Editorial standards

• Accuracy. Editors review articles, and we take responsibility for what we publish.
• Sources you can check. Fund pages link to the fund’s SEC filings where available.
• No pay for coverage. No fund and no Issuer pays for an article or a Grade.
• Corrections. Tell us about an error at info@etf.net. We correct the article, or retract it when a correction is not enough.
• Not advice. Our Grades and articles are research and opinion, not investment advice.

Our articles cover US-listed ETFs. They run in five sections and two daily series:

• Opening Bell and Closing Bell. The daily series: the market before the open and after the close.
• Markets. What the market did, and which funds moved with it.
• Economy. Data releases and the funds that price them.
• Fund Radar. Launches, filings, fee cuts and closures.
• Analysis. Research on markets and funds.
• Buyer’s guides. How the ETFs in one Category compare.

An article links to the fund pages of the ETFs it covers.

Grades are not articles, and nothing in an article changes one.

Research comes first. We may use automated tools to help with research and drafting. Editors review articles. The byline is ETF.net Research, with the name of the editor who reviewed the piece.

Fund facts such as fees and assets come from a licensed market-data provider, and so does the daily market data. Where a fund’s SEC filings are available, its fund page links to them, so you can read the fund’s own documents.

A Grade follows published rules: six pillars with fixed weights, measured inside the fund’s Category and computed every day. No article moves a Grade, and no person does.

When an article shows a fund’s Grade, it shows the Grade as of today, not the one from the day the article was written. The rules are on How we grade.

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If you find an error, email info@etf.net. Name the article and the error.

Once we confirm an error, we correct the article and update its modified date. If the article cannot stand, we retract it. An editor decides each retraction. A retracted article leaves the News feed, but its address stays and says that the article was retracted and when.

Our Grades and articles are research and opinion. They are not investment advice. We do not tell you to buy or sell a fund, and there is more on this in our Terms.