List of Mortgage Backed Securities ETFs: FKnol.com

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Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS) ETFs are the ones which invest in the financial instruments of the MBS market. MBS exchange-traded funds are primarily classified under the bonds market ETFs. (For more, see List of Bond Duration ETFs.)
This article provides a list of MBS ETFs which are available for active trading in the U.S. markets.
Following is the list of all 12 exchange-traded funds that FKnol has in its database for ETFs which belong to the Mortgage Backed Securities category:

List of All Mortgage Backed Securities ETFs

Ticker	Name	Short Description	Expense Ratio	No. of Holdings	Dividend Frequency	Category
MBG	SPDR Barclays Capital Mortgage Backed Bond ETF	The SPDR Bloomberg Barclays Mortgage Backed Bond ETF tracks an index of US agency mortgage pass-through debt. ...Full Details	0.06%	513 Full List	Monthly	Mortgage Backed Securities
VMBS	Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF	The Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF tracks a market weighted index of mortgage-backed securities. ...Full Details	0.07%	24 Full List	Monthly	Mortgage Backed Securities
MBB	iShares MBS Bond ETF	The iShares MBS ETF tracks a market-weighted index of investment-grade mortgage pass-through securities. The index includes fixed and floating rate securities issued by GNMA, FNMA and FHLMC. ...Full Details	0.09%	1804 Full List	Monthly	Mortgage Backed Securities
GNMA	iShares GNMA Bond ETF	The iShares GNMA Bond ETF tracks a market weighted index of mortgage pass-through securities issued by Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA), with 30 or 15 year maturities. ...Full Details	0.15%	126 Full List	Monthly	Mortgage Backed Securities
GSST	Goldman Sachs Access Ultra Short Bond ETF	GSST is an actively-managed ETF that seeks to provide current income with preservation of capital by investing in a broad range of US dollar denominated ultra short-term bonds. ...Full Details	0.16%	131 Full List	Monthly	Mortgage Backed Securities
MBSD	FlexShares Disciplined Duration MBS Index Fund	The FlexShares Disciplined Duration MBS Index Fund tracks an index of agency-backed mortgage-backed securities that aims for 3.25-4.25 years of effective duration. The index uses a proprietary weighting scheme. ...Full Details	0.2%	40 Full List	Monthly	Mortgage Backed Securities
CMBS	iShares CMBS ETF	The iShares CMBS ETF tracks an index of investment-grade commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBSs) with an expected life of at least 1 year. ...Full Details	0.25%	471 Full List	Monthly	Mortgage Backed Securities
JMBS	Janus Henderson Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF	The Janus Henderson Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF is an actively managed fund of mortgage-backed securities. The fund seeks a high level of total return. ...Full Details	0.35%	11 Full List	NA	Mortgage Backed Securities
MTGP	WisdomTree Mortgage Plus Bond Fund	MTGP is an actively-managed fund of U.S. securitized intermediate-term debt primarily agency mortgage-backed securities, which are rated investment grade and high yield. ...Full Details	0.45%	33 Full List		Mortgage Backed Securities
LGOV	First Trust Long Duration Opportunities ETF	The Direxion Daily Consumer Staples Bear -3x Shares ETF provides 3x leveraged exposure to the U.S. consumer non-discretionary sector. ...Full Details	0.65%	21 Full List	Annually	Mortgage Backed Securities
DEED	First Trust TCW Securitized Plus ETF	The First Trust TCW Securitized Plus ETF is an exchange-traded fund incorporated in the US. The fund seeks to maximize long-term total return ...Full Details	0.65%	0		Mortgage Backed Securities
LMBS	First Trust Low Duration Mortgage Opportunities ETF	The First Trust Low Duration Opportunities ETF is an actively managed fund that invests in a variety of mortgage-backed securities with target duration of less than 3 years. The fund may also take positions in US Treasury futures or options. ...Full Details	0.68%	1517 Full List	Monthly	Mortgage Backed Securities

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How MBS ETFs Work?

The MBS securities and financial instruments work on the basis of mortgage (re-) payments on residential as well as commercial real estate properties. These financial instruments can be structured and floated in the market as equity-based financial products or as fixed income-based financial products. MBS ETFs are a form of equity-based offering for a mortgage financial product.
Such MBS ETF allow investors to take an indirect route to investing in the mortgage securities. For example, one of the popular MBS ETF called the iShares Barclays MBS Bond ETF allows an investor to invest in fixed-rate mortgage instruments which are launched by the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC), the Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA) or the Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA). Another popular MBS ETF, called iShares MBS ETF (MBB), provides investment exposure to a wide ranging set of American mortgage-backed bonds, including those issued by government sponsored enterprises such as Ginnie Mae, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac.
Though these MBS ETFs are prone to the usual risk factors that are associated with the underlying mortgage based securities investments, taking the ETF route allows and investor to spread the risk across multiple such MBS instruments. One should anyways be aware about the working of the underlying securities that the MBS ETF is expected to invest in, and should also keep an eye on the expense ratio which may vary widely. (See also, List of REIT ETFs.)