Natixis Vaughan Nelson Select ETF
$42.18−0.17 (−0.40%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.80%
- Fund size
- $14M
- 1Y return
- +9.8%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.20%
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $42.12
- 52W range
The ETF.net VNSE Grade
Score 17 of 100 sits in the F 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.FScore 13Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.Not scoredRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.FScore 22Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.FScore 6Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 29Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 48Category rank
Our read on VNSE
FVaughan Nelson has picked stocks out of Houston since 1970, and this is its short list in an ETF: 20 to 40 US names, bottom-up and value-leaning, with no index to hide behind. Concentration is the whole point, in both directions.
The fund uses a bottom-up process focused on value when constructing its portfolio.
Why people hold it
- Genuinely concentrated, not closet-index: the prospectus targets a portfolio of 20 to 40 securities and the fund is non-diversified, so individual picks actually move the needle.sec.gov
- Nothing to replicate. Outcomes ride on Vaughan Nelson's bottom-up, value-focused research, run by a Houston boutique founded in 1970 that sits inside the Natixis stable.im.natixis.comassets.im.natixis.com
- A contractual expense limit softens the sticker: the adviser waives fees or reimburses expenses once the cap is hit, so holders pay less than the 1.34% gross ratio suggests.assets.im.natixis.com
Worth knowing
- Cost sits at the expensive end of the US value aisle: 1.34% gross against a 0.55% peer median, with rules-based rivals like AVLV (0.15%) and DFLV (0.21%) far cheaper.
- Small and thinly traded, so the gap between buy and sell prices can be wider than in the category's giants, and size orders get noticed.
- Non-diversified by design. With 20 to 40 holdings, one stumble lands harder, and results can drift a long way from the S&P 500 it measures itself against.sec.gov
VNSE Holdings
- Stocks
- —
- 55%
- NVDA
Sectors
Geography
VNSE Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
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 | VNSE |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +10.2% |
| 1 month | +1.2% |
| 3 months | +1.6% |
| 1 year | +9.8% |
| 3 years | +15.0% |
| 5 years | +9.1% |
| 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 | VNSE |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +10.2% | |
| 2025 | +13.7% | |
| 2024 | +10.2% | |
| 2023 | +22.5% | |
| 2022 | −16.8% | |
| 2021 | +39.6% | |
| 2020 | +11.2% |
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VNSE Dividends
- 0.20%
- $0.08
- $0.0035 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 2026 | Apr 9, 2026 | $0.0035 |
| Dec 30, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.08 |
| Apr 5, 2024 | Apr 9, 2024 | $0.0016 |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $0.06 |
| Dec 27, 2022 | Dec 29, 2022 | $0.08 |
| Apr 7, 2022 | Apr 11, 2022 | $1.68 |
| Dec 27, 2021 | Dec 29, 2021 | $6.30 |
| Dec 23, 2020 | Dec 28, 2020 | $0.02 |
VNSE Risk
- 15.2%
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.
- 0.53
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.
- −24.4%
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.
- 1.12
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
VNSE Cost
- The middle half of US Active Value funds
- Median 0.55%
57 of the 66 US Active Value funds charge less.