09/03/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 09/03/2024 13:49
Tradr 2X Long Triple Q Monthly ETF Ticker Symbol: MQQQ |
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Summary Prospectus |
September 3, 2024 |
Before you invest, you may want to review the Fund's Prospectus, which contains more information about the Fund and its risks. You can find the Fund's Statutory Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information and other information about the Fund online at https://www.tradretfs.com/mqqq. You may also obtain this information by calling collect at 1-833-297-2587 or by sending an e-mail request to [email protected]. The Fund's Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information, both dated August14, 2024, as each may be amended or supplemented, are incorporated by reference into this Summary Prospectus.
Important Information About the Tradr 2X Long Triple Q Monthly ETF
The Tradr 2X Long Triple Q Monthly ETF (the "Fund") seeks calendar month leveraged investment results and is very different from most other exchange-traded funds. As a result, the Fund may be riskier than alternatives that do not seek calendar month leveraged investment results because the Fund's objective is to magnify (by 200%) the calendar month performance of the Invesco QQQ Trust. The return for investors that invest for periods longer or shorter than a full calendar month, which is defined as the close of trading on the last business day of one calendar month to the close of trading on the last business day of the following calendar month, should not be expected to be 200% of the performance of the Invesco QQQ Trust for the period. The return of the Fund for a period longer than a full calendar month will be the result of each full calendar month's compounded return over the period, which will very likely differ from 200% of the return of the Invesco QQQ Trust for that period. Longer holding periods and higher volatility of the Invesco QQQ Trust increase the impact of compounding on an investor's returns. Compounding affects all investments, but has a more significant impact on leveraged funds that rebalance monthly. This effect becomes more pronounced as the Invesco QQQ Trust volatility and holding periods increase. During periods of higher Invesco QQQ Trust volatility, the volatility of the Invesco QQQ Trust may affect the Fund's return as much as, or more than, the return of the Invesco QQQ Trust.
The Fund is not suitable for all investors. The Fund is designed to be utilized only by knowledgeable investors who understand the potential consequences of seeking calendar month leveraged (200%) investment results and are willing to monitor their portfolios frequently. The Fund is not intended to be used by, and is not appropriate for, investors who do not intend to actively monitor and manage their portfolios. For periods longer than a calendar month, the Fund will lose money if the Invesco QQQ Trust's performance is flat, and it is possible that the Fund will lose money even if the Invesco QQQ Trust's performance increases over a period longer than a calendar week. An investor could lose the full principal value of his or her investment within a single calendar month if the Fund's underlying fund loses more than 50% during the calendar month. If you purchase shares of the Fund on a day other than the last business day of the preceding calendar month, you will generally not receive 200% of the calendar month return of the Invesco QQQ Trust. Business day means any day the NYSE is open for trading.
Investment Objective
The Tradr 2X Long Triple Q Monthly ETF seeks calendar month investment results, before fees and expenses, that correspond to two times (200%) the calendar month performance of the Invesco QQQ Trust The Fund does not seek to achieve its stated investment objective for a period of time different than a full calendar month.
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Fees and Expenses of the Fund
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell shares of the Fund ("Shares"). Investors may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and example set forth below.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses |
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Management fees |
1.00% |
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Distribution and Service (Rule 12b-1) fees |
0.00% |
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Other expenses1 |
0.98% |
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Total annual fund operating expenses2 |
1.98% |
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Fee waiver and expense reimbursement3 |
(0.68)% |
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Total annual fund operating expenses after fee waiver and reimbursement1,2 |
1.30% |
1"Other expenses" are estimated for the current fiscal year.
2The cost of investing in swaps, including the embedded cost of the swap, is an indirect expense that is not included in the above fee table and is not reflected in the expense example. The total indirect cost of investing in swaps, including the embedded cost of the swap, is estimated to be 0.50% for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2025.
3The Fund's investment advisor has contractually agreed to waive its fees and/or pay for operating expenses of the Fund to ensure that total annual fund operating expenses (exclusive of any (i) leverage interest, (ii) brokerage fees and commission, (iii) acquired fund fees and expenses, (iv) fees and expenses associated with derivative instruments (including for example options and swap fees and expenses), (v) interest and dividend expense on short sales, (vi) taxes, (vii) expenses incurred in connection with any merger or reorganization, or (viii) extraordinary expenses such as litigation expenses) will not exceed 1.30%. This agreement is effective until August 31, 2025 and it may be terminated before that date only by IMST II's Board of Trustees. The advisor is permitted to seek reimbursement from the Fund, subject to certain limitations, of fees waived or payments made by the advisor to the Fund for a period ending three years after the date of the waiver or payment. Such reimbursement may be requested from the Fund if the reimbursement will not cause the Fund's annual expense ratio to exceed the lesser of (a) the expense limitation in effect at the time such fees were waived or payments made, or (b) the expense limitation in effect at the time of the reimbursement. Reimbursements of fees waived or payments made will be made on a "first in, first out" basis so that the oldest fees waived or payments are satisfied first.
Example
This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds. This example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses remain at current levels. The example reflects the Fund's contractual fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement only for the term of the contractual fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement. This example does not include the brokerage commissions that investors may pay to buy and sell Shares. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, your costs, based on these assumptions, would be:
One Year |
Three Years |
$132 |
$556 |
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Portfolio Turnover
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it purchases and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover will cause the Fund to incur additional transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the Example, may affect the Fund's performance. The Fund is newly-created and, as a result, does not yet have a portfolio turnover rate.
