Categorized as derivative income funds by Morningstar, these funds use options to generate income from an individual stock or a diversified, often indexed, portfolio. More than 100 such derivative-income ETFs have launched in the past 12 months and over 200 in the past three years. The differences between the diversified ETFs and the single-stock ones are night and day, volatility-wise. But given the risks, why own these single-stock ETFs instead of the stocks directly?

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Many funds that hold illiquid assets, such as private credit, allow investors to cash out once a quarter, and—if total requests reach more than 5% to 7% of assets—will fill only a portion of each request. There may be ways to sell private-credit funds, but investors should expect to receive a sizable discount to net asset value, or NAV, if they sell now, says Kurt Nye, chief investment officer at MAI Capital Management.

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Beijing has used loans to developing nations to expand its influence, but a new study says no country has received more Chinese financing than the United States. In all, Chinese state-owned firms have provided $2.2 trillion in loans and grants around the world since 2000, a figure two to four times larger than previously thought, according to Brad Parks, the lead author of a report that AidData released on Tuesday, which draws on information from more than 30,000 projects in over 100 countries.