ck0001432353-20221031
Global X Nasdaq 100 ESG Covered Call
ETF
NASDAQ:
QYLE
Prospectus
February 17,
2023
The
Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") has not approved or disapproved these
securities or passed upon the adequacy of this Prospectus. Any representation to
the contrary is a criminal offense.
Shares
in the Fund (defined below) are not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation or any other agency of the U.S. Government, nor are shares
deposits or obligations of any bank. Such shares in the Fund involve investment
risks, including the loss of principal.
|
|
|
As
permitted by regulations adopted by the SEC, paper copies of the Fund's
shareholder reports will no longer be sent by mail, unless you
specifically request paper copies of the reports from your financial
intermediary (such as a broker-dealer or bank). Instead, shareholder
reports will be available on the Fund’s website
(www.globalxetfs.com/explore), and you will be notified by mail each time
a report is posted and provided with a website link to access the report.
If you already elected to receive shareholder reports electronically, you
will not be affected by this change and you need not take any action. You
may elect to receive shareholder reports and other communications from the
Funds electronically anytime by contacting your financial intermediary.
You may elect to receive all future Fund shareholder reports in paper free
of charge. Please contact your financial intermediary to inform them that
you wish to continue receiving paper copies of Fund shareholder reports
and for details about whether your election to receive reports in paper
will apply to all funds held with your financial
intermediary. |
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
|
|
|
|
|
|
FUND
SUMMARY |
|
ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION ABOUT THE FUND |
|
A
FURTHER DISCUSSION OF PRINCIPAL RISKS |
|
A
FURTHER DISCUSSION OF OTHER RISKS |
|
PORTFOLIO
HOLDINGS INFORMATION |
|
FUND
MANAGEMENT |
|
DISTRIBUTOR |
|
BUYING
AND SELLING FUND SHARES |
|
FREQUENT
TRADING |
|
DISTRIBUTION
AND SERVICE PLAN |
|
DIVIDENDS
AND DISTRIBUTIONS |
|
TAXES |
|
DETERMINATION
OF NET ASSET VALUE |
|
PREMIUM/DISCOUNT
AND SHARE INFORMATION |
|
INFORMATION
REGARDING THE INDEX AND THE INDEX PROVIDER |
|
OTHER
SERVICE PROVIDERS |
|
ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION |
|
FINANCIAL
HIGHLIGHTS |
|
OTHER
INFORMATION |
|
Global
X Nasdaq 100 ESG Covered Call ETF
Ticker:
QYLE Exchange: NASDAQ
INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE
The Global X Nasdaq 100 ESG
Covered Call ETF ("Fund") seeks to provide investment results that correspond
generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the
Nasdaq-100 ESG BuyWrite Index ("Underlying Index").
FEES AND EXPENSES
This table describes the fees
and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and sell shares (“Shares”) of
the Fund. You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees
to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the tables and examples
below.
Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment):
|
|
|
|
|
|
Management
Fees: |
0.60% |
Distribution
and Service (12b-1) Fees: |
None |
Other
Expenses:1 |
0.00% |
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses: |
0.60% |
1 Other Expenses are based on
estimated amounts for the current fiscal
year.
Example:
The following example
is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost
of investing in other funds. This example does not take into account customary
brokerage commissions that you pay when purchasing or selling Shares of the Fund
in the secondary market. The example assumes that you invest
$10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell all of your
Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your
investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses
remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on
these assumptions, your costs would be:
|
|
|
|
|
|
One
Year |
Three
Years |
$61 |
$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 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 yet have
a portfolio turnover rate to disclose.
PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT
STRATEGIES
The
Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets, plus borrowings for investment
purposes (if any), in the securities of the Nasdaq-100 ESG BuyWrite Index (the
"Underlying Index"). The Fund's 80% investment policy is non-fundamental and
requires 60 days prior written notice to shareholders before it can be
changed.
The
Underlying Index seeks to provide long exposure to an equity portfolio that
applies a set of specific Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) criteria
as part of its security selection process, while also selling call options
generally associated with such exposure. Specifically, the Underlying Index
measures the performance of a covered call strategy, also known as a “buy-write”
strategy, that seeks to provide long exposure by “buying” the underlying
components of the Nasdaq-100 ESG Index (the “Reference Index”) and to generate
options premium income by “writing” (selling) a succession of one-month,
at-the-money (“ATM”) covered call options on the Nasdaq-100 Index. In seeking to
track the Underlying Index, the Fund invests in the securities reflected in the
Underlying Index by purchasing the underlying holdings of the Reference Index in
proportion to their weight in the Reference Index, and systematically writing
(selling) a succession of one-month, ATM covered call options on the Nasdaq-100
Index. The implications of the written (sold) call options are described in more
detail here:
Call
Options
– When the Fund sells a call option, the Fund receives a premium in exchange for
an obligation to sell shares of the Nasdaq-100 Index at a strike price on the
expiration date if the buyer of the call option exercises it. If the
Nasdaq-100
Index closes above the strike price as of the expiration date and the buyer
exercises the call option, the investor will have to pay the difference between
the value of the Nasdaq-100 Index and the strike price. If the Nasdaq-100 Index
closes below the strike price as of the expiration date, the call option may end
up worthless and the investor retains the premium. Generally speaking, an
at-the-money (“ATM”) call option refers to an option where the strike price of
the option is equal to the price of the underlying asset at the time when the
option is written (sold).
On
a monthly basis, the Underlying Index seeks to achieve its objective by writing
(selling) a succession of one-month, ATM call options on the Nasdaq-100 Index
corresponding to approximately 100% of the value of the securities in the
Reference Index, and will cover such options by holding the component securities
of the Reference Index in the same weighting proportion as the Reference Index.
Each call option written in the Underlying Index will have an exercise price
generally at the prevailing market price of the Nasdaq-100 Index. However, if
call options with those precise strike prices are unavailable, the Underlying
Index will instead select the call options with the strike price closest to but
above the prevailing market price of the Nasdaq-100 Index. Each option position
in the Underlying Index’s composition will (i) be traded on a national
securities exchange; (ii) be held until expiration date; (iii) expire on its
date of maturity; (iv) only be subject to exercise on its expiration date; and
(v) be settled in cash.
The
Nasdaq-100 Index is composed of securities issued by 100 of the largest
non-financial companies listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market or Nasdaq
Global Market (two of the three tiers of The Nasdaq Stock Market for the U.S.
with the most stringent listing requirements) by market capitalization, as
defined by Nasdaq (the “Index Provider”).
The
Reference Index comprises the securities included in the Nasdaq-100 Index after
excluding certain companies that are: 1) engaged in identified business
activities, 2) subject to certain controversy, and/or 3) fail to comply with
certain fundamental principles. Specifically, the Reference Index employs
negative screens to exclude securities of companies with business activities
that do not meet certain ESG eligibility criteria. Such screens rely on
information from Sustainalytics, a globally-recognized independent provider of
ESG research, ratings, and data. Companies’ business activities are
distinguished between categories with absolute prohibitions (which do not allow
any involvement by a company in a certain business activity) and categories that
permit a de minimis amount of a certain business activity (generally, permitting
a company to derive less than 5% of its revenues from, or to own less than 10%
of another company that engages in, such activity). Examples of business
activities with absolute prohibitions include, but are not limited to, arctic
oil & gas exploration, cannabis production and controversial weapons, while
examples of business activities with limited prohibitions include, but are not
limited to, alcoholic beverages, gambling and nuclear power production.
The
Reference Index also utilizes information from Sustainalytics to determine
issuers’ business controversy levels and ESG Risk Rating Score. Sustainalytics
reviews corporate filings and public disclosures to assess a company’s ESG
profile. The ESG Risk Rating Score is designed to measure the magnitude of a
company’s unmanaged ESG risk, and it is composed of three building blocks that
contribute to a company’s overall rating: (1) corporate governance, (2) material
ESG issues (“MEIs”), and (3) idiosyncratic ESG issues. The final ESG Risk
Ratings Score is calculated as the sum of the individual material ESG issues’
unmanaged risk scores and is intended to represent the overall unmanaged risk of
a company. Companies are assigned risk scores ranging from 0 (indicating that
ESG risks have been fully managed) to greater than 50 (indicating the highest
level of unmanaged ESG risk). The Index Provider excludes companies with an ESG
risk rating of 40 or higher (i.e., a “severe risk” rating) from the Underlying
Index.
Sustainalytics
also monitors companies for controversies pertaining to ESG and assesses
incidents and events in terms of their level of impact on the environment and
society and the related risk to the company itself. Incidents are defined as
company activities with unintended and/or undesired negative environmental
and/or social impacts on stakeholders, while events are defined as a series of
isolated or related incidents that pertain to the same ESG issues. Events are
scored by a team of analysts on a scale from 1 (low ESG impact) to 5 (severe ESG
impact), depending on the reputational risk to the company and potential impact
on stakeholders, as determined by Sustainalytics. The Index Provider excludes
companies with a Sustainalytics controversy rating higher than 4 from the
Reference Index.
Additionally,
eligible issuers must be deemed compliant with the principles of the United
Nations Global Compact (“UNGC”). The UNGC is an arrangement by which companies
voluntarily and publicly commit to a set of principles drawn from key UN
Conventions and Declarations. The principles of the UNGC represent a set of
values that the UN believes responsible businesses should incorporate into their
operations in order to meet fundamental responsibilities in the areas of human
rights, labor, the environment, and anti-corruption.
Companies
in the Reference Index are weighted by their market capitalization and adjusted
by their Sustainalytics ESG Risk Rating Score. Capping to weights are employed,
where necessary, to meet diversification standards, as determined by the Index
Provider. The Reference Index is rebalanced
quarterly.
The
Underlying Index is sponsored by the Index Provider, which is an organization
that is independent of, and unaffiliated with, the Fund and Global X Management
Company LLC, the investment adviser for the Fund ("Adviser"). The Index Provider
determines the relative weightings of the securities in the Underlying Index and
publishes information regarding the market value of the Underlying Index. As of
January 31, 2023, the Underlying Index had 91 constituents.
The
Adviser uses a "passive" or indexing approach to try to achieve the Fund's
investment objective. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not try to
outperform the Underlying Index and does not seek temporary defensive positions
when markets decline or appear overvalued. The call options sold by the Fund
will be collateralized by the Fund's equity holdings at the time the Fund sells
the options. By selling call options on the value of the portfolio of stocks in
the Nasdaq-100 Index, the Fund's covered call strategy may generate income. If
the price of the Nasdaq-100 Index is above the strike price of the Fund’s call
options positions upon the expiration of the call option, then at expiration the
Fund would owe the purchaser of the call option the difference between the
strike price and the value of the Nasdaq-100 Index, so the amount owed with
respect to the call option would generally offset any gains the Fund may
experience from the securities in the Reference Index held by the Fund. For
example, if the price of the Nasdaq-100 Index were to increase by 15% from the
time the call options were sold to the time the call options expired, then the
call options would be expected to have a value equal to approximately 15% of the
value the portfolio had at the time when the call options were sold, which would
generally offset all of the Fund’s gains from the increase in the Reference
Index over the relevant period. However, if the price of the Nasdaq-100 Index is
below the strike price of the Fund’s call options positions at expiry, the call
options will expire worthless and the Fund will retain the premium.
Because
options contracts on the Reference Index are not currently listed, the
Underlying Index will write options on the Nasdaq-100 Index. As a result, the
performance of the Reference Index, which include most (but not all) of the
securities included in the Nasdaq-100 Index, may diverge from the performance of
the Nasdaq-100 Index. If the constituents of the Reference Index which are not
constituents of the Nasdaq-100 Index underperform the other constituents of the
Nasdaq-100 Index, and the Nasdaq-100 Index options written by the Fund expire in
the money, then the Fund’s performance will be negative during such period, even
if the performance of the Reference Index during such period is positive.
Additionally, the value of the Nasdaq-100 Index and the Reference Index may move
up or down after the strike price of the call options is selected for a given
period, in which case movements in the value of the options contracts may be
expected to offset movements in the Reference Index to a greater or lesser
extent. As a result, an investor that purchases Fund shares other than on the
day that the Fund writes (sells) monthly call options, or who sells shares other
than on the day that the call options expire, may experience different
investment returns, depending on the relative difference between the strike
price of the Fund’s call options positions, and the price of the Nasdaq-100
Index at the time when the investor purchases or sells the Fund.
The
Fund generally will use a replication strategy. A replication strategy is an
indexing strategy that involves investing in the securities of the Underlying
Index in approximately the same proportions as in the Underlying Index. However,
the Fund may utilize a representative sampling strategy with respect to the
Underlying Index when a replication strategy might be detrimental to
shareholders, such as when there are practical difficulties or substantial costs
involved in compiling a portfolio of equity securities to follow the Underlying
Index, in instances in which a security in the Underlying Index becomes
temporarily illiquid, unavailable or less liquid, or as a result of legal
restrictions or limitations (such as tax diversification requirements) that
apply to the Fund but not the Underlying Index.
