Top 10 ETFs For 2020 All Returned More Than 100% Clean energy and technological innovation dominate the list of best performing funds for 2020. Author: Dec 16, 2020 Despite everything that happened in 2020 - the global COVID-19 pandemic, the bear market in February/March, a global economic recession the likes we haven't seen since the Great Depression - the stock market still managed to deliver solid returns in 2020. We can thank the government and the Fed for supplying the economy with a virtually unlimited amount of equity in order to keep the financial markets flowing and investors buying. Through the middle of December, the S&P 500 is up 16%, while the Russell 2000 has gained 19%. But for a handful of ETFs, the returns have been much, much bigger.