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Global
X Millennial Consumer ETF
NASDAQ:
MILN |
Global
X Video Games & Esports ETF
NASDAQ:
HERO |
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Global
X Aging Population ETF
NASDAQ:
AGNG |
Global
X HealthTech ETF
NASDAQ:
HEAL |
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Global
X FinTech ETF
NASDAQ:
FINX |
Global
X ClimateTech ETF (formerly
known as the Global X CleanTech ETF)
NASDAQ:
CTEC |
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Global
X Internet of Things ETF
NASDAQ:
SNSR |
Global
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NASDAQ:
DTCR |
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Global
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NASDAQ:
BOTZ |
Global
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NASDAQ:
AQWA |
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Global
X U.S. Infrastructure Development ETF
Cboe
BZX: PAVE |
Global
X AgTech & Food Innovation ETF
NASDAQ:
KROP |
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Global
X Autonomous & Electric Vehicles ETF
NASDAQ:
DRIV |
Global
X Blockchain ETF
NASDAQ:
BKCH |
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Global
X Artificial Intelligence & Technology ETF
NASDAQ:
AIQ |
Global
X Hydrogen ETF
NASDAQ:
HYDR |
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Global
X Genomics & Biotechnology ETF
NASDAQ:
GNOM |
Global
X Defense Tech ETF
NYSE
Arca: SHLD |
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Global
X Cloud Computing ETF
NASDAQ:
CLOU |
Global
X Infrastructure Development ex-U.S. ETF
Cboe
BZX: IPAV |
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Global
X Cybersecurity ETF
NASDAQ:
BUG |
Global
X AI Semiconductor & Quantum ETF
NASDAQ:
CHPX |
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Global
X Dorsey Wright Thematic ETF
NASDAQ:
GXDW |
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Prospectus
April 1,
2026
The
Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") has not approved or disapproved these
securities or passed upon the adequacy of this Prospectus. Any representation to
the contrary is a criminal offense.
Shares
in a Fund (defined below) are not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation or any other agency of the U.S. Government, nor are shares
deposits or obligations of any bank. Such shares in a Fund involve investment
risks, including the loss of principal.
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
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| FUND
SUMMARIES |
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| ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION ABOUT THE FUNDS |
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| A
FURTHER DISCUSSION OF PRINCIPAL RISKS |
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| A
FURTHER DISCUSSION OF OTHER RISKS |
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| PORTFOLIO
HOLDINGS INFORMATION |
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| FUND
MANAGEMENT |
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| DISTRIBUTOR |
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| BUYING
AND SELLING FUND SHARES |
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| FREQUENT
TRADING |
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| DISTRIBUTION
AND SERVICES PLAN |
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| DIVIDENDS
AND DISTRIBUTIONS |
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| INVESTMENTS
BY INVESTMENT COMPANIES |
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| TAXES |
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| DETERMINATION
OF NET ASSET VALUE |
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| PREMIUM/DISCOUNT
AND SHARE INFORMATION |
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| TOTAL
RETURN INFORMATION |
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| INFORMATION
REGARDING THE INDICES AND THE INDEX PROVIDERS |
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| OTHER
SERVICE PROVIDERS |
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| ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION |
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| FINANCIAL
HIGHLIGHTS |
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| OTHER
INFORMATION |
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FUND
SUMMARIES
Global X Millennial
Consumer ETF
Ticker:
MILN Exchange: NASDAQ
INVESTMENT
OBJECTIVE
The
Global X Millennial Consumer ETF ("Fund") seeks to provide investment results
that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and
expenses, of the Indxx Millennials Thematic Index ("Underlying
Index").
FEES AND
EXPENSES
This
table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and
sell shares (“Shares”) of the Fund. You
may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial
intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and examples
below.
Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment):
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Management
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0.50% |
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Distribution
and Service (12b-1) Fees: |
None |
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Other
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0.00% |
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Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses: |
0.50% |
Example:
The following example
is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost
of investing in other funds. This example does not take into account customary
brokerage commissions that you pay when purchasing or selling Shares of the Fund
in the secondary market. The example assumes
that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then hold
or sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes
that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating
expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower,
based on these assumptions, your costs would be:
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One
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Three
Years |
Five
Years |
Ten
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$160 |
$280 |
$628 |
Portfolio
Turnover:
The Fund pays transaction
costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over"
its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction
costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account.
These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the
example, affect the Fund's performance. For the most recent fiscal period, the
Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 11.35% of the average value of its
portfolio.
PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT
STRATEGIES
The Fund
invests more than 80% of its total assets in the securities of the Indxx
Millennials Thematic Index ("Underlying Index"). The Fund's 80% investment
policy is non-fundamental and requires 60 days prior written notice to
shareholders before it can be changed. The Fund may lend
securities representing up to one-third of the value of the Fund’s total assets
(including the value of the collateral received).
The
Underlying Index is designed to measure the performance of U.S. listed companies
that provide exposure to the millennial generation consumption trends,
(collectively, "Millennial Companies"), as defined by Indxx, LLC, the provider
of the Underlying Index ("Index Provider"). The millennial generation refers to
the demographic in the U.S. with birth years ranging from 1980 to 2000.
The
eligible universe of the Underlying Index includes the most liquid and
investable companies in accordance with the standard market capitalization and
liquidity criteria associated with developed markets, as defined by the Index
Provider. As of January 31, 2026, companies must have a minimum market
capitalization of $500 million and a minimum average daily turnover for the last
6 months (or since the IPO launch date for Significant IPOs as defined by the
Index Provider or 3 months, in the case of other IPOs) greater than or equal to
$2 million in order to be eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index. The
Underlying Index only includes companies listed in the United States. The
Underlying Index is developed using a proprietary, multi-step research process
to identify Millennial Companies. First, the Index Provider conducts fundamental
research on trends
related
to the millennial generation, including but not limited to: consumer spending
data, consumer behavior, technology and demographics. Based on this analysis,
the Index Provider determines key categories that appear to be most reflective
of how individuals from the millennial generation spend their time and money
(collectively, "Spending Categories"). As of January 31, 2026, the Index
Provider has identified the following eight key Spending Categories for
millennials: (1) Social and Entertainment, (2) Clothing and Apparel, (3) Travel
and Mobility, (4) Food/Restaurants and Consumer Staples, (5) Financial Services
and Investments, (6) Housing and Home Goods, (7) Education and Employment, and
(8) Health and Fitness. These Spending Categories may change over time, as
determined by the Index Provider.
After
establishing these Spending Categories, the Index Provider uses a variety of
sources - including, but not limited to: industry reports, investment research
and financial statements published by companies - to identify companies with
significant exposure to these Spending Categories. A company is determined to
have significant exposure to the Spending Categories if (i) it derives a
significant portion of its revenue from the Spending Categories, or (ii) it has
stated its primary business to be in products and services focused on the
Spending Categories, as determined by the Index Provider. The companies
identified at this stage are then considered for further analysis, which
ultimately determines their eligibility for inclusion in the Underlying
Index.
In
the final step of the selection process, the Index Provider conducts a composite
analysis on the remaining companies to identify Millennial Companies within each
of the Spending Categories. As part of this process, the Index Provider utilizes
the fundamental research it has conducted on trends related to the millennial
generation in order to evaluate companies based on quantitative and qualitative
criteria that have been identified as being consistent with millennial
demographics and consumer preferences. As of January 31, 2026, some
examples of the criteria used in the evaluation process include but are not
limited to: E-commerce, social and professional networks, digital media
streaming services, athletic and outdoor apparel, multi-family apartments, and
peer reviews/recommendations. The Index Provider then scores the companies based
on these criteria to determine the companies that are most reflective of
Millennial Companies within each Spending Category. These criteria will vary by
Spending Category and are subject to evaluation by the Index Provider on an
annual basis. A minimum of five and a maximum of fifteen companies from each
Spending Category are included in the Underlying Index, primarily based on their
score in the composite analysis conducted by the Index Provider.
The
Underlying Index is weighted according to a modified capitalization weighting
methodology and is reconstituted and rebalanced annually. The Underlying Index
may include large-, mid- or small-capitalization companies, and components
primarily include consumer discretionary, consumer staples, information
technology and financial services companies as well as real estate investment
trusts ("REITs"). The Fund's investment objective and Underlying Index may be
changed without shareholder approval.
The
Underlying Index is sponsored by the Index Provider, which is an organization
that is independent of, and unaffiliated with, the Fund and Global X Management
Company LLC, the investment adviser for the Fund ("Adviser"). The Index Provider
determines the relative weightings of the securities in the Underlying Index and
publishes information regarding the market value of the Underlying
Index.
The
Adviser uses an indexing approach to try to achieve the Fund's investment
objective. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not try to outperform
the Underlying Index and does not seek temporary defensive positions when
markets decline or appear overvalued.
The
Fund generally will use a replication strategy. A replication strategy is an
indexing strategy that involves investing in the securities of the Underlying
Index in approximately the same proportions as in the Underlying Index. However,
the Fund may utilize a representative sampling strategy with respect to the
Underlying Index when a replication strategy might be detrimental or
disadvantageous to shareholders, such as when there are practical difficulties
or substantial costs involved in compiling a portfolio of equity securities to
replicate the Underlying Index, in instances in which a security in the
Underlying Index becomes temporarily illiquid, unavailable or less liquid, or as
a result of legal restrictions or limitations (such as tax diversification
requirements) that apply to the Fund but not the Underlying Index.
The
Adviser expects that, over time, the correlation between the Fund's performance
and that of the Underlying Index, before fees and expenses, will exceed 95%. A
correlation percentage of 100% would indicate perfect correlation. If the Fund
uses a replication strategy, it can be expected to have greater correlation to
the Underlying Index than if it uses a representative sampling
strategy.
The Fund
concentrates its investments (i.e., holds 25% or more of its total assets) in a
particular industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent that
the Underlying Index is concentrated. As of January 31, 2026, the
Underlying Index had significant exposure to the consumer discretionary
sector.
SUMMARY
OF PRINCIPAL RISKS
As with any
investment, you could lose all or part of your investment in the Fund, and the
Fund’s performance could trail that of other investments. There
is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its investment objective.
An investment in the Fund is not a bank deposit and it is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other
government agency, the Adviser or any of its affiliates. The
Fund is subject to the principal risks noted below, any of which may adversely
affect the Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”), trading price, yield, total return
and ability to meet its investment objective, as well as other risks that are
described in greater detail in the Additional
Information About the Funds
section of this Prospectus and in the Statement of Additional Information
(“SAI”).
Asset
Class Risk:
Securities and other assets in the Underlying Index or otherwise held in the
Fund's portfolio may underperform in comparison to the general securities
markets, a particular securities market or other asset classes.
Depositary
Receipts Risk: The
Fund may invest in depositary receipts, such as ADRs and GDRs. Depositary
receipts are receipts listed on U.S. or foreign exchanges issued by banks or
trust companies that entitle the holder to all dividends and capital gains that
are paid out on the underlying foreign shares. Depositary receipts are generally
subject to the same risks associated with direct investments in the securities
of foreign companies. A holder of depositary receipts may also be subject to
fees and the credit risk of the financial institution acting as depositary.
Unsponsored depositary receipts may involve higher expenses, fewer shareholder
rights, and may be less liquid.
Equity
Securities Risk: Equity securities are subject to changes in value, and their values
may be more volatile than other asset classes, as a result of a company’s
business performance, investor perceptions, stock market trends and general
economic conditions.
Real
Estate Stocks and Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) Investment
Risk:
The Fund may have exposure to companies that invest in real estate, such as
REITs, which expose investors in the Fund to the risks of owning real estate
directly, as well as to risks that relate specifically to the way in which real
estate companies are organized and operated. Real estate is highly sensitive to
general and local economic conditions and developments and characterized by
intense competition and periodic overbuilding. Many real estate companies,
including REITs, utilize leverage (and some may be highly leveraged), which
increases risk and could adversely affect a real estate company's operations and
market value in periods of rising interest rates. Real estate stocks and REITs
may also be adversely impacted by natural or environmental disasters, such as
earthquakes, fires, floods, hurricanes, tsunamis, and other severe
weather-related phenomena.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Millennial Companies:
The Fund invests in
millennial companies, including companies involved in producing or
distributing clothing and apparel, food (including restaurants), and consumer
staples, as well as companies involved in the provision of social networks and
social media, digital media, live events and entertainment, travel and
transportation services, financial services and investments, housing and housing
services and educational services. Millennial companies may be affected by
changes in consumers’ disposable income, consumer preferences, social trends and
marketing campaigns. Millennial companies generally face a high degree of
competition and potentially rapid product obsolescence. The customers and/or
suppliers of millennial companies may be concentrated in a particular country,
region or industry. Any adverse event affecting one of these countries, regions
or industries could have a negative impact on millennial companies. Millennial
companies may participate in monopolistic practices that could make them subject
to higher levels of regulatory scrutiny and/or potential break ups in the
future, which could severely impact the viability of these
companies.
Capitalization
Risk:
Investing in issuers within the same market capitalization category carries the
risk that the category may be out of favor due to current market conditions or
investor sentiment.
Large-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Large-capitalization
companies may adapt more slowly to new competitive challenges and changing
market conditions than smaller capitalization companies. In addition,
large-capitalization companies may be more mature and subject to more limited
growth potential and consequently may underperform other segments of the equity
market or the market as a whole.
Mid-Capitalization
Companies Risk:
Mid-capitalization companies may have greater price volatility, lower trading
volume and less liquidity than large-capitalization companies. In addition,
mid-capitalization companies may have smaller revenues, narrower product lines,
less management depth and experience, smaller shares of their product or service
markets, fewer financial resources and less competitive strength than
large-capitalization companies. These securities may have returns that vary,
sometimes significantly, from the overall securities
market.
Cybersecurity
Risk: With the increased use of technologies such as the Internet to
conduct business, the Fund, like all companies, may be susceptible to
operational, information security and related risks. Cybersecurity incidents
involving the Fund and its service providers (including, without limitation, the
Adviser, fund accountant, custodian, transfer agent and financial
intermediaries) have the ability to cause disruptions and impact business
operations, potentially resulting in financial losses, impediments to trading,
the inability of Fund shareholders to transact business, violations of
applicable privacy and other laws, regulatory fines, penalties, reputational
damage, reimbursement or other compensation costs, and/or additional compliance
costs.
Focus
Risk:
The Fund may from time to time have a significant amount of its assets invested
in a particular industry, group of industries, or one or more sectors to
approximately the same extent that the Underlying Index focuses in investments
related to a particular industry, group of industries, and/or one or more
sectors. In such event, the Fund’s performance will depend to a greater extent
on the overall condition of such industry(ies) or sector(s), and an economic,
business, political, regulatory, or other occurrence affecting such
industry(ies) or sector(s) will have an increased impact on the value of the
Fund’s shares compared to the value of shares of a fund that invests in a
broader range of industries or sectors.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Consumer Discretionary Sector: The
consumer discretionary sector may be affected by changes in domestic and
international economies, exchange and interest rates, inflation, competition,
consumers’ disposable income and consumer preferences, social trends and
marketing campaigns.
Foreign
Securities Risk: Investments
in foreign securities can be riskier than U.S. securities investments.
Investments in the securities of foreign issuers (including investments in
American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) and Global Depositary Receipts (“GDRs”))
are subject to additional risks, including lower levels of liquidity and market
efficiency; greater securities price volatility; exchange rate fluctuations and
exchange controls; less availability of public information about issuers;
limitations on foreign ownership of securities; imposition of withholding or
other taxes; imposition of restrictions on the expatriation of the assets of the
Fund; restrictions placed on U.S. investors by U.S. regulations governing
foreign investments; higher transaction and custody costs and delays in
settlement procedures; difficulties in enforcing contractual obligations; lower
levels of regulation of the securities market; weaker accounting, disclosure and
reporting requirements; and legal principles relating to corporate governance
and directors’ fiduciary duties and liabilities. The countries in which the Fund
invests may also be subject to structural risks, including economic, political
and social instability. Additionally, certain securities held by the Fund, while
traded on U.S. exchanges, may be issued by foreign financial institutions and as
such, may be subject to the risks of investing in securities issued by foreign
companies, which may not be subject to the same regulations as companies
domiciled in the U.S. Where all or a portion of the Fund's securities trade in a
market that is closed when the market in which the Fund's Shares are listed and
trading is open, there may be differences between the last quote from the
security’s closed foreign market and the value of the security during the Fund’s
domestic trading day. This, in turn, could lead to differences between the
market price of the Fund’s Shares and the underlying value of those
shares.
Geographic
Risk: The
Fund’s investments in securities of issuers located in a particular country or
geographic region may subject the Fund to certain risks to a greater extent than
if its investments were less focused, including: natural, biological or other
disasters and the spread of infectious diseases; economic, political and social
instability; security concerns; and trade disputes with key trading partners.
The securities in which the Fund invests and, consequently, the Fund is also
subject to specific risks as a result of their business operations in a
particular country or region, including, but not limited to:
Risk
of Investing in Developed Markets: Investments in a developed country’s issuer may subject the Fund to
legal, regulatory, political, currency, security, and economic risks specific to
developed countries. Developed countries tend to represent a significant portion
of the global economy and have generally experienced slower economic growth than
some less developed countries. Certain developed countries have experienced
security concerns, such as war, terrorism and strained international relations.
Incidents involving a country’s or region’s security may cause uncertainty in
its markets and may adversely affect its economy and the Fund’s investments. In
addition, developed countries may be adversely impacted by changes to the
economic conditions of certain key trading partners, regulatory burdens, debt
burdens and the price or availability of certain commodities.
Risk
of Investing in the United States: Investments in United States issuers
may subject the Fund to legal, regulatory, political, currency, security, and
economic risks specific to the United States. A decrease in imports or exports,
changes in trade regulations, inflation and/or an economic recession in the U.S.
may have a material adverse effect on the U.S.
economy.
Indexing
Strategy Risk:
The Fund is not actively managed, and the Adviser does not attempt to take
defensive positions in declining markets. Unlike many investment companies, the
Fund does not seek to outperform its Underlying Index. Therefore,
it
would not necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or
removed, respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security
generally is underperforming. Additionally, if a constituent of the Underlying
Index were removed, even outside of a regular rebalance of the Underlying Index,
the Adviser anticipates that the Fund would sell such security. Maintaining
investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of
individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund
employed an active strategy.
Index-Related
Risk: There is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve a high degree of
correlation to the Underlying Index and therefore achieve its investment
objective. Market disruptions and regulatory restrictions could have an adverse
effect on the Fund’s ability to adjust its exposure to the required levels in
order to track the Underlying Index. Errors in index data, index computations
and/or the construction of the Underlying Index in accordance with its
methodology may occur from time to time and may not be identified and corrected
by the Index Provider for a period of time or at all, which may have an adverse
impact on the Fund and its shareholders.
Management
Risk: The Fund may not fully replicate its Underlying Index and may hold
securities not included in its Underlying Index. The Adviser’s investment
strategy, the implementation of which is subject to a number of constraints, may
cause the Fund to underperform the market or its relevant benchmark or adversely
affect the ability of the Fund to achieve its investment
objective.
Tracking
Error Risk: Tracking error may occur because of
differences between the instruments held in the Fund's portfolio and those
included in the Underlying Index, pricing differences, transaction costs
incurred by the Fund, the Fund's holding of uninvested cash, size of the Fund,
differences in timing of the accrual of or the valuation of dividends or
interest, tax gains or losses, changes to the Underlying Index or the costs to
the Fund of complying with various new or existing regulatory requirements. This
risk may be heightened during times of increased market volatility or other
unusual market conditions. Tracking error also may result because the Fund
incurs fees and expenses, while the Underlying Index does
not.
Issuer
Risk: Fund performance depends on the performance of individual companies
in which the Fund invests. Changes to the financial condition of any of those
companies may cause the value of such company's securities to
decline.
Market
Risk: Turbulence in the financial markets and reduced liquidity may
negatively affect issuers, which could have an adverse effect on the Fund and
its investments. The Fund’s NAV could decline over short periods due to
short-term market movements and over longer periods during market downturns.
Trade policy, including the imposition of tariffs, may dampen consumer spending
and result in decreased confidence in the markets. Additionally, political
uncertainty regarding U.S. policy, including the U.S. government’s approach to
trade, may also impact the markets. Furthermore, local, regional or global
events such as war, acts of terrorism, the spread of infectious diseases,
inflation and recessions, changes in interest or exchange rates, or other events
could have a significant impact on the Fund and its investments and trading of
its Shares. Market risk factors may result in increased volatility and/or
decreased liquidity in the securities markets.
Operational
Risk: The Fund is exposed to operational risk arising from a number of
factors, including but not limited to human error, processing and communication
errors, errors of the Fund's service providers, counterparties or other
third-parties, failed or inadequate processes, cyber security incidents, and
technology or systems failures. The Fund and the Adviser seek to reduce these
operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do
not address every possible risk and may be inadequate for those risks that they
are intended to address.
Risks
Associated with Exchange-Traded Funds:
As an ETF, the Fund is subject to the following risks:
Authorized
Participants Concentration Risk: The Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may
act as Authorized Participants and engage in creation or redemption transactions
directly with the Fund, and none of those Authorized Participants is obligated
to engage in creation and/or redemption transactions. To the extent that those
Authorized Participants exit the business or are unable to process creation
and/or redemption orders, such as in times of market stress, Shares may be more
likely to trade at a premium or discount to NAV and/or at wider intraday bid-ask
spreads, and possibly face trading halts and/or delisting from an
exchange.
Large
Shareholder Risk: Certain
shareholders, including an Authorized Participant, the Adviser, an affiliate of
the Adviser, or funds managed by the Adviser, may own a substantial amount of
the Fund’s Shares. Redemptions by large shareholders could have a significant
negative impact on the Fund. If a large shareholder were to redeem all, or a
large portion, of its Shares, there is no guarantee that the Fund will be able
to maintain sufficient assets to continue operations in which case the Board of
Trustees may determine to liquidate the Fund. In addition, transactions by large
shareholders
may account for a large percentage of the trading volume on a national
securities exchange and may, therefore, have a material upward or downward
effect on the market price of the Shares.
Listing
Standards Risk: The
Fund is required to comply with listing requirements adopted by the listing
exchange. Non-compliance with such requirements may result in the Fund's shares
being delisted by the listing exchange. Any resulting liquidation of the Fund
could cause the Fund to incur elevated transaction costs and could result in
negative tax consequences for its shareholders.
Market
Trading Risks and Premium/Discount
Risks: Shares of the Fund are publicly traded
on a national securities exchange, which may subject shareholders to numerous
market trading risks. In stressed market conditions, the market for the Shares
may become less liquid in response to the deteriorating liquidity of the Fund’s
portfolio. This adverse effect on the liquidity of the Shares, as well as
disruptions to creations and redemptions, the existence of extreme market
volatility or potential lack of assets in the Fund or an active trading market
for Shares may result in Shares trading at a significant premium or discount to
NAV. If a shareholder purchases Shares at a time when the market price is at a
premium to the NAV or sells Shares at a time when the market price is at a
discount to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain losses. The NAV of the Fund is
calculated at the end of each business day and fluctuates with changes in the
market value of the Fund’s holdings. The trading price of the Fund’s Shares
fluctuates, in some cases materially, throughout trading hours in response to
changes in the Fund’s NAV.
Securities
Lending Risk: Securities lending involves a risk of loss because the borrower may
fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. If the Fund is not
able to recover the securities loaned, it may sell the collateral and purchase a
replacement security in the market. Lending securities entails a risk of loss to
the Fund if and to the extent that the market value of the loaned securities
increases and the collateral is not increased accordingly. Additionally, the
Fund will bear any loss on the investment of cash collateral it receives. These
events could also trigger adverse tax consequences for the Fund. As securities
on loan may not be voted by the Fund, there is a risk that the Fund may not be
able to recall the securities in sufficient time to vote on material proxy
matters.
Trading
Halt Risk:
An exchange or market may close or issue trading halts on specific securities,
or the ability to buy or sell certain securities or financial instruments may be
restricted, which may result in the Fund being unable to buy or sell certain
securities or financial instruments. In such circumstances, the Fund may be
unable to rebalance its portfolio, may be unable to accurately price its
investments and/or may incur substantial trading
losses.
Valuation
Risk: The sales price the Fund could receive for a security may differ
from the Fund’s valuation of the security and may differ from the value used by
the Underlying Index, particularly for securities that trade in low value or
volatile markets or that are valued using a fair value methodology (such as
during trading halts). The value of the securities in the Fund's portfolio may
change on days when shareholders will not be able to purchase or sell the Fund's
Shares.
PERFORMANCE
INFORMATION
The bar chart
and table that follow show how the Fund performed on a calendar year basis and
provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes
in the Fund's performance from year to year and by showing the Fund's average
annual total returns for the indicated periods compared with the Fund's
broad-based benchmark index, which reflects a broad measure of market
performance, and the Underlying Index, which the Fund seeks to
track. The Fund's past performance
(before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will
perform in the future. Updated performance information is
available online at
www.globalxetfs.com.
Annual Total Returns
(Years Ended December 31)
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6/30/2020 |
37.75% |
| Worst
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6/30/2022 |
-28.35% |
Average Annual
Total Returns (for the Periods Ended December 31,
2025)
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Year Ended December 31, 2025 |
Five
Years Ended December 31, 2025 |
Since
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X Millennial Consumer ETF: |
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·Return
before taxes |
4.53% |
4.89% |
12.96% |
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·Return
after taxes on distributions1 |
4.47% |
4.83% |
12.86% |
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·Return
after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund Shares1 |
2.72% |
3.80% |
10.83% |
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S&P
500®
Index (TR)
(Index returns do not
reflect deductions for fees, expenses, or
taxes) |
17.88% |
14.42% |
15.24% |
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Indxx
Millennials Thematic Index (USD) (NR)
(Index
returns reflect invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflect
no deduction for fees, expenses, or other
taxes) |
5.05% |
5.39% |
13.50% |
1
After-tax returns are
calculated using the historical highest individual U.S. federal marginal income
tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local
taxes. Your actual after-tax
returns will depend on your specific tax situation and may differ from those
shown above. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold Shares of
the Fund through tax-advantaged arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual
retirement accounts (IRAs).
FUND
MANAGEMENT
Investment
Adviser:
Global X Management Company LLC.
Portfolio
Managers: The
professionals primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the Fund
are Nam To, CFA and Wayne Xie (“Portfolio Managers”). Mr. To has been a
Portfolio Manager of the Fund since March 1, 2018. Mr. Xie has been a Portfolio
Manager of the Fund since March 1, 2019.
PURCHASE
AND SALE OF FUND SHARES
Shares
of the Fund are or will be listed and traded at market prices on a national
securities exchange. Shares may only be purchased and sold on the exchange
through a broker-dealer. The price of Shares is based on market price, and
because ETF shares trade at market prices rather than at NAV, Shares may trade
at a price greater than NAV (a premium) or less than NAV (a discount). Only
“Authorized Participants” (as defined in the SAI) who have entered into
agreements with the Fund’s distributor, SEI Investments Distribution Co.
(“Distributor”), may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with
the Fund. The Fund will only issue or redeem Shares that have been aggregated
into blocks called Creation Units. The Fund will issue or redeem Creation Units
in return for a basket of cash and/or securities that the Fund specifies any day
that the national securities exchanges are open for business (“Business Day”).
An investor may incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest
price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase shares of the Fund (bid) and the
lowest price a seller is willing to accept for shares of the Fund (ask) when
buying or selling shares in the secondary market (the “bid-ask spread”). To
access information regarding the Fund’s net asset value, market price, premiums
and discounts, and bid-ask spreads, please go to https://www.globalxetfs.com.
TAX
INFORMATION
The
Fund intends to make distributions that may be taxable to you as ordinary income
or capital gains, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement,
such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account ("IRA"), in which case
distributions from such tax-advantaged arrangement may be taxable to you.
PAYMENTS
TO BROKER-DEALERS AND OTHER FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES
The
Adviser and its related companies may pay broker-dealers or other financial
intermediaries (such as a bank) for the sale of Fund Shares and related
services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing your
broker-dealer, sales persons or other intermediary or its employees or
associated persons to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your
financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more
information.
Global X Aging
Population ETF
Ticker:
AGNG Exchange: NASDAQ
INVESTMENT
OBJECTIVE
The
Global X Aging Population ETF ("Fund") seeks to provide investment results that
correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and
expenses, of the Indxx Aging Population Thematic Index ("Underlying
Index").
FEES AND
EXPENSES
This
table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and
sell shares (“Shares”) of the Fund. You
may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial
intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and examples
below.
Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment):
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Management
Fees: |
0.50% |
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Distribution
and Service (12b-1) Fees: |
None |
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Other
Expenses: |
0.00% |
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Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses: |
0.50% |
Example:
The following example
is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost
of investing in other funds. This example does not take into account customary
brokerage commissions that you pay when purchasing or selling Shares of the Fund
in the secondary market. The example assumes
that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then hold
or sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes
that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating
expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower,
based on these assumptions, your costs would be:
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One
Year |
Three
Years |
Five
Years |
Ten
Years |
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$160 |
$280 |
$628 |
Portfolio
Turnover:
The Fund pays transaction
costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over"
its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction
costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account.
These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the
example, affect the Fund's performance. For the most recent fiscal period, the
Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 9.93% of the average value of its
portfolio.
PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT
STRATEGIES
The
Fund invests more than 80% of its total assets in the securities of the Indxx
Aging Population Thematic Index ("Underlying Index"). The Fund's 80% investment
policy is non-fundamental and requires 60 days prior written notice to
shareholders before it can be changed.
The
Underlying Index is designed to provide exposure to exchange-listed companies in
developed markets that facilitate the demographic trend of longer average life
spans and the aging of the global population, including but not limited to
companies involved in biotechnology, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, senior
living facilities and specialized health care services (collectively, "Aging
Population Companies"), as defined by Indxx, LLC, the provider of the Underlying
Index ("Index Provider").
The
eligible universe of the Underlying Index includes the most liquid and
investable companies in accordance with the standard market capitalization and
liquidity criteria associated with developed markets, as defined by the Index
Provider. As of January 31, 2026, companies must have a minimum market
capitalization of $500 million and a minimum average daily turnover for the last
6 months (or since the IPO launch date for Significant IPOs as defined by the
Index Provider) greater than or equal to $2 million in order to be eligible for
inclusion in the Underlying Index. The Underlying Index may include components
from the following countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark,
Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands,
New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden,
Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and the United States.
From
the eligible universe, the Index Provider identifies Aging Population Companies
by applying a proprietary analysis that consists of two primary components:
theme identification and company analysis. As of January 31, 2026, the
Index Provider has identified the following four themes that are expected to
provide the most exposure to Aging Population Companies: (1) Health Care
Products, (2) Health Care Services, (3) Medical Devices, and (4) Senior Homes
(collectively, "Longevity Themes"). In order to be included in the Underlying
Index, a company must be identified as having significant exposure to these
Aging Population Themes, as determined by the Index Provider. Companies are
analyzed based on two primary criteria: revenue exposure and primary business
operations. A company is deemed to have significant exposure to the Aging
Population Themes if (i) it derives a significant portion of its revenue from
the Aging Population Themes, or (ii) it has stated its primary business to be in
products and services focused on the Aging Population Themes, as determined by
the Index Provider. Accordingly, the Fund assets will be concentrated (that is,
it will hold 25% or more of its total assets) in companies that provide products
and services that facilitate the aging of the global population.
The
Underlying Index is weighted according to a modified capitalization weighting
methodology and is reconstituted and rebalanced annually. The Underlying Index
may include large-, mid- or small-capitalization companies, and components
primarily include health care, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals companies as
well as real estate investment trusts ("REITs"). The Fund's investment objective
and Underlying Index may be changed without shareholder approval.
The
Underlying Index is sponsored by the Index Provider, which is an organization
that is independent of, and unaffiliated with, the Fund and Global X Management
Company LLC, the investment adviser for the Fund ("Adviser"). The Index Provider
determines the relative weightings of the securities in the Underlying Index and
publishes information regarding the market value of the Underlying
Index.
The
Adviser uses an indexing approach to try to achieve the Fund's investment
objective. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not try to outperform
the Underlying Index and does not seek temporary defensive positions when
markets decline or appear overvalued.
The
Fund generally will use a replication strategy. A replication strategy is an
indexing strategy that involves investing in the securities of the Underlying
Index in approximately the same proportions as in the Underlying Index. However,
the Fund may utilize a representative sampling strategy with respect to the
Underlying Index when a replication strategy might be detrimental or
disadvantageous to shareholders, such as when there are practical difficulties
or substantial costs involved in compiling a portfolio of equity securities to
replicate the Underlying Index, in instances in which a security in the
Underlying Index becomes temporarily illiquid, unavailable or less liquid, or as
a result of legal restrictions or limitations (such as tax diversification
requirements) that apply to the Fund but not the Underlying Index.
The
Adviser expects that, over time, the correlation between the Fund's performance
and that of the Underlying Index, before fees and expenses, will exceed 95%. A
correlation percentage of 100% would indicate perfect correlation. If the Fund
uses a replication strategy, it can be expected to have greater correlation to
the Underlying Index than if it uses a representative sampling
strategy.
The
Fund concentrates its investments (i.e., holds 25% or more of its total assets)
in a particular industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent
that the Underlying Index is concentrated. As of January 31, 2026, the
Underlying Index was concentrated in the pharmaceuticals and health care
equipment and supplies industries and had significant exposure to the health
care sector.
SUMMARY
OF PRINCIPAL RISKS
As with any
investment, you could lose all or part of your investment in the Fund, and the
Fund’s performance could trail that of other investments. There
is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its investment objective.
An investment in the Fund is not a bank deposit and it is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other
government agency, the Adviser or any of its affiliates. The
Fund is subject to the principal risks noted below, any of which may adversely
affect the Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”), trading price, yield, total return
and ability to meet its investment objective, as well as other risks that are
described in greater detail in the Additional
Information About the Funds
section of this Prospectus and in the Statement of Additional Information
(“SAI”).
Asset
Class Risk:
Securities and other assets in the Underlying Index or otherwise held in the
Fund's portfolio may underperform in comparison to the general securities
markets, a particular securities market or other asset classes.
Depositary
Receipts Risk: The
Fund may invest in depositary receipts, such as ADRs and GDRs. Depositary
receipts are receipts listed on U.S. or foreign exchanges issued by banks or
trust companies that entitle the holder to all
dividends
and capital gains that are paid out on the underlying foreign shares. Depositary
receipts are generally subject to the same risks associated with direct
investments in the securities of foreign companies. A holder of depositary
receipts may also be subject to fees and the credit risk of the financial
institution acting as depositary. Unsponsored depositary receipts may involve
higher expenses, fewer shareholder rights, and may be less
liquid.
Equity
Securities Risk: Equity securities are subject to changes in value, and their values
may be more volatile than other asset classes, as a result of a company’s
business performance, investor perceptions, stock market trends and general
economic conditions.
Real
Estate Stocks and Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) Investment
Risk: The Fund may have exposure to
companies that invest in real estate, such as REITs, which expose investors in
the Fund to the risks of owning real estate directly, as well as to risks that
relate specifically to the way in which real estate companies are organized and
operated. Real estate is highly sensitive to general and local economic
conditions and developments and characterized by intense competition and
periodic overbuilding. Many real estate companies, including REITs, utilize
leverage (and some may be highly leveraged), which increases risk and could
adversely affect a real estate company's operations and market value in periods
of rising interest rates. Real estate stocks and REITs may also be adversely
impacted by natural or environmental disasters, such as earthquakes, fires,
floods, hurricanes, tsunamis, and other severe weather-related
phenomena.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Aging Population
Companies: The Fund invests in aging population companies, including
pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies involved in the research,
development, production and/or manufacturing of drugs; suppliers or
manufacturers of medical devices; companies operating skilled nursing homes,
senior living homes and continuing care communities; and providers of health
care services, including home healthcare providers. Aging population companies
may be affected by industry competition, dependency on a limited number of
products, obsolescence of products, government approvals and regulations, loss
or impairment of intellectual property rights and litigation regarding product
liability. Aging population companies may also be affected by unforeseen health
circumstances including but not limited to the spread of infectious disease
which could impact longevity-related drug development priorities and pipelines,
supply and demand dynamics for longevity health care equipment as well as the
ability to receive care in longevity-related health care service facilities.
Aging population companies may be affected by government regulations and
government healthcare programs, as well as increases or decreases in the cost of
medical products and services and product liability claims. Many aging
population companies are heavily dependent on patent protection, and the
expiration of a company’s patent may adversely affect that company’s
profitability. The customers and/or suppliers of aging population companies may
be concentrated in a particular country, region or industry. Any adverse event
affecting one of these countries, regions or industries could have a negative
impact on aging population companies.
Capitalization
Risk:
Investing in issuers within the same market capitalization category carries the
risk that the category may be out of favor due to current market conditions or
investor sentiment.
Large-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Large-capitalization
companies may adapt more slowly to new competitive challenges and changing
market conditions than smaller capitalization companies. In addition,
large-capitalization companies may be more mature and subject to more limited
growth potential and consequently may underperform other segments of the equity
market or the market as a whole.
Currency
Risk:
The Fund may invest in securities denominated in foreign currencies. Because the
Fund's NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the Fund's NAV could decline if
currencies of the underlying securities depreciate against the U.S. dollar or if
there are delays or limits on repatriation of such currencies. Generally, an
increase in the value of the U.S. dollar against a foreign currency will reduce
the value of a security denominated in that foreign currency, thereby decreasing
the Fund's NAV. Exchange rates may be volatile and may change quickly and
without warning, which could have a significant negative impact on the
Fund.
Cybersecurity
Risk: With the increased use of technologies such as the Internet to
conduct business, the Fund, like all companies, may be susceptible to
operational, information security and related risks. Cybersecurity incidents
involving the Fund and its service providers (including, without limitation, the
Adviser, fund accountant, custodian, transfer agent and financial
intermediaries) have the ability to cause disruptions and impact business
operations, potentially resulting in financial losses, impediments to trading,
the inability of Fund shareholders to transact business, violations of
applicable privacy and other laws, regulatory fines, penalties, reputational
damage, reimbursement or other compensation costs, and/or additional compliance
costs.
Focus
Risk:
The Fund may from time to time have a significant amount of its assets invested
in a particular industry, group of industries, or one or more sectors to
approximately the same extent that the Underlying Index focuses in investments
related to a particular industry, group of industries, and/or one or more
sectors. In such event, the Fund’s performance will depend to a greater extent
on the overall condition of such industry(ies) or sector(s), and an economic,
business, political, regulatory, or other occurrence affecting such
industry(ies) or sector(s) will have an increased impact on the value of the
Fund’s shares compared to the value of shares of a fund that invests in a
broader range of industries or sectors.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Health Care Equipment & Supplies
Industry: Companies in the health care equipment and supplies industry may be
affected by the expiration of patents, litigation based on product liability,
industry competition, product obsolescence and regulatory approvals, among other
factors. Demand for health care equipment, generally speaking and specific to
sub-segments, may fluctuate due to unexpected events, including but not limited
to global health crises like pandemics which could strain health care systems
and alter health care needs. Such demand fluctuations could positively or
negatively impact health care equipment companies.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Health Care Sector: The
health care sector may be affected by government regulations and government
health care programs, increases or decreases in the cost of medical products and
services, an increased emphasis on outpatient services, and product liability
claims, among other factors. Many health care companies are heavily dependent on
patent protection, and the expiration of a company's patent may adversely affect
that company's profitability. Health care companies are subject to competitive
forces that may result in price discounting and may be thinly capitalized and
susceptible to product obsolescence. Companies in the health care sector may
also be affected by unforeseen circumstances including but not limited to the
spread of infectious disease which could impact drug development priorities and
pipelines, supply and demand dynamics for health care equipment, as well as the
ability to receive care in health care service
facilities.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Pharmaceuticals
Industry: Companies in the pharmaceuticals
industry may be affected by industry competition, dependency on a limited number
of products, obsolescence of products, government approvals and regulations,
loss or impairment of intellectual property rights and litigation regarding
product liability. Demand for pharmaceuticals, generally speaking and specific
to sub-segments, may fluctuate due to unexpected events, including but not
limited to global health crises like pandemics which could strain health care
systems and alter health care needs. Such demand fluctuations could positively
or negatively impact pharmaceutical
companies.
Foreign
Securities Risk: Investments in foreign securities can be riskier than U.S.
securities investments. Investments in the securities of foreign issuers
(including investments in American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) and Global
Depositary Receipts (“GDRs”)) are subject to additional risks, including lower
levels of liquidity and market efficiency; greater securities price volatility;
exchange rate fluctuations and exchange controls; less availability of public
information about issuers; limitations on foreign ownership of securities;
imposition of withholding or other taxes; imposition of restrictions on the
expatriation of the assets of the Fund; restrictions placed on U.S. investors by
U.S. regulations governing foreign investments; higher transaction and custody
costs and delays in settlement procedures; difficulties in enforcing contractual
obligations; lower levels of regulation of the securities market; weaker
accounting, disclosure and reporting requirements; and legal principles relating
to corporate governance and directors’ fiduciary duties and liabilities. The
countries in which the Fund invests may also be subject to structural risks,
including economic, political and social instability. Additionally, certain
securities held by the Fund, while traded on U.S. exchanges, may be issued by
foreign financial institutions and as such, may be subject to the risks of
investing in securities issued by foreign companies, which may not be subject to
the same regulations as companies domiciled in the U.S. Where all or a portion
of the Fund's securities trade in a market that is closed when the market in
which the Fund's Shares are listed and trading is open, there may be differences
between the last quote from the security’s closed foreign market and the value
of the security during the Fund’s domestic trading day. This, in turn, could
lead to differences between the market price of the Fund’s Shares and the
underlying value of those shares.
Geographic
Risk: The
Fund’s investments in securities of issuers located in a particular country or
geographic region may subject the Fund to certain risks to a greater extent than
if its investments were less focused, including: natural, biological or other
disasters and the spread of infectious diseases; economic, political and social
instability; security concerns; and trade disputes with key trading partners.
The securities in which the Fund invests and, consequently, the Fund is also
subject to specific risks as a result of their business operations in a
particular country or region, including, but not limited to:
Risk
of Investing in Developed Markets:
Investments in a developed country’s issuer may subject the Fund to legal,
regulatory, political, currency, security, and economic risks specific to
developed countries. Developed countries tend to represent a significant portion
of the global economy and have generally experienced slower economic growth than
some less developed countries. Certain developed countries have experienced
security concerns, such as war, terrorism and strained international relations.
Incidents involving a country’s or region’s security may cause uncertainty in
its
markets and may adversely affect its economy and the Fund’s
investments. In addition, developed countries may be adversely impacted by
changes to the economic conditions of certain key trading partners, regulatory
burdens, debt burdens and the price or availability of certain
commodities.
Risk
of Investing in Emerging Markets: Investments in emerging markets may be subject to a greater risk of
loss than investments in developed markets. Securities markets of emerging
market countries are less liquid, subject to greater price volatility, have
smaller market capitalizations, have less government regulation, and are not
subject to as extensive and frequent accounting, financial, and other reporting
requirements as the securities markets of more developed countries, and there
may be greater risk associated with the custody of securities in emerging
markets. It may be difficult or impossible for the Fund to pursue claims against
an emerging market issuer in the courts of an emerging market country. There may
be significant obstacles to obtaining information necessary for investigations
into or litigation against emerging market companies and shareholders may have
limited legal rights and remedies. Emerging markets may be more likely to
experience inflation, political turmoil and rapid changes in economic conditions
than more developed markets. Emerging markets may also face other significant
internal or external risks, including the risk of war, terrorism, or other
social or political conflicts.
Risk
of Investing in the United States: Investments in United States issuers
may subject the Fund to legal, regulatory, political, currency, security, and
economic risks specific to the United States. A decrease in imports or exports,
changes in trade regulations, inflation and/or an economic recession in the U.S.
may have a material adverse effect on the U.S.
economy.
Indexing
Strategy Risk:
The Fund is not actively managed, and the Adviser does not attempt to take
defensive positions in declining markets. Unlike many investment companies, the
Fund does not seek to outperform its Underlying Index. Therefore, it would not
necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed,
respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is
underperforming. Additionally, if a constituent of the Underlying Index were
removed, even outside of a regular rebalance of the Underlying Index, the
Adviser anticipates that the Fund would sell such security. Maintaining
investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of
individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund
employed an active strategy.
Index-Related
Risk: There is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve a high degree of
correlation to the Underlying Index and therefore achieve its investment
objective. Market disruptions and regulatory restrictions could have an adverse
effect on the Fund’s ability to adjust its exposure to the required levels in
order to track the Underlying Index. Errors in index data, index computations
and/or the construction of the Underlying Index in accordance with its
methodology may occur from time to time and may not be identified and corrected
by the Index Provider for a period of time or at all, which may have an adverse
impact on the Fund and its shareholders.
Management
Risk: The Fund may not fully replicate its Underlying Index and may hold
securities not included in its Underlying Index. The Adviser’s investment
strategy, the implementation of which is subject to a number of constraints, may
cause the Fund to underperform the market or its relevant benchmark or adversely
affect the ability of the Fund to achieve its investment
objective.
Tracking
Error Risk: Tracking error may occur because of
differences between the instruments held in the Fund's portfolio and those
included in the Underlying Index, pricing differences, transaction costs
incurred by the Fund, the Fund's holding of uninvested cash, size of the Fund,
differences in timing of the accrual of or the valuation of dividends or
interest, tax gains or losses, changes to the Underlying Index or the costs to
the Fund of complying with various new or existing regulatory requirements. This
risk may be heightened during times of increased market volatility or other
unusual market conditions. Tracking error also may result because the Fund
incurs fees and expenses, while the Underlying Index does
not.
International
Closed Market Trading Risk: To
the extent that the underlying investments held by the Fund trade on foreign
exchanges that may be closed when the securities exchange on which the Fund’s
Shares trade is open, there are likely to be deviations between the current
price of such an underlying security and the last quoted price for the
underlying security (i.e., the Fund’s quote from the closed foreign market).
These deviations could result in premiums or discounts to the Fund’s NAV that
may be greater than those experienced by other exchange-traded funds
("ETFs").
Issuer
Risk: Fund performance depends on the performance of individual companies
in which the Fund invests. Changes to the financial condition of any of those
companies may cause the value of such company's securities to
decline.
Market
Risk: Turbulence in the financial markets and reduced liquidity may
negatively affect issuers, which could have an adverse effect on the Fund and
its investments. The Fund’s NAV could decline over short periods due to
short-term market movements and over longer periods during market downturns.
Trade policy, including the imposition of tariffs, may dampen consumer spending
and result in decreased confidence in the markets. Additionally, political
uncertainty regarding U.S. policy, including the U.S. government’s approach to
trade, may also impact the markets. Furthermore, local, regional or global
events such as war, acts of terrorism, the spread of infectious diseases,
inflation and recessions, changes in interest or exchange rates, or other events
could have a significant impact on the Fund and its investments and trading of
its Shares. Market risk factors may result in increased volatility and/or
decreased liquidity in the securities markets.
Operational
Risk: The Fund is exposed to operational risk arising from a number of
factors, including but not limited to human error, processing and communication
errors, errors of the Fund's service providers, counterparties or other
third-parties, failed or inadequate processes, cyber security incidents, and
technology or systems failures. The Fund and the Adviser seek to reduce these
operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do
not address every possible risk and may be inadequate for those risks that they
are intended to address.
Risks
Associated with Exchange-Traded Funds:
As an ETF, the Fund is subject to the following risks:
Authorized
Participants Concentration Risk: The Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may
act as Authorized Participants and engage in creation or redemption transactions
directly with the Fund, and none of those Authorized Participants is obligated
to engage in creation and/or redemption transactions. To the extent that those
Authorized Participants exit the business or are unable to process creation
and/or redemption orders, such as in times of market stress, Shares may be more
likely to trade at a premium or discount to NAV and/or at wider intraday bid-ask
spreads, and possibly face trading halts and/or delisting from an exchange.
Authorized Participants Concentration Risk may be heightened because the Fund
invests in non-U.S. securities.
Large
Shareholder Risk: Certain
shareholders, including an Authorized Participant, the Adviser, an affiliate of
the Adviser, or funds managed by the Adviser, may own a substantial amount of
the Fund’s Shares. Redemptions by large shareholders could have a significant
negative impact on the Fund. If a large shareholder were to redeem all, or a
large portion, of its Shares, there is no guarantee that the Fund will be able
to maintain sufficient assets to continue operations in which case the Board of
Trustees may determine to liquidate the Fund. In addition, transactions by large
shareholders may account for a large percentage of the trading volume on a
national securities exchange and may, therefore, have a material upward or
downward effect on the market price of the Shares.
Listing
Standards Risk: The
Fund is required to comply with listing requirements adopted by the listing
exchange. Non-compliance with such requirements may result in the Fund's shares
being delisted by the listing exchange. Any resulting liquidation of the Fund
could cause the Fund to incur elevated transaction costs and could result in
negative tax consequences for its shareholders.
Market
Trading Risks and Premium/Discount
Risks: Shares of the Fund are publicly traded
on a national securities exchange, which may subject shareholders to numerous
market trading risks. In stressed market conditions, the market for the Shares
may become less liquid in response to the deteriorating liquidity of the Fund’s
portfolio. This adverse effect on the liquidity of the Shares, as well as
disruptions to creations and redemptions, the existence of extreme market
volatility or potential lack of assets in the Fund or an active trading market
for Shares may result in Shares trading at a significant premium or discount to
NAV. If a shareholder purchases Shares at a time when the market price is at a
premium to the NAV or sells Shares at a time when the market price is at a
discount to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain losses. The NAV of the Fund is
calculated at the end of each business day and fluctuates with changes in the
market value of the Fund’s holdings. The trading price of the Fund’s Shares
fluctuates, in some cases materially, throughout trading hours in response to
changes in the Fund’s NAV.
Trading
Halt Risk:
An exchange or market may close or issue trading halts on specific securities,
or the ability to buy or sell certain securities or financial instruments may be
restricted, which may result in the Fund being unable to buy or sell certain
securities or financial instruments. In such circumstances, the Fund may be
unable to rebalance its portfolio, may be unable to accurately price its
investments and/or may incur substantial trading
losses.
Valuation
Risk: The sales price the Fund could receive for a security may differ
from the Fund’s valuation of the security and may differ from the value used by
the Underlying Index, particularly for securities that trade in low value or
volatile markets or that are valued using a fair value methodology (such as
during trading halts). The value of the securities in the Fund's portfolio may
change on days when shareholders will not be able to purchase or sell the Fund's
Shares.
PERFORMANCE
INFORMATION
The bar chart
and table that follow show how the Fund performed on a calendar year basis and
provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes
in the Fund's performance from year to year and by showing the Fund's average
annual total returns for the indicated periods compared with the Fund's
broad-based benchmark index, which reflects a broad measure of market
performance, and the Underlying Index, which the Fund seeks to
track. The Fund's past performance
(before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will
perform in the future. Updated performance information is
available online at
www.globalxetfs.com.
Annual Total Returns
(Years Ended December 31)
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6/30/2020 |
20.88% |
| Worst
Quarter: |
12/31/2018 |
-14.41% |
Average Annual
Total Returns (for the Periods Ended December 31,
2025)
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Year Ended December 31, 2025 |
Five
Years Ended December 31, 2025 |
Since
Inception (05/09/2016) |
| Global
X Aging Population ETF: |
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·Return
before taxes |
19.71% |
5.87% |
10.14% |
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·Return
after taxes on distributions1 |
19.45% |
5.67% |
9.89% |
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·Return
after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund Shares1 |
11.84% |
4.56% |
8.28% |
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MSCI
ACWI Index (USD) (NR)
(Index returns reflect
invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflect no deduction for
fees, expenses, or other
taxes) |
22.34% |
11.19% |
12.19% |
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Indxx
Aging Population Thematic Index (USD)2
(NR)
(Index
returns reflect invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflect
no deduction for fees, expenses, or other
taxes) |
20.22% |
6.18% |
10.46% |
1
After-tax returns are
calculated using the historical highest individual U.S. federal marginal income
tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local
taxes. Your actual after-tax
returns will depend on your specific tax situation and may differ from those
shown above. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold Shares of
the Fund through tax-advantaged arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual
retirement accounts (IRAs).
2
The
Fund changed its Underlying Index from the Indxx Global Longevity Thematic Index
to the Indxx Aging Population Thematic Index on April 9, 2021. Performance
through April 9, 2021 reflects the performance of the Indxx Global Longevity
Thematic Index.
FUND
MANAGEMENT
Investment
Adviser:
Global X Management Company LLC.
Portfolio
Managers: The
professionals primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the Fund
are Nam To, CFA and Wayne Xie (“Portfolio Managers”). Mr. To has been a
Portfolio Manager of the Fund since March 1, 2018. Mr. Xie has been a Portfolio
Manager of the Fund since March 1, 2019.
PURCHASE
AND SALE OF FUND SHARES
Shares
of the Fund are or will be listed and traded at market prices on a national
securities exchange. Shares may only be purchased and sold on the exchange
through a broker-dealer. The price of Shares is based on market price, and
because ETF shares trade at market prices rather than at NAV, Shares may trade
at a price greater than NAV (a premium) or less than NAV (a discount). Only
“Authorized Participants” (as defined in the SAI) who have entered into
agreements with the Fund’s distributor, SEI Investments Distribution Co.
(“Distributor”), may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with
the Fund. The Fund will only issue or redeem Shares that have been aggregated
into blocks called Creation Units. The Fund will issue or redeem Creation Units
in return for a basket of cash and/or securities that the Fund specifies any day
that the national securities exchanges are open for business (“Business Day”).
An investor may incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest
price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase shares of the Fund (bid) and the
lowest price a seller is willing to accept for shares of the Fund (ask) when
buying or selling shares in the secondary market (the “bid-ask spread”). To
access information regarding the Fund’s net asset value, market price, premiums
and discounts, and bid-ask spreads, please go to https://www.globalxetfs.com.
TAX
INFORMATION
The
Fund intends to make distributions that may be taxable to you as ordinary income
or capital gains, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement,
such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account ("IRA"), in which case
distributions from such tax-advantaged arrangement may be taxable to you.
PAYMENTS
TO BROKER-DEALERS AND OTHER FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES
The
Adviser and its related companies may pay broker-dealers or other financial
intermediaries (such as a bank) for the sale of Fund Shares and related
services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing your
broker-dealer, sales persons or other intermediary or its employees or
associated persons to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your
financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more
information.
Global X FinTech
ETF
Ticker:
FINX Exchange: NASDAQ
INVESTMENT
OBJECTIVE
The
Global X FinTech ETF ("Fund") seeks to provide investment results that
correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and
expenses, of the Indxx Global Fintech Thematic Index ("Underlying
Index").
FEES AND
EXPENSES
This
table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and
sell shares (“Shares”) of the Fund. You
may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial
intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and examples
below.
Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment):
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Management
Fees: |
0.68% |
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Distribution
and Service (12b-1) Fees: |
None |
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Other
Expenses: |
0.00% |
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Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses: |
0.68% |
Example:
The following example
is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost
of investing in other funds. This example does not take into account customary
brokerage commissions that you pay when purchasing or selling Shares of the Fund
in the secondary market. The example assumes
that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then hold
or sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes
that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating
expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower,
based on these assumptions, your costs would be:
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One
Year |
Three
Years |
Five
Years |
Ten
Years |
| $69 |
$218 |
$379 |
$847 |
Portfolio
Turnover:
The Fund pays transaction
costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over"
its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction
costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account.
These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the
example, affect the Fund's performance. For the most recent fiscal period, the
Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 12.64% of the average value of its
portfolio.
PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT
STRATEGIES
The Fund
invests at least 80% of its total assets in the securities of the Indxx Global
Fintech Thematic Index ("Underlying Index"). The Fund's 80% investment policy is
non-fundamental and requires 60 days prior written notice to shareholders before
it can be changed. The Fund may lend securities representing up
to one-third of the value of the Fund’s total assets (including the value of the
collateral received).
The
Underlying Index is designed to provide exposure to exchange-listed companies in
developed markets that provide financial technology products and services,
including companies involved in mobile payments, peer-to-peer ("P2P") and
marketplace lending, financial analytics software and alternative currencies
(collectively, "FinTech Companies"), as defined by Indxx, LLC, the provider of
the Underlying Index ("Index Provider").
The
eligible universe of the Underlying Index includes among the most liquid and
investable companies in accordance with the standard market capitalization and
liquidity criteria associated with developed markets, as defined by the Index
Provider. As of January 31, 2026, companies must have a minimum market
capitalization of $300 million and a minimum average daily turnover for the last
6 months (or since the IPO launch date for Significant IPOs as defined by the
Index Provider or 3 months, in the case of other IPOs) greater than or equal to
$2 million in order to be eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index. As of
January 31, 2026, components from the following countries were eligible for
inclusion in the Underlying Index: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark,
Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands,
New
Zealand,
Norway, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,
Taiwan, the United Kingdom and the United States.
From
the eligible universe, the Index Provider identifies FinTech Companies by
applying a proprietary analysis that consists of two primary components: theme
identification and company analysis. As part of the theme identification
process, the Index Provider analyzes industry reports, investment research and
consumer data related to the fintech industry in order to establish the themes
that are expected to provide the most exposure to the growth of the fintech
industry. As of January 31, 2026, the Index Provider has identified the
following six fintech themes: (1) Mobile Payments, (2) P2P and Marketplace
Lending, (3) Enterprise Solutions, (4) Blockchain and Alternative Currencies,
(5) Crowdfunding, and (6) Personal Finance Software and Automated Wealth
Management/Trading (collectively, "FinTech Themes"). In order to be included in
the Underlying Index, a company must be identified as having significant
exposure to these FinTech Themes, as determined by the Index Provider. In the
second step of the process, companies are analyzed based on two primary
criteria: revenue exposure and primary business operations. A company is deemed
to have significant exposure to the FinTech Themes if (i) it derives a
significant portion of its revenue from the FinTech Themes, or (ii) it has
stated its primary business to be in products and services focused on the
FinTech Themes, in each case as determined by the Index Provider. Accordingly,
the Fund assets will be concentrated (that is, it will hold 25% or more of its
total assets) in companies that provide exposure to FinTech Themes.
The
Underlying Index is weighted according to a modified capitalization weighting
methodology and is reconstituted and rebalanced annually. At the annual
rebalance, a capping methodology is applied to reduce concentration in
individual securities and increase diversification of the Underlying Index. The
Underlying Index may include large-, mid- or small-capitalization companies, and
components primarily include financial and information technology companies. The
Fund's investment objective and Underlying Index may be changed without
shareholder approval.
The
Underlying Index is sponsored by the Index Provider, which is an organization
that is independent of, and unaffiliated with, the Fund and Global X Management
Company LLC, the investment adviser for the Fund ("Adviser"). The Index Provider
determines the relative weightings of the securities in the Underlying Index and
publishes information regarding the market value of the Underlying
Index.
The
Adviser uses an indexing approach to try to achieve the Fund's investment
objective. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not try to outperform
the Underlying Index and does not seek temporary defensive positions when
markets decline or appear overvalued.
The
Fund generally will use a replication strategy. A replication strategy is an
indexing strategy that involves investing in the securities of the Underlying
Index in approximately the same proportions as in the Underlying Index. However,
the Fund may utilize a representative sampling strategy with respect to the
Underlying Index when a replication strategy might be detrimental or
disadvantageous to shareholders, such as when there are practical difficulties
or substantial costs involved in compiling a portfolio of equity securities to
replicate the Underlying Index, in instances in which a security in the
Underlying Index becomes temporarily illiquid, unavailable or less liquid, or as
a result of legal restrictions or limitations (such as tax diversification
requirements) that apply to the Fund but not the Underlying Index.
The
Adviser expects that, over time, the correlation between the Fund's performance
and that of the Underlying Index, before fees and expenses, will exceed 95%. A
correlation percentage of 100% would indicate perfect correlation. If the Fund
uses a replication strategy, it can be expected to have greater correlation to
the Underlying Index than if it uses a representative sampling
strategy.
The Fund
concentrates its investments (i.e., holds 25% or more of its total assets) in a
particular industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent that
the Underlying Index is concentrated. As of January 31, 2026, the
Underlying Index was concentrated in the financial services and software
industries and had significant exposure to the financials and information
technology sectors. The Fund is classified as “non-diversified,”
which means it may invest a larger percentage of its assets in a smaller number
of issuers than a diversified fund.
SUMMARY
OF PRINCIPAL RISKS
As with any
investment, you could lose all or part of your investment in the Fund, and the
Fund’s performance could trail that of other investments. There
is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its investment objective.
An investment in the Fund is not a bank deposit and it is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other
government agency, the Adviser or any of its affiliates. The
Fund is subject to the principal risks noted below, any of which may adversely
affect the Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”), trading price, yield, total return
and ability to meet its investment objective, as well
as
other risks that are described in greater detail in the Additional
Information About the Funds
section of this Prospectus and in the Statement of Additional Information
(“SAI”).
Asset
Class Risk:
Securities and other assets in the Underlying Index or otherwise held in the
Fund's portfolio may underperform in comparison to the general securities
markets, a particular securities market or other asset classes.
Depositary
Receipts Risk: The
Fund may invest in depositary receipts, such as ADRs and GDRs. Depositary
receipts are receipts listed on U.S. or foreign exchanges issued by banks or
trust companies that entitle the holder to all dividends and capital gains that
are paid out on the underlying foreign shares. Depositary receipts are generally
subject to the same risks associated with direct investments in the securities
of foreign companies. A holder of depositary receipts may also be subject to
fees and the credit risk of the financial institution acting as depositary.
Unsponsored depositary receipts may involve higher expenses, fewer shareholder
rights, and may be less liquid.
Equity
Securities Risk: Equity securities are subject to
changes in value, and their values may be more volatile than other asset
classes, as a result of a company’s business performance, investor perceptions,
stock market trends and general economic
conditions.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in FinTech Companies: FinTech companies may be adversely impacted by government
regulations, economic conditions, and deterioration in credit markets. These
companies may have significant exposure to consumers and businesses (especially
small businesses) in the form of loans and other financial products or services.
FinTech companies typically face intense competition and potentially rapid
product obsolescence. Certain FinTech companies may seek to disrupt or displace
established financial institutions and may face competition from larger and more
established companies. In addition, many FinTech companies store sensitive
consumer information and could be the target of cybersecurity attacks and other
types of theft, which could have a negative impact on these companies. Many
FinTech companies currently operate under less regulatory scrutiny than
traditional financial services companies and banks, but there is significant
risk that regulatory oversight could increase in the future which could lead to
increased costs. These companies could be negatively impacted by disruptions in
service caused by hardware or software failure, or by interruptions or delays in
service by third-party data center hosting facilities and maintenance providers.
FinTech companies involved in alternative currencies, such as cryptocurrencies,
may face slow adoption rates and be subject to higher levels of regulatory
scrutiny in the future. FinTech companies with significant alternative currency
exposure may also be negatively impacted during high periods of volatility
within the cryptocurrency markets. FinTech companies, especially smaller
companies, tend to be more volatile than companies that do not rely heavily on
technology.
Capitalization
Risk:
Investing in issuers within the same market capitalization category carries the
risk that the category may be out of favor due to current market conditions or
investor sentiment.
Large-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Large-capitalization
companies may adapt more slowly to new competitive challenges and changing
market conditions than smaller capitalization companies. In addition,
large-capitalization companies may be more mature and subject to more limited
growth potential and consequently may underperform other segments of the equity
market or the market as a whole.
Mid-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Mid-capitalization
companies may have greater price volatility, lower trading volume and less
liquidity than large-capitalization companies. In addition, mid-capitalization
companies may have smaller revenues, narrower product lines, less management
depth and experience, smaller shares of their product or service markets, fewer
financial resources and less competitive strength than large-capitalization
companies. These securities may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly,
from the overall securities market.
Currency
Risk:
The Fund may invest in securities denominated in foreign currencies. Because the
Fund's NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the Fund's NAV could decline if
currencies of the underlying securities depreciate against the U.S. dollar or if
there are delays or limits on repatriation of such currencies. Generally, an
increase in the value of the U.S. dollar against a foreign currency will reduce
the value of a security denominated in that foreign currency, thereby decreasing
the Fund's NAV. Exchange rates may be volatile and may change quickly and
without warning, which could have a significant negative impact on the
Fund.
Cybersecurity
Risk: With
the increased use of technologies such as the Internet to conduct business, the
Fund, like all companies, may be susceptible to operational, information
security and related risks. Cybersecurity incidents involving the Fund and its
service providers (including, without limitation, the Adviser, fund accountant,
custodian, transfer agent and financial intermediaries) have the ability to
cause disruptions and impact business operations, potentially resulting in
financial losses, impediments to trading, the inability of Fund shareholders to
transact business, violations of applicable privacy and other
laws, regulatory fines, penalties, reputational damage,
reimbursement or other compensation costs, and/or additional compliance
costs.
Focus
Risk:
The Fund may from time to time have a significant amount of its assets invested
in a particular industry, group of industries, or one or more sectors to
approximately the same extent that the Underlying Index focuses in investments
related to a particular industry, group of industries, and/or one or more
sectors. In such event, the Fund’s performance will depend to a greater extent
on the overall condition of such industry(ies) or sector(s), and an economic,
business, political, regulatory, or other occurrence affecting such
industry(ies) or sector(s) will have an increased impact on the value of the
Fund’s shares compared to the value of shares of a fund that invests in a
broader range of industries or sectors.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Financials Sector: Performance
of companies in the financials sector may be adversely impacted by many factors,
including, among others, government regulation and intervention, changes in
interest rates, economic conditions, volatility in financial markets, credit
rating downgrades, exposure concentration, and decreased liquidity in credit
markets. The financials sector is a target for cyber-attacks and financial
services companies may experience technological malfunctions, disruptions,
and/or failures, which may cause losses and may negatively impact the
Fund.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Financial Services Industry: The
performance of stocks in the Financial Services industry may be adversely
impacted by the banking, insurance, mortgage financing, and transaction &
payment processing services activities, government regulations, economic
conditions, credit rating downgrades, and other factors which could adversely
affect financial markets.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Information Technology Sector: Companies
in the information technology sector are subject to rapid changes in technology
product cycles, rapid product obsolescence, government regulation, and increased
competition. Information technology companies are particularly vulnerable to
failure to obtain, or delays in obtaining, financing or regulatory approval, and
also are heavily dependent on patent and intellectual property rights. In
addition, information technology companies may have limited product lines,
markets, financial resources or personnel.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Software Industry:
The software industry can be significantly affected by intense competition,
aggressive pricing, technological innovations, and product obsolescence.
Companies in the application software industry, in particular, may also be
negatively affected by the decline or fluctuation of subscription renewal rates
for their products and services, which may have an adverse effect on profit
margins. Companies in the systems software industry may be adversely affected
by, among other things, actual or perceived security vulnerabilities in their
products and services, which may result in individual or class action lawsuits,
state or federal enforcement actions and other remediation
costs.
Foreign
Securities Risk: Investments in foreign securities can be riskier than U.S.
securities investments. Investments in the securities of foreign issuers
(including investments in American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) and Global
Depositary Receipts (“GDRs”)) are subject to additional risks, including lower
levels of liquidity and market efficiency; greater securities price volatility;
exchange rate fluctuations and exchange controls; less availability of public
information about issuers; limitations on foreign ownership of securities;
imposition of withholding or other taxes; imposition of restrictions on the
expatriation of the assets of the Fund; restrictions placed on U.S. investors by
U.S. regulations governing foreign investments; higher transaction and custody
costs and delays in settlement procedures; difficulties in enforcing contractual
obligations; lower levels of regulation of the securities market; weaker
accounting, disclosure and reporting requirements; and legal principles relating
to corporate governance and directors’ fiduciary duties and liabilities. The
countries in which the Fund invests may also be subject to structural risks,
including economic, political and social instability. Additionally, certain
securities held by the Fund, while traded on U.S. exchanges, may be issued by
foreign financial institutions and as such, may be subject to the risks of
investing in securities issued by foreign companies, which may not be subject to
the same regulations as companies domiciled in the U.S. Where all or a portion
of the Fund's securities trade in a market that is closed when the market in
which the Fund's Shares are listed and trading is open, there may be differences
between the last quote from the security’s closed foreign market and the value
of the security during the Fund’s domestic trading day. This, in turn, could
lead to differences between the market price of the Fund’s Shares and the
underlying value of those shares.
Geographic
Risk: The
Fund’s investments in securities of issuers located in a particular country or
geographic region may subject the Fund to certain risks to a greater extent than
if its investments were less focused, including: natural, biological or other
disasters and the spread of infectious diseases; economic, political and social
instability; security concerns; and trade
disputes
with key trading partners. The securities in which the Fund invests and,
consequently, the Fund is also subject to specific risks as a result of their
business operations in a particular country or region, including, but not
limited to:
Risk
of Investing in Developed Markets: Investments in a developed country’s issuer may subject the Fund to
legal, regulatory, political, currency, security, and economic risks specific to
developed countries. Developed countries tend to represent a significant portion
of the global economy and have generally experienced slower economic growth than
some less developed countries. Certain developed countries have experienced
security concerns, such as war, terrorism and strained international relations.
Incidents involving a country’s or region’s security may cause uncertainty in
its markets and may adversely affect its economy and the Fund’s investments. In
addition, developed countries may be adversely impacted by changes to the
economic conditions of certain key trading partners, regulatory burdens, debt
burdens and the price or availability of certain commodities.
Risk
of Investing in the United States: Investments in United States issuers
may subject the Fund to legal, regulatory, political, currency, security, and
economic risks specific to the United States. A decrease in imports or exports,
changes in trade regulations, inflation and/or an economic recession in the U.S.
may have a material adverse effect on the U.S.
economy.
Indexing
Strategy Risk:
The Fund is not actively managed, and the Adviser does not attempt to take
defensive positions in declining markets. Unlike many investment companies, the
Fund does not seek to outperform its Underlying Index. Therefore, it would not
necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed,
respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is
underperforming. Additionally, if a constituent of the Underlying Index were
removed, even outside of a regular rebalance of the Underlying Index, the
Adviser anticipates that the Fund would sell such security. Maintaining
investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of
individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund
employed an active strategy.
Index-Related
Risk: There is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve a high degree of
correlation to the Underlying Index and therefore achieve its investment
objective. Market disruptions and regulatory restrictions could have an adverse
effect on the Fund’s ability to adjust its exposure to the required levels in
order to track the Underlying Index. Errors in index data, index computations
and/or the construction of the Underlying Index in accordance with its
methodology may occur from time to time and may not be identified and corrected
by the Index Provider for a period of time or at all, which may have an adverse
impact on the Fund and its shareholders.
Management
Risk: The Fund may not fully replicate its Underlying Index and may hold
securities not included in its Underlying Index. The Adviser’s investment
strategy, the implementation of which is subject to a number of constraints, may
cause the Fund to underperform the market or its relevant benchmark or adversely
affect the ability of the Fund to achieve its investment
objective.
Tracking
Error Risk: Tracking error may occur because of
differences between the instruments held in the Fund's portfolio and those
included in the Underlying Index, pricing differences, transaction costs
incurred by the Fund, the Fund's holding of uninvested cash, size of the Fund,
differences in timing of the accrual of or the valuation of dividends or
interest, tax gains or losses, changes to the Underlying Index or the costs to
the Fund of complying with various new or existing regulatory requirements. This
risk may be heightened during times of increased market volatility or other
unusual market conditions. Tracking error also may result because the Fund
incurs fees and expenses, while the Underlying Index does
not.
International
Closed Market Trading Risk: To
the extent that the underlying investments held by the Fund trade on foreign
exchanges that may be closed when the securities exchange on which the Fund’s
Shares trade is open, there are likely to be deviations between the current
price of such an underlying security and the last quoted price for the
underlying security (i.e., the Fund’s quote from the closed foreign market).
These deviations could result in premiums or discounts to the Fund’s NAV that
may be greater than those experienced by other exchange-traded funds
("ETFs").
Issuer
Risk: Fund performance depends on the performance of individual companies
in which the Fund invests. Changes to the financial condition of any of those
companies may cause the value of such company's securities to
decline.
Market
Risk:
Turbulence in the financial markets and reduced liquidity may negatively affect
issuers, which could have an adverse effect on the Fund and its investments. The
Fund’s NAV could decline over short periods due to short-term market movements
and over longer periods during market downturns. Trade policy, including the
imposition of tariffs, may dampen consumer spending and result in decreased
confidence in the markets. Additionally, political uncertainty regarding U.S.
policy, including the U.S. government’s approach to trade, may also impact the
markets. Furthermore, local, regional or global events
such as war, acts of terrorism, the spread of infectious diseases,
inflation and recessions, changes in interest or exchange rates, or other events
could have a significant impact on the Fund and its investments and trading of
its Shares. Market risk factors may result in increased volatility and/or
decreased liquidity in the securities markets.
Non-Diversification
Risk:
The Fund is classified as a “non-diversified” investment company under the
Investment Company Act of 1940 ("1940 Act"), which means that the Fund may
invest a greater portion of its assets in securities of individual issuers than
a diversified fund. As a result, changes in the market value of a single
investment may have a greater impact on the Fund’s NAV and may make the Fund
more volatile than more diversified funds.
Operational
Risk: The Fund is exposed to operational risk arising from a number of
factors, including but not limited to human error, processing and communication
errors, errors of the Fund's service providers, counterparties or other
third-parties, failed or inadequate processes, cyber security incidents, and
technology or systems failures. The Fund and the Adviser seek to reduce these
operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do
not address every possible risk and may be inadequate for those risks that they
are intended to address.
Risks
Associated with Exchange-Traded Funds:
As an ETF, the Fund is subject to the following risks:
Authorized
Participants Concentration Risk: The Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may
act as Authorized Participants and engage in creation or redemption transactions
directly with the Fund, and none of those Authorized Participants is obligated
to engage in creation and/or redemption transactions. To the extent that those
Authorized Participants exit the business or are unable to process creation
and/or redemption orders, such as in times of market stress, Shares may be more
likely to trade at a premium or discount to NAV and/or at wider intraday bid-ask
spreads, and possibly face trading halts and/or delisting from an exchange.
Authorized Participants Concentration Risk may be heightened because the Fund
invests in non-U.S. securities.
Large
Shareholder Risk: Certain
shareholders, including an Authorized Participant, the Adviser, an affiliate of
the Adviser, or funds managed by the Adviser, may own a substantial amount of
the Fund’s Shares. Redemptions by large shareholders could have a significant
negative impact on the Fund. If a large shareholder were to redeem all, or a
large portion, of its Shares, there is no guarantee that the Fund will be able
to maintain sufficient assets to continue operations in which case the Board of
Trustees may determine to liquidate the Fund. In addition, transactions by large
shareholders may account for a large percentage of the trading volume on a
national securities exchange and may, therefore, have a material upward or
downward effect on the market price of the Shares.
Listing
Standards Risk: The
Fund is required to comply with listing requirements adopted by the listing
exchange. Non-compliance with such requirements may result in the Fund's shares
being delisted by the listing exchange. Any resulting liquidation of the Fund
could cause the Fund to incur elevated transaction costs and could result in
negative tax consequences for its shareholders.
Market
Trading Risks and Premium/Discount
Risks: Shares of the Fund are publicly traded
on a national securities exchange, which may subject shareholders to numerous
market trading risks. In stressed market conditions, the market for the Shares
may become less liquid in response to the deteriorating liquidity of the Fund’s
portfolio. This adverse effect on the liquidity of the Shares, as well as
disruptions to creations and redemptions, the existence of extreme market
volatility or potential lack of assets in the Fund or an active trading market
for Shares may result in Shares trading at a significant premium or discount to
NAV. If a shareholder purchases Shares at a time when the market price is at a
premium to the NAV or sells Shares at a time when the market price is at a
discount to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain losses. The NAV of the Fund is
calculated at the end of each business day and fluctuates with changes in the
market value of the Fund’s holdings. The trading price of the Fund’s Shares
fluctuates, in some cases materially, throughout trading hours in response to
changes in the Fund’s NAV.
Securities
Lending Risk: Securities lending involves a risk of loss because the borrower may
fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. If the Fund is not
able to recover the securities loaned, it may sell the collateral and purchase a
replacement security in the market. Lending securities entails a risk of loss to
the Fund if and to the extent that the market value of the loaned securities
increases and the collateral is not increased accordingly. Additionally, the
Fund will bear any loss on the investment of cash collateral it receives. These
events could also trigger adverse tax consequences for the Fund. As securities
on loan may not be voted by the Fund, there is a risk that the Fund may not be
able to recall the securities in sufficient time to vote on material proxy
matters.
Trading
Halt Risk:
An exchange or market may close or issue trading halts on specific securities,
or the ability to buy or sell certain securities or financial instruments may be
restricted, which may result in the Fund being unable to buy or sell certain
securities
or financial instruments. In such circumstances, the Fund may be unable to
rebalance its portfolio, may be unable to accurately price its investments
and/or may incur substantial trading losses.
Valuation
Risk: The sales price the Fund could receive for a security may differ
from the Fund’s valuation of the security and may differ from the value used by
the Underlying Index, particularly for securities that trade in low value or
volatile markets or that are valued using a fair value methodology (such as
during trading halts). The value of the securities in the Fund's portfolio may
change on days when shareholders will not be able to purchase or sell the Fund's
Shares.
PERFORMANCE
INFORMATION
The bar chart
and table that follow show how the Fund performed on a calendar year basis and
provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes
in the Fund's performance from year to year and by showing the Fund's average
annual total returns for the indicated periods compared with the Fund's
broad-based benchmark index, which reflects a broad measure of market
performance, and the Underlying Index, which the Fund seeks to
track. The Fund's past performance
(before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will
perform in the future. Updated performance information is
available online at
www.globalxetfs.com.
Annual Total Returns
(Years Ended December 31)
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Quarter: |
6/30/2020 |
36.97% |
| Worst
Quarter: |
6/30/2022 |
-33.44% |
Average Annual
Total Returns (for the Periods Ended December 31,
2025)
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One
Year Ended December 31, 2025 |
Five
Years Ended December 31, 2025 |
Since
Inception (09/12/2016) |
| Global
X FinTech ETF: |
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·Return
before taxes |
-5.49% |
-7.52% |
8.30% |
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·Return
after taxes on distributions1 |
-5.65% |
-8.00% |
7.99% |
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·Return
after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund Shares1 |
-3.18% |
-5.63% |
6.66% |
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MSCI
ACWI Index (USD) (NR)
(Index returns reflect
invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflect no deduction for
fees, expenses, or other
taxes) |
22.34% |
11.19% |
11.98% |
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Indxx
Global Fintech Thematic Index (USD) (NR)
(Index
returns reflect invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflect
no deduction for fees, expenses, or other
taxes) |
-4.99% |
-7.13% |
8.87% |
1
After-tax returns are
calculated using the historical highest individual U.S. federal marginal income
tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local
taxes. Your actual after-tax
returns will depend on your specific tax situation and may differ from those
shown above. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold Shares of
the Fund through tax-advantaged arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual
retirement accounts (IRAs).
