NAV as of 11/20/2024
$48.84
1 Day NAV Change as of 11/20/2024
$0.08
Overall Morningstar Rating
Large Growth
Based on risk-adjusted return out of 1,073 funds in the Large Growth category as of October 31st, 2024.
4-Star
Morningstar Rated
Overall Morningstar Rating. Large Growth. Based on risk-adjusted return out of 1,073 funds in the Large Growth category as of October 31st, 2024.
| Symbol | Exchange | Inception Date | CUSIP | NAV | Indicative Value | Options Available |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DWUS | Nasdaq | 12/26/2019 | 00768Y487 | DWUS.NAV | DWUS.IV | Yes |
Why Invest in DWUS?
- Alpha-Seeking Complement to Broad Based Exposure – Broad based indexes, by their nature, have the good and the bad, the strong and the weak. DWUS seeks to add alpha using Dorsey Wright’s historically successful trend following process and investment modeling that looks to identify the strongest U.S. large cap equity investments from the weaker performers.
- Active Management Advantage – Many ETFs passively invest owning the majority of the stocks represented in their benchmark index, including those with less than attractive investing attributes. DWUS’s investment process systematically screens the FSM U.S. Core large cap equity universe for investments to include or remove from its highly tactical, active portfolio.
- U.S. Core Equity Rotation – Owning or even avoiding certain large cap investing styles – equal weight, Nasdaq 100, low volatility, momentum, broad based – is an important determinant of domestic core equity success. Investment styles rotate in and out of season. Sometimes those trends last for years, other times for months. By investing in the highest FSM ranked funds, DWUS seeks to capture the growth of those large cap equity styles demonstrating the strongest relative strength while avoiding the weakest.
- Systematic Defense – Because we believe avoiding severe losses helps to preserve capital and can contribute to good performance over time, DWUS uses a rules-based approach to tactically add cash or short-term fixed income exposure to the portfolio when momentum indicators are triggered. The temporary defensive position is to try to shield the portfolio from certain catastrophic market types.
Where Can DWUS Fit in a Traditional Portfolio?
DWUS can serve as an alpha-seeking complement to a broad-based market cap weighted position, such as a fund that tracks the S&P 500 Index, as well as, a stand-alone investment solution for domestic large cap equity exposure.
Key Attributes
- Targeted High Conviction Large Cap Exposure – By tactically allocating to the top ranked large cap equity funds based on Dorsey Wright’s FSM ranking and modeling, DWUS seeks to identify and benefit from factor or market based themes within the core U.S. market. DWUS will regularly rebalance on an equal weight basis into the most favorably identified funds within FSM U.S. Core investment universe.
- Relative Strength Analysis – DWUS invests using relative strength, via FSM rankings, which compares price performance within a universe of stocks. Relative strength investing provides a repeatable process to identify and select the leaders while avoiding the laggards. It is important to be equally good at identifying both long-term winners and losers.
- Systematic Approach – DWUS’s investment strategy is entirely systematic and is designed to remove human emotion from the decision process. It is a disciplined, repeatable process to systematically identify and select which funds to own, as well as, which to avoid or sell, giving the portfolio manager the ability to continually execute DWUS’s investment strategy through all types of different market environments.
- Tactical Defensive Investing– When the market is demonstrating overall weakness, DWUS will gradually allocate to cash or short term fixed income. This cash allocation will incrementally increase or decrease based on whether the momentum indicator is showing overall market strength or weakness versus cash.
About the Portfolio Manager
Nasdaq Dorsey Wright, Model Manager Nasdaq Dorsey Wright is a registered investment advisory firm based in Richmond, Virginia. Since 1987, Dorsey Wright has offered comprehensive investment research and analysis through their Global Technical Research Platform. Dorsey Wright’s expertise is technical analysis, utilizing Point & Figure Charting, Relative Strength Analysis, and numerous other technical and systematic tools to analyze market data and deliver actionable insights.
Dan Ahrens, Managing Director, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Investment Officer, & Portfolio Manager
Dan S. Ahrens is a Managing Director, Chief Operating Officer and the Chief Investment Officer of the Advisor. He joined the Advisor in 2008. Prior to joining the Advisor in 2008, Mr. Ahrens founded Ahrens Advisors, L.P., an SEC-registered investment adviser, where he was portfolio manager of the Ladenburg Thalmann Gaming and Casino Fund from 2006 to 2008. Before forming Ahrens Advisors, he was President of the MUTUALS.com Funds. He served as portfolio manager of the Vice Fund (VICEX), which he started in 2002, and the Generation Wave Growth Fund. During that time, he also was President and Chief Compliance Officer of Mutuals Advisors, Inc. and acted as President, Treasurer and Financial & Operations Officer of an affiliated broker dealer firm. He is the author of Investing in Vice (St. Martin’s Press, 2004) and Investing in Cannabis (Wiley, 2020) and has appeared on numerous financial programs, including CNBC, CNN, ABC News and Bloomberg. He has been featured, along with funds under his management, in major national and trade publications including The Economist, New York Times, Financial Times, and The Wall Street Journal. He earned a Bachelor in Business Administration in Finance from Texas Tech University.
Fund
Price History
Fund Data
11/20/2024| NAV | $48.84 |
| Change | $0.08 |
| Shares Outstanding | 2,420,000 |
| Assets Under Management | $118,193,463.47 |
Market Data
11/20/2024| Closing Price | $48.82 |
| Close Change | $0.09 |
| Volume | 357 |
Regulatory Data
11/20/2024| Premium Discount | $-0.01 |
| 30-Day Median bid-ask Spread | 0.002290 |
Shares are bought and sold at market price (closing price) not NAV and are not individually redeemed from the Fund. Market price returns are based on the midpoint of the bid/ask spread at 4:00 pm Eastern Time (when NAV is normally determined), and do not represent the return you would receive if you traded at other times.
