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iShares Digital Security vs JPMorgan Nasdaq Equity Premium Income

iShares Digital Security tracks iSTOXX FactSet Digital Security and JPMorgan Nasdaq Equity Premium Income tracks Nasdaq-100 + venta de opciones (income). They are realistic alternatives for the same slot in a portfolio, but because the indices are different nobody can tell you in advance which will return more. What can be compared objectively is the cost, the replication method, the domicile and how each one is structured — and that is what this page does.

What each one tracks

This is the underlying difference: they do not follow the same index, so their returns will diverge.

iShares Digital Security

iSTOXX FactSet Digital Security

JPMorgan Nasdaq Equity Premium Income

Nasdaq-100 + venta de opciones (income)

Comparison

iShares Digital SecurityJPMorgan Nasdaq Equity Premium Income
IndexiSTOXX FactSet Digital SecurityNasdaq-100 + venta de opciones (income)
TER0.40%0.35%
Hist. return*~9%~9%
ReplicationPhysicalPhysical
DistributionAccumulatingDistributing
DomicileIrlandaIrlanda
CurrencyUSDUSD
Risk5/75/7
ISINIE00BG0J4C88IE000U9J8HX9

What the fee gap actually costs

Applying the SAME 7% gross return to both and contributing €300/month, the only thing moving the result is the TER. This is not a return forecast: it is how much the fee weighs.

HorizoniShares Digital SecurityJPMorgan Nasdaq Equity Premium IncomeDifference
10 years€51,077€51,220€142
20 years€149,723€150,633€910
30 years€340,237€343,586€3,349

JPMorgan Nasdaq Equity Premium Income is the cheaper of the two. Remember they track different indices: cost is one factor, not the verdict.

Nobody can know which will perform better: they track different indices and past performance is not a prediction. What is objective today is the cost, the replication, the domicile and the distribution policy.

iShares

iShares Digital Security

JPMorgan

JPMorgan Nasdaq Equity Premium Income

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Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between iShares Digital Security and JPMorgan Nasdaq Equity Premium Income?+

They track different indices: iShares Digital Security follows iSTOXX FactSet Digital Security and JPMorgan Nasdaq Equity Premium Income follows Nasdaq-100 + venta de opciones (income). They also differ in cost (0.40% vs 0.35% TER), replication (physical vs physical) and domicile (Irlanda vs Irlanda).

Which one will perform better?+

Nobody can know that: they track different indices, so their returns will diverge, and past index performance is not a prediction. What you can control today is the cost, the tax structure and whether the index actually covers what you want exposure to.

Which one is cheaper?+

JPMorgan Nasdaq Equity Premium Income has the lower annual fee. Applying the same 7% gross return to both with €300/month, that fee gap alone is worth about €910 after 20 years — that part is arithmetic, not a forecast.

Accumulating or distributing?+

iShares Digital Security is accumulating (dividends are reinvested inside the fund) and JPMorgan Nasdaq Equity Premium Income is distributing (dividends are paid out to you). For long-term compounding in Spain, accumulating usually defers taxation; distributing gives you income you are taxed on each year.

Can I hold both?+

Yes. Unlike two funds tracking the identical index, these give you genuinely different exposure, so holding both is not automatically redundant — just be aware you may end up overlapping on the largest companies and doubling your rebalancing work.

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