BTCRX
Vest Bitcoin Strategy Managed Volitility Fund
World Funds Trust
Expense ratio1
0.49%
Net assets2
$14.01M
Holdings2
2
Category
Other
Return

Investment objective & strategy

As of Feb. 27, 2026 · prospectus

Objective. The investment objective of the Vest Bitcoin Strategy Managed Volatility Fund (the Bitcoin Fund or, solely for this Fund Summary, the Fund) is to seek total return.

Strategy. The Fund seeks to achieve total return by constructing a dynamic portfolio with the aim of both managing the volatility of the Fund and reducing the impact on the Funds portfolio of significant market downturns during periods of high volatility in the price of Bitcoin. The Fund seeks to achieve these objectives by allocating its assets among a range of options contracts, including standardized listed options and FLexible Exchange Options (FLEX Options) (collectively, Options) that will utilize as their reference asset instruments that provide exposure to the returns of Bitcoin (the Bitcoin Reference Instruments and/or exchange-traded futures contracts linked to Bitcoin that are cash-settled in U.S. dollars (Bitcoin Futures) and any one or more of the following: U.S. Treasuries, other … The Fund seeks to achieve total return by constructing a dynamic portfolio with the aim of both managing the volatility of the Fund and reducing the impact on the Funds portfolio of significant market downturns during periods of high volatility in the price of Bitcoin. The Fund seeks to achieve these objectives by allocating its assets among a range of options contracts, including standardized listed options and FLexible Exchange Options (FLEX Options) (collectively, Options) that will utilize as their reference asset instruments that provide exposure to the returns of Bitcoin (the Bitcoin Reference Instruments and/or exchange-traded futures contracts linked to Bitcoin that are cash-settled in U.S. dollars (Bitcoin Futures) and any one or more of the following: U.S. Treasuries, other U.S. government obligations, money market funds, cash and cash-like equivalents ( e.g ., high quality commercial paper and similar instruments that are rated investment grade or, if unrated, of comparable quality, as the Adviser determines), treasury inflation-protected securities, and repurchase agreements (Cash Investments) (collectively, Bitcoin Futures, Options, and Cash Investments are referred to as Constituent Investments). The Bitcoin Reference Instrument that the Fund currently intends to invest is the Cboe Mini Bitcoin U.S. ETF Index. However, the Bitcoin Reference Instrument utilized by the Fund may change over time. The Bitcoin Reference Instruments The Fund does not invest directly in bitcoin. Rather, the Fund will invest in Bitcoin Futures and/or a range of Options that reference the Bitcoin Reference Instruments. The Bitcoin Reference Instruments that may be referenced by the Options include Bitcoin ETPs or Bitcoin ETP Indexes. Bitcoin ETPs are exchange-traded investment products that are not registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the 1940 Act). The Bitcoin ETPs seek to generally reflect the price performance of bitcoin by purchasing and storing bitcoin in a digital vault and issuing exchange-listed shares that correspond to the price of bitcoin the Bitcoin ETPs hold. Bitcoin ETP Indexes are designed to track the performance of Bitcoin ETPs listed on eligible exchanges. These Bitcoin ETP Indexes aim to provide a benchmark for the price return performance of Bitcoin ETPs, reflecting the market dynamics and trends of Bitcoin investments. The primary objective of a Bitcoin ETP Index is to represent the price return performance of Bitcoin ETPs. The Bitcoin ETP Indexes that the Fund may utilize as the Bitcoin Reference Instrument include: Cboe Bitcoin U.S. ETF Index and Cboe Mini Bitcoin U.S. ETF Index. The Bitcoin ETPs that the Fund may utilize as the Bitcoin Reference Instrument include: iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF, Grayscale Bitcoin Trust ETF, Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund, Bitwise Bitcoin ETF and ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF. General Information on Options : The Fund may invest in both purchased and written put and call Options that reference the Bitcoin Reference Instrument. Because the value of the Fund is based on Options that reference the Bitcoin Reference Instrument and not the Bitcoin Reference Instrument directly, variations in the value of the Options impact the correlation between the Funds NAV and the price of the Bitcoin Reference Instrument. The Options that the Fund will hold that reference the Bitcoin Reference Instrument will give the Fund the right or the obligation to either receive or deliver a cash payment on the Option expiration date based upon the difference between the Bitcoin Reference Instrument's value and a strike price, depending on whether the Option is a put or call Option and whether the Fund purchases or sells the Option. The FLEX Options held by the Fund are European style options, which are exercisable at the strike price only on the FLEX Option expiration date. FLEX Options are customized equity or index option contracts that trade on an exchange, but provide investors with the ability to customize key contract terms like exercise prices, styles and expiration dates. FLEX Options are guaranteed for settlement by the OCC, a market clearinghouse. The OCC guarantees performance by each of the counterparties to the FLEX Options, becoming the buyer for every seller and the seller for every buyer, protecting clearing members and Options traders from counterparty risk. The OCC may make adjustments to FLEX Options for certain significant