The AVOS Global Equities ETF is an actively managed investment strategy. It is designed to identify investment opportunities with attractive returns through a differentiated approach to both diversification and country level regional rotation. The AVOS approach rejects market cap weights as an optimal starting point for investors, which may give it much more regional balance than commonly used global indices. The regional rotation that comes next combines proprietary valuation assessments with views on shorter term market influences such as the macro cycle, capital flows, and fiscal and monetary policy. Implementation begins with daily, systematic updating of attractiveness scores across 40 countries, which flow to the portfolio managers for confirmation (or adjustment if there are unusual factors at play that aren’t being captured by the trading systems e.g., geopolitical factors, natural disasters)
For investors who prefer global exposure to regionally concentrated exposures, Avos Capital Management believes that market cap-weighed approaches are sub-optimal; they too often leave investors holding maximum sized positions in stocks when they are at their most expensive and minimum allocations to cheap companies after they have already fallen out of favor.
This is the opposite of what an investor would want to do if they believed that one of the most important determinants of long-term returns is how much you pay for an asset. Furthermore, the strategy underlying this ETF’s active management was designed by a team of senior investors with several decades of combined experience at the global macro hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates. Avos seek to convert what they believe is a competitive advantage across the disciplines of portfolio construction, global macro analysis, and risk management into superior long term returns for any investors wanting to allocate to global stocks.
The performance data quoted represents past performance and is no guarantee of future results. Investment return and principal value of an investment will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance data quoted. The Fund is new and therefore does not have a performance history for a full calendar year as most recent quarter end.
Market price returns are based upon the closing composite market price and do not represent the returns you would receive if you traded shares at other times. Returns are average annualized total returns, except those for periods of less than one year, which are cumulative. YTD is year-to-date and ITD is inception-to-date.
NAV return represents the closing price of the underlying securities.
The Premium/Discount shows the difference between the daily market price of the Fund’s shares and the Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”). The table shows the premium or discount of the mid-point price as a percentage of the NAV as well as the number of trading days the Fund traded within the given premium/discount range.
Fund holdings are subject to change and are not recommendations to buy or sell any security.
