John Hancock Multifactor Small Cap ETF

The fund seeks to replicate the total return performance of the benchmark index, before fees and expenses, by investing in small-size companies in the United States.

The sub-adviser’s 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 securities that compose the fund’s Index.

The team focuses on a wide range of small-cap stocks in the U.S. Universe.

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 may 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.

Also, the fund, utilizes an indexing investment approach, that attempts to approximate the investment performance of the Index by investing in a portfolio of securities that generally replicates the Index.