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PRINCIPAL
EXCHANGE-TRADED FUNDS
("PETF"
or the "Trust")
The
date of this Prospectus is November 1,
2022.
FUNDS
OF THE TRUST
(each,
a "Fund" and, together, the "Funds")
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Fund |
Ticker
Symbol |
Principal
U.S. Listing Exchange |
Principal
Active High Yield ETF |
YLD |
NYSE
Arca |
Principal
Healthcare Innovators ETF |
BTEC |
Nasdaq |
Principal
International Adaptive Multi-Factor ETF |
PXUS |
Cboe
BZX |
Principal
Investment Grade Corporate Active ETF |
IG |
NYSE
Arca |
Principal
Millennial Global Growth ETF |
GENY |
Nasdaq |
Principal
Quality ETF |
PSET |
Nasdaq |
Principal
Real Estate Active Opportunities ETF |
BYRE |
NYSE
Arca |
Principal
Spectrum Preferred Securities Active ETF |
PREF |
NYSE
Arca |
Principal
Spectrum Tax-Advantaged Dividend Active ETF |
PQDI |
NYSE
Arca |
Principal
Ultra-Short Active Income ETF |
USI |
NYSE
Arca |
Principal
U.S. Large-Cap Adaptive Multi-Factor ETF |
PLRG |
Cboe
BZX |
Principal
U.S. Mega-Cap ETF |
USMC |
Nasdaq |
Principal
U.S. Small-Cap Adaptive Multi-Factor ETF |
PLTL |
Cboe
BZX |
Principal
U.S. Small-Cap Multi-Factor ETF |
PSC |
Nasdaq |
Principal
Value ETF |
PY |
Nasdaq |
The
Principal Real Estate Active Opportunities ETF (the "Real Estate ETF") is
different from traditional ETFs.
Traditional
ETFs tell the public what assets they hold each day. The Real Estate ETF will
not. This may
create additional risks
for your investment. For example:
•You
may have to pay more money to trade the Real Estate ETF’s shares. The Real
Estate ETF will provide less information to traders, who tend to charge more for
trades when they have less information.
•The
price you pay to buy ETF shares on an exchange may not match the value of the
ETF's portfolio. The same is true when you sell shares. These price differences
may be greater for this Real Estate ETF compared to other ETFs because it
provides less information to traders.
•These
additional risks may be even greater in bad or uncertain market
conditions.
•The
Real Estate ETF will publish on its website each day a "Tracking Basket"
designed to help trading in shares of the Real Estate ETF. While the Tracking
Basket includes some of the Real Estate ETF’s holdings, it is not the Real
Estate ETF’s actual portfolio.
The
differences between the Real Estate ETF and other ETFs may also have advantages.
By keeping certain information about the Real Estate ETF secret, the Real Estate
ETF may face less risk that other traders can predict or copy its investment
strategy. This may improve the Real Estate ETF’s performance. If other traders
are able to copy or predict the Real Estate ETF's investment strategy, however,
this may hurt the Real Estate ETF's performance.
For
additional information regarding the unique attributes and risks of the Real
Estate ETF, see the "Principal Risks" section (in the "Fund Summary" section)
for the Real Estate ETF, the "Additional Information about Investment Strategies
and Risks" section for the Real Estate ETF, and the "Additional Fund-Specific
Information" section for the Real Estate ETF below.
The
Securities and Exchange Commission has not approved or disapproved these
securities or passed upon the adequacy of this Prospectus. Any representation to
the contrary is a criminal offense.
Objective: The Fund seeks to provide a
high level of current income.
Fees and Expenses of the
Fund
This table describes the fees
and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and sell shares of the Fund
("Shares"). You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees
to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table or the example
below.
Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses
that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment)
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Management
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0.39% |
Other
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Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (2) |
0.39% |
(1) Fees have been restated to
reflect current fees.
(2) The investment management
agreement (the “Management Agreement”) between the Fund and Principal Global
Investors, LLC (“PGI”) provides that, for the duration of the Management
Agreement, PGI will pay all operating expenses of the Fund, except for the
Management Fee, payments made under the Funds' Rule 12b-1 plan (if or when such
fees are imposed), brokerage commissions and other expenses connected to the
execution of portfolio transactions, interest expense, taxes, acquired fund fees
and expenses, litigation expenses and other extraordinary
expenses.
Example
This Example is
intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of
investing in other funds.
The Example assumes that you invest
$10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated. The Example also assumes
that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating
expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower,
based on these assumptions your costs would be:
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10
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Principal
Active High Yield ETF |
$40 |
$125 |
$219 |
$493 |
Portfolio
Turnover
The Fund pays transaction
costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over"
its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction
costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable
account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses
or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal
year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 110.5% of the average value of its
portfolio.
Principal Investment
Strategies
The
Fund is an actively managed exchange-traded fund ("ETF") that seeks to achieve
its investment objective by investing, under normal circumstances, at least 80%
of its net assets, plus any borrowings for investment purposes, in
below-investment grade (commonly known as "junk" or "high yield") fixed income
securities, such as bonds and bank loans. "Below investment grade" securities
are rated Ba1 or lower by Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. and BB+ or lower by
S&P Global Ratings. If securities are rated differently by the rating
agencies, the highest rating is used. If the security has been rated by only one
of those agencies, that rating will determine whether the security is below
investment grade. If the security has not been rated by either of those
agencies, those selecting such investments will determine whether the security
is of a quality comparable to those rated below investment grade. To select
investments for the Fund, the Advisor incorporates top-down perspective (using
macroeconomic and risk perspective while reviewing sectors based on their
fundamental, technical, and valuations factors) followed by bottom-up
perspective (using fundamental credit analysis). The Fund's strategies may
result in the active and frequent trading of the Fund's portfolio
securities.
The
Fund invests in U.S. treasury bills, bonds, and other obligations issued or
guaranteed by the U.S. government or its agencies or instrumentalities,
investment grade bank loans (also known as senior floating rate interests), and
preferred securities. The Fund's investments include securities of foreign
issuers, including those located in developing or emerging markets. Under normal
circumstances, the Fund maintains an average portfolio duration that is within
±25% of the duration of the Bloomberg U.S. Corporate High Yield 2% Issuer Capped
Index, which as of September 30, 2022 was 4.33 years. The Fund is not managed to
a particular maturity.
The Fund invests in derivatives, including
currency swaps and credit default swaps, for hedging purposes and to manage
fixed-income exposure in an effort to increase or decrease, in an efficient
manner, exposures to certain sectors or individual issuers. A derivative is a
financial arrangement, the value of which is derived from, or based on, a
traditional security, asset, or market index.
Principal Risks
The value of your investment in the Fund changes with
the value of the Fund's investments. Many factors affect that value, and it is
possible to lose money by investing in the Fund. An investment in the Fund is not a
deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The
principal risks of investing in the Fund are listed below in alphabetical order
and not in order of significance.
Active
Management Risk. There
is no guarantee that the investment techniques, analyses, or judgments that the
Fund’s investment advisor and/or sub-advisor applies in making investment
decisions for the Fund will produce the intended outcome or that the investments
the advisor selects for the Fund will perform as well as other securities that
were not selected for the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment
objective, and it is not intended to be a complete investment
program.
Bank
Loans Risk.
Changes in economic conditions are likely to cause issuers of bank loans (also
known as senior floating rate interests) to be unable to meet their obligations.
In addition, the value of the collateral securing the loan (if any) may decline,
causing a loan to be substantially unsecured. Underlying credit agreements
governing the bank loans, reliance on market makers, priority of repayment and
overall market volatility may harm the liquidity of loans.
Derivatives
Risk. Derivatives
may not move in the direction anticipated by the portfolio manager. Transactions
in derivatives may increase volatility, cause the liquidation of portfolio
positions when not advantageous to do so and result in disproportionate losses
that may be substantially greater than a fund's initial investment.
•Credit
Default Swaps.
Credit default swaps involve special risks in addition to those associated with
swaps generally because they are difficult to value, are highly susceptible to
liquidity and credit risk, and generally pay a return to the party that has paid
the premium only in the event of an actual default by the issuer of the
underlying obligation (as opposed to a credit downgrade or other indication of
financial difficulty). The protection "buyer" in a credit default contract may
be obligated to pay the protection "seller" an up-front payment or a periodic
stream of payments over the term of the contract provided generally that no
credit event on a reference obligation has occurred. If a credit event occurs,
the seller generally must pay the buyer the "par value" (i.e., full notional
value) of the swap in exchange for an equal face amount of deliverable
obligations of the reference entity described in the swap, or the seller may be
required to deliver the related net cash amount, if the swap is cash settled.
The Fund may be either the buyer or seller in the transaction.
•Currency
Contracts.
Derivatives related to currency contracts involve the specific risk of
government action through exchange controls that would restrict the ability of
the fund to deliver or receive currency.
•Swaps.
Swaps involve specific risks, including: the imperfect correlation between the
change in market value of the instruments held by the Fund and the price of the
swap; possible lack of a liquid secondary market for a swap and the resulting
inability to close a swap when desired; counterparty risk; and if the Fund has
insufficient cash, it may have to sell securities from its portfolio to meet
daily variation margin requirements.
Emerging
Markets Risk. Investments
in emerging markets may have more risk than those in developed markets because
the emerging markets are less developed and more illiquid. Emerging markets can
also be subject to increased social, economic, regulatory, and political
uncertainties and can be extremely volatile. The U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice, and other U.S. authorities may be
limited in their ability to pursue bad actors in emerging markets, including
with respect to fraud.
Fixed-Income
Securities Risk.
Fixed-income securities are subject to interest rate, credit quality, and
liquidity risks. The market value of fixed-income securities generally declines
when interest rates rise, and increased interest rates may adversely affect the
liquidity of certain fixed-income securities. Moreover, an issuer of
fixed-income securities could default on its payment obligations due to
increased interest rates or for other reasons.
Foreign
Currency Risk.
Risks of investing in securities denominated in, or that trade in, foreign
(non-U.S.) currencies include changes in foreign exchange rates and foreign
exchange restrictions.
Foreign
Securities Risk.
The risks of foreign securities include loss of value as a result of: political
or economic instability; nationalization, expropriation or confiscatory
taxation; settlement delays; and limited government regulation (including less
stringent reporting, accounting, and disclosure standards than are required of
U.S. companies).
Hedging
Risk.
A
fund that implements a hedging strategy using derivatives and/or securities
could expose the fund to the risk that can arise when a change in the value of a
hedge does not match a change in the value of the asset it hedges. In other
words, the change in value of the hedge could move in a direction that does not
match the change in value of the underlying asset, resulting in a risk of loss
to the fund.
High
Portfolio Turnover Risk. High
portfolio turnover (more than 100%) caused by the active and frequent trading of
portfolio securities may result in accelerating the realization of taxable gains
and losses, lower fund performance, and increased brokerage costs.
High
Yield Securities Risk.
High yield fixed-income securities (commonly referred to as "junk bonds") are
subject to greater credit quality risk than higher rated fixed-income securities
and should be considered speculative.
Market
Trading Risks. The
Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including the potential lack of an
active market for Fund shares, losses from trading in secondary markets, and
disruption to the activities of market makers, authorized participants, or other
participants and in the creation/redemption process of the Fund. ANY OF THESE
FACTORS MAY LEAD TO THE FUND’S SHARES TRADING AT A PREMIUM OR DISCOUNT TO
NAV.
Portfolio
Duration Risk.
Portfolio duration is a measure of the expected life of a fixed-income security
and its sensitivity to changes in interest rates. The longer a fund's average
portfolio duration, the more sensitive the fund will be to changes in interest
rates, which means funds with longer average portfolio durations may be more
volatile than those with shorter durations.
Preferred
Securities Risk. Because
preferred securities have a lower priority claim on assets or earnings than
senior bonds and other debt instruments in a company's capital structure, they
are subject to greater credit and liquidation risk than more senior debt
instruments. In addition, preferred securities are subject to other risks, such
as limited or no voting rights, deferring or skipping distributions, interest
rate risk, and redeeming the security prior to any stated maturity
date.
Redemption
and Large Transaction Risk. Ownership
of the Fund’s shares may be concentrated in one or a few large investors (such
as funds of funds, institutional investors, and asset allocation programs) that
may sell or purchase Fund shares in large quantities on the secondary market.
These secondary market transactions may cause authorized participants to
increase their purchases and redemptions of creation units from the Fund.
Purchases and redemptions of creation units primarily with cash rather than
through in kind delivery of portfolio securities may cause the Fund to incur
certain costs, such as brokerage costs or taxable gains or losses that it might
not have incurred if it had made a redemption in kind. These costs could be
imposed on the Fund and thus decrease its NAV to the extent that the costs are
not offset by a transaction fee payable by an authorized
participant.
U.S.
Government Securities Risk. Yields
available from U.S. government securities are generally lower than yields from
many other fixed-income securities.
Performance
The following information
provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. Past performance (before and
after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in
the future. You may get updated performance information at
www.PrincipalAM.com.
The bar chart shows the investment returns
of the Fund's shares for each full calendar year of operations for 10 years (or,
if shorter, the life of the Fund). The table shows for the last one, five, and
ten calendar year periods (or, if shorter, the life of the Fund), how the Fund's
average annual total returns compare with those of one or more broad measures of
market performance.
Life
of Fund returns are measured from the date the Fund's shares were first sold
(July 8, 2015).
Prior
to September 1, 2021, the Fund was known as the Principal Active Income ETF, and
the objective and strategy of the Fund differed from its current objective and
strategy. Accordingly, performance of the Fund for periods prior to September 1,
2021 may not be representative of the performance the Fund would have achieved
had the Fund been following its current objective and
strategy.
Total
Returns as of December 31 (1)
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2Q
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12.56% |
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1Q
2020 |
(19.62)% |
(1)
The year-to-date return as of
September 30, 2022 is
(13.28)%.
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Average
Annual Total Returns (Based on NAV)
For
the periods ended December 31, 2021 (1) |
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Life
of Fund |
Return Before
Taxes |
8.72% |
5.78% |
5.72% |
Return After Taxes on
Distributions |
6.86% |
3.77% |
3.69% |
Return After Taxes on Distributions and
Sale of Fund Shares |
5.14% |
3.62% |
3.55% |
Bloomberg U.S. Corporate High Yield 2%
Issuer Capped Index (reflects no deductions for
fees, expenses or taxes) |
5.26% |
8.57% |
6.29% |
(1)
Prior
to September 1, 2021, the Fund was known as the Principal Active Income
ETF, and the objective and strategy of the Fund differed from its current
objective and strategy. Accordingly, performance of the Fund for periods
prior to September 1, 2021 may not be representative of the performance
the Fund would have achieved had the Fund been following its current
objective and
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After-tax returns are
calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax
rates 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. The
after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares
through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement
accounts.
Investment
Advisor and Portfolio Managers
Principal
Global Investors, LLC
•Mark
P. Denkinger (since 2021), Portfolio Manager
•Joshua
Rank (since 2021), Portfolio Manager
•Darrin
E. Smith (since 2021), Portfolio Manager
Purchase
and Sale of Fund Shares
The
Fund issues and redeems Shares at net asset value ("NAV") only with authorized
participants ("APs") who have entered into agreements with the Fund's
distributor and only in blocks of 50,000 Shares (each block of Shares is called
a "Creation Unit"), or multiples thereof ("Creation Unit Aggregations"), in
exchange for the deposit or delivery of a basket of securities that the Fund
specifies each day. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, the Shares are not
redeemable securities of the Fund. Typically, the basket of assets will be made
up of securities, but may include a cash component. (See "Purchase and
Redemption of Creation Units" in the Statement of Additional Information for
more information.)
Shares
of the Fund are listed for trading on NYSE Arca, Inc. Individual Shares may only
be bought and sold in the secondary market through a broker or dealer at a
market price. Because Shares trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares may
trade at prices greater than NAV (at a premium), at NAV, or less than NAV (at a
discount). An investor 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 on the secondary market (the bid-ask spread).
You
can access recent information, including information on the Fund's net asset
value, market price, premiums and discounts, and bid-ask spreads at
www.PrincipalAM.com.
Tax
Information
The
Fund's distributions you receive are generally subject to federal income tax as
ordinary income or capital gain and may also be subject to state and local
taxes, unless you are tax-exempt or your account is tax-deferred in which case
your distributions would be taxed when withdrawn from the tax-deferred account.
Payments
to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If
you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary,
the Fund and its related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of Fund
shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by
influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson to
recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your
financial intermediary's website for more information.
Objective:
The Fund seeks long-term
growth of capital.
Fees and Expenses of the
Fund
This table describes the fees
and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and sell shares of the Fund
("Shares"). You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees
to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table or the example
below.
Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses
that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment)
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0.42% |
Other
Expenses |
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Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (1) |
0.42% |
(1)
The
investment management agreement (the “Management Agreement”) between the Fund
and Principal Global Investors, LLC (“PGI”) provides that, for the duration of
the Management Agreement, PGI will pay all operating expenses of the Fund,
except for the Management Fee, payments made under the Funds' Rule 12b-1 plan
(if or when such fees are imposed), brokerage commissions and other expenses
connected to the execution of portfolio transactions, interest expense, taxes,
acquired fund fees and expenses, litigation expenses and other extraordinary
expenses.
Example
This Example is
intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of
investing in other funds.
The Example assumes that you invest
$10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated. The Example also assumes
that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating
expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower,
based on these assumptions your costs would be:
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Principal
Healthcare Innovators ETF |
$43 |
$135 |
$235 |
$530 |
Portfolio
Turnover
The Fund pays transaction
costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over"
its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction
costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable
account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses
or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal
year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 46.2% of the average value of its portfolio. The
Fund's transition to active management on July 15, 2022 may have caused it to
experience an abnormally high level of portfolio turnover during the period of
the transition.
