Single-Stock ETFs Let Investors Double Down on Certain Companies
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What are single-stock ETFs and how were they introduced to the U.S. market?
Whelan for The Wall Street Journal. Investors building a portfolio often put money into exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, a group sometimes called a basket of shares that tracks a stock index or a particular sector. Well, now investors in the U.S. have a new option, ETFs that track an individual stock.
So the new set of ETFs are designed as ways to make bets, often big bets, on individual high-profile stocks. And the key here is that these ETFs are tied to the daily performance of the stocks that they track, as opposed to tracking the performance over a longer stretch of time.
Coming up, our markets reporter Karen Langley will join us to discuss the nuts and bolts of single-stock ETFs, why they're being brought to the market, and the risks they come with. That's after the break.
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How do these new ETFs magnify or invert a stock's daily returns?
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Last week, a new category of exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, was launched in the U.S., single-stock ETFs. So how do they work, and why are regulators sounding notes of caution about them? For answers, I'm joined by WSJ Markets Reporter Karen Langley. Karen, thank you for being with us.
What specific examples (Nike, Tesla, Nvidia, etc.) illustrate how these ETFs work?
Thanks for having me.
So Karen, just refresh us for a moment as to what an ETF is and how investors use them.
Sure. So ETFs are exchange-traded funds. They're bundles of securities that trade on exchanges with shares that can be bought or sold like stocks. The most well-known kind of ETFs try to match the performance of stock indexes like the S&P 500, although there are also ETFs that track prices of bonds or commodities and even ETFs that pick stocks instead of trying to just track the broad market. Investors also turn to ETFs when they want exposure to a sector or industry within the economy because some ETFs track companies in those areas. So those give investors the chance to invest in a group of stocks with some kind of theme or connection rather than investing in the broad market as a whole.
Okay, and so how do these newly approved ETFs work and how are they different from traditional ETFs?
So the new set of ETFs that was launched last week by a company called Access Investments are designed as ways to make bets, often big bets, on individual high profile stocks. And the key here is that these ETFs are tied to the daily performance of the stocks that they track.
Why are regulators warning investors about holding single-stock ETFs long term?
as opposed to tracking the performance over a longer stretch of time. So these new ones are linked to how shares of PayPal, Nike, Pfizer, Nvidia do. And the key here is that these funds are supposed to magnify the daily returns of those stocks, either in the same direction as the stock performs that day, or in some cases in the opposite direction. One of the ETFs, for example, is supposed to give investors double the daily performance of Nike shares. Another one is meant to deliver opposite the daily performance of Tesla shares, so that if Tesla fell by a certain amount on a given day, the ETF is designed to rise by that amount.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:39
2
What are single-stock ETFs and how were they introduced to the U.S. market?
0:39–1:31
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How do single-stock ETFs differ from traditional index or sector ETFs?
1:31–1:49
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How do these new ETFs magnify or invert a stock's daily returns?
1:49–2:18
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What specific examples (Nike, Tesla, Nvidia, etc.) illustrate how these ETFs work?
2:18–3:40
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Why are regulators warning investors about holding single-stock ETFs long term?
3:40–4:31
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Why have issuers launched single-stock ETFs now and who is the target investor?
4:31–6:09
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How should active traders use single-stock ETFs versus passive buy-and-hold investors?
6:09–7:07
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