FUND
MANAGEMENT
Investment
Adviser:
Global X Management Company LLC.
Portfolio
Managers:
The professionals primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the
Fund are Nam To, CFA and Wayne Xie (“Portfolio Managers”). Mr. To has been a
Portfolio Manager of the Fund since March 1, 2018. Mr. Xie has been a Portfolio
Manager of the Fund since March 1, 2019.
PURCHASE
AND SALE OF FUND SHARES
Shares
of the Fund are or will be listed and traded at market prices on a national
securities exchange. Shares may only be purchased and sold on the exchange
through a broker-dealer. The price of Shares is based on market price, and
because ETF shares trade at market prices rather than at NAV, Shares may trade
at a price greater than NAV (a premium) or less than NAV (a discount). Only
“Authorized Participants” (as defined in the SAI) who have entered into
agreements with the Fund’s distributor, SEI Investments Distribution Co.
(“Distributor”), may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with
the Fund. The Fund will only issue or redeem Shares that have been aggregated
into blocks called Creation Units. The Fund will issue or redeem Creation Units
in return for a basket of cash and/or securities that the Fund specifies any day
that the national securities exchanges are open for business (“Business Day”).
An investor may incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest
price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase shares of the Fund (bid) and the
lowest price a seller is willing to accept for shares of the Fund (ask) when
buying or selling shares in the secondary market (the “bid-ask spread”). To
access information regarding the Fund’s net asset value, market price, premiums
and discounts, and bid-ask spreads, please go to https://www.globalxetfs.com.
TAX
INFORMATION
The
Fund intends to make distributions that may be taxable to you as ordinary income
or capital gains, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement,
such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account ("IRA"), in which case
distributions from such tax-advantaged arrangement may be taxable to you.
PAYMENTS
TO BROKER-DEALERS AND OTHER FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES
The
Adviser and its related companies may pay broker-dealers or other financial
intermediaries (such as a bank) for the sale of Fund Shares and related
services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing your
broker-dealer, sales persons or other intermediary or its employees or
associated persons to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your
financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more
information.
Global X Internet of
Things ETF
Ticker:
SNSR Exchange: NASDAQ
INVESTMENT
OBJECTIVE
The
Global X Internet of Things ETF ("Fund") seeks to provide investment results
that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and
expenses, of the Indxx Global Internet of Things Thematic Index ("Underlying
Index").
FEES AND
EXPENSES
This
table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and
sell shares (“Shares”) of the Fund. You
may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial
intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and examples
below.
Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment):
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| Management
Fees: |
0.68% |
| Distribution
and Service (12b-1) Fees: |
None |
| Other
Expenses: |
0.00% |
| Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses: |
0.68% |
Example:
The following example
is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost
of investing in other funds. This example does not take into account customary
brokerage commissions that you pay when purchasing or selling Shares of the Fund
in the secondary market. The example assumes
that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then hold
or sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes
that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating
expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower,
based on these assumptions, your costs would be:
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Year |
Three
Years |
Five
Years |
Ten
Years |
| $69 |
$218 |
$379 |
$847 |
Portfolio
Turnover:
The Fund pays transaction
costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over"
its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction
costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account.
These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the
example, affect the Fund's performance. For the most recent fiscal period, the
Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 17.23% of the average value of its
portfolio.
PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT
STRATEGIES
The Fund
invests at least 80% of its total assets in the securities of the Indxx Global
Internet of Things Thematic Index ("Underlying Index"). The Fund's 80%
investment policy is non-fundamental and requires 60 days prior written notice
to shareholders before it can be changed. The Fund may lend
securities representing up to one-third of the value of the Fund’s total assets
(including the value of the collateral received).
The
Underlying Index is designed to provide exposure to exchange-listed companies in
developed markets that facilitate the Internet of Things industry, including
companies involved in wearable technology, home automation, connected automotive
technology, sensors, networking infrastructure/software, smart metering and
energy control devices (collectively, "Internet of Things Companies"), as
defined by Indxx, LLC, the provider of the Underlying Index ("Index Provider").
The Internet of Things refers to the network of physical objects (such as
electronic devices, wearables, connected vehicles, infrastructure, equipment,
smart home appliances, buildings) that are connected to the internet. Such
objects often utilize embedded semiconductors, sensors, and software to collect,
analyze, receive, and transfer data via networks enabled by technologies such as
WiFi, 4G and 5G telecommunications infrastructure, and fiber
optics.
The
eligible universe of the Underlying Index includes among the most liquid and
investable companies in accordance with the standard market capitalization and
liquidity criteria associated with developed markets, as defined by the Index
Provider. As of January 31, 2026, companies must have a minimum market
capitalization of $300 million and a minimum average daily turnover for the last
6 months (or since the IPO launch date for Significant IPOs as defined by the
Index Provider or 3 months,
in
the case of other IPOs) greater than or equal to $2 million in order to be
eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index. As of January 31, 2026,
components from the following countries were eligible for inclusion in the
Underlying Index: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France,
Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand,
Norway, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,
Taiwan, the United Kingdom and the United States.
From
the eligible universe, the Index Provider identifies Internet of Things
Companies by applying a proprietary analysis that consists of two primary
components: theme identification and company analysis. As part of the theme
identification process, the Index Provider analyzes industry reports, investment
research and consumer data related to the Internet of Things industry in order
to establish the themes that are expected to provide the most exposure to the
growth of the Internet of Things industry. As of January 31, 2026, the
Index Provider has identified the following four Internet of Things themes: (1)
Consumer Internet of Things Technology, (2) Equipment, Vehicle, and
Infrastructure/Building Technology, (3) Semiconductors and Sensors and (4)
Networking Infrastructure/Software (collectively, "Internet of Things Themes").
In order to be included in the Underlying Index, a company must be identified as
having significant exposure to these Internet of Things Themes, as determined by
the Index Provider. In the second step of the process, companies are analyzed
based on two primary criteria: revenue exposure and primary business operations.
A company is deemed to have significant exposure to the Internet of Things
Themes if (i) according to a public filing, it derives a significant portion of
its revenue from the Internet of Things Themes, or (ii) it has stated its
primary business to be in products and services focused on the Internet of
Things Themes, as determined by the Index Provider. In addition, companies with
more diversified revenue streams may also be included in the Underlying Index if
they meet the following criteria: (1) identified as being critical to the
Internet of Things ecosystem due to scale in certain Internet of Things
technologies and services, (2) have a distinct business unit focused on Internet
of Things products and services, and (3) have a core competency that is expected
to benefit from increased adoption of Internet of Things, as determined by the
Index Provider. Companies that meet these criteria are eligible for inclusion in
the Underlying Index with a weighting cap of 2%. Accordingly, the Fund assets
will be concentrated (that is, it will hold 25% or more of its total assets) in
companies that provide products and services that provide exposure to Internet
of Things Themes.
The
Underlying Index is weighted according to a modified capitalization weighting
methodology and is reconstituted and rebalanced annually. At the annual
rebalance, a capping methodology is applied to reduce concentration in
individual securities and increase diversification of the Underlying Index. The
Underlying Index may include large-, mid- or small-capitalization companies, and
components primarily include industrials and information technology companies.
The Fund's investment objective and Underlying Index may be changed without
shareholder approval.
The
Underlying Index is sponsored by the Index Provider, which is an organization
that is independent of, and unaffiliated with, the Fund and Global X Management
Company LLC, the investment adviser for the Fund ("Adviser"). The Index Provider
determines the relative weightings of the securities in the Underlying Index and
publishes information regarding the market value of the Underlying
Index.
The
Adviser uses an indexing approach to try to achieve the Fund's investment
objective. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not try to outperform
the Underlying Index and does not seek temporary defensive positions when
markets decline or appear overvalued.
The
Fund generally will use a replication strategy. A replication strategy is an
indexing strategy that involves investing in the securities of the Underlying
Index in approximately the same proportions as in the Underlying Index. However,
the Fund may utilize a representative sampling strategy with respect to the
Underlying Index when a replication strategy might be detrimental or
disadvantageous to shareholders, such as when there are practical difficulties
or substantial costs involved in compiling a portfolio of equity securities to
replicate the Underlying Index, in instances in which a security in the
Underlying Index becomes temporarily illiquid, unavailable or less liquid, or as
a result of legal restrictions or limitations (such as tax diversification
requirements) that apply to the Fund but not the Underlying Index.
The
Adviser expects that, over time, the correlation between the Fund's performance
and that of the Underlying Index, before fees and expenses, will exceed 95%. A
correlation percentage of 100% would indicate perfect correlation. If the Fund
uses a replication strategy, it can be expected to have greater correlation to
the Underlying Index than if it uses a representative sampling
strategy.
The Fund
concentrates its investments (i.e., holds 25% or more of its total assets) in a
particular industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent that
the Underlying Index is concentrated. As of January 31, 2026, the
Underlying Index was concentrated in the semiconductors and semiconductor
equipment industry and had significant exposure to the information technology
sector. The Fund is classified as “non-diversified,” which means
it may invest a larger percentage of its assets in a smaller number of issuers
than a diversified fund.
SUMMARY
OF PRINCIPAL RISKS
As with any
investment, you could lose all or part of your investment in the Fund, and the
Fund’s performance could trail that of other investments. There
is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its investment objective.
An investment in the Fund is not a bank deposit and it is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other
government agency, the Adviser or any of its affiliates. The
Fund is subject to the principal risks noted below, any of which may adversely
affect the Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”), trading price, yield, total return
and ability to meet its investment objective, as well as other risks that are
described in greater detail in the Additional
Information About the Funds
section of this Prospectus and in the Statement of Additional Information
(“SAI”).
Asset
Class Risk:
Securities and other assets in the Underlying Index or otherwise held in the
Fund's portfolio may underperform in comparison to the general securities
markets, a particular securities market or other asset classes.
Equity
Securities Risk: Equity securities are subject to
changes in value, and their values may be more volatile than other asset
classes, as a result of a company’s business performance, investor perceptions,
stock market trends and general economic
conditions.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Internet of Things Companies:
Internet of Things companies may have limited product lines,
markets, financial resources or personnel. These companies typically face
intense competition and potentially rapid product obsolescence. In addition,
many Internet of Things companies store sensitive consumer information and could
be the target of cybersecurity attacks and other types of theft, which could
have a negative impact on these companies. As a result, Internet of Things
companies may be adversely impacted by government regulations, and may be
subject to additional regulatory oversight with regard to privacy concerns and
cybersecurity risk. These companies are also heavily dependent on intellectual
property rights and may be adversely affected by loss or impairment of those
rights. Internet of Things companies could be negatively impacted by disruptions
in service caused by hardware or software failure, or by interruptions or delays
in service by third-party data center hosting facilities and maintenance
providers. Internet of Things companies, especially smaller companies, tend to
be more volatile than companies that do not rely heavily on technology. The
customers and/or suppliers of Internet of Things companies may be concentrated
in a particular country, region or industry. Any adverse event affecting one of
these countries, regions or industries could have a negative impact on Internet
of Things companies.
Capitalization
Risk:
Investing in issuers within the same market capitalization category carries the
risk that the category may be out of favor due to current market conditions or
investor sentiment.
Large-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Large-capitalization
companies may adapt more slowly to new competitive challenges and changing
market conditions than smaller capitalization companies. In addition,
large-capitalization companies may be more mature and subject to more limited
growth potential and consequently may underperform other segments of the equity
market or the market as a whole.
Mid-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Mid-capitalization
companies may have greater price volatility, lower trading volume and less
liquidity than large-capitalization companies. In addition, mid-capitalization
companies may have smaller revenues, narrower product lines, less management
depth and experience, smaller shares of their product or service markets, fewer
financial resources and less competitive strength than large-capitalization
companies. These securities may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly,
from the overall securities market.
Currency
Risk:
The Fund may invest in securities denominated in foreign currencies. Because the
Fund's NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the Fund's NAV could decline if
currencies of the underlying securities depreciate against the U.S. dollar or if
there are delays or limits on repatriation of such currencies. Generally, an
increase in the value of the U.S. dollar against a foreign currency will reduce
the value of a security denominated in that foreign currency, thereby decreasing
the Fund's NAV. Exchange rates may be volatile and may change quickly and
without warning, which could have a significant negative impact on the
Fund.
Custody
Risk: Custody risk refers to the risks in the process of clearing and
settling trades, as well as the holding of securities and other assets by local
banks, agents, and securities depositories. These risks are heightened in
jurisdictions with less developed markets or less robust settlement and custody
infrastructure and processes.
Cybersecurity
Risk: With
the increased use of technologies such as the Internet to conduct business, the
Fund, like all companies, may be susceptible to operational, information
security and related risks. Cybersecurity incidents involving the Fund and its
service providers (including, without limitation, the Adviser, fund accountant,
custodian, transfer agent and
financial intermediaries) have the ability to cause disruptions and
impact business operations, potentially resulting in financial losses,
impediments to trading, the inability of Fund shareholders to transact business,
violations of applicable privacy and other laws, regulatory fines, penalties,
reputational damage, reimbursement or other compensation costs, and/or
additional compliance costs.
Focus
Risk:
The Fund may from time to time have a significant amount of its assets invested
in a particular industry, group of industries, or one or more sectors to
approximately the same extent that the Underlying Index focuses in investments
related to a particular industry, group of industries, and/or one or more
sectors. In such event, the Fund’s performance will depend to a greater extent
on the overall condition of such industry(ies) or sector(s), and an economic,
business, political, regulatory, or other occurrence affecting such
industry(ies) or sector(s) will have an increased impact on the value of the
Fund’s shares compared to the value of shares of a fund that invests in a
broader range of industries or sectors.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Information Technology Sector: Companies
in the information technology sector are subject to rapid changes in technology
product cycles, rapid product obsolescence, government regulation, and increased
competition. Information technology companies are particularly vulnerable to
failure to obtain, or delays in obtaining, financing or regulatory approval, and
also are heavily dependent on patent and intellectual property rights. In
addition, information technology companies may have limited product lines,
markets, financial resources or personnel.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Semiconductors and Semiconductor Equipment
Industry:
The semiconductors and semiconductor equipment industry is highly competitive,
and certain companies in this industry may be restricted from operating in
certain markets due to the sensitive nature of these technologies. Companies in
this space generally seek to increase silicon capacity, improve yields, and
reduce the size in their product designs which may result in significant
increases in worldwide supply and downward pressure on prices. Companies
involved in the semiconductors and semiconductor equipment industry face
increased risk from trade agreements between countries that develop these
technologies and countries in which customers of these technologies are based.
Lack of resolution or potential imposition of trade tariffs may hinder the
companies’ ability to successfully deploy their inventories. The success of such
companies frequently depends on the ability to develop and produce competitive
new semiconductor technologies. Companies in this industry frequently undertake
substantial research and development expenses in order to remain competitive,
and a failure to successfully demonstrate advanced functionality and performance
can have a material impact on the company’s
business.
Foreign
Securities Risk: Investments in foreign securities can be riskier than U.S.
securities investments. Investments in the securities of foreign issuers
(including investments in American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) and Global
Depositary Receipts (“GDRs”)) are subject to additional risks, including lower
levels of liquidity and market efficiency; greater securities price volatility;
exchange rate fluctuations and exchange controls; less availability of public
information about issuers; limitations on foreign ownership of securities;
imposition of withholding or other taxes; imposition of restrictions on the
expatriation of the assets of the Fund; restrictions placed on U.S. investors by
U.S. regulations governing foreign investments; higher transaction and custody
costs and delays in settlement procedures; difficulties in enforcing contractual
obligations; lower levels of regulation of the securities market; weaker
accounting, disclosure and reporting requirements; and legal principles relating
to corporate governance and directors’ fiduciary duties and liabilities. The
countries in which the Fund invests may also be subject to structural risks,
including economic, political and social instability. Additionally, certain
securities held by the Fund, while traded on U.S. exchanges, may be issued by
foreign financial institutions and as such, may be subject to the risks of
investing in securities issued by foreign companies, which may not be subject to
the same regulations as companies domiciled in the U.S. Where all or a portion
of the Fund's securities trade in a market that is closed when the market in
which the Fund's Shares are listed and trading is open, there may be differences
between the last quote from the security’s closed foreign market and the value
of the security during the Fund’s domestic trading day. This, in turn, could
lead to differences between the market price of the Fund’s Shares and the
underlying value of those shares.
Geographic
Risk: The
Fund’s investments in securities of issuers located in a particular country or
geographic region may subject the Fund to certain risks to a greater extent than
if its investments were less focused, including: natural, biological or other
disasters and the spread of infectious diseases; economic, political and social
instability; security concerns; and trade disputes with key trading partners.
The securities in which the Fund invests and, consequently, the Fund is also
subject to specific risks as a result of their business operations in a
particular country or region, including, but not limited to:
Risk
of Investing in Developed Markets:
Investments in a developed country’s issuer may subject the Fund to legal,
regulatory, political, currency, security, and economic risks specific to
developed countries. Developed countries tend to represent a significant portion
of the global economy and have generally experienced slower economic growth than
some less developed countries. Certain developed countries have experienced
security concerns, such as war, terrorism
and strained international relations. Incidents involving a
country’s or region’s security may cause uncertainty in its markets and may
adversely affect its economy and the Fund’s investments. In addition, developed
countries may be adversely impacted by changes to the economic conditions of
certain key trading partners, regulatory burdens, debt burdens and the price or
availability of certain commodities.
Risk
of Investing in Emerging Markets: Investments in emerging markets may be subject to a greater risk of
loss than investments in developed markets. Securities markets of emerging
market countries are less liquid, subject to greater price volatility, have
smaller market capitalizations, have less government regulation, and are not
subject to as extensive and frequent accounting, financial, and other reporting
requirements as the securities markets of more developed countries, and there
may be greater risk associated with the custody of securities in emerging
markets. It may be difficult or impossible for the Fund to pursue claims against
an emerging market issuer in the courts of an emerging market country. There may
be significant obstacles to obtaining information necessary for investigations
into or litigation against emerging market companies and shareholders may have
limited legal rights and remedies. Emerging markets may be more likely to
experience inflation, political turmoil and rapid changes in economic conditions
than more developed markets. Emerging markets may also face other significant
internal or external risks, including the risk of war, terrorism, or other
social or political conflicts.
Risk
of Investing in the United States: Investments in United States issuers
may subject the Fund to legal, regulatory, political, currency, security, and
economic risks specific to the United States. A decrease in imports or exports,
changes in trade regulations, inflation and/or an economic recession in the U.S.
may have a material adverse effect on the U.S.
economy.
Indexing
Strategy Risk:
The Fund is not actively managed, and the Adviser does not attempt to take
defensive positions in declining markets. Unlike many investment companies, the
Fund does not seek to outperform its Underlying Index. Therefore, it would not
necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed,
respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is
underperforming. Additionally, if a constituent of the Underlying Index were
removed, even outside of a regular rebalance of the Underlying Index, the
Adviser anticipates that the Fund would sell such security. Maintaining
investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of
individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund
employed an active strategy.
Index-Related
Risk: There is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve a high degree of
correlation to the Underlying Index and therefore achieve its investment
objective. Market disruptions and regulatory restrictions could have an adverse
effect on the Fund’s ability to adjust its exposure to the required levels in
order to track the Underlying Index. Errors in index data, index computations
and/or the construction of the Underlying Index in accordance with its
methodology may occur from time to time and may not be identified and corrected
by the Index Provider for a period of time or at all, which may have an adverse
impact on the Fund and its shareholders.
Management
Risk: The Fund may not fully replicate its Underlying Index and may hold
securities not included in its Underlying Index. The Adviser’s investment
strategy, the implementation of which is subject to a number of constraints, may
cause the Fund to underperform the market or its relevant benchmark or adversely
affect the ability of the Fund to achieve its investment
objective.
Tracking
Error Risk:
Tracking error may occur because of differences between the instruments held in
the Fund's portfolio and those included in the Underlying Index, pricing
differences, transaction costs incurred by the Fund, the Fund's holding of
uninvested cash, size of the Fund, differences in timing of the accrual of or
the valuation of dividends or interest, tax gains or losses, changes to the
Underlying Index or the costs to the Fund of complying with various new or
existing regulatory requirements. This risk may be heightened during times of
increased market volatility or other unusual market conditions. Tracking error
also may result because the Fund incurs fees and expenses, while the Underlying
Index does not. ETFs that track indices with significant weight in emerging
markets issuers may experience higher tracking error than other ETFs that do not
track such indices.
International
Closed Market Trading Risk: To
the extent that the underlying investments held by the Fund trade on foreign
exchanges that may be closed when the securities exchange on which the Fund’s
Shares trade is open, there are likely to be deviations between the current
price of such an underlying security and the last quoted price for the
underlying security (i.e., the Fund’s quote from the closed foreign market).
These deviations could result in premiums or discounts to the Fund’s NAV that
may be greater than those experienced by other exchange-traded funds
("ETFs").
Issuer
Risk: Fund performance depends on the performance of individual companies
in which the Fund invests. Changes to the financial condition of any of those
companies may cause the value of such company's securities to
decline.
Market
Risk: Turbulence in the financial markets and reduced liquidity may
negatively affect issuers, which could have an adverse effect on the Fund and
its investments. The Fund’s NAV could decline over short periods due to
short-term market movements and over longer periods during market downturns.
Trade policy, including the imposition of tariffs, may dampen consumer spending
and result in decreased confidence in the markets. Additionally, political
uncertainty regarding U.S. policy, including the U.S. government’s approach to
trade, may also impact the markets. Furthermore, local, regional or global
events such as war, acts of terrorism, the spread of infectious diseases,
inflation and recessions, changes in interest or exchange rates, or other events
could have a significant impact on the Fund and its investments and trading of
its Shares. Market risk factors may result in increased volatility and/or
decreased liquidity in the securities markets.
Non-Diversification
Risk:
The Fund is classified as a “non-diversified” investment company under the
Investment Company Act of 1940 ("1940 Act"), which means that the Fund may
invest a greater portion of its assets in securities of individual issuers than
a diversified fund. As a result, changes in the market value of a single
investment may have a greater impact on the Fund’s NAV and may make the Fund
more volatile than more diversified funds.
Operational
Risk: The Fund is exposed to operational risk arising from a number of
factors, including but not limited to human error, processing and communication
errors, errors of the Fund's service providers, counterparties or other
third-parties, failed or inadequate processes, cyber security incidents, and
technology or systems failures. The Fund and the Adviser seek to reduce these
operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do
not address every possible risk and may be inadequate for those risks that they
are intended to address.
Risks
Associated with Exchange-Traded Funds:
As an ETF, the Fund is subject to the following risks:
Authorized
Participants Concentration Risk: The Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may
act as Authorized Participants and engage in creation or redemption transactions
directly with the Fund, and none of those Authorized Participants is obligated
to engage in creation and/or redemption transactions. To the extent that those
Authorized Participants exit the business or are unable to process creation
and/or redemption orders, such as in times of market stress, Shares may be more
likely to trade at a premium or discount to NAV and/or at wider intraday bid-ask
spreads, and possibly face trading halts and/or delisting from an exchange.
Authorized Participants Concentration Risk may be heightened because the Fund
invests in non-U.S. securities.
Large
Shareholder Risk: Certain
shareholders, including an Authorized Participant, the Adviser, an affiliate of
the Adviser, or funds managed by the Adviser, may own a substantial amount of
the Fund’s Shares. Redemptions by large shareholders could have a significant
negative impact on the Fund. If a large shareholder were to redeem all, or a
large portion, of its Shares, there is no guarantee that the Fund will be able
to maintain sufficient assets to continue operations in which case the Board of
Trustees may determine to liquidate the Fund. In addition, transactions by large
shareholders may account for a large percentage of the trading volume on a
national securities exchange and may, therefore, have a material upward or
downward effect on the market price of the Shares.
Listing
Standards Risk: The
Fund is required to comply with listing requirements adopted by the listing
exchange. Non-compliance with such requirements may result in the Fund's shares
being delisted by the listing exchange. Any resulting liquidation of the Fund
could cause the Fund to incur elevated transaction costs and could result in
negative tax consequences for its shareholders.
Market
Trading Risks and Premium/Discount
Risks: Shares of the Fund are publicly traded
on a national securities exchange, which may subject shareholders to numerous
market trading risks. In stressed market conditions, the market for the Shares
may become less liquid in response to the deteriorating liquidity of the Fund’s
portfolio. This adverse effect on the liquidity of the Shares, as well as
disruptions to creations and redemptions, the existence of extreme market
volatility or potential lack of assets in the Fund or an active trading market
for Shares may result in Shares trading at a significant premium or discount to
NAV. If a shareholder purchases Shares at a time when the market price is at a
premium to the NAV or sells Shares at a time when the market price is at a
discount to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain losses. The NAV of the Fund is
calculated at the end of each business day and fluctuates with changes in the
market value of the Fund’s holdings. The trading price of the Fund’s Shares
fluctuates, in some cases materially, throughout trading hours in response to
changes in the Fund’s NAV.
Securities
Lending Risk:
Securities lending involves a risk of loss because the borrower may fail to
return the securities in a timely manner or at all. If the Fund is not able to
recover the securities loaned, it may sell the collateral and purchase a
replacement security in the market. Lending securities entails a risk of loss to
the Fund if and to the extent that the market value of the loaned securities
increases and the collateral is not increased accordingly. Additionally, the
Fund will bear any loss on the
investment
of cash collateral it receives. These events could also trigger adverse tax
consequences for the Fund. As securities on loan may not be voted by the Fund,
there is a risk that the Fund may not be able to recall the securities in
sufficient time to vote on material proxy
matters.
Trading
Halt Risk:
An exchange or market may close or issue trading halts on specific securities,
or the ability to buy or sell certain securities or financial instruments may be
restricted, which may result in the Fund being unable to buy or sell certain
securities or financial instruments. In such circumstances, the Fund may be
unable to rebalance its portfolio, may be unable to accurately price its
investments and/or may incur substantial trading
losses.
Valuation
Risk: The sales price the Fund could receive for a security may differ
from the Fund’s valuation of the security and may differ from the value used by
the Underlying Index, particularly for securities that trade in low value or
volatile markets or that are valued using a fair value methodology (such as
during trading halts). The value of the securities in the Fund's portfolio may
change on days when shareholders will not be able to purchase or sell the Fund's
Shares.
PERFORMANCE
INFORMATION
The bar chart
and table that follow show how the Fund performed on a calendar year basis and
provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes
in the Fund's performance from year to year and by showing the Fund's average
annual total returns for the indicated periods compared with the Fund's
broad-based benchmark index, which reflects a broad measure of market
performance, and the Underlying Index, which the Fund seeks to
track. The Fund's past performance
(before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will
perform in the future. Updated performance information is
available online at
www.globalxetfs.com.
Annual Total Returns
(Years Ended December 31)
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6/30/2020 |
32.24% |
| Worst
Quarter: |
6/30/2022 |
-22.57% |
Average Annual
Total Returns (for the Periods Ended December 31,
2025)
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One
Year Ended December 31, 2025 |
Five
Years Ended December 31, 2025 |
Since
Inception (09/12/2016) |
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X Internet of Things ETF: |
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·Return
before taxes |
6.59% |
3.74% |
11.03% |
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·Return
after taxes on distributions1 |
6.45% |
3.57% |
10.80% |
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·Return
after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund Shares1 |
4.00% |
2.88% |
9.06% |
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MSCI
ACWI Index (USD) (NR)
(Index returns reflect
invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflect no deduction for
fees, expenses, or other
taxes) |
22.34% |
11.19% |
11.98% |
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Indxx
Global Internet of Things Thematic Index (USD) (NR)
(Index
returns reflect invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflect
no deduction for fees, expenses, or other
taxes) |
7.22% |
4.21% |
11.47% |
1
After-tax returns are
calculated using the historical highest individual U.S. federal marginal income
tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local
taxes. Your actual after-tax
returns will depend on your specific tax situation and may differ from those
shown above. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold Shares of
the Fund through tax-advantaged arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual
retirement accounts (IRAs).
FUND
MANAGEMENT
Investment
Adviser:
Global X Management Company LLC.
Portfolio
Managers: The
professionals primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the Fund
are Nam To, CFA and Wayne Xie (“Portfolio Managers”). Mr. To has been a
Portfolio Manager of the Fund since March 1, 2018. Mr. Xie has been a Portfolio
Manager of the Fund since March 1, 2019.
PURCHASE
AND SALE OF FUND SHARES
Shares
of the Fund are or will be listed and traded at market prices on a national
securities exchange. Shares may only be purchased and sold on the exchange
through a broker-dealer. The price of Shares is based on market price, and
because ETF shares trade at market prices rather than at NAV, Shares may trade
at a price greater than NAV (a premium) or less than NAV (a discount). Only
“Authorized Participants” (as defined in the SAI) who have entered into
agreements with the Fund’s distributor, SEI Investments Distribution Co.
(“Distributor”), may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with
the Fund. The Fund will only issue or redeem Shares that have been aggregated
into blocks called Creation Units. The Fund will issue or redeem Creation Units
in return for a basket of cash and/or securities that the Fund specifies any day
that the national securities exchanges are open for business (“Business Day”).
An investor may incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest
price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase shares of the Fund (bid) and the
lowest price a seller is willing to accept for shares of the Fund (ask) when
buying or selling shares in the secondary market (the “bid-ask spread”). To
access information regarding the Fund’s net asset value, market price, premiums
and discounts, and bid-ask spreads, please go to https://www.globalxetfs.com.
TAX
INFORMATION
The
Fund intends to make distributions that may be taxable to you as ordinary income
or capital gains, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement,
such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account ("IRA"), in which case
distributions from such tax-advantaged arrangement may be taxable to you.
PAYMENTS
TO BROKER-DEALERS AND OTHER FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES
The
Adviser and its related companies may pay broker-dealers or other financial
intermediaries (such as a bank) for the sale of Fund Shares and related
services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing your
broker-dealer, sales persons or other intermediary or its employees or
associated persons to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your
financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more
information.
Global X Robotics
& Artificial Intelligence ETF
Ticker:
BOTZ Exchange: NASDAQ
INVESTMENT
OBJECTIVE
The
Global X Robotics & Artificial Intelligence ETF ("Fund") seeks to provide
investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance,
before fees and expenses, of the Indxx Global Robotics & Artificial
Intelligence Thematic Index ("Underlying Index").
FEES AND
EXPENSES
This
table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and
sell shares (“Shares”) of the Fund. You
may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial
intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and examples
below.
Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment):
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Management
Fees: |
0.68% |
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Distribution
and Service (12b-1) Fees: |
None |
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Other
Expenses: |
0.00% |
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Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses: |
0.68% |
Example:
The following example
is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost
of investing in other funds. This example does not take into account customary
brokerage commissions that you pay when purchasing or selling Shares of the Fund
in the secondary market. The example assumes
that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then hold
or sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes
that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating
expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower,
based on these assumptions, your costs would be:
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One
Year |
Three
Years |
Five
Years |
Ten
Years |
| $69 |
$218 |
$379 |
$847 |
Portfolio
Turnover:
The Fund pays transaction
costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over"
its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction
costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account.
These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the
example, affect the Fund's performance. For the most recent fiscal period, the
Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 12.11% of the average value of its
portfolio.
PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT
STRATEGIES
The Fund
invests at least 80% of its total assets in the securities of the Indxx Global
Robotics & Artificial Intelligence Thematic Index ("Underlying Index"). The
Fund's 80% investment policy is non-fundamental and requires 60 days prior
written notice to shareholders before it can be changed. The
Fund may lend securities representing up to one-third of the value of the Fund’s
total assets (including the value of the collateral received).
The
Underlying Index is designed to provide exposure to exchange-listed companies in
developed markets and China that are involved in the development of robotics
and/or artificial intelligence, including companies involved in developing
industrial robotics and automation, non-industrial robots, humanoid technology,
artificial intelligence and unmanned vehicles (collectively, "Robotics &
Artificial Intelligence Companies"), as defined by Indxx, LLC, the provider of
the Underlying Index ("Index Provider").
The
eligible universe of the Underlying Index includes among the most liquid and
investable companies in accordance with the standard market capitalization and
liquidity criteria, as defined by the Index Provider. As of January 31,
2026, companies must have a minimum market capitalization of $300 million and a
minimum average daily turnover for the last 6 months (or since the IPO launch
date for Significant IPOs as defined by the Index Provider or 3 months, in the
case of other IPOs) greater than or equal to $2 million in order to be eligible
for inclusion in the Underlying Index. As of January 31, 2026, components
from the
following
countries were eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index: Australia,
Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong,
Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland,
Portugal, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United
Kingdom and the United States. The Fund may invest in China A-Shares, which are
issued by companies incorporated in mainland China and traded on Chinese
exchanges. In addition, ADRs and GDRs of companies incorporated or with primary
listing in China are eligible for inclusion. Investments in ADRs and GDRs based
on the securities in the Underlying Index are considered investments in
securities of the Underlying Index for purposes of the Fund’s 80% investment
policy.
From
the eligible universe, the Index Provider identifies Robotics & Artificial
Intelligence Companies by applying a proprietary analysis that consists of two
primary components: theme identification and company analysis. As part of the
first step of the process, theme identification, the Index Provider analyzes
industry reports, investment research and consumer data related to the robotics
and artificial intelligence industry in order to establish the themes that are
expected to provide the most exposure to the growth of the robotics and
artificial intelligence industry. As of January 31, 2026, the Index
Provider has identified the following five robotics and artificial intelligence
themes: (1) Industrial Robotics and Automation, (2) Unmanned Vehicles and
Drones, (3) Non-Industrial Robotics, (4) Humanoid Technology and (5) Artificial
Intelligence (collectively, "Robotics & Artificial Intelligence Themes").
In
the second step of the process, company analysis, companies are analyzed based
on two primary criteria: revenue exposure and primary business operations.
“Robotics & Artificial Intelligence Companies” are those companies
identified by the Index Provider that derive at least 50% of their revenues from
the eligible robotics and artificial intelligence sub-themes or have stated
their primary business to be in products and services focused on these segments.
In addition, companies identified by the Index Provider as deriving less than
50% of revenue from the eligible robotics and artificial intelligence themes but
are recognized as significant contributors to the space ("Diversified Robotics
& Artificial Intelligence Companies"), as well as companies identified by
the Index Provider as having primary business operations in the business
activities described above but that do not currently generate revenues
(“Pre-Revenue Robotics & Artificial Intelligence Companies”), are eligible
for inclusion in the Underlying Index. A maximum of 10 Diversified Robotics
& Artificial Intelligence Companies may be included in the Underlying Index
at any time.
The
Underlying Index is weighted according to a modified capitalization weighting
methodology and is reconstituted and rebalanced semi-annually. At the
semi-annual rebalance, a capping methodology is applied to reduce concentration
in individual securities and increase diversification of the Underlying Index.
During each rebalance, Diversified Robotics & Artificial Intelligence
Companies are subject to an individual weight cap of 2% and an aggregate cap of
10%, Chinese companies are subject to an individual weight cap of 8% and an
aggregate cap of 10%, and Robotics & Artificial Intelligence Companies and
Pre-Revenue Robotics & Artificial Intelligence Companies are subject to an
individual weight cap of 8%. The Underlying Index may include large-, mid- or
small-capitalization companies, and components primarily include industrials and
information technology companies. The Fund's investment objective and Underlying
Index may be changed without shareholder approval.
The
Underlying Index is sponsored by the Index Provider, which is an organization
that is independent of, and unaffiliated with, the Fund and Global X Management
Company LLC, the investment adviser for the Fund ("Adviser"). The Index Provider
determines the relative weightings of the securities in the Underlying Index and
publishes information regarding the market value of the Underlying
Index.
The
Adviser uses an indexing approach to try to achieve the Fund's investment
objective. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not try to outperform
the Underlying Index and does not seek temporary defensive positions when
markets decline or appear overvalued.
The
Fund generally will use a replication strategy. A replication strategy is an
indexing strategy that involves investing in the securities of the Underlying
Index in approximately the same proportions as in the Underlying Index. However,
the Fund may utilize a representative sampling strategy with respect to the
Underlying Index when a replication strategy might be detrimental or
disadvantageous to shareholders, such as when there are practical difficulties
or substantial costs involved in compiling a portfolio of equity securities to
replicate the Underlying Index, in instances in which a security in the
Underlying Index becomes temporarily illiquid, unavailable or less liquid, or as
a result of legal restrictions or limitations (such as tax diversification
requirements) that apply to the Fund but not the Underlying Index.
The
Adviser expects that, over time, the correlation between the Fund's performance
and that of the Underlying Index, before fees and expenses, will exceed 95%. A
correlation percentage of 100% would indicate perfect correlation. If the Fund
uses a replication strategy, it can be expected to have greater correlation to
the Underlying Index than if it uses a representative sampling
strategy.
The Fund
concentrates its investments (i.e., holds 25% or more of its total assets) in a
particular industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent that
the Underlying Index is concentrated. As of January 31, 2026, the
Underlying Index was concentrated in the machinery industry and had significant
exposure to the industrials and information technology sectors.
The Fund is classified as “non-diversified,” which means it may invest a larger
percentage of its assets in a smaller number of issuers than a diversified
fund.
SUMMARY
OF PRINCIPAL RISKS
As with any
investment, you could lose all or part of your investment in the Fund, and the
Fund’s performance could trail that of other investments. There
is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its investment objective.
An investment in the Fund is not a bank deposit and it is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other
government agency, the Adviser or any of its affiliates. The
Fund is subject to the principal risks noted below, any of which may adversely
affect the Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”), trading price, yield, total return
and ability to meet its investment objective, as well as other risks that are
described in greater detail in the Additional
Information About the Funds
section of this Prospectus and in the Statement of Additional Information
(“SAI”).
Asset
Class Risk:
Securities and other assets in the Underlying Index or otherwise held in the
Fund's portfolio may underperform in comparison to the general securities
markets, a particular securities market or other asset classes.
China
A-Shares Risk: A-Shares
are issued by companies incorporated in mainland China and are traded on Chinese
exchanges. Foreign investors can access investments in A-Shares by obtaining a
Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor ("QFII") or a Renminbi Qualified
Foreign Institutional Investor ("RQFII") license, as well as through the Stock
Connect Program, which is a securities trading and clearing program with an aim
to achieve mutual stock market access between the China and Hong Kong markets.
Stock Connect was developed by Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited, the
Shanghai Stock Exchange ("SSE") (in the case of Shanghai Connect) or the
Shenzhen Stock Exchange ("SZSE") (in the case of Shenzhen Connect), and the
China Securities Depository and Clearing Corporation Limited (“CSDCC”). The Fund
currently intends to gain exposure to A-Shares through the Stock Connect
Programs. The markets on which A-Shares trade are considered emerging markets
characterized by generally low trading volume and less market liquidity due to
various factors. For example, investments in A-Shares are subject to various
regulations and limits, and the recoupment or repatriation of assets invested in
A-Shares is subject to restrictions imposed by the Chinese government. In
addition, investors from outside mainland China may face difficulties or
prohibitions accessing certain A-Shares that are part of a restricted list in
countries such as the U.S. A-Shares may also be subject to frequent and
widespread trading halts, which can increase pricing volatility and cause the
A-Shares to become illiquid. Trading suspensions in certain stock could lead to
greater market execution, clearing and settlement risks and costs for the Fund,
and the creation and redemption of Creation Units (as defined below) may also be
disrupted. These risks, among others, could adversely affect the value of the
Fund’s investments.
Equity
Securities Risk: Equity securities are subject to
changes in value, and their values may be more volatile than other asset
classes, as a result of a company’s business performance, investor perceptions,
stock market trends and general economic
conditions.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Robotics & Artificial Intelligence
Companies: Robotics & Artificial Intelligence companies may have limited
product lines, markets, financial resources or personnel. These companies
typically face risks posed by intense competition and potentially rapid product
obsolescence, as well as government regulation and increased regulatory
scrutiny. These companies are also heavily dependent on intellectual property
rights and may be adversely affected by loss or impairment of those rights.
There can be no assurance these companies will be able to successfully protect
their intellectual property to prevent the misappropriation of their technology,
or that competitors will not develop technology that is substantially similar or
superior to such companies’ technology. Robotics & Artificial Intelligence
companies typically engage in significant amounts of spending on research and
development, and there is no guarantee that the products or services produced by
these companies will be successful. Rapid changes to technologies that affect a
company’s products could have a material adverse effect on such company’s
operating results. Robotics & Artificial Intelligence companies are also
potential targets for cyberattacks, which can have a materially adverse impact
on the performance of these companies. Robotics & Artificial Intelligence
companies, especially smaller companies, tend to be more volatile than companies
that do not rely heavily on technology.
Capitalization
Risk:
Investing in issuers within the same market capitalization category carries the
risk that the category may be out of favor due to current market conditions or
investor sentiment.
Large-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Large-capitalization
companies may adapt more slowly to new competitive challenges and changing
market conditions than smaller capitalization companies. In addition,
large-capitalization companies may be more mature and subject to more limited
growth potential and consequently may underperform other segments of the equity
market or the market as a whole.
Mid-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Mid-capitalization
companies may have greater price volatility, lower trading volume and less
liquidity than large-capitalization companies. In addition, mid-capitalization
companies may have smaller revenues, narrower product lines, less management
depth and experience, smaller shares of their product or service markets, fewer
financial resources and less competitive strength than large-capitalization
companies. These securities may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly,
from the overall securities
market.
Currency
Risk:
The Fund may invest in securities denominated in foreign currencies. Because the
Fund's NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the Fund's NAV could decline if
currencies of the underlying securities depreciate against the U.S. dollar or if
there are delays or limits on repatriation of such currencies. Generally, an
increase in the value of the U.S. dollar against a foreign currency will reduce
the value of a security denominated in that foreign currency, thereby decreasing
the Fund's NAV. Exchange rates may be volatile and may change quickly and
without warning, which could have a significant negative impact on the
Fund.
Cybersecurity
Risk: With the increased use of technologies such as the Internet to
conduct business, the Fund, like all companies, may be susceptible to
operational, information security and related risks. Cybersecurity incidents
involving the Fund and its service providers (including, without limitation, the
Adviser, fund accountant, custodian, transfer agent and financial
intermediaries) have the ability to cause disruptions and impact business
operations, potentially resulting in financial losses, impediments to trading,
the inability of Fund shareholders to transact business, violations of
applicable privacy and other laws, regulatory fines, penalties, reputational
damage, reimbursement or other compensation costs, and/or additional compliance
costs.
Focus
Risk:
The Fund may from time to time have a significant amount of its assets invested
in a particular industry, group of industries, or one or more sectors to
approximately the same extent that the Underlying Index focuses in investments
related to a particular industry, group of industries, and/or one or more
sectors. In such event, the Fund’s performance will depend to a greater extent
on the overall condition of such industry(ies) or sector(s), and an economic,
business, political, regulatory, or other occurrence affecting such
industry(ies) or sector(s) will have an increased impact on the value of the
Fund’s shares compared to the value of shares of a fund that invests in a
broader range of industries or sectors.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Industrials Sector: Companies in the industrials sector are subject to fluctuations in
supply and demand for their specific product or service. The products of
manufacturing companies may face product obsolescence due to rapid technological
developments. Government regulation, world events and economic conditions affect
the performance of companies in the industrials sector. Companies also may be
adversely affected by environmental damage and product liability claims. Also,
commodity price volatility, changes in exchange rates, imposition of import
controls or tariffs, increased competition, depletion of resources,
technological developments and labor relations could adversely affect the
companies in this sector.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Information Technology Sector: Companies
in the information technology sector are subject to rapid changes in technology
product cycles, rapid product obsolescence, government regulation, and increased
competition. Information technology companies are particularly vulnerable to
failure to obtain, or delays in obtaining, financing or regulatory approval, and
also are heavily dependent on patent and intellectual property rights. In
addition, information technology companies may have limited product lines,
markets, financial resources or personnel.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Machinery Industry:
The machinery industry is capital-intensive. Working capital and cash flow
management can be crucial to a company's success, as investments in research and
development and acquisitions may be important to maintain sales and earnings. A
long capital investment cycle can add challenges to management decisions
regarding the expansion of capacity, which may limit a company’s ability to grow
during periods of increasing demand and may result in overcapacity during
periods of decreasing demand. The performance of the machinery industry may
therefore be highly dependent on the business cycle and highly correlated with
the performance of the broader equity market. Machinery industry companies with
large barriers to entry based on proprietary technology may face potentially
rapid product obsolescence. Conversely, machine industry companies that produce
commodity-like offerings are likely to face thin margins and must maintain
expansive distribution and support networks in order to maintain adequate
volume.
Foreign
Securities Risk: Investments in foreign securities can be riskier than U.S.
securities investments. Investments in the securities of foreign issuers
(including investments in American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) and Global
Depositary Receipts (“GDRs”)) are subject to additional risks, including lower
levels of liquidity and market efficiency; greater securities price volatility;
exchange rate fluctuations and exchange controls; less availability of public
information about issuers; limitations on foreign ownership of securities;
imposition of withholding or other taxes; imposition of restrictions on the
expatriation of the assets of the Fund; restrictions placed on U.S. investors by
U.S. regulations governing foreign investments; higher transaction and custody
costs and delays in settlement procedures; difficulties in enforcing contractual
obligations; lower levels of regulation of the securities market; weaker
accounting, disclosure and reporting requirements; and legal principles relating
to corporate governance and directors’ fiduciary duties and liabilities. The
countries in which the Fund invests may also be subject to structural risks,
including economic, political and social instability. Additionally, certain
securities held by the Fund, while traded on U.S. exchanges, may be issued by
foreign financial institutions and as such, may be subject to the risks of
investing in securities issued by foreign companies, which may not be subject to
the same regulations as companies domiciled in the U.S. Where all or a portion
of the Fund's securities trade in a market that is closed when the market in
which the Fund's Shares are listed and trading is open, there may be differences
between the last quote from the security’s closed foreign market and the value
of the security during the Fund’s domestic trading day. This, in turn, could
lead to differences between the market price of the Fund’s Shares and the
underlying value of those shares.
Geographic
Risk: The
Fund’s investments in securities of issuers located in a particular country or
geographic region may subject the Fund to certain risks to a greater extent than
if its investments were less focused, including: natural, biological or other
disasters and the spread of infectious diseases; economic, political and social
instability; security concerns; and trade disputes with key trading partners.
The securities in which the Fund invests and, consequently, the Fund is also
subject to specific risks as a result of their business operations in a
particular country or region, including, but not limited to:
Risk
of Investing in China: Investments
in Chinese securities may subject the Fund to legal, regulatory, political,
currency, security, and economic risks specific to China. China may be subject
to considerable degrees of economic, political and social instability. Concerns
about the rising government and household debt levels could impact the stability
of the Chinese economy. Despite economic and market reform in recent decades,
the Chinese government’s control over certain sectors and enterprises and
significant regulation of investment and industry are pervasive. Chinese
companies are subject to the risk that Chinese authorities can intervene in
their operations and structure. Internal social unrest or confrontations with
other countries, including military conflicts in response to such events, may
disrupt economic development in China and result in a greater risk of currency
fluctuations, currency convertibility, interest rate fluctuations and higher
rates of inflation.
The
Chinese economy is highly reliant on trade. Reduction in spending on Chinese
products and services, institution of additional tariffs or other trade barriers
(including as a result of heightened trade tensions between China and the U.S.
or in response to actual or alleged Chinese cyber activity), or a downturn in
any of the economies of China’s key trading partners may have an adverse impact
on the Chinese economy.
China
has experienced security concerns, such as terrorism and strained international
relations. Additionally, China is alleged to have participated in
state-sponsored cyberattacks against foreign companies and foreign governments.
Actual and threatened responses to such activity, including purchasing
restrictions, sanctions, tariffs or cyberattacks on the Chinese government or
Chinese companies, may impact China’s economy and Chinese issuers in which the
Fund invests. Incidents involving China’s or the region’s security may adversely
affect the Chinese economy and the Fund’s investments. Chinese companies,
including those listed on U.S. exchanges, are not subject to the same degree of
regulatory requirements, accounting standards or auditor oversight as companies
in more developed countries, and as a result, information about the Chinese
securities in which the Fund invests may be less reliable or complete. There may
be significant obstacles to obtaining information necessary for investigations
into or litigation against Chinese companies and shareholders may have limited
legal remedies. Investments in China may be subject to loss due to
expropriation, nationalization, confiscation of assets and property, and or the
imposition of restrictions on foreign investments and repatriation of capital.
In addition, many Chinese companies listed on U.S. exchanges use variable
interest entities (“VIEs”) in their structure as a result of foreign ownership
restriction. Any change in the operations of entities in a VIE structure, the
status of VIE contractual arrangements or the legal or regulatory environment in
China could result in significant, and possibly permanent and/or total, losses
for investments in VIE issuers.
Risk
of Investing in Developed Markets:
Investments in a developed country’s issuer may subject the Fund to legal,
regulatory, political, currency, security, and economic risks specific to
developed countries. Developed countries tend to represent a significant portion
of the global economy and have generally experienced slower economic growth than
some less developed countries. Certain developed countries have experienced
security concerns, such as war, terrorism
and strained international relations. Incidents involving a
country’s or region’s security may cause uncertainty in its markets and may
adversely affect its economy and the Fund’s investments. In addition, developed
countries may be adversely impacted by changes to the economic conditions of
certain key trading partners, regulatory burdens, debt burdens and the price or
availability of certain commodities.
Risk
of Investing in Emerging Markets: Investments in emerging markets may be subject to a greater risk of
loss than investments in developed markets. Securities markets of emerging
market countries are less liquid, subject to greater price volatility, have
smaller market capitalizations, have less government regulation, and are not
subject to as extensive and frequent accounting, financial, and other reporting
requirements as the securities markets of more developed countries, and there
may be greater risk associated with the custody of securities in emerging
markets. It may be difficult or impossible for the Fund to pursue claims against
an emerging market issuer in the courts of an emerging market country. There may
be significant obstacles to obtaining information necessary for investigations
into or litigation against emerging market companies and shareholders may have
limited legal rights and remedies. Emerging markets may be more likely to
experience inflation, political turmoil and rapid changes in economic conditions
than more developed markets. Emerging markets may also face other significant
internal or external risks, including the risk of war, terrorism, or other
social or political conflicts.
Risk
of Investing in Japan: Investments in Japanese issuers may subject the Fund to legal,
regulatory, political, currency, security, and economic risks specific to Japan.
The Japanese economy may be subject to considerable degrees of economic,
political and social instability, which could have a negative impact on Japanese
securities. The Japanese economy is heavily dependent on international trade,
oil and other commodity imports and consistent government policy supporting its
exports. Changes in governmental regulations on trade, decreasing imports or
exports, and/or an economic recession in Japan may cause the value of the Fund's
investments to decline. Downturns in the economies of key trading partners such
as the U.S., China and/or countries in Southeast Asia, including economic,
political or social instability in such countries, could also have a negative
impact on the Japanese economy. In addition, Japan is subject to the risk of
natural disasters, such as earthquakes, volcanoes, typhoons and tsunamis, which
could negatively affect the Fund. Japan’s relations with neighboring countries
have at times been strained, and strained relations with its neighboring
countries or trading partners may cause uncertainty in the Japanese markets and
adversely affect the overall Japanese economy.
Risk
of Investing in the United States:
Investments in United States issuers
may subject the Fund to legal, regulatory, political, currency, security, and
economic risks specific to the United States. A decrease in imports or exports,
changes in trade regulations, inflation and/or an economic recession in the U.S.
may have a material adverse effect on the U.S.
economy.
Indexing
Strategy Risk:
The Fund is not actively managed, and the Adviser does not attempt to take
defensive positions in declining markets. Unlike many investment companies, the
Fund does not seek to outperform its Underlying Index. Therefore, it would not
necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed,
respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is
underperforming. Additionally, if a constituent of the Underlying Index were
removed, even outside of a regular rebalance of the Underlying Index, the
Adviser anticipates that the Fund would sell such security. Maintaining
investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of
individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund
employed an active strategy.
Index-Related
Risk: There is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve a high degree of
correlation to the Underlying Index and therefore achieve its investment
objective. Market disruptions and regulatory restrictions could have an adverse
effect on the Fund’s ability to adjust its exposure to the required levels in
order to track the Underlying Index. Errors in index data, index computations
and/or the construction of the Underlying Index in accordance with its
methodology may occur from time to time and may not be identified and corrected
by the Index Provider for a period of time or at all, which may have an adverse
impact on the Fund and its shareholders.
Management
Risk: The Fund may not fully replicate its Underlying Index and may hold
securities not included in its Underlying Index. The Adviser’s investment
strategy, the implementation of which is subject to a number of constraints, may
cause the Fund to underperform the market or its relevant benchmark or adversely
affect the ability of the Fund to achieve its investment
objective.
Tracking
Error Risk:
Tracking error may occur because of differences between the instruments held in
the Fund's portfolio and those included in the Underlying Index, pricing
differences, transaction costs incurred by the Fund, the Fund's holding of
uninvested cash, size of the Fund, differences in timing of the accrual of or
the valuation of dividends or interest, tax gains or losses, changes to the
Underlying Index or the costs to the Fund of complying with
various new or existing regulatory
requirements. This risk may be heightened during times of increased market
volatility or other unusual market conditions. Tracking error also may result
because the Fund incurs fees and expenses, while the Underlying Index does
not.
International
Closed Market Trading Risk: To
the extent that the underlying investments held by the Fund trade on foreign
exchanges that may be closed when the securities exchange on which the Fund’s
Shares trade is open, there are likely to be deviations between the current
price of such an underlying security and the last quoted price for the
underlying security (i.e., the Fund’s quote from the closed foreign market).
These deviations could result in premiums or discounts to the Fund’s NAV that
may be greater than those experienced by other exchange-traded funds
("ETFs").
Investable
Universe of Companies Risk:
The investable universe of companies in which the Fund may invest may be
limited. If a company no longer meets the Index Provider’s criteria for
inclusion in the Underlying Index, the Fund may need to reduce or eliminate its
holdings in that company. The reduction or elimination of the Fund’s holdings in
the company may have an adverse impact on the liquidity of the Fund’s overall
portfolio holdings and on Fund performance.
Issuer
Risk: Fund performance depends on the performance of individual companies
in which the Fund invests. Changes to the financial condition of any of those
companies may cause the value of such company's securities to
decline.
Market
Risk: Turbulence in the financial markets and reduced liquidity may
negatively affect issuers, which could have an adverse effect on the Fund and
its investments. The Fund’s NAV could decline over short periods due to
short-term market movements and over longer periods during market downturns.
Trade policy, including the imposition of tariffs, may dampen consumer spending
and result in decreased confidence in the markets. Additionally, political
uncertainty regarding U.S. policy, including the U.S. government’s approach to
trade, may also impact the markets. Furthermore, local, regional or global
events such as war, acts of terrorism, the spread of infectious diseases,
inflation and recessions, changes in interest or exchange rates, or other events
could have a significant impact on the Fund and its investments and trading of
its Shares. Market risk factors may result in increased volatility and/or
decreased liquidity in the securities markets.
Non-Diversification
Risk: The Fund is classified as a “non-diversified” investment company
under the Investment Company Act of 1940 ("1940 Act"), which means that the Fund
may invest a greater portion of its assets in securities of individual issuers
than a diversified fund. As a result, changes in the market value of a single
investment may have a greater impact on the Fund’s NAV and may make the Fund
more volatile than more diversified funds.
Operational
Risk: The Fund is exposed to operational risk arising from a number of
factors, including but not limited to human error, processing and communication
errors, errors of the Fund's service providers, counterparties or other
third-parties, failed or inadequate processes, cyber security incidents, and
technology or systems failures. The Fund and the Adviser seek to reduce these
operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do
not address every possible risk and may be inadequate for those risks that they
are intended to address.
Risks
Associated with Exchange-Traded Funds:
As an ETF, the Fund is subject to the following risks:
Authorized
Participants Concentration Risk: The Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may
act as Authorized Participants and engage in creation or redemption transactions
directly with the Fund, and none of those Authorized Participants is obligated
to engage in creation and/or redemption transactions. To the extent that those
Authorized Participants exit the business or are unable to process creation
and/or redemption orders, such as in times of market stress, Shares may be more
likely to trade at a premium or discount to NAV and/or at wider intraday bid-ask
spreads, and possibly face trading halts and/or delisting from an exchange.
Authorized Participants Concentration Risk may be heightened because the Fund
invests in non-U.S. securities.
Large
Shareholder Risk: Certain
shareholders, including an Authorized Participant, the Adviser, an affiliate of
the Adviser, or funds managed by the Adviser, may own a substantial amount of
the Fund’s Shares. Redemptions by large shareholders could have a significant
negative impact on the Fund. If a large shareholder were to redeem all, or a
large portion, of its Shares, there is no guarantee that the Fund will be able
to maintain sufficient assets to continue operations in which case the Board of
Trustees may determine to liquidate the Fund. In addition, transactions by large
shareholders may account for a large percentage of the trading volume on a
national securities exchange and may, therefore, have a material upward or
downward effect on the market price of the Shares.
Listing
Standards Risk: The
Fund is required to comply with listing requirements adopted by the listing
exchange. Non-compliance with such requirements may result in the Fund's shares
being delisted by the listing exchange. Any
resulting
liquidation of the Fund could cause the Fund to incur elevated transaction costs
and could result in negative tax consequences for its
shareholders.
Market
Trading Risks and Premium/Discount
Risks: Shares of the Fund are publicly traded
on a national securities exchange, which may subject shareholders to numerous
market trading risks. In stressed market conditions, the market for the Shares
may become less liquid in response to the deteriorating liquidity of the Fund’s
portfolio. This adverse effect on the liquidity of the Shares, as well as
disruptions to creations and redemptions, the existence of extreme market
volatility or potential lack of assets in the Fund or an active trading market
for Shares may result in Shares trading at a significant premium or discount to
NAV. If a shareholder purchases Shares at a time when the market price is at a
premium to the NAV or sells Shares at a time when the market price is at a
discount to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain losses. The NAV of the Fund is
calculated at the end of each business day and fluctuates with changes in the
market value of the Fund’s holdings. The trading price of the Fund’s Shares
fluctuates, in some cases materially, throughout trading hours in response to
changes in the Fund’s NAV.
Risks
Related to Stock Connect Programs: A
Fund may purchase shares in mainland China-based companies that trade on Chinese
stock exchanges (“China A-Shares”) through the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect
program and Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect program (“the Stock Connect
Programs”). Trading through the Stock Connect Programs is subject to a number of
restrictions, including daily and aggregate quota limitations, which may
restrict or preclude the Fund’s ability to enter into and exit Stock Connect
positions on a timely basis. The Shenzhen and Shanghai markets may operate when
the Stock Connect Programs are not active, and consequently the prices of shares
held via Stock Connect Programs may fluctuate at times when the Fund is unable
to add to or exit its positions. The Stock Connect Programs are relatively new
trading platforms, and the effect of the introduction of large numbers of
foreign investors on the market for trading Chinese-listed securities is not yet
well understood. Further developments to the Stock Connect Programs are likely
and there can be no assurance as to whether or how such developments may
restrict or affect the Fund’s investments or returns. Regulations, such as
limitations on redemptions or suspension of trading, may adversely impact the
Stock Connect Programs and in turn, adversely impact the value of the Fund’s
investments. The Fund's investments in A-Shares though the Stock Connect Program
are held by its custodian in accounts in Central Clearing and Settlement System
("CCASS") maintained by the Hong Kong Securities Clearing Company Limited
("HKSCC"), which in turn holds the A-Shares, as the nominee holder, through an
omnibus securities account in its name registered with the CSDCC. The precise
nature and rights of the Fund as the beneficial owner of the SSE Securities or
SZSE Securities through HKSCC as nominee is not well defined under Chinese law.
There is no guarantee that the Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Hong Kong Stock Exchanges
will continue to support the Stock Connect Programs in the
future.
Securities
Lending Risk: Securities lending involves a risk of loss because the borrower may
fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. If the Fund is not
able to recover the securities loaned, it may sell the collateral and purchase a
replacement security in the market. Lending securities entails a risk of loss to
the Fund if and to the extent that the market value of the loaned securities
increases and the collateral is not increased accordingly. Additionally, the
Fund will bear any loss on the investment of cash collateral it receives. These
events could also trigger adverse tax consequences for the Fund. As securities
on loan may not be voted by the Fund, there is a risk that the Fund may not be
able to recall the securities in sufficient time to vote on material proxy
matters.
Trading
Halt Risk:
An exchange or market may close or issue trading halts on specific securities,
or the ability to buy or sell certain securities or financial instruments may be
restricted, which may result in the Fund being unable to buy or sell certain
securities or financial instruments. In such circumstances, the Fund may be
unable to rebalance its portfolio, may be unable to accurately price its
investments and/or may incur substantial trading
losses.
Valuation
Risk:
The sales price the Fund could receive for a security may differ from the Fund’s
valuation of the security and may differ from the value used by the Underlying
Index, particularly for securities that trade in low value or volatile markets
or that are valued using a fair value methodology (such as during trading
halts). The value of the securities in the Fund's portfolio may change on days
when shareholders will not be able to purchase or sell the Fund's
Shares.
PERFORMANCE
INFORMATION
The bar chart
and table that follow show how the Fund performed on a calendar year basis and
provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes
in the Fund's performance from year to year and by showing the Fund's average
annual total returns for the indicated periods compared with the Fund's
broad-based benchmark index, which reflects a broad measure of market
performance, and the Underlying Index, which the Fund seeks to
track. The Fund's past performance
(before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will
perform in the future. Updated performance information is
available online at
www.globalxetfs.com.
Annual Total Returns
(Years Ended December 31)
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Quarter: |
6/30/2020 |
31.02% |
| Worst
Quarter: |
6/30/2022 |
-30.31% |
Average Annual
Total Returns (for the Periods Ended December 31,
2025)
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One
Year Ended December 31, 2025 |
Five
Years Ended December 31, 2025 |
Since
Inception (09/12/2016) |
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X Robotics & Artificial Intelligence ETF: |
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·Return
before taxes |
13.71% |
2.11% |
10.54% |
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·Return
after taxes on distributions1 |
13.56% |
2.08% |
10.48% |
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·Return
after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund Shares1 |
8.28% |
1.64% |
8.72% |
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MSCI
ACWI Index (USD) (NR)
(Index returns reflect
invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflect no deduction for
fees, expenses, or other
taxes) |
22.34% |
11.19% |
11.98% |
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Indxx
Global Robotics & Artificial Intelligence Thematic Index (NR)
(USD)2
(Index
returns reflect invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflect
no deduction for fees, expenses, or other
taxes) |
13.98% |
2.60% |
10.95% |
1
After-tax returns are
calculated using the historical highest individual U.S. federal marginal income
tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local
taxes. Your actual after-tax
returns will depend on your specific tax situation and may differ from those
shown above. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold Shares of
the Fund through tax-advantaged arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual
retirement accounts (IRAs).
2
The
Underlying Index underwent changes to its methodology effective March 13,
2026.
FUND
MANAGEMENT
Investment
Adviser:
Global X Management Company LLC.
Portfolio
Managers:
The professionals primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the
Fund are Nam To, CFA and Wayne Xie (“Portfolio Managers”). Mr. To has been a
Portfolio Manager of the Fund since March 1, 2018. Mr. Xie has been a Portfolio
Manager of the Fund since March 1, 2019.
PURCHASE
AND SALE OF FUND SHARES
Shares
of the Fund are or will be listed and traded at market prices on a national
securities exchange. Shares may only be purchased and sold on the exchange
through a broker-dealer. The price of Shares is based on market price, and
because ETF shares trade at market prices rather than at NAV, Shares may trade
at a price greater than NAV (a premium) or less than NAV (a discount). Only
“Authorized Participants” (as defined in the SAI) who have entered into
agreements with the Fund’s distributor, SEI Investments Distribution Co.
(“Distributor”), may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with
the Fund. The Fund will only issue or redeem Shares that have been aggregated
into blocks called Creation Units. The Fund will issue or redeem Creation Units
in return for a basket of cash and/or securities that the Fund specifies any day
that the national securities exchanges are open for business (“Business Day”).
An investor may incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest
price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase shares of the Fund (bid) and the
lowest price a seller is willing to accept for shares of the Fund (ask) when
buying or selling shares in the secondary market (the “bid-ask spread”). To
access information regarding the Fund’s net asset value, market price, premiums
and discounts, and bid-ask spreads, please go to https://www.globalxetfs.com.
TAX
INFORMATION
The
Fund intends to make distributions that may be taxable to you as ordinary income
or capital gains, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement,
such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account ("IRA"), in which case
distributions from such tax-advantaged arrangement may be taxable to you.
PAYMENTS
TO BROKER-DEALERS AND OTHER FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES
The
Adviser and its related companies may pay broker-dealers or other financial
intermediaries (such as a bank) for the sale of Fund Shares and related
services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing your
broker-dealer, sales persons or other intermediary or its employees or
associated persons to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your
financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more
information.
Global X U.S.
Infrastructure Development ETF
Ticker:
PAVE Exchange: Cboe BZX
INVESTMENT
OBJECTIVE
The
Global X U.S. Infrastructure Development ETF ("Fund") seeks to provide
investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance,
before fees and expenses, of the Indxx U.S. Infrastructure Development Index
("Underlying Index").
FEES AND
EXPENSES
This
table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and
sell shares (“Shares”) of the Fund. You
may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial
intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and examples
below.
Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment):
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Management
Fees: |
0.47% |
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Distribution
and Service (12b-1) Fees: |
None |
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Other
Expenses: |
0.00% |
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Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses: |
0.47% |
Example:
The following example
is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost
of investing in other funds. This example does not take into account customary
brokerage commissions that you pay when purchasing or selling Shares of the Fund
in the secondary market. The example assumes
that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then hold
or sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes
that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating
expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower,
based on these assumptions, your costs would be:
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One
Year |
Three
Years |
Five
Years |
Ten
Years |
| $48 |
$151 |
$263 |
$591 |
Portfolio
Turnover:
The Fund pays transaction
costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over"
its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction
costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account.
These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the
example, affect the Fund's performance. For the most recent fiscal period, the
Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 9.98% of the average value of its
portfolio.
PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT
STRATEGIES
The
Fund invests at least 80% of its total assets in the securities of the Indxx
U.S. Infrastructure Development Index ("Underlying Index"). The Fund's 80%
investment policy is non-fundamental and requires 60 days prior written notice
to shareholders before it can be changed. The Fund may lend securities
representing up to one-third of the value of the Fund’s total assets (including
the value of the collateral received).
The
Underlying Index is designed to measure the performance of U.S. listed companies
that provide exposure to domestic infrastructure development, including
companies involved in construction and engineering; production of infrastructure
raw materials, composites and products; industrial transportation; and
producers/distributors of heavy construction equipment (collectively, "U.S.
Infrastructure Development Companies"), as defined by Indxx, LLC, the provider
of the Underlying Index ("Index Provider").
The
eligible universe of the Underlying Index includes the most liquid and
investable companies in accordance with the standard market capitalization and
liquidity criteria associated with developed markets, as defined by the Index
Provider. As of January 31, 2026, companies must have a minimum market
capitalization of $300 million and a minimum average daily turnover for the last
6 months (or since the IPO launch date for Significant IPOs as defined by the
Index Provider) greater than or equal to $1 million in order to be eligible for
inclusion in the Underlying Index. The Underlying Index only includes companies
listed in the United States.
From
the eligible universe, the Index Provider identifies U.S. Infrastructure
Development Companies by applying a proprietary analysis that consists of two
primary components: theme identification and company analysis. As part of the
theme identification process, the Index Provider analyzes industry reports,
investment research and spending trends related to infrastructure development in
order to establish the themes that are expected to provide the most exposure to
increased investment in U.S. infrastructure. As of January 31, 2026, the
Index Provider has identified the following four U.S. infrastructure development
themes: (1) Construction and Engineering Services, (2) Raw Materials and
Composites, (3) Products and Equipment, and (4) Industrial Transportation
(collectively, "U.S. Infrastructure Development Themes").
In
the second step of the process, companies are analyzed based on two primary
criteria: revenue exposure and primary business operations. A company is
eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index if (i) it derives a significant
portion of its revenue from the U.S. Infrastructure Development Themes, or (ii)
it has stated its primary business to be in products and services focused on the
U.S. Infrastructure Development Themes, as determined by the Index Provider.
Furthermore, only companies that generate greater than 50% of revenues from the
United States as of the index selection date, as determined by the Index
Provider, are eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index. Accordingly, the
Fund assets will be concentrated (that is, it will hold 25% or more of its total
assets) in companies that provide exposure to U.S. infrastructure development.
The
Underlying Index is weighted according to a modified capitalization weighting
methodology and is reconstituted and rebalanced semi-annually. At the
semi-annual rebalance, a capping methodology is applied to reduce concentration
in individual securities and increase diversification of the Underlying Index.
The Underlying Index may include large-, mid- or small-capitalization companies,
and components primarily include industrials and materials companies. The Fund's
investment objective and Underlying Index may be changed without shareholder
approval.
The
Underlying Index is sponsored by the Index Provider, which is an organization
that is independent of, and unaffiliated with, the Fund and Global X Management
Company LLC, the investment adviser for the Fund ("Adviser"). The Index Provider
determines the relative weightings of the securities in the Underlying Index and
publishes information regarding the market value of the Underlying
Index.
The
Adviser uses an indexing approach to try to achieve the Fund's investment
objective. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not try to outperform
the Underlying Index and does not seek temporary defensive positions when
markets decline or appear overvalued.
The
Fund generally will use a replication strategy. A replication strategy is an
indexing strategy that involves investing in the securities of the Underlying
Index in approximately the same proportions as in the Underlying Index. However,
the Fund may utilize a representative sampling strategy with respect to the
Underlying Index when a replication strategy might be detrimental or
disadvantageous to shareholders, such as when there are practical difficulties
or substantial costs involved in compiling a portfolio of equity securities to
replicate the Underlying Index, in instances in which a security in the
Underlying Index becomes temporarily illiquid, unavailable or less liquid, or as
a result of legal restrictions or limitations (such as tax diversification
requirements) that apply to the Fund but not the Underlying Index.
The
Adviser expects that, over time, the correlation between the Fund's performance
and that of the Underlying Index, before fees and expenses, will exceed 95%. A
correlation percentage of 100% would indicate perfect correlation. If the Fund
uses a replication strategy, it can be expected to have greater correlation to
the Underlying Index than if it uses a representative sampling
strategy.
The
Fund concentrates its investments (i.e., holds 25% or more of its total assets)
in a particular industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent
that the Underlying Index is concentrated. As of January 31, 2026, the
Underlying Index had significant exposure to the industrials
sector.
SUMMARY
OF PRINCIPAL RISKS
As with any
investment, you could lose all or part of your investment in the Fund, and the
Fund’s performance could trail that of other investments. There
is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its investment objective.
An investment in the Fund is not a bank deposit and it is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other
government agency, the Adviser or any of its affiliates. The
Fund is subject to the principal risks noted below, any of which may adversely
affect the Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”), trading price, yield, total return
and ability to meet its investment objective, as well as other risks that are
described in greater detail in the Additional
Information About the Funds
section of this Prospectus and in the Statement of Additional Information
(“SAI”).
Asset
Class Risk:
Securities and other assets in the Underlying Index or otherwise held in the
Fund's portfolio may underperform in comparison to the general securities
markets, a particular securities market or other asset classes.
Equity
Securities Risk: Equity securities are subject to
changes in value, and their values may be more volatile than other asset
classes, as a result of a company’s business performance, investor perceptions,
stock market trends and general economic
conditions.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Infrastructure Development
Companies: The Fund invests in infrastructure development companies, including
companies involved in construction, engineering, production of raw materials,
production and distribution of heavy construction equipment and industrial
transportation. General risks of infrastructure development companies include
the general state of the economy, intense competition, consolidation, domestic
and international politics, and excess capacity. In addition, infrastructure
development companies may also be significantly affected by overall capital
spending levels (including both private and public sector spending), economic
cycles, technical obsolescence, delays in modernization, labor relations,
climate change and extreme weather events, permitting processes and timelines,
and other government regulations. Some infrastructure development companies may
rely heavily on local, state or national government contracts, and are therefore
subject to higher degrees of political risk and could be negatively impacted by
changes in government policies or a deterioration in government balance sheets
in the future. The customers and/or suppliers of Infrastructure Development
companies may be concentrated in a particular country, region or industry. Any
adverse event affecting one of these countries, regions or industries could have
a negative impact on infrastructure development companies.
Capitalization
Risk:
Investing in issuers within the same market capitalization category carries the
risk that the category may be out of favor due to current market conditions or
investor sentiment.
Large-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Large-capitalization
companies may adapt more slowly to new competitive challenges and changing
market conditions than smaller capitalization companies. In addition,
large-capitalization companies may be more mature and subject to more limited
growth potential and consequently may underperform other segments of the equity
market or the market as a whole.
Mid-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Mid-capitalization
companies may have greater price volatility, lower trading volume and less
liquidity than large-capitalization companies. In addition, mid-capitalization
companies may have smaller revenues, narrower product lines, less management
depth and experience, smaller shares of their product or service markets, fewer
financial resources and less competitive strength than large-capitalization
companies. These securities may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly,
from the overall securities market.
Cybersecurity
Risk: With the increased use of technologies such as the Internet to
conduct business, the Fund, like all companies, may be susceptible to
operational, information security and related risks. Cybersecurity incidents
involving the Fund and its service providers (including, without limitation, the
Adviser, fund accountant, custodian, transfer agent and financial
intermediaries) have the ability to cause disruptions and impact business
operations, potentially resulting in financial losses, impediments to trading,
the inability of Fund shareholders to transact business, violations of
applicable privacy and other laws, regulatory fines, penalties, reputational
damage, reimbursement or other compensation costs, and/or additional compliance
costs.
Focus
Risk:
The Fund may from time to time have a significant amount of its assets invested
in a particular industry, group of industries, or one or more sectors to
approximately the same extent that the Underlying Index focuses in investments
related to a particular industry, group of industries, and/or one or more
sectors. In such event, the Fund’s performance will depend to a greater extent
on the overall condition of such industry(ies) or sector(s), and an economic,
business, political, regulatory, or other occurrence affecting such
industry(ies) or sector(s) will have an increased impact on the value of the
Fund’s shares compared to the value of shares of a fund that invests in a
broader range of industries or sectors.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Industrials
Sector: Companies in the industrials sector
are subject to fluctuations in supply and demand for their specific product or
service. The products of manufacturing companies may face product obsolescence
due to rapid technological developments. Government regulation, world events and
economic conditions affect the performance of companies in the industrials
sector. Companies also may be adversely affected by environmental damage and
product liability claims. Also, commodity price volatility, changes in exchange
rates, imposition of import controls or tariffs, increased competition,
depletion of resources, technological developments and labor relations could
adversely affect the companies in this
sector.
Geographic
Risk: The
Fund’s investments in securities of issuers located in a particular country or
geographic region may subject the Fund to certain risks to a greater extent than
if its investments were less focused, including: natural, biological or
other
disasters and the spread of infectious diseases; economic, political and social
instability; security concerns; and trade disputes with key trading partners.
The securities in which the Fund invests and, consequently, the Fund is also
subject to specific risks as a result of their business operations in a
particular country or region, including, but not limited to:
Risk
of Investing in Developed Markets: Investments in a developed country’s issuer may subject the Fund to
legal, regulatory, political, currency, security, and economic risks specific to
developed countries. Developed countries tend to represent a significant portion
of the global economy and have generally experienced slower economic growth than
some less developed countries. Certain developed countries have experienced
security concerns, such as war, terrorism and strained international relations.
Incidents involving a country’s or region’s security may cause uncertainty in
its markets and may adversely affect its economy and the Fund’s investments. In
addition, developed countries may be adversely impacted by changes to the
economic conditions of certain key trading partners, regulatory burdens, debt
burdens and the price or availability of certain commodities.
Risk
of Investing in the United States: Investments in United States issuers
may subject the Fund to legal, regulatory, political, currency, security, and
economic risks specific to the United States. A decrease in imports or exports,
changes in trade regulations, inflation and/or an economic recession in the U.S.
may have a material adverse effect on the U.S.
economy.
Indexing
Strategy Risk:
The Fund is not actively managed, and the Adviser does not attempt to take
defensive positions in declining markets. Unlike many investment companies, the
Fund does not seek to outperform its Underlying Index. Therefore, it would not
necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed,
respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is
underperforming. Additionally, if a constituent of the Underlying Index were
removed, even outside of a regular rebalance of the Underlying Index, the
Adviser anticipates that the Fund would sell such security. Maintaining
investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of
individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund
employed an active strategy.
Index-Related
Risk: There is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve a high degree of
correlation to the Underlying Index and therefore achieve its investment
objective. Market disruptions and regulatory restrictions could have an adverse
effect on the Fund’s ability to adjust its exposure to the required levels in
order to track the Underlying Index. Errors in index data, index computations
and/or the construction of the Underlying Index in accordance with its
methodology may occur from time to time and may not be identified and corrected
by the Index Provider for a period of time or at all, which may have an adverse
impact on the Fund and its shareholders.
Management
Risk: The Fund may not fully replicate its Underlying Index and may hold
securities not included in its Underlying Index. The Adviser’s investment
strategy, the implementation of which is subject to a number of constraints, may
cause the Fund to underperform the market or its relevant benchmark or adversely
affect the ability of the Fund to achieve its investment
objective.
Tracking
Error Risk: Tracking error may occur because of
differences between the instruments held in the Fund's portfolio and those
included in the Underlying Index, pricing differences, transaction costs
incurred by the Fund, the Fund's holding of uninvested cash, size of the Fund,
differences in timing of the accrual of or the valuation of dividends or
interest, tax gains or losses, changes to the Underlying Index or the costs to
the Fund of complying with various new or existing regulatory requirements. This
risk may be heightened during times of increased market volatility or other
unusual market conditions. Tracking error also may result because the Fund
incurs fees and expenses, while the Underlying Index does
not.
Issuer
Risk: Fund performance depends on the performance of individual companies
in which the Fund invests. Changes to the financial condition of any of those
companies may cause the value of such company's securities to
decline.
