EIPX vs TRUT

EIPXCFT Energy Income Partners Strategy ETF

TRUTAVanEck Technology TruSector ETF

In short

EIPX First Trust hands the wheel to Energy Income Partners: an actively run, global energy book of roughly 80 names chasing risk-adjusted total return, not an index snapshot of whoever pumps the most barrels.

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

EIPX The Fund seeks risk-adjusted total return.

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

• EIPX Actively managed rather than index-tracking, with a stated goal of risk-adjusted total return. A manager picks the energy names, and can pass on the ones it doesn't like.
• Roughly 80 holdings. Concentrated enough that the manager's calls actually show up, broad enough that no single pipeline or utility runs the show.
• The mandate is global, so the portfolio isn't fenced into US energy names the way many sector funds are.
• Pays on a quarterly cadence and has built a mid-sized asset base since its 2022 launch, which is real staying power for a niche sector fund.

• 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

• EIPX 0.95% a year is specialist-active pricing, meaningfully above the typical active US equity ETF. You're paying for the stock picking, so it has to earn its keep.
• It trades lightly compared with its peer group, so entry and exit costs deserve more attention than with a mega-cap fund.
• This is one sector, start to finish. Energy moves on commodity cycles and policy, and the whole portfolio rides that wave together.

• 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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