# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001648403
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**Filing Date:** 2026-4
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001999371-26-008303.hdr.sgml**: 20260415

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001999371-26-008303

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 497K

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 1

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20260415

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20260415

**EFFECTIVENESS DATE**: 20260415

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** Virtus ETF Trust II
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001648403

**ORGANIZATION NAME:**
- **EIN:** 000000000
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** DE
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 0731

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 497K
- **SEC ACT:** 1933 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 333-206600
- **FILM NUMBER:** 26862700

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 1301 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS
- **STREET 2:** 14TH FLOOR
- **CITY:** NEW YORK
- **STATE:** NY
- **ZIP:** 10019
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 212-593-4383

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 1301 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS
- **STREET 2:** 14TH FLOOR
- **CITY:** NEW YORK
- **STATE:** NY
- **ZIP:** 10019

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** Virtus EFT Trust II
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20150717

## Series and Classes Contracts Data

### VIRTUS DUFF & PHELPS REAL ESTATE INCOME ETF (Series ID: S000099008)

| Class ID   | Class Name                                  | Ticker Symbol   |
|:---|:---|:---|
| C000268743 | VIRTUS DUFF & PHELPS REAL ESTATE INCOME ETF | DPRE            |

**SUMMARY PROSPECTUS \| April 15, 2026**

**Virtus Duff & Phelps Real Estate Income ETF** 

(Ticker: DPRE)

*a series of*

**VIRTUS ETF TRUST II**

*The Virtus Duff & Phelps Real Estate Income ETF (the "****Fund****") is an actively managed exchange-traded fund <br> ("****ETF****"). Shares of the Fund are listed on NYSE Arca, Inc. (the "****Exchange****") and trade at market prices. <br> The market price for the Fund's shares may be different from its net asset value per share.*

Before you invest, you may want to review the Fund's prospectus, which contains more information about the Fund and its risks. You can find the Fund's prospectus, shareholder reports and financial statements, statement of additional information (SAI), and other information about the Fund online at <u><u>https://www.virtus.com/investor-resources/etf-documents</u></u>.

You can also get this information at no cost by contacting your financial intermediary (such as a broker-dealer or bank), by calling the Fund at (888) 383-0553, or by sending an e-mail to: <u><u>virtus.investment.partners@virtus.com</u></u>.

The Fund's prospectus and SAI, both dated December 22, 2025, as amended on April 15, 2026 (as each may be amended or supplemented), are incorporated by reference into this Summary Prospectus.

**INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE**

The Virtus Duff & Phelps Real Estate Income ETF (the "**Fund**") seeks to provide a high level of current income, with capital appreciation as a secondary goal.

**FEES AND EXPENSES OF THE FUND**

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell shares of the Fund ("**Shares**"). **You may incur customary brokerage commissions, and may pay other fees to financial intermediaries, when buying or selling Shares of the Fund, which are not reflected in the table or example set forth below.**

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;**Shareholder Fees** (fees paid directly from your investment):

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|:---|:---|
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;**Annual Fund Operating Expenses** (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment): |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Management Fee<sup>1</sup> | 0.59% |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Other Expenses<sup>2</sup> | 0.00% |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses | <u>0.59%</u> |

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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(1) The management fee
 is structured as a "unified fee," out of which the Fund's investment adviser pays all of the ordinary operating
 expenses of the Fund, except for the following expenses, each of which is paid by the Fund: the Fund's management fee;
 payments under any 12b-1 plan; taxes and other governmental fees; brokerage fees, commissions and other transaction expenses;
 interest and other costs of borrowing; litigation or arbitration expenses; acquired fund fees and expenses; and extraordinary
 or other non-routine expenses of the Fund.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(2) "Other Expenses"
 are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.

**Example**

This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses remain at current levels. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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|:---|:---|
| **1 Year** | **3 Years** |
| $62 | $194 |

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**PORTFOLIO TURNOVER**

The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities or other instruments (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual Fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund's performance. The Fund is newly organized, and, as of the date of this Prospectus, has not had any portfolio turnover.

**PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGY**

The Fund offers exposure to the real estate investment trust ("REIT") market utilizing a quality and relative value style with a fundamental security analysis approach designed to identify the most attractive investment candidates. Specifically, Duff & Phelps Investment Management Co. ("Duff & Phelps"), the Fund's sub-adviser, tends to favor REITs that own higher quality assets, have strong management teams, and which offer attractive relative value. and generally, shuns deep value stocks that own lower quality assets or expensive, high-growth, momentum stocks. Duff & Phelps believes the value of a REIT extends beyond the value of the underlying real estate and that through fundamental research, it can uncover and exploit inefficiencies in the market.

Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in securities of companies in the real estate industry. The real estate securities in which the Fund primarily invest include equity interests, preferred securities or debt obligations issued by REITs. The broad real estate industry includes owner/operators of commercial real estate as well as land developers, homebuilders and timberland companies. Duff & Phelps focuses its investment efforts on owner/operators of commercial real estate as those companies have historically generated more consistent, reliable cash flows than the more speculative areas of the sector. The Fund considers a company to be engaged in the real estate industry if it is one that (i) derives at least 50% of its revenue from the ownership, construction, financing, management or sale of commercial, industrial or residential real estate and land; or (ii) has at least 50% of its assets invested in such real estate.

The Fund may also invest in REITs and real estate stocks issued by non-U.S. issuers, including emerging market countries.

The Fund, under normal market conditions, expects to invest between 60% and 80% of its assets in equity securities and between 20% and 40% in debt obligations or preferred securities. The Fund will invest across the market cap spectrum, with a typical bias towards mid cap. The Fund generally will not invest in companies with less than $1 billion of market cap. The Fund will make equity investments across real estate sub-sectors and will look to invest in companies that provide a higher yield than the Fund's benchmark but still generate attractive growth. Investments in debt obligations will be made only in companies with investment-grade ratings and done with the goal of managing equity-market volatility while seeking a high level of current income. While Duff & Phelps will normally seek to maintain an average portfolio duration for the Fund of between four and six years, the Fund's average portfolio duration may be outside that range and the Fund may invest in securities of any duration and maturity. Duration is a measure of a bond's interest rate risk, reflecting how much a bond's price will change in response to a change in interest rates.

The Fund is an actively managed ETF and, thus, does not seek to replicate the performance of a specified index of securities. Instead, it uses an active investment strategy that seeks to meet its investment objective.

The Fund is non-diversified, which means that it can invest a greater percentage of its assets in any one issuer than a diversified fund can. In addition, the Fund will concentrate its investments (i.e., invest more than 25% of its total assets) in the real estate industry.

**PRINCIPAL RISKS**

An investment in the Fund is subject to investment risks; therefore, you may lose money by investing in the Fund. There can be no assurance that the Fund will be successful in meeting its investment objective. Generally, the Fund will be subject to the following principal risks:

**Real Estate Industry Risk.** The Fund may be susceptible to adverse economic or regulatory occurrences affecting the real estate industry. Investing in securities of companies in the real estate industry includes risks such as: fluctuations in the value of the underlying properties; defaults by borrowers or tenants; market saturation; changes in general and local economic conditions; decreases in market rates for rents; losses from casualty or condemnation; changes in the availability, cost and terms of mortgage funds; increased competition, property taxes, capital expenditures, or operating expenses; and other economic, political or regulatory occurrences, including the impact of changes in environmental laws, that may affect the real estate industry..

**REIT Risk.** Investments in REITs and other securities of real estate companies subject the Fund to, among other things, risks similar to those of direct investments in real estate and the real estate sector in general. These include risks related to general and local economic conditions, possible lack of availability of financing and changes in interest rates or property values. REITs may also be adversely affected by poor management, failure to quality as a REIT under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"), environmental problems, property tax increases or changes in federal, state or local regulations.

**Equity Securities Risk.** The value of the equity securities held by the Fund may be negatively affected by the financial market, industries in which the Fund invests, or issuer-specific events. Focus on a particular style or in small-sized companies may enhance that risk.

