A brokerage based IRA which may own shares of stock must have
the underlying stock holdings sold first and then a waiting period of between 3 to 5 days must transpire for the sale transactions to clear before an IRA can be cashed out.
While stock prices vary in value over time, I am less concerned about the day to day movements on
my underlying stock holdings.
Taxation Of Distributions Besides taxes on capital gains incurred from selling shares of ETFs, investors are also subject to pay taxes on periodic distributions, which can be dividends paid out from
the underlying stock holdings, interest from bond holdings, return of capital (ROC) or capital gains — which come in two forms: long - term gains and short - term gains.
It has a high management fee of 1.37 %, but investors can take comfort in knowing it trades at about 15 % under the value of
the underlying stocks held.
@Curt — if you purchased
an underlying stock held by XEI anytime during the 61 - day period, the superficial loss rules would generally not apply.
Not exact matches
The four conglomerates originated in different sectors, but their
underlying business model is the same: cultivate powerful allies in the Communist Party; use those relationships to win regulatory and property concessions; gather investment from friends, family and other proxies of party elites into a murky, unregulated private
holding company; borrow heavily from state - owed banks and other sources to finance prodigious growth plans; invest as aggressively as possible in
stock and property overseas as a hedge against slower growth in China and the risk of a weaker Chinese currency.
If the company's
underlying stock decreases in value, an investor can still
hold onto the convertible bond and receive the bond's par value at maturity, as long as the issuer does not default.
Shares counted toward these guidelines include any shares
held by the executive directly or through a broker, shares
held through the HP 401 (k) Plan, shares
held as restricted
stock, shares
underlying time - vested RSUs, and shares
underlying vested but unexercised
stock options (50 % of the in - the - money value of such options is used for this calculation).
An ETF
holds assets such as
stocks, supplies, or bonds and trades at approximately the same price as the net asset value of its
underlying assets over the course of the trading day.
Ultimately,
underlying business performance is almost certain to
hold a major influence over a corresponding
stock's long - term performance.
Whereas in most markets an increase in short - selling puts pressure on the lending market and pushes up the interest rate at which short - sellers can borrow the
underlying stock, the ready supply of gold loans from central banks seeking to earn some return on their gold
holdings has, until recently, helped to keep lease rates low, generally in the range of 1 — 2 per cent (Graph B3).
If you are unable to think about
stocks or the index funds that
hold those
stocks rationally — and understand that just because the market declined, say, 25 percent, does not mean you have lost 25 percent of your
underlying earnings power, you stand virtually no chance of enjoying this sort of outcome.
However, the Fund may experience a loss even when the entire value of its
stock portfolio is hedged if the returns of the
stocks held by the Fund do not exceed the returns of the securities and financial instruments used to hedge, or if the exercise prices of the Fund's call and put options differ, so that the combined loss on these options during a market advance exceeds the gain on the
underlying stock index.
Options buyer: The buyer (owner or holder) of the contract pays a premium and
holds the right to either buy or sell the
underlying stock at a predetermined price, and within a predetermined time frame.
Buy
stocks for their
underlying fundamentals — not their sale price — and
hold it for the long - term.
These two «ex Canada» funds get at least some of their exposure by
holding underlying U.S. - listed ETFs rather than
holding their
stocks directly.
Convertible arbitrage
holds long positions in convertible bonds while shorting the
stock of the
underlying company.
In other words, if I already like the
underlying stock — and if I think it's already trading at a reasonable price — then if I'm «stuck»
holding shares at expiration (April 24) then that's perfectly fine with me.
The
underlying strategy is to buy, collect, and
hold good dividend growth
stocks for long periods of time.
In a series of posts last month, I looked at ETFs from Horizons and Claymore that use derivatives rather than simply
holding the
stocks or bonds in their
underlying indexes.
Unlike
stocks, which represent ownership in the
underlying company, bondholders are creditors of the issuer — meaning that those
holding the bonds are lending money to the issuer.
The ETF will
hold all or substantially all of the
underlying stocks that make up the index.
In other words, if I already like the
underlying stock — and if I think it's already trading at a reasonable price — then if I'm «stuck»
holding shares at expiration (April 24) then that's perfectly fine with me: I can simply collect the
stock's growing dividend while waiting for a new opportunity to sell another round of covered calls.
The BMO Covered Call Canadian Banks ETF (ZWB) is an actively managed fund that
holds Canadian bank
stocks or units of the BMO S&P / TSX Equal Weight Banks Index ETF (ZEB) and writes covered call options on the
underlying securities depending on market conditions.
