Investment Strategy - Langar Global HealthTech ETF |
Apr. 30, 2026 |
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| Strategy Narrative [Text Block] | As an actively managed exchange-traded fund (“ETF”), the Fund will not
seek to replicate the performance of an index. The Fund intends to achieve its investment objective by investing a majority of its net assets in U.S. and foreign exchange-listed healthcare technology companies in the U.S and a number of
developed countries around the world. Under normal circumstances, the Fund will invest at least 80% of the Fund’s net assets (plus borrowings for investment purposes) in U.S. and foreign exchange-listed equity
securities of healthcare technology companies and American Depository Receipts (“ADRs”) on those securities. These securities may be of any market capitalization. Langar Investment Management, LLC (the “Advisor”) uses a combination of a top-down review and a bottom-up research methodology to
select fundamentally strong companies that develop technology to create efficiency in healthcare by addressing key pain points for patients, providers, payors, and/or hospitals. The Advisor defines pain points as consistent
problems that a patient, provider and/or other healthcare stakeholder has when dealing with a product and/or service, which are unmet needs that are not adequately addressed for a company to solve in the market. These companies are generally in
one of the nine subsectors described below and may include robotic surgery companies, virtual and/or telemedicine companies, companies that develop next-generation insurance payment models, drug development companies leveraging artificial
intelligence (AI), digital clinical trial companies, companies that address operational issues within a hospital, and companies that leverage large language model (LLM) AI to develop next best recommendation engines to improve/facilitate the
intake, monitoring, and treatment of a patient. The Advisor’s selection process has four main steps (as further described below): 1) Langar’s HealthTech classification; 2) Langar Rating™; 3) Langar’s HealthTech Industry Risk Score;
and 4) Investment Committee review.
Langar’s HealthTech Classification
The Advisor starts by recategorizing public companies in the healthcare industry as defined by the Standard & Poor’s Global
Industry Classification Standard (“GICS”) to determine the companies that fit into the Advisor’s definition of a HealthTech company. The Advisor defines a “HealthTech Company” as a company that: i) develops technology to create efficiencies in
healthcare by addressing key pain points of patients, providers, payors and/or hospitals; and ii) receives a majority of its revenue from HealthTech products and/or services as reported through filings with the SEC. HealthTech companies can be
grouped into nine subsectors:
Public HealthTech subsector definitions:
Private HealthTech subsector definitions:
Langar Rating™
Companies that meet the Advisor’s definition of a HealthTech Company are then screened using the Langar Rating™. The Langar
Rating™ is a proprietary metric developed by Langar Holdings, Inc. that helps assess a company’s fundamentals relative to its peers by reviewing press releases, publicly available filings, and third-party data analysis. The metric includes an
active assessment of the qualitative and quantitative strength of the company’s business fundamentals through a review of the company’s financial health, any relevant company controversies, whether the company’s products and/or services are
involved in any vice areas, as defined by the Advisor (adult entertainment, alcoholic beverages, oil and gas exploration, cannabis, weapons/small arms, fur and specialty leathers, gambling, predatory lending, riot control, tobacco products and
whale meat), and the strength of the company’s team (i.e., board of directors and management team) and culture (shared values, attitudes, behaviors, and standards that make up a company’s work environment as it relates to a company’s investment
potential) (derived from a subset of Refinitiv’s Environmental, Social, and Governance database). The purpose of the vice screen is to help identify and remove from the potential universe any companies that have and/or could have performance
challenges as a result of controversies and adverse public sentiment regarding their products and/or services or overall company reputation.
Langar’s HealthTech Industry Risk Score
The Advisor then applies the Langar Industry Risk Score™ to assign an industry risk score to each company. The proprietary
algorithm evaluates the healthcare industry risk of the company by defining a quantitative risk and qualitative risk category for each company and weights the company accordingly. The quantitative risk category includes revenue risk (which is
defined as which customer segment contributes to a majority of the company’s revenue) and innovation risk (which evaluates how well a company has protected its intellectual property and whether they are able to generate a gross profit). The
qualitative risk category includes standard of care risk (which analyzes whether a company’s product and/or service has aligned with current clinical practices), and policy risk (which determines if the company’s product and/or service is subject
to state and/or federal policy shifts). The Advisor applies weighting to the portfolio based on the market cap and revenue growth to place more weight on high growth potential companies.
Investment Committee Review
Finally, each company is then reviewed by the Advisor’s Investment Committee, which includes a seasoned team of healthcare and
financial subject matter experts and provides input on the companies presented before the portfolio manager selects the companies to be included in the Fund’s portfolio. However, the Fund’s portfolio manager has complete discretion
over the companies ultimately selected for inclusion in the Fund’s portfolio.
On at least a quarterly basis, the Advisor may rebalance the portfolio to add new securities that meet the criteria discussed
above, change the weighting of securities or remove securities that no longer meet the criteria discussed above. The Advisor may sell securities at any time if the Advisor believes that the company has made a business decision that will negatively
impact its long-term growth. The Fund is classified as “non-diversified” for purposes of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”),
which means a relatively high percentage of the Fund’s assets may be invested in the securities of a limited number of issuers. The Fund will also be concentrated (invest at least 25% of the Fund’s assets) in companies in healthcare industry as
defined by GICS.
As an actively managed ETF that does not seek to replicate the performance of a specified index, the Fund may have a higher
degree of portfolio turnover than funds that seek to replicate the performance of an index.
From time to time the Fund may focus its investments in one or more particular sectors. As of December 31, 2025, the Fund
focused its investments in the medical equipment sector.
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