Investment objective & strategy
As of Aug. 30, 2022 · prospectusObjective. The QRAFT AI-Enhanced U.S. High Dividend ETF (the Fund) seeks long-term total returns through regular dividend income and capital appreciation.
Strategy. The Fund is an actively-managed exchange-traded fund (ETF) that seeks to achieve its investment objective by utilizing an investment strategy enhanced by the use of artificial intelligence, as described below. Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets, plus the amounts of any borrowings for investment purposes, in dividend paying securities of U.S.-listed companies. The Fund generally invests in the common stock of U.S.-listed companies having a market capitalization in excess of $4 billion at the time of purchase (the Universe). The Funds adviser, Exchange Traded Concepts, LLC (the Adviser), uses an investment process based on a proprietary artificial intelligence security selection process that extracts patterns from analyzing data, as discussed below, developed by QRAFT … The Fund is an actively-managed exchange-traded fund (ETF) that seeks to achieve its investment objective by utilizing an investment strategy enhanced by the use of artificial intelligence, as described below. Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets, plus the amounts of any borrowings for investment purposes, in dividend paying securities of U.S.-listed companies. The Fund generally invests in the common stock of U.S.-listed companies having a market capitalization in excess of $4 billion at the time of purchase (the Universe). The Funds adviser, Exchange Traded Concepts, LLC (the Adviser), uses an investment process based on a proprietary artificial intelligence security selection process that extracts patterns from analyzing data, as discussed below, developed by QRAFT Technologies, Inc. (Qraft). Qraft is a South Korea-based provider of artificial intelligence investment systems and currently offers services to various financial institutions in Korea. Qraft has licensed its proprietary artificial intelligence security selection process to the Adviser for purposes of managing the Fund. In pursuing the Funds investment objective, the Adviser consults a database generated by Qrafts AI Quantitative Investment System (QRAFT AI), which automatically evaluates and filters data according to parameters supporting a particular investment thesis. For the Funds database, QRAFT AI filters the securities in the Universe into an investment pool of 200 to 400 stocks using a proprietary dividend factor scoring formula based on dividend and quality factors including but not limited to dividend yield and dividend growth. QRAFT AI then estimates each stocks relative superiority of price appreciation ( i.e. , increase in stock price) over the rest of the pool for the next three month investment period using deep learning technologies ( i.e. , exposure to and processing of large amounts of data) and the distribution of each stocks relative superiority of price appreciation for the same period using Bayesian neural networks that estimate the uncertainty of its forecast, and selects the top 100 stocks based on the average of the distribution of each stocks relative superiority of price appreciation for inclusion in the database. The stocks included in the database are weighted based on their market capitalization. The Fund expects to hold 100 companies in its portfolio. While it is anticipated that the Adviser will purchase and sell securities based on recommendations by the QRAFT AI database described above, the Adviser has full discretion over investment decisions for the Fund. Therefore, the Adviser has full decision-making power not only if it identifies a potential technical issue or error with the QRAFT AI database, but also if it believes that the recommended portfolio does not further the Funds investment objective or fails to take into account company events such as corporate actions, mergers and spin-offs. Additionally, the Adviser has discretion over the amount of cash maintained in the Funds portfolio and the reinvestment of dividends in the Funds portfolio, subject to the Funds distribution requirements as a RIC under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code. See Federal Income Taxes in the Funds Statement of Additional Information (the SAI) for a more complete discussion. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Fund limits the weighting of a single company to 10% and no more than 40% of the Funds assets may be invested in securities with a more than 5% weighting in the Funds portfolio. Due to frequency of the rebalancing of the QRAFT AI database, the Adviser expects that the Fund will frequently purchase and sell shares of securities. While investing in a particular market sector is not a strategy of the Fund, its portfolio may be significantly invested in one or more sectors as a result of the security selection decisions made pursuant to its strategy. As of August 1, 2022, a significant portion of the Funds assets consisted of securities of companies in the Consumer Staples Sector, Health Care Sector, and Information Technology Sector, although this may change from time to time. The Fund is non-diversified and may invest a greater percentage of its assets in a particular issuer than a diversified fund.
Top holdings
As of Oct. 31, 2022 · N-PORT| Security | Ticker | Value | % of fund |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALMART INC | — | $357.68K | 7.98% |
| HOME DEPOT INC | — | $349.73K | 7.81% |
| PEPSICO INC | — | $318.31K | 7.10% |
| CISCO SYSTEMS INC | — | $239.42K | 5.34% |
| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC | — | $186.97K | 4.17% |
| PHILIP MORRIS INTL INC | — | $181.59K | 4.05% |
| INTL BUS MACH CORP | — | $159.59K | 3.56% |
| CVS HEALTH CORP | — | $158.62K | 3.54% |
| LOWES COS INC | — | $154.40K | 3.45% |
| ALTRIA GROUP INC | — | $107.07K | 2.39% |
Portfolio moves
Jul 29, 2022 → Oct 31, 2022How 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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