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New Listings: A Company That Exists to Hold a Token Just Got a Leveraged Alter Ego

Somewhere in a product development meeting, someone looked at a firm whose entire balance sheet is a cryptocurrency and decided the real problem was insufficient risk.

 

Defiance Daily Target 2X Long PURR (PUR, NYSE)

PUR gives you two times the daily move of Hyperliquid Strategies, a digital asset treasury company whose whole reason for existing is to hold, stake, and compound a single token. The underlying stock has swung from roughly three dollars to north of eleven dollars within a matter of months, tracking the token's own equally violent ride.

So the chain of exposure now runs: a token, wrapped in a company that holds the token, wrapped in a leveraged daily ETF that resets every night. Each layer promises to make the last one more exciting. None of them promise to make it less confusing.


First Trust Bloomberg Space Economy ETF (FSPC, NYSE)

Space, as an investable theme, has graduated from novelty to full product category, complete with its own index families and, now, its own buzzword-laden wrapper. Rockets, satellites, and orbital infrastructure, bundled into a single ticker just as the sector rides a wave of high profile listings and launch headlines.

It is a coherent thesis dressed in an irresistible name. Whether the fund can out-launch its own marketing is, as ever, a separate question.


FT Vest Silver Strategy and Target Income ETF (SLVY, NYSE)

Silver spent recent months putting on one of the great parabolic moves in the metal's history, then gave back nearly half of it just as quickly. Into that exact moment of whiplash arrives a fund whose job is to sell options against the metal and hand the premium back to you as monthly income.

Selling insurance on an asset that just demonstrated it can move violently in both directions is either extremely well timed or completely indifferent to timing. I suspect the fund does not care which.


And then, the Amplify S&P 500 Dividend Driver ETF (DRVR, NYSE)

No leverage, no token, no orbital theme. Just a basket of dividend paying S&P 500 companies, doing the plain job of collecting cash flow from businesses that already exist and already make money.

Bernie Thurston

Bernie loves data. Fortunately for him, London’s finance industry has been indulgent, providing him lots of benchmark data to play with and enjoy. Bernie’s journey began at Sky, where he designed the first interactive television and helped build a technical-based charity (ctt.org). He then hopped over to finance, and soon found himself at a start-up working on dividends and derivatives. Then, by nature of the fact that finance and technology have rapidly conjoined, he found himself working with Credit Suisse to build an index aggregation and distribution platform. Markit then acquired the start-up and Bernie battled his way up the greasy pole becoming the Managing Director of Markit’s equities division, with responsibility for index, ETF and Dividends. But the siren song of startups called once more. And Bernie was headhunted to rescue a failing index business. Over five years, he helped reverse the fortunes of DeltaOne Solutions, turning into a fighting force. So successful was the turn around that Markit came along and acquired this company as well. But Bernie still loved start-ups. To that end, he founded Ultumus, an ETF and benchmark data company. Ultumus aims to provide the best data in the most timely and consumable manner possible. With clients on both buy and sell side, when something happens in the index or ETF industry, Ultumus is the first to know.

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