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PRINCIPAL
EXCHANGE-TRADED FUNDS
("PETF"
or the "Trust")
The
date of this Prospectus is November 1,
2023.
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
Focused Blue Chip ETF |
BCHP |
Cboe
BZX |
Principal
Healthcare Innovators ETF |
BTEC |
Nasdaq |
Principal
Investment Grade Corporate Active ETF |
IG |
NYSE
Arca |
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
U.S. Mega-Cap ETF |
USMC |
Nasdaq |
Principal
U.S. Small-Cap ETF (f/k/a Principal U.S. Small-Cap Multi-Factor
ETF) |
PSC |
Nasdaq |
Principal
Value ETF |
PY |
Nasdaq |
The
Principal Focused Blue Chip ETF and the Principal Real Estate Active
Opportunities ETF (each a "Non-Transparent ETF" and, together, the
"Non-Transparent ETFs") are different from traditional ETFs.
Traditional
ETFs tell the public what assets they hold each day. The Non-Transparent ETFs
will not. This may
create additional risks
for your investment. For example:
•You
may have to pay more money to trade a Non-Transparent ETF's shares. The
Non-Transparent ETFs 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 the Non-Transparent ETFs 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
Non-Transparent ETFs will publish on their website each day a "Tracking Basket"
designed to help trading in shares of the Non-Transparent ETFs. While the
Tracking Basket includes some of each Non-Transparent ETF's holdings, it is not
the Non-Transparent ETF's actual portfolio.
The
differences between the Non-Transparent ETFs and other ETFs may also have
advantages. By keeping certain information about the Non-Transparent ETFs
secret, the Non-Transparent ETFs may face less risk that other traders can
predict or copy its investment strategy. This may improve the Non-Transparent
ETF’s performance. If other traders are able to copy or predict the
Non-Transparent ETF's investment strategy, however, this may hurt the
Non-Transparent ETF's performance.
For
additional information regarding the unique attributes and risks of the
Non-Transparent ETFs, see the "Principal Risks" section (in the "Fund Summary"
section) for the Non-Transparent ETFs, the "Additional Information about
Investment Strategies and Risks" section for the Non-Transparent ETFs, and the
"Additional Fund-Specific Information" section for the Non-Transparent ETFs
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.
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TABLE
OF CONTENTS |
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FUND
SUMMARIES |
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PRINCIPAL
ACTIVE HIGH YIELD ETF |
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PRINCIPAL
FOCUSED BLUE CHIP ETF |
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PRINCIPAL
HEALTHCARE INNOVATORS ETF |
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PRINCIPAL
INVESTMENT GRADE CORPORATE ACTIVE ETF |
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PRINCIPAL
QUALITY ETF |
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PRINCIPAL
REAL ESTATE ACTIVE OPPORTUNITIES ETF |
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PRINCIPAL
SPECTRUM PREFERRED SECURITIES ACTIVE ETF |
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PRINCIPAL
SPECTRUM TAX-ADVANTAGED DIVIDEND ACTIVE ETF |
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PRINCIPAL
U.S. MEGA-CAP ETF |
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PRINCIPAL
U.S. SMALL-CAP ETF |
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PRINCIPAL
VALUE ETF |
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ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION ABOUT INVESTMENT STRATEGIES AND RISKS |
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PORTFOLIO
HOLDINGS INFORMATION |
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MANAGEMENT
OF THE FUNDS |
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DISTRIBUTOR
AND OTHER FUND SERVICE PROVIDERS |
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PRICING
OF FUND SHARES |
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PURCHASE
AND SALE OF FUND SHARES |
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DIVIDENDS
AND DISTRIBUTIONS |
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FREQUENT
PURCHASES AND REDEMPTIONS |
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TAX
CONSIDERATIONS |
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DISTRIBUTION
PLANS AND INTERMEDIARY COMPENSATION |
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FUND ACCOUNT
INFORMATION |
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ADDITIONAL
FUND-SPECIFIC INFORMATION |
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APPENDIX A
- DESCRIPTION OF BOND RATINGS |
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APPENDIX B
- FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS |
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ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION |
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PRINCIPAL ACTIVE HIGH
YIELD ETF
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
Expenses |
—% |
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (1) |
0.39% |
(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 Fund's 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 and then redeem all of your
shares at the ends of those periods. The Example also assumes that your
investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses
remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on
these assumptions your costs would be:
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3
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5
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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
34.5% 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 invests in U.S. treasury securities, 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, 2023 was 3.69 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.
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.
•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
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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Highest
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2Q
2020 |
12.56% |
Lowest
return for a quarter during the period of the bar chart
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1Q
2020 |
(19.62)% |
(1)
The
year-to-date return as of
September 30, 2023 is
5.85%.
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Average
Annual Total Returns (Based on NAV)
For
the periods ended December 31, 2022 (1) |
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5
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Life
of Fund |
Return Before
Taxes |
(8.57)% |
2.26% |
3.69% |
Return After
Taxes on Distributions |
(10.85)% |
0.27% |
1.63% |
Return After
Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares |
(5.04)% |
0.97% |
2.01% |
Bloomberg
U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (reflects no deductions for
fees, expenses, or taxes) |
(13.01)% |
0.02% |
0.85% |
Bloomberg
U.S. Corporate High Yield 2% Issuer Capped Index (reflects no deductions
for fees, expenses, or taxes) |
(11.18)% |
2.30% |
3.75% |
(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
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
November 1, 2023, the Fund changed its primary broad-based index to the
Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index in order to meet the revised definition of
“broad-based securities market index.” The Bloomberg U.S. Corporate High Yield
2% Issuer Capped Index is included as an additional index for the Fund as it
shows how the Fund’s performance compares with the returns of an index of funds
with similar investment objectives.
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.
PRINCIPAL FOCUSED BLUE
CHIP ETF
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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Fees |
0.58% |
Other
Expenses |
—% |
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (1) |
0.58% |
(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 Fund's 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 and then redeem all of your
shares at the ends of those periods. The Example also assumes that your
investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses
remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on
these assumptions your costs would be:
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3
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Principal
Focused Blue Chip ETF |
$59 |
$186 |
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. This is a new fund and does not have a portfolio turnover rate to
disclose.
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 with large
market capitalizations at the time of purchase that, in the opinion of Principal
Global Investors, LLC (“PGI”), the Fund’s investment advisor, display
characteristics of a “blue chip” company. For this Fund, companies with large
market capitalizations are those with market capitalizations similar to
companies in the Russell 1000® Growth Index (as of September 30, 2023, this was
between approximately $1.3 billion and $2.7 trillion). Blue chip companies are
firms that, in PGI’s view, are well established in their industries and have the
potential for growth of capital and an expectation for above-average earnings.
In selecting securities for the Fund’s portfolio, PGI uses a bottom-up,
fundamental process, focusing on, among other things, competitive position,
company management and culture, free cash flow, and risk. The Fund invests in
securities of foreign companies. The Fund also invests in the securities of
companies that are in
the financials and information technology sectors.
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's portfolio is expected to have a limited number of
holdings (e.g., ranging from as few as twenty to as many as thirty
holdings).
The
Fund is an actively managed non-transparent 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.
Note: "Russell
1000 Growth 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.
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 advisor 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 the 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.
Financials
Sector Risk. A
fund that invests significantly 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.
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).
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.
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.
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 will be benchmarked against the Russell 1000 Index and the Russell
1000 Growth Index. The Russell 1000 Index is the Fund's primary broad-based
index and is included to meet the revised definition of "broad-based securities
market index." The Russell 1000 Growth Index is included as an additional index
for the Fund as it shows how the Fund’s performance compares with the returns of
an index of funds with similar investment
objectives.
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
•K.
William Nolin (since 2023), Portfolio Manager
•Tom
Rozycki (since 2023), 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 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.
PRINCIPAL HEALTHCARE
INNOVATORS ETF
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 |
—% |
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 Fund's 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 and then redeem all of your
shares at the ends of those periods. The Example also assumes that your
investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses
remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on
these assumptions your costs would be:
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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 56.6% 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 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, 2023, the market capitalization range of the companies in the
Russell 3000 Healthcare Index was between approximately $451.3 million and
$509.9 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 the 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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return for a quarter during the period of the bar chart
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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, 2023 is
(10.75)%.
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Annual Total Returns (Based on NAV)
For
the periods ended December 31, 2022(1) |
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5
Year |
Life
of Fund |
Return Before
Taxes |
(28.84)% |
1.77% |
5.04% |
Return After
Taxes on Distributions |
(28.84)% |
1.67% |
4.95% |
Return After
Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares |
(17.07)% |
1.34% |
3.93% |
Russell 3000
Index (reflects no deductions for fees, expenses, or
taxes) |
(19.21)% |
8.79% |
10.75% |
Russell 2000
Healthcare Index (reflects no deductions for
fees, expenses or taxes) |
(28.99)% |
0.68% |
5.22% |
(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 November 1, 2023, the
Fund changed its primary broad-based index to the Russell 3000 Index in order to
meet the revised definition of “broad-based securities market index.” The
Russell 2000 Healthcare Index is included as an additional index for the Fund as
it shows how the Fund’s performance compares with the returns of an index of
funds with similar investment
objectives.
Investment
Advisor and Portfolio Managers
Principal
Global Investors, LLC
•Christopher
Ibach (since 2023), 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 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 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.
PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT
GRADE CORPORATE ACTIVE ETF
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 Fund's 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 and then redeem all of your
shares at the ends of those periods. The Example also assumes that your
investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses
remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on
these assumptions your costs would be:
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3
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5
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10
years |
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 61.0% 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, 2023 was 6.77 years. The Fund actively trades
securities.
The Fund invests in derivatives, including 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. 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.
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.
Futures
contracts 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 futures contract; possible lack of a liquid secondary market for a futures
contract and the resulting inability to close a futures contract 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.
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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return for a quarter during the period of the bar chart
above: |
2Q
2020 |
10.29% |
Lowest
return for a quarter during the period of the bar chart
above: |
2Q
2022 |
(8.40)% |
(1)
The
year-to-date return as of
September 30, 2023 is
(0.71)%.
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Average
Annual Total Returns (Based on NAV)
For
the periods ended December 31,
2022 |
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1 Year |
Life
of Fund |
Return Before
Taxes |
(16.92)% |
0.88% |
Return After
Taxes on Distributions |
(19.17)% |
(1.14)% |
Return After
Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares |
(9.96)% |
(0.03)% |
Bloomberg
U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (reflects no deductions for fees, expenses or
taxes) |
(13.01)% |
0.36% |
Bloomberg
U.S. Corporate Investment Grade Bond Index (reflects
no deductions for fees, expenses, or
taxes) |
(15.76)% |
0.95% |
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 November 1, 2023, the
Fund changed its primary broad-based index to the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond
Index in order to meet the revised definition of “broad-based securities market
index.” The Bloomberg U.S. Corporate Investment Grade Bond Index is included as
an additional index for the Fund as it shows how the Fund’s performance compares
with the returns of an index of funds with similar investment
objectives.
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.
PRINCIPAL QUALITY
ETF
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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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 Fund's 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 and then redeem all of your
shares at the ends of those periods. The Example also assumes that your
investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses
remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on
these assumptions your costs would be:
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3
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5
years |
10
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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 47.7% of the average value of its
portfolio.
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,
2023, the market capitalization range of the companies in the S&P 500 Index
was between approximately $4.0 billion and $2.7 trillion. As of September 30,
2023, the market capitalization range of the companies in the S&P 400 Index
was between approximately $1.3 billion and $16.8 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 and information technology sector as of September 30, 2023.
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 the 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.
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
(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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Highest
return for a quarter during the period of the bar chart
above: |
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, 2023 is
10.14%.
