Investment objective & strategy
As of Sept. 8, 2022 · prospectusObjective. The Fund?s investment objective is to seek investment results that correlate generally, before fees and expenses, to the price and yield performance of the Nasdaq 5HANDL Index.
Strategy. The Fund will invest at least 80% of its assets in securities of the Nasdaq 5HANDL Index (the ?Index?). The Index generally consists of securities issued by exchange-traded funds (?ETFs?) and is split into two components, with a 50% allocation to fixed income and equity ETFs (the ?Core Portfolio?) and a 50% allocation to ETFs of 12 asset categories (the ?Explore Portfolio?) as described below. Because the Index is comprised of securities issued by other investment companies, the Fund operates as a ?fund of funds.? The Index is broadly diversified and seeks to offer the potential for high monthly distributions while maintaining a stable net asset value over time. The Index is expected to include 19 ETFs. The goal of … The Fund will invest at least 80% of its assets in securities of the Nasdaq 5HANDL Index (the ?Index?). The Index generally consists of securities issued by exchange-traded funds (?ETFs?) and is split into two components, with a 50% allocation to fixed income and equity ETFs (the ?Core Portfolio?) and a 50% allocation to ETFs of 12 asset categories (the ?Explore Portfolio?) as described below. Because the Index is comprised of securities issued by other investment companies, the Fund operates as a ?fund of funds.? The Index is broadly diversified and seeks to offer the potential for high monthly distributions while maintaining a stable net asset value over time. The Index is expected to include 19 ETFs. The goal of the Index is to represent an allocation to a balanced portfolio of U.S. equities, fixed income securities and alternative investments. The Index will have risk characteristics similar to the broad US capital markets and will generally rise and fall with prevailing market conditions, with the goal, but not the guarantee, of achieving a total return sufficient, over time and after expenses, to support a five percent (5.0%) annual distribution rate. The Core Portfolio component of the Index seeks to provide broad exposure to the U.S. fixed-income and equity markets and consists of a 70% allocation to U.S. aggregate fixed-income ETFs (the ?Core Fixed Income Sleeve?) and a 30% allocation to U.S. large capitalization equity ETFs (the ?Core Equity Sleeve?). The Index defines U.S. aggregate fixed income ETFs as those ETFs that provide exposure to the entire U.S. investment grade bond market without limitation of duration or issuer. The Index defines U.S. large cap equity ETFs as those ETFs that provide exposure to a similar market capitalization range of the large capitalization segment of the Nasdaq US Benchmark Index. The Core Fixed Income Sleeve weighting methodology allocates on an equal weight basis to the three U.S. aggregate bond ETFs with the lowest expense ratios after waivers. Half of the Core Equity Sleeve is allocated on an equal weight basis to the three U.S. large cap ETFs with the lowest expense ratios after waivers and the remaining half of the Core Equity Sleeve is allocated to the largest ETF (by assets under management) that tracks the Nasdaq-100 Index. The Core Portfolio is rebalanced monthly to re-weight the Core Portfolio in accordance with this methodology and is reconstituted annually in January. The Explore Portfolio component of the Index employs a 100% rules-based proprietary momentum-tilted, optimized allocation methodology to provide exposure to non-levered ETFs across a range of U.S. asset categories that have historically provided high levels of income. The following 12 asset categories are represented in the Explore Portfolio, and the Fund expects that less than 16% of the Fund?s assets will be invested in any one category: Dividend Equity an ETF that provides exposure to domestic dividend-paying stocks; Options Overlay an ETF that provides exposure to equity portfolios that include an options overlay; High-Yield Bonds an ETF that provides exposure to domestic high-yield corporate bonds (also known as ?junk bonds?) of any duration or maturity; Investment Grade Bonds an ETF that provides exposure to domestic investment grade corporate bonds of any duration or maturity; MLPs an ETF that provides exposure to master limited partnerships; MBS an ETF that provides exposure to mortgage-backed securities (?MBS?), including residential, commercial, agency, and non-agency MBS, high-yield MBS, collateralized debt obligations, and collateralized loan obligations; Active Fixed Income an ETF that provides broad exposure to actively managed fixed income ETFs that invest in securities of any duration or maturity; Preferred Securities an ETF that provides exposure to domestic preferred securities; REITs an ETF that provides exposure to domestic real estate investment trusts; Growth & Income an ETF that provides exposure to multiple asset portfolios of stocks and bonds or ETFs of stocks and bonds; Utilities an ETF that provides exposure to domestic utility securities; and Build America Bonds an