ARKK – ARK Innovation ETF

About ARKK

ARKK (ARK Innovation ETF) is a actively managed thematic ETF from ARK Invest. It is actively managed, so it has no benchmark index to track. Its expense ratio is 0.75% a year, according to both the issuer and Yahoo Finance's fund profile.

What it tracks

ARKK does not track an index. ARK Invest's managers choose the holdings, focusing on companies they consider part of disruptive innovation, such as genomics, automation, financial technology and next-generation internet services.

What to keep in mind

Active management means the portfolio can change at any time, and ARKK holds a fairly concentrated portfolio of growth stocks, so it can be far more volatile than a broad index fund such as SPY or QQQ.

Active versus index funds

Most ETFs on this page follow a published index. A thematic, actively managed fund instead relies on its managers' choices, so its holdings can change at any time and it can look very different from the broad market. That can mean larger gains and larger losses than an index fund, and results depend on the managers' decisions rather than on an index rule.

On this page

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