The
Adviser expects that, over time, the correlation between the Fund's performance
and that of the Underlying Index, before fees and expenses, will exceed 95%. A
correlation percentage of 100% would indicate perfect correlation. If the Fund
uses a replication strategy, it can be expected to have greater correlation to
the Underlying Index than if it uses a representative sampling strategy.
The Fund concentrates its investments
(i.e., holds 25% or more of its total assets) in a particular industry or group
of industries to approximately the same extent that the Underlying Index is
concentrated. As of January 31, 2023, the Underlying Index had significant
exposure to the information technology sector. The Fund is classified as
"non-diversified," which means it may invest a larger percentage of its assets
in a smaller number of issuers than a diversified
fund.
SUMMARY OF PRINCIPAL RISKS
As with any investment, you could lose all or part of
your investment in the Fund, and the Fund's performance could trail that of
other investments. There is no guarantee that the Fund will
achieve its investment objective. An investment in the Fund is not a
bank deposit and it is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation or any other government agency, the Adviser or any of its
affiliates. The Fund is subject to the principal risks noted
below, any of which may adversely affect the Fund's net asset value ("NAV"),
trading price, yield, total return and ability to meet its investment objective,
as well as other risks that are described in greater detail in the Additional
Information About the Fund
section of this Prospectus and in the
Statement
of Additional Information ("SAI"). The order of the below risk factors does not
indicate the significance of any particular risk factor.
Asset
Class Risk:
Securities and other assets in the Underlying Index or otherwise held in the
Fund's portfolio may underperform in comparison to the general securities
markets, a particular securities market or other asset classes.
Derivatives
Risk: The
Fund will invest in options, a type of derivative instrument. Derivatives can be
more sensitive to changes in interest rates or to sudden fluctuations in market
prices than conventional securities, which can result in greater losses for the
Fund. In addition, the prices of the derivative instruments and the prices of
underlying securities, interest rates or currencies they are designed to reflect
may not move together as expected. A risk of the Fund’s use of derivatives is
that the fluctuations in their values may not correlate perfectly with the
relevant reference index. Derivatives are usually traded on margin, which may
subject the Fund to margin calls. Margin calls may force the Fund to liquidate
assets. On October 28, 2020, the SEC adopted Rule 18f-4 (“Rule 18f-4”) under the
1940 Act, which governs the use of derivatives by registered investment
companies. Rule 18f-4 imposes limits on the amount of derivatives the Fund can
enter into.
Equity
Securities Risk:
Equity securities are subject to changes in value, and their values may be more
volatile than other asset classes, as a result of such factors as a company’s
business performance, investor perceptions, stock market trends and general
economic conditions.
Capitalization
Risk:
Investing in issuers within the same market capitalization category carries the
risk that the category may be out of favor due to current market conditions or
investor sentiment.
Large-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Large-capitalization
companies may trail the returns of the overall stock market.
Large-capitalization stocks tend to go through cycles of doing better - or worse
- than the stock market in general. These periods have, in the past, lasted for
as long as several years.
Covered
Call Option Writing Risk:
By writing covered call options in return for the receipt of premiums, the Fund
will give up the opportunity to benefit from potential increases in the value of
the Reference Index above the exercise prices of such options, but will continue
to bear the risk of declines in the value of the Reference Index. The premiums
received from the options may not be sufficient to offset any losses sustained
from the volatility of the underlying stocks over time. As a result, the risks
associated with writing covered call options may be similar to the risks
associated with writing put options. In addition, the Fund’s ability to sell the
securities underlying the options will be limited while the options are in
effect unless the Fund cancels out the option positions through the purchase of
offsetting identical options prior to the expiration of the written options.
Exchanges may suspend the trading of options in volatile markets. If trading is
suspended, the Fund may be unable to write options at times that may be
desirable or advantageous to do so, which may increase the risk of tracking
error.
ESG
Investing Strategy Risk:
The stocks of companies with favorable ESG attributes, as determined by the
Index Provider, may underperform the stock market as a whole. As a result, the
Fund may underperform other funds that do not screen companies based on ESG
attributes. The criteria used to select companies for investment may result in
the Fund investing in securities, industries or sectors that underperform the
market as a whole, forgoing opportunities to invest in securities that might
otherwise be advantageous to buy or underperform other funds screened for ESG
standards. In addition, it is possible that the Index Provider could overlook,
misapply and/or otherwise fail to accurately screen for the stated ESG criteria,
potentially resulting in a company or companies being included in the Underlying
Index that do not meet the stated ESG criteria.
Focus
Risk:
To the extent that the Underlying Index focuses in investments related to a
particular industry or group of industries, the Fund will also focus its
investments to approximately the same extent. Similarly, if the Underlying Index
has significant exposure to one or more sectors, the Fund’s investments will
likely have significant exposure to such sectors. In such event, the Fund’s
performance will be particularly susceptible to adverse events impacting such
industry or sector, which may include, but are not limited to, the following:
general economic conditions or cyclical market patterns that could negatively
affect supply and demand; competition for resources; adverse labor relations;
political or world events; obsolescence of technologies; and increased
competition or new product introductions that may affect the profitability or
viability of companies in a particular industry or sector. As a result, the
value of the Fund’s investments may rise and fall more than the value of shares
of a fund that invests in securities of companies in a broader range of
industries or sectors.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Information Technology Sector: Companies
in the information technology sector are subject to rapid changes in technology
product cycles; rapid product obsolescence; government regulation; and increased
competition, both domestically and internationally, including competition from
foreign competitors with
lower
production costs. Information technology companies and companies that rely
heavily on technology tend to be more volatile than the overall market and also
are heavily dependent on patent and intellectual property rights. In addition,
information technology companies may have limited product lines, markets,
financial resources or personnel.
Geographic
Risk: A
natural, biological or other disaster could occur in a geographic region in
which the Fund invests, which could affect the economy or particular business
operations of companies in the specific geographic region, causing an adverse
impact on the Fund’s investments in the affected region or in a region
economically tied to the affected region. The securities in which the Fund
invests and, consequently, the Fund are also subject to specific risks as a
result of their business operations, including, but not limited to:
Risk
of Investing in Developed Markets:
The Fund’s investment in a developed country issuer may subject the Fund to
regulatory, political, currency, security, economic and other risks associated
with developed countries. Developed countries tend to represent a significant
portion of the global economy and have generally experienced slower economic
growth than some less developed countries. Certain developed countries have
experienced security concerns, such as terrorism and strained international
relations. Incidents involving a country’s or region’s security may cause
uncertainty in its markets and may adversely affect its economy and the Fund’s
investments. In addition, developed countries may be impacted by changes to the
economic conditions of certain key trading partners, regulatory burdens, debt
burdens and the price or availability of certain commodities.
Risk
of Investing in the United States:
A decrease in imports or exports, changes in trade regulations and/or an
economic recession in the U.S. may have a material adverse effect on the U.S.
economy.
Issuer
Risk:
Fund performance depends on the performance of individual companies in which the
Fund invests. Changes to the financial condition of any of those companies may
cause the value of such company's securities to decline.
Market
Risk:
Turbulence in the financial markets and reduced liquidity may negatively affect
issuers, which could have an adverse effect on the Fund. If the securities held
by the Fund experience poor liquidity, the Fund may be unable to transact at
advantageous times or prices, which may decrease the Fund’s returns. In
addition, there is a risk that policy changes by central governments and
governmental agencies, including the U.S. Federal Reserve or the European
Central Bank, which could include increasing interest rates, could cause
increased volatility in financial markets and lead to higher levels of Fund
redemptions from Authorized Participants, which could have a negative impact on
the Fund. Furthermore, local, regional or global events such as war, acts of
terrorism, the spread of infectious illness or other public health issues,
recessions, or other events could have a significant impact on the Fund and its
investments and trading of its Shares. For example, at the start of 2023,
central banks had already increased interest rates at the fastest rate on
record, and it is unknown how long this trend will continue and when inflation
will return to target levels. This increases the risk that monetary policy may
provide less support should economic growth slow. Additionally, China’s shift
away from a zero-COVID policy creates both opportunities and risks, causing
uncertainty for global economic growth. Market risk factors may result in
increased volatility and/or decreased liquidity in the securities markets. The
Fund’s NAV could decline over short periods due to short-term market movements
and over longer periods during market downturns.
New
Fund Risk: The
Fund is a new fund, with no operating history, which may result in additional
risks for investors in the Fund. There can be no assurance that the Fund will
grow to or maintain an economically viable size, in which case the Board of
Trustees may determine to liquidate the Fund. While shareholder interests will
be the paramount consideration, the timing of any liquidation may not be
favorable to certain individual shareholders. New funds are also subject to
Large Shareholder Risk.
Non-Diversification
Risk: The Fund is classified as a
“non-diversified” investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940
("1940 Act"). As a result, the Fund is subject to the risk that it may be more
volatile than a diversified fund because the Fund may invest its assets in a
smaller number of issuers or may invest a larger proportion of its assets in a
single issuer. As a result, the gains and losses on a single investment may have
a greater impact on the Fund’s NAV and may make the Fund more volatile than more
diversified funds.
Operational
Risk:
The Fund is exposed to operational risk arising from a number of factors,
including but not limited to human error, processing and communication errors,
errors of the Fund's service providers, counterparties or other third-parties,
failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. Additionally,
cyber security failures or breaches of the electronic systems of the Fund, the
Adviser, and the Fund's other service providers, market makers, Authorized
Participants or the issuers of securities in which the Fund invests have the
ability to cause disruptions and negatively impact the Fund's business
operations, potentially resulting in financial losses to the Fund and its
shareholders. The Fund and the Adviser seek to reduce these operational risks
through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every
possible risk and may be inadequate for those risks that they are intended to
address.
Options
Premium Tax Risk:
The Fund’s investment strategy may limit its ability to distribute dividends
eligible for treatment as qualified dividend income, which for non-corporate
shareholders are subject to federal income tax at rates of up to 20%. The Fund’s
investment strategy may also limit its ability to distribute dividends eligible
for the dividends-received deduction for corporate shareholders. For these
reasons, a significant portion of distributions received by Fund shareholders
may be subject to tax at effective tax rates that are higher than the rates that
would apply if the Fund were to engage in a different investment strategy. You
should consult your tax advisor as to the tax consequences of acquiring, owning
and disposing of Shares in the Fund.
Passive
Investment Risk:
The Fund is not actively managed, and the Adviser does not attempt to take
defensive positions in declining markets. Unlike many investment companies, the
Fund does not seek to outperform its Underlying Index. Therefore, it would not
necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed,
respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is
underperforming. Additionally, if a constituent of the Underlying Index were
removed, even outside of a regular rebalance of the Underlying Index, the
Adviser anticipates that the Fund would sell such security. Maintaining
investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of
individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund
employed an active strategy.
Index-Related
Risk:
There is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve a high degree of correlation to
the Underlying Index and therefore achieve its investment objective. Market
disruptions and regulatory restrictions could have an adverse effect on the
Fund’s ability to adjust its exposure to the required levels in order to track
the Underlying Index. Errors in index data, index computations and/or the
construction of the Underlying Index in accordance with its methodology may
occur from time to time and may not be identified and corrected by the Index
Provider for a period of time or at all, which may have an adverse impact on the
Fund and its shareholders.
Management
Risk:
The Fund may not fully replicate its Underlying Index and may hold securities
not included in its Underlying Index. The Adviser’s investment strategy, the
implementation of which is subject to a number of constraints, may cause the
Fund to underperform the market or its relevant benchmark or adversely affect
the ability of the Fund to achieve its investment objective.
Tracking
Error Risk:
Tracking error may occur because of differences between the instruments held in
the Fund's portfolio and those included in the Underlying Index, pricing
differences, transaction costs incurred by the Fund, the Fund's holding of
uninvested cash, size of the Fund, differences in timing of the accrual of or
the valuation of dividends or interest, tax gains or losses, changes to the
Underlying Index or the costs to the Fund of complying with various new or
existing regulatory requirements. This risk may be heightened during times of
increased market volatility or other unusual market conditions. Tracking error
also may result because the Fund incurs fees and expenses, while the Underlying
Index does not.
Risks
Associated with Exchange-Traded Funds:
As an ETF, the Fund is subject to the following risks:
Authorized
Participants Concentration Risk:
The Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may act as
Authorized Participants and engage in creation or redemption transactions
directly with the Fund, and none of those Authorized Participants is obligated
to engage in creation and/or redemption transactions. To the extent that those
Authorized Participants exit the business or are unable to process creation
and/or redemption orders, such as in times of market stress, Shares may be more
likely to trade at a premium or discount to NAV and/or at wider intraday bid-ask
spreads, and possibly face trading halts and/or delisting from an
exchange.
Large
Shareholder Risk: Redemptions
by large shareholders could have a significant negative impact on the Fund. If a
large shareholder were to redeem all, or a large portion, of its Shares, there
is no guarantee that the Fund will be able to maintain sufficient assets to
continue operations in which case the Board of Trustees may determine to
liquidate the Fund. In addition, transactions by large shareholders may account
for a large percentage of the trading volume on a national securities exchange
and may, therefore, have a material upward or downward effect on the market
price of the Shares.
