Investment Strategy - Virtus InfraCap Preferred and Income Securities ETF |
Jul. 09, 2026 |
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| Prospectus [Line Items] | |
| Strategy [Heading] | PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGY |
| Strategy Narrative [Text Block] | Under normal market conditions, the Fund will invest not less than 80% of its net assets (plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes) in U.S. preferred securities and hybrid securities. Hybrid securities are those that have characteristics of both equity and fixed income securities. Like equities, which have no final maturity, a hybrid security may be perpetual. On the other hand, like debt securities, a hybrid security may be callable at the option of the issuer on a date specified at issue. The Fund considers an issuer to be in the U.S. if: (i) it is organized under the laws of, or maintains a principal place of business in, the U.S.; (ii) the principal trading market for its securities is in the U.S.; or (iii) during its most recent fiscal year, it derived at least 50% of its revenues or profits from goods produced or sold, investments made, or services performed in the U.S. The Fund also considers an issuer of preferred securities to be in the U.S. if it has at least 50% of its assets in U.S. preferred stock or a class of equity security that typically pay fixed or floating dividends to investors and have “preference” over common stock (but are subordinated to bonds), in that the company issuing the preferred and common stock must pay dividends to preferred stockholders before common stockholders, and, in the event of a bankruptcy or liquidation of the company’s assets, must put the claims of the preferred stockholders ahead of the claims of the common stockholders. The Fund may invest up to 10% of its total assets in foreign income securities.
The Fund’s portfolio will primarily consist of securities issued by companies with market capitalizations of over $100 million, which may include micro, small and mid-capitalization companies. For purposes of the Fund’s 80% investment policy, the Fund may invest in baby bonds (generally long-term, fixed-income senior debt securities that are issued in small denominations), senior notes, convertible securities, debt instruments, and other securities that have similar economic characteristics to preferred securities.
Although preferred stock represents an ownership interest in a company, preferred stockholders usually have no voting rights with respect to corporate matters of the issuer. Instead, preferred stock typically have rights and characteristics similar to debt instruments. The Fund may invest in all types of preferred stock, including, without limitation, floating and fixed-rate preferred stock, callable preferred stock, cumulative and non-cumulative preferred stock, convertible preferred stock and depositary preferred stock. Certain preferred stock may have call provisions, which entitle the issuer to redeem the stock at a predetermined price (i.e., the “call price”) after a specified date.
Infrastructure Capital Advisors, LLC, the Fund’s sub-adviser (the “Sub-Adviser”), actively manages the Fund’s assets pursuant to a variety of quantitative, qualitative and relative valuation factors. The Sub-Adviser will typically evaluate potential investments with respect to certain key variables that the Sub-Adviser believes make a business successful over time, including, without limitation, a company’s competitive position, its perceived ability to earn a high return on capital, the historical and projected stability and reliability of its profits, its anticipated ability to generate cash in excess of its growth needs and its access to additional capital. In addition, when selecting preferred stock or other income-producing securities that are subject to a call provision, the Sub-Adviser generally seeks to underweight or eliminate those that trade above the call price and exhibit a low or negative yield-to-call (i.e., the rate of return that an investor would earn if the preferred stock or other income-producing securities was held until its call date).
The Fund is non-diversified, which means that it can invest a greater percentage of its assets in any one issuer than a diversified fund can. In addition, from time to time, the Fund may focus its investments (i.e., invest more than 15% of its total assets) in a particular sector. As of the date of this Prospectus, the Fund focused its investments in the real estate and financial sectors. |
| Strategy Portfolio Concentration [Text] | Under normal market conditions, the Fund will invest not less than 80% of its net assets (plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes) in U.S. preferred securities and hybrid securities. |