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A number one exchange-traded fund in the hashish area will close up store as investor interest in the legally restricted industry wanes.
AdvisorShares, the biggest hashish fund supervisor, stated its Poseidon Dynamic Cannabis ETF will see its remaining day of buying and selling Aug. 25. The fund will liquidate belongings and pay shareholders on Sept. 1, in accordance to a discover on the fund’s web site.
The fund, led by sibling founders Emily & Morgan Paxhia, launched on the New York Stock Exchange in November 2021 throughout a pandemic-era cannabis sales boom.
The closure comes as investors lose interest in the quasi-legal hashish industry that has struggled to scale. Wholesale costs have declined, and Congress has not reformed federal laws which have hampered the sector’s development.
In an emailed assertion to CNBC, co-founder Morgan Paxhia stated the fund was not “immune to the broader macro-economic surroundings and, extra particularly, the dramatic shift in investor sentiment that has impacted the hashish industry.”
While nearly half of U.S states have legalized the recreational use of cannabis by adults, it stays unlawful on the federal stage. Its classification as a Schedule I substance together with heroin and LSD has barred the sector from accessing most banking companies and from being traded throughout state strains, inflicting a glut of hashish in many states and a drop in costs.
Sliding fairness values have made investors flip away from the industry, and capital has dried up.
Poseidon Investment Management, which began in 2013 as one of many first cannabis-focused hedge funds in the U.S., has seen its ETF lose roughly 74% in worth because it was based, versus a 1.7% decline in the S&P 500.
Its worth has fallen 65% in the final yr and traded below $1 on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Pure US Cannabis ETF, one other fund in the industry by AdvisorShares, plummeted by about 60% in the identical interval.
Poseidon is the most recent casualty in an industry strained by market forces and financial coverage.
Last month, a $2 billion merger between cannabis multistate operators Cresco Labs and Columbia Care went up in smoke greater than a yr after the businesses introduced the acquisition. And Mastercard, in a transfer that additional alienates the hashish industry from large banking, introduced final month it should cease permitting hashish transactions on its debit playing cards to be in compliance with federal regulation.