An ETF with fewer assets - under - management (AUM) may encounter less index tracking error over time since their positions in the component stocks will be smaller.
Not exact matches
At year - end 2017, Indian
ETF assets stood at INR 78,000 crores (USD 12 billion),
with an annualized growth rate of 76.6 % over the past four years.1 For India, the passive investing space gained popularity,
with a good deal of interest in gold
ETFs, but in the past
few years, interest has shifted to equity
ETFs, which have gained prominence.
One of the exchange - traded funds (
ETFs) that investors are using to short volatility contains an interesting clause that
few investors seem to have noticed: If volatility jumps more than 80 %, the fund will liquidate
with a net
asset value of zero.
If your
asset allocations for US, international and emerging markets are all underweight by a
few thousand dollars and you want to rebalance your portfolio (and have both CAD and USD cash), US and emerging markets equities would likely reduce your foreign withholding tax bill the most (assuming that you purchase Canadian - listed international equity
ETFs that hold the underlying stocks directly
with your Canadian dollars).
They can also be great picks for investors seeking to match up
assets with liabilities, in order to have capital ready for a big purchase a
few years out (see Comprehensive Guide to U.S. Junk Bond
ETF Investing).
What makes the growth of the
ETF space even more remarkable is that as recent as a decade ago there were
fewer than 50
ETFs available in Canada
with less than US$ 20 billion in
assets.
The great thing about investing
with ETFs is that
with just a
few holdings you can have a broad portfolio covering all of the needed
assets.