Investors should consider the investment objective, risks, and charges and expenses of the Fund(s) before investing. The prospectus and summary prospectus contains this and other information about the Fund(s) and should be read carefully before investing. The prospectus may be obtained at 888.530.2448 or www.fmcx.com.
Index performance does not represent the Fund’s performance. It is not possible to invest directly in an index.
S&P 500 Index: The S&P 500 Index is a stock market index that tracks the performance of 500 large companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States.
Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are bought and sold through exchange trading at market price (not NAV), and are not individually redeemed from the Fund. Shares may trade at a premium or discount to their NAV in the secondary market. Brokerage commissions will reduce returns.
Northern Lights Distributors, LLC is not affiliated with First Manhattan. Investing involves risk, including loss of principal. There is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its investment objective. The Adviser’s judgments about the growth, value or potential appreciation of an investment may prove to be incorrect or fail to have the intended results, which could adversely impact the Fund’s performance and cause it to underperform relative to other funds with similar investment goals or relative to its benchmark. Investing in a limited number of companies, such as the Fund does, carries more risk than might be the case if the portfolio were more diversified because changes in the value of a single company may have a more significant effect, either negative or positive on the Fund’s value. The Fund is a new ETF with a limited history of operations for investors to evaluate. Unlike traditional ETFs, the Fund does not tell the public what assets it holds each day. Instead, the Fund provides a VIIV, calculated and disseminated every second throughout the trading day.
Investment return and principal value of security investments will fluctuate. The value at the time of redemption may be more or less than the original cost. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.
The Fund is an actively managed ETF that does not seek to replicate the performance of a specified index.
This Fund may invest in a limited number of companies, which carries more risk because changes in the value of a single company may have a more significant effect, either negative or positive on the Fund’s value.
Because the shares are traded in the secondary market, a broker may charge a commission to execute a transaction in shares, and an investor also may incur the cost of the spread between the price at which a dealer will buy shares and the somewhat higher price at which a dealer will sell shares.
The Verified Intraday Indicative Value: Unlike traditional ETFs, the Fund does not tell the public what assets it holds each day. Instead, the Fund provides a verified intraday indicative value (VIIV), calculated and disseminated every second throughout the trading day by the NYSE Arca (Listing Exchange) or by market data vendors or other information providers. It is available on websites that publish updated market quotations during the trading day, by searching for the Fund’s ticker plus the extension .IV, though some websites require more unique extensions. For example, the VIIV can be found on Yahoo Finance (https://finance.yahoo.com) by typing “^FMCX” (for FMC Excelsior Focus Equity ETF) in the search box labeled “Quote Lookup.” The VIIV is based on the current market value of the securities in the Fund’s portfolio on that day. The VIIV is intended to provide investors and other market participants with a highly correlated per share value of the underlying portfolio that can be compared to the current market price. To calculate the VIIV, the Fund employs two separate calculation engines to provide two independently calculated sources of intraday indicative values (calculation engines). The Fund then uses a pricing verification agent to continuously compare the data from both the calculations engines on a real time basis. If during the process of real time price verification, the indicative values from the calculation engines differ by more than 25 basis points for 60 consecutive seconds, the pricing verification agent will alert the advisor, and the advisor will request that the Listing Exchange halt trading of the Fund’s shares until the two indicative values come back into line. This “circuit breaker” is designed to prevent the VIIV from reflecting outlier prices. The specific methodology for calculating the Fund’s VIIV is available on the Fund’s website.
Portfolio Transparency Risk: Unlike traditional ETFs, the Fund does not tell the public what assets it holds each day. Instead, the Fund provides a VIIV, calculated and disseminated every second throughout the trading day. The VIIV is intended to provide investors with enough information to allow for an effective arbitrage mechanism that keeps the market price of Shares trading at or close to the underlying NAV per share of the Fund. There is, however, a risk, which may increase during periods of market disruption or volatility, that market prices will vary significantly from the underlying NAV of the Fund. Similarly, because Shares trade on the basis of a published VIIV, they may trade at a wider bid/ask spread than shares of ETFs that publish their portfolios on a daily basis, especially during periods of market disruption or volatility, and therefore, may cost investors more to trade. Although the Fund seeks to benefit from keeping its portfolio information concealed, some market participants may attempt to use the VIIV to identify the Fund’s trading strategy, which if successful, could result in such market participants engaging in certain predatory trading practices that may have the potential to adversely affect the Fund and its shareholders. The Fund’s website contains a historical comparison of each business day’s final VIIV to that Business Day’s NAV and the specific methodology for calculating the VIIV.
Early Close/Trading Halt Risk: Trading in Fund shares on the Listing Exchange may be halted in certain circumstances. An exchange or market may close early or issue trading halts on portfolio securities. In times of market volatility, if trading is halted in some of the securities that the Fund holds, there may be a disconnect between the market price of those securities and the market price of the Fund. In addition, if at any time the securities representing 10% or more of the Fund’s portfolio become subject to a trading halt or otherwise do not have readily available market quotations, the Fund’s advisor will request the Listing Exchange to halt trading on the Fund, meaning that investors would not be able to trade their shares. Also, if there is a circuit breaker event, as described above, the Fund’s advisor will request the Listing Exchange to halt trading. During any such trading halt, the VIIV would continue to be calculated and disseminated. Trading halts may have a greater impact on the Fund than traditional ETFs because of its lack of transparency. Additionally, the Fund’s advisor monitors the bid and ask quotations for the securities the Fund holds, and, if it determines that such a security does not have readily available market quotations (such as during an extended trading halt), it will post that fact and the name and weighting of that security in the Fund’s VIIV calculation on the Fund’s web site. This information should permit market participants to calculate the effect of that security on the VIIV calculation, determine their own fair value of the disclosed portfolio security, and better judge the accuracy of that day’s VIIV for the Fund. An extended trading halt in a portfolio security could exacerbate discrepancies between the VIIV and the Fund’s NAV.
