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You can purchase mutual funds right on our site with an online account.

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  • Set up an account starting with as little as $50 per month.1
  • Access your online account at your convenience.
  • Purchase funds without transaction fees or sales charges.

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For guidance when investing, ask a financial professional about buying Thrivent mutual funds & ETFs.

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  • Build a relationship through in-person meetings.
  • Get help planning for life’s goals such as saving and retirement.
  • Additional fees may apply.

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Brokerage Account

If you already have a brokerage account, our mutual funds & ETFs can be purchased through online brokerage platforms by searching for Thrivent Mutual Funds and ETFs.

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  • Add Thrivent Mutual Funds and ETFs to your investments within your existing portfolio.
  • Take advantage of your account to keep your investments in one place.
  • Additional fees may apply.
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This ETF is different from traditional ETFs. Traditional ETFs tell the public what assets they hold each day. This ETF will not. This may create additional risks for your investment. For example:

 - You may have to pay more money to trade the ETF’s shares. This ETF will provide less information to traders, who tend to charge more for trades when they have less information.

 - The price you pay to buy ETF shares on an exchange may not match the value of the ETF’s portfolio. The same is true when you sell shares. These price differences may be greater for this ETF compared to other ETFs because it provides less information to traders.

 - These additional risks may be even greater in bad or uncertain market conditions.

 - The ETF will publish on its website each day a “Proxy Portfolio” designed to help trading in shares of the ETF. While the Proxy Portfolio includes some of the ETF’s holdings, it is not the ETF’s actual portfolio.

The differences between this ETF and other ETFs may also have advantages. By keeping certain information about the ETF secret, this ETF may face less risk that other traders can predict or copy its investment strategy. This may improve the ETF’s performance. If other traders are able to copy or predict the ETF’s investment strategy, however, this may hurt the ETF’s performance. For additional information regarding the unique attributes and risks of the ETF, see the Principal Risks section of the prospectus.

1 New accounts with a minimum investment amount of $50 are offered through the Thrivent Mutual Funds "automatic purchase plan." Otherwise, the minimum initial investment requirement is $2,000 for non-retirement accounts and $1,000 for IRA or tax-deferred accounts, minimum subsequent investment requirement is $50 for all account types. Account minimums for other options vary.

Thrivent ETFs may be purchased through your financial professional or brokerage platforms.

Contact your financial professional or brokerage firm to understand minimum investment amounts when purchasing a Thrivent ETF.

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INVESTING ESSENTIALS

How do bull and bear markets impact stock market performance?

05/28/2024

05/28/2024

Markets in 2024 started strong in the middle of a bull market, but experienced a market correction around the beginning of May. What does this mean for your investments in the stock market?

The financial industry has a lot of terminology to define actions in the markets. (See: What is a bull vs. bear market?) Here are a few to clarify what financial analysts are saying:

Bear market: A decline in the S&P 500® Index of 20% or more from its recent peak.

Bull market: When the S&P 500 Index starts increasing from the lowest point, the industry calls the time between that and the next peak as a bull market.

Market correction: A decline in the S&P 500 Index by 10–20%

Recession: A significant decline in economic activity that is spread across the economy and that lasts more than a few months.1

S&P 500 Index: The S&P 500 Index is a market-cap weighted index that represents the average performance of a group of 500 large-capitalization stocks.

Historically, bull markets have lasted longer than bear markets (5.6 years versus 1.2 years) and have grown more than bear markets have declined. It’s important to know, bear markets and recessions don’t always align—a recession may occur in the middle of a bull market and a bear market can occur outside of a recession.
 

Chart depicting the cumulative return of the S&P 500® Index during bull and bear markets from 1950 through 2020.
Chart depicting the cumulative return of the S&P 500® Index during bull and bear markets from 1950 through 2020.

Exercising patience

Timing the market to buy when prices are low and sell when they’re high is difficult. It is very tempting to buy as markets are climbing and to sell when markets experience a downturn. If you exercise patience and keep your investments the same even when markets are increasing or decreasing, you avoid the risk of missing out on market surges that tend to follow declines.

For example, if you invested $10,000 in the broad U.S. stock market at the start of 2009, it would grow to more than $70,000 by the end of 2023, as seen with the graph below.
 

Chart depicting the growth of $10,000 invested in the S&P 500 Index from 2009 through 2024.
Chart depicting the growth of $10,000 invested in the S&P 500 Index from 2009 through 2024.


Market returns captured over a long period of time may be driven by just a few days of strong performance. They also often come on the heels of a market correction. Staying invested with patience and avoiding the temptation to time the market may give you the best chance to take advantage of those strong performing days, especially after a correction. The graph below demonstrates the importance of being invested during the best days of the market:
 

Chart depicting the growth of $10,000 invested in the S&P 500 Index from 2009 through 2023 that emphasizes the importance of being invested during the best days of the market.
Chart depicting the growth of $10,000 invested in the S&P 500 Index from 2009 through 2023 that emphasizes the importance of being invested during the best days of the market.

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1 The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results.

Any indexes shown are unmanaged and do not reflect the typical costs of investing. Investors cannot invest directly in an index.

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