VanEck Digital India ETF’s management team is rated Average, but a solid investment process still helps this strategy retain its Morningstar Medalist Rating of Silver. The portfolio maintains a cost advantage over competitors, priced within the cheapest fee quintile among peers.  

 The strategy's sensible investment philosophy merits an Above Average Process Pillar rating. Independent of the rating, analysis of the strategy's portfolio shows it has maintained a significant overweight position in quality exposure and volatility exposure compared with category peers. High quality exposure is attributed to stocks with low financial leverage and strong returns on equity. And high volatility exposure is rooted in stocks that have a higher standard deviation of returns. The strategy’s management team earns an Average People Pillar rating. The strategy's parent organization earns the firm an Average Parent Pillar rating. People Pillar and Parent Pillar ratings for this strategy are indirectly assigned by a Morningstar analyst rather than algorithmically derived. Please see the notes following each pillar section for more details. The details of assigning methods can be found in each pillar section.

Analyst Rating

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Morningstar's evaluation of this security's process aims to determine the likelihood that it will outperform its Morningstar Category index on a risk-adjusted basis over the long term. VanEck Digital India ETF earns an Above Average Process Pillar rating. The most significant contributor to the rating is that this fund tracks an index. Historical data, such as Morningstar's Active/Passive Barometer, finds that passively managed funds have generally outperformed their active counterparts, especially over longer time horizons. The firm's five-year retention rate of 83% also contributes to the process. Lastly, the process is limited by its parent firm's inferior risk-adjusted performance, as shown by the firm's average 10-year Morningstar Rating of 2.6 stars. A lower star rating suggests that the firm has struggled to outperform on a risk-adjusted basis.

The investment strategy as stated in the fund's prospectus is:  The investment seeks to track as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, and the price and yield performance of the MVIS® Digital India Index (the “Index”).  The fund normally invests at least 80% of its total assets in securities that comprise its benchmark index. The index consists of equity securities of companies involved in supporting the digitalization of the Indian economy. The fund is non-diversified. 

 The portfolio is overweight in technology and communication services relative to the category average by 46.9 and 12.8 percentage points, respectively. The sectors with low exposure compared to category peers are financial services and basic materials, underweight the average by 20.6 and 8.2 percentage points of assets, respectively. The strategy owns 38 securities and is quite concentrated. More concretely, 59.7% of the strategy's assets are housed within the top 10 holdings, as opposed to the category’s 35.7% average. And finally, in terms of portfolio turnover, on a year-over-year basis, 22% of the fund's holdings have changed, whether through increasing, decreasing, or changing a position.

Above Average

Process

VanEck’s team is valuable but does not stand out as one of the industry's best, warranting an Average People Pillar rating. The fund takes a solo manager approach, with Peter Liao as the only listed manager at the helm, who brings 18 years of portfolio management experience to the table. They manage over 25 strategies, with solid long-term prospects. The strategies average a Bronze asset-weighted Morningstar Medalist Rating, indicating a position to deliver positive alpha relative to the category median in aggregate. With only one manager listed on the strategy, the passive strategy is vulnerable to key-person risk. 

 Note: This People Pillar rating is indirectly assigned by an analyst. Morningstar analysts evaluate the People Pillar for passive products at the brand level and may also differentiate by asset class. There is at least one other passive strategy at the firm that is covered by a Morningstar analyst, so the People Pillar rating of the fund is inherited from the rating that the Morningstar analyst assigned to investment vehicles under the same brand name.

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People

VanEck’s ownership structure and specialization make it unique among industry peers. The firm’s founding family and namesake still have control, and its product lineup still reflects its legacy as a specialist in niche market segments. VanEck earns an Average Parent Pillar rating. 

Founded by John van Eck in 1955, the firm staked its claim in the industry by capitalizing on burgeoning markets. Starting with the opening of Western Europe to U.S.-based investors in the wake of the Marshall Plan, VanEck’s largest and most successful products provide exposure to areas of the market that are off the beaten path, such as hard assets, emerging-markets debt, and below-investment-grade-rated corporate debt.

Through its history, VanEck has taken an opportunistic approach to product development. For instance, since 2018, VanEck has launched strategies that provide exposures ranging from international REITs to companies involved in video game development. Regardless of where their reach takes them, however, VanEck builds a case that the strategy will be relevant over the long term and that its risks must be easy to understand. However, not all its products catch on, and the firm has shuttered several offerings in the last decade. 

VanEck remains a privately held firm, wholly owned by CEO Jan van Eck and his family. Although this enables the firm to focus on the long term and the firm offers some employees participation in profits, the firm hasn’t used equity as a recruiting and retention tool and introduces some key-person risk in the executive suite.

Parent

Vaneck Digital India ETF

DGIN tracks a market cap-weighted index of Indian companies that are involved in the digitalization of India's economy.

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