First
Trust
Exchange-Traded
Fund VII |
Ticker
Symbol: |
FTGC |
Exchange: |
Nasdaq |
Maximum
Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering
price) |
|
Management
Fees(1) |
|
Distribution
and Service (12b-1) Fees |
|
Other
Expenses |
|
Total Annual
Fund Operating Expenses |
|
1
Year |
3
Years |
5
Years |
10
Years |
$ |
$ |
$ |
$ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
1
Year |
5
Years |
Since
Inception |
Inception
Date |
Return Before
Taxes |
|
|
- |
|
Return After
Taxes on Distributions |
|
|
- |
|
Return After
Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares |
|
|
- |
|
Bloomberg
Commodity Index (reflects no deduction for fees,
expenses or
taxes) |
|
|
- |
|
S&P
GSCI® Total Return
Index (reflects no deduction for fees,
expenses or
taxes) |
|
|
- |
|
S&P
500® Index
(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or
taxes) |
- |
|
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Commodity |
|
Cattle, Live
/ Choice Average |
Crude Oil,
Brent / Global Spot |
Cocoa |
NY Harbor
ULSD (Heating Oil) |
Cotton /
1-1/16” |
Gas-Oil-Petroleum |
Feeder
Cattle |
Natural Gas,
Henry Hub |
Coffee ‘C’ /
Colombian |
ICE Natural
Gas Futures |
Coffee
Robusta 10 ton |
Endex Dutch
TTF Natural Gas |
Soybeans /
No. 2 Yellow |
Gasoline,
Blendstock (RBOB) |
Soybean Meal
/ 48% Protein |
Gold |
Soybean Oil
/ Crude |
Silver |
Rapeseed |
Platinum |
Corn / No. 2
Yellow |
Copper High
Grade / Scrap No. 2 Wire |
Wheat / No.
2 Hard Winter |
Aluminum,
LME Primary |
Wheat / No.
2 Soft Red |
Lead, LME
Primary |
Milling
Wheat No.2 |
Nickel, LME
Primary |
Sugar #11 /
World Raw |
SGX TSI
Iron |
Sugar (ICE)
/ White Sugar |
Tin, LME
Primary |
Hogs, Lean /
Average Iowa/S Minn |
Zinc, LME
Primary |
Crude Oil,
WTI / Global Spot |
|
Canola
Futures |
|
Carbon
Emission Futures |
|
|
|
Average
Annual |
Cumulative | ||
|
1
Year |
5
Years |
Inception
(10/22/2013) |
5
Years |
Inception
(10/22/2013) |
Fund
Performance |
|
|
|
|
|
Net Asset
Value |
17.14% |
7.18% |
-0.09% |
41.45% |
-0.86% |
Market
Price |
17.12% |
7.27% |
-0.08% |
42.00% |
-0.75% |
Index
Performance |
|
|
|
|
|
Bloomberg
Commodity Index |
16.09% |
6.44% |
-0.52% |
36.64% |
-4.66% |
S&P
GSCI® Total
Return Index |
25.99% |
6.46% |
-3.51% |
36.73% |
-27.97% |
S&P
500®
Index |
-18.11% |
9.42% |
11.00% |
56.88% |
160.95% |
|
Year
Ended December 31, |
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|
2022 |
2021 |
2020 |
2019 |
2018 | |
Net
asset value, beginning of period |
$23.02 |
$19.27 |
$18.94 |
$17.92 |
$20.77 |
|
Income
from investment operations: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net
investment income (loss) |
0.13(a) |
(0.22)(a) |
(0.14) |
0.26 |
0.18 |
|
Net
realized and unrealized gain (loss) |
3.82 |
5.63 |
0.47 |
0.91 |
(2.89) |
|
Total
from investment operations |
3.95 |
5.41 |
0.33 |
1.17 |
(2.71) |
|
Distributions
paid to shareholders from: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net
investment income |
(2.54) |
(1.66) |
— |
(0.15) |
(0.11) |
|
Return of
capital |
— |
— |
— |
— |
(0.03) |
|
Total
distributions |
(2.54) |
(1.66) |
— |
(0.15) |
(0.14) |
|
Net
asset value, end of period |
$24.43 |
$23.02 |
$19.27 |
$18.94 |
$17.92 |
|
Total
Return(b) |
17.14% |
28.09% |
1.74% |
6.55% |
(13.04)% |
|
Ratios
to average net assets/supplemental data: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net
assets, end of period (in 000’s) |
$3,375,943 |
$1,979,385 |
$238,039 |
$163,876 |
$168,520 |
|
Ratio of
total expenses to average net assets |
0.95% |
0.95% |
0.95% |
0.95% |
0.95% |
|
Ratio of
net investment income (loss) to average net
assets |
0.48% |
(0.94)% |
(0.54)% |
1.13% |
0.75% |
|
Portfolio
turnover rate(c)
|
0% |
0% |
0% |
0% |
0% |
|
First
Trust
Exchange-Traded
Fund VII |