The fund seeks capital appreciation in the long term by tracking the performance of the benchmark index, before fees and expenses, by investing in companies in the United States.
The Index is designed to select the companies for a long position that have the highest probability of increasing their dividend in a 12-month period, the High Quality Dividend Growers, and select the companies for a short position that have the highest probability of decreasing their dividend in a 12-month period, the Low Quality Dividend Cutters.
The investment process starts with a list of companies in the benchmark index and the research team utilizes quantitative techniques and fundamental analysis to identify investment opportunities.
Next, the research team invests significantly in component securities of the Index.
In addition, the research team employs a representative sampling strategy, which means that the fund will hold a portfolio of securities with generally the same risk and return characteristics of the Index.
Then the manager constructs a portfolio of stocks from a list of companies favored by the research team and allocates capital based on its conviction level.
The fund seeks to replicate the composition of the benchmark index.
The fund may invest in swaps, futures, forwards, options, exchange traded funds and other securities that are not components of the Index.
Also, the fund seeks to remain fully invested at all times in securities and or financial instruments that, in combination, provide exposure to the Index without regard to market conditions, trends or direction.
To the extent the Index has significant exposure to a particular sector or is concentrated in a particular industry, the fund will necessarily have significant exposure to that sector or be concentrated in that industry.
The fund seeks capital appreciation in the long term by tracking the performance of the benchmark index, before fees and expenses, by investing in companies in the United States.
The Index is designed to select the companies that have the highest probability of increasing their dividend in a 12-month period, the High Quality Dividend Growers.
The investment process starts with a list of companies in the benchmark index and the research team utilizes quantitative techniques and fundamental analysis to identify investment opportunities.
Next, the research team invests significantly in component securities of the Index.
In addition, the research team employs a representative sampling strategy, which means that the fund will hold a portfolio of securities with generally the same risk and return characteristics of the Index.
Then the manager constructs a portfolio of stocks from a list of companies favored by the research team and allocates capital based on its conviction level.
The fund seeks to replicate the composition of the benchmark index.
The fund may invest in swaps, futures, forwards, options, exchange traded funds and other securities that are not components of the Index.
Also, the fund seeks to remain fully invested at all times in securities and or financial instruments that, in combination, provide exposure to the Index without regard to market conditions, trends or direction.
To the extent the Index has significant exposure to a particular sector or is concentrated in a particular industry, the fund will necessarily have significant exposure to that sector or be concentrated in that industry.
The fund seeks to replicate the total return performance of the benchmark index, before fees and expenses, by investing in companies outside the United States.
The investment process starts with a list of companies in the benchmark index and the research team utilizes quantitative techniques and fundamental analysis to identify investment opportunities.
Next, the research team invests significantly in component securities of the Index.
The Index is designed to measure the returns of companies that are committing material resources to developing, researching, supporting, innovating or utilizing blockchain technology for their proprietary use or for use by others.
Then the manager constructs a portfolio of stocks from a list of companies favored by the research team and allocates capital based on its conviction level.
The fund seeks to replicate the composition of the benchmark index, holding each security in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the Index.
In addition, the research team employs a representative sampling strategy, which means that the fund will hold a portfolio of securities with generally the same risk and return characteristics of the Index.
The fund seeks to remain fully invested at all times in securities that provide exposure to the Index without regard to market conditions, trends or direction.
To the extent the Index has significant exposure to a particular sector or is concentrated in a particular industry, the fund will necessarily have significant exposure to that sector or be concentrated in that industry.
The fund estimates to invest in common stocks, American Depositary Receipts and Global Depositary Receipts.
Additionally, the fund does not intend to invest in cryptocurrency directly, but may have indirect exposure to cryptocurrency by virtue of its investments in companies that may use one or more cryptocurrencies.
The fund is considered to be non-diversified, and may invest in the securities of fewer issuers than a diversified fund.