Quantic for index and ETF investors
Funds are a real instrument type here, judged on cost and consistency rather than on metrics that don't apply to them.
Most portfolio trackers treat a fund as if it were a company, then report nonsense: an earnings multiple for something with no earnings, a payout ratio for something that simply passes through what it receives. An income ETF gets flagged as dangerous purely for distributing a lot.
Quantic stores an instrument type and branches on it. For a fund it shows the ongoing charge, assets under management, category, provider, inception date, the largest holdings and the sector split — and hides the earnings figures that don't apply. Safety is judged on cost and distribution consistency, so a high-distribution fund is never marked at risk for that alone, and the quality score uses fund components so a good fund can reach the full ten instead of being capped. Momentum works unchanged, because it only needs a price.
Coverage stops short of fund-specific detail: there is no net asset value, no premium or discount to NAV, and no tracking error against the index. Holdings are the largest positions only, not the full basket. Accumulating funds — which reinvest internally instead of distributing — are tracked and valued correctly but have little for the income tools to show.
How to start
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Search for your fund by ticker or ISIN and check that the ongoing charge matches its factsheet.
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Use the screener's type filter to compare funds against each other rather than against companies.
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Read the sector split to see what your supposedly diversified fund is actually concentrated in.
Key terms
- ETF
- An exchange-traded fund — a single tradeable ticker holding a basket of stocks or bonds, so one purchase gives you the whole basket's diversification, usually at a low cost.
- Expense ratio (TER)
- The yearly fee a fund or ETF charges, as a percentage of what you hold — quietly deducted from returns, so a lower expense ratio leaves more of the yield in your pocket.
- Assets under management (AUM)
- The total value of the money a fund manages. A bigger fund is usually more liquid and less likely to be closed or merged away.
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