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Why ETFs Are Usually More Tax Efficient?





Mutual fund rating company Morningstar explains why ETFs are usually more tax efficient. At the top of the list: lower turnover because ETFs are usually index funds instead of actively managed funds.

From Morningstar:

A variety of factors should make distributions rare, though: ETFs are currently all index funds, which--for the most part--have lower turnover than actively managed funds. This helps limit their realization of capital gains. ETF investors also trade shares among themselves, not with the fund, so ETF managers don't have to sell securities to pay off redeeming shareholders. Only large investors, known as authorized participants, deal directly with the funds, and ETFs can satisfy those redemptions by giving those large investors baskets of their underlying portfolios' stocks instead of cash. Finally, ETF managers also can use that in-kind redemption process to get rid of the stock shares with the biggest unrealized gains, thereby limiting the ETF's potential for distributing gains.

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