Mike Rawson, ETF analyst at Morningstar, points out that securities lending allow larger ETFs to outperform their expense ratio.
“It can have a significant impact,” Rawson said in the article.
Securities lending has been associated with counterparty risk. If a borrower, for whatever reason, does not return the shares, the ETF would be left in a short squeeze.
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Max Chen contributed to this article.