Opinions
Larry Berman CFA, CMT, CTA
Hamilton Enhanced Multi-Sector Covered Call ETF
HDIV-T
WEAK BUY
Sep 23, 2024
$17.510
Stock price when the opinion was issued
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Problem is that Hamilton uses about 25% leverage. As a matter of principle, his contracts state that he doesn't use leverage of any kind. So he can't use Hamilton. But that's not an issue for everyone. The other issue is that Hamilton uses other ETFs within their ETFs, so you're paying double the fees of around 150 bps, and that's way too high for an ETF.
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You get the dividend from the underlying securities, that's for sure. If underlying companies cut dividends, then the dividend will be down.
But the enhancement from the options strategy comes from the price of volatility. There's nothing more volatile than the price of volatility. Extra income generated is variable. Right now, it's pretty attractive. But he'd be lying if he said that there's a strategy where you can get 10-11% forever and ever without change.
Right now, probably sustainable. Not a strategy to just buy, without understanding the mechanism of it, and forget about it. Nothing wrong with it, but the income generated is variable, with the biggest swing factor being the price of volatility. If volatility goes down, the fund can't get as much for the call options.
He uses the BMO versions of these because of the funds he runs for BMO.