Principal Investment Strategies
Under normal market circumstances, the Fund will maintain at least 80% exposure to financial instruments that provide two times leveraged exposure to the calendar month performance of the Invesco QQQ Trust. The Fund is an actively-managed exchange-traded fund ("ETF") that seeks to achieve on a calendar month basis, before fees and expenses, 200% performance of the Invesco QQQ Trust for a full calendar month, and not for any other period, by entering into one or more swaps on the Invesco QQQ Trust. A "full calendar month" is measured from the close of trading on the last business day of one calendar month to the close of trading on the last business day of the following calendar month. Business day means each day the NYSE is open for trading. For example, if June 28th is the last business day of the calendar month and July 31st is the last business day of the following calendar month, the calendar month performance is measured from the close of trading on June 28th to the close of trading on July 31st.
The Fund will enter into one or more swaps with major global financial institutions whereby the Fund and the global financial institution will agree to exchange the return (or differentials in rates of return) earned or realized on the Invesco QQQ Trust. The gross return to be exchanged or "swapped" between the parties is calculated with respect to a "notional amount," e.g., the return on or change in value of a particular dollar amount representing the Invesco QQQ Trust. The Advisor attempts to consistently apply leverage to maintain the Fund's exposure to 200% of the Invesco QQQ Trust's monthly return, and expects to rebalance the Fund's holdings monthly in an attempt to maintain such exposure.
As a defensive measure, if abnormal market conditions or other circumstances cause a change in the value of Invesco QQQ Trust intra-period (i.e., other than at or near the close of the market of a calendar period) and the change exceeds a level that has been determined by the Advisor to represent a "dramatic move" in the price of Invesco QQQ Trust (the "performance trigger") the Advisor will seek to reset the performance leverage of the Fund by rebalancing the portfolio. The performance trigger for the Fund is -35%. For example, if the price of Invesco QQQ Trust drops by 35% for the period by the 15th of the calendar month, the Fund will rebalance its portfolio on the 15th by resetting the swaps to the 200% leverage and delivering the performance through the end of the calendar period. In essence, the stub period between the triggered reset date and the end of the period is treated like a brand-new period which would have the effect of reducing the leverage return for that calendar period. The Advisor will make best efforts to reset the performance leverage intraday as soon as possible after the trigger level is reached. If the intra-period performance trigger is not reached until the final 30 minutes of trading, the Advisor will make best efforts to reset the performance leverage that day. However, if there is not enough time to do so, the performance leverage will reset the following trading day. If the Fund rebalances its portfolio intra-period due to the performance trigger, the Fund likely will not achieve its investment objective for that period. There is no guarantee that such defensive measures will be successful in protecting the viability of the Fund.
As a result of its investment strategies, the Fund will be concentrated (i.e., hold 25% or more of its total assets in investments that provide exposure to an industry) to approximately the same extent as the Invesco QQQ Trust is so concentrated.
Additionally, the Fund may invest all available cash in the Fund's portfolio in (1) U.S. Government securities, such as bills, notes and bonds issued by the U.S. Treasury; (2) money market funds; (3) short-term bond ETFs and/or (4) corporate debt securities, such as commercial paper and other short-term unsecured promissory notes issued by businesses that are rated investment grade or of comparable quality ("Collateral Investments").
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The Invesco QQQ Trust is an index-based exchange traded fund that seeks to track investment results, before fees and expenses, of an index designed to measure the average performance of securities issued by 100 of the largest U.S. and international non-financial companies listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC. The Invesco QQQ Trust seeks to achieve its investment objective by holding a portfolio of the common stocks that are included in the underlying index.
The Fund has derived all disclosures contained in this document regarding the Invesco QQQ Trust from the publicly available documents described above. In connection with the offering of the Fund's securities, none of the Fund, the Trust, the Advisor, and any of their affiliates has participated in the preparation of such documents. The Advisor has not made any due diligence inquiry with respect to the data or information underlying the publicly available information of the Invesco QQQ Trust. None of the Fund, the Trust, the Advisor, and any of their affiliates makes any representation that such publicly available documents or any other publicly available information regarding the Invesco QQQ Trust is accurate or complete. Furthermore, the Fund cannot give any assurance that all events occurring prior to the date hereof (including events that would affect the accuracy or completeness of the publicly available documents described above) that would affect the trading price of the Invesco QQQ Trust have been publicly disclosed. Subsequent disclosure of any such events or the disclosure of or failure to disclose material future events concerning the Invesco QQQ Trust could affect the value of the Fund's investments with respect to the Invesco QQQ Trust and therefore the value of the Fund.
None of the Trust, the Fund and their affiliates makes any representation to you as to the performance of the Invesco QQQ Trust.
THE TRADR 2X LONG TRIPLE Q MONTHLY ETF, INVESTMENT MANAGERS SERIES TRUST II, AND AXS INVESTMENTS LLC ARE NOT AFFILIATED WITH THE INVESCO QQQ TRUSTSM, OR INVESCO CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC.
Principal Risks
You could lose money by investing in the Fund. An investment in the Fund is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other governmental agency. There can be no assurance that the Fund's investment objectives will be achieved.
Derivatives Risk. Derivatives include instruments and contracts that are based on and valued in relation to one or more underlying securities, financial benchmarks, indices, or other reference obligations or measures of value. Major types of derivatives include futures, options, swaps and forward contracts. Using derivatives exposes the Fund to additional or heightened risks, including leverage risk, liquidity risk, valuation risk, market risk, counterparty risk, and credit risk. Derivatives transactions can be highly illiquid and difficult to unwind or value, they can increase Fund volatility, and changes in the value of a derivative held by the Fund may not correlate with the value of the underlying instrument or the Fund's other investments. Many of the risks applicable to trading the instruments underlying derivatives are also applicable to derivatives trading. However, derivatives are subject to additional risks such as operational risk, including settlement issues, and legal risk, including that underlying documentation is incomplete or ambiguous. For derivatives that are required to be cleared by a regulated clearinghouse, other risks may arise from the Fund's relationship with a brokerage firm through which it submits derivatives trades for clearing, including in some cases from other clearing customers of the brokerage firm.
