Welcome to the World of VIX ETPs
10/31/19 • 34 min
Despite -99% returns, burning through billions, and the occasional controversy, exchange-traded products (ETPs) that track a volatility index called the VIX are flirting with record flows and volume this year thanks to a loyal audience of traders who love their jackpot potential. On this episode of Trillions, Greg King, who was behind some of the most popular products before founding Rex Shares, and Luke Kawa of Bloomberg News, who often writes about volatility, join Joel and Eric for the ultimate power-tool discussion. The group gives an overview of what investors need to know about the products, how they gained some infamy with the 2018 termination of XIV, and some developments to look out for.
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Despite -99% returns, burning through billions, and the occasional controversy, exchange-traded products (ETPs) that track a volatility index called the VIX are flirting with record flows and volume this year thanks to a loyal audience of traders who love their jackpot potential. On this episode of Trillions, Greg King, who was behind some of the most popular products before founding Rex Shares, and Luke Kawa of Bloomberg News, who often writes about volatility, join Joel and Eric for the ultimate power-tool discussion. The group gives an overview of what investors need to know about the products, how they gained some infamy with the 2018 termination of XIV, and some developments to look out for.
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Trillions - Welcome to the World of VIX ETPs
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Well can Trillans. I'm Joel Weber and Americal TuS Eric. We've got a couple of guests to talk about a theme that we haven't talked about before. Volatility and exchange treated notes, which is not the same thing as an exchange traded fund. Yeah. This is probably one of the most um kind of controversial, uh power tool esque areas of the E t P market. We covered TP is exchange traded product, right, Yeah, so the way we classified as a t P would be
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