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Average
Annual Total Returns (Based on NAV)
For
the periods ended December 31, 2022(1) |
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1 Year |
5
Year |
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Life
of Fund |
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Return Before
Taxes |
(16.42)% |
10.61% |
(2) |
12.14% |
(2) |
Return After
Taxes on Distributions |
(16.71)% |
10.27% |
| 11.79% |
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Return After
Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares |
(9.52)% |
8.39% |
| 9.81% |
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S&P 500
Index (reflects no deductions for
fees, expenses or taxes) |
(18.11)% |
9.42% |
| 11.74% |
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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.
Investment
Advisor and Portfolio Managers
Principal
Global Investors, LLC
•Christopher
Ibach (since 2023), 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 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 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.
PRINCIPAL REAL ESTATE
ACTIVE OPPORTUNITIES ETF
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 Fund's 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 and then redeem all of your
shares at the ends of those periods. The Example also assumes that your
investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses
remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on
these assumptions your costs would be:
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3
years |
5
years |
10
years |
Principal
Real Estate Active Opportunities ETF |
$66 |
$208 |
$362 |
$810 |
Portfolio
Turnover
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys
and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio
turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher
taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not
reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s
performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover
rate was 17.6% 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 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 advisor 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 the 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 Russell 3000 Index and 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.
Effective November 1, 2023, the
Fund changed its primary broad-based index to the Russell 3000 Index in order to
meet the revised definition of “broad-based securities market index.” The FTSE
NAREIT All Equity REITs Index is included as an additional index for the Fund as
it shows how the Fund’s performance compares with the returns of an index of
funds with similar investment objectives.
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.
PRINCIPAL SPECTRUM
PREFERRED SECURITIES ACTIVE ETF
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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Other
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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 Fund's 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 and then redeem all of your
shares at the ends of those periods. The Example also assumes that your
investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses
remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on
these assumptions your costs would be:
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Portfolio
Turnover
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys
and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio
turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher
taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not
reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s
performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover
rate was 16.7% 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 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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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, 2023 is
1.54%.
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Annual Total Returns (Based on NAV)
For
the periods ended December 31,
2022 |
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5
Year |
Life
of Fund |
Return Before
Taxes |
(11.58)% |
1.55% |
1.79% |
Return After
Taxes on Distributions |
(12.72)% |
0.11% |
0.31% |
Return After
Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares |
(6.38)% |
0.87% |
1.02% |
Bloomberg
Global Aggregate Bond Index (reflects no deductions for fees, expenses, or
taxes) |
(16.25)% |
(1.66)% |
(0.87)% |
ICE BofA
Merrill Lynch U.S. Investment Grade Institutional Capital Securities Index
(reflects no deductions for
fees, expenses, or taxes) |
(10.18)% |
2.43% |
2.65% |
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 November 1, 2023, the
Fund changed its primary broad-based index to the Bloomberg Global Aggregate
Bond Index in order to meet the revised definition of “broad-based securities
market index.” The ICE BofA Merrill Lynch U.S. Investment Grade Institutional
Capital Securities Index is included as an additional index for the Fund as it
shows how the Fund’s performance compares with the returns of an index of funds
with similar investment objectives.
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.
PRINCIPAL SPECTRUM
TAX-ADVANTAGED DIVIDEND ACTIVE ETF
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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0.60% |
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 Fund's 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 and then redeem all of your
shares at the ends of those periods. The Example also assumes that your
investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses
remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on
these assumptions your costs would be:
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years |
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 12.8% 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.
The Fund also invests in derivative
instruments, such as futures and options, for hedging and for income generation
purposes. 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.
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.
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.
•Futures.
Futures
contracts 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 futures contract; possible lack of a liquid secondary market for a futures
contract and the resulting inability to close a futures contract 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.
•Options.
Options
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
options; counterparty risk; difference in trading hours for the options markets
and the markets for the underlying securities (rate movements can take place in
the underlying markets that cannot be reflected in the options markets); and an
insufficient liquid secondary market for particular options.
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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return for a quarter during the period of the bar chart
above: |
2Q
2021 |
2.75% |
Lowest
return for a quarter during the period of the bar chart
above: |
2Q
2022 |
(6.10)% |
(1)
The
year-to-date return as of
September 30, 2023 is
0.75%.
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Average
Annual Total Returns (Based on NAV)
For
the periods ended December 31,
2022 |
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1 Year |
Life
of Fund |
Return Before
Taxes |
(9.59)% |
0.92% |
Return After
Taxes on Distributions |
(10.74)% |
(0.32)% |
Return After
Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares |
(4.83)% |
0.77% |
Bloomberg
Global Aggregate Bond Index (reflects no deductions for fees, expenses, or
taxes) |
(16.25)% |
(6.33)% |
ICE BofA
Merrill Lynch 7% Constrained DRD Eligible Preferred Securities Index
(reflects no deductions for
fees, expenses, or taxes) |
(13.99)% |
(1.20)% |
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 November 1, 2023, the
Fund changed its primary broad-based index to the Bloomberg Global Aggregate
Bond Index in order to meet the revised definition of “broad-based securities
market index.” The ICE BofA Merrill Lynch 7% Constrained DRD Eligible Preferred
Securities Index is included as an additional index for the Fund as it shows how
the Fund’s performance compares with the returns of an index of funds with
similar investment objectives.
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.
PRINCIPAL U.S. MEGA-CAP
ETF
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% |
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 Fund's 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,
2024; 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 and then redeem all of your
shares at the ends of those periods. The Example also assumes that your
investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses
remain the same. 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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3
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5
years |
10
years |
Principal
U.S. Mega-Cap ETF |
$12 |
$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 28.8% 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
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,
2023, the market capitalization range of the companies in the S&P 500 Index
was between approximately $4.0 billion and $2.7 trillion, and the market
capitalization range of companies with mega capitalizations in the S&P 500
Index was between approximately $187.3 billion and $2.7 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 healthcare
sector and information technology sector as of September 30, 2023.
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 the 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.
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,
2023 is 19.41%.
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Average
Annual Total Returns (Based on NAV)
For
the periods ended December 31, 2022(1) |
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1 Year |
5
Year |
Life
of Fund |
Return
Before Taxes |
(17.03)% |
8.75% |
9.33% |
Return After
Taxes on Distributions |
(17.37)% |
8.26% |
8.84% |
Return After
Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares |
(9.83)% |
6.86% |
7.35% |
S&P 500
Index (reflects no deductions for
fees, expenses or taxes) |
(18.11)% |
9.42% |
10.08% |
(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.
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
•Christopher
Ibach (since 2023), 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 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 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.
PRINCIPAL U.S. SMALL-CAP
ETF (f/k/a Principal U.S. Small-Cap Multi-Factor ETF)
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 |
0.38% |
Other
Expenses |
—% |
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (1) |
0.38% |
(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 Fund's 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 and then redeem all of your
shares at the ends of those periods. The Example also assumes that your
investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses
remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on
these assumptions your costs would be:
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3
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5
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10
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Principal
U.S. Small-Cap ETF |
$39 |
$122 |
$213 |
$480 |
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 74.1% 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
small market capitalizations at the time of purchase. For this Fund, companies
with small market capitalizations are those with market capitalizations within
the range of companies comprising the Russell 2000 Index. As
of September 30, 2023, the market capitalization range of the companies in the
Russell 2000 Index was between approximately $25.5 million to $14.5
billion.
For
security selection and portfolio construction, Principal Global Investors, LLC
("PGI") uses a proprietary quantitative model designed to identify and rank
equity securities (including growth and value stock) of small-capitalization
companies in the Russell 2000 Index that PGI believes display (i) value
characteristics (companies with low share prices relative to their fundamental
value), (ii) higher quality (companies that possess higher quality
characteristics relative to their peers, measured by profitability, earnings
quality, balance sheet strength, and solvency), and (iii) higher momentum
(companies that have share prices and earnings that are trending up). In
weighting securities, the model first weights the preceding three
characteristics approximately equally and then seeks to assign greater weight to
securities that PGI determines are more liquid (meaning the securities that
would be the easiest to trade without significantly impacting their value based
on recent average trading volumes) and less volatile (meaning the share price of
the security has a lower degree of fluctuation over time).
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.
Note: "Russell
2000" 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 the 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.
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.
Stocks that previously exhibited high momentum characteristics may not
experience positive momentum or may experience more volatility than the market
as a whole. In addition, there may be periods when momentum style is out of
favor, during which the investment performance of a Fund that uses
momentum-based strategies may suffer.
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
(September 21,
2016).
Prior
to July 8, 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: |
4Q
2020 |
30.83% |
Lowest
return for a quarter during the period of the bar chart
above: |
1Q
2020 |
(32.95)% |
(1)
The
year-to-date return as of
September 30,
2023 is 5.03%.
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Average
Annual Total Returns (Based on NAV)
For
the periods ended December 31, 2022(1) |
|
1 Year |
5
Year |
Life
of Fund |
Return
Before Taxes |
(15.99)% |
6.35% |
8.91% |
Return After
Taxes on Distributions |
(16.37)% |
5.96% |
8.54% |
Return After
Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares |
(9.20)% |
4.93% |
7.07% |
Russell 3000
Index (reflects no deductions for fees, expenses, or
taxes) |
(19.21)% |
8.79% |
11.24% |
Russell 2000
Index (reflects no deductions for
fees, expenses, or taxes) |
(20.44)% |
4.13% |
7.31% |
(1)
Prior
to July 8, 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 November 1, 2023, the
Fund changed its primary broad-based index to the Russell 3000 Index in order to
meet the revised definition of “broad-based securities market index.” The
Russell 2000 Index is included as an additional index for the Fund as it shows
how the Fund’s performance compares with the returns of an index of funds with
similar investment objectives.
Investment
Advisor and Portfolio Managers
Principal
Global Investors, LLC
•Christopher
Ibach (since 2023), 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 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 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.
PRINCIPAL VALUE
ETF
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 Fund's 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 and then redeem all of your
shares at the ends of those periods. The Example also assumes that your
investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses
remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on
these assumptions your costs would be:
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1
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3
years |
5
years |
10
years |
Principal
Value 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 1.8% of the average value of its
portfolio.
Principal Investment
Strategies
Under
normal circumstances, the Fund primarily invests in equity securities, focusing
on value stocks. For security selection and portfolio construction, Principal
Global Investors, LLC ("PGI") uses a proprietary quantitative model designed to
identify equity securities of mid- to large-capitalization companies in the
S&P 500 Index that exhibit higher degrees of shareholder yield (meaning how
much money a company distributes to shareholders through dividends and share
repurchases). As of September 30, 2023, the market capitalization range of the
companies in the S&P 500 Index was between approximately $4.0 billion and
$2.7 trillion. The model includes securities that have paid a regular dividend
in the prior year.
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 following
sectors as of September 30, 2023: financials, industrials, and information
technology.
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.
•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.
Financials
Sector Risk. A
fund that invests significantly 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.
Industrials
Sector Risk.
To the extent that a fund invests significantly in the industrials sector, the
fund will be sensitive to changes in, and the fund’s performance may depend to a
greater extent on, the overall condition of the industrials sector. Among other
factors, companies in the industrials sector may be adversely affected by
changes in the supply of and demand for products and services, claims for
environmental damage or product liability, government regulation, and general
economic conditions.
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
(March 21,
2016).
Prior
to June 24, 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 |
22.18% |
Lowest
return for a quarter during the period of the bar chart
above: |
1Q
2020 |
(33.36)% |
(1)
The
year-to-date return as of
September 30,
2023 is (2.52)%.
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Average
Annual Total Returns (Based on NAV)
For
the periods ended December 31, 2022(1) |
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1 Year |
5
Year |
Life
of Fund |
Return
Before Taxes |
(4.92)% |
7.74% |
10.41% |
Return After
Taxes on Distributions |
(5.72)% |
7.00% |
9.70% |
Return After
Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares |
(2.56)% |
5.96% |
8.25% |
S&P 500
Index (reflects no deductions for
fees, expenses or taxes) |
(18.11)% |
9.42% |
11.74% |
(1)
Prior
to June 24, 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.
Investment
Advisor and Portfolio Managers
Principal
Global Investors, LLC
•Christopher
Ibach (since 2023), 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 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 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.
ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION ABOUT INVESTMENT STRATEGIES AND RISKS
Each
Fund's investment objective is described in the summary section for each Fund.
The summary section also describes each Fund’s principal investment strategies,
including the types of securities in which each Fund invests, and the principal
risks of investing in each Fund. The principal investment strategies are not the
only investment strategies available to each Fund, but they are the ones each
Fund primarily uses to achieve its investment objective.
Except
for Fundamental Restrictions described in the Trust's Statement of Additional
Information ("SAI"), the Trust's Board (the "Board") may change any Fund's
objective or investment strategies without a shareholder vote if it determines
such a change is in the best interests of the Fund. If there is a material
change to a Fund's investment objective or investment strategies, you should
consider whether the Fund remains an appropriate investment for you. There is no
guarantee that each Fund will meet its objective.
Each
Fund is designed to be a portion of an investor's portfolio. No Fund is intended
to be a complete investment program. Investors should consider the risks of a
Fund before making an investment; it is possible to lose money by investing in a
Fund.
The
following investment strategies and risks (before the "Strategy and Risk Table"
below) apply to the Funds and, depending on market conditions, can materially
impact the management of the Funds.
Cash
Management
A
Fund may have uninvested cash balances pending investment in other securities,
pending payment of redemptions, or in other circumstances where liquidity is
necessary or desirable. A Fund may hold uninvested cash; invest it in cash
equivalents such as money market funds, including the Principal Funds, Inc.
Government Money Market Fund; lend it to other Funds pursuant to the Funds'
interfund lending facility; and/or invest in other instruments that those
managing the Fund’s assets deem appropriate for cash management purposes.
Generally, these types of investments offer less potential for gains than other
types of securities. For example, to attempt to provide returns similar to its
benchmark, a Fund (regardless of how it designates usage of derivatives and
investment companies in the table below) may invest uninvested cash in
derivatives, such as stock index futures contracts, or exchange-traded funds
(“ETFs”), including Principal Exchange-Traded Funds ETFs. In selecting such
investments, Principal Global Investors, LLC (“PGI”), the Funds’ advisor, may
have conflicts of interest due to economic or other incentives to make or retain
an investment in certain affiliated funds instead of in other investments that
may be appropriate for a Fund.
High
Portfolio Turnover
"Portfolio
turnover" is the term used in the industry for measuring the amount of trading
that occurs in a fund's portfolio during the year. For example, a 100% turnover
rate means that on average every security in the portfolio has been replaced
once during the year. Funds with high turnover rates (more than 100%) often have
higher transaction costs (which are paid by the fund), may result in higher
taxes when fund shares are held in a taxable account, and may lower the fund's
performance. High portfolio turnover can result in a lower capital gain
distribution due to higher transaction costs added to the basis of the assets or
can result in lower ordinary income distributions to shareholders when the
transaction costs cannot be added to the basis of assets. Both events reduce
fund performance.
Please
consider all the factors when you compare the turnover rates of different funds.
You should also be aware that the "total return" line in the Financial
Highlights section reflects portfolio turnover costs.
Liquidity
The
Funds have established a liquidity risk management program as required by the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (the “SEC”) Liquidity Rule. Under the
program, PGI assesses, manages, and periodically reviews each Fund’s liquidity
risk, which is the risk that a Fund could not meet requests to redeem shares
issued by the Fund without significant dilution of the remaining investors’
interests in the Fund. As part of the program, PGI classifies each investment as
a “highly liquid investment,” “moderately liquid investment,” “less liquid
investment,” or “illiquid investment.” The liquidity of a Fund’s portfolio
investments is determined based on relevant market, trading, and
investment-specific considerations under the program. To the extent that an
investment is deemed to be an illiquid investment or a less liquid investment, a
Fund can expect to be exposed to greater liquidity risk.
Certain
fund holdings may be deemed to be less liquid or illiquid because they cannot be
readily sold without significantly impacting the value of the holdings. A fund
is exposed to liquidity risk when trading volume, lack of a market maker, or
legal restrictions impair its ability to sell particular securities or close
derivative positions at an advantageous price. Funds with principal investment
strategies that involve 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.
Liquidity
risk also refers to the risk of unusually high redemption requests, redemption
requests by certain large shareholders such as institutional investors or asset
allocators, or other unusual market conditions that may make it difficult for a
fund to sell investments within the allowable time period to meet redemptions.
Meeting such redemption requests could require a fund to sell securities at
reduced prices or under unfavorable conditions, which would reduce the value of
the fund.
Additional
liquidity risks that apply to ETFs are described under "Market Trading Risks"
below.
Market
Volatility and Securities Issuers
The
value of a fund’s portfolio securities may decrease in response to overall stock
or bond market movements. Markets tend to move in cycles, with periods of rising
prices and periods of falling prices. Stocks tend to go up and down in value
more than bonds. The value of a security may decline for reasons directly
related to the issuer, such as management performance, financial leverage, and
reduced demand for the issuer’s goods or services. As a result, the value of an
individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the
market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a
whole.
Additionally,
U.S. and world economies, as well as markets (or certain market sectors), may
experience greater volatility in response to the occurrence of natural or
man-made disasters and geopolitical events, such as war, acts of terrorism,
pandemics, military actions, trade disputes, or political instability. Moreover,
if a fund’s investments are concentrated in certain sectors, its performance
could be worse than the overall market.
Recent
events are impacting the securities markets. Russia's invasion of Ukraine in
2022 has resulted in sanctions being levied by the United States, European
Union, and other countries against Russia. Russia's military actions and the
resulting sanctions could adversely affect global energy and financial markets
and, thus, could affect the value of the fund's investments, even beyond any
direct exposure the fund may have to Russian issuers or the adjoining geographic
regions. The extent and duration of the military action, sanctions, and
resulting market disruptions could be substantial.
Other
recent market disruption events include the pandemic spread of the novel
coronavirus designated as COVID-19. The transmission of COVID-19 and efforts to
contain its spread resulted in border closings and other travel restrictions and
disruptions; disruptions to business operations, supply chains, and customer
activity; event cancellations and restrictions; service cancellations and
reductions; significant challenges in the healthcare industry; and quarantines.
As experienced with the COVID-19 pandemic, health crises may exacerbate other
pre-existing political, social, economic, market, and financial risks and
negatively affect the global economy, as well as the economies of individual
countries, the financial performance of individual companies and sectors, and
the markets in general in significant ways.
Market
disruption events could also impair the information technology and other
operational systems upon which a fund’s investment advisor or sub-advisor rely,
and could otherwise disrupt the ability of the fund’s service providers to
perform essential tasks. In certain cases, an exchange or market may close or
issue trading halts on either specific securities or even the entire market,
which may result in a fund being, among other things, unable to buy or sell
certain securities or financial instruments or accurately price its
investments.
Governmental
and quasi-governmental authorities and regulators throughout the world, such as
the Federal Reserve, have in the past responded to major economic disruptions
with a variety of significant fiscal and monetary policy changes, including but
not limited to, direct capital infusions into companies, new monetary programs,
and dramatic changes to interest rates. Certain of those policy changes were
implemented or considered in response to the COVID-19 outbreak and inflationary
pressures. Such policy changes may adversely affect the value, volatility, and
liquidity of dividend and interest-paying securities.
The
impact of current and future market disruption events may last for an extended
period of time and could result in a substantial economic downturn or recession.
Such events could have significant adverse direct or indirect effects on the
funds and their investments, and may result in a fund’s inability to achieve its
investment objective, cause funds to experience significant redemptions, cause
the postponement of reconstitution/rebalance dates of passive funds’ underlying
indices, adversely affect the prices and liquidity of the securities and other
instruments in which a fund invests, negatively impact the fund’s performance,
and cause losses on your investment in the fund. You should also review this
Prospectus and the SAI to understand each fund’s discretion to implement
temporary defensive measures, as well as the circumstances in which a fund may
satisfy redemption requests in-kind.
Securities
Lending
To
generate additional income, a Fund may lend its portfolio securities to
broker-dealers and other institutional borrowers to the extent permitted under
the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”) or the rules,
regulations, or interpretations thereunder. A Fund that lends its securities
will continue to receive amounts equal to the interest or dividend payments
generated by the loaned securities. In addition to receiving these amounts, the
Fund generates income on the loaned securities by receiving a fee from the
borrower, and by earning interest on the collateral received from the borrower.
A negotiated portion of the income is paid to a securities lending agent (e.g.,
a bank or trust company) that arranged the loan. During the term of the loan,
the Fund’s investment performance will reflect changes in the value of the
loaned securities.
A
borrower’s obligations under a securities loan is secured continuously by
collateral posted by the borrower and held by the custodian in an amount at
least equal to the market value of the loaned securities. Generally, cash
collateral that a Fund receives from securities lending activities will be
invested in the Principal Funds, Inc. Government Money Market Fund, which is
managed by PGI and for which PGI receives a management fee. The collateral may
also be invested in unaffiliated money market funds.
Securities
lending involves exposure to certain risks, including the risk of losses
resulting from problems in the settlement and accounting process, the risk of a
mismatch between the return on cash collateral reinvestments and the fees each
Fund has agreed to pay a borrower, and credit, legal, counterparty, and market
risk. A Fund’s participation in a securities lending transaction may affect the
amount, timing, and character of distributions derived from such transaction to
shareholders. Qualified dividend income does not include “payments in lieu of
dividends,” which the Funds anticipate they will receive in securities lending
transactions.
Temporary
Defensive Measures
From
time to time, as part of its investment strategy, a Fund may invest without
limit in cash and cash equivalents for temporary defensive purposes in response
to adverse market, economic, or political conditions. For this purpose, cash
equivalents include: bank notes, bank certificates of deposit, bankers’
acceptances, repurchase agreements, commercial paper, and commercial paper
master notes, which are floating rate debt instruments without a fixed maturity.
In addition, a Fund may purchase U.S. government securities, preferred stocks,
and debt securities, whether or not convertible into or carrying rights for
common stock. There is no limit on the extent to which a Fund may take temporary
defensive measures. In taking such measures, a Fund may lose the benefit of
upswings and may limit its ability to meet, or fail to achieve, its investment
objective.
Trading
Issues
Although
the shares of the Funds are expected to be listed on the exchange identified in
the fund summary for each Fund, there can be no assurance that an active trading
market for such shares will develop or be maintained. Trading in Shares on the
exchange may be halted due to market conditions or for reasons that, in the view
of the exchange, make trading in Shares inadvisable. In addition, trading in
Shares on the exchange is subject to trading halts caused by extraordinary
market volatility pursuant to the exchange's "circuit breaker" rules. There can
be no assurance that the requirements of the exchange necessary to maintain the
listing of a Fund will continue to be met or will remain unchanged.
Strategy
and Risk Table
The
following table lists each Fund and identifies whether the strategies and risks
discussed in this section (listed in alphabetical order and not in order of
significance) are principal for a Fund. Each Fund is also subject to the risks
of any underlying funds in which it invests.
The
SAI contains additional information about investment strategies and their
related risks.
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INVESTMENT
STRATEGIES AND RISKS |
Principal
Active High Yield ETF |
Principal
Focused Blue Chip ETF |
Principal
Healthcare Innovators ETF |
Principal
Investment Grade Corporate Active ETF |
Active
Management |
X |
X |
X |
X |
Arbitrage
Risk |
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Bank
Loans (also known as Senior Floating Rate Interests) |
X |
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Contingent
Convertible Securities |
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Convertible
Securities |
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Counterparty
Risk |
X |
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Derivatives |
X |
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| X |
Emerging
Markets |
X |
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Equity
Securities |
| X |
X |
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•Growth
Style |
| X |
X |
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•Smaller
Companies |
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| X |
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•Value
Style |
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Fixed-Income
Securities |
X |
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| X |
Foreign
Currency |
X |
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Foreign
Securities |
X |
X |
| X |
Hedging |
X |
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| X |
High
Yield Securities |
X |
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Industry
Concentration |
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| X |
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Market
Trading Risks |
X |
X |
X |
X |
Momentum
Style |
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Portfolio
Duration |
X |
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| X |
Preferred
Securities |
X |
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Real
Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) |
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Real
Estate Securities |
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Redemption
and Large Transaction Risk |
X |
X |
X |
X |
Tracking
Basket Structure Risk |
| X |
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Trading
Halt Risk |
| X |
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U.S.
