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Global Beta ETF Trust

PROSPECTUS

Global Beta Smart Income ETF (GBDV)
Global Beta Low Beta ETF (GBLO)
Global Beta Rising Stars ETF (GBGR)

March 30, 2022






























Shares of the Funds are not individually redeemable and may be purchased or redeemed from the Funds in Creation Units only. The purchase and sale prices of individual shares trading on an Exchange may be below, at or above the most recently calculated net asset value (“NAV”) for such shares. Individual shares are listed for trading on NYSE Arca, Inc. (“Exchange” or “NYSE Arca”).

The SEC has not approved or disapproved these securities or passed upon the accuracy or adequacy of this Prospectus. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.





TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Fund Summaries
Global Beta Smart Income ETF
Investment Objective
The Global Beta Smart Income ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to track the performance (before fees and expenses) of the Global Beta Smart Income Index (the “Target Index”).
Fees and Expenses
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and 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 you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)
Management Fees 0.29%
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees(1)
0.00%
Other Expenses(2)
0.00%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses
0.29%
(1) Pursuant to a Rule 12b-1 distribution and service plan (“Plan”), the Fund may bear a 12b-1 fee not to exceed 0.25% per annum of the Fund’s average daily net assets. However, no such fee is currently paid by the Fund, and the Board of Trustees (the “Board”) of Global Beta ETF Trust (the “Trust”) has not currently approved the commencement of any payments under the Plan.
(2) Expenses have been restated to reflect current fees.
Example
The following example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the costs of investing in other funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell 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 each year. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions, whether you do or do not sell your shares, your costs would be:
1 YEAR 3 YEARS 5 YEARS 10 YEARS
$30 $93 $163 $368
Portfolio Turnover
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when the Fund’s shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or the example, affect the Fund’s performance. For the fiscal year ended November 30, 2021, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 117% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund seeks to track the performance (before fees and expenses) of the Target Index. The Target Index is comprised of equity securities of U.S. companies in the highest quintile of the average twelve month trailing dividend yield over each of the prior four quarters in the S&P 900, and that rank in the top half of their respective Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS®) sector classification. The constituent securities of the Target Index are weighted based on their revenue, with each individual index constituent capped at 4.5% at each quarterly rebalance. Any company that has cut or suspended its dividend will be removed from the Target Index at the next quarterly rebalance and will be ineligible for inclusion in the Target Index until it increases or reinstitutes its dividend. In the event that the cut/suspension results in a dividend that, when annualized, would result in a dividend yield below 3.5%, the company will be removed promptly from the Target Index. In addition, index constituents from the energy sector, as classified by GICS®, are capped at 3% in the aggregate in the Target Index at each quarterly rebalance when the price of crude oil, as defined by Crude Oil WTI futures (ticker: CL00), is below its 30 day moving average. As of January 29, 2022, the Target Index was comprised of 92 securities.
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The S&P 900 is an investable benchmark for the mid- to large-cap segment of the U.S. equity market (including real estate investment trusts (“REITs”)). As of January 29, 2022 the S&P 900 was comprised of 905 U.S. securities with capitalizations ranging from $2.14 billion to $2.85 trillion. REITs are companies that own or finance income-producing real estate. The Target Index will not match the S&P 900 weighting of each GICS industry.
The Fund may use either a replication strategy or representative sampling strategy in seeking to track the performance of the Target Index. Under a replication strategy, the Fund intends to replicate the constituent securities of the Target Index as closely as possible. Under a representative sampling strategy, the Fund would invest in what it believes to be a representative sample of the component securities of the Target Index. The Fund may use a representative sampling strategy when a replication strategy might be detrimental to shareholders, such as when there are practical difficulties or substantial costs involved in compiling a portfolio of securities to follow the Target Index (e.g., where the Target Index contains component securities too numerous to efficiently purchase or sell); or, in certain instances, when a component security of the Target Index becomes temporarily illiquid, unavailable or less liquid. The Fund may also use a representative sampling strategy to exclude less liquid component securities contained in the Target Index from the Fund’s portfolio in order to create a more tradable portfolio and improve arbitrage opportunities. To the extent the Fund uses a representative sampling strategy, it may not track the Target Index with the same degree of accuracy as would an investment vehicle replicating the entire index.
To the extent that the Target Index concentrates (i.e., holds 25% or more of its net assets) in securities of a particular industry or group of industries, the Fund is expected to concentrate to approximately the same extent.
The Fund will primarily invest in U.S. companies that are included in the Target Index. The Fund may invest its assets in investments not included in the Target Index, but which Global Beta Advisors LLC (the “Adviser”) believes will help the Fund track the Target Index. For example, there may be instances in which the Adviser may choose to purchase or sell investments, including exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) and other investment company securities and cash and cash equivalents, as substitutes for one or more Target Index components or in anticipation of changes in the Target Index’s components.
S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC (the “Index Provider”), in consultation with the Adviser, developed the Target Index methodology. The Index Provider is responsible for the ongoing maintenance, compilation, calculation and administration of the Target Index.
Principal Investment Risks
There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its investment objective. The Fund is an ETF, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund. The Fund is subject to the principal investment risks noted below, any of which may adversely affect the Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”), trading price, yield, total return and ability to meet its investment objective.
Index-Related Risk. The Fund is managed with an investment strategy that attempts to track the performance of the Target Index. As a result, the Fund expects to hold constituent securities of the Target Index regardless of their current or projected performance. Maintaining investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund employed an active strategy.
Risks related to the Index Provider. There is no assurance that the Index Provider will compile the Target Index accurately, or that the Target Index will be determined, composed or calculated accurately. While the Index Provider provides descriptions of what the Target Index is designed to achieve, the Index Provider does not guarantee the quality, accuracy or completeness of data in respect of its indexes, and does not guarantee that the Target Index will be in line with its described index methodology. Any gains, losses or costs to the Fund that are caused by Index Provider errors will therefore be borne by the Fund and its shareholders.
Dividend-Paying Securities Risk. The Fund’s emphasis on dividend-paying stocks involves the risk that such stocks may fall out of favor with investors and underperform the market. Also, a company may reduce or eliminate its dividend after the Fund’s purchase of such a company’s securities.
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Equity Investing Risk. An investment in the Fund involves risks similar to those of investing in any fund holding equity securities, such as market fluctuations, changes in interest rates and perceived trends in stock prices. The values of equity securities could decline generally or could underperform other investments. In addition, securities may decline in value due to factors affecting a specific issuer, market or securities markets generally.
Large Capitalization Securities Risk. The securities of large market capitalization companies may underperform other segments of the market because such companies may be less responsive to competitive challenges and opportunities and may be unable to attain high growth rates during periods of economic expansion.
Mid-Capitalization Securities Risk. The securities of mid-capitalization companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of securities during market downturns. Compared to larger companies, mid-capitalization companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources.
Authorized Participants Concentration Risk. The Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may purchase and redeem Fund shares directly from the Fund (“Authorized Participants”). To the extent they cannot or are otherwise unwilling to engage in creation and redemption transactions with the Fund and no other Authorized Participant steps in, shares of the Fund may trade like closed-end fund shares at a significant discount to NAV and may face trading halts and/or delisting from the Exchange. This risk may be more pronounced in volatile markets, potentially where there are significant redemptions in ETFs generally.
Cash and Cash Equivalents Risk. Holding cash or cash equivalents, even strategically, may lead to missed investment opportunities. This is particularly true when the market for other investments in which the Fund may invest is rapidly rising.
Concentration Risk. To the extent that the Target Index is concentrated in a particular industry, group of industries or sector, the Fund is also expected to be concentrated in that industry, group of industries or sector, which may subject the Fund to a greater loss as a result of adverse economic, business or other developments affecting that industry, group of industries or sector.
ETFs and Other Investment Companies Risk. The risks of investing in securities of ETFs and other investment companies typically reflect the risks of the types of instruments in which the underlying ETF or other investment company invests. In addition, with such investments, the Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the fees and expenses of the underlying entity. As a result, the Fund’s operating expenses may be higher and performance may be lower.
Factor Risk. The Target Index, and thus the Fund, seeks to achieve the specific factor exposures identified in the Fund’s principal investment strategies above. There can be no assurance that targeting exposure to such factors will enhance the Fund’s performance over time, and targeting exposure to those factors may detract from performance in some market environments. There is no guarantee the Index Provider’s methodology will be successful in creating an index that achieves the specific factor exposures identified above.
Market Events Risk. The market values of the Fund’s investments, and therefore the value of the Fund’s shares, will go up and down, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably. Market risk may affect a single issuer, industry or section of the economy, or it may affect the market as a whole. Turbulence in the financial markets and reduced liquidity may negatively affect issuers, which could have an adverse effect on the Fund. In addition, there is a risk that policy changes by the U.S. Government, Federal Reserve and/or other government actors, such as increasing interest rates, could cause increased volatility in financial markets and disruption in the creation/redemption process of the Fund, which could have a negative impact on the Fund. In addition, local, regional or global events such as war, acts of terrorism, spread of infectious diseases or other public health issues, recessions, or other events could have a significant negative impact on the Fund and its investments. The current global outbreak of the novel strain of coronavirus, COVID-19, has resulted in market closures and dislocations, extreme volatility, liquidity constraints and increased trading costs. Efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19 have resulted in global travel restrictions and disruptions of healthcare systems, business operations and supply chains (including business closures), layoffs, volatility in consumer demand and employee availability, defaults and credit ratings downgrades, and other significant economic impacts. The effects of COVID-19 have impacted global economic activity across many industries and may heighten other pre-existing political, social and economic risks, locally or globally. The full economic impact and ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic (or other future epidemics or pandemics) at the
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macro level and on individual businesses are unpredictable and may result in significant and prolonged effects on the Fund's performance. In addition, governments, their regulatory agencies, or self-regulatory organizations may take actions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic that affect the instruments in which the Fund invests, or the issuers of such instruments, in ways that could have a significant negative impact on the Fund's investment performance.
Premium-Discount Risk. Fund shares may trade above or below their NAV on the Exchange. The market prices of Fund shares will generally fluctuate in accordance with changes in NAV as well as the relative supply of, and demand for, Fund shares. Therefore, you may pay more than NAV when you buy shares of the Fund on the Exchange, and you may receive less than NAV when you sell those shares on the Exchange. This risk is separate and distinct from the risk that the NAV of Fund shares may decrease.
REIT Risk. A REIT is a company that owns or finances income-producing real estate. The Fund, through its investments in REITs, is subject to the risks of investing in the real estate market, including decreases in property revenues, increases in interest rates, increases in property taxes and operating expenses, legal and regulatory changes, a lack of credit or capital, defaults by borrowers or tenants, environmental problems and natural disasters.
REITs are subject to additional risks, including those related to adverse governmental actions, declines in property value and the real estate market, and the potential failure to qualify for tax-free “pass-through” of net investment income and net realized capital gains and exemption from registration as an investment company. REITs are dependent upon specialized management skills and may invest in relatively few properties, a small geographic area or a small number of property types. As a result, the Fund’s exposure to REITs may be subject to volatility. To the extent the Fund invests in REITs concentrated in specific geographic areas or property types, the Fund may be subject to a greater loss as a result of adverse developments affecting such areas or property types. REITs are pooled investment vehicles with their own fees and expenses and the Fund will indirectly bear a proportionate share of those fees and expenses.
Sampling Risk. To the extent the Fund uses a representative sampling approach, it will hold a smaller number of securities than are in the Target Index. As a result, an adverse development respecting a security held by the Fund could result in a greater decline in NAV than would be the case if the Fund held all of the securities in the Target Index. Conversely, a positive development relating to a security in the Target Index that is not held by the Fund could cause the Fund to underperform the Target Index. To the extent the assets in the Fund are smaller, these risks will be greater.
Secondary Market Trading Risk. Investors buying or selling Fund shares in the secondary market may pay brokerage commissions or other charges, which may be a significant proportional cost for investors seeking to buy or sell relatively small amounts of Fund shares. Although the Fund’s shares are listed on the Exchange, there can be no assurance that an active or liquid trading market for them will develop or be maintained. In addition, trading in Fund shares on the Exchange may be halted.
Tracking Error Risk. Tracking error is the divergence of the Fund’s performance from that of the Target Index. Tracking error may occur due to, among other things, fees and expenses paid by the Fund, including the cost of buying and selling securities, that are not reflected in the Target Index. If the Fund is small, it may experience greater tracking error. If the Fund is not fully invested, holding cash balances may prevent it from tracking the Target Index. In addition, the Fund’s NAV may deviate from the Target Index if the Fund fair values a portfolio security at a price other than the price used by the Target Index for that security. To the extent the Fund uses a representative sampling strategy to track the Target Index, such a strategy may produce greater tracking error than if the Fund employed a full replication strategy.
Large Shareholder Risk. Certain shareholders, including (i) the Adviser and its owners and officers and (ii) other funds or accounts advised by the Adviser, may from time to time own a substantial amount of the Fund’s shares. In addition, a third party investor, the Adviser or an affiliate of the Adviser, an authorized participant, a lead market maker, or another entity may invest in the Fund and hold its investment for a limited period of time solely to facilitate commencement of the Fund or to facilitate the Fund’s achieving a specified size or scale. There can be no assurance that any large shareholder would not redeem its investment, that the size of the Fund would be maintained at such levels or that the Fund would continue to meet applicable listing requirements. Redemptions by large shareholders could have a significant negative impact on the Fund. In addition, transactions by large shareholders
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may account for a large percentage of the trading volume on the listing exchange and may, therefore, have a material upward or downward effect on the market price of the shares.
Turnover Risk. The Fund may engage in frequent and active trading, which may significantly increase the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate. At times, the Fund may have a portfolio turnover rate substantially greater than 100%. For example, a portfolio turnover rate of 300% is equivalent to the Fund buying and selling all of its securities three times during the course of a year. A high portfolio turnover rate would result in high brokerage costs for the Fund, may result in higher taxes when shares are held in a taxable account and lower Fund performance.
Performance Information
The following performance information indicates some of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows the Fund’s performance for the calendar year ended December 31. The table illustrates how the Fund’s average annual returns for the 1-year and since inception periods compare with those of the Target Index and a broad measure of market performance. The Fund’s past performance, before and after taxes, does not necessarily indicate how it will perform in the future. Updated performance information is also available on the Fund’s website at www.globalbetaetf.com.
Calendar Year Total Returns
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During the period of time shown in the bar chart, the Fund’s highest quarterly return was 18.69% for the quarter ended March 31, 2021, and the lowest quarterly return was -35.49% for the quarter ended March 31, 2020.
Average Annual Total Returns
For the Period Ended December 31, 2021
Global Beta Smart Income ETF 1 Year
Since Inception
December 27, 2019
Return Before Taxes 32.09% 10.44%
Return After Taxes on Distributions 30.92% 9.23%
Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Shares 19.75% 7.78%
Global Beta Smart Income Index(1) (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes)
32.49% 10.51%
S&P 900 Index(1) (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)
28.48% 22.85%
(1) Index performance shown in the table is total return, which assumes reinvestment of any dividends and distributions during the time periods shown.
After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates during the period covered by the table above and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. A higher after-tax return results when a
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capital loss occurs upon redemption and provides an assumed tax deduction that benefits the investor. After-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold their Shares through tax advantaged arrangements such as an individual retirement account (“IRA”) or other tax-advantaged accounts.
Management
Investment Adviser: Global Beta Advisors LLC
Portfolio Managers: The following table lists the persons responsible for day-to-day management of the Fund’s portfolio:
Employee    
Length of Service    
Title    
Justin Lowry Since inception (December 2019) Chief Investment Officer
Vincent T. Lowry Since inception (December 2019) Chief Executive Officer

Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares
The Fund is an ETF. Individual Fund shares may only be purchased and sold on a national securities exchange through a broker-dealer and investors may pay a commission to such broker-dealers in connection with their purchase or sale. The price of Fund shares is based on market price, and because ETF shares trade at market prices rather than NAV, shares may trade at a price greater than NAV (a premium) or less than NAV (a discount). The Fund will only issue or redeem shares aggregated into blocks of 25,000 shares or multiples thereof (“Creation Units”) to Authorized Participants who have entered into agreements with the Fund’s distributor. The Fund will issue or redeem Creation Units in return for a basket of assets that the Fund specifies each day.