**Debt Securities Risks.** Debt securities are subject to credit risk, interest rate risk, liquidity risk, maturity risk, yield curve risk and prepayment risk. These risks could affect the value of investments in which the Fund invests, possibly causing the Fund's share price and total return to be reduced and fluctuate more than other types of investments.

● **Credit Risk.** If the issuer of a debt instrument fails to pay interest or principal in a timely manner, or negative perceptions exist in the market of the issuer's ability to make such payments, the price of the security may decline.

● **Interest Rate Risk.** The values of fixed income securities may rise or fall in response to changes in interest rates, and this risk may be enhanced for securities with longer maturities. Adjustable rate instruments also react to interest rate changes in a similar manner, although generally to a lesser degree (depending, however, on the characteristics of the reset terms, including the index chosen, frequency of reset and reset caps or floors, among other factors).

● **Liquidity Risk.** Debt securities may be difficult to sell at an advantageous time or price due to limited market demand (resulting from a downgrade, a decline in price, or adverse conditions within the relevant market).

● **Maturity Risk.** The value of debt securities is dependent on their maturity. Generally, the longer the maturity of a debt security, the greater its sensitivity to changes in interest rates.

● **Yield Curve Risk.** Yield curve risk refers to the risk that changes in interest rates may affect yields of fixed-income securities differently for securities with different maturities. If the yield curve flattens, then the spread between long- and short-term yields narrows and if the yield curve steepens, then the spread between long- and short-term yields increases.

● **Prepayment Risk.** Issuers may prepay or call their fixed rate obligations when interest rates fall, forcing the Fund to reinvest in obligations with lower interest rates and the Fund may not benefit fully from the increase in value that other fixed income investments experience when interest rates decline.

**Preferred Securities Risk.** The value of preferred securities will fluctuate with changes in interest rates. Typically, a rise in interest rates causes a decline in the value of preferred securities. Preferred securities are also subject to credit risk, which is the possibility that an issuer of preferred securities will fail to make its dividend payments.

**Foreign Securities Risk.** Investing in securities of foreign issuers subjects the Fund to additional risks such as tariff and global trade restrictions increased volatility; currency fluctuations; less liquidity; less publicly available information about the foreign investment; and political, regulatory, economic, and market risk. Additionally, to the extent that the underlying assets of the Fund trade on an exchange that is closed when the Exchange is open, there are likely to be deviations between current pricing of an underlying asset and stale asset pricing (i.e., the last quote from the foreign exchange market), resulting in premiums or discounts to NAV that are greater than those experienced by other ETFs.

**Emerging Markets Investments Risk**. Emerging markets securities may be more volatile, or more greatly affected by negative conditions, than those of their counterparts in more established foreign markets.

**Non-Diversified Fund Risk.** The Fund is considered non-diversified and may be more susceptible to factors negatively impacting its holdings to the extent the Fund invests more of its assets in the securities of fewer issuers than would a diversified fund.

**Mid-Capitalization Stock Risk.** The stocks of mid-capitalization companies often have greater price volatility, lower trading volume, and less liquidity than the stocks of larger, more established companies.

**Issuer Risk.** The performance of the Fund depends on the performance of the issuers of the individual securities in which Fund invests. Poor performance by any issuer may cause the value of its securities, and the value of the Shares, to decline.

**Market Risk.** The value of the securities in the Fund may go up or down (sometimes significantly) in response to the prospects of individual companies and/or general economic conditions, including local, regional or global events.

**Management Risk.** Duff & Phelps' judgments about the attractiveness and potential appreciation of a security or other asset may prove to be inaccurate and may not produce the desired results.

**ETF Risks.** The Fund is an ETF and, as a result of this structure, is exposed to the following risks, among others:

● **Authorized Participant Risk**. The Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may act as Authorized Participants, none of which are obligated to engage in creation or redemption transactions. To the extent these Authorized Participants exit the business or are unable or unwilling to process creation and/or redemption orders (either because of valuation difficulties or for other reasons), and no other Authorized Participant is able or willing to step forward to process creation and/or redemption orders, in either of these cases, Shares of the Fund may trade at a discount to net asset value ("NAV") and possibly face delisting.

