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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 Morningstar Analyst Rating debuted in 2011 as a qualitative rating assigned by Morningstar's team of manager research analysts for funds under their coverage. This forward-looking metric is analyst-driven, and is considered an aptitude test of a fund manager's capabilities in a specific strategy. [ 1 ]
Typically ETFs track an index. Using a combination of options, futures, and swaps some firms have designed ETFs capable of tracking approximately −1x, 2x, −2x, 3x and −3x the daily returns of an index. 3x and −3x ETFs were first released on November 8, 2008 by Direxion Funds.
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.
In 2010, Morningstar acquired credit rating agency Realpoint for $52 million and began offering structured credit ratings and research to institutional investors. [16] In the same year, Morningstar acquired Old Broad Street Research Ltd. (OBSR), a UK-based provider of fund research, ratings and investment advisory services, for $18.3 million.
The Morningstar Rating for Stocks debuted in 2001 and was initially applied to 500 stocks. [1] [2] The stock-rating system compares a stock's current market price with Morningstar's estimate of the stock's fair value. [3] Like the Morningstar Rating for Funds, the rating is applied in the form of stars. [4]
TSX: YXM – First Asset Morningstar US Momentum Index ETF (CAD Hedged) TSX: YXM.B – First Asset Morningstar US Momentum Index ETF (Unhedged) TSX: XXM – First Asset Morningstar US Value Index ETF (CAD Hedged) TSX: XXM.B – First Asset Morningstar US Value Index ETF (Unhedged) TSX: TXF – First Asset Tech Giants Covered Call ETF (CAD Hedged)
The relative appeal of index funds, ETFs and other index-replicating investment vehicles has grown rapidly [42] for various reasons ranging from disappointment with underperforming actively managed mandates [40] to the broader tendency towards cost reduction across public services and social benefits that followed the 2008-2012 Great Recession ...