Investors may incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase Fund shares (bid) and the lowest price a seller is willing to accept for Fund shares (ask) when buying or selling Fund shares in the secondary market (the “bid-ask spread”). Recent information about the Fund, including its NAV, market price, premiums and discounts, and bid-ask spreads is available on the Fund’s website at www.globalbetaetf.com.
Tax Information
The Fund’s distributions are expected to be taxable as ordinary income, capital gains, or some combination of both, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account. Distributions may be taxed as ordinary income when withdrawn from such tax-advantaged arrangement.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Adviser or its related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of Fund shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary’s web site for more information.
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Global Beta Low Beta ETF
Investment Objective
The Global Beta Low Beta ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to track the performance (before fees and expenses) of the Global Beta Low Beta Factor Index (the “Target Index”).
Fees and Expenses
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and 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 you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)
Management Fees
0.29%
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees(1)
0.00%
Other Expenses(2)
0.00%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.29%
(1) Pursuant to a Rule 12b-1 distribution and service plan (“Plan”), the Fund may bear a 12b-1 fee not to exceed 0.25% per annum of the Fund’s average daily net assets. However, no such fee is currently paid by the Fund, and the Board of Trustees (the “Board”) of Global Beta ETF Trust (the “Trust”) has not currently approved the commencement of any payments under the Plan.
(2) Expenses have been restated to reflect current fees.
Example
The following example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the costs of investing in other funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell 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 each year. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions, whether you do or do not sell your shares, your costs would be:
1 YEAR 3 YEARS 5 YEARS 10 YEARS
$30 $93 $163 $368
Portfolio Turnover
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when the Fund’s shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or the example, affect the Fund’s performance. For the fiscal year ended November 30, 2021, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 115% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund seeks to track the performance (before fees and expenses) of the Target Index. The Target Index is comprised of equity securities of U.S. companies from the S&P 500 in the lowest quintile (i.e., the lowest 20% of the S&P 500) based on their twelve month trailing beta relative to the S&P 500. Beta is a measure of the relative volatility of a security as compared to the market. The constituent securities of the Target Index are weighted based on their revenue, with each individual index constituent capped at 5% at each quarterly rebalance. As of January 29, 2022, the Target Index was comprised of 101 securities. The S&P 500 is an investable benchmark for the large-cap segment of the U.S. equity market (including real estate investment trusts (“REITs”)). As of January 29, 2022, the S&P 500 was comprised of 505 U.S. securities with capitalizations ranging from $5.13 billion to $2.85 trillion. REITs are companies that own or finance income-producing real estate.
The Fund may use either a replication strategy or representative sampling strategy in seeking to track the performance of the Target Index. Under a replication strategy, the Fund intends to replicate the constituent securities of the Target Index as closely as possible. Under a representative sampling strategy, the Fund would invest in what it
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believes to be a representative sample of the component securities of the Target Index. The Fund may use a representative sampling strategy when a replication strategy might be detrimental to shareholders, such as when there are practical difficulties or substantial costs involved in compiling a portfolio of securities to follow the Target Index (e.g., where the Target Index contains component securities too numerous to efficiently purchase or sell); or, in certain instances, when a component security of the Target Index becomes temporarily illiquid, unavailable or less liquid. The Fund may also use a representative sampling strategy to exclude less liquid component securities contained in the Target Index from the Fund’s portfolio in order to create a more tradable portfolio and improve arbitrage opportunities. To the extent the Fund uses a representative sampling strategy, it may not track the Target Index with the same degree of accuracy as would an investment vehicle replicating the entire index.
To the extent that the Target Index concentrates (i.e., holds 25% or more of its net assets) in securities of a particular industry or group of industries, the Fund is expected to concentrate to approximately the same extent. As of January 29, 2022, the Target Index was concentrated in the Health Care and Consumer Staples sectors.
The Fund will primarily invest in U.S. companies that are included in the Target Index. The Fund may invest its assets in investments not included in the Target Index, but which Global Beta Advisors LLC (the “Adviser”) believes will help the Fund track the Target Index. For example, there may be instances in which the Adviser may choose to purchase or sell investments, including exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) and other investment company securities and cash and cash equivalents, as substitutes for one or more Target Index components or in anticipation of changes in the Target Index’s components.
The Fund is classified as “non-diversified” under the 1940 Act, which means that a relatively high percentage of the Fund’s assets may be invested in a limited number of issuers.
S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC (the “Index Provider”), in consultation with the Adviser, developed the Target Index methodology. The Index Provider is responsible for the ongoing maintenance, compilation, calculation and administration of the Target Index. Subject to the Index Provider’s ownership of the S&P 500, the Target Index, the values thereof, and the specifications provided by the Adviser to the Index Provider, are proprietary to the Adviser. The Adviser may from time to time request that the Index Provider make changes to the specifications of the Target Index.
Principal Investment Risks
There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its investment objective. The Fund is an ETF, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund. The Fund is subject to the principal investment risks noted below, any of which may adversely affect the Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”), trading price, yield, total return and ability to meet its investment objective.
Market Events Risk. The market values of the Fund’s investments, and therefore the value of the Fund’s shares, will go up and down, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably. Market risk may affect a single issuer, industry or section of the economy, or it may affect the market as a whole. Turbulence in the financial markets and reduced liquidity may negatively affect issuers, which could have an adverse effect on the Fund. In addition, there is a risk that policy changes by the U.S. Government, Federal Reserve and/or other government actors, such as increasing interest rates, could cause increased volatility in financial markets and disruption in the creation/redemption process of the Fund, which could have a negative impact on the Fund. In addition, local, regional or global events such as war, acts of terrorism, spread of infectious diseases or other public health issues, recessions, or other events could have a significant negative impact on the Fund and its investments. The current global outbreak of the novel strain of coronavirus, COVID-19, has resulted in market closures and dislocations, extreme volatility, liquidity constraints and increased trading costs. Efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19 have resulted in global travel restrictions and disruptions of healthcare systems, business operations and supply chains (including business closures), layoffs, volatility in consumer demand and employee availability, defaults and credit ratings downgrades, and other significant economic impacts. The effects of COVID-19 have impacted global economic activity across many industries and may heighten other pre-existing political, social and economic risks, locally or globally. The full economic impact and ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic (or other future epidemics or pandemics) at the macro level and on individual businesses are unpredictable and may result in significant and prolonged effects on the Fund's performance. In addition, governments, their regulatory agencies, or self-regulatory organizations may
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take actions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic that affect the instruments in which the Fund invests, or the issuers of such instruments, in ways that could have a significant negative impact on the Fund's investment performance.
Factor Risk. The Target Index, and thus the Fund, seeks to achieve the specific factor exposures identified in the Fund’s principal investment strategies above. There can be no assurance that targeting exposure to such factors will enhance the Fund’s performance over time, and targeting exposure to those factors may detract from performance in some market environments. There is no guarantee the Index Provider’s methodology will be successful in creating an index that achieves the specific factor exposures identified above.
Low Beta Risk. Although subject to the risks of common stocks, low volatility stocks are seen as having a lower risk profile than the overall markets. However, a portfolio comprised of low volatility stocks may not produce investment exposure that has lower variability to changes in such stocks’ price levels. Low volatility stocks are likely to underperform the broader market during periods of rapidly rising stock prices. There is a risk that the present and future volatility of a security will not be the same as it has historically been and thus that the Target Index will not be exposed to less volatile securities.
Index-Related Risk. The Fund is managed with an investment strategy that attempts to track the performance of the Target Index. As a result, the Fund expects to hold constituent securities of the Target Index regardless of their current or projected performance. Maintaining investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund employed an active strategy.
Risks related to the Index Provider. There is no assurance that the Index Provider will compile the Target Index accurately, or that the Target Index will be determined, composed or calculated accurately. While the Index Provider provides descriptions of what the Target Index is designed to achieve, the Index Provider does not guarantee the quality, accuracy or completeness of data in respect of its indexes, and does not guarantee that the Target Index will be in line with its described index methodology. Any gains, losses or costs to the Fund that are caused by Index Provider errors will therefore be borne by the Fund and its shareholders.
Sampling Risk. To the extent the Fund uses a representative sampling approach, it will hold a smaller number of securities than are in the Target Index. As a result, an adverse development respecting a security held by the Fund could result in a greater decline in NAV than would be the case if the Fund held all of the securities in the Target Index. Conversely, a positive development relating to a security in the Target Index that is not held by the Fund could cause the Fund to underperform the Target Index. To the extent the assets in the Fund are smaller, these risks will be greater.
Tracking Error Risk. Tracking error is the divergence of the Fund’s performance from that of the Target Index. Tracking error may occur due to, among other things, fees and expenses paid by the Fund, including the cost of buying and selling securities, that are not reflected in the Target Index. If the Fund is small, it may experience greater tracking error. If the Fund is not fully invested, holding cash balances may prevent it from tracking the Target Index. In addition, the Fund’s NAV may deviate from the Target Index if the Fund fair values a portfolio security at a price other than the price used by the Target Index for that security. To the extent the Fund uses a representative sampling strategy to track the Target Index, such a strategy may produce greater tracking error than if the Fund employed a full replication strategy.
Premium-Discount Risk. Fund shares may trade above or below their NAV on the Exchange. The market prices of Fund shares will generally fluctuate in accordance with changes in NAV as well as the relative supply of, and demand for, Fund shares. Therefore, you may pay more than NAV when you buy shares of the Fund on the Exchange, and you may receive less than NAV when you sell those shares on the Exchange. This risk is separate and distinct from the risk that the NAV of Fund shares may decrease.
Secondary Market Trading Risk. Investors buying or selling Fund shares in the secondary market may pay brokerage commissions or other charges, which may be a significant proportional cost for investors seeking to buy or sell relatively small amounts of Fund shares. Although the Fund’s shares are listed on the Exchange, there can be no assurance that an active or liquid trading market for them will develop or be maintained. In addition, trading in Fund shares on the Exchange may be halted.
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Non-Diversification Risk. The Fund is classified as “non-diversified” under the 1940 Act, which means that the Fund may invest a relatively high percentage of its assets in a limited number of issuers. As a result, the Fund may be more susceptible to a single adverse economic or regulatory occurrence affecting one or more of these issuers, experience increased volatility and be highly invested in certain issuers.
Concentration Risk. To the extent that the Target Index is concentrated in a particular industry, group of industries or sector, the Fund is also expected to be concentrated in that industry, group of industries or sector, which may subject the Fund to a greater loss as a result of adverse economic, business or other developments affecting that industry, group of industries or sector.
Consumer Staples Sector Risk. The consumer staples sector may be affected by, among other things, marketing campaigns, changes in consumer demands, government regulations and changes in commodity prices.
Healthcare Sector Risk. The profitability of companies in the healthcare sector may be affected by government regulations and government healthcare programs, increases or decreases in the cost of medical products and services, an increased emphasis on outpatient services, and product liability claims, among other factors. Many healthcare companies are heavily dependent on patent protection, and the expiration of a company’s patent may adversely affect that company’s profitability. Healthcare companies are subject to competitive forces that may result in price discounting, and may be thinly capitalized and susceptible to product obsolescence.
Equity Investing Risk. An investment in the Fund involves risks similar to those of investing in any fund holding equity securities, such as market fluctuations, changes in interest rates and perceived trends in stock prices. The values of equity securities could decline generally or could underperform other investments. In addition, securities may decline in value due to factors affecting a specific issuer, market or securities markets generally.
Large Capitalization Securities Risk. The securities of large market capitalization companies may underperform other segments of the market because such companies may be less responsive to competitive challenges and opportunities and may be unable to attain high growth rates during periods of economic expansion.
ETFs and Other Investment Companies Risk. The risks of investing in securities of ETFs and other investment companies typically reflect the risks of the types of instruments in which the underlying ETF or other investment company invests. In addition, with such investments, the Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the fees and expenses of the underlying entity. As a result, the Fund’s operating expenses may be higher and performance may be lower.
REIT Risk. A REIT is a company that owns or finances income-producing real estate. The Fund, through its investments in REITs, is subject to the risks of investing in the real estate market, including decreases in property revenues, increases in interest rates, increases in property taxes and operating expenses, legal and regulatory changes, a lack of credit or capital, defaults by borrowers or tenants, environmental problems and natural disasters.
REITs are subject to additional risks, including those related to adverse governmental actions, declines in property value and the real estate market, and the potential failure to qualify for tax-free “pass-through” of net investment income and net realized capital gains and exemption from registration as an investment company. REITs are dependent upon specialized management skills and may invest in relatively few properties, a small geographic area or a small number of property types. As a result, the Fund’s exposure to REITs may be subject to volatility. To the extent the Fund invests in REITs concentrated in specific geographic areas or property types, the Fund may be subject to a greater loss as a result of adverse developments affecting such areas or property types. REITs are pooled investment vehicles with their own fees and expenses and the Fund will indirectly bear a proportionate share of those fees and expenses.
Authorized Participants Concentration Risk. The Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may purchase and redeem Fund shares directly from the Fund (“Authorized Participants”). To the extent they cannot or are otherwise unwilling to engage in creation and redemption transactions with the Fund and no other Authorized Participant steps in, shares of the Fund may trade like closed-end fund shares at a significant discount to NAV and may face trading halts and/or delisting from the Exchange. This risk may be more pronounced in volatile markets, potentially where there are significant redemptions in ETFs generally.
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Cash and Cash Equivalents Risk. Holding cash or cash equivalents, even strategically, may lead to missed investment opportunities. This is particularly true when the market for other investments in which the Fund may invest is rapidly rising.
Large Shareholder Risk. Certain shareholders, including (i) the Adviser and its owners and officers and (ii) other funds or accounts advised by the Adviser, may from time to time own a substantial amount of the Fund’s shares. In addition, a third party investor, the Adviser or an affiliate of the Adviser, an authorized participant, a lead market maker, or another entity may invest in the Fund and hold its investment for a limited period of time solely to facilitate commencement of the Fund or to facilitate the Fund’s achieving a specified size or scale. There can be no assurance that any large shareholder would not redeem its investment, that the size of the Fund would be maintained at such levels or that the Fund would continue to meet applicable listing requirements. Redemptions by large shareholders could have a significant negative impact on the Fund. In addition, transactions by large shareholders may account for a large percentage of the trading volume on the listing exchange and may, therefore, have a material upward or downward effect on the market price of the shares.
Turnover Risk. The Fund may engage in frequent and active trading, which may significantly increase the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate. At times, the Fund may have a portfolio turnover rate substantially greater than 100%. For example, a portfolio turnover rate of 300% is equivalent to the Fund buying and selling all of its securities three times during the course of a year. A high portfolio turnover rate would result in high brokerage costs for the Fund, may result in higher taxes when shares are held in a taxable account and lower Fund performance.
Performance Information
The following performance information indicates some of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows the Fund’s performance for the calendar year ended December 31. The table illustrates how the Fund’s average annual returns for the 1-year and since inception periods compare with those of the Target Index and a broad measure of market performance. The Fund’s past performance, before and after taxes, does not necessarily indicate how it will perform in the future. Updated performance information is also available on the Fund’s website at www.globalbetaetf.com.
Calendar Year Total Returns
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During the period of time shown in the bar chart, the Fund’s highest quarterly return was 10.53% for the quarter ended December 31, 2021, and the lowest quarterly return was 0.07% for the quarter ended September 30, 2021.
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Average Annual Total Returns
For the Period Ended December 31, 2021
Global Beta Low Beta ETF 1 Year
Since Inception
July 24, 2020
Return Before Taxes 22.80% 22.42%
Return After Taxes on Distributions 21.79% 21.57%
Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Shares 13.99% 17.12%
Global Beta Low Beta Factor Index(1) (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes)
23.50% 22.97%
S&P 500 Index(1) (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)
28.71% 32.81%
(1) Index performance shown in the table is total return, which assumes reinvestment of any dividends and distributions during the time periods shown.
After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates during the period covered by the table above and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. A higher after-tax return results when a capital loss occurs upon redemption and provides an assumed tax deduction that benefits the investor. After-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold their Shares through tax advantaged arrangements such as an individual retirement account (“IRA”) or other tax-advantaged accounts.
