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PROSPECTUS
August 31,
2022
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PTLC
PTMC
PTNQ
PTEU |
Pacer
Trendpilot®
US Large Cap ETF
Pacer
Trendpilot®
US Mid Cap ETF
Pacer
Trendpilot®
100 ETF
Pacer
Trendpilot®
European
Index ETF |
GCOW
COWZ
CALF
ICOW |
Pacer
Global Cash Cows Dividend ETF Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF Pacer US
Small Cap Cash Cows 100 ETF Pacer Developed Markets International Cash
Cows 100 ETF |
PAEU
PIEL
PWS |
Pacer
Autopilot Hedged European Index ETF Pacer International Export Leaders
ETF Pacer WealthShield ETF |
VIRS |
Pacer
BioThreat Strategy ETF |
each
of the above is listed on Cboe BZX Exchange,
Inc. |
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SZNG
SZNE
ROOM
RXRE
INDS
SRVR
PAD |
Pacer
CFRA-Stovall Global Seasonal Rotation ETF
Pacer
CFRA-Stovall Equal Weight Seasonal Rotation ETF
Pacer
Benchmark Hotel & Lodging Real Estate SCTRSM
ETF
Pacer
Benchmark Healthcare Real Estate SCTRSM
ETF
Pacer
Benchmark Industrial Real Estate SCTRSM
ETF
Pacer
Benchmark Data & Infrastructure Real Estate SCTRSM
ETF
Pacer
Benchmark Apartments & Residential Real Estate SCTRSM
ETF |
AFTY
PTBD
PTIN
TRND
BUL
ALTL
PAMC |
Pacer
CSOP FTSE China A50 ETF
Pacer
Trendpilot®
US Bond ETF
Pacer
Trendpilot®
International ETF
Pacer
Trendpilot®
Fund of Funds ETF
Pacer
US Cash Cows Growth ETF
Pacer
Lunt Large Cap Alternator ETF
Pacer
Lunt MidCap Multi-Factor Alternator ETF |
PEXL
FLRT
TRPL
QDPL |
Pacer
US Export Leaders ETF Pacer Pacific Asset Floating Rate High Income
ETF Pacer Metaurus US Large Cap Dividend Multiplier 300 ETF Pacer
Metaurus US Large Cap Dividend Multiplier 400 ETF |
PALC
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Pacer
Lunt Large Cap Multi-Factor Alternator ETF
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each
of the above is listed on the NYSE Arca,
Inc. |
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ECOW |
Pacer
Emerging Markets Cash Cows 100 ETF |
HERD |
Pacer
Cash Cows Fund of Funds ETF |
each
of the above is listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market
LLC |
These
securities have not been approved or disapproved by the Securities and Exchange
Commission (“SEC”) or the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) nor has
the SEC or the CFTC passed upon the accuracy or adequacy of this Prospectus. Any
representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.
The
Funds offered through this Prospectus are not money market funds and do not seek
to maintain a fixed or stable NAV of $1.00 per share.
INVESTMENT
PRODUCTS: ¨
ARE
NOT FDIC INSURED ¨
MAY
LOSE VALUE ¨
ARE
NOT BANK GUARANTEED
Table
of Contents
SUMMARY
SECTION
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Pacer
Trendpilot®
US Large Cap ETF |
Investment Objective
The Pacer Trendpilot US Large Cap
ETF (the “Fund”) is an exchange traded fund (“ETF”) that
seeks to track the total return performance, before fees and expenses, of the
Pacer Trendpilot US Large Cap Index (the “Index”).
Fees and Expenses of the
Fund
The
following table describes the fees and expenses you may pay if you buy, hold,
and sell shares of the Fund (“Shares”). You
may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial
intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and Example
below.
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Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment) |
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Management
Fees |
0.60% |
Distribution
and/or Service (12b-1) Fees |
None |
Other
Expenses |
0.00% |
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses |
0.60% |
Example
The following example
is intended to help retail investors compare the cost of investing in the Fund
with the cost of investing in other funds. It illustrates the hypothetical
expenses that such investors would incur over various periods if they were to
invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of
the Shares at the end of those periods. This example assumes that the Fund
provides a return of 5% a year and that operating expenses remain the
same.Although your actual costs may be higher
or lower, based on these assumptions, your costs would
be:
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1 Year |
3
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5
Years |
10
Years |
$61 |
$192 |
$335 |
$750 |
Portfolio
Turnover
The
Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells
securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may
indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund
Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in
annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.
For
the fiscal year ended April 30, 2022, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was
58% of the average value of its
portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies of the
Fund
The
Fund employs a “passive management” (or indexing) investment approach designed
to track the total return performance, before fees and expenses, of the Index.
The Index is based on a proprietary methodology developed and maintained by
Index Design Group (the “Index Provider”), an affiliate of Pacer Advisors, Inc.,
the Fund’s investment adviser (the “Adviser”).
The
Index
The
Index uses an objective, rules-based methodology to implement a systematic
trend-following strategy that directs exposure (i) 100% to the S&P
500®
Index (the “S&P 500”), (ii) 50% to the S&P 500 and 50% to 3-Month US
Treasury bills, or (iii) 100% to 3-Month US Treasury bills, depending on the
relative performance of the S&P 500 and its 200-business day historical
simple moving average (the “200-day moving average”). The calculation of the
200-day moving average for the S&P 500 is based on the total return
version of the S&P 500 and reflects the reinvestment of dividends paid
by the securities in the S&P 500. The Index is expected to be
predominantly invested in the components of the S&P 500 over most
short- and long-term periods and is only expected to invest in 3-Month US
Treasury bills from time to time in response to adverse market conditions as
defined by the “50/50 Indicator” and “T-Bill Indicator” below. The
S&P 500 consists of approximately 500 leading U.S.-listed companies
representing approximately 80% of the U.S. equity market
capitalization.
The
Index, and consequently the Fund, may stay in any of its three possible
positions for an extended period of time. As described below, the Index will
change its position based on the following indicators, and each change will
become effective at the close of business on the first business day after the
indicator for the change is triggered. The Index will be in a new position
effective on the second business day.
Equity
Indicator.
When the S&P 500 closes above its 200-day moving average for five
consecutive business days (the “Equity Indicator”), the exposure of the Index
will be 100% to the S&P 500, effective at the close of business on the first
business day following the date of the Equity Indicator. The Index will be in a
new position effective on the second business day.
Once
the Equity Indicator has been triggered, the exposure of the Index will next
change to either be 50% to the S&P 500
and
50% to 3-Month US Treasury bills if the 50/50 Indicator (described below) is
triggered or 100% to 3-Month US Treasury bills if both the 50/50 Indicator and
the T-Bill Indicator (described below) are triggered simultaneously, effective
at the close of business on the first business day following the date of the
indicator(s). The Index will be in a new position effective on the second
business day.
50/50
Indicator.
When the S&P 500 closes below its 200-day moving average for five
consecutive business days (the “50/50 Indicator”), the exposure of the Index
will be 50% to the S&P 500
and
50% to 3-Month US Treasury bills, effective at the close of business on the
first business day following the date of the 50/50 Indicator. The Index will be
in a new position effective on the second business day. Following the
effectiveness of the 50/50 Indicator, the exposure of the Index may be greater
than or less than 50% with respect to the S&P 500
and
3-Month US Treasury bills depending on their respective performance until either
the Equity Indicator or T-Bill Indicator (described below) is
triggered.
Once
the 50/50 Indicator has been triggered, the exposure of the Index will next
change to either be 100% to the S&P 500 if the Equity Indicator is triggered
or 100% to 3-Month US Treasury bills if the T-Bill Indicator (described below)
is triggered, effective at the close of business on the first business day
following the date of the indicator. The Index will be in a new position
effective on the second business day.
T-Bill
Indicator.
When the S&P 500’s 200-day moving average closes lower than its value from
five business days earlier (the “T-Bill Indicator”) and the 50/50 Indicator has
been triggered, the exposure of the Index will be 100% to 3-Month US Treasury
bills, effective at the close of business on the first business day following
the date of the T-Bill Indicator. The Index will be in a new position effective
on the second business day.
For
example, if today is Wednesday and the S&P 500’s 200-day moving average
closes lower than it did on the fifth preceding business day (Wednesday of the
preceding week), the T-Bill Indicator is triggered. Unlike the operation of the
Equity Indicator and 50/50 Indicator, the closing values on the days in between
today and the fifth preceding business day do not affect whether the T-Bill
Indicator has been triggered; rather, the T-Bill Indicator simply compares
today’s closing value to the closing value five business days earlier. However,
the Index will not move directly from 100% exposure to the S&P 500 to 100%
exposure to 3-Month US Treasury bills unless the 50/50 Indicator was
simultaneously triggered following the most recent triggering of the Equity
Indicator.
Once
the T-Bill Indicator has been triggered, the exposure of the Index will next
change to be 100% to the S&P 500 if the Equity Indicator is triggered,
effective at the close of business on the first business day following
the date of the indicator. The Index will be in a new position effective on the
second business day. Once the T-Bill Indicator has been triggered, the Index
will not return to its 50/50 position unless the Equity Indicator is first
triggered, followed by the 50/50 Indicator being triggered.
The
Index aims to mitigate, to some extent, the volatility of the S&P 500 by
tracking 3-Month US Treasury bills (instead of the S&P 500) when the S&P
500 is in a negative trend.
Special
Indicator.
In the event the S&P 500 closes 20% above or 20% below its 200-day moving
average, the Index will change exposures effective at the end of the following
business day to be 50% to the S&P 500 and 50% to 3-Month US Treasury bills.
This new exposure will continue until the Equity Indicator, 50/50 Indicator, or
T-Bill Indicator is triggered.
The
Fund’s Investment Strategy
Under normal circumstances, at least
80% of the Fund’s total assets (exclusive of collateral held from securities
lending) will be invested in the component securities of the
Index. The Adviser expects that, over time, the correlation
between the Fund’s performance and that of the Index, before fees and expenses,
will be 95% or better.
The
Fund will generally use a “replication” strategy to achieve its investment
objective, meaning it will invest in all of the component securities of the
Index in the same approximate proportion as in the
Index.
Principal Risks of Investing in the
Fund
You can lose money on your investment in the
Fund. The Fund is subject to the risks summarized below. Some or
all of these risks may adversely affect the Fund’s net asset value per share
(“NAV”), trading price, yield, total return and/or ability to meet its
objectives. For more information about the risks of investing in the Fund, see
the section in the Fund’s prospectus entitled “Additional Information about the
Principal Risks of Investing in the Funds.” The principal risks are presented in
alphabetical order to facilitate finding particular risks and comparing them
with other funds. Each risk summarized below is considered a “principal risk” of
investing in the Fund, regardless of the order in which it appears.
▪Calculation
Methodology Risk.
The Index relies directly or indirectly on various sources of information to
assess the criteria of issuers included in the Index, including information that
may be based on assumptions and estimates. Neither the Fund, the Index Provider,
or the Adviser (as defined below) can offer assurances that the Index’s
calculation methodology or sources of information will provide an accurate
assessment of included issuers or a correct valuation of securities, nor can
they guarantee the availability or timeliness of the production of the
Index.
▪Equity
Market Risk. The
equity securities held in the Fund’s portfolio may experience sudden,
unpredictable drops in value or long periods of decline in value. This may occur
because of factors that affect securities markets generally or factors affecting
specific industries, sectors or companies in which the Fund invests. Common
stocks are susceptible to general stock market fluctuations and to volatile
increases and decreases in value as market confidence in and perceptions of
their issuers change. The Fund’s NAV and market price may fluctuate
significantly in response to these and other factors. As a result, an investor
could lose money over short or long periods of time.
▪ETF
Risks.
The Fund is an ETF and, as a result of an ETF’s structure, is exposed to the
following risks:
◦Authorized
Participants (“APs”), Market Makers, and Liquidity Providers Concentration
Risk.
The
Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may act as APs. In
addition, there may be a limited number of market makers and/or liquidity
providers in the marketplace. To the extent either of the following events
occur, shares of the Fund may trade at a material discount to NAV and possibly
face delisting: (i) APs exit the business or otherwise become unable to
process creation and/or redemption orders and no other APs step forward to
perform these services, or (ii) market makers and/or liquidity providers
exit the business or significantly reduce their business activities and no other
entities step forward to perform their functions.
◦Costs
of Buying or Selling Shares of the Fund.
Due to the costs of buying or selling shares of the Fund, including brokerage
commissions imposed by brokers and bid/ask spreads, frequent trading of shares
of the Fund may significantly reduce investment results and an investment in
shares of the Fund may not be advisable for investors who anticipate regularly
making small investments.
◦Shares
of the Fund May Trade at Prices Other Than NAV.
As with all ETFs, shares of the Fund may be bought and sold in the secondary
market at market prices. The price of shares of the Fund, like the price of all
traded securities, will be subject to factors such as supply and demand, as well
as the current value of the Fund’s portfolio holdings. Although it is expected
that the market price of the shares of the Fund will approximate the Fund’s NAV,
there may be times when the market price of the shares is more than the NAV
intra-day (premium) or less than the NAV intra-day (discount). This risk is
heightened in times of market volatility, periods of steep market declines, and
periods when there is limited trading activity for shares in the secondary
market, in which case such premiums or discounts may be
significant.
◦Trading.
Although shares of the Fund are listed for trading on a national securities
exchange, such as Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc. (the “Exchange”), and may be
traded on U.S. exchanges other than the Exchange, there can be no assurance that
shares of the Fund will trade with any volume, or at all, on any stock exchange.
In stressed market conditions, the liquidity of shares of the Fund may begin to
mirror the liquidity of the Fund’s underlying portfolio
holdings,
which can be significantly less liquid than shares of the Fund, and this could
lead to differences between the market price of the shares of the Fund and the
underlying value of those shares.
▪Fixed
Income Risk. The
value of the Fund’s direct or indirect investments in fixed income securities
will fluctuate with changes in interest rates. Typically, a rise in interest
rates causes a decline in the value of fixed income securities owned by the
Fund. On the other hand, if rates fall, the value of the fixed income securities
generally increases. The Fund may be subject to a greater risk of rising
interest rates due to the current period of historically low rates and the
effect of potential government fiscal policy initiatives and resulting market
reaction to those initiatives. In general, the market price of fixed income
securities with longer maturities will increase or decrease more in response to
changes in interest rates than shorter-term securities. The value of the Fund’s
direct or indirect investments in fixed income securities may be affected by the
inability of issuers to repay principal and interest or illiquidity in debt
securities markets.
▪Government
Obligations Risk.
The Fund may invest in securities issued by the U.S. government. There can be no
guarantee that the United States will be able to meet its payment obligations
with respect to such securities. Additionally, market prices and yields of
securities supported by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government may
decline or be negative for short or long periods of time.
▪Large-Capitalization
Investing Risk. The
Fund may invest in the securities of large-capitalization companies. As a
result, the Fund’s performance may be adversely affected if securities of
large-capitalization companies underperform securities of smaller-capitalization
companies or the market as a whole. The securities of large-capitalization
companies may be relatively mature compared to smaller companies and therefore
subject to slower growth during times of economic expansion.
▪Passive
Investment Risk. The
Fund is not actively managed and the Adviser would not sell a security due to
current or projected underperformance of a security, industry or sector, unless
that security is removed from the Index or the selling of shares of that
security is otherwise required upon a reconstitution of the Index in accordance
with the Index methodology. The Fund invests in securities included in the Index
regardless of their investment merits. Other than in response to one of the
triggers set forth above in accordance with the Index methodology, the Fund does
not take defensive positions under any market conditions, including conditions
that are adverse to the performance of the Fund.
▪Tracking
Risk. The
Fund’s return may not track the return of the Index for a number of reasons. 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, when the 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.
▪Trend
Lag Risk. At least six consecutive trading days will
elapse after the S&P 500 first drops below its historical 200-day simple
moving average (or conversely, first moves above such average) before the Index
will switch from tracking the S&P 500 to 3-Month US Treasury bills (or
conversely, from 3-Month US Treasury bills to the S&P 500). As a result, if
the S&P 500 is in an overall positive trend, the Index and consequently the
Fund may be adversely affected by a downward trend and/or volatility in the
S&P 500 for up to six consecutive trading days (or conversely, if the
S&P 500 is in an overall negative trend, the Index and consequently the Fund
may not benefit from an upward trend and/or volatility in the S&P 500 for up
to six consecutive trading days). Accordingly, the methodology employed by the
Index does not eliminate exposure to downward trends and/or volatility in the
S&P 500 and does not provide immediate exposure to upward trends and/or
volatility in the S&P 500.
Fund Performance
The following
information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the
Fund. The bar chart shows the Fund’s performance (based on NAV)
for calendar years ended December 31. The table shows how the Fund’s average
annual returns for the one year, five year, and since inception periods compare
with those of the Index and a broad measure of market performance.
The Fund’s past performance,
before and after taxes, is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will
perform in the future. Updated performance information is
available on the Fund’s website at www.PacerETFs.com
or by calling the Fund toll-free at 1-800-617-0004.
Calendar Year Total Return as of December
31
For the year-to-date period ended
June 30, 2022, the Fund’s
total return was -9.64%. During the period of time shown in the bar
chart, the Fund’s highest return for a
calendar quarter was 11.96% (quarter ended December 31, 2020)
and the Fund’s lowest return for a
calendar quarter was -19.33% (quarter ended March 31,
2020).
Average
Annual Total Returns
(for
the periods ended December 31, 2021)
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5
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Since
Inception
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Pacer
Trendpilot US Large Cap ETF |
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Return Before
Taxes |
27.91% |
12.85% |
9.11% |
Return After Taxes on
Distributions |
27.69% |
12.59% |
8.86% |
Return After Taxes on Distributions and
Sale of Fund Shares |
16.68% |
10.25% |
7.25% |
Pacer Trendpilot US Large
Cap Index
(reflects no deduction for
fees, expenses, or taxes)
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28.71% |
13.53% |
9.78% |
S&P
500 Total Return Index
(reflects
no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes) |
28.71% |
18.47% |
15.43% |
After-tax returns are
calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax
rates during the period covered by the table above and do not reflect the impact
of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an
investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns shown are
not relevant to investors who hold their Shares through tax-deferred
arrangements such as an individual retirement account (“IRA”) or other
tax-advantaged accounts.
Management
Investment
Adviser
Pacer
Advisors, Inc. serves as investment adviser to the Fund.
Portfolio
Managers
The
Fund employs a rules-based, passive investment strategy. The Adviser uses a
committee approach to managing the Fund. Bruce
Kavanaugh, Vice President of the Adviser, and Danke Wang, CFA, Portfolio Manager
for the Adviser, are jointly and primarily responsible for the day-to-day
management of the Fund. Mr. Kavanaugh has served as a portfolio manager since
the Fund’s inception and Mr. Wang has served as a portfolio manager since June
2022.
Buying
and Selling Fund Shares
The
Fund is an ETF. This means that individual Shares of the Fund may only be
purchased and sold in the secondary market through brokers at market prices,
rather than NAV. Because Shares trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares
may trade at a price greater than NAV (premium) or less than NAV
(discount).
The
Fund generally issues and redeems shares at NAV only in large blocks of shares
known as “Creation Units,” which only institutions or large investors may
purchase or redeem. The Fund generally issues and redeems Creation Units in
exchange for a portfolio of securities (the “Deposit Securities”) and/or a
designated amount of U.S. cash that the Fund specifies each day.
Investors
may incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest price a buyer
is willing to pay to purchase Shares (bid) and the lowest price a seller is
willing to accept for Shares (ask) when buying or selling Shares in the
secondary market (the “bid-ask spread”). Recent information about the Fund,
including its net asset value, market price, premiums and discounts, and bid-ask
spreads is available on the Fund’s website at www.PacerETFs.com.
Tax
Information
Fund
distributions are generally taxable as ordinary income, qualified dividend
income, or capital gains (or a combination), unless your investment is in an IRA
or other tax-advantaged retirement account. Distributions may be taxable upon
withdrawal from tax-deferred accounts.
Payments
to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If
you purchase the Fund through a broker or other financial intermediary (such as
a bank), the Adviser and its related companies may pay the intermediary for
activities related to the marketing and promotion of the Fund. These payments
may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other
intermediary and your sales person to recommend the Fund over another
investment. Ask your sales person or visit your financial intermediary’s website
for more information.
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Pacer
Trendpilot®
US Mid Cap ETF |
Investment Objective
The Pacer Trendpilot US Mid Cap
ETF (the “Fund”) is an exchange traded fund (“ETF”) that
seeks to track the total return performance, before fees and expenses, of the
Pacer Trendpilot US Mid Cap Index (the “Index”).
Fees and Expenses of the
Fund
The
following table describes the fees and expenses you may pay if you buy, hold,
and sell shares of the Fund (“Shares”). You
may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial
intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and Example
below.
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Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment) |
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Management
Fees |
0.60% |
Distribution
and/or Service (12b-1) Fees |
None |
Other
Expenses |
0.00% |
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses |
0.60% |
Example
The following example
is intended to help retail investors compare the cost of investing in the Fund
with the cost of investing in other funds. It illustrates the hypothetical
expenses that such investors would incur over various periods if they were to
invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of
the Shares at the end of those periods. This example assumes that the Fund
provides a return of 5% a year and that operating expenses remain the
same.Although your actual costs may be higher
or lower, based on these assumptions, your costs would
be:
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1 Year |
3
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5
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10
Years |
$61 |
$192 |
$335 |
$750 |
Portfolio
Turnover
The
Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells
securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may
indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund
Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in
annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.
