In the United States, exchange-traded funds can defer capital gains taxes of their investors by taking advantage of a legal loophole, sometimes referred to as Wall Street's "dirty little secret". To quantify the impact of this tax loophole on investor portfolios, we study a rank-dependent...

In the United States, exchange-traded funds can defer capital gains taxes of their investors by taking advantage of a legal loophole. To quantify the impact of this tax loophole on investor portfolios, we study a rank-dependent expected utility model. We develop an approximation formula for the...