Screen XETRA-listed ETFs by category. Ranked by tax efficiency for German investors, cost, and fund size.
The score answers one question: among ETFs that genuinely belong in this category, which one is the strongest long-run fit for a German private investor? Five factors go in — exposure quality, cost, fund size, Xetra tradability, and German tax treatment including Teilfreistellung and Vorabpauschale — but their weights are not the same in every category. Picking a category shows which of those factors dominates the ranking there.
Two ETFs tracking the same index rarely land on the same score. The cheaper one wins on cost; the larger one on tracking reliability and Xetra turnover; an Irish-domiciled swap fund on US dividend withholding tax; a tax-qualified delivery ETC on German gold treatment. The score bundles those advantages, and the category decides which of them carries the most weight.
A broad Europe ETF that is 70% German large caps, or a gold product without tax-qualified delivery, is dropped before scoring. The category must actually hold what its name implies.
Lower TER, larger AUM, tighter Xetra turnover, the right domicile for that category's tax frictions, and a replication method suited to the underlying — each is an advantage, and the category decides how much it counts.
Past performance is shown for context but does not raise the score. Personal tax allowances, church tax, broker availability, live order-book depth, and official issuer tax classifications sit outside the data set. The score narrows the search; it does not replace the factsheet.