Market
Risk: Turbulence in the financial markets and reduced liquidity may
negatively affect issuers, which could have an adverse effect on the Fund and
its investments. The Fund’s NAV could decline over short periods due to
short-term market movements and over longer periods during market downturns.
Trade policy, including the imposition of tariffs, may dampen consumer spending
and result in decreased confidence in the markets. Additionally, political
uncertainty regarding U.S. policy, including the U.S. government’s approach to
trade, may also impact the markets. Furthermore, local, regional or global
events such as war, acts of terrorism, the spread of infectious diseases,
inflation and recessions, changes in interest or exchange rates, or other events
could have a significant impact on the Fund and its investments and trading of
its Shares. Market risk factors may result in increased volatility and/or
decreased liquidity in the securities markets.
Operational
Risk: The Fund is exposed to operational risk arising from a number of
factors, including but not limited to human error, processing and communication
errors, errors of the Fund's service providers, counterparties or other
third-parties, failed or inadequate processes, cyber security incidents, and
technology or systems failures. The Fund and the Adviser seek to reduce these
operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do
not address every possible risk and may be inadequate for those risks that they
are intended to address.
Risks
Associated with Exchange-Traded Funds:
As an ETF, the Fund is subject to the following risks:
Authorized
Participants Concentration Risk: The Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may
act as Authorized Participants and engage in creation or redemption transactions
directly with the Fund, and none of those Authorized Participants is obligated
to engage in creation and/or redemption transactions. To the extent that those
Authorized Participants exit the business or are unable to process creation
and/or redemption orders, such as in times of market stress, Shares may be more
likely to trade at a premium or discount to NAV and/or at wider intraday bid-ask
spreads, and possibly face trading halts and/or delisting from an
exchange.
Large
Shareholder Risk: Certain
shareholders, including an Authorized Participant, the Adviser, an affiliate of
the Adviser, or funds managed by the Adviser, may own a substantial amount of
the Fund’s Shares. Redemptions by large shareholders could have a significant
negative impact on the Fund. If a large shareholder were to redeem all, or a
large portion, of its Shares, there is no guarantee that the Fund will be able
to maintain sufficient assets to continue operations in which case the Board of
Trustees may determine to liquidate the Fund. In addition, transactions by large
shareholders may account for a large percentage of the trading volume on a
national securities exchange and may, therefore, have a material upward or
downward effect on the market price of the Shares.
Listing
Standards Risk: The
Fund is required to comply with listing requirements adopted by the listing
exchange. Non-compliance with such requirements may result in the Fund's shares
being delisted by the listing exchange. Any resulting liquidation of the Fund
could cause the Fund to incur elevated transaction costs and could result in
negative tax consequences for its shareholders.
Market
Trading Risks and Premium/Discount
Risks: Shares of the Fund are publicly traded
on a national securities exchange, which may subject shareholders to numerous
market trading risks. In stressed market conditions, the market for the Shares
may become less liquid in response to the deteriorating liquidity of the Fund’s
portfolio. This adverse effect on the liquidity of the Shares, as well as
disruptions to creations and redemptions, the existence of extreme market
volatility or potential lack of assets in the Fund or an active trading market
for Shares may result in Shares trading at a significant premium or discount to
NAV. If a shareholder purchases Shares at a time when the market price is at a
premium to the NAV or sells Shares at a time when the market price is at a
discount to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain losses. The NAV of the Fund is
calculated at the end of each business day and fluctuates with changes in the
market value of the Fund’s holdings. The trading price of the Fund’s Shares
fluctuates, in some cases materially, throughout trading hours in response to
changes in the Fund’s NAV.
Securities
Lending Risk: Securities lending involves a risk of loss because the borrower may
fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. If the Fund is not
able to recover the securities loaned, it may sell the collateral and purchase a
replacement security in the market. Lending securities entails a risk of loss to
the Fund if and to the extent that the market value of the loaned securities
increases and the collateral is not increased accordingly. Additionally, the
Fund will bear any loss on the investment of cash collateral it receives. These
events could also trigger adverse tax consequences for the Fund. As securities
on loan may not be voted by the Fund, there is a risk that the Fund may not be
able to recall the securities in sufficient time to vote on material proxy
matters.
Trading
Halt Risk:
An exchange or market may close or issue trading halts on specific securities,
or the ability to buy or sell certain securities or financial instruments may be
restricted, which may result in the Fund being unable to buy or sell certain
securities or financial instruments. In such circumstances, the Fund may be
unable to rebalance its portfolio, may be unable to accurately price its
investments and/or may incur substantial trading
losses.
Valuation
Risk: The sales price the Fund could receive for a security may differ
from the Fund’s valuation of the security and may differ from the value used by
the Underlying Index, particularly for securities that trade in low value or
volatile markets or that are valued using a fair value methodology (such as
during trading halts). The value of the securities in the Fund's portfolio may
change on days when shareholders will not be able to purchase or sell the Fund's
Shares.
PERFORMANCE
INFORMATION
The bar chart
and table that follow show how the Fund performed on a calendar year basis and
provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes
in the Fund's performance from year to year and by showing the Fund's average
annual total returns for the indicated periods compared with the Fund's
broad-based benchmark index, which reflects a broad measure of market
performance, and the Underlying Index, which the Fund seeks to
track. The Fund's past performance
(before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will
perform in the future. Updated performance information is
available online at
www.globalxetfs.com.
Annual Total Returns
(Years Ended December 31)
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| Best
Quarter: |
12/31/2020 |
26.41% |
| Worst
Quarter: |
3/31/2020 |
-30.24% |
Average Annual
Total Returns (for the Periods Ended December 31,
2025)
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One
Year Ended December 31, 2025 |
Five
Years Ended December 31, 2025 |
Since
Inception (03/06/2017) |
| Global
X U.S. Infrastructure Development ETF: |
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·Return
before taxes |
19.23% |
18.47% |
14.80% |
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·Return
after taxes on distributions1 |
18.92% |
18.26% |
14.62% |
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·Return
after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund Shares1 |
11.52% |
14.99% |
12.36% |
|
S&P®
500 Index (TR)
(Index returns do not
reflect deductions for fees, expenses, or
taxes) |
17.88% |
14.42% |
14.64% |
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Indxx
U.S. Infrastructure Development Index (USD) (TR)
(Index
returns do not reflect deductions for fees, expenses, or
taxes) |
19.83% |
19.16% |
15.42% |
1
After-tax returns are
calculated using the historical highest individual U.S. federal marginal income
tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local
taxes. Your actual after-tax
returns will depend on your specific tax situation and may differ from those
shown above. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold Shares of
the Fund through tax-advantaged arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual
retirement accounts (IRAs).
FUND
MANAGEMENT
Investment
Adviser:
Global X Management Company LLC.
Portfolio
Managers:
The professionals primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the
Fund are Nam To, CFA and Wayne Xie (“Portfolio Managers”). Mr. To has been a
Portfolio Manager of the Fund since March 1, 2018. Mr. Xie has been a Portfolio
Manager of the Fund since March 1, 2019.
PURCHASE
AND SALE OF FUND SHARES
Shares
of the Fund are or will be listed and traded at market prices on a national
securities exchange. Shares may only be purchased and sold on the exchange
through a broker-dealer. The price of Shares is based on market price, and
because ETF shares trade at market prices rather than at NAV, Shares may trade
at a price greater than NAV (a premium) or less than NAV (a discount). Only
“Authorized Participants” (as defined in the SAI) who have entered into
agreements with the Fund’s distributor, SEI Investments Distribution Co.
(“Distributor”), may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with
the Fund. The Fund will only issue or redeem Shares that have been aggregated
into blocks called Creation Units. The Fund will issue or redeem Creation Units
in return for a basket of cash and/or securities that the Fund specifies any day
that the national securities exchanges are open for business (“Business Day”).
An investor may incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest
price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase shares of the Fund (bid) and the
lowest price a seller is willing to accept for shares of the Fund (ask) when
buying or selling shares in the secondary market (the “bid-ask spread”). To
access information regarding the Fund’s net asset value, market price, premiums
and discounts, and bid-ask spreads, please go to https://www.globalxetfs.com.
TAX
INFORMATION
The
Fund intends to make distributions that may be taxable to you as ordinary income
or capital gains, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement,
such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account ("IRA"), in which case
distributions from such tax-advantaged arrangement may be taxable to you.
PAYMENTS
TO BROKER-DEALERS AND OTHER FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES
The
Adviser and its related companies may pay broker-dealers or other financial
intermediaries (such as a bank) for the sale of Fund Shares and related
services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing your
broker-dealer, sales persons or other intermediary or its employees or
associated persons to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your
financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more
information.
Global X Autonomous
& Electric Vehicles ETF
Ticker:
DRIV Exchange: NASDAQ
INVESTMENT
OBJECTIVE
The
Global X Autonomous & Electric Vehicles ETF ("Fund") seeks to provide
investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance,
before fees and expenses, of the Solactive Autonomous & Electric Vehicles
Index ("Underlying Index").
FEES AND
EXPENSES
This
table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and
sell shares (“Shares”) of the Fund. You
may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial
intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and examples
below.
Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment):
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Management
Fees: |
0.68% |
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Distribution
and Service (12b-1) Fees: |
None |
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Other
Expenses: |
0.00% |
|
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses: |
0.68% |
Example:
The following example
is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost
of investing in other funds. This example does not take into account customary
brokerage commissions that you pay when purchasing or selling Shares of the Fund
in the secondary market. The example assumes
that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then hold
or sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes
that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating
expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower,
based on these assumptions, your costs would be:
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One
Year |
Three
Years |
Five
Years |
Ten
Years |
| $69 |
$218 |
$379 |
$847 |
Portfolio
Turnover:
The Fund pays transaction
costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over"
its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction
costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account.
These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the
example, affect the Fund's performance. For the most recent fiscal period, the
Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 37.46% of the average value of its
portfolio.
PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT
STRATEGIES
The Fund
invests at least 80% of its total assets in the securities of the Solactive
Autonomous & Electric Vehicles Index ("Underlying Index"). The Fund's 80%
investment policy is non-fundamental and requires 60 days prior written notice
to shareholders before it can be changed. The Fund may lend
securities representing up to one-third of the value of the Fund’s total assets
(including the value of the collateral received).
The
Underlying Index is designed to provide exposure to exchange-listed companies
that are involved in the development of electric vehicles and/or autonomous
vehicles, including companies that produce electric/hybrid vehicles,
electric/hybrid vehicle components and materials, autonomous driving technology,
and network connected services for transportation, (collectively, "Autonomous
and Electric Vehicle Companies"), as defined by Solactive AG, the provider of
the Underlying Index ("Index Provider").
The
eligible universe of the Underlying Index includes among the most liquid and
investable companies in accordance with the market capitalization and liquidity
criteria associated with the eligible markets, as defined by the Index Provider.
As of January 31, 2026, companies must have a minimum market capitalization
of $500 million and a minimum average daily turnover for the last 6 months
greater than or equal to $2 million in order to be eligible for inclusion in the
Underlying Index. As of January 31, 2026, companies from the following
countries were eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index: Australia,
Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland,
Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New
Zealand,
Norway, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, South Korea,
Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
From
the eligible universe, the Index Provider identifies Autonomous and Electric
Vehicle Companies by applying a proprietary natural language processing
algorithm process that seeks to identify companies with exposure to the
following categories:
•Electric
Vehicles ("EV")
- companies that produce electric/hybrid vehicles, including cars, trucks,
motorcycles/scooters, buses, and electric rail.
•Electric
Vehicle Components ("EVC")
- companies that produce electric/hybrid vehicle components, including electric
drivetrains, lithium-ion and other types of electric batteries, and fuel cells.
In addition, companies that produce the chemicals and raw materials (including
but not limited to lithium and cobalt) that comprise these electric/hybrid
vehicle components are eligible for inclusion.
•Autonomous
Vehicle Technology ("AVT")
- companies that build autonomous vehicles and/or develop hardware and software
that facilitates the development of autonomous vehicles, including sensors,
mapping technology, artificial intelligence, advanced driver assistance systems,
ride-share platforms, and network-connected services for
transportation.
In
order to be included in the Underlying Index, a company must be identified as
having exposure to these categories based on the ranking it receives from the
natural language processing algorithm ("Segment Score"), as determined by the
Index Provider. Within each category listed above, companies are ranked by the
Index Provider according to their respective Segment Score. The Index Provider
then reviews the companies to ensure relevance to one or more of the categories
above based on the business operations of the company. The Underlying Index is
comprised of the highest ranking 15 companies in the EV segment, the highest
ranking 30 companies in the EVC segment, and the highest ranking 30 companies in
the AVT segment, as determined by the Index Provider and subject to certain
buffer rules intended to reduce turnover. Accordingly, the Fund assets will be
concentrated (that is, it will hold 25% or more of its total assets) in
companies that provide exposure to electric vehicles and autonomous
vehicles.
The
Underlying Index is weighted according to a modified capitalization weighting
methodology and is reconstituted semi-annually. At the semi-annual
reconstitution, a capping methodology is applied to reduce concentration in
individual securities and increase diversification of the Underlying Index. The
Underlying Index may include large-, mid- or small-capitalization companies, and
components primarily include industrials, information technology, materials, and
consumer discretionary companies. The Fund's investment objective and Underlying
Index may be changed without shareholder approval.
The
Underlying Index is sponsored by the Index Provider, which is an organization
that is independent of, and unaffiliated with, the Fund and Global X Management
Company LLC, the investment adviser for the Fund ("Adviser"). The Index Provider
determines the relative weightings of the securities in the Underlying Index and
publishes information regarding the market value of the Underlying
Index.
The
Adviser uses an indexing approach to try to achieve the Fund's investment
objective. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not try to outperform
the Underlying Index and does not seek temporary defensive positions when
markets decline or appear overvalued.
The
Fund generally will use a replication strategy. A replication strategy is an
indexing strategy that involves investing in the securities of the Underlying
Index in approximately the same proportions as in the Underlying Index. However,
the Fund may utilize a representative sampling strategy with respect to the
Underlying Index when a replication strategy might be detrimental or
disadvantageous to shareholders, such as when there are practical difficulties
or substantial costs involved in compiling a portfolio of equity securities to
replicate the Underlying Index, in instances in which a security in the
Underlying Index becomes temporarily illiquid, unavailable or less liquid, or as
a result of legal restrictions or limitations (such as tax diversification
requirements) that apply to the Fund but not the Underlying Index.
The
Adviser expects that, over time, the correlation between the Fund's performance
and that of the Underlying Index, before fees and expenses, will exceed 95%. A
correlation percentage of 100% would indicate perfect correlation. If the Fund
uses a replication strategy, it can be expected to have greater correlation to
the Underlying Index than if it uses a representative sampling
strategy.
The Fund
concentrates its investments (i.e., holds 25% or more of its total assets) in a
particular industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent that
the Underlying Index is concentrated. As of January 31, 2026, the
Underlying Index had significant exposure to the consumer discretionary and
information technology sectors.
SUMMARY
OF PRINCIPAL RISKS
As with any
investment, you could lose all or part of your investment in the Fund, and the
Fund’s performance could trail that of other investments. There
is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its investment objective.
An investment in the Fund is not a bank deposit and it is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other
government agency, the Adviser or any of its affiliates. The
Fund is subject to the principal risks noted below, any of which may adversely
affect the Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”), trading price, yield, total return
and ability to meet its investment objective, as well as other risks that are
described in greater detail in the Additional
Information About the Funds
section of this Prospectus and in the Statement of Additional Information
(“SAI”).
Asset
Class Risk:
Securities and other assets in the Underlying Index or otherwise held in the
Fund's portfolio may underperform in comparison to the general securities
markets, a particular securities market or other asset classes.
Depositary
Receipts Risk: The
Fund may invest in depositary receipts, such as ADRs and GDRs. Depositary
receipts are receipts listed on U.S. or foreign exchanges issued by banks or
trust companies that entitle the holder to all dividends and capital gains that
are paid out on the underlying foreign shares. Depositary receipts are generally
subject to the same risks associated with direct investments in the securities
of foreign companies. A holder of depositary receipts may also be subject to
fees and the credit risk of the financial institution acting as depositary.
Unsponsored depositary receipts may involve higher expenses, fewer shareholder
rights, and may be less liquid.
Equity
Securities Risk: Equity securities are subject to
changes in value, and their values may be more volatile than other asset
classes, as a result of a company’s business performance, investor perceptions,
stock market trends and general economic
conditions.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Autonomous & Electric Vehicle Companies:
Autonomous & Electric Vehicle companies typically face intense
competition and potentially rapid product obsolescence. Many of these companies
are also heavily dependent on intellectual property rights and may be adversely
affected by loss or impairment of those rights. There can be no assurance these
companies will be able to successfully protect their intellectual property to
prevent the misappropriation of their technology, or that competitors will not
develop technology that is substantially similar or superior to such companies’
technology. Autonomous & Electric Vehicle companies typically engage in
significant amounts of spending on research and development, capital
expenditures and mergers and acquisitions, and there is no guarantee that the
products or services produced by these companies will be successful. Companies
that produce the raw materials that are used in electric vehicles may be
concentrated in certain commodities, and therefore be exposed to adverse events
affecting those commodities, such as price fluctuations and supply chain
disruptions, among other things. In addition, autonomous vehicle technology
could face increasing regulatory scrutiny in the future, which may limit the
development of this technology and impede the growth of companies that develop
and/or utilize this technology. Additionally, Autonomous & Electric Vehicle
companies may be significantly affected by tax incentives, subsidies, and other
governmental regulations and policies that could change due to geopolitical
shifts and election outcomes. Further, these companies are also susceptible to
litigation based on product liability claims and can be significantly affected
by insurance costs.
Capitalization
Risk:
Investing in issuers within the same market capitalization category carries the
risk that the category may be out of favor due to current market conditions or
investor sentiment.
Large-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Large-capitalization
companies may adapt more slowly to new competitive challenges and changing
market conditions than smaller capitalization companies. In addition,
large-capitalization companies may be more mature and subject to more limited
growth potential and consequently may underperform other segments of the equity
market or the market as a whole.
Mid-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Mid-capitalization
companies may have greater price volatility, lower trading volume and less
liquidity than large-capitalization companies. In addition, mid-capitalization
companies may have smaller revenues, narrower product lines, less management
depth and experience, smaller shares of their product or service markets, fewer
financial resources and less competitive strength than large-capitalization
companies. These securities may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly,
from the overall securities market.
Small-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Small-capitalization companies may be
less stable and more susceptible to adverse developments, and their securities
may be more volatile and less liquid than large- and mid-capitalization
companies. In addition, small-capitalization companies may have smaller
revenues, narrower product lines, less management depth and experience, smaller
shares of their product or service markets, fewer financial resources, and
shorter operating histories than large- and mid-capitalization companies. These
securities may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly, from the overall
securities market.
Currency
Risk:
The Fund may invest in securities denominated in foreign currencies. Because the
Fund's NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the Fund's NAV could decline if
currencies of the underlying securities depreciate against the U.S. dollar or if
there are delays or limits on repatriation of such currencies. Generally, an
increase in the value of the U.S. dollar against a foreign currency will reduce
the value of a security denominated in that foreign currency, thereby decreasing
the Fund's NAV. Exchange rates may be volatile and may change quickly and
without warning, which could have a significant negative impact on the
Fund.
Custody
Risk: Custody risk refers to the risks in the process of clearing and
settling trades, as well as the holding of securities and other assets by local
banks, agents, and securities depositories. These risks are heightened in
jurisdictions with less developed markets or less robust settlement and custody
infrastructure and processes.
Cybersecurity
Risk: With the increased use of technologies such as the Internet to
conduct business, the Fund, like all companies, may be susceptible to
operational, information security and related risks. Cybersecurity incidents
involving the Fund and its service providers (including, without limitation, the
Adviser, fund accountant, custodian, transfer agent and financial
intermediaries) have the ability to cause disruptions and impact business
operations, potentially resulting in financial losses, impediments to trading,
the inability of Fund shareholders to transact business, violations of
applicable privacy and other laws, regulatory fines, penalties, reputational
damage, reimbursement or other compensation costs, and/or additional compliance
costs.
Focus
Risk:
The Fund may from time to time have a significant amount of its assets invested
in a particular industry, group of industries, or one or more sectors to
approximately the same extent that the Underlying Index focuses in investments
related to a particular industry, group of industries, and/or one or more
sectors. In such event, the Fund’s performance will depend to a greater extent
on the overall condition of such industry(ies) or sector(s), and an economic,
business, political, regulatory, or other occurrence affecting such
industry(ies) or sector(s) will have an increased impact on the value of the
Fund’s shares compared to the value of shares of a fund that invests in a
broader range of industries or sectors.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Automobiles Industry: The
automobiles industry can be highly cyclical, and companies in the industry may
suffer periodic operating losses. The industry can be significantly affected by
labor relations and fluctuating component prices. While most of the major
manufacturers are large, financially strong companies, many others are small and
can be non-diversified in both product line and customer base. Additionally,
developments in automotive technologies (e.g., autonomous vehicle technologies)
may require significant capital expenditures that may not generate profits for
several years, if any. Governmental policies affecting the automotive industry,
such as taxes, tariffs, duties, subsidies, and import and export restrictions on
automotive products can influence industry
profitability.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Consumer Discretionary Sector: The
consumer discretionary sector may be affected by changes in domestic and
international economies, exchange and interest rates, inflation, competition,
consumers’ disposable income and consumer preferences, social trends and
marketing campaigns.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Information Technology Sector: Companies
in the information technology sector are subject to rapid changes in technology
product cycles, rapid product obsolescence, government regulation, and increased
competition. Information technology companies are particularly vulnerable to
failure to obtain, or delays in obtaining, financing or regulatory approval, and
also are heavily dependent on patent and intellectual property rights. In
addition, information technology companies may have limited product lines,
markets, financial resources or personnel.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Lithium-Ion Battery Industry:
Securities in the Fund’s portfolio involved in the manufacturing of lithium-ion
batteries may decline for many reasons, including, among others, price changes
of traditional minerals as well as traditional and alternative sources of
energy, developments in battery and alternative energy technology, government
regulations, decrease or elimination of government subsidies, energy
conservation efforts, and costs related to exploration, mining, and production.
Such companies are also subject to the possibility that lithium-ion technology
is not suitable for widespread
adoption.
Foreign
Securities Risk: Investments in foreign securities can be riskier than U.S.
securities investments. Investments in the securities of foreign issuers
(including investments in American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) and Global
Depositary Receipts (“GDRs”)) are subject to additional risks, including lower
levels of liquidity and market efficiency; greater securities price volatility;
exchange rate fluctuations and exchange controls; less availability of public
information about issuers; limitations on foreign ownership of securities;
imposition of withholding or other taxes; imposition of restrictions on the
expatriation of the assets of the Fund; restrictions placed on U.S. investors by
U.S. regulations governing foreign investments; higher transaction and custody
costs and delays in settlement procedures; difficulties in enforcing contractual
obligations; lower levels of regulation of the securities market; weaker
accounting, disclosure and reporting requirements; and legal principles relating
to corporate governance and directors’ fiduciary duties and liabilities. The
countries in which the Fund invests may also be subject to structural risks,
including economic, political and social instability. Additionally, certain
securities held by the Fund, while traded on U.S. exchanges, may be issued by
foreign financial institutions and as such, may be subject to the risks of
investing in securities issued by foreign companies, which may not be subject to
the same regulations as companies domiciled in the U.S. Where all or a portion
of the Fund's securities trade in a market that is closed when the market in
which the Fund's Shares are listed and trading is open, there may be differences
between the last quote from the security’s closed foreign market and the value
of the security during the Fund’s domestic trading day. This, in turn, could
lead to differences between the market price of the Fund’s Shares and the
underlying value of those shares.
Geographic
Risk: The
Fund’s investments in securities of issuers located in a particular country or
geographic region may subject the Fund to certain risks to a greater extent than
if its investments were less focused, including: natural, biological or other
disasters and the spread of infectious diseases; economic, political and social
instability; security concerns; and trade disputes with key trading partners.
The securities in which the Fund invests and, consequently, the Fund is also
subject to specific risks as a result of their business operations in a
particular country or region, including, but not limited to:
Risk
of Investing in China:
Investments in Chinese securities may subject the Fund to legal, regulatory,
political, currency, security, and economic risks specific to China. China may
be subject to considerable degrees of economic, political and social
instability. Concerns about the rising government and household debt levels
could impact the stability of the Chinese economy. Despite economic and market
reform in recent decades, the Chinese government’s control over certain sectors
and enterprises and significant regulation of investment and industry are
pervasive. Chinese companies are subject to the risk that Chinese authorities
can intervene in their operations and structure. Internal social unrest or
confrontations with other countries, including military conflicts in response to
such events, may disrupt economic development in China and result in a greater
risk of currency fluctuations, currency convertibility, interest rate
fluctuations and higher rates of inflation.
The
Chinese economy is highly reliant on trade. Reduction in spending on Chinese
products and services, institution of additional tariffs or other trade barriers
(including as a result of heightened trade tensions between China and the U.S.
or in response to actual or alleged Chinese cyber activity), or a downturn in
any of the economies of China’s key trading partners may have an adverse impact
on the Chinese economy.
China
has experienced security concerns, such as terrorism and strained international
relations. Additionally, China is alleged to have participated in
state-sponsored cyberattacks against foreign companies and foreign governments.
Actual and threatened responses to such activity, including purchasing
restrictions, sanctions, tariffs or cyberattacks on the Chinese government or
Chinese companies, may impact China’s economy and Chinese issuers in which the
Fund invests. Incidents involving China’s or the region’s security may adversely
affect the Chinese economy and the Fund’s investments. Chinese companies,
including those listed on U.S. exchanges, are not subject to the same degree of
regulatory requirements, accounting standards or auditor oversight as companies
in more developed countries, and as a result, information about the Chinese
securities in which the Fund invests may be less reliable or complete. There may
be significant obstacles to obtaining information necessary for investigations
into or litigation against Chinese companies and shareholders may have limited
legal remedies. Investments in China may be subject to loss due to
expropriation, nationalization, confiscation of assets and property, and or the
imposition of restrictions on foreign investments and repatriation of capital.
In addition, many Chinese companies listed on U.S. exchanges use variable
interest entities (“VIEs”) in their structure as a result of foreign ownership
restriction. Any change in the operations of entities in a VIE structure, the
status of VIE contractual arrangements or the legal or regulatory environment in
China could result in significant, and possibly permanent and/or total, losses
for investments in VIE issuers.
Risk
of Investing in Developed Markets:
Investments in a developed country’s issuer may subject the Fund to legal,
regulatory, political, currency, security, and economic risks specific to
developed countries. Developed countries tend to represent a significant portion
of the global economy and have generally experienced slower economic growth than
some less developed countries. Certain developed countries have experienced
security concerns, such as war, terrorism
and strained international relations. Incidents involving a
country’s or region’s security may cause uncertainty in its markets and may
adversely affect its economy and the Fund’s investments. In addition, developed
countries may be adversely impacted by changes to the economic conditions of
certain key trading partners, regulatory burdens, debt burdens and the price or
availability of certain commodities.
Risk
of Investing in Emerging Markets: Investments in emerging markets may be subject to a greater risk of
loss than investments in developed markets. Securities markets of emerging
market countries are less liquid, subject to greater price volatility, have
smaller market capitalizations, have less government regulation, and are not
subject to as extensive and frequent accounting, financial, and other reporting
requirements as the securities markets of more developed countries, and there
may be greater risk associated with the custody of securities in emerging
markets. It may be difficult or impossible for the Fund to pursue claims against
an emerging market issuer in the courts of an emerging market country. There may
be significant obstacles to obtaining information necessary for investigations
into or litigation against emerging market companies and shareholders may have
limited legal rights and remedies. Emerging markets may be more likely to
experience inflation, political turmoil and rapid changes in economic conditions
than more developed markets. Emerging markets may also face other significant
internal or external risks, including the risk of war, terrorism, or other
social or political conflicts.
Risk
of Investing in the United States:
Investments in United States issuers
may subject the Fund to legal, regulatory, political, currency, security, and
economic risks specific to the United States. A decrease in imports or exports,
changes in trade regulations, inflation and/or an economic recession in the U.S.
may have a material adverse effect on the U.S.
economy.
Indexing
Strategy Risk:
The Fund is not actively managed, and the Adviser does not attempt to take
defensive positions in declining markets. Unlike many investment companies, the
Fund does not seek to outperform its Underlying Index. Therefore, it would not
necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed,
respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is
underperforming. Additionally, if a constituent of the Underlying Index were
removed, even outside of a regular rebalance of the Underlying Index, the
Adviser anticipates that the Fund would sell such security. Maintaining
investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of
individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund
employed an active strategy.
Index-Related
Risk: There is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve a high degree of
correlation to the Underlying Index and therefore achieve its investment
objective. Market disruptions and regulatory restrictions could have an adverse
effect on the Fund’s ability to adjust its exposure to the required levels in
order to track the Underlying Index. Errors in index data, index computations
and/or the construction of the Underlying Index in accordance with its
methodology may occur from time to time and may not be identified and corrected
by the Index Provider for a period of time or at all, which may have an adverse
impact on the Fund and its shareholders.
Management
Risk: The Fund may not fully replicate its Underlying Index and may hold
securities not included in its Underlying Index. The Adviser’s investment
strategy, the implementation of which is subject to a number of constraints, may
cause the Fund to underperform the market or its relevant benchmark or adversely
affect the ability of the Fund to achieve its investment
objective.
Tracking
Error Risk: Tracking error may occur because of
differences between the instruments held in the Fund's portfolio and those
included in the Underlying Index, pricing differences, transaction costs
incurred by the Fund, the Fund's holding of uninvested cash, size of the Fund,
differences in timing of the accrual of or the valuation of dividends or
interest, tax gains or losses, changes to the Underlying Index or the costs to
the Fund of complying with various new or existing regulatory requirements. This
risk may be heightened during times of increased market volatility or other
unusual market conditions. Tracking error also may result because the Fund
incurs fees and expenses, while the Underlying Index does not. ETFs that track
indices with significant weight in emerging markets issuers may experience
higher tracking error than other ETFs that do not track such
indices.
International
Closed Market Trading Risk: To
the extent that the underlying investments held by the Fund trade on foreign
exchanges that may be closed when the securities exchange on which the Fund’s
Shares trade is open, there are likely to be deviations between the current
price of such an underlying security and the last quoted price for the
underlying security (i.e., the Fund’s quote from the closed foreign market).
These deviations could result in premiums or discounts to the Fund’s NAV that
may be greater than those experienced by other exchange-traded funds
("ETFs").
Issuer
Risk: Fund performance depends on the performance of individual companies
in which the Fund invests. Changes to the financial condition of any of those
companies may cause the value of such company's securities to
decline.
Market
Risk: Turbulence in the financial markets and reduced liquidity may
negatively affect issuers, which could have an adverse effect on the Fund and
its investments. The Fund’s NAV could decline over short periods due to
short-term market movements and over longer periods during market downturns.
Trade policy, including the imposition of tariffs, may dampen consumer spending
and result in decreased confidence in the markets. Additionally, political
uncertainty regarding U.S. policy, including the U.S. government’s approach to
trade, may also impact the markets. Furthermore, local, regional or global
events such as war, acts of terrorism, the spread of infectious diseases,
inflation and recessions, changes in interest or exchange rates, or other events
could have a significant impact on the Fund and its investments and trading of
its Shares. Market risk factors may result in increased volatility and/or
decreased liquidity in the securities markets.
Operational
Risk: The Fund is exposed to operational risk arising from a number of
factors, including but not limited to human error, processing and communication
errors, errors of the Fund's service providers, counterparties or other
third-parties, failed or inadequate processes, cyber security incidents, and
technology or systems failures. The Fund and the Adviser seek to reduce these
operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do
not address every possible risk and may be inadequate for those risks that they
are intended to address.
Risks
Associated with Exchange-Traded Funds:
As an ETF, the Fund is subject to the following risks:
Authorized
Participants Concentration Risk: The Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may
act as Authorized Participants and engage in creation or redemption transactions
directly with the Fund, and none of those Authorized Participants is obligated
to engage in creation and/or redemption transactions. To the extent that those
Authorized Participants exit the business or are unable to process creation
and/or redemption orders, such as in times of market stress, Shares may be more
likely to trade at a premium or discount to NAV and/or at wider intraday bid-ask
spreads, and possibly face trading halts and/or delisting from an exchange.
Authorized Participants Concentration Risk may be heightened because the Fund
invests in non-U.S. securities.
Large
Shareholder Risk: Certain
shareholders, including an Authorized Participant, the Adviser, an affiliate of
the Adviser, or funds managed by the Adviser, may own a substantial amount of
the Fund’s Shares. Redemptions by large shareholders could have a significant
negative impact on the Fund. If a large shareholder were to redeem all, or a
large portion, of its Shares, there is no guarantee that the Fund will be able
to maintain sufficient assets to continue operations in which case the Board of
Trustees may determine to liquidate the Fund. In addition, transactions by large
shareholders may account for a large percentage of the trading volume on a
national securities exchange and may, therefore, have a material upward or
downward effect on the market price of the Shares.
Listing
Standards Risk: The
Fund is required to comply with listing requirements adopted by the listing
exchange. Non-compliance with such requirements may result in the Fund's shares
being delisted by the listing exchange. Any resulting liquidation of the Fund
could cause the Fund to incur elevated transaction costs and could result in
negative tax consequences for its shareholders.
Market
Trading Risks and Premium/Discount
Risks: Shares of the Fund are publicly traded
on a national securities exchange, which may subject shareholders to numerous
market trading risks. In stressed market conditions, the market for the Shares
may become less liquid in response to the deteriorating liquidity of the Fund’s
portfolio. This adverse effect on the liquidity of the Shares, as well as
disruptions to creations and redemptions, the existence of extreme market
volatility or potential lack of assets in the Fund or an active trading market
for Shares may result in Shares trading at a significant premium or discount to
NAV. If a shareholder purchases Shares at a time when the market price is at a
premium to the NAV or sells Shares at a time when the market price is at a
discount to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain losses. The NAV of the Fund is
calculated at the end of each business day and fluctuates with changes in the
market value of the Fund’s holdings. The trading price of the Fund’s Shares
fluctuates, in some cases materially, throughout trading hours in response to
changes in the Fund’s NAV.
Securities
Lending Risk: Securities lending involves a risk of loss because the borrower may
fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. If the Fund is not
able to recover the securities loaned, it may sell the collateral and purchase a
replacement security in the market. Lending securities entails a risk of loss to
the Fund if and to the extent that the market value of the loaned securities
increases and the collateral is not increased accordingly. Additionally, the
Fund will bear any loss on the investment of cash collateral it receives. These
events could also trigger adverse tax consequences for the Fund. As securities
on loan may not be voted by the Fund, there is a risk that the Fund may not be
able to recall the securities in sufficient time to vote on material proxy
matters.
Trading
Halt Risk:
An exchange or market may close or issue trading halts on specific securities,
or the ability to buy or sell certain securities or financial instruments may be
restricted, which may result in the Fund being unable to buy or sell certain
securities or financial instruments. In such circumstances, the Fund may be
unable to rebalance its portfolio, may be unable to accurately price its
investments and/or may incur substantial trading
losses.
Valuation
Risk: The sales price the Fund could receive for a security may differ
from the Fund’s valuation of the security and may differ from the value used by
the Underlying Index, particularly for securities that trade in low value or
volatile markets or that are valued using a fair value methodology (such as
during trading halts). The value of the securities in the Fund's portfolio may
change on days when shareholders will not be able to purchase or sell the Fund's
Shares.
PERFORMANCE
INFORMATION
The bar chart
and table that follow show how the Fund performed on a calendar year basis and
provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes
in the Fund's performance from year to year and by showing the Fund's average
annual total returns for the indicated periods compared with the Fund's
broad-based benchmark index, which reflects a broad measure of market
performance, and the Underlying Index, which the Fund seeks to
track. The Fund's past performance
(before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will
perform in the future. Updated performance information is
available online at
www.globalxetfs.com.
Annual Total Returns
(Years Ended December 31)
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|
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| |
| Best
Quarter: |
12/31/2020 |
42.08% |
| Worst
Quarter: |
3/31/2020 |
-24.71% |
Average Annual
Total Returns (for the Periods Ended December 31,
2025)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
One
Year Ended December 31, 2025 |
Five
Years Ended December 31, 2025 |
Since
Inception (04/13/2018) |
| Global
X Autonomous & Electric Vehicles ETF: |
|
| |
|
·Return
before taxes |
29.88% |
5.71% |
10.76% |
|
·Return
after taxes on distributions1 |
29.49% |
5.37% |
10.38% |
|
·Return
after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund Shares1 |
17.88% |
4.39% |
8.65% |
|
MSCI
ACWI Index (NR) (USD)
(Index returns reflect
invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflect no deduction for
fees, expenses, or other
taxes) |
22.34% |
11.19% |
11.17% |
|
Solactive
Autonomous & Electric Vehicles Index (NR) (USD)
(Index
returns reflect invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflect
no deduction for fees, expenses, or other
taxes) |
30.19% |
5.93% |
10.94% |
1
After-tax returns are
calculated using the historical highest individual U.S. federal marginal income
tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local
taxes. Your actual after-tax
returns will depend on your specific tax situation and may differ from those
shown above. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold Shares of
the Fund through tax-advantaged arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual
retirement accounts (IRAs).
FUND
MANAGEMENT
Investment
Adviser:
Global X Management Company LLC.
Portfolio
Managers:
The professionals primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the
Fund are Nam To, CFA and Wayne Xie (“Portfolio Managers”). Mr. To has been a
Portfolio Manager of the Fund since the Fund's inception. Mr. Xie has been a
Portfolio Manager of the Fund since March 1, 2019.
PURCHASE
AND SALE OF FUND SHARES
Shares
of the Fund are or will be listed and traded at market prices on a national
securities exchange. Shares may only be purchased and sold on the exchange
through a broker-dealer. The price of Shares is based on market price, and
because ETF shares trade at market prices rather than at NAV, Shares may trade
at a price greater than NAV (a premium) or less than NAV (a discount). Only
“Authorized Participants” (as defined in the SAI) who have entered into
agreements with the Fund’s distributor, SEI Investments Distribution Co.
(“Distributor”), may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with
the Fund. The Fund will only issue or redeem Shares that have been aggregated
into blocks called Creation Units. The Fund will issue or redeem Creation Units
in return for a basket of cash and/or securities that the Fund specifies any day
that the national securities exchanges are open for business (“Business Day”).
An investor may incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest
price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase shares of the Fund (bid) and the
lowest price a seller is willing to accept for shares of the Fund (ask) when
buying or selling shares in the secondary market (the “bid-ask spread”). To
access information regarding the Fund’s net asset value, market price, premiums
and discounts, and bid-ask spreads, please go to https://www.globalxetfs.com.
TAX
INFORMATION
The
Fund intends to make distributions that may be taxable to you as ordinary income
or capital gains, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement,
such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account ("IRA"), in which case
distributions from such tax-advantaged arrangement may be taxable to you.
PAYMENTS
TO BROKER-DEALERS AND OTHER FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES
The
Adviser and its related companies may pay broker-dealers or other financial
intermediaries (such as a bank) for the sale of Fund Shares and related
services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing your
broker-dealer, sales persons or other intermediary or its employees or
associated persons to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your
financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more
information.
Global X Artificial
Intelligence & Technology ETF
Ticker:
AIQ Exchange: NASDAQ
INVESTMENT
OBJECTIVE
The
Global X Artificial Intelligence & Technology ETF ("Fund") seeks to provide
investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance,
before fees and expenses, of the Indxx Artificial Intelligence & Big Data
Index ("Underlying Index").
FEES AND
EXPENSES
This
table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and
sell shares (“Shares”) of the Fund. You
may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial
intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and examples
below.
Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment):
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0.68% |
Example:
The following example
is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost
of investing in other funds. This example does not take into account customary
brokerage commissions that you pay when purchasing or selling Shares of the Fund
in the secondary market. The example assumes
that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then hold
or sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes
that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating
expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower,
based on these assumptions, your costs would be:
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Portfolio
Turnover:
The Fund pays transaction
costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over"
its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction
costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account.
These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the
example, affect the Fund's performance. For the most recent fiscal period, the
Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 15.52% of the average value of its
portfolio.
PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT
STRATEGIES
The Fund
invests at least 80% of its total assets in the securities of the Indxx
Artificial Intelligence & Big Data Index ("Underlying Index"). The
Underlying Index is designed to track the performance of companies involved in
the development and utilization of artificial intelligence ("AI") and big data.
The Fund's 80% investment policy is non-fundamental and requires 60 days prior
written notice to shareholders before it can be changed. The
Fund may lend securities representing up to one-third of the value of the Fund’s
total assets (including the value of the collateral received).
The
Underlying Index is designed to provide exposure to exchange-listed companies
that are positioned to benefit from the further development and utilization of
artificial intelligence technology in their products and services, as well as to
companies that provide hardware which facilitates the use of artificial
intelligence for the analysis of big data (collectively, "Artificial
Intelligence & Big Data Companies"), as defined by Indxx, LLC the provider
of the Underlying Index (the "Index Provider").
As
technology continues to advance, artificial intelligence and big data are
converging as complementary technology themes that enable companies to extract
useful information from large and complex data sets. The increasing availability
and accessibility of big data is creating more potential applications for
artificial intelligence technology, which further incentivizes companies to
develop capabilities in this area. Advances in artificial intelligence and big
data technology have the potential to impact companies across many sectors, and
are particularly applicable to companies that have acquired significant amounts
of consumer, industrial, financial or other types of
data.
The
eligible universe of the Underlying Index includes exchange-listed companies
that meet minimum market capitalization and liquidity criteria, as defined by
the Index Provider. As of January 31, 2026, companies must have a minimum
market capitalization of $500 million and a minimum average daily turnover for
the last 6 months (or since the IPO launch date for Significant IPOs as defined
by the Index Provider or 3 months, in the case of other IPOs) greater than or
equal to $2 million in order to be eligible for inclusion in the Underlying
Index. As of January 31, 2026, companies listed or incorporated in the
following countries were eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index:
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong
Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal,
Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom,
and the United States. In addition, ADRs and GDRs of companies incorporated or
with primary listing in China are eligible for inclusion.
From
the eligible universe, the Index Provider identifies Artificial Intelligence
& Big Data Companies by applying a proprietary analysis that seeks to
identify companies that can be classified in the following
categories:
•Artificial
Intelligence Developers
▪Artificial
Intelligence Applied to Products and Services - Companies
that have developed internal artificial intelligence capabilities (organically
or through acquisition) and are applying artificial intelligence technology
directly in their products and services. Artificial intelligence applications
include but are not limited to language/ image processing and recognition,
automated communications, threat detection, recommendation generation, and other
predictive analytics.
▪Artificial
Intelligence-as-a-Service ("AIaaS") for Big Data Applications - Companies
that provide artificial intelligence capabilities to their customers as a
service. Companies in this segment typically offer cloud-based platforms that
allow their customers to apply artificial intelligence techniques to big data
without the need for a direct investment in their own artificial
intelligence-related infrastructure or capabilities.
Many
companies in the Artificial Intelligence Developers category are considered "big
data owners" due to the large amounts of consumer, industry, financial or other
types of data that has been acquired through their platforms, products and
services. These companies have typically developed internal capabilities
in artificial intelligence technology and are using these capabilities to create
competitive advantage in their businesses. This category may include
companies from sectors including, but not limited to, Information Technology,
Industrials, Financials, and Consumer Discretionary.
•Artificial
Intelligence and Big Data Analytics Hardware
◦Artificial
Intelligence Hardware - Companies
that produce semiconductors, memory storage and other hardware that is utilized
for artificial intelligence applications. This currently includes, but is not
limited to, companies that produce graphics processing units (GPUs),
application-specific integrated circuit ("ASIC") chips, field-programmable gate
array ("FPGA") chips, and all-flash array storage.
◦Quantum
Computing - Companies
that are developing quantum computing technology. While currently in the
process of being commercialized, quantum computing is expected to have
significant potential for artificial intelligence and big data applications.
In
order to be included in the Underlying Index, a company must be classified in
the categories described above, as determined by the Index Provider. This
classification is based on a composite analysis of public filings, products and
services, official company statements and other information regarding direct
involvement in the artificial intelligence and big data categories as described
above. Eligible companies are then ranked by the Index Provider using a research
framework that assesses a company's exposure to these categories. Companies must
receive a minimum score within a given category to be selected in the Underlying
Index, as determined by the Index Provider. Accordingly, the Fund assets will be
concentrated (that is, it will hold 25% or more of its total assets) in
companies that provide exposure to Artificial Intelligence & Big Data.
The
Underlying Index is weighted according to a modified capitalization weighting
methodology and is reconstituted annually with a semi-annual re-weighting. The
Underlying Index may include large-, mid- or small-capitalization companies, and
components primarily include information technology companies. The Fund's
investment objective and Underlying Index may be changed without shareholder
approval.
The
Underlying Index is sponsored by the Index Provider, which is an organization
that is independent of, and unaffiliated with, the Fund and Global X Management
Company LLC, the investment adviser for the Fund ("Adviser"). The Index Provider
determines the relative weightings of the securities in the Underlying Index and
publishes information regarding the market value of the Underlying
Index.
The
Adviser uses an indexing approach to try to achieve the Fund's investment
objective. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not try to outperform
the Underlying Index and does not seek temporary defensive positions when
markets decline or appear overvalued.
The
Fund generally will use a replication strategy. A replication strategy is an
indexing strategy that involves investing in the securities of the Underlying
Index in approximately the same proportions as in the Underlying Index. However,
the Fund may utilize a representative sampling strategy with respect to the
Underlying Index when a replication strategy might be detrimental or
disadvantageous to shareholders, such as when there are practical difficulties
or substantial costs involved in compiling a portfolio of equity securities to
replicate the Underlying Index, in instances in which a security in the
Underlying Index becomes temporarily illiquid, unavailable or less liquid, or as
a result of legal restrictions or limitations (such as tax diversification
requirements) that apply to the Fund but not the Underlying Index.
The
Adviser expects that, over time, the correlation between the Fund's performance
and that of the Underlying Index, before fees and expenses, will exceed 95%. A
correlation percentage of 100% would indicate perfect correlation. If the Fund
uses a replication strategy, it can be expected to have greater correlation to
the Underlying Index than if it uses a representative sampling
strategy.
The Fund
concentrates its investments (i.e., holds 25% or more of its total assets) in a
particular industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent that
the Underlying Index is concentrated. As of January 31, 2026, the
Underlying Index was concentrated in the semiconductors and semiconductor
equipment industry and had significant exposure to the information technology
sector.
SUMMARY
OF PRINCIPAL RISKS
As with any
investment, you could lose all or part of your investment in the Fund, and the
Fund’s performance could trail that of other investments. There
is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its investment objective.
An investment in the Fund is not a bank deposit and it is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other
government agency, the Adviser or any of its affiliates. The
Fund is subject to the principal risks noted below, any of which may adversely
affect the Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”), trading price, yield, total return
and ability to meet its investment objective, as well as other risks that are
described in greater detail in the Additional
Information About the Funds
section of this Prospectus and in the Statement of Additional Information
(“SAI”).
Asset
Class Risk:
Securities and other assets in the Underlying Index or otherwise held in the
Fund's portfolio may underperform in comparison to the general securities
markets, a particular securities market or other asset classes.
Depositary
Receipts Risk: The
Fund may invest in depositary receipts, such as ADRs and GDRs. Depositary
receipts are receipts listed on U.S. or foreign exchanges issued by banks or
trust companies that entitle the holder to all dividends and capital gains that
are paid out on the underlying foreign shares. Depositary receipts are generally
subject to the same risks associated with direct investments in the securities
of foreign companies. A holder of depositary receipts may also be subject to
fees and the credit risk of the financial institution acting as depositary.
Unsponsored depositary receipts may involve higher expenses, fewer shareholder
rights, and may be less liquid.
Equity
Securities Risk: Equity securities are subject to
changes in value, and their values may be more volatile than other asset
classes, as a result of a company’s business performance, investor perceptions,
stock market trends and general economic
conditions.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Artificial Intelligence & Big Data
Companies:
Artificial Intelligence & Big Data Companies typically face intense
competition and potentially rapid product obsolescence. These companies are also
heavily dependent on intellectual property rights and may be adversely affected
by loss or impairment of those rights. There can be no assurance these companies
will be able to successfully protect their intellectual property to prevent the
misappropriation of their technology, or that competitors will not develop
technology that is substantially similar or superior to such companies’
technology. Artificial Intelligence & Big Data Companies typically engage in
significant amounts of spending on computing infrastructure, research and
development and mergers and acquisitions, and there is no guarantee that the
products or services produced by these companies will be successful. Artificial
Intelligence & Big Data Companies are potential targets for
cyberattacks, which can have a materially adverse impact on the
performance of these companies. In addition, artificial intelligence technology
could face increasing regulatory scrutiny in the future, which may limit the
development of this technology and impede the growth of companies that develop
and/or utilize this technology. Similarly, the collection of data from consumers
and other sources could face increased scrutiny as regulators consider how the
data is collected, stored, safeguarded and used. Artificial Intelligence &
Big Data Companies may face regulatory fines and penalties, including potential
forced break-ups, that could hinder the ability of the companies to operate on
an ongoing basis. The customers and/or suppliers of Artificial Intelligence
& Big Data Companies may be concentrated in a particular country, region or
industry. Any adverse event affecting one of these countries, regions or
industries could have a negative impact on Artificial Intelligence & Big
Data Companies. Country, government, and/or region-specific regulations or
restrictions could have an impact on Artificial Intelligence & Big Data
companies.
Capitalization
Risk:
Investing in issuers within the same market capitalization category carries the
risk that the category may be out of favor due to current market conditions or
investor sentiment.
Large-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Large-capitalization
companies may adapt more slowly to new competitive challenges and changing
market conditions than smaller capitalization companies. In addition,
large-capitalization companies may be more mature and subject to more limited
growth potential and consequently may underperform other segments of the equity
market or the market as a whole.
Currency
Risk:
The Fund may invest in securities denominated in foreign currencies. Because the
Fund's NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the Fund's NAV could decline if
currencies of the underlying securities depreciate against the U.S. dollar or if
there are delays or limits on repatriation of such currencies. Generally, an
increase in the value of the U.S. dollar against a foreign currency will reduce
the value of a security denominated in that foreign currency, thereby decreasing
the Fund's NAV. Exchange rates may be volatile and may change quickly and
without warning, which could have a significant negative impact on the
Fund.
Custody
Risk:
Custody risk refers to the risks in the process of clearing and settling trades,
as well as the holding of securities and other assets by local banks, agents,
and securities depositories. These risks are heightened in jurisdictions with
less developed markets or less robust settlement and custody infrastructure and
processes.
Cybersecurity
Risk: With the increased use of technologies such as the Internet to
conduct business, the Fund, like all companies, may be susceptible to
operational, information security and related risks. Cybersecurity incidents
involving the Fund and its service providers (including, without limitation, the
Adviser, fund accountant, custodian, transfer agent and financial
intermediaries) have the ability to cause disruptions and impact business
operations, potentially resulting in financial losses, impediments to trading,
the inability of Fund shareholders to transact business, violations of
applicable privacy and other laws, regulatory fines, penalties, reputational
damage, reimbursement or other compensation costs, and/or additional compliance
costs.
Focus
Risk:
The Fund may from time to time have a significant amount of its assets invested
in a particular industry, group of industries, or one or more sectors to
approximately the same extent that the Underlying Index focuses in investments
related to a particular industry, group of industries, and/or one or more
sectors. In such event, the Fund’s performance will depend to a greater extent
on the overall condition of such industry(ies) or sector(s), and an economic,
business, political, regulatory, or other occurrence affecting such
industry(ies) or sector(s) will have an increased impact on the value of the
Fund’s shares compared to the value of shares of a fund that invests in a
broader range of industries or sectors.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Information Technology Sector: Companies
in the information technology sector are subject to rapid changes in technology
product cycles, rapid product obsolescence, government regulation, and increased
competition. Information technology companies are particularly vulnerable to
failure to obtain, or delays in obtaining, financing or regulatory approval, and
also are heavily dependent on patent and intellectual property rights. In
addition, information technology companies may have limited product lines,
markets, financial resources or personnel.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Semiconductors and Semiconductor Equipment
Industry:
The semiconductors and semiconductor equipment industry is highly competitive,
and certain companies in this industry may be restricted from operating in
certain markets due to the sensitive nature of these technologies. Companies in
this space generally seek to increase silicon capacity, improve yields, and
reduce the size in their product designs which may result in significant
increases in worldwide supply and downward pressure on prices. Companies
involved in the semiconductors and semiconductor equipment industry face
increased risk from trade agreements between countries that develop these
technologies and countries in which customers of these technologies are based.
Lack of resolution
or
potential imposition of trade tariffs may hinder the companies’ ability to
successfully deploy their inventories. The success of such companies frequently
depends on the ability to develop and produce competitive new semiconductor
technologies. Companies in this industry frequently undertake substantial
research and development expenses in order to remain competitive, and a failure
to successfully demonstrate advanced functionality and performance can have a
material impact on the company’s
business.
Foreign
Securities Risk: Investments in foreign securities can be riskier than U.S.
securities investments. Investments in the securities of foreign issuers
(including investments in American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) and Global
Depositary Receipts (“GDRs”)) are subject to additional risks, including lower
levels of liquidity and market efficiency; greater securities price volatility;
exchange rate fluctuations and exchange controls; less availability of public
information about issuers; limitations on foreign ownership of securities;
imposition of withholding or other taxes; imposition of restrictions on the
expatriation of the assets of the Fund; restrictions placed on U.S. investors by
U.S. regulations governing foreign investments; higher transaction and custody
costs and delays in settlement procedures; difficulties in enforcing contractual
obligations; lower levels of regulation of the securities market; weaker
accounting, disclosure and reporting requirements; and legal principles relating
to corporate governance and directors’ fiduciary duties and liabilities. The
countries in which the Fund invests may also be subject to structural risks,
including economic, political and social instability. Additionally, certain
securities held by the Fund, while traded on U.S. exchanges, may be issued by
foreign financial institutions and as such, may be subject to the risks of
investing in securities issued by foreign companies, which may not be subject to
the same regulations as companies domiciled in the U.S. Where all or a portion
of the Fund's securities trade in a market that is closed when the market in
which the Fund's Shares are listed and trading is open, there may be differences
between the last quote from the security’s closed foreign market and the value
of the security during the Fund’s domestic trading day. This, in turn, could
lead to differences between the market price of the Fund’s Shares and the
underlying value of those shares.
Geographic
Risk: The
Fund’s investments in securities of issuers located in a particular country or
geographic region may subject the Fund to certain risks to a greater extent than
if its investments were less focused, including: natural, biological or other
disasters and the spread of infectious diseases; economic, political and social
instability; security concerns; and trade disputes with key trading partners.
The securities in which the Fund invests and, consequently, the Fund is also
subject to specific risks as a result of their business operations in a
particular country or region, including, but not limited to:
Risk
of Investing in Developed Markets: Investments in a developed country’s issuer may subject the Fund to
legal, regulatory, political, currency, security, and economic risks specific to
developed countries. Developed countries tend to represent a significant portion
of the global economy and have generally experienced slower economic growth than
some less developed countries. Certain developed countries have experienced
security concerns, such as war, terrorism and strained international relations.
Incidents involving a country’s or region’s security may cause uncertainty in
its markets and may adversely affect its economy and the Fund’s investments. In
addition, developed countries may be adversely impacted by changes to the
economic conditions of certain key trading partners, regulatory burdens, debt
burdens and the price or availability of certain commodities.
Risk
of Investing in Emerging Markets: Investments in emerging markets may be subject to a greater risk of
loss than investments in developed markets. Securities markets of emerging
market countries are less liquid, subject to greater price volatility, have
smaller market capitalizations, have less government regulation, and are not
subject to as extensive and frequent accounting, financial, and other reporting
requirements as the securities markets of more developed countries, and there
may be greater risk associated with the custody of securities in emerging
markets. It may be difficult or impossible for the Fund to pursue claims against
an emerging market issuer in the courts of an emerging market country. There may
be significant obstacles to obtaining information necessary for investigations
into or litigation against emerging market companies and shareholders may have
limited legal rights and remedies. Emerging markets may be more likely to
experience inflation, political turmoil and rapid changes in economic conditions
than more developed markets. Emerging markets may also face other significant
internal or external risks, including the risk of war, terrorism, or other
social or political conflicts.
Risk
of Investing in the United States: Investments in United States issuers
may subject the Fund to legal, regulatory, political, currency, security, and
economic risks specific to the United States. A decrease in imports or exports,
changes in trade regulations, inflation and/or an economic recession in the U.S.
may have a material adverse effect on the U.S.
economy.
Indexing
Strategy Risk:
The Fund is not actively managed, and the Adviser does not attempt to take
defensive positions in declining markets. Unlike many investment companies, the
Fund does not seek to outperform its Underlying Index. Therefore, it would not
necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed,
respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is
underperforming. Additionally, if a constituent of the Underlying Index were
removed, even
outside
of a regular rebalance of the Underlying Index, the Adviser anticipates that the
Fund would sell such security. Maintaining investments in securities regardless
of market conditions or the performance of individual securities could cause the
Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund employed an active
strategy.
Index-Related
Risk: There is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve a high degree of
correlation to the Underlying Index and therefore achieve its investment
objective. Market disruptions and regulatory restrictions could have an adverse
effect on the Fund’s ability to adjust its exposure to the required levels in
order to track the Underlying Index. Errors in index data, index computations
and/or the construction of the Underlying Index in accordance with its
methodology may occur from time to time and may not be identified and corrected
by the Index Provider for a period of time or at all, which may have an adverse
impact on the Fund and its shareholders.
Management
Risk: The Fund may not fully replicate its Underlying Index and may hold
securities not included in its Underlying Index. The Adviser’s investment
strategy, the implementation of which is subject to a number of constraints, may
cause the Fund to underperform the market or its relevant benchmark or adversely
affect the ability of the Fund to achieve its investment
objective.
Tracking
Error Risk: Tracking error may occur because of
differences between the instruments held in the Fund's portfolio and those
included in the Underlying Index, pricing differences, transaction costs
incurred by the Fund, the Fund's holding of uninvested cash, size of the Fund,
differences in timing of the accrual of or the valuation of dividends or
interest, tax gains or losses, changes to the Underlying Index or the costs to
the Fund of complying with various new or existing regulatory requirements. This
risk may be heightened during times of increased market volatility or other
unusual market conditions. Tracking error also may result because the Fund
incurs fees and expenses, while the Underlying Index does not. ETFs that track
indices with significant weight in emerging markets issuers may experience
higher tracking error than other ETFs that do not track such
indices.
International
Closed Market Trading Risk: To
the extent that the underlying investments held by the Fund trade on foreign
exchanges that may be closed when the securities exchange on which the Fund’s
Shares trade is open, there are likely to be deviations between the current
price of such an underlying security and the last quoted price for the
underlying security (i.e., the Fund’s quote from the closed foreign market).
These deviations could result in premiums or discounts to the Fund’s NAV that
may be greater than those experienced by other exchange-traded funds
("ETFs").
Issuer
Risk: Fund performance depends on the performance of individual companies
in which the Fund invests. Changes to the financial condition of any of those
companies may cause the value of such company's securities to
decline.
Market
Risk: Turbulence in the financial markets and reduced liquidity may
negatively affect issuers, which could have an adverse effect on the Fund and
its investments. The Fund’s NAV could decline over short periods due to
short-term market movements and over longer periods during market downturns.
Trade policy, including the imposition of tariffs, may dampen consumer spending
and result in decreased confidence in the markets. Additionally, political
uncertainty regarding U.S. policy, including the U.S. government’s approach to
trade, may also impact the markets. Furthermore, local, regional or global
events such as war, acts of terrorism, the spread of infectious diseases,
inflation and recessions, changes in interest or exchange rates, or other events
could have a significant impact on the Fund and its investments and trading of
its Shares. Market risk factors may result in increased volatility and/or
decreased liquidity in the securities markets.
Operational
Risk: The Fund is exposed to operational risk arising from a number of
factors, including but not limited to human error, processing and communication
errors, errors of the Fund's service providers, counterparties or other
third-parties, failed or inadequate processes, cyber security incidents, and
technology or systems failures. The Fund and the Adviser seek to reduce these
operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do
not address every possible risk and may be inadequate for those risks that they
are intended to address.
Risks
Associated with Exchange-Traded Funds:
As an ETF, the Fund is subject to the following risks:
Authorized
Participants Concentration Risk: The Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may
act as Authorized Participants and engage in creation or redemption transactions
directly with the Fund, and none of those Authorized Participants is obligated
to engage in creation and/or redemption transactions. To the extent that those
Authorized Participants exit the business or are unable to process creation
and/or redemption orders, such as in times of market stress, Shares may be more
likely to trade at a premium or discount to NAV and/or at wider intraday bid-ask
spreads, and possibly face trading halts and/or delisting from an exchange.
Authorized Participants Concentration Risk may be heightened because the Fund
invests in non-U.S. securities.
Large
Shareholder Risk: Certain
shareholders, including an Authorized Participant, the Adviser, an affiliate of
the Adviser, or funds managed by the Adviser, may own a substantial amount of
the Fund’s Shares. Redemptions by large shareholders could have a significant
negative impact on the Fund. If a large shareholder were to redeem all, or a
large portion, of its Shares, there is no guarantee that the Fund will be able
to maintain sufficient assets to continue operations in which case the Board of
Trustees may determine to liquidate the Fund. In addition, transactions by large
shareholders may account for a large percentage of the trading volume on a
national securities exchange and may, therefore, have a material upward or
downward effect on the market price of the Shares.
Listing
Standards Risk: The
Fund is required to comply with listing requirements adopted by the listing
exchange. Non-compliance with such requirements may result in the Fund's shares
being delisted by the listing exchange. Any resulting liquidation of the Fund
could cause the Fund to incur elevated transaction costs and could result in
negative tax consequences for its shareholders.
Market
Trading Risks and Premium/Discount
Risks: Shares of the Fund are publicly traded
on a national securities exchange, which may subject shareholders to numerous
market trading risks. In stressed market conditions, the market for the Shares
may become less liquid in response to the deteriorating liquidity of the Fund’s
portfolio. This adverse effect on the liquidity of the Shares, as well as
disruptions to creations and redemptions, the existence of extreme market
volatility or potential lack of assets in the Fund or an active trading market
for Shares may result in Shares trading at a significant premium or discount to
NAV. If a shareholder purchases Shares at a time when the market price is at a
premium to the NAV or sells Shares at a time when the market price is at a
discount to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain losses. The NAV of the Fund is
calculated at the end of each business day and fluctuates with changes in the
market value of the Fund’s holdings. The trading price of the Fund’s Shares
fluctuates, in some cases materially, throughout trading hours in response to
changes in the Fund’s NAV.
Securities
Lending Risk: Securities lending involves a risk of loss because the borrower may
fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. If the Fund is not
able to recover the securities loaned, it may sell the collateral and purchase a
replacement security in the market. Lending securities entails a risk of loss to
the Fund if and to the extent that the market value of the loaned securities
increases and the collateral is not increased accordingly. Additionally, the
Fund will bear any loss on the investment of cash collateral it receives. These
events could also trigger adverse tax consequences for the Fund. As securities
on loan may not be voted by the Fund, there is a risk that the Fund may not be
able to recall the securities in sufficient time to vote on material proxy
matters.
Trading
Halt Risk:
An exchange or market may close or issue trading halts on specific securities,
or the ability to buy or sell certain securities or financial instruments may be
restricted, which may result in the Fund being unable to buy or sell certain
securities or financial instruments. In such circumstances, the Fund may be
unable to rebalance its portfolio, may be unable to accurately price its
investments and/or may incur substantial trading
losses.
Valuation
Risk: The sales price the Fund could receive for a security may differ
from the Fund’s valuation of the security and may differ from the value used by
the Underlying Index, particularly for securities that trade in low value or
volatile markets or that are valued using a fair value methodology (such as
during trading halts). The value of the securities in the Fund's portfolio may
change on days when shareholders will not be able to purchase or sell the Fund's
Shares.
PERFORMANCE
INFORMATION
The bar chart
and table that follow show how the Fund performed on a calendar year basis and
provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes
in the Fund's performance from year to year and by showing the Fund's average
annual total returns for the indicated periods compared with the Fund's
broad-based benchmark index, which reflects a broad measure of market
performance, and the Underlying Index, which the Fund seeks to
track. The Fund's past performance
(before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will
perform in the future. Updated performance information is
available online at
www.globalxetfs.com.
Annual Total Returns
(Years Ended December 31)
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6/30/2020 |
32.53% |
| Worst
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6/30/2022 |
-22.73% |
Average Annual
Total Returns (for the Periods Ended December 31,
2025)
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Year Ended December 31, 2025 |
Five
Years Ended December 31, 2025 |
Since
Inception (05/11/2018) |
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X Artificial Intelligence & Technology ETF: |
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·Return
before taxes |
32.04% |
13.64% |
17.76% |
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·Return
after taxes on distributions1 |
31.97% |
13.57% |
17.66% |
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·Return
after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund Shares1 |
19.00% |
10.94% |
14.88% |
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MSCI
ACWI Index (NR) (USD)
(Index returns reflect
invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflect no deduction for
fees, expenses, or other
taxes) |
22.34% |
11.19% |
11.00% |
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Indxx
Artificial Intelligence & Big Data Index (NR) (USD)
(Index
returns reflect invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflect
no deduction for fees, expenses, or other
taxes) |
32.84% |
14.29% |
18.34% |
1
After-tax returns are
calculated using the historical highest individual U.S. federal marginal income
tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local
taxes. Your actual after-tax
returns will depend on your specific tax situation and may differ from those
shown above. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold Shares of
the Fund through tax-advantaged arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual
retirement accounts (IRAs).
FUND
MANAGEMENT
Investment
Adviser:
Global X Management Company LLC.
Portfolio
Managers:
The professionals primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the
Fund are Nam To, CFA and Wayne Xie (“Portfolio Managers”). Mr. To has been a
Portfolio Manager of the Fund since the Fund's inception. Mr. Xie has been a
Portfolio Manager of the Fund since March 1, 2019.
PURCHASE
AND SALE OF FUND SHARES
Shares
of the Fund are or will be listed and traded at market prices on a national
securities exchange. Shares may only be purchased and sold on the exchange
through a broker-dealer. The price of Shares is based on market price, and
because ETF shares trade at market prices rather than at NAV, Shares may trade
at a price greater than NAV (a premium) or less than NAV (a discount). Only
“Authorized Participants” (as defined in the SAI) who have entered into
agreements with the Fund’s distributor, SEI Investments Distribution Co.
(“Distributor”), may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with
the Fund. The Fund will only issue or redeem Shares that have been aggregated
into blocks called Creation Units. The Fund will issue or redeem Creation Units
in return for a basket of cash and/or securities that the Fund specifies any day
that the national securities exchanges are open for business (“Business Day”).
An investor may incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest
price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase shares of the Fund (bid) and the
lowest price a seller is willing to accept for shares of the Fund (ask) when
buying or selling shares in the secondary market (the “bid-ask spread”). To
access information regarding the Fund’s net asset value, market price, premiums
and discounts, and bid-ask spreads, please go to https://www.globalxetfs.com.
TAX
INFORMATION
The
Fund intends to make distributions that may be taxable to you as ordinary income
or capital gains, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement,
such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account ("IRA"), in which case
distributions from such tax-advantaged arrangement may be taxable to you.
PAYMENTS
TO BROKER-DEALERS AND OTHER FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES
The
Adviser and its related companies may pay broker-dealers or other financial
intermediaries (such as a bank) for the sale of Fund Shares and related
services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing your
broker-dealer, sales persons or other intermediary or its employees or
associated persons to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your
financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more
information.
Global X Genomics
& Biotechnology ETF
Ticker:
GNOM Exchange: NASDAQ
INVESTMENT
OBJECTIVE
The
Global X Genomics & Biotechnology ETF ("Fund") seeks to provide investment
results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before
fees and expenses, of the Solactive Genomics Index ("Underlying
Index").
FEES AND
EXPENSES
This
table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and
sell shares (“Shares”) of the Fund. You
may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial
intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and examples
below.
Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment):
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Management
Fees: |
0.50% |
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Distribution
and Service (12b-1) Fees: |
None |
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Other
Expenses: |
0.00% |
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Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses: |
0.50% |
Example:
The following example
is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost
of investing in other funds. This example does not take into account customary
brokerage commissions that you pay when purchasing or selling Shares of the Fund
in the secondary market. The example assumes
that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then hold
or sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes
that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating
expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower,
based on these assumptions, your costs would be:
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Year |
Three
Years |
Five
Years |
Ten
Years |
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$160 |
$280 |
$628 |
Portfolio
Turnover:
The Fund pays transaction
costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over"
its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction
costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account.
These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the
example, affect the Fund's performance. For the most recent fiscal period, the
Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 34.03% of the average value of its
portfolio.
PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT
STRATEGIES
The Fund
invests at least 80% of its total assets in the securities of the Solactive
Genomics Index ("Underlying Index"). The Fund's 80% investment policy is
non-fundamental and requires 60 days prior written notice to shareholders before
it can be changed. The Fund may lend securities representing up
to one-third of the value of the Fund’s total assets (including the value of the
collateral received).
The
Underlying Index is designed to provide exposure to exchange-listed companies
that are positioned to benefit from further advances in the field of genomic
science, as well as applications thereof (collectively, "Genomics Companies"),
as defined by Solactive AG, the provider of the Underlying Index ("Index
Provider"). Genomics Companies may include companies in the biotechnology
industry. Companies in the biotechnology industry include companies that are
involved in business activities related to the research, development,
manufacturing and/or marketing of products based on genetic analysis and genetic
engineering.
In
order to be eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index, a company is
considered by the Index Provider to be a Genomics Company if it is involved in
business activities that include but are not limited to: (i) gene editing, (ii)
genomic sequencing, (iii) development and testing of genetic medicine/therapies,
and/or (iv) computational genomics and genetic diagnostics.
In
constructing the Underlying Index, the Index Provider first establishes the
eligible universe by utilizing FactSet sector classifications: only companies
classified by FactSet as healthcare companies are eligible for the Underlying
Index. The Index
Provider
then applies a proprietary natural language processing algorithm to the eligible
universe, which seeks to identify and rank companies with direct exposure to the
genomics industry based on filings, disclosures and other public information
(e.g. regulatory filings, earnings transcripts, etc.). The highest ranking
companies identified by the natural language processing algorithm, as of the
selection date, are further reviewed by the Index Provider to confirm their
involvement in the following business activities:
i.Gene
Editing:
Companies that develop technology for the insertion, deletion, or replacement of
DNA at a specific site in the genome of an organism.
ii.Genomic
Sequencing:
Companies that are engaged in the process of determining the complete DNA
sequence of an organism's genome.
iii.Genetic
Medicine/Therapies:
Companies that seek to detect, cure or treat diseases by identifying and/or
modifying an organism's gene expression or functioning.
iv.Computational
Genomics and Genetic Diagnostics:
Companies that use computational and statistical analysis to decipher biological
insights from genome sequences and related data.
The
eligible universe of the Underlying Index includes exchange-listed companies
that meet minimum market capitalization and liquidity criteria, as defined by
the Index Provider. As of January 31, 2026, companies must have a minimum
market capitalization of $200 million and a minimum average daily turnover for
the last 6 months greater than or equal to $2 million in order to be eligible
for inclusion in the Underlying Index. As of January 31, 2026, companies
listed in the following countries were eligible for inclusion in the Underlying
Index: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,
Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway,
Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and
the United States. Additionally, ADRs of any company whose primary listing is in
a country that is part of the Emerging markets are eligible.
The
twenty highest-ranking companies identified by the Index Provider as deriving at
least 50% of revenues from genomics-related business activities (“Pure-Play
Genomics Companies”) as well as companies identified as having primary business
operations in genomics-related business activities but that do not currently
generate revenue (“Pre-Revenue Genomics Companies”) are eligible for inclusion
in the Underlying Index. In addition, the five highest-ranked companies
identified by the Index Provider as deriving greater than 0% but less than 50%
of revenues from genomics-related business activities (“Diversified Genomics
Companies”) are also eligible for inclusion. Existing index constituents are
retained in the Underlying Index by priority of their weight, provided they
remain ranked and meet the index criteria, up to a maximum of fifty index
constituents. If the total number of index constituents is below fifty,
additional companies are added according to their ranking until the maximum
number of index constituents is reached. The number of Diversified Genomics
Companies included in the final index will be capped at ten.
The
Underlying Index is weighted according to a modified free-float capitalization
weighting methodology and is reconstituted and re-weighted semi-annually.
Modified free-float capitalization weighting seeks to weight constituents
primarily based on free-float market capitalization, but subject to caps on the
weights of the individual securities. Generally speaking, this approach will
limit the amount of concentration in the largest market capitalization companies
and increase company-level diversification. During each rebalance, the maximum
weight of any company is capped at 4%. Additionally, Diversified Genomics
Companies are subject to an individual weight cap of 2% and an aggregate weight
cap of 10%. The Underlying Index may include large-, mid- or
small-capitalization companies, and components primarily include healthcare
companies. As of January 31, 2026, the Underlying Index had 49
constituents. The Fund's investment objective and Underlying Index may be
changed without shareholder approval.
The
Underlying Index is sponsored by the Index Provider, which is an organization
that is independent of, and unaffiliated with, the Fund and Global X Management
Company LLC, the investment adviser for the Fund ("Adviser"). The Index Provider
determines the relative weightings of the securities in the Underlying Index and
publishes information regarding the market value of the Underlying
Index.
The
Adviser uses an indexing approach to try to achieve the Fund's investment
objective. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not try to outperform
the Underlying Index and does not seek temporary defensive positions when
markets decline or appear overvalued.
The
Fund generally will use a replication strategy. A replication strategy is an
indexing strategy that involves investing in the securities of the Underlying
Index in approximately the same proportions as in the Underlying Index. However,
the Fund may utilize a representative sampling strategy with respect to the
Underlying Index when a replication strategy might be detrimental or
disadvantageous to shareholders, such as when there are practical difficulties
or substantial costs involved in compiling a portfolio of equity securities to
replicate the Underlying Index, in instances in which a security in the
Underlying Index
becomes
temporarily illiquid, unavailable or less liquid, or as a result of legal
restrictions or limitations (such as tax diversification requirements) that
apply to the Fund but not the Underlying Index.
The
Adviser expects that, over time, the correlation between the Fund's performance
and that of the Underlying Index, before fees and expenses, will exceed 95%. A
correlation percentage of 100% would indicate perfect correlation.
The Fund
concentrates its investments (i.e., holds 25% or more of its total assets) in a
particular industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent that
the Underlying Index is concentrated. As of January 31, 2026, the
Underlying Index was concentrated in the biotechnology industry and had
significant exposure to the health care sector. The Fund is
classified as “non-diversified,” which means it may invest a larger percentage
of its assets in a smaller number of issuers than a diversified
fund.
SUMMARY
OF PRINCIPAL RISKS
As with any
investment, you could lose all or part of your investment in the Fund, and the
Fund’s performance could trail that of other investments. There
is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its investment objective.
An investment in the Fund is not a bank deposit and it is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other
government agency, the Adviser or any of its affiliates. The
Fund is subject to the principal risks noted below, any of which may adversely
affect the Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”), trading price, yield, total return
and ability to meet its investment objective, as well as other risks that are
described in greater detail in the Additional
Information About the Funds
section of this Prospectus and in the Statement of Additional Information
(“SAI”).
Asset
Class Risk:
Securities and other assets in the Underlying Index or otherwise held in the
Fund's portfolio may underperform in comparison to the general securities
markets, a particular securities market or other asset classes.
Depositary
Receipts Risk: The
Fund may invest in depositary receipts, such as ADRs and GDRs. Depositary
receipts are receipts listed on U.S. or foreign exchanges issued by banks or
trust companies that entitle the holder to all dividends and capital gains that
are paid out on the underlying foreign shares. Depositary receipts are generally
subject to the same risks associated with direct investments in the securities
of foreign companies. A holder of depositary receipts may also be subject to
fees and the credit risk of the financial institution acting as depositary.
Unsponsored depositary receipts may involve higher expenses, fewer shareholder
rights, and may be less liquid.
Equity
Securities Risk: Equity securities are subject to
changes in value, and their values may be more volatile than other asset
classes, as a result of a company’s business performance, investor perceptions,
stock market trends and general economic
conditions.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Genomics Companies: Genomics companies typically face intense competition and
potentially rapid product obsolescence. These companies are also heavily
dependent on intellectual property rights and may be adversely affected by loss
or impairment of those rights. There can be no assurance these companies will be
able to successfully protect their intellectual property to prevent the
misappropriation of their technology, or that competitors will not develop
technology that is substantially similar or superior to such companies’
technology. Genomics companies typically engage in significant amounts of
spending on research and development, and there is no guarantee that the
products or services produced by these companies will be successful. In
addition, the field of genomic science could face increasing regulatory scrutiny
in the future, which may limit the development of this technology and impede the
growth of companies that develop and/or utilize this technology. The customers
and/or suppliers of genomics companies may be concentrated in a particular
country, region or industry. Any adverse event affecting one of these countries,
regions or industries could have a negative impact on genomics companies. Demand
for Genomics products, generally speaking and specific to sub-segments, may
fluctuate due to unexpected events, including but not limited to global health
crises like pandemics which could strain health care systems and shift health
care needs. Such demand fluctuations could positively or negatively impact
Genomics Companies.
Capitalization
Risk:
Investing in issuers within the same market capitalization category carries the
risk that the category may be out of favor due to current market conditions or
investor sentiment.
Large-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Large-capitalization
companies may adapt more slowly to new competitive challenges and changing
market conditions than smaller capitalization companies. In addition,
large-capitalization companies may be more mature and subject to more limited
growth potential and consequently may underperform other segments of the equity
market or the market as a whole.
Mid-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Mid-capitalization
companies may have greater price volatility, lower trading volume and less
liquidity than large-capitalization companies. In addition, mid-capitalization
companies may have smaller revenues, narrower product lines, less management
depth and experience, smaller shares of their product or service markets, fewer
financial resources and less competitive strength than large-capitalization
companies. These securities may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly,
from the overall securities
market.
Small-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Small-capitalization companies may be
less stable and more susceptible to adverse developments, and their securities
may be more volatile and less liquid than large- and mid-capitalization
companies. In addition, small-capitalization companies may have smaller
revenues, narrower product lines, less management depth and experience, smaller
shares of their product or service markets, fewer financial resources, and
shorter operating histories than large- and mid-capitalization companies. These
securities may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly, from the overall
securities market.
