Defined Duration 10 ETF
$25.08−0.19 (−0.75%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.29%
- Fund size
- $75M
- 1Y return
- +8.2%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 3.31%
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $25.13
- 52W range
The ETF.net DDX Grade
Score 41 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.CScore 42Category 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 64Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.FScore 17Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.Not scoredDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 43Category rank
Our read on DDX
CA one-ticker global stock-and-bond portfolio built on a single idea: rebalance by rule, not by nerve. The prospectus commits to systematically reallocating to reduce relative stock and bond risk instead of parking at a fixed mix.
The Fund seeks long-term growth of capital through a globally diversified portfolio of broad-based stock and bond ETFs. Its portfolio is systematically reallocated to reduce relative stock and bond risks and investment volatility.
Why people hold it
- The whole design is anti-drift: a portfolio of broad stock and bond ETFs that is systematically reallocated to reduce relative stock and bond risks and volatility, per the fund's own objective.
- One ticker, global reach. It owns broad-based stock and bond ETFs rather than individual names, so the diversification arrives pre-assembled and the rebalancing chore is outsourced.
- The fee sits at 0.29% a year, dead level with the median of its moderate-allocation peer group, which is unusual pricing for an actively reallocated strategy from a boutique shop.
Worth knowing
- The index giants undercut it. iShares runs AOM and AOR in the same moderate-allocation lane for 0.20%, so the extra you pay here buys the reallocation rules.
- Thinly traded next to the household-name allocation funds, so limit orders and a look at the spread matter more than they would with a mega-fund.
- Young and small: launched in 2021 by an independent boutique, without the multi-decade operating record behind the iShares, Avantis and Capital Group alternatives.
DDX Holdings
- Other
- —
- 100%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 3.875% 04/30/2031
Sectors
- Financials100.0%
Geography
- United States100.00%
DDX 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 | DDX |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +5.9% |
| 1 month | −0.6% |
| 3 months | +0.2% |
| 1 year | +8.2% |
| 3 years | +9.2% |
| 5 years | +2.6% |
| 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 | DDX |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +5.9% | |
| 2025 | +12.0% | |
| 2024 | +2.9% | |
| 2023 | +10.5% | |
| 2022 | −16.2% | |
| 2021 | +1.3% |
DDX in the news
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DDX Dividends
- 3.31%
- $0.84
- $0.23 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.23 |
| Mar 30, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Dec 30, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.30 |
| Sep 29, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.21 |
| Jun 27, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.25 |
| Mar 28, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.00055 |
| Dec 30, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.26 |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.21 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.13 |
| Mar 26, 2024 | Mar 28, 2024 | $0.10 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 22, 2023 | $0.21 |
| Sep 27, 2023 | Sep 29, 2023 | $0.12 |
DDX Risk
- 6.7%
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.
- 0.61
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.
- −21.3%
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.
- 0.45
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
DDX Cost
- 0.29%