# FPAA ETF vs the ETFIQ Strategic 60 Benchmark

> As of Oct 9, 2026, FPAA has no full year of prices to set beside the ETFIQ Strategic 60 benchmark. Returns, fees and growth of $10,000 by window.

Data as of Oct 9, 2026. Rebuilt every trading night.

Rebuilt every trading night. Figures as of Oct 9, 2026.

## FPAA against the ETFIQ Strategic 60 benchmark

FPA Global Allocation ETF holds 57.5% of its net assets in stocks, counting stocks inside any funds it owns. That puts it in the moderate band. Its benchmark is ETFIQ Strategic, 60% stocks, a rule, not a fund.

0.49% Expense ratio

As of Oct 9, 2026, FPAA has no full year of prices to set beside the ETFIQ Strategic 60 benchmark.

ETFIQ Strategic, 60% stocks: launched on Oct 3, 2026, when ETFIQ froze its rule. Figures before Oct 5, 2026 are hypothetical: we apply today’s rule and funds to earlier prices. From Oct 5, 2026 the record is tracked. A window that starts earlier is hypothetical as a whole.

### Other allocation ETFs against their benchmarks

### FPAA and Strategic 60 by window

FPAA’s own market-price total return beside Strategic 60 over the same closes. YTD and 1 year are total returns; the longer windows are yearly rates over whole months. The difference is in percentage points. Data sourced by Tiingo .

| Window | From | To | FPAA | Strategic 60 | Difference, points | Side |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Year to date | not published | not published | not published | not published | not published | not published |
| 1 year | not published | not published | not published | not published | not published | not published |
| 3 years, a year | not published | not published | not published | not published | not published | not published |
| 5 years, a year | not published | not published | not published | not published | not published | not published |
| 10 years, a year | not published | not published | not published | not published | not published | not published |
| Since the shared start, a year | not published | not published | not published | not published | not published | not published |

### Fees

Both fees are already inside the returns above. On $10,000 is the fee times 100, the dollars a year at that fee.

| Portfolio | Fee | A year | On $10,000 | As of |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| FPAA | Expense ratio, from its prospectus | 0.49% | $49 | May 22, 2026 |
| Strategic 60 | Weighted fund fee, inside its returns | 0.05% | $5 | Oct 9, 2026 |

### Questions people ask

Why is FPAA measured against ETFIQ Strategic 60? FPAA holds 57.5% of its net assets in stocks, counting stocks inside any funds it owns. That puts it in the moderate band, more than 50% and up to 70% stocks. ETFIQ Strategic 60 is that band’s benchmark. What does ETFIQ Strategic 60 hold? 60% VT and 40% US bonds (BND and AGG in equal parts), rebalanced on the last trading day of each month. It is a rule, not a fund. ETFIQ takes no payment from any fund company. Why are the benchmark’s returns hypothetical? Its rule was frozen on a set date. Returns before that date apply today’s rule and funds to earlier prices. The fund’s own returns use its market price with distributions reinvested. The price source leaves out funds that closed before 2016, so results lean toward funds that survived. Total returns use market price with distributions reinvested, after each fund’s own fees. Nothing else is deducted. The price source leaves out funds that closed before 2016, so results lean toward funds that survived. Data sourced by Tiingo .

### Where these figures came from

### Where to next

ETFIQ publishes ETF data. It is independent, is not an investment adviser, takes no payment from issuers, and makes no recommendations.

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Source: ETFIQ, independent ETF data. Recomputed nightly from public filings and prices.
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