Currency
Risk:
The Fund may invest in securities denominated in foreign currencies. Because the
Fund's NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the Fund's NAV could decline if
currencies of the underlying securities depreciate against the U.S. dollar or if
there are delays or limits on repatriation of such currencies. Generally, an
increase in the value of the U.S. dollar against a foreign currency will reduce
the value of a security denominated in that foreign currency, thereby decreasing
the Fund's NAV. Exchange rates may be volatile and may change quickly and
without warning, which could have a significant negative impact on the
Fund.
Custody
Risk: Custody risk refers to the risks in the process of clearing and
settling trades, as well as the holding of securities and other assets by local
banks, agents, and securities depositories. These risks are heightened in
jurisdictions with less developed markets or less robust settlement and custody
infrastructure and processes.
Cybersecurity
Risk: With the increased use of technologies such as the Internet to
conduct business, the Fund, like all companies, may be susceptible to
operational, information security and related risks. Cybersecurity incidents
involving the Fund and its service providers (including, without limitation, the
Adviser, fund accountant, custodian, transfer agent and financial
intermediaries) have the ability to cause disruptions and impact business
operations, potentially resulting in financial losses, impediments to trading,
the inability of Fund shareholders to transact business, violations of
applicable privacy and other laws, regulatory fines, penalties, reputational
damage, reimbursement or other compensation costs, and/or additional compliance
costs.
Focus
Risk:
The Fund may from time to time have a significant amount of its assets invested
in a particular industry, group of industries, or one or more sectors to
approximately the same extent that the Underlying Index focuses in investments
related to a particular industry, group of industries, and/or one or more
sectors. In such event, the Fund’s performance will depend to a greater extent
on the overall condition of such industry(ies) or sector(s), and an economic,
business, political, regulatory, or other occurrence affecting such
industry(ies) or sector(s) will have an increased impact on the value of the
Fund’s shares compared to the value of shares of a fund that invests in a
broader range of industries or sectors.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Biotechnology Industry: Biotechnology companies face intense competition and the potential
for rapid product obsolescence. Biotechnology companies may be adversely
affected by the loss or impairment of intellectual property rights or changes in
government regulations. Demand for Biotechnology products and services,
generally speaking and specific to sub-segments, may fluctuate due to unexpected
events, including but not limited to global health crises like pandemics which
could strain health care systems and alter health care needs. Such demand
fluctuations could positively or negatively impact Biotechnology
companies.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Health Care Sector: The
health care sector may be affected by government regulations and government
health care programs, increases or decreases in the cost of medical products and
services, an increased emphasis on outpatient services, and product liability
claims, among other factors. Many health care companies are heavily dependent on
patent protection, and the expiration of a company's patent may adversely affect
that company's profitability. Health care companies are subject to competitive
forces that may result in price discounting and may be thinly capitalized and
susceptible to product obsolescence. Companies in the health care sector may
also be affected by unforeseen circumstances including but not limited to the
spread of infectious disease which could impact drug development priorities and
pipelines, supply and demand dynamics for health care equipment, as well as the
ability to receive care in health care service
facilities.
Foreign
Securities Risk:
Investments in foreign securities can be riskier than U.S. securities
investments. Investments in the securities of foreign issuers (including
investments in American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) and Global Depositary
Receipts (“GDRs”)) are subject to additional risks, including lower levels of
liquidity and market efficiency; greater securities price
volatility; exchange rate fluctuations and exchange controls; less
availability of public information about issuers; limitations on foreign
ownership of securities; imposition of withholding or other taxes; imposition of
restrictions on the expatriation of the assets of the Fund; restrictions placed
on U.S. investors by U.S. regulations governing foreign investments; higher
transaction and custody costs and delays in settlement procedures; difficulties
in enforcing contractual obligations; lower levels of regulation of the
securities market; weaker accounting, disclosure and reporting requirements; and
legal principles relating to corporate governance and directors’ fiduciary
duties and liabilities. The countries in which the Fund invests may also be
subject to structural risks, including economic, political and social
instability. Additionally, certain securities held by the Fund, while traded on
U.S. exchanges, may be issued by foreign financial institutions and as such, may
be subject to the risks of investing in securities issued by foreign companies,
which may not be subject to the same regulations as companies domiciled in the
U.S. Where all or a portion of the Fund's securities trade in a market that is
closed when the market in which the Fund's Shares are listed and trading is
open, there may be differences between the last quote from the security’s closed
foreign market and the value of the security during the Fund’s domestic trading
day. This, in turn, could lead to differences between the market price of the
Fund’s Shares and the underlying value of those shares.
Geographic
Risk: The
Fund’s investments in securities of issuers located in a particular country or
geographic region may subject the Fund to certain risks to a greater extent than
if its investments were less focused, including: natural, biological or other
disasters and the spread of infectious diseases; economic, political and social
instability; security concerns; and trade disputes with key trading partners.
The securities in which the Fund invests and, consequently, the Fund is also
subject to specific risks as a result of their business operations in a
particular country or region, including, but not limited to:
Risk
of Investing in Developed Markets: Investments in a developed country’s issuer may subject the Fund to
legal, regulatory, political, currency, security, and economic risks specific to
developed countries. Developed countries tend to represent a significant portion
of the global economy and have generally experienced slower economic growth than
some less developed countries. Certain developed countries have experienced
security concerns, such as war, terrorism and strained international relations.
Incidents involving a country’s or region’s security may cause uncertainty in
its markets and may adversely affect its economy and the Fund’s investments. In
addition, developed countries may be adversely impacted by changes to the
economic conditions of certain key trading partners, regulatory burdens, debt
burdens and the price or availability of certain commodities.
Risk
of Investing in the United States: Investments in United States issuers
may subject the Fund to legal, regulatory, political, currency, security, and
economic risks specific to the United States. A decrease in imports or exports,
changes in trade regulations, inflation and/or an economic recession in the U.S.
may have a material adverse effect on the U.S.
economy.
Indexing
Strategy Risk:
The Fund is not actively managed, and the Adviser does not attempt to take
defensive positions in declining markets. Unlike many investment companies, the
Fund does not seek to outperform its Underlying Index. Therefore, it would not
necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed,
respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is
underperforming. Additionally, if a constituent of the Underlying Index were
removed, even outside of a regular rebalance of the Underlying Index, the
Adviser anticipates that the Fund would sell such security. Maintaining
investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of
individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund
employed an active strategy.
Index-Related
Risk: There is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve a high degree of
correlation to the Underlying Index and therefore achieve its investment
objective. Market disruptions and regulatory restrictions could have an adverse
effect on the Fund’s ability to adjust its exposure to the required levels in
order to track the Underlying Index. Errors in index data, index computations
and/or the construction of the Underlying Index in accordance with its
methodology may occur from time to time and may not be identified and corrected
by the Index Provider for a period of time or at all, which may have an adverse
impact on the Fund and its shareholders.
Management
Risk: The Fund may not fully replicate its Underlying Index and may hold
securities not included in its Underlying Index. The Adviser’s investment
strategy, the implementation of which is subject to a number of constraints, may
cause the Fund to underperform the market or its relevant benchmark or adversely
affect the ability of the Fund to achieve its investment
objective.
Tracking
Error Risk:
Tracking error may occur because of differences between the instruments held in
the Fund's portfolio and those included in the Underlying Index, pricing
differences, transaction costs incurred by the Fund, the Fund's holding of
uninvested cash, size of the Fund, differences in timing of the accrual of or
the valuation of dividends or interest, tax gains or losses, changes to the
Underlying Index or the costs to the Fund of complying with various new or
existing regulatory requirements. This risk may be heightened during times of
increased market
volatility or other unusual market
conditions. Tracking error also may result because the Fund incurs fees and
expenses, while the Underlying Index does
not.
International
Closed Market Trading Risk: To
the extent that the underlying investments held by the Fund trade on foreign
exchanges that may be closed when the securities exchange on which the Fund’s
Shares trade is open, there are likely to be deviations between the current
price of such an underlying security and the last quoted price for the
underlying security (i.e., the Fund’s quote from the closed foreign market).
These deviations could result in premiums or discounts to the Fund’s NAV that
may be greater than those experienced by other exchange-traded funds
("ETFs").
Issuer
Risk: Fund performance depends on the performance of individual companies
in which the Fund invests. Changes to the financial condition of any of those
companies may cause the value of such company's securities to
decline.
Market
Risk: Turbulence in the financial markets and reduced liquidity may
negatively affect issuers, which could have an adverse effect on the Fund and
its investments. The Fund’s NAV could decline over short periods due to
short-term market movements and over longer periods during market downturns.
Trade policy, including the imposition of tariffs, may dampen consumer spending
and result in decreased confidence in the markets. Additionally, political
uncertainty regarding U.S. policy, including the U.S. government’s approach to
trade, may also impact the markets. Furthermore, local, regional or global
events such as war, acts of terrorism, the spread of infectious diseases,
inflation and recessions, changes in interest or exchange rates, or other events
could have a significant impact on the Fund and its investments and trading of
its Shares. Market risk factors may result in increased volatility and/or
decreased liquidity in the securities markets.
Non-Diversification
Risk:
The Fund is classified as a “non-diversified” investment company under the
Investment Company Act of 1940 ("1940 Act"), which means that the Fund may
invest a greater portion of its assets in securities of individual issuers than
a diversified fund. As a result, changes in the market value of a single
investment may have a greater impact on the Fund’s NAV and may make the Fund
more volatile than more diversified funds.
Operational
Risk: The Fund is exposed to operational risk arising from a number of
factors, including but not limited to human error, processing and communication
errors, errors of the Fund's service providers, counterparties or other
third-parties, failed or inadequate processes, cyber security incidents, and
technology or systems failures. The Fund and the Adviser seek to reduce these
operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do
not address every possible risk and may be inadequate for those risks that they
are intended to address.
Risks
Associated with Exchange-Traded Funds:
As an ETF, the Fund is subject to the following risks:
Authorized
Participants Concentration Risk: The Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may
act as Authorized Participants and engage in creation or redemption transactions
directly with the Fund, and none of those Authorized Participants is obligated
to engage in creation and/or redemption transactions. To the extent that those
Authorized Participants exit the business or are unable to process creation
and/or redemption orders, such as in times of market stress, Shares may be more
likely to trade at a premium or discount to NAV and/or at wider intraday bid-ask
spreads, and possibly face trading halts and/or delisting from an exchange.
Authorized Participants Concentration Risk may be heightened because the Fund
invests in non-U.S. securities.
Large
Shareholder Risk: Certain
shareholders, including an Authorized Participant, the Adviser, an affiliate of
the Adviser, or funds managed by the Adviser, may own a substantial amount of
the Fund’s Shares. Redemptions by large shareholders could have a significant
negative impact on the Fund. If a large shareholder were to redeem all, or a
large portion, of its Shares, there is no guarantee that the Fund will be able
to maintain sufficient assets to continue operations in which case the Board of
Trustees may determine to liquidate the Fund. In addition, transactions by large
shareholders may account for a large percentage of the trading volume on a
national securities exchange and may, therefore, have a material upward or
downward effect on the market price of the Shares.
Listing
Standards Risk: The
Fund is required to comply with listing requirements adopted by the listing
exchange. Non-compliance with such requirements may result in the Fund's shares
being delisted by the listing exchange. Any resulting liquidation of the Fund
could cause the Fund to incur elevated transaction costs and could result in
negative tax consequences for its shareholders.
Market
Trading Risks and Premium/Discount Risks:
Shares of the Fund are publicly traded on a national securities exchange, which
may subject shareholders to numerous market trading risks. In stressed market
conditions, the market for the Shares may become less liquid in response to the
deteriorating liquidity of the Fund’s portfolio. This adverse effect on the
liquidity of the Shares, as well as disruptions to creations and redemptions,
the existence of extreme
market volatility or potential lack of
assets in the Fund or an active trading market for Shares may result in Shares
trading at a significant premium or discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases
Shares at a time when the market price is at a premium to the NAV or sells
Shares at a time when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the
shareholder may sustain losses. The NAV of the Fund is calculated at the end of
each business day and fluctuates with changes in the market value of the Fund’s
holdings. The trading price of the Fund’s Shares fluctuates, in some cases
materially, throughout trading hours in response to changes in the Fund’s
NAV.
Securities
Lending Risk: Securities lending involves a risk of loss because the borrower may
fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. If the Fund is not
able to recover the securities loaned, it may sell the collateral and purchase a
replacement security in the market. Lending securities entails a risk of loss to
the Fund if and to the extent that the market value of the loaned securities
increases and the collateral is not increased accordingly. Additionally, the
Fund will bear any loss on the investment of cash collateral it receives. These
events could also trigger adverse tax consequences for the Fund. As securities
on loan may not be voted by the Fund, there is a risk that the Fund may not be
able to recall the securities in sufficient time to vote on material proxy
matters.
Trading
Halt Risk:
An exchange or market may close or issue trading halts on specific securities,
or the ability to buy or sell certain securities or financial instruments may be
restricted, which may result in the Fund being unable to buy or sell certain
securities or financial instruments. In such circumstances, the Fund may be
unable to rebalance its portfolio, may be unable to accurately price its
investments and/or may incur substantial trading
losses.
Valuation
Risk: The sales price the Fund could receive for a security may differ
from the Fund’s valuation of the security and may differ from the value used by
the Underlying Index, particularly for securities that trade in low value or
volatile markets or that are valued using a fair value methodology (such as
during trading halts). The value of the securities in the Fund's portfolio may
change on days when shareholders will not be able to purchase or sell the Fund's
Shares.
PERFORMANCE
INFORMATION
The bar chart
and table that follow show how the Fund performed on a calendar year basis and
provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes
in the Fund's performance from year to year and by showing the Fund's average
annual total returns for the indicated periods compared with the Fund's
broad-based benchmark index, which reflects a broad measure of market
performance, and the Underlying Index, which the Fund seeks to
track. The Fund's past performance
(before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will
perform in the future. Updated performance information is
available online at
www.globalxetfs.com.
Annual Total Returns
(Years Ended December 31)
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6/30/2020 |
38.84% |
| Worst
Quarter: |
3/31/2022 |
-24.18% |
Average Annual
Total Returns (for the Periods Ended December 31,
2025)
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One
Year Ended December 31, 2025 |
Five
Years Ended December 31, 2025 |
Since
Inception (04/05/2019) |
| Global
X Genomics & Biotechnology ETF: |
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| ·Return
before taxes |
19.01% |
-13.31% |
-4.05% |
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·Return
after taxes on distributions1 |
18.39% |
-13.40% |
-4.13% |
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·Return
after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund Shares1 |
11.26% |
-9.41% |
-3.02% |
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MSCI
ACWI Index (NR) (USD)
(Index returns reflect
invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflect no deduction for
fees, expenses, or other
taxes) |
22.34% |
11.19% |
12.28% |
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Solactive
Genomics Index (NR) (USD)
(Index
returns reflect invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflect
no deduction for fees, expenses, or other
taxes) |
19.38% |
-12.91% |
-3.57% |
1
After-tax returns are
calculated using the historical highest individual U.S. federal marginal income
tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local
taxes. Your actual after-tax
returns will depend on your specific tax situation and may differ from those
shown above. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold Shares of
the Fund through tax-advantaged arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual
retirement accounts (IRAs).
FUND
MANAGEMENT
Investment
Adviser:
Global X Management Company LLC.
Portfolio
Managers:
The professionals primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the
Fund are Nam To, CFA and Wayne Xie (“Portfolio Managers”). Mr. To and Mr. Xie
have been a Portfolio Manager of the Fund since the Fund's inception.
PURCHASE
AND SALE OF FUND SHARES
Shares
of the Fund are or will be listed and traded at market prices on a national
securities exchange. Shares may only be purchased and sold on the exchange
through a broker-dealer. The price of Shares is based on market price, and
because ETF shares trade at market prices rather than at NAV, Shares may trade
at a price greater than NAV (a premium) or less than NAV (a discount). Only
“Authorized Participants” (as defined in the SAI) who have entered into
agreements with the Fund’s distributor, SEI Investments Distribution Co.
(“Distributor”), may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with
the Fund. The Fund will only issue or redeem Shares that have been aggregated
into blocks called Creation Units. The Fund will issue or redeem Creation Units
in return for a basket of cash and/or securities that the Fund specifies any day
that the national securities exchanges are open for business (“Business Day”).
An investor may incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest
price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase shares of the Fund (bid) and the
lowest price a seller is willing to accept for shares of the Fund (ask) when
buying or selling shares in the secondary market (the “bid-ask spread”). To
access information regarding the Fund’s net asset value, market price, premiums
and discounts, and bid-ask spreads, please go to https://www.globalxetfs.com.
TAX
INFORMATION
The
Fund intends to make distributions that may be taxable to you as ordinary income
or capital gains, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement,
such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account ("IRA"), in which case
distributions from such tax-advantaged arrangement may be taxable to you.
PAYMENTS
TO BROKER-DEALERS AND OTHER FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES
The
Adviser and its related companies may pay broker-dealers or other financial
intermediaries (such as a bank) for the sale of Fund Shares and related
services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing your
broker-dealer, sales persons or other intermediary or its employees or
associated persons to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your
financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more
information.
Global X Cloud
Computing ETF
Ticker:
CLOU Exchange: NASDAQ
INVESTMENT
OBJECTIVE
The
Global X Cloud Computing ETF ("Fund") seeks to provide investment results that
correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and
expenses, of the Indxx Global Cloud Computing Index ("Underlying
Index").
FEES AND
EXPENSES
This
table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and
sell shares (“Shares”) of the Fund. You
may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial
intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and examples
below.
Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment):
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Management
Fees: |
0.68% |
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Distribution
and Service (12b-1) Fees: |
None |
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Other
Expenses: |
0.00% |
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Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses: |
0.68% |
Example:
The following example
is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost
of investing in other funds. This example does not take into account customary
brokerage commissions that you pay when purchasing or selling Shares of the Fund
in the secondary market. The example assumes
that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then hold
or sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes
that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating
expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower,
based on these assumptions, your costs would be:
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One
Year |
Three
Years |
Five
Years |
Ten
Years |
| $69 |
$218 |
$379 |
$847 |
Portfolio
Turnover:
The Fund pays transaction
costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over"
its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction
costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account.
These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the
example, affect the Fund's performance. For the most recent fiscal period, the
Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 12.34% of the average value of its
portfolio.
PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT
STRATEGIES
The Fund
invests at least 80% of its total assets in the securities of the Indxx Global
Cloud Computing Index ("Underlying Index") and in American Depositary Receipts
("ADRs") and Global Depositary Receipts ("GDRs") based on the securities in the
Underlying Index. The Fund's 80% investment policy is non-fundamental and
requires 60 days prior written notice to shareholders before it can be
changed. The Fund may lend securities representing up to
one-third of the value of the Fund’s total assets (including the value of the
collateral received).
The
Underlying Index is designed to provide exposure to exchange-listed companies
that are positioned to benefit from the increased adoption of cloud computing
technology, including but not limited to companies whose principal business is
in offering computing Software-as-a-Service ("SaaS"), Platform-as-a-Service
("PaaS"), Infrastructure-as-a-Service ("IaaS"), managed server storage space and
data center real estate investment trusts ("REITs"), and/or cloud and edge
computing infrastructure and hardware (collectively, "Cloud Computing
Companies"), as defined by Indxx LLC, the provider of the Underlying Index
("Index Provider").
In
constructing the Underlying Index, the Index Provider first identifies FactSet
Industries related to cloud computing. Companies within these Industries, as of
the selection date, are further reviewed by the Index Provider on the basis of
revenue related to cloud computing activities. To be eligible for the Underlying
Index, a company is considered by the Index Provider to be a Cloud Computing
Company if the company generates at least 50% of its revenues from cloud
computing activities, as determined by the Index Provider. The Index Provider
classifies Cloud Computing Companies as those companies that (i)
license
and deliver software over the internet on a subscription basis (SaaS), (ii)
provide a platform for creating software applications which are delivered over
the internet (PaaS), (iii) provide virtualized computing infrastructure over the
internet, including Database-as-a-service companies or companies providing
cloud-based solutions for data management on a subscription basis (IaaS), (iv)
own and manage facilities customers use to store data and servers, including
data center REITs, and/or (v) manufacture or distribute infrastructure and/or
hardware components used in cloud and edge computing activities, as determined
by the Index Provider. In addition, companies that generate at least $500
million of revenue from providing public cloud infrastructure (but less than 50%
of their overall revenues), are eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index.
These companies are subject to an individual weight cap of 2% and an aggregate
weight cap of 10% at each semi-annual rebalance.
To
be a part of the eligible universe of the Underlying Index, certain minimum
market capitalization and liquidity criteria, as defined by the Index Provider,
must be met. As of January 31, 2026, companies must have a minimum market
capitalization of $200 million and a minimum average daily turnover for the last
6 months (or since the IPO launch date for Significant IPOs as defined by the
Index Provider) greater than or equal to $2 million in order to be eligible for
inclusion in the Underlying Index. As of January 31, 2026, companies listed
in the following countries were eligible for inclusion in the Indxx Global Cloud
Computing Index: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China,
Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong,
Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mexico,
Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar,
South Africa, South Korea, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand,
Turkey, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United
States.
The
Underlying Index is weighted according to a modified capitalization weighting
methodology and is reconstituted and re-weighted semi-annually. Modified
capitalization weighting seeks to weight constituents primarily based on market
capitalization, but subject to caps on the weights of the individual securities.
Generally speaking, this approach will limit the amount of concentration in the
largest market capitalization companies and increase company-level
diversification. The Underlying Index may include large-, mid- or
small-capitalization companies, and components primarily include information
technology companies. As of January 31, 2026, the Underlying Index had 37
constituents. The Fund's investment objective and Underlying Index may be
changed without shareholder approval.
The
Underlying Index is sponsored by the Index Provider, which is an organization
that is independent of, and unaffiliated with, the Fund and Global X Management
Company LLC, the investment adviser for the Fund ("Adviser"). The Index Provider
determines the relative weightings of the securities in the Underlying Index and
publishes information regarding the market value of the Underlying
Index.
The
Adviser uses an indexing approach to try to achieve the Fund's investment
objective. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not try to outperform
the Underlying Index and does not seek temporary defensive positions when
markets decline or appear overvalued.
The
Fund generally will use a replication strategy. A replication strategy is an
indexing strategy that involves investing in the securities of the Underlying
Index in approximately the same proportions as in the Underlying Index. However,
the Fund may utilize a representative sampling strategy with respect to the
Underlying Index when a replication strategy might be detrimental or
disadvantageous to shareholders, such as when there are practical difficulties
or substantial costs involved in compiling a portfolio of equity securities to
replicate the Underlying Index, in instances in which a security in the
Underlying Index becomes temporarily illiquid, unavailable or less liquid, or as
a result of legal restrictions or limitations (such as tax diversification
requirements) that apply to the Fund but not the Underlying Index.
The
Adviser expects that, over time, the correlation between the Fund's performance
and that of the Underlying Index, before fees and expenses, will exceed 95%. A
correlation percentage of 100% would indicate perfect correlation. If the Fund
uses a replication strategy, it can be expected to have greater correlation to
the Underlying Index than if it uses a representative sampling
strategy.
The Fund
concentrates its investments (i.e., holds 25% or more of its total assets) in a
particular industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent that
the Underlying Index is concentrated. As of January 31, 2026, the
Underlying Index was concentrated in the IT services and software industries and
had significant exposure to the information technology sector.
The Fund is classified as “non-diversified,” which means it may invest a larger
percentage of its assets in a smaller number of issuers than a diversified
fund.
SUMMARY
OF PRINCIPAL RISKS
As with any
investment, you could lose all or part of your investment in the Fund, and the
Fund’s performance could trail that of other investments. There
is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its investment objective.
An investment in the Fund is not
a bank deposit and it is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency, the Adviser or any
of its affiliates. The Fund is subject to the principal risks
noted below, any of which may adversely affect the Fund’s net asset value
(“NAV”), trading price, yield, total return and ability to meet its investment
objective, as well as other risks that are described in greater detail in the
Additional
Information About the Funds
section of this Prospectus and in the Statement of Additional Information
(“SAI”).
Asset
Class Risk:
Securities and other assets in the Underlying Index or otherwise held in the
Fund's portfolio may underperform in comparison to the general securities
markets, a particular securities market or other asset classes.
Depositary
Receipts Risk: The
Fund may invest in depositary receipts, such as ADRs and GDRs. Depositary
receipts are receipts listed on U.S. or foreign exchanges issued by banks or
trust companies that entitle the holder to all dividends and capital gains that
are paid out on the underlying foreign shares. Depositary receipts are generally
subject to the same risks associated with direct investments in the securities
of foreign companies. A holder of depositary receipts may also be subject to
fees and the credit risk of the financial institution acting as depositary.
Unsponsored depositary receipts may involve higher expenses, fewer shareholder
rights, and may be less liquid.
Equity
Securities Risk: Equity securities are subject to changes in value, and their values
may be more volatile than other asset classes, as a result of a company’s
business performance, investor perceptions, stock market trends and general
economic conditions.
Real
Estate Stocks and Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) Investment
Risk: The Fund may have exposure to
companies that invest in real estate, such as REITs, which expose investors in
the Fund to the risks of owning real estate directly, as well as to risks that
relate specifically to the way in which real estate companies are organized and
operated. Real estate is highly sensitive to general and local economic
conditions and developments and characterized by intense competition and
periodic overbuilding. Many real estate companies, including REITs, utilize
leverage (and some may be highly leveraged), which increases risk and could
adversely affect a real estate company's operations and market value in periods
of rising interest rates. Real estate stocks and REITs may also be adversely
impacted by natural or environmental disasters, such as earthquakes, fires,
floods, hurricanes, tsunamis, and other severe weather-related
phenomena.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Cloud Computing Companies: Cloud
Computing companies may have limited product lines, markets, financial resources
or personnel. These companies typically face intense competition and potentially
rapid product obsolescence. These companies may potentially also be threatened
by artificial intelligence based competitive product offerings. In addition,
many Cloud Computing companies store sensitive consumer information and could be
the target of cybersecurity attacks and other types of theft, which could have a
negative impact on these companies. As a result, Cloud Computing companies may
be adversely impacted by government regulations, and may be subject to
additional regulatory oversight with regard to privacy concerns and
cybersecurity risk. These companies are also heavily dependent on intellectual
property rights and may be adversely affected by loss or impairment of those
rights. Cloud Computing companies could be negatively impacted by disruptions in
service caused by hardware or software failure, or by interruptions or delays in
service by third-party data center hosting facilities and maintenance providers.
Cloud Computing companies, especially smaller companies, tend to be more
volatile than companies that do not rely heavily on technology. The customers
and/or suppliers of Cloud Computing companies may be concentrated in a
particular country, region or industry. Any adverse event affecting one of these
countries, regions or industries could have a negative impact on Cloud Computing
companies. Cloud Computing companies may participate in monopolistic practices
that could make them subject to higher levels of regulatory scrutiny and/or
potential break ups in the future, which could severely impact the viability of
these companies.
Capitalization
Risk:
Investing in issuers within the same market capitalization category carries the
risk that the category may be out of favor due to current market conditions or
investor sentiment.
Large-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Large-capitalization
companies may adapt more slowly to new competitive challenges and changing
market conditions than smaller capitalization companies. In addition,
large-capitalization companies may be more mature and subject to more limited
growth potential and consequently may underperform other segments of the equity
market or the market as a whole.
Mid-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Mid-capitalization
companies may have greater price volatility, lower trading volume and less
liquidity than large-capitalization companies. In addition, mid-capitalization
companies may have smaller revenues, narrower product lines, less management
depth and experience, smaller shares of their product or
service
markets, fewer financial resources and less competitive strength than
large-capitalization companies. These securities may have returns that vary,
sometimes significantly, from the overall securities
market.
Small-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Small-capitalization
companies may be less stable and more susceptible to adverse developments, and
their securities may be more volatile and less liquid than large- and
mid-capitalization companies. In addition, small-capitalization companies may
have smaller revenues, narrower product lines, less management depth and
experience, smaller shares of their product or service markets, fewer financial
resources, and shorter operating histories than large- and mid-capitalization
companies. These securities may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly,
from the overall securities
market.
Currency
Risk: The Fund may invest in securities denominated in foreign
currencies. Because the Fund's NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the Fund's NAV
could decline if currencies of the underlying securities depreciate against the
U.S. dollar or if there are delays or limits on repatriation of such currencies.
Generally, an increase in the value of the U.S. dollar against a foreign
currency will reduce the value of a security denominated in that foreign
currency, thereby decreasing the Fund's NAV. Exchange rates may be volatile and
may change quickly and without warning, which could have a significant negative
impact on the Fund.
Custody
Risk: Custody risk refers to the risks in the process of clearing and
settling trades, as well as the holding of securities and other assets by local
banks, agents, and securities depositories. These risks are heightened in
jurisdictions with less developed markets or less robust settlement and custody
infrastructure and processes.
Cybersecurity
Risk: With the increased use of technologies such as the Internet to
conduct business, the Fund, like all companies, may be susceptible to
operational, information security and related risks. Cybersecurity incidents
involving the Fund and its service providers (including, without limitation, the
Adviser, fund accountant, custodian, transfer agent and financial
intermediaries) have the ability to cause disruptions and impact business
operations, potentially resulting in financial losses, impediments to trading,
the inability of Fund shareholders to transact business, violations of
applicable privacy and other laws, regulatory fines, penalties, reputational
damage, reimbursement or other compensation costs, and/or additional compliance
costs.
Focus
Risk:
The Fund may from time to time have a significant amount of its assets invested
in a particular industry, group of industries, or one or more sectors to
approximately the same extent that the Underlying Index focuses in investments
related to a particular industry, group of industries, and/or one or more
sectors. In such event, the Fund’s performance will depend to a greater extent
on the overall condition of such industry(ies) or sector(s), and an economic,
business, political, regulatory, or other occurrence affecting such
industry(ies) or sector(s) will have an increased impact on the value of the
Fund’s shares compared to the value of shares of a fund that invests in a
broader range of industries or sectors.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Information Technology Sector: Companies
in the information technology sector are subject to rapid changes in technology
product cycles, rapid product obsolescence, government regulation, and increased
competition. Information technology companies are particularly vulnerable to
failure to obtain, or delays in obtaining, financing or regulatory approval, and
also are heavily dependent on patent and intellectual property rights. In
addition, information technology companies may have limited product lines,
markets, financial resources or personnel.
Risks
Related to Investing in the IT Services Industry: The
IT services industry can be significantly affected by competitive pressures,
such as technological developments, fixed-rate pricing, and the ability to
attract and retain skilled employees, and the success of companies in the
industry is subject to continued demand for IT
services.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Software
Industry: The software industry can be
significantly affected by intense competition, aggressive pricing, technological
innovations, and product obsolescence. Companies in the application software
industry, in particular, may also be negatively affected by the decline or
fluctuation of subscription renewal rates for their products and services, which
may have an adverse effect on profit margins. Companies in the systems software
industry may be adversely affected by, among other things, actual or perceived
security vulnerabilities in their products and services, which may result in
individual or class action lawsuits, state or federal enforcement actions and
other remediation costs.
Foreign
Securities Risk:
Investments in foreign securities can be riskier than U.S. securities
investments. Investments in the securities of foreign issuers (including
investments in American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) and Global Depositary
Receipts (“GDRs”)) are subject to additional risks, including lower levels of
liquidity and market efficiency; greater securities price volatility; exchange
rate fluctuations and exchange controls; less availability of public information
about issuers; limitations on
foreign ownership of securities; imposition of withholding or other
taxes; imposition of restrictions on the expatriation of the assets of the Fund;
restrictions placed on U.S. investors by U.S. regulations governing foreign
investments; higher transaction and custody costs and delays in settlement
procedures; difficulties in enforcing contractual obligations; lower levels of
regulation of the securities market; weaker accounting, disclosure and reporting
requirements; and legal principles relating to corporate governance and
directors’ fiduciary duties and liabilities. The countries in which the Fund
invests may also be subject to structural risks, including economic, political
and social instability. Additionally, certain securities held by the Fund, while
traded on U.S. exchanges, may be issued by foreign financial institutions and as
such, may be subject to the risks of investing in securities issued by foreign
companies, which may not be subject to the same regulations as companies
domiciled in the U.S. Where all or a portion of the Fund's securities trade in a
market that is closed when the market in which the Fund's Shares are listed and
trading is open, there may be differences between the last quote from the
security’s closed foreign market and the value of the security during the Fund’s
domestic trading day. This, in turn, could lead to differences between the
market price of the Fund’s Shares and the underlying value of those
shares.
Geographic
Risk: The
Fund’s investments in securities of issuers located in a particular country or
geographic region may subject the Fund to certain risks to a greater extent than
if its investments were less focused, including: natural, biological or other
disasters and the spread of infectious diseases; economic, political and social
instability; security concerns; and trade disputes with key trading partners.
The securities in which the Fund invests and, consequently, the Fund is also
subject to specific risks as a result of their business operations in a
particular country or region, including, but not limited to:
Risk
of Investing in Developed Markets: Investments in a developed country’s issuer may subject the Fund to
legal, regulatory, political, currency, security, and economic risks specific to
developed countries. Developed countries tend to represent a significant portion
of the global economy and have generally experienced slower economic growth than
some less developed countries. Certain developed countries have experienced
security concerns, such as war, terrorism and strained international relations.
Incidents involving a country’s or region’s security may cause uncertainty in
its markets and may adversely affect its economy and the Fund’s investments. In
addition, developed countries may be adversely impacted by changes to the
economic conditions of certain key trading partners, regulatory burdens, debt
burdens and the price or availability of certain commodities.
Risk
of Investing in the United States: Investments in United States issuers
may subject the Fund to legal, regulatory, political, currency, security, and
economic risks specific to the United States. A decrease in imports or exports,
changes in trade regulations, inflation and/or an economic recession in the U.S.
may have a material adverse effect on the U.S.
economy.
Indexing
Strategy Risk:
The Fund is not actively managed, and the Adviser does not attempt to take
defensive positions in declining markets. Unlike many investment companies, the
Fund does not seek to outperform its Underlying Index. Therefore, it would not
necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed,
respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is
underperforming. Additionally, if a constituent of the Underlying Index were
removed, even outside of a regular rebalance of the Underlying Index, the
Adviser anticipates that the Fund would sell such security. Maintaining
investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of
individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund
employed an active strategy.
Index-Related
Risk: There is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve a high degree of
correlation to the Underlying Index and therefore achieve its investment
objective. Market disruptions and regulatory restrictions could have an adverse
effect on the Fund’s ability to adjust its exposure to the required levels in
order to track the Underlying Index. Errors in index data, index computations
and/or the construction of the Underlying Index in accordance with its
methodology may occur from time to time and may not be identified and corrected
by the Index Provider for a period of time or at all, which may have an adverse
impact on the Fund and its shareholders.
Management
Risk: The Fund may not fully replicate its Underlying Index and may hold
securities not included in its Underlying Index. The Adviser’s investment
strategy, the implementation of which is subject to a number of constraints, may
cause the Fund to underperform the market or its relevant benchmark or adversely
affect the ability of the Fund to achieve its investment
objective.
Tracking
Error Risk:
Tracking error may occur because of differences between the instruments held in
the Fund's portfolio and those included in the Underlying Index, pricing
differences, transaction costs incurred by the Fund, the Fund's holding of
uninvested cash, size of the Fund, differences in timing of the accrual of or
the valuation of dividends or interest, tax gains or losses, changes to the
Underlying Index or the costs to the Fund of complying with various new or
existing regulatory requirements. This risk may be heightened during times of
increased market volatility or other unusual market conditions. Tracking error
also may result because the Fund incurs fees and
expenses, while the Underlying Index
does not. ETFs that track indices with significant weight in emerging markets
issuers may experience higher tracking error than other ETFs that do not track
such indices.
International
Closed Market Trading Risk: To
the extent that the underlying investments held by the Fund trade on foreign
exchanges that may be closed when the securities exchange on which the Fund’s
Shares trade is open, there are likely to be deviations between the current
price of such an underlying security and the last quoted price for the
underlying security (i.e., the Fund’s quote from the closed foreign market).
These deviations could result in premiums or discounts to the Fund’s NAV that
may be greater than those experienced by other exchange-traded funds
("ETFs").
Investable
Universe of Companies Risk: The investable universe of companies in which the Fund may invest
may be limited. If a company no longer meets the Index Provider’s criteria for
inclusion in the Underlying Index, the Fund may need to reduce or eliminate its
holdings in that company. The reduction or elimination of the Fund’s holdings in
the company may have an adverse impact on the liquidity of the Fund’s overall
portfolio holdings and on Fund performance.
Issuer
Risk: Fund performance depends on the performance of individual companies
in which the Fund invests. Changes to the financial condition of any of those
companies may cause the value of such company's securities to
decline.
Market
Risk: Turbulence in the financial markets and reduced liquidity may
negatively affect issuers, which could have an adverse effect on the Fund and
its investments. The Fund’s NAV could decline over short periods due to
short-term market movements and over longer periods during market downturns.
Trade policy, including the imposition of tariffs, may dampen consumer spending
and result in decreased confidence in the markets. Additionally, political
uncertainty regarding U.S. policy, including the U.S. government’s approach to
trade, may also impact the markets. Furthermore, local, regional or global
events such as war, acts of terrorism, the spread of infectious diseases,
inflation and recessions, changes in interest or exchange rates, or other events
could have a significant impact on the Fund and its investments and trading of
its Shares. Market risk factors may result in increased volatility and/or
decreased liquidity in the securities markets.
Non-Diversification
Risk: The Fund is classified as a “non-diversified” investment company
under the Investment Company Act of 1940 ("1940 Act"), which means that the Fund
may invest a greater portion of its assets in securities of individual issuers
than a diversified fund. As a result, changes in the market value of a single
investment may have a greater impact on the Fund’s NAV and may make the Fund
more volatile than more diversified funds.
Operational
Risk: The Fund is exposed to operational risk arising from a number of
factors, including but not limited to human error, processing and communication
errors, errors of the Fund's service providers, counterparties or other
third-parties, failed or inadequate processes, cyber security incidents, and
technology or systems failures. The Fund and the Adviser seek to reduce these
operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do
not address every possible risk and may be inadequate for those risks that they
are intended to address.
Risks
Associated with Exchange-Traded Funds:
As an ETF, the Fund is subject to the following risks:
Authorized
Participants Concentration Risk: The Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may
act as Authorized Participants and engage in creation or redemption transactions
directly with the Fund, and none of those Authorized Participants is obligated
to engage in creation and/or redemption transactions. To the extent that those
Authorized Participants exit the business or are unable to process creation
and/or redemption orders, such as in times of market stress, Shares may be more
likely to trade at a premium or discount to NAV and/or at wider intraday bid-ask
spreads, and possibly face trading halts and/or delisting from an exchange.
Authorized Participants Concentration Risk may be heightened because the Fund
invests in non-U.S. securities.
Large
Shareholder Risk: Certain
shareholders, including an Authorized Participant, the Adviser, an affiliate of
the Adviser, or funds managed by the Adviser, may own a substantial amount of
the Fund’s Shares. Redemptions by large shareholders could have a significant
negative impact on the Fund. If a large shareholder were to redeem all, or a
large portion, of its Shares, there is no guarantee that the Fund will be able
to maintain sufficient assets to continue operations in which case the Board of
Trustees may determine to liquidate the Fund. In addition, transactions by large
shareholders may account for a large percentage of the trading volume on a
national securities exchange and may, therefore, have a material upward or
downward effect on the market price of the Shares.
Listing
Standards Risk: The
Fund is required to comply with listing requirements adopted by the listing
exchange. Non-compliance with such requirements may result in the Fund's shares
being delisted by the listing exchange. Any resulting liquidation of the Fund
could cause the Fund to incur elevated transaction costs and could result in
negative tax consequences for its shareholders.
Market
Trading Risks and Premium/Discount
Risks: Shares of the Fund are publicly traded
on a national securities exchange, which may subject shareholders to numerous
market trading risks. In stressed market conditions, the market for the Shares
may become less liquid in response to the deteriorating liquidity of the Fund’s
portfolio. This adverse effect on the liquidity of the Shares, as well as
disruptions to creations and redemptions, the existence of extreme market
volatility or potential lack of assets in the Fund or an active trading market
for Shares may result in Shares trading at a significant premium or discount to
NAV. If a shareholder purchases Shares at a time when the market price is at a
premium to the NAV or sells Shares at a time when the market price is at a
discount to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain losses. The NAV of the Fund is
calculated at the end of each business day and fluctuates with changes in the
market value of the Fund’s holdings. The trading price of the Fund’s Shares
fluctuates, in some cases materially, throughout trading hours in response to
changes in the Fund’s NAV.
Securities
Lending Risk: Securities lending involves a risk of loss because the borrower may
fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. If the Fund is not
able to recover the securities loaned, it may sell the collateral and purchase a
replacement security in the market. Lending securities entails a risk of loss to
the Fund if and to the extent that the market value of the loaned securities
increases and the collateral is not increased accordingly. Additionally, the
Fund will bear any loss on the investment of cash collateral it receives. These
events could also trigger adverse tax consequences for the Fund. As securities
on loan may not be voted by the Fund, there is a risk that the Fund may not be
able to recall the securities in sufficient time to vote on material proxy
matters.
Trading
Halt Risk:
An exchange or market may close or issue trading halts on specific securities,
or the ability to buy or sell certain securities or financial instruments may be
restricted, which may result in the Fund being unable to buy or sell certain
securities or financial instruments. In such circumstances, the Fund may be
unable to rebalance its portfolio, may be unable to accurately price its
investments and/or may incur substantial trading
losses.
Valuation
Risk: The sales price the Fund could receive for a security may differ
from the Fund’s valuation of the security and may differ from the value used by
the Underlying Index, particularly for securities that trade in low value or
volatile markets or that are valued using a fair value methodology (such as
during trading halts). The value of the securities in the Fund's portfolio may
change on days when shareholders will not be able to purchase or sell the Fund's
Shares.
PERFORMANCE
INFORMATION
The bar chart
and table that follow show how the Fund performed on a calendar year basis and
provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes
in the Fund's performance from year to year and by showing the Fund's average
annual total returns for the indicated periods compared with the Fund's
broad-based benchmark index, which reflects a broad measure of market
performance, and the Underlying Index, which the Fund seeks to
track. The Fund's past performance
(before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will
perform in the future. Updated performance information is
available online at
www.globalxetfs.com.
Annual Total Returns
(Years Ended December 31)
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6/30/2020 |
46.55% |
| Worst
Quarter: |
6/30/2022 |
-24.98% |
Average Annual
Total Returns (for the Periods Ended December 31,
2025)
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One
Year Ended December 31, 2025 |
Five
Years Ended December 31, 2025 |
Since
Inception (04/12/2019) |
| Global
X Cloud Computing ETF: |
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| ·Return
before taxes |
-5.75% |
-3.79% |
6.50% |
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·Return
after taxes on distributions1 |
-5.75% |
-3.87% |
6.43% |
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·Return
after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund Shares1 |
-3.41% |
-2.82% |
5.16% |
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MSCI
ACWI Index (NR) (USD)
(Index returns reflect
invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflect no deduction for
fees, expenses, or other
taxes) |
22.34% |
11.19% |
12.24% |
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Indxx
Global Cloud Computing Index (USD) (NR)
(Index
returns reflect invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflect
no deduction for fees, expenses, or other
taxes) |
-5.12% |
-3.16% |
7.18% |
1
After-tax returns are
calculated using the historical highest individual U.S. federal marginal income
tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local
taxes. Your actual after-tax
returns will depend on your specific tax situation and may differ from those
shown above. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold Shares of
the Fund through tax-advantaged arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual
retirement accounts (IRAs).
FUND
MANAGEMENT
Investment
Adviser:
Global X Management Company LLC.
Portfolio
Managers:
The professionals primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the
Fund are Nam To, CFA and Wayne Xie (“Portfolio Managers”). Mr. To and Mr. Xie
have been a Portfolio Manager of the Fund since the Fund's inception.
PURCHASE
AND SALE OF FUND SHARES
Shares
of the Fund are or will be listed and traded at market prices on a national
securities exchange. Shares may only be purchased and sold on the exchange
through a broker-dealer. The price of Shares is based on market price, and
because ETF shares trade at market prices rather than at NAV, Shares may trade
at a price greater than NAV (a premium) or less than NAV (a discount). Only
“Authorized Participants” (as defined in the SAI) who have entered into
agreements with the Fund’s distributor, SEI Investments Distribution Co.
(“Distributor”), may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with
the Fund. The Fund will only issue or redeem Shares that have been aggregated
into blocks called Creation Units. The Fund will issue or redeem Creation Units
in return for a basket of cash and/or securities that the Fund specifies any day
that the national securities exchanges are open for business (“Business Day”).
An investor may incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest
price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase shares of the Fund (bid) and the
lowest price a seller is willing to accept for shares of the Fund (ask) when
buying or selling shares in the secondary market (the “bid-ask spread”). To
access information regarding the Fund’s net asset value, market price, premiums
and discounts, and bid-ask spreads, please go to https://www.globalxetfs.com.
TAX
INFORMATION
The
Fund intends to make distributions that may be taxable to you as ordinary income
or capital gains, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement,
such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account ("IRA"), in which case
distributions from such tax-advantaged arrangement may be taxable to you.
PAYMENTS
TO BROKER-DEALERS AND OTHER FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES
The
Adviser and its related companies may pay broker-dealers or other financial
intermediaries (such as a bank) for the sale of Fund Shares and related
services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing your
broker-dealer, sales persons or other intermediary or its employees or
associated persons to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your
financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more
information.
Global X
Cybersecurity ETF
Ticker:
BUG Exchange: NASDAQ
INVESTMENT
OBJECTIVE
The
Global X Cybersecurity ETF ("Fund") seeks to provide investment results that
correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and
expenses, of the Indxx Cybersecurity Index ("Underlying
Index").
FEES AND
EXPENSES
This
table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and
sell shares (“Shares”) of the Fund. You
may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial
intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and examples
below.
Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment):
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Management
Fees: |
0.50% |
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Distribution
and Service (12b-1) Fees: |
None |
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Other
Expenses: |
0.00% |
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Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses: |
0.50% |
Example:
The following example
is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost
of investing in other funds. This example does not take into account customary
brokerage commissions that you pay when purchasing or selling Shares of the Fund
in the secondary market. The example assumes
that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then hold
or sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes
that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating
expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower,
based on these assumptions, your costs would be:
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One
Year |
Three
Years |
Five
Years |
Ten
Years |
| $51 |
$160 |
$280 |
$628 |
Portfolio
Turnover:
The Fund pays transaction
costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over"
its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction
costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account.
These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the
example, affect the Fund's performance. For the most recent fiscal period, the
Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 35.93% of the average value of its
portfolio.
PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT
STRATEGIES
The Fund
invests at least 80% of its total assets in the securities of the Indxx
Cybersecurity Index ("Underlying Index") and in American Depositary Receipts
("ADRs") and Global Depositary Receipts ("GDRs") based on the securities in the
Underlying Index. The Fund will also invest, under normal circumstances, at
least 80% of its net assets, plus borrowings for investment purposes (if any),
in Cybersecurity Companies (as defined below), and in ADRs and GDRs based on
such securities. The Fund's 80% investment policies are non-fundamental and
require 60 days prior written notice to shareholders before they can be
changed. The Fund may lend securities representing up to
one-third of the value of the Fund’s total assets (including the value of the
collateral received).
The
Underlying Index is designed to provide exposure to exchange-listed companies
that are positioned to benefit from increased adoption of cybersecurity
technology, including but not limited to companies whose principal business is
in the development and management of security protocols preventing intrusion and
attacks to systems, networks, applications, computers, and mobile devices
(collectively, "Cybersecurity Companies"), as determined by Indxx LLC, the
provider of the Underlying Index ("Index Provider").
In
constructing the Underlying Index, the Index Provider first identifies FactSet
Industries related to cybersecurity. Companies within these FactSet Industries,
as of the selection date, are further reviewed by the Index Provider on the
basis of revenue related to cybersecurity activities. To be eligible for the
Underlying Index as a Cybersecurity Company, a company must generate at least
50% of its revenues from cybersecurity activities, which the Index Provider
classifies as the development and
management
of security protocols preventing intrusion and attacks to systems, networks,
applications, computers, and mobile devices.
To
be a part of the eligible universe of the Underlying Index, certain minimum
market capitalization and liquidity criteria, as defined by the Index Provider,
must be met. As of January 31, 2026, companies must have a minimum market
capitalization of $200 million and a minimum average daily turnover for the last
six months (or since the IPO launch date for Significant IPOs as defined by the
Index Provider) greater than or equal to $2 million in order to be eligible for
inclusion in the Underlying Index. As of January 31, 2026, companies listed
in the following countries were eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index:
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech
Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary,
Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands,
New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, South Africa,
South Korea, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United
Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
The
Underlying Index is weighted according to a modified capitalization weighting
methodology and is reconstituted and re-weighted semi-annually. Modified
capitalization weighting seeks to weight constituents primarily based on market
capitalization, but subject to caps on the weights of the individual securities.
Generally speaking, this approach will limit the amount of concentration in the
largest market capitalization companies and thereby increase exposure to other
companies. The Underlying Index may include large-, mid- or small-capitalization
companies, and components primarily include mid-capitalization companies. As of
January 31, 2026, the Underlying Index had 29 constituents. The Fund's
investment objective and Underlying Index may be changed without shareholder
approval.
The
Underlying Index is sponsored by the Index Provider, which is an organization
that is independent of, and unaffiliated with, the Fund and Global X Management
Company LLC, the investment adviser for the Fund ("Adviser"). The Index Provider
determines the relative weightings of the securities in the Underlying Index and
publishes information regarding the market value of the Underlying
Index.
The
Adviser uses an indexing approach to try to achieve the Fund's investment
objective. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not try to outperform
the Underlying Index and does not seek temporary defensive positions when
markets decline or appear overvalued.
The
Fund generally will use a replication strategy. A replication strategy is an
indexing strategy that involves investing in the securities of the Underlying
Index in approximately the same proportions as in the Underlying Index. However,
the Fund may utilize a representative sampling strategy with respect to the
Underlying Index when a replication strategy might be detrimental or
disadvantageous to shareholders, such as when there are practical difficulties
or substantial costs involved in compiling a portfolio of equity securities to
replicate the Underlying Index, in instances in which a security in the
Underlying Index becomes temporarily illiquid, unavailable or less liquid, or as
a result of legal restrictions or limitations (such as tax diversification
requirements) that apply to the Fund but not the Underlying Index.
The
Adviser expects that, over time, the correlation between the Fund's performance
and that of the Underlying Index, before fees and expenses, will exceed 95%. A
correlation percentage of 100% would indicate perfect correlation. If the Fund
uses a replication strategy, it can be expected to have greater correlation to
the Underlying Index than if it uses a representative sampling
strategy.
The Fund
concentrates its investments (i.e., holds 25% or more of its total assets) in a
particular industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent that
the Underlying Index is concentrated. As of January 31, 2026, the
Underlying Index was concentrated in the software industry and had significant
exposure to the information technology sector. The Fund is
classified as “non-diversified,” which means it may invest a larger percentage
of its assets in a smaller number of issuers than a diversified
fund.
SUMMARY
OF PRINCIPAL RISKS
As with any
investment, you could lose all or part of your investment in the Fund, and the
Fund’s performance could trail that of other investments. There
is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its investment objective.
An investment in the Fund is not a bank deposit and it is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other
government agency, the Adviser or any of its affiliates. The
Fund is subject to the principal risks noted below, any of which may adversely
affect the Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”), trading price, yield, total return
and ability to meet its investment objective, as well as other risks that are
described in greater detail in the Additional
Information About the Funds
section of this Prospectus and in the Statement of Additional Information
(“SAI”).
Asset
Class Risk:
Securities and other assets in the Underlying Index or otherwise held in the
Fund's portfolio may underperform in comparison to the general securities
markets, a particular securities market or other asset classes.
Equity
Securities Risk: Equity securities are subject to
changes in value, and their values may be more volatile than other asset
classes, as a result of a company’s business performance, investor perceptions,
stock market trends and general economic
conditions.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Cybersecurity
Companies: Cybersecurity companies may have limited product lines, markets,
financial resources or personnel. These companies typically face intense
competition and potentially rapid product obsolescence. Cybersecurity companies
may be adversely impacted by government regulations and actions, and may be
subject to additional regulatory oversight with regard to privacy concerns and
cybersecurity risk. Cybersecurity companies may also be negatively affected by
the decline or fluctuation of subscription renewal rates for their products and
services, which may have an adverse effect on profit margins. These companies
are also heavily dependent on intellectual property rights and may be adversely
affected by loss or impairment of those rights. Cybersecurity companies,
especially smaller companies, tend to be more volatile than companies that do
not rely heavily on technology. The customers and/or suppliers of Cybersecurity
companies may be concentrated in a particular country, region or industry. Any
adverse event affecting one of these countries, regions or industries could have
a negative impact on Cybersecurity companies. Confronting cyberthreats amid
increasing remote work environments could result in challenges for Cybersecurity
companies.
Capitalization
Risk:
Investing in issuers within the same market capitalization category carries the
risk that the category may be out of favor due to current market conditions or
investor sentiment.
Large-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Large-capitalization
companies may adapt more slowly to new competitive challenges and changing
market conditions than smaller capitalization companies. In addition,
large-capitalization companies may be more mature and subject to more limited
growth potential and consequently may underperform other segments of the equity
market or the market as a whole.
Mid-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Mid-capitalization
companies may have greater price volatility, lower trading volume and less
liquidity than large-capitalization companies. In addition, mid-capitalization
companies may have smaller revenues, narrower product lines, less management
depth and experience, smaller shares of their product or service markets, fewer
financial resources and less competitive strength than large-capitalization
companies. These securities may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly,
from the overall securities market.
Small-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Small-capitalization companies may be
less stable and more susceptible to adverse developments, and their securities
may be more volatile and less liquid than large- and mid-capitalization
companies. In addition, small-capitalization companies may have smaller
revenues, narrower product lines, less management depth and experience, smaller
shares of their product or service markets, fewer financial resources, and
shorter operating histories than large- and mid-capitalization companies. These
securities may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly, from the overall
securities market.
Currency
Risk: The Fund may invest in securities denominated in foreign
currencies. Because the Fund's NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the Fund's NAV
could decline if currencies of the underlying securities depreciate against the
U.S. dollar or if there are delays or limits on repatriation of such currencies.
Generally, an increase in the value of the U.S. dollar against a foreign
currency will reduce the value of a security denominated in that foreign
currency, thereby decreasing the Fund's NAV. Exchange rates may be volatile and
may change quickly and without warning, which could have a significant negative
impact on the Fund.
Custody
Risk: Custody risk refers to the risks in the process of clearing and
settling trades, as well as the holding of securities and other assets by local
banks, agents, and securities depositories. These risks are heightened in
jurisdictions with less developed markets or less robust settlement and custody
infrastructure and processes.
Cybersecurity
Risk: With the increased use of technologies such as the Internet to
conduct business, the Fund, like all companies, may be susceptible to
operational, information security and related risks. Cybersecurity incidents
involving the Fund and its service providers (including, without limitation, the
Adviser, fund accountant, custodian, transfer agent and financial
intermediaries) have the ability to cause disruptions and impact business
operations, potentially resulting in financial losses, impediments to trading,
the inability of Fund shareholders to transact business, violations of
applicable privacy and other laws, regulatory fines, penalties, reputational
damage, reimbursement or other compensation costs, and/or additional compliance
costs.
Focus
Risk:
The Fund may from time to time have a significant amount of its assets invested
in a particular industry, group of industries, or one or more sectors to
approximately the same extent that the Underlying Index focuses in investments
related to a particular industry, group of industries, and/or one or more
sectors. In such event, the Fund’s performance will depend to a greater extent
on the overall condition of such industry(ies) or sector(s), and an economic,
business, political, regulatory, or other occurrence affecting such
industry(ies) or sector(s) will have an increased impact on the value of the
Fund’s shares compared to the value of shares of a fund that invests in a
broader range of industries or sectors.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Information Technology Sector: Companies
in the information technology sector are subject to rapid changes in technology
product cycles, rapid product obsolescence, government regulation, and increased
competition. Information technology companies are particularly vulnerable to
failure to obtain, or delays in obtaining, financing or regulatory approval, and
also are heavily dependent on patent and intellectual property rights. In
addition, information technology companies may have limited product lines,
markets, financial resources or personnel.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Software
Industry: The software industry can be
significantly affected by intense competition, aggressive pricing, technological
innovations, and product obsolescence. Companies in the application software
industry, in particular, may also be negatively affected by the decline or
fluctuation of subscription renewal rates for their products and services, which
may have an adverse effect on profit margins. Companies in the systems software
industry may be adversely affected by, among other things, actual or perceived
security vulnerabilities in their products and services, which may result in
individual or class action lawsuits, state or federal enforcement actions and
other remediation costs.
Foreign
Securities Risk: Investments in foreign securities can be riskier than U.S.
securities investments. Investments in the securities of foreign issuers
(including investments in American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) and Global
Depositary Receipts (“GDRs”)) are subject to additional risks, including lower
levels of liquidity and market efficiency; greater securities price volatility;
exchange rate fluctuations and exchange controls; less availability of public
information about issuers; limitations on foreign ownership of securities;
imposition of withholding or other taxes; imposition of restrictions on the
expatriation of the assets of the Fund; restrictions placed on U.S. investors by
U.S. regulations governing foreign investments; higher transaction and custody
costs and delays in settlement procedures; difficulties in enforcing contractual
obligations; lower levels of regulation of the securities market; weaker
accounting, disclosure and reporting requirements; and legal principles relating
to corporate governance and directors’ fiduciary duties and liabilities. The
countries in which the Fund invests may also be subject to structural risks,
including economic, political and social instability. Additionally, certain
securities held by the Fund, while traded on U.S. exchanges, may be issued by
foreign financial institutions and as such, may be subject to the risks of
investing in securities issued by foreign companies, which may not be subject to
the same regulations as companies domiciled in the U.S. Where all or a portion
of the Fund's securities trade in a market that is closed when the market in
which the Fund's Shares are listed and trading is open, there may be differences
between the last quote from the security’s closed foreign market and the value
of the security during the Fund’s domestic trading day. This, in turn, could
lead to differences between the market price of the Fund’s Shares and the
underlying value of those shares.
Geographic
Risk: The
Fund’s investments in securities of issuers located in a particular country or
geographic region may subject the Fund to certain risks to a greater extent than
if its investments were less focused, including: natural, biological or other
disasters and the spread of infectious diseases; economic, political and social
instability; security concerns; and trade disputes with key trading partners.
The securities in which the Fund invests and, consequently, the Fund is also
subject to specific risks as a result of their business operations in a
particular country or region, including, but not limited to:
Risk
of Investing in Developed Markets:
Investments in a developed country’s issuer may subject the Fund to legal,
regulatory, political, currency, security, and economic risks specific to
developed countries. Developed countries tend to represent a significant portion
of the global economy and have generally experienced slower economic growth than
some less developed countries. Certain developed countries have experienced
security concerns, such as war, terrorism and strained international relations.
Incidents involving a country’s or region’s security may cause uncertainty in
its markets and may adversely affect its economy and the Fund’s investments. In
addition, developed countries may be adversely impacted by changes to the
economic conditions of certain key trading partners, regulatory burdens, debt
burdens and the price or availability of certain
commodities.
Risk
of Investing in the United States: Investments in United States issuers
may subject the Fund to legal, regulatory, political, currency, security, and
economic risks specific to the United States. A decrease in imports or exports,
changes in trade regulations, inflation and/or an economic recession in the U.S.
may have a material adverse effect on the U.S.
economy.
Indexing
Strategy Risk:
The Fund is not actively managed, and the Adviser does not attempt to take
defensive positions in declining markets. Unlike many investment companies, the
Fund does not seek to outperform its Underlying Index. Therefore, it would not
necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed,
respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is
underperforming. Additionally, if a constituent of the Underlying Index were
removed, even outside of a regular rebalance of the Underlying Index, the
Adviser anticipates that the Fund would sell such security. Maintaining
investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of
individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund
employed an active strategy.
Index-Related
Risk: There is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve a high degree of
correlation to the Underlying Index and therefore achieve its investment
objective. Market disruptions and regulatory restrictions could have an adverse
effect on the Fund’s ability to adjust its exposure to the required levels in
order to track the Underlying Index. Errors in index data, index computations
and/or the construction of the Underlying Index in accordance with its
methodology may occur from time to time and may not be identified and corrected
by the Index Provider for a period of time or at all, which may have an adverse
impact on the Fund and its shareholders.
Management
Risk: The Fund may not fully replicate its Underlying Index and may hold
securities not included in its Underlying Index. The Adviser’s investment
strategy, the implementation of which is subject to a number of constraints, may
cause the Fund to underperform the market or its relevant benchmark or adversely
affect the ability of the Fund to achieve its investment
objective.
Tracking
Error Risk: Tracking error may occur because of
differences between the instruments held in the Fund's portfolio and those
included in the Underlying Index, pricing differences, transaction costs
incurred by the Fund, the Fund's holding of uninvested cash, size of the Fund,
differences in timing of the accrual of or the valuation of dividends or
interest, tax gains or losses, changes to the Underlying Index or the costs to
the Fund of complying with various new or existing regulatory requirements. This
risk may be heightened during times of increased market volatility or other
unusual market conditions. Tracking error also may result because the Fund
incurs fees and expenses, while the Underlying Index does not. ETFs that track
indices with significant weight in emerging markets issuers may experience
higher tracking error than other ETFs that do not track such
indices.
International
Closed Market Trading Risk: To
the extent that the underlying investments held by the Fund trade on foreign
exchanges that may be closed when the securities exchange on which the Fund’s
Shares trade is open, there are likely to be deviations between the current
price of such an underlying security and the last quoted price for the
underlying security (i.e., the Fund’s quote from the closed foreign market).
These deviations could result in premiums or discounts to the Fund’s NAV that
may be greater than those experienced by other exchange-traded funds
("ETFs").
Investable
Universe of Companies Risk: The investable universe of companies in which the Fund may invest
may be limited. If a company no longer meets the Index Provider’s criteria for
inclusion in the Underlying Index, the Fund may need to reduce or eliminate its
holdings in that company. The reduction or elimination of the Fund’s holdings in
the company may have an adverse impact on the liquidity of the Fund’s overall
portfolio holdings and on Fund performance.
Issuer
Risk: Fund performance depends on the performance of individual companies
in which the Fund invests. Changes to the financial condition of any of those
companies may cause the value of such company's securities to
decline.
Market
Risk: Turbulence in the financial markets and reduced liquidity may
negatively affect issuers, which could have an adverse effect on the Fund and
its investments. The Fund’s NAV could decline over short periods due to
short-term market movements and over longer periods during market downturns.
Trade policy, including the imposition of tariffs, may dampen consumer spending
and result in decreased confidence in the markets. Additionally, political
uncertainty regarding U.S. policy, including the U.S. government’s approach to
trade, may also impact the markets. Furthermore, local, regional or global
events such as war, acts of terrorism, the spread of infectious diseases,
inflation and recessions, changes in interest or exchange rates, or other events
could have a significant impact on the Fund and its investments and trading of
its Shares. Market risk factors may result in increased volatility and/or
decreased liquidity in the securities markets.
Non-Diversification
Risk: The Fund is classified as a “non-diversified” investment company
under the Investment Company Act of 1940 ("1940 Act"), which means that the Fund
may invest a greater portion of its assets in securities of individual issuers
than a diversified fund. As a result, changes in the market value of a single
investment may have a greater impact on the Fund’s NAV and may make the Fund
more volatile than more diversified funds.
Operational
Risk:
The Fund is exposed to operational risk arising from a number of factors,
including but not limited to human error, processing and communication errors,
errors of the Fund's service providers, counterparties or other third-parties,
failed or inadequate processes, cyber security incidents, and
technology or systems failures. The Fund and the Adviser seek to reduce these
operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do
not address every possible risk and may be inadequate for those risks that they
are intended to address.
Risks
Associated with Exchange-Traded Funds:
As an ETF, the Fund is subject to the following risks:
Authorized
Participants Concentration Risk: The Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may
act as Authorized Participants and engage in creation or redemption transactions
directly with the Fund, and none of those Authorized Participants is obligated
to engage in creation and/or redemption transactions. To the extent that those
Authorized Participants exit the business or are unable to process creation
and/or redemption orders, such as in times of market stress, Shares may be more
likely to trade at a premium or discount to NAV and/or at wider intraday bid-ask
spreads, and possibly face trading halts and/or delisting from an exchange.
Authorized Participants Concentration Risk may be heightened because the Fund
invests in non-U.S. securities.
Large
Shareholder Risk: Certain
shareholders, including an Authorized Participant, the Adviser, an affiliate of
the Adviser, or funds managed by the Adviser, may own a substantial amount of
the Fund’s Shares. Redemptions by large shareholders could have a significant
negative impact on the Fund. If a large shareholder were to redeem all, or a
large portion, of its Shares, there is no guarantee that the Fund will be able
to maintain sufficient assets to continue operations in which case the Board of
Trustees may determine to liquidate the Fund. In addition, transactions by large
shareholders may account for a large percentage of the trading volume on a
national securities exchange and may, therefore, have a material upward or
downward effect on the market price of the Shares.
Listing
Standards Risk: The
Fund is required to comply with listing requirements adopted by the listing
exchange. Non-compliance with such requirements may result in the Fund's shares
being delisted by the listing exchange. Any resulting liquidation of the Fund
could cause the Fund to incur elevated transaction costs and could result in
negative tax consequences for its shareholders.
Market
Trading Risks and Premium/Discount
Risks: Shares of the Fund are publicly traded
on a national securities exchange, which may subject shareholders to numerous
market trading risks. In stressed market conditions, the market for the Shares
may become less liquid in response to the deteriorating liquidity of the Fund’s
portfolio. This adverse effect on the liquidity of the Shares, as well as
disruptions to creations and redemptions, the existence of extreme market
volatility or potential lack of assets in the Fund or an active trading market
for Shares may result in Shares trading at a significant premium or discount to
NAV. If a shareholder purchases Shares at a time when the market price is at a
premium to the NAV or sells Shares at a time when the market price is at a
discount to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain losses. The NAV of the Fund is
calculated at the end of each business day and fluctuates with changes in the
market value of the Fund’s holdings. The trading price of the Fund’s Shares
fluctuates, in some cases materially, throughout trading hours in response to
changes in the Fund’s NAV.
Securities
Lending Risk: Securities lending involves a risk of loss because the borrower may
fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. If the Fund is not
able to recover the securities loaned, it may sell the collateral and purchase a
replacement security in the market. Lending securities entails a risk of loss to
the Fund if and to the extent that the market value of the loaned securities
increases and the collateral is not increased accordingly. Additionally, the
Fund will bear any loss on the investment of cash collateral it receives. These
events could also trigger adverse tax consequences for the Fund. As securities
on loan may not be voted by the Fund, there is a risk that the Fund may not be
able to recall the securities in sufficient time to vote on material proxy
matters.
Trading
Halt Risk:
An exchange or market may close or issue trading halts on specific securities,
or the ability to buy or sell certain securities or financial instruments may be
restricted, which may result in the Fund being unable to buy or sell certain
securities or financial instruments. In such circumstances, the Fund may be
unable to rebalance its portfolio, may be unable to accurately price its
investments and/or may incur substantial trading
losses.
Valuation
Risk:
The sales price the Fund could receive for a security may differ from the Fund’s
valuation of the security and may differ from the value used by the Underlying
Index, particularly for securities that trade in low value or volatile markets
or that are valued using a fair value methodology (such as during trading
halts). The value of the securities in the Fund's portfolio may change on days
when shareholders will not be able to purchase or sell the Fund's
Shares.
PERFORMANCE
INFORMATION
The bar chart
and table that follow show how the Fund performed on a calendar year basis and
provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes
in the Fund's performance from year to year and by showing the Fund's average
annual total returns for the indicated periods compared with the Fund's
broad-based benchmark index, which reflects a broad measure of market
performance, and the Underlying Index, which the Fund seeks to
track. The Fund's past performance
(before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will
perform in the future. Updated performance information is
available online at
www.globalxetfs.com.
Annual Total Returns
(Years Ended December 31)
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Quarter: |
6/30/2020 |
32.85% |
| Worst
Quarter: |
6/30/2022 |
-20.48% |
Average Annual
Total Returns (for the Periods Ended December 31,
2025)
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One
Year Ended December 31, 2025 |
Five
Years Ended December 31, 2025 |
Since
Inception (10/25/2019) |
| Global
X Cybersecurity ETF: |
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| ·Return
before taxes |
-5.19% |
2.08% |
12.40% |
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·Return
after taxes on distributions1 |
-5.20% |
1.96% |
12.25% |
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·Return
after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund Shares1 |
-3.07% |
1.58% |
10.01% |
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MSCI
ACWI Index (NR) (USD)
(Index returns reflect
invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflect no deduction for
fees, expenses, or other
taxes) |
22.34% |
11.19% |
12.79% |
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Indxx
Cybersecurity Index (NR) (USD)2
(Index
returns reflect invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflect
no deduction for fees, expenses, or other
taxes) |
-4.71% |
2.54% |
12.74% |
1
After-tax returns are
calculated using the historical highest individual U.S. federal marginal income
tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local
taxes. Your actual after-tax
returns will depend on your specific tax situation and may differ from those
shown above. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold Shares of
the Fund through tax-advantaged arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual
retirement accounts (IRAs).
2
Historic
index performance reflects a recalculation of the index by the index provider as
of January 28, 2025.
FUND
MANAGEMENT
Investment
Adviser:
Global X Management Company LLC.
Portfolio
Managers:
The professionals primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the
Fund are Nam To, CFA and Wayne Xie (“Portfolio Managers”). Mr. To and Mr. Xie
have been a Portfolio Manager of the Fund since the Fund's inception.
PURCHASE
AND SALE OF FUND SHARES
Shares
of the Fund are or will be listed and traded at market prices on a national
securities exchange. Shares may only be purchased and sold on the exchange
through a broker-dealer. The price of Shares is based on market price, and
because ETF shares trade at market prices rather than at NAV, Shares may trade
at a price greater than NAV (a premium) or less than NAV (a discount). Only
“Authorized Participants” (as defined in the SAI) who have entered into
agreements with the Fund’s distributor, SEI Investments Distribution Co.
(“Distributor”), may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with
the Fund. The Fund will only issue or redeem Shares that have been aggregated
into blocks called Creation Units. The Fund will issue or redeem Creation Units
in return for a basket of cash and/or securities that the Fund specifies any day
that the national securities exchanges are open for business (“Business Day”).
An investor may incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest
price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase shares of the Fund (bid) and the
lowest price a seller is willing to accept for shares of the Fund (ask) when
buying or selling shares in the secondary market (the “bid-ask spread”). To
access information regarding the Fund’s net asset value, market price, premiums
and discounts, and bid-ask spreads, please go to https://www.globalxetfs.com.
TAX
INFORMATION
The
Fund intends to make distributions that may be taxable to you as ordinary income
or capital gains, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement,
such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account ("IRA"), in which case
distributions from such tax-advantaged arrangement may be taxable to you.
PAYMENTS
TO BROKER-DEALERS AND OTHER FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES
The
Adviser and its related companies may pay broker-dealers or other financial
intermediaries (such as a bank) for the sale of Fund Shares and related
services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing your
broker-dealer, sales persons or other intermediary or its employees or
associated persons to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your
financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more
information.
Global X Dorsey
Wright Thematic ETF
Ticker:
GXDW Exchange: NASDAQ
INVESTMENT
OBJECTIVE
The
Global X Dorsey Wright Thematic ETF (the "Fund") seeks to provide investment
results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before
fees and expenses, of the Nasdaq Dorsey Wright Thematic RotationTM
Total Return Index (the "Underlying Index").
FEES AND
EXPENSES
This
table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and
sell shares (“Shares”) of the Fund. You
may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial
intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and examples
below.
Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment):
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Management
Fees: |
0.50% |
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Distribution
and Service (12b-1) Fees: |
None |
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Other
Expenses: |
0.00% |
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Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses: |
0.50% |
Example:
The following example
is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost
of investing in other funds. This example does not take into account customary
brokerage commissions that you pay when purchasing or selling Shares of the Fund
in the secondary market. The example assumes
that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell
all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that
your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses
remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on
these assumptions, your costs would be:
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One
Year |
Three
Years |
Five
Years |
Ten
Years |
| $51 |
$160 |
$280 |
$628 |
Portfolio
Turnover:
The Fund pays transaction
costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over"
its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction
costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account.
These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the
example, affect the Fund's performance. For the most recent fiscal period, the
Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 191.21% of the average value of its
portfolio.
PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT
STRATEGIES
The
Fund invests at least 80% of its total assets in the securities of the Nasdaq
Dorsey Wright Thematic RotationTM Total Return Index (the "Underlying Index"). The Fund's 80%
investment policy is non-fundamental and requires 60 days prior written notice
to shareholders before it can be changed. The Fund may lend
securities representing up to one-third of the value of the Fund’s total assets
(including the value of the collateral received).
The
Underlying Index seeks to provide broad exposure to thematic strategies using a
portfolio of exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) issued by Global X Funds®
that target a specific theme or that has a significant overweight toward a
particular theme (each, an "Underlying ETF"), as determined by the Index
Provider (as defined below). The Underlying Index allocates equal index weights
among the five highest-ranked Underlying ETFs within the Nasdaq Dorsey Wright
Relative Strength Matrix, a proprietary, momentum-based quantitative methodology
developed by Nasdaq, Inc., the provider of the Underlying Index (the "Index
Provider"). “Relative strength” measures a security's performance relative to
that of other securities, benchmarks or broad market indexes. When determining
relative strength, the Index Provider takes into account a variety of data to
track historical performance patterns of the Underlying ETFs’ securities prices
over various time periods. The Underlying Index measures the relative strength
of each Underlying ETF compared to other Underlying ETFs. The Index is evaluated
on a monthly basis, using the Nasdaq Dorsey Wright Relative Strength Matrix data
as of the close of the last trading day of the month, to determine the five
highest-ranked Underlying ETFs. If an addition or deletion is made to the
Underlying Index, the
Underlying
Index is rebalanced so that the components are equally weighted. The Underlying
Index’s periodic rebalance and reconstitution schedule may cause the Fund to
experience a higher rate of portfolio turnover.
The
Underlying Index is constructed from the eligible universe of Underlying ETFs,
as determined by the Index Provider. As of January 31, 2026, the Underlying
ETFs eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index are: Global X Aging
Population ETF, Global X AgTech & Food Innovation ETF, Global X Artificial
Intelligence & Technology ETF, Global X Autonomous & Electric Vehicles
ETF, Global X Blockchain ETF, Global X Clean Water ETF, Global X ClimateTech
ETF, Global X Cloud Computing ETF, Global X Cybersecurity ETF, Global X Data
Center & Digital Infrastructure ETF, Global X Defense Tech ETF, Global X
E-commerce ETF, Global X FinTech ETF, Global X Genomics & Biotechnology ETF,
Global X HealthTech ETF, Global X Hydrogen ETF, Global X Infrastructure
Development ex-U.S. ETF, Global X Internet of Things ETF, Global X Lithium &
Battery Tech ETF, Global X Millennial Consumer ETF, Global X Renewable Energy
Producers ETF, Global X Robotics & Artificial Intelligence ETF, Global X
Social Media ETF, Global X U.S. Electrification ETF, Global X U.S.
Infrastructure Development ETF, Global X Video Games & Esports
ETF.
The
Underlying Index is sponsored by the Index Provider, which is an organization
that is independent of, and unaffiliated with, the Fund and Global X Management
Company LLC, the investment adviser for the Fund (the "Adviser"). The Index
Provider determines the relative weightings of the securities in the Underlying
Index and publishes information regarding the market value of the Underlying
Index.
The
Adviser uses an indexing approach to try to achieve the Fund's investment
objective. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not try to outperform
the Underlying Index and does not seek temporary defensive positions when
markets decline or appear overvalued.
The
Fund generally will use a replication strategy. A replication strategy is an
indexing strategy that involves investing in the securities of the Underlying
Index in approximately the same proportions as in the Underlying Index. However,
the Fund may utilize a representative sampling strategy with respect to the
Underlying Index when a replication strategy might be detrimental or
disadvantageous to shareholders, such as when there are practical difficulties
or substantial costs involved in compiling a portfolio of equity securities to
replicate the Underlying Index, in instances in which a security in the
Underlying Index becomes temporarily illiquid, unavailable or less liquid, or as
a result of legal restrictions or limitations (such as tax diversification
requirements) that apply to the Fund but not the Underlying Index.
The
Adviser expects that, over time, the correlation between the Fund's performance
and that of the Underlying Index, before fees and expenses, will exceed 95%. A
correlation percentage of 100% would indicate perfect correlation. If the Fund
uses a replication strategy, it can be expected to have greater correlation to
the Underlying Index than if it uses a representative sampling
strategy.
The Fund concentrates its investments
(i.e., holds 25% or more of its total assets) in a particular industry or group
of industries to approximately the same extent that the Underlying Index is
concentrated. To the extent the Fund invests a significant portion of its assets
in a given jurisdiction or investment sector, the Fund may be exposed to the
risks associated with that jurisdiction or investment sector. As of
January 31, 2026, the Underlying Index had significant exposure to the
communication services and consumer discretionary
sectors.
SUMMARY
OF PRINCIPAL RISKS
As with any
investment, you could lose all or part of your investment in the Fund, and the
Fund’s performance could trail that of other investments. There
is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its investment objective.
An investment in the Fund is not a bank deposit and it is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other
government agency, the Adviser or any of its affiliates. The
Fund is subject to the principal risks noted below, any of which may adversely
affect the Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”), trading price, yield, total return
and ability to meet its investment objective, as well as other risks that are
described in greater detail in the Additional
Information About the Funds
section of this Prospectus and in the Statement of Additional Information
(“SAI”).
Asset
Class Risk:
Securities and other assets in the Underlying Index or otherwise held in the
Fund's portfolio may underperform in comparison to the general securities
markets, a particular securities market or other asset classes.
Equity
Securities Risk:
Equity securities are subject to changes in value, and their values may be more
volatile than other asset classes, as a result of a company’s business
performance, investor perceptions, stock market trends and general economic
conditions.
