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FTSMFirst TrustACTIVE

FIRST TRUST ENHANCED SHORT MATURITY ETF

$59.56+0.08% vs prior close
606052-WK

Price through Sep 30 · Flows through unavailable. Figures use the latest available records, not a live quote. Fund details retrieved Oct 1. Holdings snapshot retrieved Oct 1.

The First Trust Enhanced Short Maturity ETF is an actively managed exchange-traded fund. The fund's investment objective is to seek current income, consistent with preservation of capital and daily liquidity.

Price & daily flows
59.759.659.659.56DAILY NET FLOWSep 1Sep 11Sep 22Oct 1

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

The desk’s read

Recent fund-flow records are unavailable, while the price has returned -0.6% so far this year. At 0.45% a year it is not the cheapest way in — REMG has a reported fee of 0.16%.

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

$6.2Bassets under management
0.45%expense ratio · $45 per $10,000 a year
—net flow, trailing month
770Kavg daily volume, 30 days
1holdings · US-domiciled
2023listed September 26, 2023 · beta 0.01
Sector weights
Other100%
Real Estate100%
Cash & Others100%
Corporate60.37%
Cash22.01%
Securitized14.13%
Government2.59%
Miscellaneous0.91%
PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION, LATEST DISCLOSURE
Country weights
Other100%
United States100%
PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION, LATEST DISCLOSURE
Performance
1 week-0.3%
1 month-0.2%
3 months-0.3%
6 months-0.6%
YTD-0.6%
1 year-0.6%
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
1%realized volatility, 30 days (annualized)
1%realized volatility, 1 year
-1.0%deepest fall from a peak, 1 year
-0.9%latest close versus that peak

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

The case against FTSM

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

FundFeeAssetsFlow, 1MThe case
AGRH iShares Interest Rate Hedged U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF0.13%$7862.98T—-32bp on fee · 1271223× the assetsHead-to-head
AGIH iShares Inflation Hedged U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF0.13%$2496.99T—-32bp on fee · 403692× the assetsHead-to-head
DFUS Dimensional U.S. Equity Market ETF0.09%$10.2B—-36bp on fee · 2× the assetsHead-to-head
DFAU Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF0.12%$6.3B—-33bp on feeHead-to-head
AVIE Avantis Inflation Focused Equity ETF0.25%$5268.34T—-20bp on fee · 851743× the assetsHead-to-head
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