Principal Investment
Strategies
Under
normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets, plus any
borrowings for investment purposes, in equity securities of companies in the
healthcare sector. For this Fund, healthcare companies are those classified as
Health Care according to Global Industry Classification Standard. For security
selection and portfolio construction, Principal Global Investors, LLC ("PGI")
uses a proprietary quantitative model designed to identify equity securities
(emphasizing growth stock) of small and medium capitalization in the Russell
3000 Healthcare Index, while seeking to exclude the least liquid securities,
meaning the securities that would be the hardest to trade without significantly
impacting their value based on recent average daily trading volumes. As of
September 30, 2022, the market capitalization range of the companies in the
Russell 3000 Healthcare Index was between approximately $14.7 million and $473.8
billion. The Fund invests significantly in early-stage companies within the
healthcare equipment and supplies, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and life
sciences industries that are not yet consistently profitable. Examples include
companies developing products and services in such industries and companies in
the pre-marketing stage seeking regulatory approvals.
The
Fund's holdings are expected to be rebalanced at least annually. However, PGI
may make any adjustments to the model and Fund holdings at its discretion. In
constructing and revising the model and managing the Fund's investments, PGI
uses insights from diverse sources, including internal investment research,
industry reports, and data from third-party consultants and other service
providers, to develop and refine its investment themes and identify and take
advantage of trends that may impact the Fund and its holdings.
The Fund will concentrate its
investments (invest more than 25% of its assets) in one or more industries
within the healthcare sector.
Note: "Russell
3000 Healthcare Index" is a trademark of FTSE Russell Company and has been
licensed by Principal. The Fund is not sponsored, endorsed, sold, or promoted by
FTSE Russell Company, and FTSE Russell Company makes no representation regarding
the advisability of investing in the Fund.
Principal Risks
The value of your investment in the Fund changes with
the value of the Fund's investments. Many factors affect that value, and it is
possible to lose money by investing in the Fund. An investment in the Fund is not a
deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The
principal risks of investing in the Fund are listed below in alphabetical order
and not in order of significance.
Active
Management Risk. There
is no guarantee that the investment techniques, analyses, or judgments that the
Fund’s investment advisor and/or sub-advisor applies in making investment
decisions for the Fund will produce the intended outcome or that the investments
the advisor selects for the Fund will perform as well as other securities that
were not selected for the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment
objective, and it is not intended to be a complete investment
program.
Equity
Securities Risk. A
variety of factors can negatively impact the value of equity securities held by
a fund, including a decline in the issuer’s financial condition, unfavorable
performance of the issuer's sector or industry, or changes in response to
overall market and economic conditions. A fund's principal market segment(s)
(such as market capitalization or style) may underperform other market segments
or the equity markets as a whole.
•Growth
Style Risk.
Growth investing entails that risk that if growth companies do not increase
their earnings at a rate expected by investors, the market price of their stock
may decline significantly, even if earnings show an absolute increase. Growth
company stocks also typically lack the dividend yield that can lessen price
declines in market downturns.
•Smaller
Companies Risk.
Investments in smaller companies may involve greater risk and price volatility
than investments in larger, more mature companies. Smaller companies may have
limited product lines, markets or financial resources, lack the competitive
strength of larger companies, have less experienced managers or depend on a few
key employees. Their securities often are less widely held and trade less
frequently and in lesser quantities, and their market prices often fluctuate
more, than securities of larger companies.
Industry
Concentration Risk. A
fund that concentrates investments in a particular industry or group of
industries has greater exposure than other funds to market, economic and other
factors affecting that industry or group of industries.
•Healthcare
Sector Risk. The
Fund invests 25% or more of its assets in one or more industries within the
healthcare sector. A fund that invests in securities of companies in the
healthcare sector (which includes companies involved in several industries,
including biotechnology research and production, drugs and pharmaceuticals and
health care equipment and services) is subject to the direct risks of investing
in such companies. These companies are subject to extensive competition (due to,
among others, generic drug sales or the loss of patent protection), product
liability litigation and increased government regulation. Research and
development costs of bringing new drugs to market are substantial, and there is
no guarantee that a proposed product will ever come to market. Such companies
are heavily dependent on patent and intellectual property rights, the loss or
impairment of which may adversely affect profitability. Healthcare facility
operators may be affected by the demand for services, efforts by government or
insurers to limit rates, restriction of government financial assistance and
competition from other providers.
Market
Trading Risks. The
Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including the potential lack of an
active market for Fund shares, losses from trading in secondary markets, and
disruption to the activities of market makers, authorized participants, or other
participants and in the creation/redemption process of the Fund. ANY OF THESE
FACTORS MAY LEAD TO THE FUND’S SHARES TRADING AT A PREMIUM OR DISCOUNT TO
NAV.
Model
Risk. Because
PGI uses quantitative models to select and hold securities, the Fund may hold
securities that present risks that an investment advisor researching individual
securities might seek to avoid. Moreover, models may be predictive in nature and
depend heavily on the accuracy and reliability of historical data that is
supplied by others and may be incorrect or incorrectly input. The Fund bears the
risk that the quantitative models used will not be successful in identifying
trends or in determining the size and direction of investment positions that
will enable the Fund to achieve its investment objective.
Redemption
and Large Transaction Risk. Ownership
of the Fund’s shares may be concentrated in one or a few large investors (such
as funds of funds, institutional investors, and asset allocation programs) that
may sell or purchase Fund shares in large quantities on the secondary market.
These secondary market transactions may cause authorized participants to
increase their purchases and redemptions of creation units from the Fund.
Purchases and redemptions of creation units primarily with cash rather than
through in kind delivery of portfolio securities may cause the Fund to incur
certain costs, such as brokerage costs or taxable gains or losses that it might
not have incurred if it had made a redemption in kind. These costs could be
imposed on the Fund and thus decrease its NAV to the extent that the costs are
not offset by a transaction fee payable by an authorized
participant.
Performance
The following information
provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. Past performance (before and
after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in
the future. You may get updated performance information at
www.PrincipalAM.com.
The bar chart shows the investment returns
of the Fund's shares for each full calendar year of operations for 10 years (or,
if shorter, the life of the Fund). The table shows for the last one, five, and
ten calendar year periods (or, if shorter, the life of the Fund), how the Fund’s
average annual total returns compare with those of one or more broad measures of
market performance.
Life
of Fund returns are measured from the date the Fund's shares were first sold
(August 19, 2016).
Prior
to July 15, 2022, the objective and strategy of the Fund differed from its
current objective and strategy. Accordingly, performance of the Fund for periods
prior to that date may not be representative of the performance the Fund would
have achieved had the Fund been following its current objective and
strategy.
Total
Returns as of December 31 (1)
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2Q
2020 |
40.76% |
Lowest return for a quarter during
the period of the bar chart above: |
4Q
2018 |
(24.91)% |
(1)
The year-to-date return as of
September 30, 2022 is
(27.47)%.
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Average
Annual Total Returns (Based on NAV)
For
the periods ended December 31, 2021(1) |
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1 Year |
5
Year |
Life
of Fund |
Return Before
Taxes |
(18.44)% |
15.90% |
12.95% |
Return After Taxes on
Distributions |
(18.76)% |
15.77% |
12.83% |
Return After Taxes on Distributions and
Sale of Fund Shares |
(10.92)% |
12.81% |
10.37% |
Russell 2000 Healthcare Index (reflects
no deductions for fees, expenses or taxes) |
(17.58)% |
14.66% |
13.33% |
Nasdaq US Health Care Innovators Index
(reflects no deductions for
fees, expenses or taxes) |
(18.16)% |
16.37% |
13.41% |
(1)
Prior
to July 15, 2022, the objective and strategy of the Fund differed from its
current objective and strategy. Accordingly, performance of the Fund for
periods prior to that date may not be representative of the performance
the Fund would have achieved had the Fund been following its current
objective and
strategy. |
After-tax returns are
calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax
rates 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. The
after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares
through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement
accounts.
Effective July 15, 2022, the Fund
changed its primary broad-based index for performance comparison purposes to the
Russell 2000 Healthcare Index in connection with the Fund's change to an
actively managed Fund. Prior to that date, the Fund was passively managed to
correspond to the Nasdaq US Health Care Innovators
Index.
Investment
Advisor and Portfolio Managers
Principal
Global Investors, LLC
•Jeffrey
A. Schwarte (since 2016), Portfolio Manager
•Aaron
J. Siebel (since 2020), Portfolio Manager
Purchase
and Sale of Fund Shares
The
Fund issues and redeems Shares at net asset value ("NAV") only with authorized
participants ("APs") who have entered into agreements with the Fund’s
distributor and only in blocks of 50,000 Shares (each block of Shares is called
a "Creation Unit"), or multiples thereof ("Creation Unit Aggregations"), in
exchange for the deposit or delivery of a basket of securities that the Fund
specifies each day. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, the Shares are not
redeemable securities of the Fund. Typically, the basket of assets will be made
up of securities, but may include a cash component. (See "Purchase and
Redemption of Creation Units" in the Statement of Additional Information for
more information.)
Shares
of the Fund are listed for trading on The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC. Individual
Shares may only be bought and sold in the secondary market through a broker or
dealer at a market price. Because Shares trade at market prices rather than NAV,
Shares may trade at prices greater than NAV (at a premium), at NAV, or less than
NAV (at a discount). An investor 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 on the secondary market (the bid-ask spread).
You
can access recent information, including information on the Fund’s net asset
value, market price, premiums and discounts, and bid-ask spreads at
www.PrincipalAM.com.
Tax
Information
The
Fund’s distributions you receive are generally subject to federal income tax as
ordinary income or capital gain and may also be subject to state and local
taxes, unless you are tax-exempt or your account is tax-deferred in which case
your distributions would be taxed when withdrawn from the tax-deferred
account.
Payments
to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If
you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary,
the Fund and its related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of Fund
shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by
influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson to
recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your
financial intermediary's website for more information.
Objective:
The Fund seeks long-term
growth of capital.
Fees and Expenses of the
Fund
This table describes the fees
and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and sell shares of the Fund
("Shares"). You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees
to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table or the example
below.
Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses
that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment)
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0.24% |
Other
Expenses |
—% |
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (1) |
0.24% |
(1) The investment management
agreement (the “Management Agreement”) between the Fund and Principal Global
Investors, LLC (“PGI”) provides that, for the duration of the Management
Agreement, PGI will pay all operating expenses of the Fund, except for the
Management Fee, payments made under the Funds' Rule 12b-1 plan (if or when such
fees are imposed), brokerage commissions and other expenses connected to the
execution of portfolio transactions, interest expense, taxes, acquired fund fees
and expenses, litigation expenses and other extraordinary
expenses.
Example
This Example is
intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of
investing in other funds.
The Example assumes that you invest
$10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated. The Example also assumes
that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating
expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower,
based on these assumptions your costs would be:
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5
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10
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Principal
International Adaptive Multi-Factor ETF |
$25 |
$77 |
$135 |
$306 |
Portfolio
Turnover
The Fund pays transaction
costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over"
its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction
costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable
account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses
or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal
year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 111.9% of the average value of its
portfolio.
Principal Investment
Strategies
Under
normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 40% of its net assets, plus any
borrowings for investment purposes, in securities of foreign companies. The Fund
invests in securities regardless of market capitalization size (small, medium or
large).
For
security selection and portfolio construction, Principal Global Investors, LLC
("PGI") uses a proprietary quantitative model. The model is designed to identify
and rank equity securities in the MSCI World Ex-U.S. Index (the "Index") that
correspond to factor categories including the following:
•Value
companies – securities with low prices relative to their fundamental value,
measured by such metrics as earnings yield, free cash flow yield, and sales
yield.
•Higher
quality companies – securities ranked based on metrics such as return on equity,
sales growth, earnings growth, and balance sheet measures of quality (such as
lower debt and accruals).
•Higher
momentum companies – securities ranked by evaluating recent performance.
•Lower
volatility companies – identified using the recent standard deviation of returns
(in other words, how much such returns vary).
The
model incorporates a proprietary rules-based methodology that identifies the
current market risk regime as "lower," "higher and increasing," or "higher and
decreasing" and then weights securities within and among the factor categories
based on the prevailing market regime. During "higher and decreasing" market
risk environments, the model is expected to correspond more closely to the
weights used in the Index itself; however, in other regimes, the model’s
selection and weighting is expected to differ from the Index in an effort to
outperform the Index returns after fees and expenses. In "lower" risk
environments, the model is expected to allocate more to value, quality, and
momentum stocks, while de-emphasizing lower volatility stocks, whereas in
"higher and increasing" risk environments
the
model is expected to allocate more to lower volatility stocks, as well as
quality and momentum stocks, while de-emphasizing value stocks. For certain
securities, the model assigns weights equal to that of the Index in all risk
regimes.
PGI
expects to review the risk environment weekly. In circumstances where the risk
environment does not change, the Fund's holdings are expected to be rebalanced
semi-annually. Fund holdings will be rebalanced more frequently in the event of
market risk regime shifts, which will result in increased portfolio turnover.
PGI expects to review the model and risk environment regularly, and adjustments
to the model and Fund holdings may be made at PGI's discretion. The Fund’s
strategies may result in the active and frequent trading of the Fund’s portfolio
securities.
Note:
"MSCI" is a trademark of MSCI Inc. and has been licensed
by Principal. The Fund is not sponsored, endorsed, sold, or promoted by MSCI,
and MSCI makes no representation regarding the advisability of investing in the
Fund.
Principal Risks
The value of your investment in the Fund changes with
the value of the Fund's investments. Many factors affect that value, and it is
possible to lose money by investing in the Fund. An investment in the Fund is not a
deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The
principal risks of investing in the Fund are listed below in alphabetical order
and not in order of significance.
Active
Management Risk. There
is no guarantee that the investment techniques, analyses, or judgments that the
Fund’s investment advisor and/or sub-advisor applies in making investment
decisions for the Fund will produce the intended outcome or that the investments
the advisor selects for the Fund will perform as well as other securities that
were not selected for the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment
objective, and it is not intended to be a complete investment
program.
Equity
Securities Risk.
A variety of factors can negatively impact the value of equity securities held
by a fund, including a decline in the issuer’s financial condition, unfavorable
performance of the issuer's sector or industry, or changes in response to
overall market and economic conditions. A fund's principal market segment(s)
(such as market capitalization or style) may underperform other market segments
or the equity markets as a whole.
•Growth
Style Risk.
Growth investing entails that risk that if growth companies do not increase
their earnings at a rate expected by investors, the market price of their stock
may decline significantly, even if earnings show an absolute increase. Growth
company stocks also typically lack the dividend yield that can lessen price
declines in market downturns.
•Smaller
Companies Risk.
Investments in smaller companies may involve greater risk and price volatility
than investments in larger, more mature companies. Smaller companies may have
limited product lines, markets or financial resources, lack the competitive
strength of larger companies, have less experienced managers or depend on a few
key employees. Their securities often are less widely held and trade less
frequently and in lesser quantities, and their market prices often fluctuate
more, than securities of larger companies.
•Value
Style Risk.
Value investing entails the risk that value stocks may continue to be
undervalued by the market for extended periods, including the entire period
during which the stock is held by a fund, or the events that would cause the
stock price to increase may not occur as anticipated or at all. Moreover, a
stock that appears to be undervalued actually may be appropriately priced at a
low level and therefore would not be profitable for the fund.
Foreign
Currency Risk.
Risks of investing in securities denominated in, or that trade in, foreign
(non-U.S.) currencies include changes in foreign exchange rates and foreign
exchange restrictions.
Foreign
Securities Risk.
The risks of foreign securities include loss of value as a result of: political
or economic instability; nationalization, expropriation or confiscatory
taxation; settlement delays; and limited government regulation (including less
stringent reporting, accounting, and disclosure standards than are required of
U.S. companies).
High
Portfolio Turnover Risk. High
portfolio turnover (more than 100%) caused by the active and frequent trading of
portfolio securities may result in accelerating the realization of taxable gains
and losses, lower fund performance, and increased brokerage costs.
Market
Trading Risks. The
Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including the potential lack of an
active market for Fund shares, losses from trading in secondary markets, and
disruption to the activities of market makers, authorized participants, or other
participants and in the creation/redemption process of the Fund. ANY OF THESE
FACTORS MAY LEAD TO THE FUND’S SHARES TRADING AT A PREMIUM OR DISCOUNT TO
NAV.
Model
Risk. Because
PGI uses quantitative models to select and hold securities, the Fund may hold
securities that present risks that an investment advisor researching individual
securities might seek to avoid. Moreover, models may be predictive in nature and
depend heavily on the accuracy and reliability of historical data that is
supplied by others and may be incorrect or incorrectly input. The Fund bears the
risk that the quantitative models used will not be successful in identifying
trends or in determining the size and direction of investment positions that
will enable the Fund to achieve its investment objective.
Momentum
Style Risk. Momentum
can turn quickly, and stocks that previously exhibited high momentum may not
experience continued positive momentum. Momentum securities may be more volatile
than a broad cross-section of securities or the overall stock market. The Fund
may experience losses if momentum stops, reverses or otherwise behaves
differently than predicted. In addition, there may be periods when momentum
style is out of favor, during which the investment performance of the Fund may
suffer to the extent it employs momentum style methodology.
Redemption
and Large Transaction Risk. Ownership
of the Fund’s shares may be concentrated in one or a few large investors (such
as funds of funds, institutional investors, and asset allocation programs) that
may sell or purchase Fund shares in large quantities on the secondary market.
These secondary market transactions may cause authorized participants to
increase their purchases and redemptions of creation units from the Fund.
Purchases and redemptions of creation units primarily with cash rather than
through in kind delivery of portfolio securities may cause the Fund to incur
certain costs, such as brokerage costs or taxable gains or losses that it might
not have incurred if it had made a redemption in kind. These costs could be
imposed on the Fund and thus decrease its NAV to the extent that the costs are
not offset by a transaction fee payable by an authorized
participant.
Performance
No performance information is shown because
the Fund has not yet had a calendar year of performance.