ETF
Investment Risk:
The Fund is expected to primarily hold ETFs to gain exposure to certain asset
classes. As a result, the Fund will be subject to the same risks as the
Underlying ETFs. While the risks of owning shares of an Underlying ETF generally
reflect the risks of owning the underlying securities of the index the ETF is
designed to track, lack of liquidity in an Underlying ETF can result in its
value being more volatile than the underlying portfolio securities. Because the
value of an Underlying ETF's shares depends on the demand in the market, the
Adviser may not be able to liquidate the Fund’s holdings in those shares at the
most optimal time, thereby adversely affecting the Fund’s performance. An
Underlying ETF may experience tracking error in relation to the index tracked by
the Underlying ETF, which could contribute to tracking error for the Fund. In
addition, an Underlying ETF's shares may trade at a premium or discount to NAV.
Underlying ETFs in which the Fund invests may be non-diversified under the 1940
Act. This means that there is no restriction under the 1940 Act on how much the
Underlying ETF may invest in the securities of a single issuer. Therefore, the
value of the Underlying ETF’s shares may be volatile and fluctuate more than
shares of a diversified fund that invests in a broader range of securities. If
an Underlying ETF fails to achieve its investment objective, the value of the
Fund’s investment may decline, adversely affecting the Fund’s performance.
In
addition, investments in the securities of Underlying ETFs may involve
duplication of certain expenses. The Fund will pay brokerage commissions in
connection with the purchase and sale of shares of the Underlying ETFs, which
could result in greater expenses to the Fund. By investing in an Underlying ETF,
the Fund becomes a shareholder thereof. As a result, Fund shareholders
indirectly bear the Fund’s proportionate share of certain of the fees and
expenses indirectly paid by shareholders of the Underlying ETF, in addition to
the fees and expenses Fund shareholders indirectly bear in connection with the
Fund’s own operations. In addition, certain of the Underlying ETFs may hold
common portfolio positions, thereby reducing the diversification benefits of an
asset allocation style.
A
complete list of each Underlying ETF held by the Fund can be found daily on the
Trust’s website. Each investor should review the complete description of the
principal risks of each Underlying ETF prior to investing in the
Fund.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Thematic Companies: The Fund’s investments in issuers associated with certain economic
themes will limit the Fund’s exposure to certain issuers, industries, sectors,
regions and countries and may impact the Fund’s performance depending on whether
such investments are in or out of favor. The Fund relies on the Index Provider
to identify investments for inclusion in the Underlying Index that reflect
certain themes. Additionally, investments included in the Underlying Index may
underperform other, similar thematic investments. Companies focused on business
activities in emerging economic themes typically face intense competition and
potentially rapid product obsolescence, and the business models employed by
companies focused on a particular economic theme may not prove to be
successful.
Capitalization
Risk:
Investing in issuers within the same market capitalization category carries the
risk that the category may be out of favor due to current market conditions or
investor sentiment.
Large-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Large-capitalization
companies may adapt more slowly to new competitive challenges and changing
market conditions than smaller capitalization companies. In addition,
large-capitalization companies may be more mature and subject to more limited
growth potential and consequently may underperform other segments of the equity
market or the market as a whole.
Mid-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Mid-capitalization
companies may have greater price volatility, lower trading volume and less
liquidity than large-capitalization companies. In addition, mid-capitalization
companies may have smaller revenues, narrower product lines, less management
depth and experience, smaller shares of their product or service markets, fewer
financial resources and less competitive strength than large-capitalization
companies. These securities may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly,
from the overall securities market.
Currency
Risk: The Fund may invest in securities denominated in foreign
currencies. Because the Fund's NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the Fund's NAV
could decline if currencies of the underlying securities depreciate against the
U.S. dollar or if there are delays or limits on repatriation of such currencies.
Generally, an increase in the value of the U.S. dollar against a foreign
currency will reduce the value of a security denominated in that foreign
currency, thereby decreasing the Fund's NAV. Exchange rates may be volatile and
may change quickly and without warning, which could have a significant negative
impact on the Fund.
Cybersecurity
Risk: With
the increased use of technologies such as the Internet to conduct business, the
Fund, like all companies, may be susceptible to operational, information
security and related risks. Cybersecurity incidents involving the Fund and its
service providers (including, without limitation, the Adviser, fund accountant,
custodian, transfer agent and financial intermediaries) have the ability to
cause disruptions and impact business operations, potentially resulting in
financial
losses, impediments to trading, the inability of Fund shareholders
to transact business, violations of applicable privacy and other laws,
regulatory fines, penalties, reputational damage, reimbursement or other
compensation costs, and/or additional compliance costs.
Focus
Risk:
The Fund may from time to time have a significant amount of its assets invested
in a particular industry, group of industries, or one or more sectors to
approximately the same extent that the Underlying Index focuses in investments
related to a particular industry, group of industries, and/or one or more
sectors. In such event, the Fund’s performance will depend to a greater extent
on the overall condition of such industry(ies) or sector(s), and an economic,
business, political, regulatory, or other occurrence affecting such
industry(ies) or sector(s) will have an increased impact on the value of the
Fund’s shares compared to the value of shares of a fund that invests in a
broader range of industries or sectors.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Communication Services Sector: Companies
in the communication services sector may be affected by industry competition,
substantial capital requirements, government regulation, cyclicality of revenues
and earnings, obsolescence of communications products and services due to
technological advancement, a potential decrease in the discretionary income of
targeted individuals and changing consumer tastes and
interests.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Consumer Discretionary Sector: The
consumer discretionary sector may be affected by changes in domestic and
international economies, exchange and interest rates, inflation, competition,
consumers’ disposable income and consumer preferences, social trends and
marketing campaigns.
Foreign
Securities Risk:
Investments in foreign securities can be riskier than U.S. securities
investments. Investments in the securities of foreign issuers (including
investments in American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) and Global Depositary
Receipts (“GDRs”)) are subject to additional risks, including lower levels of
liquidity and market efficiency; greater securities price volatility; exchange
rate fluctuations and exchange controls; less availability of public information
about issuers; limitations on foreign ownership of securities; imposition of
withholding or other taxes; imposition of restrictions on the expatriation of
the assets of the Fund; restrictions placed on U.S. investors by U.S.
regulations governing foreign investments; higher transaction and custody costs
and delays in settlement procedures; difficulties in enforcing contractual
obligations; lower levels of regulation of the securities market; weaker
accounting, disclosure and reporting requirements; and legal principles relating
to corporate governance and directors’ fiduciary duties and liabilities. The
countries in which the Fund invests may also be subject to structural risks,
including economic, political and social instability. Additionally, certain
securities held by the Fund, while traded on U.S. exchanges, may be issued by
foreign financial institutions and as such, may be subject to the risks of
investing in securities issued by foreign companies, which may not be subject to
the same regulations as companies domiciled in the U.S. Where all or a portion
of the Fund's securities trade in a market that is closed when the market in
which the Fund's Shares are listed and trading is open, there may be differences
between the last quote from the security’s closed foreign market and the value
of the security during the Fund’s domestic trading day. This, in turn, could
lead to differences between the market price of the Fund’s Shares and the
underlying value of those shares.
Geographic
Risk: The
Fund’s investments in securities of issuers located in a particular country or
geographic region may subject the Fund to certain risks to a greater extent than
if its investments were less focused, including: natural, biological or other
disasters and the spread of infectious diseases; economic, political and social
instability; security concerns; and trade disputes with key trading partners.
The securities in which the Fund invests and, consequently, the Fund is also
subject to specific risks as a result of their business operations in a
particular country or region, including, but not limited to:
Risk
of Investing in China:
Investments in Chinese securities may subject the Fund to legal, regulatory,
political, currency, security, and economic risks specific to China. China may
be subject to considerable degrees of economic, political and social
instability. Concerns about the rising government and household debt levels
could impact the stability of the Chinese economy. Despite economic and market
reform in recent decades, the Chinese government’s control over certain sectors
and enterprises and significant regulation of investment and industry are
pervasive. Chinese companies are subject to the risk that Chinese authorities
can intervene in their operations and structure. Internal social unrest or
confrontations with other countries, including military conflicts in response to
such events, may disrupt economic development in China and result in a greater
risk of currency fluctuations, currency convertibility, interest rate
fluctuations and higher rates of inflation.
The
Chinese economy is highly reliant on trade. Reduction in spending on Chinese
products and services, institution of additional tariffs or other trade barriers
(including as a result of heightened trade tensions between China and the U.S.
or in response to actual or alleged Chinese cyber activity), or a downturn in
any of the economies of China’s key trading partners may have an adverse impact
on the Chinese economy.
China
has experienced security concerns, such as terrorism and strained international
relations. Additionally, China is alleged to have participated in
state-sponsored cyberattacks against foreign companies and foreign governments.
Actual
and threatened responses to such activity, including purchasing restrictions,
sanctions, tariffs or cyberattacks on the Chinese government or Chinese
companies, may impact China’s economy and Chinese issuers in which the Fund
invests. Incidents involving China’s or the region’s security may adversely
affect the Chinese economy and the Fund’s investments. Chinese companies,
including those listed on U.S. exchanges, are not subject to the same degree of
regulatory requirements, accounting standards or auditor oversight as companies
in more developed countries, and as a result, information about the Chinese
securities in which the Fund invests may be less reliable or complete. There may
be significant obstacles to obtaining information necessary for investigations
into or litigation against Chinese companies and shareholders may have limited
legal remedies. Investments in China may be subject to loss due to
expropriation, nationalization, confiscation of assets and property, and or the
imposition of restrictions on foreign investments and repatriation of capital.
In addition, many Chinese companies listed on U.S. exchanges use variable
interest entities (“VIEs”) in their structure as a result of foreign ownership
restriction. Any change in the operations of entities in a VIE structure, the
status of VIE contractual arrangements or the legal or regulatory environment in
China could result in significant, and possibly permanent and/or total, losses
for investments in VIE issuers.
Risk
of Investing in Developed Markets:
Investments in a developed country’s issuer may subject the Fund to legal,
regulatory, political, currency, security, and economic risks specific to
developed countries. Developed countries tend to represent a significant portion
of the global economy and have generally experienced slower economic growth than
some less developed countries. Certain developed countries have experienced
security concerns, such as war, terrorism and strained international relations.
Incidents involving a country’s or region’s security may cause uncertainty in
its markets and may adversely affect its economy and the Fund’s investments. In
addition, developed countries may be adversely impacted by changes to the
economic conditions of certain key trading partners, regulatory burdens, debt
burdens and the price or availability of certain
commodities.
Risk
of Investing in Emerging Markets: Investments in emerging markets may be subject to a greater risk of
loss than investments in developed markets. Securities markets of emerging
market countries are less liquid, subject to greater price volatility, have
smaller market capitalizations, have less government regulation, and are not
subject to as extensive and frequent accounting, financial, and other reporting
requirements as the securities markets of more developed countries, and there
may be greater risk associated with the custody of securities in emerging
markets. It may be difficult or impossible for the Fund to pursue claims against
an emerging market issuer in the courts of an emerging market country. There may
be significant obstacles to obtaining information necessary for investigations
into or litigation against emerging market companies and shareholders may have
limited legal rights and remedies. Emerging markets may be more likely to
experience inflation, political turmoil and rapid changes in economic conditions
than more developed markets. Emerging markets may also face other significant
internal or external risks, including the risk of war, terrorism, or other
social or political conflicts.
Risk
of Investing in South Korea: Investments
in South Korean issuers may subject the Fund to legal, regulatory, political,
currency, security, and economic risks specific to South Korea. In addition,
economic and political developments of South Korea’s neighbors, or potential
hostilities with North Korea may have an adverse effect on the South Korean
economy. The South Korean economy is heavily reliant on trading exports,
especially with other Asian countries and the U.S. Conditions that weaken demand
for key South Korean exports, and disruptions or decreases in trade activity
could lead to declines in economic
growth.
Risk
of Investing in the United States:
Investments in United States issuers
may subject the Fund to legal, regulatory, political, currency, security, and
economic risks specific to the United States. A decrease in imports or exports,
changes in trade regulations, inflation and/or an economic recession in the U.S.
may have a material adverse effect on the U.S.
economy.
Indexing
Strategy Risk:
The Fund is not actively managed, and the Adviser does not attempt to take
defensive positions in declining markets. Unlike many investment companies, the
Fund does not seek to outperform its Underlying Index. Therefore, it would not
necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed,
respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is
underperforming. Additionally, if a constituent of the Underlying Index were
removed, even outside of a regular rebalance of the Underlying Index, the
Adviser anticipates that the Fund would sell such security. Maintaining
investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of
individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund
employed an active strategy.
Index-Related
Risk:
There is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve a high degree of correlation to
the Underlying Index and therefore achieve its investment objective. Market
disruptions and regulatory restrictions could have an adverse effect on the
Fund’s ability to adjust its exposure to the required levels in order to track
the Underlying Index. Errors in index data, index computations and/or the
construction of the Underlying Index in accordance with its
methodology
may occur from time to time and may not be identified and corrected by the Index
Provider for a period of time or at all, which may have an adverse impact on the
Fund and its shareholders.
Management
Risk:
The Fund may not fully replicate its Underlying Index and may hold securities
not included in its Underlying Index. The Adviser’s investment strategy, the
implementation of which is subject to a number of constraints, may cause the
Fund to underperform the market or its relevant benchmark or adversely affect
the ability of the Fund to achieve its investment
objective.
Tracking
Error Risk:
Tracking error may occur because of differences between the instruments held in
the Fund's portfolio and those included in the Underlying Index, pricing
differences, transaction costs incurred by the Fund, the Fund's holding of
uninvested cash, size of the Fund, differences in timing of the accrual of or
the valuation of dividends or interest, tax gains or losses, changes to the
Underlying Index or the costs to the Fund of complying with various new or
existing regulatory requirements. This risk may be heightened during times of
increased market volatility or other unusual market conditions. Tracking error
also may result because the Fund incurs fees and expenses, while the Underlying
Index does not. ETFs that track indices with significant weight in emerging
markets issuers may experience higher tracking error than other ETFs that do not
track such indices.
Issuer
Risk:
Fund performance depends on the performance of individual companies in which the
Fund invests. Changes to the financial condition of any of those companies may
cause the value of such company's securities to
decline.
Limited
Portfolio Holdings Risk: Because
the Fund may hold large positions in the Underlying ETFs, an increase or
decrease in the value of the shares or interests issued by these vehicles will
have a greater impact on the Fund’s value and total
return.
Market
Risk: Turbulence in the financial markets and reduced liquidity may
negatively affect issuers, which could have an adverse effect on the Fund and
its investments. The Fund’s NAV could decline over short periods due to
short-term market movements and over longer periods during market downturns.
Trade policy, including the imposition of tariffs, may dampen consumer spending
and result in decreased confidence in the markets. Additionally, political
uncertainty regarding U.S. policy, including the U.S. government’s approach to
trade, may also impact the markets. Furthermore, local, regional or global
events such as war, acts of terrorism, the spread of infectious diseases,
inflation and recessions, changes in interest or exchange rates, or other events
could have a significant impact on the Fund and its investments and trading of
its Shares. Market risk factors may result in increased volatility and/or
decreased liquidity in the securities markets.
Model
Portfolio Risk:
The Underlying Index utilizes a proprietary methodology to determine its
allocations to the securities in which the Fund invests. Investments selected
using a proprietary methodology (i.e., quantitative model) may perform
differently from the market as a whole or from their expected performance. There
can be no assurance that use of a model will enable the Fund to achieve positive
returns or outperform the market.
Momentum
Strategy Risk: The Underlying Index uses a momentum-based quantitative methodology
to determine its allocations to the Underlying ETFs in which the Fund invests.
Momentum is an investment strategy premised on the tendency of securities to
exhibit persistent price performance trends over time. Underlying ETFs are only
removed from the Underlying Index when their performance falls sufficiently out
of favor versus the other members of the eligible Underlying ETFs inventory on a
relative strength basis. A new Underlying ETF is added to the Underlying Index
only when an existing Underlying ETF in the Underlying Index is removed.
Momentum can shift rapidly, and as a result, the Fund may be exposed to downward
trends and/or market volatility.
Operational
Risk:
The Fund is exposed to operational risk arising from a number of factors,
including but not limited to human error, processing and communication errors,
errors of the Fund's service providers, counterparties or other third-parties,
failed or inadequate processes, cyber security incidents, and technology or
systems failures. The Fund and the Adviser seek to reduce these operational
risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address
every possible risk and may be inadequate for those risks that they are intended
to address.
Risks
Associated with Exchange-Traded Funds:
As an ETF, the Fund is subject to the following risks:
Authorized
Participants Concentration Risk:
The Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may act as
Authorized Participants and engage in creation or redemption transactions
directly with the Fund, and none of those Authorized Participants is obligated
to engage in creation and/or redemption transactions. To the extent that those
Authorized Participants exit the business or are unable to process creation
and/or redemption orders, such as in times of market stress, Shares may be more
likely to trade at a premium or discount to NAV and/or at wider intraday bid-ask
spreads, and possibly face trading halts and/or delisting from an
exchange.
Large
Shareholder Risk: Certain
shareholders, including an Authorized Participant, the Adviser, an affiliate of
the Adviser, or funds managed by the Adviser, may own a substantial amount of
the Fund’s Shares. Redemptions by large shareholders could have a significant
negative impact on the Fund. If a large shareholder were to redeem all, or a
large portion, of its Shares, there is no guarantee that the Fund will be able
to maintain sufficient assets to continue operations in which case the Board of
Trustees may determine to liquidate the Fund. In addition, transactions by large
shareholders may account for a large percentage of the trading volume on a
national securities exchange and may, therefore, have a material upward or
downward effect on the market price of the Shares.
Listing
Standards Risk: The
Fund is required to comply with listing requirements adopted by the listing
exchange. Non-compliance with such requirements may result in the Fund's shares
being delisted by the listing exchange. Any resulting liquidation of the Fund
could cause the Fund to incur elevated transaction costs and could result in
negative tax consequences for its shareholders.
Market
Trading Risks and Premium/Discount Risks:
Shares of the Fund are publicly traded on a national securities exchange, which
may subject shareholders to numerous market trading risks. In stressed market
conditions, the market for the Shares may become less liquid in response to the
deteriorating liquidity of the Fund’s portfolio. This adverse effect on the
liquidity of the Shares, as well as disruptions to creations and redemptions,
the existence of extreme market volatility or potential lack of assets in the
Fund or an active trading market for Shares may result in Shares trading at a
significant premium or discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases Shares at a
time when the market price is at a premium to the NAV or sells Shares at a time
when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain
losses. The NAV of the Fund is calculated at the end of each business day and
fluctuates with changes in the market value of the Fund’s holdings. The trading
price of the Fund’s Shares fluctuates, in some cases materially, throughout
trading hours in response to changes in the Fund’s
NAV.
Securities
Lending Risk:
Securities lending involves a risk of loss because the borrower may fail to
return the securities in a timely manner or at all. If the Fund is not able to
recover the securities loaned, it may sell the collateral and purchase a
replacement security in the market. Lending securities entails a risk of loss to
the Fund if and to the extent that the market value of the loaned securities
increases and the collateral is not increased accordingly. Additionally, the
Fund will bear any loss on the investment of cash collateral it receives. These
events could also trigger adverse tax consequences for the Fund. As securities
on loan may not be voted by the Fund, there is a risk that the Fund may not be
able to recall the securities in sufficient time to vote on material proxy
matters.
Trading
Halt Risk:
An exchange or market may close or issue trading halts on specific securities,
or the ability to buy or sell certain securities or financial instruments may be
restricted, which may result in the Fund being unable to buy or sell certain
securities or financial instruments. In such circumstances, the Fund may be
unable to rebalance its portfolio, may be unable to accurately price its
investments and/or may incur substantial trading
losses.
Turnover
Risk: The
Fund may engage in frequent and active trading, which may significantly increase
the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate. At times, the Fund may have a portfolio
turnover rate substantially greater than 100%. For example, a portfolio turnover
rate of 300% is equivalent to the Fund buying and selling all of its securities
three times during the course of a year. A high portfolio turnover rate would
result in high brokerage costs for the Fund, may result in higher taxes when
Shares are held in a taxable account and lower Fund
performance.
Valuation
Risk:
The sales price the Fund could receive for a security may differ from the Fund’s
valuation of the security and may differ from the value used by the Underlying
Index, particularly for securities that trade in low value or volatile markets
or that are valued using a fair value methodology (such as during trading
halts). The value of the securities in the Fund's portfolio may change on days
when shareholders will not be able to purchase or sell the Fund's
Shares.
PERFORMANCE
INFORMATION
The bar chart
and table that follow show how the Fund performed on a calendar year basis and
provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes
in the Fund's performance from year to year and by showing the Fund's average
annual total returns for the indicated periods compared with the Fund's
broad-based benchmark index, which reflects a broad measure of market
performance, and the Underlying Index, which the Fund seeks to
track. The Fund's past performance
(before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will
perform in the future. Updated performance information is
available online at
www.globalxetfs.com.
Annual Total Returns
(Years Ended December 31)
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| Best
Quarter: |
6/30/2020 |
40.24% |
| Worst
Quarter: |
6/30/2022 |
-21.64% |
Average Annual
Total Returns (for the Periods Ended December 31,
2025)
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Year Ended December 31, 2025 |
Five
Years Ended December 31, 2025 |
Since
Inception (10/25/2019) |
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Global
X Dorsey Wright Thematic ETF: |
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·Return
before taxes |
3.58% |
-10.06% |
0.47% |
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·Return
after taxes on distributions1 |
3.15% |
-10.48% |
0.05% |
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·Return
after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund Shares1 |
2.27% |
-7.34% |
0.26% |
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MSCI
ACWI Index (NR) (USD)
(Index returns reflect
invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflect no deduction for
fees, expenses, or other
taxes) |
22.34% |
11.19% |
12.79% |
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Nasdaq
Dorsey Wright Thematic RotationTM
Total Return Index
(TR)2
(Index
returns do not reflect deduction for fees, expenses, or
taxes) |
-4.47% |
-1.93% |
-0.37% |
1
After-tax returns are
calculated using the historical highest individual U.S. federal marginal income
tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local
taxes. Your
actual after-tax returns will depend on your specific tax situation and may
differ from those shown above. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors
who hold Shares of the Fund through tax-advantaged arrangements, such as 401(k)
plans or individual retirement accounts
(IRAs).
2
Effective April 1, 2025, the Fund changed its Underlying
Index from the Solactive Thematic Growth Index to the Nasdaq Dorsey Wright
Thematic Rotation™ Total Return Index. Performance reflects the performance of
the Solactive Thematic Growth Index through March 31, 2025, and the Nasdaq
Dorsey Wright Thematic
Rotation™
Total Return Index thereafter.
FUND
MANAGEMENT
Investment
Adviser:
Global X Management Company LLC.
Portfolio
Managers:
The professionals primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the
Fund are Nam To, CFA and Wayne Xie (“Portfolio Managers”). Mr. To and Mr. Xie
have been a Portfolio Manager of the Fund since the Fund's inception.
PURCHASE
AND SALE OF FUND SHARES
Shares
of the Fund are or will be listed and traded at market prices on a national
securities exchange. Shares may only be purchased and sold on the exchange
through a broker-dealer. The price of Shares is based on market price, and
because ETF shares trade at market prices rather than at NAV, Shares may trade
at a price greater than NAV (a premium) or less than NAV (a discount). Only
“Authorized Participants” (as defined in the SAI) who have entered into
agreements with the Fund’s distributor, SEI Investments Distribution Co.
(“Distributor”), may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with
the Fund. The Fund will only issue or redeem Shares that have been aggregated
into blocks called Creation Units. The Fund will issue or redeem Creation Units
in return for a basket of cash and/or securities that the Fund specifies any day
that the national securities exchanges are open for business (“Business Day”).
An investor may incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest
price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase shares of the Fund (bid) and the
lowest price a seller is willing to accept for shares of the Fund (ask) when
buying or selling shares in the secondary market (the “bid-ask spread”). To
access information regarding the Fund’s net asset value, market price, premiums
and discounts, and bid-ask spreads, please go to https://www.globalxetfs.com.
TAX
INFORMATION
The
Fund intends to make distributions that may be taxable to you as ordinary income
or capital gains, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement,
such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account ("IRA"), in which case
distributions from such tax-advantaged arrangement may be taxable to you.
PAYMENTS
TO BROKER-DEALERS AND OTHER FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES
The
Adviser and its related companies may pay broker-dealers or other financial
intermediaries (such as a bank) for the sale of Fund Shares and related
services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing your
broker-dealer, sales persons or other intermediary or its employees or
associated persons to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your
financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more
information.
Global X Video Games
& Esports ETF
Ticker:
HERO Exchange: NASDAQ
INVESTMENT
OBJECTIVE
The
Global X Video Games & Esports ETF ("Fund") seeks to provide investment
results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before
fees and expenses, of the Solactive Video Games & Esports Index ("Underlying
Index").
FEES AND
EXPENSES
This
table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and
sell shares (“Shares”) of the Fund. You
may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial
intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and examples
below.
Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment):
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Management
Fees: |
0.50% |
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Distribution
and Service (12b-1) Fees: |
None |
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Other
Expenses: |
0.00% |
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Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses: |
0.50% |
Example:
The following example
is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost
of investing in other funds. This example does not take into account customary
brokerage commissions that you pay when purchasing or selling Shares of the Fund
in the secondary market. The example assumes
that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then hold
or sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes
that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating
expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower,
based on these assumptions, your costs would be:
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One
Year |
Three
Years |
Five
Years |
Ten
Years |
| $51 |
$160 |
$280 |
$628 |
Portfolio
Turnover:
The Fund pays transaction
costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over"
its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction
costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account.
These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the
example, affect the Fund's performance. For the most recent fiscal period, the
Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 30.12% of the average value of its
portfolio.
PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT
STRATEGIES
The Fund
invests at least 80% of its total assets in the securities of the Solactive
Video Games & Esports Index ("Underlying Index") and in American Depositary
Receipts ("ADRs") and Global Depositary Receipts ("GDRs") based on the
securities in the Underlying Index. The Fund will also invest, under normal
circumstances, at least 80% of its net assets, plus borrowings for investment
purposes (if any), in Video Games & Esports Companies (as defined below),
and in ADRs and GDRs based on such securities. The Fund's 80% investment
policies are non-fundamental and require 60 days prior written notice to
shareholders before they can be changed. The Fund may lend
securities representing up to one-third of the value of the Fund’s total assets
(including the value of the collateral received).
The
Underlying Index is designed to provide exposure to exchange-listed companies
that are positioned to benefit from increased consumption related to video games
and esports, including companies whose principal business is in video game
development/publishing, video game and esports content distribution and
streaming, operating/owning esports leagues/teams, and producing video
game/esports hardware (collectively, "Video Games & Esports Companies"), as
defined by Solactive AG, the provider of the Underlying Index ("Index
Provider").
In
constructing the Underlying Index, the Index Provider first applies a
proprietary natural language processing algorithm to the eligible universe,
which screens filings, disclosures and other public information (e.g.,
regulatory filings, earnings transcripts, etc.) for keywords that describe the
index theme, to identify and rank companies with direct exposure to the video
games and
esports
industry. Companies identified by the natural language processing algorithm, as
of the selection date, are further reviewed by the Index Provider on the basis
of revenue related to video games and esports activities. To be eligible for the
Underlying Index, a company is considered by the Index Provider to be a Video
Games & Esports Company if the company generates at least 50% of its
revenues from video games and esports activities, as determined by the Index
Provider. Video Games & Esports Companies are those companies that (i)
develop and/or publish video games, (ii) facilitate the streaming or
distribution of video gaming and/or esports content, (iii) operate and/or own
competitive esports leagues and/or competitive esports teams, and/or (iv)
produce hardware used in video games and/or esports, including augmented and
virtual reality.
To
be a part of the eligible universe of the Underlying Index, certain minimum
market capitalization and liquidity criteria, as defined by the Index Provider,
must be met. As of January 31, 2026, companies must have a minimum market
capitalization of $200 million and a minimum average daily turnover for the last
6 months greater than or equal to $2 million in order to be eligible for
inclusion in the Underlying Index. As of January 31, 2026, companies listed
in the following countries were eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index:
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong
Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland,
Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, South Korea, Taiwan, the United
Kingdom, and the United States.
The
Underlying Index is weighted according to a modified capitalization weighting
methodology and is reconstituted and re-weighted semi-annually. Modified
capitalization weighting seeks to weight constituents primarily based on market
capitalization, but subject to caps on the weights of the individual securities.
Generally speaking, this approach will limit the amount of concentration in the
largest market capitalization companies and increase company-level
diversification. The Underlying Index may include large-, mid- or
small-capitalization companies. As of January 31, 2026, the Underlying
Index had 42 constituents. The Fund's investment objective and Underlying Index
may be changed without shareholder approval.
The
Underlying Index is sponsored by the Index Provider, which is an organization
that is independent of, and unaffiliated with, the Fund and Global X Management
Company LLC, the investment adviser for the Fund ("Adviser"). The Index Provider
determines the relative weightings of the securities in the Underlying Index and
publishes information regarding the market value of the Underlying
Index.
The
Adviser uses an indexing approach to try to achieve the Fund's investment
objective. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not try to outperform
the Underlying Index and does not seek temporary defensive positions when
markets decline or appear overvalued.
The
Fund generally will use a replication strategy. A replication strategy is an
indexing strategy that involves investing in the securities of the Underlying
Index in approximately the same proportions as in the Underlying Index. However,
the Fund may utilize a representative sampling strategy with respect to the
Underlying Index when a replication strategy might be detrimental or
disadvantageous to shareholders, such as when there are practical difficulties
or substantial costs involved in compiling a portfolio of equity securities to
replicate the Underlying Index, in instances in which a security in the
Underlying Index becomes temporarily illiquid, unavailable or less liquid, or as
a result of legal restrictions or limitations (such as tax diversification
requirements) that apply to the Fund but not the Underlying Index.
The
Adviser expects that, over time, the correlation between the Fund's performance
and that of the Underlying Index, before fees and expenses, will exceed 95%. A
correlation percentage of 100% would indicate perfect correlation. If the Fund
uses a replication strategy, it can be expected to have greater correlation to
the Underlying Index than if it uses a representative sampling
strategy.
The Fund
concentrates its investments (i.e., holds 25% or more of its total assets) in a
particular industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent that
the Underlying Index is concentrated. As of January 31, 2026, the
Underlying Index was concentrated in the entertainment industry and had
significant exposure to the communication services sector. The
Fund is classified as “non-diversified,” which means it may invest a larger
percentage of its assets in a smaller number of issuers than a diversified
fund.
SUMMARY
OF PRINCIPAL RISKS
As with any
investment, you could lose all or part of your investment in the Fund, and the
Fund’s performance could trail that of other investments. There
is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its investment objective.
An investment in the Fund is not a bank deposit and it is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other
government agency, the Adviser or any of its affiliates. The
Fund is subject to the principal risks noted below, any of which may adversely
affect the Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”), trading price, yield, total return
and ability to meet its investment objective, as well
as
other risks that are described in greater detail in the Additional
Information About the Funds
section of this Prospectus and in the Statement of Additional Information
(“SAI”).
Asset
Class Risk:
Securities and other assets in the Underlying Index or otherwise held in the
Fund's portfolio may underperform in comparison to the general securities
markets, a particular securities market or other asset classes.
Depositary
Receipts Risk: The
Fund may invest in depositary receipts, such as ADRs and GDRs. Depositary
receipts are receipts listed on U.S. or foreign exchanges issued by banks or
trust companies that entitle the holder to all dividends and capital gains that
are paid out on the underlying foreign shares. Depositary receipts are generally
subject to the same risks associated with direct investments in the securities
of foreign companies. A holder of depositary receipts may also be subject to
fees and the credit risk of the financial institution acting as depositary.
Unsponsored depositary receipts may involve higher expenses, fewer shareholder
rights, and may be less liquid.
Equity
Securities Risk: Equity securities are subject to
changes in value, and their values may be more volatile than other asset
classes, as a result of a company’s business performance, investor perceptions,
stock market trends and general economic
conditions.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Video Game & Esports
Companies: Video Game & Esports companies may have limited product lines,
markets, financial resources or personnel. These companies typically face
intense competition and potentially rapid product obsolescence. Video Game &
Esports companies may be dependent on one or a small number of product or
product franchises for a significant portion of their revenue and profits. They
may also be subject to shifting consumer preferences, including preferences with
respect to gaming console platforms, and changes in consumer discretionary
spending. Video Game & Esports companies may be adversely impacted by
government regulations, and may be subject to additional regulatory oversight
with regard to privacy concerns and cybersecurity risk. Recently, Video Game
& Esports companies have faced enhanced regulatory scrutiny, and certain
regulators have at times suspended the issuance of licenses for new video games
or limited the hours that video games can be played by individuals. These
companies are also heavily dependent on intellectual property rights and may be
adversely affected by loss or impairment of those rights. Video Game &
Esports companies could be negatively impacted by disruptions in service caused
by hardware or software failure. Video Game & Esports companies, especially
smaller companies, tend to be more volatile than companies that do not rely
heavily on technology. The customers and/or suppliers of Video Game &
Esports companies may be concentrated in a particular country, region or
industry. Any adverse event affecting one of these countries, regions or
industries could have a negative impact on Video Game & Esports
companies.
Capitalization
Risk:
Investing in issuers within the same market capitalization category carries the
risk that the category may be out of favor due to current market conditions or
investor sentiment.
Large-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Large-capitalization
companies may adapt more slowly to new competitive challenges and changing
market conditions than smaller capitalization companies. In addition,
large-capitalization companies may be more mature and subject to more limited
growth potential and consequently may underperform other segments of the equity
market or the market as a whole.
Mid-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Mid-capitalization
companies may have greater price volatility, lower trading volume and less
liquidity than large-capitalization companies. In addition, mid-capitalization
companies may have smaller revenues, narrower product lines, less management
depth and experience, smaller shares of their product or service markets, fewer
financial resources and less competitive strength than large-capitalization
companies. These securities may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly,
from the overall securities market.
Small-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Small-capitalization companies may be
less stable and more susceptible to adverse developments, and their securities
may be more volatile and less liquid than large- and mid-capitalization
companies. In addition, small-capitalization companies may have smaller
revenues, narrower product lines, less management depth and experience, smaller
shares of their product or service markets, fewer financial resources, and
shorter operating histories than large- and mid-capitalization companies. These
securities may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly, from the overall
securities market.
Currency
Risk:
The Fund may invest in securities denominated in foreign currencies. Because the
Fund's NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the Fund's NAV could decline if
currencies of the underlying securities depreciate against the U.S. dollar or if
there are delays or limits on repatriation of such currencies. Generally, an
increase in the value of the U.S. dollar against a foreign currency will reduce
the value of a security denominated in that foreign currency, thereby decreasing
the Fund's NAV.
Exchange
rates may be volatile and may change quickly and without warning, which could
have a significant negative impact on the Fund.
Custody
Risk: Custody risk refers to the risks in the process of clearing and
settling trades, as well as the holding of securities and other assets by local
banks, agents, and securities depositories. These risks are heightened in
jurisdictions with less developed markets or less robust settlement and custody
infrastructure and processes.
Cybersecurity
Risk: With the increased use of technologies such as the Internet to
conduct business, the Fund, like all companies, may be susceptible to
operational, information security and related risks. Cybersecurity incidents
involving the Fund and its service providers (including, without limitation, the
Adviser, fund accountant, custodian, transfer agent and financial
intermediaries) have the ability to cause disruptions and impact business
operations, potentially resulting in financial losses, impediments to trading,
the inability of Fund shareholders to transact business, violations of
applicable privacy and other laws, regulatory fines, penalties, reputational
damage, reimbursement or other compensation costs, and/or additional compliance
costs.
Focus
Risk:
The Fund may from time to time have a significant amount of its assets invested
in a particular industry, group of industries, or one or more sectors to
approximately the same extent that the Underlying Index focuses in investments
related to a particular industry, group of industries, and/or one or more
sectors. In such event, the Fund’s performance will depend to a greater extent
on the overall condition of such industry(ies) or sector(s), and an economic,
business, political, regulatory, or other occurrence affecting such
industry(ies) or sector(s) will have an increased impact on the value of the
Fund’s shares compared to the value of shares of a fund that invests in a
broader range of industries or sectors.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Communication Services Sector: Companies
in the communication services sector may be affected by industry competition,
substantial capital requirements, government regulation, cyclicality of revenues
and earnings, obsolescence of communications products and services due to
technological advancement, a potential decrease in the discretionary income of
targeted individuals and changing consumer tastes and
interests.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Entertainment
Industry: Entertainment companies may be
impacted by high costs of research and development of new content and services
in an effort to stay relevant in a highly competitive industry, and
entertainment products may face a risk of rapid obsolescence. Entertainment
companies are subject to risks that include cyclicality of revenues and
earnings, changing tastes and topical interests, and decreases in the
discretionary income of their targeted consumers. Sales of content through
physical formats and traditional content delivery services may be displaced by
new content delivery mechanisms, such as streaming technology, and it is
possible that such new content delivery mechanisms may themselves become
obsolete over time. The entertainment industry is regulated, and changes
to rules regarding advertising and the content produced by entertainment
companies can increase overall production and distribution costs. Companies in
the entertainment industry have at times faced increased regulatory pressure
which has delayed or prohibited the release of entertainment
content.
Foreign
Securities Risk: Investments in foreign securities can be riskier than U.S.
securities investments. Investments in the securities of foreign issuers
(including investments in American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) and Global
Depositary Receipts (“GDRs”)) are subject to additional risks, including lower
levels of liquidity and market efficiency; greater securities price volatility;
exchange rate fluctuations and exchange controls; less availability of public
information about issuers; limitations on foreign ownership of securities;
imposition of withholding or other taxes; imposition of restrictions on the
expatriation of the assets of the Fund; restrictions placed on U.S. investors by
U.S. regulations governing foreign investments; higher transaction and custody
costs and delays in settlement procedures; difficulties in enforcing contractual
obligations; lower levels of regulation of the securities market; weaker
accounting, disclosure and reporting requirements; and legal principles relating
to corporate governance and directors’ fiduciary duties and liabilities. The
countries in which the Fund invests may also be subject to structural risks,
including economic, political and social instability. Additionally, certain
securities held by the Fund, while traded on U.S. exchanges, may be issued by
foreign financial institutions and as such, may be subject to the risks of
investing in securities issued by foreign companies, which may not be subject to
the same regulations as companies domiciled in the U.S. Where all or a portion
of the Fund's securities trade in a market that is closed when the market in
which the Fund's Shares are listed and trading is open, there may be differences
between the last quote from the security’s closed foreign market and the value
of the security during the Fund’s domestic trading day. This, in turn, could
lead to differences between the market price of the Fund’s Shares and the
underlying value of those shares.
Geographic
Risk: The
Fund’s investments in securities of issuers located in a particular country or
geographic region may subject the Fund to certain risks to a greater extent than
if its investments were less focused, including: natural, biological or other
disasters and the spread of infectious diseases; economic, political and social
instability; security concerns; and trade
disputes
with key trading partners. The securities in which the Fund invests and,
consequently, the Fund is also subject to specific risks as a result of their
business operations in a particular country or region, including, but not
limited to:
Risk
of Investing in China:
Investments in Chinese securities may subject the Fund to legal, regulatory,
political, currency, security, and economic risks specific to China. China may
be subject to considerable degrees of economic, political and social
instability. Concerns about the rising government and household debt levels
could impact the stability of the Chinese economy. Despite economic and market
reform in recent decades, the Chinese government’s control over certain sectors
and enterprises and significant regulation of investment and industry are
pervasive. Chinese companies are subject to the risk that Chinese authorities
can intervene in their operations and structure. Internal social unrest or
confrontations with other countries, including military conflicts in response to
such events, may disrupt economic development in China and result in a greater
risk of currency fluctuations, currency convertibility, interest rate
fluctuations and higher rates of inflation.
The
Chinese economy is highly reliant on trade. Reduction in spending on Chinese
products and services, institution of additional tariffs or other trade barriers
(including as a result of heightened trade tensions between China and the U.S.
or in response to actual or alleged Chinese cyber activity), or a downturn in
any of the economies of China’s key trading partners may have an adverse impact
on the Chinese economy.
China
has experienced security concerns, such as terrorism and strained international
relations. Additionally, China is alleged to have participated in
state-sponsored cyberattacks against foreign companies and foreign governments.
Actual and threatened responses to such activity, including purchasing
restrictions, sanctions, tariffs or cyberattacks on the Chinese government or
Chinese companies, may impact China’s economy and Chinese issuers in which the
Fund invests. Incidents involving China’s or the region’s security may adversely
affect the Chinese economy and the Fund’s investments. Chinese companies,
including those listed on U.S. exchanges, are not subject to the same degree of
regulatory requirements, accounting standards or auditor oversight as companies
in more developed countries, and as a result, information about the Chinese
securities in which the Fund invests may be less reliable or complete. There may
be significant obstacles to obtaining information necessary for investigations
into or litigation against Chinese companies and shareholders may have limited
legal remedies. Investments in China may be subject to loss due to
expropriation, nationalization, confiscation of assets and property, and or the
imposition of restrictions on foreign investments and repatriation of capital.
In addition, many Chinese companies listed on U.S. exchanges use variable
interest entities (“VIEs”) in their structure as a result of foreign ownership
restriction. Any change in the operations of entities in a VIE structure, the
status of VIE contractual arrangements or the legal or regulatory environment in
China could result in significant, and possibly permanent and/or total, losses
for investments in VIE issuers.
Risk
of Investing in Developed Markets: Investments in a developed country’s issuer may subject the Fund to
legal, regulatory, political, currency, security, and economic risks specific to
developed countries. Developed countries tend to represent a significant portion
of the global economy and have generally experienced slower economic growth than
some less developed countries. Certain developed countries have experienced
security concerns, such as war, terrorism and strained international relations.
Incidents involving a country’s or region’s security may cause uncertainty in
its markets and may adversely affect its economy and the Fund’s investments. In
addition, developed countries may be adversely impacted by changes to the
economic conditions of certain key trading partners, regulatory burdens, debt
burdens and the price or availability of certain commodities.
Risk
of Investing in Emerging Markets: Investments in emerging markets may be subject to a greater risk of
loss than investments in developed markets. Securities markets of emerging
market countries are less liquid, subject to greater price volatility, have
smaller market capitalizations, have less government regulation, and are not
subject to as extensive and frequent accounting, financial, and other reporting
requirements as the securities markets of more developed countries, and there
may be greater risk associated with the custody of securities in emerging
markets. It may be difficult or impossible for the Fund to pursue claims against
an emerging market issuer in the courts of an emerging market country. There may
be significant obstacles to obtaining information necessary for investigations
into or litigation against emerging market companies and shareholders may have
limited legal rights and remedies. Emerging markets may be more likely to
experience inflation, political turmoil and rapid changes in economic conditions
than more developed markets. Emerging markets may also face other significant
internal or external risks, including the risk of war, terrorism, or other
social or political conflicts.
Risk
of Investing in Japan:
Investments in Japanese issuers may subject the Fund to legal, regulatory,
political, currency, security, and economic risks specific to Japan. The
Japanese economy may be subject to considerable degrees of economic, political
and social instability, which could have a negative impact on Japanese
securities. The Japanese economy is heavily dependent on international trade,
oil and other commodity imports and consistent
government
policy supporting its exports. Changes in governmental regulations on trade,
decreasing imports or exports, and/or an economic recession in Japan may cause
the value of the Fund's investments to decline. Downturns in the economies of
key trading partners such as the U.S., China and/or countries in Southeast Asia,
including economic, political or social instability in such countries, could
also have a negative impact on the Japanese economy. In addition, Japan is
subject to the risk of natural disasters, such as earthquakes, volcanoes,
typhoons and tsunamis, which could negatively affect the Fund. Japan’s relations
with neighboring countries have at times been strained, and strained relations
with its neighboring countries or trading partners may cause uncertainty in the
Japanese markets and adversely affect the overall Japanese
economy.
Risk
of Investing in South Korea: Investments
in South Korean issuers may subject the Fund to legal, regulatory, political,
currency, security, and economic risks specific to South Korea. In addition,
economic and political developments of South Korea’s neighbors, or potential
hostilities with North Korea may have an adverse effect on the South Korean
economy. The South Korean economy is heavily reliant on trading exports,
especially with other Asian countries and the U.S. Conditions that weaken demand
for key South Korean exports, and disruptions or decreases in trade activity
could lead to declines in economic growth.
Risk
of Investing in the United States:
Investments in United States issuers
may subject the Fund to legal, regulatory, political, currency, security, and
economic risks specific to the United States. A decrease in imports or exports,
changes in trade regulations, inflation and/or an economic recession in the U.S.
may have a material adverse effect on the U.S.
economy.
Indexing
Strategy Risk:
The Fund is not actively managed, and the Adviser does not attempt to take
defensive positions in declining markets. Unlike many investment companies, the
Fund does not seek to outperform its Underlying Index. Therefore, it would not
necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed,
respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is
underperforming. Additionally, if a constituent of the Underlying Index were
removed, even outside of a regular rebalance of the Underlying Index, the
Adviser anticipates that the Fund would sell such security. Maintaining
investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of
individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund
employed an active strategy.
Index-Related
Risk: There is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve a high degree of
correlation to the Underlying Index and therefore achieve its investment
objective. Market disruptions and regulatory restrictions could have an adverse
effect on the Fund’s ability to adjust its exposure to the required levels in
order to track the Underlying Index. Errors in index data, index computations
and/or the construction of the Underlying Index in accordance with its
methodology may occur from time to time and may not be identified and corrected
by the Index Provider for a period of time or at all, which may have an adverse
impact on the Fund and its shareholders.
Management
Risk: The Fund may not fully replicate its Underlying Index and may hold
securities not included in its Underlying Index. The Adviser’s investment
strategy, the implementation of which is subject to a number of constraints, may
cause the Fund to underperform the market or its relevant benchmark or adversely
affect the ability of the Fund to achieve its investment
objective.
Tracking
Error Risk: Tracking error may occur because of
differences between the instruments held in the Fund's portfolio and those
included in the Underlying Index, pricing differences, transaction costs
incurred by the Fund, the Fund's holding of uninvested cash, size of the Fund,
differences in timing of the accrual of or the valuation of dividends or
interest, tax gains or losses, changes to the Underlying Index or the costs to
the Fund of complying with various new or existing regulatory requirements. This
risk may be heightened during times of increased market volatility or other
unusual market conditions. Tracking error also may result because the Fund
incurs fees and expenses, while the Underlying Index does not. ETFs that track
indices with significant weight in emerging markets issuers may experience
higher tracking error than other ETFs that do not track such
indices.
International
Closed Market Trading Risk: To
the extent that the underlying investments held by the Fund trade on foreign
exchanges that may be closed when the securities exchange on which the Fund’s
Shares trade is open, there are likely to be deviations between the current
price of such an underlying security and the last quoted price for the
underlying security (i.e., the Fund’s quote from the closed foreign market).
These deviations could result in premiums or discounts to the Fund’s NAV that
may be greater than those experienced by other exchange-traded funds
("ETFs").
Issuer
Risk: Fund performance depends on the performance of individual companies
in which the Fund invests. Changes to the financial condition of any of those
companies may cause the value of such company's securities to
decline.
Market
Risk: Turbulence in the financial markets and reduced liquidity may
negatively affect issuers, which could have an adverse effect on the Fund and
its investments. The Fund’s NAV could decline over short periods due to
short-term market movements and over longer periods during market downturns.
Trade policy, including the imposition of tariffs, may dampen consumer spending
and result in decreased confidence in the markets. Additionally, political
uncertainty regarding U.S. policy, including the U.S. government’s approach to
trade, may also impact the markets. Furthermore, local, regional or global
events such as war, acts of terrorism, the spread of infectious diseases,
inflation and recessions, changes in interest or exchange rates, or other events
could have a significant impact on the Fund and its investments and trading of
its Shares. Market risk factors may result in increased volatility and/or
decreased liquidity in the securities markets.
Non-Diversification
Risk:
The Fund is classified as a “non-diversified” investment company under the
Investment Company Act of 1940 ("1940 Act"), which means that the Fund may
invest a greater portion of its assets in securities of individual issuers than
a diversified fund. As a result, changes in the market value of a single
investment may have a greater impact on the Fund’s NAV and may make the Fund
more volatile than more diversified funds.
Operational
Risk: The Fund is exposed to operational risk arising from a number of
factors, including but not limited to human error, processing and communication
errors, errors of the Fund's service providers, counterparties or other
third-parties, failed or inadequate processes, cyber security incidents, and
technology or systems failures. The Fund and the Adviser seek to reduce these
operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do
not address every possible risk and may be inadequate for those risks that they
are intended to address.
Risks
Associated with Exchange-Traded Funds:
As an ETF, the Fund is subject to the following risks:
Authorized
Participants Concentration Risk: The Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may
act as Authorized Participants and engage in creation or redemption transactions
directly with the Fund, and none of those Authorized Participants is obligated
to engage in creation and/or redemption transactions. To the extent that those
Authorized Participants exit the business or are unable to process creation
and/or redemption orders, such as in times of market stress, Shares may be more
likely to trade at a premium or discount to NAV and/or at wider intraday bid-ask
spreads, and possibly face trading halts and/or delisting from an exchange.
Authorized Participants Concentration Risk may be heightened because the Fund
invests in non-U.S. securities.
Large
Shareholder Risk: Certain
shareholders, including an Authorized Participant, the Adviser, an affiliate of
the Adviser, or funds managed by the Adviser, may own a substantial amount of
the Fund’s Shares. Redemptions by large shareholders could have a significant
negative impact on the Fund. If a large shareholder were to redeem all, or a
large portion, of its Shares, there is no guarantee that the Fund will be able
to maintain sufficient assets to continue operations in which case the Board of
Trustees may determine to liquidate the Fund. In addition, transactions by large
shareholders may account for a large percentage of the trading volume on a
national securities exchange and may, therefore, have a material upward or
downward effect on the market price of the Shares.
Listing
Standards Risk: The
Fund is required to comply with listing requirements adopted by the listing
exchange. Non-compliance with such requirements may result in the Fund's shares
being delisted by the listing exchange. Any resulting liquidation of the Fund
could cause the Fund to incur elevated transaction costs and could result in
negative tax consequences for its shareholders.
Market
Trading Risks and Premium/Discount
Risks: Shares of the Fund are publicly traded
on a national securities exchange, which may subject shareholders to numerous
market trading risks. In stressed market conditions, the market for the Shares
may become less liquid in response to the deteriorating liquidity of the Fund’s
portfolio. This adverse effect on the liquidity of the Shares, as well as
disruptions to creations and redemptions, the existence of extreme market
volatility or potential lack of assets in the Fund or an active trading market
for Shares may result in Shares trading at a significant premium or discount to
NAV. If a shareholder purchases Shares at a time when the market price is at a
premium to the NAV or sells Shares at a time when the market price is at a
discount to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain losses. The NAV of the Fund is
calculated at the end of each business day and fluctuates with changes in the
market value of the Fund’s holdings. The trading price of the Fund’s Shares
fluctuates, in some cases materially, throughout trading hours in response to
changes in the Fund’s NAV.
Securities
Lending Risk:
Securities lending involves a risk of loss because the borrower may fail to
return the securities in a timely manner or at all. If the Fund is not able to
recover the securities loaned, it may sell the collateral and purchase a
replacement security in the market. Lending securities entails a risk of loss to
the Fund if and to the extent that the market value of the loaned securities
increases and the collateral is not increased accordingly. Additionally, the
Fund will bear any loss on the investment of cash collateral it receives. These
events could also trigger adverse tax consequences for the Fund. As securities
on
loan may not be voted by the Fund, there is a risk that the Fund may
not be able to recall the securities in sufficient time to vote on material
proxy matters.
Trading
Halt Risk:
An exchange or market may close or issue trading halts on specific securities,
or the ability to buy or sell certain securities or financial instruments may be
restricted, which may result in the Fund being unable to buy or sell certain
securities or financial instruments. In such circumstances, the Fund may be
unable to rebalance its portfolio, may be unable to accurately price its
investments and/or may incur substantial trading
losses.
Valuation
Risk:
The sales price the Fund could receive for a security may differ from the Fund’s
valuation of the security and may differ from the value used by the Underlying
Index, particularly for securities that trade in low value or volatile markets
or that are valued using a fair value methodology (such as during trading
halts). The value of the securities in the Fund's portfolio may change on days
when shareholders will not be able to purchase or sell the Fund's
Shares.
PERFORMANCE
INFORMATION
The bar chart
and table that follow show how the Fund performed on a calendar year basis and
provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes
in the Fund's performance from year to year and by showing the Fund's average
annual total returns for the indicated periods compared with the Fund's
broad-based benchmark index, which reflects a broad measure of market
performance, and the Underlying Index, which the Fund seeks to
track. The Fund's past performance
(before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will
perform in the future. Updated performance information is
available online at
www.globalxetfs.com.
Annual Total Returns
(Years Ended December 31)
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| Best
Quarter: |
6/30/2020 |
40.47% |
| Worst
Quarter: |
6/30/2022 |
-16.70% |
Average Annual
Total Returns (for the Periods Ended December 31,
2025)
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One
Year Ended December 31, 2025 |
Five
Years Ended December 31, 2025 |
Since
Inception (10/25/2019) |
| Global
X Video Games & Esports ETF: |
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| ·Return
before taxes |
27.55% |
0.08% |
12.67% |
|
·Return
after taxes on distributions1 |
26.90% |
-0.14% |
12.42% |
|
·Return
after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund Shares1 |
16.48% |
0.02% |
10.22% |
|
MSCI
ACWI Index (NR) (USD)
(Index returns reflect
invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflect no deduction for
fees, expenses, or other
taxes) |
22.34% |
11.19% |
12.79% |
|
Solactive
Video Games & Esports Index (NR) (USD)
(Index
returns reflect invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflect
no deduction for fees, expenses, or other
taxes) |
27.96% |
0.52% |
13.17% |
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After-tax returns are
calculated using the historical highest individual U.S. federal marginal income
tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local
taxes. Your actual after-tax
returns will depend on your specific tax situation and may differ from those
shown above. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold Shares of
the Fund through tax-advantaged arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual
retirement accounts (IRAs).
FUND
MANAGEMENT
Investment
Adviser:
Global X Management Company LLC.
Portfolio
Managers:
The professionals primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the
Fund are Nam To, CFA and Wayne Xie (“Portfolio Managers”). Mr. To and Mr. Xie
have been a Portfolio Manager of the Fund since the Fund's inception.
PURCHASE
AND SALE OF FUND SHARES
Shares
of the Fund are or will be listed and traded at market prices on a national
securities exchange. Shares may only be purchased and sold on the exchange
through a broker-dealer. The price of Shares is based on market price, and
because ETF shares trade at market prices rather than at NAV, Shares may trade
at a price greater than NAV (a premium) or less than NAV (a discount). Only
“Authorized Participants” (as defined in the SAI) who have entered into
agreements with the Fund’s distributor, SEI Investments Distribution Co.
(“Distributor”), may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with
the Fund. The Fund will only issue or redeem Shares that have been aggregated
into blocks called Creation Units. The Fund will issue or redeem Creation Units
in return for a basket of cash and/or securities that the Fund specifies any day
that the national securities exchanges are open for business (“Business Day”).
An investor may incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest
price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase shares of the Fund (bid) and the
lowest price a seller is willing to accept for shares of the Fund (ask) when
buying or selling shares in the secondary market (the “bid-ask spread”). To
access information regarding the Fund’s net asset value, market price, premiums
and discounts, and bid-ask spreads, please go to https://www.globalxetfs.com.
TAX
INFORMATION
The
Fund intends to make distributions that may be taxable to you as ordinary income
or capital gains, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement,
such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account ("IRA"), in which case
distributions from such tax-advantaged arrangement may be taxable to you.
PAYMENTS
TO BROKER-DEALERS AND OTHER FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES
The
Adviser and its related companies may pay broker-dealers or other financial
intermediaries (such as a bank) for the sale of Fund Shares and related
services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing your
broker-dealer, sales persons or other intermediary or its employees or
associated persons to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your
financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more
information.
Global X HealthTech
ETF
Ticker:
HEAL Exchange: NASDAQ
INVESTMENT
OBJECTIVE
The
Global X HealthTech ETF (the "Fund") seeks to provide investment results that
correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and
expenses, of the Global X HealthTech Index (the "Underlying
Index").
FEES AND
EXPENSES
This
table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and
sell shares (“Shares”) of the Fund. You
may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial
intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and examples
below.
Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment):
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0.50% |
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0.00% |
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Annual Fund Operating Expenses: |
0.50% |
1
Management fees have been restated
to reflect a reduction in the Fund's contractual management fee effective April
1, 2025.
Example: The following example is intended to help you compare the cost of
investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds. This example
does not take into account customary brokerage commissions that you pay when
purchasing or selling Shares of the Fund in the secondary
market. The example assumes that you invest
$10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell all of your
Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your
investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses
remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on
these assumptions, your costs would be:
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$160 |
$280 |
$628 |
Portfolio
Turnover:
The Fund pays transaction
costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over"
its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction
costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account.
These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the
example, affect the Fund's performance. For the most recent fiscal period, the
Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 59.68% of the average value of its
portfolio.
PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT
STRATEGIES
The Fund
invests at least 80% of its total assets, plus borrowings for investment
purposes (if any), in the securities of the Global X HealthTech Index (the
"Underlying Index") and in American Depositary Receipts ("ADRs") and Global
Depositary Receipts ("GDRs") based on the securities in the Underlying Index.
The Fund's 80% investment policy is non-fundamental and requires 60 days prior
written notice to shareholders before it can be changed. The
Fund may lend securities representing up to one-third of the value of the Fund’s
total assets (including the value of the collateral received).
The
Underlying Index is owned and was developed by Global X Management Company LLC
(the “Index Provider”), an affiliate of the Fund and the Fund's investment
adviser (the “Adviser”). The Underlying Index is administered and calculated by
Mirae Asset Global Indices Pvt. Ltd. (the “Index Administrator”), an affiliate
of the Index Provider.
The
Underlying Index is designed to provide exposure to exchange-listed companies
that are positioned to benefit from further advances in the field of healthcare
technology and the applications thereof, as determined by the Index
Administrator (collectively, "HealthTech Companies"). In order to be eligible
for inclusion in the Underlying Index, a company is considered by the Index
Administrator to be a HealthTech Company if it derives at least 50% of its
revenue from one or more of the following business activities: (i) Healthcare
Analytics and Software Solutions, (ii) Smart Medical Devices, (iii) Artificial
Intelligence-Enabled
Drug Discovery, and/or (iv) Tech-Enabled Consumer Healthcare, each of which is
described further below.
In
constructing the Underlying Index, the Index Administrator first identifies
FactSet Industries related to healthcare technology. FactSet is a leading
financial data provider that maintains a comprehensive structured taxonomy
designed to offer precise classification of global companies and their
individual business units. Companies within these FactSet Industries, as of the
selection date, are further reviewed by the Index Administrator on the basis of
revenue related to HealthTech, which includes companies engaged in the following
business activities:
1.Healthcare
Analytics and Software Solutions: Companies that primarily engage in providing
software specifically for the healthcare industry. This includes insurance
technology (“Insurtech”), medical billing software, revenue cycle management,
electronic medical records, and clinical trial software.
2.Smart
Medical Devices: Companies that primarily engage in offering smart medical
devices and equipment including wearable medical devices, internet of things
(“IoT”) medical equipment, medical processing automation (such as pharmacy
fulfilment), and surgical robotics.
3.Artificial
Intelligence-Enabled Drug Discovery: Companies that offer artificial
intelligence-enabled drug development software or services.
4.Tech-Enabled
Consumer Healthcare: Companies that primarily engage in technology-focused
healthcare solutions for consumers. These include telemedicine, online
healthcare marketplaces, and online pharmacies.
The
eligible universe of the Underlying Index includes exchange-listed companies
that meet minimum market capitalization and liquidity criteria, as defined by
the Index Administrator. As of January 31, 2026, companies must be
regularly traded and, at the time of selection, have 1) a minimum of 10% of its
outstanding shares readily and publicly available for trading or $1 billion in
free float market capitalization, which is the company’s market capitalization
discounted by the percentage of its shares readily and publicly available for
trading), 2) a minimum market capitalization of $200 million, and 3) a minimum
average daily traded value (“ADTV”) for the last 6 months greater than or equal
to $2 million in order to be eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index. A
company is removed from the Underlying Index if its market capitalization drops
below $160 million or its average daily traded value (“ADTV”) for the last 6
months is less than $1.4 million. As of January 31, 2026, companies listed
in the following countries were eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index:
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong
Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand,
Norway, Portugal, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan,
United Kingdom, and the United States.
The
Underlying Index is weighted according to a modified capitalization weighting
methodology and is reconstituted and re-weighted semi-annually. Modified
capitalization weighting seeks to weight constituents primarily based on free
float market capitalization, but subject to caps on the weights of the
individual securities. Generally speaking, this approach will limit the amount
of concentration in the largest market capitalization companies and increase
company-level diversification. The Underlying Index may include large-, mid- or
small-capitalization companies, and components primarily include healthcare
companies. As of January 31, 2026, the Underlying Index had 40
constituents. The Fund's investment objective and Underlying Index may be
changed without shareholder approval.
The
Underlying Index is created and sponsored by the Index Provider. Any
determinations related to the constituents of the Underlying Index are made by
the Index Administrator and are independent of the Fund's portfolio managers.
The Index Administrator determines the composition and relative weightings of
the securities in the Underlying Index and publishes information regarding the
market value of the Underlying Index.
The
Adviser uses an indexing approach to try to achieve the Fund's investment
objective. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not try to outperform
the Underlying Index and does not seek temporary defensive positions when
markets decline or appear overvalued.
The
Fund generally will use a replication strategy. A replication strategy is an
indexing strategy that involves investing in the securities of the Underlying
Index in approximately the same proportions as in the Underlying Index. However,
the Fund may utilize a representative sampling strategy with respect to the
Underlying Index when a replication strategy might be detrimental or
disadvantageous to shareholders, such as when there are practical difficulties
or substantial costs involved in compiling a portfolio of equity securities to
replicate the Underlying Index, in instances in which a security in the
Underlying Index becomes temporarily illiquid, unavailable or less liquid, or as
a result of legal restrictions or limitations (such as tax diversification
requirements) that apply to the Fund but not the Underlying Index.
The
Adviser expects that, over time, the correlation between the Fund's performance
and that of the Underlying Index, before fees and expenses, will exceed 95%. A
correlation percentage of 100% would indicate perfect correlation. If the Fund
uses a
replication
strategy, it can be expected to have greater correlation to the Underlying Index
than if it uses a representative sampling strategy.
The Fund
concentrates its investments (i.e., holds 25% or more of its total assets) in a
particular industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent that
the Underlying Index is concentrated. As of January 31, 2026, the
Underlying Index was concentrated in the health care equipment & supplies
industry and had significant exposure to the health care sector.
The Fund is classified as “non-diversified,” which means it may invest a larger
percentage of its assets in a smaller number of issuers than a diversified
fund.
SUMMARY
OF PRINCIPAL RISKS
As with any
investment, you could lose all or part of your investment in the Fund, and the
Fund’s performance could trail that of other investments. There
is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its investment objective.
An investment in the Fund is not a bank deposit and it is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other
government agency, the Adviser or any of its affiliates. The
Fund is subject to the principal risks noted below, any of which may adversely
affect the Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”), trading price, yield, total return
and ability to meet its investment objective, as well as other risks that are
described in greater detail in the Additional
Information About the Funds
section of this Prospectus and in the Statement of Additional Information
(“SAI”).
Affiliated
Index Provider Risk:
The Adviser also serves as the Fund’s Index Provider, which may present a
potential conflict of interest. For example, a potential conflict could arise if
the Adviser were to exercise undue influence with respect to regular and/or
extraordinary updates to the methodology or composition of the Underlying Index,
including in a manner that might improve the apparent performance of the Fund
relative to the performance of the Underlying Index. Additionally, potential
conflicts could arise to the extent that portfolio managers of the Adviser
become aware of contemplated methodology changes or rebalance activity prior to
disclosure to the public, which could facilitate “front running” on behalf of
other funds managed by the Adviser with similar exposure. Although the Adviser
has taken steps designed to ensure that these potential conflicts are mitigated
(e.g., via the adoption of policies and procedures that are designed to minimize
potential conflicts of interest and ensure independence with respect to the
operation of the Underlying Index, as well as the implementation of
informational barriers designed to minimize the potential for the misuse of
information about the Underlying Index), there can be no assurance that such
measures will be successful.
Asset
Class Risk:
Securities and other assets in the Underlying Index or otherwise held in the
Fund's portfolio may underperform in comparison to the general securities
markets, a particular securities market or other asset classes.
Equity
Securities Risk:
Equity securities are subject to changes in value, and their values may be more
volatile than other asset classes, as a result of a company’s business
performance, investor perceptions, stock market trends and general economic
conditions.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in HealthTech Companies: HealthTech Companies can face intense competition, fluctuating
demand, strict regulatory scrutiny and potentially rapid product obsolescence.
These companies are also heavily dependent on intellectual property rights and
may be adversely affected by loss or impairment of those rights. There can be no
assurance these companies will be able to successfully protect their
intellectual property to prevent the misappropriation of their technology, or
that competitors will not develop technology that is substantially similar or
superior to such companies’ technology. HealthTech Companies typically engage in
significant amounts of spending on research and development, and there is no
guarantee that the products or services produced by these companies will be
successful. Some companies in the HealthTech industry are small start-ups that
have thinly traded securities leading to pricing volatility. In addition, the
field of Healthcare Technology is heavily affected by government regulation,
including regulation of the storage and transmission of sensitive health data by
HealthTech Companies. Together, these factors may limit the development of this
technology and impede the growth of companies that develop and/or utilize this
technology. Demand for Healthcare Technology services may fluctuate due to
events, including but not limited to pandemics and related strains on health
care systems and technological developments. HealthTech services may not be
eligible for reimbursement from insurance policies or government programs,
potentially limiting the adoption of such services, which could in turn impact
the operations of HealthTech service providers. Furthermore, the adoption of
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology by HealthTech Companies introduces
unique risks, including ethical, regulatory, and safety
concerns.
Capitalization
Risk:
Investing in issuers within the same market capitalization category carries the
risk that the category may be out of favor due to current market conditions or
investor sentiment.
Large-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Large-capitalization
companies may adapt more slowly to new competitive challenges and changing
market conditions than smaller capitalization companies. In addition,
large-capitalization companies may be more mature and subject to more limited
growth potential and consequently may underperform other segments of the equity
market or the market as a whole.
Mid-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Mid-capitalization
companies may have greater price volatility, lower trading volume and less
liquidity than large-capitalization companies. In addition, mid-capitalization
companies may have smaller revenues, narrower product lines, less management
depth and experience, smaller shares of their product or service markets, fewer
financial resources and less competitive strength than large-capitalization
companies. These securities may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly,
from the overall securities market.
Small-Capitalization
Companies Risk:
Small-capitalization companies may be less stable and more susceptible to
adverse developments, and their securities may be more volatile and less liquid
than large- and mid-capitalization companies. In addition, small-capitalization
companies may have smaller revenues, narrower product lines, less management
depth and experience, smaller shares of their product or service markets, fewer
financial resources, and shorter operating histories than large- and
mid-capitalization companies. These securities may have returns that vary,
sometimes significantly, from the overall securities
market.
Currency
Risk: The Fund may invest in securities denominated in foreign
currencies. Because the Fund's NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the Fund's NAV
could decline if currencies of the underlying securities depreciate against the
U.S. dollar or if there are delays or limits on repatriation of such currencies.
Generally, an increase in the value of the U.S. dollar against a foreign
currency will reduce the value of a security denominated in that foreign
currency, thereby decreasing the Fund's NAV. Exchange rates may be volatile and
may change quickly and without warning, which could have a significant negative
impact on the Fund.
Cybersecurity
Risk: With the increased use of technologies such as the Internet to
conduct business, the Fund, like all companies, may be susceptible to
operational, information security and related risks. Cybersecurity incidents
involving the Fund and its service providers (including, without limitation, the
Adviser, fund accountant, custodian, transfer agent and financial
intermediaries) have the ability to cause disruptions and impact business
operations, potentially resulting in financial losses, impediments to trading,
the inability of Fund shareholders to transact business, violations of
applicable privacy and other laws, regulatory fines, penalties, reputational
damage, reimbursement or other compensation costs, and/or additional compliance
costs.
Focus
Risk:
The Fund may from time to time have a significant amount of its assets invested
in a particular industry, group of industries, or one or more sectors to
approximately the same extent that the Underlying Index focuses in investments
related to a particular industry, group of industries, and/or one or more
sectors. In such event, the Fund’s performance will depend to a greater extent
on the overall condition of such industry(ies) or sector(s), and an economic,
business, political, regulatory, or other occurrence affecting such
industry(ies) or sector(s) will have an increased impact on the value of the
Fund’s shares compared to the value of shares of a fund that invests in a
broader range of industries or sectors.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Health Care Equipment & Supplies Industry:
Companies
in the health care equipment and supplies industry may be affected by the
expiration of patents, litigation based on product liability, industry
competition, product obsolescence and regulatory approvals, among other factors.
Demand for health care equipment, generally speaking and specific to
sub-segments, may fluctuate due to unexpected events, including but not limited
to global health crises like pandemics which could strain health care systems
and alter health care needs. Such demand fluctuations could positively or
negatively impact health care equipment companies.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Health Care Sector: The
health care sector may be affected by government regulations and government
health care programs, increases or decreases in the cost of medical products and
services, an increased emphasis on outpatient services, and product liability
claims, among other factors. Many health care companies are heavily dependent on
patent protection, and the expiration of a company's patent may adversely affect
that company's profitability. Health care companies are subject to competitive
forces that may result in price discounting and may be thinly capitalized and
susceptible to product obsolescence. Companies in the health care sector may
also be affected by unforeseen circumstances including but not limited to the
spread of infectious disease which could impact drug development priorities and
pipelines, supply and demand dynamics for health care equipment, as well as the
ability to receive care in health care service
facilities.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Health Care Technology Industry: Companies
in the health care technology industry are subject to rapid changes in
technology product cycles; rapid product obsolescence; government regulation;
and
increased competition, both domestically and internationally, including
competition from foreign competitors with lower production costs. Companies in
the health care technology industry may be particularly susceptible to changes
in government regulation. In addition, companies in the health care technology
industry may have limited product lines, markets, financial resources or
personnel.
Foreign
Securities Risk:
Investments in foreign securities can be riskier than U.S. securities
investments. Investments in the securities of foreign issuers (including
investments in American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) and Global Depositary
Receipts (“GDRs”)) are subject to additional risks, including lower levels of
liquidity and market efficiency; greater securities price volatility; exchange
rate fluctuations and exchange controls; less availability of public information
about issuers; limitations on foreign ownership of securities; imposition of
withholding or other taxes; imposition of restrictions on the expatriation of
the assets of the Fund; restrictions placed on U.S. investors by U.S.
regulations governing foreign investments; higher transaction and custody costs
and delays in settlement procedures; difficulties in enforcing contractual
obligations; lower levels of regulation of the securities market; weaker
accounting, disclosure and reporting requirements; and legal principles relating
to corporate governance and directors’ fiduciary duties and liabilities. The
countries in which the Fund invests may also be subject to structural risks,
including economic, political and social instability. Additionally, certain
securities held by the Fund, while traded on U.S. exchanges, may be issued by
foreign financial institutions and as such, may be subject to the risks of
investing in securities issued by foreign companies, which may not be subject to
the same regulations as companies domiciled in the U.S. Where all or a portion
of the Fund's securities trade in a market that is closed when the market in
which the Fund's Shares are listed and trading is open, there may be differences
between the last quote from the security’s closed foreign market and the value
of the security during the Fund’s domestic trading day. This, in turn, could
lead to differences between the market price of the Fund’s Shares and the
underlying value of those shares.
Geographic
Risk: The
Fund’s investments in securities of issuers located in a particular country or
geographic region may subject the Fund to certain risks to a greater extent than
if its investments were less focused, including: natural, biological or other
disasters and the spread of infectious diseases; economic, political and social
instability; security concerns; and trade disputes with key trading partners.
The securities in which the Fund invests and, consequently, the Fund is also
subject to specific risks as a result of their business operations in a
particular country or region, including, but not limited to:
Risk
of Investing in Developed Markets:
Investments in a developed country’s issuer may subject the Fund to legal,
regulatory, political, currency, security, and economic risks specific to
developed countries. Developed countries tend to represent a significant portion
of the global economy and have generally experienced slower economic growth than
some less developed countries. Certain developed countries have experienced
security concerns, such as war, terrorism and strained international relations.
Incidents involving a country’s or region’s security may cause uncertainty in
its markets and may adversely affect its economy and the Fund’s investments. In
addition, developed countries may be adversely impacted by changes to the
economic conditions of certain key trading partners, regulatory burdens, debt
burdens and the price or availability of certain
commodities.
Risk
of Investing in the United States: Investments in United States issuers
may subject the Fund to legal, regulatory, political, currency, security, and
economic risks specific to the United States. A decrease in imports or exports,
changes in trade regulations, inflation and/or an economic recession in the U.S.
may have a material adverse effect on the U.S.
economy.
Indexing
Strategy Risk:
The Fund is not actively managed, and the Adviser does not attempt to take
defensive positions in declining markets. Unlike many investment companies, the
Fund does not seek to outperform its Underlying Index. Therefore, it would not
necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed,
respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is
underperforming. Additionally, if a constituent of the Underlying Index were
removed, even outside of a regular rebalance of the Underlying Index, the
Adviser anticipates that the Fund would sell such security. Maintaining
investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of
individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund
employed an active strategy.
Index-Related
Risk:
There is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve a high degree of correlation to
the Underlying Index and therefore achieve its investment objective. Market
disruptions and regulatory restrictions could have an adverse effect on the
Fund’s ability to adjust its exposure to the required levels in order to track
the Underlying Index. Errors in index data, index computations and/or the
construction of the Underlying Index in accordance with its methodology may
occur from time to time and may not be identified and corrected by the Index
Provider for a period of time or at all, which may have an adverse impact on the
Fund and its shareholders.
Management
Risk:
The Fund may not fully replicate its Underlying Index and may hold securities
not included in its Underlying Index. The Adviser’s investment strategy, the
implementation of which is subject to a number of
constraints, may cause the Fund to underperform the market or its
relevant benchmark or adversely affect the ability of the Fund to achieve its
investment objective.
Tracking
Error Risk: Tracking error may occur because of
differences between the instruments held in the Fund's portfolio and those
included in the Underlying Index, pricing differences, transaction costs
incurred by the Fund, the Fund's holding of uninvested cash, size of the Fund,
differences in timing of the accrual of or the valuation of dividends or
interest, tax gains or losses, changes to the Underlying Index or the costs to
the Fund of complying with various new or existing regulatory requirements. This
risk may be heightened during times of increased market volatility or other
unusual market conditions. Tracking error also may result because the Fund
incurs fees and expenses, while the Underlying Index does
not.
International
Closed Market Trading Risk: To
the extent that the underlying investments held by the Fund trade on foreign
exchanges that may be closed when the securities exchange on which the Fund’s
Shares trade is open, there are likely to be deviations between the current
price of such an underlying security and the last quoted price for the
underlying security (i.e., the Fund’s quote from the closed foreign market).
These deviations could result in premiums or discounts to the Fund’s NAV that
may be greater than those experienced by other exchange-traded funds
("ETFs").
Investable
Universe of Companies Risk:
The investable universe of companies in which the Fund may invest may be
limited. If a company no longer meets the Index Provider’s criteria for
inclusion in the Underlying Index, the Fund may need to reduce or eliminate its
holdings in that company. The reduction or elimination of the Fund’s holdings in
the company may have an adverse impact on the liquidity of the Fund’s overall
portfolio holdings and on Fund performance.
Issuer
Risk:
Fund performance depends on the performance of individual companies in which the
Fund invests. Changes to the financial condition of any of those companies may
cause the value of such company's securities to
decline.
Market
Risk: Turbulence in the financial markets and reduced liquidity may
negatively affect issuers, which could have an adverse effect on the Fund and
its investments. The Fund’s NAV could decline over short periods due to
short-term market movements and over longer periods during market downturns.
Trade policy, including the imposition of tariffs, may dampen consumer spending
and result in decreased confidence in the markets. Additionally, political
uncertainty regarding U.S. policy, including the U.S. government’s approach to
trade, may also impact the markets. Furthermore, local, regional or global
events such as war, acts of terrorism, the spread of infectious diseases,
inflation and recessions, changes in interest or exchange rates, or other events
could have a significant impact on the Fund and its investments and trading of
its Shares. Market risk factors may result in increased volatility and/or
decreased liquidity in the securities markets.
Non-Diversification
Risk:
The Fund is classified as a “non-diversified” investment company under the
Investment Company Act of 1940 ("1940 Act"), which means that the Fund may
invest a greater portion of its assets in securities of individual issuers than
a diversified fund. As a result, changes in the market value of a single
investment may have a greater impact on the Fund’s NAV and may make the Fund
more volatile than more diversified funds.
Operational
Risk:
The Fund is exposed to operational risk arising from a number of factors,
including but not limited to human error, processing and communication errors,
errors of the Fund's service providers, counterparties or other third-parties,
failed or inadequate processes, cyber security incidents, and technology or
systems failures. The Fund and the Adviser seek to reduce these operational
risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address
every possible risk and may be inadequate for those risks that they are intended
to address.
Risks
Associated with Exchange-Traded Funds:
As an ETF, the Fund is subject to the following risks:
Authorized
Participants Concentration Risk:
The Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may act as
Authorized Participants and engage in creation or redemption transactions
directly with the Fund, and none of those Authorized Participants is obligated
to engage in creation and/or redemption transactions. To the extent that those
Authorized Participants exit the business or are unable to process creation
and/or redemption orders, such as in times of market stress, Shares may be more
likely to trade at a premium or discount to NAV and/or at wider intraday bid-ask
spreads, and possibly face trading halts and/or delisting from an exchange.
Authorized Participants Concentration Risk may be heightened because the Fund
invests in non-U.S. securities.
