Description

This exchange-traded fund (ETF) endeavors to replicate the net total return performance of the FTSE RAFI US 1000 Index, after deducting its operational expenses. Shareholders receive dividend payments on a quarterly basis. Diverging from traditional market-capitalization-weighted indices, which prioritize share price, this benchmark allocates company weights using fundamental financial attributes. Specifically, constituents are selected and weighted based on four key factors: their average sales over the last five years, their average cash flow over the preceding five years, their book value at the point of review, and the total dividends distributed on average over the past five years. The fund's strategy involves, where practicable, acquiring and holding all securities of the index in their respective proportions, a technique known as full physical replication. Portfolio adjustments occur in sync with the index's own rebalancing schedule. This is a passively managed investment, meaning an investment constitutes ownership of units in an index-tracking fund, rather than direct ownership of the underlying assets it contains.