MNA NYLIM Merger Arbitrage ETF
Event driven fund: trades on company events, most often buying a company that has agreed to be taken over and holding it until the deal closes
In the S&P 500’s down weeks over the year to Sep 18, 2026, MNA rose 0.04% a week on average.
Key facts
ETFIQ Diversifier Score
73.818th of 63
MNA’s weekly returns had a correlation of +0.15 with the S&P 500, and in the weeks the index fell its down-week capture was −3.1%. Over the same 52 weeks it finished 0.9 points behind T-bills.
How much does it diversify a stock portfolio?
78.6% of the 63 sit at or above MNA on this measure.
69% of the 63 sit at or above MNA on this measure.
Weighted evenly, those two positions are what the score combines, across the 63 alternatives ETFs with a full year. Neither spread above is the score: a fund can sit further right on one and score lower. A position in this set, not a rating: it moves when the set moves, and it is not a figure to average against another desk's.
| What it measures | This fund | Its percentile | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| correlation with the S&P 500 | +0.15 | 78.6 | 50% |
| down-week capture against the S&P 500 | −3.1% | 69 | 50% |
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Period by period
| Window | The fund | S&P 500 | Difference, percentage points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 months | +1.0% | +2.3% | −1.3 pts |
| 6 months | +1.7% | +18.0% | −16.3 pts |
| 1 year | +1.9% | +16.6% | −14.7 pts |
| 3 years | +17.7% | +78.4% | −60.7 pts |
| Since it listed | +53.2% | +803.5% | −750.3 pts |
In plain words
ETFIQ measures what every alternatives fund is sold on: whether it moves differently from the stock market. Over the year to Sep 18, 2026, its weekly returns had a correlation of +0.15 with the S&P 500’s and a beta of +0.03, so for each 1% the index moved it moved about 0.03% the same way. The S&P 500 fell in 22 of those 52 weeks, by 1.24% on average. In the same weeks MNA rose 0.04% on average, a down-week capture of −3.1%. Over the same 52 weeks MNA returned +2.7% and a Treasury bill fund +3.6%, so it finished 0.9 percentage points behind cash.
| Issuer | New York Life Investments |
|---|---|
| Strategy (ETFIQ, from its prospectus) | Event driven |
| Expense ratio (485BPOS XBRL, Aug 26, 2026) | 0.78% |
| Net assets (SEC N-PORT, whole fund, as filed for Apr 30, 2026) | $249m |
| Weeks measured | 52, from Sep 19, 2025 to Sep 18, 2026 |
| Weeks the S&P 500 fell | 22 |
| The S&P 500 in those weeks, on average | −1.24% |
| MNA in those weeks, on average | +0.04% |
| MNA total return over those weeks | +2.7% |
| T-bills (BIL) over the same weeks | +3.6% |
| Listed since | Jan 4, 2010 |
| Days traded | 90 |
| Quoted | on an exchange, every trading day |
Weekly closes from Tiingo with distributions reinvested, 52 weeks to the same date for the fund, SPY and BIL. ETFIQ calculation. How these figures are computed
Questions people ask
- Does MNA move with the S&P 500?
- Over the year to Sep 18, 2026, MNA’s weekly returns had a correlation of +0.15 with the S&P 500’s, on a scale where 1 moves in step, 0 shows no pattern and −1 moves opposite. Its beta was +0.03, so for each 1% the index moved it moved about 0.03% the same way.
- What did MNA do when stocks fell?
- The S&P 500 fell in 22 of the 52 weeks to Sep 18, 2026, by 1.24% on average. In those weeks MNA rose 0.04% on average, a down-week capture of −3.1%.
- Did MNA earn more than cash?
- Over the same 52 weeks MNA returned +2.7% with distributions reinvested, and BIL, a fund of Treasury bills, returned +3.6%. MNA finished 0.9 percentage points behind it.
- What does MNA cost?
- The prospectus expense ratio is 0.78% a year.
- Why is MNA listed as event driven?
- ETFIQ files each fund by what its own prospectus says it does, and MNA’s, filed Aug 26, 2026, describes an event driven fund.
The words on this page
- Correlation
- How closely the fund’s weekly returns moved with the S&P 500’s over the last year, from −1 to 1. At 1 the two rise and fall together, at 0 there is no pattern, and below 0 the fund tended to move the other way.
- Beta
- How far the fund moved, on average, for each 1% move in the S&P 500 over the same weeks. At 0.3 it moved about 0.3% the same way; below 0 it moved the other way.
- Down week
- A week in which the S&P 500 fell, measured through SPY with dividends reinvested. A week that ended exactly level is not a down week.
- Down-week capture
- The fund’s average return in the S&P 500’s down weeks as a share of the index’s own average in those weeks. At 100% it fell as much, at 50% half as much, and below zero it rose. It is weekly and covers one year, so it is not the same figure as Morningstar’s downside capture.
- Against T-bills
- The fund’s total return minus a short Treasury bill fund’s (BIL) over the same year, in percentage points. A fund can steady a portfolio and still earn less than cash.
Every term used here, defined in full on the alternatives ETFs vocabulary page.
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