HYKE
Vest 2 Year
Interest Rate Hedge ETF

The first targeted ETF seeking to generate capital appreciation from an increase in the 2-year interest rate.

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Why Invest
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Why Invest

Interest rate risk is a profound and ever-present threat to portfolios

Portfolios are continuously exposed to risk resulting from changes in interest rates. If interest rates rise, the value of a bond or other fixed-income investment in the secondary market will decline. Other assets in multi-asset portfolios, such as equities, may also be susceptible to interest rate fluctuations.

In a world where many assets may decline in value when rates rise, Vest 2 Year Interest Rate Hedge ETF (HYKE) provides a much-needed alternative. Structured to benefit from an increase in the 2-year rate, the ETF can be used in a typical portfolio to offset rising interest rates.

Learn how interest rates affect bonds and equities
Interest rate risk is a profound and ever-present threat to portfolios
Portfolios may be unprepared for a new regime of rising interest rates

Interest rates peaked in the early 1980s and declined to nearly zero over the next four decades.

Lulled by declining rates over this long period, many investors did not fully appreciate the risks of interest rate increases. So, the rate hikes that began in 2022 in response to inflation led to broad and sustained declines in portfolio values, revealing investors’ unpreparedness for a rising rate regime. HYKE seeks to remedy this by providing a distinctive tool to counteract rising interest rates.

A new interest rate regime requires new risk management tools

While a broad set of investors may be largely unprepared for interest rate risk, institutional investors have sophisticated tools, including interest rate-linked derivatives, to hedge such risks. In fact, the global market value of interest rate-linked derivatives is bigger than the market for derivatives for all other asset classes, including foreign exchange, equities, credit and commodities, combined.

How interest rates affect bonds and equities

Unfortunately, interest rate hedging solutions have, until recently, largely been out of reach for a broader set of investors. HYKE seeks to change that.

Introducing: Targeted interest rate hedging

HYKE provides access to institutional-style targeted interest rate hedging, with the convenience of a broadly accessible exchange-traded fund (ETF).

How It Works
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How It Works

HYKE seeks to generate capital appreciation from rising 2-year interest rates. The fund is designed to deliver a specific outcome over a calendar quarter (“quarter”):

  • HYKE seeks to deliver positive returns, before any fees and expenses, when the 2-year rate rises; HYKE is expected to experience losses when the 2-year rate falls.
  • The fund will generally seek to limit losses to a maximum loss of 20% (before fees and expenses) over a quarterly period, with the potential upside capped between 5% to 35% (before fees and expenses) over the quarter.

To achieve its investment objective, HYKE invests in options on interest rate swaps, known as “interest rate swaptions.” Each quarter, the fund purchases and sells swaptions to create the downside limits to losses (“floor”) and upside caps to gains (“cap”).

The fund’s strategy seeks to hedge against increases in the 2-year rate, while limiting downside losses and creating the upside cap as described above, if shares are bought on the day on which HYKE enters into these options and held until they expire at the end of the quarter.

Where It Fits
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Where It Fits

HYKE is structured to have a positive sensitivity to the rise in the 2-year rate. This allows it to serve as an alternative to conventional asset classes, which tend to depreciate in a rising rate environment. The fund can fit in four places in an investor’s portfolio:

  • Fixed-income allocation: As an offset to bond duration risks.

  • Equity sleeves: As a hedge against stocks (particularly longer-duration growth stocks) depreciating from rising interest rates.

  • Alternatives: Structurally designed to behave as an alternative to conventional asset classes.

  • Inflation hedge: Since rising interest rates can be triggered by an increase in inflation, in select conditions, HYKE may also be used as a hedge against rising inflation.

