Natixis Gateway Quality Income ETF
$60.65−0.39 (−0.65%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.34%
- Fund size
- $296M
- 1Y return
- +19.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 8.57%
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $61.01
- 52W range
The ETF.net GQI Grade
Score 75 of 100 sits in the A 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.AScore 80Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 100Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 62Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 64Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 50Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 56Category rank
Our read on GQI
AMost S&P 500 income funds sell calls against the whole book. GQI writes options on half its equity, leaves the other half unencumbered, screens its stocks for quality, and pays monthly.
The Fund seeks current income with capital-appreciation potential. It invests in diversified high-quality U.S. common stocks and uses an options-selling overlay on 50% of the equity portfolio to support monthly cash distributions, enhance return, and reduce downside risk.
Why people hold it
- The options overlay covers 50% of the equity portfolio by design, so half the stock sleeve is never sitting under a call strike.
- At 0.34%, it undercuts the 0.60% median of its S&P 500 options-income cohort, and sits well below peers like SPYI (0.68%) and XYLD (0.60%).
- The equity side is a diversified basket of high-quality US common stocks, an advertised quality screen rather than a straight index clone.
- Cash goes out monthly, and the portfolio tracks the mandate in its prospectus closely. Rated in the top quartile of a 51-fund cohort of S&P 500 income strategies.
Worth knowing
- Written calls cap gains on the covered half. That is the trade: option premium now in exchange for giving up part of a strong rally.
- Shares are thinly traded, so the spread you pay getting in and out can matter more than the expense ratio.
- A 2023 launch with an asset base in the tens to low hundreds of millions, smaller and younger than the household names in this category.
GQI Holdings
- Other
- —
- 41%
- NVDA
Sectors
- Technology39.3%
- Consumer Discr.10.7%
- Health Care10.6%
- Financials10.0%
- Communication9.7%
- Industrials7.9%
- Cons. Staples6.0%
- Energy3.9%
- Materials1.1%
- Utilities0.5%
- Real Estate0.3%
Geography
- United States97.61%
- Singapore0.97%
- Ireland0.64%
- Sweden0.47%
- Canada0.31%
GQI 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 | GQI |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +13.9% |
| 1 month | +2.1% |
| 3 months | +6.2% |
| 1 year | +19.6% |
| 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 | GQI |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +13.9% | |
| 2025 | +15.4% | |
| 2024 | +16.0% | |
| 2023 | +0.7% |
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GQI Dividends
- 8.57%
- $5.23
- $0.41 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2026 | Sep 2, 2026 | $0.41 |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 4, 2026 | $0.52 |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 2, 2026 | $0.33 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Jun 2, 2026 | $0.39 |
| May 1, 2026 | May 4, 2026 | $0.61 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 2, 2026 | $0.53 |
| Mar 2, 2026 | Mar 3, 2026 | $0.42 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Feb 3, 2026 | $0.47 |
| Dec 30, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.42 |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Dec 2, 2025 | $0.40 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Nov 4, 2025 | $0.38 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 2, 2025 | $0.34 |
GQI Risk
- 9.0%
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.
- 1.25
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.
- −16.5%
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.
- 0.71
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
GQI Cost
- The middle half of S&P 500 Option Income funds
- Median 0.60%
10 of the 51 S&P 500 Option Income funds charge less.