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Focused U.S. Momentum ETF

A quantitative momentum strategy designed to balance offense and defense. The strategy’s methodology uses price data from the last six months and advanced mathematics to identify 30-50 companies with the highest relative momentum, even during market drawdowns. 

Focused U.S. Dividend ETF

A quantitative dividend strategy focused on systematically generating above-average income without sacrificing upside potential. FDIV's repeatable framework aims to identify 60-80 companies that offer (1) a higher dividend yield and (2) a higher potential for capital appreciation.

MarketDesk Focused U.S. Dividend ETF

Key Fund Details

  • Quantitative Strategy – Dividend Growers

  • Investment Universe – US Mid and Large-Caps

  • Focused Portfolio – 60 to 80 holdings

  • Portfolio Positions – 1 to 2% weights

Strategy Overview

FDIV is a quantitative dividend strategy focused on systematically generating above-average income without sacrificing upside potential. FDIV's repeatable framework aims to identify 60-80 companies that offer (1) a higher dividend yield and (2) a higher potential for capital appreciation.

Why Invest in FDIV

With over 1,000 U.S. companies paying dividends, which dividend stocks should you own? Companies with higher yields may underperform, while high-quality companies with lower yields provide less income.

FDIV's innovative strategy aims to solve this yield vs capital appreciation dilemma for investors. FDIV's algorithm analyzes the current market environment, taking in thousands of data points to forecast each company's dividend yield. The investment universe is then ranked by the confidence level and margin of safety between the current and projected yields. FDIV's quantitative strategy aims to own companies that offer (1) a high dividend yield and (2) a high potential for capital appreciation.

MarketDesk Focused U.S. Momentum ETF

Key Fund Details

  • Quantitative Strategy – Price Momentum

  • Investment Universe – US Mid and Large-Caps

  • Focused Portfolio – 30 to 50 holdings

  • Portfolio Positions – Equal Weight

Strategy Overview

FMTM is a quantitative momentum strategy designed to balance offense and defense. The strategy’s data-driven methodology uses price data from the last six months and advanced mathematics to identify companies with the highest relative momentum, even during market drawdowns. FMTM’s repeatable framework aims to provide equal-weight exposure to 30-50 companies with stable and consistent momentum.

Why Invest in FMTM

FMTM redefines momentum investing by emphasizing (1) consistency and (2) risk management.

Consistency – While traditional momentum strategies identify stocks based on high absolute returns, FMTM's approach adds a critical missing dimension: the stability of upward price momentum. The strategy uses advanced mathematics to identify non-obvious price trends and rank stocks based on the (1) consistency and (2) quality of momentum. By emphasizing sustainable momentum, FMTM’s process filters out companies with unstable trends and short-lived rallies. This approach aims to ensure exposure to outperforming companies, even during market drawdowns.

Risk Management – The strategy has three tools to automate risk management and seeks to avoid the volatility that is common in traditional momentum strategies: (1) a six-month lookback period instead of the standard 12 months, (2) monthly rebalancing instead of semi-annual, and (3) an equal-weighted portfolio instead of a market-cap-weighted one, which decreases concentration risk. This framework allows the strategy to use more timely data, creating what we believe is a smarter, more responsive momentum strategy capable of playing both offense and defense within the same portfolio.

How to Invest in Our ETFs

Investors can purchase ETF shares on a daily basis, using the ticker symbols. Contact our team if you have any questions.

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Important Disclosures

 

This material must be preceded or accompanied by a prospectus. Please read the prospectus carefully before investing. The Funds' investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses must be considered carefully before investing. Click here for the FDIV and FMTM Prospectus and SAI. All fund documents can be found at www.marketdeskindices.com. A free hardcopy of the prospectus may be obtained by calling +1.215.882.9983.


Investments involve risk. Principal loss is possible. Redemptions are limited and often commissions are charged on each trade. Unlike mutual funds, ETFs may trade at a premium or discount to their net asset value.

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Principal Risks

 

An investment in the Fund involves risk, including those described below. There is no assurance the Fund will achieve its investment objective. An investor may lose money by investing in the Fund. An investment in the Fund is not a bank deposit and is not insured or guaranteed by the FDIC or any government agency.

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Momentum Risk. Investing in or having exposure to securities with the highest relative momentum entails investing in securities that have had above-average recent returns. These securities may be more volatile than a broad cross- section of securities. Returns on securities that have previously exhibited momentum may be less than returns on other styles of investing or the overall stock market. Momentum can turn quickly and cause significant variation from other types of investments, and stocks that previously exhibited high momentum may not experience continued highest relative momentum. In addition, there may be periods when the momentum style is out of favor, and during which the investment performance of the Fund using a momentum strategy may suffer.

