
GlacierShares Nasdaq Iceland ETF
$24.29−0.16 (−0.66%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.95%
- Fund size
- $1M
- 1Y return
- −6.5%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- Data unavailable
- Holdings
- 32
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $24.35
- 52W range
The ETF.net GLCR Grade
Score 16 of 100 sits in the F band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E. A structural cap ceilings this fund at 40, so B and A are out of reach.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.FScore 0Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.DScore 37Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 26Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.FScore 5Category 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.FScore 24Category rank
Our read on GLCR
FIceland, in one ticker. GLCR tracks a MarketVector index of Icelandic companies and firms tied to Iceland's economy, roughly 30 names deep, wrapped in a plain-vanilla US ETF that launched in 2025.
GLCR seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the total return of an index covering equity securities of Icelandic companies and companies related to Iceland’s economy.
Why people hold it
- Pure single-country Iceland equity exposure through a rules-based index (MarketVector Iceland Global Total Return Net), not a manager's stock picks.
- The mandate reaches past domicile: the index covers Icelandic companies plus companies tied to Iceland's economy, which widens a very shallow home market.
- Ordinary 1940 Act fund structure holding stocks, so it trades and reports like any other equity ETF (no partnership wrapper, no derivatives sleeve).
Worth knowing
- At 0.95% a year, the fee runs close to double the median for single-country developed-market ETFs, the price of reaching a market nobody else indexes.
- Small asset base and light trading. Spreads can be wider than in the big country funds like EWC or EWU, so how you enter matters more than usual.
- About 30 holdings in one small economy. Concentration cuts both ways, and the 2025 launch means no record across a full market cycle yet.
GLCR Holdings
- Stocks
- 32
- 67%
- Islandsbanki HF
Sectors
- Financials31.8%
- Cons. Staples21.3%
- Health Care18.2%
- Real Estate8.6%
- Materials6.4%
- Consumer Discr.6.3%
- Industrials6.0%
- Communication1.5%
Geography
- Norway27.49%
- Luxembourg19.35%
- Canada15.97%
- Switzerland11.27%
- United States10.12%
- Iceland10.07%
- Faroe Islands5.74%
Developed 82% · Emerging 18%
GLCR 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 | GLCR |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −8.3% |
| 1 month | −2.2% |
| 3 months | +4.1% |
| 1 year | −6.5% |
| 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 | GLCR |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −8.3% | |
| 2025 | +8.0% |
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GLCR Dividends
- $0.26 per share
- Irregular
Distribution data unavailable.
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 24, 2025 | Dec 26, 2025 | $0.26 |
GLCR Risk
- 17.6%
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.
- 0.10
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.
- −19.3%
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.
- 0.72
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
GLCR Cost
- The middle half of Developed Single Country funds
- Median 0.50%
Every other Developed Single Country fund charges less.