FCEF · First Trust Income Opportunities ETF
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<p>Data: <a href="https://etfiq.com/funds/fcef">ETFIQ FCEF fund flows</a></p>FCEF is actively managed and returned +6.7% over the past year.
- 1-year total return
- +6.7%IWV +11.9% to Nov 12, 2026
- Expense ratio
- 3.69%a year
- Net assets
- $81mon Nov 11, 2026
- Net flow, latest day
- $0daily basis to Nov 11, 2026
FCEF returned +6.7% over the year to Nov 12, 2026, charges 3.69% a year and holds $81m in net assets on Nov 11, 2026.
FCEF vs IWV, 1 year
Total return, distributions reinvested, Nov 11, 2025 to Nov 11, 2026.
FCEF risk and return scorecard
Money in and out
What you earned
At FCEF’s 3.69% a year, taken each year from the amount after growth. Hypothetical.
One way: half its 30-day median bid-ask spread; from $100,000, plus ETFIQ’s estimate of price impact, as of Nov 10, 2026. A round trip buys and later sells the same size. Hypothetical. Trading page
How concentrated, and what does it cost?
12 committee seats read FCEF on data as of Nov 12, 2026: 1 Supports, 2 Mixed, 4 Challenges, 5 without enough data.
- Bogle
- Graham
- Buffett & Munger
- Lynch
- Templeton
- Dalio
- Marks
- Druckenmiller
- Swensen
- Wood
- Livermore
- Skeptic
12 seats on FCEF, as of Nov 12, 2026: 1 Supports, 2 Mixed, 4 Challenges, 5 Not enough data.
Risk Officer
Risk check
What to look at before you hold FCEF. Not advice.
As of Nov 13, 2026, FCEF crossed 0 of 5 ETFIQ risk lines.
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Every number below is on this page. Open what you need.Price and total return, 1 year
$22.68−1.3%1 day, priceClose, Nov 12, 2026
Total return adds every distribution, reinvested. Computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices.
Source: Tiingo end-of-day prices. Data as of Nov 12, 2026. Updated every trading night. Report a data error
Points (pts) are percentage points.
| Window | Total return | Benchmark (IWV) | Gap to IWV | S&P 500 (SPY) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1M Oct 13 – Nov 12, 2026 | +0.3% | −2.4% | +2.7 pts | −2.7% |
| 3M Aug 13 – Nov 12, 2026 | −4.8% | −2.7% | −2.1 pts | −2.4% |
| 6M May 14 – Nov 12, 2026 | −1.0% | +2.0% | −3.0 pts | +1.7% |
| YTD Dec 31, 2025 – Nov 12, 2026 | +5.3% | +11.8% | −6.5 pts | +11.9% |
| 1Y Nov 12, 2025 – Nov 12, 2026 | +6.7% | +11.9% | −5.2 pts | +12.0% |
| 3Y Nov 13, 2023 – Nov 12, 2026 | +53.5% | +77.1% | −23.6 pts | +78.3% |
| 5Y Nov 12, 2021 – Nov 12, 2026 | +25.6% | +64.7% | −39.1 pts | +73.3% |
| 10Y Nov 14, 2016 – Nov 12, 2026 | +121.0% | +285.4% | −164.4 pts | +309.6% |
| Since launch Sep 29, 2016 – Nov 12, 2026 | +111.6% | +290.0% | −178.4 pts | +313.2% |
| Since launch, annualised Sep 29, 2016 – Nov 12, 2026 | +7.7% | – | – | – |
Total returns, distributions reinvested.
Source: Tiingo end-of-day prices, with distributions reinvested.
Money in and out
Daily data · as of Nov 11, 2026FCEF: on Nov 11, 2026, nothing net moved.
Nov 11, 2026
FCEF, net flow each trading day over the 65 sessions from Aug 12, 2026 to Nov 11, 2026: money came in on 0 days and went out on 0 days, of the 1 day with daily data; the other 64 have none. Before Nov 11, 2026 ETFIQ has the fund’s monthly data only, from SEC filings: that span is shaded and draws no bars, and its months are in the month by month list.
No money in or out. 64 days missing.
FCEF, net flow each trading day over the 251 sessions from Nov 12, 2025 to Nov 11, 2026: money came in on 0 days and went out on 0 days, of the 1 day with daily data; the other 250 have none. Before Nov 11, 2026 ETFIQ has the fund’s monthly data only, from SEC filings: that span is shaded and draws no bars, and its months are in the month by month list.
No money in or out. 250 days missing.
FCEF, net flow each trading day over the 400 sessions from Apr 10, 2025 to Nov 11, 2026: money came in on 0 days and went out on 0 days, of the 1 day with daily data; the other 399 have none. Before Nov 11, 2026 ETFIQ has the fund’s monthly data only, from SEC filings: that span is shaded and draws no bars, and its months are in the month by month list.
No money in or out. 399 days missing.
Daily data starts Nov 11, 2026.
How this is computed
Computed by ETFIQ from First Trust’s daily data: each day’s change in shares outstanding times the previous day’s net asset value. Percentages are of net assets at the start of each window. Numbers are net: money in less money out. Every day and month ETFIQ holds for FCEF, back to Nov 2026, is in its flows file. Flows across every fund · How these flows are computed · Compare FCEF with other funds in the flows tool
Every trading day, last 3 months1 day
Most recent first.
Week by week, last year1 week
Net flow into FCEF each week, Nov 11, 2026, most recent first, each week named by its last trading day with data. Computed by ETFIQ.
Month by month, money in and money outNov 2026
FCEF, net flow each month from Nov 2026 to Nov 2026: money came in in 0 months and went out in 0 months.
Most recent first.
How this is computed
Months summed from daily data: money in adds the days money came in; money out adds the days it went out.
N-PORT months are the filed sales plus reinvestments less redemptions. Later months add up the daily data; the Source column names any missing day.
Source: ETFIQ, from the fund’s daily share counts and net asset values, and its SEC N-PORT filings. Data as of Nov 11, 2026. Last checked Nov 13, 2026.
FCEF key stats
Trading
as of Nov 11, 2026
FCEF for holders outside the US
FCEF top ten by weight, 31.0% of the fund, of its 58 equity positions, from the holdings published by its issuer for Nov 11, 2026. Source: the issuer’s own daily file.
Source: the issuer’s own daily file. Updated each trading day. Last checked Nov 12, 2026.
About FCEF
Questions people ask about FCEF
- How has FCEF performed?
- Over the year to Nov 12, 2026, FCEF returned +6.7% with distributions reinvested, against +11.9% for its benchmark, the Russell 3000 Index. Over three years the number is +53.5%.
- What does FCEF cost?
- The prospectus expense ratio is 3.69% a year.
- What does FCEF hold?
- 58 positions as published by its issuer for Nov 11, 2026, with the top ten at 31.0% of the fund. 0% of its weight is in stocks the S&P 500 also holds.
- How far is FCEF below its high?
- 4.9% below its high of Aug 14, 2026, measured on the reinvested series to Nov 12, 2026.
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