Company Announcements

Actively managed INDZ combines fundamental research with systematic discipline to identify high-quality Indian companies with durable return potential, reinforcing VanEck's high-conviction view on India's structural growth story

TRUC is latest addition to VanEck’s “TruSector” family, which allow investors to track sector benchmarks with far greater precision than traditional sector funds

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 19, 2026-- VanEck today launched two new ETFs, the VanEck India Select ETF (INDZ) and the VanEck Communications Services TruSector ETF (TRUC), further building out the firm’s emerging markets equity and TruSector ETF suites.

“As we grow our emerging markets and TruSector solutions, our focus remains on identifying areas where traditional exposures fall short and developing solutions that offer precision and alignment with how markets are evolving,” said Ed Lopez, Managing Director and Head of Product Management at VanEck.

India’s growth is being driven by many of the same forces that have supported long-term U.S. equity returns, including economic reforms, rapid technology adoption, infrastructure investment, and favorable demographics. These dynamics are creating new opportunities while reshaping business models across the economy. VanEck believes investors benefit from a dedicated allocation to India that looks beyond traditional indexes and focuses on higher-quality companies positioned for durable, long-term returns.

INDZ is an actively managed equity strategy built for India’s high-dispersion market, where long-term returns are driven by company-level fundamentals rather than broad index exposure. Traditional market-cap weighted indexes allocate capital across business with widely varying quality and return profiles, often combining consistent compounders with persistent underperformers. INDZ aims to reduce this structural drag through a systematic, rules-based process that concentrates capital in high quality Indian companies with high capital efficiency, resilient business models and sustainable long-term potential.

“INDZ is built to combine fundamental research with systematic discipline,” said VanEck’s Angus Shillington, Portfolio Manager of INDZ. “We use bottom-up research to identify businesses generating measurable shareholder value, then apply a structured quantitative framework and institutional risk controls to construct the portfolio. The goal is to capture more of India’s long-term winners without underwriting persistent underperformers, delivering real earnings compounding through a repeatable, risk-aware process.”

INDZ expands VanEck's India-focused investment solutions, which include the VanEck Digital India ETF (DGIN), which invests in companies supporting the digitalization of the Indian economy, and the VanEck India Growth Leaders ETF (GLIN), which selects fundamentally strong Indian firms with attractive growth potential at reasonable prices.

VanEck Continues Buildout of TruSector Suite with TRUC

TRUC joins the VanEck Consumer Discretionary TruSector ETF (TRUD) and VanEck Technology TruSector ETF (TRUT) in a growing suite of funds designed to give investors full market-cap sector exposure, providing closer alignment with how the market itself defines each sector.

As the VanEck team noted at the launch of TRUD and TRUT, there can be significant tracking error in traditional sector fund approaches caused when Registered Investment Company (RIC) diversification rules force sector funds to underweight the largest companies in their benchmarks. VanEck’s TruSector approach is designed to provide uncapped sector exposure while maintaining compliance with RIC diversification rules by adopting a hybrid approach, holding a mix of individual equities and targeted ETFs.

By doing so, the TruSector ETFs can maintain uncapped exposure to a given sector’s leading contributors and avoid the overallocation to smaller names common in traditional sector ETFs. The end results include cleaner attribution, lower tracking error to widely followed benchmarks and the avoidance of unintended stock biases.

“With TRUC, we’re expanding the range of sector-focused solutions we’re making available to investors and allocators,” said Michael Cohick, Director of Product Management at VanEck. “For too long, traditional sector funds have limited exposure to the sector’s true drivers. We’re pleased to add TRUC to our TruSector suite of ETFs which provide a more representative expression of sector dynamics.”

Visit the VanEck India Select ETF (INDZ) and VanEck Communications Services TruSector ETF (TRUC) fund pages for more information including portfolio holdings and manager commentary. The VanEck team provides regular updates and insights on its website.

About VanEck

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Today, VanEck offers active and passive strategies with compelling exposures supported by well-designed investment processes. As of December 31, 2025, VanEck managed approximately $181.4 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.

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An investment in the VanEck India Select ETF may be subject to risks which include, among others, special risk considerations of investing in Indian issuers, active management, materials sector, health care sector, consumer discretionary sector, depository receipts, emerging market issuers, equity securities, large-capitalization companies, financials sector, foreign currency, foreign securities, high portfolio turnover, industrial sector, market, new fund, non-diversified, operational, small- and medium-capitalization companies, authorized participant concentration, no guarantee of active trading market, trading issues, fund shares trading, premium/discount risk and liquidity of fund shares, and cash transactions risks, all of which may adversely affect the Fund. Emerging market issuers and foreign securities may be subject to securities markets, political and economic, investment and repatriation restrictions, different rules and regulations, less publicly available financial information, foreign currency and exchange rates, operational and settlement, and corporate and securities laws risks. Small- and medium-capitalization companies may be subject to elevated risks.

An investment in the VanEck Communications Services TruSector ETF may be subject to risks which include, among others, risks related to investing in communication services sector, derivatives, equity securities, investing in other ETFs, investment restrictions, issuer-specific changes, medium- and large-capitalization companies, market, operational, active management, authorized participant concentration, seed investor, new fund, no guarantee of active trading market, trading issues, fund shares trading, premium/discount, liquidity of fund shares, non-diversified, and concentration risks, all of which may adversely affect the Fund. Medium- and large-capitalization companies may be subject to elevated risks.

The principal risks of investing in VanEck ETFs include sector, market, economic, political, foreign currency, world event, index tracking, active management, social media analytics, derivatives, blockchain, commodities and non-diversification risks, as well as fluctuations in net asset value and the risks associated with investing in less developed capital markets. The Funds may loan their securities, which may subject them to additional credit and counterparty risk. ETFs that invest in high-yield securities are subject to subject to risks associated with investing in high-yield securities; which include a greater risk of loss of income and principal than funds holding higher-rated securities; concentration risk; credit risk; hedging risk; interest rate risk; and short sale risk. ETFs that invest in companies with small capitalizations are subject to elevated risks, which include, among others, greater volatility, lower trading volume and less liquidity than larger companies. Please see the prospectus of each Fund for more complete information regarding each Fund’s specific risks.

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