If the market
value of the security basket does fall below 90 % of the ETF's NAV, the fund will ask the swap counterparty to pay the prevailing swap value by posting (or delivering) additional securities to top up the security basket (and thereby increase the collateral held) back to 100 % of NAV and thereby at least temporarily reducing counterparty risk back to zero.
Not exact matches
Mutual funds have traditionally invested in
baskets of publicly traded
securities, which collectively make up the fund's net asset
value, or daily share price.
Buying a
basket of ETFs somewhat removes the
value of the manager, exposing investors to a broad base
of mortgage - backed
securities levered with short - term financing arranged by the trusts» managers.
Weighting a
basket of securities by market
value has been the industry standard for decades, and for good reason.
Under the SEC proposal, an ETF would be defined as a registered open - end management investment company that: • Issues (or redeems) creation units in exchange for the deposit (or delivery)
of basket assets the current
value of which is disseminated per share by a national
securities exchange at regular intervals during the trading day; • Identifies itself as an ETF in any sales literature; • Issues shares that are approved for listing and trading on a
securities exchange; • Discloses each business day on its publicly available web site the prior business day's net asset
value and closing market price
of the fund's shares, and the premium or discount
of the closing market price against the net asset
value of the fund's shares as a percentage
of net asset
value; and • Either is an index fund, or discloses each business day on its publicly available web site the identities and weighting
of the component
securities and other assets held by the fund.
The point here is that people, mostly financial advisers, think they have magic powers and can tell if a very large
basket of stocks in an ETF is currently overpriced or underpriced relative to the
value of the underlying
securities it holds.