HYKE is structured to have a positive sensitivity to the rise in the 2-year rate.
Performance
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Performance

Target Outcome Period Fund Performance
View the fund's performance relative to the 2-year interest rate (represented by the 2-Year Treasury Par Yield Rates from the U.S. Department of the Treasury) over the current and previous outcome periods.
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Outcome Period Values (Current/Net) info
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This tool is for information purposes only. It is not an offer to sell a strategy or an investment product. The charts and/or graphs contained herein are for educational purposes only and should not be used to predict security prices or market levels. Current figures are net of accrued Outcome Period expenses to date. Net figures include Outcome Period expenses yet to be incurred. Fund NAV Total Return and current outcome period values include reinvestment of capital gain distributions, if any, made over the Outcome Period. You should not draw any inferences about remaining cap levels from the current price of the fund and the Outcome Period cap shown. The 2-Year Treasury Par Yield Rates from the U.S. Department of the Treasury are Yields interpolated by the Treasury from the daily par yield curve. This curve, which relates the yield on a security to its time to maturity, is based on the closing market bid prices on the most recently auctioned Treasury securities in the over-the-counter market. These par yields are derived from indicative, bid-side market price quotations (not actual transactions) obtained by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York at or near 3:30 PM each trading day. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will be successful in its strategy to provide protection against declines below a floor in the 2-year rate over a calendar quarter.

The Outcome Period Values (Cap and Floor) are shown both gross and net of fees. The outcome values may only be realized for an investor who holds shares for the entire outcome period. Investors purchasing the fund intra-period will achieve a different target outcome than those who entered on day one.

Standardized fund performance can be found below.

Standardized Fund Performance
Monthly
Quarterly
As of 2024-11-30
Cumulative1 Month3 Month6 MonthYTD1 YearSince Inception
Fund NAV2.54%3.95%-11.34%--7.83%
Fund Market Price2.29%3.97%-11.21%--8.21%

Performance data quoted represents past performance. Past performance is not a guarantee of future results and current performance may be higher or lower than performance quoted. Investment returns and principal value will fluctuate and shares when sold or redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost.

For the most recent month-end performance, please call 855-505-VEST (8378).

The NAV represents the fund's net assets (assets less liabilities) divided by the fund's outstanding shares.

Market Price returns are determined by using the midpoint of the national best bid offer price ("NBBO") as of the time that the fund's NAV is calculated. Returns are average annualized total returns, except those for periods of less than one year, which are cumulative.

Fund shares are purchased and sold on an exchange at their market price rather than net asset value (NAV), which may cause the shares to trade at a price greater than NAV (premium) or less than NAV (discount).

The median bid-ask spread is calculated by identifying the national best bid and national best offer ("NBBO") for the fund as of the end of each 10 second interval during each trading day of the last 30 calendar days and dividing the difference between each such bid and offer by the midpoint of the NBBO. The median of those values is identified and that value is expressed as a percentage rounded to the nearest hundredth.

Inception Date is 1/10/2024.

Distributions
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Distributions

Fund Overview
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Fund Overview

  • Ticker HYKE
  • CUSIP 26922B584
  • Inception Date 01-10-2024
  • Distribution Frequency Quarterly
  • Exchange Cboe
  • 30-Day Median Bid/Ask Spread 0.25
  • Floor & Cap Reset Date 12-31-2024
  • Gross Expense Ratio0.85%
  • NAV as of 12-27-2024$26.94
  • Market Price as of 12-27-2024$27.07
  • Premium/Discount as of 12-27-20240.49
Additional Resources & FAQs
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Additional Resources & FAQs

FAQs

How are the caps set? 

How are the floors set? 

Why are the caps reset after each quarter?​ 

What is duration? 

What are options? 

What is an interest rate derivative? 

What is a financial instrument? 

What is a derivative? 

What is an interest rate swaption? 

What is a swap? 

What is a hedge? 

What is the difference between a 2-year interest rate hedge and a 10-year interest rate hedge? 

