are designed to generate higher coupons by
taking leveraged exposure to investment grade credit derivative indexes, and the leverage can be raised or lowered according to market moves to protect against losses.
Of course, the ultimate generalists are perhaps the asset managers themselves — obviously they offer a
more leveraged exposure, as long as you're comfortable with that risk.
Is used cmc markets application (via my bank at the time) to
gain leveraged exposure to the financial markets, with no tax payable as its classed as gambling.
The Portfolio + Total Bond Market ETF aims to provide 1.25 x
daily leveraged exposure to the Bloomberg Barclays US Aggregate Bond Index.
If you write a billion - dollar 5 - year total return swap on Microsoft stock, that counts as $ 80 million of «
total leverage exposure,» because that's 92 percent less worrisome than the CDS.
PPSC gives investors a more conservative option to
leverage their exposure to US small - cap stocks without having to double or triple their leverage.
«But for those people that are looking for
the leveraged exposure to the S&P and they're not looking to do it by way of a futures product here you have a publicly listed security,» Masucci said.
Instead of the usual 2x or -2 x exposure, PPTB provides 1.25 x
leveraged exposure to the Bloomberg Barclays US Aggregate Bond Index.
However, like most leveraged funds, PPTB rebalances
its leveraged exposure daily.
RETL charges a high but fair fee for
its leveraged exposure.
Many funds take on
leveraged exposure to treasuries, which gives income and has provided a negatively correlated return in times of falling equity prices.
The firm had $ 4 billion of net assets but had «used OTC derivatives to increase its total
leverage exposure to $ 1 trillion.»
The commonly held belief among gold investors is that gold mining stocks provided
leveraged exposure to the price of gold.
When market conditions are viewed as favorable, the Fund may use index call options to
leverage its exposure to general market fluctuations.
When market conditions are viewed as favorable, the Fund may use index call options to
leverage its exposure to general market fluctuations.
I wanted to have
some leveraged exposure to gold due to my long - term macro view on the economy and inflation and thought the «junior» status of the mining shares in this closed end fund would provide that leverage, with the discount to NAV also giving me some margin of safety.
The benefits to having
leveraged exposure to the market through mutual funds is similar to the benefits of non-leveraged mutual funds, but they also allow an investor to build wealth using other people's money, boost their returns, and allow for interest deductions come tax time.
That is sold to junior note holders, who in essence have
leveraged exposure to the original municipal bond.
ProShares is the nation's fifth - largest provider of ETFs1, offering 64 ETFs that provide investors with short and
leveraged exposure to a wide variety of stock and bond indexes.
The Horizons BetaPro bull and bear ETFs offer inverse and
leveraged exposure to 15 stock, bond, currency and commodities indices, allowing investors to capitalize on trends on both the upside and on the downside.
For risk - tolerant investors, Direxion recently launched a brand new pair of REIT ETFs, DRN and DRV, which provide broad,
leveraged exposure to the MSCI U.S. REIT Index.
Away from the cryptocurrency markets, with a 0.5 % margin in indices, traders are equipped with up to 1:20
leveraged exposure to equities.