2022-10-07MSETFTrust_PassiveFundsProspectus_January2023
The
information in this Preliminary Prospectus is not complete and may be
changed. We may not sell these securities until the registration
statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This
Preliminary Prospectus is not an offer to sell
these securities and is not soliciting offers to buy these securities in any
jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted.
Subject
to Completion. Dated January 20,
2023
Calvert
International Responsible Index ETF
Calvert
US Large-Cap Core Responsible Index ETF
Calvert
US Large-Cap Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Index ETF
Calvert
US Mid-Cap Core Responsible Index ETF
Prospectus | January
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Calvert
International Responsible Index ETF |
CVIE |
NYSE
Arca |
Calvert
US Large-Cap Core Responsible Index ETF |
CVLC |
NYSE
Arca |
Calvert
US Large-Cap Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Index ETF |
CDEI |
NYSE
Arca |
Calvert
US Mid-Cap Core Responsible Index ETF |
CVMC |
NYSE
Arca |
The
Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has not approved or disapproved these
securities or passed upon the adequacy
of this Prospectus. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal
offense.
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Calvert
International Responsible Index ETF
Investment
Objective
Calvert
International Responsible Index ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to track the performance
of the Calvert International Responsible Index (the
“Index”).
Fees
and Expenses
The table
below describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell
shares of the Fund. You may
pay fees other
than the fees and expenses of the Fund, such as brokerage commissions and other
fees charged by financial intermediaries,
which are not reflected in the tables and examples
below.
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Management
Fee1
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% |
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Other
Expenses2
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% |
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Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses |
0.18% |
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1 |
The
Fund’s management agreement provides that the Fund’s “Adviser,” Morgan
Stanley Investment Management Inc., will pay substantially all expenses
of
the Fund (including expenses of Morgan Stanley ETF Trust (the “Trust”)
relating to the Fund), except for the distribution fees, if any, brokerage
expenses,,
taxes, interest, litigation expenses, and other extraordinary expenses,
including the costs of proxies, not incurred in the ordinary course of the
Fund’s
business. |
2 |
Other
Expenses have been estimated for the current fiscal
year. |
Example
The
example below is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund
with the cost of investing in other funds. The Example
does not take into account brokerage commissions that you pay when purchasing or
selling shares of the Fund.
The
example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods
indicated and then sell your shares at the end of those periods.
The example also assumes your investment has a 5% return each year and 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 Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses or
in the Example, affect the Fund’s performance.
Because the Fund had not commenced operations as of the most recent fiscal year
end, no portfolio turnover rate is available
for the Fund.
Principal
Investment Strategies
Under
normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any
borrowings for investment purposes) in securities
included in the underlying index. This policy may be changed without shareholder
approval; however, shareholders would be
notified upon 60 days’ notice in writing of any changes.
The Fund
employs a passive management strategy designed to track, as closely as possible,
the performance of the Index. The Fund invests in
the common stock of a representative number of companies that resemble the
Index. The Fund may also lend its securities.
The Fund
may concentrate its investments (i.e., invest 25% or more of its total assets)
in a particular industry or group of industries if the
Index is concentrated. The
degree to which components of the Index represent certain industries may change
over time.
The Index
is composed of common stocks of large companies in developed markets, excluding
the U.S., that operate their businesses in a
manner consistent with the Calvert Principles for Responsible Investment (the
“Calvert Principles”). Large companies in developed
markets include 1,000 large publicly traded companies, excluding real estate
investments trusts and business development companies,
in markets that Calvert Research and Management (“Calvert”), the Index provider,
determines to be developed markets based on a
set of criteria including level of economic development, existence of capital
controls, openness to foreign direct investment,
market trading and liquidity conditions, regulatory environment, treatment of
minority shareholders, and investor expectations.
When determining 1,000 large publicly traded companies, Calvert generally
includes the 500 largest publicly traded companies
located in or tied economically to Europe and the 500 largest publicly traded
companies located in or tied economically to other
non-U.S. and non-European developed markets. The Calvert Principles (a copy of
which is included as an appendix to the Fund’s
prospectus) serve as a framework for considering environmental, social and
governance (“ESG”) factors. Under this framework,
Calvert seeks to identify companies and other issuers that provide positive
leadership in the areas of their operations and overall
activities that are material to improving long-term shareholder value and
societal outcomes, including ESG areas such as:
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International Responsible Index ETF (Con’t)
environmental
sustainability and resource efficiency; equitable societies and respect for
human rights; and accountable governance and
transparency.
Stocks are
weighted in the Index based on their float-adjusted market capitalization, by
country and by sector, subject to certain prescribed
limits. As of September 30, 2022,the Index included 780 companies (and typically
is expected to be in the range between 700 and
800 companies), and the market capitalization ranged from approximately $ 787
million to $344 billion with a weighted average
market capitalization of approximately $68.8 billion. Market capitalizations of
companies within the Index are subject to change.
The number of companies in the Index will change over time due to Calvert’s
evaluation of an issuer relative to the Calvert Principles
or corporate actions involving companies in the Index, among other things. The
Index is reconstituted annually and is rebalanced
quarterly.
The Index
is owned by Calvert, which is an affiliate of the Adviser. Jade Huang, Director
of Applied Responsible Investment Solutions,
Christopher Madden, CFA, Director of Index Management, and Zi Ye, Index Manager,
manage the Index construction process at
Calvert.
An index
is a group of securities whose overall performance is used as a standard to
measure investment performance. An index or passively
managed fund tries to match, as closely as possible, the performance of an
established target index. An index fund’s goal is to mirror
the target index whether the index is going up or down. To track the Index as
closely as possible, the Fund attempts to remain
fully invested in stocks. The Fund may enter into foreign currency transactions,
including foreign currency forward exchange contracts,
in the course of purchasing and selling foreign currency denominated securities
in order to track, as closely as possible, the performance
of the Index.
The Fund
uses a sampling method of indexing. The sampling method involves selecting a
representative number of securities that will
resemble the Index in terms of key risk and other characteristics. The
securities selected are expected to have, in the aggregate, investment
characteristics (based on factors such as market value and industry weightings),
fundamental characteristics (such as return
variability and yield) and liquidity measures similar to those of the Index. The
Fund may or may not hold all of the securities in the
Index or hold securities in the same proportions as represented in the
Index.
Principal
Risks
There is
no assurance that the Fund will achieve its investment objective, and you can
lose money investing in this Fund. The
principal
risks of investing in the Fund include:
• |
Tracking
Error.
Tracking
error risk refers to the risk that the Fund’s performance may not match or
correlate to that of the Index it attempts
to track, either on a daily or aggregate basis. Because the Fund uses a
representative sampling indexing strategy, it can be expected
to have a larger tracking error than if it used a replication indexing
strategy. Tracking error may occur because of transaction
costs, the Fund’s holding of cash, differences in accrual of dividends,
changes to the Index or the need to meet new or existing
regulatory requirements. Factors such as Fund expenses, imperfect
correlation between the Fund’s investments and the Index,
rounding of share prices, changes to the composition of the Index,
regulatory policies, limitations on Fund investments imposed
by Fund diversification and/or concentration policies, high portfolio
turnover rate and the use of leverage all contribute to
tracking error. Unlike the Fund, the returns of the Index are not reduced
by investment and other operating expenses, including
the trading costs associated with implementing changes to its portfolio of
investments. Tracking error risk may cause the Fund’s
performance to be less than expected. Tracking error risk may be
heightened during times of market volatility, unusual market
conditions or other abnormal circumstances. The Fund may be required to
deviate its investments from the securities and relative
weightings of the Index to comply with applicable laws and regulations or
because of market restrictions or other legal reasons,
including regulatory limits or other restrictions on securities that may
be purchased by the Adviser and its
affiliates. |
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Index
Related Risk.
The
Fund’s return may not track the return of the Index for a number of
reasons and therefore may not achieve
its investment objective. For example, the Fund incurs a number of
operating expenses not applicable to the Index, and incurs
costs in buying and selling securities, especially when rebalancing the
Fund’s securities holdings to reflect changes in the composition
of the Index. In addition, the Fund’s return may differ from the return of
the Index because of, among other things, pricing
differences and the inability to purchase certain securities included in
the Index due to regulatory or other
restrictions. |
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In
addition, because the Fund uses a representative sampling approach, the
Fund can be expected to be less correlated with the return
of the Index as when a fund purchases all of the securities in an index in
the proportions in which they are represented in the
index. Errors in the construction or calculation of the Index may occur
from time to time. Any such errors may not be identified
and corrected by the index provider for some period of time, which may
have an adverse impact on the Fund and its shareholders.
The risk that the Fund may not track the performance of the Index may be
heightened during times of increased market
volatility or other unusual market
conditions. |
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Passive
Investment.
The
Fund is managed using a passive investment strategy that uses a
representative sampling indexing strategy. The
Fund does not expect to hold common stocks of each company in the Index or
in the same proportion as represented in the Index,
and Fund performance may vary from the
Index. |
Calvert
International Responsible Index ETF (Con’t)
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In
addition, the Fund generally will not adjust its portfolio investments to
attempt to take advantage of market opportunities or lessen
the impact of a market decline or a decline in the performance of one or
more issuers or for other reasons. Maintaining investments
regardless of market conditions or the performance of individual
investments could cause the Fund’s return to be lower
than if the Fund employed an active strategy. Unusual market events or
other abnormal circumstances may increase market volatility
and may cause the characteristics of the Index components to vary from
those expected under normal
circumstances. |
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Authorized
Participant Concentration Risk.
Only
an authorized participant may engage in creation or redemption
transactions directly
with the Fund. The Fund has a limited number of intermediaries that act as
authorized participants and none of these authorized
participants is or will be obligated to engage in creation or redemption
transactions. To the extent that these intermediaries
exit the business or are unable to or choose not to proceed with creation
and/or redemption orders with respect to the
Fund and no other authorized participant creates or redeems, shares may
trade at a discount to net asset value (“NAV”) and possibly
face trading halts and/or
delisting. |
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Concentration
Risk.
If
the Index concentrates in the securities of issuers in one or more
industries or groups of industries, the Fund may
concentrate in such industries or groups of industries. By concentrating
its investments in an industry or group of industries, the
Fund may face greater risks than if it were diversified broadly over
numerous industries or groups of
industries. |
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Equity
Securities. In
general, prices of equity securities are more volatile than those of
fixed-income securities. The prices of equity securities
fluctuate, and sometimes widely fluctuate, in response to activities
specific to the issuer of the security as well as factors unrelated
to the fundamental condition of the issuer, including general market,
economic and political
conditions. |
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Foreign
Securities.
Investments
in foreign markets entail special risks such as currency, political,
economic and market risks. There also
may be greater market volatility, less reliable financial information,
less stringent investor protections and disclosure standards,
higher transaction and custody costs, decreased market liquidity and less
government and exchange regulation associated
with investments in foreign markets. In addition, investments in certain
foreign markets that have historically been considered
stable may become more volatile and subject to increased risk due to
ongoing developments and changing conditions in
such markets. Moreover, the growing interconnectivity of global economies
and financial markets has increased the probability that
adverse developments and conditions in one country or region will affect
the stability of economies and financial markets in other
countries or regions. Certain foreign markets may rely heavily on
particular industries or foreign capital and are more vulnerable
to diplomatic developments, the imposition of economic sanctions against a
particular country or countries, organizations,
companies, entities and/or individuals, changes in international trading
patterns, trade barriers and other protectionist
or retaliatory measures. Investments in foreign markets may also be
adversely affected by governmental actions such as
the imposition of capital controls, nationalization of companies or
industries, expropriation of assets or the imposition of punitive
taxes. The governments of certain countries may prohibit or impose
substantial restrictions on foreign investing in their capital
markets or in certain sectors or industries. In addition, a foreign
government may limit or cause delay in the convertibility or
repatriation of its currency which would adversely affect the U.S. dollar
value and/or liquidity of investments denominated in that
currency. Certain foreign investments may become less liquid in response
to market developments or adverse investor perceptions,
or become illiquid after purchase by the Fund, particularly during periods
of market turmoil. When the Fund holds illiquid
investments, its portfolio may be harder to value. In addition, the Fund’s
investments in foreign issuers may be denominated
in foreign currencies and therefore, to the extent unhedged, the value of
those investments will fluctuate with U.S. dollar
exchange rates. To the extent hedged by the use of foreign currency
forward exchange contracts, the precise matching of the foreign
currency forward exchange contract amounts and the value of the securities
involved will not generally be possible because the
future value of such securities in foreign currencies will change as a
consequence of market movements in the value of those securities
between the date on which the contract is entered into and the date it
matures. There is additional risk that such transactions
may reduce or preclude the opportunity for gain if the value of the
currency should move in the direction opposite to the
position taken and that foreign currency forward exchange contracts create
exposure to currencies in which the Fund’s securities
are not denominated. The use of foreign currency forward exchange
contracts involves the risk of loss from the insolvency
or bankruptcy of the counterparty to the contract or the failure of the
counterparty to make payments or otherwise comply
with the terms of the
contract. |
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Securities
Lending.
The
Fund may lend its portfolio securities to broker-dealers and other
institutional borrowers. During the existence
of a loan, the Fund will continue to receive the equivalent of the
interest paid by the issuer on the securities loaned, or all or a
portion of the interest on investment of the collateral, if any. The Fund
may pay lending fees to such borrowers. Loans will only
be made to firms that have been approved by the Adviser, and the Adviser
or the securities lending agent will periodically monitor
the financial condition of such firms while such loans are outstanding.
Securities loans will only be made when the Adviser
believes that the expected returns, net of expenses, justify the attendant
risks. Securities loans currently are required to be secured
continuously by collateral in cash, cash equivalents (such as money market
instruments) or other liquid securities held by the
custodian and maintained in an amount at least equal to the market value
of the securities loaned. The Fund may engage in securities
lending to generate income. Upon return of the loaned securities, the Fund
would be required to return the related collateral
to the borrower and may be required to liquidate portfolio securities in
order to do so. |
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Responsible
Investing.
Investing
primarily in responsible investments carries the risk that, under certain
market conditions, the Fund
may underperform funds that do not utilize a responsible investment
strategy. The application of responsible investment
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Calvert
International Responsible Index ETF (Con’t)
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criteria
may affect the Fund’s exposure to certain sectors or types of investments,
and may impact the Fund’s relative investment performance
depending on whether such sectors or investments are in or out of favor in
the market. An investment’s ESG performance,
or Calvert’s assessment of such performance may change over time, which
could cause the Fund to temporarily hold securities
that do not comply with the Fund’s responsible investment criteria. In
evaluating an issuer, Calvert is dependent upon information
and data that may be incomplete, inaccurate or unavailable, which could
adversely affect the analysis of the ESG factors
relevant to a particular
investment. |
• |
Market
and Geopolitical Risk.
The
value of your investment in the Fund is based on the values of the Fund’s
investments, which may
change due to economic and other events that affect markets generally, as
well as those that affect particular regions, countries,
industries, companies or governments. These events may be sudden and
unexpected, and could adversely affect the liquidity
of the Fund’s investments, which may in turn impact valuation, the Fund’s
ability to sell securities and/or its ability to meet
redemptions. The risks associated with these developments may be magnified
if certain social, political, economic and other conditions
and events (such as war, natural disasters, epidemics and pandemics,
terrorism, conflicts and social unrest) adversely interrupt
the global economy and financial markets. It is difficult to predict when
events affecting the U.S. or global financial markets
may occur, the effects that such events may have and the duration of those
effects (which may last for extended periods). These
events may negatively impact broad segments of businesses and populations
and have a significant and rapid negative impact
on the performance of the Fund’s investments, adversely affect and
increase the volatility of the Fund’s share price and exacerbate
pre-existing risks to the
Fund. |
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Trading
Risk.
The
market prices of shares are expected to fluctuate, in some cases
materially, in response to changes in the Fund’s NAV,
the intra-day value of the Fund’s holdings, and supply and demand for
shares. The Adviser cannot predict whether shares will
trade above, below or at their NAV. Disruptions to creations and
redemptions, the existence of significant market volatility or
potential
lack of an active trading market for the shares (including through a
trading halt), as well as other factors, may result in the
shares trading significantly above (at a premium) or below (at a discount)
to NAV or to the intraday value of the Fund’s holdings
(and, as a result, an investor may pay more for, or receive less than, the
underlying value of the shares, respectively). Buying
or selling shares in the secondary market may require paying 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 when seeking
to buy or sell relatively small amounts of shares. In addition, the market
price of shares, like the price of any exchange-traded
security, includes a “bid-ask spread” charged by the market makers or
other participants that trade the particular security. The
spread of a Fund’s shares varies over time based on the Fund’s trading
volume and market liquidity and may increase if the Fund’s
trading volume, the spread of the Fund’s underlying securities, or market
liquidity
decrease. |
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New
Fund Risk.
The
Fund recently commenced operations and its performance may not represent
how the Fund is expected to or may
perform in the long term. In addition, new funds have limited operating
histories for investors to evaluate and new funds may
not attract sufficient assets to achieve investment and trading
efficiencies. |
Shares of
the Fund are not bank deposits and are not guaranteed or insured by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other
government agency.
Performance
Information
As of the
date hereof, the Fund has not yet completed a full calendar year of investment
operations. Upon the
completion of a full calendar
year of investment operations by the Fund, this section will include charts that
provide some indication of the risks of an investment
in the Fund, by showing the difference in annual total returns, highest and
lowest quarterly returns and average annual total
returns (before and after taxes) compared to the Index and benchmark index
selected for the Fund. Performance information for the Fund
will be available online at www.calvert.com or by
calling toll-free 800-836-2414.
Fund
Management
Adviser. Morgan
Stanley Investment Management Inc.
Portfolio
Managers.
Information about the members jointly and primarily responsible for the
day-to-day management of the Fund is shown
below:
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Name |
Title
with Adviser |
Date
Began Managing
Fund |
Thomas
C. Seto |
Managing
Director |
Since
Inception |
James
Reber |
Managing
Director |
Since
Inception |
Matthew
Maillet |
Executive
Director |
Since
Inception |
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International Responsible Index ETF (Con’t)
Purchase
and Sale of Fund Shares
Individual
shares of the Fund may only be purchased and sold in secondary market
transactions through a broker or dealer at market price.
Because shares trade at market prices, rather than NAV, shares of the Fund may
trade at a price greater than NAV (i.e., a premium)
or less than NAV (i.e., a discount).
You may
incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest price a buyer is
willing to pay for shares (bid) and the lowest price a
seller is willing to accept for shares (ask) (the “bid-ask spread”) when buying
or selling shares in the secondary market.
Recent
information, including information about the Fund’s NAV, market price, premiums
and discounts, and bid-ask spreads (when
available), will be available on the Fund’s website at
www.calvert.com.
Tax
Information
The Fund
intends to make dividends and distributions that may be taxed as ordinary income
or capital gains, unless you are investing through a
tax-deferred arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement
account.
Payments
to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you
purchase shares of the Fund through a financial intermediary (such as a bank),
the Adviser and/or Foreside
Fund Services, LLC (the
“Distributor”) may pay the financial intermediary for the sale of Fund shares
and related services. These payments, which may be
significant in amount, may create a conflict of interest by influencing the
financial 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.
Calvert
US Large-Cap Core Responsible Index ETF
Investment
Objective
Calvert US
Large-Cap Core Responsible Index ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to track the performance
of the Calvert US Large-Cap Core Responsible
Index (the “Index”).
Fees
and Expenses
The table
below describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell
shares of the Fund. You may
pay fees other
than the fees and expenses of the Fund, such as brokerage commissions and other
fees charged by financial intermediaries,
which are not reflected in the tables and examples
below.
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Management
Fee1
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% |
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Other
Expenses2
|
% |
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Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses |
0.15% |
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1 |
The
Fund’s management agreement provides that the Fund’s “Adviser,” Morgan
Stanley Investment Management Inc., will pay substantially all expenses
of
the Fund (including expenses of Morgan Stanley ETF Trust (the “Trust”)
relating to the Fund), except for the distribution fees, if any, brokerage
expenses,,
taxes, interest, litigation expenses, and other extraordinary expenses,
including the costs of proxies, not incurred in the ordinary course of the
Fund’s
business. |
2 |
Other
Expenses have been estimated for the current fiscal
year. |
Example
The
example below is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund
with the cost of investing in other funds. The Example
does not take into account brokerage commissions that you pay when purchasing or
selling shares of the Fund.
The
example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods
indicated and then sell your shares at the end of those periods.
The example also assumes your investment has a 5% return each year and 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 Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses or
in the Example, affect the Fund’s performance.
Because the Fund had not commenced operations as of the most recent fiscal year
end, no portfolio turnover rate is available
for the Fund.
Principal
Investment Strategies
Under
normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any
borrowings for investment purposes) in securities
included in the underlying index. This policy may be changed without shareholder
approval; however, shareholders would be
notified upon 60 days’ notice in writing of any
changes.
The Fund
employs a passive management strategy designed to track, as closely as possible,
the performance of the Index. The Fund invests in
the common stock of each company in the Index in approximately the same
proportion as represented in the Index itself. The Fund
may also lend its securities.
The Fund
may concentrate its investments (i.e., invest 25% or more of its total assets)
in a particular industry or group of industries if the
Index is concentrated. The
degree to which components of the Index represent certain industries may change
over time. As of the
September 30, 2022, the Index was concentrated in, and therefore the Fund is
expected to have significant exposure to, the information
technology sector.
The Index
is composed of common stocks of large companies that operate their businesses in
a manner consistent with the Calvert Principles
for Responsible Investment (the “Calvert Principles”) (a copy of which is
included as an appendix to the Fund’s prospectus).
Large companies are the 1,000 largest publicly traded U.S. companies based on
market capitalization, excluding real estate
investment trusts and business development companies. The Calvert Principles
serve as a framework for considering environmental,
social and governance (“ESG”) factors. Under this framework, Calvert seeks to
identify companies and other issuers that
provide positive leadership in the areas of their operations and overall
activities that are material to improving long-term shareholder
value and societal outcomes, including ESG areas such as: environmental
sustainability and resource efficiency; equitable societies
and respect for human rights; and accountable governance and
transparency.
Calvert
US Large-Cap Core Responsible Index ETF (Con’t)
Stocks are
weighted in the Index based on their float-adjusted market capitalization within
the relevant sector, subject to certain prescribed
limits. As of September 30, 2022, the Index included 747 companies (and
typically is expected to be in the range between 700 and
800 companies), and the market capitalization ranged from approximately $697
million to $2.2 trillion with a weighted average
market capitalization of approximately $429.3 billion. Market capitalizations of
companies within the Index are subject to change.
The number of companies in the Index will change over time due to Calvert’s
evaluation of an issuer relative to the Calvert Principles
or corporate actions involving companies in the Index, among other things. The
Index is reconstituted annually and is rebalanced
quarterly.
The Index
is owned by Calvert, which is an affiliate of the Adviser. Jade Huang, Director
of Applied Responsible Investment Solutions,
Christopher Madden, CFA, Director of Index Management, and Zi Ye, Index Manager
manage the Index construction process at
Calvert.
