Which returned more over the last year, EMLP or RSPA?

In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, EMLP returned +14.8% and RSPA +12.6%.

Which is cheaper, EMLP or RSPA?

RSPA is cheaper, by 0.66 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $66. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

How much do EMLP and RSPA overlap with the S&P 500?

By their latest filed holdings, 43% of EMLP and 74% of RSPA by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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EMLP vs RSPA: how they differ

EMLP and RSPA hold 5% of their weight in the same names, and EMLP returned +14.8% over the year. First Trust North American Energy Infrastructure Fund and Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Income Advantage ETF.

RSPA costs 0.66 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 2.2 points; EMLP is 3.3 times larger.

	EMLP	RSPA
Expense ratio	0.95%	0.29%
Net assets	$4.1bn	$1.2bn
Total return, 1 year	+14.8%	+12.6%
Holdings in common	5%
Nasdaq-100, total return, 1 year	+23.6%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund	42.7%	4.2%
Below its high	4.8%, high on Jul 23, 2026	3.2%, high on Aug 26, 2026

Holdings in common uses holdings dated Oct 8, 2026 and Oct 9, 2026.

+14.8%

EMLP total return, 1 year

+12.6%

RSPA total return, 1 year

0.95%

EMLP expense ratio

0.29%

RSPA expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, EMLP and RSPA hold 5% of their money in the same securities at the same weight. Above 50%, holding both is close to holding one of them twice. Holdings dated Oct 8, 2026 and Oct 9, 2026.

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5% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first

Holding EMLP RSPA

Generac Holdings Inc. 0.96% 0.18%

Vistra Corp. 0.27% 0.16%

Kinder Morgan, Inc. 3.88% 0.15%

Evergy, Inc. 1.66% 0.15%

PPL Corporation 2.88% 0.15%

Public Service Enterprise Group Incorporated 1.85% 0.15%

Targa Resources Corp. 1.31% 0.15%

American Electric Power Company, Inc. 2.32% 0.15%

Jacobs Solutions Inc. 1.14% 0.15%

The Southern Company 2.83% 0.15%

WEC Energy Group, Inc. 1.54% 0.15%

Constellation Energy Corporation 0.28% 0.15%

Only in EMLP

Enterprise Products Partners L.P. 8.62%

Energy Transfer LP 7.58%

MPLX LP 4.26%

Plains GP Holdings, L.P. (Class A) 3.91%

National Fuel Gas Company 3.88%

ONE Gas, Inc. 2.22%

Cheniere Energy, Inc. 1.66%

OGE Energy Corp. 1.58%

Only in RSPA

Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.61%

Toronto-Dominion Bank/The 0.55%

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce 0.43%

Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.43%

Royal Bank of Canada 0.42%

Wells Fargo & Co 0.39%

JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.36%

Barclays Bank PLC 0.36%

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On the same fields

EMLP

First Trust North American Energy Infrastructure Fund

RSPA

Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Income Advantage ETF

Where it sits Stock ETF Stock ETF

Issuer First Trust Invesco

What it is Actively managed Actively managed

Total return, 1 year +14.8% +12.6%

S&P 500 over the same days +17.3% +17.3%

Gap to the S&P 500 −2.5 pts −4.7 pts

Expense ratio 0.95% 0.29%

Already in the S&P 500 42.9% 74.0%

Holdings 58 520

Net assets $4.1bn $1.2bn

EMLP and RSPA on the fields both publish, as of Oct 9, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.

EMLP in plain words

EMLP is actively managed and tracks no index. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +14.8% with distributions reinvested, against +17.3% for the S&P 500 and +23.6% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.95% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 9, 2026, 43% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 58 positions, with the top ten at 42.7%. It sat 4.8% below its high of Jul 23, 2026 on Oct 9, 2026.

RSPA in plain words

RSPA is actively managed and tracks no index. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +12.6% with distributions reinvested, against +17.3% for the S&P 500 and +23.6% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.29% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 8, 2026, 74% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 520 positions, with the top ten at 4.2%. It sat 3.2% below its high of Aug 26, 2026 on Oct 9, 2026.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, EMLP or RSPA?: In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, EMLP returned +14.8% and RSPA +12.6%.
Which is cheaper, EMLP or RSPA?: RSPA is cheaper, by 0.66 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $66. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do EMLP and RSPA overlap with the S&P 500?: By their latest filed holdings, 43% of EMLP and 74% of RSPA by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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Where these figures came from

EMLP filings on SEC EDGAR ↗EMLP prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗First Trust page for EMLP ↗RSPA filings on SEC EDGAR ↗RSPA prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗Invesco page for RSPA ↗

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How this is computed

Weight overlap is an ETFIQ calculation: for every security both funds hold, the smaller of the two weights, summed.

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