AlphaPro Launches Horizons AlphaPro Enhanced Income Equity ETF
March 17 2011 - 8:05AM
PR Newswire (Canada)
TORONTO, March 17 /CNW/ -- TORONTO, March 17 /CNW/ - AlphaPro
Management Inc. ("AlphaPro"), manager of the Horizons AlphaPro
family of exchange traded funds, announces the launch of the
Horizons AlphaPro Enhanced Income Equity ETF (the "Enhanced Income
Equity ETF" or "HEX"), which will create an attractive,
tax-efficient, monthly distribution on a portfolio that holds a
selection of 30 of Canada's largest stocks. The Enhanced Income
Equity ETF will begin trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange today
under the symbol HEX. The investment objective of the Enhanced
Income Equity ETF will be to provide: (a) exposure to the
performance of an equal weighted portfolio of large capitalization
Canadian companies; and (b) monthly distributions of dividend and
call option income. To mitigate downside risk and generate call
option income, the portfolio manager will write covered call
options on the portfolio securities. "The Enhanced Income Equity
ETF will invest, on an equal weight basis, in 30 of the largest
Canadian stocks by market capitalization and will write primarily
near-term, out-of-the money covered calls on each of those stocks.
This strategy creates a tax-efficient yield on the stocks in the
portfolio, some of which have not historically paid any dividends,"
said Ken McCord, president of AlphaPro. "Investors can expect to
participate in some of the upside performance of the underlying
stocks, while earning an attractive, tax-efficient, monthly
distribution, currently expected to be in excess of 10% annually."
JovInvestment Management Inc. will act as investment advisor to the
Enhanced Income Equity ETF with Eden Rahim, Vice President and
Portfolio Manager, taking on lead portfolio management duties. Mr.
Rahim has two decades of experience managing institutional option
writing and hedging solutions. "We're excited to be working with
Eden once again. He's a recognized leader in options trading in
Canada and has done a terrific job managing the options writing for
the Horizons Gold Yield Fund (HGY.UN). We expect HEX will benefit
greatly from his expertise," Mr. McCord said. "Historically, a
covered call writing strategy has offered a much less volatile
return profile than the underlying basket of stocks and tends to
outperform in bear market or moderate return cycles," Mr. Rahim
said. "With the stock market coming off its biggest bull market of
the last 70 years, we think this strategy is well-positioned to
outperform the broader stock market if we experience more modest
returns going forward." It is anticipated that the Enhanced Income
Equity ETF will make monthly distributions of dividend and call
option income to its unitholders. The call option premiums are
anticipated to be treated as capital gains income, while the
dividends will be eligible for the Canadian dividend tax credit. In
either case, such distributions will be paid in cash, unless a
unitholder is participating in the Reinvestment Plan. At any
time, a unitholder may elect to participate in the Reinvestment
Plan by contacting the CDS participant(s) through which the
unitholder holds their units. Under the Reinvestment Plan,
cash distributions will be used to acquire additional units which
will be credited to the account of the unitholder through CDS. The
Enhanced Income Equity ETF has closed the offering of its initial
units and will begin trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange when the
market opens this morning. Commissions, trailing commissions,
management fees and expenses all may be associated with an
investment in the Horizons AlphaPro Funds and Exchange Traded Funds
(the "AlphaPro Investment Funds"). The AlphaPro Investment Funds
are not guaranteed, their values change frequently and past
performance may not be repeated. Several of the AlphaPro Investment
Funds may have exposure to leveraged investment techniques that
magnify gains and losses and which may result in greater volatility
in value and could be subject to aggressive investment risk and
price volatility risk. Such risks, where applicable, are described
in the relevant prospectus. Please read the prospectus before
investing. About AlphaPro Management Inc. (www.HAPETFs.com)
AlphaPro is an innovative financial services company specializing
in actively managed exchange traded funds with assets under
management of approximately $600 million as of February 28, 2011.
AlphaPro is a subsidiary of BetaPro Management Inc. ("BetaPro").
BetaPro manages the Horizons BetaPro family of exchange traded
funds, a broadly diversified range of investment tools with
solutions for investors of all experience levels to meet their
investment objectives in a variety of market conditions. The
Horizons BetaPro ETFs include several types of structures: single,
inverse, leveraged, inverse leveraged and spread ETFs. BetaPro
manages approximately $2.4 billion in assets as of February, 28
2011. BetaPro is a subsidiary of Jovian Capital Corporation
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