The Gold Miners ETF Market Vectors ETF Fund is an open-end investment management company. The Fund seeks to replicate as closely as possible, the price and yield performance of the NYSE Arca Gold Miners Index (GDM). The Index provides exposure to publicly traded companies worldwide involved primarily in the mining for gold, representing a diversified blend of small, mid and large-capitalization stocks. As of Dec 31 2013, the Fund's total assets and investment portfolio were $6,954,958,352 and $6,657,983,184, respectively. The CBON average annual return since 2014 is shown above.
The Average Annual Return on the CBON average annual return since 2014 page and across the coverage universe of our site,
is a measure of the annualized return over the past ten years (or specified start date) for a given investment
(up to the end of prior trading session recorded). Arguably, choosing ten years for a measurement
period is on the one hand completely arbitrary, but on the other hand provides a sufficiently long window
to capture long-term trends.
Thus, researching Average Annual Returns is good practice for investors — whether CBON average annual return since 2014 or other benchmarks/peers
— and when doing so it is also important to factor in dividends, because a financial instrument's annualized return is
more than just the change in price if that instrument pays a dividend or coupon. Our website aims to empower investors
by performing the CBON average annual return calculation with any dividends reinvested as applicable (on ex-dates).
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