Invest in HYKE
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Invest in HYKE

HYKE is open to individual and institutional investors, and can be purchased through a financial professional or in brokerage accounts at leading investment firms. For additional information, call 855-979-6060
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Important Disclosures, Please Read

Investors should consider the investment objectives, potential risks, management fees, and charges and expenses carefully before investing. This and other information is contained in the Fund’s prospectus, which may be obtained online, or by calling 855-505-VEST (8378). Please read the prospectus carefully before investing. Distributed by Quasar Distributors LLC. Member FINRA/SIPC.

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Risk Factors

Investments involve risks. Principal loss is possible. The value of an investment will fluctuate and may be worth more or less than the original investment. There can be no guarantee that the fund will be successful in its strategy to provide a hedge against declines below a floor in the 2-year rate over a quarter.

Swaptions Risk. The Fund will invest in swaptions. A swaption is an option contract that gives the holder the right (but not the obligation) to enter into a swap at a predetermined rate at expiration in exchange for a premium payment. Swaptions enable the Fund to purchase exposure that is significantly greater than the premium paid. Consequently, the value of swaptions can be volatile, and a small investment in swaptions can have a large impact on the performance of the Fund. The Fund risks losing all or part of the cash paid (premium) for purchasing swaptions. Additionally, the value of the option may be lost if the Fund fails to exercise such option at or prior to its expiration.

Interest Rate Swaps Risk. The Fund will invest in interest rate swaps. In an interest rate swap, the Fund and another party exchange their rights to receive interest payments based on a reference interest rate. Because interest rate movements do not always align with projections of a swap counterparty, interest rate swaps are subject to interest rate risk. An interest rate swap could result in losses if the underlying asset or reference does not perform as anticipated.

Counterparty Risk. The risk of loss to the Fund for derivative transactions (such as interest rate swaps or swaptions) that are entered into on a net basis depends on which party is obligated to pay the net amount to the other party. A counterparty may be unwilling or unable to make timely payments to meet its contractual obligations or may fail to return holdings that are subject to the agreement with the counterparty. If the counterparty or its affiliate becomes insolvent or bankrupt, or defaults on its payment obligations to the Fund, the value of an investment held by the Fund may decline.

Capped Upside Return Risk. To the extent that the Fund uses a derivatives instrument to cap the Fund’s return when the 2-year rate increases above a specified level at the end of the calendar quarter, the Fund will not participate in gains beyond the cap. In the event an investor purchases shares after the date on which the Fund enters into such derivative instruments (i.e., at the end of each calendar quarter) and the 2-year rate has risen to a level near to the cap, there may be little or no ability for that investor to experience an investment gain on their shares with respect to the 2-year rate during that quarter.

Floor Loss Risk. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will be successful in its strategy to provide protection against declines below a floor in the 2-year rate over a calendar quarter. The Fund’s strategy seeks to hedge against increases in the 2-year rate, while limiting downside losses from a significant decrease in the 2-year rate, if shares are bought on the day on which the Fund enters into these derivatives and held until they expire at the end of the calendar quarter. In the event an investor purchases shares after the date on which the derivatives were entered into and the Fund has already increased in value, then the investor may experience losses prior to gaining the protection offered by the floor, which is not guaranteed. The Fund does not provide principal protection, and an investor may experience significant losses on its investment, including the loss of its entire investment.

New Fund Risk. The Fund is recently organized with no operating history or track record on which prospective investors can base their investment decision.

ETF Risk. ETFs may trade at a premium or discount to NAV. Shares of any ETF are bought and sold at market prices (not NAV) and are not individually redeemed from the Fund. Brokerage commissions will reduce returns.

Please see the prospectus for more information regarding these and other risks associated with the Fund.

Vest Financial LLC is an investment advisory firm registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Registration does not imply a certain level of skill or training. Vest Financial LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Vest Group Inc. Vest offers institutional-quality Target Outcome Investments(R) built on the backbone of its unique investment philosophy—that strive to buffer losses, amplify gains or provide consistent income — to a diverse spectrum of investors.

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