Milliman Healthcare Inflation Guard ETF
$20.06+0.04 (+0.20%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.55%
- Fund size
- $1M
- 1Y return
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- Yield · Last 12 months
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- Holdings
- 83
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $20.09
- 52W range
The ETF.net MHIG Grade
Score 38 of 100 sits in the D 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.BScore 55Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.DScore 35Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 58Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.FScore 0Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 38Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.FScore 22Category rank
Our read on MHIG
DMost of the health care aisle bets on drug and device stocks. MHIG aims at the bill instead, seeking returns that match the U.S. healthcare cost inflation rate through a quant-selected mix of equities, debt and commodities.
The Fund seeks returns that generally match the U.S. healthcare cost inflation rate. It uses a combination of healthcare-related equities, debt, commodities, and other instruments selected through a proprietary quantitative model.
Why people hold it
- The benchmark is a rate, not a stock index: the fund seeks returns that generally match the U.S. healthcare cost inflation rate.
- Multi-asset by design: healthcare equities, debt, commodities and other instruments picked by a quantitative model, not a cap-weighted ladder of big pharma.
- A genuinely unusual mandate in a cohort where the best-regarded names (VHT, FHLC, XLV) are all cap-weighted US healthcare equity index funds.
- Standard 1940 Act ETF wrapper with a US focus, so the plumbing is conventional even though the strategy is not.
Worth knowing
- At 0.55% it sits above the health care cohort median of 0.50%, and far above plain index trackers such as VHT (0.09%) and XLV (0.08%).
- Launched in 2026, so the track record is short, and the selection model is proprietary: you get the holdings, not the recipe.
- Small and thinly traded next to the aisle's heavyweights, which means spreads and execution costs carry more weight.
MHIG Holdings
- Stocks
- 83
- 85%
- XFIV
Geography
- United States99.39%
- Ireland0.61%
MHIG 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 23, 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 | MHIG |
|---|---|
| Year to date | — |
| 1 month | −2.4% |
| 3 months | +1.7% |
| 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 | MHIG |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −0.6% |
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MHIG Dividends
Listed Apr 2026. No distributions yet.
MHIG Risk
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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.
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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.
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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.
- 0.36
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
MHIG Cost
- The middle half of Multi-Asset Allocation funds
- Median 0.58%
16 of the 37 Multi-Asset Allocation funds charge less.