DWSH
AdvisorShares Dorsey Wright Short ETF
AdvisorShares Trust
ETF
Expense ratio1
6.22%
Net assets2
$9.53M
Holdings2
1
Category
Other
2025 return3
-1.96%

Investment objective & strategy

As of Oct. 28, 2025 · prospectus

Objective. The AdvisorShares Dorsey Wright Short ETF (the Fund) seeks capital appreciation through short selling securities.

Strategy. The Fund is an actively managed exchange-traded fund (ETF) that seeks to achieve its investment objective by obtaining short exposure to investment returns of the broad U.S. large-capitalization equity market through short sales of U.S.-traded equity securities and ETFs. Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in investments that create or result in short exposure to U.S. equity securities. The Advisor allocates the Funds portfolio using a disciplined and quantitative model owned and developed by Dorsey, Wright & Associates, LLC. The model seeks to identify securities with the highest relative weakness within the universe of investable securities, which is primarily comprised of large-capitalization U.S.-traded equity securities and ETFs. … The Fund is an actively managed exchange-traded fund (ETF) that seeks to achieve its investment objective by obtaining short exposure to investment returns of the broad U.S. large-capitalization equity market through short sales of U.S.-traded equity securities and ETFs. Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in investments that create or result in short exposure to U.S. equity securities. The Advisor allocates the Funds portfolio using a disciplined and quantitative model owned and developed by Dorsey, Wright & Associates, LLC. The model seeks to identify securities with the highest relative weakness within the universe of investable securities, which is primarily comprised of large-capitalization U.S.-traded equity securities and ETFs. The model seeks to identify market periods, typically after severe market corrections, where the securities with the most relative weakness may subsequently outperform the broader market. The Fund then engages in short sales to seek to outperform the broader equity market. The Funds investment focus applies a shorting strategy to a core philosophy of relative strength. Relative strength investing involves buying securities that have appreciated in price more than the other securities in the investment universe and holding those securities until they underperform. The strategy is entirely based on market movement of the securities and there is no company fundamental data involved in the analysis. In implementing the strategy, stock selection is strictly based on identifying opportunities to provide short exposure to the lowest ranked securities as measured by the relative strength investment process. In utilizing the model, the Advisor seeks to remove emotion from the day-to-day decision making by following a systematic process. While the Advisor generally expects to use the model when buying and selling investments, the Advisor has full investment discretion over the Funds portfolio. On a day-to-day basis, for investment purposes and to cover its short positions, the Fund may hold U.S. government securities, short-term high quality fixed income securities, money market instruments, overnight and fixed-term repurchase agreements, cash and cash equivalents with maturities of one year or less, and ETFs that invest in these types of instruments. The Funds strategy may frequently involve buying and selling securities, which may lead to relatively high portfolio turnover.

Top holdings

As of March 31, 2026 · N-PORT
SecurityTickerValue% of fund
Invesco Government & Agency Portfolio $7.66M 80.47%
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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
36
Exited
36
Increased
46
Decreased
18
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 June 30, 2025 · N-CEN
FirmRole
AdvisorShares Investments, LLC Adviser

Footnotes

  1. Expense ratio as of October 28, 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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