LeaderShares® Equity Skew ETF
Name
As of 04/24/2024Price
Aum/Mkt Cap
YIELD
Exp Ratio
Watchlist
Vitals
YTD Return
0.7%
1 yr return
13.0%
3 Yr Avg Return
-1.3%
5 Yr Avg Return
N/A
Net Assets
$125 M
Holdings in Top 10
76.3%
52 WEEK LOW AND HIGH
Expenses
OPERATING FEES
Expense Ratio 0.83%
SALES FEES
Front Load N/A
Deferred Load N/A
TRADING FEES
Turnover 58.00%
Redemption Fee N/A
Min Investment
Standard (Taxable)
N/A
IRA
N/A
Fund Classification
Fund Type
Exchange Traded Fund
Name
As of 04/24/2024Price
Aum/Mkt Cap
YIELD
Exp Ratio
Watchlist
SQEW - Profile
Distributions
- YTD Total Return 0.7%
- 3 Yr Annualized Total Return -1.3%
- 5 Yr Annualized Total Return N/A
- Capital Gain Distribution Frequency N/A
- Net Income Ratio 0.80%
- Dividend Yield 1.2%
- Dividend Distribution Frequency None
Fund Details
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Legal NameLeaderShares® Equity Skew ETF
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Fund Family NameLeaderShares
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Inception DateMay 11, 2020
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Shares Outstanding3725000
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Share ClassN/A
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CurrencyUSD
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Domiciled CountryUS
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ManagerMichael Cheung
Fund Description
The Fund is an actively managed exchange traded fund (ETF) that normally invests at least 80% of its net assets, including any borrowings for investment purposes, in equity securities. The Fund defines equity securities to include investments in other investment companies, such as ETFs, that invest primarily in equity securities. The Fund employs a contrarian strategy seeking to buy underperforming asset classes and/or factors and sell outperforming asset classes and/or factors based on quantitative research. The primary equity style exposure and factors are large cap growth, large cap value, small cap growth, small cap value, and emerging market equities. The weightings to these equity style exposures represented by equity securities, are determined using proprietary quantitative methodologies that include statistical skew. Skew or skewness measures the asymmetry of a return distribution between different constituents in a group. Measuring the skewness allows the Adviser to take five groups of stocks (Large Cap Growth, Large Cap Value, Small Cap Growth, Small Cap Value and Emerging Markets) and determine the relative weightings of each of these five groups based on how recent returns of such group fits into its historical distribution of returns. This measure of skewness generally leads to security groups that have recently outperformed to have reduced exposure and security groups that have recently underperformed to have increased exposure at each re-balance. The Fund will invest in equity securities with a market capitalization of at least $1 billion.
The Fund may have a higher degree of portfolio turnover than funds that seek to replicate the performance of an index. The Fund may engage in active and frequent trading.
SQEW - Performance
Return Ranking - Trailing
Period | SQEW Return | Category Return Low | Category Return High | Rank in Category (%) |
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YTD | 0.7% | -13.2% | 18.5% | 90.93% |
1 Yr | 13.0% | -3.5% | 42.5% | 75.82% |
3 Yr | -1.3%* | -22.6% | 15.9% | 93.48% |
5 Yr | N/A* | -1.5% | 19.9% | 50.28% |
10 Yr | N/A* | 2.2% | 12.7% | 50.82% |
* Annualized
Return Ranking - Calendar
Period | SQEW Return | Category Return Low | Category Return High | Rank in Category (%) |
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2023 | 12.6% | -12.9% | 28.8% | 52.76% |
2022 | -21.1% | -52.6% | 20.1% | 64.62% |