Government and U.S. Government-Sponsored Securities |
X |
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INVESTMENT
STRATEGIES AND RISKS |
Principal
Quality
ETF |
Principal
Real Estate Active Opportunities ETF |
Principal
Spectrum Preferred Securities
Active
ETF |
Principal
Spectrum Tax-Advantaged Dividend Active ETF |
Active
Management |
X |
X |
X |
X |
Arbitrage
Risk |
| X |
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Bank
Loans (also known as Senior Floating Rate Interests) |
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Contingent
Convertible Securities |
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| X |
Convertible
Securities |
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Counterparty
Risk |
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Derivatives |
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Emerging
Markets |
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Equity
Securities |
X |
X |
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•Growth
Style |
X |
X |
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•Smaller
Companies |
| X |
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•Value
Style |
X |
X |
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Fixed-Income
Securities |
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| X |
X |
Foreign
Currency |
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Foreign
Securities |
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| X |
X |
Hedging |
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High
Yield Securities |
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| X |
X |
Industry
Concentration |
| X |
X |
X |
Market
Trading Risks |
X |
X |
X |
X |
Momentum
Style |
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Portfolio
Duration |
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X |
Preferred
Securities |
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| X |
X |
Real
Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) |
| X |
| X |
Real
Estate Securities |
| X |
| X |
Redemption
and Large Transaction Risk |
X |
X |
X |
X |
Tracking
Basket Structure Risk |
| X |
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Trading
Halt Risk |
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U.S.
Government and U.S. Government-Sponsored Securities |
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INVESTMENT
STRATEGIES AND RISKS |
Principal
U.S. Mega-Cap ETF |
Principal
U.S. Small-Cap ETF |
Principal Value
ETF |
Active
Management |
X |
X |
X |
Arbitrage
Risk |
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Bank
Loans (also known as Senior Floating Rate Interests) |
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Contingent
Convertible Securities |
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Convertible
Securities |
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Counterparty
Risk |
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Derivatives |
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Emerging
Markets |
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Equity
Securities |
X |
X |
X |
•Growth
Style |
X |
X |
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•Smaller
Companies |
| X |
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•Value
Style |
X |
X |
X |
Fixed-Income
Securities |
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Foreign
Currency |
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Foreign
Securities |
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Hedging |
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High
Yield Securities |
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Industry
Concentration |
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Market
Trading Risks |
X |
X |
X |
Momentum
Style |
| X |
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Portfolio
Duration |
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Preferred
Securities |
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Real
Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) |
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Real
Estate Securities |
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Redemption
and Large Transaction Risk |
X |
X |
X |
Tracking
Basket Structure Risk |
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Trading
Halt Risk |
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U.S.
Government and U.S. Government-Sponsored Securities |
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Active
Management
The
performance of a fund that is actively managed (including hybrid funds or
passively-managed funds that use a sampling approach that includes some actively
managed components) will reflect in part the ability of those managing the
investments of the fund to make investment decisions that are suited to
achieving the fund's investment objective. Actively managed funds may invest
differently from the benchmark against which the fund's performance is compared.
When making decisions about whether to buy or sell equity securities,
considerations may include, among other things, a company’s strength in
fundamentals, its potential for earnings growth over time, its ability to
navigate certain macroeconomic environments, the current price of its securities
relative to their perceived worth and relative to others in its industry, and
analysis from computer models. When making decisions about whether to buy or
sell fixed-income investments, considerations may include, among other things,
the strength of certain sectors of the fixed-income market relative to others,
interest rates, a range of economic, political, and financial factors, the
balance between supply and demand for certain asset classes, the credit quality
of individual issuers, the fundamental strengths of corporate and municipal
issuers, and other general market conditions.
Models,
which may assist portfolio managers and analysts in formulating their securities
trading and allocation decisions by providing investment and risk management
insights, may also expose a fund to risks. Models may be predictive in nature,
which models 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. In
addition, "model prices" will often differ substantially from market prices,
especially for instruments with complex characteristics, such as derivative
instruments.
An
active fund's investment performance depends upon the successful allocation of
the fund's assets among asset classes, geographical regions, industry sectors,
and specific issuers and investments. There is no guarantee that these
allocation techniques and decisions will produce the desired results. It is
possible to lose money on an investment in a fund as a result of these
allocation decisions. If a fund's investment strategies do not perform as
expected, the fund could underperform other funds with similar investment
objectives or lose money. Moreover, buying and selling securities to adjust the
fund’s asset allocation may increase portfolio turnover and generate transaction
costs.
Investment
advisors with large assets under management in a Fund, or in other funds that
have the same strategy as a Fund, may have difficulty fully investing such
Fund’s assets according to its investment objective due to potential liquidity
constraints and high transaction costs. Typically, small-cap, mid-cap and
emerging market equity funds are more susceptible to such a risk. A Fund may add
additional investment advisors or close the Fund to new investors to address
such risks.
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 advisor 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.
Bank
Loans (also known as Senior Floating Rate Interests)
Bank
loans typically hold the most senior position in the capital structure of a
business entity (the "Borrower"), are secured by specific collateral, and have a
claim on the Borrower's assets and/or stock that is senior to that held by the
Borrower's unsecured subordinated debtholders and stockholders. The proceeds of
bank loans primarily are used to finance leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations,
mergers, acquisitions, stock repurchases, dividends, and, to a lesser extent, to
finance internal growth and for other corporate purposes. Bank loans are
typically structured and administered by a financial institution that acts as
the agent of the lenders participating in the bank loan. The Funds may purchase
bank loans that are rated below-investment-grade (sometimes called “junk”) or
will be comparable if unrated, which means they are more likely to default than
investment-grade loans. A default could lead to non-payment of income which
would result in a reduction of income to the fund, and there can be no assurance
that the liquidation of any collateral would satisfy the Borrower's obligation
in the event of non-payment of scheduled interest or principal payments, or that
such collateral could be readily liquidated. Most bank loans are not traded on
any national securities exchange. Bank loans generally have less liquidity than
investment-grade bonds and there may be less public information available about
them. Bank loan interests may not be considered "securities," and purchasers
therefore may not be entitled to rely on the anti-fraud protections of the
federal securities laws.
The
primary and secondary market for bank loans may be subject to irregular trading
activity, wide bid/ask spreads and extended trade settlement periods, which may
cause a fund to be unable to realize full value and thus cause a material
decline in a fund's net asset value. Because transactions in bank loans may be
subject to extended settlement periods, a fund may not receive proceeds from the
sale of a bank loan for a period of time after the sale. As a result, sale
proceeds may not be available to make additional investments or to meet a fund's
redemption obligations for a period of time after the sale of the bank loans,
which could lead to a fund having to sell other investments, borrow to meet
obligations, or borrow to remain fully invested while awaiting
settlement.
Bank
loans pay interest at rates which are periodically reset by reference to a base
lending rate plus a spread. These base lending rates are generally the prime
rate offered by a designated U.S. bank, the London InterBank Offered Rate
(LIBOR), the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR), a similar reference rate,
or the prime rate offered by one or more major U.S. banks.
Bank
loans generally are subject to mandatory and/or optional prepayment. Because of
these prepayment conditions and because there may be significant economic
incentives for the borrower to repay, prepayments may occur.
Contingent
Convertible Securities ("CoCos")
Contingent
convertible securities (“CoCos”) are hybrid debt securities intended to either
convert into equity or have their principal written down upon the occurrence of
certain “triggers.” The triggers are generally linked to 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. CoCos’ unique equity conversion or principal write-down
features are tailored to the issuing banking institution and its regulatory
requirements. Some additional risks associated with CoCos include, but are not
limited to, the following:
•The
occurrence of a conversion event is inherently unpredictable and depends on many
factors, some of which will be outside the issuer’s control. Because of the
uncertainty regarding whether a conversion event will occur, it may be difficult
to predict when, if at all, a CoCo will be converted to equity, and a fund may
suffer losses as a result.
•CoCos
may have no stated maturity and fully discretionary coupons. This means coupon
(i.e., interest) payments can be canceled at the banking institution’s
discretion or at the request of the relevant regulatory authority in order to
help the bank absorb losses, without causing a default.
•CoCos
are usually issued in the form of subordinated debt instruments to provide the
appropriate regulatory capital treatment. If an issuer liquidates, dissolves or
winds-up before a conversion to equity has occurred, the rights and claims of
the holders of the CoCos (such as a fund) against the issuer generally rank
junior to the claims of holders of unsubordinated obligations of the issuer. In
addition, if the CoCos are converted into the issuer’s underlying equity
securities after a conversion event (i.e., a “trigger”), each holder will be
further subordinated.
•The
value of CoCos is unpredictable and is influenced by many factors including,
without limitation: the creditworthiness of the issuer and/or fluctuations in
such issuer’s applicable capital ratios; supply and demand for CoCos; general
market conditions and available liquidity; and economic, financial and political
events that affect the issuer, its particular market or the financial markets in
general. Moreover, the performance of CoCos may be correlated with one another
and as a result negative information of one issuer may cause decline in the
value of CoCos of many other issuers.
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.
Convertible
Securities
Convertible
securities are usually fixed-income securities that a fund has the right to
exchange for equity securities at a specified conversion price. Convertible
securities could also include corporate bonds, notes or preferred stocks of U.S.
or foreign issuers. Convertible securities allow a fund to realize additional
returns if the market price of the equity securities exceeds the conversion
price. For example, a fund may hold fixed-income securities that are convertible
into shares of common stock at a conversion price of $10 per share. If the
market value of the shares of common stock reached $12, the fund could realize
an additional $2 per share by converting its fixed-income
securities.
Convertible
securities have lower yields than comparable fixed-income securities. In
addition, at the time a convertible security is issued the conversion price
exceeds the market value of the underlying equity securities. Thus, convertible
securities may provide lower returns than non-convertible fixed-income
securities or equity securities depending upon changes in the price of the
underlying equity securities. However, convertible securities permit a fund to
realize some of the potential appreciation of the underlying equity securities
with less risk of losing its initial investment.
Depending
on the features of the convertible security, a fund will treat a convertible
security as a fixed-income security, equity security, or preferred security for
purposes of investment policies and limitations because of the unique
characteristics of convertible securities. Funds that invest in convertible
securities may invest in convertible securities that are below investment grade
(sometimes referred to as "junk"). Many convertible securities are relatively
illiquid.
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. If a counterparty fails to meet
its contractual obligations, goes bankrupt, or otherwise experiences a business
interruption, a fund could miss investment opportunities or otherwise hold
investments it would prefer to sell, resulting in losses for the fund. In
addition, a fund may suffer losses if a counterparty fails to comply with
applicable laws or other requirements. Counterparty risk is pronounced during
unusually adverse market conditions and is particularly acute in environments in
which financial services firms are exposed to systemic risks.
Derivatives
Generally,
a derivative is a financial arrangement, the value of which is derived from, or
based on, a traditional security, asset, or market index. A fund may invest in
certain derivative strategies to earn income, manage or adjust the risk profile
of the fund, replace more direct investments, or obtain exposure to certain
markets. A fund may enter into forward commitment agreements, which call for the
fund to purchase or sell a security on a future date at a fixed price. A fund
may also enter into contracts to sell its investments either on demand or at a
specific interval.
The
risks associated with derivative investments include:
•increased
volatility of a fund and/or the failure of the investment to mitigate volatility
as intended;
•the
inability of those managing investments of the fund to predict correctly the
direction of securities prices, interest rates, currency exchange rates, asset
values, and other economic factors;
•losses
caused by unanticipated market movements, which may be substantially greater
than a fund's initial investment and are potentially unlimited;
•the
possibility that there may be no liquid secondary market which may make it
difficult or impossible to close out a position when desired;
•the
possibility that the counterparty may fail to perform its obligations;
and
•the
inability to close out certain hedged positions to avoid adverse tax
consequences.