Listing
Standards Risk: The
Fund is required to comply with listing requirements adopted by the listing
exchange. Non-compliance with such requirements may result in the Fund's shares
being delisted by the listing exchange. Any resulting liquidation of the Fund
could cause the Fund to incur elevated transaction costs and could result in
negative tax consequences for its shareholders.
Market
Trading Risks and Premium/Discount Risks:
Shares of the Fund are publicly traded on a national securities exchange, which
may subject shareholders to numerous market trading risks. In stressed market
conditions, the market for the Shares may become less liquid in response to the
deteriorating liquidity of the Fund’s portfolio. This adverse effect on the
liquidity of the Shares, as well as disruptions to creations and redemptions,
the existence of extreme market volatility or potential lack of assets in the
Fund or an active trading market for Shares may result in Shares trading at a
significant premium or discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases Shares at a
time when the market price is at a premium to the NAV or sells Shares at a time
when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain
losses. The NAV of the Fund is calculated at the end of each business day and
fluctuates with changes in the market value of the Fund’s holdings. The trading
price of the Fund’s shares fluctuates, in some cases materially, throughout
trading hours in response to changes in the Fund’s NAV.
Trading
Halt Risk:
An exchange or market may close or issue trading halts on specific securities,
or the ability to buy or sell certain securities or financial instruments may be
restricted, which may result in the Fund being unable to buy or sell certain
securities or financial instruments. In such circumstances, the Fund may be
unable to rebalance its portfolio, may be unable to accurately price its
investments and/or may incur substantial trading losses.
Turnover
Risk: The
Fund may engage in frequent and active trading, which may significantly increase
the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate. At
times, the Fund may have a portfolio turnover rate substantially greater than
100%. For example, a portfolio turnover rate of 300%
is equivalent to the Fund buying and selling all of its securities three times
during the course of a year. A
high portfolio turnover rate would result in
high brokerage costs for the Fund, may result in higher taxes when shares are
held in a taxable account and lower Fund
performance.
Valuation
Risk: The sales price the Fund could receive for
a security may differ from the Fund’s valuation of the security and may differ
from the value used by the Underlying Index, particularly for securities that
trade in low value or volatile markets or that are valued using a fair value
methodology (such as during trading halts). The value of the securities in
the Fund's portfolio may change on days when shareholders will not be able to
purchase or sell the Fund's Shares.
PERFORMANCE
INFORMATION
The Fund does not have a full calendar year
of performance. Once the Fund
has completed a full calendar year of operations, a bar chart and table will be
included that will provide some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund
by showing the variability of the Fund's returns and comparing the Fund's
performance to the Underlying Index. The Fund's performance is not
necessarily indicative of how the Fund will perform in the
future.
FUND
MANAGEMENT
Investment
Adviser:
Global X Management Company LLC.
Portfolio
Managers:
The professionals primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the
Fund are Nam To, CFA; Wayne Xie; Kimberly Chan; Vanessa Yang; and Sandy Lu, CFA
(“Portfolio Managers”). Messrs. To, Xie and Lu and Ms. Chan and Ms. Yang have
been Portfolio Managers of the Fund since 2023.
PURCHASE
AND SALE OF FUND SHARES
Shares
of the Fund are or will be listed and traded at market prices on a national
securities exchange. Shares may only be purchased and sold on the exchange
through a broker-dealer. The price of Shares is based on market price, and
because ETF shares trade at market prices rather than at NAV, Shares may trade
at a price greater than NAV (a premium) or less than NAV (a discount). Only
"Authorized Participants" (as defined in the SAI) who have entered into
agreements with the Fund's distributor, SEI Investments Distribution Co.
("Distributor"), may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with
the Fund. The Fund will only issue or redeem Shares that have been aggregated
into blocks called "Creation Units". The Fund will issue or redeem Creation
Units in return for a basket of cash and/or securities that the Fund specifies
any day that the national securities exchanges are open for business (“Business
Day”). An investor may incur costs attributable to the difference between the
highest price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase shares of the Fund (bid) and
the lowest price a seller is willing to accept for shares of the Fund (ask) when
buying or selling shares in the secondary market (the “bid-ask spread”). To
access information regarding the Fund’s net asset value, market price, premiums
and discounts, and bid-ask spreads, please go to
www.globalxetfs.com.
TAX
INFORMATION
The
Fund intends to make distributions that may be taxable to you as ordinary income
or capital gains, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement
such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account ("IRA"), in which case
distributions from such tax-advantaged arrangement may be taxable to you.
PAYMENTS
TO BROKER-DEALERS AND OTHER FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES
The
Adviser and its related companies may pay broker-dealers or other financial
intermediaries (such as a bank) for the sale of Fund Shares and related
services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing your
broker-dealer, sales persons or other intermediary or its employees or
associated persons to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your
financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary's website for more
information.
ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION ABOUT THE FUND
This
Prospectus contains information about investing in the Fund. Please read this
Prospectus carefully before you make any investment decisions. Shares of the
Fund are listed for trading on a national securities exchange. The market price
for a Share of the Fund may be different from the Fund's most recent NAV. ETFs
are funds that trade like other publicly-traded securities. The Fund is designed
to track the Underlying Index. Similar to shares of an index mutual fund, each
Share of the Fund represents an ownership interest in an underlying portfolio of
securities. Unlike shares of a mutual fund, which can be bought and redeemed
from the issuing fund by all shareholders at a price based on NAV, Shares of the
Fund may be purchased or redeemed directly from the Fund at NAV solely by
Authorized Participants and only in Creation Unit increments. Also, unlike
shares of a mutual fund, Shares of the Fund are listed on a national securities
exchange and trade in the secondary market at market prices that change
throughout the day. The Fund is designed to be used as part of broader asset
allocation strategies. Accordingly, an investment in the Fund should not
constitute a complete investment program. An index is a financial calculation,
based on a grouping of financial instruments, and is not an investment product,
while the Fund is an actual investment portfolio. The performance of the Fund
and its Underlying Index may vary for a number of reasons, including transaction
costs, non-U.S. currency valuations, asset valuations, corporate actions (such
as mergers and spin-offs), timing variances and differences between the Fund's
portfolio and the Underlying Index resulting from the Fund's legal restrictions
(such as diversification requirements) that apply to the Fund but not to the
Underlying Index.
The
investment objective of the Fund is to seek to provide investment results that
correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and
expenses, of the Underlying Index. The Fund invests at least 80% of its net
assets, plus borrowings for investments purposes (if any), in the securities of
the Underlying Index. The Fund's 80% investment policy is non-fundamental and
requires 60 days prior written notice to shareholders before it can be changed.
The Adviser anticipates that, generally, the Fund will hold all of the
securities that comprise its Underlying Index in proportion to their weightings
in such Underlying Index. However, under various circumstances, it may not be
possible or practicable to purchase all of those securities in those weightings.
In these circumstances, the Fund may purchase a sample of securities in its
Underlying Index. There also may be instances in which the Adviser may choose to
underweight or overweight a security in the Fund's Underlying Index, purchase
securities not in the Fund's Underlying Index that the Adviser believes are
appropriate to substitute for certain securities in such Underlying Index or
utilize various combinations of other available investment techniques in seeking
to replicate, as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the price and
yield performance of the Fund's Underlying Index. In addition, the Fund may also
invest in equity index futures for cash flow management purposes and as a
portfolio management technique. The Fund may sell securities that are
represented in its Underlying Index in anticipation of their removal from such
Underlying Index or purchase securities not represented in its Index in
anticipation of their addition to such Underlying Index. The Fund's investment
objective and its Underlying Index may be changed without shareholder approval
upon at least 60 days prior written notice to shareholders.
A
FURTHER DISCUSSION OF PRINCIPAL RISKS
The
Fund is subject to various risks, including the principal risks noted below, any
of which may adversely affect the Fund's NAV, trading price, yield, total return
and ability to meet its investment objective. You could lose all or part of your
investment in the Fund, and the Fund could underperform other
investments.
Asset
Class Risk
The
returns from the types of securities and/or assets in which the Fund invests may
under-perform returns from the various general securities markets or different
asset classes. The assets in the Underlying Index may under-perform investments
that track other markets, segments, sectors or assets. Different types of assets
tend to go through cycles of out-performance and under-performance in comparison
to the general securities markets.
Derivatives
Risk
The
Fund will invest in options, which are a type of derivative instrument. There is
no assurance that sufficient trading interest to create a liquid secondary
market on a securities exchange will exist for any particular option or at any
particular time, and, for some options, no such secondary market may exist. The
possible absence of a liquid secondary market for options and/or possible
exchange-imposed price fluctuation limits, may make it difficult or impossible
to close out a position when desired. Options are subject to the risk that the
counterparty will not perform its obligations, which could leave the Fund worse
off than if it had not entered into the position. The value of an option
position will reflect, among other things, the current market value of the
underlying instrument, the time remaining until expiration, the relationship of
the strike price to the market price of the underlying instrument, the
historical price volatility of the
underlying
instrument and general market conditions. Options can be more sensitive to
sudden fluctuations in market prices than conventional securities, which can
result in greater losses for the Fund.
Equity
Securities Risk
The
Fund may invest in equity securities, which are subject to changes in value that
may be attributable to market perception of a particular issuer, general stock
market fluctuations that affect all issuers, or as a result of such factors as a
company’s business performance, investor perceptions, stock market trends and
general economic conditions. Investments in equity securities may be more
volatile than investments in other asset classes.
Capitalization
Risk
Investing
in issuers within the same market capitalization category carries the risk that
the category may be out of favor due to current market conditions or investor
sentiment.
Large-Capitalization
Companies Risk
Large-capitalization
companies may trail the returns of the overall stock market.
Large-capitalization stocks tend to go through cycles of doing better - or worse
- than the stock market in general. These periods have, in the past, lasted for
as long as several years.
Covered
Call Option Writing Risk
By
writing covered call options in return for the receipt of premiums, the Fund
will give up the opportunity to benefit from potential increases in the value of
the Reference Index above the exercise prices of such options, but will continue
to bear the risk of declines in the value of the Reference Index. The premiums
received from the options may not be sufficient to offset any losses sustained
from the volatility of the underlying stocks over time. As a result, the risks
associated with writing covered call options may be similar to the risks
associated with writing put options. In addition, the Fund’s ability to sell the
securities underlying the options will be limited while the options are in
effect unless the Fund cancels out the option positions through the purchase of
offsetting identical options prior to the expiration of the written options.
Exchanges may suspend the trading of options in volatile markets. If trading is
suspended, the Fund may be unable to write options at times that may be
desirable or advantageous to do so, which may increase the risk of tracking
error.
ESG
Investing Strategy Risk
The
stocks of companies with favorable ESG attributes, as determined by the Index
Provider, may underperform the stock market as a whole. As a result, the Fund
may underperform other funds that do not screen companies based on ESG
attributes. The criteria used to select companies for investment may result in
the Fund investing in securities, industries or sectors that underperform the
market as a whole, forgoing opportunities to invest in securities that might
otherwise be advantageous to buy or underperform other funds screened for ESG
standards. In addition, it is possible that the Index Provider could overlook,
misapply and/or otherwise fail to accurately screen for the stated ESG criteria,
potentially resulting in a company or companies being included in the Underlying
Index that do not meet the stated ESG criteria.
Focus
Risk
In
following its methodology, the Underlying Index may be focused to a significant
degree in securities of issuers in a particular industry or group of industries
and/or may have significant exposure to one or more sectors. To the extent that
the Underlying Index focuses in the securities of issuers in such an area, the
Fund will also focus its investments to approximately the same extent. In such
event, the Fund’s performance will be particularly susceptible to adverse events
impacting such industry or sector, and the Fund will face greater risk than if
it were diversified broadly over numerous such areas. Such heightened risks, any
of which may adversely affect the companies in which the Fund invests, may
include, but are not limited to, the following: general economic conditions or
cyclical market patterns that could negatively affect supply and demand;
competition for resources; adverse labor relations; political or world events;
obsolescence of technologies; and increased competition or new product
introductions that may affect the profitability or viability of companies in a
particular industry or sector. In addition, at times, such industry, group of
industries or sector may be out of favor and underperform other such categories
or the market as a whole.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Information Technology Sector
Market
or economic factors impacting information technology companies and companies
that rely heavily on technology advances could have a major effect on the value
of the Fund’s investments. The value of stocks of information technology
companies and companies that rely heavily on technology is particularly
vulnerable to rapid changes in technology product cycles, rapid product
obsolescence, government regulation and increased competition, both domestically
and internationally, including competition from foreign competitors with lower
production costs. Information technology companies and companies that rely
heavily on technology, especially those of smaller, less-seasoned companies,
tend to be more volatile than the overall market. These companies also are
heavily dependent on patent and intellectual property rights, the loss or
impairment of which may adversely affect profitability. Additionally, companies
in the information technology sector may face dramatic and often unpredictable
changes in growth rates and competition for the services of qualified personnel.
