Emerge EMPWR, Women Run and Sustainable Investment Strategies – Emerge Capital Management – 10.21.22

Overview:
Title: Emerge EMPWR, Women Run and Sustainable Investment Strategies
Date: Friday, October 21, 2022
Time: 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Duration: 1 hour

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Summary:

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Diversity. Sustainability. Performance. The Emerge EMPWR Platform is a proprietary program that highlights experienced women portfolio managers and features a sustainability overlay.

In the United States, female-only fund management teams account for just 2% of all equities, fixed income, and allocation funds. This has decreased from around 6% in 2001. Around 11% of fund managers in the United States are female, a figure that has stayed consistent over the last ten years.

Emerge will be discussing the gap in the asset management industry and the opportunity to participate in EMPWR through multi-manager, large cap dividend, mid cap growth, global equity, and emerging market strategies.

Speakers:
Lisa Langley Lisa Langley President, CEO & Founder Emerge Capital Management

Lisa Langley is the President, CEO & Founder of Emerge. Lisa founded Emerge in January 2016 to provide distribution and marketing support for emerging asset managers. She has over 30 years of investment management industry experience. Prior to founding Emerge, Lisa has worked globally in the financial industry, she worked for over 25 years in Toronto where she was the President & COO of First Asset Advisory Services in Toronto, Canada where she raised over a billion dollars in assets and successfully sold the firm. She then went on to the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) where she was the Vice President of Member Services and following this made her way to Scotland where she was the Managing Director of Global Product Development for Alliance Trust. Lisa landed in Buffalo, NY as the Partner and CCO of Sandhill Investment Management, before founding Emerge. Having served in multiple executive roles in the product development and distribution sectors in the US, Canada, and the UK, Lisa found it was time to take her expertise and start Emerge. Most recently, Lisa was awarded CEO of the Year for financial services in Canada and recognized as the first woman investment fund company owner in Canada.

Lisa graduated from Loyola University Maryland with a BBA in Finance and later received her MBA from the Kellogg Schulich School of Business Executive MBA Program. Lisa is originally from Baltimore, Maryland now resides in Williamsville, NY, and is an active member in her local church community.
Before investing, you should carefully consider the ETF’s investment objectives, strategies, risks, charges and expenses. This and other information are in the prospectus, which may be obtained by visiting www.emergecm.com. Please read the prospectus carefully before you invest.

You could lose money by investing in the Funds. ETF shares are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed or endorsed by, any bank, and are not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board, or any other agency of the U.S. government. The Funds are subject to the principal risks noted below, any of which may adversely affect the Funds’ net asset value (NAV), trading price, yield, total return and ability to meet its investment objective. Unlike many ETFs, the Funds are not index-based ETFs.

The Funds are non-diversified, which means it can invest a greater percentage of its assets in a small group of issuers or any one issuer than a diversified fund can. A change in the value of one or a few issuers’ securities will therefore affect the value of the Fund more than if it was a diversified fund.

ESG Risk. Because the Funds evaluate ESG factors to assess and exclude certain investments for non-financial reasons, the Funds may forego some market opportunities available to funds that do not use these ESG factors. Information used by the Funds to evaluate ESG factors, including data provided by third-party vendors, may not be readily available, complete or accurate, and may vary across providers and issuers and within industries, which could negatively impact the Funds’ ability to apply its methodology and in turn could negatively impact the Funds’ performance. Currently, there is a lack of common industry standards relating to the development and application of ESG criteria which may make it difficult to compare the Funds’ principal investment strategies with the investment strategies of other funds that apply certain ESG criteria or that use a different third-party vendor for ESG data. In addition, the Funds’ assessment of a company may differ from that of other funds or an investor. As a result, the companies deemed eligible for inclusion in the Funds’ portfolios may not reflect the beliefs or values of any particular investor and may not be deemed to exhibit positive or favorable ESG characteristics if different metrics were used to evaluate them. Regulatory changes or interpretations regarding the definitions and/or use of ESG criteria could have a material adverse effect on the Funds’ ability to invest in accordance with its investment policies and/or achieve their investment objective.

These and other risks can be found in the ETFs’ prospectus. The Funds are new funds, with a limited or no operating history and a small asset base. There can be no assurance that the Funds will grow to or maintain a viable size. Due to the Funds’ small asset base, certain of the Funds’ expenses and their portfolio transaction costs may be higher than those of funds with a larger asset base. To the extent that the Funds do not grow to or maintain a viable size, it may be liquidated, and the expenses, timing and tax consequences of such liquidation may not be favorable to some shareholders.

The Funds are distributed by ALPS Distributors, Inc.