An index
is a group of securities whose overall performance is used as a standard to
measure investment performance. An index or passively
managed fund tries to match, as closely as possible, the performance of an
established target index. An index fund’s goal is to mirror
the target index whether the index is going up or down. To track the Index as
closely as possible, the Fund attempts to remain
fully invested in stocks.
The Fund
uses a replication method of indexing. The replication method involves holding
every security in the Index in approximately
the same proportion as the Index. Unlike the Index, however, the Fund is subject
to certain regulatory requirements that can
limit its ability to fully replicate the Index. Under various circumstances, it
may not be possible or practicable to purchase or hold all
of, or only, the constituent securities in their respective weightings in the
Index. If Fund assets should ever decline to below $5
million, the Fund may use the sampling method. The sampling method involves
selecting a representative number of securities that will
resemble the Index in terms of key risk and other
characteristics.
Principal
Risks
There is
no assurance that the Fund will achieve its investment objective, and you can
lose money investing in this Fund. The
principal
risks of investing in the Fund include:
• |
Tracking
Error.
Tracking
error risk refers to the risk that the Fund’s performance may not match or
correlate to that of the Index it attempts
to track, either on a daily or aggregate basis. Tracking error may occur
because of transaction costs, the Fund’s holding of cash,
differences in accrual of dividends, changes to the Index or the need to
meet new or existing regulatory requirements. Factors such
as Fund expenses, imperfect correlation between the Fund’s investments and
the Index, rounding of share prices, changes to the
composition of the Index, regulatory policies, limitations on Fund
investments imposed by Fund diversification and/or concentration
policies, high portfolio turnover rate and the use of leverage all
contribute to tracking error. Unlike the Fund, the returns
of the Index are not reduced by investment and other operating expenses,
including the trading costs associated with implementing
changes to its portfolio of investments. Tracking error risk may cause the
Fund’s performance to be less than expected.
Tracking error risk may be heightened during times of market volatility,
unusual market conditions or other abnormal circumstances.
The Fund may be required to deviate its investments from the securities
and relative weightings of the Index to comply
with applicable laws and regulations or because of market restrictions or
other legal reasons, including regulatory limits or other
restrictions on securities that may be purchased by the Adviser and its
affiliates. If the Fund uses a sampling method of indexing,
it may have a larger tracking error than if it used a replication method
of indexing. |
• |
Index
Related Risk.
The
Fund’s return may not track the return of the Index for a number of
reasons and therefore may not achieve
its investment objective. For example, the Fund incurs a number of
operating expenses not applicable to the Index, and incurs
costs in buying and selling securities, especially when rebalancing the
Fund’s securities holdings to reflect changes in the composition
of the Index. In addition, the Fund’s return may differ from the return of
the Index because of, among other things, pricing
differences and the inability to purchase certain securities included in
the Underlying Index due to regulatory or other restrictions. |
|
In
addition, when the Fund uses a representative sampling approach, the Fund
may not be as well correlated with the return of the
Underlying Index as when the Fund purchases all of the securities in the
Index in the proportions in which they are represented
in the Index. Errors in the construction or calculation of the Index may
occur from time to time. Any such errors may not
be identified and corrected by the index provider for some period of time,
which may have an adverse impact on the Fund and
its shareholders. The risk that the Fund may not track the performance of
the Index may be heightened during times of increased
market volatility or other unusual market
conditions. |
• |
Authorized
Participant Concentration Risk.
Only
an authorized participant may engage in creation or redemption
transactions directly
with the Fund. The Fund has a limited number of intermediaries that act as
authorized participants and none of these authorized
participants is or will be obligated to engage in creation or redemption
transactions. To the extent that these intermediaries
exit the business or are unable to or choose not to proceed with creation
and/or redemption orders with respect to
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the
Fund and no other authorized participant creates or redeems, shares may
trade at a discount to net asset value (“NAV”) and possibly
face trading halts and/or
delisting. |
• |
Passive
Investment.
The
Fund is managed using a passive investment strategy and expects to hold
common stocks of each company
in the Index regardless of their current or projected performance. The
Fund generally will not adjust its portfolio investments
to attempt to take advantage of market opportunities or lessen the impact
of a market decline or a decline in the performance
of one or more issuers or for other reasons. Maintaining investments
regardless of market conditions or the performance
of individual investments could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than
if the Fund employed an active strategy. Unusual
market events may increase market volatility and may cause the
characteristics of the Index components to vary from those
expected under normal
circumstances. |
• |
Concentration
Risk.
If
the Index concentrates in the securities of issuers in one or more
industries or groups of industries, the Fund may
concentrate in such industries or groups of industries. By concentrating
its investments in an industry or group of industries, the
Fund may face greater risks than if it were diversified broadly over
numerous industries or groups of
industries. |
• |
Information
Technology Sector Risk.
The
value of Fund shares may be particularly impacted by events that adversely
affect the information
technology sector, such as rapid changes in technology product cycles,
product obsolescence, government regulation, and
competition, and may fluctuate more than that of a fund that does not
concentrate in companies in the technology
sector. |
• |
Equity
Securities. In
general, prices of equity securities are more volatile than those of
fixed-income securities. The prices of equity securities
fluctuate, and sometimes widely fluctuate, in response to activities
specific to the issuer of the security as well as factors unrelated
to the fundamental condition of the issuer, including general market,
economic and political
conditions. |
• |
Securities
Lending.
The
Fund may lend its portfolio securities to broker-dealers and other
institutional borrowers. During the existence
of a loan, the Fund will continue to receive the equivalent of the
interest paid by the issuer on the securities loaned, or all or a
portion of the interest on investment of the collateral, if any. The Fund
may pay lending fees to such borrowers. Loans will only
be made to firms that have been approved by the Adviser, and the Adviser
or the securities lending agent will periodically monitor
the financial condition of such firms while such loans are outstanding.
Securities loans will only be made when the Adviser
believes that the expected returns, net of expenses, justify the attendant
risks. Securities loans currently are required to be secured
continuously by collateral in cash, cash equivalents (such as money market
instruments) or other liquid securities held by the
custodian and maintained in an amount at least equal to the market value
of the securities loaned. The Fund may engage in securities
lending to generate income. Upon return of the loaned securities, the Fund
would be required to return the related collateral
to the borrower and may be required to liquidate portfolio securities in
order to do so. |
• |
Responsible
Investing.
Investing
primarily in responsible investments carries the risk that, under certain
market conditions, the Fund
may underperform funds that do not utilize a responsible investment
strategy. The application of responsible investment criteria
may affect the Fund’s exposure to certain sectors or types of investments,
and may impact the Fund’s relative investment performance
depending on whether such sectors or investments are in or out of favor in
the market. An investment’s ESG performance,
or Calvert’s assessment of such performance may change over time, which
could cause the Fund to temporarily hold securities
that do not comply with the Fund’s responsible investment criteria. In
evaluating an issuer, Calvert is dependent upon information
and data that may be incomplete, inaccurate or unavailable, which could
adversely affect the analysis of the ESG factors
relevant to a particular
investment. |
• |
Market
and Geopolitical Risk.
The
value of your investment in the Fund is based on the values of the Fund’s
investments, which may
change due to economic and other events that affect markets generally, as
well as those that affect particular regions, countries,
industries, companies or governments. These events may be sudden and
unexpected, and could adversely affect the liquidity
of the Fund’s investments, which may in turn impact valuation, the Fund’s
ability to sell securities and/or its ability to meet
redemptions. The risks associated with these developments may be magnified
if certain social, political, economic and other conditions
and events (such as war, natural disasters, epidemics and pandemics,
terrorism, conflicts and social unrest) adversely interrupt
the global economy and financial markets. It is difficult to predict when
events affecting the U.S. or global financial markets
may occur, the effects that such events may have and the duration of those
effects (which may last for extended periods). These
events may negatively impact broad segments of businesses and populations
and have a significant and rapid negative impact
on the performance of the Fund’s investments, adversely affect and
increase the volatility of the Fund’s share price and exacerbate
pre-existing risks to the
Fund. |
• |
Trading
Risk.
The
market prices of shares are expected to fluctuate, in some cases
materially, in response to changes in the Fund’s NAV,
the intra-day value of the Fund’s holdings, and supply and demand for
shares. The Adviser cannot predict whether shares will
trade above, below or at their NAV. Disruptions to creations and
redemptions, the existence of significant market volatility or
potential
lack of an active trading market for the shares (including through a
trading halt), as well as other factors, may result in the
shares trading significantly above (at a premium) or below (at a discount)
to NAV or to the intraday value of the Fund’s holdings
(and, as a result, an investor may pay more for, or receive less than, the
underlying value of the shares, respectively). Buying
or selling shares in the secondary market may require paying 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 when seeking
to buy or sell relatively small amounts of shares. In addition, the market
price of shares, like the price of any
exchange- |
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US Large-Cap Core Responsible Index ETF (Con’t)
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traded
security, includes a “bid-ask spread” charged by the market makers or
other participants that trade the particular security. The
spread of a Fund’s shares varies over time based on the Fund’s trading
volume and market liquidity and may increase if the Fund’s
trading volume, the spread of the Fund’s underlying securities, or market
liquidity
decrease. |
• |
New
Fund Risk.
The
Fund recently commenced operations and its performance may not represent
how the Fund is expected to or may
perform in the long term. In addition, new funds have limited operating
histories for investors to evaluate and new funds may
not attract sufficient assets to achieve investment and trading
efficiencies. |
Shares of
the Fund are not bank deposits and are not guaranteed or insured by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other
government agency.
Performance
Information
As of the
date hereof, the Fund has not yet completed a full calendar year of investment
operations. Upon the
completion of a full calendar
year of investment operations by the Fund, this section will include charts that
provide some indication of the risks of an investment
in the Fund, by showing the difference in annual total returns, highest and
lowest quarterly returns and average annual total
returns (before and after taxes) compared to the Index and benchmark index
selected for the Fund. Performance information for the Fund
will be available online at www.calvert.com or by
calling toll-free 800-836-2414.
Fund
Management
Adviser. Morgan
Stanley Investment Management Inc.
Portfolio
Managers.
Information about the members jointly and primarily responsible for the
day-to-day management of the Fund is shown
below:
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Name |
Title
with Adviser |
Date
Began Managing
Fund |
Thomas
C. Seto |
Managing
Director |
Since
Inception |
James
Reber |
Managing
Director |
Since
Inception |
Matthew
Maillet |
Executive
Director |
Since
Inception |
Purchase
and Sale of Fund Shares
Individual
shares of the Fund may only be purchased and sold in secondary market
transactions through a broker or dealer at market price.
Because shares trade at market prices, rather than NAV, shares of the Fund may
trade at a price greater than NAV (i.e., a premium)
or less than NAV (i.e., a discount).
You may
incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest price a buyer is
willing to pay for shares (bid) and the lowest price a
seller is willing to accept for shares (ask) (the “bid-ask spread”) when buying
or selling shares in the secondary market.
Recent
information, including information about the Fund’s NAV, market price, premiums
and discounts, and bid-ask spreads (when
available), will be available on the Fund’s website at
www.calvert.com.
Tax
Information
The Fund
intends to make dividends and distributions that may be taxed as ordinary income
or capital gains, unless you are investing through a
tax-deferred arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement
account.
Payments
to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you
purchase shares of the Fund through a financial intermediary (such as a bank),
the Adviser and/or Foreside
Fund Services, LLC (the
“Distributor”) may pay the financial intermediary for the sale of Fund shares
and related services. These payments, which may be
significant in amount, may create a conflict of interest by influencing the
financial 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.
Calvert
US Large-Cap Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Index ETF
Investment
Objective
Calvert US
Large-Cap Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Index ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to track
the performance of the Calvert US Large-Cap
Diversity Research Index (the “Index”).
Fees
and Expenses
The table
below describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell
shares of the Fund. You may
pay fees other
than the fees and expenses of the Fund, such as brokerage commissions and other
fees charged by financial intermediaries,
which are not reflected in the tables and examples
below.
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Management
Fee1
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% |
|
Other
Expenses2
|
% |
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Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses |
0.14% |
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1 |
The
Fund’s management agreement provides that the Fund’s “Adviser,” Morgan
Stanley Investment Management Inc., will pay substantially all expenses
of
the Fund (including expenses of Morgan Stanley ETF Trust (the “Trust”)
relating to the Fund), except for the distribution fees, if any, brokerage
expenses,,
taxes, interest, litigation expenses, and other extraordinary expenses,
including the costs of proxies, not incurred in the ordinary course of the
Fund’s
business. |
2 |
Other
Expenses have been estimated for the current fiscal
year. |
Example
The
example below is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund
with the cost of investing in other funds. The Example
does not take into account brokerage commissions that you pay when purchasing or
selling shares of the Fund.
The
example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods
indicated and then sell your shares at the end of those periods.
The example also assumes your investment has a 5% return each year and 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 Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses or
in the Example, affect the Fund’s performance.
Because the Fund had not commenced operations as of the most recent fiscal year
end, no portfolio turnover rate is available
for the Fund.
Principal
Investment Strategies
Under
normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any
borrowings for investment purposes) in securities
included in the underlying index. This policy may be changed without shareholder
approval; however, shareholders would be
notified upon 60 days’ notice in writing of any
changes.
The Fund
employs a passive management strategy designed to track, as closely as possible,
the performance of the Index. The Fund invests in
the common stock of each company in the Index in approximately the same
proportion as represented in the Index itself. The Fund
may also lend its securities.
The Fund
may concentrate its investments (i.e., invest 25% or more of its total assets)
in a particular industry or group of industries if the
Index is concentrated. The
degree to which components of the Index represent certain industries may change
over time. As of the
September 30, 2022, the Index was concentrated in, and therefore the Fund is
expected to have significant exposure to, the information
technology sector.
The Index
is composed of common stocks of large companies that operate their businesses in
a manner consistent with the Calvert Principles
for Responsible Investment (the “Calvert Principles”) (a copy of which is
included as an appendix to the Fund’s prospectus)
and are selected from the universe of the 1,000 largest publicly traded U.S.
companies based on market capitalization, excluding
real estate investment trusts and business development companies. As described
in the Index rules and methodology (available
on the Calvert website), and as determined by Calvert, Index components must
meet certain criteria relating to leadership in having
a diverse workforce and an equal and inclusive work culture, or demonstrate
significant improvement in diversity practices. Such
diversity practices include: a gender-balanced workforce among its board
members, executives, senior and middle management, and
employees; with respect to companies based in the U.S., United Kingdom,
Australia, Canada and South Africa, ethnically diverse
Calvert
US Large-Cap Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Index ETF (Con’t)
board
members relative to demographics in these countries; diversity of board members
on age, cultural background, and skill sets; policies
and procedures that adequately support equal opportunity in hiring, equal pay
and fair promotion among diversity groups; policies
and programs that focus on living wages, health and safety, career development,
parental leave, flexible work locations and schedules,
child care availability, and inclusion of people with disabilities, people who
are HIV positive, as well as people who self-identify
as LGBTQ+.
The
Calvert Principles serve as a framework for considering environmental, social
and governance (“ESG”) factors. Under this framework,
Calvert seeks to identify companies and other issuers that provide positive
leadership in the areas of their operations and overall
activities that are material to improving long-term shareholder value and
societal outcomes, including ESG areas such as: environmental
sustainability and resource efficiency; equitable societies and respect for
human rights; and accountable governance and
transparency.
Stocks are
weighted in the Index based on their float-adjusted market capitalization. As of
September 30, 2022, the Index included 479
companies (and typically is expected to be in the range between 400 and 600
companies), and the market capitalization ranged from
approximately $1.9 billion to $2.2 trillion with a weighted average market
capitalization of approximately $593 billion. Market capitalizations
of companies within the Index are subject to change. The number of companies in
the Index will change over time due to
Calvert’s evaluation of an issuer relative to the Calvert Principles or
corporate actions involving companies in the Index, among
other things. The Index is reconstituted annually and is rebalanced
quarterly.
The Index
is owned by Calvert, which is an affiliate of the Adviser. Jade Huang, Director
of Applied Responsible Investment Solutions,
Christopher Madden, CFA, Director of Index Management, Yijia Chen, CFA, ESG
Quantitative Research Analyst and Index
Manager, and Zi Ye, Index Manager, manage the Index construction process at
Calvert.
An index
is a group of securities whose overall performance is used as a standard to
measure investment performance. An index or passively
managed fund tries to match, as closely as possible, the performance of an
established target index. An index fund’s goal is to mirror
the target index whether the index is going up or down. To track the Index as
closely as possible, the Fund attempts to remain
fully invested in stocks.
The Fund
uses a replication method of indexing. The replication method involves holding
every security in the Index in approximately
the same proportion as the Index. Unlike the Index, however, the Fund is subject
to certain regulatory requirements that can
limit its ability to fully replicate the Index. Under various circumstances, it
may not be possible or practicable to purchase or hold all
of, or only, the constituent securities in their respective weightings in the
Index. If Fund assets should ever decline to below $5
million, the Fund may use the sampling method. The sampling method involves
selecting a representative number of securities that will
resemble the Index in terms of key risk and other
characteristics.
Principal
Risks
There is
no assurance that the Fund will achieve its investment objective, and you can
lose money investing in this Fund. The
principal
risks of investing in the Fund include:
• |
Tracking
Error.
Tracking
error risk refers to the risk that the Fund’s performance may not match or
correlate to that of the Index it attempts
to track, either on a daily or aggregate basis. Tracking error may occur
because of transaction costs, the Fund’s holding of cash,
differences in accrual of dividends, changes to the Index or the need to
meet new or existing regulatory requirements. Factors such
as Fund expenses, imperfect correlation between the Fund’s investments and
the Index, rounding of share prices, changes to the
composition of the Index, regulatory policies, limitations on Fund
investments imposed by Fund diversification and/or concentration
policies, high portfolio turnover rate and the use of leverage all
contribute to tracking error. Unlike the Fund, the returns
of the Index are not reduced by investment and other operating expenses,
including the trading costs associated with implementing
changes to its portfolio of investments. Tracking error risk may cause the
Fund’s performance to be less than expected.
Tracking error risk may be heightened during times of market volatility,
unusual market conditions or other abnormal circumstances.
The Fund may be required to deviate its investments from the securities
and relative weightings of the Index to comply
with applicable laws and regulations or because of market restrictions or
other legal reasons, including regulatory limits or other
restrictions on securities that may be purchased by the Adviser and its
affiliates. If the Fund uses a sampling method of indexing,
it may have a larger tracking error than if it used a replication method
of indexing. |
• |
Authorized
Participant Concentration Risk.
Only
an authorized participant may engage in creation or redemption
transactions directly
with the Fund. The Fund has a limited number of intermediaries that act as
authorized participants and none of these authorized
participants is or will be obligated to engage in creation or redemption
transactions. To the extent that these intermediaries
exit the business or are unable to or choose not to proceed with creation
and/or redemption orders with respect to the
Fund and no other authorized participant creates or redeems, shares may
trade at a discount to net asset value (“NAV”) and possibly
face trading halts and/or
delisting. |
• |
Index
Related Risk.
The Fund’s return may not track the return of the Index for a number of
reasons and therefore may not achieve
its investment objective. For example, the Fund incurs a number of
operating expenses not applicable to the Index, and
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US Large-Cap Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Index ETF (Con’t)
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incurs
costs in buying and selling securities, especially when rebalancing the
Fund’s securities holdings to reflect changes in the composition
of the Index. In addition, the Fund’s return may differ from the return of
the Index because of, among other things, pricing
differences and the inability to purchase certain securities included in
the underlying index due to regulatory or other restrictions. |
|
In
addition, when the Fund uses a representative sampling approach, the Fund
may not be as well correlated with the return of the
underlying index as when the Fund purchases all of the securities in the
Index in the proportions in which they are represented in
the Index. Errors in the construction or calculation of the Index may
occur from time to time. Any such errors may not be identified
and corrected by the index provider for some period of time, which may
have an adverse impact on the Fund and its shareholders.
The risk that the Fund may not track the performance of the Index may be
heightened during times of increased market
volatility or other unusual market
conditions. |
• |
Passive
Investment.
The
Fund is managed using a passive investment strategy and expects to hold
common stocks of each company
in the Index regardless of their current or projected performance. The
Fund generally will not adjust its portfolio investments
to attempt to take advantage of market opportunities or lessen the impact
of a market decline or a decline in the performance
of one or more issuers or for other reasons. Maintaining investments
regardless of market conditions or the performance
of individual investments could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than
if the Fund employed an active strategy. Unusual
market events may increase market volatility and may cause the
characteristics of the Index components to vary from those
expected under normal
circumstances. |
• |
Concentration
Risk.
If
the Index concentrates in the securities of issuers in one or more
industries or groups of industries, the Fund may
concentrate in such industries or groups of industries. By concentrating
its investments in an industry or group of industries, the
Fund may face greater risks than if it were diversified broadly over
numerous industries or groups of
industries. |
• |
Information
Technology Sector Risk.
The
value of Fund shares may be particularly impacted by events that adversely
affect the information
technology sector, such as rapid changes in technology product cycles,
product obsolescence, government regulation, and
competition, and may fluctuate more than that of a fund that does not
concentrate in companies in the technology
sector. |
• |
Equity
Securities. In
general, prices of equity securities are more volatile than those of
fixed-income securities. The prices of equity securities
fluctuate, and sometimes widely fluctuate, in response to activities
specific to the issuer of the security as well as factors unrelated
to the fundamental condition of the issuer, including general market,
economic and political
conditions. |
• |
Non-Diversification. The
Fund is non-diversified, which means that the Fund may invest a greater
percentage of its assets in a smaller
number of issuers than a diversified fund. Because the Fund is
non-diversified, it may be more susceptible to an adverse event
affecting a single issuer or portfolio investment than a diversified
portfolio and a decline in the value of that issuer’s securities
or that portfolio investment may cause the Fund’s overall value to decline
to a greater degree than a diversified
portfolio. |
• |
Responsible
Investing.
Investing
primarily in responsible investments, such as the companies which meet the
Index’s criteria relating
workforce diversity and an equal and inclusive work culture or demonstrate
significant improvement in diversity practices, carries
the risk that, under certain market conditions, the Fund may underperform
funds that do not utilize a responsible investment
strategy. The application of responsible investment criteria may affect
the Fund’s exposure to certain sectors or types of investments,
and may impact the Fund’s relative investment performance depending on
whether such sectors or investments are in or
out of favor in the market. An investment’s ESG and/or diversity, equity
and inclusion (“DEI”) performance, or Calvert’s assessment
of such performance may change over time, which could cause the Fund to
temporarily hold securities that do not comply
with the Fund’s responsible investment criteria. In evaluating an
investment, Calvert is dependent upon information and data
that may be incomplete, inaccurate or unavailable, which could adversely
affect the analysis of the ESG and/or DEI factors relevant
to a particular
investment. |
• |
Securities
Lending.
