DPRE vs TRUT

DPRECVirtus Duff & Phelps Real Estate Income ETF

TRUTAVanEck Technology TruSector ETF

In short

DPRE Most real estate ETFs buy REIT common stock and stop there. DPRE is actively run with income as the stated first goal, free to roam across REIT shares, preferred securities and property debt, in the US and abroad.

TRUT Diversification rules force most tech ETFs to trim their biggest names. TRUT's answer: own the giants directly up to the legal line, then top up with sector ETFs so the portfolio mirrors the sector's real shape.

Stated mandate

DPRE The Fund seeks high current income, with capital appreciation as a secondary objective.

TRUT The Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation through active investment in securities of information technology-related companies or instruments providing exposure to them.

Why people hold it

• DPRE Income leads the mandate: high current income is the primary objective, capital appreciation the secondary one, and the fund distributes quarterly.
• Works the whole capital stack, holding REIT equity, preferred securities and real estate debt rather than common stock alone.
• At 0.59%, the fee sits below the median for its active US equity peer group, unusual for a specialist active sleeve.
• The passport is open: global real estate companies, including emerging market issuers, sit inside the mandate alongside US property.

• TRUT The mechanism is the point. Fund rules cap one stock at 25% and stocks above 5% at 50% combined; TRUT fills the gap with targeted sector ETFs instead of overweighting smaller names.vaneck.comvaneck.com 2
• 0.14% a year for an actively managed fund, against a median near 0.65% across active US equity peers. Cheap enough to sit alongside index products.
• One of the two originals in VanEck's TruSector line, launched in 2025. The approach has since been extended across all 11 GICS sectors.vaneck.comvaneck.com 2
• About 80 positions, quarterly distributions, and steady day-to-day trading. On cost and tradability it lands in the upper tier of its active US equity cohort.

Worth knowing

• DPRE A small fund that trades thinly, which usually means wider bid-ask spreads than the giant index REIT funds.
• Launched in 2026 and actively managed, so there is little live history and outcomes ride on the managers' calls rather than an index.
• Roughly 60 positions, with rate-sensitive preferreds and debt in the mix, so single names and interest rates carry more weight than in a broad index.

• TRUT Part of the exposure arrives through other ETFs rather than shares the fund holds outright. That is the workaround that makes uncapped weights possible, and it adds a layer.vaneck.com
• Uncapped means concentrated. Leaning fully into tech's largest companies ties results to a handful of mega-caps more tightly than a capped sector fund would.vaneck.com
• Launched August 2025, so there is only a short record of how closely the hybrid build actually shadows an uncapped tech benchmark.

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