2021 | 9.9% | -43.8% | 32.4% | 55.97% |
2020 | N/A | -10.6% | 82.1% | N/A |
2019 | N/A | -8.5% | 37.5% | N/A |
Total Return Ranking - Trailing
Period | SQEW Return | Category Return Low | Category Return High | Rank in Category (%) |
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YTD | 0.7% | -13.2% | 18.5% | 90.93% |
1 Yr | 13.0% | -3.5% | 42.5% | 75.82% |
3 Yr | -1.3%* | -22.6% | 15.9% | 93.48% |
5 Yr | N/A* | -1.5% | 19.9% | N/A |
10 Yr | N/A* | 2.2% | 12.7% | N/A |
* Annualized
Total Return Ranking - Calendar
Period | SQEW Return | Category Return Low | Category Return High | Rank in Category (%) |
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2023 | 14.0% | 1.2% | 31.3% | 64.64% |
2022 | -20.8% | -45.7% | 21.1% | 86.91% |
2021 | 19.6% | -30.2% | 52.8% | 84.09% |
2020 | N/A | -8.4% | 84.3% | N/A |
2019 | N/A | 1.0% | 43.4% | N/A |
SQEW - Holdings
Concentration Analysis
SQEW | Category Low | Category High | SQEW % Rank | |
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Net Assets | 125 M | 728 K | 160 B | 76.96% |
Number of Holdings | 155 | 1 | 2609 | 37.13% |
Net Assets in Top 10 | 93 M | 155 K | 11.7 B | 46.88% |
Weighting of Top 10 | 76.25% | 3.4% | 100.0% | 1.09% |
Top 10 Holdings
- SPDR SP 600 SMALL CAP VA 26.63%
- SPDR SP 600 SMALL CAP GR 19.59%
- SPDR PORTFOLIO SP 500 GR 14.56%
- VANGUARD FTSE EMERGING MA 9.71%
- BERKSHIRE HATH-B 1.44%
- BBH SWEEP VEHICLE 1.04%
- JPMORGAN CHASE 1.03%
- EXXON MOBIL CORP 0.87%
- JOHNSONJOHNSON 0.79%
- UNITEDHEALTH GRP 0.60%
Asset Allocation
Weighting | Return Low | Return High | SQEW % Rank | |
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Stocks | 98.95% | 14.60% | 104.46% | 46.07% |
Cash | 1.05% | 0.00% | 30.96% | 58.54% |
Preferred Stocks | 0.00% | 0.00% | 14.30% | 34.96% |
Other | 0.00% | -1.04% | 23.02% | 50.95% |
Convertible Bonds | 0.00% | 0.00% | 1.78% | 34.96% |
Bonds | 0.00% | 0.00% | 62.14% | 39.02% |
Stock Sector Breakdown
Weighting | Return Low | Return High | SQEW % Rank | |
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Technology | 19.40% | 0.00% | 40.65% | 17.12% |
Financial Services | 16.13% | 0.00% | 46.10% | 22.01% |
Industrials | 12.09% | 0.00% | 45.89% | 84.78% |
Consumer Cyclical | 11.87% | 2.49% | 46.48% | 63.04% |
Healthcare | 10.46% | 0.00% | 24.06% | 46.20% |
Real Estate | 6.03% | 0.00% | 25.82% | 65.49% |
Energy | 5.88% | 0.00% | 58.13% | 39.95% |
Communication Services | 5.40% | 0.00% | 30.98% | 7.88% |
Basic Materials | 5.35% | 0.00% | 16.35% | 55.98% |
Consumer Defense | 5.26% | 0.00% | 32.18% | 23.64% |
Utilities | 2.13% | 0.00% | 18.97% | 75.27% |
Stock Geographic Breakdown
Weighting | Return Low | Return High | SQEW % Rank | |
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US | 98.95% | 14.60% | 104.46% | 40.65% |
Non US | 0.00% | 0.00% | 19.95% | 44.99% |
SQEW - Expenses
Operational Fees
SQEW Fees (% of AUM) | Category Return Low | Category Return High | Rank in Category (%) | |
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Expense Ratio | 0.83% | 0.03% | 35.91% | 66.94% |
Management Fee | 0.75% | 0.00% | 1.50% | 70.03% |
12b-1 Fee | 0.00% | 0.00% | 1.00% | 10.23% |
Administrative Fee | N/A | 0.01% | 0.30% | N/A |
Sales Fees
SQEW Fees (% of AUM) | Category Return Low | Category Return High | Rank in Category (%) | |
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Front Load | N/A | 3.50% | 5.75% | N/A |
Deferred Load | N/A | 1.00% | 4.00% | N/A |
Trading Fees
SQEW Fees (% of AUM) | Category Return Low | Category Return High | Rank in Category (%) | |
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Max Redemption Fee | N/A | 1.00% | 2.00% | N/A |
Related Fees
Turnover provides investors a proxy for the trading fees incurred by mutual fund managers who frequently adjust position allocations. Higher turnover means higher trading fees.
