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VanEck Fallen Angel High Yield Bond ETF
VanEck ETF Trust
ETFIndex fund
Expense ratio1
0.25%
Net assets2
$3.12B
Holdings2
114
Category
Taxable Bond
2025 return3
9.11%

Investment objective & strategy

As of Aug. 27, 2025 · prospectus

Objective. VanEck Fallen Angel High Yield Bond ETF (the Fund) seeks to replicate as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of ICE US Fallen Angel High Yield 10% Constrained Index (the Fallen Angel Index or the Index).

Strategy. The Fund normally invests at least 80% of its total assets in securities that comprise the Funds benchmark index. For purposes of this policy, the term assets means net assets plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes. The Fallen Angel Index is comprised of below investment grade corporate bonds denominated in U.S. dollars that were (a) rated investment grade at the time of issuance or (b) in certain limited circumstances, were original-issue high yield bonds from the same obligor entity whose bonds were already included in the Fallen Angel Index and are senior or senior secured only. Qualifying securities must be issued in the U.S. domestic market and have a below investment grade rating. Defaulted securities are removed … The Fund normally invests at least 80% of its total assets in securities that comprise the Funds benchmark index. For purposes of this policy, the term assets means net assets plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes. The Fallen Angel Index is comprised of below investment grade corporate bonds denominated in U.S. dollars that were (a) rated investment grade at the time of issuance or (b) in certain limited circumstances, were original-issue high yield bonds from the same obligor entity whose bonds were already included in the Fallen Angel Index and are senior or senior secured only. Qualifying securities must be issued in the U.S. domestic market and have a below investment grade rating. Defaulted securities are removed from the Fallen Angel Index at the end of the month in which they default. The Fallen Angel Index is comprised of bonds issued by both U.S. and non-U.S. issuers. The country of risk of qualifying issuers must be a member of the FX Group of Ten, a Western European nation, or a territory of the United States or a Western European nation. The FX Group of Ten includes all Euro members, Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. As of June 30, 2025, the Fallen Angel Index included 127 below investment grade bonds of 61 issuers and approximately 26% of the Fallen Angel Index was comprised of Rule 144A securities. The Funds 80% investment policy is non-fundamental and may be changed without shareholder approval upon 60 days prior written notice to shareholders. The Fund, using a passive or indexing investment approach, attempts to approximate the investment performance of the Fallen Angel Index by investing in a portfolio of securities that generally replicates the Fallen Angel Index. Unlike many investment companies that try to beat the performance of a benchmark index, the Fund does not try to beat the Fallen Angel Index and does not take temporary defensive positions that are inconsistent with its investment objective of seeking to replicate the Fallen Angel Index. The Fund may become "non-diversified" as defined under the Investment Company Act of 1940, solely as a result of a change in relative market capitalization or index weighting of one or more constituents of the Fallen Angel Index. This means that the Fund may invest a greater percentage of its assets in a limited number of issuers than would be the case if the Fund were always managed as a diversified management investment company. The Fund intends to be diversified in approximately the same proportion as the Fallen Angel Index. Shareholder approval will not be sought when the Fund crosses from diversified to non-diversified status due solely to a change in the relative market capitalization or index weighting of one or more constituents of the Fallen Angel Index. The Fund may concentrate its investments in a particular industry or group of industries to the extent that the Fallen Angel Index concentrates in an industry or group of industries. As of April 30, 2025, each of the consumer discretionary, information technology and basic materials sectors represented a significant portion of the Fund.

Top holdings

As of Jan. 31, 2026 · N-PORT
SecurityTickerValue% of fund
State Street Navigator Securities Lending Portfolio II GVMXX $327.73M 10.50%
Vodafone Group Public Limited Company VOD $119.69M 3.83%
NSANY 4.345 09/17/27 144A NSANY $105.76M 3.39%
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. $100.94M 3.23%
ENTG 4.75 04/15/29 144A ENTG $90.76M 2.91%
Dresdner Funding Trust I 8.15 06/30/2031 CMZB $62.36M 2.00%
CELANESE US HLDS $60.02M 1.92%
CELANESE US HLDS $60.01M 1.92%
CELANESE US HLDS $59.05M 1.89%
Resorts World Las Vegas LLC/RWLV Capital, Inc. $51.73M 1.66%
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Allocation by sector

As of January 31, 2026 · N-PORT
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Portfolio moves

Oct 31, 2025 → Jan 31, 2026
Opened
4
Exited
11
Increased
100
Decreased
10
Unchanged
0

How many positions this fund opened, exited, grew, trimmed, or left unchanged between its two most recent N-PORT snapshots — net changes between point-in-time reports, not a trade log.

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Advisers

As of April 30, 2025 · N-CEN
FirmRole
Van Eck Associates Corporation Adviser

Footnotes

  1. Expense ratio as of August 27, 2025, from the fund's prospectus.
  2. Net assets and holdings count as of January 31, 2026, from the fund's N-PORT filing.
  3. Total return for calendar year 2025, before tax and after fund expenses. Computed by compounding the twelve monthly total returns the fund reported in its SEC N-PORT filings for 2025 (the latest prospectus does not yet chart this year).

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