Companies in the information technology sector are facing increased government
and regulatory scrutiny and may be subject to adverse government or regulatory
action. Companies in the application software industry, in particular, may also
be negatively affected by the decline or fluctuation of subscription renewal
rates for their products and services, which may have an adverse effect on
profit margins. Companies in the systems software industry may be adversely
affected by, among other things, actual or perceived security vulnerabilities in
their products and services, which may result in individual or class action
lawsuits, state or federal enforcement actions and other remediation costs.
Geographic
Risk
Geographic
risk is the risk that the Fund’s assets may be focused in countries located in
the same geographic region. This investment focus will subject the Fund to risks
associated with that particular region, or a region economically tied to that
particular region, such as a natural, biological or other disaster. Outbreaks of
contagious viruses and diseases may reduce business activity or disrupt market
activity, and have the potential to exacerbate market risks in the countries and
regions in which they occur. The securities in which the Fund invests and,
consequently, the Fund are also subject to specific risks as a result of their
business operations, including, but not limited to:
Risk
of Investing in Developed Markets
Investment
in developed country issuers may subject the Fund to regulatory, political,
currency, security, and economic risk specific to developed countries. Developed
countries generally tend to rely on services sectors (e.g., the financial
services sector) as the primary means of economic growth. A prolonged slowdown
in, among others, services sectors is likely to have a negative impact on
economies of certain developed countries, although economies of individual
developed countries can be impacted by slowdowns in other sectors. In the past,
certain developed countries have been targets of terrorism, and some geographic
areas in which the Fund invests have experienced strained international
relations due to territorial disputes, historical animosities, defense concerns
and other security concerns. These situations may cause uncertainty in the
financial markets in these countries or geographic areas and may adversely
affect the performance of the issuers to which the Fund has exposure. Heavy
regulation of certain markets, including labor and product markets, may have an
adverse effect on certain issuers. Such regulations may negatively affect
economic growth or cause prolonged periods of recession. Many developed
countries are heavily indebted and face rising healthcare and retirement
expenses and may be underprepared for global health crises. For example, the
rapid and global spread of a highly contagious novel coronavirus respiratory
disease, designated COVID-19, has resulted in extreme volatility in the
financial markets and severe losses; reduced liquidity of many instruments;
restrictions on international and, in some cases, local travel; significant
disruptions to business operations (including business closures); strained
healthcare systems; disruptions to supply chains, consumer demand and employee
availability; and widespread uncertainty regarding the duration and long-term
effects of this pandemic. In addition, price fluctuations of certain commodities
and regulations impacting the import of commodities may negatively affect
developed country economies.
Risk
of Investing in the United States
A
decrease in imports or exports, changes in trade regulations and/or an economic
recession in the U.S. may have a material adverse effect on the U.S. economy and
the securities listed on U.S. exchanges. Proposed and adopted policy and
legislative changes in the U.S. are changing many aspects of financial and other
regulation and may have a significant effect on the U.S. markets generally, as
well as on the value of certain securities. In addition, a continued rise in the
U.S. public debt level or the imposition of U.S. austerity measures may
adversely affect U.S. economic growth and the securities to which the Fund has
exposure. The U.S. has developed increasingly strained relations with a number
of foreign countries. If these relations continue to worsen, it could adversely
affect U.S. issuers as well as non-U.S. issuers that rely on the U.S. for trade.
The U.S. has also experienced increased internal unrest and discord. If
this
trend were to continue, it may have an adverse impact on the U.S. economy and
the issuers in which the Fund invests.
Issuer
Risk
Issuer
risk is the risk that any of the individual companies that the Fund invests in
may perform badly, causing the value of its securities to decline. Poor
performance may be caused by poor management decisions, competitive pressures,
changes in technology, disruptions in supply, labor problems or shortages,
corporate restructurings, fraudulent disclosures or other factors. Issuers may,
in times of distress or on their own discretion, decide to reduce or eliminate
dividends, which would also cause their stock prices to decline.
Market
Risk
Market
risk is the risk that the value of the securities in which the Fund invests may
go up or down in response to the prospects of individual issuers and/or general
economic conditions. Turbulence in the financial markets and reduced liquidity
may negatively affect issuers, which could have an adverse effect on the Fund.
If the securities held by the Fund experience poor liquidity, the Fund may be
unable to transact at advantageous times or prices, which may decrease the
Fund’s returns. In addition, there is a risk that policy changes by central
governments and governmental agencies, including the Federal Reserve or the
European Central Bank, which could include increasing interest rates, could
cause increased volatility in financial markets and lead to higher levels of
Fund redemptions from Authorized Participants, which could have a negative
impact on the Fund. Furthermore, local, regional or global events such as war,
acts of terrorism, the spread of infectious illness or other public health
issues, recessions, or other events could have a significant impact on the Fund
and its investments and trading of its Shares. For example, at the start of
2023, central banks have already increased policy rates at the fastest rate on
record, the unknown is the length of time they remain restrictive and how
quickly inflation returns to target levels. This increases the risk that
monetary policy may provide less support should economic growth slow.
Additionally, China’s shift away from their zero-COVID policy creates both
opportunities and risks, establishing China as the wildcard for global economic
growth in 2023. Market risk factors may result in increased volatility and/or
decreased liquidity in the securities markets. The Fund’s NAV could decline over
short periods due to short-term market movements and over longer periods during
market downturns.
New
Fund Risk
The
Fund is a new fund, with no operating history, which may result in additional
risks for investors in the Fund. There can be no assurance that the Fund will
grow to or maintain an economically viable size, in which case the Board of
Trustees may determine to liquidate the Fund. While shareholder interests will
be the paramount consideration, the timing of any liquidation may not be
favorable to certain individual shareholders. From time to time an Authorized
Participant, a third-party investor, the Adviser or another affiliate of the
Adviser or the Fund may invest in the Fund and hold its investment for a
specific period of time in order to facilitate commencement of the Fund’s
operations or for the Fund to achieve size or scale. There can be no assurance
that any such entity would not redeem its investment or that the size of the
Fund would be maintained at such levels which could negatively impact the
Fund.
Non-Diversification
Risk
The
Fund is classified as a “non-diversified” investment company under the 1940 Act.
This means that the Fund may invest most of its assets in securities issued by
or representing a small number of companies. As a result, the Fund may be more
susceptible to the risks associated with these particular companies, or to a
single economic, political or regulatory occurrence affecting these
companies.
Operational
Risk
The
Fund is exposed to operational risk arising from a number of factors, including
but not limited to human error, processing and communication errors, errors of
the Fund's service providers, counterparties or other third-parties, failed or
inadequate processes and technology or systems failures.
With
the increased use of technologies such as the internet to conduct business, the
Fund, Authorized Participants, service providers and the relevant listing
exchange are susceptible to operational, information security and related
“cyber” risks both directly and through their service providers. Similar types
of cyber security risks are also present for issuers of securities in which the
Fund invests, which could result in material adverse consequences for such
issuers and may cause the Fund’s investment in such portfolio companies to lose
value. Unlike many other types of risks faced by the Fund, these risks typically
are not covered by insurance. In general, cyber incidents can result from
deliberate attacks or unintentional events. Cyber
incidents
include, but are not limited to, gaining unauthorized access to digital systems
(e.g., through “hacking” or malicious software coding) for purposes of
misappropriating assets or sensitive information, corrupting data, or causing
operational disruption. Cyber-attacks may also be carried out in a manner that
does not require gaining unauthorized access, such as causing denial-of-service
attacks on websites (i.e., efforts to make network services unavailable to
intended users). Recently, geopolitical tensions may have increased the scale
and sophistication of deliberate attacks, particularly those from nation-states
or from entities with nation-state backing. Cyber security failures by or
breaches of the systems of the Adviser and the Fund’s distributor and other
service providers (including, but not limited to, the Index Provider, fund
accountants, custodians, transfer agents and administrators), market makers,
Authorized Participants, or the issuers of securities in which the Fund invests,
have the ability to cause disruptions and impact business operations,
potentially resulting in: financial losses, interference with the Fund’s ability
to calculate its NAV, disclosure of confidential trading information,
impediments to trading, submission of erroneous trades or erroneous creation or
redemption orders, the inability of the Fund or its service providers to
transact business, violations of applicable privacy and other laws, regulatory
fines, penalties, reputational damage, reimbursement or other compensation
costs, or additional compliance costs. In addition, cyber-attacks may render
records of Fund assets and transactions, shareholder ownership of Fund Shares,
and other data integral to the functioning of the Fund inaccessible or
inaccurate or incomplete. Substantial costs may be incurred by the Fund in order
to resolve or prevent cyber incidents in the future. While the Fund has
established business continuity plans in the event of, and risk management
systems to prevent, such cyber-attacks, there are inherent limitations in such
plans and systems, including the possibility that certain risks have not been
identified and that prevention and remediation efforts will not be successful.
Furthermore, the Fund cannot control the cyber security plans and systems put in
place by service providers to the Fund, issuers in which the Fund invests, the
Index Provider, market makers or Authorized Participants. The Fund and its
shareholders could be negatively impacted as a result.
The
Fund and the Adviser seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and
procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may
be inadequate for those risks that they are intended to address.
Options
Premium Tax Risk
The
Fund’s investment strategy may increase the amount of capital gain that the Fund
realizes. As a result, the Fund will not be able to designate a portion of its
distributions as being eligible for lower rates of tax in the hands of
non-corporate shareholders (dividends that are commonly referred to as
“qualified dividend income”) or as being eligible for the dividends received
deduction when received by certain corporate shareholders. For these reasons, a
significant portion of income received from the Fund may be subject to tax at
effective tax rates that are higher than the rates that would apply if the Fund
were to engage in a different investment strategy. You should consult your tax
advisor as to the tax consequences of acquiring, owning and disposing of Shares
in the Fund.
Passive
Investment Risk
The
Fund is not actively managed and may be affected by a general decline in market
segments relating to the Underlying Index. The Fund invests in securities
included in, or representative of, the Underlying Index regardless of their
investment merits, and the Adviser does not otherwise attempt to take defensive
positions in declining markets. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does
not seek to outperform its Underlying Index. Therefore, the Fund would not
necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed,
respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is
underperforming. Additionally, if a constituent of the Underlying Index were
removed, even outside of a regular rebalance of the Underlying Index, the
Adviser anticipates that the Fund would sell such security. Maintaining
investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of
individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund
employed an active strategy.
Index-Related
Risk
There
is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve a high degree of correlation to the
Underlying Index and therefore achieve its investment objective. Market
disruptions and regulatory restrictions could have an adverse effect on the
Fund’s ability to adjust its exposure to the required levels in order to track
the Underlying Index. Errors in index data, index computations and/or the
construction of the Underlying Index in accordance with its methodology may
occur from time to time and may not be identified and corrected by the Index
Provider for a period of time or at all, which may have an adverse impact on the
Fund and its shareholders.
Management
Risk
The
Fund may not fully replicate its Underlying Index and may hold securities not
included in its Underlying Index. Therefore, the Fund is subject to management
risk. That is, the Adviser’s investment strategy, the implementation of
which
is subject to a number of constraints, may cause the Fund to underperform the
market or its relevant benchmark or adversely affect the ability of the Fund to
achieve its investment objective. While the Fund is passively managed,
implementation of the Fund’s principal investment strategy may result in
tracking error risk, which is described below. The ability of the Adviser to
successfully implement the Fund’s investment strategies will influence the
Fund’s performance significantly.
Tracking
Error Risk
Tracking
error is the divergence of the Fund's performance from that of the Underlying
Index. Tracking error may occur because of differences between the securities
and other instruments held in the Fund's portfolio and those included in the
Underlying Index, pricing differences (including differences between a
security's price at the local market close and the Fund's valuation of a
security at the time of calculation of the Fund's NAV), transaction costs
incurred by the Fund, the Fund's holding of uninvested cash, differences in
timing of the accrual of or the valuation of dividends or interest, tax gains or
losses, changes to the Underlying Index or the costs to the Fund of complying
with various new or existing regulatory requirements. This risk may be
heightened during times of increased market volatility or other unusual market
conditions. Tracking error also may result because the Fund incurs fees and
expenses, while the Underlying Index does not.
Risks
Associated with Exchange-Traded Funds
As
an ETF, the Fund is subject to the following risks:
Authorized
Participants Concentration Risk
The
Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may act as Authorized
Participants. Only Authorized Participants who have entered into agreements with
the Fund's distributor may engage in creation or redemption transactions
directly with the Fund, and none of those Authorized Participants is obligated
to engage in creation and/or redemption transactions. To the extent that those
Authorized Participants exit the business or are unable to process creation
and/or redemption orders, such as in times of market stress, and no other
Authorized Participant is able to step forward to create and redeem in either of
those cases, Shares may trade like closed-end fund shares at a discount to NAV
and/or at wider intraday bid-ask spreads, and may possibly face trading halts
and/or delisting from the Exchange.
Large
Shareholder Risk
Certain
shareholders, including an Authorized Participant, the Adviser or an affiliate
of the Adviser, may own a substantial amount of the Fund’s Shares. Additionally,
from time to time an Authorized Participant, a third-party investor, the
Adviser, or an affiliate of the Adviser may invest in the Fund and hold its
investment for a specific period of time in order to facilitate commencement of
the Fund’s operations or to allow the Fund to achieve size or scale.
