Thank you so much!!
We like ZMID quite a lot, with a focus on mid-cap stocks. Assets are $462M, fees 0.17%, one year 34.66% and three year 11.69% (no five year). The average market cap of companies in IWM is $3.98B. Small and mid-cap stocks alike are poised for growth, in our view. ZMID is a bit more conservative than some peer funds so that may be a factor in one's decision. Looking at the economic outlook for Canada and our dollar (not great) we would continue to prefer unhedged products. RBF617 is similarly set up with mid caps, with performance close (3-year 11.5%). MER is 0.93%. We would note that RBF617 has a higher concentration of its individual securities positions. ZMID's biggest positions is 0.8% of the fund, RBF is 2.3%. We would consider this a close tie, but with ZMID having much lower fees we would side with it overall.