There
are many different types of derivatives and many different ways to use them. The
specific derivatives that are principal strategies of each Fund are listed in
its Fund Summary.
•Commodity
Index-Linked Notes are derivative debt instruments issued by U.S. and foreign
banks, brokerage firms, insurance companies and other corporations with
principal and/or coupon payments linked to the performance of commodity indices.
These notes expose a fund to movements in commodity prices. They are also
subject to credit, counterparty, and interest rate risk. Commodity index-linked
notes are often leveraged, increasing the volatility of each note's market value
relative to changes in the underlying commodity index. At the maturity of the
note, a fund may receive more or less principal than it originally invested. A
fund may also receive interest payments on the note that are less than the
stated coupon interest payments.
•Credit
Default Swap Agreements may be entered into by a fund as a "buyer" or "seller"
of credit protection. Credit default swap agreements involve special risks
because they may be 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). Credit default swaps can increase credit risk because a fund has
exposure to both the issuer of the referenced obligation and the counterparty to
the credit default swap.
•Foreign
Currency Contracts (such as foreign currency options and foreign currency
forward and swap agreements) may be used by funds to increase exposure to a
foreign currency or to shift exposure to foreign currency fluctuations from one
country to another. A forward currency contract involves a privately negotiated
obligation to purchase or sell a specific currency at a future date at a price
set in the contract. For currency contracts, there is also a risk of government
action through exchange controls that would restrict the ability of a fund to
deliver or receive currency.
•Forwards,
futures contracts and options thereon (including commodities futures); options
(including put or call options); and swap agreements and over-the-counter swap
agreements (e.g., interest rate swaps, total return swaps and credit default
swaps) may be used by funds for hedging purposes in order to try to mitigate or
protect against potential losses due to changing interest rates, securities
prices, asset values, currency exchange rates, and other market conditions;
non-hedging purposes to seek to increase the fund’s income or otherwise enhance
return; and as a low-cost method of gaining exposure to a particular market
without investing directly in those securities or assets. These derivative
investments are subject to special risk considerations, particularly the
imperfect correlation between the change in market value of the instruments held
by a fund and the price of the derivative instrument. If a fund has insufficient
cash, it may have to sell securities from its portfolio to meet daily variation
margin requirements, even when it may be disadvantageous to do so. Options and
Swap Agreements also involve counterparty risk. With respect to options, there
may be difference in trading hours for the options markets and the markets for
the underlying securities (rate movements can take place in the underlying
markets that cannot be reflected in the options markets) and an insufficient
liquid secondary market for particular options.
•Index/structured
securities. Certain derivative securities are described more accurately as
index/structured securities, which are derivative securities whose value or
performance is linked to other equity securities (such as depositary receipts),
currencies, interest rates, indices, or other financial indicators (reference
indices).
Emerging
Markets
The
Funds consider a security to be tied economically to an emerging market (an
“emerging market security”) if the issuer of the security has its principal
place of business or principal office in an emerging market, has its principal
securities trading market in an emerging market, or derives a majority of its
revenue from emerging markets.
Usually,
the term "emerging market" (also called a "developing market") means any market
that is considered to be an emerging market by the international financial
community (such as markets tied to securities included in the MSCI Emerging
Markets Index or Bloomberg Emerging Markets USD Aggregate Bond Index). Emerging
markets generally exclude the U.S., Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Hong
Kong, and Singapore and most nations located in Western Europe.
Investments
in companies in emerging markets are subject to higher risks than investments in
companies in more developed markets. These risks include:
•increased
social, political, and economic instability;
•a
smaller market for these securities and low or nonexistent trading volume that
results in a lack of liquidity and greater price volatility;
•lack
of publicly available information, including reports of payments of dividends or
interest on outstanding securities;
•foreign
government policies that may restrict opportunities, including restrictions on
investment in issuers or industries deemed sensitive to national
interests;
•relatively
new capital market structure or market-oriented economy;
•the
possibility that recent favorable economic developments may be slowed or
reversed by unanticipated political or social events in these
countries;
•restrictions
that may make it difficult or impossible for a fund to vote proxies, exercise
shareholder rights, pursue legal remedies, and obtain judgments in foreign
courts; and
•possible
losses through the holding of securities in domestic and foreign custodial banks
and depositories.
In
addition, many developing markets have experienced substantial and, in some
periods, extremely high rates of inflation for many years. Inflation and rapid
fluctuations in inflation rates have had and may continue to have negative
effects on the economies, currencies, interest rates, and securities markets of
those markets.
Repatriation
of investment income, capital, and proceeds of sales by foreign investors may
require governmental registration and/or approval in some developing markets. A
fund could be adversely affected by delays in or a refusal to grant any required
governmental registration or approval for repatriation.
Further,
the economies of developing markets generally are heavily dependent upon
international trade and, accordingly, have been and may continue to be adversely
affected by trade barriers, exchange controls, managed adjustments in relative
currency values and other protectionist measures imposed or negotiated by the
countries with which they trade.
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,
including instances of fraud in emerging markets. For example, in certain
emerging markets, there are significant legal obstacles to obtaining information
needed for investigations or litigation. Similar limitations apply to the
pursuit of actions against individuals, including officers, who may have engaged
in fraud or wrongdoing. In addition, local authorities often are constrained in
their ability to assist U.S. authorities and overseas investors more generally.
There are also legal or other obstacles to seeking access to funds in a foreign
country.
Equity
Securities
Equity
securities include common stocks, convertible securities, depositary receipts,
rights (an offering of common stock to investors who currently own shares which
entitle them to buy subsequent issues at a discount from the offering price),
and warrants (the right to purchase securities from the issuer at a specified
price, normally higher than the current market price). Common stocks, the most
familiar type, represent an equity (ownership) interest in a corporation. The
value of a company's stock may fall as a result of factors directly relating to
that company, such as decisions made by its management or lower demand for the
company's products or services. A stock's value may also fall because of factors
affecting not just the company, but also companies in the same industry or in a
number of different industries, such as increases in production costs. The value
of a company's stock may also be affected by changes in financial markets that
are relatively unrelated to the company or its industry, such as changes in
interest rates or currency exchange rates. In addition, a company's stock
generally pays dividends only after the company invests in its own business and
makes required payments to holders of its bonds and other debt. For this reason,
the value of a company's stock will usually react more strongly than its bonds
and other debt to actual or perceived changes in the company's financial
condition or prospects.
Some
funds focus their investments on certain market capitalization ranges. Market
capitalization is defined as total current market value of a company's
outstanding equity securities. The market capitalization of companies in a
fund’s portfolios and their related indexes will change over time, and, except
to the extent consistent with its principal investment strategies (for example,
for an index fund that uses a replication strategy), a fund will not
automatically sell a security just because it falls outside of the market
capitalization range of its index(es).
Growth
Style
The
prices of growth stocks may be based largely on expectations of future earnings,
and their prices can decline rapidly and significantly in reaction to negative
news about such factors as earnings, revenues, the economy, political
developments, or other news. Growth stocks may underperform value stocks and
stocks in other broad style categories (and the stock market as a whole) over
any period of time and may shift in and out of favor with investors generally,
sometimes rapidly, depending on changes in market, economic, and other factors.
As a result, a fund that holds substantial investments in growth stocks may
underperform other funds that invest more broadly or favor different investment
styles. Because growth companies typically reinvest their earnings, growth
stocks typically do not pay dividends at levels associated with other types of
stocks, if at all.
Smaller
Companies
Investments
in companies with smaller market capitalizations may involve greater risks and
price volatility (wide, rapid fluctuations) than investments in larger, more
mature companies. Small company stocks may decline in price as large company
stocks rise, or rise in price while larger company stocks decline. The net asset
value of a fund that invests a substantial portion of its assets in small
company stocks may therefore be more volatile than the shares of a fund that
invests solely in larger company stocks. Small companies may be less significant
within their industries and may be at a competitive disadvantage relative to
their larger competitors. Smaller companies may be less mature than larger
companies. At this earlier stage of development, the companies may have limited
product lines, reduced market liquidity for their shares, limited financial
resources, or less depth in management than larger or more established
companies. While smaller companies may be subject to these additional risks,
they may also realize more substantial growth than larger or more established
companies.
Unseasoned
issuers are companies with a record of less than three years continuous
operation, including the operation of predecessors and parents. Many unseasoned
issuers also may be small companies and involve the risks and price volatility
associated with smaller companies. Unseasoned issuers by their nature have only
a limited operating history that can be used for evaluating the company's growth
prospects. As a result, these securities may place a greater emphasis on current
or planned product lines and the reputation and experience of the company's
management and less emphasis on fundamental valuation factors than would be the
case for more mature growth companies.
Value
Style
Value
stocks present the risk that they may decline in price or never reach their
expected full market value because the market fails to recognize the stock's
intrinsic worth. Value stocks may underperform growth stocks and stocks in other
broad style categories (and the stock market as a whole) over any period of time
and may shift in and out of favor with investors generally, sometimes rapidly,
depending on changes in market, economic, and other factors. As a result, a fund
that holds substantial investments in value stocks may underperform other funds
that invest more broadly or favor different investment styles.
Fixed-Income
Securities
Fixed-income
securities include bonds and other debt instruments that are used by issuers to
borrow money from investors (examples include corporate bonds, convertible
securities, asset- and mortgage-backed securities, and municipal, agency, and
U.S. government securities). The issuer of a fixed-income security generally
pays the investor a fixed, variable, or floating rate of interest. The amount
borrowed must be repaid at maturity. Some debt securities, such as zero-coupon
bonds, do not pay current interest, but are sold at a discount from their face
values.
Fixed-income
securities are sensitive to changes in interest rates. Interest rate changes can
be sudden and unpredictable, and are influenced by a number of factors,
including governmental policy, monetary policy, inflation expectations,
perceptions of risk, and supply and demand for fixed‑income securities. In
general, fixed-income security prices rise when interest rates fall and fall
when interest rates rise. An increase in interest rates from a low interest rate
environment may lead to heightened volatility, rapid sales of fixed‑income
securities, and redemptions alongside reduced liquidity and dealer market-making
capacity in fixed income markets.
If
interest rates fall, issuers of callable bonds may call (repay) securities with
high interest rates before their maturity dates; this is known as call risk. In
this case, a fund would likely reinvest the proceeds from these securities at
lower interest rates, resulting in a decline in the fund's income. Very low
interest rates, including rates that fall below zero (where banks charge for
depositing money), may detract from a fund’s performance and its ability to
maintain positive returns to the extent the fund is exposed to such interest
rates. To the extent a fund holds an investment with a negative interest rate to
maturity, the fund would generate a negative return on that investment. Floating
rate securities generally are less sensitive to interest rate changes but may
decline in value if their interest rates do not rise as much, or as quickly, as
interest rates in general. Conversely, floating rate securities will not
generally increase in value if interest rates decline.
In
June 2023, the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (“SOFR”) replaced the London
InterBank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”) as the benchmark interest rate for
dollar-denominated derivatives and loans in the United States pursuant to the
Adjustable Interest Rate (LIBOR) Act. Prior to the adoption of SOFR, LIBOR was
the globally accepted benchmark for interest rates; however, the United
Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority, which regulated LIBOR, ceased publication
of non-U.S. dollar LIBOR, 1-week U.S. dollar LIBOR, and 2-month U.S. dollar
LIBOR rates on December 31, 2021 and, the remaining, most widely used U.S.
dollar LIBOR rates stopped being published on June 30, 2023. Countries outside
of the United States have opted to use different alternatives to LIBOR than
SOFR. The effect of LIBOR's discontinuation and replacement on new or existing
financial instruments or operational processes will vary depending on a number
of factors, including, for example, fallback provisions in contracts,
replacement language in contracts, and legislative action. In addition, LIBOR’s
discontinuation and replacement may affect the value, liquidity, or return on
certain Fund investments and may result in costs in connection with closing out
positions and entering into new trades. These impacts are likely to persist
until new reference rates and fallbacks for both legacy and new instruments and
contracts are commercially accepted and market practices become settled. SOFR is
calculated by short-term repurchase agreements, backed by U.S. Treasuries. LIBOR
was a forward-looking rate, while SOFR reflects an overnight rate, making SOFR
much less susceptible to market fluctuations and manipulations than LIBOR.