Redemptions by large shareholders could have a significant negative impact on
the Fund. If a large shareholder were to redeem all, or a large portion, of its
Shares, there is no guarantee that the Fund will be able to maintain sufficient
assets to continue operations in which case the Board of Trustees may determine
to liquidate the Fund. In addition, transactions by large shareholders may
account for a large percentage of the trading volume on the Exchange and may,
therefore, have a material upward or downward effect on the market price of the
Shares.
Listing
Standards Risk
The
Fund is required to comply with listing requirements adopted by the listing
exchange. Non-compliance with such requirements may result in the Fund's shares
being delisted by the listing exchange. Any resulting liquidation of the Fund
could cause the Fund to incur elevated transaction costs and could result in
negative tax consequences for its shareholders.
Market
Trading Risks and Premium/Discount Risks
Absence
of Active Market
Although
Shares of the Fund are or will be listed for trading on a U.S. exchange and may
be listed on certain foreign exchanges, there can be no assurance that an active
trading market for the Shares will develop or be maintained.
Risks
of Secondary Listings
The
Fund's Shares may be listed or traded on U.S. and non-U.S. exchanges other than
the U.S. exchange where the Fund’s primary listing is maintained. There can be
no assurance that the Fund’s Shares will continue to trade on any such exchange
or in any market or that the Fund's Shares will continue to meet the
requirements for listing or trading on any exchange or in any market. The Fund's
Shares may be less actively traded in certain markets than others, and investors
are subject to the execution and settlement risks and market standards of the
market where they or their brokers direct their trades for execution. Certain
information available to investors who trade Shares on a U.S. exchange during
regular U.S. market hours may not be available to investors who trade in other
markets, which may result in secondary market prices in such markets being less
efficient.
Secondary
Market Trading Risk
Only
Authorized Participants who have entered into agreements with the Fund’s
distributor may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the
Fund. Shares of the Fund may trade in the secondary market on days when the Fund
does not accept orders to purchase or redeem Shares from Authorized
Participants. On such days, Shares may trade in the secondary market with more
significant premiums or discounts than might be experienced on days when the
Fund accepts purchase and redemption orders.
Secondary
market trading in Fund Shares may be halted by a stock exchange because of
market conditions or other reasons. In addition, trading in Fund Shares on a
stock exchange or in any market may be subject to trading halts caused by
extraordinary market volatility pursuant to "circuit breaker" rules on the stock
exchange or market. There can be no assurance that the requirements necessary to
maintain the listing or trading of Fund Shares will continue to be met or will
remain unchanged.
Shares
of the Fund May Trade at Prices Other Than NAV
Shares
of the Fund may trade at, above or below NAV. The per share NAV of the Fund will
fluctuate with changes in the market value of the Fund’s holdings. The trading
prices of Shares will fluctuate in accordance with changes in the Fund's NAV as
well as market supply and demand. The trading prices of the Fund's Shares may
deviate significantly from NAV during periods of market volatility or when the
Fund has relatively few assets or experiences a lower trading volume. In
stressed market conditions, the market for the Shares may become less liquid in
response to the deteriorating liquidity of the Fund’s portfolio. Any of these
factors may lead to the Fund's Shares trading at a premium or discount to NAV.
While the creation/redemption feature is designed to make it likely that Shares
normally will trade close to the Fund’s NAV, market prices are not expected to
correlate exactly with the Fund's NAV due to timing reasons as well as market
supply and demand factors. In addition, disruptions to creations and redemptions
or the existence of extreme market volatility may result in trading prices that
differ significantly from 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.
Since
foreign exchanges may be open on days when the Fund does not price Shares, the
value of the securities in the Fund’s portfolio may change on days when
shareholders will not be able to purchase or sell Shares.
Costs
of Buying or Selling Fund Shares
Buying
or selling Fund Shares involves two types of costs that apply to all securities
transactions. When buying or selling Shares of the Fund through a broker, you
will likely incur a brokerage commission or other charges imposed by brokers as
determined by that broker. In addition, you may incur the cost of the "spread" -
that is, the difference between what professional investors are willing to pay
for Fund Shares (the "bid" price) and the market price at which they are willing
to sell Fund Shares (the "ask" price). Because of the costs inherent in buying
or selling Fund Shares, frequent trading may detract significantly from
investment results and an investment in Fund Shares may not be advisable for
investors who anticipate regularly making small investments.
Trading
Halt Risk
An
exchange or market may close or issue trading halts on specific securities, or
the ability to buy or sell certain securities or financial instruments may be
restricted, which may result in the Fund being unable to buy or sell certain
securities or financial instruments. In such circumstances, the Fund may be
unable to rebalance its portfolio, may be unable to accurately price its
investments and/or may incur substantial trading losses.
Turnover
Risk
The
Fund may engage in frequent and active trading, which may significantly increase
the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate. At times, the Fund may have a portfolio
turnover rate substantially greater than 100%. For example, a portfolio turnover
rate of 300% is equivalent to the Fund buying and selling all of its securities
three times during the course of a year. A high portfolio turnover rate would
result in high brokerage costs for the Fund, may result in higher taxes when
shares are held in a taxable account and lower Fund performance.
Valuation
Risk
The
sales price the Fund could receive for a security may differ from the Fund’s
valuation of the security and may differ from the value used by the Underlying
Index, particularly for securities that trade in low value or volatile markets
or that are valued using a fair value methodology (such as during trading
halts). Because non-U.S. exchanges may be open on days when the Fund does not
price its Shares, the value of the securities in the Fund's portfolio may change
on days when shareholders will not be able to purchase or sell the Fund's
Shares.
A
FURTHER DISCUSSION OF OTHER RISKS
The
Fund may also be subject to certain other risks associated with its investments
and investment strategies.
Leverage
Risk
Under
the 1940 Act, the Fund is permitted to borrow from a bank up to 33 1/3% of its
net assets for short term or emergency purposes. The Fund may borrow money at
fiscal quarter end to maintain the required level of diversification to qualify
as a regulated investment company ("RIC") for purposes of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"). As a result, the Fund may be exposed to
the risks of leverage, which may be considered a speculative investment
technique. Leverage magnifies the potential for gain and loss on amounts
invested and therefore increases the risks associated with investing in the
Fund. If the value of the Fund's assets increases, then leveraging would cause
the Fund's NAV to increase more sharply than it would have had the Fund not
leveraged. Conversely, if the value of the Fund's assets decreases, leveraging
would cause the Fund's NAV to decline more sharply than it otherwise would have
had the Fund not leveraged. The Fund may incur additional expenses in connection
with borrowings.
Qualification
as a Regulated Investment Company Risk
The
Fund must meet a number of diversification requirements to qualify as a RIC
under Section 851 of the Code and, if qualified, to continue to qualify. If the
Fund experiences difficulty in meeting those requirements for any fiscal
quarter, it might enter into borrowings in order to increase the portion of the
Fund’s total assets represented by cash, cash items, and U.S. government
securities shortly thereafter and, as of the close of the following fiscal
quarter, to attempt to meet the requirements. However, the Fund may incur
additional expenses in connection with any such borrowings, and increased
investments by the Fund in cash, cash items, and U.S. government securities
(whether the Fund makes such investments from borrowings) are likely to reduce
the Fund’s return to investors.
Tax
Treaty Reclaims Uncertainty
When
the Fund receives dividend and interest income (if any) from issuers in certain
countries, such distributions may be subject to partial withholding by local tax
authorities in order to satisfy potential local tax obligations. The Fund may
file claims to recover such withholding tax in jurisdictions where withholding
tax reclaim is possible, which may be the case as a result of bilateral treaties
between the United States and local governments. Whether or when the Fund will
receive a withholding tax refund in the future is within the control of the tax
authorities in such countries. Where the Fund expects to recover withholding tax
based on a continuous assessment of probability of recovery, the NAV of the Fund
generally includes accruals for such tax refunds. The Fund continues to evaluate
tax developments for potential impact to the probability of recovery. If the
likelihood of receiving refunds materially decreases, for example due to a
change in tax regulation or approach, accruals in the Fund’s NAV for such
refunds may need to be written down partially or in full, which will adversely
affect that Fund’s NAV. Investors in the Fund at the time an accrual is written
down will bear the impact of any resulting reduction in NAV regardless of
whether they were investors during the accrual period. Conversely, if the Fund
receives a tax refund that has not been previously accrued, investors in the
Fund at the time the claim is successful will benefit from any resulting
increase in the Fund’s NAV. Investors who sold their shares prior to such time
will not benefit from such NAV increase.
PORTFOLIO
HOLDINGS INFORMATION
A
description of the policies and procedures of Global X Funds®
(the "Trust") with respect to the disclosure of the Fund's portfolio securities
is available in the Fund's Statement of Additional Information ("SAI"). The top
holdings of the Fund and Fund Fact Sheets providing information regarding the
Fund's top holdings can be found at www.globalxetfs.com/explore/(click on the
name of your Fund) and may be requested by calling 1-888-493-8631.
FUND
MANAGEMENT
Investment
Adviser
Global
X Management Company LLC (the "Adviser") serves as the investment adviser and
the administrator for the Fund. Subject to the supervision of the Board of
Trustees, the Adviser is responsible for managing the investment activities of
the Fund and the Fund's business affairs and other administrative matters. The
Adviser has been a registered investment adviser since 2008. The Adviser is a
Delaware limited liability company with its principal offices located at 605 3rd
Avenue, 43rd Floor, New York, New York 10158. As of January 30, 2023, the
Adviser provided investment advisory services for assets of approximately $39.5
billion.
Pursuant
to a Supervision and Administration Agreement and subject to the general
supervision of the Board of Trustees, the Adviser provides, or causes to be
furnished, all supervisory, administrative and other services reasonably
necessary for the operation of the Fund and also bears the costs of various
third-party services required by the Fund, including audit, certain custody,
portfolio accounting, legal, transfer agency and printing costs. The Supervision
and Administration Agreement also requires the Adviser to provide investment
advisory services to the Fund pursuant to an Investment Advisory
Agreement.
The
Fund pays the Adviser a fee ("Management Fee") in return for providing
investment advisory, supervisory and administrative services under an all-in fee
structure. The Fund will pay a monthly Management Fee to the Adviser at the
annual rate set forth in the table below (stated as a percentage of the Fund's
average daily net assets).
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fund |
Management
Fee |
Global
X Nasdaq 100 ESG Covered Call ETF |
0.60% |
In
addition, the Fund bears other fees and expenses that are not covered by the
Supervision and Administration Agreement, which may vary and will affect the
total expense ratio of the Fund, such as taxes, brokerage fees, commissions and
other transaction expenses, interest and extraordinary expenses (such as
litigation and indemnification expenses). The Adviser may earn a profit on the
Management Fee paid by the Fund. Also, the Adviser, and not the shareholders of
the Fund, would benefit from any price decreases in third-party services,
including decreases resulting from an increase in net assets.
The
Adviser or its affiliates may pay compensation out of profits derived from the
Adviser's Management Fee or other resources and not as an additional charge to
the Fund, to certain financial institutions (which may include banks, securities
dealers and other industry professionals) for the sale and/or distribution of
Fund Shares or the retention and/or servicing of Fund investors and Fund Shares
("revenue sharing"). These payments are in addition to any other fees described
in the fee table or elsewhere in the Prospectus or SAI. Examples of "revenue
sharing" payments include, but are not limited to, payments to financial
institutions for "shelf space" or access to a third party platform or fund
offering list or other marketing programs, including, but not limited to,
inclusion of the Fund on preferred or recommended sales lists, mutual fund
"supermarket" platforms and other formal sales programs; granting the Adviser
access to the financial institution's sales force; granting the Adviser access
to the financial institution's conferences and meetings; assistance in training
and educating the financial institution's personnel; and obtaining other forms
of marketing support. The level of revenue sharing payments made to financial
institutions may be a fixed fee or based upon one or more of the following
factors: gross sales, current assets and/or number of accounts of the Fund
attributable to the financial institution, or other factors as agreed to by the
Adviser and the financial institution or any combination thereof. The amount of
these revenue sharing payments is determined at the discretion of the Adviser,
from time to time, may be substantial, and may be different for different
financial institutions depending upon the services provided by the financial
institution. Such payments may provide an incentive for the financial
institution to make Shares of the Fund available to its customers and may allow
the Fund greater access to the financial institution's customers.
Approval
of Advisory Agreement
Discussions
regarding the basis for the Board of Trustees' approval of the Supervision and
Administration Agreement and the related Investment Advisory Agreement for the
Fund will be available in the Fund's first shareholder report, either the
Semi-Annual Report or Annual Report to shareholders for the period ended April
30 or October 31, respectively.
Portfolio
Management
The
Portfolio Managers who are currently responsible for the day-to-day management
of the Fund's portfolio are Nam To, Wayne Xie, Kimberly Chan, Vanessa Yang and
Sandy Lu.
