Investment Strategy - North Shore Equity Rotation ETF |
Jul. 29, 2026 |
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| Strategy [Heading] | Principal Investment Strategies | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Strategy Narrative [Text Block] | The Fund is an actively managed exchange-traded fund (“ETF”). As an actively managed fund, the Fund will not seek to replicate the performance of an index. Under normal market conditions, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets (plus borrowings for investment purposes) in U.S. and foreign equity securities. The Fund may make these investments in equity securities directly or indirectly through ETFs (each, an “Underlying ETF”). The Fund will look through to an ETF’s underlying holdings to determine the Fund’s compliance with its 80% policy. The Fund’s Advisor seeks to identify, in its opinion and based on its research, in which stage of the business cycle the U.S. economy is currently and in which stage of the business cycle the U.S. economy is going to be in the near future. The Advisor then selects securities for the Fund within the sectors that have historically performed well in that stage of the business cycle.
The Fund intends to achieve its investment objective primarily by overweighting and/or underweighting the sectors represented in the S&P 500 Index relative to their weightings in the index based on the Advisor’s research regarding the equity market’s current and pending economic cycles. This research entails a review of current economic indicators, such as gross domestic product (“GDP”), employment, consumer spending and inflation to assess the current phase of the business cycle. Additionally, the Advisor reviews leading economic indicators, that tend to precede changes in the overall economy, to anticipate potential shifts in the business cycle. Current economic indicators indicate what the current state of the economy is, and leading economic indicators indicate what the state of the economy is going to be in the near future. The Advisor reviews this data on at least a monthly basis. The Advisor believes that there are four distinct stages within the typical business cycle: recession, recovery, expansion, and slowdown.
These stages do not necessarily all occur before returning to a prior stage of the cycle (for instance, the market may return to the recessionary stage after the recovery stage rather than moving on to the expansionary stage). The order of the stages can also vary.
The market cycles vary in both depth and length and the Advisor may also vary the sectors that are more heavily weighted from cycle to cycle. The Advisor selects equity securities using a combination of fundamental (focuses on financial statements and economic indicators to assess an asset’s intrinsic value) and technical (examines share price movements and trends) indicators to identify potential investments and then examines buy-side and sell-side research to make the final selection. In addition to equity securities (which may be of any market capitalization and may include common stock, preferred stock, and convertible securities), the Fund may invest in fixed income securities directly or indirectly through ETFs, and options contracts with up to 20% of the Fund’s net assets. The fixed income securities are used to generate income, which can help to offset losses in other parts of the Fund’s portfolio. The Advisor selects fixed income securities based on its consideration of the duration and credit quality of the available fixed income securities taking into consideration the current status of interest rates, default rates, and general economy. In a rising interest rate or higher default rate environment, the Advisor would generally select more higher credit quality and lower duration fixed income securities; in a declining interest rate or lower default rate environment, the Advisor would generally select the opposite. The options are selected based on the Advisor’s predictions regarding price movements in the reference securities of the options.
The Fund’s investments in equity securities include both domestic and foreign securities. The Advisor may select both foreign and domestic securities in a given sector that is expected to perform well in a given stage of the business cycle. Foreign markets often exhibit a positive correlation with the U.S. market (meaning they often behave similarly). This means that the Advisor would expect a foreign security in a given sector to benefit from a given market cycle stage in a similar manner to how a domestic security in a given sector would be expected to benefit. A particular foreign security may, however, present a unique investment opportunity, such as potentially better values in certain sectors. For instance, during a recession, the utilities sector may generally perform well due to its essential service nature. In such a scenario, you might find a foreign utility company trading at a more attractive valuation compared to a similar U.S. company. The Advisor will select both domestic and foreign securities for the Fund’s portfolio depending on which provides the better investment opportunity at a given point in time.
Once the Advisor makes a determination about where it believes the equity markets are in the market cycle and, therefore, in which sectors the Fund will be over or underweighted, the Advisor selects the specific securities for the Fund’s portfolio. The Fund employs an ongoing tactical approach to its individual investment selection that originates with a top-down macroeconomic approach that then transitions to selection approaches highlighted above to select the individual securities for the Fund’s portfolio. Using a top-down macroeconomic approach means that, for example:
The Advisor repeats this process whenever it identifies a change in the business cycle stage or when it determines that a security in the Fund’s portfolio no longer meets the criteria described above upon its daily review of the Fund’s portfolio.
To generate income for the Fund, the Fund may lend its portfolio securities to broker dealers and other financial institutions desiring to borrow securities to complete transactions and for other purposes. In connection with such loans, the Fund receives liquid collateral equal to at least 102% of the value of the domestic portfolio securities being lent and 105% of the value of the foreign portfolio securities being lent. This collateral is marked to market on a daily basis (an accounting practice that involves adjusting the value of the collateral to reflect its value as determined by current market conditions) and will be maintained in an amount equal to at least the percentages noted above of the portfolio securities being lent. The Fund will also receive fee income in exchange for the securities it lends. As an actively managed ETF that does not seek to replicate the performance of a specified index, the Fund may have a higher degree of portfolio turnover than funds that seek to replicate the performance of an index.
From time to time the Fund may focus its investments in one or more particular sectors. As of March 31, 2026, the Fund focused its investments in the technology sector. |
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| Strategy Portfolio Concentration [Text] | Under normal market conditions, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets (plus borrowings for investment purposes) in U.S. and foreign equity securities. |