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An exchange-traded fund (ETF) is a type of investment fund that is also an exchange-traded product, i.e., it is traded on stock exchanges. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] ETFs own financial assets such as stocks , bonds , currencies , debts , futures contracts , and/or commodities such as gold bars .
A stock market, equity market, or share market is the aggregation of buyers and sellers of stocks (also called shares), which represent ownership claims on businesses; these may include securities listed on a public stock exchange as well as stock that is only traded privately, such as shares of private companies that are sold to investors ...
ETF Securities, a British asset management firm Employees' Trust Fund , a social security program of the Government of Sri Lanka Exchange-traded fund , a type of investment fund
The largest ETF, as of April 2021, was the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE Arca: SPY), with about $353.4 billion in assets. The second-largest was the iShares Core S&P 500 ETF with around $270.0 billion (NYSE Arca: IVV), and third-largest was the Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (NYSE Arca: VTI) with $213.1 billion. [3]
Many of the ETFs listed below are available exclusively on that nation's primary stock exchange and cannot be purchased on a foreign stock exchange. List of American exchange-traded funds; List of Australian exchange-traded funds; List of Canadian exchange-traded funds; List of European exchange-traded funds; List of Hong Kong exchange-traded funds
iShares is a collection of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) managed by BlackRock, which acquired the brand and business from Barclays in 2009. The first iShares ETFs were known as World Equity Benchmark Shares (WEBS) but have since been rebranded. [1] Most iShares funds track a bond or stock market index
In financial markets, a share (sometimes referred to as stock or equity) is a unit of equity ownership in the capital stock of a corporation. It can refer to units of mutual funds , limited partnerships , and real estate investment trusts . [ 1 ]
A call option on a stock index gives you the right to buy the index, and a put option on a stock index gives you the right to sell the index. Options on stock indexes are similar to exchange-traded funds (ETFs), the difference being that ETF values change throughout the day whereas the value on stock index options change at the end of each ...