Management
Investment Adviser: Global Beta Advisors LLC
Portfolio Managers: The following table lists the persons responsible for day-to-day management of the Fund’s portfolio:
Employee Length of Service Title
Justin Lowry Since inception (July 2020) Chief Investment Officer
Vincent T. Lowry Since inception (July 2020) Chief Executive Officer
Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares
The Fund is an ETF. Individual Fund shares may only be purchased and sold on a national securities exchange through a broker-dealer and investors may pay a commission to such broker-dealers in connection with their purchase or sale. The price of Fund shares is based on market price, and because ETF shares trade at market prices rather than NAV, shares may trade at a price greater than NAV (a premium) or less than NAV (a discount). The Fund will only issue or redeem shares aggregated into blocks of 25,000 shares or multiples thereof (“Creation Units”) to Authorized Participants who have entered into agreements with the Fund’s distributor. The Fund will issue or redeem Creation Units in return for a basket of assets that the Fund specifies each day.
Investors may incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase Fund shares (bid) and the lowest price a seller is willing to accept for Fund shares (ask) when buying or selling Fund shares in the secondary market (the “bid-ask spread”). Recent information about the Fund, including its NAV, market price, premiums and discounts, and bid-ask spreads is available on the Fund’s website at www.globalbetaetf.com.
Tax Information
The Fund’s distributions are expected to be taxable as ordinary income, capital gains, or some combination of both, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account. Distributions may be taxed as ordinary income when withdrawn from such tax-advantaged arrangement.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Adviser or its related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of Fund shares and related services. These payments may
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create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary’s web site for more information.
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Global Beta Rising Stars ETF
Investment Objective
The Global Beta Rising Stars ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to track the performance (before fees and expenses) of the FactSet Rising Stars Index (the “Target Index”).
Fees and Expenses
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and 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 you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)
Management Fees
0.29%
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees(1)
0.00%
Other Expenses(2)
0.00%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.29%

(1) Pursuant to a Rule 12b-1 distribution and service plan (“Plan”), the Fund may bear a 12b-1 fee not to exceed 0.25% per annum of the Fund’s average daily net assets. However, no such fee is currently paid by the Fund, and the Board of Trustees (the “Board”) of Global Beta ETF Trust (the “Trust”) has not currently approved the commencement of any payments under the Plan.
(2) Expenses have been restated to reflect current fees.
Example
The following example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the costs of investing in other funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell 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 each year. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions, whether you do or do not sell your shares, your costs would be:
1 YEAR 3 YEARS 5 YEARS 10 YEARS
$30 $93 $163 $368
Portfolio Turnover
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when the Fund’s shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or the example, affect the Fund’s performance. For the fiscal year ended November 30, 2021, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 312% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund seeks to track the performance (before fees and expenses) of the Target Index, which is comprised of 100 U.S.-listed companies with operations in the technology sector and that are selected based on a combination of valuation- and growth-related factors. The Target Index may include small, medium, and large capitalization companies.
The Target Index is expected to be predominantly comprised of companies in the technology sector and concentrated (i.e., hold 25% or more of its net assets) in companies in the software sub-industry. To the extent that the Target Index concentrates in securities of a particular industry or group of industries, the Fund is expected to concentrate to approximately the same extent.
The Target Index’s construction begins with the universe of the 3,000 largest companies by market capitalization whose equity securities are listed on either the New York Stock Exchange or the Nasdaq Stock Market, LLC. Such companies are then screened to keep only companies with a minimum market capitalization of $500 million and
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whose equity securities meet certain liquidity thresholds (the remaining companies collectively, the “Index Universe”).
For each company in the Index Universe, the Target Index evaluates each company’s valuation relative to its sales growth rate over the prior year. Specifically, the Target Index’s methodology calculates the difference between each company’s recent year-over-year sales growth rate and the annual sales growth rate that would be needed over the next 10 years to justify the company’s current market valuation based primarily on the company’s price-to-sales ratio (such difference, the “Excess Growth Rate”). Companies in the Index Universe whose Excess Growth Rate ranks in the top 75% of companies in the Index Universe are eligible to be included in the Target Index (the “Eligible Companies”).
The Eligible Companies are then evaluated based on the following growth-related factors: market share growth, industry growth, and, to a lesser extent, operating margin growth. Each Eligible Company receives a score for each of the factors. The results for all Eligible Companies for a given factor (e.g., market share growth) are then ranked, and companies whose results rank in the top 20% (i.e., the top quintile) of results receive the highest score while companies in each of the lower quintiles receive scores that decrease with each quintile. Because certain factors are focused on revenue from sub-industries within the technology sector, the scores with respect to such factors will favor companies earning all or a significant portion of their revenue from the technology sector.
Market Share Growth Rate
This factor looks at a company’s year-over-year market share growth rate in sub-industries within the technology sector. A company’s rank will be higher if its combined weighted average market share growth rate across all technology sub-industries is higher than other companies. The weighted average is based on the company's percent of revenues earned in a particular sub-industry.
Industry Growth This factor looks at technology sub-industries’ year-over-year revenue growth rate. A company’s rank will be higher if the growth rate of the sub-industries it earns revenues from is higher than sub-industries that other companies participate in. This is factored on a weighted average basis. The weighted average is based on the company's percent of revenues earned in that particular sub-industry.
Operating Margin Growth This factor looks at the year-over-year growth rate of a company’s operating margin. A company’s rank will be higher if its operating margin growth rate is higher.
The Target Index is reconstituted and rebalanced quarterly. At the time of each reconstitution of the Target Index, the 100 Eligible Companies with the highest cumulative scores for the above factors are included in the Target Index and are weighted based on their cumulative scores relative to each other.
The Fund may use either a replication strategy or representative sampling strategy in seeking to track the performance of the Target Index. Under a replication strategy, the Fund intends to replicate the constituent securities of the Target Index as closely as possible. Under a representative sampling strategy, the Fund would invest in what it believes to be a representative sample of the component securities of the Target Index. The Fund may use a representative sampling strategy when a replication strategy might be detrimental to shareholders, such as when there are practical difficulties or substantial costs involved in compiling a portfolio of securities to follow the Target Index (e.g., where the Target Index contains component securities too numerous to efficiently purchase or sell); or, in certain instances, when a component security of the Target Index becomes temporarily illiquid, unavailable or less liquid. The Fund may also use a representative sampling strategy to exclude less liquid component securities contained in the Target Index from the Fund’s portfolio in order to create a more tradable portfolio and improve arbitrage opportunities. To the extent the Fund uses a representative sampling strategy, it may not track the Target Index with the same degree of accuracy as would an investment vehicle replicating the entire index.
The Fund will primarily invest in U.S. companies that are included in the Target Index. The Fund may invest its assets in investments not included in the Target Index, but which the Adviser believes will help the Fund track the Target Index. For example, there may be instances in which the Adviser may choose to purchase or sell investments, including exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) and other investment company securities and cash and cash equivalents, as substitutes for one or more Target Index components or in anticipation of changes in the Target Index’s components.
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The Fund is classified as “non-diversified” under the 1940 Act, which means that a relatively high percentage of the Fund’s assets may be invested in a limited number of issuers.
FactSet Research Systems Inc. (the “Index Provider”), in consultation with the Adviser, developed the Target Index methodology. The Index Provider is responsible for the ongoing maintenance, compilation, and administration of the Target Index. The Adviser may from time to time request that the Index Provider make changes to the specifications of the Target Index.
Principal Investment Risks
There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its investment objective. The Fund is an ETF, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund. The Fund is subject to the principal investment risks noted below, any of which may adversely affect the Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”), trading price, yield, total return and ability to meet its investment objective.
Market Events Risk. The market values of the Fund’s investments, and therefore the value of the Fund’s shares, will go up and down, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably. Market risk may affect a single issuer, industry or section of the economy, or it may affect the market as a whole. Turbulence in the financial markets and reduced liquidity may negatively affect issuers, which could have an adverse effect on the Fund. In addition, there is a risk that policy changes by the U.S. Government, Federal Reserve and/or other government actors, such as increasing interest rates, could cause increased volatility in financial markets and disruption in the creation/redemption process of the Fund, which could have a negative impact on the Fund. In addition, local, regional or global events such as war, acts of terrorism, spread of infectious diseases or other public health issues, recessions, or other events could have a significant negative impact on the Fund and its investments. The current global outbreak of the novel strain of coronavirus, COVID-19, has resulted in market closures and dislocations, extreme volatility, liquidity constraints and increased trading costs. Efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19 have resulted in global travel restrictions and disruptions of healthcare systems, business operations and supply chains (including business closures), layoffs, volatility in consumer demand and employee availability, defaults and credit ratings downgrades, and other significant economic impacts. The effects of COVID-19 have impacted global economic activity across many industries and may heighten other pre-existing political, social and economic risks, locally or globally. The full economic impact and ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic (or other future epidemics or pandemics) at the macro level and on individual businesses are unpredictable and may result in significant and prolonged effects on the Fund's performance. In addition, governments, their regulatory agencies, or self-regulatory organizations may take actions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic that affect the instruments in which the Fund invests, or the issuers of such instruments, in ways that could have a significant negative impact on the Fund's investment performance.
Factor Risk. The Target Index, and thus the Fund, seeks to achieve the specific factor exposures identified in the Fund’s principal investment strategies above. There can be no assurance that targeting exposure to such factors will enhance the Fund’s performance over time, and targeting exposure to those factors may detract from performance in some market environments. There is no guarantee the Index Provider’s methodology will be successful in creating an index that achieves the specific factor exposures identified above.
Growth Securities Risk. The Fund invests in growth securities, which may be more volatile than other types of investments, may perform differently than the market as a whole and may underperform when compared to securities with different investment parameters. Under certain market conditions, growth securities have performed better during the later stages of economic recovery (although there is no guarantee that they will continue to do so). Therefore, growth securities may go in and out of favor over time.
Volatility Risk. There is a risk that the present and future volatility of a security will not be the same as it historically has been and thus that the Target Index will not be exposed to less volatile securities. Volatile stocks are subject to sharp swings in value.
Index-Related Risk. The Fund is managed with an investment strategy that attempts to track the performance of the Target Index. As a result, the Fund expects to hold constituent securities of the Target Index regardless of their current or projected performance. Maintaining investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the
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performance of individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund employed an active strategy.
Risks related to the Index Provider. There is no assurance that the Index Provider will compile the Target Index accurately, or that the Target Index will be determined, composed or calculated accurately. While the Index Provider provides descriptions of what the Target Index is designed to achieve, the Index Provider does not guarantee the quality, accuracy or completeness of data in respect of its indexes, and does not guarantee that the Target Index will be in line with its described index methodology. Any gains, losses or costs to the Fund that are caused by Index Provider errors will therefore be borne by the Fund and its shareholders.
Sampling Risk. To the extent the Fund uses a representative sampling approach, it will hold a smaller number of securities than are in the Target Index. As a result, an adverse development respecting a security held by the Fund could result in a greater decline in NAV than would be the case if the Fund held all of the securities in the Target Index. Conversely, a positive development relating to a security in the Target Index that is not held by the Fund could cause the Fund to underperform the Target Index. To the extent the assets in the Fund are smaller, these risks will be greater.
Tracking Error Risk. Tracking error is the divergence of the Fund’s performance from that of the Target Index. Tracking error may occur due to, among other things, fees and expenses paid by the Fund, including the cost of buying and selling securities, that are not reflected in the Target Index. If the Fund is small, it may experience greater tracking error. If the Fund is not fully invested, holding cash balances may prevent it from tracking the Target Index. In addition, the Fund’s NAV may deviate from the Target Index if the Fund fair values a portfolio security at a price other than the price used by the Target Index for that security. To the extent the Fund uses a representative sampling strategy to track the Target Index, such a strategy may produce greater tracking error than if the Fund employed a full replication strategy.
Premium-Discount Risk. Fund shares may trade above or below their NAV on the Exchange. The market prices of Fund shares will generally fluctuate in accordance with changes in NAV as well as the relative supply of, and demand for, Fund shares. Therefore, you may pay more than NAV when you buy shares of the Fund on the Exchange, and you may receive less than NAV when you sell those shares on the Exchange. This risk is separate and distinct from the risk that the NAV of Fund shares may decrease.
Secondary Market Trading Risk. Investors buying or selling Fund shares in the secondary market may pay brokerage commissions or other charges, which may be a significant proportional cost for investors seeking to buy or sell relatively small amounts of Fund shares. Although the Fund’s shares are listed on the Exchange, there can be no assurance that an active or liquid trading market for them will develop or be maintained. In addition, trading in Fund shares on the Exchange may be halted.
Non-Diversification Risk. The Fund is classified as “non-diversified” under the 1940 Act, which means that the Fund may invest a relatively high percentage of its assets in a limited number of issuers. As a result, the Fund may be more susceptible to a single adverse economic or regulatory occurrence affecting one or more of these issuers, experience increased volatility and be highly invested in certain issuers.
Concentration Risk. To the extent that the Target Index is concentrated in a particular industry, group of industries or sector, the Fund is also expected to be concentrated in that industry, group of industries or sector, which may subject the Fund to a greater loss as a result of adverse economic, business or other developments affecting that industry, group of industries or sector.
Technology Sector Risk. Technology companies face intense competition and potentially rapid product obsolescence. They are also heavily dependent on intellectual property rights and may be adversely affected by the loss or impairment of those rights. Companies in the software industry may be adversely affected by, among other things, the decline or fluctuation of subscription renewal rates for their products and services and actual or perceived vulnerabilities in their products or services.
Software Industry Risk. Software companies are subject to the risks of companies in the technology sector (see above), as well as the following additional risks. Software companies can be significantly affected by aggressive pricing, changing domestic demand, the availability and price of components, cyclical market
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patterns, evolving industry standards, and frequent new product introductions. The success of software companies depends in substantial part on the timely and successful introduction of new products and the ability to service such products. Many software companies rely on intellectual property laws to protect their proprietary rights in their products and technologies, and there can be no assurance that a company will be able to prevent misappropriation of technology or that competitors will not independently develop comparable or superior technologies.
Equity Investing Risk. An investment in the Fund involves risks similar to those of investing in any fund holding equity securities, such as market fluctuations, changes in interest rates and perceived trends in stock prices. The values of equity securities could decline generally or could underperform other investments. In addition, securities may decline in value due to factors affecting a specific issuer, market or securities markets generally.
Large Capitalization Securities Risk. The securities of large market capitalization companies may underperform other segments of the market because such companies may be less responsive to competitive challenges and opportunities and may be unable to attain high growth rates during periods of economic expansion.
Small- and Mid-Capitalization Securities Risk. The securities of small- and mid-capitalization companies generally trade in lower volumes and are subject to greater and more unpredictable price changes than larger capitalization stocks or the stock market as a whole. Small- and mid-capitalization companies may be particularly sensitive to changes in interest rates, government regulation, borrowing costs, and earnings.
ETFs and Other Investment Companies Risk. The risks of investing in securities of ETFs and other investment companies typically reflect the risks of the types of instruments in which the underlying ETF or other investment company invests. In addition, with such investments, the Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the fees and expenses of the underlying entity. As a result, the Fund’s operating expenses may be higher and performance may be lower.
Authorized Participants Concentration Risk. The Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may purchase and redeem Fund shares directly from the Fund (“Authorized Participants”). To the extent they cannot or are otherwise unwilling to engage in creation and redemption transactions with the Fund and no other Authorized Participant steps in, shares of the Fund may trade like closed-end fund shares at a significant discount to NAV and may face trading halts and/or delisting from the Exchange. This risk may be more pronounced in volatile markets, potentially where there are significant redemptions in ETFs generally.
Cash and Cash Equivalents Risk. Holding cash or cash equivalents, even strategically, may lead to missed investment opportunities. This is particularly true when the market for other investments in which the Fund may invest is rapidly rising.
Large Shareholder Risk. Certain shareholders, including (i) the Adviser and its owners and officers and (ii) other funds or accounts advised by the Adviser, may from time to time own a substantial amount of the Fund’s shares. In addition, a third party investor, the Adviser or an affiliate of the Adviser, an authorized participant, a lead market maker, or another entity may invest in the Fund and hold its investment for a limited period of time solely to facilitate commencement of the Fund or to facilitate the Fund’s achieving a specified size or scale. There can be no assurance that any large shareholder would not redeem its investment, that the size of the Fund would be maintained at such levels or that the Fund would continue to meet applicable listing requirements. Redemptions by large shareholders could have a significant negative impact on the Fund. In addition, transactions by large shareholders may account for a large percentage of the trading volume on the listing exchange and may, therefore, have a material upward or downward effect on the market price of the shares.