 

Dividend-Paying Common Stock Risk. The Fund will normally receive income from dividends that are paid by issuers of the Fund’s investments. The amount of the dividend payments may vary and depends on performance and decisions of the issuer. Poor performance by the issuer or other factors may cause the issuer to lower or eliminate dividend payments to investors, including the Fund. Additionally, these types of securities may fall out of favor with investors and underperform the broader market.

 

Value-Style Investing Risk. The Sub-Adviser may be wrong in its assessment of a company’s value, and the stocks the Fund owns may not reach what the Sub-Adviser believes are their true values. The market may not favor value-oriented stocks and may not favor equities at all, which may cause the Fund’s relative performance to suffer. Value stocks can perform differently from the market as a whole and from other types of stocks. While certain value stocks may increase in value more quickly during periods of anticipated economic upturn, they may also lose value more quickly in periods of anticipated economic downturn. Furthermore, there is the risk that the factors which caused the depressed valuations are longer term or even permanent in nature, and their valuations may fall or never rise.

 

Quantitative Security Selection Risk. Data for some companies may be less available and/or less current than data for companies in other markets. The Sub-Adviser uses quantitative analysis, and its processes could be adversely affected if erroneous or outdated data is utilized. The securities selected using quantitative analysis could perform differently from the financial markets as a whole as a result of the characteristics used in the analysis, the weight placed on each characteristic and changes in the characteristic’s historical trends. In addition, the investment analysis used in making investment decisions may not adequately consider certain factors, or may contain design flaws or faulty assumptions, any of which may result in a decline in the value of an investment in the Fund.

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Periodic Reallocation Risk. Because the Sub-Adviser will generally reallocate the Fund’s portfolio only on a monthly basis, (i) the Fund’s market exposure may be affected by significant market movements promptly following the monthly reconstitution that are not predictive of the market’s performance for the subsequent monthly period and (ii) changes to the Fund’s market exposure may lag a significant change in the market’s direction (up or down) by as long as a month if such changes first take effect promptly following the monthly reconstitution. Such lags between market performance and changes to the Fund’s exposure may result in significant underperformance relative to the broader equity or fixed income market.
 

Non-Diversification Risk. Because the Fund is non-diversified, it may be more sensitive to economic, business, political or other changes affecting individual issuers or investments than a diversified fund, which may result in greater fluctuation in the value of the Shares and greater risk of loss.
Equity Investing Risk. Equity securities, such as common stocks, are subject to market, economic and business risks that may cause their prices to fluctuate.


Sector Risk. Companies with similar characteristics may be grouped together into broad categories called sectors. A certain sector may underperform other sectors or the market as a whole. As the Sub-Adviser allocates more of the Fund’s portfolio holdings to a particular sector, the Fund’s performance will be more susceptible to any economic, business or other developments which generally affect that sector.
 

Management Risk. The Fund is actively-managed and may not meet its investment objective based on the Adviser’s or Sub-Adviser’s success or failure to implement investment strategies for the Fund.
 

New Fund Risk. The Fund is a recently organized investment company with no operating history. As a result, prospective investors have no track record or history on which to base their investment decision. There can be no assurance that the Fund will grow to or maintain an economically viable size.

 

Premium-Discount Risk. The Shares may trade above or below their NAV. The NAV of the Fund will generally fluctuate with changes in the market value of the Fund’s holdings. The market prices of Shares, however, will generally fluctuate in accordance with changes in NAV as well as the relative supply of, and demand for, Shares on the Exchange and other securities exchanges. The existence of significant market volatility, disruptions to creations and redemptions, or potential lack of an active trading market for Fund Shares (including through a trading halt), among other factors, may result in the Shares trading significantly above (at a premium) or below (at a discount) to NAV. If you buy Fund Shares when their market price is at a premium or sell the Fund Shares when their market price is at a discount, you may pay more than, or receive less than, NAV, respectively. The Adviser cannot predict whether Shares will trade below, at or above their NAV. Price differences may be due, in large part, to the fact that supply and demand forces at work in the secondary trading market for Shares will be closely related to, but not identical to, the same forces influencing the prices of the securities held by the Fund. However, given that Shares can be purchased and redeemed in large blocks of Shares, called Creation Units (unlike shares of closed-end funds, which frequently trade at appreciable discounts from, and sometimes at premiums to, their NAV), and the Fund’s portfolio holdings are fully disclosed on a daily basis, the Adviser believes that large discounts or premiums to the NAV of Shares should not be sustained, but that may not be the case.

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The Fund is distributed by Quasar Distributors, LLC. The Fund’s investment advisor is Empowered Funds, LLC which is doing business as ETF Architect.

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