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Family: First Trust
Name: First Trust Long/Short Equity ETF
Inception Date: 8-Sep-2014
Termination Date:
Investment Objective: The Funds investment objective is to seek to provide investors with long term total return. The Fund intends to pursue its investment objective by establishing long and short positions in a portfolio of Equity Securities. The fund will seek to systematically provide long exposure to high quality earnings stocks and short exposure to lower quality earnings stocks. The fund may invest up to 20% of its net assets (plus the amount of any borrowing for investment purposes) in U.S. exchange-listed equity index futures contracts. These futures contracts will be used to gain long or short exposure to broad based equity indexes.
Prospectus
Top 10 Holdings
US Dollar 36.7453%
S&P500 EMINI FUT Jun24 ESM4 -5.9029%
Microsoft Corporation MSFT 4.3452%
E-Mini Russ 2000 Jun24 RTYM4 -3.8236%
NVIDIA Corporation NVDA 3.6628%
Apple Inc. AAPL 3.5492%
Amazon.com Inc. AMZN 2.2870%
Citigroup Inc. C 2.2093%
Starbucks Corporation SBUX 1.9590%
AbbVie Inc. ABBV 1.8892%
Top 10 Holdings Weight: 46.9%
Number of Holdings: 545
Shares Outstanding: 19,350,002
Total Net Assets: 1,155,582,000
NAV: 59.55
Net Expense Ratio: 1.46%
Asset Class: Equities (Stocks)
Developed or Emerging: Funds Combining Developed & Emerging Exposure
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Strategy: Long-Short strategy
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Market Cap: Broad Market / Multi-Cap
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Is Currency Hedged: No
US or Ex-US: Global