This ASX ETF is smashing the ASX 200… and the S&P 500

When an ASX investor considers an exchange-traded fund (ETF) for their portfolio, normally the goal is to bring in the market’s average return. The whole point of an index fund is, after all, to mimic the market, nothing more, nothing less. But not all ETFs are index funds. That in itself is a source of danger. Remember, beating the market is hard, and most of us statistically don’t manage it. That includes active fund managers too.

But one ASX ETF has done a pretty good job. That ETF is the VanEck Vectors Wide Moat ETF (ASX: MOAT).

MOAT is an ASX-listed ETF that tracks a basket of US shares. Not just any or all US share though. This ETF holds a basket of roughly 50 companies that all demonstrate one defining feature: the presence of a…

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