Investment Objective
The AlphaShares China 50 Portfolio, Series 1 ("Trust") seeks to maximize total return through capital appreciation.
PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGY
The Sponsor, with the assistance of AlphaShares, LLC (“AlphaShares”), has selected a diversified list of the largest companies in China that offers investors the possibility of risk-controlled, liquid exposure to China’s potential economic growth. AlphaShares believes that these companies, which include some of the largest companies in the world, are most likely to benefit from economic growth in China. Many economists believe China will shortly become the second-largest economy in the world, behind only the United States. AlphaShares believes that U.S. investors are, on average, greatly underexposed to investments in China. Considering that China has become, and will continue to be, one of the principal drivers of global economic growth for the 21st century, AlphaShares believes investors should increase their exposure to China beyond the 2% weight that it carries in certain broad global equity indexes.
The Sponsor has selected AlphaShares to serve as the Trust’s portfolio consultant. The portfolio consultant is responsible for assisting the Sponsor with the selection of the Trust portfolio and providing ongoing support related to the securities in the portfolio.
As with any similar investments, there can be no guarantee that the objective of the Trust will be achieved. Additionally, there is no guarantee that the Chinese market or individual securities of Chinese companies will perform well or that the trust will replicate the future performance of the Chinese market as a whole. See “Investment Risks” in Part A of the prospectus for a discussion of the risks of investing in the Trust.