If it
holds more than 100
stocks, it is highly likely that its performance will track its
underlying index closely.
Consider buying the ETF or, if you're up for the challenge of researching individual
stocks, use the ETF's
underlying holdings as a screened list of high - quality dividend payers from which to choose.
As individual investors, one of our biggest advantages is being able to
hold stocks for much longer periods of time to let their strong
underlying fundamentals eventually be reflected in the
stock's price.
Safe means that the company, in which TAVF is a long - term equity investor, is unlikely to suffer a permanent impairment in
underlying value, while its common
stock is
held by the Fund.
If the company's
underlying stock decreases in value, an investor can still
hold onto the convertible bond and receive the bond's par value at maturity, as long as the issuer does not default.
How is ftn's yield so much higher than the
underlying stocks that it
holds?
If you dig deeper you'll also find that XTR
holds only plain - vanilla
stock and bond funds, while ZIM includes some more exotic investments such as floating - rate notes, emerging market bonds and a couple of ETFs that write call and put options on their
underlying stocks to generate more income.
Its
underlying holding will be the US - listed version of this fund, the Vanguard Total
Stock Market (VTI), a core piece of my Complete Couch Potato.
It's «almost» identical because the fund will take a small management fee, you will have to pay annual taxes on capital gains (if you
hold the investment in a taxable account), and because the fund has to actually invest in the
underlying stocks, there will be small differences due to rounding and timing of the fund's trades.
If the
underlying stock is part of your core long - term
holdings then, yes, you can mostly ignore earnings dates because you plan to
hold the position across several reporting cycles.
To do this, most ETFs pay out dividends quarterly by
holding all of the dividends paid by
underlying stocks during the quarter and pays them to shareholders on a pro-rata basis.
If you are going to
hold the
underlying stock across some anticipated volatility event (like earnings) then you may be better off writing an option that has more premium in it than the near - month option, as a defensive measure.
This gives the party paying the fixed rate exposure to the
underlying asset — a
stock or an index for example — without having to expend the capital to
hold it.
In a long put trade, a put option is purchased on the open exchange with the hope that the
underlying stock falls in price, thereby increasing the value of the options, which are «
held long» in the portfolio.
To execute the covered call income strategy, you need to
hold a 100 - multiple of a given
stock, which will be the
underlying security for
stock options you will be selling.
In other words, if I already like the
underlying stock — and if I think it's already trading at a reasonable price — then if I'm «stuck»
holding shares at expiration (May 15) then that's perfectly fine with me: I'll simply collect a growing dividend while waiting for a new opportunity to sell another round of covered calls.
A capital gains distribution is a payment to shareholders that is prompted by a fund manager's liquidation of
underlying stocks and securities in a mutual fund, or derived from dividend and interest earned by the fund's
holdings minus the fund's operating expenses.
ADRs are denominated in U.S. Dollars and trade like any other
stock, with the
underlying security
held by a U.S. financial institution overseas.
That is one of the
underlying premises of a dividend
stock portfolio that you got ta
hold to get paid.
«The
underlying theory of buy and
hold investing denies that
stocks are ever expensive, or inexpensive for that matter, investors are encouraged to always buy
stocks, no matter what the value characteristics of the
stock market happen to be at the time.»
I then took the actual
stock holdings of the ETFs and aggregated them, and then compared those
holdings to the market capitalizations of the
underlying stocks themselves, ending with a percentage of each
stock held by the top 90 % of ETFs.
The
Underlying Index, created by Dhandho, utilizes a proprietary, rules - based methodology to select approximately 100 U.S. equity securities, master limited partnerships («MLPs») and American depositary receipts listed on the NYSE, NYSE Arca and the NASDAQ
Stock Market from three categories of issuers: Share Buybacks, Select Value Manager
Holdings, and Spin - Offs.
If your asset allocations for US, international and emerging markets are all underweight by a few thousand dollars and you want to rebalance your portfolio (and have both CAD and USD cash), US and emerging markets equities would likely reduce your foreign withholding tax bill the most (assuming that you purchase Canadian - listed international equity ETFs that
hold the
underlying stocks directly with your Canadian dollars).
However, BMO's is the only one that
holds the
underlying stocks directly, rather than
holding a US - listed ETF.
But when you buy into a mutual - fund, the mutual - fund «suddenly has more shares» — it takes your money and uses it to buy shares of the
underlying stocks (in a ratio equal to its current
holdings).
Rather than
holding their
underlying stocks directly, for example, the iShares S&P 500 (XSP) and Vanguard MSCI Emerging Markets (VEE) simply
hold units of their New York — listed counterparts (IVV and VWO, respectively).