ACEFX
ABSOLUTE CEF OPPORTUNITIES
Unified Series Trust
Expense ratio1
4.43%
Net assets2
$5.67M
Holdings2
46
Category
US Equity
2025 return3
9.24%

Investment objective & strategy

As of July 29, 2025 · prospectus

Objective. Absolute CEF Opportunities (the ?Fund?) seeks to achieve long-term capital appreciation with an emphasis on absolute (positive) returns and low sensitivity to traditional financial market indices such as the Standard & Poor?s 500 Index (?S&P 500 Index?).

Strategy. Absolute believes that there are important benefits that come from pursuing the Fund?s investment objective by primarily investing, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of its net assets (plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes) will be investments in publicly traded closed-end funds (?CEFs?), including buying securities issued by CEFs, or selling short CEF securities. The Adviser believes that certain features of CEFs can create significant market inefficiencies, and the Fund will opportunistically pursue investments created by or otherwise related to those inefficiencies. One such market inefficiency relates to differences between the trading price of the shares of a CEF as compared to the net asset value (?NAV?) of the securities and other assets held by that CEF. … Absolute believes that there are important benefits that come from pursuing the Fund?s investment objective by primarily investing, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of its net assets (plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes) will be investments in publicly traded closed-end funds (?CEFs?), including buying securities issued by CEFs, or selling short CEF securities. The Adviser believes that certain features of CEFs can create significant market inefficiencies, and the Fund will opportunistically pursue investments created by or otherwise related to those inefficiencies. One such market inefficiency relates to differences between the trading price of the shares of a CEF as compared to the net asset value (?NAV?) of the securities and other assets held by that CEF. The Adviser focuses on relative value and event driven strategies in any given asset class. A relative value assessment involves identifying securities that the Adviser believes are mispriced relative to their NAV. The Adviser purchases securities that it believes are undervalued and shorts securities that it believes are overvalued. Relative value trades tend to be longer in nature as the Adviser buys long or sells short a CEF when that security is believed to be mispriced. Typically, the Adviser will believe there is a catalyst that will push the price of the security up or down. Some catalysts include dividend changes, activist ownership, interest rate changes, and other market conditions. An event-driven strategy is when the Adviser opportunistically invests in a security when the Adviser believes an upcoming circumstance or situation has the potential to produce positive returns. Event-driven opportunities tend to be shorter-term in nature. These potential investments are expected to be more dependent on the outcome of special situations or corporate actions related to a CEF. Some of these events include tender offers, rights offerings, fund mergers, and fund liquidations, or fund conversions into an ETF or an open-end fund, among others. Shorting may be used in two main ways: 1. Strategically hedge out exposure to a certain sector (i.e., mitigating risk) 2. As part of its ?Event Driven? strategy by shorting a security when the Adviser believes the price will decline based on news, e.g. CEF cuts their dividend, or future event, i.e., a fund is merging into another fund, and as part of its ?Relative Value? strategy by shorting a security that the Adviser believes to be overvalued relative to its NAV. Other Investments Although the Fund will invest primarily in CEFs, the Adviser may also invest a portion of the Fund?s assets in exchange-traded funds (?ETFs?). The Fund may utilize ETFs to gain market exposure, or as a hedge. ETFs differ from CEFs in that institutional investors can create and redeem shares on a daily basis., and therefore, their share prices are typically very close to NAV.

Top holdings

As of March 31, 2026 · N-PORT

Allocation by sector

As of March 31, 2026 · N-PORT
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Portfolio moves

Dec 31, 2025 → Mar 31, 2026
Opened
22
Exited
17
Increased
14
Decreased
11
Unchanged
12

How many positions this fund opened, exited, grew, trimmed, or left unchanged between its two most recent N-PORT snapshots — net changes between point-in-time reports, not a trade log.

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Advisers

As of March 31, 2025 · N-CEN
FirmRole
Absolute Investment Advisers LLC Adviser

Footnotes

  1. Expense ratio as of July 29, 2025, from the fund's prospectus.
  2. Net assets and holdings count as of March 31, 2026, from the fund's N-PORT filing.
  3. Total return for calendar year 2025, before tax and after fund expenses. Computed by compounding the twelve monthly total returns the fund reported in its SEC N-PORT filings for 2025 (the latest prospectus does not yet chart this year).

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