Swaps Risk. The Fund expects to use swaps as a means to achieve its investment objective. Swaps are generally traded in over-the-counter ("OTC") markets and have only recently become subject to regulation by the CFTC. CFTC rules, however, do not cover all types of swaps. Investors, therefore, may not receive the protection of CFTC regulation or the statutory scheme of the Commodity Exchange Act of 1936, as amended (the "Commodity Exchange Act") in connection with the Fund's swaps. The lack of regulation in these markets
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could expose investors to significant losses under certain circumstances, including in the event of trading abuses or financial failure by participants. Unlike in futures contracts, the counterparty to uncleared OTC swaps is generally a single bank or other financial institution, rather than a clearing organization backed by a group of financial institutions. As a result, the Fund is subject to increased counterparty risk with respect to the amount it expects to receive from counterparties to uncleared swaps. If a counterparty becomes bankrupt or otherwise fails to perform its obligations due to financial difficulties, the Fund could suffer significant losses on these contracts and the value of an investor's investment in the Fund may decline. OTC swaps of the type that may be utilized by the Fund are less liquid than futures contracts because they are not traded on an exchange, do not have uniform terms and conditions, and are generally entered into based upon the creditworthiness of the parties and the availability of credit support, such as collateral, and in general, are not transferable without the consent of the counterparty. Swaps are also subject to the risk of imperfect correlation between the value of the reference asset underlying the swap and the swap. Leverage inherent in derivatives will tend to magnify the Fund's gains and losses. Moreover, with respect to the use of swaps, if the Invesco QQQ Trust has a dramatic intraday move that causes a material decline in the Fund's net assets, the terms of a swap between the Fund and its counterparty may permit the counterparty to immediately close out the transaction with the Fund. In that event, the Fund may be unable to enter into another swap or invest in other derivatives to achieve the desired exposure consistent with the Fund's investment objective. This, in turn, may prevent the Fund from achieving its investment objective, even if the Invesco QQQ Trust reverses all or a portion of its intraday move by the end of the day. As a result, the value of an investment in the Fund may change quickly and without warning.
The Fund will be subject to regulatory constraints relating to level of value at risk that the Fund may incur through its derivative portfolio. To the extent the Fund exceeds these regulatory thresholds over an extended period, the Fund may determine that it is necessary to make adjustments to the Fund's investment strategy, including the desired monthly leveraged performance for the Fund.
Leverage Risk. Leverage increases the risk of a total loss of an investor's investment, may increase the volatility of the Fund, and may magnify any differences between the performance of the Fund and the Invesco QQQ Trust. Because the Fund includes a multiplier of two times (200%) the Invesco QQQ Trust, a full calendar month decline in the Invesco QQQ Trust approaching 50% at any point in the month could result in the total loss of an investor's investment if that decline is contrary to the investment objective of the Fund, even if the Invesco QQQ Trust subsequently rises or moves in an opposite direction, eliminating all or a portion of the earlier decline. This would be the case with any such full calendar month movements in the Invesco QQQ Trust, even if the Invesco QQQ Trust maintains a level greater than zero at all times.
Compounding Risk. The Fund has a calendar month investment objective, and the Fund's performance for any other period is the result of its return for each month compounded over the period. The performance of the Fund for periods longer than a full calendar month will very likely differ in amount, and possibly even direction, from 200% of the calendar month return of the Invesco QQQ Trust for the same period, before accounting for fees and expenses. Compounding affects all investments, but has a more significant impact on leveraged funds that rebalance monthly. This effect becomes more pronounced as the Invesco QQQ Trust volatility and holding periods increase. Fund performance for a period longer than a full calendar month can be estimated given any set of assumptions for the following factors: (a) the Invesco QQQ Trust volatility; (b) the Invesco QQQ Trust performance; (c) period of time; (d) financing rates associated with inverse exposure; and (e) other Fund expenses. The chart below illustrates the impact of two principal factors - the Invesco QQQ Trust volatility and the Invesco QQQ Trust performance - on Fund performance. The chart shows estimated Fund returns for a number of combinations of the Invesco QQQ Trust volatility and the Invesco QQQ Trust performance over a one-year period. Actual volatility, the Invesco QQQ Trust and Fund performance may differ significantly from the chart below. Performance shown in the chart assumes: (a) no Fund expenses; and (b) borrowing/lending rates (to obtain leveraged exposure) of zero percent. If Fund expenses and/or actual borrowing/lending rates were reflected, the Fund's performance would be lower than shown.
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Areas shaded red (or dark gray) represent those scenarios in which the Fund can be expected to return less than 200% of the performance of the Invesco QQQ Trust and those shaded green (or light gray) represent those scenarios in which the Fund can be expected to return more than 200% of the performance of the Invesco QQQ Trust. The Fund's actual returns may be significantly better or worse than the returns shown below as a result of any of the factors discussed above or in "Correlation Risk" below.