Turnover Risk. The Fund may engage in frequent and active trading, which may significantly increase the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate. At times, the Fund may have a portfolio turnover rate substantially greater than 100%. For example, a portfolio turnover rate of 300% is equivalent to the Fund buying and selling all of its securities three times during the course of a year. A high portfolio turnover rate would result in high brokerage costs for the Fund, may result in higher taxes when shares are held in a taxable account and lower Fund performance.
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Performance Information
The following performance information indicates some of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows the Fund’s performance for the calendar year ended December 31. The table illustrates how the Fund’s average annual returns for the 1-year and since inception periods compare with those of the Target Index and a broad measure of market performance. Effective December 21, 2020, the Fund's underlying index was changed from the Global Beta Momentum-Growth Factor Index (“Former Target Index”) to the Target Index. The Former Target Index was comprised of equity securities of U.S. companies from the S&P 500 in the highest quintile (i.e., the highest 20% of the S&P 500) based on their year-over-year revenue growth rate, as measured by their most recently reported quarterly revenue as compared to the quarterly revenue reported four quarters ago. Fund performance shown below prior to December 21, 2020 reflects the Fund seeking to track the performance of the Former Target Index and Fund performance shown below beginning December 21, 2020 reflects the Fund seeking to track the performance of the Target Index. The Fund’s past performance, before and after taxes, does not necessarily indicate how it will perform in the future. Updated performance information is also available on the Fund’s website at www.globalbetaetf.com.
Calendar Year Total Returns
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During the period of time shown in the bar chart, the Fund’s highest quarterly return was 6.69% for the quarter ended June 30, 2021, and the lowest quarterly return was -7.93% for the quarter ended September 30, 2021.
Average Annual Total Returns
For the Period Ended December 31, 2021
Global Beta Rising Stars ETF 1 Year
Since Inception
July 24, 2020
Return Before Taxes 3.19% 11.32  %
Return After Taxes on Distributions 3.06% 11.18  %
Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Shares 1.98% 8.67  %
Blended FactSet Rising Stars Index(1) (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes)
3.24% 11.24  %
(2)
Blended S&P 1500 Index(1)(3) (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)
28.45% 33.20  %
(1) Index performance shown in the table is total return, which assumes reinvestment of any dividends and distributions during the time periods shown.
(2) The FactSet Rising Stars Index performance information reflects the blended performance of the Global Beta Momentum-Growth Factor Index through December 18, 2020 and the FactSet Rising Stars Index thereafter.
(3) In connection with the change of the Fund’s underlying index, effective December 18, 2020, the Fund’s benchmark index changed from the S&P 500 Index to the S&P 1500 Index.
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After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates during the period covered by the table above and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. A higher after-tax return results when a capital loss occurs upon redemption and provides an assumed tax deduction that benefits the investor. After-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold their Shares through tax advantaged arrangements such as an individual retirement account (“IRA”) or other tax-advantaged accounts.
Management
Investment Adviser: Global Beta Advisors LLC
Portfolio Managers: The following table lists the persons responsible for day-to-day management of the Fund’s portfolio:
Employee Length of Service Title
Justin Lowry Since inception (July 2020) Chief Investment Officer
Vincent T. Lowry Since inception (July 2020) Chief Executive Officer

Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares
The Fund is an ETF. Individual Fund shares may only be purchased and sold on a national securities exchange through a broker-dealer and investors may pay a commission to such broker-dealers in connection with their purchase or sale. The price of Fund shares is based on market price, and because ETF shares trade at market prices rather than NAV, shares may trade at a price greater than NAV (a premium) or less than NAV (a discount). The Fund will only issue or redeem shares aggregated into blocks of 25,000 shares or multiples thereof (“Creation Units”) to Authorized Participants who have entered into agreements with the Fund’s distributor. The Fund will issue or redeem Creation Units in return for a basket of assets that the Fund specifies each day.
Investors may incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase Fund shares (bid) and the lowest price a seller is willing to accept for Fund shares (ask) when buying or selling Fund shares in the secondary market (the “bid-ask spread”). Recent information about the Fund, including its NAV, market price, premiums and discounts, and bid-ask spreads is available on the Fund’s website at www.globalbetaetf.com.
Tax Information
The Fund’s distributions are expected to be taxable as ordinary income, capital gains, or some combination of both, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account. Distributions may be taxed as ordinary income when withdrawn from such tax-advantaged arrangement.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Adviser or its related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of Fund shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary’s web site for more information.
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More Information About the Funds
More Information About the Funds’ Investment Objectives
Each Fund seeks to track the performance (before fees and expenses) of its Target Index.
Each Fund’s investment objective is non-fundamental and may be changed without shareholder approval upon notice to shareholders.
More Information About the Funds’ Principal Investment Strategies
Each Fund seeks to track the performance (before fees and expenses) of its Target Index. Each Fund will invest primarily in U.S. companies as a result of seeking to track its Target Index. Each Fund may use either a replication strategy or representative sampling strategy in seeking to track the performance of its Target Index. Under a replication strategy, a Fund intends to replicate the constituent securities of the Target Index as closely as possible. Under a representative sampling strategy, a Fund would invest in what it believes to be a representative sample of the component securities of the Target Index. A Fund may use a representative sampling strategy when a replication strategy might be detrimental to shareholders, such as when there are practical difficulties or substantial costs involved in compiling a portfolio of securities to follow the Target Index (e.g., where the Target Index contains component securities too numerous to efficiently purchase or sell); or, in certain instances, when a component security of the Target Index becomes temporarily illiquid, unavailable or less liquid. A Fund may also use a representative sampling strategy to exclude less liquid component securities contained in the Target Index from the Fund’s portfolio in order to create a more tradable portfolio and improve arbitrage opportunities.
To the extent a Fund uses a representative sampling strategy, it may not track the Target Index with the same degree of accuracy as would an investment vehicle replicating the entire index. For example, the Adviser may use a representative sampling if one or more of the component securities in the Target Index began to raise liquidity concerns, and the Adviser may determine to exclude those component securities from the Fund’s portfolio until the liquidity concerns were lifted. In addition, the Fund may not be able to invest in certain securities included in the Target Index due to restrictions or limitations on the trading of such securities. When securities are deleted from the Target Index, the Adviser will typically remove these securities from the Fund’s portfolio. However, in the discretion of the Adviser, the Fund may remain invested in securities that were deleted from the Target Index until the next rebalancing of the Fund.
Each Fund may invest its assets in investments not included in its Target Index, but which the Adviser believes will help the Fund track the Target Index. For example, there may be instances in which the Adviser may choose to purchase or sell investments, including ETFs and other investment company securities and cash and cash equivalents, as substitutes for one or more Target Index components or in anticipation of changes in the Target Index’s components. There may also be instances in which the Adviser may choose to overweight securities in the Target Index. The Fund may not be fully invested at times as a result of, for example, cash flows into the Fund or reserves of cash held by the Fund to meet redemptions and pay expenses. Under these circumstances, the Fund may not track the Target Index with the same degree of accuracy as it otherwise would.
The Index Provider for each Target Index, in consultation with the Adviser, developed the respective Target Index methodology. Each Index Provider for the Global Beta Smart Income ETF and the Global Beta Low Beta ETF is responsible for the ongoing maintenance, compilation, calculation, and administration of the respective Target Index. The Index Provider for the Global Beta Rising Stars ETF is responsible for the ongoing maintenance, compilation, and administration of its respective Target Index. Subject to the ownership by S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC of the S&P 500 and S&P 900, the Global Beta Low Beta Factor Index and Global Beta Smart Income Index, respectively, the values thereof, and the specifications provided by the Adviser to the Index Provider, are proprietary to the Adviser. The Adviser may from time to time request that an Index Provider make changes to the specifications of a Target Index. Each Target Index is unmanaged and cannot be invested in directly.
The Global Beta Low Beta ETF and the Global Beta Rising Stars ETF are classified as “non-diversified” under the 1940 Act, which means that a relatively high percentage of a Fund’s assets may be invested in a limited number of issuers.
The Global Beta Smart Income ETF is classified as “diversified” under the 1940 Act, which means that at least 75% of the value of the Fund’s total assets is represented by cash and cash items (including receivables), government
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securities, securities of other investment companies, and securities of other issuers, which for purposes of this calculation, are limited in respect of any one issuer to an amount not greater in value than 5% of the Fund’s total assets and to not more than 10% of the outstanding voting securities of such issuer.
The S&P 900 is an investable benchmark for the mid- to large-cap segment of the U.S. equity market. As of January 29, 2022, the S&P 900 was comprised of equity securities in the following sectors: information technology, health care, financials, consumer discretionary, industrials, communication services, consumer staples, energy, real estate (including REITs), utilities, and materials. REITs are companies that own or finance income-producing real estate. As of January 29, 2022 the S&P 900 was comprised of 905 U.S. securities with capitalizations ranging from $2.14 billion to $2.85 trillion.
The S&P 500 is an investable benchmark for the large-cap segment of the U.S. equity market. As of January 29, 2022, the S&P 500 was comprised of equity securities in the following sectors: information technology, health care, financials, consumer discretionary, industrials, communication services, consumer staples, energy, real estate (including REITs), utilities, and materials. REITs are companies that own or finance income-producing real estate. As of January 29, 2022, the S&P 500 was comprised of 505 U.S. securities with capitalizations ranging from $5.13 billion to $2.85 trillion.
Global Beta Smart Income ETF: The Target Index is designed to reflect the performance of constituents from the S&P 900 with the highest average twelve month trailing dividend yield over each of the prior four quarters,diversified by GICS® sector and re-weighted based on revenue. The Target Index calculates the average twelve month trailing dividend yield of the constituents of the S&P 900 over each of the prior four quarters and initially selects those securities in the highest quintile. The Target Index then selects those securities with an average twelve month trailing dividend yield over each of the prior four quarters that rank in the top half within their respective GICS® sector classification. The Target Index then re-weights those securities based on their revenue, with each individual index constituent capped at 4.5% at each quarterly rebalance. Any company that has cut or suspended its dividend will be removed from the Target Index at the next quarterly rebalance and will be ineligible for inclusion in the Target Index until it increases or reinstitutes its dividend. In the event that the cut/suspension results in a dividend that, when annualized, would result in a dividend yield below 3.5%, the company will be removed promptly from the Target Index. In addition, index constituents from the energy sector, as classified by GICS®, are capped at 3% in the aggregate in the Target Index at each quarterly rebalance when the price of crude oil, as defined by Crude Oil WTI futures (ticker: CL00), is below its 30 day moving average. Target Index constituents are only capped at quarterly rebalances. As of January 29, 2022, the Target Index was comprised of 92 securities.
To the extent that the Target Index concentrates (i.e., holds 25% or more of its net assets) in securities of a particular industry or group of industries, the Fund is expected to concentrate to approximately the same extent.
Global Beta Low Beta ETF: The Target Index is designed to reflect the performance of constituents from the S&P 500 in the lowest quintile (i.e., the lowest 20% of the S&P 500) based on their twelve month trailing beta relative to the S&P 500, re-weighted based on revenue. Beta is a measure of the relative volatility of a security as compared to the market. The Target Index calculates the twelve month trailing beta of the constituents of the S&P 500 and initially selects those securities in the lowest quintile. The Target Index then re-weights those securities based on their revenue, with each individual index constituent capped at 5% at each quarterly rebalance. Target Index constituents are only capped at quarterly rebalances. As of January 29, 2022, the Target Index was comprised of 101 securities.
To the extent that the Target Index concentrates (i.e., holds 25% or more of its net assets) in securities of a particular industry or group of industries, the Fund is expected to concentrate to approximately the same extent. As of January 29, 2022, the Target Index was concentrated in the Health Care and Consumer Staples sectors.
Global Beta Rising Stars ETF: The FactSet Rising Stars Index evaluated Eligible Companies based on the growth-related factors described in the table below. Because certain factors are focused on revenue from sub-industries within the technology sector, the scores with respect to such factors will favor companies earning all or a significant portion of their revenue from the technology sector.
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Market Share Growth Rate
This factor looks at a company’s year-over-year market share growth rate in sub-industries within the technology sector. A company’s rank will be higher if its combined weighted average market share growth rate across all technology sub-industries is higher than other companies. The weighted average is based on the company's percent of revenues earned in a particular sub-industry. A company’ rank will be lower if its combined weighted average market share growth rate across all technology sub-industries is lower than other companies.
Industry Growth
This factor looks at technology sub-industries’ year-over-year revenue growth rate. A company’s rank will be higher if the growth rate of the sub-industries it earns revenues from is higher than sub-industries that other companies participate in. This is factored on a weighted average basis. The weighted average is based on the company's percent of revenues earned in that particular sub-industry. A company’s rank will be lower if the growth rate of the sub-industries it earns revenues from is lower than sub-industries that other companies participate in.
Operating Margin Growth This factor looks at the year-over-year growth rate of a company’s operating margin. A company’s rank will be higher if its operating margin growth rate is higher. In contrast, a company’s rank will be lower if its operating margin growth rate is lower or negative.
The Index Calculation Agent for the FactSet Rising Stars Index is Solactive AG, which is not affiliated with the Fund, the Adviser, the Index Provider, or the Fund’s distributor. The Index Calculation Agent provides information to the Fund about the constituents of the Target Index and does not provide investment advice with respect to the desirability of investing in, purchasing or selling securities.
The Target Index is expected to be predominantly comprised of companies in the technology sector and concentrated (i.e., hold 25% or more of its net assets) in companies in the software sub-industry. To the extent that the Target Index concentrates in securities of a particular industry or group of industries, the Fund is expected to concentrate to approximately the same extent.
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More Information about the Funds’ Principal Investment Risks
Risks Global Beta Smart Income ETF Global Beta Low Beta ETF Global Beta Rising Stars ETF
Principal Risks
Market Events Risk X X X
Factor Risk X X X
Low Beta Risk X
Growth Securities Risk X
Volatility Risk X
Index-Related Risk X X X
Dividend-Paying Securities Risk X
Sampling Risk X X X
Tracking Error Risk X X X
Premium-Discount Risk X X X
Secondary Market Trading Risk X X X
Non-Diversification Risk X X
Concentration Risk X X X
Consumer Staples Sector Risk X
Healthcare Sector Risk X
Technology Sector Risk X
Software Industry Risk X
Equity Investing Risk X X X
Large Capitalization Securities Risk X X X
Small- and Mid-Capitalization Securities Risk X
Mid-Capitalization Securities Risk X
ETFs and Other Investment Companies Risk X X X
REIT Risk X X
Authorized Participants Concentration Risk X X X
Cash and Cash Equivalents Risk X X X
Large Shareholder Risk X X X
Turnover Risk X X X
Market Events Risk. The market values of the Fund’s investments, and therefore the value of the Fund’s shares, will go up and down, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably. Market risk may affect a single issuer, industry or section of the economy, or it may affect the market as a whole. The value of the Fund’s investments may go up or down due to general market conditions that are not specifically related to the particular issuer, such as real or perceived adverse economic conditions, changes in the general outlook for revenues or corporate earnings, changes in interest or currency rates, regional or global instability, or adverse investor sentiment generally. The value of the Fund’s investments may also go up or down due to factors that affect an individual issuer or a particular industry or sector, such as changes in production costs, supply and demand, and competitive conditions within an industry. In addition, unexpected events and their aftermaths, such as pandemics, epidemics or other public health issues; natural, environmental or man- made disasters; financial, political or social disruptions; terrorism and war; and other tragedies or catastrophes, can cause investor fear and panic, which can adversely affect the economies of many companies, sectors, nations, regions and the market in general, in ways that cannot necessarily be foreseen.