Authorized Participant and AP Representative Risk: The Fund’s Authorized Participants will engage in all creation and redemption activity through an AP Representative, an unaffiliated broker-dealer with which such Authorized Participant has signed an agreement to establish a confidential account for the benefit of such Authorized Participant and that will deliver or receive, on behalf of the Authorized Participant, all consideration to or from the Fund in a creation or redemption. AP Representatives have knowledge of the composition of the Fund’s portfolio holdings, and are restricted from disclosing such composition, including to the Authorized Participants. The Fund has a limited number of institutions that act as Authorized Participants, or that may act as AP Representatives. If these institutions exit the business or are, for any reason, unable to process creation and/or redemption orders with respect to the Fund, or purchase and sell securities in connection with creation and/or redemption orders, as applicable, and no other Authorized Participant or AP Representative steps forward to create or redeem, or purchase or sell securities, as applicable, Shares may trade at a premium or discount to NAV and possibly face trading halts and/or delisting.
The FMC EXCELSIOR FOCUS EQUITY ETF is distributed by Northern Lights Distributors, LLC (Member FINRA/SIPC). You may research the Distributor, Northern Lights Distributors, LLC using FINRA’s BrokerCheck at: http://brokercheck.finra.org/
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| Data as of | Top 10 Holdings | Ticker | Shares Held | Holdings Updated Quarterly + 60-Day lag |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03/24/2023 | US DOLLARS | USD | 9,332,992.95 | 13.14% |
| 03/24/2023 | KKR & CO INC-A | KKR | 93,033.00 | 6.56% |
| 03/24/2023 | BERKSHIRE HATH-A | BRK/A | 8.00 | 5.10% |
| 03/24/2023 | UNITEDHEALTH GRP | UNH | 7,301.00 | 4.89% |
| 03/24/2023 | O'REILLY AUTOMOT | ORLY | 4,142.00 | 4.73% |
| 03/24/2023 | APPLE INC | AAPL | 20,577.00 | 4.64% |
| 03/24/2023 | LINDE PLC | LIN | 9,370.00 | 4.55% |
| 03/24/2023 | ORACLE CORP | ORCL | 33,241.00 | 4.12% |
| 03/24/2023 | NICE LTD -SP ADR | NICE | 13,867.00 | 4.10% |
| 03/24/2023 | MICROSOFT CORP | MSFT | 10,034.00 | 3.96% |
The Premium/Discount shows the difference between the daily market price of the Fund’s shares and the Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”).
The vertical axis on the chart shows the premium or discount of the daily market price as a percentage of the NAV. The horizontal axis shows each trading day in the time period, and each data point in the chart represents the Premium/Discount on that day. The data presented in the chart represents past performance and cannot be used to predict future results.
How can the Fund trade at a premium/discount to its NAV?
The primary explanation is that timing discrepancies can arise between the NAV and the trading price of the Fund. Since shares of the Fund trade on the open market, prices are affected by the constant flow of information received by investors, corporation and financial institutions. Depending on how this changing information affects investor sentiment, shares of the Fund may deviate slightly from the value of the Fund’s underlying assets. The NAV of the Fund is only calculated once a day (normally at 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time). As a result, shareholders may pay more than NAV when they buy Fund shares and receive less than NAV when they sell those shares, because shares are purchased and sold at current market prices. However, due to the creation and redemption process that is unique to ETFs, market makers are able to minimize these deviations from NAV by taking advantage of arbitrage opportunities.
What causes these time discrepancies?
Close of Trading Times. Although both the NAV and the daily market price of the Fund are generally calculated based on prices at the closing time of the exchange (generally 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time), slight differences in this timing may cause discrepancies.
Time of Last Trade. Trading of the Fund generally takes place during normal trading hours (9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time). However, it is important to note that the last trade – from which the closing price is determined – may not occur at exactly 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Therefore, changing market sentiment during the time difference may cause the NAV to deviate from the closing price.
This value represents the sectors included in the portfolio on a percent of assets basis.
The median bid-ask spread is calculated by dividing the difference between the national best bid and national best offer (“NBBO”) for the fund by the midpoint of the NBBO as of the end of each ten second interval during each trading day of the last 30 calendar days. The median of those values is then expressed as a percentage rounded to the nearest hundredth.
A non-money market fund’s SEC yield is based on a formula mandated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that calculates a fund’s hypothetical annualized income as a percentage of its assets. A security’s income, for the purposes of this calculation, is based on the current market yield to maturity (for bonds) or projected dividend yield (for stocks) of the fund’s holdings over a trailing 30-day period. This hypothetical income will differ (at times, significantly) from the fund’s actual experience; as a result, income distributions from the fund may be higher or lower than implied by the SEC yield.
The SEC yield for a money market fund is calculated by annualizing its daily income distributions for the previous 7 days.
The gross expense ratio is the fund’s total annual operating costs, expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets for a given time period. It is gross of any fee waivers or expense reimbursement. The net expense ratio is the expense ratio after the application of any waivers or reimbursement. This is the actual ratio that investors paid during the fund’s most recent fiscal year. Please see the prospectus for more information.
Traditional ETFs tell the public what assets they hold each day. This ETF will not. This may create additional risks for your investment. For example:
The differences between this ETF and other ETFs may also have advantages. By keeping certain information about the ETF secret, this ETF may face less risk that other traders can predict or copy its investment strategy. This may improve the ETF’s performance. If other traders are able to copy or predict the ETF’s investment strategy, however, this may hurt the ETF’s performance.
For additional information regarding the distinctive attributes and risks of the ETF, see Risk and Additional Disclosures.
