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> In simple terms, if an investor bought $100 worth of shares in the ETF, Calamos would put a percentage of that in Treasury bonds that would grow back to $100
by gus_massa 2y ago
> In simple terms, if an investor bought $100 worth of shares in the ETF, Calamos would put a percentage of that in Treasury bonds that would grow back to $100 over a one-year period, ensuring that regardless of where the price of bitcoin stands at the time, the investor has the full $100.
So, with some rounding, if you invest $100 there, $.5 goes to management fees, $95.5 goes to Treasury Bonds, and $4 goes to BTC(derivatives).
After a year you get $100 (discounting inflation) and some "free" BTC, so they claim "no downside".
I still don't understand how much you would gain if the BTC price increase, because the investment in BTC is tiny.
- PaulHoule 2y agoThere were products that tried to do something similar (I think) with stocks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portfolio_insurance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portfolio_insurance that got a bad reputation after the 1987 crash. Depending on what kind of options they are buying the options could act as if they were leveraged so that part of the portfolio could swing 2x or 3x or more relative to Bitcoin.