The
Fund may lend its portfolio securities to broker-dealers and other
institutional borrowers. During the existence
of a loan, the Fund will continue to receive the equivalent of the
interest paid by the issuer on the securities loaned, or all or a
portion of the interest on investment of the collateral, if any. The Fund
may pay lending fees to such borrowers. Loans will only
be made to firms that have been approved by the Adviser, and the Adviser
or the securities lending agent will periodically monitor
the financial condition of such firms while such loans are outstanding.
Securities loans will only be made when the Adviser
believes that the expected returns, net of expenses, justify the attendant
risks. Securities loans currently are required to be secured
continuously by collateral in cash, cash equivalents (such as money market
instruments) or other liquid securities held by the
custodian and maintained in an amount at least equal to the market value
of the securities loaned. The Fund may engage in securities
lending to generate income. Upon return of the loaned securities, the Fund
would be required to return the related collateral
to the borrower and may be required to liquidate portfolio securities in
order to do so. |
• |
Market
and Geopolitical Risk.
The
value of your investment in the Fund is based on the values of the Fund’s
investments, which may
change due to economic and other events that affect markets generally, as
well as those that affect particular regions, countries,
industries, companies or governments. These events may be sudden and
unexpected, and could adversely affect the liquidity
of the Fund’s investments, which may in turn impact valuation, the Fund’s
ability to sell securities and/or its ability to meet
redemptions. The risks associated with these developments may be magnified
if certain social, political, economic and other
|
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US Large-Cap Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Index ETF (Con’t)
|
conditions
and events (such as war, natural disasters, epidemics and pandemics,
terrorism, conflicts and social unrest) adversely interrupt
the global economy and financial markets. It is difficult to predict when
events affecting the U.S. or global financial markets
may occur, the effects that such events may have and the duration of those
effects (which may last for extended periods). These
events may negatively impact broad segments of businesses and populations
and have a significant and rapid negative impact
on the performance of the Fund’s investments, adversely affect and
increase the volatility of the Fund’s share price and exacerbate
pre-existing risks to the
Fund. |
• |
Trading
Risk.
The
market prices of shares are expected to fluctuate, in some cases
materially, in response to changes in the Fund’s NAV,
the intra-day value of the Fund’s holdings, and supply and demand for
shares. The Adviser cannot predict whether shares will
trade above, below or at their NAV. Disruptions to creations and
redemptions, the existence of significant market volatility or
potential
lack of an active trading market for the shares (including through a
trading halt), as well as other factors, may result in the
shares trading significantly above (at a premium) or below (at a discount)
to NAV or to the intraday value of the Fund’s holdings
(and, as a result, an investor may pay more for, or receive less than, the
underlying value of the shares, respectively). Buying
or selling shares in the secondary market may require paying 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 when seeking
to buy or sell relatively small amounts of shares. In addition, the market
price of shares, like the price of any exchange-traded
security, includes a “bid-ask spread” charged by the market makers or
other participants that trade the particular security. The
spread of a Fund’s shares varies over time based on the Fund’s trading
volume and market liquidity and may increase if the Fund’s
trading volume, the spread of the Fund’s underlying securities, or market
liquidity
decrease. |
• |
New
Fund Risk.
The
Fund recently commenced operations and its performance may not represent
how the Fund is expected to or may
perform in the long term. In addition, new funds have limited operating
histories for investors to evaluate and new funds may
not attract sufficient assets to achieve investment and trading
efficiencies. |
Shares of
the Fund are not bank deposits and are not guaranteed or insured by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other
government agency.
Performance
Information
As of the
date hereof, the Fund has not yet completed a full calendar year of investment
operations. Upon the
completion of a full calendar
year of investment operations by the Fund, this section will include charts that
provide some indication of the risks of an investment
in the Fund, by showing the difference in annual total returns, highest and
lowest quarterly returns and average annual total
returns (before and after taxes) compared to the Index and benchmark index
selected for the Fund. Performance information for the Fund
will be available online at www.calvert.com or by
calling toll-free 800-836-2414.
Fund
Management
Adviser. Morgan
Stanley Investment Management Inc.
The
Adviser will make a contribution from its own resources, annually after the end
of each calendar year, to certain diversity, equity and
inclusion initiatives in an amount of 0.02% of the net annualized assets under
management of the Fund.
The
recipients of the contribution may include one or more organizations that focus
on diversity, equity and inclusion related causes. The
Adviser maintains the option to increase, decrease or terminate this
contribution in amount and/or frequency in its sole discretion.
The Adviser will disclose, on an annual basis, the amount of any contributions
made and the recipients of such contributions
on the Fund’s website. An employee of the Adviser may serve on the board of
directors of, or hold another position with, an
organization that receives such contributions from the Adviser.
Portfolio
Managers.
Information about the members jointly and primarily responsible for the
day-to-day management of the Fund is shown
below:
|
| |
Name |
Title
with Adviser |
Date
Began Managing
Fund |
Thomas
C. Seto |
Managing
Director |
Since
Inception |
James
Reber |
Managing
Director |
Since
Inception |
Matthew
Maillet |
Executive
Director |
Since
Inception |
Purchase
and Sale of Fund Shares
Individual
shares of the Fund may only be purchased and sold in secondary market
transactions through a broker or dealer at market price.
Because shares trade at market prices, rather than NAV, shares of the Fund may
trade at a price greater than NAV (i.e., a premium)
or less than NAV (i.e., a discount).
Calvert
US Large-Cap Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Index ETF (Con’t)
You may
incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest price a buyer is
willing to pay for shares (bid) and the lowest price a
seller is willing to accept for shares (ask) (the “bid-ask spread”) when buying
or selling shares in the secondary market.
Recent
information, including information about the Fund’s NAV, market price, premiums
and discounts, and bid-ask spreads (when
available), will be available on the Fund’s website at
www.calvert.com.
Tax
Information
The Fund
intends to make dividends and distributions that may be taxed as ordinary income
or capital gains, unless you are investing through a
tax-deferred arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement
account.
Payments
to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you
purchase shares of the Fund through a financial intermediary (such as a bank),
the Adviser and/or Foreside
Fund Services, LLC (the
“Distributor”) may pay the financial intermediary for the sale of Fund shares
and related services. These payments, which may be
significant in amount, may create a conflict of interest by influencing the
financial 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.
Calvert
US Mid-Cap Core Responsible Index ETF
Investment
Objective
Calvert US
Mid-Cap Core Responsible Index ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to track the performance
of the Calvert US Mid-Cap Core Responsible
Index (the “Index”).
Fees
and Expenses
The table
below describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell
shares of the Fund. You may
pay fees other
than the fees and expenses of the Fund, such as brokerage commissions and other
fees charged by financial intermediaries,
which are not reflected in the tables and examples
below.
|
| |
Management
Fee1
|
% |
|
Other
Expenses2
|
% |
|
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses |
0.15% |
|
1 |
The
Fund’s management agreement provides that the Fund’s “Adviser,” Morgan
Stanley Investment Management Inc., will pay substantially all expenses
of
the Fund (including expenses of Morgan Stanley ETF Trust (the “Trust”)
relating to the Fund), except for the distribution fees, if any, brokerage
expenses,,
taxes, interest, litigation expenses, and other extraordinary expenses,
including the costs of proxies, not incurred in the ordinary course of the
Fund’s
business. |
2 |
Other
Expenses have been estimated for the current fiscal
year. |
Example
The
example below is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund
with the cost of investing in other funds. The Example
does not take into account brokerage commissions that you pay when purchasing or
selling shares of the Fund.
The
example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods
indicated and then sell your shares at the end of those periods.
The example also assumes your investment has a 5% return each year and 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 Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses or
in the Example, affect the Fund’s performance.
Because the Fund had not commenced operations as of the most recent fiscal year
end, no portfolio turnover rate is available
for the Fund.
Principal
Investment Strategies
Under
normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any
borrowings for investment purposes) in securities
included in the underlying index. This policy may be changed without shareholder
approval; however, shareholders would be
notified upon 60 days’ notice in writing of any
changes.
The Fund
employs a passive management strategy designed to track, as closely as possible,
the performance of the Index. The Fund invests in
the common stock of each company in the Index in approximately the same
proportion as represented in the Index itself. The Fund
may also lend its securities.
The Fund
may concentrate its investments (i.e., invest 25% or more of its total assets)
in a particular industry or group of industries if the
Index is concentrated. The
degree to which components of the Index represent certain industries may change
over time.
The Index
is composed of common stocks of mid-size companies that operate their businesses
in a manner consistent with the Calvert
Principles for Responsible Investment (the “Calvert Principles”) (a copy of
which is included as an appendix to the Fund’s prospectus).
Mid-size companies are the 1,000 largest publicly traded U.S. companies based on
market capitalization, excluding real estate
investment trusts, business development companies and approximately the 200
largest publicly traded U.S. companies. The Calvert
Principles serve as a framework for considering environmental, social and
governance (“ESG”) factors. Under this framework, Calvert
seeks to identify companies and other issuers that provide positive leadership
in the areas of their operations and overall activities
that are material to improving long-term shareholder value and societal
outcomes, including ESG areas such as: environmental
sustainability and resource efficiency; equitable societies and respect for
human rights; and accountable governance and
transparency.
Calvert
US Mid-Cap Core Responsible Index ETF (Con’t)
Stocks are
weighted in the Index based on their float-adjusted market capitalization within
the relevant sector, subject to certain prescribed
limits. As of September 30, 2022, the Index included 598 companies (and
typically is expected to be in the range between 550 to 650
companies), and the market capitalization ranged from approximately $697 million
to $41.8 billion with a weighted average
market capitalization of approximately $16.6 billion. Market capitalizations of
companies within the Index are subject to change.
The number of companies in the Index will change over time due to Calvert’s
evaluation of an issuer relative to the Calvert Principles
or corporate actions involving companies in the Index, among other things. The
Index is reconstituted annually and is rebalanced
quarterly.
The Index
is owned by Calvert, which is an affiliate of the Adviser. Jade Huang, Director
of Applied Responsible Investment Solutions,
and Christopher Madden, CFA, Director of Index Management, manage the Index
construction process at Calvert.
An index
is a group of securities whose overall performance is used as a standard to
measure investment performance. An index or passively
managed fund tries to match, as closely as possible, the performance of an
established target index. An index fund’s goal is to mirror
the target index whether the index is going up or down. To track the Index as
closely as possible, the Fund attempts to remain
fully invested in stocks.
The Fund
uses a replication method of indexing. The replication method involves holding
every security in the Index in approximately
the same proportion as the Index. Unlike the Index, however, the Fund is subject
to certain regulatory requirements that can
limit its ability to fully replicate the Index. Under various circumstances, it
may not be possible or practicable to purchase or hold all
of, or only, the constituent securities in their respective weightings in the
Index. If Fund assets should ever decline to below $5
million, the Fund may use the sampling method. The sampling method involves
selecting a representative number of securities that will
resemble the Index in terms of key risk and other
characteristics.
Principal
Risks
There is
no assurance that the Fund will achieve its investment objective, and you can
lose money investing in this Fund. The
principal
risks of investing in the Fund include:
• |
Tracking
Error.
Tracking
error risk refers to the risk that the Fund’s performance may not match or
correlate to that of the Index it attempts
to track, either on a daily or aggregate basis. Tracking error may occur
because of transaction costs, the Fund’s holding of cash,
differences in accrual of dividends, changes to the Index or the need to
meet new or existing regulatory requirements. Factors such
as Fund expenses, imperfect correlation between the Fund’s investments and
the Index, rounding of share prices, changes to the
composition of the Index, regulatory policies, limitations on Fund
investments imposed by Fund diversification and/or concentration
policies, high portfolio turnover rate and the use of leverage all
contribute to tracking error. Unlike the Fund, the returns
of the Index are not reduced by investment and other operating expenses,
including the trading costs associated with implementing
changes to its portfolio of investments. Tracking error risk may cause the
Fund’s performance to be less than expected.
Tracking error risk may be heightened during times of market volatility,
unusual market conditions or other abnormal circumstances.
The Fund may be required to deviate its investments from the securities
and relative weightings of the Index to comply
with applicable laws and regulations or because of market restrictions or
other legal reasons, including regulatory limits or other
restrictions on securities that may be purchased by the Adviser and its
affiliates. If the Fund uses a sampling method of indexing,
it may have a larger tracking error than if it used a replication method
of indexing. |
• |
Index
Related Risk.
The Fund’s return may not track the return of the Index for a number of
reasons and therefore may not achieve
its investment objective. For example, the Fund incurs a number of
operating expenses not applicable to the Index, and incurs
costs in buying and selling securities, especially when rebalancing the
Fund’s securities holdings to reflect changes in the composition
of the Index. In addition, the Fund’s return may differ from the return of
the Index because of, among other things, pricing
differences and the inability to purchase certain securities included in
the underlying index due to regulatory or other restrictions. |
|
In
addition, when the Fund uses a representative sampling approach, the Fund
may not be as well correlated with the return of the
underlying index as when the Fund purchases all of the securities in the
Index in the proportions in which they are represented in
the Index. Errors in the construction or calculation of the Index may
occur from time to time. Any such errors may not be identified
and corrected by the index provider for some period of time, which may
have an adverse impact on the Fund and its shareholders.
The risk that the Fund may not track the performance of the Index may be
heightened during times of increased market
volatility or other unusual market
conditions. |
• |
Authorized
Participant Concentration Risk.
Only
an authorized participant may engage in creation or redemption
transactions directly
with the Fund. The Fund has a limited number of intermediaries that act as
authorized participants and none of these authorized
participants is or will be obligated to engage in creation or redemption
transactions. To the extent that these intermediaries
exit the business or are unable to or choose not to proceed with creation
and/or redemption orders with respect to the
Fund and no other authorized participant creates or redeems, shares may
trade at a discount to net asset value (“NAV”) and possibly
face trading halts and/or
delisting. |
Calvert
US Mid-Cap Core Responsible Index ETF (Con’t)
• |
Passive
Investment.
The
Fund is managed using a passive investment strategy and expects to hold
common stocks of each company
in the Index regardless of their current or projected performance. The
Fund generally will not adjust its portfolio investments
to attempt to take advantage of market opportunities or lessen the impact
of a market decline or a decline in the performance
of one or more issuers or for other reasons. Maintaining investments
regardless of market conditions or the performance
of individual investments could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than
if the Fund employed an active strategy. Unusual
market events may increase market volatility and may cause the
characteristics of the Index components to vary from those
expected under normal
circumstances. |
• |
Concentration
Risk.
If
the Index concentrates in the securities of issuers in one or more
industries or groups of industries, the Fund may
concentrate in such industries or groups of industries. By concentrating
its investments in an industry or group of industries, the
Fund may face greater risks than if it were diversified broadly over
numerous industries or groups of
industries. |
• |
Equity
Securities. In
general, prices of equity securities are more volatile than those of
fixed-income securities. The prices of equity securities
fluctuate, and sometimes widely fluctuate, in response to activities
specific to the issuer of the security as well as factors unrelated
to the fundamental condition of the issuer, including general market,
economic and political
conditions. |
• |
Responsible
Investing.
Investing
primarily in responsible investments carries the risk that, under certain
market conditions, the Fund
may underperform funds that do not utilize a responsible investment
strategy. The application of responsible investment criteria
may affect the Fund’s exposure to certain sectors or types of investments,
and may impact the Fund’s relative investment performance
depending on whether such sectors or investments are in or out of favor in
the market. An investment’s ESG performance,
or Calvert’s assessment of such performance may change over time, which
could cause the Fund to temporarily hold securities
that do not comply with the Fund’s responsible investment criteria. In
evaluating an issuer, Calvert is dependent upon information
and data that may be incomplete, inaccurate or unavailable, which could
adversely affect the analysis of the ESG factors
relevant to a particular
investment. |
• |
Securities
Lending.
The
Fund may lend its portfolio securities to broker-dealers and other
institutional borrowers. During the existence
of a loan, the Fund will continue to receive the equivalent of the
interest paid by the issuer on the securities loaned, or all or a
portion of the interest on investment of the collateral, if any. The Fund
may pay lending fees to such borrowers. Loans will only
be made to firms that have been approved by the Adviser, and the Adviser
or the securities lending agent will periodically monitor
the financial condition of such firms while such loans are outstanding.
Securities loans will only be made when the Adviser
believes that the expected returns, net of expenses, justify the attendant
risks. Securities loans currently are required to be secured
continuously by collateral in cash, cash equivalents (such as money market
instruments) or other liquid securities held by the
custodian and maintained in an amount at least equal to the market value
of the securities loaned. The Fund may engage in securities
lending to generate income. Upon return of the loaned securities, the Fund
would be required to return the related collateral
to the borrower and may be required to liquidate portfolio securities in
order to do so. |
• |
Market
and Geopolitical Risk.
The
value of your investment in the Fund is based on the values of the Fund’s
investments, which may
change due to economic and other events that affect markets generally, as
well as those that affect particular regions, countries,
industries, companies or governments. These events may be sudden and
unexpected, and could adversely affect the liquidity
of the Fund’s investments, which may in turn impact valuation, the Fund’s
ability to sell securities and/or its ability to meet
redemptions. The risks associated with these developments may be magnified
if certain social, political, economic and other conditions
and events (such as war, natural disasters, epidemics and pandemics,
terrorism, conflicts and social unrest) adversely interrupt
the global economy and financial markets. It is difficult to predict when
events affecting the U.S. or global financial markets
may occur, the effects that such events may have and the duration of those
effects (which may last for extended periods). These
events may negatively impact broad segments of businesses and populations
and have a significant and rapid negative impact
on the performance of the Fund’s investments, adversely affect and
increase the volatility of the Fund’s share price and exacerbate
pre-existing risks to the
Fund. |
• |
Trading
Risk.
The
market prices of shares are expected to fluctuate, in some cases
materially, in response to changes in the Fund’s NAV,
the intra-day value of the Fund’s holdings, and supply and demand for
shares. The Adviser cannot predict whether shares will
trade above, below or at their NAV. Disruptions to creations and
redemptions, the existence of significant market volatility or
potential
lack of an active trading market for the shares (including through a
trading halt), as well as other factors, may result in the
shares trading significantly above (at a premium) or below (at a discount)
to NAV or to the intraday value of the Fund’s holdings
(and, as a result, an investor may pay more for, or receive less than, the
underlying value of the shares, respectively). Buying
or selling shares in the secondary market may require paying 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 when seeking
to buy or sell relatively small amounts of shares. In addition, the market
price of shares, like the price of any exchange-traded
security, includes a “bid-ask spread” charged by the market makers or
other participants that trade the particular security. The
spread of a Fund’s shares varies over time based on the Fund’s trading
volume and market liquidity and may increase if the Fund’s
trading volume, the spread of the Fund’s underlying securities, or market
liquidity
decrease. |
Calvert
US Mid-Cap Core Responsible Index ETF (Con’t)
• |
New
Fund Risk.
The
Fund recently commenced operations and its performance may not represent
how the Fund is expected to or may
perform in the long term. In addition, new funds have limited operating
histories for investors to evaluate and new funds may
not attract sufficient assets to achieve investment and trading
efficiencies. |
Shares of
the Fund are not bank deposits and are not guaranteed or insured by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other
government agency.
Performance
Information
As of the
date hereof, the Fund has not yet completed a full calendar year of investment
operations. Upon the
completion of a full calendar
year of investment operations by the Fund, this section will include charts that
provide some indication of the risks of an investment
in the Fund, by showing the difference in annual total returns, highest and
lowest quarterly returns and average annual total
returns (before and after taxes) compared to the Index and benchmark index
selected for the Fund. Performance information for the Fund
will be available online at www.calvert.com or by
calling toll-free 800-836-2414.
Fund
Management
Adviser. Morgan
Stanley Investment Management Inc.
Portfolio
Managers.
Information about the members jointly and primarily responsible for the
day-to-day management of the Fund is shown
below:
|
| |
Name |
Title
with Adviser |
Date
Began Managing
Fund |
Thomas
C. Seto |
Managing
Director |
Since
Inception |
James
Reber |
Managing
Director |
Since
Inception |
Matthew
Maillet |
Executive
Director |
Since
Inception |
Purchase
and Sale of Fund Shares
Individual
shares of the Fund may only be purchased and sold in secondary market
transactions through a broker or dealer at market price.
Because shares trade at market prices, rather than NAV, shares of the Fund may
trade at a price greater than NAV (i.e., a premium)
or less than NAV (i.e., a discount).
You may
incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest price a buyer is
willing to pay for shares (bid) and the lowest price a
seller is willing to accept for shares (ask) (the “bid-ask spread”) when buying
or selling shares in the secondary market.
Recent
information, including information about the Fund’s NAV, market price, premiums
and discounts, and bid-ask spreads (when
available), will be available on the Fund’s website at
www.calvert.com.
Tax
Information
The Fund
intends to make dividends and distributions that may be taxed as ordinary income
or capital gains, unless you are investing through a
tax-deferred arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement
account.
Payments
to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you
purchase shares of the Fund through a financial intermediary (such as a bank),
the Adviser and/or Foreside
Fund Services, LLC (the
“Distributor”) may pay the financial intermediary for the sale of Fund shares
and related services. These payments, which may be
significant in amount, may create a conflict of interest by influencing the
financial 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.
Calvert | Details
of the Funds
Calvert
International Responsible Index ETF
Investment
Objective
The Fund’s
investment objective is to seek to track the performance of the Calvert
International Responsible Index (the “Index”).
The Fund’s
investment objective may be changed by the Trust’s Board of Trustees without
shareholder approval, but no change is anticipated.
If the Fund’s investment objective changes, the Fund will notify shareholders
and shareholders should consider whether the Fund
remains an appropriate investment in light of the change.
Approach
The Fund
employs a passive management strategy designed to track, as closely as possible,
the performance of the Index. The Fund invests in
the common stock of a representative number of companies that resemble the
Index. The Fund may also lend its securities.
The Fund
may concentrate its investments (i.e., invest 25% or more of its total assets)
in a particular industry or group of industries if the
Index is concentrated. The degree to which components of the Index represent
certain industries may change over time.
Process
Under
normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any
borrowings for investment purposes) in securities
included in the underlying index. This policy may be changed without shareholder
approval; however, shareholders would be
notified upon 60 days’ notice in writing of any changes.
The Index
is composed of common stocks of large companies in developed markets, excluding
the U.S., that operate their businesses in a
manner consistent with the Calvert Principles. Large companies in developed
markets include 1,000 large publicly traded companies,
excluding real estate investments trusts and business development companies, in
markets that Calvert, the Index provider, determines
to be developed markets based on a set of criteria including level of economic
development, existence of capital controls, openness
to foreign direct investment, market trading and liquidity conditions,
regulatory environment, treatment of minority shareholders,
and investor expectations. When determining 1,000 large publicly traded
companies, Calvert generally includes the 500 largest
publicly traded companies located in or tied economically to Europe and the 500
largest publicly traded companies located in or tied
economically to other non-U.S. and non-European developed markets. The Calvert
Principles (a copy of which is included as an
appendix to the Fund’s prospectus) serve as a framework for considering ESG
factors. Under this framework, Calvert seeks to identify
companies and other issuers that provide positive leadership in the areas of
their operations and overall activities that are material
to improving long-term shareholder value and societal outcomes, including ESG
areas such as: environmental sustainability and
resource efficiency; equitable societies and respect for human rights; and
accountable governance and transparency.
