Abstract Let $p\ge5$ be a prime number. Let $E/\mathbb{Q}$ be an elliptic curve with complex multiplication by an imaginary quadratic field K such that p is inert in K and that E has good reduction at p. Let $K_\infty$ be the anticyclotomic $\mathbb{Z}_p$-extension of K. Agboola–Howard defined Kobayashi-type signed Selmer groups of E over $K_\infty$ and showed that exactly one of them is cotorsion over the corresponding Iwasawa algebra. In this short note, we discuss a link between the characteristic ideals of the cotorsion signed Selmer group and the fine Selmer group building on a recent breakthrough of Burungale–Kobayashi–Ota on the structure of local points.