Fixed-income
securities are also affected by the credit quality of the issuer. Investment
grade debt securities are medium and high quality securities. Some bonds, such
as lower grade or "junk" bonds, may have speculative characteristics and may be
particularly sensitive to economic conditions and the financial condition of the
issuers. Credit risk refers to the possibility that the issuer of the security
will not be able to make principal and interest payments when due.
Additionally,
a Fund's investments in companies with smaller market capitalizations may
involve greater risks, price volatility (wide, rapid fluctuations), and less
liquidity than investments in larger, more mature companies.
Foreign
Currency
Certain
of a fund's investments will be denominated in foreign currencies or traded in
securities markets in which settlements are made in foreign currencies. Any
income on such investments is generally paid to a fund in foreign currencies. In
addition, funds may engage in foreign currency transactions for both hedging and
investment purposes, as well as to increase exposure to a foreign currency or to
shift exposure to foreign currency fluctuations from one country to
another.
The
value of foreign currencies relative to the U.S. dollar varies continually,
causing changes in the dollar value of a fund’s portfolio investments (even if
the local market price of the investments is unchanged) and changes in the
dollar value of a fund’s income available for distribution to its shareholders.
The effect of changes in the dollar value of a foreign currency on the dollar
value of a fund’s assets and on the net investment income available for
distribution may be favorable or unfavorable. Transactions in non-U.S.
currencies are also subject to many of the risks of investing in foreign
(non-U.S.) securities; for example, changes in foreign economies and political
climates are more likely to affect a fund that has foreign currency exposure
than a fund that invests exclusively in U.S. companies and currency. There also
may be less government supervision of foreign markets, resulting in non-uniform
accounting practices and less publicly available information. Transactions in
foreign currencies, foreign currency denominated debt and certain foreign
currency options, futures contracts and forward contracts (and similar
instruments) may give rise to ordinary income or loss to the extent such income
or loss results from fluctuations in the value of the foreign currency
concerned.
A
fund may incur costs in connection with conversions between various currencies.
In addition, a fund may be required to liquidate portfolio assets, or may incur
increased currency conversion costs, to compensate for a decline in the dollar
value of a foreign currency occurring between the time when a fund declares and
pays a dividend, or between the time when a fund accrues and pays an operating
expense in U.S. dollars. To protect against a change in the foreign currency
exchange rate between the date on which a fund contracts to purchase or sell a
security and the settlement date for the purchase or sale, to gain exposure to
one or more foreign currencies or to "lock in" the equivalent of a dividend or
interest payment in another currency, a fund might purchase or sell a foreign
currency on a spot (i.e.,
cash) basis at the prevailing spot rate.
Currency
hedging involves some of the same general risks and considerations as other
transactions with similar instruments (i.e.,
derivative instruments) and hedging. Currency transactions are also subject to
additional risks. Because currency control is of great importance to the issuing
governments and influences economic planning and policy, purchases and sales of
currency and related instruments can be adversely affected by government
exchange controls, limitations or restrictions on repatriation of currency, and
manipulations or exchange restrictions imposed by governments. These forms of
governmental actions can result in losses to a fund if it is unable to deliver
or receive currency or monies in settlement of obligations. They could also
cause hedges the fund has entered into to be rendered useless, resulting in full
currency exposure as well as incurring transaction costs. Settlement of a
currency forward contract for the purchase of most currencies must occur at a
bank based in the issuing nation. The ability to establish and close out
positions on trading options on currency futures contracts is subject to the
maintenance of a liquid market that may not always be available.
Foreign
Securities
The
Funds consider a security to be tied economically to countries outside the U.S.
(a "foreign security") if the issuer of the security has its principal place of
business or principal office outside the U.S., has its principal securities
trading market outside the U.S., or derives a majority of its revenue
from outside the U.S.
The
Principal Real Estate Active Opportunities ETF and the Principal Focused Blue
Chip ETF are limited in their ability to invest in foreign securities but may
have exposure to foreign markets if they were to invest, for example, in
exchange-traded American depositary receipts or common stocks listed on a
foreign exchange that trade on such exchange contemporaneously with these ETF’s
shares.
There
may be less publicly available information about foreign companies than U.S.
companies, and information about foreign securities in which the Funds invest
may be less reliable or complete. Foreign companies, including those listed on
U.S. securities exchanges, may not be subject to the same uniform accounting,
auditing, and financial reporting practices as are required of U.S. companies
with respect to such matters as insider trading rules, tender offer regulation,
accounting standards or auditor oversight, stockholder proxy requirements and
the requirements mandating timely and accurate disclosure of information. For
example, the Chinese government has taken positions that prevent the Public
Company Accounting Oversight Board from inspecting the audit work and practices
of accounting firms in mainland China and Hong Kong for compliance with U.S. law
and professional standards. In
addition,
securities of many foreign companies are less liquid and more volatile than
securities of comparable U.S. companies. Commissions on foreign securities
exchanges may be generally higher than those on U.S. exchanges.
Foreign
markets also have different clearance and settlement procedures than those in
U.S. markets. In certain markets, there have been times when settlements have
been unable to keep pace with the volume of securities transactions, making it
difficult to conduct these transactions. Delays in settlement could result in
temporary periods when a portion of fund assets is not invested and earning no
return. If a fund is unable to make intended security purchases due to
settlement problems, the fund may miss attractive investment opportunities. In
addition, a fund may incur a loss as a result of a decline in the value of its
portfolio if it is unable to sell a security.
With
respect to certain foreign countries, there is the possibility of
nationalization, expropriation or confiscatory taxation, political or social
instability, or diplomatic developments that could affect a fund's investments
in those countries. In addition, a fund may also suffer losses due to differing
accounting practices and treatments. Investments in foreign securities are
subject to laws of the foreign country that may limit the amount and types of
foreign investments. Changes of governments or of economic or monetary policies,
in the U.S. or abroad, changes in dealings between nations, currency
convertibility or exchange rates could result in investment losses for a fund.
Foreign
securities are often traded with less frequency and volume, and therefore may
have greater price volatility than is the case with many U.S. securities.
Brokerage commissions, custodial services, and other costs relating to
investment in foreign countries are generally more expensive than in the U.S.
Though the fund intends to acquire the securities of foreign issuers where there
are public trading markets, economic or political turmoil in a country in which
a fund has a significant portion of its assets or deterioration of the
relationship between the U.S. and a foreign country may reduce the liquidity of
a fund's portfolio. The Fund may have difficulty meeting a large number of
redemption requests. Furthermore, there may be difficulties in obtaining or
enforcing judgments against foreign issuers.
A
fund may invest in a foreign company by purchasing depositary receipts.
Depositary receipts are certificates of ownership of shares in a foreign-based
issuer held by a bank or other financial institution. They are alternatives to
purchasing the underlying security but are subject to the foreign securities
risks to which they relate.
A
fund may file claims to recover foreign withholding taxes on dividend and
interest income (if any) received from issuers in certain countries and capital
gains on the disposition of stocks or securities where such withholding tax
reclaim is possible. Whether or when a fund will receive a withholding tax
refund is within the control of the tax authorities in such countries. Where a
fund expects to recover withholding taxes, the net asset value of a fund
generally includes accruals for such tax refunds. If the likelihood of recovery
materially decreases, accruals in the fund’s net asset value for such refunds
may be written down partially or in full, which will adversely affect the fund’s
net asset value. Shareholders in the fund at the time an accrual is written down
will bear the impact of the resulting reduction in net asset value regardless of
whether they were shareholders during the accrual period. Conversely, if a fund
receives a tax refund that has not been previously accrued, shareholders in the
fund at the time of the successful recovery will benefit from the resulting
increase in the fund’s net asset value. Shareholders who sold their shares prior
to such time will not benefit from such increase in the fund’s net asset
value.
If
a fund's portfolio invests significantly in a certain geographic region, any
negative development affecting that region will have a greater impact on the
fund than a fund that is not as heavily invested in that region. For example,
with respect to funds that invest significantly in China or the EU:
•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, as described above; 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.
•Funds
that invest in the United Kingdom (the "UK") face risks related to the UK's
departure from the European Union (the "EU"), commonly known as "Brexit." Brexit
has resulted in significant uncertainties and instability in the financial
markets, and considerable uncertainty remains related to the potential
consequences associated with the exit, how the negotiations for the withdrawal
and new trade agreements will be conducted, and whether the UK's exit will
increase the likelihood of other countries also departing the EU. Brexit may
have significant political and financial consequences in the UK, as well as in
European markets and the broader global economy, which may result in increased
volatility and illiquidity, and potentially lower economic growth in markets in
the UK, Europe and globally.
Hedging
Hedging
is a strategy that can be used to attempt to mitigate or protect against
potential losses due to changing interest rates, securities prices, asset
values, currency exchange rates, and other market conditions. The success of a
fund’s hedging strategy will be subject to the ability of those managing the
fund's investments to correctly assess the degree of correlation between the
performance of the instruments used in the hedging strategy and the performance
of the investments in the portfolio being hedged. Since the characteristics of
many securities change as markets change or time passes, the success of a fund’s
hedging strategy will also be subject to the ability of those managing the
fund's investments to continually recalculate, readjust, and execute hedges in
an efficient and timely manner. For a variety of reasons, those managing the
fund's investments may not seek to establish a perfect correlation between such
hedging instruments and the portfolio holdings being hedged. Such imperfect
correlation may prevent a fund from achieving the intended hedge or expose a
fund to risk of loss. In addition, it is not possible to hedge fully or
perfectly against any risk, and hedging entails its own costs.
High
Yield Securities
Below
investment grade securities are fixed income securities that are rated at the
time of purchase Ba1 or lower by Moody's Investors Service, Inc. ("Moody's") and
BB+ or lower by S&P Global Ratings ("S&P Global") (if the security has
been rated by only one of those agencies, that rating will determine if the
security is below investment grade; if the security has not been rated by either
of those agencies, those managing investments of a Fund will determine whether
the security is of a quality comparable to those rated below investment grade).
Below investment grade securities are sometimes referred to as high yield or
"junk bonds" and are considered speculative, particularly with respect to the
issuer's continuing ability to meet principal and interest payments. Such
securities could be in default at time of purchase.
Investing
in high yield securities involves special risks in addition to those associated
with investing in investment grade securities.
•High
yield securities may be less liquid than investment grade
securities.
•The
secondary market on which high yield securities are traded may be less liquid,
which may reduce the price of the security and adversely affect and cause large
fluctuations in the daily price of the Fund's shares.
•Analysis
of the creditworthiness of issuers of high yield securities is more complex. To
the extent a Fund invests in high yield securities, its ability to meet its
objective may be more dependent on such credit analyses.
•High
yield securities may be more susceptible to real or perceived adverse economic
and competitive industry conditions. Although high yield securities prices tend
to be less sensitive to interest rate changes than those of investment grade
securities, they tend to be more sensitive to adverse economic downturns or
individual corporate developments. Adverse publicity and investor perceptions,
whether or not based on fundamental analysis, may decrease the value and
liquidity of high yield securities, especially in a thinly traded
market.
•If
the issuer of high yield securities defaults, a Fund may incur additional
expenses to seek recovery.
•If
an issuer of high yield securities undergoes a corporate restructuring, such
high yield securities may become exchanged for or converted into reorganized
equity of the underlying issuer. Moreover, to the extent that a bond indenture
or loan agreement does not contain sufficiently protective covenants or
otherwise permits the issuer to take certain actions to the Fund's detriment
(such as distributing cash to equity holders, incurring additional indebtedness,
and disposing of assets), the underlying value of the high yield security may
decline.