For
the fiscal year ended April 30, 2022, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was
16% of the average value of its
portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies of the
Fund
The
Fund employs a “passive management” (or indexing) investment approach designed
to track the total return performance, before fees and expenses, of the Index.
The Index is based on a proprietary methodology developed and maintained by
Index Design Group (the “Index Provider”), an affiliate of Pacer Advisors, Inc.,
the Fund’s investment adviser (the “Adviser”).
The
Index
The
Index uses an objective, rules-based methodology to implement a systematic
trend-following strategy that directs exposure (i) 100% to the S&P MidCap
400®
Index (the “S&P MidCap 400”), (ii) 50% to the S&P MidCap 400 and 50% to
3-Month US Treasury bills, or (iii) 100% to 3-Month US Treasury bills, depending
on the relative performance of the S&P MidCap 400 and its 200-business day
historical simple moving average (the “200-day moving average”). The calculation
of the 200-day moving average for the S&P MidCap 400 is based on the total
return version of the S&P MidCap 400 and reflects the reinvestment of
dividends paid by the securities in the S&P MidCap 400. The Index is
expected to be predominantly invested in the components of the S&P MidCap
400 over most short- and long-term periods and is only expected to invest in
3-Month US Treasury bills from time to time in response to adverse market
conditions as defined by the “50/50 Indicator” and “T-Bill Indicator” below. The
S&P MidCap 400 measures the performance of mid-capitalization stocks in the
United States.
The
Index, and consequently the Fund, may stay in any of its three possible
positions for an extended period of time. As described below, the Index will
change its position based on the following indicators, and each change will
become
effective
at the close of business on the first business day after the indicator for the
change is triggered. The Index will be in a new position effective on the second
business day.
Equity
Indicator.
When the S&P MidCap 400 closes above its 200-day moving average for five
consecutive business days (the “Equity Indicator”), the exposure of the Index
will be 100% to the S&P MidCap 400, effective at the close of business on
the first business day following the date of the Equity Indicator. The Index
will be in a new position effective on the second business day.
Once
the Equity Indicator has been triggered, the exposure of the Index will next
change to either be 50% to the S&P MidCap 400
and
50% to 3-Month US Treasury bills if the 50/50 Indicator (described below) is
triggered or 100% to 3-Month US Treasury bills if both the 50/50 Indicator and
the T-Bill Indicator (described below) are triggered simultaneously, effective
at the close of business on the first business day following the date of the
indicator(s). The Index will be in a new position effective on the second
business day.
50/50
Indicator.
When the S&P MidCap 400 closes below its 200-day moving average for five
consecutive business days (the “50/50 Indicator”), the exposure of the Index
will be 50% to the S&P MidCap 400
and
50% to 3-Month US Treasury bills, effective at the close of business on the
first business day following the date of the 50/50 Indicator. The Index
will be in a new position effective on the second business day. Following the
effectiveness of the 50/50 Indicator, the exposure of the Index may be greater
than or less than 50% with respect to the S&P MidCap 400
and
3-Month US Treasury bills depending on their respective performance until either
the Equity Indicator or T-Bill Indicator (described below) is
triggered.
Once
the 50/50 Indicator has been triggered, the exposure of the Index will next
change to either be 100% to the S&P MidCap 400 if the Equity Indicator is
triggered or 100% to 3-Month US Treasury bills if the T-Bill Indicator
(described below) is triggered, effective at the close of business on the first
business day following the date of the indicator.
T-Bill
Indicator.
When the S&P MidCap 400’s 200-day moving average closes lower than its value
from five business days earlier (the “T-Bill Indicator”) and the 50/50 Indicator
has been triggered, the exposure of the Index will be 100% to 3-Month US
Treasury bills, effective at the close of business on the first business day
following the date of the T-Bill Indicator. The Index will be in a new position
effective on the second business day.
For
example, if today is Wednesday and the S&P MidCap 400’s 200-day moving
average closes lower than it did on the fifth preceding business day (Wednesday
of the preceding week), the T-Bill Indicator is triggered. Unlike the operation
of the Equity Indicator and 50/50 Indicator, the closing values on the days in
between today and the fifth preceding business day do not affect whether the
T-Bill Indicator has been triggered; rather, the T-Bill Indicator simply
compares today’s closing value to the closing value five business days earlier.
However, the Index will not move directly from 100% exposure to the S&P
MidCap 400 to 100% exposure to 3-Month US Treasury bills unless the 50/50
Indicator was first triggered following the most recent triggering of the Equity
Indicator.
Once
the T-Bill Indicator has been triggered, the exposure of the Index will next
change to be 100% to the S&P MidCap 400 if the Equity Indicator is
triggered, effective at the close of business on the first
business day following the date of the indicator. The Index will be in
a new position effective on the second business day. Once the T-Bill Indicator
has been triggered, the Index will not return to its 50/50 position unless the
Equity Indicator is simultaneously triggered, followed by the 50/50 Indicator
being triggered.
The
Index aims to mitigate, to some extent, the volatility of the S&P MidCap 400
by tracking 3-Month US Treasury bills (instead of the S&P MidCap 400) when
the S&P MidCap 400 is in a negative trend.
Special
Indicator.
In the event the S&P MidCap 400 closes 20% above or 20% below its 200-day
moving average, the Index will change exposures effective at the end of the
following business day to be 50% to the S&P MidCap 400 and 50% to 3-Month US
Treasury bills. This new exposure will continue until the Equity Indicator,
50/50 Indicator, or T-Bill Indicator is triggered.
The
Fund’s Investment Strategy
Under normal circumstances, at least
80% of the Fund’s total assets (exclusive of collateral held from securities
lending) will be invested in the component securities of the
Index. The Adviser expects that, over time, the correlation
between the Fund’s performance and that of the Index, before fees and expenses,
will be 95% or better.
The Fund will generally use a “replication”
strategy to achieve its investment objective, meaning it will invest in all of
the component securities of the Index in the same approximate proportion as in
the Index.
Principal Risks of Investing in the
Fund
You can lose money on your investment in the
Fund. The Fund is subject to the risks summarized below. Some or
all of these risks may adversely affect the Fund’s net asset value per share
(“NAV”), trading price, yield, total return and/or ability to meet its
objectives. For more information about the risks of investing in the Fund, see
the section in the Fund’s prospectus entitled “Additional Information about the
Principal Risks of Investing in the Funds.” The principal risks are presented in
alphabetical order to facilitate finding particular risks and comparing them
with other funds. Each risk summarized below is considered a “principal risk” of
investing in the Fund, regardless of the order in which it appears.
▪Calculation
Methodology Risk.
The Index relies directly or indirectly on various sources of information to
assess the criteria of issuers included in the Index, including information that
may be based on assumptions and estimates. Neither the Fund, the Index Provider,
or the Adviser (as defined below) can offer assurances that the Index’s
calculation methodology or sources of information will provide an accurate
assessment of included issuers or a correct valuation of securities, nor can
they guarantee the availability or timeliness of the production of the
Index.
▪Equity
Market Risk. The
equity securities held in the Fund’s portfolio may experience sudden,
unpredictable drops in value or long periods of decline in value. This may occur
because of factors that affect securities markets generally or factors affecting
specific industries, sectors or companies in which the Fund invests. Common
stocks are susceptible to general stock market fluctuations and to volatile
increases and decreases in value as market confidence in and perceptions of
their issuers change. The Fund’s NAV and market price may fluctuate
significantly in response to these and other factors. As a result, an investor
could lose money over short or long periods of time.
▪ETF
Risks.
The Fund is an ETF and, as a result of an ETF’s structure, is exposed to the
following risks:
◦Authorized
Participants (“APs”), Market Makers, and Liquidity Providers Concentration
Risk.
The
Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may act as APs. In
addition, there may be a limited number of market makers and/or liquidity
providers in the marketplace. To the extent either of the following events
occur, shares of the Fund may trade at a material discount to NAV and possibly
face delisting: (i) APs exit the business or otherwise become unable to
process creation and/or redemption orders and no other APs step forward to
perform these services, or (ii) market makers and/or liquidity providers
exit the business or significantly reduce their business activities and no other
entities step forward to perform their functions.
◦Costs
of Buying or Selling Shares of the Fund.
Due to the costs of buying or selling shares of the Fund, including brokerage
commissions imposed by brokers and bid/ask spreads, frequent trading of shares
of the Fund may significantly reduce investment results and an investment in
shares of the Fund may not be advisable for investors who anticipate regularly
making small investments.
◦Shares
of the Fund May Trade at Prices Other Than NAV.
As with all ETFs, shares of the Fund may be bought and sold in the secondary
market at market prices. The price of shares of the Fund, like the price of all
traded securities, will be subject to factors such as supply and demand, as well
as the current value of the Fund’s portfolio holdings. Although it is expected
that the market price of the shares of the Fund will approximate the Fund’s NAV,
there may be times when the market price of the shares is more than the NAV
intra-day (premium) or less than the NAV intra-day (discount). This risk is
heightened in times of market volatility, periods of steep market declines, and
periods when there is limited trading activity for shares in the secondary
market, in which case such premiums or discounts may be
significant.
◦Trading.
Although shares of the Fund are listed for trading on a national securities
exchange, such as Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc. (the “Exchange”), and may be
traded on U.S. exchanges other than the Exchange, there can be no assurance that
shares of the Fund will trade with any volume, or at all, on any stock exchange.
In stressed market conditions, the liquidity of shares of the Fund may begin to
mirror the liquidity of the Fund’s underlying portfolio holdings, which can be
significantly less liquid than shares of the Fund, and this could lead to
differences between the market price of the shares of the Fund and the
underlying value of those shares.
▪Fixed
Income Risk. The
value of the Fund’s direct or indirect investments in fixed income securities
will fluctuate with changes in interest rates. Typically, a rise in interest
rates causes a decline in the value of fixed income securities
owned
by the Fund. On the other hand, if rates fall, the value of the fixed income
securities generally increases. The Fund may be subject to a greater risk of
rising interest rates due to the current period of historically low rates and
the effect of potential government fiscal policy initiatives and resulting
market reaction to those initiatives. In general, the market price of fixed
income securities with longer maturities will increase or decrease more in
response to changes in interest rates than shorter-term securities. The value of
the Fund’s direct or indirect investments in fixed income securities may be
affected by the inability of issuers to repay principal and interest or
illiquidity in debt securities markets.
▪Government
Obligations Risk.
The Fund may invest in securities issued by the U.S. government. There can be no
guarantee that the United States will be able to meet its payment obligations
with respect to such securities. Additionally, market prices and yields of
securities supported by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government may
decline or be negative for short or long periods of time.
▪High
Portfolio Turnover Risk.
At times, the Fund may have a portfolio turnover rate substantially greater than
100%. A high portfolio turnover rate would result in correspondingly greater
transaction expenses, including brokerage commissions, dealer mark ups and other
transaction costs, on the sale of securities and on reinvestment in other
securities and may result in reduced performance and the distribution to
shareholders of additional capital gains for tax purposes. These factors may
negatively affect the Fund’s performance.
▪Mid-Capitalization
Investing Risk. The
Fund may invest in the securities of mid-capitalization companies. As a result,
the Fund’s performance may be adversely affected if securities of
mid-capitalization companies underperform securities of other capitalization
ranges or the market as a whole. Securities of smaller companies trade in
smaller volumes and are often more vulnerable to market volatility than
securities of larger companies.
▪Passive
Investment Risk. The
Fund is not actively managed and the Adviser would not sell a security due to
current or projected underperformance of a security, industry or sector, unless
that security is removed from the Index or the selling of shares of that
security is otherwise required upon a reconstitution of the Index in accordance
with the Index methodology. The Fund invests in securities included in the Index
regardless of their investment merits. Other than in response to one of the
triggers set forth above in accordance with the Index methodology, the Fund does
not take defensive positions under any market conditions, including conditions
that are adverse to the performance of the Fund.
▪Tracking
Risk. The
Fund’s return may not track the return of the Index for a number of reasons. 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, when the 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.
▪Trend
Lag Risk. At
least six consecutive trading days will elapse after the S&P MidCap 400
first drops below its historical 200-day simple moving average (or conversely,
first moves above such average) before the Index will switch from tracking the
S&P MidCap 400 to 3-Month US Treasury bills (or conversely, from 3-Month US
Treasury bills to the S&P MidCap 400). As a result, if the S&P MidCap
400 is in an overall positive trend, the Index and consequently the Fund may be
adversely affected by a downward trend and/or volatility in the S&P MidCap
400 for up to six consecutive trading days (or conversely, if the S&P MidCap
400 is in an overall negative trend, the Index and consequently the Fund may not
benefit from an upward trend and/or volatility in the S&P MidCap 400 for up
to six consecutive trading days). Accordingly, the methodology employed by the
Index does not eliminate exposure to downward trends and/or volatility in the
S&P MidCap 400 and does not provide immediate exposure to upward trends
and/or volatility in the S&P MidCap 400.
Fund
Performance
The following
information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the
Fund. The bar chart shows the Fund’s performance (based on NAV)
for calendar years ended December 31. The table shows how the Fund’s average
annual returns for the one year, five year, and since inception periods compare
with those of the Index and a broad measure of market performance.
The Fund’s past performance,
before and after taxes, is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will
perform in the future. Updated performance information is
available on the Fund’s website at www.PacerETFs.com
or by calling the Fund toll-free at 1-800-617-0004.
Calendar Year Total Return as of December
31
For the year-to-date period ended
June 30, 2022, the
Fund’s total return was -5.50%. During the period of time shown in the bar
chart, the Fund’s highest return for a
calendar quarter was 20.16% (quarter ended December 31, 2020)
and the Fund’s lowest return for a
calendar quarter was -7.67% (quarter ended March 31,
2020).
Average
Annual Total Returns
(for
the periods ended December 31, 2021)
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1
Year |
5
Years |
Since
Inception
(6/11/15) |
Pacer
Trendpilot US Mid Cap ETF |
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Return Before
Taxes |
12.08% |
7.31% |
6.66% |
Return After Taxes on
Distributions |
12.05% |
7.11% |
6.49% |
Return After Taxes on Distributions and
Sale of Fund Shares |
7.18% |
5.71% |
5.24% |
Pacer
Trendpilot US Mid Cap Index
(reflects no deduction for
fees, expenses, or taxes) |
12.82% |
7.95% |
7.33% |
S&P
MidCap 400 Index
(reflects
no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes) |
24.76% |
13.09% |
11.57% |
After-tax returns are
calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax
rates during the period covered by the table above and do not reflect the impact
of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an
investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns shown are
not relevant to investors who hold their Shares through tax-deferred
arrangements such as an individual retirement account (“IRA”) or other
tax-advantaged accounts.
Actual
after-tax returns depend on an investor’s tax situation and may differ from
those shown. A higher after-tax return
results when a capital loss occurs upon redemption and provides an assumed tax
deduction that benefits the
investor.
Management
Investment
Adviser
Pacer
Advisors, Inc. serves as investment adviser to the Fund.
Portfolio
Managers
The
Fund employs a rules-based, passive investment strategy. The Adviser uses a
committee approach to managing the Fund. Bruce
Kavanaugh, Vice President of the Adviser, and Danke Wang, CFA, Portfolio Manager
for the Adviser, are jointly and primarily responsible for the day-to-day
management of the Fund. Mr. Kavanaugh has served as a portfolio manager since
the Fund’s inception and Mr. Wang has served as a portfolio manager since June
2022.
Buying
and Selling Fund Shares
The
Fund is an ETF. This means that individual Shares of the Fund may only be
purchased and sold in the secondary market through brokers at market prices,
rather than NAV. Because Shares trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares
may trade at a price greater than NAV (premium) or less than NAV
(discount).
The
Fund generally issues and redeems shares at NAV only in large blocks of shares
known as “Creation Units,” which only institutions or large investors may
purchase or redeem. The Fund generally issues and redeems Creation Units in
exchange for a portfolio of securities (the “Deposit Securities”) and/or a
designated amount of U.S. cash that the Fund specifies each day.
Investors
may incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest price a buyer
is willing to pay to purchase Shares (bid) and the lowest price a seller is
willing to accept for Shares (ask) when buying or selling Shares in the
secondary market (the “bid-ask spread”). Recent information about the Fund,
including its net asset value, market price, premiums and discounts, and bid-ask
spreads is available on the Fund’s website at www.PacerETFs.com.
Tax
Information
Fund
distributions are generally taxable as ordinary income, qualified dividend
income, or capital gains (or a combination), unless your investment is in an IRA
or other tax-advantaged retirement account. Distributions may be taxable upon
withdrawal from tax-deferred accounts.
Payments
to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If
you purchase the Fund through a broker or other financial intermediary (such as
a bank), the Adviser and its related companies may pay the intermediary for
activities related to the marketing and promotion of the Fund. These payments
may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other
intermediary and your sales person to recommend the Fund over another
investment. Ask your sales person or visit your financial intermediary’s website
for more information.
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Pacer
Trendpilot®
100 ETF |
Investment Objective
The Pacer Trendpilot 100
ETF (the “Fund”) is an exchange traded fund (“ETF”) that
seeks to track the total return performance, before fees and expenses, of the
Pacer NASDAQ-100 Trendpilot Index (the “Index”).
Fees and Expenses of the
Fund
The
following table describes the fees and expenses you may pay if you buy, hold,
and sell shares of the Fund (“Shares”). You
may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial
intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and Example
below.
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Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment) |
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Management
Fees |
0.65% |
Distribution
and/or Service (12b-1) Fees |
None |
Other
Expenses |
0.00% |
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses |
0.65% |
Example
The following example
is intended to help retail investors compare the cost of investing in the Fund
with the cost of investing in other funds. It illustrates the hypothetical
expenses that such investors would incur over various periods if they were to
invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of
the Shares at the end of those periods. This example assumes that the Fund
provides a return of 5% a year and that operating expenses remain the
same.Although your actual costs may be higher
or lower, based on these assumptions, your costs would
be:
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1 Year |
3
Years |
5
Years |
10
Years |
$66 |
$208 |
$362 |
$810 |
Portfolio
Turnover
The Fund pays transaction costs,
such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its
portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction
costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund Shares are held in a taxable
account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses
or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. For the fiscal year ended April 30, 2022,
the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 7% of the average value of its
portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies of the
Fund
The
Fund employs a “passive management” (or indexing) investment approach designed
to track the total return performance, before fees and expenses, of the Index.
The Index is based on a proprietary methodology developed and maintained by
Index Design Group (the “Index Provider”), an affiliate of Pacer Advisors, Inc.,
the Fund’s investment adviser (the “Adviser”).
The
Index
The
Index uses an objective, rules-based methodology to implement a systematic
trend-following strategy that directs exposure (i) 100% to the
NASDAQ-100®
Index (the “NASDAQ-100”), (ii) 50% to the NASDAQ-100 and 50% to 3-Month US
Treasury bills, or (iii) 100% to 3-Month US Treasury bills, depending on the
relative performance of the NASDAQ-100 and its 200-business day historical
simple moving average (the “200-day moving average”). The calculation of the
200-day moving average for the NASDAQ-100 is based on the total return version
of the NASDAQ-100 and reflects the reinvestment of dividends paid by the
securities in the NASDAQ-100. The Index is expected to be predominantly invested
in the components of the NASDAQ-100 over most short- and long-term periods and
is only expected to invest in 3-Month US Treasury bills from time to time in
response to adverse market conditions as defined by the “50/50 Indicator” and
“T-Bill Indicator” below.
The
NASDAQ-100 Index includes approximately 100 of the largest non-financial
securities listed on The NASDAQ Stock Market based on market capitalization. The
NASDAQ-100 Index comprises securities of companies across major industry groups,
including computer, biotechnology, healthcare, telecommunications and
transportation. However, it does not contain securities of financial companies,
including investment companies. The NASDAQ-100 Index was developed
by
NASDAQ OMX. There is no minimum market capitalization requirement for inclusion
in the NASDAQ-100 Index. Inclusion is determined based on the top 100 largest
issuers based on market capitalization meeting all other eligibility
requirements. As of June 30, 2022, the range of market capitalizations of
companies in the NASDAQ-100 Index was approximately $3.1 billion to $2.2
trillion.
The
Index, and consequently the Fund, may stay in any of its three possible
positions for an extended period of time. As described below, the Index will
change its position based on the following indicators, and each change will
become effective on the second business day after the indicator for the change
is triggered. The Index will be in a new position effective at the close of
business on the first business day.
Equity
Indicator.
When the NASDAQ-100 closes above its 200-day moving average for five consecutive
business days (the “Equity Indicator”), the exposure of the Index will be 100%
to the NASDAQ-100, effective at the close of business on the first business day
following the date of the Equity Indicator. The Index will be in a new position
effective on the second business day.
Once
the Equity Indicator has been triggered, the exposure of the Index will next
change to either be 50% to the NASDAQ-100 and 50% to 3-Month US Treasury bills
if the 50/50 Indicator (described below) is triggered or 100% to 3-Month US
Treasury bills if both the 50/50 Indicator and the T-Bill Indicator (described
below) are triggered simultaneously, effective on the second business day
following the date of the indicator(s). The Index will be in a new position
effective at the close of business on the first business day.
50/50
Indicator.
