The fund seeks long-term capital appreciation. The fund will employ long and short positions in derivatives, primarily futures contracts and forward contracts, across the broad asset classes of equities, fixed income, currencies and commodities.
Mr. Andrew Beer is the founder and a Managing Member of DBi where he serves as Co-Portfolio Manager of the Firm’s investment strategies.
Andrew has been in the hedge fund business since 1994, when he joined the Baupost Group, Inc., one of the world’s premier hedge fund firms. In 2003, Andrew was a co-founder of and, through a family investment company, the lead initial investor in Pinnacle Asset Management and related entities, a leading commodity investment firm and recipient of numerous industry awards. Andrew was also a founder of Apex Capital Management, one of the earliest hedge funds focused on the Greater China. crisis. Earlier in his career, Andrew was a mergers and acquisitions investment banker at James D. Wolfensohn Inc.
Andrew is a frequent speaker on hedge fund investment strategies and industry dynamics and is an active contributor to various industry publications. Additionally, he is the co-founder and former lead trustee of the Pierrepont School, an innovative co-educational private school in Westport, Connecticut. Mr. Beer formerly was a member of the Board of Directors of the US Fund for UNICEF. He received his Master of Business Administration degree, as a Baker Scholar, from Harvard Business School and his Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard College.
Mr. Mamou-Mani is a Managing Member at DBi where he is a Co-Portfolio Manager, Head of Risk and Member of the Managing Board.
From 2001 to 2006, Mr. Mamou-Mani worked as an IT Consultant/Project manager to develop complex IT systems for the French Ministry of Defense, France Telecom and Lafarge. He also founded GMB1 an internet company specialized in the sports industry.
Mathias holds a Master of Business Administration from the NYU Stern School of Business, with a specialization in Quantitative Finance, and Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from the University of Paris Dauph ine, France.
Mr. Andrew Beer is the founder and a Managing Member of DBi where he serves as Co-Portfolio Manager of the Firm’s investment strategies.
Andrew has been in the hedge fund business since 1994, when he joined the Baupost Group, Inc., one of the world’s premier hedge fund firms. In 2003, Andrew was a co-founder of and, through a family investment company, the lead initial investor in Pinnacle Asset Management and related entities, a leading commodity investment firm and recipient of numerous industry awards. Andrew was also a founder of Apex Capital Management, one of the earliest hedge funds focused on the Greater China. crisis. Earlier in his career, Andrew was a mergers and acquisitions investment banker at James D. Wolfensohn Inc.
Andrew is a frequent speaker on hedge fund investment strategies and industry dynamics and is an active contributor to various industry publications. Additionally, he is the co-founder and former lead trustee of the Pierrepont School, an innovative co-educational private school in Westport, Connecticut. Mr. Beer formerly was a member of the Board of Directors of the US Fund for UNICEF. He received his Master of Business Administration degree, as a Baker Scholar, from Harvard Business School and his Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard College.
Mr. Mamou-Mani is a Managing Member at DBi where he is a Co-Portfolio Manager, Head of Risk and Member of the Managing Board.
From 2001 to 2006, Mr. Mamou-Mani worked as an IT Consultant/Project manager to develop complex IT systems for the French Ministry of Defense, France Telecom and Lafarge. He also founded GMB1 an internet company specialized in the sports industry.
Mathias holds a Master of Business Administration from the NYU Stern School of Business, with a specialization in Quantitative Finance, and Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from the University of Paris Dauph ine, France.
The New-York based team of DBi has over a decade of proprietary research into the drivers of hedge fund performance. The firm is an innovator in the liquid alternative space with its first factor based product launched in May 2007.
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The value of a hypothetical $10,000 investment in the iMGP DBi Managed Futures ETF compared with the Bloomberg US Aggregate Bond Index, SG CTA Index and Morningstar Systematic Trend Category.
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All of the assets and liabilities of the Predecessor Fund were transferred to the Fund in a reorganization on 09/20/2021.
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SG CTA Index:
The SG CTA Index is an index published by Société Générale that is designed to reflect the performance of a pool of Commodity Trading Advisor (CTAs) selected from larger managers that employ systematic managed futures strategies. The index is reconstituted annually.
Fund holdings and/or sector allocations are subject to change at any time and are not recommendations to buy or sell any security.
During the quarter, DBMF gained 5.64% at NAV and 5.70% at market price versus the SG CTA Index benchmark’s loss of 2.22%. In this quarter the Japanese yen was the top contributor to performance. MORE
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iMGP DBi Managed Futures Strategy ETF Risks: Investing involves risk. Principal loss is possible.
Leverage may cause the effect of an increase or decrease in the value of the portfolio securities to be magnified and the fund to be more volatile than if leverage was not used.
The Fund should be considered highly leveraged and is suitable only for investors with high tolerance for investment risk. Futures contracts and forward contracts can be highly volatile, illiquid and difficult to value, and changes in the value of such instruments held directly or indirectly by the Fund may not correlate with the underlying instrument or reference assets, or the Fund’s other investments. Derivative instruments and futures contracts are subject to occasional rapid and substantial fluctuations. Taking a short position on a derivative instrument or security involves the risk of a theoretically unlimited increase in the value of the underlying instrument. Exposure to the commodities markets may subject the Fund to greater volatility than investments in traditional securities. Exposure to foreign currencies subjects the Fund to the risk that those currencies will change in value relative to the U.S. Dollar. By investing in the Subsidiary, the Fund is indirectly exposed to the risks associated with the Subsidiary’s investments. Fixed income securities, or derivatives based on fixed income securities, are subject to credit risk and interest rate risk.
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