The Fund’s
performance is benchmarked against the MSCI World Ex-U.S. Index. Performance
information provides an indication of the risks of investing in the
Fund. Past performance (before and
after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in
the future. You may get updated performance information online
at www.PrincipalAM.com.
Investment
Advisor and Portfolio Managers
Principal
Global Investors, LLC
•Jeffrey
A. Schwarte (since 2021), Portfolio Manager
•Aaron
J. Siebel (since 2021), Portfolio Manager
Purchase
and Sale of Fund Shares
The
Fund issues and redeems Shares at net asset value ("NAV") only with authorized
participants who have entered into agreements with the Fund’s distributor and
only in blocks of 100,000 Shares (each block of Shares is called a "Creation
Unit"), or multiples thereof ("Creation Unit Aggregations"), in exchange for the
deposit or delivery of a basket of securities that the Fund specifies each day.
Except when aggregated in Creation Units, the Shares are not redeemable
securities of the Fund. Typically, the basket of assets will be made up of
securities, but may include a cash component. (See "Purchase and Redemption of
Creation Units" in the Statement of Additional Information for more
information.)
Shares
of the Fund are listed for trading on Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc. Individual Shares
may only be bought and sold in the secondary market through a broker or dealer
at a market price. Because Shares trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares
may trade at prices greater than NAV (at a premium), at NAV, or less than NAV
(at a discount). An investor 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 on the secondary market (the bid-ask spread).
You
can access recent information, including information on the Fund's net asset
value, market price, premiums and discounts, and bid-ask spreads at
www.PrincipalAM.com.
Tax
Information
The
Fund’s distributions you receive are generally subject to federal income tax as
ordinary income or capital gain and may also be subject to state and local
taxes, unless you are tax-exempt or your account is tax-deferred in which case
your distributions would be taxed when withdrawn from the tax-deferred
account.
Payments
to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If
you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary,
the Fund and its related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of Fund
shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by
influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson to
recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your
financial intermediary's website for more information.
Objective: The Fund seeks to provide
current income and, as a secondary
objective, capital appreciation.
Fees and Expenses of the
Fund
This table describes the fees
and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and sell shares of the Fund
("Shares"). You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees
to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table or the example
below.
Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses
that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment)
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Fees |
0.19% |
Other
Expenses |
—% |
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (1) |
0.19% |
(1) The
investment management agreement (the “Management Agreement”) between the Fund
and Principal Global Investors, LLC (“PGI”) provides that, for the duration of
the Management Agreement, PGI will pay all operating expenses of the Fund,
except for the Management Fee, payments made under the Funds' Rule 12b-1 plan
(if or when such fees are imposed), brokerage commissions and other expenses
connected to the execution of portfolio transactions, interest expense, taxes,
acquired fund fees and expenses, litigation expenses and other extraordinary
expenses.
Example
This Example is
intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of
investing in other funds.
The Example assumes that you invest
$10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated. The Example also assumes
that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating
expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower,
based on these assumptions your costs would be:
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Principal
Investment Grade Corporate Active ETF |
$19 |
$61 |
$107 |
$243 |
Portfolio
Turnover
The
Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells
securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may
indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund
shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in
annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.
During
the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was
46.9% of the average value of its
portfolio.
Principal Investment
Strategies
The
Fund is an actively managed exchange-traded fund ("ETF") that seeks to achieve
its investment objective by investing, under normal circumstances, at least 80%
of its net assets, plus any borrowings for investment purposes, in investment
grade corporate bonds and other fixed income securities at the time of purchase.
"Investment grade" securities are rated BBB- or higher by S&P Global Ratings
("S&P Global") or Baa3 or higher by Moody's Investors Service, Inc.
("Moody's") or, if unrated, of comparable quality in the opinion of those
selecting such investments. If the security has been rated by only one of those
agencies, that rating will determine whether the security is investment grade.
If securities are rated differently by the rating agencies, the
highest rating is used.
The
fixed income securities in which the Fund invests include foreign
securities, corporate securities,
securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government or its agencies and
instrumentalities, and securities
issued or guaranteed by foreign governments payable in U.S. dollars.
The portfolio is not managed to a particular maturity. Under normal
circumstances, the Fund maintains an average portfolio duration that is within
+/- 10% of the duration of the Bloomberg U.S. Corporate Investment Grade Bond
Index, which as of September 30, 2022 was 7.15 years. The Fund actively trades
securities.
The Fund utilizes exchange-traded and
over-the-counter derivative strategies. A derivative is a financial arrangement,
the value of which is derived from, or based on, a traditional security, asset,
or market index. Specifically, the Fund invests in treasury futures for hedging
or to otherwise manage fixed income exposure, as well as credit default swaps,
including buying and selling on individual securities and/or baskets of
securities, to efficiently manage exposures to certain sectors or individual
issuers.
Principal Risks
The value of your investment in the Fund changes with
the value of the Fund's investments. Many factors affect that value, and it is
possible to lose money by investing in the Fund. An investment in the Fund is not a
deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The
principal risks of investing in the Fund are listed below in alphabetical order
and not in order of significance.
Active
Management Risk. There
is no guarantee that the investment techniques, analyses, or judgments that the
Fund’s investment advisor and/or sub-advisor applies in making investment
decisions for the Fund will produce the intended outcome or that the investments
the advisor selects for the Fund will perform as well as other securities that
were not selected for the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment
objective, and it is not intended to be a complete investment
program.
Counterparty
Risk. Counterparty
risk is the risk that the counterparty to a contract or other obligation will be
unable or unwilling to honor its obligations.
Derivatives
Risk.
Derivatives may not move in the direction anticipated by the portfolio manager.
Transactions in derivatives may increase volatility, cause the liquidation of
portfolio positions when not advantageous to do so and result in
disproportionate losses that may be substantially greater than a fund's initial
investment.
•Credit
Default Swaps.
Credit default swaps involve special risks in addition to those associated with
swaps generally because they are difficult to value, are highly susceptible to
liquidity and credit risk, and generally pay a return to the party that has paid
the premium only in the event of an actual default by the issuer of the
underlying obligation (as opposed to a credit downgrade or other indication of
financial difficulty). The protection “buyer” in a credit default contract may
be obligated to pay the protection “seller” an up-front payment or a periodic
stream of payments over the term of the contract provided generally that no
credit event on a reference obligation has occurred. If a credit event occurs,
the seller generally must pay the buyer the “par value” (i.e., full notional
value) of the swap in exchange for an equal face amount of deliverable
obligations of the reference entity described in the swap, or the seller may be
required to deliver the related net cash amount, if the swap is cash settled.
The Fund may be either the buyer or seller in the transaction.
•Futures.
These derivative instruments involve specific risks, including: the imperfect
correlation between the change in market value of the instruments held by the
fund and the price of the instruments; possible lack of a liquid secondary
market for an instrument and the resulting inability to close it when desired;
counterparty risk; and if the fund has insufficient cash, it may have to sell
securities from its portfolio to meet any applicable daily variation margin
requirements.
Fixed-Income
Securities Risk.
Fixed-income securities are subject to interest rate, credit quality, and
liquidity risks. The market value of fixed-income securities generally declines
when interest rates rise, and increased interest rates may adversely affect the
liquidity of certain fixed-income securities. Moreover, an issuer of
fixed-income securities could default on its payment obligations due to
increased interest rates or for other reasons.
Foreign
Securities Risk.
The risks of foreign securities include loss of value as a result of: political
or economic instability; nationalization, expropriation or confiscatory
taxation; settlement delays; and limited government regulation (including less
stringent reporting, accounting, and disclosure standards than are required of
U.S. companies).
Hedging
Risk.
A
fund that implements a hedging strategy using derivatives and/or securities
could expose the fund to the risk that can arise when a change in the value of a
hedge does not match a change in the value of the asset it hedges. In other
words, the change in value of the hedge could move in a direction that does not
match the change in value of the underlying asset, resulting in a risk of loss
to the fund.
Market
Trading Risks. The
Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including the potential lack of an
active market for Fund shares, losses from trading in secondary markets, and
disruption to the activities of market makers, authorized participants, or other
participants and in the creation/redemption process of the Fund. ANY OF THESE
FACTORS MAY LEAD TO THE FUND’S SHARES TRADING AT A PREMIUM OR DISCOUNT TO
NAV.
Portfolio
Duration Risk. Portfolio
duration is a measure of the expected life of a fixed-income security and its
sensitivity to changes in interest rates. The longer a fund's average portfolio
duration, the more sensitive the fund will be to changes in interest rates,
which means funds with longer average portfolio durations may be more volatile
than those with shorter durations.
Redemption
and Large Transaction Risk. Ownership
of the Fund’s shares may be concentrated in one or a few large investors (such
as funds of funds, institutional investors, and asset allocation programs) that
may sell or purchase Fund shares in large quantities on the secondary market.
These secondary market transactions may cause authorized participants to
increase their purchases and redemptions of creation units from the Fund.
Purchases and redemptions of creation units primarily with cash rather than
through in kind delivery of portfolio securities may cause the Fund to incur
certain costs, such as brokerage costs or taxable gains or losses that it might
not have incurred if it had made a redemption in kind. These costs could be
imposed on the Fund and thus decrease its NAV to the extent that the costs are
not offset by a transaction fee payable by an authorized
participant.
U.S.
Government Securities Risk. Yields
available from U.S. government securities are generally lower than yields from
many other fixed-income securities.
U.S. Government-Sponsored
Securities Risk. Securities issued by U.S.
government-sponsored enterprises such as the Federal Home Loan Mortgage
Corporation, the Federal National Mortgage Association, and the Federal Home
Loan Banks are not issued or guaranteed by the U.S.
government.
Performance
The
following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the
Fund. Past performance (before and
after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in
the future. You may get updated performance information at
www.PrincipalAM.com.
The
bar chart shows the investment returns of the Fund’s shares for each full
calendar year of operations for 10 years (or, if shorter, the life of the Fund).
The table shows for the last one, five, and ten calendar year periods (or, if
shorter, the life of the Fund), how the Fund’s average annual total returns
compare with those of one or more broad measures of market performance.
Life of Fund returns are measured from the
date the Fund's shares were first sold (April 18,
2018).
Total
Returns as of December 31 (1)
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2Q
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Lowest return for a quarter during
the period of the bar chart above: |
1Q
2020 |
(5.22)% |
(1)
The year-to-date return as of
September 30, 2022 is
(19.94)%.
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Average
Annual Total Returns (Based on NAV)
For
the periods ended December 31,
2021 |
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1 Year |
Life
of Fund |
Return Before
Taxes |
(0.94)% |
6.30% |
Return After Taxes on
Distributions |
(2.18)% |
4.37% |
Return After Taxes on Distributions and
Sale of Fund Shares |
(0.54)% |
4.08% |
Bloomberg U.S. Corporate Investment
Grade Bond Index (reflects no deductions for
fees, expenses or taxes) |
(1.04)% |
6.12% |
After-tax returns are
calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax
rates 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. The
after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares
through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement
accounts.
Investment
Advisor and Portfolio Managers
Principal
Global Investors, LLC
•Jonathan
S. Curran (since 2022), Portfolio Manager
•Darryl
Trunnel (since 2022), Portfolio Manager
Purchase
and Sale of Fund Shares
The
Fund issues and redeems Shares at net asset value ("NAV") only with authorized
participants ("APs") who have entered into agreements with the Fund’s
distributor and only in blocks of 50,000 Shares (each block of Shares is called
a "Creation Unit"), or multiples thereof ("Creation Unit Aggregations"), in
exchange for the deposit or delivery of a basket of securities that the Fund
specifies each day. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, the Shares are not
redeemable securities of the Fund. Typically, the basket of assets will be made
up of securities, but may include a cash component. (See "Purchase and
Redemption of Creation Units" in the Statement of Additional Information for
more information.)
Shares
of the Fund are listed for trading on NYSE Arca, Inc. Individual Shares may only
be bought and sold in the secondary market through a broker or dealer at a
market price. Because Shares trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares may
trade at prices greater than NAV (at a premium), at NAV, or less than NAV (at a
discount). An investor 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 on the secondary market (the bid-ask spread).
You
can access recent information, including information on the Fund's net asset
value, market price, premiums and discounts, and bid-ask spreads at
www.PrincipalAM.com.
Tax
Information
The
Fund's distributions you receive are generally subject to federal income tax as
ordinary income or capital gain and may also be subject to state and local
taxes, unless you are tax-exempt or your account is tax-deferred in which case
your distributions would be taxed when withdrawn from the tax-deferred account.
Payments
to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If
you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary,
the Fund and its related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of Fund
shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by
influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson to
recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your
financial intermediary's website for more information.
Objective:
The Fund seeks long-term
growth of capital.
Fees and Expenses of the
Fund
This table describes the fees
and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and sell shares of the Fund
("Shares"). You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees
to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table or the example
below.
Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses
that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment)
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Management
Fees
(1) |
0.38% |
Other
Expenses |
—% |
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (2) |
0.38% |
(1) Fees have been restated to
reflect current fees.
(2) The investment management
agreement (the “Management Agreement”) between the Fund and Principal Global
Investors, LLC (“PGI”) provides that, for the duration of the Management
Agreement, PGI will pay all operating expenses of the Fund, except for the
Management Fee, payments made under the Funds' Rule 12b-1 plan (if or when such
fees are imposed), brokerage commissions and other expenses connected to the
execution of portfolio transactions, interest expense, taxes, acquired fund fees
and expenses, litigation expenses and other extraordinary
expenses.
Example
This Example is
intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of
investing in other funds.
The Example assumes that you invest
$10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated. The Example also assumes
that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating
expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower,
based on these assumptions your costs would be:
Portfolio
Turnover
The Fund pays transaction
costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over”
its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction
costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable
account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses
or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal
year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 28.4% of the average value of its portfolio. The
Fund's transition to active management on July 15, 2022 may have caused it to
experience an abnormally high level of portfolio turnover during the period of
the transition.
Principal Investment
Strategies
Under normal circumstances, the
Fund primarily invests in equity securities, focusing on growth equity
securities. Growth strategies emphasize buying equity securities of companies
whose potential for growth of capital and earnings is expected to be above
average relative to the overall global equity market. In particular, the Fund
seeks to invest in securities of companies that are impacted by the spending and
lifestyle activities of the Millennial generation, which refers to people born
from 1980 to the mid-2000s. For security selection and portfolio construction,
Principal Global Investors, LLC ("PGI") uses a proprietary quantitative model
designed to identify equity securities of companies in the MSCI ACWI IMI Index
with medium or high Millennial exposure, based on the materiality of the
company's exposure to Millennial-related themes and the potential role of
Millennials in driving long-term growth. For example, a security of a company
with high exposure means that PGI has determined that Millennials-related
products, technologies, services and solutions are core to the company's
business model, strategy and research and development, and are material to sales
and/or growth. Market segments with the greatest Millennial exposure are likely
to include, without limitation, consumer goods (including fashion and apparel),
social media and e-commerce, and digital media and technology. These segments
may change as the Millennial generation ages, as determined by PGI's
quantitative model, which monitors trends in Millennial consumption over time.
As of September 30, 2022, the market capitalization range of the companies in
the MSCI ACWI IMI Index was between approximately $6.1 million and $2.2
trillion. Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 40% of its net
assets in foreign and emerging market securities. The Fund invests in equity
securities of different market capitalizations (small, medium, or
large).
The
Fund's holdings are expected to be rebalanced at least annually. However, PGI
may make any adjustments to the model and Fund holdings at its discretion. In
constructing and revising the model and managing the Fund's investments, PGI
uses insights from diverse sources, including internal investment research,
industry reports, and data from third-party consultants and other service
providers, to develop and refine its investment themes and identify and take
advantage of trends that may impact the Fund and its holdings.
The Fund will concentrate its
investments (invest more than 25% of its assets) in one or more industries
within the consumer discretionary sector and one or more industries within the
communication services sector.
Note:
"MSCI" is a trademark of MSCI Inc. and has been licensed
by Principal. The Fund is not sponsored, endorsed, sold, or promoted by MSCI,
and MSCI makes no representation regarding the advisability of investing in the
Fund.
Principal Risks
The value of your investment in the Fund changes with
the value of the Fund's investments. Many factors affect that value, and it is
possible to lose money by investing in the Fund. An investment in the Fund is not a
deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The
principal risks of investing in the Fund are listed below in alphabetical order
and not in order of significance.
Active
Management Risk. There
is no guarantee that the investment techniques, analyses, or judgments that the
Fund’s investment advisor and/or sub-advisor applies in making investment
decisions for the Fund will produce the intended outcome or that the investments
the advisor selects for the Fund will perform as well as other securities that
were not selected for the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment
objective, and it is not intended to be a complete investment
program.
Emerging
Markets Risk. Investments
in emerging markets may have more risk than those in developed markets because
the emerging markets are less developed and more illiquid. Emerging markets can
also be subject to increased social, economic, regulatory, and political
uncertainties and can be extremely volatile. The U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice, and other U.S. authorities may be
limited in their ability to pursue bad actors in emerging markets, including
with respect to fraud.
•China
Investment Risk. The
Fund invests a significant portion of its assets in securities of issuers
located or operating in China. Investing in China involves certain
heightened risks and considerations, including, among others: frequent trading
suspensions and government interventions (including by nationalizing assets);
currency exchange rate fluctuations or blockages; limits on using brokers and on
foreign ownership; different financial reporting standards; higher dependence on
exports and international trade; political and social instability; infectious
disease outbreaks; regional and global conflicts; increased trade tariffs,
embargoes and other trade limitations; custody and other risks associated with
programs used to access Chinese securities; and uncertainties in tax rules that
could result in unexpected tax liabilities for the Fund. Significant portions of
the Chinese securities markets may become rapidly illiquid, as Chinese issuers
have the ability to suspend the trading of their equity securities. Moreover,
actions by the U.S. government, such as delisting of certain Chinese companies
from U.S. securities exchanges or otherwise restricting their operations in the
U.S., may negatively impact the value of such securities held by the
funds.