When the NASDAQ-100 closes below its 200-day moving average for five consecutive
business days (the “50/50 Indicator”) and the 50/50 Indicator has been
triggered, the exposure of the Index will be 50% to the NASDAQ-100
and
50% to 3-Month US Treasury bills, effective at the close of business on the
first business day following the date of the 50/50 Indicator. The Index
will be in a new position effective on the second business day. Following the
effectiveness of the 50/50 Indicator, the exposure of the Index may be greater
than or less than 50% with respect to the NASDAQ-100
and
3-Month US Treasury bills depending on their respective performance until either
the Equity Indicator or T-Bill Indicator (described below) is
triggered.
Once
the 50/50 Indicator has been triggered, the exposure of the Index will next
change to either be 100% to the NASDAQ-100 if the Equity Indicator is triggered
or 100% to 3-Month US Treasury bills if the T-Bill Indicator (described below)
is triggered, effective at the close of business on the first business day
following the date of the indicator(s). The Index will be in a new position
effective on the second business day.
T-Bill
Indicator. When
the NASDAQ-100’s 200-day moving average closes lower than its value from five
business days earlier (the “T-Bill Indicator”), the exposure of the Index will
be 100% to 3-Month US Treasury bills, effective at the close of business on the
first business day following the date of the T-Bill Indicator. The Index will be
in a new position effective on the second business day.
For
example, if today is Wednesday and the NASDAQ-100’s 200-day moving average
closes lower than it did on the fifth preceding business day (Wednesday of the
preceding week), the T-Bill Indicator is triggered. Unlike the operation of the
Equity Indicator and 50/50 Indicator, the closing values on the days in between
today and the fifth preceding business day do not affect whether the T-Bill
Indicator has been triggered; rather, the T-Bill Indicator simply compares
today’s closing value to the closing value five business days earlier. However,
the Index will not move directly from 100% exposure to the NASDAQ-100 to 100%
exposure to 3-Month US Treasury bills unless the 50/50 Indicator was first
triggered following the most recent triggering of the Equity
Indicator.
Once
the T-Bill Indicator has been triggered, the exposure of the Index will next
change to be 100% to the NASDAQ-100 if the Equity Indicator is triggered,
effective at the close of business on the first business day following the
date of the indicator. The Index will be in a new position effective on the
second business day. Once the T-Bill Indicator has been triggered, the Index
will not return to its 50/50 position unless the Equity Indicator is
simultaneously triggered, followed by the 50/50 Indicator being
triggered.
The
Index aims to mitigate, to some extent, the volatility of the NASDAQ-100 by
tracking 3-Month US Treasury bills (instead of the NASDAQ-100) when the
NASDAQ-100 is in a negative trend.
Special
Indicator.
In the event the NASDAQ-100 closes 20% above or 20% below its 200-day moving
average, the Index will change exposures effective at the end of the following
business day to be 50% to the NASDAQ-100 and 50% to 3-Month US Treasury bills.
This new exposure will continue until the Equity Indicator, 50/50 Indicator, or
T-Bill Indicator is triggered.
The
Fund’s Investment Strategy
The
Fund attempts to invest all, or substantially all, of its assets in the
component securities that make up the Index. The Adviser expects that, over
time, the correlation between the Fund’s performance and that of the Index,
before fees and expenses, will be 95% or better.
The
Fund will generally use a “replication” strategy to achieve its investment
objective, meaning it will invest in all of the component securities of the
Index in the same approximate proportion as in the Index.
The
Fund is considered to be non-diversified, which means that it may invest more of
its assets in the securities of a single issuer or a smaller number of issuers
than if it were a diversified fund.
Principal Risks of Investing in the
Fund
You can lose money on your investment in the
Fund. The Fund is subject to the risks summarized below. Some or
all of these risks may adversely affect the Fund’s net asset value per share
(“NAV”), trading price, yield, total return and/or ability to meet its
objectives. For more information about the risks of investing in the Fund, see
the section in the Fund’s prospectus entitled “Additional Information about the
Principal Risks of Investing in the Funds.” The principal risks are presented in
alphabetical order to facilitate finding particular risks and comparing them
with other funds. Each risk summarized below is considered a “principal risk” of
investing in the Fund, regardless of the order in which it appears.
▪Calculation
Methodology Risk.
The Index relies directly or indirectly on various sources of information to
assess the criteria of issuers included in the Index, including information that
may be based on assumptions and estimates. Neither the Fund, the Index Provider,
or the Adviser (as defined below) can offer assurances that the Index’s
calculation methodology or sources of information will provide an accurate
assessment of included issuers or a correct valuation of securities, nor can
they guarantee the availability or timeliness of the production of the
Index.
▪Concentration
Risk.
If the Index concentrates in an industry or group of industries, the Fund’s
investments may be concentrated accordingly. In such event, the value of the
Fund’s shares may rise and fall more than the value of shares of a fund that
invests in securities of companies in a broader range of industries. In
addition, at times, an industry or group of industries in which the Fund is
concentrated may be out of favor and underperform other industries or groups of
industries.
▪Equity
Market Risk. The
equity securities held in the Fund’s portfolio may experience sudden,
unpredictable drops in value or long periods of decline in value. This may occur
because of factors that affect securities markets generally or factors affecting
specific industries, sectors or companies in which the Fund invests. Common
stocks are susceptible to general stock market fluctuations and to volatile
increases and decreases in value as market confidence in and perceptions of
their issuers change. The Fund’s NAV and market price may fluctuate
significantly in response to these and other factors. As a result, an investor
could lose money over short or long periods of time.
▪ETF
Risks.
The Fund is an ETF and, as a result of an ETF’s structure, is exposed to the
following risks:
◦Authorized
Participants (“APs”), Market Makers, and Liquidity Providers Concentration
Risk.
The
Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may act as APs. In
addition, there may be a limited number of market makers and/or liquidity
providers in the marketplace. To the extent either of the following events
occur, shares of the Fund may trade at a material discount to NAV and possibly
face delisting: (i) APs exit the business or otherwise become unable to
process creation and/or redemption orders and no other APs step forward to
perform these services, or (ii) market makers and/or liquidity providers
exit the business or significantly reduce their business activities and no other
entities step forward to perform their functions.
◦Costs
of Buying or Selling Shares of the Fund.
Due to the costs of buying or selling shares of the Fund, including brokerage
commissions imposed by brokers and bid/ask spreads, frequent trading of shares
of the Fund may significantly reduce investment results and an investment in
shares of the Fund may not be advisable for investors who anticipate regularly
making small investments.
◦Shares
of the Fund May Trade at Prices Other Than NAV.
As with all ETFs, shares of the Fund may be bought and sold in the secondary
market at market prices. The price of shares of the Fund, like the price of all
traded securities, will be subject to factors such as supply and demand, as well
as the current value of the Fund’s portfolio holdings. Although it is expected
that the market price of the shares of the Fund will approximate the Fund’s NAV,
there may be times when the market price of the shares is more than the NAV
intra-day (premium) or less than the NAV intra-day (discount). This risk is
heightened in times of market volatility, periods of steep market declines, and
periods when there is limited trading activity for shares in the secondary
market, in which case such premiums or discounts may be
significant.
◦Trading.
Although shares of the Fund are listed for trading on a national securities
exchange, such as Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc. (the “Exchange”), and may be
traded on U.S. exchanges other than the Exchange, there can be no assurance that
shares of the Fund will trade with any volume, or at all, on any stock exchange.
In stressed market conditions, the liquidity of shares of the Fund may begin to
mirror the liquidity of the Fund’s underlying portfolio holdings, which can be
significantly less liquid than shares of the Fund, and this could lead to
differences between the market price of the shares of the Fund and the
underlying value of those shares.
▪Fixed
Income Risk. The
value of the Fund’s direct or indirect investments in fixed income securities
will fluctuate with changes in interest rates. Typically, a rise in interest
rates causes a decline in the value of fixed income securities owned by the
Fund. On the other hand, if rates fall, the value of the fixed income securities
generally increases. The Fund may be subject to a greater risk of rising
interest rates due to the current period of historically low rates and the
effect of potential government fiscal policy initiatives and resulting market
reaction to those initiatives. In general, the market price of fixed income
securities with longer maturities will increase or decrease more in response to
changes in interest rates than shorter-term securities. The value of the Fund’s
direct or indirect investments in fixed income securities may be affected by the
inability of issuers to repay principal and interest or illiquidity in debt
securities markets.
▪Government
Obligations Risk.
The Fund may invest in securities issued by the U.S. government. There can be no
guarantee that the United States will be able to meet its payment obligations
with respect to such securities. Additionally, market prices and yields of
securities supported by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government may
decline or be negative for short or long periods of time.
▪Large-Capitalization
Investing Risk. The
Fund may invest in the securities of large-capitalization companies. As a
result, the Fund’s performance may be adversely affected if securities of
large-capitalization companies underperform securities of smaller-capitalization
companies or the market as a whole. The securities of large-capitalization
companies may be relatively mature compared to smaller companies and therefore
subject to slower growth during times of economic expansion.
▪Non-Diversification
Risk. Although the Fund intends to invest in a
variety of securities and instruments, the Fund is considered to be
non-diversified, which means that it may invest more of its assets in the
securities of a single issuer or a smaller number of issuers than if it were a
diversified fund. As a result, the Fund may be more exposed to the risks
associated with and developments affecting an individual issuer or a smaller
number of issuers than a fund that invests more widely. This may increase the
Fund’s volatility and cause the performance of a relatively smaller number of
issuers to have a greater impact on the Fund’s
performance.
▪Passive
Investment Risk. The
Fund is not actively managed and the Adviser would not sell a security due to
current or projected underperformance of a security, industry or sector, unless
that security is removed from the Index or the selling of shares of that
security is otherwise required upon a reconstitution of the Index in accordance
with the Index methodology. The Fund invests in securities included in the Index
regardless of their investment merits. Other than in response to one of the
triggers set forth above in accordance with the Index methodology, the Fund does
not take defensive positions under any market conditions, including conditions
that are adverse to the performance of the Fund.
▪Sector
Risk. To
the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors of the economy,
its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly
affect those sectors.
◦Communications
Services Sector Risk. The
Fund is generally expected to invest significantly in companies in the
communications services sector, and therefore the performance of the Fund could
be negatively impacted by events affecting this sector. Communications services
companies are subject to extensive government regulation.
The
costs of complying with governmental regulations, delays or failure to receive
required regulatory approvals, or the enactment of new adverse regulatory
requirements may adversely affect the business of the such companies. Companies
in the communications services sector can also be significantly affected by
intense competition, including competition with alternative technologies such as
wireless communications (including with 5G and other technologies), product
compatibility, consumer preferences, rapid product obsolescence, and research
and development of new products. Technological innovations may make the products
and services of such companies obsolete.
◦Consumer
Discretionary Sector Risk.
The
Fund may invest in companies in the consumer discretionary sector, and therefore
the performance of the Fund could be negatively impacted by events affecting
this sector.
The
success of consumer product manufacturers and retailers is tied closely to the
performance of domestic and international economies, interest rates, exchange
rates, competition, consumer confidence, changes in demographics and consumer
preferences. Companies in the consumer discretionary sector depend heavily on
disposable household income and consumer spending, and may be strongly affected
by social trends and marketing campaigns. These companies may be subject to
severe competition, which may have an adverse impact on their
profitability.
◦Information
Technology Sector Risk. Market
or economic factors impacting information technology companies and companies
that rely heavily on technological advances could have a significant effect on
the value of the Fund’s investments. The value of stocks of information
technology companies and companies that rely heavily on technology is
particularly vulnerable to rapid changes in technology product cycles, rapid
product obsolescence, government regulation and competition, both domestically
and internationally, including competition from foreign competitors with lower
production costs. Stocks of information technology companies and companies that
rely heavily on technology, especially those of smaller, less-seasoned
companies, tend to be more volatile than the overall market. Information
technology companies are heavily dependent on patent and intellectual property
rights, the loss or impairment of which may adversely affect
profitability.
▪Tracking
Risk. The
Fund’s return may not track the return of the Index for a number of reasons. 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, when the 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.
▪Trend
Lag Risk. At
least six consecutive trading days will elapse after the NASDAQ-100 first drops
below its historical 200-day simple moving average (or conversely, first moves
above such average) before the Index will switch from tracking the
NASDAQ-100
to
3-Month US Treasury bills (or conversely, from 3-Month US Treasury bills to the
NASDAQ-100). As a result, if the NASDAQ-100 is in an overall positive trend, the
Index and consequently the Fund may be adversely affected by a downward trend
and/or volatility in the NASDAQ-100 for up to six consecutive trading days (or
conversely, if the NASDAQ-100 is in an overall negative trend, the Index and
consequently the Fund may not benefit from an upward trend and/or volatility in
the NASDAQ-100 for up to six consecutive trading days). Accordingly, the
methodology employed by the Index does not eliminate exposure to downward trends
and/or volatility in the NASDAQ-100 and does not provide immediate exposure to
upward trends and/or volatility in the
NASDAQ-100.
Fund
Performance
The following
information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the
Fund. The bar chart shows the Fund’s performance (based on NAV)
for calendar years ended December 31. The table shows how the Fund’s average
annual returns for the one year, five year, and since inception periods compare
with those of the Index and a broad measure of market performance.
The Fund’s past performance,
before and after taxes, is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will
perform in the future. Updated performance information is
available on the Fund’s website at www.PacerETFs.com
or by calling the Fund toll-free at 1-800-617-0004.
Calendar Year Total Return as of December
31
For the year-to-date period ended
June 30, 2022, the
Fund’s total return was -14.82%. During the period of time shown in the bar
chart, the Fund’s highest return for a
calendar quarter was 23.12% (quarter ended June 30, 2020) and
the Fund’s lowest return for a
calendar quarter was -14.07% (quarter ended March 31,
2020).
Average
Annual Total Returns
(for
the periods ended December 31, 2021)
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1
Year |
5
Years |
Since
Inception
(6/11/15) |
Pacer
Trendpilot 100 ETF |
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Return Before
Taxes |
13.60% |
21.21% |
14.35% |
Return After Taxes on
Distributions |
13.60% |
21.13% |
14.27% |
Return After Taxes on Distributions and
Sale of Fund Shares |
8.05% |
17.39% |
11.73% |
Pacer NASDAQ-100
Trendpilot Index
(reflects no deduction for
fees, expenses, or taxes)
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14.34% |
21.88% |
15.03% |
NASDAQ-100
Index
(reflects
no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes) |
27.51% |
28.63% |
23.03% |
After-tax returns are
calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax
rates during the period covered by the table above and do not reflect the impact
of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an
investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns shown are
not relevant to investors who hold their Shares through tax-deferred
arrangements such as an individual retirement account (“IRA”) or other
tax-advantaged accounts.
Management
Investment
Adviser
Pacer
Advisors, Inc. serves as investment adviser to the Fund.
Portfolio
Managers
The
Fund employs a rules-based, passive investment strategy. The Adviser uses a
committee approach to managing the Fund. Bruce
Kavanaugh, Vice President of the Adviser, and Danke Wang, CFA, Portfolio Manager
for the Adviser, are jointly and primarily responsible for the day-to-day
management of the Fund. Mr. Kavanaugh has served as a portfolio manager since
the Fund’s inception and Mr. Wang has served as a portfolio manager since June
2022.
Buying
and Selling Fund Shares
The
Fund is an ETF. This means that individual Shares of the Fund may only be
purchased and sold in the secondary market through brokers at market prices,
rather than NAV. Because Shares trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares
may trade at a price greater than NAV (premium) or less than NAV
(discount).
The
Fund generally issues and redeems shares at NAV only in large blocks of shares
known as “Creation Units,” which only institutions or large investors may
purchase or redeem. The Fund generally issues and redeems Creation Units in
exchange
for a portfolio of securities (the “Deposit Securities”) and/or a designated
amount of U.S. cash that the Fund specifies each day.
Investors
may incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest price a buyer
is willing to pay to purchase Shares (bid) and the lowest price a seller is
willing to accept for Shares (ask) when buying or selling Shares in the
secondary market (the “bid-ask spread”). Recent information about the Fund,
including its net asset value, market price, premiums and discounts, and bid-ask
spreads is available on the Fund’s website at www.PacerETFs.com.
Tax
Information
Fund
distributions are generally taxable as ordinary income, qualified dividend
income, or capital gains (or a combination), unless your investment is in an IRA
or other tax-advantaged retirement account. Distributions may be taxable upon
withdrawal from tax-deferred accounts.
Payments
to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If
you purchase the Fund through a broker or other financial intermediary (such as
a bank), the Adviser and its related companies may pay the intermediary for
activities related to the marketing and promotion of the Fund. These payments
may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other
intermediary and your sales person to recommend the Fund over another
investment. Ask your sales person or visit your financial intermediary’s website
for more information.
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Pacer
Trendpilot®
European Index ETF |
Investment Objective
The Pacer Trendpilot European Index
ETF (the “Fund”) is an exchange traded fund (“ETF”) that
seeks to track the total return performance, before fees and expenses, of the
Pacer Trendpilot European Index (the “Index”).
Fees and Expenses of the
Fund
The
following table describes the fees and expenses you may pay if you buy, hold,
and sell shares of the Fund (“Shares”). You
may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial
intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and Example
below.
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Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment) |
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Management
Fees |
0.65% |
Distribution
and/or Service (12b-1) Fees |
None |
Other
Expenses |
0.00% |
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses1 |
0.65% |
1
Total Annual Fund
Operating Expenses do not correlate to the expense ratios in the Fund’s
Financial Highlights because the Financial Highlights include non-recurring
proxy expense incurred at April 30, 2022 of 0.01%.
Example
The following example
is intended to help retail investors compare the cost of investing in the Fund
with the cost of investing in other funds. It illustrates the hypothetical
expenses that such investors would incur over various periods if they were to
invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of
the Shares at the end of those periods. This example assumes that the Fund
provides a return of 5% a year and that operating expenses remain the
same. Although your actual costs may be higher
or lower, based on these assumptions, your costs would
be:
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1 Year |
3
Years |
5
Years |
10
Years |
$66 |
$208 |
$362 |
$810 |
Portfolio Turnover
The Fund pays transaction costs,
such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its
portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction
costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund Shares are held in a taxable
account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses
or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. For the fiscal year ended April 30, 2022,
the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 7% of the average value of its
portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies of the
Fund
The
Fund employs a “passive management” (or indexing) investment approach designed
to track the total return performance, before fees and expenses, of the Index.
The Index is based on a proprietary methodology developed and maintained by
Index Design Group (the “Index Provider”), an affiliate of Pacer Advisors, Inc.,
the Fund’s investment adviser (the “Adviser”).
The
Index
The
Index uses an objective, rules-based methodology to implement a systematic
trend-following strategy that directs exposure (i) 100% to the FTSE Eurozone
Index, (ii) 50% to the FTSE Eurozone Index and 50% to 3-Month US Treasury bills,
or (iii) 100% to 3-Month US Treasury bills, depending on the relative
performance of the FTSE Eurozone Index and its 200-business day historical
simple moving average (the “200-day moving average”). The calculation of the
200-day moving average for the FTSE Eurozone Index is based on the total return
version of the FTSE Eurozone Index and reflects the reinvestment of dividends
paid by the securities in the FTSE Eurozone Index. The Index is expected to be
predominantly invested in the components of the FTSE Eurozone Index over most
short- and long-term periods and is only expected to invest in 3-Month US
Treasury bills from time to time in response to adverse market conditions as
defined by the “50/50 Indicator” and “T-Bill Indicator”
below.
The
FTSE Eurozone Index is a rules-based, float-adjusted, market
capitalization-weighted index comprised of large- and mid-capitalization stocks
providing coverage of the developed markets in the euro zone, including
primarily France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, and Italy. The FTSE Eurozone
Index is a subset of the FTSE Global Equity Index Series, which targets coverage
of over 99% of investable market capitalization globally.
The
Index, and consequently the Fund, may stay in any of its three possible
positions for an extended period of time. As described below, the Index will
change its position based on the following indicators, and each change will
become effective at the close of business on the first business day after the
indicator for the change is triggered. The Index will be in a new position
effective on the second business day.
Equity
Indicator.
When the FTSE Eurozone Index closes above its 200-day moving average for five
consecutive business days (the “Equity Indicator”), the exposure of the Index
will be 100% to the FTSE Eurozone Index, effective at the close of business on
the first business day following the date of the Equity Indicator. The Index
will be in a new position effective on the second business day.
Once
the Equity Indicator has been triggered, the exposure of the Index will next
change to either be 50% to the FTSE Eurozone Index and 50% to 3-Month US
Treasury bills if the 50/50 Indicator (described below) is triggered or 100% to
3-Month US Treasury bills if both the 50/50 Indicator and the T-Bill Indicator
(described below) are triggered simultaneously, effective at the close of
business on the first business day following the date of the indicator(s). The
Index will be in a new position effective on the second business
day.
50/50
Indicator.
When the FTSE Eurozone Index closes below its 200-day moving average for five
consecutive business days (the “50/50 Indicator”), the exposure of the Index
will be 50% to the FTSE Eurozone Index and 50% to 3-Month US Treasury bills,
effective at the close of business on the first business following the date of
the 50/50 Indicator. The Index will be in a new position effective on the second
business day. Following the effectiveness of the 50/50 Indicator, the exposure
of the Index may be greater than or less than 50% with respect to the FTSE
Eurozone Index and 3-Month US Treasury bills depending on their respective
performance until either the Equity Indicator or T-Bill Indicator (described
below) is triggered.
Once
the 50/50 Indicator has been triggered, the exposure of the Index will next
change to either be 100% to the FTSE Eurozone Index if the Equity Indicator is
triggered or 100% to 3-Month US Treasury bills if the T-Bill Indicator
(described below) is triggered, effective at the close of business on the first
business following the date of the indicator. The Index will be in a new
position effective on the second business day.
