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Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta U.S. Small Cap Equity ETF

$91.32+0.82% today
709352-WK

The fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing at least 80% of its assets in securities included in its index, in depositary receipts representing securities included in the index and in underlying stocks in respect of depositary receipts included in its index. The index is designed to deliver exposure to equity securities of small capitalization U.S. issuers.

Price & daily flows
87.881.475.091.32DAILY NET FLOWAug 22Dec 19Apr 21Aug 21

SOURCE: MARKET TAPE & DAILY CREATION/REDEMPTION RECORDS · 1Y SHOWN

The desk’s read

Flows are quiet — the past month netted out near zero, while the price has returned +20.4% so far this year. At 0.20% a year it is not the cheapest way in — IEFA runs the same ground at 0.07%.

COMPOSED FROM THE FUND’S OWN DAILY RECORDS · UPDATED WITH EACH REFRESH

$518Massets under management
0.20%expense ratio · $20 per $10,000 a year
net flow, trailing month
47Kavg daily volume, 30 days
1326holdings · US-domiciled
2017listed June 27, 2017 · beta 1.13
Sector weights
Finance22.55%
Financial Services18.31%
Financials17.93%
Industrials16.31%
Healthcare16.16%
Consumer Discretionary15.89%
Information Technology14.09%
Technology13.85%
Consumer Cyclical11.39%
Health Technology9.56%
PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION, LATEST DISCLOSURE
Country weights
United States98.12%
Bermuda1.56%
Other1.52%
Cayman Islands0.52%
Brazil0.33%
Canada0.31%
Monaco0.24%
Ireland0.18%
PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION, LATEST DISCLOSURE
Performance
1 week-1.5%
1 month+2.7%
3 months+8.1%
6 months+15.0%
YTD+20.4%
1 year+23.1%
3 years

PRICE RETURN, DISTRIBUTIONS NOT REINVESTED

Net flows
1 week
1 month
3 months
YTD
1 year

CREATION/REDEMPTION DOLLARS, DAILY RECORDS

The risk read
15%realized volatility, 30 days (annualized)
18%realized volatility, 1 year
-10.8%deepest fall from a peak, 1 year
-1.5%where it sits vs. that peak today

VOLATILITY & DRAWDOWN FROM THE DAILY TAPE · CONCENTRATION FROM THE LATEST DISCLOSED BOOK

The case against GSSC

Due diligence cuts both ways. These funds sit on the same shelf and beat GSSC on at least one dimension that matters — the fee, the asset base, or where the money is going.

FundFeeAssetsFlow, 1MThe case
IJH iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF0.05%$128.4B+$547M-15bp on fee · 248× the assets · +$547M in over the monthHead-to-head
IMCB iShares Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF0.04%$1.7B+$15M-16bp on fee · 3× the assets · +$15M in over the monthHead-to-head
VO Vanguard Mid Cap Index Fund0.04%$68.1B-16bp on fee · 131× the assetsHead-to-head
IMCG iShares Morningstar Mid-Cap Growth ETF0.06%$4.2B+$69M-14bp on fee · 8× the assets · +$69M in over the monthHead-to-head
IMCV iShares Morningstar Mid-Cap Value ETF0.06%$1.2B+$20M-14bp on fee · 2× the assets · +$20M in over the monthHead-to-head
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