The Fund is an actively managed exchange-traded fund (“ETF”) that seeks to achieve its investment objective by purchasing securities that Clough Capital Partners L.P. (the “Adviser”), the Fund’s investment adviser, believes:

The Fund primarily invests in U.S.-listed equity securities and sponsored depositary receipts, including American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”), European Depositary Receipts (“EDRs”) and Global Depositary Receipts (“GDRs”). While the Fund’s equity exposure strategy focuses on investments in U.S. equity securities, the Fund’s strategy also includes investments in companies organized in the U.S. but deriving revenue from international markets, including emerging markets. The Fund will make investments in emerging markets, which the Fund defines as countries included in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index (“MSCI”), using U.S.-listed securities of companies domiciled in MSCI countries. A short sale is a transaction in which the Fund sells a security it does not own, typically in anticipation of a decline in the market price of that security based on an analysis of market expectations, valuation multiples, or the likelihood of a contraction in the stock’s valuation multiple. While the Adviser seeks companies it believes will outperform over a full market cycle (typically 5-11 years), the Fund may experience higher portfolio turnover in the short term as the Fund responds to changing market conditions or when the Adviser identifies new opportunities.

The Adviser's investment process is built on seeking to identify and capitalize on industry or economic trends that other investors have not yet recognized, while maintaining overall portfolio volatility that is lower than that experienced by the broader market. The Fund views the Bloomberg World Large, Mid, & Small Cap Equal Weight Total Return Index (“WLSEQT”) as a representation of the broader market because WLSEQT includes a broad spectrum of global equity securities across various market capitalizations. The Adviser believes that it can identify industry or economic trends by analyzing industry and economic related information such as capital flows that effect natural resource scarcity, technological innovations which have the potential to disrupt traditional industries, impacts of demographic shifts, and changes in profit or credit cycles. The Adviser then interprets the information analyzed to identify emerging patterns or changes in various sectors of the economy and develops a strategy for the Fund to allocate its capital into investible securities.

The Adviser identifies investible securities through rigorous research, including analysis of public company filings, customer preferences, relevant supply chains, and additional publicly available company information. The investment process focuses on a number of significant global investment themes identified by the Adviser through its research process. Global investment themes include industry or economic trends that the Adviser believes will significantly impact multiple sectors or regions of the global economy. The Adviser believes that the Fund can invest in companies affected by an attractive global investment theme which the Adviser anticipates will result in positive investment returns. For instance, an attractive global investment theme could be the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) as a transformative technology. The Adviser might identify this theme by observing increased investment in AI research and development, analyzing the growing demand for advanced semiconductor chips, and studying the proliferation of AI-powered applications across various industries. This theme could result in far-reaching implications for semiconductor manufacturers, companies throughout the semiconductor supply chain, consumer electronics producers, software developers, and numerous other sectors that stand to benefit from or be negatively impacted by AI technology.

When such a theme is identified, the Adviser then conducts bottom-up research to find specific companies that are well-positioned to benefit from this trend. In the AI example, this research might uncover potential investments in leading chip designers, manufacturers of specialized AI hardware, cloud computing providers offering AI services, or software companies developing innovative AI applications. This approach allows the Fund to invest in the global trends identified by selecting individual securities that the Adviser believes will offer the best potential for positive returns.

Individual security positions are selected after an evaluation of various company characteristics, such as an assessment of a company's market position compared to its competitors, which would involve analyzing company specific factors including market share, product differentiation, and brand strength. The Adviser also evaluates the quality of company management by examining its track record, strategic decisions, and ability to execute business plans effectively. The company selection assessment also includes analyzing a company’s financial performance metrics, reviewing a company’s public statements and interviews, and evaluating a company's reputation within its industry. The Adviser also analyzes a company's earnings, cash flow, and balance sheet to assess its financial stability and potential for positive investment returns. In addition, the Adviser evaluates whether a company's market share, profitability and market valuation is justified and likely to persist over time, compared to both its own and peer historical metrics. The evaluation process involves analysis of various financial ratios and metrics, including price-to-earnings, earnings per share, return on equity, and debt-to-equity ratios, to determine if a company's stock price accurately reflects its fundamental value and growth potential.

The Fund's portfolio construction is driven by the Adviser's bottom-up research process, which seeks to identify the most compelling investment opportunities across various sectors. The Fund’s equity stock position concentrations will be higher in sectors such as energy, technology, consumer, industrial, and healthcare at times, and the Fund does not adhere to strict sector weighting parameters. This approach allows the Fund to invest in companies that have the greatest potential for returns, regardless of sector. The Fund will typically maintain a diversified portfolio of 30 to 50 long positions and 20 to 50 short positions. This range allows for meaningful exposure to high-conviction ideas while maintaining a level of diversification to manage overall portfolio risk. Under normal circumstances, at least 80% of the Fund’s net assets, plus borrowings for investment purposes, will be invested long or short in equity securities, including common stocks and sponsored depositary receipts.

The Fund employs a hedging strategy that utilizes options and index futures to manage risk and enhance returns. The Fund will generally maintain a net long exposure of between 30%-70% of its net assets. The Fund will buy put options or write (sell) call options on securities it believes are overvalued, aiming to profit from potential price declines or to protect existing long positions. Conversely, the Fund will buy call options or write put options on securities identified through the Adviser’s research process as undervalued, seeking to benefit from potential price appreciation or to gain exposure to attractive investments at a lower initial cost. In addition to options, the Fund will use futures contracts on stock indices, which allow the Fund to invest in one instrument to gain exposure to a group of companies that a futures contract represents, rather than investing in each individual company. The Fund will also use futures contracts to hedge portfolio risks, such as buying or selling an index future when the broader market appears to be overbought based on evaluation of historical valuation metrics. Investments in options and futures allow the Fund to respond to changing market conditions or to implement investment views without directly buying or selling the underlying securities. The Adviser employs a flexible approach to determine the optimal duration for each option or futures instrument that the Fund invests in, and option or futures position durations are generally less than two years. The duration decision is based on careful evaluation of several factors, including transaction costs, the timing of potential catalysts that may alter the broader markets stock prices, and other relevant considerations typical in derivative transactions. The Fund’s goal of investing in options and futures is to strike a balance between hedging portfolio risks or capturing desired market exposure and managing the costs and risks associated with such instruments. This flexible approach allows the Fund to adapt its derivative strategy to changing market conditions and specific investment opportunities.

The use of options and futures strategies will be used to hedge and enhance the returns of the Fund’s core equity portfolio, and such strategies will not be used to replace the core equity portfolio.