Estimated Fund Returns
One Year |
200% of |
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10% |
25% |
50% |
75% |
100% |
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-60 |
-120 |
-85.4% |
-86.2% |
-89.2% |
-93.2% |
-97.2% |
-50 |
-100 |
-76.3% |
-77.6% |
-82.1% |
-88.4% |
-94.7% |
-40 |
-80 |
-65.1% |
-66.9% |
-73.2% |
-82.2% |
-91.4% |
-30 |
-60 |
-51.9% |
-54.2% |
-62.6% |
-74.6% |
-87.2% |
-20 |
-40 |
-36.7% |
-39.6% |
-50.2% |
-65.7% |
-82.0% |
-10 |
-20 |
-19.5% |
-23.1% |
-36.2% |
-55.4% |
-75.9% |
0 |
0 |
-0.4% |
-4.7% |
-20.5% |
-43.8% |
-68.9% |
10 |
20 |
20.5% |
15.5% |
-3.2% |
-30.9% |
-61.0% |
20 |
40 |
43.3% |
37.4% |
15.6% |
-16.7% |
-52.2% |
30 |
60 |
67.8% |
61.1% |
36.1% |
-1.2% |
-42.4% |
40 |
80 |
94.1% |
86.5% |
58.1% |
15.5% |
-31.7% |
50 |
100 |
122.0% |
113.5% |
81.5% |
33.5% |
-20.0% |
60 |
120 |
151.7% |
142.2% |
106.5% |
52.8% |
-7.5% |
The foregoing table is intended to isolate the effect of the Invesco QQQ Trust volatility and the Invesco QQQ Trust performance on the return of the Fund and is not a representation of actual returns. For example, the Fund would be expected to lose 4.7% if the Invesco QQQ Trust provided no return over a one-year period during which the Invesco QQQ Trust experienced annualized volatility of 25%. At higher ranges of volatility, there is a chance of a significant loss of value in the Fund, even if the Invesco QQQ Trust's return is flat. For instance, if the Invesco QQQ Trust's annualized volatility is 100%, the Fund would be expected to lose 68.9% of its value, even if the cumulative Invesco QQQ Trust's return for the year was 0%.
The Invesco QQQ Trust's annualized historical volatility rate for the five-year period ended December 31, 2023 was 25.4%. the Invesco QQQ Trust's highest volatility rate for any one calendar year during the five-year period was 35.7%. the Invesco QQQ Trust's annualized total return performance for the five-year period ended December 31, 2023 was 22.4%. Historical Invesco QQQ Trust volatility and performance are not indications of what the Invesco QQQ Trust volatility and performance will be in the future. The volatility of U.S. exchange-traded securities or instruments that reflect the value of the Invesco QQQ Trust may differ from the volatility of the Invesco QQQ Trust.
Intra-Calendar Month Investment Risk. The Fund seeks calendar month leveraged investment results. The exact exposure of an investment in the Fund intra-month will depend upon the movement of the Invesco QQQ Trust from the end of the prior calendar month until the time of investment by the investor. If the Invesco QQQ Trust gains value, the Fund's net assets will rise by the same amount as the Fund's exposure. Conversely, if the Invesco QQQ Trust loses value, the Fund's net assets will decline by the same amount as the Fund's exposure. Thus, an investor who purchases shares on a day other than the last business day of a calendar month will likely obtain more, or less, than 200% leveraged investment exposure to the Invesco QQQ Trust, depending upon the movement of the Invesco QQQ Trust from the
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end of the prior calendar month until the time of investment by the investor. If there is a significant intra-month market event and/or the securities of the Invesco QQQ Trust experience a significant decrease in value, the Fund may not meet its investment objective or be able to rebalance its portfolio appropriately.
Correlation Risk. A number of factors may affect the Fund's ability to achieve a high degree of correlation with the Invesco QQQ Trust, and there is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve a high degree of correlation. Failure to achieve a high degree of correlation may prevent the Fund from achieving its investment objective, and the percentage change of the Fund's net asset value each calendar month may differ, perhaps significantly in amount, and possibly even direction, from 200% of the percentage change of the Invesco QQQ Trust during such calendar month.
In order to achieve a high degree of correlation with the Invesco QQQ Trust, the Fund seeks to rebalance its portfolio monthly to keep exposure consistent with its investment objective. Being materially under- or overexposed to the Invesco QQQ Trust may prevent the Fund from achieving a high degree of correlation with the Invesco QQQ Trust and may expose the Fund to greater leverage risk. Market disruptions or closure, regulatory restrictions, market volatility, illiquidity in the markets for the financial instruments in which the Fund invests, and other factors will adversely affect the Fund's ability to adjust exposure to requisite levels. The target amount of portfolio exposure is impacted dynamically by the Invesco QQQ Trust's movements, including intra-month movements. Because of this, it is unlikely that the Fund will have perfect 200% exposure during the calendar month or at the end of each month and the likelihood of being materially under- or overexposed is higher on months when the Invesco QQQ Trust is volatile, particularly when the Invesco QQQ Trust is volatile at or near the close of the trading month.
A number of other factors may also adversely affect the Fund's correlation with the Invesco QQQ Trust, including fees, expenses, transaction costs, financing costs associated with the use of derivatives, income items, valuation methodology, accounting standards and disruptions or illiquidity in the markets for the securities or financial instruments in which the Fund invests. The Fund may take or refrain from taking positions in order to improve tax efficiency, comply with regulatory restrictions, or for other reasons, each of which may negatively affect the Fund's correlation with the Invesco QQQ Trust. The Fund may also be subject to large movements of assets into and out of the Fund, potentially resulting in the Fund being under- or overexposed to the Invesco QQQ Trust. Additionally, the Fund's underlying investments and/or reference assets may trade on markets that may not be open on the same day as the Fund, which may cause a difference between the changes in the calendar month performance of the Fund and changes in the performance of the Invesco QQQ Trust. Any of these factors could decrease correlation between the performance of the Fund and the Invesco QQQ Trust and may hinder the Fund's ability to meet its calendar month investment objective during or around that month.
Rebalancing Risk. If for any reason the Fund is unable to rebalance all or a portion of its portfolio, or if all or a portion of the portfolio is rebalanced incorrectly, the Fund's investment exposure may not be consistent with the Fund's investment objective. In these instances, the Fund may have investment exposure to the Invesco QQQ Trust that is significantly greater or less than 200%. As a result, the Fund may be more exposed to leverage risk than if it had been properly rebalanced and may not achieve its investment objective.
