TYPY — Tortoise North American Pipeline Fund
Data updated: 2025-04-14
TYPY — Tortoise North American Pipeline Fund. United States Mid Cap Blend / Core Utilities Equity · $741.29M AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
TYPY Fund Overview
TYPY — Tortoise North American Pipeline Fund is a US ETF managed by Managed Portfolio Series, categorised as United States Mid Cap Blend / Core Utilities Equity. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US ETF
- Manager: Managed Portfolio Series
- Category: United States Mid Cap Blend / Core Utilities Equity
- Assets under management: $741.29M
- 1-year return: 41.1%
- Ticker: TYPY
- SEC CIK: 0001511699
- SEC series ID: S000056247
- Share class ID: C000177047
TYPY Investment Objective and Strategy
Tortoise North American Pipeline Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Managed Portfolio Series.
Investment objective
"The Tortoise North American Pipeline Fund (the ""Fund"") seeks investment results that correspond (before fees and expenses) generally to the price and distribution rate (total return) performance of the Tortoise North American Pipeline Index SM (the ""Underlying Index"")."
Principal investment strategy
"The Fund is an exchange-traded fund (""ETF"") and employs a ""passive management"" or indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the Underlying Index. The Underlying Index is a proprietary rules-based, capitalization weighted, float adjusted index designed to track the overall performance of equity securities of North American Pipeline Companies. The Fund will normally invest at least 80% of its net assets, plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes, in the types of securities suggested by its name (i.e., North American Pipeline Companies). A pipeline company is defined as a company that either 1) has been assigned a standard industrial classification (""SIC"") system code that indicates the company operates in the energy pipeline industry or 2) has at least 50% of its assets, cash flow or revenue associated with the operation or ownership of energy pipelines.
Pipeline companies engage in the business of transporting natural gas, crude oil and refined products, storing, gathering and processing such gas, oil and products and local gas distribution. To be included in the Underlying Index, a company must be a pipeline company that is organized and has its principal place of business in the United States or Canada (such pipeline companies are collectively referred to in this Prospectus as ""North American Pipeline Companies"") and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, NYSE MKT or Toronto Stock Exchange. Eligible constituents must also have a total market capitalization of at least $200 million USD at the time of inclusion in the Underlying Index. In order to remain in the Underlying Index, a company must maintain an average equity market capitalization of at least $175 million USD for a minimum of 20 trading days prior to the rebalance reference date of the Underlying Index.
Underlying Index constituents may include the following equity securities of North American pipeline companies: 1) common stock; 2) interests in master limited partnerships (""MLPs""); 3) interests in Pipeline Companies structured as limited liability companies (""LLCs""); and 4) equity securities of MLP affiliates, including MLP I-Shares (indirect ownership interests in MLPs issued by MLP affiliates) and common shares of corporations that own, directly or indirectly, MLP general partner interests (collectively referred to herein as ""MLP Affiliates""). MLP interests included in the Underlying Index must pay a distribution greater than or equal to their minimum quarterly distribution (""MQD"") at the time of inclusion in the Underlying Index. No more than 20% of the Underlying Index may consist of MLPs and no constituent can exceed 7.5% of the Underlying Index.
Additionally, affiliated MLP families ( e.g. , related MLPs and/or MLP Affiliates) in aggregate may not comprise more than 15% of the Underlying Index at the rebalance reference date. In seeking to achieve its objective as an index fund, the Fund will normally invest at least 80% of its total assets in securities that comprise the Underlying Index (or depository receipts based on such securities). Under normal conditions, the Fund generally will invest in all of the securities that comprise the Underlying Index in proportion to their weightings in the Underlying Index; however, under various circumstances, it may not be possible or practicable to purchase all of the securities in the Underlying Index in those weightings. In those circumstances, the Fund may purchase a sample of the securities in the Underlying Index or utilize various combinations of other available investment techniques in seeking performance that corresponds to the performance of the Underlying Index.
