RYLD News and Press, Global X Russell 2000 Covered Call From 10/07/22

Summary Headlines in the past week have been swirling around Credit Suisse: whether it will go bankrupt, whether it will be Lehman Brothers 2.0, and whether 2008 would repeat. There are indeed Lehman-scale warning signs both for Credit Suisse and for the overall economy using its ...

Summary Few strategies thrive in volatile markets like the one witnessed in the first half of 2022, but covered call strategies on the Russell 2000 have proven to be resilient and well-positioned. The Russell 2000 Index has performed well over the last decade due to the benefits o...

Summary On October 5th, we launched the Global X Russell 2000 Covered Call & Growth ETF, RYLG. RYLG uses covered call writing on half of its portfolio in an effort to achieve both income and growth. RYLG may be suited for investors who are looking for both growth and incom...

Summary Recently, small-cap ETFs showed up on our radar because their current dividend yields have exceeded their multi-year average substantially. The iShares Russell 2000 ETF currently yields 1.47%, about 24% above its 4-year average of 1.19%. As a result, cover-call ETFs wi...

Summary XYLD has established a long-term track record of paying monthly distributions with 111 consecutive monthly distributions paid to its investors. With the 10-Year Treasury Note at 3.83%, high-yield funds should become more attractive as yields that were considered attractive...

Summary We all look to CEFs because of their high yields, but how often do you think about how much of that high yield you actually get to keep? Some funds claim they specialize in "tax-efficiency" by owning stocks that have qualified dividends while others specialize in 'tax-adva...

Summary Covered Call ETFs have provided large amounts of income through 2022, but the most popular hasn't been the best performer and RYLD has generated a better ROI. RYLD has been a better investment compared to XYLD and QYLD since 2021 and slightly trails XYLD for 2022. I il...

Summary In this article, we discuss how we deployed covered call strategies and how it differs from QYLD's income-generating strategies. Our case against QYLD is expecting yield from the Tech sector, structurally declining QYLD price, risk of detaching from NAV, and better prospec...

Summary The Global X Research Team is pleased to release the distribution and premium numbers for our covered call ETFs for August. Global X’s Covered Call suite of ETFs invest in the underlying securities of an index and sell call options on that index. These strategie...

Summary August was a month of significant changes in the structure of my overall portfolio, which now contains 22 securities. Thanks to the gain from the last securities that I purchased in the spring, I was able to close all previous positions that had been showing a continuous l...