Trading Halt Risk. Shares of the Invesco QQQ Trust and the Fund are listed on Nasdaq. Securities exchanges may apply different rules with respect to trading halts. In addition, exchanges may treat stocks differently than shares of ETFs with respect to trading halts. Although the Invesco QQQ Trust's and the Fund's shares are listed for trading on an exchange, there can be no assurance that an active trading market for such shares will be available at all times and the exchange may halt trading of such shares in certain circumstances. In the event of a trading halt for an extended period of time in the Invesco QQQ Trust's and/or the Fund's shares, the Fund may be unable to execute arrangements with swap counterparties that are necessary to implement the Fund's investment strategy. Trading halts of the Invesco QQQ Trust's and/or the Fund's shares can occur for "regulatory" or "non-regulatory" reasons. A regulatory halt may occur when a company has pending news that may affect the security's price, when there is uncertainty over whether the security continues to meet an exchange's listing standards, or when a regulator specifically suspends trading in a security. When a regulatory halt is imposed by a security's primary exchange, the other U.S. exchanges that also trade the security will usually honor this halt. A non-regulatory halt generally occurs when there is a significant imbalance in the pending buy and sell orders in a security or because of extraordinary market volatility pursuant to exchange "circuit breaker" rules. A
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non-regulatory trading halt or delay on one exchange does not necessarily mean that other exchanges will halt a security from trading. Regulatory trading halts of the Invesco QQQ Trust's shares are expected to result in a halt in the trading in the Fund's shares. However, not all non-regulatory trading halts affecting the Invesco QQQ Trust's shares will result in a trading halt of the Fund's shares. To the extent trading in the Invesco QQQ Trust's shares is halted while the Fund's shares continue to trade, the Fund may not perform as intended.
Counterparty Risk. A counterparty (the other party to a transaction or an agreement or the party with which the Fund executes transactions) to a transaction with the Fund may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise honor its obligations. If the counterparty or its affiliate becomes insolvent, bankrupt or defaults on its payment obligations to the Fund, the value of an investment held by the Fund may decline. Additionally, if any collateral posted by the counterparty for the benefit of the Fund is insufficient or there are delays in the Fund's ability to access such collateral, the Fund may not be able to achieve its leveraged investment objective. In addition, the Fund may enter into transactions with a small number of counterparties, which may increase the Fund's exposure to counterparty credit risk. Further, there is a risk that no suitable counterparties will be willing to enter into, or continue to enter into, transactions with the Fund and, as a result, the Fund may not be able to achieve its leveraged investment objective or may decide to change its leveraged investment objective.
Indirect Investment Risk. The Invesco QQQ Trust is not affiliated with the Trust, the Advisor, or any affiliates thereof and is not involved with this offering in any way, and has no obligation to consider the Fund in taking any corporate actions that might affect the value of Shares. The Advisor has not made any due diligence inquiry with respect to the publicly available information of the Invesco QQQ Trust in connection with this offering. Investors in the Shares will not have voting rights or rights to receive dividends or other distributions or any other rights with respect to the shares of the Invesco QQQ Trust.
Concentration Risk. The Fund will be concentrated (i.e., hold 25% or more of its total assets in investments that provide exposure to an industry) to approximately the same extent as the Invesco QQQ Trust is so concentrated. A portfolio concentrated in a particular industry may present more risks than a portfolio broadly diversified over several industries.
Technology Sector Risk: The Invesco QQQ Trust invest in companies in the technology sector. Market or economic factors impacting technology companies and companies that rely heavily on technological advances could have a major effect on the value of the Invesco QQQ Trust's investments. The value of stocks of technology companies and companies that rely heavily on technology is particularly vulnerable to rapid changes in technology product cycles, rapid product obsolescence, government regulation and competition, both domestically and internationally, including competition from foreign competitors with lower production costs. Stocks of technology companies and companies that rely heavily on technology, especially those of smaller, less-seasoned companies, tend to be more volatile than the overall market. Technology companies are heavily dependent on patent and intellectual property rights, the loss or impairment of which may adversely affect profitability. Additionally, companies in the technology sector may face dramatic and often unpredictable changes in growth rates and competition for the services of qualified personnel.
Foreign Securities Risk. The Invesco QQQ Trust may invest in foreign securities. Investments in foreign securities can be riskier than U.S. securities investments. Investments in the securities of foreign issuers (including investments in ADRs) are subject to the risks associated with investing in those foreign markets, such as heightened risks of inflation or nationalization. The prices of foreign securities and the prices of U.S. securities have, at times, moved in opposite directions. In addition, securities of foreign issuers may lose value due to political, economic and geographic events affecting a foreign issuer or market. During periods of social, political or economic instability in a country or region, the value of a foreign security traded on U.S. exchanges could be affected by, among other things, increasing price volatility, illiquidity, or the closure of the primary market on which the security (or the security underlying the ADR) is traded. You may lose money due to political, economic and geographic events affecting a foreign issuer or market.
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Emerging Market Securities Risk. The Invesco QQQ Trust may invest in securities in emerging markets. Investments in securities of emerging market issuers may present risks that are greater than or different from those associated with foreign securities due to less developed and liquid markets and such factors as increased economic, political, regulatory, or other uncertainties. Certain emerging market countries may be subject to less stringent requirements regarding accounting, auditing, financial reporting and record keeping and therefore, material information related to an investment may not be available or reliable. In addition, the Invesco QQQ Trust is limited in its ability to exercise its legal rights or enforce a counterparty's legal obligations in certain jurisdictions outside of the United States, in particular, in emerging markets countries.
