IDX Alternative FIAT ETF
$23.16−0.62 (−2.59%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.96%
- Fund size
- $39M
- 1Y return
- —
- Yield · Last 12 months
- Data unavailable
- Holdings
- 10
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $23.26
- 52W range
The ETF.net GLDB Grade
Score 21 of 100 sits in the F 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 12Category 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.FScore 5Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 53Category 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.DScore 26Category rank
Our read on GLDB
FBitcoin and gold treated as one idea: the hedge against paper money. GLDB moves dynamically between the two instead of picking a side, and it uses leverage that resets daily.
The Fund seeks capital appreciation through dynamic exposure to Bitcoin and gold, with possible smaller allocations to related cryptocurrency and precious-metal exposures.
Why people hold it
- One ticker for the two classic fiat hedges. The mandate is dynamic exposure to bitcoin and gold, so the mix can shift rather than sit at a fixed split.
- Comes in a 1940 Act fund wrapper, so the bitcoin and gold exposure arrives without wallets, keys or bullion storage on your end.
- The 'Alternative FIAT' basket is IDX's own construction, not a licensed off-the-shelf index, and no other fund in its allocation peer group runs the same mandate.
Worth knowing
- Charges 0.95% a year, above the typical fund in its allocation peer group.
- Leverage resets daily, so results over longer holding periods can diverge from the cumulative moves of bitcoin and gold themselves.
- Launched in 2025 and still small and thinly traded, which tends to mean wider spreads and only a short live record to judge.
GLDB Holdings
- Stocks
- 10
- 100%
- First American Government Obligations Fund 12/01/2031
GLDB 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 | GLDB |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −1.8% |
| 1 month | +0.7% |
| 3 months | +16.0% |
| 1 year | — |
| 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 | GLDB |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −1.8% | |
| 2025 | −3.5% |
GLDB in the news
ETF.net Research hasn’t filed on GLDB yet — coverage lands here as it’s written.
GLDB Dividends
- $0.05 per share
- Irregular
Distribution data unavailable.
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | $0.05 |
GLDB Risk
This fund targets a multiple of the daily move of its index and resets daily. Hold it longer than one reset and compounding makes the return diverge from that target. In choppy markets it can lose value even when the index ends flat.
- —
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.
- —
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.
- —
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.
- 0.63
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
GLDB Cost
- The middle half of Multi-Asset Allocation funds
- Median 0.58%
33 of the 37 Multi-Asset Allocation funds charge less.