Yorkville America is preparing to acquire an institutional asset manager focused on separately managed accounts as the firm moves to broaden its business beyond the politically themed Truth Social ETF lineup.
The acquisition is expected to close in September and is being positioned by Yorkville as a key part of its expansion strategy, according to CEO Steve Neamtz, who spoke to Reuters. The asset manager involved in the transaction has not been publicly identified because negotiations are still ongoing.
Separately managed accounts, or SMAs, are customized investment portfolios managed for individual clients. The planned acquisition would give Yorkville a presence in a part of the asset management industry that operates differently from exchange traded funds.
The expansion comes as Yorkville launches the Yorkville America MANGOS Plus Index ETF, its first ETF outside the Truth Social brand.
The fund is designed to provide exposure to companies associated with the development and expansion of artificial intelligence. Its underlying index includes the publicly listed members of the so called MANGOS group, alongside additional AI-related companies.
The MANGOS group includes Meta, Anthropic, Nvidia, Alphabet, OpenAI and SpaceX. Because Anthropic and OpenAI are private companies, Yorkville plans to use perpetual futures contracts linked to those companies to provide exposure to their potential performance rather than directly owning their shares.
The ETF is being listed on the New York Stock Exchange and NYSE Texas, according to Reuters.
The underlying Yorkville America Listed MANGOS Plus Index was launched on August 26, 2026, according to index provider MarketVector. The index combines publicly listed MANGOS companies with seven additional publicly listed AI-infrastructure companies.
Neamtz told Reuters that the firm has filed to launch about a dozen additional ETFs over the coming weeks and months. The planned products are expected to cover areas including the digital economy and broader macroeconomic investment strategies.
SEC filings show that Yorkville has already registered a wide range of proposed products, including ETFs focused on cryptocurrency, digital assets, infrastructure, macroeconomic strategies and the MANGOS theme.
The expansion represents a significant shift from Yorkville's earlier focus on politically themed investment products associated with the Truth Social brand.
Yorkville's existing Truth Social lineup includes funds targeting areas such as U.S. large cap companies, energy, defense, real estate and digital assets.
The strategy would give Yorkville a broader business model and reduce its reliance on a relatively narrow group of politically branded investment products.
The move also comes as ETF providers increasingly compete for investors by offering products tied to popular investment themes, including artificial intelligence, cryptocurrencies and macroeconomic trends.
However, investors should note that the MANGOS Plus ETF's use of derivatives to gain exposure to private companies such as Anthropic and OpenAI introduces additional complexity compared with a conventional ETF that simply holds publicly traded shares.
Yorkville's planned acquisition and expanding ETF pipeline therefore represent an effort to build a more diversified asset-management platform while tapping into some of the market's most prominent investment themes.
The acquisition remains subject to completion, and Yorkville has not disclosed the identity of the asset manager it intends to purchase.
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