Risks Associated with China. Invesco QQQ Trust may invest in companies located or operating in China. Investments in Chinese issuers involve legal, regulatory, political, currency, and economic risks that are specific to China. The Chinese economy is generally considered an emerging market and can be significantly affected by economic and political conditions and policy in China and surrounding Asian countries. A relatively small number of Chinese companies represent a large portion of China's total market and thus may be more sensitive to adverse political or economic circumstances and market movements. The economy of China differs, often unfavorably, from the U.S. economy in such respects as structure, general development, government involvement, wealth distribution, rate of inflation, growth rate, allocation of resources and capital reinvestment, among others. Under China's political and economic system, the central government has historically exercised substantial control over virtually every sector of the Chinese economy through administrative regulation and/or state ownership. In addition, expropriation, including nationalization, confiscatory taxation, political, economic or social instability or other developments could adversely affect and significantly diminish the values of the Chinese companies in which the Invesco QQQ Trust invests. International trade tensions may arise from time to time which can result in trade tariffs, embargoes, trade limitations, trade wars and other negative consequences. These consequences may trigger a reduction in international trade, the oversupply of certain manufactured goods, substantial price reductions of goods and possible failure of individual companies and/or large segments of China's export industry with a potentially severe negative impact to the Invesco QQQ Trust. From time to time, China has experienced outbreaks of infectious illnesses, and the country may be subject to other public health threats or similar issues in the future. Any spread of an infectious illness, public health threat or similar issue could reduce consumer demand or economic output, result in market closures, travel restrictions or quarantines, and generally have a significant impact on the Chinese economy.
ETF Structure Risks. The Fund is an ETF, and, as a result of an ETF's structure, it is exposed to the following risks:
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 act as authorized participants on an agency basis (i.e., on behalf of other market participants). To the extent that these institutions exit the business or are unable to proceed with creation and/or redemption orders with respect to the Fund and no other authorized participant is able to step forward to create or redeem, in either of these cases, shares may trade at a discount to the Fund's net asset value and possibly face delisting.
Cash Transaction Risk. To the extent the Fund sells portfolio securities to meet some or all of a redemption request with cash, the Fund may incur taxable gains or losses that it might not have incurred had it made redemptions entirely in-kind. As a result, the Fund may pay out higher annual capital gain distributions than if the in-kind redemption process was used.
Costs of Buying or Selling Shares.Investors buying or selling shares in the secondary market 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 shares. In addition, secondary market investors will also incur the cost of the difference between the price at which an investor is willing to buy Shares (the "bid" price) and the price at which an investor is willing to sell Shares (the "ask" price). This difference in bid and ask prices is often referred to as the "spread" or "bid-ask
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spread." The bid-ask spread varies over time for shares based on trading volume and market liquidity, and the spread is generally lower if shares have more trading volume and market liquidity and higher if shares have little trading volume and market liquidity. Further, a relatively small investor base in the Fund, asset swings in the Fund, and/or increased market volatility may cause increased bid-ask spreads. Due to the costs of buying or selling shares, including bid-ask spreads, frequent trading of shares may significantly reduce investment results and an investment in shares may not be advisable for investors who anticipate regularly making small investments.
Fluctuation of Net Asset Value Risk.As with all ETFs, shares may be bought and sold in the secondary market at market prices. Although it is expected that the market prices of shares will approximate the Fund's NAV, there may be times when the market prices of shares is more than the NAV intra-day (premium) or less than the NAV intra-day (discount). Differences in market price and NAV 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 holdings of the Fund trading individually or in the aggregate at any point in time. These differences can be especially pronounced during times of market volatility or stress. During these periods, the demand for Fund shares may decrease considerably and cause the market price of Fund shares to deviate significantly from the Fund's NAV.
Market Maker Risk. If the Fund has lower average daily trading volumes, it may rely on a small number of third-party market makers to provide a market for the purchase and sale of Fund shares. Any trading halt or other problem relating to the trading activity of these market makers could result in a dramatic change in the spread between the Fund's NAV and the price at which the Fund shares are trading on the Exchange, which could result in a decrease in value of the Fund shares. In addition, decisions by market makers or authorized participants to reduce their role or step away from these activities in times of market stress could inhibit the effectiveness of the arbitrage process in maintaining the relationship between the underlying values of the Fund's portfolio securities and the Fund's market price. This reduced effectiveness could result in Fund shares trading at a discount to NAV and also in greater than normal intra-day bid-ask spreads for Fund shares.
Shares are Not Individually Redeemable. Shares are only redeemable by the Fund at NAV if they are tendered in Creation Units. Only Authorized Participants may engage in such creation and redemption transactions directly with the Fund. Individual Shares may be sold on a stock exchange at their current market prices, which may be less, more, or equal to their NAV.
Trading Issues Risk.Although the Fund shares are listed for trading on the Exchange, there can be no assurance that an active trading market for such Fund shares will develop or be maintained. Trading in Fund shares on the Exchange may be halted due to market conditions or for reasons that, in the view of the Exchange, make trading in Fund shares inadvisable. In addition, trading in Fund shares on the Exchange is subject to trading halts caused by extraordinary market volatility pursuant to the Exchange "circuit breaker" rules. Market makers are under no obligation to make a market in the Fund shares, and authorized participants are not obligated to submit purchase or redemption orders for Creation Units. There can be no assurance that the requirements of the Exchange necessary to maintain the listing of the Fund will continue to be met or will remain unchanged. Initially, due to the small asset size of the Fund, it may have difficulty maintaining its listings on the Exchange.
Liquidity Risk. The Fund may not be able to sell some or all of the investments that it holds due to a lack of demand in the marketplace or other factors such as market turmoil, or if the Fund is forced to sell an illiquid asset to meet redemption requests or other cash needs it may only be able to sell those investments at a loss. Illiquid assets may also be difficult to value.