Stocks are
weighted in the Index based on their float-adjusted market capitalization, by
country and by sector, subject to certain prescribed
limits. As of September 30, 2022, the Index included 780 companies (and
typically is expected to be in the range between 700 and
800 companies), and the market capitalization ranged from approximately $787
million to $344 billion with a weighted average
market capitalization of approximately $68.8 billion. Market capitalizations of
companies within the Index are subject to change.
The number of companies in the Index will change over time due to Calvert’s
evaluation of an issuer relative to the Calvert Principles
or corporate actions involving companies in the Index, among other things. The
Index is reconstituted annually and is rebalanced
quarterly.
The Index
is owned by Calvert, which is an affiliate of the Adviser. Jade Huang, Director
of Applied Responsible Investment Solutions,
Christopher Madden, CFA, Director of Index Management and Zi Ye, Index Manager
manage the Index construction process at
Calvert.
An index
is a group of securities whose overall performance is used as a standard to
measure investment performance. An index or passively
managed fund tries to match, as closely as possible, the performance of an
established target index. An index fund’s goal is to mirror
the target index whether the index is going up or down. To track the Index as
closely as possible, the Fund attempts to remain
fully invested in stocks. The Fund may enter into foreign currency transactions,
including foreign currency forward exchange contracts,
in the course of purchasing and selling foreign currency denominated securities
in order to track, as closely as possible, the performance
of the Index.
The Fund
uses a sampling method of indexing. The sampling method involves selecting a
representative number of securities that will
resemble the Index in terms of key risk and other characteristics. The
securities selected are expected to have, in the aggregate, investment
characteristics (based on factors such as market value and industry weightings),
fundamental characteristics (such as return
variability and yield) and liquidity measures similar to those of the Index. The
Fund may or may not hold all of the securities in the
Index or hold securities in the same proportions as represented in the
Index.
The
Calvert Principles provide a framework for Calvert’s evaluation of investments
and guide Calvert’s stewardship on behalf of clients
through active engagement with issuers. For example, Calvert may seek to engage
directly with company management to gain insights
on sustainability alignment and material ESG criteria that may affect long-term
financial performance. Although Calvert may
reference third-party ESG data during its research process, it generally does
not rely on third-party ESG data for the purposes of constructing
the Index. Calvert also does not use screens in connection with constructing the
Index. Instead, Calvert relies on its own
Calvert | Details
of the Funds
Calvert
International Responsible Index ETF (Con’t)
proprietary
analysis described further below to determine whether a company operates its
business in a manner consistent with the Calvert
Principles.
The
Calvert ESG research process focuses on identifying the financially material ESG
risks to which companies and other issuers (together,
“issuers”) are exposed, evaluating management teams’ ability to navigate those
risks, and recognizing opportunities for companies
to improve their ESG performance. Calvert reviews data points to differentiate
issuers based on such risks. Then, Calvert quantifies
these risks using a proprietary scoring model that rates and ranks issuers
within their peer groups. The end result is a customized
scoring model that rates and ranks companies, including a proprietary assessment
relative to both peer and absolute performance.
In some cases, and at its discretion, Calvert performs a qualitative review in
lieu of scoring a particular issuer.
The Fund
seeks to track the performance of the Index and seeks to hold a representative
sample of Index component companies so that it
will resemble the Index in terms of key risk and other characteristics, subject
to certain regulatory requirements. Thus, the Fund does
not perform diligence on companies held in its portfolio and does not have its
own ESG criteria. The Index’s rules and methodology
(available on the Calvert website) describes the relevant eligibility criteria
and selection methodology for Index components,
which include, as described above, that each Index component must operate its
business in a manner consistent with the
Calvert Principles, among other factors, such as market capitalization and
liquidity thresholds.
Related
Performance Information of Composite and Index
The Fund
has recently commenced operations and has no performance history. An affiliate
of the Adviser, Calvert, manages a composite
(the “Composite”) that consists solely of a mutual fund managed by one of the
portfolio managers that has a substantially similar
investment objective, policies and investment strategies as the Fund (the
“Composite Fund”) and the table below provides supplemental
performance information for the Composite and the Index. The performance of the
Composite is net of fees and expenses,
which, depending on the account may be lower or higher than those charged to the
Fund. Since fees, commissions and taxes may
differ for the Composite and the Fund, performance data for identical periods
may differ. The Composite reflects transaction
costs, but does not reflect (i) custody fees, Rule 12b-1 fees or other expenses
normally paid by mutual funds that are unrelated
to the investment management services provided by an adviser or (ii) a deduction
of any applicable sales load(s) of the Composite
Fund. If these expenses were included, returns would be lower. The Composite and
Index performance information does not
represent the performance of the Fund. It is provided to illustrate the past
performance of accounts advised by an affiliate of the Adviser
and past performance of the Index. The portfolio manager for the Composite Fund
is one of the portfolio managers listed for the Fund.
This individual has sole responsibility for managing the Composite Fund and has
ultimate decision-making authority for both the
Composite Fund and the Fund. Such Composite Fund’s investment objective is to
track the performance of same Index as the
Fund.
The
Composite and Index historical performance data should not be considered a
substitute for the Fund’s performance and should not be
considered an indication of the Fund’s future performance. You should not assume
that the Fund will have the same performance
as the Composite or the Index. An investment in the Fund can lose value.
Although the Fund and the Composite Fund have a
substantially similar investment objective, policies and investment strategies,
differences in asset size and cash flows, among other
things, may result in differences in security selection, relative weightings or
differences in the price paid for certain securities. As such, the
investments held by the Fund may not be identical to the investments held by the
Composite Fund and the future performance
of the Fund will differ from the performance of the Composite.
Performance
of the Composite and Index
Average
Annual Total Returns
|
|
|
| |
For
Periods Ended December 31, 2022 |
|
|
|
|
|
1
Year |
3
Year |
5
Year |
Since
Inception1
|
Composite |
-19.09% |
1.74% |
2.57% |
4.83% |
Calvert
International Responsible Index2
|
-19.43% |
1.60% |
2.42% |
4.69% |
MSCI
World ex USA Index3
|
-14.29% |
1.27% |
1.79% |
4.25% |
1 |
The
inception date of the oldest account in the Composite is November 1,
2015. |
2 |
The
Calvert International Responsible Index is composed of companies that
operate their businesses in a manner that is consistent with the Calvert
Principles
and are selected from the universe of the 1,000 largest companies in
international developed markets. |
3 |
MSCI
World ex USA Index is an unmanaged index of equity securities in the
developed markets, excluding the United States. MSCI indexes are net of
foreign
withholding taxes. MSCI
World ex USA Index is a free float adjusted market capitalization weighted
index that is designed to measure the global equity
market performance of developed markets excluding the United States. The
term “free float” represents the portion of shares outstanding that
are
deemed to be available for purchase in the public equity markets by
investors. The performance of the index is listed in U.S. dollars and
assumes reinvestment
of net dividends. It is not possible to invest directly in an
index. |
Calvert | Details
of the Funds
Calvert
US Large-Cap Core Responsible Index ETF
Investment
Objective
The Fund’s
investment objective is to seek to track the performance of the Calvert US
Large-Cap Core Responsible Index (the “Index”).
The Fund’s
investment objective may be changed by the Trust’s Board of Trustees without
shareholder approval, but no change is anticipated.
If the Fund’s investment objective changes, the Fund will notify shareholders
and shareholders should consider whether the Fund
remains an appropriate investment in light of the change.
Approach
The Fund
employs a passive management strategy designed to track, as closely as possible,
the performance of the Index. The Fund invests in
the common stock of each company in the Index in approximately the same
proportion as represented in the Index itself. The Fund
may also lend its securities.
The Fund
may concentrate its investments (i.e., invest 25% or more of its total assets)
in a particular industry or group of industries if the
Index is concentrated. The degree to which components of the Index represent
certain industries may change over time. As of the
September 30, 2022, the Index is concentrated in, and therefore the Fund is
expected to have significant exposure to, the information
technology sector.
Process
Under
normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any
borrowings for investment purposes) in securities
included in the underlying index. This policy may be changed without shareholder
approval; however, shareholders would be
notified upon 60 days’ notice in writing of any changes.
The Index
is composed of common stocks of large companies that operate their businesses in
a manner consistent with the Calvert (a copy of
which is included as an appendix to the Fund’s prospectus). Large companies are
the 1,000 largest publicly traded U.S. companies
based on market capitalization, excluding real estate investment trusts and
business development companies. The Calvert Principles
serve as a framework for considering ESG factors. Under this framework, Calvert
seeks to identify companies and other issuers
that provide positive leadership in the areas of their operations and overall
activities that are material to improving long-term shareholder
value and societal outcomes, including ESG areas such as: environmental
sustainability and resource efficiency; equitable societies
and respect for human rights; and accountable governance and
transparency.
Stocks are
weighted in the Index based on their float-adjusted market capitalization within
the relevant sector, subject to certain prescribed
limits. As of September 30, 2022, the Index included 747 companies (and
typically is expected to be in the range between 700 and
800 companies), and the market capitalization ranged from approximately $697
million to $2.2 trillion with a weighted average
market capitalization of approximately $429.3 billion. Market capitalizations of
companies within the Index are subject to change.
The number of companies in the Index will change over time due to Calvert’s
evaluation of an issuer relative to the Calvert Principles
or corporate actions involving companies in the Index, among other things. The
Index is reconstituted annually and is rebalanced
quarterly.
The Index
is owned by Calvert, which is an affiliate of the Adviser. Jade Huang, Director
of Applied Responsible Investment Solutions,
Christopher Madden, CFA, Director of Index Management, and Zi Ye, Index Manager,
manage the Index construction process at
Calvert.
An index
is a group of securities whose overall performance is used as a standard to
measure investment performance. An index or passively
managed fund tries to match, as closely as possible, the performance of an
established target index. An index fund’s goal is to mirror
the target index whether the index is going up or down. To track the Index as
closely as possible, the Fund attempts to remain
fully invested in stocks.
The Fund
uses a replication method of indexing. The replication method involves holding
every security in the Index in approximately
the same proportion as the Index. Unlike the Index, however, the Fund is subject
to certain regulatory requirements that can
limit its ability to fully replicate the Index. Under various circumstances, it
may not be possible or practicable to purchase or hold all
of, or only, the constituent securities in their respective weightings in the
Index. If Fund assets should ever decline to below $5
million, the Fund may use the sampling method. The sampling method involves
selecting a representative number of securities that will
resemble the Index in terms of key risk and other characteristics.
The
Calvert Principles provide a framework for Calvert’s evaluation of investments
and guide Calvert’s stewardship on behalf of clients
through active engagement with issuers. For example, Calvert may seek to engage
directly with company management to gain insights
on sustainability alignment and material ESG criteria that may affect long-term
financial performance. Although Calvert may
reference third-party ESG data during its research process, it generally does
not rely on third-party ESG data for the purposes of constructing
the Index. Calvert also does not use screens in connection with constructing the
Index. Instead, Calvert relies on its own proprietary
analysis described further below to determine whether a company operates its
business in a manner consistent with the Calvert
Principles.
Calvert | Details
of the Funds
Calvert
US Large-Cap Core Responsible Index ETF (Con’t)
The
Calvert ESG research process focuses on identifying the financially material ESG
risks to which companies and other issuers (together,
“issuers”) are exposed, evaluating management teams’ ability to navigate those
risks, and recognizing opportunities for companies
to improve their ESG performance. Calvert reviews data points to differentiate
issuers based on such risks. Then, Calvert quantifies
these risks using a proprietary scoring model that rates and ranks issuers
within their peer groups. The end result is a customized
scoring model that rates and ranks companies, including a proprietary assessment
relative to both peer and absolute performance.
In some cases and at its discretion, Calvert performs a qualitative review in
lieu of scoring a particular issuer.
The Fund
seeks to replicate the performance of the Index and seeks to hold Index
component companies in approximately the same proportion
as the Index, subject to certain regulatory requirements. Thus, the Fund does
not perform diligence on companies held in its
portfolio and does not have its own ESG criteria. The Index’s rules and
methodology (available on the Calvert website) describes the
relevant eligibility criteria and selection methodology for Index components,
which include, as described above, that each Index component
must operate its business in a manner consistent with the Calvert Principles,
among other factors, such as market capitalization
and liquidity thresholds.
Related
Performance Information of Composite and Index
The Fund
has recently commenced operations and has no performance history. An affiliate
of the Adviser, Calvert, manages a composite
(the “Composite”) that consists solely of a mutual fund managed by one of the
portfolio managers that has a substantially similar
investment objective, policies and investment strategies as the Fund (the
“Composite Fund”) and the table below provides supplemental
performance information for the Composite and the Index. The performance of the
Composite is net of fees and expenses,
which, depending on the account may be lower or higher than those charged to the
Fund. Since fees, commissions and taxes may
differ for the Composite and the Fund, performance data for identical periods
may differ. The Composite reflects transaction
costs, but does not reflect (i) custody fees, Rule 12b-1 fees or other expenses
normally paid by mutual funds that are unrelated
to the investment management services provided by an adviser or (ii) a deduction
of any applicable sales load(s) of the Composite
Fund. If these expenses were included, returns would be lower. The Composite and
Index performance information does not
represent the performance of the Fund. It is provided to illustrate the past
performance of accounts advised by an affiliate of the Adviser
and past performance of the Index. The portfolio manager for the Composite Fund
is one of the portfolio managers listed for the Fund.
This individual has sole responsibility for managing the Composite Fund and has
ultimate decision-making authority for both the
Composite Fund and the Fund. Such Composite Fund’s investment objective is to
track the performance of same Index as the
Fund.
The
Composite and Index historical performance data should not be considered a
substitute for the Fund’s performance and should not be
considered an indication of the Fund’s future performance. You should not assume
that the Fund will have the same performance
as the Composite or the Index. An investment in the Fund can lose value.
Although the Fund and the Composite Fund have a
substantially similar investment objective, policies and investment strategies,
differences in asset size and cash flows, among other
things, may result in differences in security selection, relative weightings or
differences in the price paid for certain securities. As such, the
investments held by the Fund may not be identical to the investments held by the
Composite Fund and the future performance
of the Fund will differ from the performance of the Composite.
Performance
of the Composite and Index
Average
Annual Total Returns
|
|
|
|
| |
For
Periods Ended December 31, 2022 |
|
1
Year |
3
Year |
5
Year |
10
Year |
Since
Inception1
|
Composite |
-21.59% |
7.57% |
9.70% |
12.84% |
5.83% |
Calvert
US Large-Cap Core Responsible
Index2
|
-21.62% |
7.75% |
9.91% |
13.08% |
6.11% |
Russell
1000® Index3
|
-19.13% |
7.35% |
9.13% |
12.37% |
6.58% |
1 |
The
inception date of the oldest account in the Composite is October 1,
2000. |
2 |
The
Calvert US Large-Cap Core Responsible Index is composed of companies that
operate their businesses in a manner that is consistent with the
Calvert
Principles and are selected from the universe of the 1,000 largest
US-based companies by market capitalization. |
3 |
Russell
1000® Index is an unmanaged index of U.S. large-cap stocks. The
Russell 1000® Index measures the performance of the large-cap segment of
the
US equity universe. It is a subset of the Russell 3000® Index and includes
approximately 1,000 of the largest securities based on a combination of
their
market cap and current index membership. It is not possible to invest
directly in an index. |
Calvert | Details
of the Funds
Calvert
US Large-Cap Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Index ETF
Investment
Objective
The Fund’s
investment objective is to seek to track the performance of the Calvert US
Large-Cap Diversity Research Index (the “Index”).
The Fund’s
investment objective may be changed by the Trust’s Board of Trustees without
shareholder approval, but no change is anticipated.
If the Fund’s investment objective changes, the Fund will notify shareholders
and shareholders should consider whether the Fund
remains an appropriate investment in light of the change.
Approach
The Fund
employs a passive management strategy designed to track, as closely as possible,
the performance of the Index. The Fund invests in
the common stock of each company in the Index in approximately the same
proportion as represented in the Index itself. The Fund
may also lend its securities.
The Fund
may concentrate its investments (i.e., invest 25% or more of its total assets)
in a particular industry or group of industries if the
Index is concentrated. The degree to which components of the Index represent
certain industries may change over time. As of the
September 30, 2022, the Index is concentrated in, and therefore the Fund is
expected to have significant exposure to, the information
technology sector.
Process
Under
normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any
borrowings for investment purposes) in securities
included in the underlying index. This policy may be changed without shareholder
approval; however, shareholders would be
notified upon 60 days’ notice in writing of any changes.
The Index
is composed of common stocks of large companies that operate their businesses in
a manner consistent with the Calvert Principles
(a copy of which is included as an appendix to the Fund’s prospectus) and are
selected from the universe of the 1,000 largest
publicly traded U.S. companies based on market capitalization, excluding real
estate investment trusts and business development
companies. As described in the Index rules and methodology (available on the
Calvert website), and as determined by Calvert,
Index components must meet certain criteria relating to leadership in having a
diverse workforce and an equal and inclusive work
culture, or demonstrate significant improvement in diversity practices. Such
diversity practices include: a gender-balanced workforce
among its board members, executives, senior and middle management, and
employees; with respect to companies based in the U.S.,
United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and South Africa, ethnically diverse board
members relative to demographics in these countries;
diversity of board members on age, cultural background, and skill sets; policies
and procedures that adequately support equal
opportunity in hiring, equal pay and fair promotion among diversity groups;
policies and programs that focus on living wages, health and
safety, career development, parental leave, flexible work locations and
schedules, child care availability, and inclusion of people
with disabilities, people who are HIV positive, as well as people who
self-identify as LGBTQ+.
The
Calvert Principles serve as a framework for considering ESG factors. Under
this framework, Calvert seeks to identify companies and other
issuers that provide positive leadership in the areas of their operations and
overall activities that are material to improving long-term
shareholder value and societal outcomes, including ESG areas such as:
environmental sustainability and resource efficiency; equitable
societies and respect for human rights; and accountable governance and
transparency.
Stocks are
weighted in the Index based on their float-adjusted market capitalization. As of
September 30, 2022, the Index included 479
companies (and typically is expected to be in the range between 400 and 600
companies), and the market capitalization ranged from
approximately $1.9 billion to $2.2 trillion with a weighted average market
capitalization of approximately $593 billion. Market capitalizations
of companies within the Index are subject to change. The number of companies in
the Index will change over time due to
Calvert’s evaluation of an issuer relative to the Calvert Principles or
corporate actions involving companies in the Index, among
other things. The Index is reconstituted annually and is rebalanced
quarterly.
The Index
is owned by Calvert, which is an affiliate of the Adviser. Jade Huang, Director
of Applied Responsible Investment Solutions,
Christopher Madden, CFA, Director of Index Management, Yijia Chen, CFA, ESG
Quantitative Research Analyst and Index
Manager, and Zi Ye, Index Manager, manage the Index construction process at
Calvert.
An index
is a group of securities whose overall performance is used as a standard to
measure investment performance. An index or passively
managed fund tries to match, as closely as possible, the performance of an
established target index. An index fund’s goal is to mirror
the target index whether the index is going up or down. To track the Index as
closely as possible, the Fund attempts to remain
fully invested in stocks.
The Fund
uses a replication method of indexing. The replication method involves holding
every security in the Index in approximately
the same proportion as the Index. Unlike the Index, however, the Fund is subject
to certain regulatory requirements that can
limit its ability to fully replicate the Index. Under various circumstances, it
may not be possible or practicable to purchase or hold all
of, or only, the constituent securities in their respective weightings in the
Index. If Fund assets should ever decline to below
Calvert | Details
of the Funds
Calvert
US Large-Cap Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Index ETF (Con’t)
$5
million, the Fund may use the sampling method. The sampling method involves
selecting a representative number of securities that will
resemble the Index in terms of key risk and other characteristics.
The
Calvert Principles provide a framework for Calvert’s evaluation of investments
and guide Calvert’s stewardship on behalf of clients
through active engagement with issuers. For example, Calvert may seek to engage
directly with company management to gain insights
on sustainability alignment and material ESG criteria that may affect long-term
financial performance. Although Calvert may
reference third-party ESG data during its research process, it generally does
not rely on third-party ESG data for the purposes of constructing
the Index. Calvert also does not use screens in connection with constructing the
Index. Instead, Calvert relies on its own proprietary
analysis described further below to determine whether a company operates its
business in a manner consistent with the Calvert
Principles.
The
Calvert ESG research process focuses on identifying the financially material ESG
risks to which companies and other issuers (together,
“issuers”) are exposed, evaluating management teams’ ability to navigate those
risks, and recognizing opportunities for companies
to improve their ESG performance. Calvert reviews data points to differentiate
issuers based on such risks. Then, Calvert quantifies
these risks using a proprietary scoring model that rates and ranks issuers
within their peer groups. The end result is a customized
scoring model that rates and ranks companies, including a proprietary assessment
relative to both peer and absolute performance.
In some cases and at its discretion, Calvert performs a qualitative review in
lieu of scoring a particular issuer.
The Fund
seeks to replicate the performance of the Index and seeks to hold Index
component companies in approximately the same proportion
as the Index, subject to certain regulatory requirements. Thus, the Fund does
not perform diligence on companies held in its
portfolio and does not have its own ESG criteria. The Index’s rules and
methodology (available on the Calvert website) describes the
relevant eligibility criteria and selection methodology for Index components,
which include, as described above, that each Index component
must operate its business in a manner consistent with the Calvert Principles,
among other factors, such as market capitalization
and liquidity thresholds.
Performance
of the Index
The Fund
has recently commenced operations and has no performance history. The table
below provides supplemental performance information
for the Index. The Fund’s investment objective is to seek to track the
performance of the Index. The Index performance information
does not represent the performance of the Fund. It is provided to illustrate the
past performance of the Index.
The
historical performance data for the Index should not be considered a substitute
for the Fund’s performance and should not be considered
an indication of the Fund’s future performance. You should not assume that the
Fund will have the same performance as the Index.
An investment in the Fund can lose value. Although the Fund’s investment
objective is to seek to track the performance of the Index,
there is no assurance that the Fund will achieve its investment objective. As
such, the Fund’s performance may not track that of
the Index and the future performance of the Fund will differ from the
performance of the Index.
Performance
of the Index
Average
Annual Total Returns
|
| |
For
Periods Ended December 31, 2022 |
|
|
|
1
Year |
Since
Inception1
|
Calvert
US Large-Cap Diversity Research Index2
|
-23.06% |
9.18% |
1 |
The
inception date of the Calvert US Large-Cap Diversity Research Index is
June 19, 2020. |
2 |
The
Calvert US Large-Cap Diversity Research Index is composed of companies
that operate their businesses in a manner that is consistent with the
Calvert
Principles and are selected from the universe of the 1,000 largest
publicly traded US companies by market capitalization. As described in the
Index
Methodology and as determined by Calvert, Index components must meet
certain criteria relating to leadership in having a diverse workforce and
an
equal and inclusive work culture, or demonstrate significant improvement
in diversity practices. |
Calvert | Details
of the Funds
Calvert
US Mid-Cap Core Responsible Index ETF
Investment
Objective
The Fund’s
investment objective is to seek to track the performance of the Calvert US
Mid-Cap Core Responsible Index (the “Index”).
