CEFD ETRACS Monthly Pay 1.5X Leveraged Closed-End Fund Index ETN

Aims to return 1.5 times the daily move of Closed-End Fund IndexETRACSan exchange traded note holds no assets; it is the issuing bank’s unsecured debtFirst traded Jun 3, 2020
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CEFD aims to return +1.5 times Closed-End Fund Index's move each day, then resets. Over one day it does that.

ETFIQ publishes no comparison for CEFD. Measuring a leveraged fund means pricing what it tracks over the same days, and no live price history was found for Closed-End Fund Index, so there is nothing to hold its return against. Its own returns below are unaffected, and it is left out of every ranking and score in this category rather than placed last in them.

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In plain words

Summary
Over longer, the daily results compound, so the total is not +1.5 times the period's move: in a market that falls and comes back it is reliably less, and in a steady run it can be more. CEFD itself moved at 12% annualized over that window.
Sets out to return+1.5 times the daily move of Closed-End Fund Index, reset daily
UnderlyingClosed-End Fund Index (no investable tracker)
Segmentasset class, closed-end funds
Net assetsan exchange traded note holds no assets; it is the issuing bank’s unsecured debt
Expense rationot read by ETFIQ
First tradedJun 3, 2020
Volatility, annualized12%
How this is computed
Returns are ETFIQ calculations from Tiingo end-of-day prices, distributions reinvested, measured against the underlying over exactly the same days. How these figures are computed

Questions people ask about CEFD

Why does CEFD not return +1.5 times over a year?
Because it resets daily. CEFD aims at +1.5 times each day's move, and daily results compound. Over a run where the underlying falls and comes back, compounding a levered daily return leaves a holder behind what +1.5 times the period move would suggest; over a steady run in one direction it can leave them ahead. The longer the holding, and the more the underlying moves about, the further apart the two figures get.
Sources and dates
Prices, CEFDTiingo end-of-day prices ↗
Fee, not read by ETFIQ
Net assets, an exchange traded note holds no assets; it is the issuing bank’s unsecured debt
IssuerETRACS website ↗
SourceSEC investment company series and class file, which lists every registered fund ↗
ETRACS’s own site ↗

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ETFIQ, CEFD, leveraged ETFs, data as of Oct 9, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/cefd

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Stated multiple
What the fund sets out to return against its underlying, each day. A fund at 2x aims to return twice the underlying’s daily move, and an inverse fund at -2x aims to return twice it in the opposite direction.
Daily reset
The fund starts each day aiming at the multiple again, from wherever it now stands. It is the mechanism that makes these funds behave as they do, and the reason the stated multiple applies to a day rather than to a holding period.
Compounding
Daily results multiply together rather than adding up. Two days of the multiple is not twice the multiple, and over a run of days the difference between the two grows with how far the underlying moves about.
Decay
What compounding costs a holder when the underlying falls and rises back to where it started. The underlying is level and the fund is down; the more violently it moved, the further down.
Difference against the stated multiple
The fund’s return minus the stated multiple times the underlying’s return, in percentage points. The one figure that says whether a holder got what the fund’s own multiple describes.
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