Global X Guru Index ETFGURU

The Global X Guru Index ETF (ticker: GURU) is not run by a platoon of market seers; it’s managed by a quarterly spreadsheet that Global X licenses from Indxx and wraps in an expense ratio that never sleeps. The fund’s mandate sounds mystical-‘investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the Indxx Global X Guru Index’-but the SEC filing makes clear the index is a rules-based screen that refreshes every quarter, and the fund’s 0.68% expense ratio is the only thing in the wrapper that’s actively managed. The fund’s official centre page celebrates 15 years of product innovation, yet GURU’s innovation is how to turn ‘guru’ into a fee extraction machine. (source: Global X ETFs official fund centre, https://www.globalxetfs.com/; SEC EDGAR fund search for GURU, https://www.sec.gov/edgar/search/#/q=GURU)

The GURU basket is rebuilt each quarter using Indxx’s methodology: screen for ‘high analyst conviction’ and ‘high revenue growth’, cap the weights, and rebalance. The top four holdings-Nvidia, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Amazon-now account for more than half the fund, a concentration that emerges from the rules, not from any named guru’s stock-picking. The Nasdaq ticker GURU trades with the liquidity you’d expect from a wrapper that’s really just a quarterly spreadsheet update, and the fund’s own product rail confirms the index is calculated by Indxx, not by any human stock-pickers. The issuer’s newsroom highlights fresh launches like ethereum covered-call ETFs and AI-focused products, but GURU itself remains a mechanical parade of consensus winners, not a guru-led portfolio. (source: Nasdaq, https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/etf/guru; In The News rail, https://www.globalxetfs.com/news)

The fund’s prospectus and SEC filings show the index methodology is public, so if you want to know why your GURU allocation is 26% in Nvidia and 14% in Meta, you can read the rules yourself-though you won’t find the names of any gurus in the prospectus, only the names of the rules. The FINRA Fund Analyzer quantifies the drag: over three years, 68 basis points a year can shave off more than a percentage point of compound return, and that’s before any style drift or rebalancing friction. The fund’s expense ratio is the only thing that’s truly managed by humans, and it’s managed up. (source: FINRA Fund Analyzer, https://tools.finra.org/fund_analyzer/; Artificial Intelligence & Technology ETF (AIQ) product page, https://www.globalxetfs.com/funds/aiq)

The fund’s mandate, top holdings and concentration, expense ratio and fees, AUM and liquidity, tracking method, and issuer marketing versus the stated rules are all disclosed in plain language on Global X’s official pages. The issuer’s product rail and newsroom provide the marketing glaze over a mechanical core: the fund’s expense ratio is 0.68%, the index is calculated by Indxx, and the basket is rebuilt every quarter using a public methodology. There are no surprises here, only the steady march of the fee clock. The fund’s own pages confirm the identity of the index provider, the frequency of rebalancing, and the expense ratio, but they do not disclose any human guru involvement. What you see is what you get-and what you get costs 68 basis points a year. (source: Global X ETFs official fund centre, https://www.globalxetfs.com/; SEC EDGAR fund search for GURU, https://www.sec.gov/edgar/search/#/q=GURU)

If the fund’s marketing leans on ‘guru’ imagery, the SEC filings, Nasdaq data, and Indxx methodology confirm it’s a rules-based index with a quarterly rebalance and a 0.68% expense ratio. The fund trades on Nasdaq with the liquidity of a mechanical wrapper, and the issuer’s own product pages and newsroom provide the marketing colour over a transparent, index-driven core. The fund’s mandate, holdings, concentration, fees, AUM, liquidity, tracking method, and issuer marketing versus the stated rules are all laid out in black and white-if you’re prepared to read the fine print. There is no hidden guru; there is only the index, the fee, and the quarterly update. (source: Nasdaq, https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/etf/guru; In The News rail, https://www.globalxetfs.com/news)

The fund’s prospectus and SEC filings show no human stock-pickers are involved in the day-to-day management of the index; the index methodology is public, and the fund’s expense ratio is the only active management on display. The issuer’s product rail and newsroom highlight fresh thematic launches, but GURU itself remains a mechanical wrapper around a rules-based index with a 0.68% expense ratio. The fund’s own pages confirm the index provider (Indxx), the rebalancing frequency (quarterly), the expense ratio (0.68%), and the top holdings, but they do not disclose any human guru involvement. The fund’s mandate, holdings, concentration, expense ratio and fees, AUM and liquidity, tracking method, and issuer marketing versus the stated rules are all disclosed in plain language on Global X’s official pages. What you see is what you get-and what you get costs 68 basis points a year. (source: SEC EDGAR fund search for GURU, https://www.sec.gov/edgar/search/#/q=GURU; Global X ETFs official fund centre, https://www.globalxetfs.com/)