The
use of credit ratings for evaluating high yield securities also involves certain
risks. For example, credit ratings reflect the safety of principal and interest
payments, not the market value risk of high yield securities. Also, credit
rating agencies may fail to change credit ratings in a timely manner to reflect
subsequent events. If a credit rating agency changes the rating of a portfolio
security held by a Fund, the Fund may retain the security.
Industry
Concentration
A
fund that concentrates its investments (invests more than 25% of its net assets)
in a particular industry (or group of industries) is more exposed to the overall
condition of the particular industry than a fund that invests in a wider variety
of industries. A particular industry could be affected by economic, business,
supply-and-demand, political, or regulatory factors. Companies within the same
industry could react similarly to such factors. As a result, a fund’s
concentration in a particular industry would increase the possibility that the
fund’s performance will be affected by such factors.
Market
Trading Risks
The
net asset value ("NAV") of the Shares generally will fluctuate with changes in
the market value of each Fund's holdings. The market prices of the Shares
generally will fluctuate in accordance with changes in NAV, as well as the
relative supply of and demand for Shares on the respective exchanges, PGI cannot
predict whether the Shares will trade below, at or above their NAV. Price
differences may be due largely to the fact that supply and demand forces at work
in the secondary trading market for the Shares will be related, but not
identical, to the forces influencing the prices of the securities held by the
Fund (individually or in the aggregate) at any time.
Only
authorized participants ("APs") may engage in creation or redemption
transactions directly with each Fund. (See "Purchase and Sale of Fund
Shares-Generally.") The Fund has a limited number of institutions that may act
as APs, none of which are or will be obligated to engage in creation or
redemption transactions. To the extent that these institutions exit the business
or are unable or unwilling to proceed with creation and/or redemption orders
with respect to the Fund, and no other AP is able or willing to step forward to
create or redeem Creation Units, Fund shares may trade at a discount to NAV and
possibly face trading halts and/or delisting. Such disruptions to creations and
redemptions or the existence of extreme market volatility may result in trading
prices that differ significantly from NAV.
This
limited number of APs risk may be heightened for the Principal Real Estate
Active Opportunities ETF and the Principal Focused Blue Chip ETF due to the fact
that these ETFs do not disclose portfolio holdings daily, unlike certain other
actively managed ETFs, and could be greater during market disruptions or periods
of volatility.
With
respect to funds that invest in foreign securities, since foreign exchanges may
be open on days when such a fund does not price its shares, the value of the
fund’s portfolio may change on days when shareholders will not be able to
purchase or sell the fund’s Shares, and may result in trading prices that differ
significantly from NAV. Additionally, such funds may be subject to heightened
risks since APs may be required to post collateral with such investments, which
only certain APs are able to do. Moreover, to the extent that an AP is unable or
unwilling to trade on an agency basis for foreign securities, there could be a
diminished trading market for ETF shares, and shares may trade at a discount to
NAV.
If
a shareholder purchases at a time when the market price is at a premium to the
NAV or sells at a time when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the
shareholder may sustain losses. Given that Shares can be created and redeemed
only in Creation Units at NAV, PGI believes that large discounts and premiums
should not be sustained over the long term.
Momentum
Style
Investing
in or having exposure to securities with positive momentum entails investing in
securities that have had above-average recent returns. These securities
may be more volatile than a broad cross-section of securities. Returns on
securities that have previously exhibited momentum may be less than returns on
other styles of investing or the overall stock market. Momentum can turn
quickly and cause significant variation from other types of investments, and
stocks that previously exhibited high momentum may not experience continued
positive momentum. In addition, there may be periods when the momentum
style is out of favor, and during which the investment performance of the Fund
using a momentum strategy may suffer.
Portfolio
Duration
Average
duration is a mathematical calculation of the average life of a bond (or for a
bond fund, the average life of the fund's underlying bonds, weighted by the
percentage of the fund's assets that each represents) that serves as a useful
measure of its price risk. Duration is an estimate of how much the value of the
bonds held by a fund will fluctuate in response to a change in interest rates.
For example, if a fund has an average duration of 4 years and interest rates
rise by 1%, the value of the bonds held by the fund will decline by
approximately 4%, and if the interest rates decline by 1%, the value of the
bonds held by the fund will increase by approximately 4%. Longer term bonds and
zero coupon bonds are generally more sensitive to interest rate changes.
Duration, which measures price sensitivity to interest rate changes, is not
necessarily equal to average maturity.
Preferred
Securities
Preferred
securities include preferred stock and various types of junior subordinated debt
and trust preferred securities. Preferred securities may pay fixed rate or
adjustable rate distributions and generally have a payment "preference" over
common stock, but are junior to the issuer's senior debt in a liquidation of the
issuer’s assets. Preference would mean that a company must pay on its preferred
securities before paying on its common stock, and that any claims of the
preferred security holder would typically be ahead of common stockholders'
claims on assets in a corporate liquidation.
Holders
of preferred securities usually have no right to vote for corporate directors or
on other matters. The market value of preferred securities is sensitive to
changes in interest rates as they are typically fixed income securities; the
fixed-income payments are expected to be the primary source of long-term
investment return. While some preferred securities are issued with a final
maturity date, others are perpetual in nature. In certain instances, a final
maturity date may be extended and/or the final payment of principal may be
deferred at the issuer’s option for a specified time without triggering an event
of default for the issuer. In addition, an issuer of preferred securities may
have the right to redeem the securities before their stated maturity date. For
instance, for certain types of preferred securities, a redemption may be
triggered by a change in federal income tax or securities laws. As with call
provisions, a redemption by the issuer may reduce the return of the security
held by the fund. Preferred securities may be subject to provisions that allow
an issuer, under certain circumstances to skip (indefinitely) or defer (possibly
up to 10 years) distributions. If a fund owns a preferred security that is
deferring its distribution, the fund may be required to report income for tax
purposes while it is not receiving any income.
Preferred
securities are typically issued by corporations, generally in the form of
interest or dividend bearing instruments, or by an affiliated business trust of
a corporation, generally in the form of beneficial interests in subordinated
debentures or similarly structured securities. The preferred securities market
is generally divided into the $25 par "retail" and the $1,000 par
"institutional" segments. The $25 par segment includes securities that are
listed on the New York Stock Exchange (exchange traded), which trade and are
quoted with accrued dividend or interest income, and which are often callable at
par value five years after their original issuance date. The institutional
segment includes $1,000 par value securities that are not exchange-listed (over
the counter), which trade and are quoted on a "clean" price, i.e., without
accrued dividend or interest income, and which often have a minimum of 10 years
of call protection from the date of their original issuance. Preferred
securities can also be issued by real estate investment trusts and involve risks
similar to those associated with investing in real estate investment trust
companies.
Real
Estate Investment Trusts ("REITs")
REITs
involve certain unique risks in addition to the risks associated with investing
in the real estate industry in general (such as possible declines in the value
of real estate, lack of availability of mortgage funds, or extended vacancies of
property). REITs are characterized as: equity REITs, which primarily own
property and generate revenue from rental income; mortgage REITs, which invest
in real estate mortgages; and hybrid REITs, which combine the characteristics of
both equity and mortgage REITs. Equity REITs may be affected by changes in the
value of the underlying property owned by the REITs, while mortgage REITs may be
affected by the quality of any credit extended. 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. A fund that
invests in a REIT is subject to the REIT’s expenses, including management fees,
and will remain subject to the fund's advisory fees with respect to the assets
so invested. REITs are also subject to the possibilities of failing to qualify
for the special tax treatment accorded REITs under the Internal Revenue Code,
and failing to maintain their exemptions from registration under the 1940
Act.
Regular
REIT dividends received by a Fund from a REIT will not qualify for the corporate
dividends-received deduction and generally will not constitute qualified
dividend income for U.S. income tax purposes. Any distribution of income
attributable to regular REIT dividends from a Fund’s investment in a REIT will
not qualify for the deduction that would be available to a non-corporate
shareholder were the shareholder to own such REIT directly.
Investment
in REITs also involves risks similar to those associated with investing in small
market capitalization companies. REITs may have limited financial resources, may
trade less frequently and in a limited volume, and may be subject to more abrupt
or erratic price movements than larger company securities.
Real
Estate Securities
Investing
in securities of companies in the real estate industry subjects a fund to the
special risks associated with the real estate market and the real estate
industry in general. Generally, companies in the real estate industry are
considered to be those that have principal activity involving the development,
ownership, construction, management or sale of real estate; have significant
real estate holdings, such as hospitality companies, healthcare facilities,
supermarkets, mining, lumber and/or paper companies; and/or provide products or
services related to the real estate industry, such as financial institutions
that make and/or service mortgage loans and manufacturers or distributors of
building
supplies. Securities of companies in the real estate industry are sensitive to
factors such as loss to casualty or condemnation, changes in real estate values,
property taxes, interest rates, cash flow of underlying real estate assets,
occupancy rates, government regulations affecting zoning, land use and rents,
and the management skill and creditworthiness of the issuer. Companies in the
real estate industry may also be subject to liabilities under environmental and
hazardous waste laws.
Redemption
and Large Transaction Risk
Ownership
of a 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 gain 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.
As
an example, as of June 30, 2023, Principal Funds, Inc. ("PFI") and Principal
Variable Contracts Funds, Inc. ("PVC") funds of funds owned the following
percentages, in the aggregate, of the outstanding shares of the underlying funds
listed below. Principal Global Investors, LLC ("PGI") is the advisor to the PFI
and PVC funds of funds and is committed to minimizing the potential impact of
redemption and large transaction risk on underlying funds to the extent
consistent with pursuing the investment objectives of the funds of funds that it
manages. However, PGI and its affiliates may face conflicts of interest in
fulfilling responsibilities to all such funds.
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Fund |
Total
Percentage
of
Outstanding
Shares
Owned |
Principal
Active High Yield ETF |
38.16% |
Principal
U.S. Mega-Cap ETF |
82.39% |
Principal
U.S. Small-Cap ETF |
75.79% |
Purchases
and redemptions of creation units primarily with cash rather through in kind
delivery of portfolio securities may cause the ETF to incur certain costs, such
as brokerage costs or taxable gains or losses that it might not have incurred if
it had made redemption in kind. These costs could be imposed on the ETF 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
A
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. For more information about
these thresholds and possible remedial measures, please see the SAI in paragraph
entitled "Monitoring of Thresholds" under the section entitled "Features
Specific to Non-Transparent ETFs." 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. For
more information about these circumstances, please see the SAI in the paragraph
entitled "Lack of Readily Available Market Quotations" under the section
entitled "Features Specific to Non-Transparent ETFs." 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.
U.S.
Government and U.S. Government-Sponsored Securities
U.S.
Government securities, such as Treasury bills, notes and bonds and
mortgage-backed securities guaranteed by the Government National Mortgage
Association ("Ginnie Mae"), are supported by the full faith and credit of the
United States; others are supported by the right of the issuer to borrow from
the U.S. Treasury; others are supported by the discretionary authority of the
U.S. Government to purchase the agency's obligations; and still others are
supported only by the credit of the issuing agency, instrumentality, or
enterprise.
Although
U.S. Government-sponsored enterprises such as the Federal Home Loan Mortgage
Corporation ("Freddie Mac") and the Federal National Mortgage Association
("Fannie Mae") may be chartered or sponsored by Congress, they are not funded by
Congressional appropriations, and their securities are not issued by the U.S.
Treasury nor supported by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government.
There
is no assurance that the U.S. Government would provide financial support to its
agencies and instrumentalities if not required to do so. In addition, certain
governmental entities have been subject to regulatory scrutiny regarding their
accounting policies and practices and other concerns that may result in
legislation, changes in regulatory oversight and/or other consequences that
could adversely affect the credit quality, availability, or investment character
of securities issued by these entities. The value and liquidity of U.S.
Government securities may be affected adversely by changes in the ratings of
those securities.