T-Bill
Indicator.
When the FTSE Eurozone Index’s 200-day moving average closes lower than its
value from five business days earlier (the “T-Bill Indicator”) and the 50/50
Indicator has been triggered, the exposure of the Index will be 100% to 3-Month
US Treasury bills, effective at the close of business on the first business day
following the date of the T-Bill Indicator. The Index will be in a new position
effective on the second business day.
For
example, if today is Wednesday and the FTSE Eurozone Index’s 200-day moving
average closes lower than it did on the fifth preceding business day (Wednesday
of the preceding week), the T-Bill Indicator is triggered. Unlike the operation
of the Equity Indicator and 50/50 Indicator, the closing values on the days in
between today and the fifth preceding business day do not affect whether the
T-Bill Indicator has been triggered; rather, the T-Bill Indicator simply
compares today’s closing value to the closing value five business days earlier.
However, the Index will not move directly from 100% exposure to the FTSE
Eurozone Index to 100% exposure to 3-Month US Treasury bills unless the 50/50
Indicator was simultaneously triggered following the most recent triggering of
the Equity Indicator.
Once
the T-Bill Indicator has been triggered, the exposure of the Index will next
change to be 100% to the FTSE Eurozone Index if the Equity Indicator is
triggered, effective at the close of business on the first
business following the date of the indicator. Once the T-Bill Indicator has
been triggered, the Index will not return to its 50/50 position unless the
Equity Indicator is first triggered, followed by the 50/50 Indicator being
triggered. The Index will be in a new position effective on the second business
day.
The
Index aims to mitigate, to some extent, the volatility of the FTSE Eurozone
Index by tracking 3-Month US Treasury bills (instead of the FTSE Eurozone Index)
when the FTSE Eurozone Index is in a negative
trend.
The
Fund’s Investment Strategy
Under
normal circumstances, at least 80% of the Fund’s total assets (exclusive of
collateral held from securities lending) will be invested in the component
securities of the Index and investments that have economic characteristics that
are substantially identical to the economic characteristics of such component
securities (e.g., depositary receipts).
The Adviser expects that, over time, the correlation between the Fund’s
performance and that of the Index, before fees and expenses, will be 95% or
better.
The
Fund will generally use a “replication” strategy to achieve its investment
objective, meaning it will invest in all of the component securities of the
Index in the same approximate proportion as in the
Index.
Principal Risks of Investing in the
Fund
You can lose money on your investment in the
Fund. The Fund is subject to the risks summarized below. Some or
all of these risks may adversely affect the Fund’s net asset value per share
(“NAV”), trading price, yield, total return and/or ability to meet its
objectives. For more information about the risks of investing in the Fund, see
the section in the Fund’s prospectus entitled “Additional Information about the
Principal Risks of Investing in the Funds.” The principal risks are presented in
alphabetical order to facilitate finding particular risks and comparing them
with other funds. Each risk summarized below is considered a “principal risk” of
investing in the Fund, regardless of the order in which it appears.
▪Calculation
Methodology Risk.
The Index relies directly or indirectly on various sources of information to
assess the criteria of issuers included in the Index, including information that
may be based on assumptions and estimates. Neither the Fund, the Index Provider,
or the Adviser (as defined below) can offer assurances that the Index’s
calculation methodology or sources of information will provide an accurate
assessment of included issuers or a correct valuation of securities, nor can
they guarantee the availability or timeliness of the production of the
Index.
▪Currency
Exchange Rate Risk. The
Fund’s assets may include investments denominated in non-U.S. currencies, such
as the euro, or in securities or other assets that provide exposure to such
currencies. Changes in currency exchange rates and the relative value of
non-U.S. currencies will affect the value of the Fund’s investment and the value
of your Fund shares. Currency exchange rates can be very volatile and can change
quickly and unpredictably. As a result, the value of an investment in the Fund
may change quickly and without warning and you may lose money.
▪Equity
Market Risk. The
equity securities held in the Fund’s portfolio may experience sudden,
unpredictable drops in value or long periods of decline in value. This may occur
because of factors that affect securities markets generally or factors affecting
specific industries, sectors or companies in which the Fund invests. Common
stocks are susceptible to general stock market fluctuations and to volatile
increases and decreases in value as market confidence in and perceptions of
their issuers change. The Fund’s NAV and market price may fluctuate
significantly in response to these and other factors. As a result, an investor
could lose money over short or long periods of time.
▪ETF
Risks.
The Fund is an ETF and, as a result of an ETF’s structure, is exposed to the
following risks:
◦Authorized
Participants (“APs”), Market Makers, and Liquidity Providers Concentration
Risk.
The
Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may act as APs. In
addition, there may be a limited number of market makers and/or liquidity
providers in the marketplace. To the extent either of the following events
occur, shares of the Fund may trade at a material discount to NAV and possibly
face delisting: (i) APs exit the business or otherwise become unable to
process creation and/or redemption orders and no other APs step forward to
perform these services, or (ii) market makers and/or liquidity providers
exit the business or significantly reduce their business activities and no other
entities step forward to perform their functions.
◦Costs
of Buying or Selling Shares of the Fund.
Due to the costs of buying or selling shares of the Fund, including brokerage
commissions imposed by brokers and bid/ask spreads, frequent trading of shares
of the Fund may significantly reduce investment results and an investment in
shares of the Fund may not be advisable for investors who anticipate regularly
making small investments.
◦Shares
of the Fund May Trade at Prices Other Than NAV.
As with all ETFs, shares of the Fund may be bought and sold in the secondary
market at market prices. The price of shares of the Fund, like the price of all
traded securities, will be subject to factors such as supply and demand, as well
as the current value of the Fund’s portfolio holdings. Although it is expected
that the market price of the shares of the Fund will approximate the Fund’s NAV,
there may be times when the market price of the shares is more than the NAV
intra-day (premium)
or
less than the NAV intra-day (discount). This risk is heightened in times of
market volatility, periods of steep market declines, and periods when there is
limited trading activity for shares in the secondary market, in which case such
premiums or discounts may be significant. Because securities held by the Fund
trade on foreign exchanges that are closed when the Fund’s primary listing
exchange is open, the Fund is likely to experience premiums and discounts
greater than those of domestic ETFs.
◦Trading.
Although shares of the Fund are listed for trading on a national securities
exchange, such as Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc. (the “Exchange”), and may be
traded on U.S. exchanges other than the Exchange, there can be no assurance that
shares of the Fund will trade with any volume, or at all, on any stock exchange.
In stressed market conditions, the liquidity of shares of the Fund may begin to
mirror the liquidity of the Fund’s underlying portfolio holdings, which can be
significantly less liquid than shares of the Fund, and this could lead to
differences between the market price of the shares of the Fund and the
underlying value of those shares.
▪European
Investments Risk.
The
Fund is more exposed to the economic and political risks of Europe and of the
European countries in which it invests than funds whose investments are more
geographically diversified. Adverse economic and political events in Europe may
cause the Fund’s investments to decline in value. The economies and markets of
European countries are often closely connected and interdependent, and events in
one country in Europe can have an adverse impact on other European countries.
The Fund makes investments in securities of issuers that are domiciled in, or
have significant operations in, member countries of the European Union (the
“EU”) that are subject to economic and monetary controls that can adversely
affect the Fund’s investments. The European financial markets have experienced
volatility and adverse trends in recent years and these events have adversely
affected the exchange rate of the euro and may continue to significantly affect
other European countries. Decreasing imports or exports, changes in governmental
or EU regulations on trade, changes in the exchange rate of the euro, the
default or threat of default by an EU member country on its sovereign debt,
and/or an economic recession in an EU member country may have a significant
adverse effect on the economies of EU member countries and their trading
partners, including some or all of the European countries in which the Fund
invests.
The
UK left the EU (Brexit) on January 31, 2020. The United Kingdom (“UK”) and EU
have reached an agreement on the terms of their future trading relationship
effective January 1, 2021, which principally relates to the trading of goods
rather than services, including financial services. Further discussions are to
be held between the UK and the EU in relation to matters not covered by the
trade agreement, such as financial services. The Fund faces risks associated
with the potential uncertainty and consequences that may follow Brexit,
including with respect to volatility in exchange rates and interest rates.
Brexit could adversely affect European or worldwide political, regulatory,
economic or market conditions and could contribute to instability in global
political institutions, regulatory agencies and financial markets. Brexit has
also led to legal uncertainty and could lead to politically divergent national
laws and regulations as a new relationship between the UK and EU is defined and
the UK determines which EU laws to replace or replicate. Any of these effects of
Brexit could adversely affect any of the companies to which the Fund has
exposure and any other assets in which the Fund invests. The political, economic
and legal consequences of Brexit are not yet fully known. In the short term,
financial markets may experience heightened volatility, particularly those in
the UK and Europe, but possibly worldwide. The UK and Europe may be less stable
than they have been in recent years, and investments in the UK and the EU may be
difficult to value or subject to greater or more frequent volatility. In the
longer term, there is likely to be a period of significant political, regulatory
and commercial uncertainty as the UK continues to negotiate the terms of its
future trading relationships.
▪Fixed
Income Risk. The
value of the Fund’s direct or indirect investments in fixed income securities
will fluctuate with changes in interest rates. Typically, a rise in interest
rates causes a decline in the value of fixed income securities owned by the
Fund. On the other hand, if rates fall, the value of the fixed income securities
generally increases. The Fund may be subject to a greater risk of rising
interest rates due to the current period of historically low rates and the
effect of potential government fiscal policy initiatives and resulting market
reaction to those initiatives. In general, the market price of fixed income
securities with longer maturities will increase or decrease more in response to
changes in interest rates than shorter-term securities. The value of the Fund’s
direct or indirect investments in fixed income securities may be affected by the
inability of issuers to repay principal and interest or illiquidity in debt
securities markets.
▪Foreign
Securities Risk. Investments
in non-U.S. securities involve certain risks that may not be present with
investments in U.S. securities. For example, investments in non-U.S. securities
may be subject to risk of loss due to
foreign
currency fluctuations or to political or economic instability. Investments in
non-U.S. securities also may be subject to withholding or other taxes and may be
subject to additional trading, settlement, custodial, and operational risks.
These and other factors can make investments in the Fund more volatile and
potentially less liquid than other types of investments.
▪Geographic
Concentration Risk. To
the extent the Fund invests a significant portion of its assets in the
securities of companies of a single country or region, it is more likely to be
impacted by events or conditions affecting that country or region. The Index’s,
and therefore the Fund’s, heavy equity exposure to two countries (France and
Germany) subjects the Fund to a higher degree of country risk than that of more
geographically diversified international funds.
▪Government
Obligations Risk.
The Fund may invest in securities issued by the U.S. government. There can be no
guarantee that the United States will be able to meet its payment obligations
with respect to such securities. Additionally, market prices and yields of
securities supported by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government may
decline or be negative for short or long periods of time.
▪High
Portfolio Turnover Risk.
At times, the Fund may have a portfolio turnover rate substantially greater than
100%. A high portfolio turnover rate would result in correspondingly greater
transaction expenses, including brokerage commissions, dealer mark ups and other
transaction costs, on the sale of securities and on reinvestment in other
securities and may result in reduced performance and the distribution to
shareholders of additional capital gains for tax purposes. These factors may
negatively affect the Fund’s performance.
▪Large-Capitalization
Investing Risk. The
Fund may invest in the securities of large-capitalization companies. As a
result, the Fund’s performance may be adversely affected if securities of
large-capitalization companies underperform securities of smaller-capitalization
companies or the market as a whole. The securities of large-capitalization
companies may be relatively mature compared to smaller companies and therefore
subject to slower growth during times of economic expansion.
▪Mid-Capitalization
Investing Risk. The
Fund may invest in the securities of mid-capitalization companies. As a result,
the Fund’s performance may be adversely affected if securities of
mid-capitalization companies underperform securities of other capitalization
ranges or the market as a whole. Securities of smaller companies trade in
smaller volumes and are often more vulnerable to market volatility than
securities of larger companies.
▪Passive
Investment Risk. The
Fund is not actively managed and the Adviser would not sell a security due to
current or projected underperformance of a security, industry or sector, unless
that security is removed from the Index or the selling of shares of that
security is otherwise required upon a reconstitution of the Index in accordance
with the Index methodology. The Fund invests in securities included in the Index
regardless of their investment merits. Other than in response to one of the
triggers set forth above in accordance with the Index methodology, the Fund does
not take defensive positions under any market conditions, including conditions
that are adverse to the performance of the Fund.
▪Tracking
Risk. The
Fund’s return may not track the return of the Index for a number of reasons. 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, when the 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. To the extent the Fund calculates its NAV based on
fair value prices and the value of the Index is based on securities’ closing
prices on local foreign markets (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.
▪Trend
Lag Risk. At
least six consecutive trading days will elapse after the FTSE Eurozone Index
first drops below its historical 200-day simple moving average (or conversely,
first moves above such average) before the Index will switch from tracking the
FTSE Eurozone Index to 3-Month US Treasury bills (or conversely, from 3-Month US
Treasury bills to the FTSE Eurozone Index). As a result, if the FTSE Eurozone
Index is in an overall positive trend, the Index and consequently the Fund may
be adversely affected by a downward trend and/or volatility in the FTSE Eurozone
Index for up to six consecutive trading days (or conversely, if the FTSE
Eurozone Index is in an overall negative trend, the Index and consequently the
Fund may not benefit from an upward trend and/or volatility in the FTSE Eurozone
Index for up to six consecutive trading days). Accordingly, the methodology
employed by the Index does not eliminate
exposure to downward trends and/or
volatility in the FTSE Eurozone Index or provide immediate exposure to upward
trends and/or volatility in the FTSE Eurozone
Index.
Fund
Performance
The following
information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the
Fund. The bar chart shows the Fund’s performance (based on NAV)
for calendar years ended December 31. The table shows how the Fund’s average
annual returns for the one year, five year, and since inception periods compare
with those of the Index and a broad measure of market performance.
The Fund’s past performance,
before and after taxes, is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will
perform in the future. Updated performance information is
available on the Fund’s website at www.PacerETFs.com
or by calling the Fund toll-free at 1-800-617-0004.
Calendar Year Total Return as of December
31
For the year-to-date period ended
June 30, 2022, the
Fund’s total return was -9.60%. During the period of time shown in the bar
chart, the Fund’s highest return for a
calendar quarter was 8.67% (quarter ended June 30, 2017) and
the Fund’s lowest return for a
calendar quarter was -13.49% (quarter ended March 31,
2020).
Average
Annual Total Returns
(for
the periods ended December 31, 2021)
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1
Year |
5
Years |
Since
Inception
(12/14/15) |
Pacer
Trendpilot European Index ETF |
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Return Before
Taxes |
12.84% |
2.24% |
1.07% |
Return After Taxes on
Distributions |
12.80% |
2.12% |
0.97% |
Return After Taxes on Distributions and
Sale of Fund Shares |
8.26% |
1.98% |
1.03% |
Pacer Trendpilot European
Index
(reflects no deduction for
fees, expenses, or taxes)
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14.50% |
3.81% |
2.58% |
FTSE
Eurozone Index
(reflects
no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes) |
14.50% |
10.89% |
9.81% |
After-tax returns are
calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax
rates during the period covered by the table above and do not reflect the impact
of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an
investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. In certain cases, the figure
representing “Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares” may
be higher than the other return figures for the same period. A higher after-tax
return results when a capital loss occurs upon redemption and provides an
assumed tax deduction that benefits the investor. After-tax returns shown are
not relevant to investors who hold their Shares through tax-deferred
arrangements such as an individual retirement account (“IRA”) or other
tax-advantaged accounts.
Management
Investment
Adviser
Pacer
Advisors, Inc. serves as investment adviser to the Fund.
Portfolio
Managers
The
Fund employs a rules-based, passive investment strategy. The Adviser uses a
committee approach to managing the Fund. Bruce
Kavanaugh, Vice President of the Adviser, and Danke Wang, CFA, Portfolio Manager
for the Adviser, are jointly and primarily responsible for the day-to-day
management of the Fund. Mr. Kavanaugh has served as a portfolio manager since
the Fund’s inception and Mr. Wang has served as a portfolio manager since June
2022.
Buying
and Selling Fund Shares
The
Fund is an ETF. This means that individual Shares of the Fund may only be
purchased and sold in the secondary market through brokers at market prices,
rather than NAV. Because Shares trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares
may trade at a price greater than NAV (premium) or less than NAV
(discount).
The
Fund generally issues and redeems shares at NAV only in large blocks of shares
known as “Creation Units,” which only institutions or large investors may
purchase or redeem. The Fund generally issues and redeems Creation Units in
exchange for a portfolio of securities (the “Deposit Securities”) and/or a
designated amount of U.S. cash that the Fund specifies each day.
Investors
may incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest price a buyer
is willing to pay to purchase Shares (bid) and the lowest price a seller is
willing to accept for Shares (ask) when buying or selling Shares in the
secondary market (the “bid-ask spread”). Recent information about the Fund,
including its net asset value, market price, premiums and discounts, and bid-ask
spreads is available on the Fund’s website at www.PacerETFs.com.
Tax
Information
Fund
distributions are generally taxable as ordinary income, qualified dividend
income, or capital gains (or a combination), unless your investment is in an IRA
or other tax-advantaged retirement account. Distributions may be taxable upon
withdrawal from tax-deferred accounts.
Payments
to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If
you purchase the Fund through a broker or other financial intermediary (such as
a bank), the Adviser and its related companies may pay the intermediary for
activities related to the marketing and promotion of the Fund. These payments
may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other
intermediary and your sales person to recommend the Fund over another
investment. Ask your sales person or visit your financial intermediary’s website
for more information.
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Pacer
Trendpilot®
International ETF |
Investment Objective
The Pacer Trendpilot International
ETF (the “Fund”) is an exchange traded fund (“ETF”) that
seeks to track the total return performance, before fees and expenses, of the
Pacer Trendpilot International Index (the “Index”).
Fees and Expenses of the
Fund
The
following table describes the fees and expenses you may pay if you buy, hold,
and sell shares of the Fund (“Shares”). You
may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial
intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and Example
below.
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Annual
Fund Operating Expenses (expenses
that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment) |
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Management
Fees |
0.65% |
Distribution
and/or Service (12b-1) Fees |
None |
Other
Expenses |
0.00% |
Acquired
Fund Fees and Expenses1 |
0.03% |
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses |
0.68% |
1
Acquired Fund Fees and
Expenses (“AFFE”) are the indirect costs of investing in other investment
companies. Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses do not correlate to the expense
ratios in the Fund’s Financial Highlights because the Financial Highlights
include only the direct operating expenses incurred by the Fund and exclude
AFFE.
Example
The following example
is intended to help retail investors compare the cost of investing in the Fund
with the cost of investing in other funds. It illustrates the hypothetical
expenses that such investors would incur over various periods if they were to
invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of
the Shares at the end of those periods. This example assumes that the Fund
provides a return of 5% a year and that operating expenses remain the
same. Although your actual costs may be higher
or lower, based on these assumptions, your costs would
be:
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1 Year |
3
Years |
5
Years |
10
Years |
$69 |
$218 |
$379 |
$847 |
Portfolio
Turnover
The
Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells
securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may
indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund
Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in
annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.
For
the fiscal year ended April 30, 2022, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was
202% of the average value of its
portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies of the
Fund
The
Fund employs a “passive management” (or indexing) investment approach designed
to track the total return performance, before fees and expenses, of the Index.
The Index is based on a proprietary methodology developed and maintained by
Index Design Group, an affiliate of Pacer Advisors, Inc., the Fund’s investment
adviser (the “Adviser”).
The
Index
The
Index uses an objective, rules-based methodology to implement a systematic
trend-following strategy that directs exposure (i) 100% to the S&P Developed
Ex-U.S. LargeCap Index, (ii) 50% to the S&P Developed Ex-U.S. LargeCap Index
and 50% to 3-Month US Treasury bills, or (iii) 100% to 3-Month US Treasury
bills, depending on the relative performance of the S&P Developed Ex-U.S.
LargeCap Index and its 200-business day historical simple moving average (the
“200-day moving average”). The calculation of the 200-day moving average for the
S&P Developed Ex-U.S. LargeCap Index is based on the total return version of
the S&P Developed Ex-U.S. LargeCap Local Currency Index and reflects the
reinvestment of dividends paid by the securities in the S&P Developed
Ex-U.S. LargeCap Index. The Index is expected to be predominantly invested in
the components of the S&P Developed Ex-U.S. LargeCap Index over most short-
and long-term periods and is only expected to invest in 3-Month US Treasury
bills from time to time in response to adverse market conditions as defined by
the “50/50 Indicator” and “T-Bill Indicator” below.
The
S&P Developed Ex-U.S. LargeCap Index is a rules-based, float-adjusted,
market capitalization-weighted index comprised of large-capitalization stocks
providing coverage of the developed markets excluding the United States. The
S&P Developed Ex-U.S. LargeCap Index is a subset of the S&P Global BMI,
a comprehensive, rules-based index measuring global stock market performance.
The
Index, and consequently the Fund, may stay in any of its three possible
positions for an extended period of time. As described below, the Index will
change its position based on the following indicators, and each change will
become effective on the second business day after the indicator for the change
is triggered.
As
of June 30, 2022, the Index was invested in US Treasury bills.
Equity
Indicator.
