Momentum Mounts for More Structured Outcome ETFs

Recently, Bloomberg Intelligence added a section to its research dashboard to filter for Structured Outcome products. This attention by a major fintech and data services company highlights the surging interest in these products from both fund issuers and investors.

“Structured outcome ETFs have exploded in popularity as well as with new competitors and products, and so they warranted their own section on our research dashboard,” said Eric Balchunas, Bloomberg senior ETF analyst. “I have a feeling we will be expanding it in the years to come as well.”

As momentum mounts for Structured Outcome products, investors can benefit from fund managers with proven experience in the field. This is where the Calamos line of actively managed Structured Protection ETFs can come into play.

Calamos Laddered S&P 500® Structured Alt Protection ETF™ is the latest innovation in the Calamos Structured Protection ETFs™ series. The first of its kind, CPSL offers a systematic approach to investing in 100% downside protection S&P 500 ETFs, making it ideal for advisors who allocate ETFs into model portfolios.

Listed on September 9, 2024, CPSL will invest in a laddered portfolio of the 12 planned Calamos S&P 500® Structured Alt Protection ETFs, each representing a different one-year outcome period. At launch, CPSL will invest in the underlying ETFs that are currently available (CPSM, CPSJ, CPSA, and CPST). As the remaining monthly ETFs in the series are launched through June 2025, CPSL’s allocations will be rebalanced to incorporate each of them.

Each underlying ETF will then roll at the end of its outcome period, creating a laddered strategy with a continuous outcome period and eliminating timing considerations when picking an entry point. To maintain equal-weight allocations, CPSL will rebalance semi-annually.

Given its strategy of seeking to mitigate volatility, and minimize the impact of market drawdowns, CPSL is particularly well suited for long-term allocations and investors focused on retirement or other decumulation strategies.

CPSL offers the added benefit of leveraging the extensive active expertise of the Calamos active portfolio management team. A proven manager in alternative and options-based strategies, Calamos Investments has decades of experience piloting portfolios through various market and economic conditions.

Looking ahead, Calamos Investments is continuing to bolster its roster, with new Structured Protection ETFs released on a monthly basis. For more information on upcoming fund launches, visit www.calamos.com/protection.

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FUND-OF-FUNDS RISK. Shareholders of the Fund will experience investment returns that are different than the investment returns provided by an Underlying ETF. The Fund does not itself pursue a defined outcome strategy, nor does the Fund itself provide downside protection against SPY losses. Because the Fund will typically not purchase an Underlying ETF on the first day of a Target Outcome Period, it is not likely that the stated outcome of the Underlying ETF will be realized by the Fund. The Fund will be continuously exposed to the investment profiles of each of the Underlying ETFs during their respective Target Outcome Periods. The Fund, with its aggregate exposure to each of the Underlying ETFs, may have investment returns that are inferior to that of any single Underlying ETF or group of Underlying ETFs over any given time period. In between the semi-annual rebalance period of the Index, because the Fund is not equally weighted on a continuous basis, the Fund may be exposed to one or more Underlying ETFs disproportionately when compared to other Underlying ETFs. In such circumstances, the Fund will be subject to the over-weighted performance of such Underlying ETF. As a shareholder in other ETFs, the Fund bears its proportionate share of each ETF’s expenses, subjecting Fund shareholders to duplicative expenses.

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There are no assurances the Underlying ETFs will be successful in providing the sought-after protection. The outcomes that the Underlying ETFs seek to provide may only be realized if you are holding shares on the first day of the outcome period and continue to hold them on the last day of the outcome period, approximately one year. There is no guarantee that the outcomes for an outcome period will be realized or that the Underlying ETFs will achieve its investment objective. If the outcome period has begun and the underlying ETF has increased in value, any appreciation of the Fund(s) by virtue of increases in the underlying ETF since the commencement of the outcome period will not be protected by the sought-after protection, and an investor could experience losses until the underlying ETF returns to the original price at the commencement of the outcome period. The Underlying ETFs are subject to an upside return cap (the “Cap”) that represents the maximum percentage return an investor can achieve from an investment in the fund(s) for the outcome period, before fees and expenses. If the outcome period has begun and the Underlying ETFs have increased in value to a level near to their individual Cap, an investor purchasing at that price has little or no ability to achieve gains but remains vulnerable to downside risks. Additionally, the Cap may rise or fall from one outcome period to the next. Unlike the Underlying ETFs, the Fund itself does not pursue a target outcome strategy. The protection is only provided by the Underlying ETFs and the Fund itself does not provide any stated downside protection against losses. The Fund will likely not receive the full benefit of the Underlying ETF downside protections and could have limited upside potential. The Fund’s returns are limited by the caps of the Underlying ETFs.

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