SQEW Fees (% of AUM) | Category Return Low | Category Return High | Rank in Category (%) | |
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Turnover | 58.00% | 0.00% | 304.00% | 66.06% |
SQEW - Distributions
Dividend Yield Analysis
SQEW | Category Low | Category High | SQEW % Rank | |
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Dividend Yield | 1.17% | 0.00% | 30.24% | 47.70% |
Dividend Distribution Analysis
SQEW | Category Low | Category High | Category Mod | |
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Dividend Distribution Frequency | None | Annual | Quarterly | Annual |
Net Income Ratio Analysis
SQEW | Category Low | Category High | SQEW % Rank | |
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Net Income Ratio | 0.80% | -2.06% | 3.38% | 26.70% |
Capital Gain Distribution Analysis
SQEW | Category Low | Category High | Capital Mode | |
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Capital Gain Distribution Frequency | Annually | Annually | Annually |
Distributions History
Date | Amount | Type |
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Dec 26, 2023 | $0.368 | OrdinaryDividend |
Dec 28, 2022 | $0.113 | OrdinaryDividend |
Dec 28, 2021 | $3.008 | OrdinaryDividend |
SQEW - Fund Manager Analysis
Managers
Michael Cheung
Start Date
Tenure
Tenure Rank
May 12, 2020
2.05
2.1%
Michael is a Portfolio Manager and Head of Quantitative Research at Redwood Investment Management. Michael works closely with the firm’s founder and President in overseeing the development, implementation, and live risk management of Redwood’s investment strategies. He leads the quantitative research effort including other members of the quantitative analyst team, and is responsible for proprietary investment model algorithm design and maintenance. Michael brings extensive experience working with a variety of programming languages and database structures, as well as broad knowledge of capital markets, global macro, and quantitative analysis, from his prior experience as a head trader on a proprietary equities trading desk. In addition, Michael was also formerly the head of a statistical arbitrage strategy that traded across multiple asset classes. He studied quantitative economics and mathematics at the University of California, Irvine.
Michael Messinger
Start Date
Tenure
Tenure Rank
May 12, 2020
2.05
2.1%
After years of personal research while working with talented investors and “allocators” in the leveraged finance ecosystem, Michael founded Redwood in 2010 as a quantitative research based money management firm with a “RiskFirst™” mandate. The initial tactical fixed-income strategy, Defensive Credit, formed the quantitative research foundation that led to the launch of Redwood’s 5-Star Morningstar rated Mutual Fund, the Redwood Managed Risk Plus L.P. hedge fund, as well as the Multi-Sector Managed Risk, and Systematic Macro Trend (SMarT) strategies. Since then, Michael has expanded Redwood’s capabilities, with additions of talented professionals, to provide tactical and strategic beta investment solutions that include Redwood’s AlphaFactor® equity strategies, fixed-income, and alternatives, as well as Redwood’s Dynamic Risk-Budget Model asset allocation portfolios. Michael is responsible for overseeing the development, implementation, and live risk management of Redwood’s investment strategies. Prior to Redwood, Michael served as a Vice President for Riversource Investments, (now known as Columbia Management), worked in multiple roles at ING investment management, and began his career as an Analyst at UBS. He received his B.S in Finance from the University of Arizona in Tucson.
Richard Duff
Start Date
Tenure
Tenure Rank
May 12, 2020
2.05
2.1%
Richard is President of Redwood Investment Management, with two decades of senior investment management experience including portfolio management and distribution as well as company strategy and product development in both large and small firms. Richard is responsible for overseeing Redwood’s investment solutions, from initial ideation to final implementation and risk management, distribution team development and management, and is a portfolio manager of two Redwood AlphaFactor® equity funds. Richard began his career as Senior Investment Officer at Pacific Income Advisers where he was a member of the equity strategy team utilizing quantitative screening in equity portfolio management. Later Richard was a Managing Director at BlackRock, where he was a member of the Equity Operating Committee and the AMG Executive Team. Richard’s BlackRock experience included managing a 100+ member team with a nine figure P&L, turning around the firm’s closed end fund franchise including the successful launch of BlackRock’s first equity strategy closed end funds, and leading the integration of the largest retained group in BlackRock’s first investment management firm acquisition. Richard received his BA from the University of California, Berkeley, attended Washington and Lee University, School of Law and received his JD from University of San Francisco, School of Law.
Tenure Analysis
Category Low | Category High | Category Average | Category Mode |
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0.25 | 38.44 | 7.24 | 5.78 |