When the S&P Developed Ex-U.S. LargeCap Index closes above its 200-day
moving average for five consecutive business days (the “Equity Indicator”), the
exposure of the Index will be 100% to the S&P Developed Ex-U.S. LargeCap
Index, effective on the second business day following the date of the Equity
Indicator.
Once
the Equity Indicator has been triggered, the exposure of the Index will next
change to either be 50% to the S&P Developed Ex-U.S. LargeCap Index and 50%
to 3-Month US Treasury bills if the 50/50 Indicator (described below) is
triggered or 100% to 3-Month US Treasury bills if both the 50/50 Indicator and
the T-Bill Indicator (described below) are triggered simultaneously, effective
on the second business day following the date of the indicator(s).
50/50
Indicator.
When the S&P Developed Ex-U.S. LargeCap Index closes below its 200-day
moving average for five consecutive business days (the “50/50 Indicator”), the
exposure of the Index will be 50% to the S&P Developed Ex-U.S. LargeCap
Index and 50% to 3-Month US Treasury bills, effective on the second business day
following the date of the 50/50 Indicator. Following the effectiveness of the
50/50 Indicator, the exposure of the Index may be greater than or less than 50%
with respect to the S&P Developed Ex-U.S. LargeCap Index and 3-Month US
Treasury bills depending on their respective performance until either the Equity
Indicator or T-Bill Indicator (described below) is triggered.
Once
the 50/50 Indicator has been triggered, the exposure of the Index will next
change to either be 100% to the S&P Developed Ex-U.S. LargeCap Index if the
Equity Indicator is triggered or 100% to 3-Month US Treasury bills if the T-Bill
Indicator (described below) is triggered, effective on the second business day
following the date of the indicator.
T-Bill
Indicator.
When
the S&P Developed Ex-U.S. LargeCap Index’s 200-day moving average closes
lower than its value from five business days earlier (the “T-Bill Indicator”),
the exposure of the Index will be 100% to 3-Month US Treasury bills, effective
on the second business day following the date of the T-Bill
Indicator.
For
example, if today is Wednesday and the S&P Developed Ex-U.S. LargeCap
Index’s 200-day moving average closes lower than it did on the fifth preceding
business day (Wednesday of the preceding week), the T-Bill Indicator is
triggered. Unlike the operation of the Equity Indicator and 50/50 Indicator, the
closing values on the days in between today and the fifth preceding business day
do not affect whether the T-Bill Indicator has been triggered; rather, the
T-Bill Indicator simply compares today’s closing value to the closing value five
business days earlier. However, the Index will not move directly from 100%
exposure to the S&P Developed Ex-U.S. LargeCap Index to 100% exposure to
3-Month US Treasury bills unless the 50/50 Indicator was simultaneously
triggered following the most recent triggering of the Equity
Indicator.
Once
the T-Bill Indicator has been triggered, the exposure of the Index will next
change to be 100% to the S&P Developed Ex-U.S. LargeCap Index if the Equity
Indicator is triggered, effective on the second business day following
the date of the indicator. Once the T-Bill Indicator has been triggered, the
Index will not return to its 50/50 position unless the Equity Indicator is first
triggered, followed by the 50/50 Indicator being triggered.
The
Index aims to mitigate, to some extent, the volatility of the S&P Developed
Ex-U.S. LargeCap Index by tracking 3-Month US Treasury bills (instead of the
S&P Developed Ex-U.S. LargeCap Index) when the S&P Developed Ex-U.S.
LargeCap Index is in a negative trend.
Special
Indicator. In
the event the S&P Developed Ex-U.S. LargeCap Index closes 20% above or 20%
below its 200-day moving average, the Index will change exposures effective at
the end of the following business day to be 50% to the S&P Developed Ex-U.S.
LargeCap Index and 50% to 3-Month US Treasury bills. This new exposure will
continue until the Equity Indicator, 50/50 Indicator, or T-Bill Indicator is
triggered.
The
Fund’s Investment Strategy
Under
normal circumstances, at least 80% of the Fund’s total assets (exclusive of
collateral held from securities lending) will be invested in the component
securities of the Index and investments that have economic characteristics that
are substantially identical to the economic characteristics of such component
securities (e.g., depositary receipts).
The Adviser expects that, over time, the correlation between the Fund’s
performance and that of the Index, before fees and expenses, will be 95% or
better. The Fund’s assets may include investments denominated in non-U.S.
currencies.
The
Fund will generally use a “replication” strategy to achieve its investment
objective, meaning it will invest in all of the component securities of the
Index in the same approximate proportion as in the Index.
The
Fund is considered to be non-diversified, which means that it may invest more of
its assets in the securities of a single issuer or a smaller number of issuers
than if it were a diversified fund. At times, the Fund may have a portfolio
turnover rate substantially greater than 100%.
Principal Risks of Investing in the
Fund
You can lose money on your investment in the
Fund. The Fund is subject to the risks summarized below. Some or
all of these risks may adversely affect the Fund’s net asset value per share
(“NAV”), trading price, yield, total return and/or ability to meet its
objectives. For more information about the risks of investing in the Fund, see
the section in the Fund’s prospectus entitled “Additional Information about the
Principal Risks of Investing in the Funds.” The principal risks are presented in
alphabetical order to facilitate finding particular risks and comparing them
with other funds. Each risk summarized below is considered a “principal risk” of
investing in the Fund, regardless of the order in which it appears.
▪Calculation
Methodology Risk.
The Index relies directly or indirectly on various sources of information to
assess the criteria of issuers included in the Index, including information that
may be based on assumptions and estimates. Neither the Fund, the Index Provider,
or the Adviser (as defined below) can offer assurances that the Index’s
calculation methodology or sources of information will provide an accurate
assessment of included issuers or a correct valuation of securities, nor can
they guarantee the availability or timeliness of the production of the
Index.
▪Currency
Exchange Rate Risk. The
Fund’s assets may include investments denominated in non-U.S. currencies, such
as the euro, or in securities or other assets that provide exposure to such
currencies. Changes in currency exchange rates and the relative value of
non-U.S. currencies will affect the value of the Fund’s investment and the value
of your Fund shares. Currency exchange rates can be very volatile and can change
quickly and unpredictably. As a result, the value of an investment in the Fund
may change quickly and without warning and you may lose money.
▪Equity
Market Risk. The
equity securities held in the Fund’s portfolio may experience sudden,
unpredictable drops in value or long periods of decline in value. This may occur
because of factors that affect securities markets generally or factors affecting
specific industries, sectors or companies in which the Fund invests. Common
stocks are susceptible to general stock market fluctuations and to volatile
increases and decreases in value as market confidence in and perceptions of
their issuers change. The Fund’s NAV and market price may fluctuate
significantly in response to these and other factors. As a result, an investor
could lose money over short or long periods of time.
▪ETF
Risks.
The Fund is an ETF and, as a result of an ETF’s structure, is exposed to the
following risks:
◦Authorized
Participants (“APs”), Market Makers, and Liquidity Providers Concentration
Risk.
The
Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may act as APs. In
addition, there may be a limited number of market makers and/or liquidity
providers in the marketplace. To the extent either of the following events
occur, shares of the Fund may trade at a material discount to NAV and possibly
face delisting: (i) APs exit the business or otherwise become unable to
process creation and/or redemption orders and no other APs step forward to
perform these services, or (ii) market makers and/or liquidity providers
exit the business or significantly reduce their business activities and no other
entities step forward to perform their functions.
◦Costs
of Buying or Selling Shares of the Fund.
Due to the costs of buying or selling shares of the Fund, including brokerage
commissions imposed by brokers and bid/ask spreads, frequent trading of shares
of the Fund may significantly reduce investment results and an investment in
shares of the Fund may not be advisable for investors who anticipate regularly
making small investments.
◦Shares
of the Fund May Trade at Prices Other Than NAV.
As with all ETFs, shares of the Fund may be bought and sold in the secondary
market at market prices. The price of shares of the Fund, like the price of all
traded securities, will be subject to factors such as supply and demand, as well
as the current value of the Fund’s portfolio holdings. Although it is expected
that the market price of the shares of the Fund will approximate the Fund’s NAV,
there may be times when the market price of the shares is more than the NAV
intra-day (premium) or less than the NAV intra-day (discount). This risk is
heightened in times of market volatility, periods of steep market declines, and
periods when there is limited trading activity for shares in the secondary
market, in which case such premiums or discounts may be significant. Because
securities held by the Fund trade on foreign exchanges that are closed when the
Fund’s primary listing exchange is open, the Fund is likely to experience
premiums and discounts greater than those of domestic ETFs.
◦Trading.
Although shares of the Fund are listed for trading on a national securities
exchange, such as NYSE Arca, Inc. (the “Exchange”), and may be traded on U.S.
exchanges other than the Exchange, there can be no assurance that shares of the
Fund will trade with any volume, or at all, on any stock exchange. In stressed
market conditions, the liquidity of shares of the Fund may begin to mirror the
liquidity of the Fund’s underlying portfolio holdings, which can be
significantly less liquid than shares of the Fund, and this could lead to
differences between the market price of the shares of the Fund and the
underlying value of those shares.
▪Fixed
Income Risk. The
value of the Fund’s direct or indirect investments in fixed income securities
will fluctuate with changes in interest rates. Typically, a rise in interest
rates causes a decline in the value of fixed income securities owned by the
Fund. On the other hand, if rates fall, the value of the fixed income securities
generally increases. The Fund may be subject to a greater risk of rising
interest rates due to the current period of historically low rates and the
effect of potential government fiscal policy initiatives and resulting market
reaction to those initiatives. In general, the market price of fixed income
securities with longer maturities will increase or decrease more in response to
changes in interest rates than shorter-term securities. The value of the Fund’s
direct or indirect investments in fixed income securities may be affected by the
inability of issuers to repay principal and interest or illiquidity in debt
securities markets.
▪Foreign
Securities Risk. Investments
in non-U.S. securities involve certain risks that may not be present with
investments in U.S. securities. For example, investments in non-U.S. securities
may be subject to risk of loss due to foreign currency fluctuations or to
political or economic instability. Investments in non-U.S. securities also may
be subject to withholding or other taxes and may be subject to additional
trading, settlement, custodial, and operational risks. These and other factors
can make investments in the Fund more volatile and potentially less liquid than
other types of investments.
▪Geographic
Concentration Risk. To
the extent the Fund invests a significant portion of its assets in the
securities of companies of a single country or region, it is more likely to be
impacted by events or conditions affecting that country or region.
◦Risks
Related to Investing in Japan. The
Japanese economy may be subject to considerable degrees of economic, political
and social instability, which could have a negative impact on Japanese
securities. Japan’s economic growth rate has remained relatively low for an
extended period of time and it may remain low in the future. In addition, Japan
is subject to the risk of natural disasters, such as earthquakes, volcanoes,
typhoons and tsunamis. Additionally, decreasing U.S. imports, new trade
regulations, changes in the U.S. dollar exchange rates, a recession in the
United States or continued increases in foreclosure rates may have an adverse
impact on the economy of Japan. Japan also has few natural resources, and any
fluctuation or shortage in the commodity markets could have a negative impact on
Japanese securities.
◦Risks
Related to Investing in Western Europe. Most
developed countries in Western Europe are members of the European Union (“EU”),
and many are also members of the European Monetary Union (EMU), which requires
compliance with restrictions on inflation rates, deficits, and debt levels.
Unemployment in certain European nations is historically high and several
countries face significant debt problems. These conditions can significantly
affect every country in Europe. The euro is the official currency of the EU.
Funds that invest in Europe may have significant exposure to the euro and events
affecting the euro. Recent market events affecting several of the EU member
countries have adversely affected the sovereign debt issued by those countries,
and ultimately may lead
to
a decline in the value of the euro. A significant decline in the value of the
euro may produce unpredictable effects on trade and commerce generally and could
lead to increased volatility in financial markets worldwide.
The
UK left the EU (Brexit) on January 31, 2020. The UK and EU have reached an
agreement on the terms of their future trading relationship effective January 1,
2021, which principally relates to the trading of goods rather than services,
including financial services. Further discussions are to be held between the UK
and the EU in relation to matters not covered by the trade agreement, such as
financial services. The Fund faces risks associated with the potential
uncertainty and consequences that may follow Brexit, including with respect to
volatility in exchange rates and interest rates. Brexit could adversely affect
European or worldwide political, regulatory, economic or market conditions and
could contribute to instability in global political institutions, regulatory
agencies and financial markets. Brexit has also led to legal uncertainty and
could lead to politically divergent national laws and regulations as a new
relationship between the UK and EU is defined and the UK determines which EU
laws to replace or replicate. Any of these effects of Brexit could adversely
affect any of the companies to which the Fund has exposure and any other assets
in which the Fund invests. The political, economic and legal consequences of
Brexit are not yet fully known. In the short term, financial markets may
experience heightened volatility, particularly those in the UK and Europe, but
possibly worldwide. The UK and Europe may be less stable than they have been in
recent years, and investments in the UK and the EU may be difficult to value or
subject to greater or more frequent volatility. In the longer term, there is
likely to be a period of significant political, regulatory and commercial
uncertainty as the UK continues to negotiate the terms of its future trading
relationships.
▪Government
Obligations Risk.
The Fund may invest in securities issued by the U.S. government. There can be no
guarantee that the United States will be able to meet its payment obligations
with respect to such securities. Additionally, market prices and yields of
securities supported by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government may
decline or be negative for short or long periods of time.
▪High
Portfolio Turnover Risk.
At times, the Fund may have a portfolio turnover rate substantially greater than
100%. A high portfolio turnover rate would result in correspondingly greater
transaction expenses, including brokerage commissions, dealer mark ups and other
transaction costs, on the sale of securities and on reinvestment in other
securities and may result in reduced performance and the distribution to
shareholders of additional capital gains for tax purposes. These factors may
negatively affect the Fund’s performance.
▪Large-Capitalization
Investing Risk. The
Fund may invest in the securities of large-capitalization companies. As a
result, the Fund’s performance may be adversely affected if securities of
large-capitalization companies underperform securities of smaller-capitalization
companies or the market as a whole. The securities of large-capitalization
companies may be relatively mature compared to smaller companies and therefore
subject to slower growth during times of economic expansion.
▪Mid-Capitalization
Investing Risk. The
Fund may invest in the securities of mid-capitalization companies. As a result,
the Fund’s performance may be adversely affected if securities of
mid-capitalization companies underperform securities of other capitalization
ranges or the market as a whole. Securities of smaller companies trade in
smaller volumes and are often more vulnerable to market volatility than
securities of larger companies.
▪Non-Diversification
Risk. Although the Fund intends to invest in a
variety of securities and instruments, the Fund is considered to be
non-diversified, which means that it may invest more of its assets in the
securities of a single issuer or a smaller number of issuers than if it were a
diversified fund. As a result, the Fund may be more exposed to the risks
associated with and developments affecting an individual issuer or a smaller
number of issuers than a fund that invests more widely. This may increase the
Fund’s volatility and cause the performance of a relatively smaller number of
issuers to have a greater impact on the Fund’s
performance.
▪Passive
Investment Risk. The
Fund is not actively managed and the Adviser would not sell a security due to
current or projected underperformance of a security, industry or sector, unless
that security is removed from the Index or the selling of shares of that
security is otherwise required upon a reconstitution of the Index in accordance
with the Index methodology. The Fund invests in securities included in the
Index, regardless of their investment merits. The Fund does not take defensive
positions under any market conditions, including conditions that are adverse to
the performance of the Fund.
▪Tracking
Risk. The
Fund’s return may not track the return of the Index for a number of reasons. 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, when the 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. To the extent the Fund calculates its NAV based on
fair value prices and the value of the Index is based on securities’ closing
prices on local foreign markets (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.
▪Trend
Lag Risk. At
least six consecutive trading days will elapse after the S&P Developed
Ex-U.S. LargeCap Index first drops below its historical 200-day simple moving
average (or conversely, first moves above such average) before the Index will
switch from tracking the S&P Developed Ex-U.S. LargeCap Index to 3-Month US
Treasury bills (or conversely, from 3-Month US Treasury bills to the S&P
Developed Ex-U.S. LargeCap Index ). As a result, if the S&P Developed
Ex-U.S. LargeCap Index is in an overall positive trend, the Index and
consequently the Fund may be adversely affected by a downward trend and/or
volatility in the S&P Developed Ex-U.S. LargeCap Index for up to six
consecutive trading days (or conversely, if the S&P Developed Ex-U.S.
LargeCap Index is in an overall negative trend, the Index and consequently the
Fund may not benefit from an upward trend and/or volatility in the S&P
Developed Ex-U.S. LargeCap Index for up to six consecutive trading days).
Accordingly, the methodology employed by the Index does not eliminate exposure
to downward trends and/or volatility in the S&P Developed Ex-U.S. LargeCap
Index or provide immediate exposure to upward trends and/or volatility in the
S&P Developed Ex-U.S. LargeCap Index.
Fund Performance
The following
information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the
Fund. The bar chart shows the Fund’s performance (based on NAV)
for calendar years ended December 31. The table shows how the Fund’s average
annual returns for the one year and since inception periods compare with those
of the Index and a broad measure of market performance. The Fund’s past performance,
before and after taxes, is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will
perform in the future. Updated performance information is
available on the Fund’s website at www.PacerETFs.com
or by calling the Fund toll-free at 1-800-617-0004.
Calendar Year Total Return as of December
31
For the year-to-date period ended
June 30, 2022, the
Fund’s total return was -15.13%. During the period of time shown in the bar
chart, the Fund’s highest return for a
calendar quarter was 16.55% (quarter ended December 31, 2020)
and the Fund’s lowest return for a
calendar quarter was -12.13% (quarter ended March 31,
2020).
Average
Annual Total Returns
(for
the periods ended December 31, 2021)
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Since
Inception
(5/2/2019) |
Pacer
Trendpilot International ETF |
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Return Before
Taxes |
11.42% |
7.17% |
Return After Taxes on
Distributions |
11.01% |
6.92% |
Return After Taxes on Distributions and
Sale of Fund Shares |
7.42% |
5.66% |
Pacer Trendpilot
International Index
(reflects no deduction for
fees, expenses, or taxes)
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11.89% |
8.24% |
S&P
Developed Ex-US Large Cap Index
(reflects
no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes) |
12.41% |
12.09% |
After-tax returns are
calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax
rates during the period covered by the table above and do not reflect the impact
of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an
investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns shown are
not relevant to investors who hold their Shares through tax-deferred
arrangements such as an individual retirement account (“IRA”) or other
tax-advantaged accounts.
Management
Investment
Adviser
Pacer
Advisors, Inc. (the “Adviser”) serves as investment adviser to the
Fund.
Portfolio
Managers
The
Fund employs a rules-based, passive investment strategy. The Adviser uses a
committee approach to managing the Fund. Bruce
Kavanaugh, Vice President of the Adviser, and Danke Wang, CFA, Portfolio Manager
for the Adviser, are jointly and primarily responsible for the day-to-day
management of the Fund. Mr. Kavanaugh has served as a portfolio manager since
the Fund’s inception and Mr. Wang has served as a portfolio manager since June
2022.
Buying
and Selling Fund Shares
The
Fund is an ETF. This means that individual Shares of the Fund may only be
purchased and sold in the secondary market through brokers at market prices,
rather than NAV. Because Shares trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares
may trade at a price greater than NAV (premium) or less than NAV
(discount).
The
Fund generally issues and redeems shares at NAV only in large blocks of shares
known as “Creation Units,” which only institutions or large investors may
purchase or redeem. The Fund generally issues and redeems Creation Units in
exchange for a portfolio of securities (the “Deposit Securities”) and/or a
designated amount of U.S. cash that the Fund specifies each day.
Investors
may incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest price a buyer
is willing to pay to purchase Shares (bid) and the lowest price a seller is
willing to accept for Shares (ask) when buying or selling Shares in the
secondary market (the “bid-ask spread”). Recent information about the Fund,
including its net asset value, market price, premiums and discounts, and bid-ask
spreads is available on the Fund’s website at www.PacerETFs.com.
Tax
Information
Fund
distributions are generally taxable as ordinary income, qualified dividend
income, or capital gains (or a combination), unless your investment is in an IRA
or other tax-advantaged retirement account. Distributions may be taxable upon
withdrawal from tax-deferred accounts.
Payments
to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If
you purchase the Fund through a broker or other financial intermediary (such as
a bank), the Adviser and its related companies may pay the intermediary for
activities related to the marketing and promotion of the Fund. These payments
may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other
intermediary and your sales person to recommend the Fund over another
investment. Ask your sales person or visit your financial intermediary’s website
for more information.
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Pacer
Trendpilot®
US Bond ETF |
Investment Objective
The Pacer Trendpilot US Bond
ETF (the “Fund”) is an exchange traded fund (“ETF”) that
seeks to track the total return performance, before fees and expenses, of the
Pacer Trendpilot US Bond Index (the “Index”).
Fees and Expenses of the
Fund
The
following table describes the fees and expenses you may pay if you buy, hold,
and sell shares of the Fund (“Shares”). You
may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial
intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and Example
below.
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Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses
that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment) |
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Management
Fees |
0.60% |
Distribution
and/or Service (12b-1) Fees |
None |
Other
Expenses |
0.00% |
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses |
0.60% |
Example
The following example
is intended to help retail investors compare the cost of investing in the Fund
with the cost of investing in other funds. It illustrates the hypothetical
expenses that such investors would incur over various periods if they were to
invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of
the Shares at the end of those periods. This example assumes that the Fund
provides a return of 5% a year and that operating expenses remain the
same. Although your actual costs may be higher
or lower, based on these assumptions, your costs would
be:
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1
Year |
3
Years |
5
Years |
10
Years |
$61 |
$192 |
$335 |
$750 |
Portfolio
Turnover
The
Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells
securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may
indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund
Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in
annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.