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Turbulence in the financial markets and reduced liquidity in equity, credit and fixed-income markets may negatively affect issuers worldwide, which could have an adverse effect on the Fund. For example, following the financial crisis that began in 2007, the Federal Reserve attempted to stabilize the U.S. economy and support the U.S. economic recovery by keeping the federal funds rate at or near zero percent. When the Federal Reserve raises the federal funds rate, there is a risk that interest rates across the U.S. financial system will rise. These policy changes may expose markets to heightened volatility and may reduce liquidity for certain Fund investments, causing the value of the Fund’s investments and share price to decline. To the extent the Fund experiences disruption in the creation/redemption process of the Fund because of these policy changes or other for other reasons, the Fund may experience increased portfolio turnover, which will increase the costs that the Fund incurs and may lower the Fund’s performance.
The current global outbreak of the novel strain of coronavirus, COVID-19, has resulted in market closures and dislocations, extreme volatility, liquidity constraints and increased trading costs. Efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19 have resulted in global travel restrictions and disruptions of healthcare systems, business operations and supply chains (including business closures), layoffs, volatility in consumer demand and employee availability, defaults and credit ratings downgrades, and other significant economic impacts. The effects of COVID-19 have impacted global economic activity across many industries and may heighten other pre-existing political, social and economic risks, locally or globally. The full economic impact and ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic (or other future epidemics or pandemics) at the macro level and on individual businesses are unpredictable and may result in significant and prolonged effects on the Fund's performance. In addition, governments, their regulatory agencies, or self-regulatory organizations may take actions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic that affect the instruments in which the Fund invests, or the issuers of such instruments, in ways that could have a significant negative impact on the Fund's investment performance.
Factor Risk. The Target Index, and thus the Fund, seeks to achieve the specific factor exposures identified in the Fund’s principal investment strategies above. There can be no assurance that targeting exposure to such factors will enhance the Fund’s performance over time, and targeting exposure to those factors may detract from performance in some market environments. There is no guarantee the Index Provider’s methodology will be successful in creating an index that achieves the specific factor exposures identified above.
Low Beta Risk. In general, beta is a measure of price volatility resulting from general market movements. Although subject to the risks of common stocks, low volatility stocks are seen as having a lower risk profile than the overall markets. However, a portfolio comprised of low volatility stocks may not produce investment exposure that has lower variability to changes in such stocks’ price levels. Low volatility stocks are likely to underperform the broader market during periods of rapidly rising stock prices. There is a risk that the present and future volatility of a security will not be the same as it has historically been and thus that the Target Index will not be exposed to less volatile securities.
Growth Securities Risk. Growth companies are companies whose earnings growth potential appears to be greater than the market in general and whose revenue growth is expected to continue for an extended period of time. Stocks of growth companies or “growth securities” have market values that may be more volatile than those of other types of investments. Under certain market conditions, growth securities have performed better during the later stages of economic recovery (although there is no guarantee that they will continue to do so). Therefore, growth securities may go in and out of favor over time. Growth securities typically do not pay a dividend, which can help cushion stock prices in market downturns and reduce potential losses.
Volatility Risk. There is a risk that the present and future volatility of a security will not be the same as it historically has been and thus that the Target Index will not be exposed to less volatile securities. Volatile stocks are subject to sharp swings in value.
Index-Related Risk. The Adviser does not actively manage the Fund and therefore does not attempt to analyze, quantify or control the risks associated with investing in securities in the Target Index. The Fund invests primarily in securities included in, or representative of, its Target Index regardless of their investment merits. The Adviser does not attempt to take defensive positions in declining markets. As a result, the Fund may hold constituent securities regardless of the current or projected performance of a specific security or a particular industry or market sector. Maintaining investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund employed an active strategy.
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Risks related to the Index Provider. The Fund seeks to achieve a return which corresponds generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the Target Index as published by the Index Provider. There is no assurance that the Index Provider or any agents that may act on the Index Provider’s behalf will compile the Target Index accurately, or that the Target Index will be determined, composed or calculated accurately. While the Index Provider provides descriptions of what the Target Index is designed to achieve, none of the Index Provider or any agents of the Index Provider provide any warranty or accept any liability in relation to the quality, accuracy or completeness of the Target Index or its related data, and they do not guarantee that the Target Index will be in line with the Index Provider’s methodology. Errors in respect of the quality, accuracy and completeness of the data may occur from time to time and may not be identified and corrected by the Index Provider for a period of time or at all, particularly where the indexes are less commonly used. Therefore, gains, losses or costs associated with errors of the Index Provider or its agents will generally be borne by the Fund and its shareholders. For example, during a period where the Fund’s Target Index contains incorrect constituents, the Fund would have market exposure to such constituents and would be underexposed to the Target Index’s other constituents. Such errors may negatively or positively impact the Fund and its shareholders. Any gains due to the Index Provider’s or others’ errors will be kept by the Fund and its shareholders and any losses resulting from the Index Provider’s or others’ errors will be borne by the Fund and its shareholders. The Target Index is new and has a limited performance history. The foregoing risks may be greater for a new index.
Apart from scheduled rebalances, the Index Provider or its agents may carry out additional ad hoc rebalances to the Target Index in order, for example, to correct an error in the selection of index constituents, or to reflect corporate actions or de-listings. When the Target Index of the Fund is rebalanced and the Fund in turn rebalances its portfolio to attempt to increase the correlation between the Fund’s portfolio and the Target Index, any transaction costs and market exposure arising from such portfolio rebalancing will be borne directly by the Fund and its shareholders. Therefore, errors and additional ad hoc rebalances carried out by the Index Provider to the Target Index may increase the costs and the tracking error risk of the Fund.
Sampling Risk. To the extent the Fund uses a representative sampling approach, it will hold a smaller number of securities than are in the Target Index. As a result, an adverse development respecting a security held by the Fund could result in a greater decline in NAV than would be the case if the Fund held all of the securities in the Target Index. Conversely, a positive development relating to a security in the Target Index that is not held by the Fund could cause the Fund to underperform the Target Index. To the extent the assets in the Fund are smaller, these risks will be greater.
Tracking Error Risk. Tracking error is the divergence of the Fund’s performance from that of its Target Index. The Fund’s return may not match the return of the Target Index for a number of other reasons. For example, the Fund incurs a number of operating expenses not applicable to the Target Index, and incurs costs in buying and selling securities, especially when reconstituting the Fund’s securities holdings to reflect changes in the composition of the Target Index. Because the Target Index’s components are reconstituted on an annual basis, the Fund’s costs associated with reconstitution may be greater than those incurred by other ETFs that track indices whose composition changes less frequently. If the Fund is not fully invested, holding cash balances may prevent it from tracking the Target Index. In addition, the Fund’s NAV may deviate from the Target Index if the Fund fair values a portfolio security at a price other than the price used by the Target Index for that security. In addition, to the extent the Fund employs a representative sampling strategy, the stocks held by the Fund may provide performance that differs from the aggregate performance of all of the securities comprising the Target Index.
Premium-Discount Risk. Although it is expected that the market price of Fund shares typically will approximate its NAV, there may be times when the market price and the NAV differ. Thus, the investor may pay more than NAV when buying Fund shares on the secondary market, and may receive less than NAV when the investor sells Fund shares on the secondary market. This risk is separate and distinct from the risk that the NAV of Fund shares may decrease.
Secondary Market Trading Risk. Investors buying or selling shares in the secondary market will generally pay brokerage commissions or other charges imposed by brokers as determined by that broker. Brokerage commissions are often a fixed amount and may be a significant proportional cost for investors seeking to buy or sell relatively
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small amounts of Fund shares. In addition, secondary market investors will also incur the cost of the difference between the price that an investor is willing to pay for Fund shares (the “bid” price) and the price at which an investor is willing to sell shares (the “ask” price). This difference in bid and ask prices is often referred to as the “spread” or “bid/ask spread.” The bid/ask spread varies over time for shares based on trading volume and market liquidity, and is generally lower if the Fund’s shares have more trading volume and market liquidity and higher if the Fund’s shares have little trading volume and market liquidity. Further, increased market volatility may cause increased bid/ask spreads.
Although the Fund’s shares are listed on the Exchange, there can be no assurance that an active or liquid trading market for them will develop or be maintained. In addition, trading in Fund shares on the Exchange may be halted due to market conditions or for reasons that, in the view of the Exchange, make trading in Fund shares inadvisable. Further, trading in Fund shares on the Exchange is subject to trading halts caused by extraordinary market volatility pursuant to the Exchange “circuit breaker” rules. There can be no assurance that the requirements of the Exchange necessary to maintain the listing of the Fund will continue to be met or will remain unchanged.
During a “flash crash,” the market prices of the Fund’s shares may decline suddenly and significantly. Such a decline may not reflect the performance of the portfolio securities held by the Fund. Flash crashes may cause Authorized Participants and other market makers to limit or cease trading in the Fund’s shares for temporary or longer periods. Shareholders could suffer significant losses to the extent that they sell shares at these temporarily low market prices.
Non-Diversification Risk. The Fund is classified as “non-diversified” under the 1940 Act, which means that the Fund may invest a relatively high percentage of its assets in a limited number of issuers. As a result, the Fund may be more susceptible to a single adverse economic or regulatory occurrence affecting one or more of these issuers, experience increased volatility and be highly invested in certain issuers.
Concentration Risk. To the extent that the Fund’s Target Index is concentrated in a particular sector, industry or group of industries, the Fund is also expected to be concentrated in that sector or industry and may subject the Fund to a greater loss as a result of adverse economic, business or other developments affecting that industry. In addition, the value of the Fund’s shares may change at different rates compared to the value of shares of a fund with investments in a more diversified mix of sectors or industries. An individual sector, industry or group of industries may have above-average performance during particular periods, but may also move up and down more than the broader market. The Fund’s performance could also be affected if the sectors or industries do not perform as expected.
Consumer Staples Sector Risk. Companies in the consumer staples sector may be affected by the regulation of various product components and production methods, marketing campaigns and changes in the global economy, consumer spending and consumer demand. Tobacco companies, in particular, may be adversely affected by new laws, regulations and litigation. Companies in the consumer staples sector may also be adversely affected by changes or trends in commodity prices, which may be influenced by unpredictable factors. These companies may be subject to severe competition, which may have an adverse impact on their profitability.
Healthcare Sector Risk. The profitability of companies in the healthcare sector may be adversely affected by the following factors, among others: extensive government regulations, restrictions on government reimbursement for medical expenses, rising costs of medical products and services, pricing pressure, an increased emphasis on outpatient services, a limited number of products, industry innovation, changes in technologies and other market developments. A number of issuers in the healthcare sector have recently merged or otherwise experienced consolidation. The effects of this trend toward consolidation are unknown and may be far-reaching. Many healthcare companies are heavily dependent on patent protection. The expiration of a company’s patents may adversely affect that company’s profitability. Many healthcare companies are subject to extensive litigation based on product liability and similar claims. Healthcare companies are subject to competitive forces that may make it difficult to raise prices and, in fact, may result in price discounting. Many new products in the healthcare sector may be subject to regulatory approvals. The process of obtaining such approvals may be long and costly, and such efforts ultimately may be unsuccessful. Companies in the healthcare sector may be thinly capitalized and may be susceptible to product obsolescence. In addition, a number of legislative proposals concerning healthcare have been
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considered by the U.S. Congress in recent years. It is unclear what proposals will ultimately be enacted, if any, and what effect they may have on companies in the healthcare sector.
Technology Sector Risk. Technology companies face intense competition, both domestically and internationally, which may have an adverse effect on their profit margins. Like other technology companies, technology companies may have limited product lines, markets, financial resources or personnel. The products of technology companies may face obsolescence due to rapid technological developments, frequent new product introduction, unpredictable changes in growth rates and competition for the services of qualified personnel. Companies in the technology sector are heavily dependent on patent and intellectual property rights. The loss or impairment of these rights may adversely affect the profitability of these companies. Companies in the application software industry, in particular, may also be negatively affected by the decline or fluctuation of subscription renewal rates for their products and services, which may have an adverse effect on profit margins. Companies in the systems software industry may be adversely affected by, among other things, actual or perceived security vulnerabilities in their products and services, which may result in individual or class action lawsuits, state or federal enforcement actions and other remediation costs.
Software Industry Risk. Software companies are subject to the risks of companies in the technology sector (see above), as well as the following additional risks. Software companies can be significantly affected by aggressive pricing, changing domestic demand, the availability and price of components, cyclical market patterns, evolving industry standards, and frequent new product introductions. The success of software companies depends in substantial part on the timely and successful introduction of new products and the ability to service such products. An unexpected change in one or more of the technologies affecting an issuer's products or in the market for products based on a particular technology could have a material adverse effect on a participant's operating results. Many software companies rely on intellectual property laws to establish and protect their proprietary rights in their products and technologies. There can be no assurance that the steps taken to protect such rights will prevent misappropriation of technology or that competitors will not independently develop technologies that are substantially equivalent or superior to such companies' technology.
Dividend-Paying Securities Risk. High dividend-paying stocks may underperform non-dividend paying stocks and the market in general. The Fund’s ability to distribute income to shareholders will depend on the yield available on the securities held by the Fund. Changes in the dividend policies of companies held by the Fund could make it difficult for the Fund to provide a predictable level of income or increase the rate of dividend payout growth. Also, a company may reduce or eliminate its dividend after the Fund has gained exposure to such a company’s securities.
Equity Investing Risk. An investment in the Fund involves risks similar to those of investing in any fund holding or having exposure to equity securities, such as market fluctuations, changes in interest rates and perceived trends in stock prices. The values of equity securities could decline generally or could underperform other investments. Different types of equity securities tend to go through cycles of outperformance and underperformance in comparison to the general securities markets. In addition, securities may decline in value due to factors affecting a specific issuer, market or securities markets generally. Recent unprecedented turbulence in financial markets, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed income markets, or rising interest rates may negatively affect many issuers worldwide, which may have an adverse effect on the Fund.
Large Capitalization Securities Risk. Investments in large capitalization companies may go in and out of favor based on market and economic conditions and may underperform other market segments. Some large capitalization companies may be unable to respond quickly to new competitive challenges and attain the high growth rate of successful smaller companies, especially during extended periods of economic expansion. As such, returns on investments in stocks of large capitalization companies could trail the returns on investments in stocks of small and mid-capitalization companies.
Small- and Mid-Capitalization Securities Risk. The securities of small- and mid-capitalization companies generally trade in lower volumes and are subject to greater and more unpredictable price changes than larger capitalization stocks or the stock market as a whole. Small- and mid-capitalization companies may be particularly sensitive to changes in interest rates, government regulation, borrowing costs, and earnings.
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Mid-Capitalization Securities Risk. Investing in securities of medium capitalization issuers involves greater risk than customarily is associated with investing in larger, more established companies. These issuers’ securities may be more volatile and less liquid than those of more established issuers. These securities may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly, from the overall securities market. Medium capitalization issuers are sometimes more dependent on key personnel or limited product lines than larger, more diversified issuers. Often, medium capitalization issuers and the industries in which they focus are still evolving and, as a result, they may be more sensitive to changing market conditions.
ETFs and Other Investment Companies Risk. The risks of investing in securities of other investment companies, including ETFs, typically reflect the risks of the types of instruments in which the investment company invests.
When the Fund invests in these securities, shareholders of the Fund bear their proportionate share of the fees and expenses of the investment company, as well as their share of the Fund’s fees and expenses. As a result, the Fund’s investment in an investment company could cause the Fund’s operating expenses to be higher and performance to be lower.
Through its investments in investment companies, the Fund may be indirectly exposed to additional risks. Derivatives used by an investment company in which the Fund may invest may cause it to become leveraged, allowing it to obtain the right to a return on stipulated capital that exceeds the amount paid or invested. Use of leverage is speculative and could magnify losses. Although certain investment companies may segregate liquid assets to cover the market value of their obligations under the derivatives, this will not prevent losses of amounts in excess of the segregated assets. Other investment companies may not employ any risk management procedures at all, leading to even greater losses.
REIT Risk. A REIT is a company that owns or finances income-producing real estate. The Fund, through its investments in or exposure to REITs, is subject to the risks of investing in the real estate market, including decreases in property revenues, increases in interest rates, increases in property taxes and operating expenses, legal and regulatory changes, a lack of credit or capital, defaults by borrowers or tenants, environmental problems and natural disasters.
