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低利率市场环境下海外明星产品借鉴之一:JPMorgan Equity Premium Income ETF
Xinda Securities· 2025-06-23 11:11
Report Industry Investment Rating No relevant content provided. Report's Core View - In Q1 2025, the scale of US covered - call strategy ETFs exceeded $100 billion, with JPMorgan's products leading the industry in scale. The growth momentum of JPMorgan's covered - call strategy products is strong, and their income characteristics show strategic homology [3][7][106]. - JPMorgan Equity Premium Income ETF (JEPI) was established in May 2020. Its investment goal is to pursue current income while maintaining the expectation of capital appreciation. As of May 2025, it is the world's largest actively managed ETF [4][34][106]. - The fund's investment strategy is divided into the stock side and the options side. On the stock side, it selects S&P 500 component stocks to build a low - volatility portfolio; on the options side, it sells out - of - the - money call options through ELN [106]. - The fund's advantages such as income enhancement, stable dividends, low volatility, and low fees, as well as the rise of the investment advisory industry, jointly drive product demand [6][9][106]. Summary According to Related Catalogs 1. Overseas Covered - Call Strategy Funds Expand, and JPMorgan's Products Lead in Scale - **US Covered - Call Strategy ETF Scale Exceeds $100 Billion, and JPMorgan's Products Lead**: In 2024, the scale of US covered - call strategy products exceeded $100 billion. As of Q1 2025, the scale of US covered - call ETFs reached $101.807 billion. JPMorgan's covered - call strategy product scale accounted for 60.55% of the US covered - call strategy product scale, and its ETF scale accounted for 61.05% of the US covered - call strategy ETF scale [16][19][21]. - **JPMorgan's Covered - Call Strategy Products Have a Consistent Investment Framework and Strong Growth Momentum**: JPMorgan's covered - call strategy products have the same investment goal and similar investment strategies. From 2022 to 2024, the combined scale growth of 3 covered - call strategy products under JPMorgan exceeded $10 billion each year. Their income characteristics show strategic homology [7][26][27]. 2. JEPI: The Largest Actively Managed ETF - **Fund Basic Information**: JEPI was established in May 2020, with the S&P 500 Total Return Index as its performance benchmark. Its investment goal is to pursue current income while maintaining the expectation of capital appreciation, through creating an actively managed stock portfolio mainly composed of S&P 500 index component stocks and selling S&P 500 index call options through ELN [34][35]. - **Product Scale and Share Continuously Increase**: Starting from about $20 million at the initial listing, the product scale has been rising. As of May 20, 2025, the total asset management scale reached $40.024 billion, and the product share exceeded 700 million [35][36][39]. - **Product Positioning**: The product mainly invests in US stocks and ELN, with the investment area concentrated in the US. It has heavy positions in the information technology, finance, industry, and healthcare industries, and the stock investment is relatively dispersed [7][42][44]. 3. Product Strategy is Divided into Stock Portfolio and Covered - Call Strategy - **Main Strategy Composed of Defensive Stock Portfolio and Options Superposition Strategy**: The fund aims to reduce volatility and seek continuous premium income. Its investment portfolio is divided into a defensive stock portfolio constructed through fundamental research and an operation of selling out - of - the - money S&P 500 index options to generate monthly distributable income [50][53]. - **Stock Investment Strategy: Seeking to Create a Stock Portfolio with Lower Volatility than the S&P 500**: The fund invests at least 80% of its assets in stocks under normal circumstances, mainly in S&P 500 component stocks. It uses a systematic investment process to build a portfolio with lower volatility than the S&P 500 index [58]. - **The Product Invests in the Covered - Call Strategy through ELN and Continuously Obtains Option Premium Income**: ELN is an over - the - counter derivative. The fund's investment in ELN has a position limit, and it uses the covered - call strategy to embed a short position in call options. The option premium provided by ELN is an important source of the fund's income [63][64]. 4. Composite Advantages Jointly Drive Product Demand - **The Fund's Investment in ELN Has an Income Enhancement Advantage**: From 2023 to 2024, the fund's investment ratio in ELN was relatively stable, between 13% and 15%. The covered - call strategy embedded in ELN can enhance income, and the annualized interest rate of ELN is highly positively correlated with the VIX level [70][73]. - **The Fund's Continuous and Stable Dividend Mechanism Helps Enhance Investor Stickiness**: As of April 30, 2025, the fund's dividend rate was 8.93%. It creates income through dividend income and option premium and distributes dividends monthly in full [76][79]. - **The Fund Has the Advantage of Low Volatility**: Since its listing, the product's volatility and maximum drawdown performance have been better. As of Q1 2025, the annualized volatility was 12.71%, far lower than the 20.21% volatility of the S&P 500 index [88][90]. - **The Fund's Fee Creates a Low - Cost Strategic Advantage**: As an actively managed covered - call strategy ETF, JEPI has a fee of only 0.35%, lower than the passive equity ETFs in the US in 2024, meeting the low - fee preference of ETF investors [98]. - **Fund Investment Advisors and Institutional Investors Jointly Promote Product Demand**: The number of institutional investors has been continuously expanding, with the position - holding ratio stably above 30%. The position - holding ratio of investment advisors has increased significantly [99][103]. 5. Summary - The scale of US covered - call strategy ETFs exceeded $100 billion in Q1 2025, and JPMorgan led the industry with a market share of 60.55%. The growth momentum of JPMorgan's covered - call strategy products is strong [106]. - JEPI is the world's largest actively managed ETF. Its investment strategy is divided into the stock side and the options side, and its multiple advantages and the rise of the investment advisory industry jointly drive product demand [106].
白糖上游企业期权套期保值策略分析
Qi Huo Ri Bao· 2025-05-09 13:39
在选择策略时需避免在标的方向和波动率上均出现亏损 本文分析了白糖行业上游企业在价格波动市场中,利用期权进行套期保值的策略。通过2023—2024年白糖市场行 情的数据,分析白糖上游企业在大幅行情波动中使用不同期权策略以增厚利润并对冲市场风险的效果,重点对比了备 兑开仓和买入看跌期权策略的优缺点及适用情境。研究发现,在低波动率时宜选择买权,以获更佳保护;白糖期权的 波动率具非对称性,需避免标的方向和波动率均出现亏损。此外,白糖期货价格波动较大,使用虚值期权更能减少成 本损耗。 [策略对比] 作为郑商所上市的期权品种,白糖期权的非线性损益特征为企业运用衍生品进行风险管理提供了更多思路,有助 于提升企业的稳健生产经营能力。白糖期权自上市以来,随着市场机制的不断成熟,合约流动性稳步提升,产业参与 度不断扩大。2023年,白糖期权日均成交量为18万手、持仓量为42万手,市场规模足以满足各类企业的套期保值需 求。2023—2024年,白糖价格受到诸多因素的冲击波动较大,呈现冲高回落的态势,白糖主连最低点一度来到了5500 元/吨、最高点达到7202元/吨。面对这种跨越牛熊的行情,白糖的上游企业如何有效地利用期权增厚利润为 ...