QQQI is a healthy fund with stable return of capital that recovered from the 2025 market pullback.
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Now, the third highest yielding fund that is also seen positive net asset value growth is going to be QQQI. Again, another fund from NEO. So, the structure is going to be very closely related to the fund we just saw, IWMI.
But if we go ahead and jump over to Yield Canary, one of the things you will need to make note of is yes, Yield Canary has this as a very healthy fund, stable return of capital, but this is also one of the most popular option income ETFs of all time.
The assets under management has already climbed to 14.3 billion. So there is serious investor capital allocated to this fund.
And really, the last 3 to four years that this fund has existed, it's done exceedingly well. Take a look at this chart. We can see yes, it's been relatively stable, but take a look at how much more trading volume has taken place.
It's also important to note that a lot of these funds struggle to recover when they see a decline in share price. And if you remember when we had the tariff scare in 2025, the market saw a serious pullback and QQQI was no different.
I mean, for reference, this is tracking the NASDAQ 100. So, of course, it saw a pullback. But what's really impressive about the fund is the share price did actually recover. Part of that is because the underlying has of course done so well, but that's not necessarily the case for all of these funds.
Now, again, you'll notice this is another example of where NEOS is using strategic return of capital. And again, there's tax benefits to this as well.
So, if we look at NEOS's website, you can see they won an award for QQQI in 2025. They won the award for best new active ETF.
And if we look at the funds fact sheet, it's basically the exact same as I WMI, which we just saw. High monthly income generation. there is tax efficiency and then of course they they aim to take some part in the upside potential.
So what's the main difference between these two funds? Well, at the end of the day, the main difference is going to be the underlying holdings. With QQQI, you're going to get access to basically the big names in tech.
This is 60% tech exposure. You're looking at the Nvidia's, Apple, Microsoft, Micron, Amazon. In fact, this is very similar to QYLG.
However, there is a difference. And the main difference between QYLG and QQQI again is going to be that portfolio options coverage. If we zoom all the way over, QQQI typically runs close to 100% portfolio options coverage.
Meanwhile, QLG is sitting at 50%. So that's a major difference.
Theoretically, if this plays out the way it should in theory, Qilg would likely have a little more share price appreciation, but QQQI in a lot of instances is likely going to be able to produce a higher yield.
That wasn't the case over the last year, though. But a large reason why is simply because QyG has had so much in unrealized gains that they had to distribute out as income due to tax purposes like we highlighted earlier.
So, this is definitely a fund that I'm adding to my watch list on Yield Canary.
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