AGIX vs QTUM

AGIXDKraneShares Public-Private AI & Technology ETF

QTUMADefiance Quantum ETF

In short

AGIX Most AI funds stop where the stock exchange does. AGIX is built to hold public and private artificial-intelligence companies alike, actively managed, roughly 50 names, at a premium price.

QTUM Live since 2018, QTUM turns the quantum-computing story into a plain index fund: about 90 global names spanning quantum hardware and machine learning, for 0.40% a year.

Stated mandate

AGIX AGIX seeks exposure to publicly listed and private artificial-intelligence and technology companies, spanning multiple segments of the AI ecosystem.

QTUM The Fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the total return of the BlueStar® Quantum Computing and Machine Learning Index. It uses a passive indexing approach.

Why people hold it

• AGIX Its mandate covers both listed and private AI companies, a reach most AI-theme ETFs do not attempt in a single ticker.kraneshares.com
• Spread across multiple layers of the AI ecosystem rather than one slice of it, so the thesis is not riding on a single corner of the trade.kraneshares.com
• Actively run and concentrated at roughly 50 holdings: a manager's shortlist, not a sprawling index of everything with an AI slide in its deck.kraneshares.com
• Solid size for a fund launched in 2024, with day-to-day trading regular enough that ordinary orders are not fighting the spread.

• QTUM 0.40% a year against a 0.68% median for its AI-theme cohort, and it undercuts peers like WTAI (0.45%) and ALAI (0.55%).
• Rules-based by design: it tracks the BlueStar Quantum Computing and Machine Learning Index, so no manager is hand-picking which quantum story wins.
• About 90 holdings across global markets, so the theme rides on a basket instead of two or three pure plays.
• Size and liquidity back it up: a multi-billion-dollar fund that trades actively, and one of the stronger implementations in its thematic peer group.

Worth knowing

• AGIX At 1.00% a year, it costs more than most AI-theme peers, including XAIX at 0.35% and ARTY at 0.47%. The private-market access is what you are paying up for.
• Part of the portfolio is not exchange-listed, so those positions carry the pricing and liquidity quirks of private holdings rather than a live market quote.kraneshares.com
• Launched in 2024, so the track record is short, and with about 50 names a handful of positions can move the whole fund.

• QTUM Risk is the softest part of the profile. One narrow, early-stage theme in a single asset class means sharper swings than a broad-market fund.
• The index covers machine learning as well as quantum, so part of the basket is familiar AI exposure rather than quantum specialists.
• Distributions come quarterly, but a growth theme like this is not built around income.

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