The Canadian Investor · Braden Dennis & Simon Belanger
The Truth About Covered Call ETFs with Ben Felix
October 27, 2025·52 min·4 clips
Ben Felix shows covered call ETFs perform like having 26% of your portfolio in cash, undercutting their high-yield appeal.
As heard by us
A blunt look at yield products that can seem safer than they are.
Yield products can sound neat until the mechanics get a closer look. Ben Felix and Simon Belanger point out what the income pitch often leaves out: payouts can lag the fund’s launch value, a sideways market is not really flat, and leverage can make a concentrated portfolio…
Why you'd press play
You want the covered call income-fund story stress-tested before you buy.
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