Performance Overview:
During the fiscal period, SFYF generated a total return of 7.85% (NAV) and 7.26% (Market). This compares to the 7.76% total return of the SFYF Index for the same period, and the 16.39% total return of the benchmark, the S&P 500® Total Return Index.
From a sector perspective, based on performance attribution to the overall portfolio, Communication Services, Energy, and Consumer Staples were the leading contributors, while Health Care, Consumer Discretionary, and Industrials were the leading detractors.
Reviewing individual stocks based on performance attribution to the overall portfolio, leading contributors included AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc., Apple, Inc., and NVIDIA Corp. Conversely, the leading detractors included NIO, Inc., Palantir Technologies, Inc. and Block Inc. (Square).
The SoFi Gig Economy ETF
The SoFi Gig Economy ETF (“GIGE”) is an actively-managed ETF that seeks to achieve its investment objective primarily by investing in a portfolio of companies listed around the world that GIGE’s investment adviser considers part of the “gig economy”.
Fund Description:
The “gig economy” refers to the group of companies that have embraced, that support, or that otherwise benefit from a workforce where individual employees or independent contractors are empowered to create their own freelance business by leveraging recent developments in technology platforms that enable individuals to offer their services directly to retail and commercial customers. Examples of gig economy businesses include selling or reselling products through auction platforms or web-based stores and offering delivery services through an app-based platform.
The investment management team behind the strategy seeks investments in underlying companies that
•drive the overall gig economy universe,
•transform the way our economy transacts goods and services,
•modify how work gets done, and
•embraces the work from home economy.
These companies are broken up into categories, seeking direct participants, direct & indirect supportive gig economy businesses, companies that help facilitate processes within the gig economy, and any other ancillary benefiting companies because of the gig economy. These companies are put into a multi-tiered process based on their growth prospects within the gig economy and managed to allow for necessary concentration to generate alpha but not overconcentration which may cause significant volatility. The team actively rebalances the portfolio frequently, as such a new industry classification, GIGE can experience large individual position volatility and new issuances can occur frequently.
Performance Overview:
During the fiscal period, GIGE generated a total return of -44.32% (NAV) and -44.54% (Market). This compares to the 11.06% return of the Nasdaq-100® Total Return Index, and the 16.39% return of the benchmark, the S&P 500® Total Return Index, over the same period.
From a sector perspective, based on performance attribution to the overall portfolio, Health Care, Real Estate, and Financials were the largest contributors, while Consumer Discretionary and Communication Services detracted the most.
Reviewing individual stocks based on performance attribution to the overall portfolio, leading contributors included LendingClub Corp., Tesla, Inc., and Microsoft Corp. Conversely, the leading detractors included Huya Inc., Pinduoduo, Inc., and Fiverr International Ltd.
The SoFi Weekly Income ETF
The SoFi Weekly Income ETF (“TGIF”) is an actively-managed ETF that seeks to achieve weekly income by investing in investment grade and high-yield fixed income securities. TGIF expects to distribute income on Fridays. TGIF is actively managed by Income Research + Management (“IR + M”), TGIF’s sub-adviser, a value-oriented fixed income manager with over 30 years of experience. The Fund targets a duration of less than 3 years, with the goal to reduce interest rate risk relative to longer dated bonds. TGIF does not seek to replicate the performance of a specified index.