9/28/2023 0 Comments Meta etf portfolioRoundhill Ball describes their ETF this way: The fund seeks to track the performance of the Ball Metaverse Index. It invests in growth and value stocks of companies across diversified market capitalization. The fund invests in stocks of companies operating across metaverse companies, i.e., companies that engage in activities or provide products, services, technologies, or technological capabilities to enable the metaverse, and benefit from its generated revenues sectors. Exploring the Roundhill Ball Metaverse ETF Like most areas of Tech, the first to win a lion's share usually "wins" or sets the standards: think VHS vs Betamax (I told you I was ancient tech). The belief is the Metaverse offers an opportunity to acquire market share in nearly every sector, and the Internet's standards and protocols. They see the Metaverse being a consensus expectation among today's tech leaders (Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Tim Sweeney) and this expectation is driving their investments in mapping, AR glass hardware, brain-to-machine communication, and more. They see a growing percentage of our income being spent on virtual assets, goods and experiences, many of which we'll be able to sell, trade, share, use or improve. These goods could be purely virtual, other times "virtual twins" of physical ones. Not just for leisure, but also for education, health, politics, investment and labor. Source: It is their belief that an ever-growing share of our time and money will soon be spent in virtual spaces and on virtual goods. Fortnite VBucks into Robux, a Prada dress that can be used anywhere), and a robust virtual economy that is broadly similar to that of the 'real world' (e.g., good creation, scarcity, trading, hiring). persistent virtual worlds), widely adopted (and new) standards that enable interoperability of virtual goods and currencies (e.g. the ability for massive numbers of concurrent users to share a single, real-time, synchronous simulation), experiences (e.g. In technical terms, the Metaverse is differentiated from today's web via new technical capabilities (e.g. Here is one definition from the ETF's manager's website: What is the Metaverse and why does it matter? Since I still have (and use) a landline and VCR, and my most advanced technology is an iPhone 6, I am giving the Roundhill Ball Metaverse ETF ( META ) a Neutral rating for now. How things have changed! Now we are supposedly preparing to move into the next generation of what the Internet can do for us. In school, they taught as the Dewey Decimal System and how to use the card catalog, the "google" of that time. Our "Internet" then was a hard-wired, black dial phone or a trip to the town's library, assuming it was open. I was born in the fifties, in the middle of the "baby boom". Metamorworks/iStock via Getty Images Introduction
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