● **Costs of Buying or Selling Shares.** Due to the costs of buying or selling Shares, including brokerage commissions and bid/ask spreads, frequent trading of Shares may significantly reduce investment results and an investment in Shares may not be advisable for investors who anticipate regularly making small investments.

● **Fluctuation of NAV; Unit Premiums and Discounts.** The NAV of the Shares will generally fluctuate with changes in the market value of the Fund's securities holdings, and it cannot be predicted whether Shares will trade below, at or above their NAV. If an investor purchases Shares at a time when the market price is at a premium to the NAV of the Shares or sells at a time when the market price is at a discount to the NAV of the Shares, then the investor may sustain losses that are in addition to any losses caused by a decrease in NAV.

● **No Assurance of Active Trading Market Risk.** Although the Shares in the Fund are approved for listing on the Exchange, there can be no assurance that an active trading market will develop and be maintained for the Shares of the Fund. In times of market stress, market makers or Authorized Participants may step away from their respective roles in making a market in the Fund's Shares, which could lead to wider bid/ ask spreads and variances between the market price of the Fund's Shares and their underlying value.

● **Fund Shares Liquidity Risk.** In stressed market conditions, the market for an ETF's shares may become less liquid in response to deteriorating liquidity in the markets for the ETF's underlying portfolio holdings, which can result in wider bid/ask spreads and differences between the ETF's NAV and market price.

**Small Fund Risk.** The Fund may experience low trading volume and wide bid/ask spreads, and may be delisted if it does not meet certain conditions of the Exchange, which could negatively impact the value of the Fund.

**PERFORMANCE INFORMATION**

The Fund is new and therefore does not have a performance history for a full calendar year. Performance information for the Fund will be provided once it has annual returns for a full calendar year. The Fund's past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future.

**MANAGEMENT OF THE FUND**

**Investment Adviser and Sub-Adviser**

Virtus Investment Advisers, LLC (the "Adviser" or "VIA"), an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Virtus Investment Partners, Inc. (NYSE: VRTS), serves as the Fund's investment adviser. Virtus ETF Trust II (the "Trust") and the Adviser have engaged Duff & Phelps Investment Management Co. ("Duff & Phelps") as the Fund's sub-adviser to manage the Fund's investments, subject to the oversight and supervision of the Adviser and the Board of Trustees of the Trust (the "Board"). Duff & Phelps is an affiliate of the Adviser.

**Portfolio Managers**

The following employees of Duff & Phelps are the Fund's portfolio managers, each of whom is jointly and primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the Fund's portfolio and has served in such position since the inception of the Fund's operations in 2025: Frank Haggerty, Jr., CFA, Jason Ren, CFA, and Shalini Sharma, CFA, CPA.

**PURCHASE AND SALE OF FUND SHARES**

Unlike conventional investment companies, the Fund generally issues and redeems Shares on a continuous basis, at NAV, in aggregate blocks of shares or multiples thereof ("**Creation Units**"). The Fund's Creation Units may be issued and redeemed only by certain large institutions, referred to as "**Authorized Participants**," that enter into agreements with the Fund's principal underwriter. Retail investors may acquire and sell Shares only on the Exchange through a broker-dealer. Shares of the Fund will trade on the Exchange at market price rather than NAV. As such, Shares may trade at a price greater than NAV (premium) or less than NAV (discount). Investors may incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase Shares (bid) and the lowest price a seller is willing to accept for Shares (ask) when buying or selling Shares in the secondary market (the "**bid-ask spread**"). Information regarding the Fund's NAV, market price, premiums and discounts, and bid-ask spreads is available on the Fund's website at <u>www.virtusetfs.com</u>.

**TAX INFORMATION**

The Fund's distributions generally are taxed as ordinary income, capital gains or some combination of both, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an IRA, in which case your distributions may be taxed as ordinary income when withdrawn from such arrangement.

**PAYMENTS TO BROKER-DEALERS AND OTHER FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES**

If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Adviser, Duff & Phelps or their affiliates may pay the intermediary for the sale of Shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary's website for more information.