Nam
To:
Nam To, CFA, Portfolio Manager, joined the Adviser in July 2017. Prior to that,
Mr. To was a Global Economics Research Analyst at Bunge Limited from 2014 to
2017. Mr. To received his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Economics from
Cornell University in 2014.
Wayne
Xie:
Wayne Xie, Director of Portfolio Management, joined the Adviser in July 2018 as
a Portfolio Management Associate. Previously, Mr. Xie was an Analyst at VanEck
Associates on the Equity ETF Investment Management team from 2010 to 2018 and a
Portfolio Administrator at VanEck Associates from 2007 to 2010. Mr. Xie received
his Bachelor of Science from the State University of New York at Buffalo in
2002.
Kimberly
Chan:
Kimberly Chan, Portfolio Manager, joined the Adviser in June 2018. Previously,
Ms. Chan was a U.S. Associate Trader at Credit Agricole from 2016 to 2018, and
an Investment Analyst at MetLife Investments from 2015 to 2016. Ms. Chan
received her Bachelor of Science from New York University in 2015.
Vanessa
Yang:
Vanessa Yang, Portfolio Manager, joined the Adviser in 2016 as a Portfolio
Administrator. She was appointed to the portfolio management team in June 2019.
Previously, Ms. Yang was a Portfolio Administrator at VanEck Associates from
2011 to 2014. Ms. Yang received her MS in Financial Engineering from Drucker
School of Management in 2010 and her BS in Economics from Guangdong University
of Foreign Studies in 2008.
Sandy
Lu:
Sandy Lu, CFA, Portfolio Manager, joined the Adviser in September 2021.
Previously, Mr. Lu was a Portfolio Analyst and Junior Portfolio Manager at PGIM
Fixed Income from 2014 to 2021, and a Fixed Income Portfolio Analyst at Lincoln
Financial Group from 2010 to 2014. Mr. Lu received his Bachelor of Science in
Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He earned
his CFA designation in September 2015, and holds the Series 3
license.
The
SAI provides additional information about the Portfolio Managers' compensation
structure, other accounts managed by the Portfolio Managers, and the Portfolio
Managers' ownership of Shares of the Fund.
DISTRIBUTOR
SEI
Investments Distribution Co. ("Distributor") distributes Creation Units for the
Fund on an agency basis. The Distributor does not maintain a secondary market in
Shares. The Distributor has no role in determining the policies of the Fund or
the securities that are purchased or sold by the Fund. The Distributor's
principal address is One Freedom Valley Drive, Oaks, PA 19456. The Distributor
is not affiliated with the Adviser.
BUYING
AND SELLING FUND SHARES
Shares
of the Fund trade on a national securities exchange and in the secondary market
during the trading day. Shares can be bought and sold throughout the trading day
like other shares of publicly-traded securities. There is no minimum investment
for purchases made on a national securities exchange. When buying or selling
Shares through a broker, you will incur customary brokerage commissions and
charges. In addition, you will also incur the cost of the "spread," which is the
difference between what professional investors are willing to pay for Shares
(the "bid" price) and the price at which they are willing to sell Shares (the
"ask" price). The commission is frequently a fixed amount and may be a
significant proportional cost for investors seeking to buy or sell small amounts
of Shares. The spread with respect to Shares varies over time based on the
Fund's trading volume and market liquidity, and is generally lower if the Fund
has significant trading volume and market liquidity and higher if the Fund has
little trading volume and market liquidity. Because of the costs of buying and
selling Shares, frequent trading may reduce investment return.
Shares
of the Fund may be acquired or redeemed directly from the Fund only by
Authorized Participants (as defined in the SAI) and only in Creation Units or
multiples thereof, as discussed in the "Creations and Redemptions" section in
the SAI.
Shares
generally trade in the secondary market in amounts less than a Creation Unit.
Shares of the Fund trade under the trading symbol listed for the Fund in the
Fund Summary section of this Prospectus.
The
Fund is listed on a national securities exchange, which is open for trading
Monday through Friday and is closed on weekends and the following holidays, as
observed: New Year's Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Presidents' Day, Good
Friday, Memorial Day, Juneteenth National Independence Day, Independence Day,
Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day.
Book
Entry
Shares
of the Fund are held in book-entry form, which means that no stock certificates
are issued. The Depository Trust Company ("DTC") or its nominee is the record
owner of all outstanding Shares and is recognized as the owner of all Shares for
all purposes. Investors owning Shares are beneficial owners as shown on the
records of DTC or its participants. DTC serves as the securities depository for
all Shares. Participants include DTC, securities brokers and dealers, banks,
trust companies, clearing corporations and other institutions that directly or
indirectly maintain a custodial relationship with DTC. As a beneficial owner of
Shares, you are not entitled to receive physical delivery of stock certificates
or to have Shares registered in your name, and you are not considered a
registered owner of Shares. Therefore, to exercise any rights as an owner of
Shares, you must rely upon the procedures of DTC and its participants. These
procedures are the same as those that apply to any securities that you hold in
book entry or "street name" form.
FREQUENT
TRADING
Unlike
frequent trading of shares of a traditional open-end mutual fund (i.e., not
exchange-traded shares), frequent trading of Shares on the secondary market does
not disrupt portfolio management, increase the Fund's trading costs, lead to
realization of capital gains, or otherwise harm Fund shareholders because these
trades do not involve the Fund directly. A few institutional investors are
authorized to purchase and redeem the Fund's Shares directly with the Fund. When
these trades are effected in-kind (i.e., for securities, and not for cash), they
do not cause any of the harmful effects (noted above) that may result from
frequent cash trades. Moreover, the Fund imposes transaction fees on in-kind
purchases and redemptions of the Fund intended to cover the custodial and other
costs incurred by the Fund in effecting in-kind trades. These fees increase if
an investor substitutes cash in part or in whole for securities, reflecting the
fact that the Fund's trading costs increase in those circumstances, although
transaction fees are subject to certain limits and therefore may not cover all
related costs incurred by the Fund. For these reasons, the Board of Trustees has
determined that it is not necessary to adopt policies and procedures to detect
and deter frequent trading and market-timing in Shares of the Fund.
DISTRIBUTION
AND SERVICE PLAN
The
Board of Trustees of the Trust has adopted a Distribution and Services Plan
("Plan") pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act. Under the Plan, the Fund is
authorized to pay distribution fees in connection with the sale and distribution
of its Shares and pay service fees in connection with the provision of ongoing
services to shareholders of each class and the maintenance of shareholder
accounts in an amount up to 0.25% of its average daily net assets each
year.
No
Rule 12b-1 fees are currently paid by the Fund, and there are no current plans
to impose these fees. However, in the event Rule 12b-1 fees are charged in the
future, because these fees are paid out of the Fund's assets on an ongoing
basis, these fees will increase the cost of your investment in the Fund. By
purchasing Shares subject to distribution fees and service fees, you may pay
more over time than you would by purchasing Shares with other types of sales
charge arrangements. Long-term shareholders may pay more than the economic
equivalent of the maximum front-end sales charge permitted by the rules of
FINRA. The net income attributable to Shares will be reduced by the amount of
distribution fees and service fees and other expenses of the Fund.
DIVIDENDS
AND DISTRIBUTIONS
Dividends
from net investment income, including any net foreign currency gains, generally
are declared and paid at least annually and any net realized capital gains are
distributed at least annually. In order to improve tracking error or comply with
the distribution requirements of the Code, dividends may be declared and paid
more frequently than annually for the Fund.
Dividends
and other distributions on Shares are distributed on a pro rata basis to
beneficial owners of such Shares. Dividend payments are made through DTC
participants to beneficial owners then of record with proceeds received from the
Fund. Dividends and security gain distributions are distributed in U.S. dollars
and cannot be automatically reinvested in additional Shares.
No
dividend reinvestment service is provided by the Trust. Broker-dealers may make
available the DTC book-entry Dividend Reinvestment Service for use by beneficial
owners of the Fund for reinvestment of their dividend distributions. Beneficial
owners
should contact their broker to determine the availability and costs of the
service and the details of participation therein. Brokers may require beneficial
owners to adhere to specific procedures and timetables. If this service is
available and used, dividend distributions of both income and realized gains
will be automatically reinvested in additional whole Shares purchased in the
secondary market.
TAXES
The
following is a summary of certain tax considerations that may be relevant to an
investor in the Fund. Except where otherwise indicated, the discussion relates
to investors who are individual United States citizens or residents and is based
on current tax law. You should consult your tax advisor for further information
regarding federal, state, local and/or foreign tax consequences relevant to your
specific situation.
Distributions.
The Fund receives income and gains on its investments. The income, less expenses
incurred in the operation of the Fund, constitutes the Fund's net investment
income from which dividends may be paid to you. The Fund intends to qualify as a
RIC under the Code for federal tax purposes and to distribute to shareholders
substantially all of its net investment income and net capital gain each year.
Except as otherwise noted below, you will generally be subject to federal income
tax on the Fund's distributions to you. For federal income tax purposes, Fund
distributions attributable to short-term capital gains and net investment income
are taxable to you as ordinary income. Distributions attributable to net capital
gains (the excess of net long-term capital gains over net short-term capital
losses) of the Fund generally are taxable to you as long-term capital gains.
This is true no matter how long you own your Shares or whether you take
distributions in cash or additional Shares. The maximum long-term capital gain
rate applicable to individuals is 20%.
Distributions
of "qualifying dividends" will also generally be taxable to you at long-term
capital gain rates as long as certain requirements are met. In general, if 95%
or more of the gross income of the Fund (other than net capital gain) consists
of dividends received from domestic corporations or "qualified" foreign
corporations ("qualifying dividends"), then all distributions received by
individual shareholders of the Fund will be treated as qualifying dividends. But
if less than 95% of the gross income of the Fund (other than net capital gain)
consists of qualifying dividends, then distributions received by individual
shareholders of the Fund will be qualifying dividends only to the extent they
are derived from qualifying dividends earned by the Fund. For the lower rates to
apply, you must have owned your Shares for at least 61 days during the 121-day
period beginning on the date that is 60 days before the Fund's ex-dividend date
(and the Fund will need to have met a similar holding period requirement with
respect to the Shares of the corporation paying the qualifying dividend). The
amount of the Fund's distributions that qualify for this favorable treatment may
be reduced as a result of the Fund's securities lending activities (if any), a
high portfolio turnover rate or investments in debt securities or
"non-qualified" foreign corporations. In addition, whether distributions
received from foreign corporations are qualifying dividends will depend on
several factors including the country of residence of the corporation making the
distribution. Accordingly, distributions from many of the Fund's holdings may
not be qualifying dividends.
A
portion of distributions paid to shareholders that are corporations may also
qualify for the dividends-received deduction for corporations, subject to
certain holding period requirements and debt financing limitations. The amount
of the dividends qualifying for this deduction may, however, be reduced as a
result of the Fund's securities lending activities, by a high portfolio turnover
rate or by investments in debt securities or foreign corporations.
Distributions
from the Fund will generally be taxable to you in the year in which they are
paid, with one exception. Dividends and distributions declared by the Fund in
October, November or December and paid in January of the following year are
taxed as though they were paid on December 31.
You
should note that if you buy Shares of the Fund shortly before it makes a
distribution, the distribution will be fully taxable to you even though, as an
economic matter, it simply represents a return of a portion of your investment.
This adverse tax result is known as "buying into a dividend."
You
will be informed of the amount of your ordinary income dividends, qualifying
dividend income, and capital gain distributions at the time they are paid, and
you will be advised of the tax status for federal income tax purposes shortly
after the close of each calendar year. If you have not held Shares for a full
year, the Fund may designate and distribute to you, as ordinary income or
capital gain, a percentage of income that is not equal to the actual amount of
such income earned during the period of your investment in the
Fund.
The
Fund's investments in partnerships, including in partnerships defined as
Qualified Publicly Traded Partnerships for tax purposes, may result in the Fund
being subject to state, local or foreign income, franchise or withholding tax
liabilities.
Excise
Tax Distribution Requirements.
Under the Code, a nondeductible excise tax of 4% is imposed on the excess of a
RIC's "required distribution" for the calendar year ending within the RIC's
taxable year over the "distributed amount" for such calendar year. The term
"required distribution" means the sum of (a) 98% of ordinary income (generally
net investment income) for the calendar year, (b) 98.2% of capital gain (both
long-term and short-term) for the one-year period ending on October 31 (or
December 31, if the Fund so elects), and (c) the sum of any untaxed,
undistributed net investment income and net capital gains of the RIC for prior
periods. The term "distributed amount" generally means the sum of (a) amounts
actually distributed by the Fund from its current year's ordinary income and
capital gain net income and (b) any amount on which the Fund pays income tax for
the taxable year ending in the calendar year. Although the Fund intends to
distribute its net investment income and net capital gains so as to avoid excise
tax liability, the Fund may determine that it is in the interest of shareholders
to distribute a lesser amount. The Fund intends to declare and pay these amounts
in December (or in January, which must be treated by you as received in
December) to avoid these excise taxes, but can give no assurances that its
distributions will be sufficient to eliminate all such taxes.
