michael auerbach wants retail investors to try exchangetraded funds pushing them to eschew the riskiness of trading in individual names and embrace the idea of getting access and exposure to a basket of names at once and to prove that etfs are viable for investors who want to play the market with purpose auerbach’s subversive capital has launched the subversive metaverse etf punk  an actively managed fund that invests in all things metaverse except one meta platforms inc nee facebook fb  in fact auerbach and his team are shorting meta while going allin on everything else metaverse via holding shares in companies like nvidia nvda  microsoft msft  coinbase coin  and even google parent company alphabet goog  well we asked auerbach facetoface on the latest episode of mememarkets