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About First Trust North American Energy Infrastructure Fund
Expense ratio
0.96%
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Inception date
Jun 21, 2012
ISIN
US33738D1019
EMLP is one of the actively-managed ETPs in the MLP segment. While other MLP funds are structured as C-corporations to circumvent the rule that open-ended funds can't hold more than 25% of their portfolios in MLPs, EMLP is structured as a traditional 1940 Act fund. To maintain that structure, the issuer has extended the universe to include pipelines and utilities structured as C-corporations, Canadian firms that used to be royalty trusts, and unique institutional MLP shares issued by MLP affiliates. It's therefore not a pure MLP play, and adds complexity to its portfolio: some underlying MLPs make distributions in shares rather than cash, which may explain the fund's lower yield.
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Exposure type
Industrial Services
Utilities
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