The Fund’s
investment objective may be changed by the Trust’s Board of Trustees without
shareholder approval, but no change is anticipated.
If the Fund’s investment objective changes, the Fund will notify shareholders
and shareholders should consider whether the Fund
remains an appropriate investment in light of the change.
Approach
The Fund
employs a passive management strategy designed to track, as closely as possible,
the performance of the Index. The Fund invests in
the common stock of each company in the Index in approximately the same
proportion as represented in the Index itself. The Fund
may also lend its securities.
The Fund
may concentrate its investments (i.e., invest 25% or more of its total assets)
in a particular industry or group of industries if the
Index is concentrated. The degree to which components of the Index represent
certain industries may change over time.
Process
Under
normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any
borrowings for investment purposes) in securities
included in the underlying index. This policy may be changed without shareholder
approval; however, shareholders would be
notified upon 60 days’ notice in writing of any changes.
The Index
is composed of common stocks of mid-size companies that operate their businesses
in a manner consistent with The Calvert
Principles (a copy of which is included as an appendix to the Fund’s
prospectus). Mid-size companies are the 1,000 largest publicly
traded U.S. companies based on market capitalization, excluding real estate
investment trusts, business development companies
and approximately the 200 largest publicly traded U.S. companies. The Calvert
Principles serve as a framework for considering
ESG factors. Under this framework, Calvert seeks to identify companies and other
issuers that provide positive leadership in the
areas of their operations and overall activities that are material to improving
long-term shareholder value and societal outcomes,
including ESG areas such as: environmental sustainability and resource
efficiency; equitable societies and respect for human
rights; and accountable governance and transparency.
Stocks are
weighted in the Index based on their float-adjusted market capitalization within
the relevant sector, subject to certain prescribed
limits. As of September 30, 2022, the Index included 598 companies (and
typically is expected to be in the range between 550 to 650
companies), and the market capitalization ranged from approximately $697 million
to $41.8 billion with a weighted average
market capitalization of approximately $16.6 billion. Market capitalizations of
companies within the Index are subject to change.
The number of companies in the Index will change over time due to Calvert’s
evaluation of an issuer relative to the Calvert Principles
or corporate actions involving companies in the Index, among other things. The
Index is reconstituted annually and is rebalanced
quarterly.
The Index
is owned by Calvert, which is an affiliate of the Adviser. Jade Huang, Director
of Applied Responsible Investment Solutions,
and Christopher Madden, CFA, Director of Index Management, manage the Index
construction process at Calvert.
An index
is a group of securities whose overall performance is used as a standard to
measure investment performance. An index or passively
managed fund tries to match, as closely as possible, the performance of an
established target index. An index fund’s goal is to mirror
the target index whether the index is going up or down. To track the Index as
closely as possible, the Fund attempts to remain
fully invested in stocks.
The Fund
uses a replication method of indexing. The replication method involves holding
every security in the Index in approximately
the same proportion as the Index. Unlike the Index, however, the Fund is subject
to certain regulatory requirements that can
limit its ability to fully replicate the Index. Under various circumstances, it
may not be possible or practicable to purchase or hold all
of, or only, the constituent securities in their respective weightings in the
Index. If Fund assets should ever decline to below $5
million, the Fund may use the sampling method. The sampling method involves
selecting a representative number of securities that will
resemble the Index in terms of key risk and other characteristics.
The
Calvert Principles provide a framework for Calvert’s evaluation of investments
and guide Calvert’s stewardship on behalf of clients
through active engagement with issuers. For example, Calvert may seek to engage
directly with company management to gain insights
on sustainability alignment and material ESG criteria that may affect long-term
financial performance. Although Calvert may
reference third-party ESG data during its research process, it generally does
not rely on third-party ESG data for the purposes of constructing
the Index. Calvert also does not use screens in connection with constructing the
Index. Instead, Calvert relies on its own proprietary
analysis described further below to determine whether a company operates its
business in a manner consistent with the Calvert
Principles.
Calvert | Details
of the Funds
Calvert
US Mid-Cap Core Responsible Index ETF (Con’t)
The
Calvert ESG research process focuses on identifying the financially material ESG
risks to which companies and other issuers (together,
“issuers”) are exposed, evaluating management teams’ ability to navigate those
risks, and recognizing opportunities for companies
to improve their ESG performance. Calvert reviews data points to differentiate
issuers based on such risks. Then, Calvert quantifies
these risks using a proprietary scoring model that rates and ranks issuers
within their peer groups. The end result is a customized
scoring model that rates and ranks companies, including a proprietary assessment
relative to both peer and absolute performance.
In some cases and at its discretion, Calvert performs a qualitative review in
lieu of scoring a particular issuer.
The Fund
seeks to replicate the performance of the Index and seeks to hold Index
component companies in approximately the same proportion
as the Index, subject to certain regulatory requirements. Thus, the Fund does
not perform diligence on companies held in its
portfolio and does not have its own ESG criteria. The Index’s rules and
methodology (available on the Calvert website) describes the
relevant eligibility criteria and selection methodology for Index components,
which include, as described above, that each Index component
must operate its business in a manner consistent with the Calvert Principles,
among other factors, such as market capitalization
and liquidity thresholds.
Related
Performance Information of Composite and Index
The Fund
has recently commenced operations and has no performance history. An affiliate
of the Adviser, Calvert, manages a composite
(the “Composite”) that consists solely of a mutual fund managed by one of the
portfolio managers that has a substantially similar
investment objective, policies and investment strategies as the Fund (the
“Composite Fund”) and the table below provides supplemental
performance information for the Composite and the Index. The performance of the
Composite is net of fees and expenses,
which, depending on the account may be lower or higher than those charged to the
Fund. Since fees, commissions and taxes may
differ for the Composite and the Fund, performance data for identical periods
may differ. The Composite reflects transaction
costs, but does not reflect (i) custody fees, Rule 12b-1 fees or other expenses
normally paid by mutual funds that are unrelated
to the investment management services provided by an adviser or (ii) a deduction
of any applicable sales load(s) of the Composite
Fund. If these expenses were included, returns would be lower. The Composite and
Index performance information does not
represent the performance of the Fund. It is provided to illustrate the past
performance of accounts advised by an affiliate of the Adviser
and past performance of the Index. The portfolio manager for the Composite Fund
is one of the portfolio managers listed for the Fund.
This individual has sole responsibility for managing the Composite Fund and has
ultimate decision-making authority for both the
Composite Fund and the Fund. Such Composite Fund’s investment objective is to
track the performance of same Index as the
Fund.
The
Composite and Index historical performance data should not be considered a
substitute for the Fund’s performance and should not be
considered an indication of the Fund’s future performance. You should not assume
that the Fund will have the same performance
as the Composite or the Index. An investment in the Fund can lose value.
Although the Fund and the Composite Fund have a
substantially similar investment objective, policies and investment strategies,
differences in asset size and cash flows, among other
things, may result in differences in security selection, relative weightings or
differences in the price paid for certain securities. As such, the
investments held by the Fund may not be identical to the investments held by the
Composite Fund and the future performance
of the Fund will differ from the performance of the Composite.
Performance
of the Composite and Index
Average
Annual Total Returns
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For
Periods Ended December 31, 2022 |
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1
Year |
3
Year |
5
Year |
Since
Inception1
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Composite |
-19.03% |
6.85% |
7.79% |
9.69% |
Calvert
US Mid-Cap Core Responsible Index2
|
-19.08% |
6.89% |
7.91% |
9.88% |
Russell
Midcap® Index3
|
-17.32% |
5.88% |
7.10% |
9.00% |
1 |
The
inception date of the oldest account in the Composite is November 1,
2015. |
2 |
The
Calvert US Mid-Cap Core Responsible Index is composed of companies that
operate their businesses in a manner that is consistent with the Calvert
Principles
and are selected from a universe of the 200th to 1,000th largest US
companies by market capitalization. |
3 |
Russell
Midcap® Index is an unmanaged index of U.S. mid-cap stocks. The
Russell Midcap® Index measures the performance of the mid-cap segment of
the
US equity universe. The Russell Midcap Index is a subset of the Russell
1000® Index. It includes approximately 800 of the smallest securities
based on a
combination of their market cap and current index membership. It is not
possible to invest directly in an index. |
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This
section discusses additional information relating to the
Funds’ investment strategies, other types of investments that
the
Funds may make and related risk factors. The Funds’ investment
practices and limitations are described in more detail in the
Statement of Additional Information (“SAI”), which is incorporated by
reference and legally is a part of this Prospectus. For
details on how to obtain a copy of the SAI and other reports and
information, see the back cover of this
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Economies
and financial markets throughout the world have experienced periods of increased
volatility, uncertainty and distress and disruption
to consumer demand, economic output and supply chains as a result of conditions
associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.
To the extent these conditions continue, the risks associated with an investment
in a Fund, including those described below,
could be heightened and a Fund’s investments (and thus a shareholder’s
investment in a Fund) may be particularly susceptible to sudden
and substantial losses, reduced yield or income or other adverse developments.
The duration and extent of COVID-19 and associated
economic and market conditions and uncertainty over the long term cannot be
reasonably estimated at this time. The ultimate
impact of COVID-19 and the extent to which the associated conditions impact a
Fund will also depend on future developments,
which are highly uncertain, difficult to accurately predict and subject to
change at any time.
The name,
investment objective and policies of the Funds are similar to other funds
advised by the Adviser or its affiliates. However, the
investment results of a Fund may be higher or lower than, and there is no
guarantee that the investment results of the Fund will be
comparable to, any other of these funds. A new fund or a fund with fewer assets
under management may be more significantly affected
by purchases and redemptions of its Creation Units (as defined below) than a
fund with relatively greater assets under management
would be affected by purchases and redemptions of its shares. As compared to a
larger fund, a new or smaller fund is more
likely to sell a comparatively large portion of its portfolio to meet
significant Creation Unit redemptions or invest a comparatively
large amount of cash to facilitate Creation Unit purchases, in each case when
the fund otherwise would not seek to do so. Such
transactions may cause funds to make investment decisions at inopportune times
or prices or miss attractive investment opportunities.
Such transactions may also accelerate the realization of taxable income if sales
of securities resulted in gains and the fund
redeems Creation Units for cash, or otherwise cause a fund to perform
differently than intended. While such risks may apply to funds of
any size, such risks are heightened in funds with fewer assets under management.
In addition, new funds may not be able to fully
implement their investment strategy immediately upon commencing investment
operations, which could reduce investment performance.
Equity
Securities
Equity
securities may include common and preferred stocks, convertible securities and
equity-linked securities, rights and warrants to purchase
common stocks, depositary receipts, shares of investment companies, limited
partnership interests and other specialty securities
having equity features. The Funds may invest in equity securities that are
publicly traded on securities exchanges or over-the-counter
(“OTC”) or in equity securities that are not publicly traded. Securities that
are not publicly traded may be more difficult to value
or sell and their value may fluctuate more dramatically than other securities.
The prices of convertible securities are affected by changes
similar to those of equity and fixed-income securities.
A
depositary receipt is generally issued by a bank or financial institution and
represents the common stock or other equity securities of a
foreign company. Depositary receipts involve many of the same risks as those
associated with direct investment in foreign securities.
In addition, the underlying issuers of certain depositary receipts, particularly
unsponsored or unregistered depositary receipts,
are under no obligation to distribute shareholder communications to the holders
of such receipts, or to pass through to them any voting
rights with respect to the deposited securities.
The value
of equity securities and related instruments may decline in response to adverse
changes in the economy or the economic outlook;
deterioration in investor sentiment; interest rate, currency, and commodity
price fluctuations; adverse geopolitical, social or environmental
developments; issuer- and sector-specific considerations; unexpected trading
activity among retail investors; and other factors.
Market conditions may affect certain types of stocks to a greater extent than
other types of stocks. If the stock market declines,
the value of Fund shares will also likely decline. Although stock prices can
rebound, there is no assurance that values will return to
previous levels
Market
and Geopolitical Risk
The value
of your investment in a Fund is based on the values of the Fund’s investments,
which may change due to economic and other
events that affect markets generally, as well as those that affect particular
regions, countries, industries, companies or governments.
Price movements, sometimes called volatility, may be greater or less depending
on the types of securities a Fund owns and the
markets in which the securities trade. Volatility and disruption in financial
markets and economies may be sudden and unexpected,
expose a Fund to greater risk, including risks associated with reduced market
liquidity and fair valuation, and adversely affect a
Fund’s operations. For example, the Adviser potentially will be prevented from
executing investment decisions at an advantageous
time or price as a result of any domestic or global market disruptions and
reduced market liquidity may impact a Fund’s
ability to sell securities to meet redemptions.
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The
increasing interconnectivity between global economies and financial markets
increases the likelihood that events or conditions in one region
or financial market may adversely impact issuers in a different country, region
or financial market. Securities in a Fund’s portfolio
may underperform due to inflation (or expectations for inflation), interest
rates, global demand for particular products or resources,
natural disasters, health emergencies (such as epidemics and pandemics),
terrorism, regulatory events and governmental or quasi-governmental
actions. The occurrence of global events similar to those in recent years, such
as terrorist attacks around the world,
natural disasters, health emergencies, social and political discord or debt
crises and downgrades, among others, may result in market
volatility and may have long term effects on both the U.S. and global financial
markets. Inflation rates may change frequently and
significantly because of various factors, including unexpected shifts in the
domestic or global economy and changes in monetary or
economic policies (or expectations that these policies may change). Changes in
inflation rates may adversely affect market and economic
conditions, a Fund’s investments and an investment in
a Fund. Other financial, economic and other global market and
social
developments or disruptions may result in similar adverse circumstances, and it
is difficult to predict when similar events affecting
the U.S. or global financial markets may occur, the effects that such events may
have and the duration of those effects (which may
last for extended periods). In general, the securities or other instruments that
the Adviser believes represent an attractive investment
opportunity or in which a Fund seeks to invest may be unavailable entirely or in
the specific quantities sought by a Fund. As a
result, a Fund may need to obtain the desired exposure through a less
advantageous investment, forgo the investment at the time or seek to
replicate the desired exposure through a derivative transaction or investment in
another investment vehicle. Any such event(s)
could have a significant adverse impact on the value and risk profile of a
Fund’s portfolio. There is a risk that you may lose money by
investing in a Fund.
Social,
political, economic and other conditions and events, such as war, natural
disasters, health emergencies (e.g., the novel coronavirus
outbreak, epidemics and other pandemics), terrorism, conflicts and social
unrest, could reduce consumer demand or economic
output, result in market closures, travel restrictions or quarantines, and
generally have a significant impact on the economies
and financial markets and the Adviser’s investment advisory activities and
services of other service providers, which in turn could
adversely affect a Fund’s investments and other operations.
Global
events may negatively impact broad segments of businesses and populations, cause
a significant negative impact on the performance
of a Fund’s investments, adversely affect and increase the volatility of a
Fund’s share price, exacerbate pre-existing political,
social and economic risks to the Fund. A Fund’s operations may be interrupted as
a result, which may contribute to the negative
impact on investment performance. In addition, governments, their regulatory
agencies, or self-regulatory organizations may take
actions that affect the instruments in which a Fund invests, or the issuers of
such instruments, in ways that could have a significant
negative impact on a Fund’s investment performance.
Certain
countries and regulatory bodies use negative interest rates as a monetary policy
tool to encourage economic growth during periods of
deflation. In a negative interest rate environment, debt instruments may trade
at negative yields, which means the purchaser
of the instrument may receive at maturity less than the total amount invested.
In addition, in a negative interest rate environment,
if a bank charges negative interest rates, instead of receiving interest on
deposits, a depositor must pay the bank fees to keep money
with the bank. To the extent a Fund holds a debt instrument or has a bank
deposit with a negative interest rate, the Fund would
generate a negative return on that investment.
Concentration
Risk
If an
Index concentrates in the securities of issuers in one or more industries or
groups of industries, a Fund may concentrate in such industries
or groups of industries. By concentrating its investments in an industry or
group of industries, the Fund may face greater risks than
if it were diversified broadly over numerous industries or groups of
industries.
Information
Technology Sector Risk
If an
Index concentrates in the information technology sector, the value of Fund
shares may be particularly impacted by events that adversely
affect the information technology sector, such as rapid changes in technology
product cycles, competition for the services of qualified
personnel and government regulation. The products of information technology
companies may face product obsolescence due to
rapid technological developments and frequent new product introduction and
unpredictable changes in growth rates. Companies
in the information technology sector also can be heavily dependent on patent
protection and the expiration of patents may
adversely affect the profitability of these companies. As a result, the value of
shares may fluctuate more than that of a fund that does not
concentrate in companies in the technology sector.
Responsible
Investing
Investing
primarily in responsible investments carries the risk that, under certain market
conditions, a Fund may underperform funds that do
not utilize a responsible investment strategy. The application of the respective
Index’s investment criteria may affect a Fund’s exposure
to certain sectors or types of investments, and may impact a Fund’s
relative investment performance depending on whether such
sectors or investments are in or out of favor in the market. An investment’s ESG
or DEI performance, or Calvert’s assessment of such
performance may change over time, which could cause a Fund to
temporarily hold securities that do not comply with a Fund’s
responsible
investment criteria. In evaluating an investment, Calvert is dependent upon
information and data that may be incomplete,
inaccurate or unavailable, which could adversely affect the analysis of the ESG
or DEI factors relevant to a particular
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investment.
A Fund is also subject to the risk that the companies identified by the index
provider do not operate as expected when addressing
ESG or DEI issues. Additionally, the index provider’s proprietary valuation
model may not perform as intended, which may
adversely affect an investment in a Fund.
Regulatory changes or interpretations regarding the definitions and/or use of
ESG or DEI
criteria could have a material adverse effect on a Fund’s ability to invest in
accordance with its ESG strategy. Socially responsible norms
differ by country and region, and a company’s ESG or DEI practices or the
Adviser’s assessment of such may change over time and there
is a risk that the Adviser may incorrectly assess a company’s ESG or DEI
practices. A Fund may invest in companies that do not
reflect the beliefs and values of any particular investor.
Foreign
Investing
To the
extent that a Fund invests in foreign issuers, there is the risk that news and
events unique to a country or region will affect those
markets and their issuers. These same events will not necessarily have an effect
on the U.S. economy or similar issuers located in the United
States. In addition, some of the Funds’ securities, including underlying
securities represented by depositary receipts, may be
denominated in foreign currencies. As a result, changes in the value of a
country’s currency compared to the U.S. dollar may affect the value
of a Fund’s investments. These changes may happen separately from, and in
response to, events that do not otherwise affect the value
of the security in the issuer’s home country.
Foreign
Securities
Foreign
issuers generally are subject to different accounting, auditing and financial
reporting standards than U.S. issuers. There may be less
information available to the public about foreign issuers. Securities of foreign
issuers can be less liquid and experience greater price
movements. In addition, the prices of such securities may be susceptible to
influence by large traders, due to the limited size of many
foreign securities markets. Moreover, investments in certain foreign markets
that have historically been considered stable may become
more volatile and subject to increased risk due to ongoing developments and
changing conditions in such markets. Also, the growing
interconnectivity of global economies and financial markets has increased the
probability that adverse developments and conditions
in one country or region will affect the stability of economies and financial
markets in other countries or regions. In some foreign
countries, there is also the risk of government expropriation, excessive
taxation, political or social instability, the imposition of currency
controls or diplomatic developments that could affect a Fund’s investment.
There also can be difficulty obtaining and enforcing
judgments against issuers in foreign countries. Foreign stock exchanges,
broker-dealers and listed issuers may be subject to less
government regulation and oversight. The cost of investing in foreign
securities, including brokerage commissions and custodial expenses,
can be higher than the cost of investing in domestic securities.
Certain
foreign markets may rely heavily on particular industries or foreign capital and
are more vulnerable to diplomatic developments,
the imposition of economic sanctions against a particular country or countries,
organizations, companies, entities and/or
individuals, changes in international trading patterns, trade barriers and other
protectionist or retaliatory measures. International trade
barriers or economic sanctions against foreign countries, organizations,
companies, entities and/or individuals may adversely affect a
Fund’s foreign holdings or exposures. Investments in foreign markets may also be
adversely affected by less stringent investor protections
and disclosure standards, and governmental actions such as the imposition of
capital controls, nationalization of companies
or industries, expropriation of assets or the imposition of punitive taxes.
Governmental actions can have a significant effect on
the economic conditions in foreign countries, which also may adversely affect
the value and liquidity of a Fund’s investments.
Foreign investment in the securities markets of certain foreign countries is
restricted or controlled to varying degrees. For
example, the governments of certain countries may prohibit or impose substantial
restrictions on foreign investing in their capital markets or
in certain sectors or industries. In addition, a foreign government may limit or
cause delay in the convertibility or repatriation
of its currency which would adversely affect the U.S. dollar value and/or
liquidity of investments denominated in that currency.
Moreover, if a deterioration occurs in a country’s balance of payments, the
country could impose temporary restrictions on foreign
capital remittances. A Fund could also be adversely affected by delays in, or a
refusal to grant, any required governmental approval
for repatriation, as well as by the application to it of other restrictions on
investment. Any of these actions could severely affect
security prices, which could result in losses to the Fund and increased
transaction costs, impair a Fund’s ability to purchase or sell
foreign securities or transfer a Fund’s assets back into the United States, or
otherwise adversely affect a Fund’s operations. Certain foreign
investments may become less liquid in response to market developments or adverse
investor perceptions, or become illiquid after
purchase by a Fund, particularly during periods of market turmoil. Certain
foreign investments may become illiquid when, for instance,
there are few, if any, interested buyers and sellers or when dealers are
unwilling to make a market for certain securities. When a
Fund holds illiquid investments, its portfolio may be harder to
value.
Economic
sanctions or other similar measures may be, and have been, imposed against
certain countries, organizations, companies, entities
and/or individuals. A Fund’s investments in foreign securities are subject
to economic sanctions and trade laws in the United States and
other jurisdictions. These laws and related governmental actions, including
counter-sanctions and other retaliatory measures,
can, from time to time, prevent or prohibit a Fund from investing in
certain foreign securities. In addition, economic sanctions
could prohibit a Fund from transacting with particular countries,
organizations, companies, entities and/or individuals by banning
them from global payment systems that facilitate cross-border payments,
restricting their ability to settle securities transactions,
and freezing their assets. The imposition of sanctions and other similar
measures could, among other things, cause a decline in
the value of securities issued by the sanctioned country or companies located
in, or economically linked to, the sanctioned
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country,
downgrades in the credit ratings of the sanctioned country or companies located
in, or economically linked to, the sanctioned
country, devaluation of the sanctioned country’s currency, and increased market
volatility and disruption in the sanctioned
country and throughout the world. Economic sanctions or other similar measures
could, among other things, effectively restrict
or eliminate a Fund’s ability to purchase or sell securities, negatively
impact the value or liquidity of a Fund’s investments, significantly
delay or prevent the settlement of a Fund’s securities transactions, force
a Fund to sell or otherwise dispose of investments
at inopportune times or prices, increase a Fund’s transaction costs, make a
Fund’s investments more difficult to value or impair
a Fund’s ability to meet its investment objective or invest in accordance
with its investment strategies. These conditions may be in
place for a substantial period of time and enacted with limited advance notice
to a Fund.
