
This ETF is designed to replicate the financial performance of its underlying benchmark index, specifically prior to accounting for any associated fees or operational expenses.
Is VALQ's expense ratio expensive, average, or a steal for its category?
Pro reveals the verdict on a 5-tier spectrum calibrated against ICI 2025 industry averages, with strategy-aware bands so the comparison is meaningful.

As a global tech rout ensued in June, market participants began migrating towards value. According to fund flow data from State Street Global Advisors, value strategies emerged as the undisputed champion last month, pulling in $13 billion in June.

Investors are always on the look out for signals in the market, windows into the minds of asset managers. Index ETF rebalancing provides perhaps the strongest data points that one can get outside of big market shifts.

A smart beta exchange traded fund, the American Century U.S. Quality Value ETF (VALQ) debuted on 01/11/2018, and offers broad exposure to the Style Box - All Cap Value category of the market.

American Century Investments has established itself as an innovative player in the ETF space, after launching its first products in January 2018. The index-based American Century US Quality Value ETF (VALQ) and the actively managed American Century Diversified Corporate Bond ETF (KORP) are still trading today.

Value investors may be facing a conviction crisis. Despite leading in performance so far in 2026, value ETFs have struggled to consistently gather assets, with some funds picking up significant net new money while others are bleeding just as much.