The Fund may invest up to 20% of its assets in certain index futures, options, options on index futures, swap contracts or other derivatives related to the Underlying Index and its components, cash and cash equivalents, other investment companies, as well as in securities and other instruments not included in the Underlying Index but which the Tortoise Index Solutions, LLC (the ""Adviser"") believes will help the Fund track the Underlying Index. As of the March 16, 2018 rebalance, the Underlying Index was comprised of 83 constituents. No constituents will be added to the Underlying Index between rebalance dates, which take place on a quarterly basis in March, June, September and December. Constituents are reviewed annually, at the December rebalance, to determine that they continue to meet the definition of Pipeline Company under the Underlying Index methodology.
Constituents in the Underlying Index may be deleted from the Underlying Index due to corporate events such as mergers, acquisitions, bankruptcies, takeovers, or delistings. Standard rebalances take place on a quarterly basis. Special rebalances are triggered by corporate actions and will be implemented as practically as possible on a case-by-case basis. Underlying Index constituent changes and updates, as well as any changes to the methodology, will be posted to www.tortoiseadvisors.com. The Underlying Index was established by an affiliate of the Adviser and is owned and administered by the Adviser. The Adviser (also referred to herein as the ""Index Provider"") provides the Underlying Index for use by the Fund at no cost to the Fund. The Fund will concentrate its investments ( i.e. , hold 25% or more of its total assets) in a particular industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent that the Underlying Index concentrates in an industry or group of industries.
The Underlying Index and the Fund will be concentrated in the energy pipeline industry. The Fund has elected to be, and intends to qualify each year for treatment as a regulated investment company (""RIC"") under subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the ""Code""). As part of qualifying as a RIC under the Code, the Fund may not invest more than 25% of its total assets in the securities of MLPs and other entities treated as qualified publicly traded partnerships. If for any taxable year the Fund fails to qualify as a RIC, its taxable income will be subject to federal income tax at regular corporate rates and income available for distribution to shareholders will be reduced. Under certain circumstances, the Fund could cure a failure to qualify as a RIC, but in order to do so, the Fund could incur significant Fund-level taxes and could be forced to dispose of certain assets.
Given the Fund's contemplated investments in MLPs, qualifying as a RIC presents unusual challenges and may limit its investment opportunities."
TYPY Holdings
Top 10 holdings of Tortoise North American Pipeline Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Williams Cos Inc/The | 7.62% |
| ONEOK Inc | 7.41% |
| Cheniere Energy Inc | 7.33% |
| Enbridge Inc | 7.32% |
| Kinder Morgan Inc | 7.29% |
| TC Energy Corp | 6.73% |
| NiSource Inc | 4.29% |
| Atmos Energy Corp | 4.20% |
| Targa Resources Corp | 4.19% |
| Enterprise Products Partners L | 3.99% |
TYPY Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Tortoise North American Pipeline Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 99.1% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 0.8% |
TYPY Performance
Total returns for TYPY (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | 41.1% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 18.5% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 17.7% |
TYPY Risk Information
Risk metrics for TYPY, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 15.2%
TYPY Costs and Fees
TYPY costs about $40 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.40%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.40%
- Portfolio turnover: 9%
- Brokerage commissions: 0.53 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
TYPY Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2025-02, Tortoise North American Pipeline Fund had net inflows of $92.65M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2025-02 | $10.62M |
| 2025-01 | $37.50M |
| 2024-12 | $15.35M |
| 2024-11 | −$12.42M |
| 2024-10 | −$4.87M |
| 2024-09 | −$24.91M |
TYPY Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Tortoise North American Pipeline Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
TYPY Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Tortoise North American Pipeline Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-03-31
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-03-28
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2023-03-30
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2025-04-14
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2025-01-27
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2024-10-22
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2024-02-13
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2023-02-09
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Data Sources
ABC INVEST compiles this page from public filings made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) through EDGAR: portfolio holdings and monthly cashflows from Form N-PORT, expenses and returns from fund prospectuses (Form 485BPOS) and the SEC DERA Risk/Return Summary data sets, annual data from Form N-CEN, and shareholder reports from Form N-CSR.