REITs are subject to additional risks, including those related to adverse governmental actions, declines in property value and the real estate market, and the potential failure to qualify for tax-free “pass-through” of net income and net realized capital gains and exemption from registration as an investment company. REITs are dependent upon specialized management skills and may invest in relatively few properties, a small geographic area or a small number of property types. As a result, investments in or exposure to REITs may be subject to volatility. To the extent the Fund invests in REITs concentrated in specific geographic areas or property types, the Fund may be subject to a greater loss as a result of adverse developments affecting such area or property types. REITs are pooled investment vehicles with their own fees and expenses and the Fund will indirectly bear a proportionate share of those fees and expenses.
Authorized Participants Concentration Risk. The Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may purchase and redeem Fund shares directly from the Fund (“Authorized Participants”). To the extent they cannot or are otherwise unwilling to engage in creation and redemption transactions with the Fund and no other Authorized Participant steps in, shares of the Fund may trade like closed-end fund shares at a significant discount to NAV and may face trading halts and/or delisting from the Exchange. This risk may be more pronounced in volatile markets, potentially where there are significant redemptions in ETFs generally.
Cash and Cash Equivalents Risk. The Fund may hold cash or cash equivalents. Generally, such positions offer less potential for gain than other investments. Holding cash or cash equivalents, even strategically, may lead to missed investment opportunities. This is particularly true when the market for other investments in which the Fund may invest is rapidly rising. If the Fund holds cash uninvested it will be subject to the credit risk of the depositing institution holding the cash.
Large Shareholder Risk. Certain shareholders, including (i) the Adviser and its owners and officers and (ii) other funds or accounts advised by the Adviser, may from time to time own a substantial amount of the Fund’s shares. In addition, a third party investor, the Adviser or an affiliate of the Adviser, an authorized participant, a lead market maker, or another entity may invest in the Fund and hold its investment for a limited period of time solely to facilitate commencement of the Fund or to facilitate the Fund’s achieving a specified size or scale. There can be no
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assurance that any large shareholder would not redeem its investment. Dispositions of a large number of shares by these shareholders may adversely affect the Fund’s liquidity and net assets to the extent such transactions are executed directly with the Fund in the form of redemptions through an authorized participant, rather than executed in the secondary market. These redemptions may also force the Fund to sell portfolio securities when it might not otherwise do so, which may negatively impact the Fund’s NAV and increase the Fund’s brokerage costs. To the extent these large shareholders transact in shares on the secondary market, such transactions may account for a large percentage of the trading volume on listing exchange and may, therefore, have a material upward or downward effect on the market price of the shares.
Turnover Risk. The Fund may engage in frequent and active trading, which may significantly increase the Fund's portfolio turnover rate. At times, the Fund may have a portfolio turnover rate substantially greater than 100%. For example, a portfolio turnover rate of 300% is equivalent to the Fund buying and selling all of its securities three times during the course of a year. A high portfolio turnover rate would result in high brokerage costs for the Fund, may result in higher taxes when shares are held in a taxable account and lower Fund performance.
Other Information
Exclusion of Adviser from Commodity Pool Operator (“CPO”) Definition. With respect to each Fund, the Adviser has claimed an exclusion from the definition of a CPO under the Commodity Exchange Act (“CEA”) and the rules of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) and, therefore, is not subject to CFTC registration or regulation as a CPO. In addition, the Adviser is relying upon a related exclusion from the definition of a “commodity trading advisor” under the CEA and the rules of the CFTC.
The terms of the CPO exclusion require the Funds, among other things, to adhere to certain limits on its investments in “commodity interests.” Commodity interests include commodity futures, commodity options and swaps, which in turn include non-deliverable forward currency agreements, as further described in the Funds’ statement of additional information (“SAI”). Because the Adviser and the Funds intend to comply with the terms of the CPO exclusion at this time, the Funds will limit their investments in these types of instruments. The Funds are not intended as a vehicle for trading in the commodity futures, commodity options or swaps markets. The CFTC has neither reviewed nor approved the Adviser’s reliance on these exclusions, or the Funds, their investment strategies or this Prospectus.
Investment Advisory Services
Investment Adviser
Global Beta Advisors LLC (“Adviser”) acts as each Fund’s investment adviser pursuant to an investment advisory agreement with the Trust on behalf of each Fund (the “Advisory Agreement”). The Adviser is a Pennsylvania limited liability company with its principal offices located at 1364 Welsh Road, Suite C120, North Wales, PA 19454. The Adviser was founded in 2017.
Pursuant to the Advisory Agreement, the Adviser has the overall responsibility for the Funds’ investment program. The Adviser is responsible for trading portfolio securities and other investment instruments on behalf of the Funds, including selecting broker-dealers to execute purchase and sale transactions in connection with any rebalancing or reconstitution of the Target Index, subject to the overall supervision and oversight of the Board. The Board of Trustees supervises and oversees the Adviser, establishes policies that the Adviser must follow in its management activities.
Pursuant to the Advisory Agreement, each Fund pays the Adviser the advisory fee for its services payable on a monthly basis at the annual rate listed in the table below, based on the average daily net assets of the Fund.
Fund Advisory Fee
Global Beta Smart Income ETF 0.29%
Global Beta Low Beta ETF 0.29%
Global Beta Rising Stars ETF 0.29%

Under the Advisory Agreement, the Adviser bears all of the ordinary operating expenses of the Funds, except for (i) the management fee, (ii) payments under the Funds’ Rule 12b-1 plan, (iii) brokerage expenses (including any costs
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incidental to transactions in portfolio securities or instruments), (iv) acquired fund fees and expenses, (v) taxes, (vi) interest (including borrowing costs and dividend expenses on securities sold short and overdraft charges), (vii) litigation expenses (including litigation to which the Trust or the Funds may be a party and indemnification of the Trustees and officers with respect thereto), and (viii) other extraordinary or non-routine expenses (including expenses arising from mergers, acquisitions or similar transactions involving the Funds).
For the fiscal year ended November 30, 2021, the Adviser received the below aggregate fee (net of fee waiver) as a percentage of average net assets from each Fund.
Fund Advisory Fee (Net Waiver)
Global Beta Smart Income ETF 0.04%
Global Beta Low Beta ETF 0.00%
Global Beta Rising Stars ETF 0.00%
Pursuant to an Expense Reimbursement Agreement, the Adviser had reimbursed the Funds certain expenses through April 30, 2021. This Expense Reimbursement Agreement has since been terminated.
A discussion regarding the basis for the Board’s approval of the Advisory Agreement for the Global Beta Smart Income ETF, Global Beta Low Beta ETF, and the Global Beta Rising Stars ETF is available in the Funds’ semi-annual report to shareholders for the period ended May 31, 2021.
Portfolio Managers
The portfolio managers are responsible for various functions related to portfolio management, including, but not limited to, investing cash inflows, implementing investment strategy, researching and reviewing investment strategy, and overseeing members of his or her portfolio management team with more limited responsibilities.
Justin Lowry
Justin Lowry has over ten years of portfolio management experience. Mr. Lowry is a Portfolio Manager and Chief Investment Officer at the Adviser, responsible for oversight of investment activity, market research and product development. Previously, Mr. Lowry was Director of Research at OppenheimerFunds, Inc., where he oversaw research and product development for its Beta Solutions ETF business, which held over $2 billion in assets in the RevenueShares ETF suite. He began his portfolio management experience as Portfolio Manager and Head of Research at VTL Associates, LLC. Justin earned his B.S. in business management from St. Joseph’s University.
Vincent T. Lowry
Vincent T. Lowry has over 15 years of portfolio management experience. Mr. Lowry is a Portfolio Manager and Chief Executive Officer at the Adviser. Previously, Mr. Lowry was a Lead Portfolio Manager at OppenheimerFunds, Inc., where he oversaw asset allocation for its Beta Solutions ETF business, which held over $2 billion in assets in the RevenueShares ETF suite. Prior to his experience at OppenheimerFunds, Inc., he founded VTL Associates, LLC, using his experience developing global asset allocation models to create a family of revenue-weighted ETFs in conjunction with Standard & Poor’s. Vincent earned his B.S. in political science and his MBA from St. Joseph’s University.
The SAI provides additional information about each portfolio manager’s compensation, other accounts managed by each portfolio manager, and each portfolio manager’s ownership of shares of the Funds.
Manager of Managers Structure
The Adviser and the Trust may seek an exemptive order from the SEC that would allow the Funds to operate in a “manager of managers” structure whereby the Adviser, as the Funds’ investment adviser, can appoint and replace both affiliated and unaffiliated sub-advisers, and enter into, amend and terminate sub-advisory agreements with such sub-advisers, each subject to Board approval but without obtaining prior shareholder approval (the “Manager of Managers Structure”). The Funds would, however, inform shareholders of the hiring of any new sub-adviser within 90 days after the hiring. The SEC exemptive order would provide the Funds with greater efficiency and without incurring the expenses and delays associated with obtaining shareholder approval of sub-advisory agreements with such sub-advisers.
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The use of the Manager of Managers Structure with respect to the Funds would be subject to certain conditions that would be set forth in the SEC exemptive order. Under the Manager of Managers Structure, the Adviser would have the ultimate responsibility, subject to oversight by the Board, to oversee the sub-advisers and recommend their hiring, termination and replacement. The Adviser would also, subject to the review and oversight of the Board: set the Fund’s overall investment strategy; evaluate, select and recommend sub- advisers to manage all or a portion of the Fund’s assets; implement procedures reasonably designed to ensure that each sub-adviser complies with the Fund’s investment objective, policies and restrictions; allocate and, when appropriate, reallocate the Fund’s assets among sub-advisers; and monitor and evaluate the sub-advisers’ performance.
There are no assurances that the SEC will grant exemptive relief for the Manager of Managers Structure should the Adviser and Trust seek to obtain it.
Information Regarding Exchange-Traded Funds
Each Fund is an ETF. An ETF is an investment company that offers shares that are listed on a U.S. securities exchange. Because they are listed on an exchange, shares of ETFs can be traded throughout the day on that exchange at market-determined prices.
Conventional mutual fund shares are bought from and redeemed with the issuing fund for cash at the NAV of such shares. ETF shares, by contrast, cannot be purchased from or redeemed with the issuing fund at NAV except by or through Authorized Participants, and then only in large blocks of shares called “Creation Units,” usually in exchange for an in-kind basket of securities. In order to be an “Authorized Participant,” you must be either a broker-dealer or other participant in the Continuous Net Settlement System (“Clearing Process”) of the National Securities Clearing Corporation (“NSCC”) or a participant in The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) with access to the DTC system, and you must execute an agreement with the Fund’s distributor.
NAV is calculated once a day at the close of trading on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) and reflects a Fund’s total assets, less its liabilities, divided by the number of shares it has outstanding. Transactions in traditional mutual fund shares are typically effected at the NAV next determined after receipt of the transaction order, no matter what time during the day an investor in a traditional mutual fund places an order to purchase or redeem shares, that investor’s order will be priced at that Fund’s NAV determined as of the close of trading of the NYSE. Traditional mutual fund shares may be purchased from a fund directly by the shareholder or through a financial intermediary.
In contrast, investors can purchase and sell ETF shares on a secondary market through a broker. Secondary market transactions may not occur at NAV, but at market prices that change throughout the day, based on the supply of, and demand for, ETF shares and on changes in the prices of the ETF’s portfolio holdings. Accordingly, an investor may pay more (or receive less) than NAV when the investor purchase (or sells) Fund shares on the secondary market. Shareholders will also incur typical brokerage and transaction costs when buying or selling ETF shares on the secondary market. An organized secondary market is expected to exist for the Funds’ shares because Fund shares are listed for trading on the Exchange. It is possible, however, that an active trading market in Fund shares may not be maintained.
Pricing Fund Shares
The NAV of each Fund’s shares is calculated each business day as of the close of regular trading on the NYSE, generally 4:00 p.m., Eastern Time. NAV per share is computed by dividing the net assets by the number of shares outstanding.
The trading prices of shares in the secondary market may differ in varying degrees from their daily NAVs and can be affected by market forces such as supply and demand, economic conditions and other factors.
If you buy or sell Fund shares on the secondary market, you will pay or receive the market price, which may be higher or lower than NAV. Your transaction will be priced at NAV only if you purchase or redeem your Fund shares in Creation Units.
When calculating the NAV of the Funds’ shares, securities held by the Funds are valued at market quotations when reliable market quotations are readily available. Exchange traded securities and instruments (including equity securities and ETFs) are generally valued at the last reported sale price on the principal exchange on which such securities are traded (at the NASDAQ Official Closing Price for NASDAQ listed securities), as of the close of
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regular trading on the NYSE on the day the securities are being valued or, if there are no sales, at the mean of the most recent bid and asked prices. OTC securities and instruments are generally valued using prices provided by a third party pricing service.
When reliable market quotations are not readily available, securities are priced at their fair value, which is the price a security’s owner might reasonably expect to receive upon its sale. The Funds also may use fair value pricing if the value of a security it holds has been materially affected by events occurring before the Funds’ pricing time but after the close of the primary markets or exchanges on which the security is traded. Valuing the Funds’ investments using fair value pricing may result in using prices for those investments that may differ from current market valuations. The Board has delegated to a Valuation Committee the authority to determine fair value prices, pursuant to policies and procedures the Board has established. Certain market valuations could result in a difference between the prices used to calculate each Fund’s NAV and the prices used by each Fund’s Target Index, which, in turn, could result in a difference between a Fund’s performance and the performance of its Target Index.
In December 2020, the SEC adopted Rule 2a-5 under the 1940 Act (“Rule 2a-5”), which is intended to address valuation practices and the role of a registered investment company’s board of trustees with respect to the fair value of the investments of the registered investment company or business development company. Among other things, Rule 2a-5 will permit a fund’s board to designate the fund’s primary investment adviser to perform the fund’s fair value determinations, which will be subject to board oversight and certain reporting and other requirements intended to ensure that the registered investment company’s board receives the information it needs to oversee the investment adviser’s fair value determinations. The Funds and the Adviser must comply with Rule 2a-5 by September 8, 2022. The Adviser continues to review Rule 2a-5 and its impact on the Adviser’s and the Funds’ valuation policies and related practices.
Shareholder Information
Shares of the Funds trade on exchanges and elsewhere during the trading day. Shares can be bought and sold throughout the trading day like other shares of publicly traded securities. There is no minimum investment for purchases made on an exchange. When buying or selling shares through a broker, you will incur customary brokerage commissions and charges. In addition, you will also incur the cost of the “spread,” which is the difference between what professional investors are willing to pay for Fund shares (the “bid” price) and the price at which they are willing to sell Fund shares (the “ask” price). The commission is frequently a fixed amount and may be a significant proportional cost for investors seeking to buy or sell small amounts of shares. The spread with respect to shares of the Funds varies over time based on the Funds’ trading volumes and market liquidity, and is generally lower if the Funds have a lot of trading volume and market liquidity and higher if the Funds have little trading volume and market liquidity. Because of the costs of buying and selling Fund shares, frequent trading may reduce investment return.
Shares of the Funds may be acquired or redeemed directly from the Funds only in Creation Units or multiples thereof. The Funds are listed on the Exchange, which is open for trading Monday through Friday and is closed on weekends and the following holidays, as observed: New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Presidents’ Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Juneteenth National Independence Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
Premium/Discount Information
Information regarding how often the shares of the Funds traded on the Exchange at a price above (i.e., at a premium) or below (i.e., at a discount) the NAV of the Funds during the most recently completed calendar year and the most recently completed calendar quarters is available at www.globalbetaetf.com. Any such information represents past performance and cannot be used to predict future results.
Certain Legal Risks
Because Fund shares may be issued on an ongoing basis, a “distribution” of Fund shares could occur at any time. Certain activities performed by a dealer could, depending on the circumstances, result in the dealer being deemed a participant in the distribution, in a manner that could render it a statutory underwriter and subject it to the prospectus delivery and liability provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). For example, a dealer could be deemed a statutory underwriter if it purchases Creation Units from the issuing Fund, breaks them
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down into the constituent Fund shares, and sells those shares directly to customers, or if it chooses to couple the creation of a supply of new Fund shares with an active selling effort involving solicitation of secondary-market demand for Fund shares. Whether a person is an underwriter depends upon all of the facts and circumstances pertaining to that person’s activities, and the examples mentioned here should not be considered a complete description of all the activities that could cause a dealer to be deemed an underwriter.
