DEMZ
Democratic Large Cap Core ETF
ADVISORS' INNER CIRCLE III
ETFIndex fund
Expense ratio1
0.45%
Net assets2
$54.31M
Holdings2
45
Category
US Equity
2025 return3
19.45%

Investment objective & strategy

As of Jan. 28, 2026 · prospectus

Objective. The Democratic Large Cap Core ETF (the Fund) seeks long-term capital appreciation.

Strategy. The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing principally in large capitalization companies that make political contributions to Democratic Party candidates and political action committees above a certain threshold while also minimizing the difference between the Funds performance and the performance of the S&P 500 Index (the S&P 500). Under normal circumstances, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets (plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes) in securities of large capitalization companies. This policy may be changed upon 60 days prior written notice to shareholders. Reflection Asset Management, LLC (the Adviser), the Funds investment adviser, considers a large capitalization company to be any company included in the S&P 500 at the time … The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing principally in large capitalization companies that make political contributions to Democratic Party candidates and political action committees above a certain threshold while also minimizing the difference between the Funds performance and the performance of the S&P 500 Index (the S&P 500). Under normal circumstances, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets (plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes) in securities of large capitalization companies. This policy may be changed upon 60 days prior written notice to shareholders. Reflection Asset Management, LLC (the Adviser), the Funds investment adviser, considers a large capitalization company to be any company included in the S&P 500 at the time of purchase. The Funds portfolio construction process begins with a universe of companies that 1) are current members of the S&P 500; and 2) direct at least 75% of their total corporate political contributions during an election cycle to Democratic Party candidates (as determined by the candidates declared party allegiance and registration) and political action committees registered with the Democratic Party. A companys political contributions include the contributions of the companys senior management disclosed in the companys federal regulatory filings. This universe is licensed by the Adviser from Blue ETFs, Inc. (Blue), which obtains the universe of companies through a review of contribution data obtained from the Federal Election Commission (the FEC). The Adviser then applies a financial model to the universe of companies to determine the weight of each company in the Funds Portfolio. The financial model determines a profile for each company based on its underlying characteristics (for example, economic sector, earnings and correlation to other constituents, among other characteristics) measured over a trailing 18-month time horizon. The financial model also applies two rules to the universe: 1) No position can be added to the Index at higher than a 5% allocation; and 2) No sector (as defined by the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS), a widely recognized industry classification methodology developed by MSCI, Inc. and S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC (SPDJI)), may deviate from the S&P 500 weighting by more than +/- 5% at the beginning of each quarter. Together, these rules are designed to limit the Funds exposure to any particular security and any particular sector and to help the Funds performance more closely align with the performance of the S&P 500. Within these rules, the model then analyzes various combinations of company weights, based on the companies profiles, and determines a combination designed to minimize the difference in the performance between the Fund and the S&P 500. Blue provides to the Adviser an updated universe of companies that satisfy the political contributions screen on a quarterly basis in connection with the quarterly rebalancing of the S&P 500. The Adviser rebalances the Funds portfolio on the same quarterly schedule as the S&P 500. The Fund will sell positions that are removed from the S&P 500 for any reason between quarterly rebalances at such time. The Fund will purchase new positions added to the S&P 500 only at a quarterly rebalance. If the political contributions of a company held by the Fund fall below the 75% threshold discussed above, the Fund will sell such company at the next rebalancing. The Adviser expects that the Fund typically will own 40-60 companies. The FEC has jurisdiction over the financing of campaigns for the U.S. House of Representatives, Senate, Presidency and Vice Presidency. The Adviser does not take into account political contributions that are not reported to the FEC (Excluded Contributions), such as contributions to state and local elections and organizations that qualify for tax exemption under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the Code). The Fund may from time to time invest a significant portion of its assets in the securities of companies in one or more economic sectors. As of the date of this Prospectus, the Fund has significant exposure to the Information Technology sector, as defined by GICS.

Top holdings

As of March 31, 2026 · N-PORT
SecurityTickerValue% of fund
APPLE INC COMMON STOCK $2.79M 5.14%
NVIDIA CORP $2.66M 4.89%
MICROSOFT CORP $2.60M 4.78%
COSTCO WHOLESALE CORP $2.51M 4.63%
LOEWS CORP $2.49M 4.58%
LAM RESEARCH CORP $2.35M 4.33%
KLA CORP $2.32M 4.27%
Common Stock $2.31M 4.25%
NORDSON CORP $2.19M 4.02%
XYLEM INC $1.92M 3.54%
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Allocation by sector

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

Dec 31, 2025 → Mar 31, 2026
Opened
0
Exited
0
Increased
26
Decreased
19
Unchanged
0

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 September 30, 2025 · N-CEN
FirmRole
Exchange Traded Concepts, LLC Sub-adviser
Reflection Asset Management, LLC Adviser

Footnotes

  1. Expense ratio as of January 28, 2026, 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. As reported in the fund's prospectus performance bar chart.

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