Simplify Kayne Anderson Energy and Infrastructure Credit ETF
$25.39−0.16 (−0.63%)
History starts May 28, 2025.
- Expense ratio
- 0.76%
- Fund size
- $153M
- 1Y return
- +4.3%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 6.89%
- Holdings
- 23
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $25.51
- 52W range
The ETF.net KNRG Grade
Score 55 of 100 sits in the C band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.DScore 29Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.BScore 64Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 69Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 69Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 63Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 65Category rank
Our read on KNRG
CMost energy funds buy the stocks. KNRG lends to the sector instead: an actively managed book of energy and infrastructure bonds, loans and preferred shares picked by Kayne Anderson, with income paid monthly.
The Fund primarily seeks current income and secondarily seeks capital appreciation.
Why people hold it
- Kayne Anderson subadvises, bringing decades of public and private energy infrastructure investing to a credit book of bonds, notes, loans and hybrids.simplify.ussimplify.us
- Income first by design: the prospectus puts current income ahead of capital appreciation, and the fund distributes monthly.simplify.us
- Active, not index-bound: an opportunistic relative-value mandate that targets higher credit quality than traditional high yield bond indices.simplify.us
Worth knowing
- The 0.76% expense ratio runs about double the median bond ETF in its peer group, the price of a specialist active manager.
- Launched in 2025, still small and thinly traded, so spreads can be wider than in long-established bond ETFs.
- A single-sector credit sleeve tied to energy and infrastructure borrowers, including loans and preferreds, not a broad bond market holding.simplify.us
KNRG Holdings
- Bonds
- 23
- 46%
- ET V7.125 PERP G Corp
Sectors
- Utilities100.0%
Geography
- United States100.00%
KNRG Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
KNRG$10,431
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | KNRG |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +3.2% |
| 1 month | −0.2% |
| 3 months | +0.6% |
| 1 year | +4.3% |
| 3 years | — |
| 5 years | — |
| 10 years | — |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | KNRG |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +3.2% | |
| 2025 | +7.3% |
KNRG in the news
KNRG Dividends
- 6.89%
- $1.76
- $0.14 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 2026 | Aug 31, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Jul 28, 2026 | Jul 31, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.14 |
| May 26, 2026 | May 29, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Apr 27, 2026 | Apr 30, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Feb 24, 2026 | Feb 27, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Jan 27, 2026 | Jan 30, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Dec 23, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.16 |
| Nov 21, 2025 | Nov 28, 2025 | $0.16 |
| Oct 28, 2025 | Oct 31, 2025 | $0.16 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.16 |
KNRG Risk
- 3.4%
How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
- 1.42
How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
- −2.7%
How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- 0.22
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
KNRG Cost
0.76%
KNRG0.76%
- The middle half of Multi-Sector Bond Income funds
- Median 0.55%
15 of the 23 Multi-Sector Bond Income funds charge less.