Direxion
Auspice Broad Commodity Strategy ETF
Investment
Objective
The
Direxion Auspice Broad Commodity Strategy ETF (the “Fund”) seeks
investment results, before fees and expenses, that track the Auspice Broad
Commodity Index (the “Index”).
Fees
and Expenses of the Fund
This
table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy,
hold, and sell shares of the Fund (“Shares”). You
may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial
intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and example
below.
Annual
Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that
you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment)
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Distribution
and/or Service (12b-1) Fees |
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Other
Expenses (Operating Services Fees)(1)
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Acquired
Fund Fees and Expenses(2)
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Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses |
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(1)
Rafferty Asset
Management, LLC (“Rafferty” or “Adviser”) has entered into an Operating Services
Agreement with the Fund. Under this Operating Services Agreement, Rafferty has
contractually agreed to pay all expenses of the Fund as long as it is the
advisor of the Fund other than the following: management fees, Rule 12b-1
distribution and/or service fees, taxes, swap financing and related costs,
dividends or interest on short positions, other interest expenses, brokerage
commissions, expenses incurred in connection with any merger or reorganization,
acquired fund fees and expenses, and extraordinary expenses. The Operating
Services Agreement may be terminated at any time by the Board of
Trustees.
(2)
"Acquired Fund Fees
and Expenses" include fees and expenses incurred indirectly by the Fund as a
result of investments in other investment companies, including investments in
money market funds. Because Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses are not borne
directly by the Fund, they will not be reflected in the expense information in
the Fund's financial statements and the information presented in the table will
differ from that presented in the Fund's financial highlights included in the
Fund's reports to shareholders.
Example
- This example is
intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of
investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in
the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your shares at
the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5%
return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same.
Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions
your costs would be:
Portfolio
Turnover
The
Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells
securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may
indicate higher transaction
costs
and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable
account. These costs, which are not reflected in Annual Fund Operating Expenses
or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal
year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 0% of the average
value of its portfolio. However, this portfolio turnover rate is calculated
without regard to cash instruments or derivative transactions. If the Fund's
extensive use of derivatives was reflected, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate
would be significantly higher.
Principal
Investment Strategy
The
Index is a rules-based index that attempts to capture upward trends in
the commodity markets while minimizing risk during downtrends by tracking a
portfolio of commodity futures contracts. Futures contracts on commodities
generally are agreements between two parties where one party agrees to buy, and
the counterparty to sell, a set amount of a physical commodity (or, in some
contracts, a cash equivalent) at a pre-determined future date and price. The
value of commodity futures contracts is based upon the price movements of the
underlying commodities.
The
Index uses a quantitative methodology to track a diversified
portfolio of 12 different commodity futures contracts, or “components,” which
are soybeans, corn, wheat, cotton, sugar, crude oil, natural gas, gasoline,
heating oil, copper, gold and silver. These 12 components are grouped into 3
sectors: Agriculture, Energy, and Metals. The position size of each component
included in the Index is dependent on the historical volatility of that
component and the total Index value and is independent of the volatility and
position of the other components in the Index. Each Index component is
positioned either long or flat (i.e., no position,
which has the effect of removing exposure to a particular commodity) by the
Index, depending upon the prevailing price trend of the component. When the
Index rules indicate that a component should have a flat position, the Index
will not have exposure to that component, and at times the Index may not have
exposure to all 12 commodities that comprise the Index. The Fund will generally
reposition the size of each component following each month-end in accordance
with the rebalancing of the Index, but also may change the position in a
component from a long position to a flat position, or vice versa, in any given
commodity on a daily basis if the Index is so adjusted. The Index will replace
expiring commodity futures contracts based on an optimization process that
selects a contract from the universe of all exchange-traded commodity futures
contracts within the next 13-month period.
As
of December 31, 2022, the Index had long exposure to corn, wheat,
soybeans, cotton, crude oil, gasoline, heating oil, copper, silver and gold,
which provide exposure to the Agriculture, Energy, and Metals sectors, and the
Index had flat exposure to natural gas and sugar. The concentration in a sector
or specific commodity may change over time.
The
Fund generally will not invest directly in the 12 commodity futures contracts
that comprise the Index. The Fund expects