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Quantitative Finance · Glossary

What is ETF discount?

Definition 19.3 Strategies II: Volatility, Relative Value, Macro and the Bank Desks · Chapter 19 — Systematic Credit and Bond-ETF Arbitrage

An ETF discount is the amount by which an ETF’s market price is below its published net asset value; for a bond ETF part of it is stale NAV, computed from bond prices that have not traded, and part is selling pressure on the shares that the creation-redemption mechanism has not absorbed.

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