Are SPACs Still a Good Investment?
Are SPACs still worth investing in? The answer depends on how you use them.
James explains why SPACs can be a strong portfolio addition for investors who understand capital timing, yield floors, and upside optionality. Stability with asymmetric upside remains the core appeal.
This is a practical view of SPACs as a portfolio tool, not a trade.
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So do you think SPACs are a good investment overall?
Listen, I think they're a great investment for a few different people. If you're talking about going in with total risk capital, right? The difference between a SPAC is if I employ a 10 SPAC portfolio and I buy a hundred, share a hundred thousand shares of each spac, that's $10 million.
That's two years of capital that I need to wait for for them to make a deal, for them to announce for maybe the pipe and it could be longer. So what you need is capital. Now, if you are running a portfolio like I'm running where I'm also trading IPOs, secondaries, I'm trading in the market, I'm trading blocks to add a SPAC for portfolio, which I know I'm gonna make at least 4% yield, but with upside I think is a great addition for me going forward.
And I think 24, 25 and 26, I'll definitely add that. And I may even overweight it as well going forward because to have downside. Stability or a floor with upside risk to me is what's really attractive going forward.
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I started my career on the NYSE in 1994. I became a member in 1998 and in 2001 was the WYETH Specialist at 29. I left the NYSE in 2007 because of the automation that was happening. From 2007-2011 I worked on the sell side at a few broker dealers. Since 2011 I've been a PM at a pod shop running my own portfolio consisting of all capital markets: SPACS, IPOS, Secondaries, Privates, PIPES, Warrants and Blocks. The past 4 years have been brutal for Capital Markets but there finally seems to be some light at the end of the tunnel.