NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Strategas Asset Management announced today that its Strategas Macro Thematic Opportunities ETF (SAMT) has surpassed $60 million in assets under management. As of September 2, the fund’s assets were $62,904,239.
SAMT is an actively managed thematic rotation ETF, which is powered by Strategas’ industry-leading macro research. The Fund’s management team looks to invest in three to five identified themes at any given time, adjusting thematic positioning as the macro environment shifts, providing a more opportunistic approach to thematic investing than ETF investors previously had at their disposal.
“Thematic investing needed a new approach. By actively shifting SAMT’s portfolio’s holdings to reflect the changing macro environment the Fund can potentially help investors access the benefits of thematic approaches while avoiding some of the pitfalls that can come with a static allocation to specific areas of the market,” said Nicholas Bohnsack, CEO of Strategas Asset Management and Portfolio Manager for SAMT. “We are thrilled for the Fund to have crossed the $60 million mark but believe we’re just getting started.”
Currently, the SAMT portfolio is positioned for the themes of continued inflation, a shift towards deglobalization, quantitative tightening, and allocating towards more defensive sectors as the strong dollar is expected to weigh on more cyclical names.
Along with SAMT, the firm also offers the Strategas Global Policy Opportunities ETF (SAGP), which utilizes Strategas’ proprietary super-cyclical “lobbying intensity” analytical framework to build out a global equity portfolio that is leveraged to successful public policy outcomes with tactical tilts towards areas of the market that we believe are expected to do well.
Additional information can be found at the Strategas ETFs website.
ABOUT STRATEGAS
Founded in 2006, Strategas Securities, is a global institutional broker-dealer. The Firm provides macro research, capital market and corporate advisory services, and financial products to institutional investors and corporate executives in more than twenty countries around the world.
Strategas Asset Management is a research-driven manager of macro-thematic investment strategies, founded to create a suite of managed strategies to assist institutional investors, family offices, and financial advisors with implementing the tactical and thematic idea generation of Strategas’ macro-oriented research. As of July 2022, Strategas Asset Management has approximately $753 million in AUM/A.
Strategas Securities, LLC and Strategas Asset Management, LLC are wholly owned subsidiaries of Baird Financial Group.
Risk Disclosures and Important Information
STRATEGAS GLOBAL POLICY / STRATEGAS MACRO THEMATIC
Carefully consider each Fund’s investment objectives, risk, and charges and expenses. This and other information can be found in the Fund’s summary or full prospectus which can be obtained by calling (855) 457-3637 or by visiting strategasetfs.com. Please read the prospectus, carefully before investing.
Each Fund is new and has a limited operating history.
Strategas Asset Management, LLC serves as the investment advisor for each Fund and Vident Investment Advisory, LLC serves as a sub advisor to each Fund. The Funds are distributed by SEI Investments Distribution Co. (SIDCO), which is not affiliated with Strategas Asset Management, LLC or any of its affiliates.
Shares of any ETF are generally bought and sold at market price (not NAV) and are not individually redeemed from the fund. Brokerage commissions will reduce returns.
An investment in the Funds involves risk, including possible loss of principal.
In addition to the normal risks associated with investing, the Strategas Global Policy Opportunities ETF (SAGP) is subject to lobbying focused investment risk. The adviser’s investment process utilizes lobbying intensity as the primary input when selecting investments for the Fund’s portfolio and does not consider an investment’s traditional financial metrics. The Fund may underperform other funds that select investments utilizing more traditional investment metrics. The Fund may also focus its investments in a particular country or geographic region outside the U.S. and may be more susceptible to economic, political, regulatory or other events or conditions affecting issuers and countries within that country or geographic regions well as risks of increased volatility and lower trading volume.
In addition to the normal risks associated with investing, the Strategas Macro Thematic Opportunities ETF (SAMT) is subject to macro-thematic trend investing strategy risk. Therefore, the value of the Fund may decline if, among other reasons, macro-thematic trends believed to be beneficial to the Fund do not develop as anticipated or maintain over time, or the securities selected for inclusion in the Fund’s portfolio do not perform as anticipated.
These funds may trade securities actively, may be more heavily invested in particular sectors and may be especially sensitive to factors and economic risks that specifically affect those sectors.