Equity
Securities Risk. A
variety of factors can negatively impact the value of equity securities held by
a fund, including a decline in the issuer’s financial condition, unfavorable
performance of the issuer's sector or industry, or changes in response to
overall market and economic conditions. A fund's principal market segment(s)
(such as market capitalization or style) may underperform other market segments
or the equity markets as a whole.
•Growth
Style Risk.
Growth investing entails that risk that if growth companies do not increase
their earnings at a rate expected by investors, the market price of their stock
may decline significantly, even if earnings show an absolute increase. Growth
company stocks also typically lack the dividend yield that can lessen price
declines in market downturns.
•Smaller
Companies Risk. Investments
in smaller companies may involve greater risk and price volatility than
investments in larger, more mature companies. Smaller companies may have limited
product lines, markets or financial resources, lack the competitive strength of
larger companies, have less experienced managers or depend on a few key
employees. Their securities often are less widely held and trade less frequently
and in lesser quantities, and their market prices often fluctuate more, than
securities of larger companies.
Foreign
Currency Risk. Risks
of investing in securities denominated in, or that trade in, foreign (non-U.S.)
currencies include changes in foreign exchange rates and foreign exchange
restrictions.
Foreign
Securities Risk.
The risks of foreign securities include loss of value as a result of: political
or economic instability; nationalization, expropriation or confiscatory
taxation; settlement delays; and limited government regulation (including less
stringent reporting, accounting, and disclosure standards than are required of
U.S. companies).
Industry
and Sector Risks Related to Investing in Companies with Millennial
Exposure.
The Fund invests in companies with millennial exposure, which are likely to
include companies involved in producing or distributing clothing and apparel,
food (including restaurants), and consumer staples, as well as companies
involved in the provision of social networks and social media, digital media,
live events and entertainment, travel and transportation services, financial
services and investments, housing and housing services and educational services.
Such companies may be affected by changes in consumers’ disposable income,
consumer preferences, social trends and marketing campaigns. Millennial
companies generally face a high degree of competition and potentially rapid
product obsolescence. The customers and/or suppliers of millennial companies may
be concentrated in a particular country, region or industry. Any adverse event
affecting one of these countries, regions or industries could have a negative
impact on millennial companies. Millennial companies may participate in
monopolistic practices that could make them subject to higher levels of
regulatory scrutiny and/or potential break ups in the future, which could
severely impact the viability of these companies.
Industry
Concentration Risk. A
fund that concentrates investments in a particular industry or group of
industries has greater exposure than other funds to market, economic and other
factors affecting that industry or group of industries.
•Communication
Services Sector Risks.
Companies in the communications sector may be affected by industry competition,
substantial capital requirements, government regulation, cyclical revenues and
earnings, obsolescence of communications products and services due to
technological advancement, a potential decrease in the discretionary income of
targeted individuals, and changing consumer tastes and interests.
•Consumer
Goods and Consumer Services Sectors Risk.
The Fund invests in securities of companies in the consumer services and
consumers goods sectors to the extent the Index is composed of such securities.
Such companies are particularly subject to risks related to performance of the
overall global economy, interest rates, competition, government regulation, and
consumer confidence. Success depends heavily on disposable income and consumer
spending, and is also impacted by consumer interest and marketing campaigns.
Companies in these sectors may be subject to severe competition, which may have
an adverse impact on their profitability. Changes in demographics and consumer
tastes can affect the demand for, and success of, consumer goods and services in
the marketplace.
•Media
and Entertainment Industries Risk.
Companies engaged in the design, production or distribution of goods or services
for the media industry may become obsolete quickly. Media companies are subject
to risks that include cyclical revenues and earnings, a decrease in the
discretionary income of targeted individuals, changing consumer tastes and
interests, fierce competition in the industry, and the potential for increased
government regulation. Additionally, intellectual property rights are very
important to many media companies, and the expiration of intellectual property
rights or other events that adversely affect a media company’s intellectual
property rights may materially and adversely affect the value of its
securities.
Market
Trading Risks. The
Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including the potential lack of an
active market for Fund shares, losses from trading in secondary markets, and
disruption to the activities of market makers, authorized participants, or other
participants and in the creation/redemption process of the Fund. ANY OF THESE
FACTORS MAY LEAD TO THE FUND’S SHARES TRADING AT A PREMIUM OR DISCOUNT TO
NAV.
Model
Risk. Because
PGI uses quantitative models to select and hold securities, the Fund may hold
securities that present risks that an investment advisor researching individual
securities might seek to avoid. Moreover, models may be predictive in nature and
depend heavily on the accuracy and reliability of historical data that is
supplied by others and may be incorrect or incorrectly input. The Fund bears the
risk that the quantitative models used will not be successful in identifying
trends or in determining the size and direction of investment positions that
will enable the Fund to achieve its investment objective.
Redemption
and Large Transaction Risk. Ownership
of the Fund’s shares may be concentrated in one or a few large investors (such
as funds of funds, institutional investors, and asset allocation programs) that
may sell or purchase Fund shares in large quantities on the secondary market.
These secondary market transactions may cause authorized participants to
increase their purchases and redemptions of creation units from the Fund.
Purchases and redemptions of creation units primarily with cash rather than
through in kind delivery of portfolio securities may cause the Fund to incur
certain costs, such as brokerage costs or taxable gains or losses that it might
not have incurred if it had made a redemption in kind. These costs could be
imposed on the Fund and thus decrease its NAV to the extent that the costs are
not offset by a transaction fee payable by an authorized
participant.
Performance
The following information
provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. Past performance (before and
after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in
the future. You may get updated performance information at
www.PrincipalAM.com.
The bar chart shows the investment returns
of the Fund's shares for each full calendar year of operations for 10 years (or,
if shorter, the life of the Fund). The table shows for the last one, five, and
ten calendar year periods (or, if shorter, the life of the Fund), how the Fund's
average annual total returns compare with those of one or more broad measures of
market performance.
Life
of Fund returns are measured from the date the Fund's shares were first sold
(August 19, 2016).
Prior
to July 15, 2022, the objective and strategy of the Fund differed from its
current objective and strategy. Accordingly, performance of the Fund for periods
prior to that date may not be representative of the performance the Fund would
have achieved had the Fund been following its current objective and
strategy.
Total
Returns as of December 31 (1)
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Highest return for a quarter during
the period of the bar chart above: |
2Q
2020 |
35.13% |
Lowest return for a quarter during
the period of the bar chart above: |
1Q
2020 |
(23.30)% |
(1)
The year-to-date return as of
September 30, 2022 is
(40.68)%.
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Average
Annual Total Returns (Based on NAV)
For
the periods ended December 31, 2021(1) |
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1 Year |
5
Year |
Life
of Fund |
Return Before
Taxes |
2.67% |
20.09% |
18.29% |
Return After Taxes on
Distributions |
1.53% |
19.63% |
17.85% |
Return After Taxes on Distributions and
Sale of Fund Shares |
1.58% |
16.26% |
14.79% |
MSCI ACWI Index NTR (reflects
withholding taxes on foreign dividends, but no deductions for fees,
expenses, or other taxes) |
18.55% |
14.40% |
13.56% |
Nasdaq Global Millennial Opportunity
Index (NTR) (reflects withholding taxes
on foreign dividends, but no deduction for fees, expenses, or other
taxes) |
3.27% |
20.45% |
18.64% |
(1)
Prior
to July 15, 2022, the objective and strategy of the Fund differed from its
current objective and strategy. Accordingly, performance of the Fund for
periods prior to that date may not be representative of the performance
the Fund would have achieved had the Fund been following its current
objective and
strategy. |
After-tax returns are
calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax
rates 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. The
after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares
through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement
accounts.
Effective July 15, 2022, the Fund
changed its primary broad-based index for performance comparison purposes to the
MSCI ACWI Index in connection with the Fund's change to an actively managed
Fund. Prior to that date, the Fund was passively managed to correspond to the
Nasdaq Global Millennial Opportunity
Index.
Investment
Advisor and Portfolio Managers
Principal
Global Investors, LLC
•Jeffrey
A. Schwarte (since 2016), Portfolio Manager
•Aaron
J. Siebel (since 2020), Portfolio Manager
Purchase
and Sale of Fund Shares
The
Fund issues and redeems Shares at net asset value ("NAV") only with authorized
participants ("APs") who have entered into agreements with the Fund’s
distributor and only in blocks of 50,000 Shares (each block of Shares is called
a "Creation Unit"), or multiples thereof ("Creation Unit Aggregations"), in
exchange for the deposit or delivery of a basket of securities that the Fund
specifies each day. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, the Shares are not
redeemable securities of the Fund. Typically, the basket of assets will be made
up of securities, but may include a cash component. (See "Purchase and
Redemption of Creation Units" in the Statement of Additional Information for
more information.)
Shares
of the Fund are listed for trading on The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC. Individual
Shares may only be bought and sold in the secondary market through a broker or
dealer at a market price. Because Shares trade at market prices rather than NAV,
Shares may trade at prices greater than NAV (at a premium), at NAV, or less than
NAV (at a discount). An investor 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 on the secondary market (the bid-ask spread).
You
can access recent information, including information on the Fund’s net asset
value, market price, premiums and discounts, and bid-ask spreads at
www.PrincipalAM.com.
Tax
Information
The
Fund's distributions you receive are generally subject to federal income tax as
ordinary income or capital gain and may also be subject to state and local
taxes, unless you are tax-exempt or your account is tax-deferred in which case
your distributions would be taxed when withdrawn from the tax-deferred
account.
Payments
to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If
you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary,
the Fund and its related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of Fund
shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by
influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson to
recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your
financial intermediary's website for more information.
Objective:
The Fund seeks long-term
growth of capital.
Fees and Expenses of the
Fund
This table describes the fees
and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and sell shares of the Fund
("Shares"). You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees
to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table or the example
below.
Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses
that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment)
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Management
Fees |
0.15% |
Other
Expenses |
—% |
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (1) |
0.15% |
(1) The investment management
agreement (the “Management Agreement”) between the Fund and Principal Global
Investors, LLC (“PGI”) provides that, for the duration of the Management
Agreement, PGI will pay all operating expenses of the Fund, except the
Management Fee, payments made under the Funds' Rule 12b-1 plan (if or when such
fees are imposed), brokerage commissions and other expenses connected to the
execution of portfolio transactions, interest expense, taxes, acquired fund fees
and expenses, litigation expenses and other extraordinary
expenses.
Example
This Example is
intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of
investing in other funds.
The Example assumes that you invest
$10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated. The Example also assumes
that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating
expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower,
based on these assumptions your costs would be:
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1
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3
years |
5
years |
10
years |
Principal
Quality ETF |
$15 |
$48 |
$85 |
$192 |
Portfolio
Turnover
The Fund pays transaction
costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over"
its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction
costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable
account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses
or in the example, affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal
year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 96.0% of the average value of its portfolio. The
Fund's transition to active management on June 17, 2022 may have caused it to
experience an abnormally high level of portfolio turnover during the period of
the transition.
Principal Investment
Strategies
Under
normal circumstances, the Fund primarily invests in equity securities. For
security selection and portfolio construction, Principal Global Investors, LLC
("PGI") uses a proprietary quantitative model designed to identify equity
securities in the S&P 500 Index or S&P 400 Index that exhibit higher
quality, growth potential, and pricing power. "Higher quality" means securities
that PGI believes possess higher quality characteristics relative to their
peers, measured by profitability, earnings quality, balance sheet strength, and
solvency. "Pricing power" refers to the extent to which a company can raise the
prices of its products without reducing the demand for them. As of September 30,
2022, the market capitalization range of the companies in the S&P 500 Index
was between approximately $3.0 billion and $2.2 trillion. As of September 30,
2022, the market capitalization range of the companies in the S&P 400 Index
was between approximately $1.2 billion and $15.3 billion. The Fund invests in
equity securities of different market capitalizations (medium or large) and
styles (growth or value).
The
Fund's holdings are expected to be rebalanced at least annually. However, PGI
may make any adjustments to the model and Fund holdings at its
discretion.
In
constructing and revising the model and managing the Fund’s investments, PGI
uses insights from diverse sources, including internal investment research,
industry reports, and data from third-party consultants and other service
providers, to develop and refine its investment themes and identify and take
advantage of trends that may impact the Fund and its holdings.
The
Fund invested significantly in one or more industries within the healthcare
sector as of September 30, 2022.
Note:
"Standard
& Poor's 500", "Standard & Poor's 400", "S&P 500®"
and "S&P 400®"
are trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and have been
licensed by Principal. The Fund is not sponsored, endorsed, sold, or promoted by
Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC, and Standard & Poor's
Financial Services LLC makes no representation regarding the advisability of
investing in the Fund.
Principal Risks
The value of your investment in the Fund changes with
the value of the Fund's investments. Many factors affect that value, and it is
possible to lose money by investing in the Fund. An investment in the Fund is not a
deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The
principal risks of investing in the Fund are listed below in alphabetical order
and not in order of significance.
Active
Management Risk. There
is no guarantee that the investment techniques, analyses, or judgments that the
Fund’s investment advisor and/or sub-advisor applies in making investment
decisions for the Fund will produce the intended outcome or that the investments
the advisor selects for the Fund will perform as well as other securities that
were not selected for the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment
objective, and it is not intended to be a complete investment
program.
Equity
Securities Risk.
A variety of factors can negatively impact the value of equity securities held
by a fund, including a decline in the issuer’s financial condition, unfavorable
performance of the issuer's sector or industry, or changes in response to
overall market and economic conditions. A fund's principal market segment(s)
(such as market capitalization or style) may underperform other market segments
or the equity markets as a whole.
•Growth
Style Risk. Growth
investing entails that risk that if growth companies do not increase their
earnings at a rate expected by investors, the market price of their stock may
decline significantly, even if earnings show an absolute increase. Growth
company stocks also typically lack the dividend yield that can lessen price
declines in market downturns.
•Value
Style Risk. Value
investing entails the risk that value stocks may continue to be undervalued by
the market for extended periods, including the entire period during which the
stock is held by a fund, or the events that would cause the stock price to
increase may not occur as anticipated or at all. Moreover, a stock that appears
to be undervalued actually may be appropriately priced at a low level and
therefore would not be profitable for the fund.
Healthcare
Sector Risk. A
fund that invests in securities of companies in the healthcare sector (which
includes companies involved in several industries, including biotechnology
research and production, drugs and pharmaceuticals and health care facilities
and services) is subject to the direct risks of investing in such companies.
These companies are subject to extensive competition (due to, among others,
generic drug sales or the loss of patent protection), product liability
litigation and increased government regulation. Research and development costs
of bringing new drugs to market are substantial, and there is no guarantee that
a proposed product will ever come to market. Such companies are heavily
dependent on patent and intellectual property rights, the loss or impairment of
which may adversely affect profitability. Healthcare facility operators may be
affected by the demand for services, efforts by government or insurers to limit
rates, restriction of government financial assistance and competition from other
providers.
Market
Trading Risks. The
Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including the potential lack of an
active market for Fund shares, losses from trading in secondary markets, and
disruption to the activities of market makers, authorized participants, or other
participants and in the creation/redemption process of the Fund. ANY OF THESE
FACTORS MAY LEAD TO THE FUND’S SHARES TRADING AT A PREMIUM OR DISCOUNT TO
NAV.
Model
Risk. Because
PGI uses quantitative models to select and hold securities, the Fund may hold
securities that present risks that an investment advisor researching individual
securities might seek to avoid. Moreover, models may be predictive in nature and
depend heavily on the accuracy and reliability of historical data that is
supplied by others and may be incorrect or incorrectly input. The Fund bears the
risk that the quantitative models used will not be successful in identifying
trends or in determining the size and direction of investment positions that
will enable the Fund to achieve its investment objective.
Redemption
and Large Transaction Risk. Ownership
of the Fund’s shares may be concentrated in one or a few large investors (such
as funds of funds, institutional investors, and asset allocation programs) that
may sell or purchase Fund shares in large quantities on the secondary market.
These secondary market transactions may cause authorized participants to
increase their purchases and redemptions of creation units from the Fund.
Purchases and redemptions of creation units primarily with cash rather than
through in kind delivery of portfolio securities may cause the Fund to incur
certain costs, such as brokerage costs or taxable gains or losses that it might
not have incurred if it had made a redemption in kind. These costs could be
imposed on the Fund and thus decrease its NAV to the extent that the costs are
not offset by a transaction fee payable by an authorized
participant.
Performance
The following information
provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. Past performance (before and
after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in
the future. You may get updated performance information at
www.PrincipalAM.com.
The bar chart shows the investment returns
of the Fund's shares for each full calendar year of operations for 10 years (or,
if shorter, the life of the Fund). The table shows for the last one, five, and
ten calendar year periods (or, if shorter, the life of the Fund), how the Fund’s
average annual total returns compare with those of one or more broad measures of
market performance.
Life
of Fund returns are measured from the date the Fund's shares were first sold
(March 21, 2016).
During
2020, the Fund experienced a one-time gain of approximately $1.13 per share as
the result of a one-time infusion of capital by the Advisor due to an
operational error by a third party. If such gain had not been recognized, the
total return amounts would have been lower.
Prior
to June 17, 2022, the objective and strategy of the Fund differed from its
current objective and strategy. Accordingly, performance of the Fund for periods
prior to that date may not be representative of the performance the Fund would
have achieved had the Fund been following its current objective and
strategy.
Total
Returns as of December 31 (1)
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2Q
2020 |
20.69% |
Lowest return for a quarter during
the period of the bar chart above: |
1Q
2020 |
(19.38)% |
(1) The year-to-date return as of
September 30, 2022 is
(25.45)%.