events. Although guaranteed for settlement by the OCC, FLEX Options are still subject to counterparty risk with the OCC and subject to the risk that the OCC may fail to perform the settlement of the FLEX Options due to bankruptcy or other adverse reasons. Traditional exchange-listed Options have standardized terms, such as the type, the reference asset, the strike price and expiration date. Exchange-listed Options are also guaranteed for settlement by the OCC. About the Managed Volatility Strategy and Target Exposure The Fund is actively managed by its investment adviser (the Adviser), using a strategy (Managed Volatility Strategy) designed to change allocations among the Constituent Investments in response to changes in historically realized volatility of Bitcoin Futures relative to a volatility target for the Fund that is periodically set by the Adviser (the Volatility Target). If the historically realized volatility of Bitcoin Futures increases relative to the Volatility Target, the Adviser may reduce the Funds economic exposure to Bitcoin Futures (the Target Exposure) and allocate a higher amount to Cash Investments. On the other hand, if the historically realized volatility of Bitcoin Futures decreases relative to the Volatility Target, the Adviser may increase the Funds Target Exposure to Bitcoin Futures and allocate a lesser amount to Cash Investments. The Adviser may review both short-term and long-term measures of historically realized volatility of Bitcoin Futures to determine changes to the Target Exposure. Historically realized volatility is an assessment of variation in returns of an asset from its average as evident in the daily prices of that asset over a certain historical period. The historical period over which the volatility is measured can be short-term such as over 21 consecutive trading days or long-term such as over 260 trading days. The historically realized volatility of Bitcoin Futures is relatively high. For instance, at times Bitcoin Futures have realized volatility that is more than five times the volatility realized by the broad US stock market weighted by market capitalization. Due to the elevated levels of volatility of Bitcoin Futures, the Funds Target Exposure may be substantially less than 100% of the Funds net assets. Under normal circumstances, the Fund expects to maintain a Target Exposure of between 50% and 100%. During periods other than normal circumstances, including periods where there is extreme volatility and where the Adviser believes it is prudent to take a temporary defensive posture, the Fund may reduce its Target Exposure significantly. The Fund does not anticipate its Target Exposure will exceed 100%. The Adviser believes that the Managed Volatility Strategy may lead to total returns for investors while dampening large swings in the volatility of the Funds entire portfolio over time. However, historically realized volatility may not be indicative of future volatility. Due to this limitation, changes in market conditions, or other factors, the actual realized volatility of the Fund for any particular period may be materially higher or lower than the volatility targeted by the Adviser. The return of the Fund for any given period could be directionally different than the returns of Bitcoin or Bitcoin Futures or Bitcoin Reference Instruments depending on allocation decisions made by the Adviser in its attempt to implement the Managed Volatility Strategy. About the Volatility Target The Adviser will seek to manage the volatility of the Fund consistent with changes in the broad level of risks in capital markets. The Adviser will change the Volatility Target for the Fund, based on the Advisers subjective assessment, as the levels of risks in capital markets change. The Adviser will review several factors that provide indications of the level of risks in capital markets in setting the Volatility Target, including but not limited to levels of yield in high-quality short-term debt securities, levels of credit spreads in the corporate bond market, volatility of the broad US stock market, quantitative signals based upon the Advisers research, that rely on the evaluation of technical and fundamental indicators, such as trends in historical prices, spreads between Bitcoin Futures prices of differing expiration dates, implied forward price premiums of differing option expiration dates, supply/demand data, momentum and price data on Bitcoin. The Fund is actively managed and has the flexibility to change the Volatility Target, at the Adviser's discretion, in order to achieve the Funds objective. The Funds Portfolio Composition The Fund invests substantially all of its assets in a combination of Options that reference Bitcoin Reference Instruments and/or Bitcoin Futures and Cash Investments whose collective performance is designed to achieve total return with the aim of both managing the volatility of the Fund and limiting losses due to severe sustained decline. Importantly, the Fund will not invest directly in Bitcoin or any other digital currencies. To the extent that the Fund seeks to gain exposure to Bitcoin Futures, in whole or in part, it will do so through investments in a subsidiary organized in the Cayman Islands (the Vest Subsidiary). The Vest Subsidiary is wholly owned and controlled by the Fund. The Fund will also likely have significant Cash Investments. The Fund also may enter into repurchase agreements with counterparties that are deemed to present acceptable credit risks. Again, however, the Fund will not invest directly in Bitcoin or any other digital currencies. The Fund will seek to gain exposure to the Bitcoin markets primarily through Options that reference Bitcoin Reference Instruments