ARTY vs IVES

ARTYAiShares Future AI & Tech ETF

IVESCDan Ives Wedbush AI Revolution ETF

In short

ARTY Launched in 2018 as a robotics fund, ARTY switched benchmarks in 2024 and came back as a focused global AI portfolio: about 50 companies across chips, data centers, software and services, at a below-median theme fee.

IVES Wedbush turned its own AI research call into a ticker. IVES tracks a house-built index of roughly 30 AI names, reaching past US megacaps into chip-supply-chain countries like Taiwan, the Netherlands and Israel.

Stated mandate

ARTY The fund seeks to track a global index of companies contributing to artificial-intelligence technologies across software, infrastructure, and services.

IVES The Fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Solactive Wedbush Artificial Intelligence Index.

Why people hold it

• ARTY 0.47% a year against a 0.68% median for AI-theme funds. The thematic markup is smaller here than on most of the shelf, though XAIX and QTUM undercut it.
• Global by design. The index pulls from US and non-US companies contributing to AI across generative AI, data and infrastructure, software and services.ishares.com
• A multi-billion-dollar, actively traded iShares fund, so getting in and out doesn't hinge on thin volume.
• Stacks up as one of the stronger builds in a crowded AI cohort on cost, structure and staying power.

• IVES Concentration is the point: roughly 30 stocks, not 300, so the names the index selects actually move the fund.
• It doesn't stop at Silicon Valley. The mandate reaches into Taiwan, the Netherlands, Israel and China, where much of the physical AI supply chain sits.
• Rules first, hunches second. It follows the Solactive Wedbush Artificial Intelligence Index, so the selection logic is written down before you own it.
• Shares trade actively, which generally keeps the gap between the market price and the fund's underlying value tight for everyday orders.

Worth knowing

• ARTY The record before August 2024 belongs to a different strategy: as IRBO it tracked a robotics and AI index, then moved to the Morningstar Global AI Select Index.ishares.com
• About 50 names in one theme. The AI trade sets the tone here, and that concentration works in both directions.
• Distributions land once or twice a year and are incidental. This is a growth-theme equity fund, not an income holding.

• IVES At 0.75% a year it sits above the typical AI index fund. XAIX charges 0.35% and ARTY 0.47% for their own takes on the theme.
• Both the fund and its index launched in 2025, so there's no multi-year record of how closely it has tracked the benchmark.
• Thirty-odd stocks in one theme cuts both ways: the focus that sharpens the AI bet also makes for a bumpier ride than a broad tech fund.

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