Broker-dealer firms should also note that dealers who are not “underwriters” but are effecting transactions in Fund shares, whether or not participating in the distribution of Fund shares, are generally required to deliver a prospectus. This is because the prospectus delivery exemption in Section 4(3) of the Securities Act is not available in respect of such transactions as a result of Section 24(d) of the 1940 Act. Dealers who are not “underwriters” but are participating in a distribution (as opposed to engaging in ordinary secondary-market transactions), and thus dealing with Fund shares as part of an “unsold allotment” within the meaning of Section 4(3)(C) of the Securities Act, will be unable to take advantage of the prospectus delivery exemption provided by Section 4(3) of the Securities Act. For delivery of prospectuses to exchange members, the prospectus delivery mechanism of Rule 153 under the Securities Act is only available with respect to transactions on a national exchange.
Section 12(d)(1) of the 1940 Act restricts investments by investment companies in the securities of other investment companies, including Shares. Registered investment companies are permitted to invest in the Fund beyond the limits set forth in Section 12(d)(1) subject to certain terms and conditions set forth in certain SEC exemptive rules, including that such investment companies enter into an agreement with the Trust on behalf of the Fund prior to exceeding the limits imposed by Section 12(d)(1).
The Adviser reserves the right to reject any purchase request at any time, for any reason, and without notice. The Funds can stop offering Creation Units and may postpone payment of redemption proceeds at times when the Exchange is closed, when trading on the Exchange is suspended or restricted, for any period during which an emergency exists as a result of which disposal of the shares of the Fund’s portfolio securities or determination of NAV is not reasonably practicable, or under any circumstances as is permitted by the SEC.
Legal Restrictions on Transactions in Certain Securities
An investor subject to a legal restriction with respect to a particular security required to be deposited in connection with the purchase of a Creation Unit may, at the Funds’ discretion, be permitted to deposit an equivalent amount of cash in substitution for any security which would otherwise be included in the in-kind basket of securities applicable to the purchase of a Creation Unit.
Creations and redemptions of Fund shares are subject to compliance with applicable federal and state securities laws, including that securities accepted for deposit and securities used to satisfy redemption requests are sold in transactions that would be exempt from registration under the Securities Act. The Funds (whether or not they otherwise permit cash redemptions) reserve the right to redeem Creation Units for cash to the extent that an investor could not lawfully purchase or a Fund could not lawfully deliver specific securities under such laws or the local laws of a jurisdiction in which the Fund invests. An Authorized Participant or an investor for which it is acting subject to a legal restriction with respect to a particular stock included in an in-kind basket of securities may be paid an equivalent amount of cash. An Authorized Participant that is not a qualified institutional buyer (“QIB”) as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act will not be able to receive, as part of a redemption, restricted securities eligible for resale under Rule 144A.
Frequent Trading
The Board has evaluated the risks of market timing activities by the Funds’ shareholders. The Board noted that a Fund’s shares can only be purchased and redeemed directly from the Fund in Creation Units by Authorized Participants and that the vast majority of trading in the Funds’ shares occurs on the secondary market. Because the secondary market trades do not involve a Fund directly, it is unlikely those trades would cause the harmful effects of market timing, including dilution, disruption of portfolio management, increases in the Funds’ trading costs and the realization of capital gains. With regard to the purchase or redemption of Creation Units directly with the Funds, to the extent effected in-kind (i.e., for securities), the Board noted that those trades do not cause the harmful effects (as previously noted) that may result from frequent cash trades. To the extent trades are effected in whole or in part in cash, the Board noted that those trades could result in dilution to a Fund and increased transaction costs, which could negatively impact a Fund’s ability to achieve its investment objective. However, the Board noted also that direct
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trading by Authorized Participants is critical to ensuring that the Funds’ shares trade at or close to NAV. The Funds also may employ fair valuation pricing to minimize potential dilution from market timing. In addition, each Fund may impose transaction fees on purchases and redemptions of Fund shares to cover the custodial and other costs incurred by a Fund in effecting trades. These fees may increase if an investor substitutes cash in part or in whole for securities, reflecting the fact that the Fund’s trading costs increase in those circumstances. Given this structure, the Board determined that it is not necessary to adopt policies and procedures to detect and deter market timing of the Funds’ shares.
Book Entry
Shares are held in book-entry form, which means that no stock certificates are issued. The DTC or its nominee is the record owner of all outstanding shares of the Funds and is recognized as the owner of all shares for all purposes. Investors owning shares are beneficial owners as shown on the records of DTC or its participants. DTC serves as the securities depository for all shares. Participants in DTC include securities brokers and dealers, banks, trust companies, clearing corporations and other institutions that directly or indirectly maintain a custodial relationship with DTC. As a beneficial owner of shares, you are not entitled to receive physical delivery of stock certificates or to have shares registered in your name, and you are not considered a registered owner of Fund shares. Therefore, to exercise any right as an owner of shares, you must rely upon the procedures of DTC and its participants. These procedures are the same as those that apply to any other stocks that you may hold in book entry or “street name” form.
The Adviser will not have any record of your ownership. Your account information will be maintained by your broker, which will provide you with account statements, confirmations of your purchases and sales of Fund shares, and tax information. Your broker also will be responsible for distributing income and capital gains distributions and for ensuring that you receive shareholder reports and other communications from the fund whose shares you own. You will receive other services (e.g., dividend reinvestment and average cost information) only if your broker offers these services.
Portfolio Holdings Information
Each Fund’s complete portfolio holdings as of the time the Fund calculates its NAV are disclosed daily at www.globalbetaetf.com at or before the opening of trading on the Exchange the following day. In addition, the deposit securities and fund securities that should be delivered in exchange for purchases and redemptions of Creation Units are publicly disseminated daily via the NSCC. A description of the Funds’ other policies and procedures with respect to the disclosure of the Funds’ portfolio securities is available in the SAI.
Distribution and Service Plan
Each Fund has adopted a distribution and service plan (“Plan”) pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act. In accordance with the Plan, each Fund is authorized to pay an amount up to 0.25% of its average daily net assets each year to finance any activity primarily intended to result in the sale of Creation Units of each Fund or the provision of investor services, including but not limited to: (i) delivering copies of the Trust’s then-current prospectus to prospective purchasers of such Creation Units; (ii) preparing, setting in type, printing and mailing any prospectus, report or other communication to prospective shareholders or authorized participants of the Trust; (iii) marketing and promotional services including advertising; (iv) facilitating communications with beneficial owners of shares of the Funds; and (v) such other services and obligations as are set forth in the Distribution Agreement with Compass Distributors, LLC (the “Distributor”).
No Rule 12b-1 fees are currently paid by any Fund. In the event Rule 12b-1 fees were charged, over time they would increase the cost of an investment in the Fund and may cost you more than paying other types of sales charges.
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Dividends and Distributions
Each Fund has elected and intends to qualify each year as a regulated investment company under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). As a regulated investment company, a Fund generally pays no federal income tax on the income and gains it distributes. Fund shareholders are entitled to their share of a Fund’s income and net realized gains on its investments. Each Fund pays out substantially all of its net earnings to its shareholders as “distributions.” These amounts, net of expenses, are passed along to Fund shareholders as “income dividend distributions.” The Fund realizes capital gains or losses whenever it sells securities or buys back shorted securities. Net long-term capital gains are distributed to shareholders as “capital gain distributions.”
Each Fund intends to pay income dividends quarterly from its net investment income. Capital gains, if any, may be paid at least annually. The amount of any distribution will vary, and there is no guarantee a Fund will pay either income dividends or capital gain distributions. Dividends may be declared and paid more frequently to improve a Fund’s tracking of its Target Index or to comply with the distribution requirements of the Code.
At the time you purchase your Fund shares, the price of shares may reflect undistributed income, undistributed capital gains, or net unrealized appreciation in value of portfolio securities held by the Fund. For taxable investors, a subsequent distribution to you of such amounts, although constituting a return of your investment, would be taxable. Buying shares in a Fund just before it declares an income dividend or capital gains distribution is sometimes known as “buying a dividend.”
Each year, you will receive an annual statement (Form 1099) of your account activity to assist you in completing your federal, state and local tax returns. Distributions declared in December to shareholders of record in such month, but paid in January, are taxable as if they were paid in December. The Funds make every effort to search for reclassified income to reduce the number of corrected forms mailed to you. However, when necessary, you will receive a corrected Form 1099 to reflect reclassified information.
Distributions in cash may be reinvested automatically in additional shares only if the broker through which the shares were purchased makes such an option available.
The Trust will not make the DTC book-entry Dividend Reinvestment Service available for use by shareholders for reinvestment of their cash proceeds, but certain individual brokers may make a dividend reinvestment service available to their clients. If this service is available and used, distributions of both income and realized gains will be automatically reinvested in additional whole shares of the same Fund purchased in the secondary market. Fund distributions of income and realized gains are taxable to you whether paid in cash or reinvested in Fund shares.
Taxes
The following is a summary of the material U.S. federal income tax considerations applicable to an investment in shares of a Fund. The summary is based on the laws in effect on the date of this Prospectus and existing judicial and administrative interpretations thereof, all of which are subject to change, possibly with retroactive effect. In addition, this summary assumes that a shareholder holds shares as capital assets within the meaning of the Code and does not hold shares in connection with a trade or business. This summary does not address all potential U.S. federal income tax considerations possibly applicable to an investment in shares of a Fund to shareholders holding shares through a partnership (or other pass-through entity) or to shareholders subject to special tax rules. Prospective shareholders are urged to consult their own tax advisors with respect to the specific federal, state, local, and foreign tax consequences of investing in shares based on their particular circumstances.
As with any investment, you should consider how your investment in shares of the Funds will be taxed. Unless your investment in shares is made through a tax-exempt entity or tax-advantaged arrangement, such as an individual retirement plan, you need to be aware of the possible tax consequences when a Fund makes distributions and when you sell your shares of a Fund.
Fund Distributions
Distributions from a Fund’s net investment income (other than qualified dividend income), including distributions out of the Fund’s net short-term capital gains, if any, are taxable to you as ordinary income. Distributions by a Fund of net long-term capital gains in excess of net short-term capital losses are taxable to you as long-term capital gains, regardless of how long you have held a Fund’s shares.
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Distributions by a Fund that qualify as qualified dividend income are taxable to you at long-term capital gain rates. In order for a distribution by a Fund to be treated as qualified dividend income: (i) the Fund itself must receive qualified dividend income from U.S. corporations and certain qualified foreign corporations, (ii) the Fund must meet holding period and other requirements with respect to its dividend paying stocks, and (iii) you must meet holding period requirements and other requirements with respect to the Fund’s shares. In general, your distributions are subject to federal income tax for the year when they are paid. Certain distributions paid in January, however, may be treated as paid on December 31 of the prior year.
Taxes on Exchange-Listed Shares Sales
Currently, any capital gain or loss realized upon a sale of Fund shares is generally treated as long-term capital gain or loss if the shares have been held for more than one year and as short-term capital gain or loss if the shares have been held for one year or less. The ability to deduct capital losses may be limited.
Tax Treatment of Fund Shareholders
An additional 3.8% Medicare tax is imposed on certain net investment income (including ordinary dividends and capital gain distributions received from a Fund and net gains from taxable dispositions of Fund shares) of U.S. individuals, estates and trusts to the extent that such person’s “modified adjusted gross income” (in the case of an individual) or “adjusted gross income” (in the case of an estate or trust) exceeds a threshold amount. This Medicare tax, if applicable, is reported by you on, and paid with, your federal income tax return.
Fund distributions and gains from the sale of Fund shares generally are subject to state and local taxes.
By law, if you do not provide your proper taxpayer identification number and certain required certifications, you may be subject to backup withholding on any distributions of income, capital gains or proceeds from the sale of your shares. Withholding is also imposed if the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) requires it. When withholding is required, the amount will be 24% of any distributions or proceeds paid.
Non-U.S. investors may be subject to U.S. withholding tax at a 30% or lower treaty rate and U.S. estate tax and are subject to special U.S. tax certification requirements to avoid backup withholding and claim any treaty benefits. Exemptions from U.S. withholding tax are provided for certain capital gain dividends paid by a Fund from net long-term capital gains, interest-related dividends and short- term capital gain dividends, if such amounts are reported by the Fund. However, notwithstanding such exemptions from U.S. withholding at the source, any such dividends and distributions of income and capital gains will be subject to backup withholding at a rate of 24% if you fail to properly certify that you are not a U.S. person.
Under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (“FATCA”), a 30% withholding tax is imposed on income dividends paid by a Fund to certain foreign entities, referred to as foreign financial institutions or nonfinancial foreign entities, that fail to comply (or be deemed compliant) with extensive reporting and withholding requirements designed to inform the U.S. department of the Treasury of U.S.-owned foreign investment accounts. After December 31, 2018, FATCA withholding also would have applied to certain capital gain distributions, return of capital distributions and the proceeds arising from the sale of Fund shares; however, based on proposed regulations issued by the IRS, which can be relied upon currently, such withholding is no longer required unless final regulations provide otherwise (which is not expected). A Fund may disclose the information that it receives from its shareholders to the IRS. Information about a shareholder in a Fund may be disclosed to the IRS, non-U.S. taxing authorities or other parties as necessary to comply with FATCA. Withholding also may be required if a foreign entity that is a shareholder of a Fund fails to provide the appropriate certifications or other documentation concerning its status under FATCA.
Taxes on Purchase and Redemption of Creation Units
An Authorized Participant who exchanges equity securities for Creation Units generally will recognize a gain or a loss. The gain or loss will be equal to the difference between the market value of the Creation Units at the time of purchase (plus any cash received by the Authorized Participant as part of the issue) and the Authorized Participant’s aggregate basis in the securities surrendered (plus any cash paid by the Authorized Participant as part of the issue). An Authorized Participant who exchanges Creation Units for equity securities generally will recognize a gain or loss equal to the difference between the Authorized Participant’s basis in the Creation Units (plus any cash paid by the Authorized Participant as part of the redemption) and the aggregate market value of the securities received (plus any
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cash received by the Authorized Participant as part of the redemption). The IRS, however, may assert that a loss realized upon an exchange of securities for Creation Units cannot be deducted currently under the rules governing “wash sales,” or on the basis that there has been no significant change in economic position. Persons exchanging securities should consult their own tax advisor with respect to whether the wash sale rules apply and when a loss might be deductible.
Under current federal tax laws, any capital gain or loss realized upon redemption of Creation Units is generally treated as long-term capital gain or loss if the shares have been held for more than one year and as a short-term capital gain or loss if the shares have been held for one year or less, assuming that such Creation Units are held as a capital asset. If a Fund redeems Creation Units in cash, in whole or in part, it may recognize more capital gains than it will if it redeems Creation Units in-kind.
If you purchase or redeem Creation Units, you will be sent a confirmation statement showing how many and at what price you purchased or sold shares.
The foregoing discussion summarizes some of the possible consequences under current federal tax law of an investment in a Fund. It is not a substitute for personal tax advice. You may also be subject to state and local taxation on Fund distributions and sales of Fund shares. You are advised to consult your personal tax advisor about the potential tax consequences of an investment in Fund shares under all applicable tax laws.
Trademark Notice/Disclaimers
S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC Disclaimer (Global Beta Smart Income ETF and Global Beta Low Beta ETF only)
Subject to the Index Provider’s ownership of the S&P 900 and S&P 500, each Target Index, the values thereof, and the specifications provided by the Adviser to the Index Provider is the property of the Adviser, which has contracted with S&P Opco, LLC (a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC) to calculate and maintain each Target Index. The Target Indexes are not sponsored by S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC or its affiliates or its third party licensors, including Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC (collectively, “S&P Dow Jones Indices”). S&P Dow Jones Indices will not be liable for any errors or omissions in calculating a Target Index. “Calculated by S&P Dow Jones Indices” and the related stylized mark(s) are service marks of S&P Dow Jones Indices and have been licensed for use by the Adviser. S&P® is a registered trademark of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC, and Dow Jones® is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC.