ETF that provides exposure to Build America Bonds. Build America Bonds are taxable municipal bonds that include tax credits and/or federal subsidies for bondholders and state and local bond issuers. These bonds may be of any maturity or duration. The Explore Portfolio includes ETFs that can invest without limit as to maturity or duration. Up to 9% of the Index may be exposed to below investment grade securities (i.e., junk bonds) that are rated C or lower through its High Yield Bonds asset category. The Index?s overall indirect exposure to defaulted securities will be less than 5% of the Index. Each asset category in the Explore Portfolio is represented by a single ETF. By default, the ETF representative of an asset category is the largest ETF (by assets under management) in the asset category. However, an ETF that is not the largest ETF in the asset category may serve as the ETF representative if it has an expense ratio after waivers at least 20% lower than the largest ETF in the asset category. If there are multiple such ETFs with expense ratios at least 20% lower than that of the largest ETF, the ETF with the lowest expense ratio after waivers shall serve as the ETF representative of the asset category. An ETF cannot represent more than one asset category. The 12 ETF representatives of the Explore Portfolio asset categories are weighted using the Index?s proprietary weighting methodology that measures an ETF?s returns, dividend and volatility, subject to the constraints that no position may be less than 15% nor more than 185% of an equal weight position within the Explore Portfolio of the Index. The Explore Portfolio is rebalanced on a monthly basis to weight the Explore Portfolio in accordance with this methodology and is reconstituted annually in January. The Fund employs a ?passive management? investment strategy in seeking to achieve its investment objective. The Fund will typically invest 100% of its assets in the Index?s component securities. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not try to ?beat? the Index and does not seek temporary defensive positions when markets decline or appear overvalued. The Fund generally will use a replication methodology, meaning it will seek to invest in all of the ETFs comprising the Index in proportion to the weightings in the Index. However, under various circumstances, the Fund may use a representative sampling strategy, whereby the Fund would invest in what it believes to be a representative sample of the component securities of the Index. To the extent the Fund uses a representative sampling strategy, it may not track the Index with the same degree of accuracy as would an investment vehicle replicating the entire Index. The Fund will concentrate its investments in a particular industry or group of industries to the extent that the Index concentrates in an industry or group of industries. As of the date of this prospectus, the Index is not concentrated. The Index was created by and is provided by Bryant Avenue Ventures LLC (the ?Index Provider?) and is calculated by Nasdaq, Inc. (the ?Index Calculator?). The Index Provider and Index Calculator are not affiliated with the Fund or the Advisor. Distribution Policy: In order to allow shareholders of the Fund to realize a predictable, but not assured, level of cash flow, the Fund has adopted a policy (which may be modified at any time by its Board of Trustees) to pay monthly distributions on Fund shares at a target rate that represents an annualized payout of approximately 5.0% on the Fund?s per-share net asset value on the date of a distribution?s declaration. Shareholders receiving periodic payments from the Fund may be under the impression that they are receiving net profits. However, all or a portion of a distribution may consist of a return of capital. Shareholders should not assume that the source of a distribution from the Fund is net profit. For more information about the Fund?s distribution policy, please turn to ?Additional Information About the Fund?s Principal Investment Strategies and Related Risks Principal Investment Strategies ?Distribution Policy and Goals? section in the Fund?s Prospectus.
Top holdings
As of July 31, 2023 · N-PORT| Security | Ticker | Value | % of fund |
|---|---|---|---|
| iShares Trust CORE US AGGREGATE BD ETF | AGG | $246.15K | 11.43% |
| VANGUARD TOTAL BOND MARKET ETF VANGUARD TOTAL BOND MARKET | BND US | $245.94K | 11.42% |
| SCHWAB U S AGGREGATE BOND ETF | — | $245.61K | 11.40% |
| BALLARD POWER | — | $173.22K | 8.04% |
| OPTION | QQQ | $164.22K | 7.62% |
| FIDELITY UTILITIES ETF | FUTY | $152.69K | 7.09% |
| VANGUARD DVD A E | VIG US | $138.32K | 6.42% |
| WISDOMTREE US EFFICIENT CORE F | NTSX | $125.08K | 5.81% |
| JPMORGAN EQUITY PREMIUM INCOME ETF | JEPI | $109.52K | 5.09% |
| GLOBAL X US PREFERRED ETF MUTUAL FUND | PFFD | $95.81K | 4.45% |
Portfolio moves
Apr 30, 2023 → Jul 31, 2023How 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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Footnotes
- Net assets and holdings count as of July 31, 2023, from the fund's N-PORT filing.
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