Foreign
Currency
Investments
in foreign securities may be denominated in foreign currencies. The value of
foreign currencies may fluctuate relative to the value
of the U.S. dollar or other applicable foreign currency. Since the Funds may
invest in such non-U.S. dollar-denominated securities,
and therefore may convert the value of such securities into U.S. dollars,
changes in currency exchange rates can increase or decrease
the U.S. dollar value of the Funds’ assets. Currency exchange rates may
fluctuate significantly over short periods of time for a number of
reasons, including changes in interest rates and the overall economic health of
the issuer. Devaluation of a currency by a country’s
government or banking authority also will have a significant impact on the value
of any investments denominated in that currency.
The Adviser may use derivatives to reduce this risk. The Adviser may in its
discretion choose not to hedge against currency risk. In
addition, certain market conditions may make it impossible or uneconomical to
hedge against currency risk.
Foreign
Currency Forward Exchange Contracts
In
connection with their investments in foreign securities, the Funds also may
enter into contracts with banks, brokers or dealers to purchase
or sell securities or foreign currencies at a future date. A foreign currency
forward exchange contract is a negotiated agreement
between the contracting parties to exchange a specified amount of currency at a
specified future time at a specified rate. The rate
can be higher or lower than the spot rate between the currencies that are the
subject of the contract. Foreign currency forward
exchange contracts may be used to protect against uncertainty in the level of
future foreign currency exchange rates or to gain or modify
exposure to a particular currency. In addition, a Fund may use cross currency
hedging or proxy hedging with respect to currencies
in which a Fund has or expects to have portfolio or currency exposure. Cross
currency and proxy hedges involve the sale of one
currency against the positive exposure to a different currency and may be used
for hedging purposes or to establish an active exposure
to the exchange rate between any two currencies.
Investments
in foreign currency forward exchange contracts may substantially change the
Funds’ exposure to currency exchange rates and could
result in losses to the Funds if currencies do not perform as the Adviser
expects. The Adviser’s success in these transactions will
depend principally on its ability to predict accurately the future exchange
rates between foreign currencies and the U.S. dollar. Foreign
currency forward exchange contracts may be used for non-hedging purposes in
seeking to meet the Funds’ investment objectives,
such as when the Adviser anticipates that particular non-U.S. currencies will
appreciate or depreciate in value, even though securities
denominated in those currencies are not then held in the Funds’ investment
portfolios. Investing in foreign currency forward
exchange contracts for purposes of gaining from projected changes in exchange
rates, as opposed to hedging currency risks applicable
to the Funds’ holdings, further increases the Funds’ exposure to foreign
securities losses. There is no assurance that the Adviser’s
use of currency derivatives will benefit the Funds or that they will be, or can
be, used at appropriate times.
Derivatives
Each Fund
may, but are not required to, use derivative instruments for a variety of
purposes, including hedging, risk management, portfolio
management or to earn income. Derivative instruments used by a Fund will be
counted towards the Fund’s exposure in the types of
securities listed herein to the extent they have economic characteristics
similar to such securities. A derivative is a financial instrument
whose value is based, in part, on the value of an underlying asset, interest
rate, index or financial instrument. Prevailing interest
rates and volatility levels, among other things, also affect the value of
derivative instruments. A derivative instrument often has risks
similar to its underlying asset and may have additional risks, including
imperfect correlation between the value of the derivative
and the underlying asset, risks of default by the counterparty to certain
transactions, magnification of losses incurred due to changes in
the market value of the securities, instruments, indices or interest rates to
which the derivative instrument relates, risks that the
transactions may not be liquid and risks arising from margin requirements. The
use of derivatives involves risks that are different
from, and possibly greater than, the risks associated with other portfolio
investments. Derivatives may involve the use of highly
specialized instruments that require investment techniques and risk analyses
different from those associated with other portfolio
investments.
Certain
derivative transactions may give rise to a form of leverage. Leverage magnifies
the potential for gain and the risk of loss. Leverage
associated with derivative transactions may cause a Fund to liquidate
portfolio positions when it may not be advantageous to do so
to satisfy its obligations or to meet earmarking or segregation requirements,
pursuant to applicable SEC rules and regulations,
or may cause a Fund to be more volatile than if the Fund had not been leveraged.
Although the Adviser seeks to use derivatives
to further a Fund’s investment objective, there is no assurance that the use of
derivatives will achieve this result.
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The
derivative instruments and techniques that the Funds may use include
futures. A futures contract is a standardized, exchange-traded
agreement to buy or sell a specific quantity of an underlying asset, reference
rate or index at a specific price at a specific future time.
While the value of a futures contract tends to increase or decrease in tandem
with the value of the underlying instrument, differences
between the futures market and the market for the underlying asset may result in
an imperfect correlation. Depending on the terms
of the particular contract, futures contracts are settled through either
physical delivery of the underlying instrument on the settlement
date or by payment of a cash settlement amount on the settlement date. A
decision as to whether, when and how to use futures
contracts involves the exercise of skill and judgment and even a well-conceived
futures transaction may be unsuccessful because of
market behavior or unexpected events. In addition to the derivatives risks
discussed above, the prices of futures contracts can be
highly volatile, using futures contracts can lower total return, and the
potential loss from futures contracts can exceed a Fund’s initial
investment in such contracts. No assurance can be given that a liquid market
will exist for any particular futures contract at any particular
time. There is also the risk of loss by a Fund of margin deposits in the event
of bankruptcy of a broker with which a Fund has open
positions in the futures contract.
Exchange-Traded
Funds
Each Fund
may invest in exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”). ETFs seek to track the performance
of various portions or segments of the equity and
fixed-income markets. Shares of ETFs have many of the same risks as direct
investments in common stocks or bonds. In addition,
the market value of ETF shares may differ from their NAV because the supply and
demand in the market for ETF shares at any point
in time is not always identical to the supply and demand in the market for the
underlying securities. Also, ETFs that track particular
indices typically will be unable to match the performance of the index exactly
due to, among other things, the ETF’s operating
expenses and transaction costs. ETFs typically incur fees that are separate from
those fees incurred directly by the Fund. Therefore,
as a shareholder in an ETF, a Fund would bear its ratable share of that entity’s
expenses. At the same time, the Fund would
continue to pay its own investment management fees and other expenses. As a
result, shareholders will directly bear the expenses
of their investment in a Fund and indirectly bear the expenses of a Fund’s
investments in ETFs with respect to investments in
ETFs.
Large
Shareholder Transactions Risk
A Fund may
experience adverse effects when certain shareholders purchase or redeem large
amounts of shares of a Fund. In addition, a third
party investor, the Adviser or an affiliate of the Adviser, an authorized
participant, a lead market maker, or another entity (i.e., a seed
investor) may invest in the Fund and hold its investment solely to facilitate
commencement of the Fund or to facilitate the Fund’s
achieving a specified size or scale. Any such investment may be held for a
limited period of time. 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. Such larger than normal
redemptions may cause a Fund to sell portfolio
securities at times when it would not otherwise do so, which may negatively
impact a Fund’s NAV and liquidity. Similarly, large Fund
share purchases may adversely affect a Fund’s performance to the extent that a
Fund is delayed in investing new cash and is
required to maintain a larger cash position than it ordinarily would. These
transactions may also accelerate the realization of taxable income to
shareholders if such sales of investments resulted in gains and may also
increase transaction costs. In addition, a large redemption
could result in a Fund’s current expenses being allocated over a smaller asset
base, leading to an increase in a Fund’s expense
ratio. Although large shareholder transactions may be more frequent under
certain circumstances, a Fund is generally subject to the
risk that shareholders can purchase or redeem a significant percentage of Fund
shares at any time. In addition, transactions by large
shareholders may account for a large percentage of the trading volume on NYSE
Arca and may, therefore, have a material upward or
downward effect on the market price of the shares.
Counterparty
Risk
A
financial institution or other counterparty with whom the Fund does business
(such as trading, securities lending or as a derivatives counterparty),
or that underwrites, distributes or guarantees any instruments that the Fund
owns or is otherwise exposed to, may decline in
financial condition and become unable to honor its commitments. This could cause
the value of Fund shares to decline or could
delay the return or delivery of collateral or other assets to the Fund.
Counterparty risk is increased for contracts with longer maturities.
Mid
Cap Companies
Investments
in mid cap companies may involve greater risks than investments in larger, more
established companies. The securities issued by
mid cap companies may be less liquid and such companies may have more limited
markets, financial resources and product lines, and
may lack the depth of management of larger companies.
Securities
Lending
A Fund may
lend its portfolio securities to broker-dealers and other institutional
borrowers. During the existence of a loan, the Fund will
continue to receive the equivalent of the interest paid by the issuer on the
securities loaned, or all or a portion of the interest on investment
of the collateral, if any. The Fund may pay lending fees to such borrowers.
Loans will only be made to firms that have been
approved by the adviser, and the adviser or the securities lending agent will
periodically monitor the financial condition of such firms
while such loans are outstanding. Securities loans will only be made when the
adviser believes that the expected returns, net of expenses,
justify the attendant risks. Securities loans currently are required to be
secured continuously by collateral in cash, cash
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equivalents
(such as money market instruments) or other liquid securities held by the
custodian and maintained in an amount at least equal to
the market value of the securities loaned. The Fund may engage in securities
lending to generate income. Upon return of the loaned
securities, the Fund would be required to return the related collateral to the
borrower and may be required to liquidate portfolio
securities in order to do so. The Fund may lend up to one-third of the value of
its total assets or such other amount as may be
permitted by law.
As with
other extensions of credit, there are risks of delay in recovery or even loss of
rights in the securities loaned if the borrower of the
securities fails financially. To the extent that the portfolio securities
acquired with such collateral have decreased in value, it may result in
the Fund realizing a loss at a time when it would not otherwise do so. As such,
securities lending may introduce leverage into the Fund.
The Fund also may incur losses if the returns on securities that it acquires
with cash collateral are less than the applicable rebate
rates paid to borrowers and related administrative costs.
Tracking
Error Risk
Tracking
error is the divergence of the Fund’s performance from that of its Index. The
performance of the Fund may diverge from that of
its Index for a number of reasons. When a Fund uses a representative sampling
indexing strategy, it can be expected to have a larger
tracking error than if it used a replication indexing strategy. Tracking error
may occur because of transaction costs, the Fund’s holding of
cash, differences in accrual of dividends, changes to its Index or the need to
meet new or existing regulatory requirements. Unlike the
Fund, the returns of an Index are not reduced by investment and other operating
expenses, including the trading costs associated
with implementing changes to its portfolio of investments. The frequency at
which each Index is rebalanced may result in higher
trading costs for the Fund and, as a result, greater tracking error. Tracking
error risk may be heightened during times of market
volatility, unusual market conditions or other abnormal circumstances. To the
extent that the Fund calculates its NAV based on fair
value prices and the value of its Index is based on securities’ closing prices
(i.e., the value of the Index is not based on fair value prices),
the Fund’s ability to track the Index may be adversely affected. The Fund may be
required to deviate its investments from the securities
and relative weightings of its Index to comply with the Investment Company Act
of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), to meet the
issuer diversification requirements of the Code applicable to regulated
investment companies, or as a result of local market restrictions
or other legal reasons. The Fund’s investments may vary from the securities of
its Index due to the Fund’s inability to invest in
certain securities as a result of legal and compliance restrictions applicable
to the Fund and/or the Adviser and regulatory limits or
other restrictions on securities that may be purchased by the Adviser and its
affiliates. For tax efficiency purposes, the Fund may sell
certain securities to realize losses, which will result in a deviation from its
Index.
Trading
Risk
Shares are
listed for trading on NYSE Arca and are bought and sold in the secondary market
at market prices. The market prices of shares are
expected to fluctuate, in some cases materially, in response to changes in the
Fund’s NAV, the intra-day value of the Fund’s holdings,
and supply and demand for shares. The Adviser cannot predict whether shares will
trade above, below or at their NAV. Disruptions
to creations and redemptions, the existence of significant market volatility or
potential lack of an active trading market for the
shares (including through a trading halt), as well as other factors, may result
in the shares trading significantly above (at a premium)
or below (at a discount) to NAV or to the intraday value of the Fund’s holdings
(and, as a result, an investor may pay more for,
or receive less than, the underlying value of the shares, respectively). During
such periods, you may incur significant losses if you
sell your shares.
Buying or
selling shares in the secondary market may require paying 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 when seeking to buy or
sell relatively small amounts of shares. In addition, the market price of
shares, like the price of any exchange-traded security, includes a
“bid-ask spread” charged by the market makers or other participants that trade
the particular security. The spread of a Fund’s
shares varies over time based on the Fund’s trading volume and market liquidity
and may increase if the Fund’s trading volume,
the spread of the Fund’s underlying securities, or market liquidity
decrease.
Trading in
shares on NYSE Arca may be halted due to market conditions or for reasons that,
in the view of NYSE Arca, make trading in
shares inadvisable. In addition, trading in shares on NYSE Arca is subject to
trading halts caused by extraordinary market volatility
pursuant to NYSE Arca’s “circuit breaker” rules. If a trading halt or
unanticipated closing of the exchange occurs, a shareholder
may be unable to purchase or sell shares. There can be no assurance that the
requirements of NYSE Arca necessary to maintain
the listing of the Fund will continue to be met or will remain
unchanged.
Authorized
Participant Concentration Risk
Only an
authorized participant may engage in creation or redemption transactions
directly with a Fund. Each Fund has a limited number of
intermediaries that act as authorized participants and none of these authorized
participants is or will be obligated to engage in
creation or redemption transactions. To the extent that these intermediaries
exit the business or are unable to or choose not to proceed
with creation and/or redemption orders with respect to a Fund and no other
authorized participant creates or redeems, shares may
trade at a discount to NAV and possibly face trading halts and/or
delisting.
Calvert | Additional
Information About the Funds’ Investment Strategies and Related
Risks
Additional
Information About the Funds’ Investment Strategies and Related Risks
(Con’t)
Index
Related Risk
A Fund’s
return may not track the return of the underlying index for a number of reasons
and, therefore, may not achieve its investment
objective. The Fund’s return may differ from the return of its Index as a result
of, among other things, pricing differences and the
inability to purchase certain securities included in the Index due to regulatory
or other restrictions. Corporate actions affecting
securities held by the Fund (such as mergers and spin-offs) or the Fund’s
ability to purchase round lots of securities may also cause a
deviation between the performance of the Fund and its Index.
In
addition, if a Fund uses a representative sampling approach, the Fund may not be
as well correlated with the return of the Index as when the
Fund purchases all of the securities in the Index in the proportions in which
they are represented in the Index.
Errors in
the construction or calculation of the Index may occur from time to time. Any
such errors may not be identified and corrected
for some period of time, which may negatively impact the Fund and its
shareholders. If the Fund uses a sampling method of
indexing, it may have a larger tracking error than if it used a replication
method of indexing.
Calvert
relies on third party data it believes to be reliable in constructing the Index,
but it does not guarantee the accuracy or availability
of any such third party data, and there is no guarantee with respect to the
accuracy, availability or timeliness of the production
of the Index.
Unusual
market conditions may cause Calvert to postpone a scheduled rebalance, which
could cause an Index to vary from its normal or
expected composition. The postponement of a scheduled rebalance in a time of
market volatility could mean that constituents that would
otherwise be removed at rebalance due to changes in market capitalizations or
other reasons may remain, causing the performance
and components of the Index to vary from those expected under normal conditions
and potentially increasing transaction
costs to the Fund. Apart from scheduled rebalances, Calvert or its agents may
carry out additional ad hoc rebalances to the Index
in order, for example, to correct an error in the selection of index components.
When an Index is rebalanced and the Fund in turn
rebalances its portfolio to attempt to increase the correlation between the
Fund’s portfolio and its Index, any transaction costs and market
exposure arising from such portfolio rebalancing may be borne directly by the
Fund and its shareholders. Therefore, errors and
additional ad hoc rebalances carried out by Calvert or its agents to the Index
may increase the costs to and the tracking error risk
of the Fund.
It is also
possible that the composition of the Fund may not exactly replicate the
composition of its Index if the Fund has to adjust its portfolio
holdings in order to continue to qualify as a “regulated investment company”
under the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended (the Internal Revenue Code).
The risk
that the Fund may not track the performance of the Index may be heightened
during times of increased market volatility, unusual
market conditions or other abnormal circumstances.
Cybersecurity
Risk
With the
increased use of technologies such as the internet to conduct business, the
Fund, authorized participants, service providers and the
relevant listing exchange are susceptible to operational, information security
and related “cyber” risks both directly and through
the service providers. Similar types of cybersecurity risks are also present for
issuers of securities in which the Fund invests, which
could result in material adverse consequences for such issuers and may cause the
Fund’s investment in such issuers to lose value. In
general, cyber incidents can result from deliberate attacks or unintentional
events. Cyber incidents include, but are not limited
to, gaining unauthorized access to digital systems (e.g., through “hacking” or
malicious software coding) for purposes of misappropriating
assets or sensitive information, corrupting data, or causing operational
disruption. Cyberattacks may also be carried out in a
manner that does not require gaining unauthorized access, such as causing
denial-of-service attacks on websites (i.e., efforts to make
network services unavailable to intended users). Recently, geopolitical tensions
may have increased the scale and sophistication
of deliberate attacks, particularly those from nation-states or from entities
with nation-state backing.
Cybersecurity
failures by, or breaches of, the systems of the Adviser, distributor and other
service providers (including, but not limited
to, index and benchmark providers, fund accountants, custodians, transfer agents
and administrators), market makers, authorized
participants or the issuers of securities in which the Fund invests have the
ability to cause disruptions and impact business operations,
potentially resulting in: financial losses, interference with the Fund’s ability
to calculate its NAV, disclosure of confidential
trading information, impediments to trading, submission of erroneous trades or
erroneous creation or redemption orders,
the inability of the Fund or its service providers to transact business,
violations of applicable privacy and other laws, regulatory fines,
penalties, reputational damage, reimbursement or other compensation costs, or
additional compliance costs. In addition, cyberattacks
may render records of Fund assets and transactions, shareholder ownership of
Fund shares, and other data integral to the functioning
of the Fund inaccessible, inaccurate or incomplete. Substantial costs may be
incurred by the Fund in order to resolve or prevent
cyber incidents in the future. While the Fund has established business
continuity plans in the event of, and risk management systems to
prevent, such cyber incidents, there are inherent limitations in such plans and
systems, including the possibility that certain
risks have not been identified, that prevention and remediation efforts will not
be successful or that cyberattacks will go undetected.
Furthermore, the Fund cannot control the cybersecurity plans and systems put in
place by service providers to the Fund,
Calvert | Additional
Information About the Funds’ Investment Strategies and Related
Risks
Additional
Information About the Funds’ Investment Strategies and Related Risks
(Con’t)
issuers in
which the Fund invests, the Index Provider, market makers or authorized
participants. The Fund and its shareholders could be
negatively impacted as a result.
Non-Diversification
Risk
Calvert US
Large-Cap Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Index ETF is non-diversified, which
means that the Fund may invest a greater percentage
of their assets in a smaller number of issuers than diversified funds. A Fund
that is classified as non-diversified may be more
susceptible to an adverse event affecting a single issuer or portfolio
investment than a diversified portfolio and a decline in the value of
that issuer’s securities or that portfolio investment may cause the Fund’s
overall value to decline to a greater degree than a diversified
portfolio.
Passive
Investment
Certain
Funds are managed using a passive investment strategy that uses a representative
sampling indexing strategy. Certain Funds are
managed using a passive investment strategy and expect to hold common stocks of
each company in the Index regardless of their current or
projected performance. The Funds do not expect to hold common stocks of each
company in the Index or in the same proportion
as represented in the Index, and Fund performance may vary from the
Index.
In
addition, a Fund generally will not adjust its portfolio investments to attempt
to take advantage of market opportunities or lessen the impact
of a market decline or a decline in the performance of one or more issuers or
for other reasons. Maintaining investments regardless
of market conditions or the performance of individual investments could cause
the Fund’s return to be lower than if a Fund
employed an active strategy. Unusual market events or other abnormal
circumstances may increase market volatility and may cause the
characteristics of the Index components to vary from those expected under normal
circumstances.
New
Fund Risk
Each Fund
recently commenced operations and its performance may not represent how the Fund
is expected to or may perform in the long
term. In addition, new funds have limited operating histories for investors to
evaluate and new funds may not attract sufficient
assets to achieve investment and trading efficiencies.
Calvert | About
Responsible Investing
About
Responsible Investing
Investment
Selection Process
As
described above, each Fund seeks to track the performance of a specific Calvert
Index. Calvert seeks to include in the Indexes issuers
that manage ESG risk exposures adequately and that are not exposed to excessive
ESG risk through their principal business activities.
Companies included in an Index are analyzed using the Calvert Principles
(included as Appendix A to this Prospectus), a framework
for considering ESG factors. Each issuer is evaluated relative to an appropriate
peer group based on financially material ESG
factors as determined by Calvert. Calvert’s evaluation of a particular
security’s responsible investing characteristics generally involves
both quantitative and qualitative analysis. In assessing investments, Calvert
generally focuses on the ESG factors relevant to the
issuer’s operations, and an issuer may be acceptable for investment based
primarily on such assessment. Securities may be deemed suitable
for investment even if the issuer does not operate in accordance with all
elements of the Fund’s responsible investing criteria. In
assessing issuers for which quantitative data is limited, subjective judgments
may serve as the primary basis for Calvert’s evaluation. Calvert’s
Index Committee may, in its discretion, remove an Index component before the
next reconstitution if it has been determined
that such Index component no longer meets the Calvert Principles or, if
Calvert’s Index Committee determines, based on information
available to Calvert, that such Index component has exposure to a product and/or
environmental factor that is believed to present
significant health or environmental risks. Calvert’s Index Committee may also,
in its discretion, add to an Index at its next rebalance
(i) a company that was previously excluded from an Index Universe if it had been
determined that such company meets the Calvert
Principles; or (ii) a company that was previously excluded by Calvert’s Index
Committee if Calvert’s Index Committee has determined
that such company no longer presents significant health or environmental
risks.
As
described above, or in the SAI, each Fund may invest in cash, money market
instruments and ETFs. Such investments will generally
not be subject to responsible investment analysis and will not be required to be
consistent with the responsible investment criteria
otherwise applicable to investments made by the Fund. In addition, ETFs in which
a Fund may invest may hold securities of issuers
that do not operate in accordance with the Fund’s responsible investment
criteria.
