USCF Dividend Income Fund Overview
Investment Objective
The primary investment objective of the USCF Dividend Income Fund (UDI) is to seek a high level of current income and, as a secondary objective, growth of income.
Investment Strategy
The Fund is an actively managed ETF. The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing in U.S. exchange-traded dividend-paying and dividend-growth companies that meet the Fund’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria. The Fund may also invest in U.S. exchange-traded equity securities of issuers domiciled outside the U.S., including American Depositary Receipts (ADRs). The Fund may also invest in real estate investment trusts (REITs), with a typical sector limit of 25% or two times the weight in the Russell 1000 Value Index, whichever is greater. The Fund invests, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in dividend-paying equity securities and in other instruments that have economic characteristics similar to such securities.
The Fund’s sub-adviser, Miller/Howard Investments, Inc., primarily utilizes a bottom-up fundamental research process to evaluate companies and uses quantitative research to identify and compare potential candidates for further review. Companies are assessed on several key metrics, including dividend yield, prospects for dividend growth, balance sheet strength, dividend coverage, and low valuations. Additionally, each company is assessed against ESG criteria, which includes screening to eliminate companies that engage certain types of businesses (e.g., coal extraction, and production of alcohol, tobacco or firearms) and assessment of each company’s governance and ethics practices, environmental and human rights records, and diversity.
The Fund will typically invest in approximately thirty to forty-five companies that meet the Sub-Adviser’s financial and ESG criteria.
Reasons to Consider UDI
- Potential for “unfixed income.” The Fund seeks high current income while participating in a growing income stream, which can serve as a hedge against inflation. Fixed income investments, by their very nature, cannot provide this inflation hedge.
- The Fund seeks to invest in mature companies that have historically generated attractive returns and continue potentially grow their dividends.
The Fund intends to pay out dividends on a monthly basis. Nonetheless, the Fund may not make a dividend payment every month. The Fund intends to distribute its net realized capital gains, if any, to investors annually. The Fund may occasionally be required to make supplemental distributions at some other time during the year. Distributions in cash may be reinvested automatically in additional whole shares only if the broker through whom you purchased shares makes such option available. Your broker is responsible for distributing the income and capital gain distributions to you. Dividend yield is one component of performance and should not be the only consideration for investment.
Ticker | UDI |
CUSIP | 90290T858 |
ISIN | US90290T8586 |
Total Annual Fund Expenses | |
Trading Increment | $0.01 |
Administrator | The Bank of New York Mellon |
Distributor | ALPS Distributors, Inc. |
Investment Advisor | USCF Advisers, LLC |
Portfolio Managers | Gregory Powell, PhD John E. Leslie III CFA |
Sub-Adviser | Miller/Howard Investments, Inc. |
Historical NAV
The performance data quoted above represents past performance. PAST PERFORMANCE IS NOT NECESSARILY INDICATIVE OF FUTURE RESULTS. Investment return and value of the Fund shares will fluctuate so that an investor's shares, when sold, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Performance may be lower or higher than performance data quoted.
Performance
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The performance data quoted above represents past performance. PAST PERFORMANCE IS NOT NECESSARILY INDICATIVE OF FUTURE RESULTS. Investment return and value of the Fund shares will fluctuate so that an investor's shares, when sold, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Performance may be lower or higher than performance data quoted.
The Fund's NAV is calculated by dividing the value of the Fund's total assets less total liabilities by the number of shares outstanding. Share price returns are based on closing prices for the Fund and do not represent the returns an investor would receive if shares were traded at other times.
Shares of the fund are bought and sold by individual investors at market price (not NAV) and are not individually redeemed by the Fund. Brokerage commissions apply and will reduce returns. Market returns are based upon the midpoint of the bid/ask spread at 4:00 p.m. Eastern time (when NAV is normally determined for most ETFs), and do not represent the returns you would receive if you traded shares at other times.
S&P 500 Value Total Return Index (SPTRSVX): S&P 500 Value Total Return IndexSM (“SPTRSVX”) measures value stocks using three factors: the ratios of book value, earnings, and sales to price. S&P Style Indices divide the complete market capitalization of each parent index into growth and value segments. Constituents are drawn from the S&P 500. One cannot invest directly in an index.
† UDI commenced operations on 06/08/2022.
Growth of $10,000 Investment
This chart shows how a hypothetical investment of $10,000 in the Fund at its inception would have performed versus the performance of the Fund’s benchmark. The values indicate what $10,000 would have grown to over the time period indicated. The hypothetical example does not represent the returns of any particular investment. You cannot invest directly in an index.
The performance data quoted above represents past performance. PAST PERFORMANCE IS NOT NECESSARILY INDICATIVE OF FUTURE RESULTS. Investment return and value of the Fund shares will fluctuate so that an investor's shares, when sold, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Performance may be lower or higher than performance data quoted.
Premium / Discount
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The performance data quoted above represents past performance. PAST PERFORMANCE IS NOT NECESSARILY INDICATIVE OF FUTURE RESULTS. Investment return and value of the Fund shares will fluctuate so that an investor's shares, when sold, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Performance may be lower or higher than performance data quoted.
The above frequency distribution chart presents information about the difference between the daily market price for shares of the Fund and the Fund's reported NAV. The amount that the Fund's market price is above the reported NAV is called the premium. The amount that the Fund's market price is below the reported NAV is called the discount. The market price is determined using the midpoint between the highest bid and the lowest offer on the listing exchange, as of the time that the Fund's NAV is calculated (usually 4:00 pm Eastern time). The vertical axis of the chart shows the premium or discount expressed in basis points. The horizontal axis indicates the number of trading days in the period covered by the chart. Each bar in the chart shows the number of trading days in which the Fund traded within the premium/discount range indicated.
* A basis point is equal to 1/100th of 1%.
Distributions
Ex-Date | Record Date | Pay Date | Ordinary Income | Short Term Gains | Long Term Gains | Return of Capital | Total | 19A-1 Notice | Form 8937 |
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Creation & Redemption Process
- Creation/Redemption Basket Size 10,000 Shares
- Authorized Participants pay a transaction fee of $100 for Creates/Redeems (per order, not per basket)
- Order cut-off for Cash Creates/Redeems is 3:00 p.m. ET
- UDI's NAV is calculated generally as of 4:00 p.m. ET
- Settlement is T+1
- Custodian is The Bank of New York Mellon
- Fund Details
- Performance
- Growth of $10k
- Average Daily Returns
- Premium Discounts
- Distributions
- Creation Redemption
- Holdings
- Roll/Rebalance Dates
- Documents
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