and/or exchange-traded futures contracts that are cash-settled in U.S. dollars and are traded on, or subject to the rules of, commodity exchanges registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), such as the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (the CME). The CME is a US-registered designated contract market and derivatives clearing organization. Futures contracts are financial contracts, the value of which depends on, or is derived from, an underlying reference asset. In the case of Bitcoin Futures, the underlying reference asset is Bitcoin. The CME has specified that the value of Bitcoin underlying Bitcoin futures contracts traded on the CME will be determined by reference to the CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate, which provides an indication of the price of Bitcoin across certain Bitcoin trading platforms. A futures contract provides for the future sale by one party and purchase by another party of a specified amount of a specific financial instrument (e.g., units of a stock index) for a specified price, date, time and place designated at the time the contract is made. Brokerage fees are paid when a futures contract is bought or sold, and margin deposits must be maintained. Entering into a contract to buy is commonly referred to as buying or purchasing a contract or holding a long position. Entering into a contract to sell is commonly referred to as selling a contract or holding a short position. Unlike when the Fund purchases or sells a security, no price would be paid or received by the Fund upon the purchase or sale of a futures contract. The Fund will be a net buyer of Bitcoin Futures. Upon entering into a futures contract, and to maintain the Funds open positions in futures contracts, the Fund would be required to deposit with its custodian or futures broker in a segregated account in the name of the futures broker an amount of cash, U.S. government securities, suitable money market instruments, or other liquid securities, known as initial margin. The margin required for a particular futures contract is set by the exchange on which the contract is traded and may be significantly modified from time to time by the exchange during the term of the contract. Futures contracts are customarily purchased and sold on margins that may range upward from less than 40% of the value of the contract being traded. A cash-settled future contract means that when the relevant futures contract expires, if the value of the underlying asset exceeds the futures contract price, the seller pays to the purchaser cash in the amount of that excess, and if the futures contract price exceeds the value of the underlying asset, the purchaser pays to the seller cash in the amount of that excess. In a cash-settled futures contract on Bitcoin, the amount of cash to be paid is equal to the difference between the value of the Bitcoin underlying the futures contract at the close of the last trading day of the contract and the futures contract price specified in the agreement. The Vest Subsidiary is wholly owned and controlled by the Fund. The Funds investment in the Vest Subsidiary may not exceed 25% of the Funds total assets (the Subsidiary Limit) at certain times during the taxable year. The Funds investment in the Vest Subsidiary is intended to provide the Fund with exposure to Bitcoin returns (when using Bitcoin Futures) while enabling the Fund to satisfy source-of-income requirements that apply to RICs under the Code. Except as noted, references to the investment strategies and risks of the Fund include the investment strategies and risks of the Vest Subsidiary. The Subsidiary has the same investment objective as the Fund and will follow the same general investment policies and restrictions, except that unlike the Fund, it may invest without limit in Bitcoin Futures. The Fund will aggregate its investments with the Vest Subsidiary for purposes of determining compliance with (i) Section 8 of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the 1940 Act), which governs fundamental investment limitations (which are described more specifically in the Funds statement of additional information); and (ii) Section 18 of the 1940 Act, which governs capital structure and includes limitations associated with the Funds ability to leverage its investments. Additionally, the Vest Subsidiarys investment advisory contracts will be governed in accordance with Section 15 of the 1940 Act, and the Vest Subsidiary will adhere to applicable provisions of Section 17 of the 1940 Act governing affiliate transactions. The principal investment strategies and principal risks of the Vest Subsidiary constitute principal investment strategies and principal risks of the Fund, and the disclosures of those strategies and risks in this prospectus are designed to reflect the aggregate operations of the Fund and the Vest Subsidiary. Due to the Subsidiary Limit, margin requirements for Bitcoin Futures and the high volatility of Bitcoin Futures, the Funds exposure to Bitcoin Futures, and resultantly the sensitivity of its prices to changes in price of Bitcoin Futures, may be substantially below the highest exposure of 100%. Margin requirements will determine the amount of collateral the Fund is required to post to its futures commission merchant (FCM). An FCM is a brokerage firm that solicits or accepts orders to buy or sell futures contracts and accepts money or other assets from customers to support such orders. FCMs are required to be registered with the CFTC and to be members of the National Futures Association. Minimum margin requirements for Bitcoin Futures are set by the exchange on which the contract is traded and may be significantly