Large
Shareholder Risk: Certain
shareholders, including an Authorized Participant, the Adviser, an affiliate of
the Adviser, or funds managed by the Adviser, may own a substantial amount of
the Fund’s Shares. Redemptions by large shareholders could have a significant
negative impact on the Fund. If a large shareholder were to redeem all, or a
large portion, of its Shares, there is no guarantee that the Fund will be able
to maintain sufficient assets to continue
operations
in which case the Board of Trustees may determine to liquidate the Fund. In
addition, transactions by large shareholders may account for a large percentage
of the trading volume on a national securities exchange and may, therefore, have
a material upward or downward effect on the market price of the
Shares.
Listing
Standards Risk: The
Fund is required to comply with listing requirements adopted by the listing
exchange. Non-compliance with such requirements may result in the Fund's shares
being delisted by the listing exchange. Any resulting liquidation of the Fund
could cause the Fund to incur elevated transaction costs and could result in
negative tax consequences for its shareholders.
Market
Trading Risks and Premium/Discount Risks:
Shares of the Fund are publicly traded on a national securities exchange, which
may subject shareholders to numerous market trading risks. In stressed market
conditions, the market for the Shares may become less liquid in response to the
deteriorating liquidity of the Fund’s portfolio. This adverse effect on the
liquidity of the Shares, as well as disruptions to creations and redemptions,
the existence of extreme market volatility or potential lack of assets in the
Fund or an active trading market for Shares may result in Shares trading at a
significant premium or discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases Shares at a
time when the market price is at a premium to the NAV or sells Shares at a time
when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain
losses. The NAV of the Fund is calculated at the end of each business day and
fluctuates with changes in the market value of the Fund’s holdings. The trading
price of the Fund’s Shares fluctuates, in some cases materially, throughout
trading hours in response to changes in the Fund’s
NAV.
Securities
Lending Risk:
Securities lending involves a risk of loss because the borrower may fail to
return the securities in a timely manner or at all. If the Fund is not able to
recover the securities loaned, it may sell the collateral and purchase a
replacement security in the market. Lending securities entails a risk of loss to
the Fund if and to the extent that the market value of the loaned securities
increases and the collateral is not increased accordingly. Additionally, the
Fund will bear any loss on the investment of cash collateral it receives. These
events could also trigger adverse tax consequences for the Fund. As securities
on loan may not be voted by the Fund, there is a risk that the Fund may not be
able to recall the securities in sufficient time to vote on material proxy
matters.
Trading
Halt Risk:
An exchange or market may close or issue trading halts on specific securities,
or the ability to buy or sell certain securities or financial instruments may be
restricted, which may result in the Fund being unable to buy or sell certain
securities or financial instruments. In such circumstances, the Fund may be
unable to rebalance its portfolio, may be unable to accurately price its
investments and/or may incur substantial trading
losses..
Valuation
Risk:
The sales price the Fund could receive for a security may differ from the Fund’s
valuation of the security and may differ from the value used by the Underlying
Index, particularly for securities that trade in low value or volatile markets
or that are valued using a fair value methodology (such as during trading
halts). The value of the securities in the Fund's portfolio may change on days
when shareholders will not be able to purchase or sell the Fund's
Shares.
PERFORMANCE
INFORMATION
The bar chart
and table that follow show how the Fund performed on a calendar year basis and
provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes
in the Fund's performance from year to year and by showing the Fund's average
annual total returns for the indicated periods compared with the Fund's
broad-based benchmark index, which reflects a broad measure of market
performance, and the Underlying Index, which the Fund seeks to
track. The Fund's past performance
(before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will
perform in the future. Updated performance information is
available online at
www.globalxetfs.com.
Annual Total Returns
(Years Ended December 31)
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6/30/2025 |
15.04% |
| Worst
Quarter: |
9/30/2023 |
-21.18% |
Average Annual
Total Returns (for the Periods Ended December 31,
2025)
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Year Ended December 31, 2025 |
Five
Years Ended December 31, 2025 |
Since
Inception (07/29/2020) |
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Global
X HealthTech ETF: |
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·Return
before taxes |
-1.00% |
-12.67% |
-7.81% |
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·Return
after taxes on distributions1 |
-1.07% |
-12.69% |
-7.83% |
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·Return
after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund Shares1 |
-0.54% |
-8.97% |
-5.68% |
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MSCI
ACWI Index (NR) (USD)
(Index returns reflect
invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflect no deduction for
fees, expenses, or other
taxes) |
22.34% |
-12.24% |
13.51% |
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Global
X HealthTech Index (NR) (USD)2
(Index
returns reflect invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflect
no deduction for fees, expenses, or other
taxes) |
-0.51% |
11.19% |
-7.35% |
1
After-tax returns are
calculated using the historical highest individual U.S. federal marginal income
tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local
taxes. Your actual after-tax
returns will depend on your specific tax situation and may differ from those
shown above. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold Shares of
the Fund through tax-advantaged arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual
retirement accounts (IRAs).
2
Effective April 1, 2025, the Fund
changed its Underlying Index from the Solactive Telemedicine & Digital
Health Index to the Global X HealthTech Index. Performance reflects the
performance of the Solactive Telemedicine & Digital Health Index through
March 31, 2025, and the Global X HealthTech Index
thereafter.
FUND
MANAGEMENT
Investment
Adviser:
Global X Management Company LLC.
Portfolio
Managers:
The professionals primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the
Fund are Nam To, CFA and Wayne Xie (“Portfolio Managers”). Mr. To and Mr. Xie
have been a Portfolio Manager of the Fund since the Fund's inception.
PURCHASE
AND SALE OF FUND SHARES
Shares
of the Fund are or will be listed and traded at market prices on a national
securities exchange. Shares may only be purchased and sold on the exchange
through a broker-dealer. The price of Shares is based on market price, and
because ETF shares trade at market prices rather than at NAV, Shares may trade
at a price greater than NAV (a premium) or less than NAV (a discount). Only
“Authorized Participants” (as defined in the SAI) who have entered into
agreements with the Fund’s distributor, SEI Investments Distribution Co. (the
“Distributor”), may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with
the Fund. The Fund will only issue or redeem Shares that have been aggregated
into blocks called Creation Units. The Fund will issue or redeem Creation Units
in return for a basket of cash and/or securities that the Fund specifies any day
that the national securities exchanges are open for business (“Business Day”).
An investor may incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest
price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase shares of the Fund (bid) and the
lowest price a seller is willing to accept for shares of the Fund (ask) when
buying or selling shares in the secondary market (the “bid-ask spread”). To
access information regarding the Fund’s net asset value, market price, premiums
and discounts, and bid-ask spreads, please go to
https://www.globalxetfs.com.
TAX
INFORMATION
The
Fund intends to make distributions that may be taxable to you as ordinary income
or capital gains, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement
such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account ("IRA"), in which case
distributions from such tax-advantaged arrangement may be taxable to you.
PAYMENTS
TO BROKER-DEALERS AND OTHER FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES
The
Adviser and its related companies may pay broker-dealers or other financial
intermediaries (such as a bank) for the sale of Fund Shares and related
services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing your
broker-dealer, sales persons or other intermediary or its employees or
associated persons to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your
financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary's website for more
information.
Global X ClimateTech
ETF
(formerly
known as the Global X CleanTech ETF)
Ticker:
CTEC Exchange: NASDAQ
INVESTMENT
OBJECTIVE
The
Global X ClimateTech ETF ("Fund") seeks to provide investment results that
correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and
expenses, of the Indxx Global ClimateTech Index ("Underlying
Index").
FEES AND
EXPENSES
This
table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and
sell shares (“Shares”) of the Fund. You
may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial
intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and examples
below.
Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment):
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Management
Fees: |
0.50% |
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Distribution
and Service (12b-1) Fees: |
None |
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Other
Expenses: |
0.00% |
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Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses: |
0.50% |
Example:
The following example
is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost
of investing in other funds. This example does not take into account customary
brokerage commissions that you pay when purchasing or selling Shares of the Fund
in the secondary market. The example assumes
that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then hold
or sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes
that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating
expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower,
based on these assumptions, your costs would be:
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One
Year |
Three
Years |
Five
Years |
Ten
Years |
| $51 |
$160 |
$280 |
$628 |
Portfolio
Turnover:
The Fund pays transaction
costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over"
its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction
costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account.
These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the
example, affect the Fund's performance. For the most recent fiscal period, the
Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 34.80% of the average value of its
portfolio.
PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT
STRATEGIES
The Fund
invests at least 80% of its total assets, plus borrowings for investment
purposes (if any), in the securities of the Indxx Global ClimateTech Index
("Underlying Index") and in American Depositary Receipts ("ADRs") and Global
Depositary Receipts ("GDRs") based on the securities in the Underlying Index.
The Fund's 80% investment policy is non-fundamental and requires 60 days prior
written notice to shareholders before it can be changed. The
Fund may lend securities representing up to one-third of the value of the Fund’s
total assets (including the value of the collateral received).
The
Underlying Index is designed to provide exposure to exchange-listed companies
that are positioned to benefit from the increased adoption of technologies
focused on improving the efficiency of renewable energy production and/or
mitigating the adverse environmental effects of resource consumption
(“ClimateTech”), including, but not limited to, companies whose principal
business is in developing technology relating to renewable energy, energy
efficiency and storage, smart grid, lithium-ion batteries and/or fuel cells,
and/or pollution prevention/amelioration (collectively, "ClimateTech
Companies"), as defined by Indxx LLC, the provider of the Underlying Index
("Index Provider").
In
constructing the Underlying Index, the Index Provider first identifies FactSet
Industries related to ClimateTech. Companies within these Industries, as of the
selection date, are further reviewed by the Index Provider on the basis of
revenue related to ClimateTech activities. To be eligible for the Underlying
Index, a company is considered by the Index Provider to be a ClimateTech Company
if the company generates at least 50% of its revenues from developing
technologies and/or equipment relating to: (i) renewable energy production, (ii)
residential and commercial energy efficiency and storage, (iii) smart grid
implementation,
(iv) lithium-ion batteries and/or fuel cells, or (v) preventing/ameliorating the
negative environmental effects of pollution, in each case, as determined by the
Index Provider.
To
be a part of the eligible universe of the Underlying Index, certain minimum
market capitalization and liquidity criteria, as defined by the Index Provider,
must be met. As of January 31, 2026, companies must have a minimum market
capitalization of $500 million and a minimum average daily turnover for the last
6 months (or since the IPO launch date for Significant IPOs as defined by the
Index Provider) greater than or equal to $2 million in order to be eligible for
inclusion in the Underlying Index. As of January 31, 2026, companies listed
in the following countries were eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index:
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech
Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary,
Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands,
New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, South Africa,
South Korea, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey,
United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
The
Underlying Index is weighted according to a modified capitalization weighting
methodology and is reconstituted and re-weighted semi-annually. Modified
capitalization weighting seeks to weight constituents primarily based on market
capitalization, but subject to caps on the weights of the individual securities.
During each rebalance, the maximum weight of a company is capped at 6%, the
aggregate weight of companies with a weight greater than or equal to 5% is
capped at 40%, and all remaining companies are capped at a weight of 4.5%, and
all constituents are subject to a minimum weight of 0.3%. Generally speaking,
this approach will limit the amount of concentration in the largest market
capitalization companies and increase company-level diversification. The
Underlying Index may include large-, mid- or small-capitalization companies, and
components primarily include industrials and information technology companies.
As of January 31, 2026, the Underlying Index had 38 constituents. The
Fund's investment objective and Underlying Index may be changed without
shareholder approval.
The
Underlying Index is sponsored by the Index Provider, which is an organization
that is independent of, and unaffiliated with, the Fund and Global X Management
Company LLC, the investment adviser for the Fund ("Adviser"). The Index Provider
determines the relative weightings of the securities in the Underlying Index and
publishes information regarding the market value of the Underlying
Index.
The
Adviser uses an indexing approach to try to achieve the Fund's investment
objective. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not try to outperform
the Underlying Index and does not seek temporary defensive positions when
markets decline or appear overvalued.
The
Fund generally will use a replication strategy. A replication strategy is an
indexing strategy that involves investing in the securities of the Underlying
Index in approximately the same proportions as in the Underlying Index. However,
the Fund may utilize a representative sampling strategy with respect to the
Underlying Index when a replication strategy might be detrimental or
disadvantageous to shareholders, such as when there are practical difficulties
or substantial costs involved in compiling a portfolio of equity securities to
replicate the Underlying Index, in instances in which a security in the
Underlying Index becomes temporarily illiquid, unavailable or less liquid, or as
a result of legal restrictions or limitations (such as tax diversification
requirements) that apply to the Fund but not the Underlying Index.
The
Adviser expects that, over time, the correlation between the Fund's performance
and that of the Underlying Index, before fees and expenses, will exceed 95%. A
correlation percentage of 100% would indicate perfect correlation. If the Fund
uses a replication strategy, it can be expected to have greater correlation to
the Underlying Index than if it uses a representative sampling
strategy.
The Fund
concentrates its investments (i.e., holds 25% or more of its total assets) in a
particular industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent that
the Underlying Index is concentrated. As of January 31, 2026, the
Underlying Index was concentrated in the electrical equipment industry and had
significant exposure to the industrials and information technology
sectors. The Fund is classified as “non-diversified,” which
means it may invest a larger percentage of its assets in a smaller number of
issuers than a diversified fund.
SUMMARY
OF PRINCIPAL RISKS
As with any
investment, you could lose all or part of your investment in the Fund, and the
Fund’s performance could trail that of other investments. There
is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its investment objective.
An investment in the Fund is not a bank deposit and it is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other
government agency, the Adviser or any of its affiliates. The
Fund is subject to the principal risks noted below, any of which may adversely
affect the Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”), trading price, yield, total return
and ability to meet its investment objective, as well
as
other risks that are described in greater detail in the Additional
Information About the Funds
section of this Prospectus and in the Statement of Additional Information
(“SAI”).
Asset
Class Risk:
Securities and other assets in the Underlying Index or otherwise held in the
Fund's portfolio may underperform in comparison to the general securities
markets, a particular securities market or other asset classes.
Depositary
Receipts Risk: The
Fund may invest in depositary receipts, such as ADRs and GDRs. Depositary
receipts are receipts listed on U.S. or foreign exchanges issued by banks or
trust companies that entitle the holder to all dividends and capital gains that
are paid out on the underlying foreign shares. Depositary receipts are generally
subject to the same risks associated with direct investments in the securities
of foreign companies. A holder of depositary receipts may also be subject to
fees and the credit risk of the financial institution acting as depositary.
Unsponsored depositary receipts may involve higher expenses, fewer shareholder
rights, and may be less liquid.
Equity
Securities Risk: Equity securities are subject to
changes in value, and their values may be more volatile than other asset
classes, as a result of a company’s business performance, investor perceptions,
stock market trends and general economic
conditions.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in ClimateTech Companies: ClimateTech Companies typically face intense competition, short
product lifecycles and potentially rapid product obsolescence. These companies
may be significantly affected by fluctuations in energy prices and in the supply
and demand of renewable energy, tax incentives, subsidies, permitting
application timelines, and other governmental regulations and policies.
Investors should take notice of the distinction between implemented government
policy based on legislation and less guaranteed commitments which may be
aspirational, subject to political risk, and difficult to enforce. These
companies are also heavily dependent on intellectual property rights and may be
adversely affected by loss or impairment of those rights. ClimateTech Companies
may be adversely affected by commodity price volatility, changes in exchange
rates, imposition of import controls, availability of certain inputs and
materials required for production, depletion of resources, technological
developments and labor relations. A decline in the price of conventional energy
such as oil and natural gas could have a materially adverse impact on
ClimateTech Companies. Renewable energy resources may be highly dependent upon
government policies that support renewable energy generation and enhance the
economic viability of owning renewable electric generation assets. Additionally,
adverse environmental conditions may cause fluctuations in renewable electric
generation and adversely affect the cash flows associated with ClimateTech
Companies.
Capitalization
Risk:
Investing in issuers within the same market capitalization category carries the
risk that the category may be out of favor due to current market conditions or
investor sentiment.
Large-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Large-capitalization
companies may adapt more slowly to new competitive challenges and changing
market conditions than smaller capitalization companies. In addition,
large-capitalization companies may be more mature and subject to more limited
growth potential and consequently may underperform other segments of the equity
market or the market as a whole.
Mid-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Mid-capitalization
companies may have greater price volatility, lower trading volume and less
liquidity than large-capitalization companies. In addition, mid-capitalization
companies may have smaller revenues, narrower product lines, less management
depth and experience, smaller shares of their product or service markets, fewer
financial resources and less competitive strength than large-capitalization
companies. These securities may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly,
from the overall securities market.
Small-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Small-capitalization
companies may be less stable and more susceptible to adverse developments, and
their securities may be more volatile and less liquid than large- and
mid-capitalization companies. In addition, small-capitalization companies may
have smaller revenues, narrower product lines, less management depth and
experience, smaller shares of their product or service markets, fewer financial
resources, and shorter operating histories than large- and mid-capitalization
companies. These securities may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly,
from the overall securities market.
Micro-Capitalization
Companies Risk:
Stock prices of micro-capitalization companies are significantly more volatile,
and more vulnerable to adverse business and economic developments, than those of
larger companies, and their earnings and revenues tend to be less predictable
(and some companies may experience significant losses). Micro-capitalization
stocks may also be thinly traded, which can adversely affect the pricing of
these securities and the future ability to buy and sell
them.
Currency
Risk:
The Fund may invest in securities denominated in foreign currencies. Because the
Fund's NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the Fund's NAV could decline if
currencies of the underlying securities depreciate against the U.S. dollar or if
there are delays or limits on repatriation of such currencies. Generally, an
increase in the value of the U.S. dollar against a foreign currency will reduce
the value of a security denominated in that foreign currency, thereby decreasing
the Fund's NAV. Exchange rates may be volatile and may change quickly and
without warning, which could have a significant negative impact on the
Fund.
Custody
Risk: Custody risk refers to the risks in the process of clearing and
settling trades, as well as the holding of securities and other assets by local
banks, agents, and securities depositories. These risks are heightened in
jurisdictions with less developed markets or less robust settlement and custody
infrastructure and processes.
Cybersecurity
Risk: With the increased use of technologies such as the Internet to
conduct business, the Fund, like all companies, may be susceptible to
operational, information security and related risks. Cybersecurity incidents
involving the Fund and its service providers (including, without limitation, the
Adviser, fund accountant, custodian, transfer agent and financial
intermediaries) have the ability to cause disruptions and impact business
operations, potentially resulting in financial losses, impediments to trading,
the inability of Fund shareholders to transact business, violations of
applicable privacy and other laws, regulatory fines, penalties, reputational
damage, reimbursement or other compensation costs, and/or additional compliance
costs.
Focus
Risk:
The Fund may from time to time have a significant amount of its assets invested
in a particular industry, group of industries, or one or more sectors to
approximately the same extent that the Underlying Index focuses in investments
related to a particular industry, group of industries, and/or one or more
sectors. In such event, the Fund’s performance will depend to a greater extent
on the overall condition of such industry(ies) or sector(s), and an economic,
business, political, regulatory, or other occurrence affecting such
industry(ies) or sector(s) will have an increased impact on the value of the
Fund’s shares compared to the value of shares of a fund that invests in a
broader range of industries or sectors.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Electrical Equipment Industry: The
Electrical Equipment Industry is fragmented but includes a number of large
incumbent companies that may compete heavily for market share in the space.
Companies in the Electrical Equipment Industry may involve operations with high
fixed costs. Because copper, aluminum, steel and other raw materials are often
critical components of the products manufactured in the Electrical Equipment
Industry, fluctuations in commodities prices for such raw materials may impact
the profitability of companies in this industry. Purchasers of such products may
be geographically dispersed, which may subject companies in this industry to any
increases in geopolitical uncertainty or global macroeconomic
trends.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Industrials Sector: Companies in the industrials sector are subject to fluctuations in
supply and demand for their specific product or service. The products of
manufacturing companies may face product obsolescence due to rapid technological
developments. Government regulation, world events and economic conditions affect
the performance of companies in the industrials sector. Companies also may be
adversely affected by environmental damage and product liability claims. Also,
commodity price volatility, changes in exchange rates, imposition of import
controls or tariffs, increased competition, depletion of resources,
technological developments and labor relations could adversely affect the
companies in this sector.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Information Technology Sector: Companies
in the information technology sector are subject to rapid changes in technology
product cycles, rapid product obsolescence, government regulation, and increased
competition. Information technology companies are particularly vulnerable to
failure to obtain, or delays in obtaining, financing or regulatory approval, and
also are heavily dependent on patent and intellectual property rights. In
addition, information technology companies may have limited product lines,
markets, financial resources or
personnel.
Foreign
Securities Risk:
Investments in foreign securities can be riskier than U.S. securities
investments. Investments in the securities of foreign issuers (including
investments in American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) and Global Depositary
Receipts (“GDRs”)) are subject to additional risks, including lower levels of
liquidity and market efficiency; greater securities price volatility; exchange
rate fluctuations and exchange controls; less availability of public information
about issuers; limitations on foreign ownership of securities; imposition of
withholding or other taxes; imposition of restrictions on the expatriation of
the assets of the Fund; restrictions placed on U.S. investors by U.S.
regulations governing foreign investments; higher transaction and custody costs
and delays in settlement procedures; difficulties in enforcing contractual
obligations; lower levels of regulation of the securities market; weaker
accounting, disclosure and reporting requirements; and legal principles relating
to corporate governance and directors’ fiduciary duties and liabilities. The
countries in which the Fund invests may also be subject to structural risks,
including economic, political and social instability. Additionally, certain
securities held by the Fund, while
traded
on U.S. exchanges, may be issued by foreign financial institutions and as such,
may be subject to the risks of investing in securities issued by foreign
companies, which may not be subject to the same regulations as companies
domiciled in the U.S. Where all or a portion of the Fund's securities trade in a
market that is closed when the market in which the Fund's Shares are listed and
trading is open, there may be differences between the last quote from the
security’s closed foreign market and the value of the security during the Fund’s
domestic trading day. This, in turn, could lead to differences between the
market price of the Fund’s Shares and the underlying value of those
shares.
Geographic
Risk: The
Fund’s investments in securities of issuers located in a particular country or
geographic region may subject the Fund to certain risks to a greater extent than
if its investments were less focused, including: natural, biological or other
disasters and the spread of infectious diseases; economic, political and social
instability; security concerns; and trade disputes with key trading partners.
The securities in which the Fund invests and, consequently, the Fund is also
subject to specific risks as a result of their business operations in a
particular country or region, including, but not limited to:
Risk
of Investing in China:
Investments in Chinese securities may subject the Fund to legal, regulatory,
political, currency, security, and economic risks specific to China. China may
be subject to considerable degrees of economic, political and social
instability. Concerns about the rising government and household debt levels
could impact the stability of the Chinese economy. Despite economic and market
reform in recent decades, the Chinese government’s control over certain sectors
and enterprises and significant regulation of investment and industry are
pervasive. Chinese companies are subject to the risk that Chinese authorities
can intervene in their operations and structure. Internal social unrest or
confrontations with other countries, including military conflicts in response to
such events, may disrupt economic development in China and result in a greater
risk of currency fluctuations, currency convertibility, interest rate
fluctuations and higher rates of inflation.
The
Chinese economy is highly reliant on trade. Reduction in spending on Chinese
products and services, institution of additional tariffs or other trade barriers
(including as a result of heightened trade tensions between China and the U.S.
or in response to actual or alleged Chinese cyber activity), or a downturn in
any of the economies of China’s key trading partners may have an adverse impact
on the Chinese economy.
China
has experienced security concerns, such as terrorism and strained international
relations. Additionally, China is alleged to have participated in
state-sponsored cyberattacks against foreign companies and foreign governments.
Actual and threatened responses to such activity, including purchasing
restrictions, sanctions, tariffs or cyberattacks on the Chinese government or
Chinese companies, may impact China’s economy and Chinese issuers in which the
Fund invests. Incidents involving China’s or the region’s security may adversely
affect the Chinese economy and the Fund’s investments. Chinese companies,
including those listed on U.S. exchanges, are not subject to the same degree of
regulatory requirements, accounting standards or auditor oversight as companies
in more developed countries, and as a result, information about the Chinese
securities in which the Fund invests may be less reliable or complete. There may
be significant obstacles to obtaining information necessary for investigations
into or litigation against Chinese companies and shareholders may have limited
legal remedies. Investments in China may be subject to loss due to
expropriation, nationalization, confiscation of assets and property, and or the
imposition of restrictions on foreign investments and repatriation of capital.
In addition, many Chinese companies listed on U.S. exchanges use variable
interest entities (“VIEs”) in their structure as a result of foreign ownership
restriction. Any change in the operations of entities in a VIE structure, the
status of VIE contractual arrangements or the legal or regulatory environment in
China could result in significant, and possibly permanent and/or total, losses
for investments in VIE issuers.
Risk
of Investing in Developed Markets:
Investments in a developed country’s issuer may subject the Fund to legal,
regulatory, political, currency, security, and economic risks specific to
developed countries. Developed countries tend to represent a significant portion
of the global economy and have generally experienced slower economic growth than
some less developed countries. Certain developed countries have experienced
security concerns, such as war, terrorism and strained international relations.
Incidents involving a country’s or region’s security may cause uncertainty in
its markets and may adversely affect its economy and the Fund’s investments. In
addition, developed countries may be adversely impacted by changes to the
economic conditions of certain key trading partners, regulatory burdens, debt
burdens and the price or availability of certain
commodities.
Risk
of Investing in Emerging Markets: Investments
in emerging markets may be subject to a greater risk of loss than investments in
developed markets. Securities markets of emerging market countries are less
liquid, subject to greater price volatility, have smaller market
capitalizations, have less government regulation, and are not subject to as
extensive and frequent accounting, financial, and other reporting requirements
as the securities markets of more developed countries, and there may be greater
risk associated with the custody of securities in emerging markets. It may be
difficult or impossible for the Fund to pursue claims against an emerging market
issuer in the courts of an
emerging market country. There may be significant obstacles to
obtaining information necessary for investigations into or litigation against
emerging market companies and shareholders may have limited legal rights and
remedies. Emerging markets may be more likely to experience inflation, political
turmoil and rapid changes in economic conditions than more developed markets.
Emerging markets may also face other significant internal or external risks,
including the risk of war, terrorism, or other social or political
conflicts.
Risk
of Investing in the United States:
Investments in United States issuers
may subject the Fund to legal, regulatory, political, currency, security, and
economic risks specific to the United States. A decrease in imports or exports,
changes in trade regulations, inflation and/or an economic recession in the U.S.
may have a material adverse effect on the U.S.
economy.
Indexing
Strategy Risk:
The Fund is not actively managed, and the Adviser does not attempt to take
defensive positions in declining markets. Unlike many investment companies, the
Fund does not seek to outperform its Underlying Index. Therefore, it would not
necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed,
respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is
underperforming. Additionally, if a constituent of the Underlying Index were
removed, even outside of a regular rebalance of the Underlying Index, the
Adviser anticipates that the Fund would sell such security. Maintaining
investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of
individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund
employed an active strategy.
Index-Related
Risk:
There is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve a high degree of correlation to
the Underlying Index and therefore achieve its investment objective. Market
disruptions and regulatory restrictions could have an adverse effect on the
Fund’s ability to adjust its exposure to the required levels in order to track
the Underlying Index. Errors in index data, index computations and/or the
construction of the Underlying Index in accordance with its methodology may
occur from time to time and may not be identified and corrected by the Index
Provider for a period of time or at all, which may have an adverse impact on the
Fund and its shareholders.
Management
Risk: The Fund may not fully replicate its Underlying Index and may hold
securities not included in its Underlying Index. The Adviser’s investment
strategy, the implementation of which is subject to a number of constraints, may
cause the Fund to underperform the market or its relevant benchmark or adversely
affect the ability of the Fund to achieve its investment
objective.
Tracking
Error Risk: Tracking error may occur because of
differences between the instruments held in the Fund's portfolio and those
included in the Underlying Index, pricing differences, transaction costs
incurred by the Fund, the Fund's holding of uninvested cash, size of the Fund,
differences in timing of the accrual of or the valuation of dividends or
interest, tax gains or losses, changes to the Underlying Index or the costs to
the Fund of complying with various new or existing regulatory requirements. This
risk may be heightened during times of increased market volatility or other
unusual market conditions. Tracking error also may result because the Fund
incurs fees and expenses, while the Underlying Index does
not.
International
Closed Market Trading Risk: To
the extent that the underlying investments held by the Fund trade on foreign
exchanges that may be closed when the securities exchange on which the Fund’s
Shares trade is open, there are likely to be deviations between the current
price of such an underlying security and the last quoted price for the
underlying security (i.e., the Fund’s quote from the closed foreign market).
These deviations could result in premiums or discounts to the Fund’s NAV that
may be greater than those experienced by other exchange-traded funds
("ETFs").
Investable
Universe of Companies Risk:
The investable universe of companies in which the Fund may invest may be
limited. If a company no longer meets the Index Provider’s criteria for
inclusion in the Underlying Index, the Fund may need to reduce or eliminate its
holdings in that company. The reduction or elimination of the Fund’s holdings in
the company may have an adverse impact on the liquidity of the Fund’s overall
portfolio holdings and on Fund performance.
Issuer
Risk: Fund performance depends on the performance of individual companies
in which the Fund invests. Changes to the financial condition of any of those
companies may cause the value of such company's securities to
decline.
Market
Risk:
Turbulence in the financial markets and reduced liquidity may negatively affect
issuers, which could have an adverse effect on the Fund and its investments. The
Fund’s NAV could decline over short periods due to short-term market movements
and over longer periods during market downturns. Trade policy, including the
imposition of tariffs, may dampen consumer spending and result in decreased
confidence in the markets. Additionally, political uncertainty regarding U.S.
policy, including the U.S. government’s approach to trade, may also impact the
markets. Furthermore, local, regional or global events such as war, acts of
terrorism, the spread of infectious diseases, inflation and recessions, changes
in interest or exchange rates,
or other events could have a significant impact on the Fund and its
investments and trading of its Shares. Market risk factors may result in
increased volatility and/or decreased liquidity in the securities
markets.
Non-Diversification
Risk: The Fund is classified as a “non-diversified” investment company
under the Investment Company Act of 1940 ("1940 Act"), which means that the Fund
may invest a greater portion of its assets in securities of individual issuers
than a diversified fund. As a result, changes in the market value of a single
investment may have a greater impact on the Fund’s NAV and may make the Fund
more volatile than more diversified funds.
Operational
Risk:
The Fund is exposed to operational risk arising from a number of factors,
including but not limited to human error, processing and communication errors,
errors of the Fund's service providers, counterparties or other third-parties,
failed or inadequate processes, cyber security incidents, and technology or
systems failures. The Fund and the Adviser seek to reduce these operational
risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address
every possible risk and may be inadequate for those risks that they are intended
to address.
Risks
Associated with Exchange-Traded Funds:
As an ETF, the Fund is subject to the following risks:
Authorized
Participants Concentration Risk: The Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may
act as Authorized Participants and engage in creation or redemption transactions
directly with the Fund, and none of those Authorized Participants is obligated
to engage in creation and/or redemption transactions. To the extent that those
Authorized Participants exit the business or are unable to process creation
and/or redemption orders, such as in times of market stress, Shares may be more
likely to trade at a premium or discount to NAV and/or at wider intraday bid-ask
spreads, and possibly face trading halts and/or delisting from an exchange.
Authorized Participants Concentration Risk may be heightened because the Fund
invests in non-U.S. securities.
Large
Shareholder Risk: Certain
shareholders, including an Authorized Participant, the Adviser, an affiliate of
the Adviser, or funds managed by the Adviser, may own a substantial amount of
the Fund’s Shares. Redemptions by large shareholders could have a significant
negative impact on the Fund. If a large shareholder were to redeem all, or a
large portion, of its Shares, there is no guarantee that the Fund will be able
to maintain sufficient assets to continue operations in which case the Board of
Trustees may determine to liquidate the Fund. In addition, transactions by large
shareholders may account for a large percentage of the trading volume on a
national securities exchange and may, therefore, have a material upward or
downward effect on the market price of the Shares.
Listing
Standards Risk: The
Fund is required to comply with listing requirements adopted by the listing
exchange. Non-compliance with such requirements may result in the Fund's shares
being delisted by the listing exchange. Any resulting liquidation of the Fund
could cause the Fund to incur elevated transaction costs and could result in
negative tax consequences for its shareholders.
Market
Trading Risks and Premium/Discount Risks:
Shares of the Fund are publicly traded on a national securities exchange, which
may subject shareholders to numerous market trading risks. In stressed market
conditions, the market for the Shares may become less liquid in response to the
deteriorating liquidity of the Fund’s portfolio. This adverse effect on the
liquidity of the Shares, as well as disruptions to creations and redemptions,
the existence of extreme market volatility or potential lack of assets in the
Fund or an active trading market for Shares may result in Shares trading at a
significant premium or discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases Shares at a
time when the market price is at a premium to the NAV or sells Shares at a time
when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain
losses. The NAV of the Fund is calculated at the end of each business day and
fluctuates with changes in the market value of the Fund’s holdings. The trading
price of the Fund’s Shares fluctuates, in some cases materially, throughout
trading hours in response to changes in the Fund’s
NAV.
Securities
Lending Risk: Securities lending involves a risk of loss because the borrower may
fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. If the Fund is not
able to recover the securities loaned, it may sell the collateral and purchase a
replacement security in the market. Lending securities entails a risk of loss to
the Fund if and to the extent that the market value of the loaned securities
increases and the collateral is not increased accordingly. Additionally, the
Fund will bear any loss on the investment of cash collateral it receives. These
events could also trigger adverse tax consequences for the Fund. As securities
on loan may not be voted by the Fund, there is a risk that the Fund may not be
able to recall the securities in sufficient time to vote on material proxy
matters.
Trading
Halt Risk:
An exchange or market may close or issue trading halts on specific securities,
or the ability to buy or sell certain securities or financial instruments may be
restricted, which may result in the Fund being unable to buy or sell certain
securities
or financial instruments. In such circumstances, the Fund may be unable to
rebalance its portfolio, may be unable to accurately price its investments
and/or may incur substantial trading losses.
Valuation
Risk: The sales price the Fund could receive for a security may differ
from the Fund’s valuation of the security and may differ from the value used by
the Underlying Index, particularly for securities that trade in low value or
volatile markets or that are valued using a fair value methodology (such as
during trading halts). The value of the securities in the Fund's portfolio may
change on days when shareholders will not be able to purchase or sell the Fund's
Shares.
PERFORMANCE
INFORMATION
The bar chart
and table that follow show how the Fund performed on a calendar year basis and
provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes
in the Fund's performance from year to year and by showing the Fund's average
annual total returns for the indicated periods compared with the Fund's
broad-based benchmark index, which reflects a broad measure of market
performance, and the Underlying Index, which the Fund seeks to
track. The Fund's past performance
(before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will
perform in the future. Updated performance information is
available online at
www.globalxetfs.com.
Annual Total Returns
(Years Ended December 31)
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9/30/2025 |
40.31% |
| Worst
Quarter: |
9/30/2023 |
-25.46% |
Average Annual
Total Returns (for the Periods Ended December 31,
2025)
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One
Year Ended December 31, 2025 |
Five
Years Ended December 31, 2025 |
Since
Inception (10/27/2020) |
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Global
X ClimateTech ETF (formerly known as the Global X CleanTech
ETF): |
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·Return
before taxes |
56.66% |
-13.41% |
-5.84% |
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·Return
after taxes on distributions1 |
56.23% |
-13.60% |
-6.04% |
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·Return
after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund Shares1 |
33.61% |
-9.49% |
-4.36% |
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MSCI
ACWI Index (NR) (USD)
(Index returns reflect
invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflect no deduction for
fees, expenses, or other
taxes) |
22.34% |
-13.67% |
13.49% |
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Indxx
Global ClimateTech Index
(NR)
(USD)
(Index
returns reflect invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflect
no deduction for fees, expenses, or other
taxes) |
57.05% |
11.19% |
-6.10% |
1
After-tax returns are
calculated using the historical highest individual U.S. federal marginal income
tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local
taxes. Your actual after-tax
returns will depend on your specific tax situation and may differ from those
shown above. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold Shares of
the Fund through tax-advantaged arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual
retirement accounts (IRAs).
FUND
MANAGEMENT
Investment
Adviser:
Global X Management Company LLC.
Portfolio
Managers: The
professionals primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the Fund
are Nam To, CFA and Wayne Xie (“Portfolio Managers”). Mr. To and Mr. Xie have
been a Portfolio Manager of the Fund since the Fund's inception.
PURCHASE
AND SALE OF FUND SHARES
Shares
of the Fund are or will be listed and traded at market prices on a national
securities exchange. Shares may only be purchased and sold on the exchange
through a broker-dealer. The price of Shares is based on market price, and
because ETF shares trade at market prices rather than at NAV, Shares may trade
at a price greater than NAV (a premium) or less than NAV (a discount). Only
“Authorized Participants” (as defined in the SAI) who have entered into
agreements with the Fund’s distributor, SEI Investments Distribution Co.
(“Distributor”), may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with
the Fund. The Fund will only issue or redeem Shares that have been aggregated
into blocks called Creation Units. The Fund will issue or redeem Creation Units
in return for a basket of cash and/or securities that the Fund specifies any day
that the national securities exchanges are open for business (“Business Day”).
An investor may incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest
price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase shares of the Fund (bid) and the
lowest price a seller is willing to accept for shares of the Fund (ask) when
buying or selling shares in the secondary market (the “bid-ask spread”). To
access information regarding the Fund’s net asset value, market price, premiums
and discounts, and bid-ask spreads, please go to
https://www.globalxetfs.com.
TAX
INFORMATION
The
Fund intends to make distributions that may be taxable to you as ordinary income
or capital gains, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement
such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account ("IRA"), in which case
distributions from such tax-advantaged arrangement may be taxable to you.
PAYMENTS
TO BROKER-DEALERS AND OTHER FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES
The
Adviser and its related companies may pay broker-dealers or other financial
intermediaries (such as a bank) for the sale of Fund Shares and related
services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing your
broker-dealer, sales persons or other intermediary or its employees or
associated persons to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your
financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary's website for more
information.
Global X Data Center
& Digital Infrastructure ETF
Ticker:
DTCR Exchange: NASDAQ
INVESTMENT
OBJECTIVE
The
Global X Data Center & Digital Infrastructure ETF ("Fund") seeks to provide
investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance,
before fees and expenses, of the Solactive Data Center REITs & Digital
Infrastructure Index ("Underlying Index").
FEES AND
EXPENSES
This
table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and
sell shares (“Shares”) of the Fund. You
may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial
intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and examples
below.
Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment):
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Management
Fees: |
0.50% |
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Distribution
and Service (12b-1) Fees: |
None |
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Other
Expenses: |
0.00% |
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Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses: |
0.50% |
Example:
The following example
is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost
of investing in other funds. This example does not take into account customary
brokerage commissions that you pay when purchasing or selling Shares of the Fund
in the secondary market. The example assumes
that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then hold
or sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes
that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating
expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower,
based on these assumptions, your costs would be:
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One
Year |
Three
Years |
Five
Years |
Ten
Years |
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$160 |
$280 |
$628 |
Portfolio
Turnover:
The Fund pays transaction
costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over"
its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction
costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account.
These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the
example, affect the Fund's performance. For the most recent fiscal period, the
Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 24.92% of the average value of its
portfolio.
PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT
STRATEGIES
The Fund
invests at least 80% of its total assets, plus borrowings for investment
purposes (if any), in the securities of the Solactive Data Center REITs &
Digital Infrastructure Index (the "Underlying Index") and in American Depositary
Receipts ("ADRs") and Global Depositary Receipts ("GDRs") based on the
securities in the Underlying Index. The Fund's 80% investment policy is
non-fundamental and requires 60 days prior written notice to shareholders before
it can be changed. The Fund may lend securities representing up
to one-third of the value of the Fund’s total assets (including the value of the
collateral received).
The
Underlying Index is designed to provide exposure to companies that have business
operations in the fields of data centers, cellular towers, and/or digital
infrastructure hardware. Specifically, the Underlying Index will include
securities issued by “Data Center REITs & Digital Infrastructure Companies”
as defined by Solactive AG, the provider of the Underlying Index (the "Index
Provider"). Data Center REITs & Digital Infrastructure Companies are those
companies that derive at least 50% of their revenues, operating income, or
assets from the following business activities:
i.Data
Center Companies: Companies that own, operate, and/or develop data centers
(including data center REITs (as defined below)), which are publicly-listed
companies that own and manage facilities that customers use to safely and
efficiently store computer servers and data. Data Center Companies offer a range
of products and services to help
secure,
maintain, and facilitate the use of servers and data within data centers,
including providing uninterruptable power supplies, temperature regulation, and
physical security.
ii.Cellular
Tower Companies: Companies that own, operate and/or develop cellular towers
(including cellular tower REITs), which are publicly-listed companies that lease
antennae and equipment space on cellular towers to wireless carriers. Wireless
carriers utilize the cellular tower space provided by Cellular Tower Companies
to operate antennae and equipment that transmit and receive the signal reception
of cellular phones, televisions, radios, and other wireless communication
devices.
iii.Digital
Infrastructure Hardware Companies: Companies that manufacture, design, and/or
assemble the servers and/or other hardware often used in data centers and
cellular towers, including data center servers, processors and data center
switches.
Data
Center Companies and Cellular Tower Companies can be (but are not required to
be) structured as real estate investment trusts (“REITs”), which are publicly
listed companies that own or finance income-producing real estate assets. In
order to qualify as a REIT under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended,
a company needs to satisfy several regulatory requirements including but not
limited to:
i.Investing
at least 75% of its assets in real estate.
ii.Deriving
at least 75% of its gross income from rents from real property, interest on
mortgages financing real property, or from sales of real estate.
iii.Distributing
at least 90% of its taxable income in the form of shareholder dividends each
year.
In
constructing the Underlying Index, the Index Provider first applies a
proprietary natural language processing algorithm to the eligible universe,
which seeks to identify and rank companies that operate data centers and/or
companies with direct exposure to digital infrastructure based on filings,
disclosures and other public information (e.g. regulatory filings, earnings
transcripts, etc.). The highest ranking companies identified by the natural
language processing algorithm, as of the selection date, are further reviewed by
the Index Provider to confirm they derive at least 50% of their revenues,
operating income, or assets from Data Center REITs and/or Digital
Infrastructure.
The
eligible universe of the Underlying Index includes exchange-listed companies
that meet minimum market capitalization and liquidity criteria, as defined by
the Index Provider. As of January 31, 2026, companies must have a minimum
market capitalization of $200 million and a minimum average daily turnover for
the last 6 months greater than or equal to $2 million in order to be eligible
for inclusion in the Underlying Index. As of January 31, 2026, companies
listed in the following countries were eligible for inclusion in the Underlying
Index: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,
Hong Kong, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand,
Norway, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, South Korea,
Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The Fund may invest in
securities denominated in foreign currencies.
The
Underlying Index is weighted according to a modified capitalization weighting
methodology and is reconstituted and re-weighted semi-annually. Modified
capitalization weighting seeks to weight constituents primarily based on market
capitalization, but subject to caps on the weights of the individual securities.
During each rebalance, the maximum weight of a Data Center Company or Cellular
Tower Company (defined by the Index Provider as companies that own, operate,
and/or develop data centers (including data center REITs) and cellular towers
(including Cellular Tower REITs)), respectively, is capped at 12% and the
maximum weight of a Digital Infrastructure Hardware Company (defined by the
Index Provider as companies that manufacture the servers and/or other hardware
often used in data centers and cellular towers, including semiconductors,
integrated circuits, and processors) is capped at 2%, the aggregate weight of
companies with a weight greater than or equal to 4.5% is capped at 45%, all
remaining companies are capped at a weight of 4.5%, and all constituents are
subject to a minimum weight of 0.3%. Generally speaking, this approach will
limit the amount of concentration in the largest market capitalization companies
but may increase the number of constituents included within the Underlying
Index. The Underlying Index may include large-, mid- or small-capitalization
companies, and components primarily include real estate and information
technology companies. As of January 31, 2026, the Underlying Index had 25
constituents. The Fund's investment objective and Underlying Index may be
changed without shareholder approval.
The
Underlying Index is sponsored by the Index Provider, which is an organization
that is independent of, and unaffiliated with, the Fund and Global X Management
Company LLC, the investment adviser for the Fund ("Adviser"). The Index Provider
determines the relative weightings of the securities in the Underlying Index and
publishes information regarding the market value of the Underlying
Index.
The
Adviser uses an indexing approach to try to achieve the Fund's investment
objective. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not try to outperform
the Underlying Index and does not seek temporary defensive positions when
markets decline or appear overvalued.
The
Fund generally will use a replication strategy. A replication strategy is an
indexing strategy that involves investing in the securities of the Underlying
Index in approximately the same proportions as in the Underlying Index. However,
the Fund may utilize a representative sampling strategy with respect to the
Underlying Index when a replication strategy might be detrimental or
disadvantageous to shareholders, such as when there are practical difficulties
or substantial costs involved in compiling a portfolio of equity securities to
replicate the Underlying Index, in instances in which a security in the
Underlying Index becomes temporarily illiquid, unavailable or less liquid, or as
a result of legal restrictions or limitations (such as tax diversification
requirements) that apply to the Fund but not the Underlying Index.
The
Adviser expects that, over time, the correlation between the Fund's performance
and that of the Underlying Index, before fees and expenses, will exceed 95%. A
correlation percentage of 100% would indicate perfect correlation. If the Fund
uses a replication strategy, it can be expected to have greater correlation to
the Underlying Index than if it uses a representative sampling
strategy.
The
Fund is classified as "non-diversified," which means it may invest a larger
percentage of its assets in a smaller number of issuers than a diversified fund.
The Fund concentrates its investments
(i.e., holds 25% or more of its total assets) in a particular industry or group
of industries to approximately the same extent that the Underlying Index is
concentrated. As of January 31, 2026, the Underlying Index was concentrated
in the specialized REITs industry and had significant exposure to the
information technology and real estate
sectors.
SUMMARY
OF PRINCIPAL RISKS
As with any
investment, you could lose all or part of your investment in the Fund, and the
Fund’s performance could trail that of other investments. There
is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its investment objective.
An investment in the Fund is not a bank deposit and it is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other
government agency, the Adviser or any of its affiliates. The
Fund is subject to the principal risks noted below, any of which may adversely
affect the Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”), trading price, yield, total return
and ability to meet its investment objective, as well as other risks that are
described in greater detail in the Additional
Information About the Funds
section of this Prospectus and in the Statement of Additional Information
(“SAI”).
Asset
Class Risk:
Securities and other assets in the Underlying Index or otherwise held in the
Fund's portfolio may underperform in comparison to the general securities
markets, a particular securities market or other asset classes.
Depositary
Receipts Risk: The
Fund may invest in depositary receipts, such as ADRs and GDRs. Depositary
receipts are receipts listed on U.S. or foreign exchanges issued by banks or
trust companies that entitle the holder to all dividends and capital gains that
are paid out on the underlying foreign shares. Depositary receipts are generally
subject to the same risks associated with direct investments in the securities
of foreign companies. A holder of depositary receipts may also be subject to
fees and the credit risk of the financial institution acting as depositary.
Unsponsored depositary receipts may involve higher expenses, fewer shareholder
rights, and may be less liquid.
Equity
Securities Risk: Equity securities are subject to changes in value, and their values
may be more volatile than other asset classes, as a result of a company’s
business performance, investor perceptions, stock market trends and general
economic conditions.
Real
Estate Stocks and Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) Investment
Risk: The Fund may have exposure to
companies that invest in real estate, such as REITs, which expose investors in
the Fund to the risks of owning real estate directly, as well as to risks that
relate specifically to the way in which real estate companies are organized and
operated. Real estate is highly sensitive to general and local economic
conditions and developments and characterized by intense competition and
periodic overbuilding. Many real estate companies, including REITs, utilize
leverage (and some may be highly leveraged), which increases risk and could
adversely affect a real estate company's operations and market value in periods
of rising interest rates. Real estate stocks and REITs may also be adversely
impacted by natural or environmental disasters, such as earthquakes, fires,
floods, hurricanes, tsunamis, and other severe weather-related
phenomena.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Data Center REITs and Digital Infrastructure
Companies: Data Center REITs and Digital Infrastructure Companies are exposed
to the risks specific to the real estate market as well as the risks that relate
specifically to the way in which Data Center REITs and Digital Infrastructure
Companies are utilized and operated. Data Center REITs and Digital
Infrastructure Companies may be affected by unique supply and demand factors
that do not apply to other real estate sectors, such as changes in demand for
communications infrastructure, consolidation of tower sites, and new
technologies that may affect demand for data centers. Companies serving or
depending on data centers may face risks from rising energy costs, grid
pressures, and environmental policies, while slower artificial intelligence
adoption or efficiency gains could reduce demand growth, creating volatility for
the Fund’s investments. Data Center REITs and Digital Infrastructure Companies
may be subject to external risks including, but not limited to, natural
disasters and supplier outages. Natural disasters and supplier outages can lead
to significant downtime, data loss, and associated expenses. Data Center REITs
and Digital Infrastructure Companies may be subject to internal risks such as
water supply and climate risk and data security risk. Data centers are potential
targets for cyberattacks, which may have a materially adverse impact on the
performance of these companies.
Capitalization
Risk:
Investing in issuers within the same market capitalization category carries the
risk that the category may be out of favor due to current market conditions or
investor sentiment.
Large-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Large-capitalization
companies may adapt more slowly to new competitive challenges and changing
market conditions than smaller capitalization companies. In addition,
large-capitalization companies may be more mature and subject to more limited
growth potential and consequently may underperform other segments of the equity
market or the market as a whole.
Mid-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Mid-capitalization
companies may have greater price volatility, lower trading volume and less
liquidity than large-capitalization companies. In addition, mid-capitalization
companies may have smaller revenues, narrower product lines, less management
depth and experience, smaller shares of their product or service markets, fewer
financial resources and less competitive strength than large-capitalization
companies. These securities may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly,
from the overall securities market.
Small-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Small-capitalization
companies may be less stable and more susceptible to adverse developments, and
their securities may be more volatile and less liquid than large- and
mid-capitalization companies. In addition, small-capitalization companies may
have smaller revenues, narrower product lines, less management depth and
experience, smaller shares of their product or service markets, fewer financial
resources, and shorter operating histories than large- and mid-capitalization
companies. These securities may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly,
from the overall securities market.
Currency
Risk:
The Fund may invest in securities denominated in foreign currencies. Because the
Fund's NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the Fund's NAV could decline if
currencies of the underlying securities depreciate against the U.S. dollar or if
there are delays or limits on repatriation of such currencies. Generally, an
increase in the value of the U.S. dollar against a foreign currency will reduce
the value of a security denominated in that foreign currency, thereby decreasing
the Fund's NAV. Exchange rates may be volatile and may change quickly and
without warning, which could have a significant negative impact on the
Fund.
Cybersecurity
Risk: With the increased use of technologies such as the Internet to
conduct business, the Fund, like all companies, may be susceptible to
operational, information security and related risks. Cybersecurity incidents
involving the Fund and its service providers (including, without limitation, the
Adviser, fund accountant, custodian, transfer agent and financial
intermediaries) have the ability to cause disruptions and impact business
operations, potentially resulting in financial losses, impediments to trading,
the inability of Fund shareholders to transact business, violations of
applicable privacy and other laws, regulatory fines, penalties, reputational
damage, reimbursement or other compensation costs, and/or additional compliance
costs.
Focus
Risk:
The Fund may from time to time have a significant amount of its assets invested
in a particular industry, group of industries, or one or more sectors to
approximately the same extent that the Underlying Index focuses in investments
related to a particular industry, group of industries, and/or one or more
sectors. In such event, the Fund’s performance will depend to a greater extent
on the overall condition of such industry(ies) or sector(s), and an economic,
business, political, regulatory, or other occurrence affecting such
industry(ies) or sector(s) will have an increased impact on the value of the
Fund’s shares compared to the value of shares of a fund that invests in a
broader range of industries or sectors.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Information Technology Sector: Companies
in the information technology sector are subject to rapid changes in technology
product cycles, rapid product obsolescence, government regulation, and
increased
competition. Information technology companies are particularly vulnerable to
failure to obtain, or delays in obtaining, financing or regulatory approval, and
also are heavily dependent on patent and intellectual property rights. In
addition, information technology companies may have limited product lines,
markets, financial resources or personnel.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Real Estate Sector: The real estate sector includes real estate companies focused on
commercial and residential real estate development, sales, operations, and
services, as well as real estate investment trusts (“REITs”). Real estate is
highly sensitive to general and local economic conditions and developments and
characterized by intense competition and periodic overbuilding. Many real estate
companies utilize leverage (and some may be highly leveraged), which increases
risk and could adversely affect a real estate company's operations and market
value in periods of rising interest rates.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Specialized REITs Industry: The
specialized REITs industry is subject to risks specific to companies or trusts
engaged in the acquisition, development, ownership, leasing, management, and
operation of properties such as natural gas and crude oil pipelines, gas
stations, fiber optic cables, prisons, automobile parking, and automobile
dealerships, as well as self storage properties, telecom towers and related
structures that support wireless telecommunications, timberland and
timber-related properties, and data center
properties.
Foreign
Securities Risk: Investments in foreign securities can be riskier than U.S.
securities investments. Investments in the securities of foreign issuers
(including investments in American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) and Global
Depositary Receipts (“GDRs”)) are subject to additional risks, including lower
levels of liquidity and market efficiency; greater securities price volatility;
exchange rate fluctuations and exchange controls; less availability of public
information about issuers; limitations on foreign ownership of securities;
imposition of withholding or other taxes; imposition of restrictions on the
expatriation of the assets of the Fund; restrictions placed on U.S. investors by
U.S. regulations governing foreign investments; higher transaction and custody
costs and delays in settlement procedures; difficulties in enforcing contractual
obligations; lower levels of regulation of the securities market; weaker
accounting, disclosure and reporting requirements; and legal principles relating
to corporate governance and directors’ fiduciary duties and liabilities. The
countries in which the Fund invests may also be subject to structural risks,
including economic, political and social instability. Additionally, certain
securities held by the Fund, while traded on U.S. exchanges, may be issued by
foreign financial institutions and as such, may be subject to the risks of
investing in securities issued by foreign companies, which may not be subject to
the same regulations as companies domiciled in the U.S. Where all or a portion
of the Fund's securities trade in a market that is closed when the market in
which the Fund's Shares are listed and trading is open, there may be differences
between the last quote from the security’s closed foreign market and the value
of the security during the Fund’s domestic trading day. This, in turn, could
lead to differences between the market price of the Fund’s Shares and the
underlying value of those shares.
Geographic
Risk: The
Fund’s investments in securities of issuers located in a particular country or
geographic region may subject the Fund to certain risks to a greater extent than
if its investments were less focused, including: natural, biological or other
disasters and the spread of infectious diseases; economic, political and social
instability; security concerns; and trade disputes with key trading partners.
The securities in which the Fund invests and, consequently, the Fund is also
subject to specific risks as a result of their business operations in a
particular country or region, including, but not limited to:
Risk
of Investing in China:
Investments in Chinese securities may subject the Fund to legal, regulatory,
political, currency, security, and economic risks specific to China. China may
be subject to considerable degrees of economic, political and social
instability. Concerns about the rising government and household debt levels
could impact the stability of the Chinese economy. Despite economic and market
reform in recent decades, the Chinese government’s control over certain sectors
and enterprises and significant regulation of investment and industry are
pervasive. Chinese companies are subject to the risk that Chinese authorities
can intervene in their operations and structure. Internal social unrest or
confrontations with other countries, including military conflicts in response to
such events, may disrupt economic development in China and result in a greater
risk of currency fluctuations, currency convertibility, interest rate
fluctuations and higher rates of inflation.
The
Chinese economy is highly reliant on trade. Reduction in spending on Chinese
products and services, institution of additional tariffs or other trade barriers
(including as a result of heightened trade tensions between China and the U.S.
or in response to actual or alleged Chinese cyber activity), or a downturn in
any of the economies of China’s key trading partners may have an adverse impact
on the Chinese economy.
China
has experienced security concerns, such as terrorism and strained international
relations. Additionally, China is alleged to have participated in
state-sponsored cyberattacks against foreign companies and foreign governments.
Actual and threatened responses to such activity, including purchasing
restrictions, sanctions, tariffs or cyberattacks on
the
Chinese government or Chinese companies, may impact China’s economy and Chinese
issuers in which the Fund invests. Incidents involving China’s or the region’s
security may adversely affect the Chinese economy and the Fund’s investments.
Chinese companies, including those listed on U.S. exchanges, are not subject to
the same degree of regulatory requirements, accounting standards or auditor
oversight as companies in more developed countries, and as a result, information
about the Chinese securities in which the Fund invests may be less reliable or
complete. There may be significant obstacles to obtaining information necessary
for investigations into or litigation against Chinese companies and shareholders
may have limited legal remedies. Investments in China may be subject to loss due
to expropriation, nationalization, confiscation of assets and property, and or
the imposition of restrictions on foreign investments and repatriation of
capital. In addition, many Chinese companies listed on U.S. exchanges use
variable interest entities (“VIEs”) in their structure as a result of foreign
ownership restriction. Any change in the operations of entities in a VIE
structure, the status of VIE contractual arrangements or the legal or regulatory
environment in China could result in significant, and possibly permanent and/or
total, losses for investments in VIE issuers.
Risk
of Investing in Developed Markets: Investments in a developed country’s issuer may subject the Fund to
legal, regulatory, political, currency, security, and economic risks specific to
developed countries. Developed countries tend to represent a significant portion
of the global economy and have generally experienced slower economic growth than
some less developed countries. Certain developed countries have experienced
security concerns, such as war, terrorism and strained international relations.
Incidents involving a country’s or region’s security may cause uncertainty in
its markets and may adversely affect its economy and the Fund’s investments. In
addition, developed countries may be adversely impacted by changes to the
economic conditions of certain key trading partners, regulatory burdens, debt
burdens and the price or availability of certain commodities.
Risk
of Investing in Emerging Markets: Investments in emerging markets may be subject to a greater risk of
loss than investments in developed markets. Securities markets of emerging
market countries are less liquid, subject to greater price volatility, have
smaller market capitalizations, have less government regulation, and are not
subject to as extensive and frequent accounting, financial, and other reporting
requirements as the securities markets of more developed countries, and there
may be greater risk associated with the custody of securities in emerging
markets. It may be difficult or impossible for the Fund to pursue claims against
an emerging market issuer in the courts of an emerging market country. There may
be significant obstacles to obtaining information necessary for investigations
into or litigation against emerging market companies and shareholders may have
limited legal rights and remedies. Emerging markets may be more likely to
experience inflation, political turmoil and rapid changes in economic conditions
than more developed markets. Emerging markets may also face other significant
internal or external risks, including the risk of war, terrorism, or other
social or political conflicts.
Risk
of Investing in the United States: Investments in United States issuers
may subject the Fund to legal, regulatory, political, currency, security, and
economic risks specific to the United States. A decrease in imports or exports,
changes in trade regulations, inflation and/or an economic recession in the U.S.
may have a material adverse effect on the U.S.
economy.
Indexing
Strategy Risk:
The Fund is not actively managed, and the Adviser does not attempt to take
defensive positions in declining markets. Unlike many investment companies, the
Fund does not seek to outperform its Underlying Index. Therefore, it would not
necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed,
respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is
underperforming. Additionally, if a constituent of the Underlying Index were
removed, even outside of a regular rebalance of the Underlying Index, the
Adviser anticipates that the Fund would sell such security. Maintaining
investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of
individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund
employed an active strategy.
Index-Related
Risk: There is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve a high degree of
correlation to the Underlying Index and therefore achieve its investment
objective. Market disruptions and regulatory restrictions could have an adverse
effect on the Fund’s ability to adjust its exposure to the required levels in
order to track the Underlying Index. Errors in index data, index computations
and/or the construction of the Underlying Index in accordance with its
methodology may occur from time to time and may not be identified and corrected
by the Index Provider for a period of time or at all, which may have an adverse
impact on the Fund and its shareholders.
Management
Risk: The Fund may not fully replicate its Underlying Index and may hold
securities not included in its Underlying Index. The Adviser’s investment
strategy, the implementation of which is subject to a number of constraints, may
cause the Fund to underperform the market or its relevant benchmark or adversely
affect the ability of the Fund to achieve its investment
objective.
Tracking
Error Risk: Tracking error may occur because of
differences between the instruments held in the Fund's portfolio and those
included in the Underlying Index, pricing differences, transaction costs
incurred by the Fund, the Fund's holding of uninvested cash, size of the Fund,
differences in timing of the accrual of or the valuation of dividends or
interest, tax gains or losses, changes to the Underlying Index or the costs to
the Fund of complying with various new or existing regulatory requirements. This
risk may be heightened during times of increased market volatility or other
unusual market conditions. Tracking error also may result because the Fund
incurs fees and expenses, while the Underlying Index does
not.
International
Closed Market Trading Risk: To
the extent that the underlying investments held by the Fund trade on foreign
exchanges that may be closed when the securities exchange on which the Fund’s
Shares trade is open, there are likely to be deviations between the current
price of such an underlying security and the last quoted price for the
underlying security (i.e., the Fund’s quote from the closed foreign market).
These deviations could result in premiums or discounts to the Fund’s NAV that
may be greater than those experienced by other exchange-traded funds
("ETFs").
Investable
Universe of Companies Risk:
The investable universe of companies in which the Fund may invest may be
limited. If a company no longer meets the Index Provider’s criteria for
inclusion in the Underlying Index, the Fund may need to reduce or eliminate its
holdings in that company. The reduction or elimination of the Fund’s holdings in
the company may have an adverse impact on the liquidity of the Fund’s overall
portfolio holdings and on Fund performance.
Issuer
Risk: Fund performance depends on the performance of individual companies
in which the Fund invests. Changes to the financial condition of any of those
companies may cause the value of such company's securities to
decline.
Market
Risk: Turbulence in the financial markets and reduced liquidity may
negatively affect issuers, which could have an adverse effect on the Fund and
its investments. The Fund’s NAV could decline over short periods due to
short-term market movements and over longer periods during market downturns.
Trade policy, including the imposition of tariffs, may dampen consumer spending
and result in decreased confidence in the markets. Additionally, political
uncertainty regarding U.S. policy, including the U.S. government’s approach to
trade, may also impact the markets. Furthermore, local, regional or global
events such as war, acts of terrorism, the spread of infectious diseases,
inflation and recessions, changes in interest or exchange rates, or other events
could have a significant impact on the Fund and its investments and trading of
its Shares. Market risk factors may result in increased volatility and/or
decreased liquidity in the securities markets.
Non-Diversification
Risk: The Fund is classified as a “non-diversified” investment company
under the Investment Company Act of 1940 ("1940 Act"), which means that the Fund
may invest a greater portion of its assets in securities of individual issuers
than a diversified fund. As a result, changes in the market value of a single
investment may have a greater impact on the Fund’s NAV and may make the Fund
more volatile than more diversified funds.
Operational
Risk: The Fund is exposed to operational risk arising from a number of
factors, including but not limited to human error, processing and communication
errors, errors of the Fund's service providers, counterparties or other
third-parties, failed or inadequate processes, cyber security incidents, and
technology or systems failures. The Fund and the Adviser seek to reduce these
operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do
not address every possible risk and may be inadequate for those risks that they
are intended to address.
Risks
Associated with Exchange-Traded Funds:
As an ETF, the Fund is subject to the following risks:
Authorized
Participants Concentration Risk: The Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may
act as Authorized Participants and engage in creation or redemption transactions
directly with the Fund, and none of those Authorized Participants is obligated
to engage in creation and/or redemption transactions. To the extent that those
Authorized Participants exit the business or are unable to process creation
and/or redemption orders, such as in times of market stress, Shares may be more
likely to trade at a premium or discount to NAV and/or at wider intraday bid-ask
spreads, and possibly face trading halts and/or delisting from an exchange.
Authorized Participants Concentration Risk may be heightened because the Fund
invests in non-U.S. securities.
Large
Shareholder Risk: Certain
shareholders, including an Authorized Participant, the Adviser, an affiliate of
the Adviser, or funds managed by the Adviser, may own a substantial amount of
the Fund’s Shares. Redemptions by large shareholders could have a significant
negative impact on the Fund. If a large shareholder were to redeem all, or a
large portion, of its Shares, there is no guarantee that the Fund will be able
to maintain sufficient assets to continue operations in which case the Board of
Trustees may determine to liquidate the Fund. In addition, transactions by large
shareholders
may account for a large percentage of the trading volume on a national
securities exchange and may, therefore, have a material upward or downward
effect on the market price of the Shares.
Listing
Standards Risk: The
Fund is required to comply with listing requirements adopted by the listing
exchange. Non-compliance with such requirements may result in the Fund's shares
being delisted by the listing exchange. Any resulting liquidation of the Fund
could cause the Fund to incur elevated transaction costs and could result in
negative tax consequences for its shareholders.
Market
Trading Risks and Premium/Discount
Risks: Shares of the Fund are publicly traded
on a national securities exchange, which may subject shareholders to numerous
market trading risks. In stressed market conditions, the market for the Shares
may become less liquid in response to the deteriorating liquidity of the Fund’s
portfolio. This adverse effect on the liquidity of the Shares, as well as
disruptions to creations and redemptions, the existence of extreme market
volatility or potential lack of assets in the Fund or an active trading market
for Shares may result in Shares trading at a significant premium or discount to
NAV. If a shareholder purchases Shares at a time when the market price is at a
premium to the NAV or sells Shares at a time when the market price is at a
discount to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain losses. The NAV of the Fund is
calculated at the end of each business day and fluctuates with changes in the
market value of the Fund’s holdings. The trading price of the Fund’s Shares
fluctuates, in some cases materially, throughout trading hours in response to
changes in the Fund’s NAV.
Securities
Lending Risk: Securities
lending involves a risk of loss because the borrower may fail to return the
securities in a timely manner or at all. If the Fund is not able to recover the
securities loaned, it may sell the collateral and purchase a replacement
security in the market. Lending securities entails a risk of loss to the Fund if
and to the extent that the market value of the loaned securities increases and
the collateral is not increased accordingly. Additionally, the Fund will bear
any loss on the investment of cash collateral it receives. These events could
also trigger adverse tax consequences for the Fund. As securities on loan may
not be voted by the Fund, there is a risk that the Fund may not be able to
recall the securities in sufficient time to vote on material proxy
matters.
Trading
Halt Risk:
An exchange or market may close or issue trading halts on specific securities,
or the ability to buy or sell certain securities or financial instruments may be
restricted, which may result in the Fund being unable to buy or sell certain
securities or financial instruments. In such circumstances, the Fund may be
unable to rebalance its portfolio, may be unable to accurately price its
investments and/or may incur substantial trading
losses.
Valuation
Risk:
The sales price the Fund could receive for a security may differ from the Fund’s
valuation of the security and may differ from the value used by the Underlying
Index, particularly for securities that trade in low value or volatile markets
or that are valued using a fair value methodology (such as during trading
halts). The value of the securities in the Fund's portfolio may change on days
when shareholders will not be able to purchase or sell the Fund's
Shares.
PERFORMANCE
INFORMATION
The bar chart
and table that follow show how the Fund performed on a calendar year basis and
provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes
in the Fund's performance from year to year and by showing the Fund's average
annual total returns for the indicated periods compared with the Fund's
broad-based benchmark index, which reflects a broad measure of market
performance, and the Underlying Index, which the Fund seeks to
track. The Fund's past performance
(before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will
perform in the future. Updated performance information is
available online at
www.globalxetfs.com.
Annual Total Returns
(Years Ended December 31)
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9/30/2024 |
16.99% |
| Worst
Quarter: |
9/30/2022 |
-17.14% |
Average Annual
Total Returns (for the Periods Ended December 31,
2025)
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One
Year Ended December 31, 2025 |
Five
Years Ended December 31, 2025 |
Since
Inception (10/27/2020) |
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Global
X Data Center & Digital Infrastructure ETF: |
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| ·Return
before taxes |
28.88% |
8.07% |
8.52% |
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·Return
after taxes on distributions1 |
28.31% |
7.44% |
7.89% |
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·Return
after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund Shares1 |
17.12% |
6.05% |
6.42% |
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MSCI
ACWI Index (Net) (USD)
(Index returns reflect
invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflect no deduction for
fees, expenses, or other
taxes) |
22.34% |
8.31% |
13.49% |
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Solactive
Data Center REITs & Digital Infrastructure Index (NR)
(USD)
(Index
returns reflect invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflect
no deduction for fees, expenses, or other
taxes) |
29.41% |
11.19% |
8.75% |
1
After-tax returns are
calculated using the historical highest individual U.S. federal marginal income
tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local
taxes. Your actual after-tax
returns will depend on your specific tax situation and may differ from those
shown above. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold Shares of
the Fund through tax-advantaged arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual
retirement accounts (IRAs).
FUND
MANAGEMENT
Investment
Adviser:
Global X Management Company LLC.
Portfolio
Managers:
The professionals primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the
Fund are Nam To, CFA and Wayne Xie (“Portfolio Managers”). Mr. To and Mr. Xie
have been a Portfolio Manager of the Fund since the Fund's inception.
PURCHASE
AND SALE OF FUND SHARES
Shares
of the Fund are or will be listed and traded at market prices on a national
securities exchange. Shares may only be purchased and sold on the exchange
through a broker-dealer. The price of Shares is based on market price, and
because ETF shares trade at market prices rather than at NAV, Shares may trade
at a price greater than NAV (a premium) or less than NAV (a discount). Only
“Authorized Participants” (as defined in the SAI) who have entered into
agreements with the Fund’s distributor, SEI Investments Distribution Co.
(“Distributor”), may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with
the Fund. The Fund will only issue or redeem Shares that have been aggregated
into blocks called Creation Units. The Fund will issue or redeem Creation Units
in return for a basket of cash and/or securities that the Fund specifies any day
that the national securities exchanges are open for business (“Business Day”).
An investor may incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest
price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase shares of the Fund (bid) and the
lowest price a seller is willing to accept for shares of the Fund (ask) when
buying or selling shares in the secondary market (the “bid-ask spread”). To
access information regarding the Fund’s net asset value, market price, premiums
and discounts, and bid-ask spreads, please go to
https://www.globalxetfs.com.
TAX
INFORMATION
The
Fund intends to make distributions that may be taxable to you as ordinary income
or capital gains, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement
such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account ("IRA"), in which case
distributions from such tax-advantaged arrangement may be taxable to you.
PAYMENTS
TO BROKER-DEALERS AND OTHER FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES
The
Adviser and its related companies may pay broker-dealers or other financial
intermediaries (such as a bank) for the sale of Fund Shares and related
services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing your
broker-dealer, sales persons or other intermediary or its employees or
associated persons to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your
financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary's website for more
information.
Global X Clean Water
ETF
Ticker:
AQWA Exchange: NASDAQ
INVESTMENT
OBJECTIVE
The
Global X Clean Water ETF ("Fund") seeks to provide investment results that
correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and
expenses, of the Solactive Global Clean Water Industry Index ("Underlying
Index").
FEES AND
EXPENSES
This
table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and
sell shares (“Shares”) of the Fund. You
may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial
intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and examples
below.
Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment):
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Management
Fees: |
0.50% |
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Distribution
and Service (12b-1) Fees: |
None |
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Other
Expenses: |
0.00% |
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Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses: |
0.50% |
Example:
The following example
is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost
of investing in other funds. This example does not take into account customary
brokerage commissions that you pay when purchasing or selling Shares of the Fund
in the secondary market. The example assumes
that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell
all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that
your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses
remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on
these assumptions, your costs would be:
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One
Year |
Three
Years |
Five
Years |
Ten
Years |
| $51 |
$160 |
$280 |
$628 |
Portfolio
Turnover:
The Fund pays transaction
costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over"
its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction
costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account.
These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the
example, affect the Fund's performance. For the most recent fiscal period, the
Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 17.03% of the average value of its
portfolio.
PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT
STRATEGIES
The Fund
invests at least 80% of its total assets, plus borrowings for investment
purposes (if any), in the securities of the Solactive Global Clean Water
Industry Index (the "Underlying Index") and in American Depositary Receipts
("ADRs") and Global Depositary Receipts ("GDRs") based on the securities in the
Underlying Index. The Fund's 80% investment policy is non-fundamental and
requires 60 days prior written notice to shareholders before it can be
changed.
The
Underlying Index is designed to provide exposure to companies that have business
operations in the provision of clean water. Specifically, the Underlying Index
will include securities issued by “Clean Water Companies” as defined by
Solactive AG, the provider of the Underlying Index (the "Index Provider"). Clean
Water Companies are those companies that derive at least 50% of their revenues,
operating income, or assets from the following business activities:
1.Industrial
water treatment, recycling (including water reclamation), purification, and
conservation.
2.Water
storage, transportation, metering, and distribution infrastructure.
3.Production
of household and commercial water purifier and heating products.
4.Provision
of consulting services identifying and implementing water efficiency strategies
at the corporate and/or municipal levels.
In
constructing the Underlying Index, the Index Provider first applies a
proprietary natural language processing algorithm to the eligible universe,
which seeks to identify and rank companies involved in the provision of clean
water based on filings,
disclosures
and other public information (e.g. regulatory filings, earnings transcripts,
etc.). The Index Provider also applies an ESG (Environmental, Social and
Governance) screening process to the universe of eligible companies. The Index
Provider, in partnership with ESG data provider Minerva, on a quarterly basis
reviews each constituent of the Underlying Index for compliance with the
principles of the United Nations Global Compact. Any existing or potential
constituent of the Underlying Index which does not meet the labor, human rights,
environmental, and anti-corruption standards as defined by the United Nations
Global Compact Principles as of the quarterly review will be excluded from the
Underlying Index, as determined by the Index Provider. The highest-ranking
companies identified by the natural language processing algorithm, as of the
selection date, are further reviewed by the Index Provider to confirm they
derive at least 50% of their revenues from the provision of clean water.
To
be a part of the eligible universe of the Underlying Index, certain minimum
market capitalization and liquidity criteria, as defined by the Index Provider,
must be met. As of January 31, 2026, companies must have a minimum market
capitalization of $200 million and a minimum average daily turnover for the last
6 months greater than or equal to $2 million in order to be eligible for
inclusion in the Underlying Index. As of January 31, 2026, companies listed
in the following countries were eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index:
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech
Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary,
Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands,
New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South
Africa, South Korea, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand,
Turkey, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United
States.
The
Underlying Index is weighted according to a modified capitalization weighting
methodology and is reconstituted and re-weighted semi-annually. Modified
capitalization weighting seeks to weight constituents primarily based on market
capitalization, but subject to caps on the weights of the individual securities.
During each rebalance, the maximum weight of a company is capped at 8%, the
aggregate weight of companies with a weight greater than or equal to 4.5% is
capped at 40%, and all remaining companies are capped at a weight of 4.5%, and
all constituents are subject to a minimum weight of 0.3%. Generally speaking,
this approach will limit the amount of concentration in the largest market
capitalization companies and increase company-level diversification. The
Underlying Index may include large-, mid- or small-capitalization companies, and
components primarily include utilities and industrials companies. As of
January 31, 2026, the Underlying Index had 40 constituents. The Fund's
investment objective and Underlying Index may be changed without shareholder
approval.
The
Underlying Index is sponsored by the Index Provider, which is an organization
that is independent of, and unaffiliated with, the Fund and Global X Management
Company LLC, the investment adviser for the Fund ("Adviser"). In addition, any
determinations related to the constituents of the Underlying Index are made
independent of the Fund's portfolio managers. The Index Provider determines the
relative weightings of the securities in the Underlying Index and publishes
information regarding the market value of the Underlying Index.
The
Adviser uses an indexing approach to try to achieve the Fund's investment
objective. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not try to outperform
the Underlying Index and does not seek temporary defensive positions when
markets decline or appear overvalued.
The
Fund generally will use a replication strategy. A replication strategy is an
indexing strategy that involves investing in the securities of the Underlying
Index in approximately the same proportions as in the Underlying Index. However,
the Fund may utilize a representative sampling strategy with respect to the
Underlying Index when a replication strategy might be detrimental or
disadvantageous to shareholders, such as when there are practical difficulties
or substantial costs involved in compiling a portfolio of equity securities to
replicate the Underlying Index, in instances in which a security in the
Underlying Index becomes temporarily illiquid, unavailable or less liquid, or as
a result of legal restrictions or limitations (such as tax diversification
requirements) that apply to the Fund but not the Underlying Index.
The
Adviser expects that, over time, the correlation between the Fund's performance
and that of the Underlying Index, before fees and expenses, will exceed 95%. A
correlation percentage of 100% would indicate perfect correlation. If the Fund
uses a replication strategy, it can be expected to have greater correlation to
the Underlying Index than if it uses a representative sampling
strategy.
The Fund
concentrates its investments (i.e., holds 25% or more of its total assets) in a
particular industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent that
the Underlying Index is concentrated. As of January 31, 2026, the
Underlying Index was concentrated in the machinery and water utilities
industries and had significant exposure to the industrials and utilities
sectors. The Fund is classified as “non-diversified,” which
means it may invest a larger percentage of its assets in a smaller number of
issuers than a diversified fund.
SUMMARY
OF PRINCIPAL RISKS
As with any
investment, you could lose all or part of your investment in the Fund, and the
Fund’s performance could trail that of other investments. There
is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its investment objective.
An investment in the Fund is not a bank deposit and it is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other
government agency, the Adviser or any of its affiliates. The
Fund is subject to the principal risks noted below, any of which may adversely
affect the Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”), trading price, yield, total return
and ability to meet its investment objective, as well as other risks that are
described in greater detail in the Additional Information About the Funds
section of this Prospectus and in the Statement of Additional Information
(“SAI”).
Asset
Class Risk:
Securities and other assets in the Underlying Index or otherwise held in the
Fund's portfolio may underperform in comparison to the general securities
markets, a particular securities market or other asset classes.
Equity
Securities Risk: Equity securities are subject to
changes in value, and their values may be more volatile than other asset
classes, as a result of a company’s business performance, investor perceptions,
stock market trends and general economic
conditions.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Clean Water Companies: Clean
Water Companies typically face intense competition, short product lifecycles and
potentially rapid product obsolescence. These companies may also be heavily
dependent on intellectual property rights and may be adversely affected by loss
or impairment of those rights. There can be no assurance these companies will be
able to successfully protect their intellectual property to prevent the
misappropriation of their technology, or that competitors will not develop
technology that is substantially similar or superior to such companies’
technology. Clean Water Companies are subject to significant regulation
regarding the usage, treatment, and distribution of water. Clean Water Companies
may also be adversely affected by the impact of global climate change and
extreme weather events on the available supply of clean water reserves. The
ability of Clean Water Companies to effectively distribute clean water is
dependent on the infrastructure in which they operate. The customers and/or
suppliers of Clean Water Companies may be concentrated in a particular country,
region or industry. Any adverse event affecting one of these countries, regions
or industries could have a negative impact on Clean Water
Companies.
