The typical ETF has an expense ratio of 0.44 percent, which indicates that for every $1,000 invested, the fund will cost you $4.40 in annual fees. What is a good expense ratio for an ETF? For an actively managed portfolio, a decent expense ratio from the investor’s perspective is roughly 0.5 percent to 0.75 percent. […]

An exchange-traded fund (ETF) is a marketable security that trades on a stock exchange. It’s a “basket” of assets (stocks, bonds, commodities, and so on) that follows a benchmark. The following are four of the most common advantages of ETFs versus mutual funds: Investing that is tax-efficient—Unlike mutual funds, ETFs are particularly tax-efficient. Due to

For leveraged bets on rising interest rates, TBT is a good option. TBT gives investors -2x exposure to daily fluctuations in T-bonds with more than 20 years to maturity through a combination of swaps and futures. TBT is a short-term tactical instrument rather than a buy-and-hold ETF because it is a leveraged product. Is TBT

A synthetic exchange-traded fund (ETF) is a pooled investment that instead of tangible stock shares invests in futures and swaps. A traditional ETF, on the other hand, invests in equities with the declared purpose of emulating the performance of a specific index, such as the S&P 500. The performance of a synthetic exchange-traded fund is

Since the demise of XIV, SVXY has become the most widely held and actively traded inverse volatility ETF. The ProShares Short VIX Short-Term Futures ETF (SVXY) invests in short VIX futures contracts and gives investors exposure to them. Simply put, those who purchase SVXY are shorting S&P 500 volatility futures. In this video, you’ll discover

An STI ETF is an investment fund that attempts to imitate the STI’s performance. This is accomplished by investing in as many of the same companies that make up the STI as possible, while attempting to maintain similar weightings. As a result, if the STI increases OCBC’s weighting, individuals in charge of the STI ETF

Because index-tracking ETFs track the index’s performance, one of the most important predictors of long-term returns—if not the most important—is how much it charges in fees. SPUU aims to achieve daily investment returns of 200 percent of the S&P 500 Index, before fees and expenses. For durations longer than a single day, investors should not

For a single day, this short ProShares ETF aims a return that is -2x that of its underlying benchmark (target), as measured from one NAV calculation to the next. Holding periods of more than one day can result in returns that are significantly different from the target return due to the compounding of daily returns,

The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust, popularly known as the SPY ETF, is one of the most popular funds that tries to replicate the Standard & Poor’s (S&P) 500 index, which includes 500 large-cap and midcap American stocks. A committee chooses these stocks based on market size, liquidity, and industry. The S&P 500 is one

SPY has a four-star Morningstar rating and has closely tracked the S&P 500 index, which has outperformed the average return of other large-blend funds over the last decade. As of November 2021, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) had a three-year average return of 20.19 percent. The fund achieved average annual returns of 16.01