Foreign
Currencies.
Under the Code, gains or losses attributable to fluctuations in exchange rates
which occur between the time the Fund accrues interest or other receivables or
accrues expenses or other liabilities denominated in a foreign currency, and the
time the Fund actually collects such receivables or pays such liabilities, are
treated as ordinary income or ordinary loss. Similarly, gains or losses from the
disposition of foreign currencies, from the disposition of debt securities
denominated in a foreign currency, or from the disposition of a forward foreign
currency contract which are attributable to fluctuations in the value of the
foreign currency between the date of acquisition of the asset and the date of
disposition also are treated as ordinary income or loss. These gains or losses,
referred to under the Code as "section 988" gains or losses, increase or
decrease the amount of the Fund's investment company taxable income available to
be distributed to its shareholders as ordinary income, rather than increasing or
decreasing the amount of the Fund's net capital gain.
Foreign
Taxes.
The Fund will be subject to foreign withholding taxes with respect to certain
payments received from sources in foreign countries. If at the close of the
taxable year more than 50% in value of the Fund's assets consists of stock in
foreign corporations, the Fund will be eligible to make an election to treat a
proportionate amount of those taxes as constituting a distribution to each
shareholder, which would allow you either (subject to certain limitations) (1)
to credit that proportionate amount of taxes against your U.S. Federal income
tax liability as a foreign tax credit or (2) to take that amount as an itemized
deduction. If the Fund is not eligible or chooses not to make this election, it
will be entitled to deduct such taxes in computing the amounts it is required to
distribute.
Sales
and Exchanges.
The sale of Shares is a taxable event on which a gain or loss is recognized. The
amount of gain or loss is based on the difference between your tax basis in
Shares and the amount you receive for them upon disposition. Generally, you will
recognize long-term capital gain or loss if you have held your Shares for over
one year at the time you sell or exchange them. Gains and losses on Shares held
for one year or less will generally constitute short-term capital gains, except
that a loss on Shares held six months or less will be re-characterized as a
long-term capital loss to the extent of any long-term capital gain distributions
that you have received on the Shares. A loss realized on a sale or exchange of
Shares may be disallowed under the so-called "wash sale" rules to the extent the
Shares disposed of are replaced with other Shares of that same Fund within a
period of 61 days beginning 30 days before and ending 30 days after the Shares
are disposed of, such as pursuant to a dividend reinvestment in Shares of the
Fund. If disallowed, the loss will be reflected in an adjustment to the basis of
the Shares acquired.
Taxes
on Purchase and Redemption of Creation Units.
An Authorized Participant who exchanges equity securities for Creation Units
generally will recognize a gain or a loss. The gain or loss will be equal to the
difference between the market value of the Creation Units at the time of
purchase (plus any cash received by the Authorized Participant as part of the
issue) and the Authorized Participant's aggregate basis in the securities
surrendered (plus any cash paid by the Authorized Participant as part of the
issue). An Authorized Participant who exchanges Creation Units for equity
securities generally will recognize a gain or loss equal to the difference
between the Authorized Participant's basis in the Creation Units (plus any cash
paid by the Authorized Participant as part of the redemption) and the aggregate
market value of the securities received (plus any cash received by the
Authorized Participant as part of the redemption). The Internal Revenue Service
(the "IRS"), however, may assert that a loss realized upon an exchange of
securities for Creation Units cannot be deducted currently under the rules
governing "wash sales," or on the basis that there has been no significant
change in economic position. Persons exchanging securities should consult their
own tax advisor with respect to whether the wash sale rules apply and when a
loss might be deductible.
IRAs
and Other Tax-Qualified Plans.
The one major exception to the preceding tax principles is that distributions
on, and sales, exchanges and redemptions of, Shares held in an IRA or other
tax-qualified plan are not currently taxable but may be taxable when funds are
withdrawn from the tax qualified plan unless the Shares were purchased with
borrowed funds.
Medicare
Tax. An
additional 3.8% Medicare tax is imposed on certain net investment income
(including ordinary dividends and capital gain distributions received from the
Fund and net gains from redemptions or other taxable dispositions of Fund
Shares) of U.S. individuals, estates and trusts to the extent that such person's
"modified adjusted gross income" (in the case of an individual) or "adjusted
gross income" (in the case of an estate or trust) exceeds a threshold amount.
This Medicare tax, if applicable, is reported by you on, and paid with, your
federal income tax return.
Backup
Withholding.
The Fund will be required in certain cases to withhold and remit to the U.S.
Treasury backup withholding at the applicable rate on dividends and gross sales
proceeds paid to any shareholder (i) who has either provided an incorrect tax
identification number or no number at all, (ii) who is subject to backup
withholding by the IRS, or (iii) who has failed to certify to the Fund, when
required to do so, that he or she is not subject to backup withholding or is an
"exempt recipient."
Cost
Basis Reporting. Federal
law requires that shareholders' cost basis, gain/loss, and holding period be
reported to the IRS and to shareholders on the Consolidated Form 1099s when
"covered" securities are sold. Covered securities are any RIC and/or dividend
reinvestment plan shares acquired on or after January 1, 2012.
For
those securities defined as "covered" under current IRS cost basis tax reporting
regulations, accurate cost basis and tax lot information must be maintained for
tax reporting purposes. This information is not required for Shares that are not
"covered." The Fund and its service providers do not provide tax advice. You
should consult independent sources, which may include a tax professional, with
respect to any decisions you may make with respect to choosing a tax lot
identification method. Shareholders should contact their financial
intermediaries with respect to reporting of cost basis and available elections
for their accounts.
State
and Local Taxes.
You may also be subject to state and local taxes on income and gain attributable
to your ownership of Shares. You should consult your tax advisor regarding the
tax status of distributions in your state and locality.
U.S.
Tax Treatment of Foreign Shareholders.
A non-U.S. shareholder generally will not be subject to U.S. withholding tax on
gain from the redemption of Shares or on capital gain dividends (i.e., dividends
attributable to long-term capital gains of the Fund) unless, in the case of a
shareholder who is a non-resident alien individual, the shareholder is present
in the United States for 183 days or more during the taxable year and certain
other conditions are met. Non-U.S. shareholders generally will be subject to
U.S. withholding tax at a rate of 30% (or a lower treaty rate, if applicable) on
distributions by the Fund of net investment income, other ordinary income, and
the excess, if any, of net short-term capital gain over net long-term capital
loss for the year, unless the distributions are effectively connected with a
U.S. trade or business of the shareholder. Exemptions from U.S. withholding tax
are provided for certain capital gain dividends paid by the Fund from net
long-term capital gains, if any, interest-related dividends paid by the Fund
from its qualified net interest income from U.S. sources and short-term capital
gain dividends if such amounts are reported by the Fund. Non-U.S. shareholders
are subject to special U.S. tax certification requirements to avoid backup
withholding and claim any treaty benefits. Non-U.S. shareholders should consult
their tax advisors regarding the U.S. and foreign tax consequences of investing
in the Fund.
Other
Reporting and Withholding Requirements. Under
the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act ("FATCA"), a 30% withholding tax is
imposed on income dividends paid by the Fund to certain foreign entities,
referred to as foreign financial institutions or nonfinancial foreign entities,
that fail to comply (or be deemed compliant) with extensive reporting and
withholding requirements designed to inform the U.S. Department of the Treasury
of U.S.-owned foreign investment accounts. After December 31, 2018, FATCA
withholding also would have applied to certain capital gain distributions,
return of capital distributions and the proceeds arising from the sale of Fund
Shares, however based on proposed regulations issued by the IRS, which may be
relied upon currently, such withholding is no longer required unless final
regulations provide otherwise (which is not expected). Information about a
shareholder in the Fund may be disclosed to the IRS, non-U.S. taxing authorities
or other parties as necessary to comply with FATCA. Withholding also may be
required if a foreign entity that is a shareholder of the Fund fails to provide
the appropriate certifications or other documentation concerning its status
under FATCA.
Consult
Your Tax Professional.
Your investment in the Fund could have additional tax consequences. You should
consult your tax professional for information regarding all tax consequences
applicable to your investments in the Fund. More tax information relating to the
Fund is also provided in the SAI. This short summary is not intended as a
substitute for careful tax planning.
DETERMINATION
OF NET ASSET VALUE
The
Fund calculates its NAV as of the regularly scheduled close of business of the
Exchange (normally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time) on each day that the Exchange is open
for business, based on prices at the time of closing, provided that any assets
or liabilities denominated in currencies other than the U.S. dollar shall be
translated into U.S. dollars at the prevailing market rates on the date of
valuation as quoted by one or more major banks or dealers that make a two-way
market in such currencies (or a data
service
provider based on quotations received from such banks or dealers). The NAV of
the Fund is calculated by dividing the value of the net assets of the Fund
(i.e., the value of its total assets less total liabilities) by the total number
of outstanding Shares, generally rounded to the nearest cent. The price of Fund
Shares is based on market price, and because ETF shares trade at market prices
rather than NAV, Shares may trade at a price greater than NAV (a premium) or
less than NAV (a discount).
In
calculating the Fund's NAV, the Fund's investments are generally valued using
market valuations. A market valuation generally means a valuation (i) obtained
from an exchange or a major market maker (or dealer), (ii) based on a price
quotation or other equivalent indication of value supplied by an exchange, a
pricing service, or a major market maker (or dealer), or (iii) based on
amortized cost, provided the amortized cost is approximately the value on
current sale of the security. In the case of shares of funds that are not traded
on an exchange, a market valuation means such fund's published NAV per share.
The Fund may use various pricing services or discontinue the use of any pricing
service.
In
the event that current market valuations are not readily available or such
valuations do not reflect current market values, the affected investments will
be valued using fair value pricing pursuant to the pricing policy and procedures
approved by the Board of Trustees. A price obtained from a pricing service based
on such pricing service's valuation matrix may be used to fair value a security.
The frequency with which the Fund's investments are valued using fair value
pricing is primarily a function of the types of securities and other assets in
which the Fund invests pursuant to its investment objective, strategies and
limitations.
Investments
that may be valued using fair value pricing include, but are not limited to: (i)
an unlisted security related to corporate actions; (ii) a restricted security
(i.e., one that may not be publicly sold without registration under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act")); (iii) a security
whose trading has been suspended or which has been de-listed from its primary
trading exchange; (iv) a security that is thinly traded; (v) a security in
default or bankruptcy proceedings for which there is no current market
quotation; (vi) a security affected by currency controls or restrictions; and
(vii) a security affected by a significant event (i.e., an event that occurs
after the close of the markets on which the security is traded but before the
time as of which the Fund's NAV is computed and that may materially affect the
value of the Fund's investments). Examples of events that may be "significant
events" are government actions, natural disasters, armed conflict, acts of
terrorism, and significant market fluctuations.
Valuing
the Fund's investments using fair value pricing will result in using prices for
those investments that may differ from current market valuations. Use of fair
value prices and certain current market valuations could result in a difference
between the prices used to calculate the Fund's NAV and the prices used by the
Fund's Underlying Index, which, in turn, could result in a difference between
the Fund's performance and the performance of the Fund's Underlying
Index.
Because
foreign markets may be open on different days than the days during which a
shareholder may purchase Shares, the value of the Fund's investments may change
on days when shareholders are not able to purchase Shares. Additionally, due to
varying holiday schedules, redemption requests made on certain dates may result
in a settlement period exceeding seven calendar days.
The
value of assets denominated in foreign currencies is converted into U.S. dollars
using exchange rates deemed appropriate by the Adviser. Any use of a different
rate from the rates used by the Index Provider may adversely affect the Fund's
ability to track its Underlying Index.
The
right of redemption may be suspended or the date of payment postponed with
respect to the Fund (1) for any period during which the NASDAQ or listing
exchange is closed (other than customary weekend and holiday closings), (2) for
any period during which trading on the NASDAQ or listing exchange is suspended
or restricted, (3) for any period during which an emergency exists as a result
of which disposal of the Fund's portfolio securities or determination of its NAV
is not reasonably practicable, or (4) in such other circumstances as the SEC
permits.
Subject
to oversight by the Board of Trustees, the Adviser, as “valuation designee,”
performs fair value determinations of Fund investments. In addition, the
Adviser, as the valuation designee, is responsible for periodically assessing
any material risks associated with the determination of the fair value of a
Fund's investments; establishing and applying fair value methodologies; testing
the appropriateness of fair value methodologies; and overseeing and evaluating
third-party pricing services. The Adviser has established a fair value committee
to assist with its designated responsibilities as valuation
designee.
PREMIUM/DISCOUNT
AND SHARE INFORMATION
Once
available, information regarding how often the Shares of the Fund traded on a
national securities exchange at a price above (i.e., at a premium to) or below
(i.e., at a discount to) the NAV of the Fund; the Fund’s per share NAV, and the
median bid-ask spread of the Shares can be found at
www.globalxetfs.com.
