BUYW
- MAIN BUYWRITE ETFKey Information
Earliest date | 2022-09-12 |
About BUYW
The Fund invests in domestic and international exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to provide investors with sustainedexposure to domestic and foreign equity markets over time. The Fund also uses the Advisers BuyWrite strategy, aninvestment strategy of writing (selling) call options on a security owned by the Fund to generate additional returns from the optionpremium. The Fund also seeks returns by writing (selling) secured put options. A put option is an option contract thatgives the owner the right to sell the underlying security at a specified price (the strike price) until its expiration at a fixed datein the future. The Fund seeks to achieve risk-adjusted returns through targeted allocations by analyzing interest and currency rates,inflation trends, economic growth forecasts, and other global and capital market fundamentals. The Funds option strategy may alsohave the benefit of reducing the volatility of the Funds portfolio in comparison to that of broad equity market indexes.TheFund is an actively managed ETF and does not seek to replicate the performance of a specified index. In selecting investments for theFunds portfolio, the Adviser adheres to the investment process described below. EquityStrategy TheAdviser believes that, over time, asset allocation is more determinative than individual security selection in limiting the variabilityinherent in equity security investing. Accordingly, the Adviser, when investing in ETFs, focuses its research primarily on asset allocationto identify undervalued asset classes and catalysts that could lead to near-term price appreciation by carefully reviewing: ●the sector (industries sharing common characteristics; e.g., financials), ●sub-sector (a more specialized, narrow category within a sector; e.g., financials), and ●capitalization (the measure of a companys size as determined by its current share price multiplied by the number of shares of the companys outstanding stock) in the Funds portfolio. TheAdviser seeks to create a diversified portfolio to avoid allocations of more than 50% to any one particular market segment. DevelopingStrategic Targets. The Adviser determines the Funds target allocations by: ●analyzing global macroeconomic and capital market fundamentals over a 12-18 month time horizon and ●formulating strategic targets for allocations. Identifyingthe Appropriate ETFs. After developing the strategic targets, the Adviser uses a combination of bottom-up fundamental valuations(e.g., price to book, price to earnings, and price to sales ratios) and top-down macroeconomic data points to identify the mostappropriate fixed income and equity ETFs, without restriction as to geography or market capitalization, to implement strategic assetallocation and express sector views by evaluating various factors in the respective ETFs. The Fund will generally hold between 4-10 ETFs,but that number will change in different market conditions. Based on the Advisers analysis, the ETFs held by the Fund may, atcertain times, be in one particular sector, but the ETF will not concentrate in any one particular industry. OptionStrategy TheFund pursues its objective by employing an option strategy of writing (selling) covered call or index based options on an amount from0% to 100% of the value of the ETF shares in the Funds portfolio. The Fund seeks to earn income and gains both from dividendspaid on the ETFs owned by the Fund and cash premiums received from writing or selling: ●covered call options or index based options on equity based ETFs held in the Funds portfolio and ●cash secured put options against cash balances in the Fund. TheFund may not sell naked put or call options, i.e., equity options representing more shares of an ETF than the Fund hascash on hand and available to purchase index options greater than the value of the underlying security. The Fund may buy a call optionand sell a put option at the same specified exercise or strike price, creating a synthetic long position. A call optionwill not be deemed naked if there is an offsetting synthetic long position in the underlying security. Stockindex options are put options and call options on various stock indices. The primary difference between stock options and index optionsoccurs when index options are exercised. In the case of stock options, the underlying security, common stock, is delivered. However,upon the exercise of an index option, settlement does not occur by delivery of the securities comprising the index. Theoption holder exercising the index option receives an amount of cash if the closing level of the stock index upon which the option isbased is greater than, in the case of a call, or less than, in the case of a put, the exercise price of the option. This amount of cashis equal to the difference between the closing price of the stock index and the exercise price of the option expressed in dollars timesa specified multiple. Astock index fluctuates with changes in the market value of the stocks included in the index. A call option on a security is a contractthat gives the holder of the option, in return for a premium, the right, but not the obligation, to buy from the writer of the optionthe security underlying the option at a specified exercise price by or before the contracts expiration. A put option on a securityis a contract that gives the holder of the option, in return for a premium, the right to sell to the writer of the option the securityunderlying the option at a specified exercise price. The writer of an option on a security has the obligation upon exercise of the optionto purchase the underlying security at the exercise price. The Advisers option strategy typically targets one-month options. Optionsof any exercise price or maturity may be utilized.TheFund may seek investment exposure to shares of bitcoin ETFs that are registered with the SEC. Under normal circumstances, no more than15% of the Funds assets may be invested directly in bitcoin ETFs.