High
Social Impact Investments. Up to 3%
of a Fund’s net assets may be invested in High Social Impact Investments. High
Social Impact
Investments are investments that, in Calvert’s opinion, offer the opportunity
for significant sustainability and social impact and are
consistent with the applicable Fund’s investment strategy, because Calvert
believes these investments are consistent with the Calvert
Principles. Investments in High Social Impact Investments are not included in an
Index, and a Fund’s performance may deviate
from the Index it seeks to track as a result.
High
Social Impact Investment debt obligations are unrated and of below-investment
grade quality, and involve a greater risk of default
and price decline than investment grade investments. High Social Impact
Investments are illiquid, and a Fund may be unable to dispose
of them at current carrying values.
Any Fund
investment in High Social Impact Investments is fair valued pursuant to
valuation procedures adopted by a Fund’s Board and
implemented by the Adviser. High Social Impact Investments by a Fund may be
direct investments in an issuer or investments in an
intermediate entity that then makes High Social Impact Investments, such as
Calvert Impact Capital, Inc. (“CIC”) (as discussed below).
Pursuant
to an exemptive order issued by the SEC, a Fund may invest in Community
Investment Notes (“Notes”) issued by CIC as part of a
Fund’s High Social Impact Investments. CIC is a nonstock corporation organized
under the laws of the State of Maryland and
designed to operate as a non-profit organization within the meaning of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. CIC focuses
its work on offering investors the ability to support organizations that
strengthen communities and sustain our planet. CIC issues
Notes with fixed-rates of interest to domestic individuals and institutional
investors and the proceeds from the Notes primarily are used
to provide financing to community development organizations, projects, funds and
other social enterprises across a variety of impact
sectors, including community development, microfinance, affordable housing,
small business, renewable energy, environmental
sustainability, education, health, and sustainable agriculture (collectively,
the “Participating Borrowers”) with missions that may
include addressing climate change, supporting quality education, promoting
financial inclusion, strengthening women’s empowerment,
and increasing access to quality affordable housing. CIC issues Notes with
interest rates that currently range from 0%-4% and
terms currently ranging from six months to 20 years, and in turn makes loans to
Participating Borrowers at rates determined
through consideration of the general current market, the Participating
Borrower’s positive social and/or environmental impact and
the Participating Borrower’s risk level.
Calvert
has licensed use of the Calvert name to CIC and provides other types of support.
Calvert’s President and Chief Executive serves on
the CIC Board.
Shareholder
Advocacy and Corporate Responsibility
The
Adviser has engaged Calvert to vote proxies consistent with Calvert’s Proxy
Voting Policies and Procedures and Global Proxy Voting
Guidelines (the “Proxy Voting Policies”). The Adviser has also engaged Calvert
to seek to actively engage with issuers. Calvert uses
strategic engagement and shareholder advocacy to encourage positive change in
companies. Calvert’s activities may include, but are not
limited to:
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Responsible Investing
About
Responsible Investing (Con’t)
Direct
Dialogue with Company Management. Calvert,
or its agent, may initiate dialogue with management through phone calls, letters
and
in-person meetings. Through its interaction, Calvert seeks to learn about
management’s successes and challenges and to press for improvement
on issues of concern.
Proxy
Voting. As a
shareholder of the companies in its portfolio, each Fund typically has an
opportunity each year to express its views on issues
of corporate governance and sustainability at annual stockholder meetings.
Calvert votes proxies consistent with the Proxy Voting
Policies attached to the SAI.
Shareholder
Resolutions. Calvert
may propose that companies submit resolutions to their shareholders on a variety
of ESG issues. Calvert
believes that submitting shareholder resolutions may help establish dialogue
with management and encourage companies to take
action.
Calvert | Fund
Management
Adviser
Morgan
Stanley Investment Management Inc., with principal offices at 522 Fifth Avenue,
New York, NY 10036, conducts a worldwide
portfolio management business and provides a broad range of portfolio management
services to customers in the United States and
abroad. Morgan Stanley (NYSE: “MS”) is the parent of the Adviser. Morgan Stanley
is a preeminent global financial services
firm engaged in securities trading and brokerage activities, as well as
providing investment banking, research and analysis, financing
and financial advisory services. As of September 30, 2022, the Adviser, together
with its affiliated asset management companies,
had approximately $1.3 trillion in assets under management or
supervision.
A
discussion regarding the Board of Trustees’ approval of the Management Agreement
will be available in each Fund’s semi-annual report to
shareholders for the period ending March 31, 2023.
The
Adviser and/or its affiliates may make payments to one or more investors that
contribute seed capital to one or more of the Funds.
Such payments may continue for a specified period of time and/or until a
specified dollar amount is reached. Those payments will be
made from the assets of the Adviser and/or such affiliates (and not the Funds).
Seed investors may contribute all or a majority of the
assets in one or more of the Funds. There is a risk that such seed investors may
redeem their investments in one or more of the Funds. As
with redemptions by other large shareholders, such redemptions could have a
significant negative impact on one or more of the
Funds.
The
Adviser will make a contribution from its own resources, annually after the end
of each calendar year, to certain diversity, equity and
inclusion initiatives in an amount of 0.02% of the net annualized assets under
management of Calvert US Large-Cap Diversity, Equity and
Inclusion Index ETF.
The
recipients of the contribution may include one or more organizations that focus
on diversity, equity and inclusion related causes. The
Adviser maintains the option to increase, decrease or terminate this
contribution in amount and/or frequency in its sole discretion.
The Adviser will disclose, on an annual basis, the amount of any contributions
made and the recipients of such contributions
on the Fund’s website. An employee of the Adviser may serve on the board of
directors of, or hold another position with, an
organization that receives such contributions from the Adviser.
A
discussion regarding the Board of Trustees’ approval of the Management Agreement
will be available in each Fund’s semi-annual report to
shareholders for the period ending March 31, 2023.
Management
Fees
The
Adviser receives a fee for management services equal to the portion of the
average daily net assets as set forth in the table below.
|
| |
Fund
(as a percentage of average daily net assets) |
|
Calvert
International Responsible Index ETF |
0.18% |
|
Calvert
US Large-Cap Core Responsible Index ETF |
0.15% |
|
Calvert
US Large-Cap Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Index ETF |
0.14% |
|
Calvert
US Mid-Cap Core Responsible Index ETF |
0.15% |
|
Under the
Management Agreement, the Adviser will pay substantially all the expenses of
each Fund (including expenses of the Trust relating
to each Fund), except for the distribution fees, if any brokerage expenses,
acquired fund fees and expenses, taxes, interest, litigation
expenses, and other extraordinary expenses, including the costs of proxies, not
incurred in the ordinary course of each Fund’s
business.
Portfolio
Management
The Funds
are managed by Thomas C. Seto, James Reber and Matthew Maillet, who are jointly
and primarily responsible for the day-to-day
management of the Funds.
Messrs.
Seto and Reber are Managing Directors of the Adviser and have been associated
with the Morgan Stanley organization for more than
five years. Mr. Maillet has been an Executive Director of the Adviser
since
2022 and
was associated with Goldman Sachs Asset
Management, L.P. from 2014 until he joined Morgan Stanley.
The Funds’
SAI provides additional information about the portfolio managers’ compensation
structure, other accounts managed by the
portfolio managers and the portfolio managers’ ownership of securities in the
Funds.
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Information
Distribution
of Fund Shares
The
Distributor is the exclusive distributor of Creation Units of each Fund. The
Distributor or its agent distributes Creation Units for each
Fund on an agency basis. The Distributor does not maintain a secondary market in
shares of the Funds. The Distributor has no role in
determining the investment policies of a Fund or the securities that are
purchased or sold by a Fund. The
Distributor’s principal
address is 3 Canal
Plaza Suite 100, Portland, ME 04101.
The Board
of Trustees of the Trust has adopted a distribution and service plan (“Plan”)
pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act. Under the
Plan, each Fund is authorized to pay distribution fees in connection with the
sale and distribution of its shares and pay service
fees in connection with the provision of ongoing services to shareholders of
a Fund and
the maintenance of shareholder accounts
in an amount up to 0.25% of its average daily net assets each year.
No Rule
12b-1 fees are currently paid by the Funds, and there are no current plans to
impose these fees. However, in the event Rule 12b-1 fees
are charged in the future, because these fees are paid out of a Fund’s assets on
an ongoing basis, these fees will increase the cost of
your investment in a Fund. By
purchasing shares subject to distribution fees and service fees, you may pay
more over time than you
would by purchasing shares with other types of sales charge arrangements.
Long-term shareholders may pay more than the economic
equivalent of the maximum front-end sales charge permitted by the rules of
FINRA. The net income attributable to shares will be
reduced by the amount of distribution fees and service fees and other expenses
of a
Fund.
About
Net Asset Value
A Fund’s
NAV per share is determined by dividing the total of the value of the
Fund’s investments and other assets, less any liabilities attributable
to the Fund, by the total number of outstanding shares of the Fund. In making
this calculation, each Fund generally values its
portfolio securities and other assets at market price.
When no
market quotations are readily available for a security or other asset, including
circumstances under which the Adviser determines
that a market quotation is not accurate, fair value for the security or other
asset will be determined in good faith using methods
approved by the Board of Trustees. The Adviser, consistent with its procedures
and applicable regulatory guidance, may (but need
not) determine to make an adjustment to the previous closing prices of either
domestic or foreign securities in light of significant
events, to reflect what it believes to be the fair value of the securities at
the time of determining the Fund’s NAV. In these cases, a
Fund’s NAV will reflect certain portfolio securities’ fair value rather than
their market price. In addition, the securities held by the
Fund may be traded in markets that close at a different time than the exchange
on which the Fund’s shares are listed. Accordingly,
during the time when the Fund’s listing exchange is open but after the
applicable market close, bid-ask spreads may widen and
Fund shares may trade at a premium or discount to NAV. To the extent a Fund
invests in open-end management companies
(other than ETFs) that are registered under the 1940 Act, the Fund’s NAV is
calculated based in relevant part upon the NAV of
such funds. The prospectuses for such funds explain the circumstances under
which they will use fair value pricing and its effects.
Fair value
pricing involves subjective judgments and it is possible that the fair value
determined for a security or other asset is materially
different than the value that could be realized upon the sale of that security
or other asset. With respect to securities that are
primarily listed on foreign exchanges, the values of a Fund’s portfolio
securities may change on days when you will not be able to purchase
or sell your shares. The NAV of a Fund is based on the value of the Fund’s
portfolio securities or other assets.
The Funds
rely on various sources to calculate their NAVs. The ability of a Fund’s
provider of administrative services to calculate the NAV per
share of the Fund is subject to operational risks associated with processing or
human errors, systems or technology failures, cyber
attacks and errors caused by third party service providers, data sources, or
trading counterparties. Such failures may result in delays in
the calculation of the Fund’s NAV and/or the inability to calculate NAV over
extended time periods. A Fund may be unable to
recover any losses associated with such failures. In addition, if the third
party service providers and/or data sources upon which a
Fund directly or indirectly relies to calculate its NAV or price individual
securities are unavailable or otherwise unable to calculate
the NAV correctly, it may be necessary for alternative procedures to be utilized
to price the securities at the time of determining
the Fund’s NAV.
A Fund’s
NAV per share is subject to various investment and other risks. Please refer to
the “Additional Information About the Funds’
Investment Strategies and Related Risks” and “Investment Strategies and
Techniques” sections of the Prospectus and SAI, respectively,
for more information regarding risks associated with an investment in a
Fund.
Book
Entry
The
Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) serves as securities depository for the shares.
(The shares may be held only in book-entry form;
stock certificates will not be issued.) DTC, or its nominee, is the record or
registered owner of all outstanding shares. Beneficial ownership
of shares will be shown on the records of DTC or its participants (described
below). Beneficial owners of shares are not entitled
to have shares registered in their names, will not receive or be entitled to
receive physical delivery of certificates in definitive form and
are not considered the registered holder thereof. Accordingly, to exercise any
rights of a holder of shares, each beneficial owner must
rely on the procedures of: (i) DTC; (ii) “DTC Participants,” i.e., securities
brokers and dealers, banks, trust companies,
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Shareholder
Information (Con’t)
clearing
corporations and certain other organizations, some of whom (and/or their
representatives) own DTC; and (iii) “Indirect Participants,”
i.e., brokers, dealers, banks and trust companies that clear through or maintain
a custodial relationship with a DTC Participant,
either directly or indirectly, through which such beneficial owner holds its
interests. The Trust understands that under existing
industry practice, in the event the Trust requests any action of holders of
shares, or a beneficial owner desires to take any action
that DTC, as the record owner of all outstanding shares, is entitled to take,
DTC would authorize the DTC Participants to take such
action and that the DTC Participants would authorize the Indirect Participants
and beneficial owners acting through such DTC
Participants to take such action and would otherwise act upon the instructions
of beneficial owners owning through them. As described
above, the Trust recognizes DTC or its nominee as the owner of all shares for
all purposes.
Buying
and Selling Shares
Shares of
the Fund may be acquired or redeemed directly from a Fund at NAV only in
Creation Units or multiples thereof, as discussed
in the Creations and Redemptions section of the Prospectus. Only an Authorized
Participant (as defined in the Creations and
Redemptions section below) may engage in creation or redemption transactions
directly with a Fund. Once created, shares of a Fund
generally trade in the secondary market in amounts less than a Creation
Unit.
Shares of
a Fund are listed for trading on a national securities exchange during the
trading day. Shares can be bought and sold throughout
the trading day at market price like shares of other publicly traded companies.
However, there can be no guarantee that an active
trading market will develop or be maintained, or that the Fund shares listing
will continue or remain unchanged. The Trust does not
impose any minimum investment for shares of the Fund purchased on an exchange.
Buying or selling the Fund’s shares involves
certain costs that apply to all securities transactions. When buying or selling
shares of the Fund through a financial intermediary,
you may incur a brokerage commission or other charges determined by your
financial intermediary. Due to these brokerage
costs, if any, frequent trading may detract significantly from investment
returns. In addition, you may also incur the cost of the spread
(the difference between the bid price and the ask price). The commission is
frequently a fixed amount and may be a significant
cost for investors seeking to buy or sell small amounts of shares. The spread
varies over time for shares of the Fund based on its
trading volume and market liquidity, and is generally less if the Fund has more
trading volume and market liquidity and more if the
Fund has less trading volume and market liquidity.
The Fund’s
primary listing exchange is NYSE Arca. NYSE Arca is open for trading Monday
through Friday and is closed on the following
holidays: 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.
A
“business day” with respect to the Fund is each day the New York Stock Exchange,
NYSE Arca, and the Trust are open and includes
any day that the Fund is required to be open under Section 22(e) of the 1940
Act. Orders from authorized participants to create or
redeem Creation Units will only be accepted on a business day. On days when NYSE
Arca closes earlier than normal, the Fund may
require orders to create or redeem Creation Units to be placed earlier in the
day. See the SAI for more information.
The
Trust’s Board of Trustees has not adopted a policy of monitoring for frequent
purchases and redemptions of Fund shares (“frequent
trading”) that appear to attempt to take advantage of potential arbitrage
opportunities presented by a lag between a change in the
value of the Fund’s portfolio securities after the close of the primary markets
for the Fund’s portfolio securities and the reflection
of that change in the Fund’s NAV (“market timing”). The Trust believes this is
appropriate because ETFs, such as the Fund, are
intended to be attractive to arbitrageurs, as trading activity is critical to
ensuring that the market price of Fund shares remains at
or close to NAV. Since the Fund issues and redeems Creation Units at NAV plus
applicable transaction fees, and the Fund’s
shares may be purchased and sold on NYSE Arca at prevailing market prices, the
risks of frequent trading are limited.
Section
12(d)(1) of the 1940 Act generally restricts investments by investment
companies, including foreign and unregistered investment
companies, in the securities of other investment companies. For example, a
registered investment company (the “Acquired
Fund”), such as a Fund, may not knowingly sell or otherwise dispose of any
security issued by the Acquired Fund to any investment
company (the “Acquiring Fund”) or any company or companies controlled by the
Acquiring Fund if, immediately after such sale
or disposition: (i) more than 3% of the total outstanding voting stock of the
Acquired Fund is owned by the Acquiring Fund and
any company or companies controlled by the Acquiring Fund, or (ii) more than 10%
of the total outstanding voting stock of the
Acquired Fund is owned by the Acquiring Fund and other investment companies and
companies controlled by them. However,
registered investment companies are permitted to invest in a Fund beyond the
limits set forth in Section 12(d)(1), subject to certain
terms and conditions set forth in SEC rules. In order for a registered
investment company to invest in shares of a Fund beyond the
limitations of Section 12(d)(1) in reliance on Rule 12d1-4 under the 1940 Act,
the registered investment company must, among
other things, enter into an agreement with the Trust. Foreign investment
companies are permitted to invest in the Fund only up to the
limits set forth in Section 12(d)(1), subject to any applicable SEC Staff
no-action relief.
The Fund
and the Distributor will have the sole right to accept orders to purchase shares
and reserve the right to reject any purchase order in
whole or in part.
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Creations
and Redemptions
Prior to
trading in the secondary market, shares of a Fund are “created” at NAV by market
makers, large investors and institutions only in
block-size Creation Units or multiples thereof. Each “creator” or authorized
participant (an “Authorized Participant”) enters into an
authorized participant agreement with the Funds’ Distributor. An Authorized
Participant is a member or participant of a clearing
agency registered with the SEC, which has a written agreement with the Fund or
one of its service providers that allows such member or
participant to place orders for the purchase and redemption of Creation
Units.
A creation
transaction, which is subject to acceptance by JPMorgan
Chase Bank, N.A., as the
Trust’s transfer agent, generally takes place when
an Authorized Participant deposits into the Fund a designated portfolio of
securities (including any portion of such securities
for which cash may be substituted) and a specified amount of cash in exchange
for a specified number of Creation Units.
Similarly,
shares can be redeemed only in Creation Units, generally for a designated
portfolio of securities (including any portion of such
securities for which cash may be substituted) held by a Fund and a specified
amount of cash. Except when aggregated in Creation
Units, shares are not redeemable by a Fund.
The prices
at which creations and redemptions occur are based on the next calculation of
NAV after a creation or redemption order is received
in an acceptable form under the authorized participant agreement.
Only an
Authorized Participant may create or redeem Creation Units directly with the
Fund.
In the
event of a system failure or other interruption, including disruptions at market
makers or authorized participants, orders to purchase
or redeem Creation Units either may not be executed according to the Fund’s
instructions or may not be executed at all, or the Fund
may not be able to place or change orders.
To the
extent the Fund engages in in-kind transactions, the Fund intends to comply with
the U.S. federal securities laws in accepting securities
for deposit and satisfying redemptions with redemption securities by, among
other means, assuring that any securities accepted
for deposit and any securities used to satisfy redemption requests will be sold
in transactions that would be exempt from registration
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). Further, an
Authorized Participant that is not a “qualified
institutional buyer,” as such term is defined under Rule 144A of the Securities
Act, will not be able to receive restricted securities
eligible for resale under Rule 144A.
Creations
and redemptions must be made through a firm that is either a member of the
Continuous Net Settlement System of the National
Securities Clearing Corporation or a DTC Participant and has executed an
agreement with the Distributor with respect to creations
and redemptions of Creation Unit aggregations. Information about the procedures
regarding creation and redemption of Creation
Units (including the cut-off times for receipt of creation and redemption
orders) and the applicable transaction fees is included
in the Fund’s SAI.
Portfolio
Holdings
A
description of the Trust’s policies and procedures with respect to the
disclosure of each Fund’s portfolio securities is available in the Trust’s
SAI.
Dividends
and Distributions
General
Policies
Dividends
from net investment income, if any, generally are declared and paid quarterly by
a Fund. Distributions of net realized securities
gains, if any, generally are declared and paid once a year, but the Trust may
make distributions on a more frequent basis for a Fund.
The Trust reserves the right to declare special distributions if, in its
reasonable discretion, such action is necessary or advisable
to preserve its status as a regulated investment company or to avoid imposition
of income or excise taxes on undistributed income or
realized gains. Dividends and other distributions on shares of a Fund are
distributed on a pro rata basis to beneficial owners of
such shares. Dividend payments are made through DTC participants and indirect
participants to beneficial owners then of record
with proceeds received from a Fund.
Dividend
Reinvestment Service
No
dividend reinvestment service is provided by the Trust. Broker-dealers may make
available the DTC book-entry dividend reinvestment
service for use by beneficial owners of a Fund for reinvestment of their
dividend distributions. Beneficial owners should contact
their broker to determine the availability and costs of the service and the
details of participation therein. Brokers may require beneficial
owners to adhere to specific procedures and timetables. If this service is
available and used, dividend distributions of both income and
realized gains will be automatically reinvested in additional whole shares of a
Fund purchased in the secondary market.
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Taxes
As with
any investment, you should consider how your Fund investment will be taxed. The
tax information in this Prospectus is provided
as general information. You should consult your own tax professional about the
tax consequences of an investment in a Fund.
Unless your investment in a Fund is through a tax deferred retirement account,
such as a 401(k) plan or IRA, you need to be aware of
the possible tax consequences when the Fund makes distributions and when you
sell shares, including an exchange to another
Morgan Stanley Fund.
Taxation
of Distributions. Your distributions normally are subject to federal and state
income tax when they are paid, whether you take them
in cash or reinvest them in Fund shares. A distribution also may be subject to
local income tax. Any income dividend distributions
and any short-term capital gain distributions are taxable to you as ordinary
income. Any long-term capital gain distributions
are taxable as long-term capital gains, no matter how long you have owned shares
in the Fund.
If certain
holding period requirements are met with respect to your shares, a portion of
the income dividends you receive may be taxed at
the same rates as long-term capital gains. However, even if income received in
the form of income dividends is taxed at the same rates
as long-term capital gains, such income will not be considered long-term capital
gains for other federal income tax purposes.
For example, you will not be permitted to offset income dividends with capital
losses. Short term capital gain distributions will
continue to be taxed as ordinary income taxes.
If certain
holding period requirements are met, corporate shareholders may be entitled to a
dividends-received deduction for the portion of
dividends they receive which are attributable to dividends received by such
portfolios from U.S. corporations.
If you buy
shares of a Fund before a distribution, you may be subject to tax on the entire
amount of the taxable distribution you receive.
Distributions are taxable to you even if they are paid from income or gain
earned by the Fund before your investment (and thus were
included in the price you paid for your Fund shares).
Investment
income received by a Fund from sources within foreign countries may be subject
to foreign income, withholding, and other
taxes. Tax conventions between certain countries and the U.S. may reduce or
eliminate such taxes. If more than 50% of the total
assets of the Calvert International Responsible Index ETF at the close of a year
consists of non-U.S. stocks or securities (generally,
for this purpose, depositary receipts, no matter where traded, of non-U.S.
companies are treated as “non-U.S.”), generally the Fund
may “pass through” to you certain non-U.S. income taxes (including withholding
taxes) paid by the Fund. This means that you would
be considered to have received as an additional dividend your share of such
non-U.S. taxes, but you may be entitled to either a
corresponding tax deduction in calculating your taxable income, or, subject to
certain limitations, a credit in calculating your U.S.
federal income tax.