For
the fiscal year ended April 30, 2022, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was
652% of the average value of its
portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies of the
Fund
The
Fund employs a “passive management” (or indexing) investment approach designed
to track the total return performance, before fees and expenses, of the Index.
The Index is based on a proprietary methodology developed and maintained by
Index Design Group (the “Index Provider”), an affiliate of Pacer Advisors, Inc.,
the Fund’s investment adviser (the “Adviser”).
The
Index
The
Index uses an objective, rules-based methodology to implement a systematic
trend-following strategy that directs exposure to one of the following
positions: (i) 100% to the S&P U.S. High Yield Corporate Bond Index, (ii)
50% to the S&P U.S. High Yield Corporate Bond Index and 50% to the S&P
U.S. Treasury Bond 7-10 Year Index or (iii) 100% to S&P U.S. Treasury Bond
7-10 Year Index, depending on the “Risk Ratio,” described below.
The
S&P U.S. High Yield Corporate Bond Index is designed to track the
performance of U.S. dollar-denominated, high-yield corporate bonds issued in the
U.S. The S&P U.S. Treasury Bond 7-10 Year Index is designed to measure the
performance of U.S. Treasury bonds maturing in 7 to 10 years. The Index uses a
“Risk Ratio” to signal a change in the position of the Index. The Risk Ratio is
calculated by dividing the value of the S&P U.S. High Yield Corporate Bond
Index by the value of the S&P U.S. Treasury Bond 7-10 Year Index.
The
Index, and consequently the Fund, may stay in any of its three possible
positions for an extended period of time. As described below, the Index will
change its position based on the following indicators, and each change will
become effective by the close of business on the sixth business day after the
indicator for the change is triggered. The Index will be in a new position
effective on the seventh business day.
High
Yield Indicator.
When the Risk Ratio closes above its 100-day historical simple moving average
(the “100-day moving average”) for five consecutive business days (the “High
Yield Indicator”), the exposure of the Index will be 100% to the S&P U.S.
High Yield Corporate Bond Index, effective by the close of business on the sixth
business day following the date of the High Yield Indicator. The Index will be
in a new position effective on the seventh business day.
Once
the High Yield Indicator has been triggered, the exposure of the Index will next
change to either be 50% to the S&P U.S. High Yield Corporate Bond Index and
50% S&P U.S. Treasury Bond 7-10 Year Index if the 50/50 Indicator (described
below) is triggered or 100% to S&P U.S. Treasury Bond 7-10 Year Index if
both the 50/50 Indicator and the Treasury Bond (“T-Bond”) Indicator (described
below) are triggered simultaneously, effective by the close of business on the
sixth business day following the date of the High Yield Indicator. The Index
will be in a new position effective on the seventh business day.
50/50
Indicator.
When the Risk Ratio closes below its 100-day moving average for five consecutive
business days (the “50/50 Indicator”), the exposure of the Index will be 50% to
the S&P U.S. High Yield Corporate Bond Index and 50% S&P U.S. Treasury
Bond 7-10 Year Index, effective by the close of business on the sixth business
day following the date of the 50/50 Indicator. The Index will be in a new
position effective on the seventh business day. Following the effectiveness of
the 50/50 Indicator, the exposure of the Index may be greater than or less than
50% with respect to the S&P U.S. High Yield Corporate Bond Index and S&P
U.S. Treasury Bond 7-10 Year Index depending on their respective performance
until either the High Yield Indicator or T-Bond Indicator (described below) is
triggered.
Once
the 50/50 Indicator has been triggered, the exposure of the Index will next
change to either be 100% to the S&P U.S. High Yield Corporate Bond Index if
the High Yield Indicator is triggered or 100% to S&P U.S. Treasury Bond 7-10
Year Index if the T-Bond Indicator (described below) is triggered, effective by
the close of business on the sixth business day following the date of the 50/50
Indicator. The Index will be in a new position effective on the seventh business
day.
T-Bond
Indicator.
When the Risk Ratio’s 100-day moving average closes lower than its value from
five business days earlier (the “T-Bond Indicator”), the exposure of the Index
will be 100% to S&P U.S. Treasury Bond 7-10 Year Index, effective by the
close of business on the sixth business day following the date of the T-Bond
Indicator. The Index will be in a new position effective on the seventh business
day.
For
example, if today is Wednesday and the Risk Ratio 100-day moving average closes
lower than it did on the fifth preceding business day (Wednesday of the
preceding week), the T-Bond Indicator is triggered. Unlike the operation of the
High Yield Indicator and 50/50 Indicator, the closing values on the days in
between today and the fifth preceding business day do not affect whether the
T-Bond Indicator has been triggered; rather, the T-Bond Indicator simply
compares today’s closing value to the closing value five business days earlier.
However, the Index will not move directly from 100% exposure to the S&P U.S.
High Yield Corporate Bond Index to 100% exposure to S&P U.S. Treasury Bond
7-10 Year Index unless the 50/50 Indicator was simultaneously triggered
following the most recent triggering of the High Yield Indicator.
Once
the T-Bond Indicator has been triggered, the exposure of the Index will next
change to be 100% to the S&P U.S. High Yield Corporate Bond Index if the
High Yield Indicator is triggered, effective by the close of business on the
sixth business day following the date of the indicator. The Index will
be in a new position effective on the seventh business day. Once the T-Bond
Indicator has been triggered, the Index will not return to its 50/50 position
unless the High Yield Indicator is first triggered, followed by the 50/50
Indicator being triggered.
The
Fund’s Investment Strategy
Under normal circumstances, at least
80% of the Fund’s net assets, plus borrowings for investment purposes, will be
invested in bonds denominated in U.S. dollars. The Adviser
expects that, over time, the correlation between the Fund’s performance and that
of the Index, before fees and expenses, will be 95% or better.
The Fund will generally use a
“representative sampling” strategy, meaning it may invest in a sample of the
securities in the Index whose risk, return and other characteristics closely
resemble the risk, return and other characteristics of the Index as a whole.
However, the Fund may use a “replication” strategy to achieve its investment
objective, meaning it will invest in all of the component securities of the
Index in the same approximate proportion as in the Index, when the Fund’s
sub-adviser believes it is in the best interests of the Fund (e.g., when
replicating the Index does not involve practical difficulties or substantial
costs).
The Fund generally may invest up to 20% of
its total assets (exclusive of any collateral held from securities lending) in
securities or other investments not included in the Index, but which the Fund’s
sub-adviser believes will help the Fund track the Index. For example, the Fund
may invest in securities that are not components of the Index to reflect various
corporate actions and other changes to the Index (such as reconstitutions,
additions, and deletions).
Principal Investment Risks
You can lose money on your investment in the
Fund. The Fund is subject to the risks summarized below. Some or
all of these risks may adversely affect the Fund’s net asset value per share
(“NAV”), trading price, yield, total return and/or ability to meet its
objectives. For more information about the risks of investing in the Fund, see
the section in the Fund’s prospectus entitled “Additional Information about the
Principal Risks of Investing in the Funds.” The principal risks are presented in
alphabetical order to facilitate finding particular risks and comparing them
with other funds. Each risk summarized below is considered a “principal risk” of
investing in the Fund, regardless of the order in which it appears.
▪Calculation
Methodology Risk.
The Index relies directly or indirectly on various sources of information to
assess the criteria of issuers included in the Index, including information that
may be based on assumptions and estimates. Neither the Fund, the Index Provider,
the Adviser (as defined below), or the Sub-Adviser (as defined below) can offer
assurances that the Index’s calculation methodology or sources of information
will provide an accurate assessment of included issuers or a correct valuation
of securities, nor can they guarantee the availability or timeliness of the
production of the Index.
▪ETF
Risks.
The Fund is an ETF and, as a result of an ETF’s structure, is exposed to the
following risks:
◦Authorized
Participants (“APs”), Market Makers, and Liquidity Providers Concentration
Risk.
The
Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may act as APs. In
addition, there may be a limited number of market makers and/or liquidity
providers in the marketplace. To the extent either of the following events
occur, shares of the Fund may trade at a material discount to NAV and possibly
face delisting: (i) APs exit the business or otherwise become unable to
process creation and/or redemption orders and no other APs step forward to
perform these services, or (ii) market makers and/or liquidity providers
exit the business or significantly reduce their business activities and no other
entities step forward to perform their functions.
◦Cash
Redemption Risk. The
Fund’s investment strategy may require it to redeem Shares for cash or to
otherwise include cash as part of its redemption proceeds. The Fund may be
required to sell or unwind portfolio investments to obtain the cash needed to
distribute redemption proceeds. This may cause the Fund to recognize a capital
gain that it might not have recognized if it had made a redemption in-kind. As a
result, the Fund may pay out higher annual capital gain distributions than if
the in-kind redemption process was used.
◦Costs
of Buying or Selling Shares of the Fund.
Due to the costs of buying or selling shares of the Fund, including brokerage
commissions imposed by brokers and bid/ask spreads, frequent trading of shares
of the Fund may significantly reduce investment results and an investment in
shares of the Fund may not be advisable for investors who anticipate regularly
making small investments.
◦Shares
of the Fund May Trade at Prices Other Than NAV.
As with all ETFs, shares of the Fund may be bought and sold in the secondary
market at market prices. The price of shares of the Fund, like the price of all
traded securities, will be subject to factors such as supply and demand, as well
as the current value of the Fund’s portfolio holdings. Although it is expected
that the market price of the shares of the Fund will approximate the Fund’s NAV,
there may be times when the market price of the shares is more than the NAV
intra-day (premium) or less than the NAV intra-day (discount). This risk is
heightened in times of market volatility, periods of steep market declines, and
periods when there is limited trading activity for shares in the secondary
market, in which case such premiums or discounts may be
significant.
◦Trading.
Although shares of the Fund are listed for trading on a national securities
exchange, such as NYSE Arca, Inc. (the “Exchange”), and may be traded on U.S.
exchanges other than the Exchange, there can be no assurance that shares of the
Fund will trade with any volume, or at all, on any stock exchange. In stressed
market conditions, the liquidity of shares of the Fund may begin to mirror the
liquidity of the Fund’s underlying portfolio holdings, which can be
significantly less liquid than shares of the Fund, and this could lead to
differences between the market price of the shares of the Fund and the
underlying value of those shares.
▪Fixed
Income Risk. The
value of the Fund’s direct or indirect investments in fixed income securities
will fluctuate with changes in interest rates. Typically, a rise in interest
rates causes a decline in the value of fixed income securities owned by the
Fund. On the other hand, if rates fall, the value of the fixed income securities
generally increases. The Fund may be subject to a greater risk of rising
interest rates due to the current period of historically low rates and the
effect of potential government fiscal policy initiatives and resulting market
reaction to those initiatives. In general, the market price of fixed income
securities with longer maturities will increase or decrease more in response to
changes in interest rates than shorter-term securities. The value of the Fund’s
direct or indirect investments in fixed income securities may be affected by the
inability of issuers to repay principal and interest or illiquidity in debt
securities markets.
◦Call
Risk.
During periods of falling interest rates, an issuer of a callable bond held by
the Fund may “call” or repay the security prior to its stated maturity, and the
Fund may have to reinvest the proceeds at lower interest rates, resulting in a
decline in the Fund’s income.
◦Credit
Risk.
Credit risk refers to the possibility that the issuer of a security will not be
able to make payments of interest and principal when due. Changes in an issuer’s
credit rating or the market’s perception of an issuer’s creditworthiness may
also affect the value of an investment in that issuer.
◦Event
Risk.
Event risk is the risk that corporate issuers may undergo restructurings, such
as mergers, leveraged buyouts, takeovers, or similar events financed by
increased debt. As a result of the added debt, the credit quality and market
value of a company’s bonds and/or other debt securities may decline
significantly.
◦Extension
Risk.
When interest rates rise, certain obligations will be paid off by the obligor
more slowly than anticipated, causing the value of these securities to
fall.
◦Interest
Rate Risk.
Generally, the value of fixed income securities will change inversely with
changes in interest rates. As interest rates rise, the market value of fixed
income securities tends to decrease. Conversely, as interest rates fall, the
market value of fixed income securities tends to increase. This risk will be
greater for long-term securities than for short-term securities. Changes in
government intervention may have adverse effects on investments, volatility, and
illiquidity in debt markets.
◦Prepayment
Risk.
When interest rates fall, certain obligations will be paid off by the obligor
more quickly than originally anticipated, and the proceeds may have to be
invested in securities with lower yields.
▪Government
Obligations Risk.
The Fund may invest in securities issued by the U.S. government. There can be no
guarantee that the United States will be able to meet its payment obligations
with respect to such securities. Additionally, market prices and yields of
securities supported by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government may
decline or be negative for short or long periods of time.
▪High
Yield Risk. High
yield debt obligations (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are speculative
investments and entail greater risk of loss of principal than securities and
loans that are investment grade rated because of their greater exposure to
credit risk. The high yield market at times is subject to substantial volatility
and high yield debt obligations may be less liquid than higher quality
securities. As a result, the value of the Fund may be subject to greater
volatility than other funds, and the Fund may be exposed to greater tracking
risk (described below) than other funds.
▪Management
Risk. To
the extent the Fund uses a representative sampling strategy to obtain exposure
to the Index, the Fund’s ability to track the performance of the Index will be
contingent on the ability of the Fund’s sub-adviser to identify a subset of
Index components whose risk, return and other characteristics closely resemble
the risk, return and other characteristics of the Index as a whole.
▪Passive
Investment Risk. The
Fund is not actively managed and the Adviser would not sell a security due to
current or projected underperformance of a security, industry or sector, unless
that security is removed from the Index or the selling of shares of that
security is otherwise required upon a reconstitution of the Index in accordance
with the Index methodology. The Fund invests in securities included in the
Index, regardless of their investment merits. The Fund does not take defensive
positions under any market conditions, including conditions that are adverse to
the performance of the Fund.
▪Tracking
Risk.
The Fund’s return may not track the return of the Index for a number of reasons.
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, when the 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. Additionally, to the extent the high
yield market experiences greater volatility or reduced liquidity, the Fund may
not be able to acquire or dispose of the high yield securities in the Index at
exactly the same time and price reflected in a reconstitution of the Index, and
consequently, the Index’s exposure to the S&P U.S. High Yield Corporate Bond
Index may result in a greater difference between the returns of the Fund and
those of the Index.
▪Trend
Lag Risk. At least six consecutive trading days will
elapse after the Risk Ratio first drops below its historical 100-day simple
moving average (or conversely, first moves above such average) before the Index
will switch from tracking the S&P U.S. High Yield Corporate Bond Index to
the S&P U.S. Treasury Bond 7-10 Year Index (or conversely, from the S&P
U.S. Treasury Bond 7-10 Year Index to the S&P U.S. High Yield Corporate Bond
Index). As a result, if the S&P U.S. High Yield Corporate Bond Index is in
an overall positive trend, the Index and consequently the Fund may be adversely
affected by a downward trend and/or volatility in the S&P U.S. High Yield
Corporate Bond Index for up to six consecutive trading days (or conversely, if
the S&P U.S. High Yield Corporate Bond Index is in an overall negative
trend, the Index and consequently the Fund may not benefit from an upward trend
and/or volatility in the S&P U.S. High Yield Corporate Bond Index for up to
six consecutive trading days). Accordingly, the methodology employed by the
Index does not eliminate exposure to downward trends and/or volatility in the
S&P U.S. High Yield Corporate Bond Index and does not provide immediate
exposure to upward trends and/or volatility in the S&P U.S. High Yield
Corporate Bond Index.
Fund Performance
The following
information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the
Fund. The bar chart shows the Fund’s performance (based on NAV)
for calendar years ended December 31. The table shows how the Fund’s average
annual returns for the one year and since inception periods compare with those
of the Index and a broad measure of market performance. The Fund’s past performance,
before and after taxes, is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will
perform in the future. Updated performance information is
available on the Fund’s website at www.PacerETFs.com
or by calling the Fund toll-free at 1-800-617-0004.
Calendar Year Total Return as of December
31
For the year-to-date period ended
June 30, 2022, the
Fund’s total return was -18.59%. During the period of time shown in the bar
chart, the Fund’s highest return for a
calendar quarter was 6.15% (quarter ended December 31, 2020)
and the Fund’s lowest return for a
calendar quarter was -2.77% (quarter ended June 30,
2020).
Average
Annual Total Returns
(for
the periods ended December 31, 2021)
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Since
Inception
(10/22/2019) |
Pacer
Trendpilot US Bond ETF |
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Return Before
Taxes |
1.01% |
6.20% |
Return After Taxes on
Distributions |
-0.08% |
5.04% |
Return After Taxes on Distributions and
Sale of Fund Shares |
0.60% |
4.26% |
Pacer Trendpilot US Bond
Index
(reflects no deduction for
fees, expenses, or taxes)
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4.39% |
8.38% |
S&P
U.S. High Yield Corporate Bond Index
(reflects
no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes) |
5.03% |
6.44% |
After-tax returns are
calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax
rates during the period covered by the table above and do not reflect the impact
of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an
investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. In certain cases, the figure
representing “Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares” may
be higher than the other return figures for the same period. A higher after-tax
return results when a capital loss occurs upon redemption and provides an
assumed tax deduction that benefits the investor. After-tax returns shown are
not relevant to investors who hold their Shares through tax-deferred
arrangements such as an individual retirement account (“IRA”) or other
tax-advantaged accounts.
Management
Investment
Adviser
Pacer
Advisors, Inc. (the “Adviser”) serves as investment adviser to the Fund.
Investment
Sub-Adviser
Vident
Investment Advisory, LLC (“VIA” or the “Sub-Adviser”) serves as investment
sub-adviser to the Fund.
Portfolio
Managers
Jim
Iredale, CFA, Senior Portfolio Manager – Fixed Income, and Jeff Kernagis, CFA,
Portfolio Manager of VIA, have primary responsibility for the day-to-day
management of the Fund Mr. Iredale has been a portfolio manager of the Fund
since the Fund’s inception and Mr. Kernagis has been a portfolio manager of the
Fund since June 2022.
Buying
and Selling Fund Shares
The
Fund is an ETF. This means that individual Shares of the Fund may only be
purchased and sold in the secondary market through brokers at market prices,
rather than NAV. Because Shares trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares
may trade at a price greater than NAV (premium) or less than NAV
(discount).
The
Fund generally issues and redeems shares at NAV only in large blocks of shares
known as “Creation Units,” which only institutions or large investors may
purchase or redeem. The Fund generally issues and redeems Creation Units in
exchange for a portfolio of securities (the “Deposit Securities”) and/or a
designated amount of U.S. cash that the Fund specifies each day.
Investors
may incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest price a buyer
is willing to pay to purchase Shares (bid) and the lowest price a seller is
willing to accept for Shares (ask) when buying or selling Shares in the
secondary market (the “bid-ask spread”). Recent information about the Fund,
including its net asset value, market price, premiums and discounts, and bid-ask
spreads is available on the Fund’s website at www.PacerETFs.com.
Tax
Information
Fund
distributions are generally taxable as ordinary income, qualified dividend
income, or capital gains (or a combination), unless your investment is in an IRA
or other tax-advantaged retirement account. Distributions may be taxable upon
withdrawal from tax-deferred accounts.
Payments
to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If
you purchase the Fund through a broker or other financial intermediary (such as
a bank), the Adviser, the Sub-Adviser, and their related companies may pay the
intermediary for activities related to the marketing and promotion of the Fund.
These
payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or
other intermediary and your sales person to recommend the Fund over another
investment. Ask your sales person or visit your financial intermediary’s website
for more information.
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Pacer
Trendpilot®
Fund of Funds ETF |
Investment Objective
The Pacer Trendpilot Fund of Funds
ETF (the “Fund”) is an exchange traded fund (“ETF”) that
seeks to track the total return performance, before fees and expenses, of the
Pacer Trendpilot Fund of Funds Index (the “Index” or the “Fund of Funds
Index”).
Fees and Expenses of the Fund
The
following table describes the fees and expenses you may pay if you buy, hold,
and sell shares of the Fund (“Shares”). You
may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial
intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and Example
below.
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Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment) |
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Management
Fees |
0.15% |
Distribution
and/or Service (12b-1) Fees |
None |
Other
Expenses |
0.00% |
Acquired
Fund Fees and Expenses1 |
0.62% |
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses |
0.77% |
1
Acquired Fund Fees and
Expenses (“AFFE”) are the indirect costs of investing in other investment
companies. Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses do not correlate to the expense
ratios in the Fund’s Financial Highlights because the Financial Highlights
include only the direct operating expenses incurred by the Fund and exclude
AFFE.
Example
The following example
is intended to help retail investors compare the cost of investing in the Fund
with the cost of investing in other funds. It illustrates the hypothetical
expenses that such investors would incur over various periods if they were to
invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of
the Shares at the end of those periods. This example assumes that the Fund
provides a return of 5% a year and that operating expenses remain the
same. Although your actual costs may be higher
or lower, based on these assumptions, your costs would be:
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1 Year |
3
Years |
5
Years |
10
Years |
$79 |
$246 |
$428 |
$954 |
Portfolio Turnover
The
Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells
securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may
indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund
Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in
annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.
