Which is more different from the S&P 500, CSIO or IPAV?

CSIO has 54% of its weight in S&P 500 names and IPAV has 0%, so IPAV differs more from the index.

Which is cheaper, CSIO or IPAV?

CSIO charges 0.65% a year and IPAV charges 0.55%, so IPAV is cheaper. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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CSIO vs IPAV: which is really different?

CSIO holds 54.2% of its weight in S&P 500 companies and IPAV 0.0%. Cohen & Steers Infrastructure Opportunities Active ETF and Global X Infrastructure Development ex-U.S. ETF.

IPAV costs 0.10 points a year less; CSIO is 8.7 times larger.

	CSIO	IPAV
Expense ratio	0.65%	0.55%
Net assets, CSIO as of Jun 30, 2026 and IPAV as of Oct 8, 2026	$44m	$5m
Total return, 1 year	not published	+6.7%
What it tracks	Infrastructure	Infrastructure
Holdings in common	not published
S&P 500, total return, since Dec 10, 2025	+14.4%
S&P 500, total return, 1 year		+17.3%
Against the S&P 500, since Dec 10, 2025	behind by 2.8 pts
Against the S&P 500, 1 year		behind by 10.5 pts
Below its all-time high	5.3%, high on Jul 24, 2026	14.3%, high on May 6, 2026

54.2%

CSIO in the S&P 500

0.0%

IPAV in the S&P 500

+11.6%

CSIO total return, since launch

+6.7%

IPAV total return, 1 year

CSIO · 6 months to Oct 9, 202646% of its weight is outside the S&P 500

54% of CSIO's weight is in S&P 500 companies and 46% is outside the index. Holdings as of Jun 30, 2026.

IPAV · 1 year to Oct 9, 2026100% of its weight is outside the S&P 500

0% of IPAV's weight is in S&P 500 companies and 100% is outside the index. Holdings as of Oct 8, 2026.

ETFIQ Off-Index Score · IPAV scores higherHow much of it is not the index it is sold as an alternative to?

CSIO 63

IPAV 92.3

0.1, the lowest in this set92.3, the highest

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Performance, window by window

	Total return		vs the S&P 500		vs the Nasdaq-100
Window	CSIO	IPAV	CSIO	IPAV	CSIO	IPAV
3 months	−4.3%	−5.1%	−7.6 pts	−8.5 pts	−7.9 pts	−8.7 pts
6 months	−2.6%	−7.1%	−17.7 pts	−22.3 pts	−25.8 pts	−30.3 pts
1 year	not published	+6.7%	not published	−10.5 pts	not published	−16.9 pts
Since launch CSIO Dec 2025 · IPAV Aug 2024	+11.6%	+24.2%	−2.8 pts	−18.9 pts	−8.7 pts	−37.0 pts

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On the same fields

CSIO

Cohen & Steers Infrastructure Opportunities Active ETF · Holds 29 stocks in infrastructure, 54% of its weight in S&P 500 companies

IPAV

Global X Infrastructure Development ex-U.S. ETF · Holds 100 stocks in infrastructure, 0% of its weight in S&P 500 companies

Issuer Cohen & Steers Global X

Theme Infrastructure Infrastructure

In the S&P 500 54.2% 0.0%

Active share vs the S&P 500 99.0% 100.0%

In the Nasdaq-100 6.8% 0.0%

Holdings 29 100

Top ten, share of the fund 51.9% 31.1%

Expense ratio 0.65% 0.55%

Fee for the differing part 0.66% 0.55%

Total return, 1 year +11.6% (since it first traded on Dec 10, 2025) +6.7%

vs the S&P 500 −2.8 pts −10.5 pts

vs the Nasdaq-100 −8.7 pts −16.9 pts

Below its high −5.3% −14.3%

Net assets, CSIO as of Jun 30, 2026 and IPAV as of Oct 8, 2026 $44m $5m

As of Oct 9, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.

CSIO in plain words

By weight, 54% of CSIO's portfolio is stocks that are also in the S&P 500; its active share against the S&P 500 is 99%. The top ten holdings are 52% of the fund across 29 positions, as filed for Jun 30, 2026. Since it first traded on Dec 10, 2025 the fund returned +11.6% with distributions reinvested against +14.4% for the S&P 500, so a holder was behind by 2.8 pts. It sits 5.3% below its all-time high of Jul 24, 2026.

IPAV in plain words

By weight, 0% of IPAV's portfolio is stocks that are also in the S&P 500; its active share against the S&P 500 is 100%. The top ten holdings are 31% of the fund across 100 positions, as published by its issuer for Oct 8, 2026. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 the fund returned +6.7% with distributions reinvested against +17.3% for the S&P 500, so a holder was behind by 10.5 pts. It sits 14.3% below its all-time high of May 6, 2026.

Questions people ask

Which is more different from the S&P 500, CSIO or IPAV?: CSIO has 54% of its weight in S&P 500 names and IPAV has 0%, so IPAV differs more from the index.
Which is cheaper, CSIO or IPAV?: CSIO charges 0.65% a year and IPAV charges 0.55%, so IPAV is cheaper. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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CSIO on its own →IPAV on its own →How every figure is computed →Standards and sources →

Where these figures came from

CSIO filings on SEC EDGAR ↗CSIO prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗Cohen & Steers website ↗IPAV filings on SEC EDGAR ↗IPAV prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗Global X page for IPAV ↗

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How this is computed

It is a position in a set, not a rating, and neither end of it is a recommendation.

Every figure is an ETFIQ calculation with distributions reinvested.

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ETFIQ, CSIO against IPAV, data as of Oct 9, 2026. https://etfiq.com/compare/themes/csio-vs-ipav

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