Other Wrappers
The catalog above is the core. Several more vehicles appear in this book, each with its canonical treatment elsewhere:
- Preferred stock
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Equity that behaves like a long bond, with a dividend the issuer can suspend — section “Preferred Stock”.
- Closed-end funds, interval funds, and BDCs
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Pooled vehicles that do not redeem daily at NAV, and so can hold illiquid assets and trade at a discount — section “Mutual Funds”.
- Structured notes
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Bank debt with a derivative payoff bolted on, sold as principal protection or enhanced yield — section “Structured Products and Market-Linked Notes”.
- Commodity trusts and futures funds
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Gold and silver in a grantor trust taxed as collectibles; oil, gas, and baskets through futures that roll — section “Futures Roll and Roll Yield”.
- Annuities and insurance wrappers
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Contracts with an insurer, taxed on their own rules — section “Annuities”.
- Digital assets
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Property for tax purposes, and a security for regulatory purposes only when the token passes the Howey test above — section “Cryptocurrency and Digital Assets”.