Market Risk. The market price of a security or instrument may decline, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably, due to general market conditions that are not specifically related to a particular company, such as real or perceived adverse economic or political conditions throughout the world, changes in the general outlook for corporate earnings, changes in interest or currency rates, or adverse investor sentiment generally. In addition, local, regional or global events such as
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war, acts of terrorism, the spread of infectious illness or other public health issues, or other events could have a significant impact on a security or instrument. The market value of a security or instrument also may decline because of factors that affect a particular industry or industries, such as labor shortages or increased production costs and competitive conditions within an industry.
Valuation Risk. The Fund may hold securities or other assets that may be valued on the basis of factors other than market quotations. This may occur because the asset or security does not trade on a centralized exchange, or in times of market turmoil or reduced liquidity. There are multiple methods that can be used to value a portfolio holding when market quotations are not readily available. The value established for any portfolio holding at a point in time might differ from what would be produced using a different methodology or if it had been priced using market quotations. Portfolio holdings that are valued using techniques other than market quotations, including "fair valued" assets or securities, may be subject to greater fluctuation in their valuations from one day to the next than if market quotations were used. In addition, there is no assurance that the Fund could sell or close out a portfolio position for the value established for it at any time, and it is possible that the Fund would incur a loss because a portfolio position is sold or closed out at a discount to the valuation established by the Fund at that time. The Fund's ability to value investments may be impacted by technological issues or errors by pricing services or other third-party service providers.
Collateral Investments Risk. The Fund's use of Collateral Investments may include obligations issued or guaranteed by the U.S. Government, its agencies and instrumentalities, including bills, notes and bonds issued by the U.S. Treasury, money market funds, short term bond ETFs and corporate debt securities, such as commercial paper.
Some securities issued or guaranteed by federal agencies and U.S. Government-sponsored instrumentalities may not be backed by the full faith and credit of the United States, in which case the investor must look principally to the agency or instrumentality issuing or guaranteeing the security for ultimate repayment, and may not be able to assert a claim against the United States itself in the event that the agency or instrumentality does not meet its commitment. The U.S. Government, its agencies and instrumentalities do not guarantee the market value of their securities, and consequently, the value of such securities may fluctuate. Although the Fund may hold securities that carry U.S. Government guarantees, these guarantees do not extend to shares of the Fund.
Money market funds are subject to management fees and other expenses. Therefore, investments in money market funds will cause the Fund to bear indirectly a proportional share of the fees and costs of the money market funds in which it invests. At the same time, the Fund will continue to pay its own management fees and expenses with respect to all of its assets, including any portion invested in the shares of the money market fund. It is possible to lose money by investing in money market funds.
Short-term bond ETFs will generally invest in short-term instruments (i.e., duration of less than one year). The amount of time until a fixed income security matures can lead to various risks, including changes in interest rates over the life of a bond. Short-term fixed income securities generally provide lower returns than longer-term fixed income securities. The average maturity of an ETF's investments will affect the volatility of the ETF's share price.
Corporate debt securities such as commercial paper generally are short-term unsecured promissory notes issued by businesses. Corporate debt may be rated investment-grade or below investment-grade and may carry variable or floating rates of interest. Corporate debt securities carry both credit risk and interest rate risk. Credit risk is the risk that the Fund could lose money if the issuer of a corporate debt security is unable to pay interest or repay principal when it is due. Some corporate debt securities that are rated below investment-grade generally are considered speculative because they present a greater risk of loss, including default, than higher quality debt securities.
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The Fund's Collateral Investments are subject to the following risks:
Debt Securities Risk.Investments in debt securities subject the holder to the credit risk of the issuer. Credit risk refers to the possibility that the issuer or other obligor of a security will not be able or willing to make payments of interest and principal when due. Generally, the value of debt securities will change inversely with changes in interest rates. To the extent that interest rates rise, certain underlying obligations may be paid off substantially slower than originally anticipated and the value of those securities may fall sharply. During periods of falling interest rates, the income received by the Fund may decline. If the principal on a debt security is prepaid before expected, the prepayments of principal may have to be reinvested in obligations paying interest at lower rates. Debt securities generally do not trade on a securities exchange making them generally less liquid and more difficult to value than common stock.
Call Risk.Some debt securities may be redeemed, or "called," at the option of the issuer before their stated maturity date. In general, an issuer will call its debt securities if they can be refinanced by issuing new debt securities which bear a lower interest rate. The Fund is subject to the possibility that during periods of falling interest rates an issuer will call its high yielding debt securities. The Fund would then be forced to invest the proceeds at lower interest rates, likely resulting in a decline in the Fund's income.
Interest Rate Risk.Generally fixed income securities decrease in value if interest rates rise and increase in value if interest rates fall, with longer-term securities being more sensitive than shorter-term securities. For example, the price of a security with a three-year duration would be expected to drop by approximately 3% in response to a 1% increase in interest rates. Generally, the longer the maturity and duration of a bond or fixed rate loan, the more sensitive it is to this risk. Falling interest rates also create the potential for a decline in the Fund's income. Changes in governmental policy, rising inflation rates, and general economic developments, among other factors, could cause interest rates to increase and could have a substantial and immediate effect on the values of the Fund's investments. In addition, a potential rise in interest rates may result in periods of volatility and increased redemptions that might require the Fund to liquidate portfolio securities at disadvantageous prices and times.
Credit Risk. Debt securities are subject to credit risk. Credit risk is the risk that the inability or perceived inability of the issuer to make interest and principal payments will cause the value of the securities to decrease. As a result, the Fund's NAV could also decrease. Changes in the credit rating of a debt security held by the Fund could have a similar effect.
