Investment Objective: |
The Coastal Compass 100 ETF is an actively-managed fund that invests primarily in common stocks, but may at times seek to provide downside protection by investing up to 100% of the Fund's assets into cash or cash equivalents, depending on market conditions. Coastal Equity Management, LLC, the Fund's sub-adviser (the "Sub-Adviser") uses a trend following approach that seeks to participate in upward trends in U.S. equity markets while providing downside protection. Trend following, sometimes referred to as absolute momentum, is an investing approach that compares the price of a security to its own price trend, with the expectation that upward trending securities will continue their upward move in the future. The investment universe is exclusively comprised of the 100 largest U.S. equity securities (by market capitalization) that are listed on a U.S. exchange. The Sub-Adviser seeks to identify companies with a history of paying dividends or have the ability to increase dividends in the future and selects approximately 25 to 50 securities for inclusion in the Fund's portfolio. The fund selects high quality companies that, have positive absolute momentum, attractive dividend yields, strong balance sheets, and reasonable valuations. |