FUND
Characteristics
As of 10/31/2024
Source: Morningstar & AdvisorShares
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| Date | Account Symbol | Stock Ticker | Security ID | Security Description | Shares | Share Price | Market Value | Portfolio Weight | Asset Group |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11/20/2024 | DWUS | MTUM | 46432F396 | ISHARES MSCI USA MOMENTUM FA | 280,300 | 211.61 | 59,312,881.50 | 50.18% | MF |
| SPY | 78462F103 | SPDR S&P 500 ETF TRUST | 99,453 | 590.50 | 58,726,996.50 | 49.69% | MF | ||
| X9USDBLYT | BLACKROCK TREASURY TRUST INSTL 62 | 241,450.89 | 1.00 | 241,450.89 | 0.20% | MM | |||
| CASH | -90,730.98 | 100.00 | -90,730.98 | -0.08% | CA |
FUND
Performance
As of 10/31/2024
| NAV | Market Price Return | S&P 500 Index | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Month | -0.95 | -0.89 | -0.91 |
| 3 Months | 1.72 | 1.78 | 3.66 |
| YTD | 16.71 | 16.67 | 20.97 |
| 1 Year | 34.59 | 34.62 | 38.02 |
| 3 Years | 6.22 | 6.24 | 9.08 |
| Since Inception (12/26/2019, Annualized) | 14.05 | 14.05 | 14.17 |
As of 9/30/2024
| NAV | Market Price Return | S&P 500 Index | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Month | 2.28 | 2.21 | 2.14 |
| 3 Months | 0.74 | 0.73 | 5.89 |
| YTD | 17.83 | 17.72 | 22.08 |
| 1 Year | 32.91 | 32.85 | 36.35 |
| 3 Years | 8.81 | 8.82 | 11.91 |
| Since Inception (12/26/2019, Annualized) | 14.54 | 14.54 | 14.66 |
Performance data quoted represents past performance and is no guarantee of future results. All Fund data and performance data quoted is believed to be accurate, and unless otherwise stated, is sourced from the Fund administrator, the Advisor’s or Sub-Advisor’s proprietary data, and Morningstar. Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance data quoted. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than original cost. Returns less than one year are not annualized.
The S&P 500 Index is a broad-based, unmanaged measurement of changes in stock market conditions based on the average of 500 widely held common stocks. One cannot invest directly in an index.
FUND
Fees & Expenses
| Management Fee | 0.75% |
| Total Annual Operating Expenses | 1.14% |
*Total Annual Operating Expenses and Total Annual Operating Expenses After Recapture in this fee table may not correlate to the expense ratios in the Fund’s financial highlights because the financial highlights include only the Fund’s direct operating expenses and do not include Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses, which represent the Fund’s pro rata share of the fees and expenses of exchange-traded funds and/or money market funds in which it invests. For more information, please read the full prospectus.
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- Before investing you should carefully consider the Fund’s investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses. This and other information is in the prospectus, a copy of which may be obtained by visiting the Fund’s website at www.AdvisorShares.com. Please read the prospectus carefully before you invest. Foreside Fund Services, LLC, Distributor. Investing Involves risk including possible loss of principal. The Advisor’s judgment about the markets, the economy, or companies may not anticipate actual market movements, economic conditions or company performance, and these factors may affect the return on your investment. The prices of equity securities rise and fall daily. These price movements may result from factors affecting individual issuers, industries or the securities market as a whole. The market value of debt securities held by the Fund typically changes as interest rates change, as demand for the instruments changes, and as actual or perceived creditworthiness of an issuer changes.Shares are bought and sold at market price not net asset value (NAV) and are not individually redeemed from the Fund. Market price returns are based on the midpoint of the bid/ask spread at 4:00 pm Eastern Time (when NAV is normally determined) and do not represent the return you would receive if you traded at other times.
- The Morningstar Rating™ for funds, or “star rating,” is calculated for managed products (including mutual funds, variable annuity and variable life subaccounts, exchange-traded funds, closed-end funds, and separate accounts) with at least a three-year history. Exchange-traded funds and open-ended mutual funds are considered a single population for comparative purposes. It is calculated based on a Morningstar Risk-Adjusted Return measure that accounts for variation in a managed product’s monthly excess performance, placing more emphasis on downward variations and rewarding consistent performance. The top 10% of products in each product category receive 5 stars, the next 22.5% receive 4 stars, the next 35% receive 3 stars, the next 22.5% receive 2 stars, and the bottom 10% receive 1 star. The Overall Morningstar Rating for a managed product is derived from a weighted average of the performance figures associated with its three-, five-, and 10-year (if applicable) Morningstar Rating metrics. The weights are: 100% three-year rating for 36-59 months of total returns, 60% five-year rating/40% three-year rating for 60-119 months of total returns, and 50% 10-year rating/30% five-year rating/20% three-year rating for 120 or more months of total returns. While the 10-year overall star rating formula seems to give the most weight to the 10-year period, the most recent three-year period actually has the greatest impact because it is included in all three rating periods. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.
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- DWUS received four stars for the overall rating among 1,073 funds, four stars for the 3-year rating among 1,073 funds in Morningstar’s Large Cap Growth category as of October 31st, 2024.
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