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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.
The Morningstar Rating for Funds is a rating system for investment funds operated by Morningstar. The Star Rating, debuted in 1985, a year after Morningstar was founded. The 1- to 5-star system, "looks at a fund's risk-adjusted return based on its performance over three, five and 10 years and on its volatility. The highest rating of five stars ...
The name Morningstar is taken from the last sentence in Walden, a book by Henry David Thoreau; "the sun is but a morning star". [8] [9] In July 1999, Morningstar accepted an investment of US$91 million from SoftBank in return for a 20 percent stake in the company. The two companies had formed a joint venture in Japan the previous year.
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
Morningstar went public in May 2005. [2] Through his company Mansueto Ventures, Mansueto purchased the financial magazines Inc. and Fast Company in June 2005. He was a limited partner in the publication of the entertainment magazine Time Out Chicago from 2005 to 2013. [6] As of June 2008, Mansueto owned about 60.4% of Morningstar common stock. [7]
The Morningstar Style Box is a grid of nine squares used to identify the investment style of stocks and mutual funds. Developed by Don Phillips and John Rekenthaler of Morningstar, Inc., [1] the Style Box was launched in 1992. [2] The vertical axis of the Style Box represents an investment's size category: small, mid and large. [3]
iShares Silver Trust was launched by iShares in April 2006. As of November 2010, iShares Silver Trust is the largest silver ETF on the market with over 335 million troy ounces of silver in storage. [3] ETFS Physical Silver was launched by ETF Securities in April 2007 and is backed by allocated silver bullion. [4]
The average market cap of the iShares S&P Global 100 is just a hair smaller than its relative iShares S&P 100 ($147bn versus $150bn as of December 2014). It also has higher alpha over the period 2011-2014.