The Investment Committee team presents its October 2024 newsletter, where we share insights surrounding the Capital Pool and Nexus Mutual’s investments. The goal is to make key data transparent and easily accessible to everyone.
State of the Capital Pool
Monthly Change
The Capital Pool has reduced by 0.74% in ETH terms this month. The largest impact remained to be withdrawals via the RAMM within similar 0.9k total redemptions range as in September (still relatively lower comparing to 2.8k ETH in August). There has been a small positive FX impact as a result of the stablecoin holdings due to the slight drop in ETH price, as well as very good results from Cover Fees and Investment holdings.
The various impacts on the capital pool are summarised in the waterfall chart below.
The cover fee income is net of distribution commissions and excludes covers paid for in NXM. In such a case, the cover fee gets burned and there is no change in the Capital Pool.
→ Members can track in/outflows on the Ratcheting AMM Dune Dashboard.
→ Members can track the cover income on the Covers Dune Dashboard.
End of Month Pool Split
The split of the Capital Pool at the end of October ‘24 in ETH terms is as follows.
The largest portion of cover buys in October were denominated in USDC (15.2k ETH worth), followed by ETH covers (9.8k ETH) and finally DAI covers (6.2k ETH).
→ Members can find the updated split at any time on the Capital Pool and Ownership Dune Dashboard.
Aave USDC Loan
On October 10th, the Advisory Board repaid 240.7k USDC from the Aave loan, bringing the outstanding debt balance at the time down from 5.52m to 5.28m USDC
State of the Investments
In the last month, the Mutual earned 149.4 ETH on its investments, overall, as broken down below.
stETH Monthly Return: 75.571
stETH Monthly APY: 3.134%
rETH Monthly Return: 41.347
rETH Monthly APY: 3.377%
Enzyme Vault Monthly Return: 33.861
Enzyme Vault Monthly APY: 2.914%
Enzyme Vault includes Kiln, EtherFi and Chorus One/Stakewise V3 investments
aEthWETH Return: 17.488
aEthWETH APY: 2.254%
debtUSDC Return: -18.865
debtUSDC APY: 11.292%
Aave Net Return: -1.377
Aave Net APY: -0.176%
Total ETH Earned: 149.403
Total Monthly APY: 2.239%
Based on average Capital Pool amount over the monthly period
All returns after fees
The active staking investments yielded between 2.91% and 3.38% APY, reflecting the lower but healthy ETH staking yields.
The Aave USDC debt position, collateralised by ETH, produced a net APY of -0.18%.
The Capital Pool overall earned 2.24% APY based on the average Capital Pool value over the course of the month.
Investment Committee Priorities
- We are working with Enzyme and Chainlink to incorporate the unclaimed Kiln rewards into the NXMTY oracle; this update is still pending, as per the last update.