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Morley Conn

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The Rational Reminder Podcast
How Canadian ETFs Actually Work | #413 (Morley Conn)

some of these new IPOs.

The Rational Reminder Podcast
How Canadian ETFs Actually Work | #413 (Morley Conn)

And so the cost of them like benchmark money market spreads of 45 like CEDAW or in the US SOFR plus

The Rational Reminder Podcast
How Canadian ETFs Actually Work | #413 (Morley Conn)

45 to 50, up to like 100 basis points over.

The Rational Reminder Podcast
How Canadian ETFs Actually Work | #413 (Morley Conn)

The total return swaps, just so that I'm not throwing jargon here, these total return swaps are how investors, large institutional investors, will get equity index exposure without putting out cash.

The Rational Reminder Podcast
How Canadian ETFs Actually Work | #413 (Morley Conn)

What they'll do is...

The Rational Reminder Podcast
How Canadian ETFs Actually Work | #413 (Morley Conn)

they will buy a swap and they will get a return on an index.

The Rational Reminder Podcast
How Canadian ETFs Actually Work | #413 (Morley Conn)

And in return, they will pay for that by paying some spread above a funding rate.

The Rational Reminder Podcast
How Canadian ETFs Actually Work | #413 (Morley Conn)

So that's just one tool that they will use in lieu of ETFs.

The Rational Reminder Podcast
How Canadian ETFs Actually Work | #413 (Morley Conn)

So lots of different tools at their disposal.

The Rational Reminder Podcast
How Canadian ETFs Actually Work | #413 (Morley Conn)

It's really interesting.

The Rational Reminder Podcast
How Canadian ETFs Actually Work | #413 (Morley Conn)

We talked about before how retail is so prevalent in the Canadian space.

The Rational Reminder Podcast
How Canadian ETFs Actually Work | #413 (Morley Conn)

The Canadian market is somewhere, actively managed products are somewhere between 25 and 30% of the Canadian market.

The Rational Reminder Podcast
How Canadian ETFs Actually Work | #413 (Morley Conn)

Whereas in the US market,

The Rational Reminder Podcast
How Canadian ETFs Actually Work | #413 (Morley Conn)

They're only about 8% to not even 10%.

The Rational Reminder Podcast
How Canadian ETFs Actually Work | #413 (Morley Conn)

And that's that $14.7 trillion market.

The Rational Reminder Podcast
How Canadian ETFs Actually Work | #413 (Morley Conn)

That's where all the activity has been in the last little while, or an inordinate amount of the activity in the U.S.

The Rational Reminder Podcast
How Canadian ETFs Actually Work | #413 (Morley Conn)

market.

The Rational Reminder Podcast
How Canadian ETFs Actually Work | #413 (Morley Conn)

But traditionally...

The Rational Reminder Podcast
How Canadian ETFs Actually Work | #413 (Morley Conn)

The US market, because of it's also as well, it's institutional bent, investors in the US market were really looking traditionally for beta exposure.

The Rational Reminder Podcast
How Canadian ETFs Actually Work | #413 (Morley Conn)

They were looking for market, pure market index exposure.