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your own ETF
YOUR OWN ETF | If you have enough money and a unique investing idea or strategy, you can create your own private label ETF and have others invest alongside you. If you can attract enough outside investors, you can turn your passive investment idea into recurring profits.

How to Start Your Own ETF

  If you plan on investing a large chunk of money in a particular basket of stocks or bonds anyways, why not create an exchange traded fund (ETF) and make […]

CoCos
COCOS - Also known as contingent convertible bonds, cocos are a type of bond that converts into stock if the strength of the issuing bank worsens. Investors want the bank to maintain its health or to get stronger, so that they can keep getting their interest payments and eventual repayment of principal.

What the Heck is a CoCo?

  CoCos – aka contingent convertible bonds – are issued by big banks like Barclays, Deutsche Bank, and UBS.  They are sold to investors and are sometimes used in lieu […]

Cat Bonds
CAT BONDS | Big name insurance companies offload their risk of a large catastrophic event such as Hurricane Katrina by selling high-yielding cat bonds. Investors get a nice coupon and the return of their principal if a catastrophe above a certain dollar loss threshold does not hit while they own the bonds.

Invest in Mild Weather with Cat Bonds

What are Cat Bonds? Catastrophe Bonds (“Cat Bonds”) are sold by insurance companies like Allstate, State Farm, and USAA as a way to offload some of the risk that a […]