You will
be sent a statement (Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) Form 1099-DIV) by February
of each year showing the taxable distributions
paid to you in the previous year. The statement provides information on your
dividends and any capital gains for tax purposes.
Taxation
of Sales. Your sale of Fund shares normally is subject to federal and state
income tax and may result in a taxable gain or loss to you. A
sale also may be subject to local income tax. Your exchange of Fund shares for
shares of another Morgan Stanley Fund is treated
for tax purposes like a sale of your original shares and a purchase of your new
shares. Thus, the exchange may, like a sale, result in
a taxable gain or loss to you and will give you a new tax basis for your shares.
When you sell your shares, you will generally recognize
a capital gain or loss in an amount equal to the difference between your
adjusted tax basis in the shares and the amount received.
Generally, this capital gain or loss is long-term or short-term depending on
whether your holding period exceeds one year, except
that any loss realized on shares held for six months or less will be treated as
a long-term capital loss to the extent of any long-term
capital gain dividends that were received on the shares. Additionally, any
loss realized on a sale, exchange or redemption of shares
of a Fund may be disallowed under “wash sale” rules to the extent
the shares disposed of are replaced with other shares of the Fund
within a period of 61 days beginning 30 days before and ending 30 days after the
date of disposition, such as pursuant to a dividend
reinvestment in Fund shares. If disallowed, the loss will be reflected in an
adjustment to the basis of the shares acquired.
Creations
and Redemptions. A person who exchanges securities for Creation Units generally
will recognize a gain or loss. The gain or loss will
be equal to the difference between the market value of the Creation Units at the
time of exchange and the sum of the exchanger’s
aggregate basis in the securities surrendered and the amount of any cash paid
for such Creation Units. A person who exchanges
Creation Units for securities will generally recognize a gain or loss equal to
the difference between the exchanger’s basis in the
Creation Units and the sum of the aggregate market value of the securities
received. The IRS, however, may assert that a loss realized
upon an exchange of primarily 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 for Creation Units or
redeeming Creation Units should consult their own tax adviser with respect to
whether wash sale rules apply and when a loss might be
deductible and the tax treatment of any creation or redemption
transaction.
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Under
current U.S. federal income tax laws, any capital gain or loss realized upon a
redemption (or creation) of Creation Units is generally
treated as long-term capital gain or loss if the Fund shares (or securities
surrendered) have been held for more than one year and as a
short-term capital gain or loss if the Fund shares (or securities surrendered)
have been held for one year or less.
Other
Information. 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 redemptions
or other 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 certain threshold
amounts.
You may be
subject to backup withholding at a rate of 24% with respect to taxable
distributions if you do not provide your correct taxpayer
identification number, or certify that it is correct, or if you have been
notified by the IRS that you are subject to backup withholding.
Shareholders
who are not citizens or residents of the United States and certain foreign
entities will generally be subject to withholding of U.S.
tax of 30% on distributions made by a Fund of investment income and short-term
capital gains.
Withholding
of U.S. tax is required (at a 30% rate) on payments of taxable dividends made to
certain non-U.S. 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. Shareholders may be
requested to provide additional information to a Fund to
enable the Fund to determine whether withholding is required.
Reporting
to you and the IRS is required annually on Form 1099-B not only the gross
proceeds of Fund shares you sell or redeem but also
their cost basis. Shareholders should contact their intermediaries with respect
to reporting of cost basis and available elections with
respect to their accounts. You should carefully review the cost basis
information provided by the applicable intermediary and make any
additional basis, holding period or other adjustments that are required when
reporting these amounts on your federal income tax
returns.
Because
each investor’s tax circumstances are unique and the tax laws may change, you
should consult your tax advisor about your investment.
It is not
expected that shareholders of Calvert US Large-Cap Diversity, Equity and
Inclusion Index ETF would receive a charitable contribution
or other tax benefit in respect of the Adviser’s contributions.
Tax-Advantaged
Product Structure
Unlike
interests in many conventional mutual funds, the shares are traded throughout
the day on a national securities exchange, whereas
mutual fund interests are typically only bought and sold at closing NAVs. The
shares have been designed to be tradable in the
secondary market on a national securities exchange on an intra-day basis, and to
be created and redeemed in Creation Units at each day’s
next calculated NAV. For each of the Funds, shares are created and redeemed
principally in kind. The in-kind arrangements
are designed to protect ongoing shareholders from adverse effects on a Fund’s
portfolio that could arise from frequent cash
creation and redemption transactions. In a conventional mutual fund, redemptions
can have an adverse tax impact on taxable shareholders
because the mutual fund may need to sell portfolio securities to obtain cash to
meet fund redemptions. These sales may generate
taxable gains for the shareholders of the mutual fund, whereas the shares’
in-kind redemption mechanism generally will not lead to a
tax event for a Fund or its ongoing shareholders.
Description
of Underlying Indices
The
Calvert Diversity Research Indices and Calvert US Responsible Indices
(collectively, the “Indices” and each, an “Index”) are proprietary
indices owned by Calvert. Each Index is composed of companies that meet
Calvert’s requirements for Index inclusion as described
in this document and in each Index’s rules and methodology. The Indices are as
follows:
• |
Calvert
US Large-Cap Diversity Research Index (Ticker:
CALDEI) |
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Calvert
International Responsible Index (Ticker:
CALDMI) |
• |
Calvert
US Large-Cap Core Responsible Index (Ticker:
CALCOR) |
• |
Calvert
US Mid-Cap Core Responsible Index (Ticker:
CALMID) |
The
Calvert Index Committee (the “Committee”) is composed of at least two members
who are appointed by and may include Calvert’s
Chief Executive Officer. The Committee oversees each Index and will be
responsible for approving any changes in the Index
rules and methodology, as described herein, and for overseeing construction of
each Index and the activities of the calculation agent,
Solactive AG (the “Calculation Agent”). Calvert will derive the universe for
each Index on an annual basis. As described above, each Fund
seeks to track the performance of a specific Index. Calvert seeks to include in
the Indices issuers that manage ESG risk exposures
adequately and that are not exposed to excessive ESG risk through their
principal business activities. Companies included
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in an
Index are analyzed using The Calvert Principles (included as Appendix A to this
Prospectus), a framework for considering ESG factors.
Each issuer is evaluated relative to an appropriate peer group based on
financially material ESG factors as determined by Calvert.
Calvert’s evaluation of a particular security’s responsible investing
characteristics generally involves both quantitative and qualitative
analysis. In assessing investments, Calvert generally focuses on the ESG factors
relevant to the issuer’s operations, and an issuer may
be acceptable for investment based primarily on such assessment. Securities may
be deemed suitable for investment even if the issuer
does not operate in accordance with all elements of the Fund’s responsible
investing criteria. In assessing issuers for which quantitative
data is limited, subjective judgments may serve as the primary basis for
Calvert’s evaluation. Calvert’s Index Committee may, in
its discretion, remove an Index component before the next reconstitution if it
has been determined that such Index component
no longer meets the Calvert Principles or, if Calvert’s Index Committee
determines, based on information available to Calvert,
that such Index component has exposure to a product and/or environmental factor
that is believed to present significant health or
environmental risks. Calvert’s Index Committee may also, in its discretion, add
to an Index at its next rebalance (i) a company
that was previously excluded from an Index Universe if it had been determined
that such company meets the Calvert Principles;
or (ii) a company that was previously excluded by Calvert’s Index Committee if
Calvert’s Index Committee has determined
that such company no longer presents significant health or environmental
risks.
Index
Disclaimers
Calvert
and each Fund make no representation or warranty, express or implied, to the
owners of shares of a Fund or any member of the public
regarding the advisability of investing in securities generally or in a Fund
particularly or the ability of the Index to track general
stock market performance. Calvert is the owner of each Index. Calvert has no
obligation to take the needs of a Fund or the owners of
shares of a Fund, or the requirements of the 1940 Act, into consideration in
determining, composing, or calculating each Index.
Calvert and each Fund do not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or
performance of each Index or the data included therein
and shall have no liability in connection with each Index or Index calculation.
An Index’s past performance is not necessarily an
indication of how the Index will perform in the future. It is not possible to
invest directly in an Index. Calvert has contracted with an
independent calculation agent to calculate each Index. The method for
calculating and constructing each Index may change over time.
Potential
Conflicts of Interest
As a
diversified global financial services firm, Morgan Stanley, the parent company
of the Adviser, engages in a broad spectrum of activities,
including financial advisory services, investment management activities,
lending, commercial banking, sponsoring and managing
private investment funds, engaging in broker-dealer transactions and principal
securities, commodities and foreign exchange
transactions, research publication and other activities. In the ordinary course
of its business, Morgan Stanley is a full-service investment
banking and financial services firm and therefore engages in activities where
Morgan Stanley’s interests or the interests of its
clients may conflict with the interests of a Fund. Morgan Stanley advises
clients and sponsors, manages or advises other investment funds and
investment programs, accounts and businesses (collectively, together with any
new or successor funds, programs, accounts or
businesses, the ‘‘Affiliated Investment Accounts’’) with a wide variety of
investment objectives that in some instances may overlap or
conflict with a Fund’s investment objectives and present conflicts of interest.
In addition, Morgan Stanley may also from time to time
create new or successor Affiliated Investment Accounts that may compete with a
Fund and present similar conflicts of interest. The
discussion below enumerates certain actual, apparent and potential conflicts of
interest. There is no assurance that conflicts of interest
will be resolved in favor of Fund shareholders and, in fact, they may not be.
Conflicts of interest not described below may also
exist.
For more
information about conflicts of interest, see the section entitled “Potential
Conflicts of Interest” in the SAI.
Material
Nonpublic Information. It is
expected that confidential or material nonpublic information regarding an
investment or potential
investment opportunity may become available to the Adviser. If such information
becomes available, the Adviser may be precluded
(including by applicable law or internal policies or procedures) from pursuing
an investment or disposition opportunity with
respect to such investment or investment opportunity. Morgan Stanley has
established certain information barriers and other policies
to address the sharing of information between different businesses within Morgan
Stanley. In limited circumstances, however,
including for purposes of managing business and reputational risk, and subject
to policies and procedures and any applicable
regulations, personnel, including personnel of the adviser, on one side of an
information barrier may have access to information
and personnel on the other side of the information barrier through “wall
crossings.” The Adviser faces conflicts of interest
in determining whether to engage in such wall crossings. Information obtained in
connection with such wall crossings may limit or
restrict the ability of the Adviser to engage in or otherwise effect
transactions on behalf of the Funds (including purchasing or selling
securities that the Adviser may otherwise have purchased or sold for a Fund in
the absence of a wall crossing).
Investments
by Morgan Stanley and its Affiliated Investment Accounts. In
serving in multiple capacities to Affiliated Investment Accounts,
Morgan Stanley, including the Adviser and the Investment team, may have
obligations to other clients or investors in Affiliated
Investment Accounts, the fulfillment of which may not be in the best interests
of a Fund or its shareholders. A Fund’s investment
objectives may overlap with the investment objectives of certain Affiliated
Investment Accounts. As a result, the members of an
Investment team may face conflicts in the allocation of investment opportunities
among a Fund and other investment funds, programs,
accounts and businesses advised by or affiliated with the Adviser. Certain
Affiliated Investment Accounts may provide for
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higher
management or incentive fees or greater expense reimbursements or overhead
allocations, all of which may contribute to this conflict
of interest and create an incentive for the Adviser to favor such other
accounts. To seek to reduce potential conflicts of interest
and to attempt to allocate such investment opportunities in a fair and equitable
manner, the Adviser has implemented allocation
policies and procedures. These policies and procedures are intended to give all
clients of the Adviser, including the Funds, fair
access to investment opportunities consistent with the requirements of
organizational documents, investment strategies, applicable
laws and regulations, and the fiduciary duties of the Adviser.
Payments
to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries. The
Adviser and/or the Distributor may pay compensation, out of their own
funds and not as an expense of a Fund, to certain Financial Intermediaries
(which may include affiliates of the Adviser and Distributor),
including recordkeepers and administrators of various deferred compensation
plans, in connection with the sale, distribution,
marketing and retention of shares of the Fund and/or shareholder servicing. The
prospect of receiving, or the receipt of, additional
compensation, as described above, by Financial Intermediaries may provide such
Financial Intermediaries and their financial
advisors and other salespersons with an incentive to favor sales of shares of a
Fund over other investment options with respect to
which these Financial Intermediaries do not receive additional compensation (or
receives lower levels of additional compensation).
These payment arrangements, however, will not change the price that an investor
pays for shares of a Fund or the amount
that the Fund receives to invest on behalf of an investor. Investors may wish to
take such payment arrangements into account when
considering and evaluating any recommendations relating to Fund shares and
should review carefully any disclosures provided by
Financial Intermediaries as to their compensation. In addition, in certain
circumstances, the Adviser restricts, limits or reduces the amount of
a Fund’s investment, or restricts the type of governance or voting rights it
acquires or exercises, where the Fund (potentially
together with Morgan Stanley) exceeds a certain ownership interest, or possesses
certain degrees of voting or control or has other
interests.
Morgan
Stanley Trading and Principal Investing Activities.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, Morgan Stanley will
generally
conduct its sales and trading businesses, publish research and analysis, and
render investment advice without regard for a Fund’s
holdings, although these activities could have an adverse impact on the value of
one or more of the Fund’s investments, or could
cause Morgan Stanley to have an interest in one or more portfolio investments
that is different from, and potentially adverse to, that
of a Fund.
Morgan
Stanley’s Investment Banking and Other Commercial Activities. Morgan
Stanley advises clients on a variety of mergers, acquisitions,
restructuring, bankruptcy and financing transactions. Morgan Stanley may act as
an advisor to clients, including other investment
funds that may compete with a Fund and with respect to investments that a Fund
may hold. Morgan Stanley may give advice and
take action with respect to any of its clients or proprietary accounts that may
differ from the advice given, or may involve an action
of a different timing or nature than the action taken, by a Fund. Morgan Stanley
may give advice and provide recommendations
to persons competing with a Fund and/or any of a Fund’s investments that are
contrary to the Fund’s best interests and/or the
best interests of any of its investments. Morgan Stanley’s activities on behalf
of its clients (such as engagements as an underwriter
or placement agent) may restrict or otherwise limit investment opportunities
that may otherwise be available to a Fund.
Morgan
Stanley may be engaged to act as a financial advisor to a company in connection
with the sale of such company, or subsidiaries
or divisions thereof, may represent potential buyers of businesses through its
mergers and acquisition activities and may provide
lending and other related financing services in connection with such
transactions. Morgan Stanley’s compensation for such activities
is usually based upon realized consideration and is usually contingent, in
substantial part, upon the closing of the transaction.
Under these circumstances, the Fund may be precluded from participating in a
transaction with or relating to the company
being sold or participating in any financing activity related to a merger or an
acquisition.
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No
financial information is provided for the Funds because they had not commenced
operations as of the date of this Prospectus. Financial
information will be provided in the first shareholder report after commencement
of operations.
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Each Fund
has not yet commenced operations and, therefore, does not have information about
the differences between the Fund’s daily
market price on NYSE Arca and its NAV. Information regarding how often the
closing trading price of the shares of each Fund was above
(i.e., at a premium) or below (i.e., at a discount) the NAV of the Fund for the
most recently completed calendar year and the most
recently completed calendar quarter(s) since that year (or the life of the Fund,
if shorter) can be found at www.calvert.com.
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Offering Information
The method
by which Creation Units are created and traded may raise certain issues under
applicable securities laws. Because new Creation
Units are issued and sold by the Trust on an ongoing basis, a “distribution,” as
such term is used in the Securities Act may occur at
any point. Broker dealers and other persons are cautioned that some activities
on their part may, depending on the circumstances,
result in their being deemed participants in a distribution in a manner which
could render them statutory underwriters
and subject them to the prospectus delivery and liability provisions of the
Securities Act.
For
example, a broker dealer firm or its client may be deemed a statutory
underwriter if it takes Creation Units after placing an order with the
Distributor, breaks them down into constituent shares, and sells such shares
directly to customers, or if it chooses to couple the
creation of a supply of new shares with an active selling effort involving
solicitation of secondary market demand for shares. A determination
of whether one is an underwriter for purposes of the Securities Act must take
into account all the facts and circumstances
pertaining to the activities of the broker dealer or its client in the
particular case, and the examples mentioned above should not
be considered a complete description of all the activities that could lead to a
categorization as an underwriter.
Broker
dealers who are not “underwriters” but are participating in a distribution (as
contrasted to ordinary secondary trading transactions),
and thus dealing with shares that are part of an “unsold allotment” within the
meaning of Section 4(a)(3)(C) of the Securities
Act, would be unable to take advantage of the prospectus delivery exemption
provided by Section 4(a)(3) of the Securities Act. This
is because the prospectus delivery exemption in Section 4(a)(3) of the
Securities Act is not available in respect of such transactions
as a result of Section 24(d) of the 1940 Act. As a result, broker dealer firms
should note that dealers who are not underwriters
but are participating in a distribution (as contrasted with ordinary secondary
market transactions) and thus dealing with the shares
that are part of an overallotment within the meaning of Section 4(a)(3)(A) of
the Securities Act would be unable to take advantage
of the prospectus delivery exemption provided by Section 4(a)(3) of the
Securities Act. Firms that incur a prospectus delivery
obligation with respect to shares are reminded that, under Rule 153 of the
Securities Act, a prospectus delivery obligation under
Section 5(b)(2) of the Securities Act owed to an exchange member in connection
with a sale on the Exchange is satisfied by the fact that
the prospectus is available at the Exchange upon request. The prospectus
delivery mechanism provided in Rule 153 is only available
with respect to transactions on an exchange.
In
addition, certain affiliates of the Fund and the Adviser may purchase and resell
Fund shares pursuant to this Prospectus.
The
Calvert Principles for Responsible Investment
We believe
that most corporations deliver benefits to society, through their products and
services, creation of jobs, payment of taxes and the
sum of their behaviors. As a responsible investor, Calvert Research and
Management seeks to invest in companies and other issuers
that provide positive leadership in the areas of their operations and overall
activities that are material to improving long-term shareholder
value and societal outcomes.
Calvert
seeks to invest in issuers that balance the needs of financial and nonfinancial
stakeholders and demonstrate a commitment to the global
commons, as well as to the rights of individuals and communities.
The
Calvert Principles for Responsible Investment (Calvert Principles) provide a
framework for Calvert’s evaluation of investments and guide
Calvert’s stewardship on behalf of clients through active engagement with
issuers. The Calvert Principles seek to identify companies
and other issuers that operate in a manner that is consistent with or
promote:
Environmental
Sustainability and Resource Efficiency
• |
Reduce
the negative impact of operations and practices on the
environment |
• |
Manage
water scarcity and ensure efficient and equitable access to clean
sources |
• |
Mitigate
impact on all types of natural capital |
• |
Diminish
climate-related risks and reduce carbon
emissions |
• |
Drive
sustainability innovation and resource efficiency through business
operations or other activities, products and
services |
Equitable
Societies and Respect for Human Rights
• |
Respect
consumers by marketing products and services in a fair and ethical manner,
maintaining integrity in customer relations and
ensuring the security of sensitive consumer
data |
• |
Respect
human rights, respect culture and tradition in local communities and
economies, and respect Indigenous Peoples’
Rights |
• |
Promote
diversity and gender equity across workplaces, marketplaces and
communities |
• |
Demonstrate
a commitment to employees by promoting development, communication,
appropriate economic opportunity and decent
workplace standards |
• |
Respect
the health and well-being of consumers and other users of products and
services by promoting product safety |
Accountable
Governance and Transparency
• |
Provide
responsible stewardship of capital in the best interests of shareholders
and debtholders |
• |
Exhibit
accountable governance and develop effective boards or other governing
bodies that reflect expertise and diversity of perspective
and provide oversight of sustainability risk and
opportunity |
• |
Include
environmental and social risks, impacts and performance in material
financial disclosures to inform shareholders and debtholders,
benefit stakeholders and contribute to
strategy |
• |
Lift
ethical standards in all operations, including in dealings with customers,
regulators and business partners |
• |
Demonstrate
transparency and accountability in addressing adverse events and
controversies while minimizing risks and building trust |
Through
the application of the Calvert Principles, Calvert could have no or limited
exposure to issuers that:
• |
Demonstrate
poor management of environmental risks or contribute significantly to
local or global environmental problems. |
• |
Demonstrate
a pattern of employing forced, compulsory or child
labor. |
• |
Exhibit
a pattern and practice directly or through the company’s supply chain of
human rights violations or are complicit in human
rights violations committed by governments or security forces, including
those that are under U.S. or international sanction
for human rights abuses. |
• |
Exhibit
a pattern and practice of violating the rights and protections of
Indigenous Peoples. |
• |
Demonstrate
poor governance or engage in harmful or unethical
practices. |
• |
Manufacture
tobacco products. |
• |
Have
significant and direct involvement in the manufacture of alcoholic
beverages without taking significant steps to reduce the harmful
impact of these products. |
• |
Have
significant and direct involvement in gambling or gaming operations
without taking significant steps to reduce the harmful impact
of these businesses. |
• |
Have
significant and direct involvement in the manufacture of civilian handguns
and/or automatic weapons marketed to
civilians. |
• |
Have
significant and direct involvement in the manufacture of military weapons
that violate international humanitarian law, including
cluster bombs, landmines, biochemical weapons, nuclear weapons, blinding
laser weapons, or incendiary weapons. |
• |
Use
animals in product testing without countervailing social benefits such as
the development of medical treatments to ease human
suffering and disease |
Where to
Find Additional Information
In
addition to this Prospectus, the Funds have an SAI, dated January
[
],
2023 (as may
be supplemented from time to time), which contains
additional, more detailed information about the Trust and the Funds. The SAI is
incorporated by reference into this Prospectus
and, therefore, legally forms a part of this Prospectus. Certain affiliates of
the Funds and the Adviser may purchase and resell
Fund shares pursuant to this Prospectus.
The Trust
publishes Annual and Semi-Annual Reports (“Shareholder Reports”) that contain
additional information about the respective
Fund’s investments. In each Fund’s Annual Report to Shareholders, you will find
a discussion of the market conditions and the
investment strategies that significantly affected such Fund’s performance during
the last fiscal year. For additional Trust information,
including information regarding the investments comprising each of the Funds,
please call the toll-free number below.
You may
obtain the SAI and Shareholder Reports without charge by contacting the Trust at
the toll-free number below or on our website
at: www.calvert.com. If you
purchased shares through a Financial Intermediary, you may also obtain these
documents, without
charge, by contacting your Financial Intermediary.
Shareholder
Reports and other information about the Fund are available on the EDGAR Database
on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov,
and copies of this information may be obtained, after paying a duplicating fee,
by electronic request at the following e-mail
address: publicinfo@sec.gov.
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Stanley ETF Trust
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Stanley Investment Management Inc.
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For
Shareholder Inquiries,
call
toll-free 800-836-2414.
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Investment Results are available at www.calvert.com.
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Research and Management