Can you lose all your money from investing in ETFs even if you don't sell your position?
Can you lose all your money from investing in ETFs even if you don't sell your position? To do this, the AP will buy shares of the stocks that the ETF wants to hold in its portfolio from the market and sells them to the fund in return for shares of the ETF. In this example, the AP is buying stock on the open market worth $100 per share but getting shares of the ETF that are trading on the open market for $101 per share. This process is called creation and increases the number of ETF shares on the market. Nevertheless, the closing of an ETF is an orderly and efficient process, and investors are given plenty of warning so they can act accordingly. Exchange traded funds continue to accumulate assets, gathering over $1.2 trillion in assets under management. Nevertheless, the highly competitive ETF business has forced funds to close and even entire ETF companies to throw in the towel as some investment ideas have not stuck with investors. With that out of the way, if the stock market ho...