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| GMO Ultra-Short Income ETF | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Investment Objective | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
The GMO Ultra-Short Income ETF (the “Fund”) seeks current income consistent with preservation of capital. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fees and Expenses | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
The table below describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold or sell shares of the Fund. You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and Example below. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Annual Fund Operating Expenses (Expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
1 Based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Example | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds. The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell or hold all of your shares at the end of those periods. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Portfolio Turnover | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the Example above, affect the Fund’s performance. The Fund is new and does not yet have a portfolio turnover rate to disclose. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Principal Investment Strategies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Fund is an actively managed ETF that seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing primarily in low-duration, high-quality fixed income securities, including collateralized loan obligations (“CLOs”), U.S. Treasury securities, repurchase agreements, reverse repurchase agreements, and other investment grade instruments (collectively, “Fixed Income Securities”). The Fund may also invest in other fixed income securities that are backed (implicitly or explicitly) by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government or the governments of other developed countries, as well as other cash management investment techniques that may involve the use of derivatives for hedging purposes. Through dynamic allocation, the Fund seeks to deliver consistent income with low volatility while maintaining a focus on capital preservation. GMO normally seeks to maintain an estimated interest rate duration of one year or less for the Fund’s portfolio, though individual securities in the portfolio may have a maturity date greater than one year.
Under the repurchase agreements entered into by the Fund, the Fund purchases a security backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government from a seller who simultaneously commits to repurchase, on an agreed date, the security from the Fund at the original purchase price plus an agreed upon amount representing interest. Under reverse repurchase agreements, the Fund sells a security backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government to a buyer and simultaneously commits to repurchase, on an agreed date, the security from the buyer at the original purchase price plus an agreed upon amount representing interest.
In selecting securities for the Fund’s portfolio, GMO focuses primarily on the relative attractiveness of different obligations (such as bonds, notes or bills), which can vary depending on the general level of interest rates as well as supply and demand imbalances and other market conditions. The factors GMO considers and investment methods GMO uses can change over time.
The Fund also may invest in the GMO U.S. Treasury Fund, a mutual fund advised by GMO, in money market funds unaffiliated with GMO, and directly in the types of investments typically held by money market funds. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance Information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Fund is new and therefore has no performance history. Once the Fund has completed a full calendar year of operations, a bar chart and table will be included that will provide some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing the variability of the Fund’s returns and comparing the Fund’s performance to a broad measure of market performance. When available, updated performance information will be available on the Fund’s website at https://www.gmo.com/americas/investment-capabilities/etfs. Of course, the Fund’s past performance (before and after taxes) does not necessarily indicate how the Fund will perform in the future. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||