Looking back at the investment journey of the past decade, which ETFs have delivered the most outstanding performance? By analyzing the data, it can be found that the funds leading the market in annualized returns are mainly concentrated in the three hot sectors of semiconductors, information technology, and precious metals.

Here are the specific situations of these outstanding ETFs:

In the semiconductor sector, SMH achieved an annualized return of 34.4% with a fund size of $45 billion; the SOXX in the same category has a size of $22 billion and an annualized return of 31.2%.

In the precious metals sector, COPX performed well, achieving an annualized return of 26.2% with a fund size of $7.8 billion.

The information technology sector has several funds that made the cut: IYW (with a size of $20 billion) recorded an annualized return of 24.0%; VGT, with a fund size of $130 billion, has an annualized return of 23.7%; meanwhile, XLK, with a fund size of $87 billion, also achieved an annualized return of 23.0%.

To give everyone a more intuitive understanding of these return levels, we can refer to the market benchmark during the same period: the annualized return of the NASDAQ 100 Index is 20.9%, while the annualized return of the S&P 500 Index is 15.8%.