The Global Beta Smart Income ETF and the Global Beta Low Beta ETF (for this section only, the “Funds”) are not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by S&P Dow Jones Indices. S&P Dow Jones Indices does not make any representation or warranty, express or implied, to the owners of the Funds or any member of the public regarding the advisability of investing in securities generally or in the Funds particularly or the ability of a Target Index to track general market performance. S&P Dow Jones Indices’ only relationship to Global Beta Advisors LLC with respect to each Target Index is the licensing of the S&P 900 and S&P 500, certain trademarks, service marks and trade names of S&P Dow Jones Indices, and the provision of the calculation services related to each Target Index. S&P Dow Jones Indices is not responsible for and has not participated in the determination of the prices and amount of the Funds or the timing of the issuance or sale of the Funds or in the determination or calculation of the equation by which the Funds may be converted into cash or other redemption mechanics. S&P Dow Jones Indices has no obligation or liability in connection with the administration, marketing or trading of the Funds. S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC is not an investment advisor. Inclusion of a security within a Target Index is not a recommendation by S&P Dow Jones Indices to buy, sell, or hold such security, nor is it investment advice.
S&P DOW JONES INDICES DOES NOT GUARANTEE THE ADEQUACY, ACCURACY, TIMELINESS AND/OR THE COMPLETENESS OF A TARGET INDEX, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, SOFTWARE, OR ANY DATA RELATED THERETO OR ANY COMMUNICATION WITH RESPECT THERETO, INCLUDING, ORAL, WRITTEN, OR ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS. S&P DOW JONES INDICES SHALL NOT BE SUBJECT TO ANY DAMAGES OR LIABILITY FOR ANY ERRORS, OMISSIONS, OR DELAYS THEREIN. S&P DOW JONES INDICES MAKES NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR USE OR AS TO RESULTS TO BE OBTAINED BY GLOBAL BETA ADVISORS LLC, OWNERS OF THE FUND, OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY FROM THE USE OF A TARGET INDEX, INTELLECTUAL
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PROPERTY, SOFTWARE, OR WITH RESPECT TO ANY DATA RELATED THERETO. WITHOUT LIMITING ANY OF THE FOREGOING, IN NO EVENT WHATSOEVER SHALL S&P DOW JONES INDICES BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, LOSS OF PROFITS, TRADING LOSSES, LOST TIME, OR GOODWILL, EVEN IF THEY HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE.
NYSE Arca Disclaimer
Shares of the Funds are not sponsored, endorsed or promoted by NYSE Arca. NYSE Arca makes no representation or warranty, express or implied, to the owners of the shares of the Funds or any member of the public regarding the ability of a Fund to track the performance of its Target Index or the ability of a Target Index to track stock market performance. NYSE Arca is not responsible for, nor has it participated in, the determination of the compilation or the calculation of the Target Indexes, nor in the determination of the timing of, prices of, or quantities of shares of a Fund to be issued, nor in the determination or calculation of the equation by which the shares are redeemable. NYSE Arca has no obligation or liability to owners of the shares of a Fund in connection with the administration, marketing or trading of the shares of the Funds.
NYSE Arca does not guarantee the accuracy and/or the completeness of the Target Indexes or any data included therein. NYSE Arca makes no warranty, express or implied, as to results to be obtained by the Trust on behalf of the Funds as licensee, licensee’s customers and counterparties, owners of the shares of the Funds, or any other person or entity from the use of the subject index or any data included therein in connection with the rights licensed as described herein or for any other use. NYSE Arca makes no express or implied warranties and hereby expressly disclaims all warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose with respect to the Target Indexes or any data included therein. Without limiting any of the foregoing, in no event shall NYSE Arca have any liability for any direct, indirect, special, punitive, consequential or any other damages (including lost profits) even if notified of the possibility of such damages.
Adviser Disclaimer
The Adviser does not guarantee the accuracy or the completeness of the Target Indexes or any data included therein and the Adviser shall have no liability for any errors, omissions or interruptions therein.
The Adviser makes no warranty, express or implied, to the owners of shares of a Fund or to any other person or entity, as to results to be obtained by the Fund from the use of its Target Index or any data included therein. The Adviser makes no express or implied warranties and expressly disclaims all warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose or use with respect to a Target Index or any data included therein. Without limiting any of the foregoing, in no event shall the Adviser have any liability for any special, punitive, direct, indirect or consequential damages (including lost profits), even if notified of the possibility of such damages.
FactSet Research Systems Inc. Disclaimer (Global Beta Rising Stars ETF only)
The Global Beta Rising Stars ETF (for this section only, the “Fund”) is not sponsored, endorsed, sold, or promoted by FactSet Research Systems Inc. (“FactSet”). FactSet makes no representation or warranty, express or implied, to the owners of the Fund or any member of the public regarding the advisability of investing in securities generally or in the Fund particularly or the ability of the FactSet Rising Stars Index (for this section only, the “Index”) to track general stock market performance. FactSet’s only relationship to the Adviser (the “Licensee”) is the licensing of certain trademarks and trade names of FactSet and of the Index, which is determined, composed, and calculated by FactSet without regard to the Licensee or the Fund. FactSet has no obligation to take the needs of the Licensee or the owners of the Fund into consideration in determining, composing, or calculating the Index. FactSet is not responsible for and has not participated in (i) the determination of the prices and amount of shares of the Fund, (ii) the timing of the issuance or sale of shares of the Fund, or (iii) the determination or calculation of the Fund’s net asset value. FactSet has no obligation or liability in connection with the administration, marketing, or trading of the Fund.
FACTSET DOES NOT GUARANTEE THE ACCURACY AND/OR THE COMPLETENESS OF THE INDEX OR ANY DATA INCLUDED THEREIN AND FACTSET SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY FOR ANY ERRORS, OMISSIONS, OR INTERRUPTIONS THEREIN. FACTSET MAKES NO WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR
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IMPLIED, AS TO RESULTS TO BE OBTAINED BY LICENSEE, OWNERS OF THE FUND, OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY FROM THE USE OF THE INDEX OR ANY DATA INCLUDED THEREIN. FACTSET MAKES NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR USE WITH RESPECT TO THE INDEX OR ANY DATA INCLUDED THEREIN. WITHOUT LIMITING ANY OF THE FOREGOING, IN NO EVENT SHALL FACTSET HAVE ANY LIABILITY FOR ANY SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING LOST PROFITS), EVEN IF NOTIFIED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
Service Providers
Distributor
Compass Distributors, LLC is the principal underwriter and distributor of the Funds’ shares. The Distributor will not distribute shares in less than a Creation Unit, and it does not maintain a secondary market in the shares. The Distributor is a broker-dealer registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. The Distributor is not affiliated with the Adviser, the Index Provider or their affiliates.
Administrator, Fund Accounting Agent, Transfer Agent
U.S. Bank Global Fund Services serves as the Administrator, Fund Accounting Agent, Transfer Agent, and Dividend-Paying Agent of the Funds.
Custodian
U.S. Bank N.A. serves as Custodian of the Funds’ investments.
Index Provider
Each Index Provider, in consultation with the Adviser, developed the methodology for each respective Target Index. Each Index Provider is responsible for the ongoing maintenance, compilation, calculation and administration of each respective Target Index (except FactSet Research Systems Inc., which is only responsible for the ongoing maintenance, compilation, and administration of the FactSet Rising Stars Index). No Index Provider is affiliated with the Funds or the Adviser. The Adviser has entered into a license agreement with each Index Provider to use each respective Target Index. Pursuant to a sub-licensing agreement between the Adviser and the Trust, the Adviser sub-licenses the use of each Target Index and related intellectual property to the Trust and the Funds.
Householding Policy
Householding is an option available to certain investors of the Funds. Householding is a method of delivery, based on the preference of the individual investor, in which a single copy of certain shareholder documents can be delivered to investors who share the same address, even if their accounts are registered under different names. Householding for the Funds is available through certain broker- dealers. If you are interested in enrolling in householding and receiving a single copy of prospectuses and other shareholder documents, please contact your broker-dealer. If you currently are enrolled in householding and wish to change your householding status, please contact your broker-dealer.
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Financial Highlights
The financial highlights table is intended to help you understand the Funds’ financial performance for the Funds’ five most recent fiscal years (or the life of the Fund, if shorter). Certain information reflects financial results for a single Fund share. The total returns in the table represent the rate that an investor would have earned or lost on an investment in the Funds’ (assuming reinvestment of all dividends and distributions). This information has been audited by WithumSmith + Brown, PC, the Funds’ independent registered public accounting firm, whose report, along with the Funds’ financial statements, is included in the Funds’ annual report, which is available upon request.








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Financial Highlights Global Beta Smart Income ETF
For a share outstanding throughout the periods presented
For the Year Ended November 30, 2021
For the Period Ended November 30, 2020(a)
Net asset value, beginning of year $ 17.15  $ 20.00 
INCOME FROM INVESTMENT OPERATIONS:
Net investment income(b)
0.83  0.74 
Net realized and unrealized income (loss) on investments(c)
3.55  (2.99)
Total from investment operations 4.38  (2.25)
LESS DISTRIBUTIONS:
From net investment income (0.76) (0.60)
Total distributions (0.76) (0.60)
Net asset value, end of year $ 20.77  $ 17.15 
TOTAL RETURNS:
Net Asset Value(d)
25.71  % (10.35) %
^
Market Value(e)
26.31  % (10.54) %
^
RATIOS/SUPPLEMENTAL DATA:
Net assets, end of year (millions) $ 2.6  $ 1.7 
RATIO OF EXPENSES TO AVERAGE NET ASSETS:
Before fees waived and expenses reimbursed 0.54  % 5.41  % +
After fees waived and expenses reimbursed 0.29  %
(f)
0.12  %
(g)+
RATIO OF NET INVESTMENT INCOME (LOSS) TO AVERAGE NET ASSETS:
Before fees waived and expenses reimbursed 3.78  % (0.30) % +
After fees waived and expenses reimbursed 4.04  %
(f)
4.99  %
(g)+
Portfolio turnover rate(h)
117  % 169  %
^
(a)Commencement of investment operations on December 27, 2019.
(b)Calculated using average shares outstanding, during the year.
(c)The amounts reported for a share outstanding may not accord with the change in the aggregate gains and losses in securities for the fiscal period due to the timing of capital share transactions in relation to the fluctuating market values of the Fund’s underlying securities.
(d)Net asset value total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the net asset value at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at net asset value during the period and redemption on the last day of the period at net asset value.
(e)Market value total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at market value at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at net asset value during the period and redemption on the last day of the period at market value. The market value is determined by the midpoint of the bid/ask spread at 4:00 p.m. from the NYSE Arca, Inc. Exchange. Market value returns may vary from net asset value returns.
(f)Effective May 1, 2021, the Advisory Agreement was amended to charge a single unitary management fee.
(g)Includes voluntary fees waived by the Adviser of $2,698 or 0.17% of average net assets for the period.
(h)Portfolio turnover rate excludes in-kind transactions.
^      Not Annualized.
+     Annualized.
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Financial Highlights Global Beta Low Beta ETF
For a share outstanding throughout the periods presented
For the Year Ended November 30, 2021
For the Period Ended November 30, 2020(a)
Net asset value, beginning of year $ 21.56  $ 20.00 
INCOME FROM INVESTMENT OPERATIONS:
Net investment income(b)
0.58  0.15 
Net realized and unrealized gain on investments(c)
2.31  1.46 
Total from investment operations 2.89  1.61 
LESS DISTRIBUTIONS:
From net investment income (0.52) (0.05)
Total distributions (0.52) (0.05)
Net asset value, end of year $ 23.93  $ 21.56 
TOTAL RETURNS:
Net Asset Value(d)
13.56  % 8.06  % ^
Market Value(e)
13.68  % 7.97  % ^
RATIOS/SUPPLEMENTAL DATA:
Net assets, end of year (millions) $ 1.2  $ 2.7 
RATIO OF EXPENSES TO AVERAGE NET ASSETS:
Before fees waived and expenses reimbursed 1.46  % 2.09  % +
After fees waived and expenses reimbursed 0.29  %
(f)
0.29  % +
RATIO OF NET INVESTMENT INCOME TO AVERAGE NET ASSETS:
Before fees waived and expenses reimbursed 1.34  % 0.23  % +
After fees waived and expenses reimbursed 2.51  %
(f)
2.03  % +
Portfolio turnover rate(g)
115  % % ^#
(a)Commencement of investment operations on July 24, 2020.
(b)Calculated using average shares outstanding, during the year.
(c)The amounts reported for a share outstanding may not accord with the change in the aggregate gains and losses in securities for the fiscal period due to the timing of capital share transactions in relation to the fluctuating market values of the Fund’s underlying securities.
(d)Net asset value total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the net asset value at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at net asset value during the period and redemption on the last day of the period at net asset value.
(e)Market value total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at market value at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at net asset value during the period and redemption on the last day of the period at market value. The market value is determined by the midpoint of the bid/ask spread at 4:00 p.m. from the NYSE Arca, Inc. Exchange. Market value returns may vary from net asset value returns.
(f)Effective May 1, 2021, the Advisory Agreement was amended to charge a single unitary management fee.
(g)Portfolio turnover rate excludes in-kind transactions.
^      Not Annualized.
+     Annualized.
#     Less than 1%.
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Financial Highlights Global Beta Rising Stars ETF
For a share outstanding throughout the periods presented
For the Year Ended November 30, 2021
For the Period Ended November 30, 2020(a)
Net asset value, beginning of year $ 22.26  $ 20.00 
INCOME FROM INVESTMENT OPERATIONS:
Net investment income(b)
0.07  0.06 
Net realized and unrealized gain on investments(c)
0.81  2.22 
Total from investment operations 0.88  2.28 
LESS DISTRIBUTIONS:
From net investment income (0.10) (0.02)
Total distributions (0.10) (0.02)
Net asset value, end of year $ 23.04  $ 22.26 
TOTAL RETURNS:
Net Asset Value(d)
3.84  % 11.39  %
^
Market Value(e)
4.00  % 11.27  %
^
RATIOS/SUPPLEMENTAL DATA:
Net assets, end of year (millions) $ 1.2  $ 2.8 
RATIO OF EXPENSES TO AVERAGE NET ASSETS:
Before fees waived and expenses reimbursed 1.33  % 2.05  % +
After fees waived and expenses reimbursed 0.29  %
(f)
0.29  % +
RATIO OF NET INVESTMENT INCOME (LOSS) TO AVERAGE NET ASSETS:
Before fees waived and expenses reimbursed (0.75) % (0.91) % +
After fees waived and expenses reimbursed 0.29  %
(f)
0.85  % +
Portfolio turnover rate(g)
312  %
(h)
30  %
^
(a)Commencement of investment operations on July 24, 2020.
(b)Calculated using average shares outstanding, during the year.
(c)The amounts reported for a share outstanding may not accord with the change in the aggregate gains and losses in securities for the fiscal period due to the timing of capital share transactions in relation to the fluctuating market values of the Fund’s underlying securities.
(d)Net asset value total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the net asset value at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at net asset value during the period and redemption on the last day of the period at net asset value.
(e)Market value total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at market value at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at net asset value during the period and redemption on the last day of the period at market value. The market value is determined by the midpoint of the bid/ask spread at 4:00 p.m. from the NYSE Arca, Inc. Exchange. Market value returns may vary from net asset value returns.
(f)Effective May 1, 2021, the Advisory Agreement was amended to charge a single unitary management fee.
(g)Portfolio turnover rate excludes in-kind transactions.
(h)Increase in the Portfolio turnover was a result of the Index change that was effective on December 18, 2020.
^      Not Annualized.
+     Annualized.
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Global Beta ETF Trust
You can find more information about the Funds in the following documents:
Statement of Additional Information: The SAI of the Funds provides more detailed information about the investments and techniques of the Funds and certain other additional information. A current SAI is on file with the SEC and is herein incorporated by reference into this Prospectus. It is legally a part of the Prospectus.
Annual and Semi-Annual Reports: Additional information about the Funds’ investments is available in the Funds’ annual and semi- annual reports to shareholders. In the Funds’ annual report, you will find a discussion of market conditions and investment strategies that significantly affected the Funds’ performance during its last fiscal year.
You can obtain free copies of these documents, request other information, or make generally inquiries about the Funds by contacting the Funds at:
Global Beta ETF Trust
c/o Compass Distributors, LLC
Three Canal Plaza, 3rd Floor, Portland, ME 04101 (833) 933-2083
Copies of information about the Funds may be obtained from the SEC, after paying a duplicating fee, by electronic request at the following e-mail address: [email protected].
Shareholder Reports and other information about the Funds are also available free of charge:
at www.globalbetaetf.com; and
from the SEC’s EDGAR database at http://www.sec.gov.


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