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Annual Total Returns (Based on NAV)
For
the periods ended December 31, 2021(1) |
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1 Year |
5
Year |
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Life
of Fund |
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Return Before
Taxes |
29.15% |
19.78% |
(2) |
17.99% |
(2) |
Return After Taxes on
Distributions |
28.63% |
19.38% |
| 17.59% |
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Return After Taxes on Distributions and
Sale of Fund Shares |
17.22% |
16.01% |
| 14.62% |
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S&P 500 Index (reflects no
deductions for fees, expenses or taxes) |
28.73% |
18.48% |
| 17.90% |
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Nasdaq US Price Setters Index
(reflects no deductions for
fees, expenses or taxes) |
29.45% |
19.46% |
| 17.79% |
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(1)
Prior to June 17, 2022, the objective and strategy of the Fund differed
from its current objective and strategy. Accordingly, performance of the
Fund for periods prior to that date may not be representative of the
performance the Fund would have achieved had the Fund been following its
current objective and strategy. |
(2)
During
2020, the Fund experienced a one-time gain of approximately $1.13 per
share as the result of a one-time infusion of capital by the Advisor due
to an operational error by a third party. If such gain had not been
recognized, the total return amounts would have been
lower. |
After-tax returns are
calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax
rates 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. The
after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares
through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement
accounts.
Effective June 17, 2022, the Fund
changed its primary broad-based index for performance comparison purposes to the
S&P 500 Index in connection with the Fund's change to an actively managed
Fund. Prior to that date, the Fund was passively managed to correspond to the
Nasdaq US Price Setters Index.
Investment
Advisor and Portfolio Managers
Principal
Global Investors, LLC
•Jeffrey
A. Schwarte (since 2016), Portfolio Manager
•Aaron
J. Siebel (since 2020), Portfolio Manager
Purchase
and Sale of Fund Shares
The
Fund issues and redeems Shares at net asset value ("NAV") only with authorized
participants ("APs") who have entered into agreements with the Fund’s
distributor and only in blocks of 50,000 Shares (each block of Shares is called
a "Creation Unit"), or multiples thereof ("Creation Unit Aggregations"), in
exchange for the deposit or delivery of a basket of securities that the Fund
specifies each day. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, the Shares are not
redeemable securities of the Fund. Typically, the basket of assets will be made
up of securities, but may include a cash component. (See "Purchase and
Redemption of Creation Units" in the Statement of Additional Information for
more information.)
Shares
of the Fund are listed for trading on The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC. Individual
Shares may only be bought and sold in the secondary market through a broker or
dealer at a market price. Because Shares trade at market prices rather than NAV,
Shares may trade at prices greater than NAV (at a premium), at NAV, or less than
NAV (at a discount). An investor 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 on the secondary market (the bid-ask spread).
You
can access recent information, including information on the Fund's net asset
value, market price, premiums and discounts, and bid-ask spreads at
www.PrincipalAM.com.
Tax
Information
The
Fund's distributions you receive are generally subject to federal income tax as
ordinary income or capital gain and may also be subject to state and local
taxes, unless you are tax-exempt or your account is tax-deferred in which case
your distributions would be taxed when withdrawn from the tax-deferred
account.
Payments
to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If
you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary,
the Fund and its related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of Fund
shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by
influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson to
recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your
financial intermediary's website for more information.
Objective:
The Fund seeks total
return.
Fees and Expenses of the
Fund
This table describes the fees
and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and sell shares of the Fund
("Shares"). You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees
to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table or the example
below.
Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses
that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment)
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Management
Fees |
0.65% |
Other
Expenses |
—% |
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (1) |
0.65% |
(1) The investment management
agreement (the “Management Agreement”) between the Fund and Principal Global
Investors, LLC (“PGI”) provides that, for the duration of the Management
Agreement, PGI will pay all operating expenses of the Fund, except the
Management Fee, payments made under the Funds' Rule 12b-1 plan (if or when such
fees are imposed), brokerage commissions and other expenses connected to the
execution of portfolio transactions, interest expense, taxes, acquired fund fees
and expenses, litigation expenses and other extraordinary
expenses.
Example
This Example is
intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of
investing in other funds.
The Example assumes that you invest
$10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated. The Example also assumes
that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating
expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower,
based on these assumptions your costs would be:
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3
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Principal
Real Estate Active Opportunities ETF |
$66 |
$208 |
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. From May 18, 2022, the date
operations commenced, through June 30, 2022, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate
was 16.2% of the average value of its
portfolio.
Principal Investment
Strategies
Under
normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets, plus any
borrowings for investment purposes, in securities of companies principally
engaged in the real estate industry at the time of purchase. A real estate
company has at least 50% of its assets, income or profits derived from
investments, products or services related to the real estate industry. Real
estate companies include real estate investment trusts ("REITs") and
non-REITs.
REITs
are pooled investment vehicles that invest in income producing real estate, real
estate related loans, or other types of real estate interests. REITs are
corporations or business trusts that are permitted to eliminate corporate level
federal income taxes by meeting certain requirements of the Internal Revenue
Code.
The
Fund seeks to minimize its investments in traditional real estate sectors (e.g.,
conventional office, retail, apartments, and industrial). The Fund, instead,
seeks to favor investments in growing non-traditional real estate sectors that
may benefit from changing investor preferences and economic and societal shifts
(e.g., data centers, wireless towers, and single-family rentals). The investment
process relies on the professional judgment of the team’s portfolio managers and
analysts to carry out a fundamental-based approach to source ideas in a
bottom-up fashion. The analysts assess each potential company across multiple
categories, including, among others, market outlook, business outlook,
management skill and experience, capital structure, and income durability.
Portfolio managers will consider this fundamental quality assessment, relative
valuation, and recognition catalysts when selecting securities and constructing
the Fund’s portfolio.
The
Fund invests primarily in equity securities of U.S. companies, including those
of small companies. The Fund concentrates its investments
(invests more than 25% of its net assets) in securities in the real estate
industry.
The
Fund is considered non-diversified, which means it can invest a higher
percentage of assets in securities of individual issuers than a diversified
fund. As a result, changes in the value of a single investment could cause
greater fluctuations in the Fund's share price than would occur in a more
diversified fund.
The
Fund is an actively managed ETF that operates pursuant to an exemptive order
from the Securities and Exchange Commission (Non-Transparent Order) and does not
publicly disclose its complete portfolio holdings each business day. Instead,
the Fund publishes each business day on its website a “Tracking Basket,” which
is designed to closely track the daily performance of the Fund but is not the
Fund’s actual portfolio. The Tracking Basket is comprised of: (1) select
recently disclosed portfolio holdings (Strategy Components); (2) liquid ETFs
that convey information about the types of instruments (that are not otherwise
fully represented by the Strategy Components) in which the fund invests
(Representative ETFs); and (3) cash and cash equivalents. For additional
information regarding the Tracking Basket, see “Additional Fund Specific
Information – Tracking basket structure” in the prospectus.
The
Fund also publishes each business day on its website the "Tracking Basket Weight
Overlap," which is the percentage weight overlap between the holdings of the
prior business day’s Tracking Basket compared to the holdings of the Fund that
formed the basis for the Fund’s calculation of net asset value per share (NAV)
at the end of the prior business day. The Tracking Basket Weight Overlap is
designed to provide investors with an understanding of how similar the Tracking
Basket is to the Fund’s actual portfolio in percentage
terms.
Principal Risks
The value of your investment in the Fund changes with
the value of the Fund's investments. Many factors affect that value, and it is
possible to lose money by investing in the Fund. An investment in the Fund is not a
deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The
principal risks of investing in the Fund are listed below in alphabetical order
and not in order of significance.
Active
Management Risk. There
is no guarantee that the investment techniques, analyses, or judgments that the
Fund’s investment advisor and/or sub-advisor applies in making investment
decisions for the Fund will produce the intended outcome or that the investments
the advisor selects for the Fund will perform as well as other securities that
were not selected for the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment
objective, and it is not intended to be a complete investment
program.
Arbitrage
Risk. Unlike
ETFs that publicly disclose their complete portfolio holdings each business day,
the Fund provides certain other information (the Tracking Basket) intended to
allow market participants to estimate the value of positions in Fund shares.
Although this information is designed to facilitate arbitrage opportunities in
Fund shares to reduce bid-ask spread and minimize discounts or premiums between
the market price and NAV of Fund shares, there is no guarantee the Fund’s
arbitrage mechanism will operate as intended and that the Fund will not
experience wide bid-ask spreads and/or large discounts or premiums to NAV.
Further, the effectiveness of the Tracking Basket as an arbitrage mechanism is
contingent upon, among other things, the Tracking Basket performing in a manner
substantially identical to the performance of the Fund’s actual portfolio. The
Fund’s investment adviser may not always be successful in creating a Tracking
Basket that performs in a manner substantially identical to the performance of
the Fund’s actual portfolio. In addition, market participants may attempt to use
the disclosed information to "reverse engineer" the Fund’s trading strategy,
which, if successful, could increase opportunities for predatory trading
practices that may have the potential to negatively impact the Fund’s
performance.
Equity
Securities Risk.
A variety of factors can negatively impact the value of equity securities held
by a fund, including a decline in the issuer’s financial condition, unfavorable
performance of the issuer's sector or industry, or changes in response to
overall market and economic conditions. A fund's principal market segment(s)
(such as market capitalization or style) may underperform other market segments
or the equity markets as a whole.
•Growth
Style Risk. Growth
investing entails that risk that if growth companies do not increase their
earnings at a rate expected by investors, the market price of their stock may
decline significantly, even if earnings show an absolute increase. Growth
company stocks also typically lack the dividend yield that can lessen price
declines in market downturns.
•Smaller
Companies Risk. Investments
in smaller companies may involve greater risk and price volatility than
investments in larger, more mature companies. Smaller companies may have limited
product lines, markets or financial resources, lack the competitive strength of
larger companies, have less experienced managers or depend on a few key
employees. Their securities often are less widely held and trade less frequently
and in lesser quantities, and their market prices often fluctuate more, than
securities of larger companies.
•Value
Style Risk. Value
investing entails the risk that value stocks may continue to be undervalued by
the market for extended periods, including the entire period during which the
stock is held by a fund, or the events that would cause the stock price to
increase may not occur as anticipated or at all. Moreover, a stock that appears
to be undervalued actually may be appropriately priced at a low level and
therefore would not be profitable for the fund.
Industry
Concentration Risk. A
fund that concentrates investments in a particular industry or group of
industries has greater exposure than other funds to market, economic and other
factors affecting that industry or group of industries.
•Real
Estate. A
fund concentrating in the real estate industry is subject to the risks
associated with direct ownership of real estate, securities of companies in the
real estate industry, and/or real estate investment trusts. These risks are
explained more fully below in Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) Risk and
Real Estate Securities Risk.
Market
Trading Risks. The
Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including the potential lack of an
active market for Fund shares, losses from trading in secondary markets, and
disruption to the activities of market makers, authorized participants, or other
participants and in the creation/redemption process of the Fund. ANY OF THESE
FACTORS MAY LEAD TO THE FUND’S SHARES TRADING AT A PREMIUM OR DISCOUNT TO
NAV.
These
market trading risks may be more pronounced for the Fund versus an ETF that
makes its daily holdings public, particularly during periods of market
disruption or volatility. As a result, it may cost investors more to trade Fund
shares than shares of other ETFs.
Non-Diversification
Risk. A non-diversified fund may invest a high
percentage of its assets in the securities of a small number of issuers and is
more likely than diversified funds to be significantly affected by a specific
security’s poor performance.
Real
Estate Investment Trusts ("REITs") Risk. In
addition to risks associated with investing in real estate securities, REITs are
dependent upon management skills, are not diversified, and are subject to heavy
cash flow dependency, risks of default by borrowers, and self-liquidation.
Investment in REITs also involves risks similar to risks of investing in small
market capitalization companies, such as limited financial resources, less
frequent and limited volume trading, and may be subject to more abrupt or
erratic price movements than larger company securities. A REIT could fail to
qualify for tax-free pass-through of income under the Internal Revenue Code.
Fund shareholders will indirectly bear their proportionate share of the expenses
of REITs in which the fund invests.
Real
Estate Securities Risk. Investing
in real estate securities subjects the fund to the risks associated with the
real estate market (which are similar to the risks associated with direct
ownership in real estate), including declines in real estate values, loss due to
casualty or condemnation, property taxes, interest rate changes, increased
expenses, cash flow of underlying real estate assets, regulatory changes
(including zoning, land use and rents), and environmental problems, as well as
to the risks related to the management skill and creditworthiness of the
issuer.
Redemption
and Large Transaction Risk. Ownership
of the Fund’s shares may be concentrated in one or a few large investors (such
as funds of funds, institutional investors, and asset allocation programs) that
may sell or purchase Fund shares in large quantities on the secondary market.
These secondary market transactions may cause authorized participants to
increase their purchases and redemptions of creation units from the Fund.
Purchases and redemptions of creation units primarily with cash rather than
through in kind delivery of portfolio securities may cause the Fund to incur
certain costs, such as brokerage costs or taxable gains or losses that it might
not have incurred if it had made a redemption in kind. These costs could be
imposed on the Fund and thus decrease its NAV to the extent that the costs are
not offset by a transaction fee payable by an authorized
participant.
Tracking
Basket Structure Risk. The
Fund's Tracking Basket structure may affect the price at which shares of the
Fund trade in the secondary market. Although the Tracking Basket is intended to
provide investors with enough information to allow for an effective arbitrage
mechanism that will keep the market price of the Fund at or close to the Fund’s
NAV, there is a risk that market prices will vary significantly from NAV. ETFs
trading on the basis of a published Tracking Basket may trade at a wider bid-ask
spread than ETFs that publish their portfolios on a daily basis, and therefore,
may cost investors more to trade. These risks may increase during periods of
market disruption or volatility. At certain thresholds for such
premiums/discounts, bid/ask spreads and tracking error, the Fund’s Board will
consider possible remedial measures, which may include liquidation or conversion
to a fully transparent, active ETF or a mutual fund. In addition, although the
Fund seeks to benefit from keeping its portfolio information secret, market
participants may attempt to use the Tracking Basket to identify the fund’s
trading strategy. If successful, this could result in such market participants
engaging in certain predatory trading practices that may have the potential to
harm the Fund and its shareholders, such as front running the Fund’s trades of
portfolio securities.
Trading
Halt Risk. There
may be circumstances where a security held in the Fund's portfolio but not in
the Tracking Basket does not have readily available market quotations. If PGI
determines that such circumstance may affect the reliability of the Tracking
Basket as an arbitrage vehicle, that information, along with the identity and
weighting of that security in the Fund's portfolio, will be publicly disclosed
on the Fund's website and PGI will assess appropriate remedial measures. In
these circumstances, market participants may use this information to engage in
certain predatory trading practices that may have the potential to harm the Fund
and its shareholders. In addition, if securities representing 10% or more of the
Fund's portfolio do not have readily available market quotations, PGI would
promptly request the exchange to halt trading on the Fund, meaning that
investors would not be able to trade their shares. Trading may also be halted in
other circumstances, for example, due to market
conditions.
Performance
No performance information is shown because
the Fund has not yet had a calendar year of performance. The
Fund's performance is benchmarked against the FTSE NAREIT All Equity REITs
Index. Performance information provides an indication of the risks of investing
in the Fund. Past performance (before and
after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in
the future. You may get updated performance information at
www.PrincipalAM.com.
Investment
Advisor
Principal
Global Investors, LLC
Sub-Advisor
and Portfolio Managers
Principal
Real Estate Investors, LLC
•Keith
Bokota (since 2022), Portfolio Manager
•Anthony
Kenkel (since 2022), Portfolio Manager
•Kelly
D. Rush (since 2022), Portfolio Manager
Purchase
and Sale of Fund Shares
The
Fund issues and redeems Shares at net asset value ("NAV") only with authorized
participants ("APs") who have entered into agreements with the Fund’s
distributor and only in blocks of 20,000 Shares (each block of Shares is called
a "Creation Unit"), or multiples thereof ("Creation Unit Aggregations"), in
exchange for the deposit or delivery of a basket of securities that the Fund
specifies each day. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, the Shares are not
redeemable securities of the Fund. Typically, the basket of assets will be made
up of securities, but may include a cash component. (See "Purchase and
Redemption of Creation Units" in the Statement of Additional Information for
more information.)
Shares
of the Fund are listed for trading on NYSE Arca, Inc. Individual Shares may only
be bought and sold in the secondary market through a broker or dealer at a
market price. Because Shares trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares may
trade at prices greater than NAV (at a premium), at NAV, or less than NAV (at a
discount). An investor 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 on the secondary market (the bid-ask spread).
You
can access recent information, including information on the Fund's net asset
value, market price, premiums and discounts, and bid-ask spreads at
www.PrincipalAM.com.
Tax
Information
The
Fund’s distributions you receive are generally subject to federal income tax as
ordinary income or capital gain and may also be subject to state and local
taxes, unless you are tax-exempt or your account is tax-deferred in which case
your distributions would be taxed when withdrawn from the tax-deferred
account.
Payments
to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If
you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary,
the Fund and its related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of Fund
shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by
influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson to
recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your
financial intermediary's website for more information.
Objective: The Fund seeks to provide
current income.
Fees and Expenses of the
Fund
This table describes the fees
and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and sell shares of the Fund
("Shares"). You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees
to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table or the example
below.
Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses
that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment)
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0.55% |
Other
Expenses |
—% |
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (1) |
0.55% |
(1) The investment management
agreement (the “Management Agreement”) between the Fund and Principal Global
Investors, LLC (“PGI”) provides that, for the duration of the Management
Agreement, PGI will pay all operating expenses of the Fund, except for the
Management Fee, payments made under the Funds' Rule 12b-1 plan (if or when such
fees are imposed), brokerage commissions and other expenses connected to the
execution of portfolio transactions, interest expense, taxes, acquired fund fees
and expenses, litigation expenses and other extraordinary
expenses.
Example
This Example is
intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of
investing in other funds.