Capitalization
Risk:
Investing in issuers within the same market capitalization category carries the
risk that the category may be out of favor due to current market conditions or
investor sentiment.
Large-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Large-capitalization
companies may adapt more slowly to new competitive challenges and changing
market conditions than smaller capitalization companies. In addition,
large-capitalization companies may be more mature and subject to more limited
growth potential and consequently may underperform other segments of the equity
market or the market as a whole.
Mid-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Mid-capitalization companies may have
greater price volatility, lower trading volume and less liquidity than
large-capitalization companies. In addition, mid-capitalization companies may
have smaller revenues, narrower product lines, less management depth and
experience, smaller shares of their product or service markets, fewer financial
resources and less competitive strength than large-capitalization companies.
These securities may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly, from the
overall securities market.
Currency
Risk: The Fund may invest in securities denominated in foreign
currencies. Because the Fund's NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the Fund's NAV
could decline if currencies of the underlying securities depreciate against the
U.S. dollar or if there are delays or limits on repatriation of such currencies.
Generally, an increase in the value of the U.S. dollar against a foreign
currency will reduce the value of a security denominated in that foreign
currency, thereby decreasing the Fund's NAV. Exchange rates may be volatile and
may change quickly and without warning, which could have a significant negative
impact on the Fund.
Custody
Risk: Custody risk refers to the risks in the process of clearing and
settling trades, as well as the holding of securities and other assets by local
banks, agents, and securities depositories. These risks are heightened in
jurisdictions with less developed markets or less robust settlement and custody
infrastructure and processes.
Cybersecurity
Risk: With
the increased use of technologies such as the Internet to conduct business, the
Fund, like all companies, may be susceptible to operational, information
security and related risks. Cybersecurity incidents involving the Fund and its
service providers (including, without limitation, the Adviser, fund accountant,
custodian, transfer agent and financial intermediaries) have the ability to
cause disruptions and impact business operations, potentially resulting in
financial losses, impediments to trading, the inability of Fund shareholders to
transact business, violations of applicable privacy and other
laws, regulatory fines, penalties, reputational damage,
reimbursement or other compensation costs, and/or additional compliance
costs.
Focus
Risk:
The Fund may from time to time have a significant amount of its assets invested
in a particular industry, group of industries, or one or more sectors to
approximately the same extent that the Underlying Index focuses in investments
related to a particular industry, group of industries, and/or one or more
sectors. In such event, the Fund’s performance will depend to a greater extent
on the overall condition of such industry(ies) or sector(s), and an economic,
business, political, regulatory, or other occurrence affecting such
industry(ies) or sector(s) will have an increased impact on the value of the
Fund’s shares compared to the value of shares of a fund that invests in a
broader range of industries or sectors.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Industrials Sector: Companies in the industrials sector are subject to fluctuations in
supply and demand for their specific product or service. The products of
manufacturing companies may face product obsolescence due to rapid technological
developments. Government regulation, world events and economic conditions affect
the performance of companies in the industrials sector. Companies also may be
adversely affected by environmental damage and product liability claims. Also,
commodity price volatility, changes in exchange rates, imposition of import
controls or tariffs, increased competition, depletion of resources,
technological developments and labor relations could adversely affect the
companies in this sector.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Machinery Industry: The
machinery industry is capital-intensive. Working capital and cash flow
management can be crucial to a company's success, as investments in research and
development and acquisitions may be important to maintain sales and earnings. A
long capital investment cycle can add challenges to management decisions
regarding the expansion of capacity, which may limit a company’s ability to grow
during periods of increasing demand and may result in overcapacity during
periods of decreasing demand. The performance of the machinery industry may
therefore be highly dependent on the business cycle and highly correlated with
the performance of the broader equity market. Machinery industry companies with
large barriers to entry based on proprietary technology may face potentially
rapid product obsolescence. Conversely, machine industry companies that produce
commodity-like offerings are likely to face thin margins and must maintain
expansive distribution and support networks in order to maintain adequate
volume.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Utilities Sector: Companies
in the utilities sector may be adversely affected by changes in exchange rates,
domestic and international competition and governmental regulations on rates
charged to customers. Privatization and deregulation in the utilities sector may
subject companies to greater competition and losses in profitability. Companies
in the utilities sector may have difficulty obtaining an adequate return on
invested capital, raising capital, or financing large construction programs
during periods of inflation or unsettled capital markets. In addition, companies
in the utilities sector may be adversely affected due to increase in fuel and
operating costs and the costs of complying with regulations. Furthermore,
natural disasters, terrorist attacks, government intervention or other factors
may render a utility company's equipment unusable or obsolete and negatively
impact profitability.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Water Utilities Industry: Companies
in the water utilities industry may face difficulty in obtaining water resources
for resale or may be faced with increased regulation or operating costs.
Reliance on capital construction projects may increase the risks associated with
natural disasters, terrorist attacks, government intervention or other factors
that may render a water utility company’s equipment unusable or obsolete and
negatively impact profitability.
Foreign
Securities Risk:
Investments in foreign securities can be riskier than U.S. securities
investments. Investments in the securities of foreign issuers (including
investments in American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) and Global Depositary
Receipts (“GDRs”)) are subject to additional risks, including lower levels of
liquidity and market efficiency; greater securities price volatility; exchange
rate fluctuations and exchange controls; less availability of public information
about issuers; limitations on foreign ownership of securities; imposition of
withholding or other taxes; imposition of restrictions on the expatriation of
the assets of the Fund; restrictions placed on U.S. investors by U.S.
regulations governing foreign investments; higher transaction and custody costs
and delays in settlement procedures; difficulties in enforcing contractual
obligations; lower levels of regulation of the securities market; weaker
accounting, disclosure and reporting requirements; and legal principles relating
to corporate governance and directors’ fiduciary duties and liabilities. The
countries in which the Fund invests may also be subject to structural risks,
including economic, political and social instability. Additionally, certain
securities held by the Fund, while traded on U.S. exchanges, may be issued by
foreign financial institutions and as such, may be subject to the risks of
investing in securities issued by foreign companies, which may not be subject to
the same regulations as companies domiciled in the U.S. Where all or a portion
of the Fund's securities trade in a market that is closed when the market in
which the Fund's Shares are listed and trading is open, there may be differences
between the last quote from the security’s closed foreign market and the
value
of the security during the Fund’s domestic trading day. This, in turn, could
lead to differences between the market price of the Fund’s Shares and the
underlying value of those shares.
Geographic
Risk: The
Fund’s investments in securities of issuers located in a particular country or
geographic region may subject the Fund to certain risks to a greater extent than
if its investments were less focused, including: natural, biological or other
disasters and the spread of infectious diseases; economic, political and social
instability; security concerns; and trade disputes with key trading partners.
The securities in which the Fund invests and, consequently, the Fund is also
subject to specific risks as a result of their business operations in a
particular country or region, including, but not limited to:
Risk
of Investing in Developed Markets: Investments in a developed country’s issuer may subject the Fund to
legal, regulatory, political, currency, security, and economic risks specific to
developed countries. Developed countries tend to represent a significant portion
of the global economy and have generally experienced slower economic growth than
some less developed countries. Certain developed countries have experienced
security concerns, such as war, terrorism and strained international relations.
Incidents involving a country’s or region’s security may cause uncertainty in
its markets and may adversely affect its economy and the Fund’s investments. In
addition, developed countries may be adversely impacted by changes to the
economic conditions of certain key trading partners, regulatory burdens, debt
burdens and the price or availability of certain commodities.
Risk
of Investing in Emerging Markets: Investments in emerging markets may be subject to a greater risk of
loss than investments in developed markets. Securities markets of emerging
market countries are less liquid, subject to greater price volatility, have
smaller market capitalizations, have less government regulation, and are not
subject to as extensive and frequent accounting, financial, and other reporting
requirements as the securities markets of more developed countries, and there
may be greater risk associated with the custody of securities in emerging
markets. It may be difficult or impossible for the Fund to pursue claims against
an emerging market issuer in the courts of an emerging market country. There may
be significant obstacles to obtaining information necessary for investigations
into or litigation against emerging market companies and shareholders may have
limited legal rights and remedies. Emerging markets may be more likely to
experience inflation, political turmoil and rapid changes in economic conditions
than more developed markets. Emerging markets may also face other significant
internal or external risks, including the risk of war, terrorism, or other
social or political conflicts.
Risk
of Investing in the United States: Investments in United States issuers
may subject the Fund to legal, regulatory, political, currency, security, and
economic risks specific to the United States. A decrease in imports or exports,
changes in trade regulations, inflation and/or an economic recession in the U.S.
may have a material adverse effect on the U.S.
economy.
Indexing
Strategy Risk:
The Fund is not actively managed, and the Adviser does not attempt to take
defensive positions in declining markets. Unlike many investment companies, the
Fund does not seek to outperform its Underlying Index. Therefore, it would not
necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed,
respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is
underperforming. Additionally, if a constituent of the Underlying Index were
removed, even outside of a regular rebalance of the Underlying Index, the
Adviser anticipates that the Fund would sell such security. Maintaining
investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of
individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund
employed an active strategy.
Index-Related
Risk: There is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve a high degree of
correlation to the Underlying Index and therefore achieve its investment
objective. Market disruptions and regulatory restrictions could have an adverse
effect on the Fund’s ability to adjust its exposure to the required levels in
order to track the Underlying Index. Errors in index data, index computations
and/or the construction of the Underlying Index in accordance with its
methodology may occur from time to time and may not be identified and corrected
by the Index Provider for a period of time or at all, which may have an adverse
impact on the Fund and its shareholders.
Management
Risk: The Fund may not fully replicate its Underlying Index and may hold
securities not included in its Underlying Index. The Adviser’s investment
strategy, the implementation of which is subject to a number of constraints, may
cause the Fund to underperform the market or its relevant benchmark or adversely
affect the ability of the Fund to achieve its investment
objective.
Tracking
Error Risk:
Tracking error may occur because of differences between the instruments held in
the Fund's portfolio and those included in the Underlying Index, pricing
differences, transaction costs incurred by the Fund, the Fund's holding of
uninvested cash, size of the Fund, differences in timing of the accrual of or
the valuation of dividends or interest, tax gains or losses, changes to the
Underlying Index or the costs to the Fund of complying with
various
new or existing regulatory requirements. This risk may be heightened during
times of increased market volatility or other unusual market conditions.
Tracking error also may result because the Fund incurs fees and expenses, while
the Underlying Index does not. ETFs that track indices with significant weight
in emerging markets issuers may experience higher tracking error than other ETFs
that do not track such indices.
International
Closed Market Trading Risk: To
the extent that the underlying investments held by the Fund trade on foreign
exchanges that may be closed when the securities exchange on which the Fund’s
Shares trade is open, there are likely to be deviations between the current
price of such an underlying security and the last quoted price for the
underlying security (i.e., the Fund’s quote from the closed foreign market).
These deviations could result in premiums or discounts to the Fund’s NAV that
may be greater than those experienced by other exchange-traded funds
("ETFs").
Investable
Universe of Companies Risk:
The investable universe of companies in which the Fund may invest may be
limited. If a company no longer meets the Index Provider’s criteria for
inclusion in the Underlying Index, the Fund may need to reduce or eliminate its
holdings in that company. The reduction or elimination of the Fund’s holdings in
the company may have an adverse impact on the liquidity of the Fund’s overall
portfolio holdings and on Fund performance.
Issuer
Risk:
Fund performance depends on the performance of individual companies in which the
Fund invests. Changes to the financial condition of any of those companies may
cause the value of such company's securities to
decline.
Market
Risk: Turbulence in the financial markets and reduced liquidity may
negatively affect issuers, which could have an adverse effect on the Fund and
its investments. The Fund’s NAV could decline over short periods due to
short-term market movements and over longer periods during market downturns.
Trade policy, including the imposition of tariffs, may dampen consumer spending
and result in decreased confidence in the markets. Additionally, political
uncertainty regarding U.S. policy, including the U.S. government’s approach to
trade, may also impact the markets. Furthermore, local, regional or global
events such as war, acts of terrorism, the spread of infectious diseases,
inflation and recessions, changes in interest or exchange rates, or other events
could have a significant impact on the Fund and its investments and trading of
its Shares. Market risk factors may result in increased volatility and/or
decreased liquidity in the securities markets.
Non-Diversification
Risk: The Fund is classified as a “non-diversified” investment company
under the Investment Company Act of 1940 ("1940 Act"), which means that the Fund
may invest a greater portion of its assets in securities of individual issuers
than a diversified fund. As a result, changes in the market value of a single
investment may have a greater impact on the Fund’s NAV and may make the Fund
more volatile than more diversified funds.
Operational
Risk: The Fund is exposed to operational risk arising from a number of
factors, including but not limited to human error, processing and communication
errors, errors of the Fund's service providers, counterparties or other
third-parties, failed or inadequate processes, cyber security incidents, and
technology or systems failures. The Fund and the Adviser seek to reduce these
operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do
not address every possible risk and may be inadequate for those risks that they
are intended to address.
Risks
Associated with Exchange-Traded Funds:
As an ETF, the Fund is subject to the following risks:
Authorized
Participants Concentration Risk: The Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may
act as Authorized Participants and engage in creation or redemption transactions
directly with the Fund, and none of those Authorized Participants is obligated
to engage in creation and/or redemption transactions. To the extent that those
Authorized Participants exit the business or are unable to process creation
and/or redemption orders, such as in times of market stress, Shares may be more
likely to trade at a premium or discount to NAV and/or at wider intraday bid-ask
spreads, and possibly face trading halts and/or delisting from an exchange.
Authorized Participants Concentration Risk may be heightened because the Fund
invests in non-U.S. securities.
Large
Shareholder Risk: Certain
shareholders, including an Authorized Participant, the Adviser, an affiliate of
the Adviser, or funds managed by the Adviser, may own a substantial amount of
the Fund’s Shares. Redemptions by large shareholders could have a significant
negative impact on the Fund. If a large shareholder were to redeem all, or a
large portion, of its Shares, there is no guarantee that the Fund will be able
to maintain sufficient assets to continue operations in which case the Board of
Trustees may determine to liquidate the Fund. In addition, transactions by large
shareholders may account for a large percentage of the trading volume on a
national securities exchange and may, therefore, have a material upward or
downward effect on the market price of the Shares.
Listing
Standards Risk: The
Fund is required to comply with listing requirements adopted by the listing
exchange. Non-compliance with such requirements may result in the Fund's shares
being delisted by the listing exchange. Any
resulting
liquidation of the Fund could cause the Fund to incur elevated transaction costs
and could result in negative tax consequences for its
shareholders.
Market
Trading Risks and Premium/Discount
Risks: Shares of the Fund are publicly traded
on a national securities exchange, which may subject shareholders to numerous
market trading risks. In stressed market conditions, the market for the Shares
may become less liquid in response to the deteriorating liquidity of the Fund’s
portfolio. This adverse effect on the liquidity of the Shares, as well as
disruptions to creations and redemptions, the existence of extreme market
volatility or potential lack of assets in the Fund or an active trading market
for Shares may result in Shares trading at a significant premium or discount to
NAV. If a shareholder purchases Shares at a time when the market price is at a
premium to the NAV or sells Shares at a time when the market price is at a
discount to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain losses. The NAV of the Fund is
calculated at the end of each business day and fluctuates with changes in the
market value of the Fund’s holdings. The trading price of the Fund’s Shares
fluctuates, in some cases materially, throughout trading hours in response to
changes in the Fund’s NAV.
Trading
Halt Risk:
An exchange or market may close or issue trading halts on specific securities,
or the ability to buy or sell certain securities or financial instruments may be
restricted, which may result in the Fund being unable to buy or sell certain
securities or financial instruments. In such circumstances, the Fund may be
unable to rebalance its portfolio, may be unable to accurately price its
investments and/or may incur substantial trading
losses.
Valuation
Risk: The sales price the Fund could receive for a security may differ
from the Fund’s valuation of the security and may differ from the value used by
the Underlying Index, particularly for securities that trade in low value or
volatile markets or that are valued using a fair value methodology (such as
during trading halts). The value of the securities in the Fund's portfolio may
change on days when shareholders will not be able to purchase or sell the Fund's
Shares.
PERFORMANCE
INFORMATION
The bar chart
and table that follow show how the Fund performed on a calendar year basis and
provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes
in the Fund's performance from year to year and by showing the Fund's average
annual total returns for the indicated periods compared with the Fund's
broad-based benchmark index, which reflects a broad measure of market
performance, and the Underlying Index, which the Fund seeks to
track. The Fund's past performance
(before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will
perform in the future. Updated performance information is
available online at
www.globalxetfs.com.
Annual Total Returns
(Years Ended December 31)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| Best
Quarter: |
12/31/2023 |
16.17% |
| Worst
Quarter: |
6/30/2022 |
-13.41% |
Average Annual
Total Returns (for the Periods Ended December 31,
2025)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
One
Year Ended December 31, 2025 |
Since
Inception (04/08/2021) |
| Global
X Clean Water ETF: |
| |
| ·Return
before taxes |
13.26% |
6.46% |
|
·Return
after taxes on distributions1 |
12.82% |
6.06% |
|
·Return
after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund Shares1 |
8.07% |
4.99% |
|
MSCI ACWI Index (NR)
(USD)
(Index returns reflect
invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflect no deduction for
fees, expenses, or other taxes).
|
22.34% |
10.14% |
|
Solactive Global Clean Water Industry Index (NR)
(USD)
(Index returns reflect invested dividends net of withholding
taxes, but reflect no deduction for fees, expenses, or other
taxes). |
13.86% |
6.89% |
1
After-tax returns are
calculated using the historical highest individual U.S. federal marginal income
tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local
taxes. Your actual after-tax
returns will depend on your specific tax situation and may differ from those
shown above. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold Shares of
the Fund through tax-advantaged arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual
retirement accounts (IRAs).
FUND
MANAGEMENT
Investment
Adviser:
Global X Management Company LLC.
Portfolio
Managers:
The professionals primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the
Fund are Nam To, CFA and Wayne Xie (“Portfolio Managers”). Mr. To and Mr. Xie
have been a Portfolio Manager of the Fund since the Fund's inception.
PURCHASE
AND SALE OF FUND SHARES
Shares
of the Fund are or will be listed and traded at market prices on a national
securities exchange. Shares may only be purchased and sold on the exchange
through a broker-dealer. The price of Shares is based on market price, and
because ETF shares trade at market prices rather than at NAV, Shares may trade
at a price greater than NAV (a premium) or less than NAV (a discount). Only
"Authorized Participants" (as defined in the SAI) who have entered into
agreements with the Fund's distributor, SEI Investments Distribution Co.
("Distributor"), may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with
the Fund. The Fund will only issue or redeem Shares that have been aggregated
into blocks called "Creation Units". The Fund will issue or redeem Creation
Units in return for a basket of cash and/or securities that the Fund specifies
any day that the national securities exchanges are open for business (“Business
Day”). An investor may incur costs attributable to the difference between the
highest price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase shares of the Fund (bid) and
the lowest price a seller is willing to accept for shares of the Fund (ask) when
buying or selling shares in the secondary market (the “bid-ask spread”). To
access information regarding the Fund’s net asset value, market price, premiums
and discounts, and bid-ask spreads, please go to
www.globalxetfs.com.
TAX
INFORMATION
The
Fund intends to make distributions that may be taxable to you as ordinary income
or capital gains, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement
such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account ("IRA"), in which case
distributions from such tax-advantaged arrangement may be taxable to you.
PAYMENTS
TO BROKER-DEALERS AND OTHER FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES
The
Adviser and its related companies may pay broker-dealers or other financial
intermediaries (such as a bank) for the sale of Fund Shares and related
services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing your
broker-dealer, sales persons or other intermediary or its employees or
associated persons to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your
financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary's website for more
information.
Global X AgTech &
Food Innovation ETF
Ticker:
KROP Exchange: NASDAQ
INVESTMENT
OBJECTIVE
The
Global X AgTech & Food Innovation ETF ("Fund") seeks to provide investment
results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before
fees and expenses, of the Solactive AgTech & Food Innovation Index
("Underlying Index").
FEES AND
EXPENSES
This
table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and
sell shares (“Shares”) of the Fund. You
may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial
intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and examples
below.
Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment):
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0.50% |
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Distribution
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0.00% |
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0.50% |
Example:
The following example
is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost
of investing in other funds. This example does not take into account customary
brokerage commissions that you pay when purchasing or selling Shares of the Fund
in the secondary market. The example assumes
that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell
all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that
your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses
remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on
these assumptions, your costs would be:
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$628 |
Portfolio
Turnover:
The Fund pays transaction
costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over"
its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction
costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account.
These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the
example, affect the Fund's performance. For the most recent fiscal period, the
Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 32.81% of the average value of its
portfolio.
PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT
STRATEGIES
The
Fund invests at least 80% of its total assets, plus borrowings for investment
purposes (if any), in the securities of the Solactive AgTech & Food
Innovation Index (the "Underlying Index") and in American Depositary Receipts
("ADRs") and Global Depositary Receipts ("GDRs") based on the securities in the
Underlying Index. Solely for purposes of complying with this policy, the Fund
only views securities issued by AgTech & Food Innovation Companies and
Pre-Revenue AgTech & Food Innovation Companies (both as defined below) as
satisfying this criterion.
The Fund's 80% investment policy is non-fundamental and requires 60
days prior written notice to shareholders before it can be
changed. The Fund may lend securities representing up to
one-third of the value of the Fund’s total assets (including the value of the
collateral received).
The
Underlying Index is designed to provide exposure to companies that are
positioned to benefit from further advances in the fields of agricultural
technology (“AgTech”) and food innovation. Specifically, the Underlying Index
will include securities issued by “AgTech & Food Innovation Companies” as
defined by Solactive AG, the provider of the Underlying Index (the "Index
Provider"). “AgTech & Food Innovation Companies” are those companies that
derive at least 50% of their revenues, operating income, or assets from the
following business activities:
•AgTech
◦Precision
Agriculture:
Technologies used to increase crop yields and reduce levels of traditional
agricultural inputs (land, water, fertilizer, etc.) to grow crops more
profitably/efficiently. Business activities include the
development
of Geographic Information System (“GIS”) software and hardware for GIS-based
agriculture, precision weed control technologies, soil and water sensors,
weather tracking, and satellite imaging.
◦Robotics/Automation:
Technologies used to reduce labor and other farming inputs. Business activities
include the development of farming drones and autonomous farm equipment for
irrigation, soil management (agronomy), pollination, harvesting and processing
(e.g. robotic-enabled harvesters).
◦Controlled
Environment Agriculture (“CEA”):
Technologies and systems that optimize plant and/or fish farming and use
controlled environments to reduce the types and/or quantity of inputs required
for farming. Business activities include vertical farming, hydroponics,
aquaponics and aeroponics.
◦Agricultural
Biotechnology:
Biological/genetic technologies used to enhance agricultural cultivation and
yield. Business activities include the use of gene editing to develop crops with
higher yield, less water requirements, greater insect resistance,
etc.
•Food
Innovation
◦Protein
& Dairy Alternatives:
Products containing protein-rich ingredients sourced from plants, insects,
fungi, or through tissue culture that replace conventional animal-based protein
sources like meat and dairy. Business activities include the development of
plant-based and/or food-technology (e.g. molecular based) alternative proteins
and dairy.
◦Food
Waste Reduction:
Technologies and/or systems designed to reduce food-waste in the supply chain.
Business activities include the development of technology to track, monitor,
and/or preserve food (e.g. blockchain-based food sourcing and tracking systems
and software), as well as the development of products and services (e.g.
marketplaces) that reduce food waste.
In
addition, companies identified by the Index Provider as deriving greater than 0%
but less than 50% of revenue from the business activities described above
("Diversified AgTech & Food Innovation Companies"), as well as companies
identified by the Index Provider as having primary business operations in the
business activities described above but that do not currently generate revenues
(“Pre-Revenue AgTech & Food Innovation Companies”), are eligible for
inclusion in the Underlying Index if there are fewer than 30 eligible AgTech
& Food Innovation Companies. Diversified AgTech & Food Innovation
Companies and Pre-Revenue AgTech & Food Innovation Companies are
collectively subject to an aggregate weight cap of 15% at each semi-annual
rebalance.
In
constructing the Underlying Index, the Index Provider first applies a
proprietary natural language processing algorithm to the eligible universe,
which seeks to identify and rank companies involved in the fields of agriculture
technology and food innovation based on filings, disclosures and other public
information (e.g. regulatory filings, earnings transcripts, etc.). The
highest-ranking companies identified by the natural language processing
algorithm, as of the selection date, are further reviewed by the Index Provider
to confirm they derive at least 50% of their revenues from the business
activities described above, greater than 0% of their revenues from the business
activities described above in the case of Diversified AgTech & Food
Innovation Companies, or that they have primary business operations in the
business activities described above but do not currently generate revenues in
the case of Pre-Revenue AgTech & Food Innovation Companies.
To
be a part of the eligible universe of the Underlying Index, certain minimum
market capitalization and liquidity criteria, as defined by the Index Provider,
must be met. As of January 31, 2026, companies must have a minimum market
capitalization of $50 million and a minimum average daily turnover for the last
6 months greater than or equal to $.5 million in order to be eligible for
inclusion in the Underlying Index. As of January 31, 2026, companies listed
in the following countries were eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index:
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech
Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary,
Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands,
New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South
Africa, South Korea, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand,
Turkey, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The
Fund may invest in China A-Shares, which are issued by companies incorporated in
mainland China and traded on Chinese exchanges.
The
Underlying Index is weighted according to a modified capitalization weighting
methodology and is reconstituted and re-weighted semi-annually. Modified
capitalization weighting seeks to weight constituents primarily based on market
capitalization, but subject to caps on the weights of the individual securities.
During each rebalance, the maximum weight of a company is capped at 12%, the
aggregate weight of companies with a weight greater than or equal to 4.5% is
capped at 48%, and all remaining companies are capped at a weight of 4.5%, and
all constituents are subject to a minimum weight of 0.3%. In addition,
Diversified AgTech & Food Innovation Companies and Pre-Revenue AgTech &
Food Innovation Companies are subject to an individual weight cap of 2% and an
aggregate weight cap of 10% at each semi-annual rebalance. Generally speaking,
modified capitalization weighting will limit the amount of concentration in the
largest market capitalization companies and increase company-level
diversification. The Underlying Index may include large-, mid- or
small-capitalization companies, and components primarily include consumer
staples and materials companies. As of January 31, 2026, the
Underlying
Index had 30 constituents. The Fund's investment objective and Underlying Index
may be changed without shareholder approval.
The
Underlying Index is sponsored by the Index Provider, which is an organization
that is independent of, and unaffiliated with, the Fund and Global X Management
Company LLC, the investment adviser for the Fund ("Adviser"). In addition, any
determinations related to the constituents of the Underlying Index are made
independent of the Fund's portfolio managers. The Index Provider determines the
relative weightings of the securities in the Underlying Index and publishes
information regarding the market value of the Underlying Index.
The
Adviser uses an indexing approach to try to achieve the Fund's investment
objective. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not try to outperform
the Underlying Index and does not seek temporary defensive positions when
markets decline or appear overvalued.
The
Fund generally will use a replication strategy. A replication strategy is an
indexing strategy that involves investing in the securities of the Underlying
Index in approximately the same proportions as in the Underlying Index. However,
the Fund may utilize a representative sampling strategy with respect to the
Underlying Index when a replication strategy might be detrimental or
disadvantageous to shareholders, such as when there are practical difficulties
or substantial costs involved in compiling a portfolio of equity securities to
replicate the Underlying Index, in instances in which a security in the
Underlying Index becomes temporarily illiquid, unavailable or less liquid, or as
a result of legal restrictions or limitations (such as tax diversification
requirements) that apply to the Fund but not the Underlying Index.
The
Adviser expects that, over time, the correlation between the Fund's performance
and that of the Underlying Index, before fees and expenses, will exceed 95%. A
correlation percentage of 100% would indicate perfect correlation. If the Fund
uses a replication strategy, it can be expected to have greater correlation to
the Underlying Index than if it uses a representative sampling
strategy.
The Fund concentrates its investments
(i.e., holds 25% or more of its total assets) in a particular industry or group
of industries to approximately the same extent that the Underlying Index is
concentrated. As of January 31, 2026, the Underlying Index was concentrated
in the chemicals and machinery industries and had significant exposure to the
industrials, consumer staples, and materials sectors. The Fund
is classified as "non-diversified," which means it may invest a larger
percentage of its assets in a smaller number of issuers than a diversified
fund.
SUMMARY
OF PRINCIPAL RISKS
As with any
investment, you could lose all or part of your investment in the Fund, and the
Fund’s performance could trail that of other investments. There
is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its investment objective.
An investment in the Fund is not a bank deposit and it is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other
government agency, the Adviser or any of its affiliates. The
Fund is subject to the principal risks noted below, any of which may adversely
affect the Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”), trading price, yield, total return
and ability to meet its investment objective, as well as other risks that are
described in greater detail in the Additional Information About the Funds
section of this Prospectus and in the Statement of Additional Information
(“SAI”).
Asset
Class Risk:
Securities and other assets in the Underlying Index or otherwise held in the
Fund's portfolio may underperform in comparison to the general securities
markets, a particular securities market or other asset classes.
China
A-Shares Risk:
A-Shares are issued by companies incorporated in mainland China and are traded
on Chinese exchanges. Foreign investors can access investments in A-Shares by
obtaining a Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor ("QFII") or a Renminbi
Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor ("RQFII") license, as well as through
the Stock Connect Program, which is a securities trading and clearing program
with an aim to achieve mutual stock market access between the China and Hong
Kong markets. Stock Connect was developed by Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing
Limited, the Shanghai Stock Exchange ("SSE") (in the case of Shanghai Connect)
or the Shenzhen Stock Exchange ("SZSE") (in the case of Shenzhen Connect), and
the China Securities Depository and Clearing Corporation Limited (“CSDCC”). The
Fund currently intends to gain exposure to A-Shares through the Stock Connect
Programs. The markets on which A-Shares trade are considered emerging markets
characterized by generally low trading volume and less market liquidity due to
various factors. For example, investments in A-Shares are subject to various
regulations and limits, and the recoupment or repatriation of assets invested in
A-Shares is subject to restrictions imposed by the Chinese government. In
addition, investors from outside mainland China may face difficulties or
prohibitions accessing certain A-Shares that are part of a restricted list in
countries such as the U.S. A-Shares may also be subject to frequent and
widespread trading halts, which can increase pricing volatility and cause the
A-Shares to
become
illiquid. Trading suspensions in certain stock could lead to greater market
execution, clearing and settlement risks and costs for the Fund, and the
creation and redemption of Creation Units (as defined below) may also be
disrupted. These risks, among others, could adversely affect the value of the
Fund’s investments.
Equity
Securities Risk: Equity securities are subject to
changes in value, and their values may be more volatile than other asset
classes, as a result of a company’s business performance, investor perceptions,
stock market trends and general economic
conditions.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in AgTech & Food Innovation Companies:
AgTech
& Food Innovation companies may have limited product lines, markets,
financial resources or personnel. These companies typically face intense
competition and potentially rapid product obsolescence. These companies are also
heavily dependent on intellectual property rights and may be adversely affected
by loss or impairment of those rights. AgTech & Food Innovation companies
are substantially affected by developments related to the agriculture industry,
including the impact of global climate change on agricultural production. AgTech
& Food Innovation companies, especially smaller companies, tend to be more
volatile than companies that do not rely heavily on technology. AgTech &
Food Innovation companies may be adversely affected by commodity price
volatility, changes in exchange rates, imposition of import controls,
availability of certain inputs and materials required for production, depletion
of resources, technological developments and labor relations. AgTech & Food
Innovation companies are also subject to significant environmental and safety
regulations that could adversely affect their business. The customers and/or
suppliers of AgTech & Food Innovation companies may be concentrated in a
particular country, region or industry. Any adverse event affecting one of these
countries, regions or industries could have a negative impact on AgTech &
Food Innovation companies.
Capitalization
Risk:
Investing in issuers within the same market capitalization category carries the
risk that the category may be out of favor due to current market conditions or
investor sentiment.
Large-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Large-capitalization
companies may adapt more slowly to new competitive challenges and changing
market conditions than smaller capitalization companies. In addition,
large-capitalization companies may be more mature and subject to more limited
growth potential and consequently may underperform other segments of the equity
market or the market as a whole.
Mid-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Mid-capitalization
companies may have greater price volatility, lower trading volume and less
liquidity than large-capitalization companies. In addition, mid-capitalization
companies may have smaller revenues, narrower product lines, less management
depth and experience, smaller shares of their product or service markets, fewer
financial resources and less competitive strength than large-capitalization
companies. These securities may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly,
from the overall securities market.
Small-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Small-capitalization companies may be
less stable and more susceptible to adverse developments, and their securities
may be more volatile and less liquid than large- and mid-capitalization
companies. In addition, small-capitalization companies may have smaller
revenues, narrower product lines, less management depth and experience, smaller
shares of their product or service markets, fewer financial resources, and
shorter operating histories than large- and mid-capitalization companies. These
securities may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly, from the overall
securities market.
Currency
Risk: The Fund may invest in securities denominated in foreign
currencies. Because the Fund's NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the Fund's NAV
could decline if currencies of the underlying securities depreciate against the
U.S. dollar or if there are delays or limits on repatriation of such currencies.
Generally, an increase in the value of the U.S. dollar against a foreign
currency will reduce the value of a security denominated in that foreign
currency, thereby decreasing the Fund's NAV. Exchange rates may be volatile and
may change quickly and without warning, which could have a significant negative
impact on the Fund.
Custody
Risk:
Custody risk refers to the risks in the process of clearing and settling trades,
as well as the holding of securities and other assets by local banks, agents,
and securities depositories. These risks are heightened in jurisdictions with
less developed markets or less robust settlement and custody infrastructure and
processes.
Cybersecurity
Risk: With
the increased use of technologies such as the Internet to conduct business, the
Fund, like all companies, may be susceptible to operational, information
security and related risks. Cybersecurity incidents involving the Fund and its
service providers (including, without limitation, the Adviser, fund accountant,
custodian, transfer agent and financial intermediaries) have the ability to
cause disruptions and impact business operations, potentially resulting in
financial losses, impediments to trading, the inability of Fund shareholders to
transact business, violations of applicable privacy and other
laws, regulatory fines, penalties, reputational damage,
reimbursement or other compensation costs, and/or additional compliance
costs.
Focus
Risk:
The Fund may from time to time have a significant amount of its assets invested
in a particular industry, group of industries, or one or more sectors to
approximately the same extent that the Underlying Index focuses in investments
related to a particular industry, group of industries, and/or one or more
sectors. In such event, the Fund’s performance will depend to a greater extent
on the overall condition of such industry(ies) or sector(s), and an economic,
business, political, regulatory, or other occurrence affecting such
industry(ies) or sector(s) will have an increased impact on the value of the
Fund’s shares compared to the value of shares of a fund that invests in a
broader range of industries or sectors.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Chemicals Industry: The
chemicals industry can be significantly affected by intense competition, product
obsolescence, raw materials prices, and government regulation, and can be
subject to risks associated with the production, handling and disposal of
hazardous components, and litigation arising out of environmental
contamination.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Consumer Staples Sector: The
consumer staples sector may be affected by, among other things, marketing
campaigns, changes in consumer demands, government regulations and changes in
commodity prices.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Industrials Sector: Companies in the industrials sector are subject to fluctuations in
supply and demand for their specific product or service. The products of
manufacturing companies may face product obsolescence due to rapid technological
developments. Government regulation, world events and economic conditions affect
the performance of companies in the industrials sector. Companies also may be
adversely affected by environmental damage and product liability claims. Also,
commodity price volatility, changes in exchange rates, imposition of import
controls or tariffs, increased competition, depletion of resources,
technological developments and labor relations could adversely affect the
companies in this sector.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Machinery Industry: The
machinery industry is capital-intensive. Working capital and cash flow
management can be crucial to a company's success, as investments in research and
development and acquisitions may be important to maintain sales and earnings. A
long capital investment cycle can add challenges to management decisions
regarding the expansion of capacity, which may limit a company’s ability to grow
during periods of increasing demand and may result in overcapacity during
periods of decreasing demand. The performance of the machinery industry may
therefore be highly dependent on the business cycle and highly correlated with
the performance of the broader equity market. Machinery industry companies with
large barriers to entry based on proprietary technology may face potentially
rapid product obsolescence. Conversely, machine industry companies that produce
commodity-like offerings are likely to face thin margins and must maintain
expansive distribution and support networks in order to maintain adequate
volume.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Materials Sector:
Companies in the materials sector are
affected by commodity price volatility, exchange rates, import and export
controls, supply chain disruptions, worldwide competition, social and political
unrest, war, depletion of resources, technical advances, labor relations,
over-production, litigation and government regulations, among other factors,
among other factors.
Foreign
Securities Risk:
Investments in foreign securities can be riskier than U.S. securities
investments. Investments in the securities of foreign issuers (including
investments in American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) and Global Depositary
Receipts (“GDRs”)) are subject to additional risks, including lower levels of
liquidity and market efficiency; greater securities price volatility; exchange
rate fluctuations and exchange controls; less availability of public information
about issuers; limitations on foreign ownership of securities; imposition of
withholding or other taxes; imposition of restrictions on the expatriation of
the assets of the Fund; restrictions placed on U.S. investors by U.S.
regulations governing foreign investments; higher transaction and custody costs
and delays in settlement procedures; difficulties in enforcing contractual
obligations; lower levels of regulation of the securities market; weaker
accounting, disclosure and reporting requirements; and legal principles relating
to corporate governance and directors’ fiduciary duties and liabilities. The
countries in which the Fund invests may also be subject to structural risks,
including economic, political and social instability. Additionally, certain
securities held by the Fund, while traded on U.S. exchanges, may be issued by
foreign financial institutions and as such, may be subject to the risks of
investing in securities issued by foreign companies, which may not be subject to
the same regulations as companies domiciled in the U.S. Where all or a portion
of the Fund's securities trade in a market that is closed when the market in
which the Fund's Shares are listed and trading is open, there may be differences
between the last quote from the security’s closed foreign market and the value
of the security during the Fund’s domestic trading day. This, in turn, could
lead to differences between the market price of the Fund’s Shares and the
underlying value of those shares.
Geographic
Risk: The
Fund’s investments in securities of issuers located in a particular country or
geographic region may subject the Fund to certain risks to a greater extent than
if its investments were less focused, including: natural, biological or other
disasters and the spread of infectious diseases; economic, political and social
instability; security concerns; and trade disputes with key trading partners.
The securities in which the Fund invests and, consequently, the Fund is also
subject to specific risks as a result of their business operations in a
particular country or region, including, but not limited to:
Risk
of Investing in China:
Investments in Chinese securities may subject the Fund to legal, regulatory,
political, currency, security, and economic risks specific to China. China may
be subject to considerable degrees of economic, political and social
instability. Concerns about the rising government and household debt levels
could impact the stability of the Chinese economy. Despite economic and market
reform in recent decades, the Chinese government’s control over certain sectors
and enterprises and significant regulation of investment and industry are
pervasive. Chinese companies are subject to the risk that Chinese authorities
can intervene in their operations and structure. Internal social unrest or
confrontations with other countries, including military conflicts in response to
such events, may disrupt economic development in China and result in a greater
risk of currency fluctuations, currency convertibility, interest rate
fluctuations and higher rates of inflation.
The
Chinese economy is highly reliant on trade. Reduction in spending on Chinese
products and services, institution of additional tariffs or other trade barriers
(including as a result of heightened trade tensions between China and the U.S.
or in response to actual or alleged Chinese cyber activity), or a downturn in
any of the economies of China’s key trading partners may have an adverse impact
on the Chinese economy.
China
has experienced security concerns, such as terrorism and strained international
relations. Additionally, China is alleged to have participated in
state-sponsored cyberattacks against foreign companies and foreign governments.
Actual and threatened responses to such activity, including purchasing
restrictions, sanctions, tariffs or cyberattacks on the Chinese government or
Chinese companies, may impact China’s economy and Chinese issuers in which the
Fund invests. Incidents involving China’s or the region’s security may adversely
affect the Chinese economy and the Fund’s investments. Chinese companies,
including those listed on U.S. exchanges, are not subject to the same degree of
regulatory requirements, accounting standards or auditor oversight as companies
in more developed countries, and as a result, information about the Chinese
securities in which the Fund invests may be less reliable or complete. There may
be significant obstacles to obtaining information necessary for investigations
into or litigation against Chinese companies and shareholders may have limited
legal remedies. Investments in China may be subject to loss due to
expropriation, nationalization, confiscation of assets and property, and or the
imposition of restrictions on foreign investments and repatriation of capital.
In addition, many Chinese companies listed on U.S. exchanges use variable
interest entities (“VIEs”) in their structure as a result of foreign ownership
restriction. Any change in the operations of entities in a VIE structure, the
status of VIE contractual arrangements or the legal or regulatory environment in
China could result in significant, and possibly permanent and/or total, losses
for investments in VIE issuers.
Risk
of Investing in Developed Markets: Investments in a developed country’s issuer may subject the Fund to
legal, regulatory, political, currency, security, and economic risks specific to
developed countries. Developed countries tend to represent a significant portion
of the global economy and have generally experienced slower economic growth than
some less developed countries. Certain developed countries have experienced
security concerns, such as war, terrorism and strained international relations.
Incidents involving a country’s or region’s security may cause uncertainty in
its markets and may adversely affect its economy and the Fund’s investments. In
addition, developed countries may be adversely impacted by changes to the
economic conditions of certain key trading partners, regulatory burdens, debt
burdens and the price or availability of certain commodities.
Risk
of Investing in Emerging Markets: Investments in emerging markets may be subject to a greater risk of
loss than investments in developed markets. Securities markets of emerging
market countries are less liquid, subject to greater price volatility, have
smaller market capitalizations, have less government regulation, and are not
subject to as extensive and frequent accounting, financial, and other reporting
requirements as the securities markets of more developed countries, and there
may be greater risk associated with the custody of securities in emerging
markets. It may be difficult or impossible for the Fund to pursue claims against
an emerging market issuer in the courts of an emerging market country. There may
be significant obstacles to obtaining information necessary for investigations
into or litigation against emerging market companies and shareholders may have
limited legal rights and remedies. Emerging markets may be more likely to
experience inflation, political turmoil and rapid changes in economic conditions
than more developed markets. Emerging markets may also face other significant
internal or external risks, including the risk of war, terrorism, or other
social or political conflicts.
Risk
of Investing in the United States: Investments in United States issuers
may subject the Fund to legal, regulatory, political, currency, security, and
economic risks specific to the United States. A decrease in imports or exports,
changes in trade regulations, inflation and/or an economic recession in the U.S.
may have a material adverse effect on the U.S.
economy.
Indexing
Strategy Risk:
The Fund is not actively managed, and the Adviser does not attempt to take
defensive positions in declining markets. Unlike many investment companies, the
Fund does not seek to outperform its Underlying Index. Therefore, it would not
necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed,
respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is
underperforming. Additionally, if a constituent of the Underlying Index were
removed, even outside of a regular rebalance of the Underlying Index, the
Adviser anticipates that the Fund would sell such security. Maintaining
investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of
individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund
employed an active strategy.
Index-Related
Risk: There is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve a high degree of
correlation to the Underlying Index and therefore achieve its investment
objective. Market disruptions and regulatory restrictions could have an adverse
effect on the Fund’s ability to adjust its exposure to the required levels in
order to track the Underlying Index. Errors in index data, index computations
and/or the construction of the Underlying Index in accordance with its
methodology may occur from time to time and may not be identified and corrected
by the Index Provider for a period of time or at all, which may have an adverse
impact on the Fund and its shareholders.
Management
Risk: The Fund may not fully replicate its Underlying Index and may hold
securities not included in its Underlying Index. The Adviser’s investment
strategy, the implementation of which is subject to a number of constraints, may
cause the Fund to underperform the market or its relevant benchmark or adversely
affect the ability of the Fund to achieve its investment
objective.
Tracking
Error Risk:
Tracking error may occur because of differences between the instruments held in
the Fund's portfolio and those included in the Underlying Index, pricing
differences, transaction costs incurred by the Fund, the Fund's holding of
uninvested cash, size of the Fund, differences in timing of the accrual of or
the valuation of dividends or interest, tax gains or losses, changes to the
Underlying Index or the costs to the Fund of complying with various new or
existing regulatory requirements. This risk may be heightened during times of
increased market volatility or other unusual market conditions. Tracking error
also may result because the Fund incurs fees and expenses, while the Underlying
Index does not. ETFs that track indices with significant weight in emerging
markets issuers may experience higher tracking error than other ETFs that do not
track such indices.
International
Closed Market Trading Risk: To
the extent that the underlying investments held by the Fund trade on foreign
exchanges that may be closed when the securities exchange on which the Fund’s
Shares trade is open, there are likely to be deviations between the current
price of such an underlying security and the last quoted price for the
underlying security (i.e., the Fund’s quote from the closed foreign market).
These deviations could result in premiums or discounts to the Fund’s NAV that
may be greater than those experienced by other exchange-traded funds
("ETFs").
Investable
Universe of Companies Risk:
The investable universe of companies in which the Fund may invest may be
limited. If a company no longer meets the Index Provider’s criteria for
inclusion in the Underlying Index, the Fund may need to reduce or eliminate its
holdings in that company. The reduction or elimination of the Fund’s holdings in
the company may have an adverse impact on the liquidity of the Fund’s overall
portfolio holdings and on Fund performance.
Issuer
Risk: Fund performance depends on the performance of individual companies
in which the Fund invests. Changes to the financial condition of any of those
companies may cause the value of such company's securities to
decline.
Market
Risk: Turbulence in the financial markets and reduced liquidity may
negatively affect issuers, which could have an adverse effect on the Fund and
its investments. The Fund’s NAV could decline over short periods due to
short-term market movements and over longer periods during market downturns.
Trade policy, including the imposition of tariffs, may dampen consumer spending
and result in decreased confidence in the markets. Additionally, political
uncertainty regarding U.S. policy, including the U.S. government’s approach to
trade, may also impact the markets. Furthermore, local, regional or global
events such as war, acts of terrorism, the spread of infectious diseases,
inflation and recessions, changes in interest or exchange rates, or other events
could have a significant impact on the Fund and its investments and trading of
its Shares. Market risk factors may result in increased volatility and/or
decreased liquidity in the securities markets.
Non-Diversification
Risk: The Fund is classified as a “non-diversified” investment company
under the Investment Company Act of 1940 ("1940 Act"), which means that the Fund
may invest a greater portion of its assets in securities of individual issuers
than a diversified fund. As a result, changes in the market value of a single
investment may have a greater impact on the Fund’s NAV and may make the Fund
more volatile than more diversified funds.
Operational
Risk: The Fund is exposed to operational risk arising from a number of
factors, including but not limited to human error, processing and communication
errors, errors of the Fund's service providers, counterparties or other
third-parties, failed or inadequate processes, cyber security incidents, and
technology or systems failures. The Fund and the Adviser seek to reduce these
operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do
not address every possible risk and may be inadequate for those risks that they
are intended to address.
Risks
Associated with Exchange-Traded Funds:
As an ETF, the Fund is subject to the following risks:
Authorized
Participants Concentration Risk: The Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may
act as Authorized Participants and engage in creation or redemption transactions
directly with the Fund, and none of those Authorized Participants is obligated
to engage in creation and/or redemption transactions. To the extent that those
Authorized Participants exit the business or are unable to process creation
and/or redemption orders, such as in times of market stress, Shares may be more
likely to trade at a premium or discount to NAV and/or at wider intraday bid-ask
spreads, and possibly face trading halts and/or delisting from an exchange.
Authorized Participants Concentration Risk may be heightened because the Fund
invests in non-U.S. securities.
Large
Shareholder Risk: Certain
shareholders, including an Authorized Participant, the Adviser, an affiliate of
the Adviser, or funds managed by the Adviser, may own a substantial amount of
the Fund’s Shares. Redemptions by large shareholders could have a significant
negative impact on the Fund. If a large shareholder were to redeem all, or a
large portion, of its Shares, there is no guarantee that the Fund will be able
to maintain sufficient assets to continue operations in which case the Board of
Trustees may determine to liquidate the Fund. In addition, transactions by large
shareholders may account for a large percentage of the trading volume on a
national securities exchange and may, therefore, have a material upward or
downward effect on the market price of the Shares.
Listing
Standards Risk: The
Fund is required to comply with listing requirements adopted by the listing
exchange. Non-compliance with such requirements may result in the Fund's shares
being delisted by the listing exchange. Any resulting liquidation of the Fund
could cause the Fund to incur elevated transaction costs and could result in
negative tax consequences for its shareholders.
Market
Trading Risks and Premium/Discount
Risks: Shares of the Fund are publicly traded
on a national securities exchange, which may subject shareholders to numerous
market trading risks. In stressed market conditions, the market for the Shares
may become less liquid in response to the deteriorating liquidity of the Fund’s
portfolio. This adverse effect on the liquidity of the Shares, as well as
disruptions to creations and redemptions, the existence of extreme market
volatility or potential lack of assets in the Fund or an active trading market
for Shares may result in Shares trading at a significant premium or discount to
NAV. If a shareholder purchases Shares at a time when the market price is at a
premium to the NAV or sells Shares at a time when the market price is at a
discount to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain losses. The NAV of the Fund is
calculated at the end of each business day and fluctuates with changes in the
market value of the Fund’s holdings. The trading price of the Fund’s Shares
fluctuates, in some cases materially, throughout trading hours in response to
changes in the Fund’s NAV.
Risks
Related to Stock Connect Programs:
A Fund may purchase shares in mainland China-based companies that trade on
Chinese stock exchanges (“China A-Shares”) through the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock
Connect program and Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect program (“the Stock Connect
Programs”). Trading through the Stock Connect Programs is subject to a number of
restrictions, including daily and aggregate quota limitations, which may
restrict or preclude the Fund’s ability to enter into and exit Stock Connect
positions on a timely basis. The Shenzhen and Shanghai markets may operate when
the Stock Connect Programs are not active, and consequently the prices of shares
held via Stock Connect Programs may fluctuate at times when the Fund is unable
to add to or exit its positions. The Stock Connect Programs are relatively new
trading platforms, and the effect of the introduction of large numbers of
foreign investors on the market for trading Chinese-listed securities is not yet
well understood. Further developments to the Stock Connect Programs are likely
and there can be no assurance as to whether or how such developments may
restrict or affect the Fund’s investments or returns. Regulations, such as
limitations on redemptions or suspension of trading, may adversely impact the
Stock Connect Programs and in turn, adversely impact the value of the Fund’s
investments. The Fund's investments in A-Shares though the Stock Connect Program
are held by its custodian in accounts in Central Clearing and Settlement System
("CCASS") maintained by the Hong Kong Securities Clearing Company Limited
("HKSCC"), which in turn holds the A-Shares, as the nominee holder, through an
omnibus securities account
in its name registered with the CSDCC. The precise nature and rights
of the Fund as the beneficial owner of the SSE Securities or SZSE Securities
through HKSCC as nominee is not well defined under Chinese law. There is no
guarantee that the Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Hong Kong Stock Exchanges will
continue to support the Stock Connect Programs in the future.
Securities
Lending Risk:
Securities lending involves a risk of loss because the borrower may fail to
return the securities in a timely manner or at all. If the Fund is not able to
recover the securities loaned, it may sell the collateral and purchase a
replacement security in the market. Lending securities entails a risk of loss to
the Fund if and to the extent that the market value of the loaned securities
increases and the collateral is not increased accordingly. Additionally, the
Fund will bear any loss on the investment of cash collateral it receives. These
events could also trigger adverse tax consequences for the Fund. As securities
on loan may not be voted by the Fund, there is a risk that the Fund may not be
able to recall the securities in sufficient time to vote on material proxy
matters.
Trading
Halt Risk:
An exchange or market may close or issue trading halts on specific securities,
or the ability to buy or sell certain securities or financial instruments may be
restricted, which may result in the Fund being unable to buy or sell certain
securities or financial instruments. In such circumstances, the Fund may be
unable to rebalance its portfolio, may be unable to accurately price its
investments and/or may incur substantial trading
losses.
Valuation
Risk: The sales price the Fund could receive for a security may differ
from the Fund’s valuation of the security and may differ from the value used by
the Underlying Index, particularly for securities that trade in low value or
volatile markets or that are valued using a fair value methodology (such as
during trading halts). The value of the securities in the Fund's portfolio may
change on days when shareholders will not be able to purchase or sell the Fund's
Shares.
PERFORMANCE
INFORMATION
The bar chart
and table that follow show how the Fund performed on a calendar year basis and
provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes
in the Fund's performance from year to year and by showing the Fund's average
annual total returns for the indicated periods compared with the Fund's
broad-based benchmark index, which reflects a broad measure of market
performance, and the Underlying Index, which the Fund seeks to
track. The Fund's past performance
(before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will
perform in the future. Updated performance information is
available online at
www.globalxetfs.com.
Annual Total Returns
(Years Ended December 31)
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| Best
Quarter: |
9/30/2024 |
7.12% |
| Worst
Quarter: |
6/30/2022 |
-20.39% |
Average Annual
Total Returns (for the Periods Ended December 31,
2025)
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One
Year Ended December 31, 2025 |
Since
Inception (07/12/2021) |
| Global
X AgTech & Food Innovation ETF: |
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| ·Return
before taxes |
7.66% |
-17.20% |
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·Return
after taxes on distributions1 |
6.96% |
-17.54% |
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·Return
after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund Shares1 |
5.00% |
-11.96% |
|
MSCI ACWI Index (NR)
(USD)
(Index returns reflect
invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflect no deduction for
fees, expenses, or other taxes).
|
22.34% |
9.44% |
|
Solactive AgTech & Food Innovation Index (NR)
(USD)
(Index returns reflect invested dividends net of withholding
taxes, but reflect no deduction for fees, expenses, or other
taxes). |
7.78% |
-16.94% |
1
After-tax returns are
calculated using the historical highest individual U.S. federal marginal income
tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local
taxes. Your actual after-tax
returns will depend on your specific tax situation and may differ from those
shown above. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold Shares of
the Fund through tax-advantaged arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual
retirement accounts (IRAs).
FUND
MANAGEMENT
Investment
Adviser:
Global X Management Company LLC.
Portfolio
Managers:
The professionals primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the
Fund are Nam To, CFA and Wayne Xie (“Portfolio Managers”). Mr. To and Mr. Xie
have been a Portfolio Manager of the Fund since the Fund's inception.
PURCHASE
AND SALE OF FUND SHARES
Shares
of the Fund are or will be listed and traded at market prices on a national
securities exchange. Shares may only be purchased and sold on the exchange
through a broker-dealer. The price of Shares is based on market price, and
because ETF shares trade at market prices rather than at NAV, Shares may trade
at a price greater than NAV (a premium) or less than NAV (a discount). Only
"Authorized Participants" (as defined in the SAI) who have entered into
agreements with the Fund's distributor, SEI Investments Distribution Co.
("Distributor"), may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with
the Fund. The Fund will only issue or redeem Shares that have been aggregated
into blocks called "Creation Units". The Fund will issue or redeem Creation
Units in return for a basket of cash and/or securities that the Fund specifies
any day that the national securities exchanges are open for business (“Business
Day”). An investor may incur costs attributable to the difference between the
highest price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase shares of the Fund (bid) and
the lowest price a seller is willing to accept for shares of the Fund (ask) when
buying or selling shares in the secondary market (the “bid-ask spread”). To
access information regarding the Fund’s net asset value, market price, premiums
and discounts, and bid-ask spreads, please go to
www.globalxetfs.com.
TAX
INFORMATION
The
Fund intends to make distributions that may be taxable to you as ordinary income
or capital gains, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement
such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account ("IRA"), in which case
distributions from such tax-advantaged arrangement may be taxable to you.
PAYMENTS
TO BROKER-DEALERS AND OTHER FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES
The
Adviser and its related companies may pay broker-dealers or other financial
intermediaries (such as a bank) for the sale of Fund Shares and related
services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing your
broker-dealer, sales persons or other intermediary or its employees or
associated persons to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your
financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary's website for more
information.
Global X Blockchain
ETF
Ticker:
BKCH Exchange: NASDAQ
INVESTMENT
OBJECTIVE
The
Global X Blockchain ETF ("Fund") seeks to provide investment results that
correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and
expenses, of the Solactive Blockchain Index ("Underlying
Index").
FEES AND
EXPENSES
This
table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and
sell shares (“Shares”) of the Fund. You
may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial
intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and examples
below.
Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment):
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Management
Fees: |
0.50% |
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Distribution
and Service (12b-1) Fees: |
None |
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Other
Expenses: |
0.00% |
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Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses: |
0.50% |
Example:
The following example
is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost
of investing in other funds. This example does not take into account customary
brokerage commissions that you pay when purchasing or selling Shares of the Fund
in the secondary market. The example assumes
that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell
all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that
your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses
remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on
these assumptions, your costs would be:
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Year |
Three
Years |
Five
Years |
Ten
Years |
| $51 |
$160 |
$280 |
$628 |
Portfolio
Turnover:
The Fund pays transaction
costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over"
its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction
costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account.
These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the
example, affect the Fund's performance. For the most recent fiscal period, the
Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 58.03% of the average value of its
portfolio.
PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT
STRATEGIES
The Fund
invests at least 80% of its total assets, plus borrowings for investment
purposes (if any), in the securities of the Solactive Blockchain Index (the
"Underlying Index") and in American Depositary Receipts ("ADRs") and Global
Depositary Receipts ("GDRs") based on the securities in the Underlying Index.
Solely for purposes of complying with this policy, the Fund only views
securities issued by Blockchain Companies (as defined below) as satisfying this
criterion. The Fund's 80% investment policy is non-fundamental and requires 60
days prior written notice to shareholders before it can be
changed. The Fund may lend securities representing up to
one-third of the value of the Fund’s total assets (including the value of the
collateral received).
The
Underlying Index is designed to provide exposure to companies that are
positioned to benefit from further advances in the field of blockchain
technology. A blockchain is a peer-to-peer shared, distributed ledger (or
decentralized database) that facilitates the recording of transactions and
tracking of assets without the need for the use of a central authority acting as
a trusted intermediary (i.e., a bank). Certain users, known as nodes, elect to
maintain a copy of the database (“ledger”) on their computer. Nodes connect on a
peer-to-peer basis with other nodes, propagating transactions and blocks across
the network to be independently verified by other nodes according to the
network’s rules. Transactions are aggregated into blocks which record the time
and sequence of transactions, like new pages of a ledger. “Blocks” are linked
together with the prior block to form a “chain”, or a “blockchain”, which grows
linearly in time with the addition of each subsequent block, or page of the
ledger. The resulting blockchain is a distributed, time-stamped ledger of
information—because the rules for adding information to the
ledger
are public, any transactions and new pages of the ledger can be independently
verified by any user maintaining a copy of the ledger, resulting in a shared and
continually reconciled database. Blockchains may also be private or public
networks. A public blockchain network is a publicly available set of rules that
anyone can download and run to participate in the network. A private blockchain
network is a centralized blockchain that requires an invitation from the
originator of the network to participate. Specifically, the Underlying Index
will include securities issued by “Blockchain Companies” as defined by Solactive
AG, the provider of the Underlying Index (the "Index Provider"). “Blockchain
Companies” are those companies that derive at least 50% of their revenues,
operating income, or assets from the following business activities:
1.Digital
Asset Mining:
Companies involved in verifying and adding digital asset transactions to a
blockchain ledger (i.e., digital asset mining), or that produce technology used
in digital asset mining.
2.Blockchain
& Digital Asset Transactions:
Companies that operate trading platforms/exchanges, custodians, wallets, and/or
payment gateways for digital assets issued on a blockchain.
3.Blockchain
Applications:
Companies involved in the development and distribution of applications and
software services related to blockchain technology and digital assets issued on
a blockchain, including smart contracts.
4.Blockchain
& Digital Asset Hardware:
Companies that manufacture and distribute infrastructure and/or hardware used
for blockchain activities and digital assets issued on a blockchain.
5.Blockchain
& Digital Asset Integration:
Companies that provide engineering and consulting services for the adoption and
utilization of blockchain technology and digital assets issued on a blockchain.
For purposes of the definition of “Blockchain Companies”, the Index Provider
will consider only those revenues, operating income, or assets from consulting
and/or engineering services specifically related to blockchain and digital asset
technologies.
The
Fund will not invest in digital assets (including cryptocurrencies) (i) directly
or (ii) indirectly through the use of digital asset derivatives.
In
addition, companies identified by the Index Provider as deriving greater than 0%
but less than 50% of revenue from the business activities described above
("Diversified Blockchain Companies"), as well as companies identified by the
Index Provider as having primary business operations in the business activities
described above but that do not currently generate revenues (“Pre-Revenue
Blockchain Companies”, are eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index if
there are fewer than 25 eligible Blockchain Companies. Diversified Blockchain
Companies and Pre-Revenue Blockchain Companies are collectively subject to an
aggregate weight cap of 10% at each semi-annual rebalance.
In
constructing the Underlying Index, the Index Provider first applies a
proprietary natural language processing algorithm to the eligible universe,
which seeks to identify and rank companies involved in the blockchain fields
based on filings, disclosures and other public information (e.g. regulatory
filings, earnings transcripts, etc.). The highest-ranking companies identified
by the natural language processing algorithm, as of the selection date, are
further reviewed by the Index Provider to confirm they derive at least 50% of
their revenues from the business activities described above, greater than 0% of
their revenues from the business activities described above in the case of
Diversified Blockchain Companies, or that they have primary business operations
in the business activities described above but do not currently generate
revenues in the case of Pre-Revenue Blockchain Companies.
To
be a part of the eligible universe of the Underlying Index, certain minimum
market capitalization and liquidity criteria, as defined by the Index Provider,
must be met. As of January 31, 2026, companies must have a minimum market
capitalization of $50 million and a minimum average daily turnover for the last
3 months greater than or equal to $0.5 million in order to be eligible for
inclusion in the Underlying Index. As of January 31, 2026, companies listed
in the following countries were eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index:
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech
Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary,
Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands,
New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South
Africa, South Korea, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand,
Turkey, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The
Fund may invest in China A-Shares, which are issued by companies incorporated in
mainland China and traded on Chinese exchanges.
The
Underlying Index is weighted according to a modified effective market
capitalization weighting methodology and is reconstituted and re-weighted
semi-annually. Modified effective market capitalization weighting seeks to
weight constituents based on market capitalization but accounting for liquidity
in determining final weights, and subject to caps on the weights of the
individual securities. During each rebalance, the maximum weight of a company is
capped at 12%, the aggregate weight of companies with a weight greater than or
equal to 4.5% is capped at 45%, and all remaining companies are capped at a
weight of 4.5%, and all constituents are subject to a minimum weight of 0.3%. In
addition, Diversified Blockchain Companies and Pre-Revenue Blockchain Companies
are subject to an individual weight cap of 2% and an aggregate weight cap of 10%
at each semi-annual rebalance. Generally speaking, modified effective market
capitalization weighting will limit the amount of
concentration
in the largest market capitalization companies and increase company-level
diversification. The Underlying Index may include large-, mid- or
small-capitalization companies, and components primarily include information
technology and financials companies. As of January 31, 2026, the Underlying
Index had 35 constituents. The Fund's investment objective and Underlying Index
may be changed without shareholder approval.
The
Underlying Index is sponsored by the Index Provider, which is an organization
that is independent of, and unaffiliated with, the Fund and Global X Management
Company LLC, the investment adviser for the Fund ("Adviser"). In addition, any
determinations related to the constituents of the Underlying Index are made
independent of the Fund's portfolio managers. The Index Provider determines the
relative weightings of the securities in the Underlying Index and publishes
information regarding the market value of the Underlying Index.
The
Adviser uses an indexing approach to try to achieve the Fund's investment
objective. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not try to outperform
the Underlying Index and does not seek temporary defensive positions when
markets decline or appear overvalued.
The
Fund generally will use a replication strategy. A replication strategy is an
indexing strategy that involves investing in the securities of the Underlying
Index in approximately the same proportions as in the Underlying Index. However,
the Fund may utilize a representative sampling strategy with respect to the
Underlying Index when a replication strategy might be detrimental or
disadvantageous to shareholders, such as when there are practical difficulties
or substantial costs involved in compiling a portfolio of equity securities to
replicate the Underlying Index, in instances in which a security in the
Underlying Index becomes temporarily illiquid, unavailable or less liquid, or as
a result of legal restrictions or limitations (such as tax diversification
requirements) that apply to the Fund but not the Underlying Index.
The
Adviser expects that, over time, the correlation between the Fund's performance
and that of the Underlying Index, before fees and expenses, will exceed 95%. A
correlation percentage of 100% would indicate perfect correlation. If the Fund
uses a replication strategy, it can be expected to have greater correlation to
the Underlying Index than if it uses a representative sampling
strategy.
The Fund concentrates its investments
(i.e., holds 25% or more of its total assets) in a particular industry or group
of industries to approximately the same extent that the Underlying Index is
concentrated. As of January 31, 2026, the Underlying Index was concentrated
in the software industry and had significant exposure to the information
technology sector. The Fund is classified as "non-diversified,"
which means it may invest a larger percentage of its assets in a smaller number
of issuers than a diversified fund.
SUMMARY
OF PRINCIPAL RISKS
As with any
investment, you could lose all or part of your investment in the Fund, and the
Fund’s performance could trail that of other investments. There
is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its investment objective.
An investment in the Fund is not a bank deposit and it is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other
government agency, the Adviser or any of its affiliates. The
Fund is subject to the principal risks noted below, any of which may adversely
affect the Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”), trading price, yield, total return
and ability to meet its investment objective, as well as other risks that are
described in greater detail in the Additional Information About the Funds
section of this Prospectus and in the Statement of Additional Information
(“SAI”).
Asset
Class Risk:
Securities and other assets in the Underlying Index or otherwise held in the
Fund's portfolio may underperform in comparison to the general securities
markets, a particular securities market or other asset classes.
Depositary
Receipts Risk: The
Fund may invest in depositary receipts, such as ADRs and GDRs. Depositary
receipts are receipts listed on U.S. or foreign exchanges issued by banks or
trust companies that entitle the holder to all dividends and capital gains that
are paid out on the underlying foreign shares. Depositary receipts are generally
subject to the same risks associated with direct investments in the securities
of foreign companies. A holder of depositary receipts may also be subject to
fees and the credit risk of the financial institution acting as depositary.
Unsponsored depositary receipts may involve higher expenses, fewer shareholder
rights, and may be less liquid.
Equity
Securities Risk: Equity securities are subject to
changes in value, and their values may be more volatile than other asset
classes, as a result of a company’s business performance, investor perceptions,
stock market trends and general economic
conditions.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Blockchain Companies: Blockchain
companies may be adversely impacted by government regulations, limited operating
histories, or economic conditions. Companies involved in the blockchain industry
may have significant exposure to fluctuations in the spot prices of digital
assets and are subject to the risks associated with blockchain technology.
Blockchain technology is relatively new, and its uses are in many cases untested
or unclear. There is no assurance that widespread adoption of blockchain
technology will occur. Blockchain companies typically face intense competition
and potentially rapid product obsolescence. In addition, many Blockchain
companies store sensitive consumer information and could be the target of
cybersecurity attacks and other types of theft, which could have a negative
impact on these companies. Access to a given blockchain may require a specific
cryptographic key (in effect, a string of characters granting unique access to
initiate transactions related to specific digital assets) or set of keys, the
theft, loss, or destruction of which, either by accident or as a result of the
efforts of a third party, could irrevocably impair a claim to the digital assets
stored on that blockchain.
Many Blockchain companies currently operate under less regulatory
scrutiny than traditional financial services companies and banks, but the
regulatory environment is rapidly evolving and there is significant risk that
regulatory oversight could increase in the future. Companies engaged in
blockchain activities may be exposed to adverse regulatory oversight, regulatory
action, fraudulent activity, or even failure, which may negatively impact the
value of these companies and therefore the Fund’s investments. Blockchain
companies could also be negatively impacted by disruptions in service caused by
hardware or software failure, or by interruptions or delays in service by
third-party data center hosting facilities and maintenance providers. Many
Blockchain companies have limited operating histories and may lack the necessary
safeguards to ensure their long-term viability.
Capitalization
Risk:
Investing in issuers within the same market capitalization category carries the
risk that the category may be out of favor due to current market conditions or
investor sentiment.
Large-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Large-capitalization
companies may adapt more slowly to new competitive challenges and changing
market conditions than smaller capitalization companies. In addition,
large-capitalization companies may be more mature and subject to more limited
growth potential and consequently may underperform other segments of the equity
market or the market as a whole.
Mid-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Mid-capitalization
companies may have greater price volatility, lower trading volume and less
liquidity than large-capitalization companies. In addition, mid-capitalization
companies may have smaller revenues, narrower product lines, less management
depth and experience, smaller shares of their product or service markets, fewer
financial resources and less competitive strength than large-capitalization
companies. These securities may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly,
from the overall securities market.
Small-Capitalization
Companies Risk:
Small-capitalization companies may be less stable and more susceptible to
adverse developments, and their securities may be more volatile and less liquid
than large- and mid-capitalization companies. In addition, small-capitalization
companies may have smaller revenues, narrower product lines, less management
depth and experience, smaller shares of their product or service markets, fewer
financial resources, and shorter operating histories than large- and
mid-capitalization companies. These securities may have returns that vary,
sometimes significantly, from the overall securities
market.
Micro-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Stock
prices of micro-capitalization companies are significantly more volatile, and
more vulnerable to adverse business and economic developments, than those of
larger companies, and their earnings and revenues tend to be less predictable
(and some companies may experience significant losses). Micro-capitalization
stocks may also be thinly traded, which can adversely affect the pricing of
these securities and the future ability to buy and sell
them.
Currency
Risk: The Fund may invest in securities denominated in foreign
currencies. Because the Fund's NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the Fund's NAV
could decline if currencies of the underlying securities depreciate against the
U.S. dollar or if there are delays or limits on repatriation of such currencies.
Generally, an increase in the value of the U.S. dollar against a foreign
currency will reduce the value of a security denominated in that foreign
currency, thereby decreasing the Fund's NAV. Exchange rates may be volatile and
may change quickly and without warning, which could have a significant negative
impact on the Fund.
Custody
Risk: Custody risk refers to the risks in the process of clearing and
settling trades, as well as the holding of securities and other assets by local
banks, agents, and securities depositories. These risks are heightened in
jurisdictions with less developed markets or less robust settlement and custody
infrastructure and processes.
Cybersecurity
Risk: With the increased use of technologies such as the Internet to
conduct business, the Fund, like all companies, may be susceptible to
operational, information security and related risks. Cybersecurity incidents
involving the Fund and its service providers (including, without limitation, the
Adviser, fund accountant, custodian, transfer agent and financial
intermediaries) have the ability to cause disruptions and impact business
operations, potentially resulting in financial losses, impediments to trading,
the inability of Fund shareholders to transact business, violations of
applicable privacy and other laws, regulatory fines, penalties, reputational
damage, reimbursement or other compensation costs, and/or additional compliance
costs.
Focus
Risk:
The Fund may from time to time have a significant amount of its assets invested
in a particular industry, group of industries, or one or more sectors to
approximately the same extent that the Underlying Index focuses in investments
related to a particular industry, group of industries, and/or one or more
sectors. In such event, the Fund’s performance will depend to a greater extent
on the overall condition of such industry(ies) or sector(s), and an economic,
business, political, regulatory, or other occurrence affecting such
industry(ies) or sector(s) will have an increased impact on the value of the
Fund’s shares compared to the value of shares of a fund that invests in a
broader range of industries or sectors.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Information Technology Sector: Companies
in the information technology sector are subject to rapid changes in technology
product cycles, rapid product obsolescence, government regulation, and increased
competition. Information technology companies are particularly vulnerable to
failure to obtain, or delays in obtaining, financing or regulatory approval, and
also are heavily dependent on patent and intellectual property rights. In
addition, information technology companies may have limited product lines,
markets, financial resources or
personnel.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Software
Industry: The software industry can be
significantly affected by intense competition, aggressive pricing, technological
innovations, and product obsolescence. Companies in the application software
industry, in particular, may also be negatively affected by the decline or
fluctuation of subscription renewal rates for their products and services, which
may have an adverse effect on profit margins. Companies in the systems software
industry may be adversely affected by, among other things, actual or perceived
security vulnerabilities in their products and services, which may result in
individual or class action lawsuits, state or federal enforcement actions and
other remediation costs.
Foreign
Securities Risk:
Investments in foreign securities can be riskier than U.S. securities
investments. Investments in the securities of foreign issuers (including
investments in American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) and Global Depositary
Receipts (“GDRs”)) are subject to additional risks, including lower levels of
liquidity and market efficiency; greater securities price volatility; exchange
rate fluctuations and exchange controls; less availability of public information
about issuers; limitations on foreign ownership of securities; imposition of
withholding or other taxes; imposition of restrictions on the expatriation of
the assets of the Fund; restrictions placed on U.S. investors by U.S.
regulations governing foreign investments; higher transaction and custody costs
and delays in settlement procedures; difficulties in enforcing contractual
obligations; lower levels of regulation of the securities market; weaker
accounting, disclosure and reporting requirements; and legal principles relating
to corporate governance and directors’ fiduciary duties and liabilities. The
countries in which the Fund invests may also be subject to structural risks,
including economic, political and social instability. Additionally, certain
securities held by the Fund, while traded on U.S. exchanges, may be issued by
foreign financial institutions and as such, may be subject to the risks of
investing in securities issued by foreign companies, which may not be subject to
the same regulations as companies domiciled in the U.S. Where all or a portion
of the Fund's securities trade in a market that is closed when the market in
which the Fund's Shares are listed and trading is open, there may be differences
between the last quote from the security’s closed foreign market and the value
of the security during the Fund’s domestic trading day. This, in turn, could
lead to differences between the market price of the Fund’s Shares and the
underlying value of those shares.
Geographic
Risk: The
Fund’s investments in securities of issuers located in a particular country or
geographic region may subject the Fund to certain risks to a greater extent than
if its investments were less focused, including: natural, biological or other
disasters and the spread of infectious diseases; economic, political and social
instability; security concerns; and trade disputes with key trading partners.
The securities in which the Fund invests and, consequently, the Fund is also
subject to specific risks as a result of their business operations in a
particular country or region, including, but not limited to:
Risk
of Investing in Developed Markets:
Investments in a developed country’s issuer may subject the Fund to legal,
regulatory, political, currency, security, and economic risks specific to
developed countries. Developed countries tend to represent a significant portion
of the global economy and have generally experienced slower economic growth than
some less developed countries. Certain developed countries have experienced
security concerns, such as war, terrorism and strained international relations.
Incidents involving a country’s or region’s security may cause uncertainty in
its markets and may adversely affect its economy and the Fund’s investments. In
addition, developed countries may be
adversely impacted by changes to the economic conditions of certain
key trading partners, regulatory burdens, debt burdens and the price or
availability of certain commodities.
Risk
of Investing in the United States:
Investments in United States issuers
may subject the Fund to legal, regulatory, political, currency, security, and
economic risks specific to the United States. A decrease in imports or exports,
changes in trade regulations, inflation and/or an economic recession in the U.S.
may have a material adverse effect on the U.S.
economy.
Indexing
Strategy Risk:
The Fund is not actively managed, and the Adviser does not attempt to take
defensive positions in declining markets. Unlike many investment companies, the
Fund does not seek to outperform its Underlying Index. Therefore, it would not
necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed,
respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is
underperforming. Additionally, if a constituent of the Underlying Index were
removed, even outside of a regular rebalance of the Underlying Index, the
Adviser anticipates that the Fund would sell such security. Maintaining
investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of
individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund
employed an active strategy.
Index-Related
Risk: There is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve a high degree of
correlation to the Underlying Index and therefore achieve its investment
objective. Market disruptions and regulatory restrictions could have an adverse
effect on the Fund’s ability to adjust its exposure to the required levels in
order to track the Underlying Index. Errors in index data, index computations
and/or the construction of the Underlying Index in accordance with its
methodology may occur from time to time and may not be identified and corrected
by the Index Provider for a period of time or at all, which may have an adverse
impact on the Fund and its shareholders.
Management
Risk: The Fund may not fully replicate its Underlying Index and may hold
securities not included in its Underlying Index. The Adviser’s investment
strategy, the implementation of which is subject to a number of constraints, may
cause the Fund to underperform the market or its relevant benchmark or adversely
affect the ability of the Fund to achieve its investment
objective.
Tracking
Error Risk:
Tracking error may occur because of differences between the instruments held in
the Fund's portfolio and those included in the Underlying Index, pricing
differences, transaction costs incurred by the Fund, the Fund's holding of
uninvested cash, size of the Fund, differences in timing of the accrual of or
the valuation of dividends or interest, tax gains or losses, changes to the
Underlying Index or the costs to the Fund of complying with various new or
existing regulatory requirements. This risk may be heightened during times of
increased market volatility or other unusual market conditions. Tracking error
also may result because the Fund incurs fees and expenses, while the Underlying
Index does not. ETFs that track indices with significant weight in emerging
markets issuers may experience higher tracking error than other ETFs that do not
track such indices.
International
Closed Market Trading Risk: To
the extent that the underlying investments held by the Fund trade on foreign
exchanges that may be closed when the securities exchange on which the Fund’s
Shares trade is open, there are likely to be deviations between the current
price of such an underlying security and the last quoted price for the
underlying security (i.e., the Fund’s quote from the closed foreign market).
These deviations could result in premiums or discounts to the Fund’s NAV that
may be greater than those experienced by other exchange-traded funds
("ETFs").
Investable
Universe of Companies Risk:
The investable universe of companies in which the Fund may invest may be
limited. If a company no longer meets the Index Provider’s criteria for
inclusion in the Underlying Index, the Fund may need to reduce or eliminate its
holdings in that company. The reduction or elimination of the Fund’s holdings in
the company may have an adverse impact on the liquidity of the Fund’s overall
portfolio holdings and on Fund performance.
Issuer
Risk: Fund performance depends on the performance of individual companies
in which the Fund invests. Changes to the financial condition of any of those
companies may cause the value of such company's securities to
decline.
