| Family: | Flexshares (Northern Trust) |
| Name: | FlexShares Quality Dividend Defensive Index Fund |
| Inception Date: | 14-Dec-2012 |
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| Investment Objective: | QDEF seeks to provide exposure to the long-term growth potential of U.S. securities while providing dividend payments. It is intended as a core stock market option that also helps investors try to meet their income needs. The strategy applies a proprietary scoring model approach that determines a "quality factor" and an optimization process that seeks to maximize this factor, target a beta lower than the Parent Index (Northern Trust 1250) and improve on the Parent Indexs dividend yiel |
| Prospectus | |
| Top 10 Holdings | ||
| APPLE INC COMMON STOCK USD 0.00001 | AAPL | 9.0982% |
| NVIDIA CORP COMMON STOCK USD 0.001 | NVDA | 7.2718% |
| MICROSOFT CORP COMMON STOCK USD 0.00000625 | MSFT | 4.4806% |
| JOHNSON & JOHNSON COMMON STOCK USD 1 | JNJ | 2.9246% |
| BROADCOM INC COMMON STOCK USD | 0YXG | 2.6875% |
| ALPHABET INC-CL A - COMMON STOCK USD 0.001 | GOOGL | 2.3609% |
| PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL INC COMMON STOCK USD 0 | PM | 2.1096% |
| JPMORGAN CHASE & CO COMMON STOCK USD 1 | JPM | 2.0193% |
| ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | LLY | 1.8954% |
| ALPHABET INC-CL C - COMMON STOCK USD 0.001 | GOOG | 1.8840% |
| Top 10 Holdings Weight: | 36.7% |
| Number of Holdings: | 158 |
| Shares Outstanding: | 6,100,001 |
| Total Net Assets: | 545,492,608 |
| NAV: | 89.48 |
| Net Expense Ratio: | 0.39% |
| Asset Class: | Equities (Stocks) |
| Developed or Emerging: | Developed Market Funds |
| Country: | US |
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| Dividend Type: | Dividend - High Yield |
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| Market Cap: | Large Cap |
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| Is Currency Hedged: | No |
| US or Ex-US: | Domestic |
