The Fund's portfolio managers use extensive in-depth research into specific companies to find those companies that they believe offer significant prospects for future growth. The Fund typically employs a focused portfolio investing style, generally holding between 30 and 50 securities. However, the Fund may at any time hold fewer or more securities than the range noted.
The Fund is non-diversified, which means that it can invest a greater percentage of its assets in the securities of fewer issuers than can a diversified fund.
The Fund's investment strategy may involve the frequent trading of portfolio securities.
The information under the heading "Principal Risks" is hereby revised to delete Tracking Basket Structure Risk in the lead-in paragraph, to add Portfolio Turnover, Frequent Trading and Tax Risk, to delete Arbitrage Risk, and to replace Active Management Risk, Authorized Participant Concentration Risk, Early/Late Close/Trading Halt Risk, Market Price Relative to NAV Risk and Secondary Market Trading Risk with the following:
Active Management Risk. Due to its active management, the Fund could underperform its benchmark index and/or other funds with similar investment objectives and/or strategies. Active trading of portfolio securities may result in added expenses, a lower return and increased tax liability, including relative to other ETFs.
Authorized Participant Concentration Risk. Only an Authorized Participant may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the Fund. The Fund has a limited number of institutions that may act as Authorized Participants, none of which are or will be obligated to engage in creation or redemption transactions. To the extent that these institutions exit the business or are unable or unwilling to proceed with creation and/or redemption orders with respect to the Fund and no other Authorized Participant is able or willing to step forward to create or redeem Creation Units, Fund shares may trade at a greater premium or discount between the market price and the NAV of the Fund's shares and/or wider bid/ask spreads than those experienced by other ETFs. Additionally, the Fund could possibly face trading halts and/or delisting from the Exchange. This risk is heightened in times of market stress, including at both the Fund share level and at the Fund holdings level.
Early/Late Close/Trading Halt Risk. An exchange or market may close early, close late or issue trading halts on specific securities, or the ability to buy or sell certain securities may be restricted, which may result in the Fund being unable to buy or sell these securities.
Market Price Relative to NAV Risk. Shares of the Fund may trade at prices that vary from Fund NAV. Shares of the Fund are listed for trading on the Exchange and are bought and sold in the secondary market at market prices that may differ, in some cases significantly, from 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 response to changes in NAV, as well as the relative supply of, and demand for, Fund shares on the Exchange. Fund shares may trade at a greater premium or discount between the market price and the NAV of the Fund's shares and/or wider bid/ask spreads than those experienced by other ETFs. The Investment Manager cannot predict whether Fund shares will trade below, at or above their NAV. Price differences may result because of, among other factors, supply and demand forces in the secondary trading market for Fund shares. It is expected that these forces generally will be closely related to, but not identical to, the same forces influencing the prices of the Fund's holdings. In this regard, if a shareholder purchases Fund shares at a time when the market price is at a premium to the NAV or sells shares at a time when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain losses. Different investment strategies or techniques, including those intended to be defensive in nature, including, as examples, stop loss orders to sell an ETF's shares in the secondary market during negative market events or conditions, such as a "flash crash" or other market disruptions, may not work as intended and may produce significant losses to investors. Investors should consult their financial intermediary prior to using any such investment strategies or techniques, or before investing in the Fund.
Portfolio Turnover, Frequent Trading and Tax Risk. The Fund may actively and frequently trade investments in the Fund's portfolio to carry out its investment strategies and, as relevant, could generate taxable events for the Fund and its shareholders. The Fund cannot carry back or carry forward any net operating losses (defined as ordinary deductions in excess of ordinary income for the year) and cannot use capital loss carryforwards to offset ordinary income. A high volume of frequent trading of investments increases the possibility that the Fund will generate capital gains. Both short-term capital gains and net ordinary gains are distributed as ordinary income and are generally taxable to shareholders at higher rates than long-term capital gains for U.S. federal income tax purposes, which could reduce the Fund's after-tax return for shareholders owning Fund shares in taxable accounts. These trading strategies can mean higher brokerage and other transaction costs. The costs and tax effects associated with such trading strategies may adversely affect the Fund's after-tax performance. In February 2025, the Fund is expected to change its Principal Investment Strategies, which may result in increased portfolio turnover relative to the Fund's strategy in place prior to this change.
Secondary Market Trading Risk. Investors buying or selling Fund shares will pay brokerage commissions or other charges imposed by brokers as determined by that broker. Brokerage commissions are often a fixed amount and may be a significant proportional cost for investors seeking to buy or sell relatively small amounts of Fund shares.
The information under the heading "Performance Information" is hereby revised to add the following:
Effective February 28, 2025, the Fund's Principal Investment Strategies, including its 80% policy were changed from a semiconductor, semiconductor equipment and related technology companies investment mandate to a broader technology and technology-related companies investment mandate (the Strategy Change).