The
Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods
indicated.
The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that
the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be
higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would
be:
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5
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10
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Principal
Spectrum Preferred Securities Active ETF |
$56 |
$176 |
$307 |
$689 |
Portfolio
Turnover
The Fund pays transaction
costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over"
its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction
costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable
account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses
or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal
year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 9.2% of the average value of its
portfolio.
Principal Investment
Strategies
Under normal circumstances, the
Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets, plus any borrowings for investment
purposes, in preferred securities at the time of purchase. Examples of preferred
securities include preferred stock, certain depositary receipts, and various
types of junior subordinated debt (such debt generally includes the contractual
ability to defer payment of interest without accelerating an immediate default
event). In particular, the Fund focuses on preferred securities known as “$1,000
par preferred securities” which are issued in large, institutional lot sizes,
typically by U.S. and non-U.S. financial services companies (i.e., banking,
insurance and commercial finance companies) and other corporations. Preferred
securities generally pay fixed and floating rate distributions and are junior to
all forms of the company's senior debt, but may have "preference" over common
stock in the payment of distributions and the liquidation of a company's assets.
The Fund may invest its assets in below investment grade preferred securities
(sometimes called "high yield" or "junk") which are rated at the time of
purchase Ba1 or lower by Moody's Investors Service, Inc. ("Moody’s") and BB+ or
lower by Standard & Poor’s Rating Service ("S&P") (if a security is
rated differently by the rating agencies, the highest rating is used; if
the security has been rated by only one of those agencies, that rating will
determine whether the security is below investment grade; If the security has
not been rated by either of those agencies, the Sub-Advisor will determine
whether the security is of a quality comparable to those rated below investment
grade).
The Fund concentrates its investments
(invests more than 25% of its net assets) in securities in one or more
industries (i.e., banking, insurance and commercial finance) within the
financial services sector.
Principal Risks
The value of your investment in the Fund changes with
the value of the Fund's investments. Many factors affect that value, and it is
possible to lose money by investing in the Fund. An investment in the Fund is not a
deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The
principal risks of investing in the Fund are listed below in alphabetical order
and not in order of significance.
Active
Management Risk. There
is no guarantee that the investment techniques, analyses, or judgments that the
Fund’s investment advisor and/or sub-advisor applies in making investment
decisions for the Fund will produce the intended outcome or that the investments
the advisor selects for the Fund will perform as well as other securities that
were not selected for the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment
objective, and it is not intended to be a complete investment
program.
Fixed-Income
Securities Risk.
Fixed-income securities are subject to interest rate, credit quality, and
liquidity risks. The market value of fixed-income securities generally declines
when interest rates rise, and increased interest rates may adversely affect the
liquidity of certain fixed-income securities. Moreover, an issuer of
fixed-income securities could default on its payment obligations due to
increased interest rates or for other reasons.
Foreign
Securities Risk. The
risks of foreign securities include loss of value as a result of: political or
economic instability; nationalization, expropriation or confiscatory taxation;
settlement delays; and limited government regulation (including less stringent
reporting, accounting, and disclosure standards than are required of U.S.
companies).
High
Yield Securities Risk. High
yield fixed-income securities (commonly referred to as "junk bonds") are subject
to greater credit quality risk than higher rated fixed-income securities and
should be considered speculative.
Industry
Concentration Risk.
A
fund that concentrates investments in a particular industry or group of
industries has greater exposure than other funds to market, economic and other
factors affecting that industry or group of industries.
•Financial
Services. A
fund concentrating in financial services companies may be more susceptible to
adverse economic or regulatory occurrences affecting financial services
companies. Financial companies may be adversely affected in certain market
cycles, including periods of rising interest rates, which may restrict the
availability and increase the cost of capital, and declining economic
conditions, which may cause credit losses due to financial difficulties of
borrowers. Because many types of financial companies are especially vulnerable
to these economic cycles, the Fund’s investments in these companies may lose
significant value during such periods.
Liquidity
Risk. A
Fund is exposed to liquidity risk when trading volume, lack of a market maker,
or legal restrictions impair the Fund's ability to sell particular securities or
close derivative positions at an advantageous price. Funds with principal
investment strategies that involve certain fixed-income securities, securities
of companies with smaller market capitalizations, foreign securities,
derivatives, high yield bonds and bank loans or securities with substantial
market and/or credit risk tend to have the greatest exposure to liquidity
risk.
Market
Trading Risks. The
Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including the potential lack of an
active market for Fund shares, losses from trading in secondary markets, and
disruption to the activities of market makers, authorized participants, or other
participants and in the creation/redemption process of the Fund. ANY OF THESE
FACTORS MAY LEAD TO THE FUND’S SHARES TRADING AT A PREMIUM OR DISCOUNT TO
NAV.
Portfolio
Duration Risk. Portfolio
duration is a measure of the expected life of a fixed-income security and its
sensitivity to changes in interest rates. The longer a fund's average portfolio
duration, the more sensitive the fund will be to changes in interest rates,
which means funds with longer average portfolio durations may be more volatile
than those with shorter durations.
Preferred
Securities Risk. Because
preferred securities have a lower priority claim on assets or earnings than
senior bonds and other debt instruments in a company's capital structure, they
are subject to greater credit and liquidation risk than more senior debt
instruments. In addition, preferred securities are subject to other risks, such
as limited or no voting rights, deferring or skipping distributions, interest
rate risk, and redeeming the security prior to any stated maturity
date.
Redemption
and Large Transaction Risk. Ownership
of the Fund’s shares may be concentrated in one or a few large investors (such
as funds of funds, institutional investors, and asset allocation programs) that
may sell or purchase Fund shares in large quantities on the secondary market.
These secondary market transactions may cause authorized participants to
increase their purchases and redemptions of creation units from the Fund.
Purchases and redemptions of creation units primarily with cash rather than
through in kind delivery of portfolio securities may cause the Fund to incur
certain costs, such as brokerage costs or taxable gains or losses that it might
not have incurred if it had made a redemption in kind. These costs could be
imposed on the Fund and thus decrease its NAV to the extent that the costs are
not offset by a transaction fee payable by an authorized
participant.
Performance
The following information
provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. Past performance (before and
after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in
the future. You may get updated performance information at
www.PrincipalAM.com.
The bar chart shows the investment returns
of the Fund’s shares for each full calendar year of operations for 10 years (or,
if shorter, the life of the Fund). The table shows for the last one, five, and
ten calendar year periods (or, if shorter, the life of the Fund), how the Fund’s
average annual total returns compare with those of one or more broad measures of
market performance.
Life of Fund returns are measured from the
date the Fund's shares were first sold (July 10,
2017).
Total
Returns as of December 31 (1)
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Highest return for a quarter during
the period of the bar chart above: |
2Q
2020 |
12.14% |
Lowest return for a quarter during
the period of the bar chart above: |
1Q
2020 |
(12.33)% |
(1)
The year-to-date return as of
September 30, 2022 is
(14.37)%.
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Average
Annual Total Returns (Based on NAV)
For
the periods ended December 31,
2021 |
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1 Year |
Life
of Fund |
Return Before
Taxes |
2.10% |
5.04% |
Return After Taxes on
Distributions |
0.44% |
3.37% |
Return After Taxes on Distributions and
Sale of Fund Shares |
1.24% |
3.30% |
ICE BofA Merrill Lynch U.S. Investment
Grade Institutional Capital Securities Index (reflects no deductions for
fees, expenses or taxes) |
2.46% |
5.74% |
After-tax returns are
calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax
rates 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. The
after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares
through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement
accounts.
Investment
Advisor
Principal
Global Investors, LLC
Sub-Advisor
and Portfolio Managers
Spectrum
Asset Management, Inc.
•Roberto
Giangregorio (since 2017), Portfolio Manager
•L.
Phillip Jacoby, IV (since 2017), Chief Investment Officer and Portfolio
Manager
•Manu
Krishnan (since 2017), Portfolio Manager
•Mark
A. Lieb (since 2017), President and Chief Executive Officer
•Kevin
Nugent (since 2021), Portfolio Manager
•Satomi
Yarnell (since 2021), Portfolio Manager
Purchase
and Sale of Fund Shares
The
Fund issues and redeems Shares at net asset value ("NAV") only with authorized
participants ("APs") who have entered into agreements with the Fund’s
distributor and only in blocks of 50,000 Shares (each block of Shares is called
a "Creation Unit"), or multiples thereof ("Creation Unit Aggregations"), in
exchange for the deposit or delivery of a basket of securities that the Fund
specifies each day. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, the Shares are not
redeemable securities of the Fund. Typically, the basket of assets will be made
up of securities, but may include a cash component. (See "Purchase and
Redemption of Creation Units" in the Statement of Additional Information for
more information.)
Shares
of the Fund are listed for trading on NYSE Arca, Inc. Individual Shares may only
be bought and sold in the secondary market through a broker or dealer at a
market price. Because Shares trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares may
trade at prices greater than NAV (at a premium), at NAV, or less than NAV (at a
discount). An investor 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 on the secondary market (the bid-ask spread).
You
can access recent information, including information on the Fund’s net asset
value, market price, premiums and discounts, and bid-ask spreads at
www.PrincipalAM.com.
Tax
Information
The
Fund's distributions you receive are generally subject to federal income tax as
ordinary income or capital gain and may also be subject to state and local
taxes, unless you are tax-exempt or your account is tax-deferred in which case
your distributions would be taxed when withdrawn from the tax-deferred
account.
Payments
to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If
you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary,
the Fund and its related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of Fund
shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by
influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson to
recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your
financial intermediary's website for more information.
Objective: The Fund seeks to provide
current income.
Fees and Expenses of the
Fund
This table describes the fees
and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and sell shares of the Fund
("Shares"). You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees
to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table or the example
below.
Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses
that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment)
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Management
Fees |
0.60% |
Other
Expenses |
—% |
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (1) |
0.60% |
(1) The investment management
agreement (the “Management Agreement”) between the Fund and Principal Global
Investors, LLC (“PGI”) provides that, for the duration of the Management
Agreement, PGI will pay all operating expenses of the Fund, except for the
Management Fee, payments made under the Funds' Rule 12b-1 plan (if or when such
fees are imposed), brokerage commissions and other expenses connected to the
execution of portfolio transactions, interest expense, taxes, acquired fund fees
and expenses, litigation expenses and other extraordinary
expenses.
Example
This Example is
intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of
investing in other funds.
The
Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods
indicated.
The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that
the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be
higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would
be:
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3
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5
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10
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Principal
Spectrum Tax-Advantaged Dividend Active ETF |
$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. During the most recent fiscal
year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 6.7% of the average value of its
portfolio.
Principal Investment
Strategies
Under
normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets, plus any
borrowings for investment purposes, in dividend-paying securities at the time of
purchase. Such securities include, without limitation, preferred securities and
capital securities of U.S. and non-U.S. issuers. The Fund invests significantly
in securities that, at the time of issuance, are eligible to pay dividends that
qualify for favorable U.S. federal income tax treatment, such as dividends
treated as “qualified dividend income” ("QDI") and qualified dividends from real
estate investment trusts ("REITS"). However, the Fund also invests in securities
that are not eligible for such treatment.
Examples
of preferred securities in which the Fund invests include preferred stock,
certain depositary receipts, and various types of junior subordinated debt. Such
preferred securities generally pay fixed and floating rate distributions and are
junior to all forms of the company's senior debt, but may have "preference" over
common stock in the payment of distributions and the liquidation of a company's
assets. Capital securities are securities issued by financial institutions and
other corporate issuers for purposes of satisfying regulatory capital
requirements of obtaining agency credit. Examples of capital securities in which
the Fund invests include subordinated debt securities, certain preferred
securities, and contingent convertible securities (“Cocos”). Cocos are hybrid
debt securities typically issued by non-US banking institutions that have
contractual equity conversion or principal write-down features that are
triggered by regulatory capital thresholds or regulatory actions calling into
question the issuing banking institution’s continued viability as a
going-concern if the conversion trigger were not exercised. The Fund defines
"dividend-paying securities" to include preferred and capital securities that
make payments and distributions that are treated as dividends for U.S. federal
income tax purposes.
The Fund invests in investment grade
securities and in below investment grade securities (sometimes called "high
yield" or "junk"). The Fund is not managed to a particular maturity or duration.
The Fund concentrates its investments
(invests more than 25% of its net assets) in securities in one or more
industries (i.e., banking, insurance and commercial finance) within the
financial services sector.
Principal Risks
The value of your investment in the Fund changes with
the value of the Fund's investments. Many factors affect that value, and it is
possible to lose money by investing in the Fund. An investment in the Fund is not a
deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The
principal risks of investing in the Fund are listed below in alphabetical order
and not in order of significance.
Active
Management Risk. There
is no guarantee that the investment techniques, analyses, or judgments that the
Fund’s investment advisor and/or sub-advisor applies in making investment
decisions for the Fund will produce the intended outcome or that the investments
the advisor selects for the Fund will perform as well as other securities that
were not selected for the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment
objective, and it is not intended to be a complete investment
program.
Capital
Securities Risk.
In addition to the risks associated with other types of preferred securities and
fixed-income securities, investing in capital securities includes the risk that
the value of securities may decline in response to changes in legislation and
regulations applicable to financial institutions and financial markets,
increased competition, adverse changes in general or industry-specific economic
conditions, or unfavorable interest rates.
Contingent
Convertible Securities Risk.
In addition to the general risks associated with fixed-income securities and
convertible securities, the risks of investing in contingent convertible
securities (“CoCos”) include the risk that a CoCo may be written down, written
off or converted into an equity security when the issuer’s capital ratio falls
below a specified trigger level, or in a regulator’s discretion depending on the
regulator’s judgment about the issuer’s solvency prospects. Due to these
features, CoCos may have substantially greater risk than other securities in
times of financial stress. If the trigger level is breached, the issuer’s
decision to write down, write off or convert a CoCo may result in the fund's
complete loss on an investment in CoCos with no chance of recovery even if the
issuer remains in existence.
Dividend-Oriented
Stocks Risk.
Companies that have paid regular dividends to shareholders may decrease or
eliminate dividend payments in the future. For example, a sharp rise in interest
rates or economic downturn could cause a company to unexpectedly reduce or
eliminate its dividend. Additionally, the Fund’s performance during a broad
market advance could suffer because dividend-paying securities may not
experience the same capital appreciation as non-dividend paying
securities.
Fixed-Income
Securities Risk.
Fixed-income securities are subject to interest rate, credit quality, and
liquidity risks. The market value of fixed-income securities generally declines
when interest rates rise, and increased interest rates may adversely affect the
liquidity of certain fixed-income securities. Moreover, an issuer of
fixed-income securities could default on its payment obligations due to
increased interest rates or for other reasons.
Foreign
Securities Risk.
The risks of foreign securities include loss of value as a result of: political
or economic instability; nationalization, expropriation or confiscatory
taxation; settlement delays; and limited government regulation (including less
stringent reporting, accounting, and disclosure standards than are required of
U.S. companies).
High
Yield Securities Risk.
High yield fixed-income securities (commonly referred to as "junk bonds") are
subject to greater credit quality risk than higher rated fixed-income securities
and should be considered speculative.
Industry
Concentration Risk.
A fund that concentrates investments in a particular industry or group of
industries has greater exposure than other funds to market, economic and other
factors affecting that industry or group of industries.
•Financial
Services.
A fund concentrating in financial services companies may be more susceptible to
adverse economic or regulatory occurrences affecting financial services
companies. Financial companies may be adversely affected in certain market
cycles, including periods of rising interest rates, which may restrict the
availability and increase the cost of capital, and declining economic
conditions, which may cause credit losses due to financial difficulties of
borrowers. Because many types of financial companies are especially vulnerable
to these economic cycles, the Fund’s investments in these companies may lose
significant value during such periods.
Market
Trading Risks.
The Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including the potential lack of an
active market for Fund shares, losses from trading in secondary markets, and
disruption to the activities of market makers, authorized participants, or other
participants and in the creation/redemption process of the Fund. ANY OF THESE
FACTORS MAY LEAD TO THE FUND’S SHARES TRADING AT A PREMIUM OR DISCOUNT TO
NAV.
Portfolio
Duration Risk.
Portfolio duration is a measure of the expected life of a fixed-income security
and its sensitivity to changes in interest rates. The longer a fund's average
portfolio duration, the more sensitive the fund will be to changes in interest
rates, which means funds with longer average portfolio durations may be more
volatile than those with shorter durations.
Preferred
Securities Risk.
Because preferred securities have a lower priority claim on assets or earnings
than senior bonds and other debt instruments in a company's capital structure,
they are subject to greater credit and liquidation risk than more senior debt
instruments. In addition, preferred securities are subject to other risks, such
as limited or no voting rights, deferring or skipping distributions, interest
rate risk, and redeeming the security prior to any stated maturity
date.
Real
Estate Investment Trusts ("REITs") Risk.
In addition to risks associated with investing in real estate securities, REITs
are dependent upon management skills, are not diversified, and are subject to
heavy cash flow dependency, risks of default by borrowers, and self-liquidation.
Investment in REITs also involves risks similar to risks of investing in small
market capitalization companies, such as limited financial resources, less
frequent and limited volume trading, and may be subject to more abrupt or
erratic price movements than larger company securities. A REIT could fail to
qualify for tax-free pass-through of income under the Internal Revenue Code.
Fund shareholders will indirectly bear their proportionate share of the expenses
of REITs in which the fund invests.
Real
Estate Securities Risk.
Investing in real estate securities subjects the fund to the risks associated
with the real estate market (which are similar to the risks associated with
direct ownership in real estate), including declines in real estate values, loss
due to casualty or condemnation, property taxes, interest rate changes,
increased expenses, cash flow of underlying real estate assets, regulatory
changes (including zoning, land use and rents), and environmental problems, as
well as to the risks related to the management skill and creditworthiness of the
issuer.
Redemption
and Large Transaction Risk.
