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Event driven ETFs, against the S&P 500

5 event driven funds. Trades on company events, most often buying a company that has agreed to be taken over and holding it until the deal closes. Each is measured by how closely it moved with the S&P 500 over the last year and what it did in the weeks the index fell.

5 event driven funds with a full year of weekly prices to Sep 18, 2026, highest Diversifier Score first. Source: weekly closes from Tiingo, ETFIQ calculation.
TickerFundIssuerStrategyCorrelationBetaDown-week capture, %Against T-bills, ptsDiversifier Score
MRGRProShares Merger ETFProSharesEvent driven−0.02−0.01−15.6+4.784.9
ARBAltShares Merger Arbitrage ETFAltSharesEvent driven+0.04+0.01−4.0−0.676.9
MNANYLIM Merger Arbitrage ETFNew York Life InvestmentsEvent driven+0.15+0.03−3.1−0.973.8
EVNTAltShares Event-Driven ETFAltSharesEvent driven+0.38+0.15−5.7+4.965.8
RSBAReturn Stacked Bonds & Merger Arbitrage ETFReturn StackedEvent driven+0.34+0.1113.6−6.262.3

Diversifier Score is the last column: where each fund sits among the 63 it can honestly be compared with, on the one question this category exists to answer. Ranked by it · How it is computed

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