Authorized participants receive
the same value of the underlying security in the fund after selling shares.
Not exact matches
Arbitrage might take advantage
of imbalances in prices between two markets for the
same security (such as a domestic and a foreign market) or between two types
of securities whose
value depends on the
same underlying security (such a stock and a bond convertible into the stock).
You receive shares based on the actual closing market price
of the fund, and that is based on the actual
value of the
underlying securities, and it is the
same whether you buy or sell shares.
In the case
of TIPS, the market
value of the
security would still be expected to drop even though the
underlying principal
value, on which the semiannual interest payment and inflation adjustment is based, would remain the
same.
The AP delivers a certain amount
of underlying securities and receives the exact
same value in ETF shares, priced based on their net asset
value (NAV), not the market
value at which the ETF happens to be trading.
In exchange, APs receive the
same value in the
underlying securities of the fund.
All put options a fund writes will be covered, which means that a fund will earmark or segregate cash, U.S. government
securities or other liquid
securities with a
value at least equal to the exercise price
of the put option, or will otherwise «cover» its position as required by the Investment Company Act
of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act)(e.g., the fund will hold a put option on the
same underlying security with the
same or higher strike price).
All put options the fund writes will be covered, which means that the fund will earmark or segregate cash, U.S. government
securities or other liquid
securities with a
value at least equal to the exercise price
of the put option, or will otherwise «cover» its position as required by the Investment Company Act
of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act)(e.g., the fund will hold a put option on the
same underlying security with the
same or higher strike price).