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Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs)

Pooled investment security that operates much like a mutual fund. Exchange traded funds (ETFs) are a low-cost way to earn a return similar to an index or a commodity. They can also help to diversify your investments.

Physically-Backed ETF

Invests in all the in the index or a sample of the securities in the index.

Synthetic ETF

Hold underlying assets and use to copy the movements of an index or asset.

Flexibility

Traded on major exchanges, typically as easy as stocks to buy and sell.

Why trade exchange-traded funds (ETFs)?

ETFs combine the ease of stock trading with potential diversification.

They are baskets of stocks and bonds, many of which are built to track well-known market indexes like the S&P 500.


Index-Based ETFs

Most ETFs trading in the marketplace are index-based ETFs. These ETFs seek to track a securities index like the S&P 500 stock index and generally invest primarily in the component securities of the index.


One-stop, lower-cost diversification

  • Basket of equities, fixed income, or commodities.

  • Flexibility to buy and sell quickly just like stocks

  • 24x5 trading on a select group of widely traded ETFs