TCW Artificial Intelligence ETF
$54.39−0.11 (−0.20%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.75%
- Fund size
- $143M
- 1Y return
- +52.4%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- —
- Holdings
- 34
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $54.09
- 52W range
The ETF.net AIFD Grade
Score 46 of 100 sits in the C band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.FScore 22Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.Not scoredRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 66Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 65Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 47Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 69Category rank
Our read on AIFD
CAn actively run, roughly 30-stock take on artificial intelligence that launched in 2017, well before the chatbot rush. TCW's managers hunt the whole chain: the firms building AI, the ones supplying its plumbing, and the ones putting it to work.
The Fund seeks long-term growth of capital through active investment in companies the Adviser believes will benefit from advances in artificial intelligence, including AI adopters, AI-system developers, and providers of foundational technologies.
Why people hold it
- Active and concentrated: about 30 names chosen by TCW's managers rather than a rules-based screen, so it doesn't have to look like every other AI basket.
- The mandate reaches across the full AI chain: system developers, providers of the foundational technology underneath, and the adopters putting it to work.
- Launched in 2017, years before generative AI went mainstream. This is not a fund that appeared the week the theme got hot.
Worth knowing
- At 0.75% a year it runs above the median AI fund, and index-tracking rivals like XAIX (0.35%) and ARTY (0.47%) deliver the theme for far less.
- Thinly traded with a modest asset base, so spreads can widen. Limit orders matter more here than with the category's giants.
- With roughly 30 holdings, single-name moves land hard, and the stated goal is long-term growth of capital rather than income.
AIFD Holdings
- Stocks
- 34
- 53%
- NVDA
Sectors
- Technology74.0%
- Communication10.7%
- Industrials9.5%
- Consumer Discr.5.7%
Geography
- United States85.55%
- Netherlands4.48%
- Taiwan (Province of China)3.43%
- Ireland2.52%
- Sweden2.27%
- Canada1.75%
AIFD Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | AIFD |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +45.0% |
| 1 month | +5.6% |
| 3 months | −1.2% |
| 1 year | +52.4% |
| 3 years | — |
| 5 years | — |
| 10 years | — |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | AIFD |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +45.0% | |
| 2025 | +28.3% | |
| 2024 | +14.6% |
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AIFD Dividends
No distributions in the last 12 months.
AIFD Risk
- 26.4%
How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
- 1.15
How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
- −33.2%
How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- 1.59
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
AIFD Cost
- The middle half of Artificial Intelligence funds
- Median 0.65%
20 of the 30 Artificial Intelligence funds charge less.