For
the fiscal year ended April 30, 2022, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was
5% of the average value of its
portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies of the
Fund
The
Fund employs a “passive management” (or indexing) investment approach designed
to track the total return performance, before fees and expenses, of the Index.
The Index is based on a proprietary methodology developed and maintained by
Index Design Group, an affiliate of Pacer Advisors, Inc., the Fund’s investment
adviser (the “Adviser”).
The
Index
The
Fund of Funds Index uses an objective, rules-based approach to construct a
portfolio that, as of each quarterly rebalance, is composed of the ETFs listed
in the following table, each advised by the Adviser (collectively, the
“Trendpilot ETFs”). Each of the Trendpilot ETFs is an index-based ETF that seeks
to track the total return performance, before fees and expenses, of the
underlying index listed in the following table (collectively, the “Trendpilot
Indexes”).
Each
Trendpilot Index other than the Pacer Trendpilot US Bond Index (collectively,
the “Trendpilot Equity Indexes”) uses an objective, rules-based methodology to
implement a systematic trend-following strategy that directs exposure (i) 100%
to the “Underlying Component” specified in the table below, (ii) 50% to the
applicable Underlying Component and 50% to 3-Month US Treasury bills, or (iii)
100% to 3-Month US Treasury bills, depending on the relative performance of the
Underlying Component and its 200-business day historical simple moving average
(the “200-day moving average”). The
calculation
of the 200-day moving average for each Underlying Component is based on the
total return version of such Underlying Component and reflects the reinvestment
of dividends paid by the securities in such Underlying Component.
The
Pacer Trendpilot US Bond Index (the “Trendpilot Bond Index”) uses an objective,
rules-based methodology to implement a systematic trend-following strategy that
directs exposure to one of the following positions: (i) 100% to the S&P U.S.
High Yield Corporate Bond Index, (ii) 50% to the S&P U.S. High Yield
Corporate Bond Index and 50% to the S&P U.S. Treasury Bond 7-10 Year Index
or (iii) 100% to S&P U.S. Treasury Bond 7-10 Year Index, depending on the
value of the S&P U.S. High Yield Corporate Bond Index divided by the value
of the S&P U.S. Treasury Bond 7-10 Year Index (the “Risk
Ratio”).
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Weight |
Trendpilot
ETF |
Trendpilot
Index |
Equity
Component |
20% |
Pacer
Trendpilot®
US
Large Cap ETF |
Pacer
Trendpilot US Large Cap Index |
S&P
500®
Index |
20% |
Pacer
Trendpilot®
US Mid Cap ETF |
Pacer
Trendpilot US Mid Cap Index |
S&P
MidCap 400®
Index |
20% |
Pacer
Trendpilot®
100 ETF |
Pacer
NASDAQ-100 Trendpilot Index |
NASDAQ-100®
Index |
20% |
Pacer
Trendpilot®
International ETF |
Pacer
Trendpilot International Index |
S&P
Developed Ex-U.S. LargeCap Index |
20% |
Pacer
Trendpilot®
US Bond ETF |
Pacer
Trendpilot US Bond Index |
S&P
U.S. High Yield Corporate Bond Index |
The
Trendpilot Indexes
Each
Trendpilot Equity Index uses a systematic trend following strategy that directs
the Trendpilot Equity Index’s exposure to either the applicable Underlying
Component, 50% to the applicable Underlying Component and 50% to 3-Month US
Treasury bills, or 100% to 3-Month US Treasury bills and may stay in any of its
three possible positions for an extended period of time. The Trendpilot Bond
Index uses a systematic trend following strategy that directs the Trendpilot
Bond Index’s exposure to either the applicable Underlying Component, 50% to the
applicable Underlying Component and 50% to the S&P U.S. Treasury Bond 7-10
Year Index, or 100% to the S&P U.S. Treasury Bond 7-10 Year Index and may
stay in any of its three possible positions for an extended period of time. As
described below, each Trendpilot Index will change its position based on the
following indicators, and each change will become effective on the second
business day after the indicator for the change is triggered.
Underlying
Component Indicator.
When the applicable Underlying Component for the Trendpilot Equity Indexes
closes above its 200-day moving average for five consecutive business days (the
“Underlying Component Indicator” for such indexes), the exposure of the
applicable Trendpilot Index will be 100% to the Underlying Component, effective
on the second business following the date of the Underlying Component
Indicator.
Once
the Underlying Component Indicator has been triggered, the exposure of the
applicable Trendpilot Equity Index will next change to either be 50% to the
Underlying Component and 50% to 3-Month US Treasury bills if the 50/50 Indicator
(described below) is triggered or 100% to 3-Month US Treasury bills if both the
50/50 Indicator and the Treasury Indicator (described below) are triggered
simultaneously, effective on the second business day following the date of the
indicator(s).
With
respect to the Trendpilot Bond Index, when the Risk Ratio closes above its
100-day historical simple moving average (the “100-day moving average”) for five
consecutive business days (the “Underlying Component Indicator” for such index),
the exposure of the Trendpilot Bond Index will be 100% to the S&P U.S. High
Yield Corporate Bond Index, effective by the close of business on the sixth
business day following the date of the Underlying Component
Indicator.
Once
the Underlying Component Indicator has been triggered, the exposure of the
Trendpilot Bond Index will next change to either be 50% to the S&P U.S. High
Yield Corporate Bond Index and 50% S&P U.S. Treasury Bond 7-10 Year Index if
the 50/50 Indicator (described below) is triggered or 100% to S&P U.S.
Treasury Bond 7-10 Year Index if both the 50/50 Indicator and the Treasury
Indicator (described below) are triggered simultaneously, effective by the close
of business on the sixth business day following the date of the Underlying
Component Indicator.
50/50
Indicator.
With respect to each Trendpilot Equity Index, when the applicable Underlying
Component closes below its 200-day moving average for five consecutive business
days (the “50/50 Indicator” for such index), the exposure of the Trendpilot
Equity Index will be 50% to the Underlying Component and 50% to 3-Month US
Treasury bills, effective on the second business day following the date of the
50/50 Indicator (“50/50 Exposure”). Following the effectiveness of the 50/50
Indicator, the exposure of the Trendpilot Equity Index may be greater than or
less than 50% with respect to the
Underlying
Component and 3-Month US Treasury bills depending on their respective
performance until either the Underlying Component Indicator or Treasury
Indicator (described below) is triggered.
Once
the 50/50 Indicator has been triggered, the exposure of the Trendpilot Equity
Index will next change to either be 100% to the Underlying Component if the
Underlying Component Indicator is triggered or 100% to 3-Month US Treasury bills
if the Treasury Indicator (described below) is triggered, effective on the
second business day following the date of the indicator.
With
respect to each Trendpilot Bond Index, when the Risk Ratio closes below its
100-day moving average for five consecutive business days (the “50/50
Indicator”), the exposure of the Trendpilot Bond Index will be 50% to the
S&P U.S. High Yield Corporate Bond Index and 50% S&P U.S. Treasury Bond
7-10 Year Index, effective by the close of business on the sixth business day
following the date of the 50/50 Indicator. Following the effectiveness of the
50/50 Indicator, the exposure of the Trendpilot Bond Index may be greater than
or less than 50% with respect to the S&P U.S. High Yield Corporate Bond
Index and S&P U.S. Treasury Bond 7-10 Year Index depending on their
respective performance until either the Underlying Component Indicator or
Treasury Indicator (described below) is triggered.
Once
the 50/50 Indicator has been triggered, the exposure of the Trendpilot Bond
Index will next change to either be 100% to the S&P U.S. High Yield
Corporate Bond Index if the Underlying Component Indicator is triggered or 100%
to S&P U.S. Treasury Bond 7-10 Year Index if the Treasury Indicator
(described below) is triggered, effective by the close of business on the sixth
business day following the date of the 50/50 Indicator.
Treasury
Indicator. With
respect to each Trendpilot Equity Index, when the applicable Underlying
Component’s 200-day moving average closes lower than its value from five
business days earlier (the “Treasury Indicator” for such index), the exposure of
the Trendpilot Equity Index will be 100% to 3-Month US Treasury bills, effective
on the second business day following the date of the Treasury
Indicator.
For
example, if today is Wednesday and the applicable Underlying Component’s 200-day
moving average closes lower than it did on the fifth preceding business day
(Wednesday of the preceding week), the Treasury Indicator is triggered. Unlike
the operation of the Underlying Component Indicator and 50/50 Indicator, the
closing values on the days in between today and the fifth preceding business day
do not affect whether the Treasury Indicator has been triggered; rather, the
Treasury Indicator simply compares today’s closing value to the closing value
five business days earlier. However, the Trendpilot Equity Index will not move
directly from 100% exposure to the Underlying Component to 100% exposure to
3-Month US Treasury bills unless the 50/50 Indicator was simultaneously
triggered following the most recent triggering of the Underlying Component
Indicator.
With
respect to the Trendpilot Bond Index, when the Risk Ratio’s 100-day moving
average closes lower than its value from five business days earlier (the
“Treasury Indicator” for such index), the exposure of the Trendpilot Bond Index
will be 100% to S&P U.S. Treasury Bond 7-10 Year Index, effective by the
close of business on the sixth business day following the date of the Treasury
Indicator.
For
example, if today is Wednesday and the Risk Ratio 100-day moving average closes
lower than it did on the fifth preceding business day (Wednesday of the
preceding week), the Treasury Indicator is triggered. Unlike the operation of
the Underlying Component Indicator and 50/50 Indicator, the closing values on
the days in between today and the fifth preceding business day do not affect
whether the Treasury Indicator has been triggered; rather, the Treasury
Indicator simply compares today’s closing value to the closing value five
business days earlier. However, the Trendpilot Bond Index will not move directly
from 100% exposure to the S&P U.S. High Yield Corporate Bond Index to 100%
exposure to S&P U.S. Treasury Bond 7-10 Year Index unless the 50/50
Indicator was simultaneously triggered following the most recent triggering of
the Underlying Component Indicator.
Once
the Treasury Indicator has been triggered, the exposure of the Trendpilot Index
will next change to be 100% to the Underlying Component if the Underlying
Component Indicator is triggered, effective on the second business day following
the date of the indicator. Once the Treasury Indicator has been triggered, the
Trendpilot Index will not return to its 50/50 position unless the Underlying
Component Indicator is first triggered, followed by the 50/50 Indicator being
triggered.
Each
Trendpilot Index aims to mitigate, to some extent, the volatility of the
Underlying Component by tracking 3-Month US Treasury bills or the S&P U.S.
Treasury Bond 7-10 Year Index (instead of the Underlying Component), as
applicable,
when
the applicable Underlying Component is in a negative trend. Because the
Underlying Component Indicator, 50/50 Indicator, and Treasury Indicator
(collectively, the “Exposure Indicators”) for each Trendpilot Index operate
independent of the Exposure Indicators for each other Trendpilot Index, the Fund
of Funds Index may reflect Underlying Component exposure for each Trendpilot
ETF, a mix of Underlying Component exposures and 3-Month US Treasury bills, or
entirely 3-Month US Treasury bills for short or long periods of time. When the
50/50 Indicator or Treasury Indicator has been triggered for a particular
Trendpilot ETF, the Fund of Funds Index will have reduced or no exposure,
respectively, to the applicable Trendpilot ETF’s Underlying
Component.
Special
Indicator.
For each Trendpilot Equity Index, in the event the Underlying Component closes
20% above or 20% below its 200-day simple moving average, the Trendpilot Equity
Index will change exposures effective at the end of the following business day
to its 50/50 Exposure. This new exposure (the “Special Exposure”) will continue
until the applicable Underlying Component Indicator, 50/50 Indicator, or
Treasury Indicator is triggered.
The
Fund’s Investment Strategy
Under
normal circumstances, at least 80% of the Fund’s total assets (exclusive of
collateral held from securities lending) will be invested in the component
securities of the Fund of Funds Index (i.e., the Trendpilot ETFs).
The Adviser expects that, over time, the correlation between the Fund’s
performance and that of the Fund of Funds Index, before fees and expenses, will
be 95% or better.
The
Fund will generally use a “replication” strategy to achieve its investment
objective, meaning it will invest in all of the component securities of the
Index in the same approximate proportion as in the Index.
The
Fund is considered to be non-diversified, which means that it may invest more of
its assets in the securities of a single issuer or a smaller number of issuers
than if it were a diversified fund.
Principal Risks of Investing in the
Fund
You can lose money on your investment in the
Fund. The Fund is subject to the risks summarized below. Some or
all of these risks may adversely affect the Fund’s net asset value per share
(“NAV”), trading price, yield, total return and/or ability to meet its
objectives. For more information about the risks of investing in the Fund, see
the section in the Fund’s prospectus entitled “Additional Information about the
Principal Risks of Investing in the Funds.” The principal risks are presented in
alphabetical order to facilitate finding particular risks and comparing them
with other funds. Each risk summarized below is considered a “principal risk” of
investing in the Fund, regardless of the order in which it appears.
▪Currency
Exchange Rate Risk. The
Fund’s assets may include exposure to investments denominated in non-U.S.
currencies or in securities or other assets that provide exposure to such
currencies. Changes in currency exchange rates and the relative value of
non-U.S. currencies will affect the value of the Fund’s investment and the value
of your Fund shares. Currency exchange rates can be very volatile and can change
quickly and unpredictably. As a result, the value of an investment in the Fund
may change quickly and without warning and you may lose money.
▪Equity
Market Risk. The
equity securities held in the Fund’s portfolio may experience sudden,
unpredictable drops in value or long periods of decline in value. This may occur
because of factors that affect securities markets generally or factors affecting
specific industries, sectors or companies in which the Fund invests. Common
stocks are susceptible to general stock market fluctuations and to volatile
increases and decreases in value as market confidence in and perceptions of
their issuers change. The Fund’s NAV and market price may fluctuate
significantly in response to these and other factors. As a result, an investor
could lose money over short or long periods of time.
▪ETF
Risks.
The Fund is an ETF and, as a result of an ETF’s structure, is exposed to the
following risks:
◦Authorized
Participants (“APs”), Market Makers, and Liquidity Providers Concentration
Risk.
The
Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may act as APs. In
addition, there may be a limited number of market makers and/or liquidity
providers in the marketplace. To the extent either of the following events
occur, shares of the Fund may trade at a material discount to NAV and possibly
face delisting: (i) APs exit the business or otherwise become unable to
process creation and/or redemption orders and no other APs step forward to
perform these services, or (ii) market makers and/or liquidity providers
exit the business or significantly reduce their business activities and no other
entities step forward to perform their functions.
◦Costs
of Buying or Selling Shares of the Fund.
Due to the costs of buying or selling shares of the Fund, including brokerage
commissions imposed by brokers and bid/ask spreads, frequent trading of shares
of the Fund may significantly reduce investment results and an investment in
shares of the Fund may not be advisable for investors who anticipate regularly
making small investments.
◦Shares
of the Fund May Trade at Prices Other Than NAV.
As with all ETFs, shares of the Fund may be bought and sold in the secondary
market at market prices. The price of shares of the Fund, like the price of all
traded securities, will be subject to factors such as supply and demand, as well
as the current value of the Fund’s portfolio holdings. Although it is expected
that the market price of the shares of the Fund will approximate the Fund’s NAV,
there may be times when the market price of the shares is more than the NAV
intra-day (premium) or less than the NAV intra-day (discount). This risk is
heightened in times of market volatility, periods of steep market declines, and
periods when there is limited trading activity for shares in the secondary
market, in which case such premiums or discounts may be significant. Because
securities held by the Fund trade on foreign exchanges that are closed when the
Fund’s primary listing exchange is open, the Fund is likely to experience
premiums and discounts greater than those of domestic ETFs.
◦Trading.
Although shares of the Fund are listed for trading on a national securities
exchange, such as NYSE Arca, Inc. (the “Exchange”), and may be traded on U.S.
exchanges other than the Exchange, there can be no assurance that shares of the
Fund will trade with any volume, or at all, on any stock exchange. In stressed
market conditions, the liquidity of shares of the Fund may begin to mirror the
liquidity of the Fund’s underlying portfolio holdings, which can be
significantly less liquid than shares of the Fund, and this could lead to
differences between the market price of the shares of the Fund and the
underlying value of those shares.
▪Fixed
Income Risk. The
value of the Fund’s direct or indirect investments in fixed income securities
will fluctuate with changes in interest rates. Typically, a rise in interest
rates causes a decline in the value of fixed income securities owned by the
Fund. On the other hand, if rates fall, the value of the fixed income securities
generally increases. The Fund may be subject to a greater risk of rising
interest rates due to the current period of historically low rates and the
effect of potential government fiscal policy initiatives and resulting market
reaction to those initiatives. In general, the market price of fixed income
securities with longer maturities will increase or decrease more in response to
changes in interest rates than shorter-term securities. The value of the Fund’s
direct or indirect investments in fixed income securities may be affected by the
inability of issuers to repay principal and interest or illiquidity in debt
securities markets.
▪Foreign
Securities Risk. Investments
in non-U.S. securities involve certain risks that may not be present with
investments in U.S. securities. For example, investments in non-U.S. securities
may be subject to risk of loss due to foreign currency fluctuations or to
political or economic instability. Investments in non-U.S. securities also may
be subject to withholding or other taxes and may be subject to additional
trading, settlement, custodial, and operational risks. These and other factors
can make investments in the Fund more volatile and potentially less liquid than
other types of investments.
▪Government
Obligations Risk.
The Fund may invest in securities issued by the U.S. government. There can be no
guarantee that the United States will be able to meet its payment obligations
with respect to such securities. Additionally, market prices and yields of
securities supported by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government may
decline or be negative for short or long periods of time.
▪High
Yield Risk.
High yield securities (or “junk bonds”) entail greater risk of loss of principal
because of their greater exposure to credit risk. High yield debt obligations
are speculative investments and may also be less liquid than higher quality
securities, and may cause income and principal losses for the Fund. The market
for high yield securities is generally thinner and less active than the market
for higher quality securities. If there is a “flight to safety,” the market’s
perception of “high yield” securities may turn negative, and these types of
securities may become classified as “high risk.” Consequently, high yield
securities and loans entail greater risk of loss of principal than securities
and loans that are investment grade rated. Investment in or exposure to high
yield (lower rated) debt instruments (also known as “junk bonds”) may involve
greater levels of interest rate, credit, liquidity and valuation risk than for
higher rated instruments. High yield debt instruments may be sensitive to
economic changes, political changes, or adverse developments specific to a
company.
▪Large-Capitalization
Investing Risk. The
Fund may invest in the securities of large-capitalization companies. As a
result, the Fund’s performance may be adversely affected if securities of
large-capitalization companies underperform securities of smaller-capitalization
companies or the market as a whole. The securities of large-capitalization
companies may be relatively mature compared to smaller companies and therefore
subject to slower growth during times of economic expansion.
▪Mid-Capitalization
Investing Risk. The
Fund may invest in the securities of mid-capitalization companies. As a result,
the Fund’s performance may be adversely affected if securities of
mid-capitalization companies underperform securities of other capitalization
ranges or the market as a whole. Securities of smaller companies trade in
smaller volumes and are often more vulnerable to market volatility than
securities of larger companies.
▪Non-Diversification
Risk. Although the Fund intends to invest in a
variety of securities and instruments, the Fund is considered to be
non-diversified, which means that it may invest more of its assets in the
securities of a single issuer or a smaller number of issuers than if it were a
diversified fund. As a result, the Fund may be more exposed to the risks
associated with and developments affecting an individual issuer or a smaller
number of issuers than a fund that invests more widely. This may increase the
Fund’s volatility and cause the performance of a relatively smaller number of
issuers to have a greater impact on the Fund’s performance.
▪Other
Investment Companies Risk.
The Fund primarily invests in other ETFs and will incur higher and duplicative
expenses as a result of such investments. There is also the risk that the Fund
may suffer losses due to the investment practices of the underlying funds. When
the Fund invests in other investment companies, the Fund will be subject to
substantially the same risks as those associated with the direct ownership of
securities held by such investment companies. Investments in ETFs are also
subject to the “ETF Risks” described above.
▪Passive
Investment Risk. The
Fund is not actively managed and the Adviser would not sell a security due to
current or projected underperformance of a security, industry or sector, unless
that security is removed from the Index or the selling of shares of that
security is otherwise required upon a reconstitution of the Index in accordance
with the Index methodology. The Fund invests in securities included in the
Index, regardless of their investment merits. The Fund does not take defensive
positions under any market conditions, including conditions that are adverse to
the performance of the Fund.
▪Tracking
Risk. The
Fund’s return may not track the return of the Index for a number of reasons. 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, when the 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. To the extent the Fund calculates its NAV based on
fair value prices and the value of the Index is based on securities’ closing
prices on local foreign markets (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.
▪Trend
Lag Risk. At
least six consecutive trading days will elapse after the applicable Equity
Component first drops below its historical 200-day simple moving average (or
conversely, first moves above such average) before a Trendpilot Index will
switch from tracking the Equity Component to 3-Month US Treasury bills (or
conversely, from 3-Month US Treasury bills to the Equity Component). As a
result, if the Equity Component is in an overall positive trend, the Trendpilot
Index and consequently the Fund of Funds Index and the Fund may be adversely
affected by a downward trend and/or volatility in the Equity Component for up to
six consecutive trading days (or conversely, if the Equity Component is in an
overall negative trend, the Trendpilot Index and consequently the Fund of Funds
Index and the Fund may not benefit from an upward trend and/or volatility in the
Equity Component for up to six consecutive trading days). Accordingly, the
methodology employed by each Trendpilot Index does not eliminate exposure to
downward trends and/or volatility in the Equity Component and does not provide
immediate exposure to upward trends and/or volatility in the Equity
Component.
