SMHB News and Press, ETRACS Monthly Pay 2x Leveraged Small Cap High Dividend ETN Series B From 04/02/19

The Need For Diversification Risks in the securities markets seem to be increasing daily. One way to reduce risk is diversification. In 30% Yielding MORL , MORT And The mREITS: A Real World Application And Test Of Modern Portfolio Theory, the degree of risk reduction provided by diver...

Comparing the Three Monthly Pay 2X-leveraged mREIT-based ETNs From its inception on July 13, 2016, through to March 28, 2019, the Credit Suisse X-Links Monthly Pay 2x Leveraged Mortgage REIT ETN ( REML ) has had a total return of 68.16% assuming reinvestment of dividends. That is an averag...

Why I Still Own MORL As described in my 2013 Seeking Alpha article, " A Depression With Benefits: The Macro Case For mREITs ," my macroeconomic rationale for investing in UBS ETRACS Monthly Pay 2X Leveraged Mortgage REIT ETN ( MORL ) - the only 2X-leveraged mREIT ETN in existence at tha...

Dividends in a Constrained High Current Yield Portfolio I mainly use 2x Leveraged High-Yield ETNs in order to put my macroeconomic projections to use in the investment arena, while sticking to my 15%+ current yield constraint. Other than junk bonds and other securities issued by indivi...

Co-produced with PendragonY for High Dividend Opportunities . UBS ETRACS Monthly Pay 2xLeveraged US Small Cap High Dividend ( SMHD ) is a UBS Leveraged Exchange Traded Product that provides exposure to high-yielding stocks with a smaller market cap. By using the Solactive US S...

This article was first released to subscribers 1 month ago. For the inaugural edition of the ETRACS 2x Leveraged ETN Snapshot, please see here . Data are taken from the close of February 8, 2018 . Previous articles on the Snapshot can be searched using the keyword "ciletn." Fund add...

Decay, Drift and Downward Bias in Leveraged ETNs Much has been written about possible structural aspects of leveraged ETNs, that could bias the value of leveraged ETNs downward, relative to unleveraged assets that the ETNs are based on. Roll yield, tracking errors, beta-slippage, managemen...

This article was first published on February 10, 2019. In our latest ETN snapshot , ETRACS Monthly Pay 2xLeveraged US Small Cap High Dividend ETN ( SMHD ) became the highest yielding 2x ETN with a trailing-twelve months [ttm] yield of 21.8%, taking the mantle from the MRRL (21.8%) and...

This article was first published in mid-January. For the inaugural edition of the ETRACS 2x Leveraged ETN Snapshot, please see here . Data are taken from the close of January 18, 2018 . Fund additions, closures, or notable adjustments None. The funds Note: BER = baseline ...

DVYL: linked to the Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index SDYL: linked to the S&P High Yield Dividend Aristocrats Index MORL: linked to the Market Vectors Global Mortgage REITs Index DVHL: linked to the NYSE Diversified High Income Index CEFL: linked to the ISE High ...