INFORMATION
REGARDING THE INDEX AND THE INDEX PROVIDER
Nasdaq-100
ESG BuyWrite Index
The
Nasdaq-100 ESG BuyWrite Index seeks to provide long exposure to an equity
portfolio that applies a set of specific Environmental, Social and Governance
(“ESG”) criteria as part of its security selection process, while also selling
call options generally associated with such exposure. Specifically, the
Nasdaq-100 ESG BuyWrite Index measures the performance of a covered call
strategy, also known as a “buy-write” strategy, that seeks to provide long
exposure by “buying” the underlying components of the Nasdaq-100 ESG Index and
to generate options premium income by “writing” (selling) a succession of
one-month, at-the-money (“ATM”) covered call options on the Nasdaq-100 Index. In
seeking to track the Nasdaq-100 ESG BuyWrite Index, the Fund invests in the
securities reflected in the Nasdaq-100 ESG BuyWrite Index by purchasing the
underlying holdings of the Reference Index in proportion to their weight in the
Nasdaq-100 ESG Index, and systematically writing (selling) a succession of
one-month, ATM covered call options on the Nasdaq-100 Index. The implications of
the written (sold) call options are described in more detail here:
Call
Options
– When the Fund sells a call option, the Fund receives a premium in exchange for
an obligation to sell shares of the Nasdaq-100 Index at a strike price on the
expiration date if the buyer of the call option exercises it. If the Nasdaq-100
Index closes above the strike price as of the expiration date and the buyer
exercises the call option, the investor will have to pay the difference between
the value of the Nasdaq-100 Index and the strike price. If the Nasdaq-100 Index
closes below the strike price as of the expiration date, the call option may end
up worthless and the investor retains the premium. Generally speaking, an
at-the-money (“ATM”) call option refers to an option where the strike price of
the option is equal to the price of the underlying asset at the time when the
option is written (sold).
On
a monthly basis, the Nasdaq-100 ESG BuyWrite Index seeks to achieve its
objective by writing (selling) a succession of one-month, ATM call options on
the Nasdaq-100 Index corresponding to approximately 100% of the value of the
securities in the Reference Index, and will cover such options by holding the
component securities of the Nasdaq-100 ESG Index in the same weighting
proportion as the Nasdaq-100 ESG Index. Each call option written in the
Nasdaq-100 ESG BuyWrite Index will have an exercise price generally at the
prevailing market price of the Nasdaq-100 Index. However, if call options with
those precise strike prices are unavailable, the Nasdaq-100 ESG BuyWrite Index
will instead select the call options with the strike price closest to but above
the prevailing market price of the Nasdaq-100 Index. Each option position in the
Nasdaq-100 ESG BuyWrite Index’s composition will (i) be traded on a national
securities exchange; (ii) be held until expiration date; (iii) expire on its
date of maturity; (iv) only be subject to exercise on its expiration date; and
(v) be settled in cash.
The
Nasdaq-100 Index is composed of securities issued by 100 of the largest
non-financial companies listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market or Nasdaq
Global Market (two of the three tiers of The Nasdaq Stock Market for the U.S.
with the most stringent listing requirements) by market capitalization, as
defined by Nasdaq.
The
Nasdaq-100 ESG Index comprises the securities included in the Nasdaq-100 Index
after excluding certain companies that are: 1) engaged in identified business
activities, 2) subject to certain controversy, and/or 3) fail to comply with
certain fundamental principles. Specifically, the Reference Index employs
negative screens to exclude securities of companies with business activities
that do not meet certain ESG eligibility criteria. Such screens rely on
information from Sustainalytics, a globally-recognized independent provider of
ESG research, ratings, and data. Companies’ business activities are
distinguished between categories with absolute prohibitions (which do not allow
any involvement by a company in a certain business activity) and categories that
permit a de minimis amount of a certain business activity (generally, permitting
a company to derive less than 5% of its revenues from, or to own less than 10%
of another company that engages in, such activity). Examples of business
activities with absolute prohibitions include, but are not limited to, arctic
oil & gas exploration, cannabis production and controversial weapons, while
examples of business activities with limited prohibitions include, but are not
limited to, alcoholic beverages, gambling and nuclear power production.
Companies
in the Nasdaq-100 ESG Index are weighted by their market capitalization and
adjusted by their Sustainalytics ESG Risk Rating Score. Capping to weights are
employed, where necessary, to meet diversification standards, as determined by
Nasdaq. The Nasdaq-100 ESG Index is rebalanced quarterly.
Disclaimer
The
Fund is not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by Nasdaq, Inc. or its
affiliates (Nasdaq, with its affiliates, are referred to as the “Corporations”).
The Corporations have not passed on the legality or suitability of, or the
accuracy or adequacy of descriptions and disclosures relating to, the Fund. The
Corporations make no representation or warranty, express or implied to
the
owners of the Funds or any member of the public regarding the advisability of
investing in securities generally or in the Fund particularly, or the ability of
the Nasdaq-100 ESG BuyWrite Index to track general stock market performance. The
Corporations' only relationship to Global X Management Company LLC (“Licensee”)
is in the licensing of the Nasdaq®, and certain trade names of the Corporations
and the use of the Nasdaq-100 ESG BuyWrite Index which is determined, composed
and calculated by Nasdaq without regard to Licensee or the Product(s). Nasdaq
has no obligation to take the needs of the Licensee or the owners of the
Product(s) into consideration in determining, composing or calculating the
Nasdaq-100 ESG BuyWrite Index. The Corporations are not responsible for and have
not participated in the determination of the timing of, prices at, or quantities
of the Fund to be issued or in the determination or calculation of the equation
by which the Fund is to be converted into cash. The Corporations have no
liability in connection with the administration, marketing or trading of the
Fund.
THE
CORPORATIONS DO NOT GUARANTEE THE ACCURACY AND/OR UNINTERRUPTED CALCULATION OF
THE NASDAQ-100 ESG BUYWRITE INDEX OR ANY DATA INCLUDED THEREIN. THE CORPORATIONS
MAKE NO WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO RESULTS TO BE OBTAINED BY LICENSEE,
OWNERS OF THE PRODUCT(S), OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY FROM THE USE OF THE
NASDAQ-100 ESG BUYWRITE INDEX OR ANY DATA INCLUDED THEREIN. THE CORPORATIONS
MAKE NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR USE WITH RESPECT TO THE
NASDAQ-100 ESG BUYWRITE INDEX OR ANY DATA INCLUDED THEREIN. WITHOUT LIMITING ANY
OF THE FOREGOING, IN NO EVENT SHALL THE CORPORATIONS HAVE ANY LIABILITY FOR ANY
LOST PROFITS OR SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES, EVEN IF NOTIFIED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
OTHER
SERVICE PROVIDERS
SEI
Investments Global Funds Services is the sub-administrator for the
Fund.
The
Bank of New York Mellon is the custodian and transfer agent for the
Fund.
Stradley
Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP serves as counsel for the Trust and the Trust's
Independent Trustees.
PricewaterhouseCoopers
LLP will serve as the Fund's independent registered public accounting firm for
the fiscal year ending October 31, 2023.
ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION
The
Trust enters into contractual arrangements with various parties, including among
others, the Fund's Adviser, sub-adviser(s) (if applicable), custodian, and
transfer agent who provide services to the Fund. Shareholders are not parties to
any such contractual arrangements and are not intended beneficiaries of those
contractual arrangements, and those contractual arrangements are not intended to
create in any shareholder any right to enforce them against the service
providers or to seek any remedy under them against the service providers, either
directly or on behalf of the Trust.
This
Prospectus provides information concerning the Fund that investors should
consider in determining whether to purchase Fund Shares. Neither this Prospectus
nor the SAI is intended, or should be read, to be or give rise to an agreement
or contract between the Trust or the Fund and any investor, or to give rise to
any rights in any shareholder or other person other than any rights under
federal or state law that may not be waived.
FINANCIAL
HIGHLIGHTS
Because
the Fund had not commenced operations as of the October 31, 2022 fiscal
year end, financial highlights are not yet available.
OTHER
INFORMATION
The
Fund is not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by any national securities
exchange. No national securities exchange makes any representation or warranty,
express or implied, to the owners of Shares or any member of the public
regarding the advisability of investing in securities generally or in the Fund
particularly or the ability of the Fund to achieve its objective. No national
securities exchange has any obligation or liability in connection with the
administration, marketing or trading of the Fund.
For
purposes of the 1940 Act, shares that are issued by a registered investment
company and purchases of such shares by investment companies and companies
relying on Sections 3(c)(1) or 3(c)(7) of the 1940 Act are subject to the
restrictions set forth in Section 12(d)(1) of the 1940 Act. Registered
investment companies are permitted to invest in the Fund beyond the limits set
forth in section 12(d)(1), subject to certain conditions set forth in Rule
12d1-4 under the 1940 Act, including that such investment companies enter into
an agreement with the Fund.
The
method by which Creation Units are created and traded may raise certain issues
under applicable securities laws. Because new Creation Units are issued and sold
by the Fund on an ongoing basis, a "distribution," as such term is used in the
Securities Act, may occur at any point. Broker-dealers and other persons are
cautioned that some activities on their part may, depending on the
circumstances, result in their being deemed participants in a distribution in a
manner which could render them statutory underwriters and subject them to the
prospectus delivery and liability provisions of the Securities Act.
For
example, a broker-dealer firm or its client may be deemed a statutory
underwriter if it takes Creation Units after placing an order with the
Distributor, breaks them down into constituent Shares, and sells such Shares
directly to customers, or if it chooses to couple the creation of a supply of
new Shares with an active selling effort involving solicitation of secondary
market demand for Shares. A determination of whether one is an underwriter for
purposes of the Securities Act must take into account all the facts and
circumstances pertaining to the activities of the broker-dealer or its client in
the particular case, and the examples mentioned above should not be considered a
complete description of all the activities that could lead to a categorization
as an underwriter.
Broker-dealers
who are not "underwriters" but are participating in a distribution (as
contrasted with ordinary secondary trading transactions), and thus dealing with
Shares that are part of an "unsold allotment" within the meaning of Section
4(a)(3)(C) of the Securities Act, would be unable to take advantage of the
prospectus delivery exemption provided by Section 4(a)(3) of the Securities Act.
This is because the prospectus delivery exemption in Section 4(a)(3) of the
Securities Act is not available in respect of such transactions as a result of
Section 24(d) of the 1940 Act. As a result, broker-dealer firms should note that
dealers who are not underwriters but are participating in a distribution (as
contrasted with ordinary secondary market transactions) and thus dealing with
the Shares that are part of an overallotment within the meaning of Section
4(a)(3)(A) of the Securities Act would be unable to take advantage of the
prospectus delivery exemption provided by Section 4(a)(3) of the Securities Act.
Firms that incur a prospectus delivery obligation with respect to Shares are
reminded that, under Rule 153 of the Securities Act, a prospectus delivery
obligation under Section 5(b)(2) of the Securities Act owed to an exchange
member in connection with a sale on NASDAQ is satisfied by the fact that the
prospectus is available at NASDAQ upon request. The prospectus delivery
mechanism provided in Rule 153 is only available with respect to transactions on
an exchange.
For
more information visit our website at
www.globalxetfs.com
or
call 1-888-493-8631
|
|
|
|
|
|
Investment
Adviser and Administrator Global
X Management Company LLC 605 3rd Avenue, 43rd Floor New York, NY
10158 |
|
Distributor
SEI
Investments Distribution Co.
One
Freedom Valley Drive
Oaks,
PA 19456
|
|
Custodian
and Transfer Agent
The
Bank of New York Mellon
240
Greenwich Street
New
York, New York 10286
|
|
Sub-Administrator
SEI
Investments Global Funds Services
One
Freedom Valley Drive
Oaks,
PA 19456
|
|
Legal
Counsel to the Global X Funds®
and Independent Trustees
Stradley
Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP
2000
K Street N.W., Suite 700
Washington,
DC 20006
|
|
Independent
Registered Public Accounting Firm
PricewaterhouseCoopers
LLP
Two
Commerce Square, Suite 1800
2001
Market Street
Philadelphia,
PA 19103 |
|
A
Statement of Additional
Information
dated February 17, 2023, which contains more details about the Fund, is
incorporated by reference in its entirety into this Prospectus, which means that
it is legally part of this Prospectus.
Additional
information about the Fund and its investments is available in its annual and
semi-annual reports to shareholders. The annual report explains the market
conditions and investment strategies affecting the Fund's performance during its
last fiscal year.
You
can ask questions or obtain a free copy of the Fund's semi-annual and annual
report or the Statement of Additional Information by calling 1-888-493-8631.
Free copies of the Fund's semi-annual and annual report and the Statement of
Additional Information are available from our website at
www.globalxetfs.com.
Information
about the Fund, including its semi-annual and annual reports and the Statement
of Additional Information, has been filed with the SEC. It can be reviewed and
copied on the EDGAR database on the SEC's internet site (http://www.sec.gov).
You can also request copies of these materials, upon payment of a duplicating
fee, by electronic request at the SEC's e-mail address
([email protected]).
PROSPECTUS
Distributor
SEI
Investments Distribution Co.
One
Freedom Valley Drive
Oaks,
PA 19456
February
17, 2023
Investment
Company Act File No.: 811-22209