AllianzIM U.S. Equity Buffer10 Mar ETF
$43.09−0.13 (−0.30%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.74%
- Fund size
- $29M
- 1Y return
- +14.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- —
- Holdings
- 5
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $43.19
- 52W range
The ETF.net MART Grade
Score 54 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.BScore 68Category 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 69Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 27Category 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.DScore 29Category rank
Our read on MART
CA March-reset buffer fund: it absorbs the first 10% of a year's drop in an S&P 500 ETF and caps the upside for that stretch in exchange. Standard recipe for the category, priced a shade under the typical rival.
The Fund seeks to provide downside-loss protection covering the first 10% of losses on its Underlying ETF, before fees and expenses.
Why people hold it
- The contract is legible: over each one-year period starting in March, the first 10% of the S&P 500 ETF's losses are absorbed before fees and expenses, with upside capped at a level set that March.
- A 0.74% fee undercuts the typical S&P 500 buffer fund, which matters in a wrapper where the cushion is measured before fees and expenses.
- No exotic reference: the fund tracks outcomes against the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust, and the combination of plain benchmark and low fee puts it in the upper half of a crowded buffer cohort.
Worth knowing
- Small asset base, light volume. Spreads can widen, so limit orders and a glance at intraday value matter more here than with a mega-cap index fund.
- Buy mid-period and you inherit whatever buffer and cap are left, not the headline 10%. The design lines up cleanly only from one March reset to the next.
- Income isn't part of the package; returns show up in price. Cheaper buffer builds exist in the same cohort, like PSFF at 0.10% and BUFP at 0.50%.
MART Holdings
- Stocks
- 5
- 103%
- 4SPY 270226C00005080
Sectors
MART 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 | MART |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +11.4% |
| 1 month | +0.9% |
| 3 months | +3.3% |
| 1 year | +14.6% |
| 3 years | +16.9% |
| 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 | MART |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +11.4% | |
| 2025 | +14.9% | |
| 2024 | +15.6% | |
| 2023 | +16.9% |
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MART Dividends
No distributions in the last 12 months.
MART Risk
- 8.1%
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.
- 1.30
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.
- −11.6%
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.
- 0.60
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
MART Cost
- The middle half of S&P 500 Buffer 9-12% funds
- Median 0.79%
16 of the 77 S&P 500 Buffer 9-12% funds charge less.