PORTFOLIO
HOLDINGS INFORMATION
A
description of the Funds' policies and procedures with respect to disclosure of
the Funds' portfolio securities is available in the Funds' SAI.
On
each business day, before commencement of trading on the exchange, each Fund,
except the Principal Focused Blue Chip ETF and the Principal Real Estate Active
Opportunities ETF, will disclose on www.PrincipalAM.com the identities and
quantities of the Fund’s portfolio holdings that will form the basis for the
Fund’s calculation of the Fund’s net asset value at the end of the business day.
The Principal Focused Blue Chip ETF and Principal Real Estate Active
Opportunities ETF will disclose on their website each Fund's Tracking Basket and
Tracking Basket Weight Overlap each business day before the commencement of
trading.
MANAGEMENT
OF THE FUNDS
The
Manager and Advisor
Principal
Global Investors, LLC ("PGI"), an indirect subsidiary of Principal Financial
Group, Inc. ("Principal®"),
serves as the manager and advisor for the Funds. Through the Management
Agreement with the Trust, PGI provides investment advisory services and certain
corporate administrative services for the Funds.
Advisor: Principal
Global Investors, LLC (doing
business as Principal Asset Management), 711 High Street, Des Moines, IA 50392,
is part of a diversified global asset management organization that utilizes
specialized investment teams and affiliates to provide institutional investors
and individuals with diverse investment capabilities, including fixed income,
equities, real estate, currency, asset allocation, and stable value. In addition
to its asset management offices in the U.S., PGI has asset management offices of
affiliate advisors located in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. PGI
has been a registered investment advisor since 1998.
Funds: In
fulfilling its investment advisory responsibilities, PGI provides the day-to-day
discretionary investment services (directly making decisions to purchase or sell
securities) for each Fund. For some Funds, these services are provided by the
sub-advisor, as described below.
Portfolio
Managers
As
reflected in the Fund Summaries, the day-to-day portfolio management for some
Funds is shared by multiple portfolio managers. In each such case, the portfolio
managers operate as a team, sharing authority and responsibility for research
and the day-to-day management of the Fund's portfolio with no limitation on the
authority of one portfolio manager in relation to another.
The
Fund summary identifies the portfolio managers of the Fund. Additional
information about the portfolio managers follows. References to
Principal®
include the entire Principal organization. The SAI provides additional
information about each portfolio manager's compensation, other accounts the
portfolio managers manage, and each portfolio manager's ownership of securities
in the Fund.
Jonathan
S. Curran
has been with Principal®
since 2022. Prior to that, Mr. Curran was a Senior Vice President and Portfolio
Manager for abrdn (formerly known as Standard Life Aberdeen) since 2010. He
earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Princeton University. Mr. Curran
has earned the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst
designation.
Mark
P. Denkinger has
been with Principal®
since 1990. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Finance and an M.B.A. with a
Finance emphasis from the University of Iowa. Mr. Denkinger has earned the right
to use the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
Christopher
Ibach has
been with Principal®
since
2000. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and an M.B.A. in
Finance from the University of Iowa. Mr. Ibach has earned the right to use the
Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
K.
William Nolin has
been with Principal®
since 1993. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Finance from the University of Iowa
and an M.B.A. from the Yale School of Management. Mr. Nolin has earned the right
to use the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
Josh
Rank has
been with Principal®
since 2013. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Finance from Iowa State University.
Mr. Rank has earned the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst
designation.
Tom
Rozycki has
been with Principal®
since 2001. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Finance from Drake University. Mr.
Rozycki has earned the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst
designation.
Aaron
J. Siebel has
been with Principal®
since 2005. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Finance from the University of
Iowa. Mr. Siebel has earned the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst
designation.
Darrin
E. Smith has
been with Principal®
since 2007. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Iowa State
University and an M.B.A. from Drake University. Mr. Smith has earned the right
to use the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
Darryl
Trunnel has
been with Principal®
since 2008. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Business from Iowa
State University. Mr. Trunnel has earned the right to use the Chartered
Financial Analyst designation.
The
Sub-Advisors
PGI
has signed contracts with various sub-advisors. Under the sub-advisory
agreements, the sub-advisor agrees to assume the obligations of PGI to provide
investment advisory services to the portion of the assets of a specific Fund
allocated to it by PGI. For these services, PGI pays the sub-advisor a
fee.
PGI
or the sub-advisor provides the Board with a recommended investment program. The
program must be consistent with the Fund’s investment objective and policies.
Within the scope of the approved investment program, the sub-advisor advises the
Fund on its investment policy and determines which securities are bought or
sold, and in what amounts.
The
Fund Summaries identified the sub-advisors, portfolio managers, and the Funds
they manage. Additional information follows.
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Sub-Advisor: |
Principal
Real Estate Investors, LLC
(doing business as Principal Real Estate) (“Principal
- REI”),
711 High Street, Des Moines, IA 50392, was founded in 2000 and manages
commercial real estate across the spectrum of public and private equity
and debt investments, primarily for institutional
investors. |
Fund(s): |
Principal
Real Estate Active Opportunities ETF |
The
portfolio managers operate as a team, sharing authority and responsibility for
research and the day-to-day management of the portfolio with no limitation on
the authority of one portfolio manager in relation to another.
Keith
Bokota has
been with Principal - REI since 2007. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Finance
and International Business from Georgetown University. Mr. Bokota has earned the
right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
Anthony
Kenkel has
been with Principal - REI since 2005. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Finance
from Drake University and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Graduate
School of Business. Mr. Kenkel has earned the right to use the Chartered
Financial Analyst and Financial Risk Manager designations.
Kelly
D. Rush has
been with Principal - REI since 2000 and the predecessor firms since 1987. He
earned a bachelor's degree in Finance and an M.B.A. in Business Administration
from the University of Iowa. Mr. Rush has earned the right to use the Chartered
Financial Analyst designation.
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Sub-Advisor: |
Spectrum
Asset Management, Inc. (“Spectrum”),
2 High Ridge Park, Stamford, CT 06905, founded in 1987, manages portfolios
of preferred securities for corporate, pension fund, insurance, and
endowment clients; open-end and closed-end mutual funds; and separately
managed account programs for high net worth individual investors, as well
as provides volatility mitigation solutions for some client
portfolios. |
Fund(s): |
Principal
Spectrum Preferred Securities Active ETF
Principal
Spectrum Tax-Advantaged Dividend Active
ETF |
The
day-to-day portfolio management for these Funds is shared by multiple portfolio
managers. The portfolio managers operate as a team, sharing authority and
responsibility for research and the day-to-day management of each Fund's
portfolio with no limitation on the authority of one portfolio manager in
relation to another.
Fernando
(“Fred”) Diaz joined
Spectrum in 2000.
Roberto
Giangregorio joined
Spectrum in 2003. Mr. Giangregorio earned a B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical
Engineering from S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook and the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, respectively. He also earned an M.B.A. in Finance from
Cornell University.
L.
Phillip Jacoby, IV joined
Spectrum in 1995. Mr. Jacoby earned a B.S. in Finance from the Boston University
School of Management.
Manu
Krishnan joined
Spectrum in 2004. Mr. Krishnan earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the
College of Engineering, Osmania University, India, an M.S. in Mechanical
Engineering from the University of Delaware, and an M.B.A. in Finance from
Cornell University. Mr. Krishnan has earned the right to use the Chartered
Financial Analyst designation.
Mark
A. Lieb founded
Spectrum in 1987. Mr. Lieb earned a B.A. in Economics from Central Connecticut
State College and an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of
Hartford.
Kevin
Nugent joined
Spectrum in 2012. Mr. Nugent earned a B.A. from Ohio Wesleyan
University.
Satomi
Yarnell joined
Spectrum in 2015. Ms. Yarnell earned a M.A. in Economics from Waseda University.
Ms. Yarnell has earned the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst
designation and is a Chartered Member of Security Analyst Association of Japan
(CMA).
Participating
Affiliate Agreement
In
rendering investment advisory services to a Fund, the advisor and each
sub-advisor may use the resources of one or more of its respective foreign
(non-U.S.) affiliates that are not registered under the Investment Advisers Act
of 1940, as amended, to provide portfolio management, research, and trading
services to the Fund. Under a Participating Affiliate Agreement, and pursuant to
applicable guidance from the Staff of the SEC, U.S. registered advisors are
allowed to use investment advisory and trading resources of such unregistered
advisory affiliates subject to the regulatory supervision of the registered
advisor. For example, some Principal Fund Complex assets are managed by
employees of Principal Global Investors (Europe) Limited pursuant to such an
arrangement. Each such affiliate and any of their respective employees who
provide services to a Fund are considered under the Participating Affiliate
Agreement to be “supervised persons” of the advisor or sub-advisor (as
applicable) as that term is defined in the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as
amended.
Fees
Paid to PGI
The
Fund pays PGI a fee for its services, which includes the fee PGI pays to
sub-advisors, as applicable, and to State Street Bank and Trust for fund
administration, fund accounting, and other services. Pursuant to the Management
Agreement between the Trust, on behalf of each Fund, and PGI, PGI pays all
operating expenses of each Fund, except interest expenses, taxes, brokerage
commissions and other expenses connected with executing
portfolio transactions, acquired fund fees and expenses, future distribution
fees or expenses, and extraordinary expenses.
The
management fee schedules for Funds that have not completed a full fiscal year
are as follows:
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Fund |
All
Assets |
Principal
Focused Blue Chip ETF |
0.58% |
The
fee the Funds paid (as a percentage of the average daily net assets) for the
fiscal year ended June 30, 2023 was:
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Fund |
Fee |
|
Principal
Active High Yield ETF |
0.39% |
|
Principal
Healthcare Innovators ETF |
0.42% |
|
Principal
Investment Grade Corporate Active ETF |
0.19% |
|
Principal
Quality ETF |
0.15% |
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Principal
Real Estate Active Opportunities ETF |
0.65% |
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Principal
Spectrum Preferred Securities Active ETF |
0.55% |
|
Principal
Spectrum Tax-Advantaged Dividend Active ETF |
0.60% |
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Principal
U.S. Mega-Cap ETF |
0.15% |
|
Principal
U.S. Small-Cap ETF |
0.38% |
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Principal
Value ETF |
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Availability
of the discussions regarding the basis for the Board's approval of the various
management and sub-advisory agreements is available for all Funds in the
Semi-Annual Report to Shareholders for the period ending December 31,
2023.
Manager
of Managers
The
Trust operates as a Manager of Managers. Under an order received from the SEC
(the "Order"), the Trust and PGI may enter into and materially amend agreements
with unaffiliated and wholly-owned affiliated sub-advisors (affiliated
sub-advisors that are at least 95% owned, directly or indirectly, by PGI or an
affiliated person of PGI) without obtaining shareholder approval, including
to:
•hire
one or more sub-advisors;
•change
sub-advisors; and
•reallocate
management fees between PGI and sub-advisors.
Although
there is no present intent to do so, the Funds may, in the future, rely on
current SEC Staff guidance that expands relief under the Order to allow PGI to
enter into and materially amend agreements with majority-owned affiliated
sub-advisors (affiliated sub-advisors that are at least 50% owned, directly or
indirectly, by PGI or an affiliated person of PGI), and, further, to all
sub-advisors regardless of the degree of affiliation with PGI.
In
order to rely on the varying degrees of relief granted by the Order and/or the
SEC Staff guidance, a Fund must receive approval from its shareholders (or, in
the case of a new Fund, the Fund’s sole initial shareholder before the Fund is
available to the other purchasers).
The
shareholders of each Fund have approved such Fund’s reliance on the Order, as
supplemented by the SEC Staff guidance, as follows:
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Fund |
Unaffiliated
Sub-Advisors |
Wholly-Owned
Affiliated
Sub-Advisors |
Majority-Owned
Affiliated
Sub-Advisors |
Any
Other Sub-Advisors Regardless of Degree of Affiliation |
Principal
Investment Grade Corporate Active ETF |
X |
X |
X |
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Principal
Quality ETF |
X |
X |
X |
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Principal
Value ETF |
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