ETHO vs SNPE

ETHOCAmplify Etho Climate Leadership U.S. ETF

SNPEAXtrackers S&P 500 Scored & Screened ETF

In short

ETHO Most ESG funds lead with exclusions. ETHO leads with the carbon math, ranking companies against their own industry on emissions, then spreading it across roughly 300 U.S. names. A 2015-vintage climate fund that stayed one.

SNPE The S&P 500 with roughly 200 names screened out, for 0.10% a year. SNPE keeps the plumbing of a plain core index fund and lets S&P's rules, not a stock picker, decide who stays in the basket.

Stated mandate

ETHO ETHO seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Etho Climate Leadership Index–US. The passive fund generally invests at least 80% of net assets in index securities representing diversified U.S. companies selected for lower industry-relative carbon impact and ESG criteria.

SNPE The fund seeks investment results that generally correspond, before fees and expenses, to the performance of its underlying index.

Why people hold it

• ETHO Selection starts with carbon impact measured against industry peers, not just headline exclusions, and lands in a diversified basket of roughly 300 U.S. companies.amplifyetfs.com
• Rules-based and literal: a passive fund keeping at least 80% of net assets in its named index, the Etho Climate Leadership Index-US. The label and the portfolio line up.
• Trading since 2015, early for a climate-screened U.S. equity ETF, with a record now spanning several full market cycles.
• Roughly 300 holdings keeps single names from dominating, one of the broader portfolios among U.S. ESG equity funds.

• SNPE A 0.10% expense ratio puts it in the cheap seats of the screened-index crowd, alongside XVV (0.08%) and ESGV (0.09%) and well under the group's typical fee.
• Plain index plumbing: it aims to match the S&P 500 Scored & Screened Index before fees, and it has hugged that mandate closely.
• Roughly 300 stocks, so the screen actually bites. Around 200 S&P 500 members are cut outright rather than quietly trimmed.
• A multi-billion-dollar Xtrackers fund running since 2019 with steady daily volume and quarterly payouts. Not a thin, untested launch.

Worth knowing

• ETHO At 0.45% a year, it runs well above the ESG index crowd: Vanguard's ESGV charges 0.09% and iShares' XVV 0.08%.
• Thinly traded next to the mega-cap ESG names, so bid/ask spreads can be wider and large orders move the price more.
• Cash comes back once or twice a year, not monthly.

• SNPE Cutting ~200 names concentrates what's left. The megacap leaders of the parent index end up carrying even more weight here.
• The screens are S&P's, not yours. They are rules-based and reapplied at each rebalance, so the roster can shift without warning.
• Not the outright cheapest option in the group: XVV and ESGV shave a basis point or two off the fee.

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