Fund
Performance
The following
information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the
Fund. The bar chart shows the Fund’s performance (based on NAV)
for calendar years ended December 31. The table shows how the Fund’s average
annual returns for the one year and since inception periods compare with those
of the Index and a broad measure of market performance. The Fund’s past performance,
before and after taxes, is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will
perform in the future.
Updated performance information is available on the Fund’s website at
www.PacerETFs.com
or by calling the Fund toll-free at 1-800-617-0004.
Calendar Year Total Return as of December
31
For the year-to-date period ended
June 30, 2022, the
Fund’s total return was -12.98%. During the period of time shown in the bar
chart, the Fund’s highest return for a
calendar quarter was 12.48% (quarter ended December 31, 2020)
and the Fund’s lowest return for a
calendar quarter was -13.36% (quarter ended March 31,
2020).
Average
Annual Total Returns
(for
the periods ended December 31, 2021)
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Pacer
Trendpilot Fund of Funds ETF |
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Taxes |
12.85% |
9.25% |
Return After Taxes on
Distributions |
12.59% |
9.00% |
Return After Taxes on Distributions and
Sale of Fund Shares |
7.77% |
7.14% |
Pacer Trendpilot Fund of
Funds Index
(reflects no deduction for
fees, expenses, or taxes)
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14.09% |
10.46% |
S&P
1200 Index
(reflects
no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes) |
21.53% |
17.82% |
After-tax returns are
calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax
rates during the period covered by the table above and do not reflect the impact
of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an
investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns shown are
not relevant to investors who hold their Shares through tax-deferred
arrangements such as an individual retirement account (“IRA”) or other
tax-advantaged accounts.
Management
Investment
Adviser
Pacer
Advisors, Inc. (the “Adviser”) serves as investment adviser to the
Fund.
Portfolio
Managers
The
Fund employs a rules-based, passive investment strategy. The Adviser uses a
committee approach to managing the Fund. Bruce
Kavanaugh, Vice President of the Adviser, and Danke Wang, CFA, Portfolio Manager
for the Adviser, are jointly and primarily responsible for the day-to-day
management of the Fund. Mr. Kavanaugh has served as a portfolio manager since
the Fund’s inception and Mr. Wang has served as a portfolio manager since June
2022.
Buying
and Selling Fund Shares
The
Fund is an ETF. This means that individual Shares of the Fund may only be
purchased and sold in the secondary market through brokers at market prices,
rather than NAV. Because Shares trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares
may trade at a price greater than NAV (premium) or less than NAV
(discount).
The
Fund generally issues and redeems shares at NAV only in large blocks of shares
known as “Creation Units,” which only institutions or large investors may
purchase or redeem. The Fund generally issues and redeems Creation Units in
exchange for a portfolio of securities (the “Deposit Securities”) and/or a
designated amount of U.S. cash that the Fund specifies each day.
Investors
may incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest price a buyer
is willing to pay to purchase Shares (bid) and the lowest price a seller is
willing to accept for Shares (ask) when buying or selling Shares in the
secondary market (the “bid-ask spread”). Recent information about the Fund,
including its net asset value, market price, premiums and discounts, and bid-ask
spreads is available on the Fund’s website at www.PacerETFs.com.
Tax
Information
Fund
distributions are generally taxable as ordinary income, qualified dividend
income, or capital gains (or a combination), unless your investment is in an IRA
or other tax-advantaged retirement account. Distributions may be taxable upon
withdrawal from tax-deferred accounts.
Payments
to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If
you purchase the Fund through a broker or other financial intermediary (such as
a bank), the Adviser and its related companies may pay the intermediary for
activities related to the marketing and promotion of the Fund. These payments
may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other
intermediary and your sales person to recommend the Fund over another
investment. Ask your sales person or visit your financial intermediary’s website
for more information.
Investment Objective
The Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF (the
“Fund”) is an exchange traded fund (“ETF”) that seeks to track the total return
performance, before fees and expenses, of the Pacer US Cash Cows 100 Index (the
“Index”).
Fees and Expenses of the Fund
The
following table describes the fees and expenses you may pay if you buy, hold,
and sell shares of the Fund (“Shares”). You
may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial
intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and Example
below.
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Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment) |
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Management
Fees |
0.49% |
Distribution
and/or Service (12b-1) Fees |
None |
Other
Expenses |
0.00% |
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses |
0.49% |
Example
The following example
is intended to help retail investors compare the cost of investing in the Fund
with the cost of investing in other funds. It illustrates the hypothetical
expenses that such investors would incur over various periods if they were to
invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of
the Shares at the end of those periods. This example assumes that the Fund
provides a return of 5% a year and that operating expenses remain the
same. Although your actual costs may be higher
or lower, based on these assumptions, your costs would be:
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3
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5
Years |
10
Years |
$50 |
$157 |
$274 |
$616 |
Portfolio Turnover
The
Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells
securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may
indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund
Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in
annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.
For
the fiscal year ended April 30, 2022, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was
114% of the average value of its
portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies of the
Fund
The
Fund employs a “passive management” (or indexing) investment approach designed
to track the total return performance, before fees and expenses, of the Index.
The Index is based on a proprietary methodology developed and maintained by
Index Design Group (the “Index Provider”), an affiliate of Pacer Advisors, Inc.,
the Fund’s investment adviser (the “Adviser”).
The
Index
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The
Index uses an objective, rules-based methodology to provide exposure to
large and mid-capitalization U.S. companies with high free cash flow
yields. Companies with high free cash flow yields are commonly referred to
as “cash cows”. |
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Cash Flow (FCF): A
company’s cash flow from operations minus capital
expenditures.
Enterprise
Value (EV): A
company’s market capitalization plus its debt and minus its cash and cash
equivalents.
Free
Cash Flow Yield:
FCF / EV |
The
initial index universe is derived from the component companies of the
Russell 1000®
Index. The initial universe of companies is screened based on their
average projected free cash flows and earnings (if available) over each of
the next two fiscal years. Companies with no forward year estimates
available for free cash flows or earnings will remain in the Index
universe. Companies with negative average projected free cash flows or
earnings are removed from the Index universe. Additionally, financial
companies, other than real estate investment trusts (“REITs”), are
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The
remaining companies are ranked by their free cash flow yield for the trailing
twelve month period. The equity securities of the 100 companies with the highest
free cash flow yield are included in the Index.
At
the time of each rebalance of the Index, the companies included in the Index are
weighted in proportion to their trailing twelve month free cash flow, and
weightings are capped at 2% of the weight of the Index for any individual
company. The Index is reconstituted and rebalanced quarterly as of the close of
business on the 3rd
Friday of March, June, September, and December based on data as of the
1st
Friday of the applicable rebalance month.
The
Fund’s Investment Strategy
Under
normal circumstances, at least 80% of the Fund’s total assets (exclusive of
collateral held from securities lending) will be invested in the component
securities of the Index.
The Adviser expects that, over time, the correlation between the Fund’s
performance and that of the Index, before fees and expenses, will be 95% or
better.
The
Fund will generally use a “replication” strategy to achieve its investment
objective, meaning it will invest in all of the component securities of the
Index in the same approximate proportion as in the
Index.
Principal Risks of Investing in the
Fund
You can lose money on your investment in the
Fund. The Fund is subject to the risks summarized below. Some or
all of these risks may adversely affect the Fund’s net asset value per share
(“NAV”), trading price, yield, total return and/or ability to meet its
objectives. For more information about the risks of investing in the Fund, see
the section in the Fund’s prospectus entitled “Additional Information about the
Principal Risks of Investing in the Funds.” The principal risks are presented in
alphabetical order to facilitate finding particular risks and comparing them
with other funds. Each risk summarized below is considered a “principal risk” of
investing in the Fund, regardless of the order in which it appears.
▪Calculation
Methodology Risk.
The Index relies directly or indirectly on various sources of information to
assess the criteria of issuers included in the Index, including information that
may be based on assumptions and estimates. Neither the Fund, the Index Provider,
or the Adviser (as defined below) can offer assurances that the Index’s
calculation methodology or sources of information will provide an accurate
assessment of included issuers or a correct valuation of securities, nor can
they guarantee the availability or timeliness of the production of the
Index.
▪Concentration
Risk.
If the Index concentrates in an industry or group of industries, the Fund’s
investments may be concentrated accordingly. In such event, the value of the
Fund’s shares may rise and fall more than the value of shares of a fund that
invests in securities of companies in a broader range of industries. In
addition, at times, an industry or group of industries in which the Fund is
concentrated may be out of favor and underperform other industries or groups of
industries.
▪Equity
Market Risk. The
equity securities held in the Fund’s portfolio may experience sudden,
unpredictable drops in value or long periods of decline in value. This may occur
because of factors that affect securities markets generally or factors affecting
specific industries, sectors or companies in which the Fund invests. Common
stocks are susceptible to general stock market fluctuations and to volatile
increases and decreases in value as market confidence in and perceptions of
their issuers change. The Fund’s NAV and market price may fluctuate
significantly in response to these and other factors. As a result, an investor
could lose money over short or long periods of time.
▪ETF
Risks.
The Fund is an ETF and, as a result of an ETF’s structure, is exposed to the
following risks:
◦Authorized
Participants (“APs”), Market Makers, and Liquidity Providers Concentration
Risk.
The
Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may act as APs. In
addition, there may be a limited number of market makers and/or liquidity
providers in the marketplace. To the extent either of the following events
occur, shares of the Fund may trade at a material discount to NAV and possibly
face delisting: (i) APs exit the business or otherwise become unable to
process creation and/or redemption orders and no other APs step forward to
perform these services, or (ii) market makers and/or liquidity providers
exit the business or significantly reduce their business activities and no other
entities step forward to perform their functions.
◦Costs
of Buying or Selling Shares of the Fund.
Due to the costs of buying or selling shares of the Fund, including brokerage
commissions imposed by brokers and bid/ask spreads, frequent trading of shares
of the Fund may significantly reduce investment results and an investment in
shares of the Fund may not be advisable for investors who anticipate regularly
making small investments.
◦Shares
of the Fund May Trade at Prices Other Than NAV.
As with all ETFs, shares of the Fund may be bought and sold in the secondary
market at market prices. The price of shares of the Fund, like the price of all
traded securities, will be subject to factors such as supply and demand, as well
as the current value of the Fund’s portfolio holdings. Although it is expected
that the market price of the shares of the Fund will approximate the Fund’s NAV,
there may be times when the market price of the shares is more than the NAV
intra-day (premium) or less than the NAV intra-day (discount). This risk is
heightened in times of market volatility, periods of steep market declines, and
periods when there is limited trading activity for shares in the secondary
market, in which case such premiums or discounts may be
significant.
◦Trading.
Although shares of the Fund are listed for trading on a national securities
exchange, such as Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc. (the “Exchange”), and may be
traded on U.S. exchanges other than the Exchange, there can be no assurance that
shares of the Fund will trade with any volume, or at all, on any stock exchange.
In stressed market conditions, the liquidity of shares of the Fund may begin to
mirror the liquidity of the Fund’s underlying portfolio holdings, which can be
significantly less liquid than shares of the Fund, and this could lead to
differences between the market price of the shares of the Fund and the
underlying value of those shares.
▪High
Portfolio Turnover Risk.
At times, the Fund may have a portfolio turnover rate substantially greater than
100%. A high portfolio turnover rate would result in correspondingly greater
transaction expenses, including brokerage commissions, dealer mark ups and other
transaction costs, on the sale of securities and on reinvestment in other
securities and may result in reduced performance and the distribution to
shareholders of additional capital gains for tax purposes. These factors may
negatively affect the Fund’s performance.
▪Large-Capitalization
Investing Risk. The
Fund may invest in the securities of large-capitalization companies. As a
result, the Fund’s performance may be adversely affected if securities of
large-capitalization companies underperform securities of smaller-capitalization
companies or the market as a whole. The securities of large-capitalization
companies may be relatively mature compared to smaller companies and therefore
subject to slower growth during times of economic expansion.
▪Mid-Capitalization
Investing Risk. The
Fund may invest in the securities of mid-capitalization companies. As a result,
the Fund’s performance may be adversely affected if securities of
mid-capitalization companies underperform securities of other capitalization
ranges or the market as a whole. Securities of smaller companies trade in
smaller volumes and are often more vulnerable to market volatility than
securities of larger companies.
▪Passive
Investment Risk. The
Fund is not actively managed and the Adviser would not sell a security due to
current or projected underperformance of a security, industry or sector, unless
that security is removed from the Index or the selling of shares of that
security is otherwise required upon a reconstitution of the Index in accordance
with the Index methodology. The Fund invests in securities included in the
Index, regardless of their investment merits. The Fund does not take defensive
positions under any market conditions, including conditions that are adverse to
the performance of the Fund.
▪Sector
Risk. To
the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors of the economy,
its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly
affect those sectors.
◦Consumer
Discretionary Sector Risk.
The
Fund may invest in companies in the consumer discretionary sector, and therefore
the performance of the Fund could be negatively impacted by events affecting
this sector.
The
success of consumer product manufacturers and retailers is tied closely to the
performance of domestic and international economies, interest rates, exchange
rates, competition, consumer confidence, changes in demographics and consumer
preferences. Companies in the consumer discretionary sector depend heavily on
disposable household income and consumer spending, and may be strongly affected
by social trends and marketing campaigns. These companies may be subject to
severe competition, which may have an adverse impact on their
profitability.
◦Energy
Sector Risk. The
Fund may invest in companies in the energy sector, and therefore the performance
of the Fund could be negatively impacted by events affecting this
sector. The profitability of companies in the energy sector is related to
worldwide energy prices, exploration, and production spending. The value of
securities issued by companies in the energy sector may decline for many
reasons, including, among others, changes in energy prices, government
regulations, energy conservation efforts, natural disasters, and potential civil
liabilities. Such
companies
are also subject to risks changes in economic conditions, as well as market and
political risks of the countries where energy companies are located or do
business.
◦Health
Care Sector Risk. The
Fund may invest in companies in the health care sector, and therefore the
performance of the Fund could be negatively impacted by events affecting this
sector. Companies in the health care sector are subject to extensive government
regulation and their profitability can be significantly affected by restrictions
on government reimbursement for medical expenses, rising costs of medical
products and services, pricing pressure (including price discounting), limited
product lines and an increased emphasis on the delivery of healthcare through
outpatient services.
▪Style
Risk. The
Fund’s emphasis on dividend-paying stocks involves the risk that such stocks may
fall out of favor with investors and underperform the market. Also, a company
may reduce or eliminate its dividend, which may have a negative impact on the
Fund’s performance.
▪Tracking
Risk. The
Fund’s return may not track the return of the Index for a number of reasons. 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, when the 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.
Fund
Performance
The following
information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the
Fund. The bar chart shows the Fund’s performance (based on NAV)
for calendar years ended December 31. The table shows how the Fund’s average
annual returns for the one year, five years, and since inception periods compare
with those of the Index and a broad measure of market performance.
The Fund’s past performance,
before and after taxes, is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will
perform in the future. Updated performance information is
available on the Fund’s website at www.PacerETFs.com
or by calling the Fund toll-free at 1-800-617-0004.
Calendar Year Total Return as of December
31
For the year-to-date period ended
June 30, 2022, the
Fund’s total return was -7.71%. During the period of time shown in the bar
chart, the Fund’s highest return for a
calendar quarter was 21.60% (quarter ended March 31, 2021) and
the Fund’s lowest return for a
calendar quarter was -27.76% (quarter ended March 31,
2020).
Average
Annual Total Returns
(for
the periods ended December 31, 2021)
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Year |
5
Years |
Since
Inception
(12/16/16) |
Pacer
US Cash Cows 100 ETF |
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Return Before
Taxes |
42.48% |
16.25% |
15.81% |
Return After Taxes on
Distributions |
41.94% |
15.67% |
15.22% |
Return After Taxes on Distributions and
Sale of Fund Shares |
25.48% |
12.96% |
12.59% |
Pacer US Cash Cows 100
Index
(reflects no deduction for
fees, expenses, or taxes)
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43.26% |
16.71% |
16.27% |
Russell
1000®
Index
(reflects
no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes) |
26.45% |
18.43% |
18.08% |
After-tax returns are
calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax
rates during the period covered by the table above and do not reflect the impact
of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an
investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns shown are
not relevant to investors who hold their Shares through tax-deferred
arrangements such as an individual retirement account (“IRA”) or other
tax-advantaged accounts.
Management
Investment
Adviser
Pacer
Advisors, Inc. serves as investment adviser to the Fund.
Portfolio
Managers
The
Fund employs a rules-based, passive investment strategy. The Adviser uses a
committee approach to managing the Fund. Bruce
Kavanaugh, Vice President of the Adviser, and Danke Wang, CFA, Portfolio Manager
for the Adviser, are jointly and primarily responsible for the day-to-day
management of the Fund. Mr. Kavanaugh has served as a portfolio manager since
the Fund’s inception and Mr. Wang has served as a portfolio manager since June
2022.
Buying
and Selling Fund Shares
The
Fund is an ETF. This means that individual Shares of the Fund may only be
purchased and sold in the secondary market through brokers at market prices,
rather than NAV. Because Shares trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares
may trade at a price greater than NAV (premium) or less than NAV
(discount).
The
Fund generally issues and redeems shares at NAV only in large blocks of shares
known as “Creation Units,” which only institutions or large investors may
purchase or redeem. The Fund generally issues and redeems Creation Units in
exchange for a portfolio of securities (the “Deposit Securities”) and/or a
designated amount of U.S. cash that the Fund specifies each day.
Investors
may incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest price a buyer
is willing to pay to purchase Shares (bid) and the lowest price a seller is
willing to accept for Shares (ask) when buying or selling Shares in the
secondary market (the “bid-ask spread”). Recent information about the Fund,
including its net asset value, market price, premiums and discounts, and bid-ask
spreads is available on the Fund’s website at www.PacerETFs.com.
Tax
Information
Fund
distributions are generally taxable as ordinary income, qualified dividend
income, or capital gains (or a combination), unless your investment is in an IRA
or other tax-advantaged retirement account. Distributions may be taxable upon
withdrawal from tax-deferred accounts.
Payments
to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If
you purchase the Fund through a broker or other financial intermediary (such as
a bank), the Adviser and its related companies may pay the intermediary for
activities related to the marketing and promotion of the Fund. These payments
may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other
intermediary and your sales person to recommend the Fund over another
investment. Ask your sales person or visit your financial intermediary’s website
for more information.
Investment Objective
The Pacer US Small Cap Cash Cows 100 ETF
(the “Fund”) is an exchange traded fund (“ETF”) that seeks to track the total
return performance, before fees and expenses, of the Pacer US Small Cap Cash
Cows Index (the “Index”).
Fees and Expenses of the Fund
The
following table describes the fees and expenses you may pay if you buy, hold,
and sell shares of the Fund (“Shares”). You
may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial
intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and Example
below.
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Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment) |
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Management
Fees |
0.59% |
Distribution
and/or Service (12b-1) Fees |
None |
Other
Expenses |
0.00% |
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses |
0.59% |
Example
The following example
is intended to help retail investors compare the cost of investing in the Fund
with the cost of investing in other funds. It illustrates the hypothetical
expenses that such investors would incur over various periods if they were to
invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of
the Shares at the end of those periods. This example assumes that the Fund
provides a return of 5% a year and that operating expenses remain the
same. Although your actual costs may be higher
or lower, based on these assumptions, your costs would be:
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Portfolio Turnover
The
Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells
securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may
indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund
Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in
annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.
For
the fiscal year ended April 30, 2022, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was
133% of the average value of its
portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies of the
Fund
The
Fund employs a “passive management” (or indexing) investment approach designed
to track the total return performance, before fees and expenses, of the Index.
The Index is based on a proprietary methodology developed and maintained by
Index Design Group (the “Index Provider”), an affiliate of Pacer Advisors, Inc.,
the Fund’s investment adviser (the “Adviser”).
The
Index
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The
Index uses an objective, rules-based methodology to provide exposure to
small-capitalization U.S. companies with high free cash flow yields.
Companies with high free cash flow yields are commonly referred to as
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Cash Flow (FCF): A
company’s cash flow from operations minus capital
expenditures.
Enterprise
Value (EV): A
company’s market capitalization plus its debt and minus its cash and cash
equivalents.
Free
Cash Flow Yield:
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The
initial Index universe is derived from the component companies of the
S&P Small Cap 600®
Index.
The initial universe of companies is screened based on their average
projected free cash flows and earnings (if available) over each of the
next two fiscal years. Companies for which information on their projected
free cash flows or earnings is not available will remain in the Index
universe. Companies with negative average projected free cash flows or
earnings are removed from the Index universe. Additionally, financial
companies, other than real estate investment trusts (“REITs”), are
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The
remaining companies are ranked by their free cash flow yield for the trailing
twelve month period. The equity securities of the 100 companies with the highest
free cash flow yield are included in the Index.
At
the time of each rebalance of the Index, the companies included in the Index are
weighted in proportion to their trailing twelve month free cash flow, and
weightings are capped at 2% of the weight of the Index for any individual
company. Weight above the 2% limitation is redistributed among the other Index
constituents in proportion to their weights. As of June 30, 2022, the companies
included in the Index had a market capitalization of $88 million to $4.7
billion. The Index