Ownership of the Fund’s shares may be concentrated in one or a few large
investors (such as funds of funds, institutional investors, and asset allocation
programs) that may sell or purchase Fund shares in large quantities on the
secondary market. These secondary market transactions may cause authorized
participants to increase their purchases and redemptions of creation units from
the Fund. Purchases and redemptions of creation units primarily with cash rather
than through in kind delivery of portfolio securities may cause the Fund to
incur certain costs, such as brokerage costs or taxable gains or losses that it
might not have incurred if it had made a redemption in kind. These costs could
be imposed on the Fund and thus decrease its NAV to the extent that the costs
are not offset by a transaction fee payable by an authorized
participant.
Tax-Advantaged
Strategy Risk.
There can be no assurance as to the portion of the Fund’s distributions that
will qualify for favorable federal income tax treatment. The Fund may make
investments and pay dividends that are ineligible for favorable tax treatment or
that otherwise do not meet the requirements for such treatment, and shareholders
must satisfy certain requirements to take advantage of beneficial tax
treatment.
For
example, only certain individual and non-corporate taxpayers (and not corporate
and other certain taxpayers) are eligible for reduced income tax rates (0%-20%)
on QDI or to deduct up to 20% of qualified dividends from REITs (“QRD”).
Additionally, in order to benefit from QDI or QRD treatment, both the Fund and
eligible shareholders must meet holding period requirements. Some taxpayers
(including certain individuals, trusts, and estates) may be subject to an
additional 3.8% tax on QDI. Current regulations provide for favorable QRD
treatment only for dividends distributed during the 2018-2025 tax years.
Moreover,
the Internal Revenue Service may take a contrary position as to the tax
treatment of certain dividends. Federal income tax laws with respect to
qualified dividends or other favorable tax treatment may change, and any
applicable reduced income tax rate or deduction may change or be eliminated for
some or all taxpayers. Therefore, some or all of the Fund’s dividends may be
subject to ordinary income tax rates and/or may not qualify for any special
deduction under U.S. federal income tax laws. Any dividends made by the Fund
will also be subject to applicable state and local tax.
Because the Fund makes investment decisions
based in part on tax considerations, the Fund’s pre-tax performance may be lower
than the performance of similar funds that are not
tax-managed.
Performance
The following information
provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. Past performance (before and
after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in
the future. You may get updated performance information at
www.PrincipalAM.com.
The bar chart shows the investment returns
of the Fund’s shares for each full calendar year of operations for 10 years (or,
if shorter, the life of the Fund). The table shows for the last one, five, and
ten calendar year periods (or, if shorter, the life of the Fund), how the Fund’s
average annual total returns compare with those of one or more broad measures of
market performance.
Life of Fund returns are measured from the
date the Fund's shares were first sold (June 16,
2020).
Total
Returns as of December 31 (1)
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Highest return for a quarter during
the period of the bar chart above: |
4Q
2021 |
2.75% |
Lowest return for a quarter during
the period of the bar chart above: |
2Q
2021 |
(0.50)% |
(1)
The year-to-date return as of
September 30, 2022 is
(11.74)%.
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Average
Annual Total Returns (Based on NAV)
For
the periods ended December 31,
2021 |
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1 Year |
Life
of Fund |
Return Before
Taxes |
2.86% |
8.39% |
Return After Taxes on
Distributions |
0.74% |
6.49% |
Return After Taxes on Distributions and
Sale of Fund Shares |
1.70% |
5.80% |
ICE BofA Merrill Lynch 7% Constrained
DRD Eligible Preferred Securities Index (reflects no deductions for
fees, expenses or taxes) |
2.24% |
8.08% |
After-tax returns are
calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax
rates 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. The
after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares
through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement
accounts.
Investment
Advisor
Principal
Global Investors, LLC
Sub-Advisor
and Portfolio Managers
Spectrum
Asset Management, Inc.
•Fred
Diaz (since 2020), Portfolio Manager
•Roberto
Giangregorio (since 2020), Portfolio Manager
•L.
Phillip Jacoby, IV (since 2020), Chief Investment Officer and Portfolio
Manager
•Manu
Krishnan (since 2020), Portfolio Manager
•Mark
A. Lieb (since 2020), President and Chief Executive Officer
•Kevin
Nugent (since 2020), Portfolio Manager
•Satomi
Yarnell (since 2021), Portfolio Manager
Purchase
and Sale of Fund Shares
The
Fund issues and redeems Shares at net asset value ("NAV") only with authorized
participants ("APs") who have entered into agreements with the Fund’s
distributor and only in blocks of 50,000 Shares (each block of Shares is called
a "Creation Unit"), or multiples thereof ("Creation Unit Aggregations"), in
exchange for the deposit or delivery of a basket of securities that the Fund
specifies each day. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, the Shares are not
redeemable securities of the Fund. Typically, the basket of assets will be made
up of securities, but may include a cash component. (See "Purchase and
Redemption of Creation Units" in the Statement of Additional Information for
more information.)
Shares
of the Fund are listed for trading on NYSE Arca, Inc. Individual Shares may only
be bought and sold in the secondary market through a broker or dealer at a
market price. Because Shares trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares may
trade at prices greater than NAV (at a premium), at NAV, or less than NAV (at a
discount). An investor 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 on the secondary market (the bid-ask spread).
You
can access recent information, including information on the Fund’s net asset
value, market price, premiums and discounts, and bid-ask spreads at
www.PrincipalAM.com.
Tax
Information
The
Fund’s distributions you receive are generally subject to federal income tax as
ordinary income or capital gain and may also be subject to state and local
taxes, unless you are tax-exempt or your account is tax-deferred in which case
your distributions would be taxed when withdrawn from the tax-deferred
account.
Payments
to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If
you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary,
the Fund and its related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of Fund
shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by
influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson to
recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your
financial intermediary's website for more information.
Objective: The Fund seeks to provide
current income.
Fees and Expenses of the
Fund:
This table describes the fees
and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and sell shares of the Fund
("Shares"). You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees
to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table or the example
below.
Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses
that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment)
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Management
Fees |
0.18% |
Other
Expenses |
—% |
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (1) |
0.18% |
(1) The investment management
agreement (the “Management Agreement”) between the Fund and Principal Global
Investors, LLC (“PGI”) provides that, for the duration of the Management
Agreement, PGI will pay all operating expenses of the Fund, except for the
Management Fee, payments made under the Funds' Rule 12b-1 plan (if or when such
fees are imposed), brokerage commissions and other expenses connected to the
execution of portfolio transactions, interest expense, taxes, acquired fund fees
and expenses, litigation expenses and other extraordinary
expenses.
Example
This Example is
intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of
investing in other funds.
The Example assumes that you invest
$10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated. The Example also assumes
that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating
expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower,
based on these assumptions your costs would be:
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3
years |
5
years |
10
years |
Principal
Ultra-Short Active Income ETF |
$18 |
$58 |
$101 |
$230 |
Portfolio
Turnover
The Fund pays transaction
costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over"
its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction
costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable
account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses
or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal
year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 61.3% of the average value of its
portfolio.
Principal Investment
Strategies
The
Fund is an actively managed exchange-traded fund ("ETF") that seeks to achieve
its investment objective by investing, under normal circumstances, at least 80%
of its net assets, plus any borrowings for investment purposes, in
investment-grade bonds and other fixed income securities. "Investment grade”
securities are rated at the time of purchase BBB- or higher by S&P Global
Ratings ("S&P Global") or Baa3 or higher by Moody's Investors Service, Inc.
("Moody's") or, if unrated, of comparable quality in the opinion of those
selecting such investments. If the security has been rated by only one of those
agencies, that rating will determine whether the security is investment grade.
The
Fund invests in fixed- and floating-rate securities. The Fund invests in foreign
securities, corporate securities, securities issued by the U.S. and foreign
governments and their agencies and instrumentalities, asset-backed securities
(securitized products), and commercial paper. The Fund concentrates (invests more
than 25% of its net assets) its investments in one or more industries (i.e.,
banking, insurance and commercial finance) within the financial services
sector.
Under normal circumstances, the Fund
maintains an average effective maturity of three years or less and an average
portfolio duration of one year or less. The Fund is not a money market fund and
does not seek to maintain a stable net asset value of $1.00 per share. The Fund
actively trades securities.
Principal Risks
The value of your investment in the Fund changes with
the value of the Fund's investments. Many factors affect that value, and it is
possible to lose money by investing in the Fund. An investment in the Fund is not a
deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The
principal risks of investing in the Fund are listed below in alphabetical order
and not in order of significance.
Active
Management Risk. There
is no guarantee that the investment techniques, analyses, or judgments that the
Fund’s investment advisor and/or sub-advisor applies in making investment
decisions for the Fund will produce the intended outcome or that the investments
the advisor selects for the Fund will perform as well as other securities that
were not selected for the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment
objective, and it is not intended to be a complete investment
program.
Commercial
Paper Risk.
The value of the Fund’s investment in commercial paper, which is generally
unsecured, is susceptible to changes in interest rates and the issuer’s
financial condition or credit quality. Commercial paper is usually repaid
at maturity by the issuer from the proceeds of the issuance of
new commercial paper. As a result, investments in commercial paper are
subject to the risk that the issuer cannot issue enough new commercial paper to
satisfy its outstanding obligations. In addition, under certain
circumstances commercial paper may become illiquid or may suffer from
reduced liquidity.
Fixed-Income
Securities Risk.
Fixed-income securities are subject to interest rate, credit quality, and
liquidity risks. The market value of fixed-income securities generally declines
when interest rates rise, and increased interest rates may adversely affect the
liquidity of certain fixed-income securities. Moreover, an issuer of
fixed-income securities could default on its payment obligations due to
increased interest rates or for other reasons.
Floating
Interest Rate Risk.
Floating interest rates vary with and are periodically adjusted to reflect
changes in a generally recognized base interest rate (e.g., LIBOR, SOFR, the
federal funds rate, or a similar reference rate). Securities with floating or
variable interest rates can be less sensitive to interest rate changes than
securities with fixed interest rates, but may decline in value if their coupon
rates do not reset as high, or as quickly, as comparable market interest rates,
and generally carry lower yields than fixed notes of the same maturity. Although
floating rate securities are less sensitive to interest rate risk than
fixed-rate securities, they are subject to credit risk and default risk, which
could impair their value.
Foreign
Securities Risk.
The risks of foreign securities include loss of value as a result of: political
or economic instability; nationalization, expropriation or confiscatory
taxation; settlement delays; and limited government regulation (including less
stringent reporting, accounting, and disclosure standards than are required of
U.S. companies).
Industry
Concentration Risk.
A fund that concentrates investments in a particular industry or group of
industries has greater exposure than other funds to market, economic and other
factors affecting that industry or group of industries.
•Financial
Services.
A fund concentrating in financial services companies may be more susceptible to
adverse economic or regulatory occurrences affecting financial services
companies. Financial companies may be adversely affected in certain market
cycles, including periods of rising interest rates, which may restrict the
availability and increase the cost of capital, and declining economic
conditions, which may cause credit losses due to financial difficulties of
borrowers. Because many types of financial companies are especially vulnerable
to these economic cycles, the Fund’s investments in these companies may lose
significant value during such periods.
Market
Trading Risks. The
Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including the potential lack of an
active market for Fund shares, losses from trading in secondary markets, and
disruption to the activities of market makers, authorized participants, or other
participants and in the creation/redemption process of the Fund. ANY OF THESE
FACTORS MAY LEAD TO THE FUND’S SHARES TRADING AT A PREMIUM OR DISCOUNT TO
NAV.
Portfolio
Duration Risk. Portfolio
duration is a measure of the expected life of a fixed-income security and its
sensitivity to changes in interest rates. The longer a fund's average portfolio
duration, the more sensitive the fund will be to changes in interest rates,
which means funds with longer average portfolio durations may be more volatile
than those with shorter durations.
Redemption
and Large Transaction Risk. Ownership
of the Fund’s shares may be concentrated in one or a few large investors (such
as funds of funds, institutional investors, and asset allocation programs) that
may sell or purchase Fund shares in large quantities on the secondary market.
These secondary market transactions may cause authorized participants to
increase their purchases and redemptions of creation units from the Fund.
Purchases and redemptions of creation units primarily with cash rather than
through in kind delivery of portfolio securities may cause the Fund to incur
certain costs, such as brokerage costs or taxable gains or losses that it might
not have incurred if it had made a redemption in kind. These costs could be
imposed on the Fund and thus decrease its NAV to the extent that the costs are
not offset by a transaction fee payable by an authorized
participant.
Securitized
Products Risk.
Investments in securitized products are subject to risks similar to traditional
fixed income securities, such as credit, interest rate, liquidity, prepayment,
extension, and default risk, as well as additional risks associated with the
nature of the assets and the servicing of those assets. Unscheduled prepayments
on securitized products may have to be reinvested at lower rates. A reduction in
prepayments may increase the effective maturities of these securities, exposing
them to the risk of decline in market value over time (extension risk).
U.S.
Government Securities Risk. Yields
available from U.S. government securities are generally lower than yields from
many other fixed-income securities.
U.S. Government-Sponsored
Securities Risk. Securities issued by U.S.
government-sponsored enterprises such as the Federal Home Loan Mortgage
Corporation, the Federal National Mortgage Association, and the Federal Home
Loan Banks are not issued or guaranteed by the U.S.
government.
Performance
The following information
provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. Past performance (before and
after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in
the future. You may get updated performance information at
www.PrincipalAM.com.
The bar chart shows the investment returns
of the Fund’s shares for each full calendar year of operations for 10 years (or,
if shorter, the life of the Fund). The table shows for the last one, five, and
ten calendar year periods (or, if shorter, the life of the Fund), how the Fund’s
average annual total returns compare with those of one or more broad measures of
market performance.
Life of Fund returns are measured from the
date the Fund's shares were first sold (April 24,
2019).
Total
Returns as of December 31 (1)
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2Q
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Lowest return for a quarter during
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1Q
2020 |
(0.48)% |
(1)
The year-to-date return as of
September 30, 2022 is
(0.74)%.
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Annual Total Returns (Based on NAV)
For
the periods ended December 31,
2021 |
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Life
of Fund |
Return Before
Taxes |
(0.09)% |
1.29% |
Return After Taxes on
Distributions |
(0.61)% |
0.46% |
Return After Taxes on Distributions and
Sale of Fund Shares |
(0.05)% |
0.63% |
Bloomberg U.S. 1-3 Month Treasury Bill
Index |
0.04% |
0.75% |
After-tax returns are
calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax
rates 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. The
after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares
through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement
accounts.
Investment
Advisor and Portfolio Managers
Principal
Global Investors, LLC
•John
R. Friedl (since 2019), Portfolio Manager
•Scott
J. Peterson (since 2019), Portfolio Manager
Purchase
and Sale of Fund Shares
The
Fund issues and redeems Shares at net asset value ("NAV") only with authorized
participants ("APs") who have entered into agreements with the Fund's
distributor and only in blocks of 50,000 Shares (each block of Shares is called
a "Creation Unit"), or multiples thereof ("Creation Unit Aggregations"), in
exchange for the deposit or delivery of a basket of securities that the Fund
specifies each day. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, the Shares are not
redeemable securities of the Fund. Typically, the basket of assets will be made
up of securities, but may include a cash component. (See "Purchase and
Redemption of Creation Units" in the Statement of Additional Information for
more information.)
Shares
of the Fund are listed for trading on NYSE Arca, Inc. Individual Shares may only
be bought and sold in the secondary market through a broker or dealer at a
market price. Because Shares trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares may
trade at prices greater than NAV (at a premium), at NAV, or less than NAV (at a
discount). An investor 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 on the secondary market (the bid-ask spread).
You
can access recent information, including information on the Fund’s net asset
value, market price, premiums and discounts, and bid-ask spreads at
www.PrincipalAM.com.
Tax
Information
The
Fund’s distributions you receive are generally subject to federal income tax as
ordinary income or capital gain and may also be subject to state and local
taxes, unless you are tax-exempt or your account is tax-deferred in which case
your distributions would be taxed when withdrawn from the tax-deferred account.
Payments
to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If
you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary,
the Fund and its related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of Fund
shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by
influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson to
recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your
financial intermediary's website for more information.
Objective:
The Fund seeks long-term
growth of capital.
Fees and Expenses of the
Fund
This table describes the fees
and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and sell shares of the Fund
("Shares"). You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees
to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table or the example
below.
Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses
that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment)
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0.15% |
Other
Expenses |
—% |
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (1) |
0.15% |
(1) The investment management
agreement (the “Management Agreement”) between the Fund and Principal Global
Investors, LLC (“PGI”) provides that, for the duration of the Management
Agreement, PGI will pay all operating expenses of the Fund, except for the
Management Fee, payments made under the Funds' Rule 12b-1 plan (if or when such
fees are imposed), brokerage commissions and other expenses connected to the
execution of portfolio transactions, interest expense, taxes, acquired fund fees
and expenses, litigation expenses and other extraordinary expenses.
Example
This Example is
intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of
investing in other funds.
The Example assumes that you invest
$10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated. The Example also assumes
that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating
expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower,
based on these assumptions your costs would be:
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3
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5
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10
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Principal
U.S. Large-Cap Adaptive Multi-Factor ETF |
$15 |
$48 |
$85 |
$192 |
Portfolio
Turnover
The Fund pays transaction
costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over"
its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction
costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable
account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses
or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal
year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 106.6% of the average value of its
portfolio.
Principal Investment
Strategies
Under
normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets, plus any
borrowings for investment purposes, in equity securities of U.S. companies with
large market capitalizations at the time of purchase. For this Fund, companies
with large market capitalizations are those within the market capitalization
range of the companies in the S&P 500 Index, which as of September 30, 2022,
was between approximately $3.0 billion and $2.2 trillion. The Fund is considered
non-diversified, which means it can invest a higher percentage of assets in
securities of individual issuers than a diversified fund. As a result, changes
in the value of a single investment could cause greater fluctuations in the
Fund's share price than would occur in a more diversified fund.
