VanEck Real Assets ETF (RAAX) Stock Price, Quote, News & History | Benzinga

The Fund is an actively managed exchange-traded fund (ETF) that seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing, under normal circumstances, primarily in exchange traded products that provide exposure to real assets through investment in domestic and foreign equity and debt securities, master limited partnerships (MLPs), and commodities, including ETFs and non-Investment Company Act of 1940, commodity pools or commodity trusts and exchange traded notes (ETNs) (collectively, ETPs). Real assets include commodities (such as gold), real estate, natural resources and infrastructure, as well as companies that own, operate, or derive a significant portion of their value from real assets or the production thereof. The investments held by the ETPs may include physical assets and equity securities of companies of any market capitalization, debt securities of any credit quality (including high-yield (or junk) securities), duration and maturity and emerging market securities. The Fund seeks to maximize real returns while seeking to reduce downside risk during sustained market declines. Real returns are defined as total returns adjusted for the effects of inflation.