Volatility Risk. Volatility is the characteristic of a security or other asset, an index or a market to fluctuate significantly in price within a short time period. The value of the Fund's investments in swaps - and therefore the value of an investment in the Fund - could decline significantly and without warning, including to zero. If you are not prepared to accept significant and unexpected changes in the value of the Fund and the possibility that you could lose your entire investment in the Fund, you should not invest in the Fund.
Cybersecurity Risk. Cybersecurity incidents may allow an unauthorized party to gain access to Fund assets, customer data (including private shareholder information), or proprietary information, or cause the Fund, the Advisor, and/or other service providers (including custodians, sub-custodians, transfer agents and financial intermediaries) to suffer data breaches, data corruption or loss of operational functionality. In an extreme case, a shareholder's ability to exchange or redeem Fund shares may be affected. Issuers of securities in which the Fund invests are also subject to cybersecurity risks, and the value of those securities could decline if the issuers experience cybersecurity incidents.
Active Management Risk. The Fund is actively-managed and its performance reflects investment decisions that the Advisor makes for the Fund. Such judgments about the Fund's investments may prove to be incorrect. If the investments selected and the strategies employed by the Fund fail to produce the intended results, the Fund could underperform as compared to other funds with similar investment objectives and/or strategies, or could have negative returns.
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Operational Risk. The Fund is exposed to operational risks arising from a number of factors, including, but not limited to, human error, processing and communication errors, errors of the Fund's service providers, counterparties or other third parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. The Fund and the Advisor seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
No Operating History. The Fund is recently organized and has no operating history. As a result, prospective investors have no track record or history on which to base their investment decisions.
Non-Diversification Risk. The Fund is classified as "non-diversified," which means the Fund may invest a larger percentage of its assets in the securities of a smaller number of issuers than a diversified fund. Investment in securities of a limited number of issuers exposes the Fund to greater market risk and potential losses than if its assets were diversified among the securities of a greater number of issuers. The Fund seeks to achieve monthly results that correspond to a multiple of the monthly performance of the Invesco QQQ Trust by entering into one or more swaps. In seeking this objective, the Fund may invest a relatively high percentage of its assets in swaps with a single counterparty or a few counterparties. As a result, the Fund may experience increased volatility and be more susceptible to a single economic or regulatory occurrence affecting the issuer or one or more of the counterparties.
Tax Risk. In order to qualify for the favorable tax treatment generally available to regulated investment companies, the Fund must satisfy certain diversification and other requirements. In particular, the Fund generally may not acquire a security if, as a result of the acquisition, more than 50% of the value of the Fund's assets would be invested in (a) issuers in which the Fund has, in each case, invested more than 5% of the Fund's assets and (b) issuers more than 10% of whose outstanding voting securities are owned by the Fund. The application of these requirements to certain investments (including swaps) that may be entered into by the Fund is unclear. In addition, the application of these requirements to the Fund's investment objective is not clear, particularly because the Fund's investment objective focuses on the performance of the stock of a single issuer. If the Fund were to fail to qualify as a regulated investment company, it would be taxed in the same manner as an ordinary corporation, and distributions to its shareholders would not be deductible by the Fund in computing its taxable income.
Security Issuer Risk. Issuer-specific attributes may cause a security held by the Fund to be more volatile than the market generally. The value of an individual security or particular type of security may be more volatile than the market as a whole and may perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.
Recent Market Events. Periods of market volatility may occur in response to market events and other economic, political, and global macro factors. For example, in recent years the COVID-19 pandemic, the large expansion of government deficits and debt as a result of government actions to mitigate the effects of the pandemic, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the rise of inflation have resulted in extreme volatility in the global economy and in global financial markets. These and other similar events could be prolonged and could adversely affect the value and liquidity of the Fund's investments, impair the Fund's ability to satisfy redemption requests, and negatively impact the Fund's performance.
The Shares will change in value, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment objective.
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Performance
The Fund is new and does not have a full calendar year performance record to compare against other funds or broad measures of securities market performance such as indices. Performance information will be available after the Fund has been in operation for one calendar year.
Management
Investment Advisor
AXS Investments LLC ("AXS Investments" or the "Advisor")
Portfolio Managers
Travis Trampe, Managing Director, Portfolio Management of the Advisor, Donal Bishnoi, CFA, Portfolio Manager of the Advisor, and Parker Binion, Chief of Compliance and Head of Investments of the Advisor, have served as the portfolio managers of the Fund since its inception in August 2024. Messrs. Trampe, Bishnoi, and Binion are jointly and primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the Fund's portfolio.
Purchase and Sale of Shares
The Fund issues and redeems Shares on a continuous basis, at net asset value, only in large blocks of shares called "Creation Units." Except when aggregated in Creation Units, the Shares are not redeemable securities of the Fund. Individual Shares of the Fund may only be purchased and sold on the secondary market through a broker-dealer. Since Shares of the Fund trade on securities exchanges in the secondary market at their market price rather than their net asset value, the Fund's Shares may trade at a price greater than (premium) or less than (discount) the Fund's net asset value. An investor may incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase Shares of the Fund (bid) and the lowest price a seller is willing to accept for Shares of the Fund (ask) when buying or selling Shares in the secondary market (the "bid-ask spread"). Recent information, including the Fund's net asset value, market price, premiums and discounts, and bid-ask spreads, is available online at www.tradretfs.com.
Tax Information
The Fund's distributions will generally be taxable as ordinary income, returns of capital or capital gains. A sale of Shares may result in capital gain or loss.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase Shares through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Advisor and ALPS Distributors, Inc., the Fund's distributor, may pay the intermediary for the sale of Shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary's website for more information.
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