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NAV

Net Asset Value

The per-unit value of a fund’s assets after its liabilities, normally struck once per day.

For an open-ended fund the NAV is the price at which units are created and cancelled. It is calculated at a set valuation point — typically midday or close — so a NAV is always as of a moment, not continuous.

An exchange-traded fund also has a NAV, but it trades throughout the day at a market price that can sit above or below it. A price shown for an ETF on this site is a market close unless labelled otherwise.

Because a NAV is struck at a fixed point, a series of NAVs is a series of snapshots. Comparing a fund priced at midday against one priced at close introduces a small timing difference that is not performance.

How we calculate it

Latest published NAV from the fund administrator.

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