VanEck’s RAAX and ESPO Win at Annual ETF.com Awards Dinner

At last night’s ETF.com Awards Dinner in New York City, RAAX was awarded the Best New Alternatives ETF while ESPO took home the People’s Choice Award and was co-winner of the Thematic ETF of the Year.

RAAX is an active ETF that provides comprehensive exposure across commodities, natural resource equities, REITs, MLPs, and infrastructure. ESPO seeks to replicate as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the MVIS® Global Video Gaming and eSports Index (MVESPOTR), which is intended to track the overall performance of companies involved in video game development, esports, and related hardware and software. “We’re very pleased to be once again celebrating a victory at the ETF.com Awards,” said Ed Lopez, Head of ETF Product at VanEck. “Both RAAX and ESPO are strong representations of the forward-looking, intelligently designed ETFs that VanEck strives to bring to market.”

The ETF.com Awards – jointly developed by ETF.com and Inside ETFs – recognize the people, products, and companies that are pushing the ETF industry forward and working to generate better results for investors. Winners are selected from a carefully screened list of nominations by a panel of independent experts, including leading financial advisors, ETF strategists, and ETF due diligence experts.

About VanEck

VanEck has a history of looking beyond the financial markets to identify trends that are likely to create impactful investment opportunities. We were one of the first U.S. asset managers to offer investors access to international markets. This set the tone for the firm’s drive to identify asset classes and trends – including gold investing in 1968, emerging markets in 1993, and exchange traded funds in 2006 – that subsequently shaped the investment management industry.

Today, VanEck offers active and passive strategies with compelling exposures supported by well-designed investment processes. As of February 28, 2019, VanEck managed approximately $47.8 billion in assets, including mutual funds, ETFs, and institutional accounts. The firm’s capabilities range from core investment opportunities to more specialized exposures to enhance portfolio diversification. Our actively managed strategies are fueled by in-depth, bottom-up research and security selection from portfolio managers with direct experience in the sectors and regions in which they invest. Investability, liquidity, diversity, and transparency are key to the experienced decision-making around market and index selection underlying VanEck’s passive strategies.

Since our founding in 1955, putting our clients’ interests first, in all market environments, has been at the heart of the firm’s mission.

About ETF.com & Inside ETFs

ETF.com is one of the world's leading authorities on exchange-traded funds. Since 2001, it has delivered clear, independent and authoritative news, analysis and education about ETFs online and in print. The firm's marquee properties are its website, ETF.com, and its print publication, ETF Report.

Inside ETFs is a world leader in ETF education. Through conferences, webinars, roadshows and more, it aims to educate investors about ETFs and increase the fidelity between their investing goals and their realized outcomes. Its marquee event, Inside ETFs, is the largest ETF conference in the world.

Important Disclosures

MVIS Global Video Gaming and eSports Index is the exclusive property of MV Index Solutions GmbH (a wholly owned subsidiary of the Adviser), which has contracted with Solactive AG to maintain and calculate the Index. Solactive AG uses its best efforts to ensure that the Index is calculated correctly. Irrespective of its obligations towards MV Index Solutions GmbH, Solactive AG has no obligation to point out errors in the Index to third parties. The VanEck Vectors Video Gaming and eSports ETF is not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by MV Index Solutions GmbH and MV Index Solutions GmbH makes no representation regarding the advisability of investing in the Fund.

An investment in RAAX may be subject to risks which include, among others, in fund of funds risk which may subject RAAX to investing in commodities, gold, natural resources companies, MLPs, real estate sector, infrastructure, equities securities, small- and medium-capitalization companies, foreign securities, emerging market issuers, foreign currency, credit, high yield securities, interest rate, call and concentration risks, all of which may adversely affect RAAX. RAAX may also be subject to affiliated fund, U.S. Treasury Bills, subsidiary investment, commodity regulatory (with respect to investments in the Subsidiary), tax (with respect to investments in the Subsidiary), liquidity, gap, cash transactions, high portfolio turnover, model and data, management, operational, authorized participant concentration, no guarantee of active trading market, trading issues, market, fund shares trading, premium/discount and liquidity of fund shares, non-diversified and ETPs risks. Foreign investments are subject to risks, which include changes in economic and political conditions, foreign currency fluctuations, changes in foreign regulations, and changes in currency exchange rates which may negatively impact RAAX's returns. Small- and medium-capitalization companies may be subject to elevated risks.

An investment in ESPO may be subject to risks which include, among others, investing in the video gaming and esports companies, equity securities, communication services and information technology sectors, medium-capitalization companies, issuer-specific changes, special risk considerations of investing in Asian, Japanese and emerging markets issuers, foreign securities, foreign currency, depositary receipts, , market, operational, cash transactions, index tracking, authorized participant concentration, absence of prior active market, trading issues, passive management, fund shares trading, premium/discount risk and liquidity of fund shares, non-diversified, and concentration risks, all of which may adversely affect ESPO. Foreign investments are subject to risks, which include changes in economic and political conditions, foreign currency fluctuations, changes in foreign regulations, and changes in currency exchange rates which may negatively impact ESPO’s returns. Medium-capitalization companies may be subject to elevated risks.

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