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The AdvisorShares Global Echo ETF (NYSE: GIVE) is a broadly diversified actively managed ETF with a focus on Sustainable Investment themes, that seeks to achieve long-term capital appreciation with an emphasis on absolute (positive) returns and low sensitivity to a blend of traditional financial market indices such as the S&P 500 Index, over a full market cycle, by allocating to different investment strategies and asset classes through four sub-advisors (portfolio managers).
GIVE is designed as a core allocation that proactively seeks opportunities in Sustainable Investment themes, including publically traded companies who have a proactive and meaningful sustainability mandate, as well as organizations that may provide technological, socially and environmentally benefit the earth, with focus on themes such as water, clean energy, innovation and other sustainable themes across all asset classes.
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GIVE seeks to achieve its investment objective by primarily investing in a variety of securities, including:
GIVE focuses primarily on long positions in equity securities, including common and preferred stock of U.S. companies, convertible securities, ADRs and ETFs, but will also tactically short ETFs.
GIVE is generally not constrained among the other types of equity securities in which it may invest. It will typically maintain an allocation to both equity and fixed income oriented securities with the minimum allocation to fixed income of 15% and a maximum allocation to fixed income of 65%. It may invest in companies of any size (from small-cap to mid-cap to large-cap) and in any style (from growth to value). GIVE combines the attributes of alternative investment strategies with the shareholder features of an ETF.
Each of the 4 portfolio management teams will determine whether to buy or sell an investment for the GIVE portfolio by applying their investment strategy.
Sustainable investment opportunities take into consideration environmental sustainability, social responsibility and corporate governance (commonly referred to as “ESG”) aspects into the investment decision making process process. Sustainable investing integrates ESG factors into investment analysis, stock selection and active ownership practices in the belief that these factors can improve long-term risk management and risk adjusted portfolio returns.
Sustainable Investing (SI) differs from Social Responsible Investing (SRI) because SRI tends to focus on the negative – what not to invest in, whereas SI is defined positively: investing in companies that meet positive environmental, social and governance (i.e., sustainability) criteria. SI takes a more proactive stance: the full integration of ESG criteria into investment decisions is a strategy for identifying better-managed, more forward-thinking companies with better long-term financial prospects.
Today’s global issues require a new approach to problem solving. The Global Echo Foundation, is a 501(c)(3) charitable foundation co-founded by Philippe Cousteau Jr., to provide funding solutions to many of the challenges facing the world community from social issues impacting women and children to environmental conservation. The Foundation will also focus on supporting social entrepreneurship.
The Global Echo Foundation will employ a blended model of strategic investment and sustainable philanthropy, to create a financial approach that will help drive resources to solving some of the world’s biggest environmental and social dilemmas.
The Global Echo Foundation is focused on providing funding and support in three main areas:
0.40% of the GIVE ETF management fee will be contributed to the Global Echo Foundation. Additional amounts will be contributed by AdvisorShares to support Philippe’s educational efforts and in addition, AdvisorShares will contribute additional basis points to charitable causes.
GIVE is managed by the following 4 portfolio management teams. Each team brings many years of experience in investing with a sustainable investing mindset to GIVE.
GIVE Investment Strategy Focus
First Affirmative Financial Network, LLC (“First Affirmative”) was designated to allocate and monitor the allocation of the Fund’s assets to each portfolio management team to ensure that the Fund’s portfolio maintains the proper investment exposure to seek to achieve its investment objective.
First Affirmative of Colorado Springs, Colorado, is a leading provider of investment management and consulting services to financial advisors and their socially conscious clients. By integrating a client’s mission and values into the investment process, First Affirmative delivers personalized portfolio management to those who wish to profit from companies making positive contributions to society.
GIVE Investment Strategy Focus
Reynders, McVeigh Capital Management, LLC (Reynders, McVeigh) of Boston, Massachusetts, is a Boston-based investment management firm focused on socially progressive investments. The firm creates tailored portfolios with cores comprised of companies that demonstrate fundamental strength and long-term vision in industries that are poised for significant transformation. Since its inception, Reynders, McVeigh has grown through performance and a steadily expanding client base to service over $600 million in assets under management and advise on more than $4 billion for trust offices around the country. Ranked 4th on AdvisorOne’s list of 2011 Top Wealth Managers, Reynders, McVeigh leverages its proprietary research and emphasizes transparency, discretion, and a deep due diligence process in support of each investment.
GIVE Investment Strategy Focus
Baldwin Brothers, Inc. (Baldwin Brothers) of Marion, Massachusetts, has pioneered innovative investment solutions for influential individuals, families and institutions around the world, since 1974. Baldwin Brothers anticipates and identifies watershed movements, shifts and shake ups in our culture and world, and creates ingenious portfolios and funds that present significant, relevant opportunity for sustainable performance.
GIVE Investment Strategy Focus
Community Capital Mangement, Inc. (Community Capital) of Weston, Florida, focuses on providing fixed income management and exceptional client service to institutional investors. Its primary goal is to produce above-average, risk-adjusted returns while providing added diversification and simultaneously having a positive impact on the community and the environment.
Symbol
GIVE
Exchange
NYSE
Inception Date
TBD**
CUSIP
00768Y776
Indicative Value
GIVE.IV
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**ALTHOUGH THE FUND IS EFFECTIVE, IT HAS NOT YET LAUNCHED AND IS NOT AVAILABLE FOR SALE AT THIS TIME.
Management Fee
1.10%
Other Expenses
0.40%
Acquired Fund Fees
0.20%
Gross Expense Ratio
1.70%
Net Expense Ratio
1.70%