Investment objective & strategy
As of April 26, 2024 · prospectusObjective. The Syntax Stratified LargeCap ETF (the Fund) seeks to provide investment results that, before expenses, correspond generally to the total return performance of publicly traded equity securities of companies comprising the Syntax Stratified LargeCap Index (the Index).
Strategy. The Fund seeks the performance of the Index. The Fund employs a replication strategy, which means that the Fund typically invests in substantially all of the securities represented in the Index in approximately the same proportions as the Index. The Index, which was created by Syntax, LLC (Syntax or the Index Provider), an affiliate of the Adviser, is the Stratified Weight TM version, as described below, of the S&P 500 Index and consists of the same constituents as the S&P 500 Index. The Index may include some small, mid and large capitalization companies. Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests substantially all, and at least 95% of its total assets in the securities comprising the Index. From time to time … The Fund seeks the performance of the Index. The Fund employs a replication strategy, which means that the Fund typically invests in substantially all of the securities represented in the Index in approximately the same proportions as the Index. The Index, which was created by Syntax, LLC (Syntax or the Index Provider), an affiliate of the Adviser, is the Stratified Weight TM version, as described below, of the S&P 500 Index and consists of the same constituents as the S&P 500 Index. The Index may include some small, mid and large capitalization companies. Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests substantially all, and at least 95% of its total assets in the securities comprising the Index. From time to time the Fund may invest in and hold securities that are not included in the Index when the Adviser believes such securities will help the Fund to achieve its investment objective. The Adviser also may determine to not apply the Stratified-Weight weighting methodology to certain of the Funds holdings when it believes doing so is in the best interest of the Fund. Syntaxs Stratified-Weight is the weighting methodology by which Syntax diversifies its indices by hierarchically grouping and distributing the weight of an indexs constituent companies that share Related Business Risks. Related Business Risk occurs when two or more companies provide similar products and/or services or share economic relationships such as having common suppliers, customers or competitors. The process of identifying, grouping, and diversifying holdings across Related Business Risk groups within an index is called stratification, and was designed to correct for business risk concentrations that regularly occur in capitalization-weighted indices and equal-weighted indices. Capitalization weighting can cause an investors ownership to accumulate in the largest, most momentum-driven companies and industries, while equal weighting is intended to permit an investors ownership to accumulate in the industries that have the most company representatives in the index. Instead of concentrating investment exposure in the largest companies or the most represented industries, Syntax diversifies (or stratifies) index weight across a fixed number of business risk groups in a manner designed to provide a diversified exposure to all of the business opportunities of an index. The Related Business Risk groups are: Consumer Products & Services; Energy; Financials; Food; Industrials; Information; Information Tools; and Healthcare. Under normal market conditions, the Index rebalances quarterly, on the third Friday of each quarter-ending month, and will typically include 500 components allocated across the above-described Related Business Risk groups. The Index is reconstituted at the time the S&P 500 Index does the same, which is conducted on an ongoing basis. The market capitalization of companies in the S&P 500 Index as of December 31, 2023 was between $4.9 billion and $2.9 trillion. The assets in the Fund are managed by Vantage Consulting Group (the Sub-Adviser). Please see the Additional Strategies Information section of the Prospectus for more information on the Syntax Stratified Weight methodology.
Top holdings
As of June 30, 2024 · N-PORT| Security | Ticker | Value | % of fund |
|---|---|---|---|
| EXXON MOBIL CORP | — | $768.77K | 0.82% |
| CHEVRON CORP | — | $745.97K | 0.79% |
| TJX COS INC | — | $739.32K | 0.79% |
| WALMART INC | — | $735.60K | 0.78% |
| SYSCO CORP | — | $735.17K | 0.78% |
| SYNCHRONY FINANCIAL | — | $732.67K | 0.78% |
| ROSS STORES INC | — | $724.86K | 0.77% |
| KROGER CO | — | $721.79K | 0.77% |
| COSTCO WHOLESALE CORP | — | $720.79K | 0.77% |
| DISCOVER FIN SVCS | — | $693.42K | 0.74% |
Portfolio moves
Mar 31, 2024 → Jun 30, 2024How 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.
Similar funds
Funds whose portfolios most overlap this one, by weight| Fund | Overlap | Net exp. |
|---|---|---|
| Arrow Reverse Cap 500 ETF | 52% | 0.29% |
| T. Rowe Price Equity Index 500 Portfolio | 48% | 0.39% |
| Mercer US Large Cap Equity Fund | 39% | 0.31% |
Footnotes
- Net assets and holdings count as of June 30, 2024, from the fund's N-PORT filing.
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