EMET vs ILIT

EMETCVanEck Copper and Green Metals ETF

ILITBiShares Lithium Miners and Producers ETF

In short

EMET Copper is the spine of electrification, but wiring a grid takes a whole shelf of metals. EMET tracks a global index of the companies that mine, refine and recycle them, about 60 names, for 0.62% a year.

ILIT Most lithium funds blend miners with EV makers and battery tech. ILIT stays at the source: an index of global companies whose main business is digging lithium ore or making lithium compounds, about 40 names, for 0.47% a year.

Stated mandate

EMET The Fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the MarketVector Global Electrification Metals Index. That index covers companies involved in producing, refining, processing, and recycling metals critical to global electrification.

ILIT ILIT aims to replicate an index of U.S. and non-U.S. equity issuers whose principal activities are lithium-ore mining or lithium-compound manufacturing.

Why people hold it

• EMET The mandate reaches past the mine: the index covers producing, refining, processing and recycling of electrification metals, so midstream and scrap names qualify too.vaneck.com
• 0.62% a year sits just under the midpoint of its critical-materials peer group, and the hunting ground is global rather than one country's mining sector.
• Not a one-metal wager: copper sits alongside the other metals the index treats as critical to electrification, spread across roughly 60 companies.

• ILIT Straight to the rock. The index holds only firms whose principal business is lithium-ore mining or lithium-compound manufacturing, so EV assemblers and electronics names stay out.ishares.com
• 0.47% a year undercuts most of the critical-materials shelf, including SETM (0.65%) and EART (0.59%).
• Rules-based and transparent: it replicates the STOXX Global Lithium Miners and Producers Index (STXLIMEV) rather than a manager's stock picks.
• Global by design. The mandate spans US, developed international and emerging market issuers instead of stopping at the US border.

Worth knowing

• EMET One of the smaller, more thinly traded funds in this corner of the market, so the real cost of getting in and out can exceed the headline fee.
• Broader metals exposure comes cheaper: PICK (0.39%) and VanEck's own REMX (0.53%) undercut it, though neither is built around the electrification basket.
• Miner equities move with metal prices, and with a 2021 launch this one has not yet run through a full commodity cycle.

• ILIT Small asset base and light trading volume, so bid-ask spreads can run wider than on the big diversified mining funds.
• One metal, roughly 40 stocks. Lithium-linked shares have been a volatile ride, and a portfolio this concentrated feels every move in the metal.
• Launched in 2023, so the track record is short, and cash distributions land only once or twice a year.

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