List of American exchange-traded funds


This is a table of notable American exchange-traded funds, or ETFs.
As of 2015, the number of exchange-traded funds worldwide is over 4000, representing about 2.88 trillion U.S. dollars in assets. The largest ETF, as of September 2017, was the SPDR S&P 500, with about $243.1 billion in assets. Second-largest was the iShares Core S&P 500 ETF with around $125 billion, and third-largest is the Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF with $81.9 billion. The SPDR S&P 500 is also the most actively traded ETF, with over 60 million shares traded daily.

Stock ETFs

Broad market ETFs

Large-cap ETFs

Broad ex-US ETFs

;Developed ex-US markets
;Emerging markets
Sector ETFs may track sector-based indexes or simply correspond to a basket of companies thought to be representative of a specific market sector.

US domestic sectors

;Consumer discretionary
;Consumer staples
;Energy
Electronic Sports
;Financials
;Health care
;Industrials
;Materials
;Information technology
;Telecommunication
;Utilities
;Consumer discretionary
;Consumer staples
;Energy
;Financials
;Health care
;Industrials
;Materials
;Information technology
;Telecommunication
;Utilities
Commodity ETFs, also known as exchange-traded commodities, track a commodity index or a specific commodity. This is often via commodity futures. These fall into four general categories, agricultural, which includes livestock and "softs"; energy resources; industrial materials; and precious metals. The most popular precious metals ETFs hold physical stocks of the metal rather than futures.

Broad basket

;Gold
;Silver
;Others
Typically ETFs track an index. Using a combination of options, futures, and swaps some firms have designed ETFs capable of tracking approximately −1x, 2x, −2x, 3x and −3x the daily returns of an index. 3x and −3x ETFs were first released on November 8, 2008 by Direxion Funds. These funds are structured in a sophisticated way, and due to their extreme volatility they may not be appropriate vehicles for the casual investor. . On August 18, 2009 the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission issued a warning to investors that leveraged exchange-traded funds could lead to big losses even if the market index or benchmark they track shows a gain.

Short ETFs

enable investors to profit from declines in an underlying index without directly selling short any securities. Investors who think an index will decline purchase shares of the short ETF that tracks the index, and the shares increase or decrease in value inversely with the index, that is to say that if the value of the underlying index goes down, then the value of the short ETF shares goes up, and vice versa. Some popular short ETFs include:
AdvisorShares
ProShares
The following ETFs are good examples of Leveraged ETFs:
The following funds are both short and leveraged:
ETFs can be asset allocation funds, which include different asset classes rather than just one. They are usually, but not exclusively, implemented using a fund-of-funds structure. The most common ones use fixed strategies, which can be described with terms like "aggressive" or "conservative", denoting more in stocks and more in bonds, respectively. Other ones may have a target-date strategy where the allocation changes over time.
An example of such an ETF is the Russell Investments OneFund, which is composed of nine ETFs. Another is the AdvisorShares Cambria Global Tactical ETF. A lineup of Target Date ETFs is offered by iShares.

Active ETFs

There are currently 91 US-based ETFs that are not index-based but rather actively managed.
AdvisorShares
ALPS
ARK Invest Disruptive Innovation ETFs
Cambria
ValueShares
MomentumShares
Columbia Management Group
First Trust
Flexshares
Franklin Templeton Investments
Guggenheim
Huntington
iShares
PIMCO ETFs
Invesco PowerShares
Russell Investments
State Street SPDR
WisdomTree Investments