PBL
PGIM Portfolio Ballast ETF
PGIM ETF Trust
ETF
Expense ratio1
0.45%
Net assets2
$75.25M
Holdings2
13
Category
Allocation
2025 return3
11.88%

Investment objective & strategy

As of Oct. 30, 2025 · prospectus

Objective. The investment objective of the Fund is to seek to provide long-term capital growth with reduced volatility compared to the equity market.

Strategy. The Fund seeks to participate in the upside returns of the stock market while limiting volatility and downside losses. In seeking to achieve the Funds investment objective, the Fund seeks to reduce volatility over the course of a full market cycle as compared to the equity market, which the Fund defines as the S&P 500 Index. The Funds strategy is designed to provide participation in the equity markets during periods in which the market is rising while limiting losses in periods of market downturn. The Fund will generally seek to gain exposure to the stock market through listed options on the S&P 500 Index (SPX) or SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY), and through S&P 500 Index futures contracts, while simultaneously … The Fund seeks to participate in the upside returns of the stock market while limiting volatility and downside losses. In seeking to achieve the Funds investment objective, the Fund seeks to reduce volatility over the course of a full market cycle as compared to the equity market, which the Fund defines as the S&P 500 Index. The Funds strategy is designed to provide participation in the equity markets during periods in which the market is rising while limiting losses in periods of market downturn. The Fund will generally seek to gain exposure to the stock market through listed options on the S&P 500 Index (SPX) or SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY), and through S&P 500 Index futures contracts, while simultaneously holding investments in U.S. Treasuries, U.S. Treasury futures contracts, and cash and cash equivalents to provide fixed income exposure. The Fund will invest in nonstandard SPX or SPY options that allow the subadviser to select terms including expiration date, option type (put or call), exercise style (American or European), strike price, premium, trading hours and exercise settlement (A.M. or P.M.-settled), among others. The Fund may also invest in other ETFs or mutual funds to gain exposure to equity or fixed income securities. There are no limits on the amount of assets the Fund can invest in equity or fixed income investments, or investments that provide exposure to the same, however, under normal market conditions the subadviser expects to invest up to 35% of the Funds total assets in investments that provide exposure to the equities markets and up to 90% of the Funds total assets in fixed income investments and investments that provide exposure to fixed income. The Fund is an actively managed exchange-traded fund (ETF) and therefore does not seek to replicate the performance of any specified index. The Fund seeks to capture 60% of the performance of the S&P 500 on average in appreciating equity markets and to capture 30% of the performance of the S&P 500 on average in declining equity markets over a market cycle. Market cycle is defined as a period approximately from an equity market peak to bottom and back to peak again that typically aligns with the business cycle. The Fund seeks to meet these objectives through strategic portfolio design as well as active portfolio management. The portfolio holds long dated S&P 500 FLEX options that provide upside participation in rising equity markets and a floor on downside participation in declining equity markets (e.g., the option premium). The call options are complemented in the portfolio with exposure to U.S. Treasuries and Treasury futures which provide diversification to the equity exposure. The subadviser actively monitors and periodically rebalances both the equity and fixed income exposures in response to changing market conditions with the goal of capturing upside gains and limiting downside losses. When determining the allocation and when to rebalance, the subadviser takes into account, among other factors: interest rates, the portfolios equity exposure, the percentage of the portfolio invested in options, the current level of the S&P 500 Index, the volatility of S&P 500 Index options, bond and dividend yields, the delta of the portfolios options positions (which is a measure of the sensitivity of the portfolios option prices to changes in price of the S&P 500 Index), and time to maturity of the options. The subadviser also considers internal research generated by its asset allocation team when evaluating the relative attractiveness of equity versus fixed income exposure. In selecting investments for the Fund, the subadviser will evaluate overall investment opportunities and risks among the types of investments the Fund may hold. The Fund may invest in other derivative instruments, including futures, forwards, options, swaps, and options on swaps, to try to enhance return or to try to reduce (hedge) investment risks. The Fund engages in active tradingthat is, frequent trading of its securitiesin order to take advantage of new investment opportunities. The Fund expects to be more heavily involved in active trading during periods of market volatility seeking to preserve gains or limit losses. The Fund is non-diversified for purposes of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the 1940 Act), which means that it can invest a greater percentage of its assets in fewer issuers than a diversified fund.

Top holdings

As of Feb. 27, 2026 · N-PORT
SecurityTickerValue% of fund
US TREASURY N/B $16.24M 21.58%
PUT SPDR S&P 500 ETF 01/16/2026 P643 $10.60M 14.09%
US TREASURY N/B $9.93M 13.20%
(PIPA070) PGIM Core Government Money Market Fund $8.38M 11.13%
Vanguard Scottsdale Funds INTERMEDIATE-TERM TREASURY VGIT $8.20M 10.90%
US TREASURY N/B $5.77M 7.67%
PUT SPDR S&P 500 ETF 01/16/2026 P643 $4.45M 5.91%
XIB 0 03/03/26 B $2.98M 3.95%
iShares Core S&P 500 ETF $2.12M 2.82%
US TREASURY N/B $1.99M 2.64%
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Allocation by sector

As of February 27, 2026 · N-PORT
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Portfolio moves

Nov 28, 2025 → Feb 27, 2026
Opened
2
Exited
3
Increased
3
Decreased
8
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 August 31, 2025 · N-CEN
FirmRole
PGIM INVESTMENTS LLC Adviser
PGIM Quantitative Solutions LLC Sub-adviser

Footnotes

  1. Expense ratio as of October 30, 2025, from the fund's prospectus.
  2. Net assets and holdings count as of February 27, 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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