Investment objective & strategy
As of Nov. 5, 2025 · prospectusObjective. Hedgeye Fourth Turning ETF (the Fund) seeks long-term capital appreciation.
Strategy. The Fund seeks to meet its objective by employing a long/short strategy that is informed by the principles of the Fourth Turning generational theory, which points to an emerging era of social, political, and economic upheaval that reset norms and present unique opportunities and risks. The Adviser identifies investment themes expected to dominate during such a transformative period including heightened macro volatility, regime shifts in policy, demographic transitions, rising populism, and the restructuring of global institutions. The Adviser believes that the forthcoming market environment (2025-2035)characterized by protectionism, autocracy, reinflation, industrial policy, financial repression, and re-armamentwill differ fundamentally from the previous forty years of globalization, disinflation, and deregulation. The Fund maintains, under normal market conditions, notional exposure of up to approximately … The Fund seeks to meet its objective by employing a long/short strategy that is informed by the principles of the Fourth Turning generational theory, which points to an emerging era of social, political, and economic upheaval that reset norms and present unique opportunities and risks. The Adviser identifies investment themes expected to dominate during such a transformative period including heightened macro volatility, regime shifts in policy, demographic transitions, rising populism, and the restructuring of global institutions. The Adviser believes that the forthcoming market environment (2025-2035)characterized by protectionism, autocracy, reinflation, industrial policy, financial repression, and re-armamentwill differ fundamentally from the previous forty years of globalization, disinflation, and deregulation. The Fund maintains, under normal market conditions, notional exposure of up to approximately 150% of its net assets to long positions (i.e., investments expected to benefit from Fourth Turning tailwinds, such as real assets, defense, infrastructure, commodities, and companies aligned with reshoring, security, and generational investment themes). Simultaneously, the Fund seeks to maintain short exposure of up to approximately 50% of its net assets (i.e., investments expected to decline or underperform during Fourth Turning conditions, including over-leveraged financials, old era technology, long-term fixed-rate debt, and sectors vulnerable to policy or demographic headwinds). The Fund will emphasize diversification across inflation-linked securities, commodities, real estate, and other real assets, while allocating toward sectors and themes positioned to benefit from structural priorities such as infrastructure, national and personal security, import substitution, and challenging demographic trends. The investment team leverages a broad range of information sources, including demographic and thematic research at the strategic level as well as the Hedgeye Trend and Tail Signals and the Growth, Inflation, Policy (GIP) Model processes at the tactical level. This approach enables the portfolio management team to align cash allocation, position sizing and holding periods with the appropriate signal strength and duration. Ultimately, the decision-making process is collaborative, disciplined, and designed to align portfolio positioning with the Funds investment objectives while maintaining risk oversight. To pursue its objective, the Fund will: ? Maintain up to 150% of net assets in long positions and up to 50% in short positions via direct securities, swaps, ETFs, options, futures or other derivative instruments. ? Actively vary exposure across U.S. equities, fixed income, commodities, currencies, and, to a limited extent (up to 20%) international securities to maximize inflation-adjusted returns and diversification. ? Overweight sectors, themes, and companies expected to benefit from industrial policy, re-shoring, and defense spending, while shorting those the Adviser views as vulnerable to financial repression, inflation, or geopolitical disruption. ? Periodically maintain a cash and cash equivalent allocation of up to 50% of the assets. ? Utilize hedging instruments, including options and tail risk strategies, to protect against adverse market, geopolitical and inflation shocks. ? Target market beta-neutrality or less, with combined long and short exposures managed to seek large real gains while seeking to mitigate market downside and inflation risk. The Fund may or may not hedge currency exposure on foreign investments. The Fund is classified as non-diversified under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the 1940 Act), which means that it may invest more of its assets in a smaller number of issuers than diversified funds.
Top holdings
As of April 30, 2026 · N-PORT| Security | Ticker | Value | % of fund |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPDR Bloomberg Enhanced Roll Yield Commodity Strategy NO K-1 ETF | CERY | $14.75M | 13.98% |
| VANGUARD US TOTAL STOCK MARKET SHARES INDEX ETF | VTI | $9.48M | 8.98% |
| VanEck Oil Services ETF USD Class | OIH | $4.43M | 4.20% |
| STATE STREET ENERGY SELECT SECTOR SPDR ETF MUTUAL FUND | XLE | $4.34M | 4.11% |
| FRST AM-GV OB-X | TMPXX | $4.30M | 4.07% |
| iShares Future AI & Tech ETF | ARTY | $4.20M | 3.98% |
| SPDR GOLD SHARES ETF | GLD | $4.19M | 3.97% |
| State Street SPDR S&P Global Infrastructure ETF | GII | $3.18M | 3.01% |
| VANGUARD FTSE PACIFIC ETF MUTUAL FUND | VPL | $2.39M | 2.26% |
| ROBO Global Robotics and Automation Index ETF | — | $2.12M | 2.00% |
Similar funds
Funds whose portfolios most overlap this one, by weight| Fund | Overlap | Net exp. |
|---|---|---|
| State Street(R) Multi-Asset Real Return ETF · RLY | 21% | 0.50% |
| Elm Market Navigator ETF · ELM | 15% | 0.24% |
| TFA AlphaGen Growth Fund · TFAGX | 13% | 2.44% |
Footnotes
- Net assets and holdings count as of April 30, 2026, from the fund's N-PORT filing.
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