modified from time to time by the exchange during the term of the contract. FCMs may require a margin level beyond the exchanges minimum requirement. The Funds exposure to Bitcoin Futures may decrease if, and when, margin requirements for Bitcoin Futures increase. The CME limits the position (the Position Limit) acquired by a single entity, such as the Fund or its subsidiary, for Bitcoin Future contracts with an expiry date closest to the trade date. The CME does not limit positions for contracts for expiry dates other than the closest to trade date. However, for positions that exceed an accountability level of contracts (the Accountability Level), the CME may ask the Fund or its subsidiary to provide information relating to the position, including, but not limited to, the nature and size of the position, the trading strategy employed with respect to the position, and hedging information, if applicable. Failure to supply the requested information may result in an order to reduce such positions. Additionally, the CME may ask the Fund, or its subsidiary, to not further increase its positions, comply with any limit on the size of the position and/or reduce any open position which exceeds the Accountability Level. The Vest Subsidiary may be unable to invest in Bitcoin Futures beyond the Position Limit or Accountability Level. This may limit the maximum assets that can be committed to the Funds investment strategy, and consequently to the Fund. The Trust may close the Fund to additional investments as a result of its positions nearing the Position Limit or Accountability Level. As the Funds investments in Bitcoin Futures nears expiry, the Fund will roll the futures. Rolling means selling a futures contract as it nears its expiration date and replacing it with a new futures contract that has a later expiration date. The Fund generally selects between Bitcoin Futures contracts with the three nearest expiration dates (known as the front, second and third month contracts) based on the Advisers analysis of the liquidity and cost of establishing and maintaining such positions. Futures contracts with a longer term to expiration may be priced higher than futures contracts with a shorter term to expiration, a relationship called contango. When rolling futures contracts that are in contango, the Fund may sell the expiring contract at a lower price and buy a longer-dated contract at a higher price, resulting in a negative roll yield. Conversely, futures contracts with a longer term to expiration may be priced lower than futures contracts with a shorter term to expiration, a relationship called backwardation. When rolling futures contracts that are in backwardation, the Fund may sell the expiring contract at a higher price and buy a longer-dated contract at a lower price, resulting in a positive roll yield. Due to contango, backwardation or other factors, the returns from Bitcoin Futures may differ from returns from a direct investment in Bitcoin. The Fund does not invest in, or seek exposure to, the current spot or cash price of Bitcoin. The Fund does not intend to provide investors with exposure to an amount of Bitcoin in excess of the Funds net assets; the Fund will seek to achieve and maintain, generally with a highest exposure to Bitcoin of 100% by using Options or leverage inherent in futures contracts and through reverse repurchase agreements. The Funds Bitcoin futures, if any, will provide leverage to the extent they give the Fund exposure to an amount of underlying Bitcoin with a greater value than the amount of collateral the Fund is required to post to its FCM. The Funds investments in Options, futures and reverse repurchase agreements are subject to the requirements of Rule 18f-4 under the 1940 Act, which governs the use of derivative instruments and certain other transactions that create future payment and/or delivery obligations by the Fund. Although the Funds Bitcoin Futures will provide leverage to the extent they give the Fund exposure to an amount of underlying Bitcoin with a greater value than the amount of collateral the Fund is required to post, the Fund does not intend to provide investors with exposure to an amount of Bitcoin in excess of the Funds net assets. The Fund (and the Vest Subsidiary, as applicable) expects to invest its remaining assets in any one or more of the following Cash Investments: U.S. Treasuries, other U.S. government obligations, money market funds, cash and cash-like equivalents ( e.g ., high quality commercial paper and similar instruments that are rated investment grade or, if unrated, of comparable quality, as the Adviser determines), treasury inflation-protected securities, and repurchase agreements that provide liquidity, serve as margin or collateralize the Funds and/or the Vest Subsidiarys investments in Options that reference Bitcoin Reference Instruments or Bitcoin Futures. The Fund is classified as a non-diversified fund under the 1940 Act and, therefore, may invest a greater percentage of its assets in a particular issuer.

Top holdings

As of April 30, 2026 · N-PORT
SecurityTickerValue% of fund
CALL CBOE MINI BITCOIN 09/16/2026 C.01 $3.25M 23.19%
MONEY MARKET FUND TOIXX $815.13K 5.82%
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Allocation by sector

As of April 30, 2026 · N-PORT
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Portfolio moves

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Advisers

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Footnotes

  1. Expense ratio as of February 28, 2025, from the fund's prospectus.
  2. Net assets and holdings count as of April 30, 2026, from the fund's N-PORT filing.

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