For
security selection and portfolio construction, Principal Global Investors, LLC
("PGI") uses a proprietary quantitative model. The model is designed to identify
and rank equity securities in the S&P 500 Index (the "Index") that
correspond to factor categories including the following:
•Value
companies – securities with low prices relative to their fundamental value,
measured by such metrics as earnings yield, free cash flow yield, and sales
yield.
•Higher
quality companies – securities ranked based on metrics such as return on equity,
sales growth, earnings growth, and balance sheet measures of quality (such as
lower debt and accruals).
•Higher
momentum companies – securities ranked by evaluating recent performance.
•Lower
volatility companies – identified using the recent standard deviation of returns
(in other words, how much such returns vary).
The
model incorporates a proprietary rules-based methodology that identifies the
current market risk regime as “lower,” “higher and increasing,” or “higher and
decreasing” and then weights securities within and among the factor categories
based on the prevailing market regime. During "higher and decreasing" market
risk environments, the model is expected to correspond more closely to the
weights used in the Index itself; however, in other regimes, the
model’s
selection and weighting is expected to differ from the Index in an effort to
outperform the Index returns after fees and expenses. In "lower" risk
environments, the model is expected to allocate more to value, quality, and
momentum stocks, while de-emphasizing lower volatility stocks, whereas in
"higher and increasing" risk environments the model is expected to allocate more
to lower volatility stocks, as well as quality and momentum stocks, while
de-emphasizing value stocks. For certain securities, the model assigns weights
equal to that of the Index in all risk regimes. The Fund invested significantly
in industries within the information technology sector as of September 30, 2022.
PGI
expects to review the risk environment weekly. In circumstances where the risk
environment does not change, the Fund's holdings are expected to be rebalanced
semi-annually. Fund holdings will be rebalanced more frequently in the event of
market risk regime shifts, which will result in increased portfolio turnover.
PGI expects to review the model and risk environment regularly, and adjustments
to the model and Fund holdings may be made at PGI's discretion. The Fund’s
strategies may result in the active and frequent trading of the Fund’s portfolio
securities.
Note:
"Standard & Poor's 500" and "S&P 500®"
are trademarks of S&P Global and have been licensed by Principal. The Fund
is not sponsored, endorsed, sold, or promoted by S&P Global, and S&P
Global makes no representation regarding the advisability of investing in the
Fund.
Principal Risks
The value of your investment in the Fund changes with
the value of the Fund's investments. Many factors affect that value, and it is
possible to lose money by investing in the Fund. An investment in the Fund is not a
deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The
principal risks of investing in the Fund are listed below in alphabetical order
and not in order of significance.
Active
Management Risk. There
is no guarantee that the investment techniques, analyses, or judgments that the
Fund’s investment advisor and/or sub-advisor applies in making investment
decisions for the Fund will produce the intended outcome or that the investments
the advisor selects for the Fund will perform as well as other securities that
were not selected for the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment
objective, and it is not intended to be a complete investment
program.
Equity
Securities Risk.
A variety of factors can negatively impact the value of equity securities held
by a fund, including a decline in the issuer’s financial condition, unfavorable
performance of the issuer's sector or industry, or changes in response to
overall market and economic conditions. A fund's principal market segment(s)
(such as market capitalization or style) may underperform other market segments
or the equity markets as a whole.
•Growth
Style Risk.
Growth investing entails that risk that if growth companies do not increase
their earnings at a rate expected by investors, the market price of their stock
may decline significantly, even if earnings show an absolute increase. Growth
company stocks also typically lack the dividend yield that can lessen price
declines in market downturns.
•Value
Style Risk.
Value investing entails the risk that value stocks may continue to be
undervalued by the market for extended periods, including the entire period
during which the stock is held by a fund, or the events that would cause the
stock price to increase may not occur as anticipated or at all. Moreover, a
stock that appears to be undervalued actually may be appropriately priced at a
low level and therefore would not be profitable for the fund.
High
Portfolio Turnover Risk. High
portfolio turnover (more than 100%) caused by the active and frequent trading of
portfolio securities may result in accelerating the realization of taxable gains
and losses, lower fund performance, and increased brokerage costs.
Information
Technology Sector Risk.
Companies in the information technology sector may face dramatic and often
unpredictable changes in growth rates and are particularly vulnerable to changes
in technology product cycles, product obsolescence, government regulation, and
competition, both domestically and internationally. Such companies are heavily
dependent on patent and intellectual property rights, the loss or impairment of
which may adversely affect profitability.
Market
Trading Risks. The
Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including the potential lack of an
active market for Fund shares, losses from trading in secondary markets, and
disruption to the activities of market makers, authorized participants, or other
participants and in the creation/redemption process of the Fund. ANY OF THESE
FACTORS MAY LEAD TO THE FUND’S SHARES TRADING AT A PREMIUM OR DISCOUNT TO
NAV.
Model
Risk. Because
PGI uses quantitative models to select and hold securities, the Fund may hold
securities that present risks that an investment advisor researching individual
securities might seek to avoid. Moreover, models may be predictive in nature and
depend heavily on the accuracy and reliability of historical data that is
supplied by others and may be incorrect or incorrectly input. The Fund bears the
risk that the quantitative models used will not be successful in identifying
trends or in determining the size and direction of investment positions that
will enable the Fund to achieve its investment objective.
Momentum
Style Risk. Momentum
can turn quickly, and stocks that previously exhibited high momentum may not
experience continued positive momentum. Momentum securities may be more volatile
than a broad cross-section of securities or the overall stock market. The Fund
may experience losses if momentum stops, reverses or otherwise behaves
differently than predicted. In addition, there may be periods when momentum
style is out of favor, during which the investment performance of the Fund may
suffer to the extent it employs momentum style methodology.
Non-Diversification
Risk.
A non-diversified fund may invest a high
percentage of its assets in the securities of a small number of issuers and is
more likely than diversified funds to be significantly affected by a specific
security’s poor performance.
Redemption
and Large Transaction Risk. Ownership
of the Fund’s shares may be concentrated in one or a few large investors (such
as funds of funds, institutional investors, and asset allocation programs) that
may sell or purchase Fund shares in large quantities on the secondary market.
These secondary market transactions may cause authorized participants to
increase their purchases and redemptions of creation units from the Fund.
Purchases and redemptions of creation units primarily with cash rather than
through in kind delivery of portfolio securities may cause the Fund to incur
certain costs, such as brokerage costs or taxable gains or losses that it might
not have incurred if it had made a redemption in kind. These costs could be
imposed on the Fund and thus decrease its NAV to the extent that the costs are
not offset by a transaction fee payable by an authorized
participant.
Performance
No performance information is shown because
the Fund has not yet had a calendar year of performance.
The Fund’s
performance is benchmarked against the S&P 500 Index. Performance
information provides an indication of the risks of investing in the
Fund. Past performance (before and
after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in
the future. You may get updated performance information at
www.PrincipalAM.com.
Investment
Advisor and Portfolio Managers
Principal
Global Investors, LLC
•Jeffrey
A. Schwarte (since 2021), Portfolio Manager
•Aaron
J. Siebel (since 2021), Portfolio Manager
Purchase
and Sale of Fund Shares
The
Fund issues and redeems Shares at net asset value ("NAV") only with authorized
participants who have entered into agreements with the Fund’s distributor and
only in blocks of 50,000 Shares (each block of Shares is called a "Creation
Unit"), or multiples thereof ("Creation Unit Aggregations"), in exchange for the
deposit or delivery of a basket of securities that the Fund specifies each day.
Except when aggregated in Creation Units, the Shares are not redeemable
securities of the Fund. Typically, the basket of assets will be made up of
securities, but may include a cash component. (See "Purchase and Redemption of
Creation Units" in the Statement of Additional Information for more
information.)
Shares
of the Fund are listed for trading on Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc. Individual Shares
may only be bought and sold in the secondary market through a broker or dealer
at a market price. Because Shares trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares
may trade at prices greater than NAV (at a premium), at NAV, or less than NAV
(at a discount). An investor 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 on the secondary market (the bid-ask spread).
You
can access recent information, including information on the Fund's net asset
value, market price, premiums and discounts, and bid-ask spreads at
www.PrincipalAM.com.
Tax
Information
The
Fund’s distributions you receive are generally subject to federal income tax as
ordinary income or capital gain and may also be subject to state and local
taxes, unless you are tax-exempt or your account is tax-deferred in which case
your distributions would be taxed when withdrawn from the tax-deferred
account.
Payments
to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If
you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary,
the Fund and its related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of Fund
shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by
influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson to
recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your
financial intermediary's website for more information.
Objective:
The Fund seeks long-term
growth of capital.
Fees and Expenses of the
Fund
This table describes the fees
and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and sell shares of the Fund
("Shares"). You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees
to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table or the example
below.
Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses
that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment)
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0.15% |
Other
Expenses |
—% |
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (1) |
0.15% |
Fee
Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement (2) |
(0.03)% |
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and/or Expense
Reimbursement |
0.12% |
(1) The investment management
agreement (the “Management Agreement”) between the Fund and Principal Global
Investors, LLC (“PGI”) provides that, for the duration of the Management
Agreement, PGI will pay all operating expenses of the Fund, except for the
Management Fee, payments made under the Funds' Rule 12b-1 plan (if or when such
fees are imposed), brokerage commissions and other expenses connected to the
execution of portfolio transactions, interest expense, taxes, acquired fund fees
and expenses, litigation expenses and other extraordinary
expenses.
(2) Principal Global
Investors, LLC ("PGI") has contractually agreed to reduce total annual fund
operating expenses for the Fund by waiving a portion of its management fee, or
reimbursing the Fund, to the extent that total expenses exceed 0.12% (excluding
interest expense, expenses related to fund investments, acquired fund fees and
expenses, and tax reclaim recovery expenses and other extraordinary expenses)
expressed as a percent of average net assets on an annualized basis. It is
expected that the expense limit will continue through the period ending
October 31,
2023; however, Principal Exchange-Traded Funds and PGI, the
parties to the agreement, may mutually agree to terminate the expense limit
prior to the end of the period. Subject to applicable expense limits, the Fund
may reimburse PGI for expenses incurred during the current fiscal
year.
Example
This Example is
intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of
investing in other funds.
The Example assumes that you invest
$10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated. The Example also assumes
that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating
expenses remain the same. The calculation of costs takes into account
contractual fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements for the period noted in
the table above. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on
these assumptions your costs would be:
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Principal
U.S. Mega-Cap ETF |
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$45 |
$82 |
$189 |
Portfolio
Turnover
The Fund pays transaction
costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over"
its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction
costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable
account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses
or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal
year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 41.1% of the average value of its portfolio. The
Fund's transition to active management on June 10, 2022 may have caused it to
experience an abnormally high level of portfolio turnover during the period of
the transition.
Principal Investment
Strategies
Under
normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets, plus any
borrowings for investment purposes, in equity securities of U.S. companies with
very large ("mega") market capitalizations at the time of purchase. For this
Fund, companies with mega capitalizations are those with market capitalizations
in the top 50th
percentile of the S&P 500 Index at the time of purchase. As of September 30,
2022, the market capitalization range of the companies in the S&P 500 Index
was between approximately $3.0 billion and $2.2 trillion, and the market
capitalization range of companies with mega capitalizations in the S&P 500
Index was between approximately $134.4 billion and $2.2 trillion.
For
security selection and portfolio construction, Principal Global Investors, LLC
("PGI") uses a proprietary quantitative model. The model is designed to identify
equity securities of companies in the S&P 500 Index that have the largest
market capitalizations, while typically applying higher weight to securities
that PGI expects to be less volatile, meaning the share price of the security
has a lower degree of fluctuation over time. The Fund invests in equity
securities of different styles (growth or value).
The
Fund's holdings are expected to be rebalanced at least annually. However, PGI
may make any adjustments to the model and Fund holdings at its discretion. In
constructing and revising the model and managing the Fund’s investments, PGI
uses insights from diverse sources, including internal investment research,
industry reports, and data from third-party consultants and other service
providers, to develop and refine its investment themes and identify and take
advantage of trends that may impact the Fund and its holdings.
The
Fund invested significantly in one or more industries within the information
technology sector as of September 30, 2022.
Note:
"Standard
& Poor's 500" and "S&P 500®"
are trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and have been
licensed by Principal. The Fund is not sponsored, endorsed, sold, or promoted by
Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC, and Standard & Poor's
Financial Services LLC makes no representation regarding the advisability of
investing in the Fund.
Principal Risks
The value of your investment in the Fund changes with
the value of the Fund's investments. Many factors affect that value, and it is
possible to lose money by investing in the Fund. An investment in the Fund is not a
deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The
principal risks of investing in the Fund are listed below in alphabetical order
and not in order of significance.
Active
Management Risk. There
is no guarantee that the investment techniques, analyses, or judgments that the
Fund’s investment advisor and/or sub-advisor applies in making investment
decisions for the Fund will produce the intended outcome or that the investments
the advisor selects for the Fund will perform as well as other securities that
were not selected for the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment
objective, and it is not intended to be a complete investment
program.
Equity
Securities Risk.
A variety of factors can negatively impact the value of equity securities held
by a fund, including a decline in the issuer’s financial condition, unfavorable
performance of the issuer's sector or industry, or changes in response to
overall market and economic conditions. A fund's principal market segment(s)
(such as market capitalization or style) may underperform other market segments
or the equity markets as a whole.
•Growth
Style Risk. Growth
investing entails that risk that if growth companies do not increase their
earnings at a rate expected by investors, the market price of their stock may
decline significantly, even if earnings show an absolute increase. Growth
company stocks also typically lack the dividend yield that can lessen price
declines in market downturns.
•Value
Style Risk. Value
investing entails the risk that value stocks may continue to be undervalued by
the market for extended periods, including the entire period during which the
stock is held by a fund, or the events that would cause the stock price to
increase may not occur as anticipated or at all. Moreover, a stock that appears
to be undervalued actually may be appropriately priced at a low level and
therefore would not be profitable for the fund.
Information
Technology Sector Risk.
Companies in the information technology sector may face dramatic and often
unpredictable changes in growth rates and are particularly vulnerable to changes
in technology product cycles, product obsolescence, government regulation, and
competition, both domestically and internationally. Such companies are heavily
dependent on patent and intellectual property rights, the loss or impairment of
which may adversely affect profitability.
Market
Trading Risks. The
Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including the potential lack of an
active market for Fund shares, losses from trading in secondary markets, and
disruption to the activities of market makers, authorized participants, or other
participants and in the creation/redemption process of the Fund. ANY OF THESE
FACTORS MAY LEAD TO THE FUND’S SHARES TRADING AT A PREMIUM OR DISCOUNT TO
NAV.
Model
Risk. Because
PGI uses quantitative models to select and hold securities, the Fund may hold
securities that present risks that an investment advisor researching individual
securities might seek to avoid. Moreover, models may be predictive in nature and
depend heavily on the accuracy and reliability of historical data that is
supplied by others and may be incorrect or incorrectly input. The Fund bears the
risk that the quantitative models used will not be successful in identifying
trends or in determining the size and direction of investment positions that
will enable the Fund to achieve its investment objective.
Redemption
and Large Transaction Risk.
Ownership of the Fund’s shares may be concentrated in one or a few large
investors (such as funds of funds, institutional investors, and asset allocation
programs) that may sell or purchase Fund shares in large quantities on the
secondary market. These secondary market transactions may cause authorized
participants to increase their purchases and redemptions of creation units from
the Fund. Purchases and redemptions of creation units primarily with cash rather
than through in kind delivery of portfolio securities may cause
the Fund to incur certain costs, such as
brokerage costs or taxable gains or losses that it might not have incurred if it
had made a redemption in kind. These costs could be imposed on the Fund and thus
decrease its NAV to the extent that the costs are not offset by a transaction
fee payable by an authorized participant.
Performance
The following information
provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. Past performance (before and
after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in
the future. You may get updated performance information at
www.PrincipalAM.com.
The bar chart shows the investment returns
of the Fund’s shares for each full calendar year of operations for 10 years (or,
if shorter, the life of the Fund). The table shows for the last one, five, and
ten calendar year periods (or, if shorter, the life of the Fund), how the Fund’s
average annual total returns compare with those of one or more broad measures of
market performance.
Life
of Fund returns are measured from the date the Fund's shares were first sold
(October 11, 2017).
Prior
to June 10, 2022, the objective and strategy of the Fund differed from its
current objective and strategy. Accordingly, performance of the Fund for periods
prior to that date may not be representative of the performance the Fund would
have achieved had the Fund been following its current objective and
strategy.
Total
Returns as of December 31 (1)
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Highest return for a quarter during
the period of the bar chart above: |
2Q
2020 |
16.44% |
Lowest return for a quarter during
the period of the bar chart above: |
1Q
2020 |
(17.17)% |
(1)
The year-to-date return as of
September 30, 2022 is
(23.06)%.
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Average
Annual Total Returns (Based on NAV)
For
the periods ended December 31, 2021(1) |
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1 Year |
Life
of Fund |
Return Before
Taxes |
26.23% |
16.72% |
Return After Taxes on
Distributions |
25.38% |
16.11% |
Return After Taxes on Distributions and
Sale of Fund Shares |
15.49% |
13.18% |
S&P 500 Index (reflects no
deductions for fees, expenses, or taxes) |
28.73% |
18.03% |
Nasdaq US Mega Cap Select Leaders Index
(reflects no deductions for
fees, expenses or taxes) |
26.52% |
16.96% |
(1)
Prior to June 10, 2022, the objective and strategy of the Fund differed
from its current objective and strategy. Accordingly, performance of the
Fund for periods prior to that date may not be representative of the
performance the Fund would have achieved had the Fund been following its
current objective and
strategy. |
After-tax returns are
calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax
rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes.