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About FT Vest U.S. Equity Enhance & Moderate Buffer ETF - December
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Inception date
Dec 17, 2021
Structure
Open-Ended Fund
Replication method
Synthetic
Dividend treatment
Distributes
Distribution tax treatment
Ordinary income
Income tax type
Capital Gains
Max ST capital gains rate
39.60%
Max LT capital gains rate
20.00%
Primary advisor
First Trust Advisors LP
Distributor
First Trust Portfolios LP
ISIN
US33740U7862
XDEC aims to provide approximately 2x any positive price returns of the S&P 500 ETF with a predetermined cap. The fund uses options in an effort to moderate losses over a one-year period starting each December. Using SPY is slightly different than using S&P 500 Index FLEX options, what is gained in favorable tax treatment may be lost in higher expense. The fund foregoes some upside return on SPY, which is reset annually, in exchange for preventing realization of the first 15% of losses. The upside cap is determined at each reset and will fluctuate, depending on market conditions. Investors who buy shares at any other time than the annual reset day may have a very different protection level and buffer zone. The issuer publishes effective interim levels daily on its website. The fund must be held to the end of the period to achieve the intended results. The targeted buffers and caps do not include the fund's expense ratio. The fund is actively managed and uses FLEX options exclusively.
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Classification
What's in the fund
Exposure type
Rights & Warrants
Bonds, Cash & Other100.00%
Rights & Warrants99.50%
Mutual fund0.50%
Cash0.00%
Top 10 holdings
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Frequently Asked Questions
An exchange-traded fund (ETF) is a collection of assets (stocks, bonds, commodities, etc.) that track an underlying index and can be bought on an exchange like individual stocks.
XDEC assets under management is 188.17 M USD. AUM is an important metric as it reflects the fund's size and can serve as a gauge of how successful the fund is in attracting investors, which, in its turn, can influence decision-making.
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XDEC invests in funds. See more details in our Analysis section.
XDEC expense ratio is 0.85%. It's an important metric for helping traders understand the fund's operating costs relative to assets and how expensive it would be to hold the fund.
Yes, XDEC is a leveraged ETF, meaning it uses borrowings or financial derivatives to magnify the performance of the underlying assets or index it follows.
No, XDEC doesn't pay dividends to its holders.
XDEC shares are issued by AJM Ventures LLC
XDEC follows the No Underlying Index. ETFs usually track some benchmark seeking to replicate its performance and guide asset selection and objectives.
The fund started trading on Dec 17, 2021.
The fund's management style is active, aiming to outperform its benchmark index by actively selecting and adjusting assets. The goal is to achieve returns that exceed those of the index the fund tracks.