Market
Risk: Turbulence in the financial markets and reduced liquidity may
negatively affect issuers, which could have an adverse effect on the Fund and
its investments. The Fund’s NAV could decline over short periods due to
short-term market movements and over longer periods during market downturns.
Trade policy, including the imposition of tariffs, may dampen consumer spending
and result in decreased confidence in the markets. Additionally, political
uncertainty regarding U.S. policy, including the U.S. government’s approach to
trade, may also impact the markets. Furthermore, local, regional or global
events such as war, acts of terrorism, the spread of infectious diseases,
inflation and recessions, changes in interest or exchange rates, or other events
could have a significant impact on the Fund and its investments and trading of
its Shares. Market risk factors may result in increased volatility and/or
decreased liquidity in the securities markets.
Non-Diversification
Risk: The Fund is classified as a “non-diversified” investment company
under the Investment Company Act of 1940 ("1940 Act"), which means that the Fund
may invest a greater portion of its assets in securities of individual issuers
than a diversified fund. As a result, changes in the market value of a single
investment may have a greater impact on the Fund’s NAV and may make the Fund
more volatile than more diversified funds.
Operational
Risk: The Fund is exposed to operational risk arising from a number of
factors, including but not limited to human error, processing and communication
errors, errors of the Fund's service providers, counterparties or other
third-parties, failed or inadequate processes, cyber security incidents, and
technology or systems failures. The Fund and the Adviser seek to reduce these
operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do
not address every possible risk and may be inadequate for those risks that they
are intended to address.
Risks
Associated with Exchange-Traded Funds:
As an ETF, the Fund is subject to the following risks:
Authorized
Participants Concentration Risk: The Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may
act as Authorized Participants and engage in creation or redemption transactions
directly with the Fund, and none of those Authorized Participants is obligated
to engage in creation and/or redemption transactions. To the extent that those
Authorized Participants exit the business or are unable to process creation
and/or redemption orders, such as in times of market stress, Shares may be more
likely to trade at a premium or discount to NAV and/or at wider intraday bid-ask
spreads, and possibly face trading halts and/or delisting from an exchange.
Authorized Participants Concentration Risk may be heightened because the Fund
invests in non-U.S. securities.
Large
Shareholder Risk: Certain
shareholders, including an Authorized Participant, the Adviser, an affiliate of
the Adviser, or funds managed by the Adviser, may own a substantial amount of
the Fund’s Shares. Redemptions by large shareholders could have a significant
negative impact on the Fund. If a large shareholder were to redeem all, or a
large portion, of its Shares, there is no guarantee that the Fund will be able
to maintain sufficient assets to continue operations in which case the Board of
Trustees may determine to liquidate the Fund. In addition, transactions by large
shareholders may account for a large percentage of the trading volume on a
national securities exchange and may, therefore, have a material upward or
downward effect on the market price of the Shares.
Listing
Standards Risk: The
Fund is required to comply with listing requirements adopted by the listing
exchange. Non-compliance with such requirements may result in the Fund's shares
being delisted by the listing exchange. Any resulting liquidation of the Fund
could cause the Fund to incur elevated transaction costs and could result in
negative tax consequences for its shareholders.
Market
Trading Risks and Premium/Discount
Risks: Shares of the Fund are publicly traded
on a national securities exchange, which may subject shareholders to numerous
market trading risks. In stressed market conditions, the market for the Shares
may become less liquid in response to the deteriorating liquidity of the Fund’s
portfolio. This adverse effect on the liquidity of the Shares, as well as
disruptions to creations and redemptions, the existence of extreme market
volatility or potential lack of assets in the Fund or an active trading market
for Shares may result in Shares trading at a significant premium or discount to
NAV. If a shareholder purchases Shares at a time when the market price is at a
premium to the NAV or sells Shares at a time when the market price is at a
discount to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain losses. The NAV of the Fund is
calculated at the end of each business day and fluctuates with changes in the
market value of the Fund’s holdings. The trading price of the Fund’s Shares
fluctuates, in some cases materially, throughout trading hours in response to
changes in the Fund’s NAV.
Securities
Lending Risk: Securities lending involves a risk of loss because the borrower may
fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. If the Fund is not
able to recover the securities loaned, it may sell the collateral and purchase a
replacement security in the market. Lending securities entails a risk of loss to
the Fund if and to the extent that the market value of the loaned securities
increases and the collateral is not increased accordingly. Additionally, the
Fund will bear any loss on the investment of cash collateral it receives. These
events could also trigger adverse tax consequences for the Fund. As securities
on loan may not be voted by the Fund, there is a risk that the Fund may not be
able to recall the securities in sufficient time to vote on material proxy
matters.
Trading
Halt Risk:
An exchange or market may close or issue trading halts on specific securities,
or the ability to buy or sell certain securities or financial instruments may be
restricted, which may result in the Fund being unable to buy or sell certain
securities or financial instruments. In such circumstances, the Fund may be
unable to rebalance its portfolio, may be unable to accurately price its
investments and/or may incur substantial trading
losses.
Valuation
Risk: The sales price the Fund could receive for a security may differ
from the Fund’s valuation of the security and may differ from the value used by
the Underlying Index, particularly for securities that trade in low value or
volatile markets or that are valued using a fair value methodology (such as
during trading halts). The value of the securities in the Fund's portfolio may
change on days when shareholders will not be able to purchase or sell the Fund's
Shares.
PERFORMANCE
INFORMATION
The bar chart
and table that follow show how the Fund performed on a calendar year basis and
provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes
in the Fund's performance from year to year and by showing the Fund's average
annual total returns for the indicated periods compared with the Fund's
broad-based benchmark index, which reflects a broad measure of market
performance, and the Underlying Index, which the Fund seeks to
track. The Fund's past performance
(before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will
perform in the future. Updated performance information is
available online at
www.globalxetfs.com.
Annual Total Returns
(Years Ended December 31)
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| Best
Quarter: |
12/31/2023 |
103.36% |
| Worst
Quarter: |
6/30/2022 |
-70.75% |
Average Annual
Total Returns (for the Periods Ended December 31,
2025)
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One
Year Ended December 31, 2025 |
Since
Inception (07/12/2021) |
| Global
X Blockchain ETF: |
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| ·Return
before taxes |
27.25% |
-6.15% |
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·Return
after taxes on distributions1 |
26.24% |
-7.51% |
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·Return
after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund Shares1 |
16.14% |
-5.13% |
|
MSCI ACWI Index (NR)
(USD)
(Index returns reflect
invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflect no deduction for
fees, expenses, or other taxes).
|
22.34% |
9.44% |
|
Solactive Blockchain Index (NR)
(USD)
(Index returns reflect invested dividends net of withholding
taxes, but reflect no deduction for fees, expenses, or other
taxes). |
27.26% |
-6.96% |
1
After-tax returns are
calculated using the historical highest individual U.S. federal marginal income
tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local
taxes. Your actual after-tax
returns will depend on your specific tax situation and may differ from those
shown above. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold Shares of
the Fund through tax-advantaged arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual
retirement accounts (IRAs).
FUND
MANAGEMENT
Investment
Adviser:
Global X Management Company LLC.
Portfolio
Managers:
The professionals primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the
Fund are Nam To, CFA and Wayne Xie (“Portfolio Managers”). Mr. Xie has been a
Portfolio Manager of the Fund since the Fund's inception. Mr. To has been a
Portfolio Manager of the Fund since April 1, 2026.
PURCHASE
AND SALE OF FUND SHARES
Shares
of the Fund are or will be listed and traded at market prices on a national
securities exchange. Shares may only be purchased and sold on the exchange
through a broker-dealer. The price of Shares is based on market price, and
because ETF shares trade at market prices rather than at NAV, Shares may trade
at a price greater than NAV (a premium) or less than NAV (a discount). Only
"Authorized Participants" (as defined in the SAI) who have entered into
agreements with the Fund's distributor, SEI Investments Distribution Co.
("Distributor"), may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with
the Fund. The Fund will only issue or redeem Shares that have been aggregated
into blocks called "Creation Units". The Fund will issue or redeem Creation
Units in return for a basket of cash and/or securities that the Fund specifies
any day that the national securities exchanges are open for business (“Business
Day”). An investor may incur costs attributable to the difference between the
highest price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase shares of the Fund (bid) and
the lowest price a seller is willing to accept for shares of the Fund (ask) when
buying or selling shares in the secondary market (the “bid-ask spread”). To
access information regarding the Fund’s net asset value, market price, premiums
and discounts, and bid-ask spreads, please go to
www.globalxetfs.com.
TAX
INFORMATION
The
Fund intends to make distributions that may be taxable to you as ordinary income
or capital gains, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement
such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account ("IRA"), in which case
distributions from such tax-advantaged arrangement may be taxable to you.
PAYMENTS
TO BROKER-DEALERS AND OTHER FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES
The
Adviser and its related companies may pay broker-dealers or other financial
intermediaries (such as a bank) for the sale of Fund Shares and related
services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing your
broker-dealer, sales persons or other intermediary or its employees or
associated persons to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your
financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary's website for more
information.
Global X Hydrogen
ETF
Ticker:
HYDR Exchange: NASDAQ
INVESTMENT
OBJECTIVE
The
Global X Hydrogen ETF ("Fund") seeks to provide investment results that
correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and
expenses, of the Solactive Global Hydrogen Index ("Underlying
Index").
FEES AND
EXPENSES
This
table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and
sell shares (“Shares”) of the Fund. You
may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial
intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and examples
below.
Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment):
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Management
Fees: |
0.50% |
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Distribution
and Service (12b-1) Fees: |
None |
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Other
Expenses: |
0.00% |
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Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses: |
0.50% |
Example:
The following example
is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost
of investing in other funds. This example does not take into account customary
brokerage commissions that you pay when purchasing or selling Shares of the Fund
in the secondary market. The example assumes
that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell
all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that
your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses
remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on
these assumptions, your costs would be:
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One
Year |
Three
Years |
Five
Years |
Ten
Years |
| $51 |
$160 |
$280 |
$628 |
Portfolio
Turnover:
The Fund pays transaction
costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over"
its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction
costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account.
These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the
example, affect the Fund's performance. For the most recent fiscal period, the
Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 72.26% of the average value of its
portfolio.
PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT
STRATEGIES
The Fund
invests at least 80% of its total assets, plus borrowings for investment
purposes (if any), in the securities of the Solactive Global Hydrogen Index (the
"Underlying Index") and in American Depositary Receipts ("ADRs") and Global
Depositary Receipts ("GDRs") based on the securities in the Underlying Index.
Solely for purposes of complying with this policy, the Fund only views
securities issued by Hydrogen Companies and Pre-Revenue Hydrogen Companies (both
as defined below) as satisfying this criterion. The Fund's 80% investment policy
is non-fundamental and requires 60 days prior written notice to shareholders
before it can be changed. The Fund may lend securities
representing up to one-third of the value of the Fund’s total assets (including
the value of the collateral received).
The
Underlying Index is designed to provide exposure to companies that are
positioned to benefit from further advances in the field of hydrogen technology.
Hydrogen technology includes products and services focused on the development
and implementation of hydrogen gas as a renewable fuel source. Hydrogen
technology may play an important role in the transition toward renewable energy
from fossil fuels. Specifically, the Underlying Index will include securities
issued by “Hydrogen Companies” as defined by Solactive AG, the provider of the
Underlying Index (the "Index Provider"). “Hydrogen Companies” are those
companies that derive at least 50% of their revenues, operating income, or
assets from the following business activities:
1.Hydrogen
Production:
Companies involved in the production, transportation, storage, and distribution
of hydrogen (including renewable hydrogen) that can be used as an energy
source.
2.Hydrogen
Fuel Cells:
Companies that develop and/or manufacture fuel cells (and the components
thereof) that convert chemical energy into electricity and heat, powered by
hydrogen fuel and/or reformed hydrogen-rich gas.
3.Hydrogen
Technology:
Companies involved in the production of hydrogen electrolyzers (which produce
hydrogen gas from water), tanks and pipelines, commercial and residential
infrastructure, generators, engines, and vehicles powered by hydrogen fuel
cells, as well as hydrogen fueling stations.
4.Hydrogen
Integration:
Companies that provide engineering and consulting services for the adoption and
utilization of hydrogen-based fuel and/or energy sources at the residential,
commercial, and industrial levels.
In
addition, companies identified by the Index Provider as deriving greater than 0%
but less than 50% of revenue from the business activities described above
("Diversified Hydrogen Companies"), as well as companies identified by the Index
Provider as having primary business operations in the business activities
described above but that do not currently generate revenues (“Pre-Revenue
Hydrogen Companies”), are eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index if
there are fewer than 25 eligible Hydrogen Companies. Diversified Hydrogen
Companies and Pre-Revenue Hydrogen Companies are collectively subject to an
aggregate weight cap of 10% at each semi-annual rebalance.
In
constructing the Underlying Index, the Index Provider first applies a
proprietary natural language processing algorithm to the eligible universe,
which seeks to identify and rank companies involved in the fields of hydrogen
and fuel cells based on filings, disclosures and other public information (e.g.
regulatory filings, earnings transcripts, etc.). The highest-ranking companies
identified by the natural language processing algorithm, as of the selection
date, are further reviewed by the Index Provider to confirm they derive at least
50% of their revenues from the business activities described above, greater than
0% of their revenues from the business activities described above in the case of
Diversified Hydrogen Companies, or that they have primary business operations in
the business activities described above but do not currently generate revenues
in the case of Pre-Revenue Hydrogen Companies.
To
be a part of the eligible universe of the Underlying Index, certain minimum
market capitalization and liquidity criteria, as defined by the Index Provider,
must be met. As of January 31, 2026, companies must have a minimum market
capitalization of $50 million and a minimum average daily turnover for the last
3 months greater than or equal to $0.5 million in order to be eligible for
inclusion in the Underlying Index. As of January 31, 2026, companies listed
in the following countries were eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index:
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech
Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary,
Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands,
New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South
Africa, South Korea, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand,
Turkey, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The
Fund may invest in China A-Shares, which are issued by companies incorporated in
mainland China and traded on Chinese exchanges. The Fund may invest in
securities of issuers located in emerging markets
The
Underlying Index is weighted according to a modified capitalization weighting
methodology and is reconstituted and re-weighted semi-annually. Modified
capitalization weighting seeks to weight constituents primarily based on market
capitalization, but subject to caps on the weights of the individual securities.
During each rebalance, the maximum weight of a company is capped at 12%, the
aggregate weight of companies with a weight greater than or equal to 4.5% is
capped at 45%, and all remaining companies are capped at a weight of 4.5%, and
all constituents are subject to a minimum weight of 0.3%. In addition,
Diversified Hydrogen Companies and Pre-Revenue Hydrogen Companies are subject to
an individual weight cap of 2% and an aggregate weight cap of 10% at each
semi-annual rebalance. Generally speaking, modified capitalization weighting
will limit the amount of concentration in the largest market capitalization
companies and increase company-level diversification. The Underlying Index may
include large-, mid- or small-capitalization companies, and components primarily
include industrials companies. As of January 31, 2026, the Underlying Index
had 25 constituents. The Fund's investment objective and Underlying Index may be
changed without shareholder approval.
The
Underlying Index is sponsored by the Index Provider, which is an organization
that is independent of, and unaffiliated with, the Fund and Global X Management
Company LLC, the investment adviser for the Fund ("Adviser"). In addition, any
determinations related to the constituents of the Underlying Index are made
independent of the Fund's portfolio managers. The Index Provider determines the
relative weightings of the securities in the Underlying Index and publishes
information regarding the market value of the Underlying Index.
The
Adviser uses an indexing approach to try to achieve the Fund's investment
objective. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not try to outperform
the Underlying Index and does not seek temporary defensive positions when
markets decline or appear overvalued.
The
Fund generally will use a replication strategy. A replication strategy is an
indexing strategy that involves investing in the securities of the Underlying
Index in approximately the same proportions as in the Underlying Index. However,
the Fund may utilize a representative sampling strategy with respect to the
Underlying Index when a replication strategy might be detrimental or
disadvantageous to shareholders, such as when there are practical difficulties
or substantial costs involved in compiling a portfolio of equity securities to
replicate the Underlying Index, in instances in which a security in the
Underlying Index becomes temporarily illiquid, unavailable or less liquid, or as
a result of legal restrictions or limitations (such as tax diversification
requirements) that apply to the Fund but not the Underlying Index.
The
Adviser expects that, over time, the correlation between the Fund's performance
and that of the Underlying Index, before fees and expenses, will exceed 95%. A
correlation percentage of 100% would indicate perfect correlation. If the Fund
uses a replication strategy, it can be expected to have greater correlation to
the Underlying Index than if it uses a representative sampling
strategy.
The Fund concentrates its investments
(i.e., holds 25% or more of its total assets) in a particular industry or group
of industries to approximately the same extent that the Underlying Index is
concentrated. As of January 31, 2026, the Underlying Index was concentrated
in the electrical equipment industry and had significant exposure to the
industrials sector. The Fund is classified as "non-diversified,"
which means it may invest a larger percentage of its assets in a smaller number
of issuers than a diversified fund.
SUMMARY
OF PRINCIPAL RISKS
As with any
investment, you could lose all or part of your investment in the Fund, and the
Fund’s performance could trail that of other investments. There
is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its investment objective.
An investment in the Fund is not a bank deposit and it is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other
government agency, the Adviser or any of its affiliates. The
Fund is subject to the principal risks noted below, any of which may adversely
affect the Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”), trading price, yield, total return
and ability to meet its investment objective, as well as other risks that are
described in greater detail in the Additional Information About the Funds
section of this Prospectus and in the Statement of Additional Information
(“SAI”).
Asset
Class Risk:
Securities and other assets in the Underlying Index or otherwise held in the
Fund's portfolio may underperform in comparison to the general securities
markets, a particular securities market or other asset classes.
Equity
Securities Risk: Equity securities are subject to
changes in value, and their values may be more volatile than other asset
classes, as a result of a company’s business performance, investor perceptions,
stock market trends and general economic
conditions.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Hydrogen Companies: Hydrogen companies typically face intense competition, short product
lifecycles and potentially rapid product obsolescence due to significant R&D
expenses and the possibility that other emerging energy technologies could
become more commercially viable. These companies may be significantly affected
by fluctuations in energy prices and in the supply and demand of hydrogen,
natural gas, and renewable energy, as well as tax incentives, subsidies and
other governmental regulations and policies. Investors should take notice of the
distinction between implemented government policy based on legislation and less
guaranteed commitments which may be aspirational, subject to political risk, and
difficult to enforce. These companies are also heavily dependent on intellectual
property rights and may be adversely affected by loss or impairment of those
rights. Hydrogen companies may be adversely affected by commodity price
volatility, changes in exchange rates, imposition of import controls,
availability of certain inputs and materials required for production, depletion
of resources, technological developments and labor relations. Changes in the
price of conventional energy such as natural gas could have a materially adverse
impact on Hydrogen Companies. Energy companies are increasingly becoming the
target of malicious cybersecurity attacks, which could adversely affect Hydrogen
companies. Some companies involved in climate change-related industries, such as
Hydrogen, are in the early stages of operation and have limited operating
histories and smaller market capitalizations on average than companies in other
sectors. As a result of these and other factors, the market prices of securities
of Hydrogen companies tend to be considerably more volatile than those of
companies in more established sectors and industries.
Capitalization
Risk:
Investing in issuers within the same market capitalization category carries the
risk that the category may be out of favor due to current market conditions or
investor sentiment.
Mid-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Mid-capitalization
companies may have greater price volatility, lower trading volume and less
liquidity than large-capitalization companies. In addition, mid-capitalization
companies may have smaller revenues, narrower product lines, less management
depth and experience, smaller shares of their product or
service
markets, fewer financial resources and less competitive strength than
large-capitalization companies. These securities may have returns that vary,
sometimes significantly, from the overall securities
market.
Small-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Small-capitalization companies may be less stable and more
susceptible to adverse developments, and their securities may be more volatile
and less liquid than large- and mid-capitalization companies. In addition,
small-capitalization companies may have smaller revenues, narrower product
lines, less management depth and experience, smaller shares of their product or
service markets, fewer financial resources, and shorter operating histories than
large- and mid-capitalization companies. These securities may have returns that
vary, sometimes significantly, from the overall securities
market.
Micro-Capitalization
Companies Risk:
Stock prices of micro-capitalization companies are significantly more volatile,
and more vulnerable to adverse business and economic developments, than those of
larger companies, and their earnings and revenues tend to be less predictable
(and some companies may experience significant losses). Micro-capitalization
stocks may also be thinly traded, which can adversely affect the pricing of
these securities and the future ability to buy and sell
them.
Cash
Transaction Risk:
Unlike most exchange-traded funds ("ETFs"), the Fund intends to effect a
significant portion of creations and redemptions for cash, rather than in-kind
securities. As such, the Fund may be required to sell portfolio securities in
order to obtain the cash needed to distribute redemption proceeds. As a result,
an investment in the Fund may be less tax-efficient than an investment in a more
conventional ETF. Moreover, cash transactions may have to be carried out over
several days if the securities market is relatively illiquid and may involve the
Fund recognizing a capital gain and/or incurring considerable brokerage fees and
taxes. These factors may result in wider spreads between the bid and the offered
prices of the Fund’s Shares than for more conventional ETFs. Additionally, to
the extent that brokerage or other costs are costs or taxable gains or losses
that the Fund might not offset by transaction fees, such costs may be borne by
the Fund and result in a decrease in the value of the
Fund.
Currency
Risk: The Fund may invest in securities denominated in foreign
currencies. Because the Fund's NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the Fund's NAV
could decline if currencies of the underlying securities depreciate against the
U.S. dollar or if there are delays or limits on repatriation of such currencies.
Generally, an increase in the value of the U.S. dollar against a foreign
currency will reduce the value of a security denominated in that foreign
currency, thereby decreasing the Fund's NAV. Exchange rates may be volatile and
may change quickly and without warning, which could have a significant negative
impact on the Fund.
Custody
Risk: Custody risk refers to the risks in the process of clearing and
settling trades, as well as the holding of securities and other assets by local
banks, agents, and securities depositories. These risks are heightened in
jurisdictions with less developed markets or less robust settlement and custody
infrastructure and processes.
Cybersecurity
Risk: With the increased use of technologies such as the Internet to
conduct business, the Fund, like all companies, may be susceptible to
operational, information security and related risks. Cybersecurity incidents
involving the Fund and its service providers (including, without limitation, the
Adviser, fund accountant, custodian, transfer agent and financial
intermediaries) have the ability to cause disruptions and impact business
operations, potentially resulting in financial losses, impediments to trading,
the inability of Fund shareholders to transact business, violations of
applicable privacy and other laws, regulatory fines, penalties, reputational
damage, reimbursement or other compensation costs, and/or additional compliance
costs.
Focus
Risk:
The Fund may from time to time have a significant amount of its assets invested
in a particular industry, group of industries, or one or more sectors to
approximately the same extent that the Underlying Index focuses in investments
related to a particular industry, group of industries, and/or one or more
sectors. In such event, the Fund’s performance will depend to a greater extent
on the overall condition of such industry(ies) or sector(s), and an economic,
business, political, regulatory, or other occurrence affecting such
industry(ies) or sector(s) will have an increased impact on the value of the
Fund’s shares compared to the value of shares of a fund that invests in a
broader range of industries or sectors.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Electrical Equipment Industry: The
Electrical Equipment Industry is fragmented but includes a number of large
incumbent companies that may compete heavily for market share in the space.
Companies in the Electrical Equipment Industry may involve operations with high
fixed costs. Because copper, aluminum, steel and other raw materials are often
critical components of the products manufactured in the Electrical Equipment
Industry, fluctuations in commodities prices for such raw materials may impact
the profitability of companies in this industry. Purchasers of such products may
be geographically dispersed, which may subject companies in this industry to any
increases in geopolitical uncertainty or global macroeconomic
trends.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Industrials Sector:
Companies in the industrials sector are
subject to fluctuations in supply and demand for their specific product or
service. The products of manufacturing companies may face product obsolescence
due to rapid technological developments. Government regulation, world events and
economic conditions affect the performance of companies in the industrials
sector. Companies also may be adversely affected by environmental damage and
product liability claims. Also, commodity price volatility, changes in exchange
rates, imposition of import controls or tariffs, increased competition,
depletion of resources, technological developments and labor relations could
adversely affect the companies in this
sector.
Foreign
Securities Risk:
Investments in foreign securities can be riskier than U.S. securities
investments. Investments in the securities of foreign issuers (including
investments in American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) and Global Depositary
Receipts (“GDRs”)) are subject to additional risks, including lower levels of
liquidity and market efficiency; greater securities price volatility; exchange
rate fluctuations and exchange controls; less availability of public information
about issuers; limitations on foreign ownership of securities; imposition of
withholding or other taxes; imposition of restrictions on the expatriation of
the assets of the Fund; restrictions placed on U.S. investors by U.S.
regulations governing foreign investments; higher transaction and custody costs
and delays in settlement procedures; difficulties in enforcing contractual
obligations; lower levels of regulation of the securities market; weaker
accounting, disclosure and reporting requirements; and legal principles relating
to corporate governance and directors’ fiduciary duties and liabilities. The
countries in which the Fund invests may also be subject to structural risks,
including economic, political and social instability. Additionally, certain
securities held by the Fund, while traded on U.S. exchanges, may be issued by
foreign financial institutions and as such, may be subject to the risks of
investing in securities issued by foreign companies, which may not be subject to
the same regulations as companies domiciled in the U.S. Where all or a portion
of the Fund's securities trade in a market that is closed when the market in
which the Fund's Shares are listed and trading is open, there may be differences
between the last quote from the security’s closed foreign market and the value
of the security during the Fund’s domestic trading day. This, in turn, could
lead to differences between the market price of the Fund’s Shares and the
underlying value of those shares.
Geographic
Risk: The
Fund’s investments in securities of issuers located in a particular country or
geographic region may subject the Fund to certain risks to a greater extent than
if its investments were less focused, including: natural, biological or other
disasters and the spread of infectious diseases; economic, political and social
instability; security concerns; and trade disputes with key trading partners.
The securities in which the Fund invests and, consequently, the Fund is also
subject to specific risks as a result of their business operations in a
particular country or region, including, but not limited to:
Risk
of Investing in China: Investments
in Chinese securities may subject the Fund to legal, regulatory, political,
currency, security, and economic risks specific to China. China may be subject
to considerable degrees of economic, political and social instability. Concerns
about the rising government and household debt levels could impact the stability
of the Chinese economy. Despite economic and market reform in recent decades,
the Chinese government’s control over certain sectors and enterprises and
significant regulation of investment and industry are pervasive. Chinese
companies are subject to the risk that Chinese authorities can intervene in
their operations and structure. Internal social unrest or confrontations with
other countries, including military conflicts in response to such events, may
disrupt economic development in China and result in a greater risk of currency
fluctuations, currency convertibility, interest rate fluctuations and higher
rates of inflation.
The
Chinese economy is highly reliant on trade. Reduction in spending on Chinese
products and services, institution of additional tariffs or other trade barriers
(including as a result of heightened trade tensions between China and the U.S.
or in response to actual or alleged Chinese cyber activity), or a downturn in
any of the economies of China’s key trading partners may have an adverse impact
on the Chinese economy.
China
has experienced security concerns, such as terrorism and strained international
relations. Additionally, China is alleged to have participated in
state-sponsored cyberattacks against foreign companies and foreign governments.
Actual and threatened responses to such activity, including purchasing
restrictions, sanctions, tariffs or cyberattacks on the Chinese government or
Chinese companies, may impact China’s economy and Chinese issuers in which the
Fund invests. Incidents involving China’s or the region’s security may adversely
affect the Chinese economy and the Fund’s investments. Chinese companies,
including those listed on U.S. exchanges, are not subject to the same degree of
regulatory requirements, accounting standards or auditor oversight as companies
in more developed countries, and as a result, information about the Chinese
securities in which the Fund invests may be less reliable or complete. There may
be significant obstacles to obtaining information necessary for investigations
into or litigation against Chinese companies and shareholders may have limited
legal remedies. Investments in China may be subject to loss due to
expropriation, nationalization, confiscation of assets and property, and or the
imposition of restrictions on foreign investments and repatriation of capital.
In addition, many Chinese companies listed on U.S. exchanges use variable
interest
entities (“VIEs”) in their structure as a result of foreign ownership
restriction. Any change in the operations of entities in a VIE structure, the
status of VIE contractual arrangements or the legal or regulatory environment in
China could result in significant, and possibly permanent and/or total, losses
for investments in VIE issuers.
Risk
of Investing in Developed Markets: Investments in a developed country’s issuer may subject the Fund to
legal, regulatory, political, currency, security, and economic risks specific to
developed countries. Developed countries tend to represent a significant portion
of the global economy and have generally experienced slower economic growth than
some less developed countries. Certain developed countries have experienced
security concerns, such as war, terrorism and strained international relations.
Incidents involving a country’s or region’s security may cause uncertainty in
its markets and may adversely affect its economy and the Fund’s investments. In
addition, developed countries may be adversely impacted by changes to the
economic conditions of certain key trading partners, regulatory burdens, debt
burdens and the price or availability of certain commodities.
Risk
of Investing in Emerging Markets: Investments in emerging markets may be subject to a greater risk of
loss than investments in developed markets. Securities markets of emerging
market countries are less liquid, subject to greater price volatility, have
smaller market capitalizations, have less government regulation, and are not
subject to as extensive and frequent accounting, financial, and other reporting
requirements as the securities markets of more developed countries, and there
may be greater risk associated with the custody of securities in emerging
markets. It may be difficult or impossible for the Fund to pursue claims against
an emerging market issuer in the courts of an emerging market country. There may
be significant obstacles to obtaining information necessary for investigations
into or litigation against emerging market companies and shareholders may have
limited legal rights and remedies. Emerging markets may be more likely to
experience inflation, political turmoil and rapid changes in economic conditions
than more developed markets. Emerging markets may also face other significant
internal or external risks, including the risk of war, terrorism, or other
social or political conflicts.
Risk
of Investing in South Korea: Investments
in South Korean issuers may subject the Fund to legal, regulatory, political,
currency, security, and economic risks specific to South Korea. In addition,
economic and political developments of South Korea’s neighbors, or potential
hostilities with North Korea may have an adverse effect on the South Korean
economy. The South Korean economy is heavily reliant on trading exports,
especially with other Asian countries and the U.S. Conditions that weaken demand
for key South Korean exports, and disruptions or decreases in trade activity
could lead to declines in economic
growth.
Risk
of Investing in the United States:
Investments in United States issuers
may subject the Fund to legal, regulatory, political, currency, security, and
economic risks specific to the United States. A decrease in imports or exports,
changes in trade regulations, inflation and/or an economic recession in the U.S.
may have a material adverse effect on the U.S.
economy.
Indexing
Strategy Risk:
The Fund is not actively managed, and the Adviser does not attempt to take
defensive positions in declining markets. Unlike many investment companies, the
Fund does not seek to outperform its Underlying Index. Therefore, it would not
necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed,
respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is
underperforming. Additionally, if a constituent of the Underlying Index were
removed, even outside of a regular rebalance of the Underlying Index, the
Adviser anticipates that the Fund would sell such security. Maintaining
investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of
individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund
employed an active strategy.
Index-Related
Risk: There is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve a high degree of
correlation to the Underlying Index and therefore achieve its investment
objective. Market disruptions and regulatory restrictions could have an adverse
effect on the Fund’s ability to adjust its exposure to the required levels in
order to track the Underlying Index. Errors in index data, index computations
and/or the construction of the Underlying Index in accordance with its
methodology may occur from time to time and may not be identified and corrected
by the Index Provider for a period of time or at all, which may have an adverse
impact on the Fund and its shareholders.
Management
Risk: The Fund may not fully replicate its Underlying Index and may hold
securities not included in its Underlying Index. The Adviser’s investment
strategy, the implementation of which is subject to a number of constraints, may
cause the Fund to underperform the market or its relevant benchmark or adversely
affect the ability of the Fund to achieve its investment
objective.
Tracking
Error Risk:
Tracking error may occur because of differences between the instruments held in
the Fund's portfolio and those included in the Underlying Index, pricing
differences, transaction costs incurred by the Fund, the
Fund's
holding of uninvested cash, size of the Fund, differences in timing of the
accrual of or the valuation of dividends or interest, tax gains or losses,
changes to the Underlying Index or the costs to the Fund of complying with
various new or existing regulatory requirements. This risk may be heightened
during times of increased market volatility or other unusual market conditions.
Tracking error also may result because the Fund incurs fees and expenses, while
the Underlying Index does not. ETFs that track indices with significant weight
in emerging markets issuers may experience higher tracking error than other ETFs
that do not track such indices.
International
Closed Market Trading Risk: To
the extent that the underlying investments held by the Fund trade on foreign
exchanges that may be closed when the securities exchange on which the Fund’s
Shares trade is open, there are likely to be deviations between the current
price of such an underlying security and the last quoted price for the
underlying security (i.e., the Fund’s quote from the closed foreign market).
These deviations could result in premiums or discounts to the Fund’s NAV that
may be greater than those experienced by other exchange-traded funds
("ETFs").
Investable
Universe of Companies Risk:
The investable universe of companies in which the Fund may invest may be
limited. If a company no longer meets the Index Provider’s criteria for
inclusion in the Underlying Index, the Fund may need to reduce or eliminate its
holdings in that company. The reduction or elimination of the Fund’s holdings in
the company may have an adverse impact on the liquidity of the Fund’s overall
portfolio holdings and on Fund performance.
Issuer
Risk: Fund performance depends on the performance of individual companies
in which the Fund invests. Changes to the financial condition of any of those
companies may cause the value of such company's securities to
decline.
Market
Risk: Turbulence in the financial markets and reduced liquidity may
negatively affect issuers, which could have an adverse effect on the Fund and
its investments. The Fund’s NAV could decline over short periods due to
short-term market movements and over longer periods during market downturns.
Trade policy, including the imposition of tariffs, may dampen consumer spending
and result in decreased confidence in the markets. Additionally, political
uncertainty regarding U.S. policy, including the U.S. government’s approach to
trade, may also impact the markets. Furthermore, local, regional or global
events such as war, acts of terrorism, the spread of infectious diseases,
inflation and recessions, changes in interest or exchange rates, or other events
could have a significant impact on the Fund and its investments and trading of
its Shares. Market risk factors may result in increased volatility and/or
decreased liquidity in the securities markets.
Non-Diversification
Risk: The Fund is classified as a “non-diversified” investment company
under the Investment Company Act of 1940 ("1940 Act"), which means that the Fund
may invest a greater portion of its assets in securities of individual issuers
than a diversified fund. As a result, changes in the market value of a single
investment may have a greater impact on the Fund’s NAV and may make the Fund
more volatile than more diversified funds.
Operational
Risk: The Fund is exposed to operational risk arising from a number of
factors, including but not limited to human error, processing and communication
errors, errors of the Fund's service providers, counterparties or other
third-parties, failed or inadequate processes, cyber security incidents, and
technology or systems failures. The Fund and the Adviser seek to reduce these
operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do
not address every possible risk and may be inadequate for those risks that they
are intended to address.
Risks
Associated with Exchange-Traded Funds:
As an ETF, the Fund is subject to the following risks:
Authorized
Participants Concentration Risk: The Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may
act as Authorized Participants and engage in creation or redemption transactions
directly with the Fund, and none of those Authorized Participants is obligated
to engage in creation and/or redemption transactions. To the extent that those
Authorized Participants exit the business or are unable to process creation
and/or redemption orders, such as in times of market stress, Shares may be more
likely to trade at a premium or discount to NAV and/or at wider intraday bid-ask
spreads, and possibly face trading halts and/or delisting from an exchange.
Authorized Participants Concentration Risk may be heightened because the Fund
invests in non-U.S. securities.
Large
Shareholder Risk: Certain
shareholders, including an Authorized Participant, the Adviser, an affiliate of
the Adviser, or funds managed by the Adviser, may own a substantial amount of
the Fund’s Shares. Redemptions by large shareholders could have a significant
negative impact on the Fund. If a large shareholder were to redeem all, or a
large portion, of its Shares, there is no guarantee that the Fund will be able
to maintain sufficient assets to continue operations in which case the Board of
Trustees may determine to liquidate the Fund. In addition, transactions by large
shareholders may account for a large percentage of the trading volume on a
national securities exchange and may, therefore, have a material upward or
downward effect on the market price of the Shares.
Listing
Standards Risk: The
Fund is required to comply with listing requirements adopted by the listing
exchange. Non-compliance with such requirements may result in the Fund's shares
being delisted by the listing exchange. Any resulting liquidation of the Fund
could cause the Fund to incur elevated transaction costs and could result in
negative tax consequences for its shareholders.
Market
Trading Risks and Premium/Discount
Risks: Shares of the Fund are publicly traded
on a national securities exchange, which may subject shareholders to numerous
market trading risks. In stressed market conditions, the market for the Shares
may become less liquid in response to the deteriorating liquidity of the Fund’s
portfolio. This adverse effect on the liquidity of the Shares, as well as
disruptions to creations and redemptions, the existence of extreme market
volatility or potential lack of assets in the Fund or an active trading market
for Shares may result in Shares trading at a significant premium or discount to
NAV. If a shareholder purchases Shares at a time when the market price is at a
premium to the NAV or sells Shares at a time when the market price is at a
discount to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain losses. The NAV of the Fund is
calculated at the end of each business day and fluctuates with changes in the
market value of the Fund’s holdings. The trading price of the Fund’s Shares
fluctuates, in some cases materially, throughout trading hours in response to
changes in the Fund’s NAV.
Securities
Lending Risk: Securities
lending involves a risk of loss because the borrower may fail to return the
securities in a timely manner or at all. If the Fund is not able to recover the
securities loaned, it may sell the collateral and purchase a replacement
security in the market. Lending securities entails a risk of loss to the Fund if
and to the extent that the market value of the loaned securities increases and
the collateral is not increased accordingly. Additionally, the Fund will bear
any loss on the investment of cash collateral it receives. These events could
also trigger adverse tax consequences for the Fund. As securities on loan may
not be voted by the Fund, there is a risk that the Fund may not be able to
recall the securities in sufficient time to vote on material proxy
matters.
Trading
Halt Risk:
An exchange or market may close or issue trading halts on specific securities,
or the ability to buy or sell certain securities or financial instruments may be
restricted, which may result in the Fund being unable to buy or sell certain
securities or financial instruments. In such circumstances, the Fund may be
unable to rebalance its portfolio, may be unable to accurately price its
investments and/or may incur substantial trading
losses.
Valuation
Risk: The sales price the Fund could receive for a security may differ
from the Fund’s valuation of the security and may differ from the value used by
the Underlying Index, particularly for securities that trade in low value or
volatile markets or that are valued using a fair value methodology (such as
during trading halts). The value of the securities in the Fund's portfolio may
change on days when shareholders will not be able to purchase or sell the Fund's
Shares.
PERFORMANCE
INFORMATION
The bar chart
and table that follow show how the Fund performed on a calendar year basis and
provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes
in the Fund's performance from year to year and by showing the Fund's average
annual total returns for the indicated periods compared with the Fund's
broad-based benchmark index, which reflects a broad measure of market
performance, and the Underlying Index, which the Fund seeks to
track. The Fund's past performance
(before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will
perform in the future. Updated performance information is
available online at
www.globalxetfs.com.
Annual Total Returns
(Years Ended December 31)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| Best
Quarter: |
9/30/2025 |
49.67% |
| Worst
Quarter: |
6/30/2022 |
-37.20% |
Average Annual
Total Returns (for the Periods Ended December 31,
2025)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
One
Year Ended December 31, 2025 |
Since
Inception (07/12/2021) |
| Global
X Hydrogen ETF: |
| |
| ·Return
before taxes |
45.15% |
-25.48% |
|
·Return
after taxes on distributions1 |
42.80% |
-25.77% |
|
·Return
after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund Shares1 |
26.63% |
-16.74% |
|
MSCI ACWI Index (NR)
(USD)
(Index returns reflect
invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflect no deduction for
fees, expenses, or other taxes).
|
22.34% |
9.44% |
|
Solactive Global Hydrogen Index (NR)
(USD)
(Index returns reflect invested dividends net of withholding
taxes, but reflect no deduction for fees, expenses, or other
taxes). |
41.37% |
-25.73% |
1
After-tax returns are
calculated using the historical highest individual U.S. federal marginal income
tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local
taxes. Your actual after-tax
returns will depend on your specific tax situation and may differ from those
shown above. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold Shares of
the Fund through tax-advantaged arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual
retirement accounts (IRAs).
FUND
MANAGEMENT
Investment
Adviser:
Global X Management Company LLC.
Portfolio
Managers:
The professionals primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the
Fund are Nam To, CFA and Wayne Xie (“Portfolio Managers”). Mr. To and Mr. Xie
have been a Portfolio Manager of the Fund since the Fund's inception.
PURCHASE
AND SALE OF FUND SHARES
Shares
of the Fund are or will be listed and traded at market prices on a national
securities exchange. Shares may only be purchased and sold on the exchange
through a broker-dealer. The price of Shares is based on market price, and
because ETF shares trade at market prices rather than at NAV, Shares may trade
at a price greater than NAV (a premium) or less than NAV (a discount). Only
"Authorized Participants" (as defined in the SAI) who have entered into
agreements with the Fund's distributor, SEI Investments Distribution Co.
("Distributor"), may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with
the Fund. The Fund will only issue or redeem Shares that have been aggregated
into blocks called "Creation Units". The Fund will issue or redeem Creation
Units in return for a basket of cash and/or securities that the Fund specifies
any day that the national securities exchanges are open for business (“Business
Day”). An investor may incur costs attributable to the difference between the
highest price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase shares of the Fund (bid) and
the lowest price a seller is willing to accept for shares of the Fund (ask) when
buying or selling shares in the secondary market (the “bid-ask spread”). To
access information regarding the Fund’s net asset value, market price, premiums
and discounts, and bid-ask spreads, please go to
www.globalxetfs.com.
TAX
INFORMATION
The
Fund intends to make distributions that may be taxable to you as ordinary income
or capital gains, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement
such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account ("IRA"), in which case
distributions from such tax-advantaged arrangement may be taxable to you.
PAYMENTS
TO BROKER-DEALERS AND OTHER FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES
The
Adviser and its related companies may pay broker-dealers or other financial
intermediaries (such as a bank) for the sale of Fund Shares and related
services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing your
broker-dealer, sales persons or other intermediary or its employees or
associated persons to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your
financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary's website for more
information.
Global X Defense Tech
ETF
Ticker:
SHLD Exchange: NYSE Arca
INVESTMENT
OBJECTIVE
The
Global X Defense Tech ETF ("Fund") seeks to provide investment results that
correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and
expenses, of the Global X Defense Tech Index ("Underlying
Index").
FEES AND
EXPENSES
This
table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and
sell shares (“Shares”) of the Fund. You
may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial
intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and examples
below.
Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment):
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0.50% |
Example:
The following example
is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost
of investing in other funds. This example does not take into account customary
brokerage commissions that you pay when purchasing or selling Shares of the Fund
in the secondary market. The example assumes
that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell
all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that
your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses
remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on
these assumptions, your costs would be:
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$628 |
Portfolio
Turnover:
The Fund pays transaction
costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over"
its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction
costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account.
These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the
example, affect the Fund's performance. For the most recent fiscal period, the
Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 32.79% of the average value of its
portfolio.
PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT
STRATEGIES
The Fund
invests at least 80% of its net assets, plus borrowings for investment purposes
(if any), in the securities of the Global X Defense Tech Index (the "Underlying
Index"), which may include common stocks, American Depositary Receipts ("ADRs")
and Global Depositary Receipts ("GDRs") based on the securities in the
Underlying Index. The Fund's 80% investment policy is non-fundamental and
requires 60 days prior written notice to shareholders before it can be
changed. The Fund may lend securities representing up to
one-third of the value of the Fund’s total assets (including the value of the
collateral received).
The
Underlying Index is owned and was developed by Global X Management Company LLC
(the “Index Provider”), an affiliate of the Fund and the Fund's investment
adviser (the “Adviser”). The Underlying Index is administered and calculated by
Mirae Asset Global Indices Pvt. Ltd. (the “Index Administrator”), an affiliate
of the Index Provider. The Underlying Index is designed to provide exposure to
defense technology (“Defense Tech”) companies that are positioned to benefit
from technology, services, systems and hardware that cater to the defense and
military sector. Specifically, the Underlying Index consists of securities
issued by “Defense Tech Companies”, as determined by the Index Administrator.
“Defense Tech Companies” are those companies that derive at least 50% of their
revenues from one or more of the following business activities in aggregate, as
determined by the Index Administrator:
•Cybersecurity:
Companies that develop and manage security protocols preventing intrusion and
attacks to systems, networks, applications, computers, and/or infrastructure for
local and/or national defense applications.
•Defense
Technology:
Companies that develop artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IoT),
augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR), human-machine collaboration, big data,
specialized 3D light detecting and ranging (LiDAR), analytics, geospatial
intelligence, and/or security scanning solutions (e.g., biometrics, credential
authentication, etc.) for local and/or national defense applications, as well as
companies that provide applications and services for mission support via a
combination of command, control, communications, computers, cyber-defense,
combat systems (“C6”), and companies involved in intelligence, surveillance, and
reconnaissance (ISR).
•Advanced
Military Systems and Hardware:
Companies that develop robotics, drones, advanced weapon systems and
military/naval munitions, defense-specific power and fuel systems, sensor
arrays, processors and networking equipment, space launch systems (including
satellites), radar systems, and/or military aircraft//naval ships/vehicle
production, for local and/or national defense applications, as well as companies
that provide engineering, technical training and/or simulation for the above
systems.
Local
and/or national defense applications refer to the products and services that
local and/or national governmental organizations require in order to prepare for
and respond to threats, including but not limited to intelligence, surveillance,
combat systems and cyber-defense.
In
constructing the Underlying Index, the Index Administrator first identifies
FactSet Industries related to Defense Tech. FactSet is a leading financial data
provider that maintains a comprehensive structured taxonomy designed to offer
precise classification of global companies and their individual business units.
Companies within these FactSet Industries, as of the selection date, are further
reviewed by the Index Administrator on the basis of revenue related to Defense
Tech, as defined above.
To
be a part of the eligible universe of the Underlying Index, certain minimum
market capitalization and liquidity criteria, as defined by the Index
Administrator, must be met. As of January 31, 2026, companies must have a
minimum market capitalization of $200 million and a minimum average daily
turnover for the last 6 months greater than or equal to $2 million in order to
be eligible for initial inclusion in the Underlying Index. As of
January 31, 2026, companies listed in the following countries were eligible
for inclusion in the Underlying Index: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil,
Canada, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France,
Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan,
Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru,
Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, South Africa, South Korea, Singapore,
Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, the
United Kingdom, and the United States.
The
Underlying Index is weighted according to a modified capitalization weighting
methodology and is reconstituted and re-weighted semi-annually. Modified
capitalization weighting seeks to weight constituents primarily based on free
float market capitalization, but subject to caps on the weights of the
individual securities. Free float market capitalization measures a company’s
market capitalization discounted by the percentage of its shares readily
available to be traded by the general public in the open market (“free float”).
At each rebalance, the maximum weight of a company is capped at 8%. Generally
speaking, modified capitalization weighting will limit the amount of
concentration in the largest market capitalization companies. The Underlying
Index may include large-, mid- or small-capitalization companies, and components
primarily include industrials companies. As of January 31, 2026, the
Underlying Index had 49 constituents. The Fund's investment objective and
Underlying Index may be changed without shareholder approval.
The
Underlying Index is created and sponsored by the Index Provider. Any
determinations related to the constituents of the Underlying Index are made by
the Index Administrator and are independent of the Fund's portfolio managers.
The Index Administrator determines the composition and relative weightings of
the securities in the Underlying Index and publishes information regarding the
market value of the Underlying Index.
The
Adviser uses an indexing approach to try to achieve the Fund's investment
objective. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not try to outperform
the Underlying Index and does not seek temporary defensive positions when
markets decline or appear overvalued. The Fund generally will use a replication
strategy. A replication strategy is an indexing strategy that involves investing
in the securities of the Underlying Index in approximately the same proportions
as in the Underlying Index. However, the Fund may utilize a representative
sampling strategy with respect to the Underlying Index when a replication
strategy might be detrimental or disadvantageous to shareholders, such as when
there are practical difficulties or substantial costs involved in compiling a
portfolio of equity securities to replicate the Underlying Index, in instances
in which a security in the Underlying Index becomes temporarily illiquid,
unavailable or less liquid, or as a result of legal restrictions or limitations
(such as tax diversification requirements) that apply to the Fund but not the
Underlying Index.
The
Adviser expects that, over time, the correlation between the Fund's performance
and that of the Underlying Index, before fees and expenses, will exceed 95%. A
correlation percentage of 100% would indicate perfect correlation. If the Fund
uses a replication strategy, it can be expected to have greater correlation to
the Underlying Index than if it uses a representative sampling
strategy.
The Fund
concentrates its investments (i.e., holds 25% or more of its total assets) in a
particular industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent that
the Underlying Index is concentrated. As of January 31, 2026, the
Underlying Index was concentrated in the aerospace and defense industry and had
significant exposure to the industrials sector. The Fund is
classified as “non-diversified,” which means it may invest a larger percentage
of its assets in a smaller number of issuers than a diversified
fund.
SUMMARY
OF PRINCIPAL RISKS
As with any
investment, you could lose all or part of your investment in the Fund, and the
Fund's performance could trail that of other investments. There
is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its investment objective.
An investment in the Fund is not a bank deposit and it is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other
government agency, the Adviser or any of its affiliates. The
Fund is subject to the principal risks noted below, any of which may adversely
affect the Fund's net asset value ("NAV"), trading price, yield, total return
and ability to meet its investment objective, as well as other risks that are
described in greater detail in the Additional
Information About the Fund
section of this Prospectus and in the Statement of Additional Information
("SAI").
Affiliated
Index Provider Risk: The
Adviser also serves as the Fund’s Index Provider, which may present a potential
conflict of interest. For example, a potential conflict could arise if the
Adviser were to exercise undue influence with respect to regular and/or
extraordinary updates to the methodology or composition of the Underlying Index,
including in a manner that might improve the apparent performance of the Fund
relative to the performance of the Underlying Index. Additionally, potential
conflicts could arise to the extent that portfolio managers of the Adviser
become aware of contemplated methodology changes or rebalance activity prior to
disclosure to the public, which could facilitate “front running” on behalf of
other funds managed by the Adviser with similar exposure. Although the Adviser
has taken steps designed to ensure that these potential conflicts are mitigated
(e.g., via the adoption of policies and procedures that are designed to minimize
potential conflicts of interest and ensure independence with respect to the
operation of the Underlying Index, as well as the implementation of
informational barriers designed to minimize the potential for the misuse of
information about the Underlying Index), there can be no assurance that such
measures will be successful.
Asset
Class Risk:
Securities and other assets in the Underlying Index or otherwise held in the
Fund's portfolio may underperform in comparison to the general securities
markets, a particular securities market or other asset classes.
Equity
Securities Risk: Equity securities are subject to
changes in value, and their values may be more volatile than other asset
classes, as a result of a company’s business performance, investor perceptions,
stock market trends and general economic
conditions.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Defense Tech Companies: Defense
Tech companies are primarily exposed to the risks specific to the technology and
defense markets. Defense Tech companies typically engage in significant amounts
of spending on research and development and could face intense competition and
potentially rapid product obsolescence. These companies are also heavily
dependent on intellectual property rights and may be adversely affected by loss
or impairment of those rights. There can be no assurance these companies will be
able to successfully protect their intellectual property to prevent the
misappropriation of their technology, or that competitors will not develop
technology that is substantially similar or superior to such companies’
technology. Defense Tech companies may be significantly affected by aerospace
and defense regulation and spending policies, as companies involved in this
industry rely to a significant extent on government defense spending policies
and budgets for their products and services. These companies could also be
subject to sanctions and/or investment restrictions imposed by other countries,
which could have an adverse effect on companies that are impacted. Defense Tech
companies may be concentrated in a particular country or region, and any adverse
event affecting one of these countries or regions could have a negative impact
on Defense Tech companies.
Capitalization
Risk:
Investing in issuers within the same market capitalization category carries the
risk that the category may be out of favor due to current market conditions or
investor sentiment.
Large-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Large-capitalization
companies may adapt more slowly to new competitive challenges and changing
market conditions than smaller capitalization companies. In addition,
large-capitalization
companies
may be more mature and subject to more limited growth potential and consequently
may underperform other segments of the equity market or the market as a
whole.
Currency
Risk:
The Fund may invest in securities denominated in foreign currencies. Because the
Fund's NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the Fund's NAV could decline if
currencies of the underlying securities depreciate against the U.S. dollar or if
there are delays or limits on repatriation of such currencies. Generally, an
increase in the value of the U.S. dollar against a foreign currency will reduce
the value of a security denominated in that foreign currency, thereby decreasing
the Fund's NAV. Exchange rates may be volatile and may change quickly and
without warning, which could have a significant negative impact on the
Fund.
Custody
Risk: Custody risk refers to the risks in the process of clearing and
settling trades, as well as the holding of securities and other assets by local
banks, agents, and securities depositories. These risks are heightened in
jurisdictions with less developed markets or less robust settlement and custody
infrastructure and processes.
Cybersecurity
Risk: With the increased use of technologies such as the Internet to
conduct business, the Fund, like all companies, may be susceptible to
operational, information security and related risks. Cybersecurity incidents
involving the Fund and its service providers (including, without limitation, the
Adviser, fund accountant, custodian, transfer agent and financial
intermediaries) have the ability to cause disruptions and impact business
operations, potentially resulting in financial losses, impediments to trading,
the inability of Fund shareholders to transact business, violations of
applicable privacy and other laws, regulatory fines, penalties, reputational
damage, reimbursement or other compensation costs, and/or additional compliance
costs.
Focus
Risk:
The Fund may from time to time have a significant amount of its assets invested
in a particular industry, group of industries, or one or more sectors to
approximately the same extent that the Underlying Index focuses in investments
related to a particular industry, group of industries, and/or one or more
sectors. In such event, the Fund’s performance will depend to a greater extent
on the overall condition of such industry(ies) or sector(s), and an economic,
business, political, regulatory, or other occurrence affecting such
industry(ies) or sector(s) will have an increased impact on the value of the
Fund’s shares compared to the value of shares of a fund that invests in a
broader range of industries or sectors.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Aerospace and Defense Industry: Companies
in the Aerospace & Defense industry are subject to government defense
budgets, geopolitical tensions, and regulatory changes, which can significantly
impact revenues and profitability. Many Aerospace & Defense companies rely
heavily on government contracts, making them vulnerable to shifts in defense
spending policies, political cycles, and procurement cycles. Additionally, these
companies face risks from supply chain disruptions, cost overruns, and
technological obsolescence, particularly as advancements in defense technology
evolve rapidly. Global political instability, trade restrictions, and changes in
international alliances can also affect the demand for aerospace and defense
products. Regulatory scrutiny over budgets, safety standards, procurement
practices, and military applications may impose additional costs and operational
constraints on companies in this
industry.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Industrials Sector:
Companies in the industrials sector are
subject to fluctuations in supply and demand for their specific product or
service. The products of manufacturing companies may face product obsolescence
due to rapid technological developments. Government regulation, world events and
economic conditions affect the performance of companies in the industrials
sector. Companies also may be adversely affected by environmental damage and
product liability claims. Also, commodity price volatility, changes in exchange
rates, imposition of import controls or tariffs, increased competition,
depletion of resources, technological developments and labor relations could
adversely affect the companies in this
sector.
Foreign
Securities Risk:
Investments in foreign securities can be riskier than U.S. securities
investments. Investments in the securities of foreign issuers (including
investments in American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) and Global Depositary
Receipts (“GDRs”)) are subject to additional risks, including lower levels of
liquidity and market efficiency; greater securities price volatility; exchange
rate fluctuations and exchange controls; less availability of public information
about issuers; limitations on foreign ownership of securities; imposition of
withholding or other taxes; imposition of restrictions on the expatriation of
the assets of the Fund; restrictions placed on U.S. investors by U.S.
regulations governing foreign investments; higher transaction and custody costs
and delays in settlement procedures; difficulties in enforcing contractual
obligations; lower levels of regulation of the securities market; weaker
accounting, disclosure and reporting requirements; and legal principles relating
to corporate governance and directors’ fiduciary duties and liabilities. The
countries in which the Fund invests may also be subject to structural risks,
including economic, political and social instability. Additionally, certain
securities held by the Fund, while traded on U.S. exchanges, may be issued by
foreign financial institutions and as such, may be subject to the risks of
investing in securities issued by foreign companies, which may not be subject to
the same regulations as companies domiciled in the U.S.
Where all or a portion of the Fund's securities trade in a market
that is closed when the market in which the Fund's Shares are listed and trading
is open, there may be differences between the last quote from the security’s
closed foreign market and the value of the security during the Fund’s domestic
trading day. This, in turn, could lead to differences between the market price
of the Fund’s Shares and the underlying value of those shares.
Geographic
Risk: The
Fund’s investments in securities of issuers located in a particular country or
geographic region may subject the Fund to certain risks to a greater extent than
if its investments were less focused, including: natural, biological or other
disasters and the spread of infectious diseases; economic, political and social
instability; security concerns; and trade disputes with key trading partners.
The securities in which the Fund invests and, consequently, the Fund is also
subject to specific risks as a result of their business operations in a
particular country or region, including, but not limited to:
Risk
of Investing in Developed Markets: Investments
in a developed country’s issuer may subject the Fund to legal, regulatory,
political, currency, security, and economic risks specific to developed
countries. Developed countries tend to represent a significant portion of the
global economy and have generally experienced slower economic growth than some
less developed countries. Certain developed countries have experienced security
concerns, such as war, terrorism and strained international relations. Incidents
involving a country’s or region’s security may cause uncertainty in its markets
and may adversely affect its economy and the Fund’s investments. In addition,
developed countries may be adversely impacted by changes to the economic
conditions of certain key trading partners, regulatory burdens, debt burdens and
the price or availability of certain commodities.
Risk
of Investing in Emerging Markets: Investments in emerging markets may be subject to a greater risk of
loss than investments in developed markets. Securities markets of emerging
market countries are less liquid, subject to greater price volatility, have
smaller market capitalizations, have less government regulation, and are not
subject to as extensive and frequent accounting, financial, and other reporting
requirements as the securities markets of more developed countries, and there
may be greater risk associated with the custody of securities in emerging
markets. It may be difficult or impossible for the Fund to pursue claims against
an emerging market issuer in the courts of an emerging market country. There may
be significant obstacles to obtaining information necessary for investigations
into or litigation against emerging market companies and shareholders may have
limited legal rights and remedies. Emerging markets may be more likely to
experience inflation, political turmoil and rapid changes in economic conditions
than more developed markets. Emerging markets may also face other significant
internal or external risks, including the risk of war, terrorism, or other
social or political conflicts.
Risk
of Investing in the United States: Investments in United States issuers
may subject the Fund to legal, regulatory, political, currency, security, and
economic risks specific to the United States. A decrease in imports or exports,
changes in trade regulations, inflation and/or an economic recession in the U.S.
may have a material adverse effect on the U.S.
economy.
Indexing
Strategy Risk:
The Fund is not actively managed, and the Adviser does not attempt to take
defensive positions in declining markets. Unlike many investment companies, the
Fund does not seek to outperform its Underlying Index. Therefore, it would not
necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed,
respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is
underperforming. Additionally, if a constituent of the Underlying Index were
removed, even outside of a regular rebalance of the Underlying Index, the
Adviser anticipates that the Fund would sell such security. Maintaining
investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of
individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund
employed an active strategy.
Index-Related
Risk:
There is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve a high degree of correlation to
the Underlying Index and therefore achieve its investment objective. Market
disruptions and regulatory restrictions could have an adverse effect on the
Fund’s ability to adjust its exposure to the required levels in order to track
the Underlying Index. Errors in index data, index computations and/or the
construction of the Underlying Index in accordance with its methodology may
occur from time to time and may not be identified and corrected by the Index
Provider for a period of time or at all, which may have an adverse impact on the
Fund and its shareholders.
Management
Risk:
The Fund may not fully replicate its Underlying Index and may hold securities
not included in its Underlying Index. The Adviser’s investment strategy, the
implementation of which is subject to a number of constraints, may cause the
Fund to underperform the market or its relevant benchmark or adversely affect
the ability of the Fund to achieve its investment
objective.
Tracking
Error Risk:
Tracking error may occur because of differences between the instruments held in
the Fund's portfolio and those included in the Underlying Index, pricing
differences, transaction costs incurred by the Fund, the
Fund's holding of uninvested cash, size
of the Fund, differences in timing of the accrual of or the valuation of
dividends or interest, tax gains or losses, changes to the Underlying Index or
the costs to the Fund of complying with various new or existing regulatory
requirements. This risk may be heightened during times of increased market
volatility or other unusual market conditions. Tracking error also may result
because the Fund incurs fees and expenses, while the Underlying Index does
not.
International
Closed Market Trading Risk: To
the extent that the underlying investments held by the Fund trade on foreign
exchanges that may be closed when the securities exchange on which the Fund’s
Shares trade is open, there are likely to be deviations between the current
price of such an underlying security and the last quoted price for the
underlying security (i.e., the Fund’s quote from the closed foreign market).
These deviations could result in premiums or discounts to the Fund’s NAV that
may be greater than those experienced by other exchange-traded funds
("ETFs").
Investable
Universe of Companies Risk: The
investable universe of companies in which the Fund may invest may be limited. If
a company no longer meets the Index Provider’s criteria for inclusion in the
Underlying Index, the Fund may need to reduce or eliminate its holdings in that
company. The reduction or elimination of the Fund’s holdings in the company may
have an adverse impact on the liquidity of the Fund’s overall portfolio holdings
and on Fund performance.
Issuer
Risk: Fund performance depends on the performance of individual companies
in which the Fund invests. Changes to the financial condition of any of those
companies may cause the value of such company's securities to
decline.
Market
Risk: Turbulence in the financial markets and reduced liquidity may
negatively affect issuers, which could have an adverse effect on the Fund and
its investments. The Fund’s NAV could decline over short periods due to
short-term market movements and over longer periods during market downturns.
Trade policy, including the imposition of tariffs, may dampen consumer spending
and result in decreased confidence in the markets. Additionally, political
uncertainty regarding U.S. policy, including the U.S. government’s approach to
trade, may also impact the markets. Furthermore, local, regional or global
events such as war, acts of terrorism, the spread of infectious diseases,
inflation and recessions, changes in interest or exchange rates, or other events
could have a significant impact on the Fund and its investments and trading of
its Shares. Market risk factors may result in increased volatility and/or
decreased liquidity in the securities markets.
Non-Diversification
Risk:
The Fund is classified as a “non-diversified” investment company under the
Investment Company Act of 1940 ("1940 Act"), which means that the Fund may
invest a greater portion of its assets in securities of individual issuers than
a diversified fund. As a result, changes in the market value of a single
investment may have a greater impact on the Fund’s NAV and may make the Fund
more volatile than more diversified funds.
Operational
Risk: The Fund is exposed to operational risk arising from a number of
factors, including but not limited to human error, processing and communication
errors, errors of the Fund's service providers, counterparties or other
third-parties, failed or inadequate processes, cyber security incidents, and
technology or systems failures. The Fund and the Adviser seek to reduce these
operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do
not address every possible risk and may be inadequate for those risks that they
are intended to address.
Risks
Associated with Exchange-Traded Funds:
As an ETF, the Fund is subject to the following risks:
Authorized
Participants Concentration Risk: The Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may
act as Authorized Participants and engage in creation or redemption transactions
directly with the Fund, and none of those Authorized Participants is obligated
to engage in creation and/or redemption transactions. To the extent that those
Authorized Participants exit the business or are unable to process creation
and/or redemption orders, such as in times of market stress, Shares may be more
likely to trade at a premium or discount to NAV and/or at wider intraday bid-ask
spreads, and possibly face trading halts and/or delisting from an exchange.
Authorized Participants Concentration Risk may be heightened because the Fund
invests in non-U.S. securities.
Large
Shareholder Risk: Certain
shareholders, including an Authorized Participant, the Adviser, an affiliate of
the Adviser, or funds managed by the Adviser, may own a substantial amount of
the Fund’s Shares. Redemptions by large shareholders could have a significant
negative impact on the Fund. If a large shareholder were to redeem all, or a
large portion, of its Shares, there is no guarantee that the Fund will be able
to maintain sufficient assets to continue operations in which case the Board of
Trustees may determine to liquidate the Fund. In addition, transactions by large
shareholders may account for a large percentage of the trading volume on a
national securities exchange and may, therefore, have a material upward or
downward effect on the market price of the Shares.
Listing
Standards Risk: The
Fund is required to comply with listing requirements adopted by the listing
exchange. Non-compliance with such requirements may result in the Fund's shares
being delisted by the listing exchange. Any resulting liquidation of the Fund
could cause the Fund to incur elevated transaction costs and could result in
negative tax consequences for its shareholders.
Market
Trading Risks and Premium/Discount Risks:
Shares of the Fund are publicly traded on a national securities exchange, which
may subject shareholders to numerous market trading risks. In stressed market
conditions, the market for the Shares may become less liquid in response to the
deteriorating liquidity of the Fund’s portfolio. This adverse effect on the
liquidity of the Shares, as well as disruptions to creations and redemptions,
the existence of extreme market volatility or potential lack of assets in the
Fund or an active trading market for Shares may result in Shares trading at a
significant premium or discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases Shares at a
time when the market price is at a premium to the NAV or sells Shares at a time
when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain
losses. The NAV of the Fund is calculated at the end of each business day and
fluctuates with changes in the market value of the Fund’s holdings. The trading
price of the Fund’s Shares fluctuates, in some cases materially, throughout
trading hours in response to changes in the Fund’s
NAV.
Securities
Lending Risk: Securities
lending involves a risk of loss because the borrower may fail to return the
securities in a timely manner or at all. If the Fund is not able to recover the
securities loaned, it may sell the collateral and purchase a replacement
security in the market. Lending securities entails a risk of loss to the Fund if
and to the extent that the market value of the loaned securities increases and
the collateral is not increased accordingly. Additionally, the Fund will bear
any loss on the investment of cash collateral it receives. These events could
also trigger adverse tax consequences for the Fund. As securities on loan may
not be voted by the Fund, there is a risk that the Fund may not be able to
recall the securities in sufficient time to vote on material proxy
matters.
Trading
Halt Risk:
An exchange or market may close or issue trading halts on specific securities,
or the ability to buy or sell certain securities or financial instruments may be
restricted, which may result in the Fund being unable to buy or sell certain
securities or financial instruments. In such circumstances, the Fund may be
unable to rebalance its portfolio, may be unable to accurately price its
investments and/or may incur substantial trading
losses.
Valuation
Risk: The sales price the Fund could receive for a security may differ
from the Fund’s valuation of the security and may differ from the value used by
the Underlying Index, particularly for securities that trade in low value or
volatile markets or that are valued using a fair value methodology (such as
during trading halts). The value of the securities in the Fund's portfolio may
change on days when shareholders will not be able to purchase or sell the Fund's
Shares.
PERFORMANCE
INFORMATION
The bar chart
and table that follow show how the Fund performed on a calendar year basis and
provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes
in the Fund's performance from year to year and by showing the Fund's average
annual total returns for the indicated periods compared with the Fund's
broad-based benchmark index, which reflects a broad measure of market
performance, and the Underlying Index, which the Fund seeks to
track. The Fund's past performance
(before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will
perform in the future. Updated performance information is
available online at
www.globalxetfs.com.
Annual Total Returns
(Years Ended December 31)
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Quarter: |
6/30/2025 |
29.6% |
| Worst
Quarter: |
12/31/2025 |
-6.95% |
Average Annual
Total Returns (for the Periods Ended December 31,
2025)
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One
Year Ended December 31, 2025 |
Since
Inception 09/11/2023 |
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Global
X Defense Tech ETF |
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·Return
before taxes |
74.55% |
52.57% |
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·Return
after taxes on distributions1 |
74.32% |
52.36% |
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·Return
after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund Shares1 |
44.29% |
42.27% |
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MSCI
ACWI Index (NR) (USD)
(Index returns reflect
invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflect no deduction for
fees, expenses, or other
taxes). |
22.34% |
20.50% |
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Global
X Defense Tech Index (NR) (USD)
(Index
returns reflect invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflect
no deduction for fees, expenses, or other
taxes). |
75.57% |
53.42% |
1
After-tax returns are
calculated using the historical highest individual U.S. federal marginal income
tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local
taxes. Your actual after-tax
returns will depend on your specific tax situation and may differ from those
shown above. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold Shares of
the Fund through tax-advantaged arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual
retirement accounts (IRAs).
FUND
MANAGEMENT
Investment
Adviser:
Global X Management Company LLC.
Portfolio
Managers:
The professionals primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the
Fund are Nam To, CFA and Wayne Xie (“Portfolio Managers”). Mr. To and Mr. Xie
have been a Portfolio Manager of the Fund since the Fund's inception.
PURCHASE
AND SALE OF FUND SHARES
Shares
of the Fund are or will be listed and traded at market prices on a national
securities exchange. Shares may only be purchased and sold on the exchange
through a broker-dealer. The price of Shares is based on market price, and
because ETF shares trade at market prices rather than at NAV, Shares may trade
at a price greater than NAV (a premium) or less than NAV (a discount). Only
"Authorized Participants" (as defined in the SAI) who have entered into
agreements with the Fund's distributor, SEI Investments Distribution Co.
("Distributor"), may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with
the Fund. The Fund will only issue or redeem Shares that have been aggregated
into blocks called "Creation Units". The Fund will issue or redeem Creation
Units in return for a basket of cash and/or securities that the Fund specifies
any day that the national securities exchanges are open for business (“Business
Day”). An investor may incur costs attributable to the difference between the
highest price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase shares of the Fund (bid) and
the lowest price a seller is willing to accept for shares of the Fund (ask) when
buying or selling shares in the secondary market (the “bid-ask spread”). To
access information regarding the Fund’s net asset value, market price, premiums
and discounts, and bid-ask spreads, please go to
www.globalxetfs.com.
TAX
INFORMATION
The
Fund intends to make distributions that may be taxable to you as ordinary income
or capital gains, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement
such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account ("IRA"), in which case
distributions from such tax-advantaged arrangement may be taxable to you.
PAYMENTS
TO BROKER-DEALERS AND OTHER FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES
The
Adviser and its related companies may pay broker-dealers or other financial
intermediaries (such as a bank) for the sale of Fund Shares and related
services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing your
broker-dealer, sales persons or other intermediary or its employees or
associated persons to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your
financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary's website for more
information.
Global X
Infrastructure Development ex-U.S. ETF
Ticker:
IPAV Exchange: Cboe BZX
INVESTMENT
OBJECTIVE
The
Global X Infrastructure Development ex-U.S. ETF ("Fund") seeks to provide
investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance,
before fees and expenses, of the Global X Infrastructure Development ex-U.S.
Index ("Underlying Index").
FEES AND
EXPENSES
This
table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and
sell shares (“Shares”) of the Fund. You
may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial
intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and examples
below.
Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment):
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Management
Fees: |
0.55% |
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Distribution
and Service (12b-1) Fees: |
None |
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Other
Expenses: |
0.00% |
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Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses: |
0.55% |
Example:
The following example
is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost
of investing in other funds. This example does not take into account customary
brokerage commissions that you pay when purchasing or selling Shares of the Fund
in the secondary market. The example assumes
that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell
all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that
your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses
remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on
these assumptions, your costs would be:
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One
Year |
Three
Years |
Five
Years |
Ten
Years |
| $56 |
$176 |
$307 |
$689 |
Portfolio
Turnover:
The Fund pays transaction
costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over"
its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction
costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account.
These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the
example, affect the Fund's performance. For the most recent fiscal period, the
Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 45.14% of the average value of its
portfolio.
PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT
STRATEGIES
The
Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets, plus borrowings for investment
purposes (if any), in the securities of the Global X Infrastructure Development
ex-U.S. Index (the "Underlying Index"), which may include common stocks,
American Depositary Receipts ("ADRs") and Global Depositary Receipts ("GDRs")
based on the securities in the Underlying Index. The Fund's 80% investment
policy is non-fundamental and requires 60 days prior written notice to
shareholders before it can be changed.
The
Underlying Index is owned and was developed by Global X Management Company LLC
(the “Index Provider”), an affiliate of the Fund and the Fund's investment
adviser (the “Adviser”). The Underlying Index is administered and calculated by
Mirae Asset Global Indices Pvt. Ltd. (the “Index Administrator”), an affiliate
of the Index Provider.
The
Underlying Index is designed to provide exposure to equity securities listed and
domiciled in international markets, including developed and emerging markets but
excluding the U.S., that provide exposure to infrastructure development,
including companies involved in engineering and construction services;
production of infrastructure raw materials and composites; producers and
distributors of heavy construction equipment and products; infrastructure
transportation; and manufacturers and/or distributors of smart grid components,
(collectively, "International Infrastructure Development Companies").
“International Infrastructure Development Companies” are those companies that
derive at least 50% of their
revenues
from one or more of the following business activities in aggregate outside of
the U.S., as determined by the Index Administrator:
•Engineering
and Construction Services:
Companies that provide engineering, consulting, design, procurement,
maintenance, dredging, and construction services for large-scale infrastructure
projects such as energy generation/distribution, transportation (e.g., roads,
bridges, tunnels, rail), water/wastewater, telecommunications, seaports, and
airports.
•Raw
and Composite Materials:
Companies that produce and supply composite and raw materials (e.g., aluminum,
steel, copper, nickel, tin, concrete, asphalt, cement, and specialty chemicals)
that are utilized in the development and construction of infrastructure
projects.
•Construction
Equipment and Products:
Companies that manufacture, distribute, sell, and/or rent heavy construction
equipment, electric and fiber optic cables, pipes, cranes, pumps, and other
products or equipment utilized in large-scale infrastructure projects.
•Infrastructure
Transportation:
Companies that transport infrastructure raw materials and equipment, such as the
materials used in the other business activities described in the other
sub-themes, as well as aggregates, alumina, base metals, bauxite, coal, coke,
iron ore, lumber, steel, and panels (solar and construction panels,
etc.).
•Smart
Grid Components: Companies
that manufacture or sell electrical components, energy storage devices, EV
charging equipment, smart meters and other applications related to smart grid
construction.
In
constructing the Underlying Index, the Index Administrator first identifies
FactSet Industries related to International Infrastructure Development. FactSet
is a leading financial data provider that maintains a comprehensive structured
taxonomy designed to offer precise classification of global companies and their
individual business units. Companies within these FactSet Industries, as of the
selection date, are further reviewed by the Index Administrator on the basis of
revenue related to International Infrastructure Development, as defined
above.
To
be a part of the eligible universe of the Underlying Index, certain minimum
market capitalization and liquidity criteria, as defined by the Index
Administrator, must be met. As of January 31, 2026, companies must have a
minimum market capitalization of $200 million and a minimum average daily
turnover for the last 6 months greater than or equal to $2 million in order to
be eligible for initial inclusion in the Underlying Index. As of
January 31, 2026, companies listed in the following countries were eligible
for inclusion in the Underlying Index: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil,
Canada, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,
Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan,
Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru,
Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea,
Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and
the United Kingdom.
The
Underlying Index is weighted according to a modified capitalization weighting
methodology and is reconstituted and re-weighted semi-annually. Modified
capitalization weighting seeks to weight constituents primarily based on free
float market capitalization, but subject to caps on the weights of the
individual securities. Free float market capitalization measures a company’s
market capitalization discounted by the percentage of its shares readily
available to be traded by the general public in the open market (“free float”).
At each rebalance, the maximum weight of a company is capped at 3%. Generally
speaking, modified capitalization weighting will limit the amount of
concentration in the largest market capitalization companies. The Underlying
Index may include large-, mid- or small-capitalization companies, and components
primarily include industrials companies. As of January 31, 2026, the
Underlying Index had 100 constituents. The Fund's investment objective and
Underlying Index may be changed without shareholder approval.
The
Underlying Index is created and sponsored by the Index Provider. Any
determinations related to the constituents of the Underlying Index are made by
the Index Administrator and are independent of the Fund's portfolio managers.
The Index Administrator determines the composition and relative weightings of
the securities in the Underlying Index and publishes information regarding the
market value of the Underlying Index.
The
Adviser uses an indexing approach to try to achieve the Fund's investment
objective. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not try to outperform
the Underlying Index and does not seek temporary defensive positions when
markets decline or appear overvalued.
The
Fund generally will use a replication strategy. A replication strategy is an
indexing strategy that involves investing in the securities of the Underlying
Index in approximately the same proportions as in the Underlying Index. However,
the Fund may utilize a representative sampling strategy with respect to the
Underlying Index when a replication strategy might be detrimental or
disadvantageous to shareholders, such as when there are practical difficulties
or substantial costs involved in compiling a portfolio of equity securities to
replicate the Underlying Index, in instances in which a security in the
Underlying Index becomes temporarily illiquid, unavailable or less liquid, or as
a result of legal restrictions or limitations (such as tax diversification
requirements) that apply to the Fund but not the Underlying Index.
The
Adviser expects that, over time, the correlation between the Fund's performance
and that of the Underlying Index, before fees and expenses, will exceed 95%. A
correlation percentage of 100% would indicate perfect correlation. If the Fund
uses a replication strategy, it can be expected to have greater correlation to
the Underlying Index than if it uses a representative sampling strategy.
The Fund
concentrates its investments (i.e., holds 25% or more of its total assets) in a
particular industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent that
the Underlying Index is concentrated. As of January 31, 2026, the
Underlying Index had significant exposure to the industrials and materials
sectors. The Fund is classified as “non-diversified,” which
means it may invest a larger percentage of its assets in a smaller number of
issuers than a diversified fund.
SUMMARY
OF PRINCIPAL RISKS
As with any
investment, you could lose all or part of your investment in the Fund, and the
Fund's performance could trail that of other investments. There
is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its investment objective.
An investment in the Fund is not a bank deposit and it is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other
government agency, the Adviser or any of its affiliates. The
Fund is subject to the principal risks noted below, any of which may adversely
affect the Fund's net asset value ("NAV"), trading price, yield, total return
and ability to meet its investment objective, as well as other risks that are
described in greater detail in the Additional
Information About the Fund
section of this Prospectus and in the Statement of Additional Information
("SAI").
Affiliated
Index Provider Risk: The
Adviser also serves as the Fund’s Index Provider, which may present a potential
conflict of interest. For example, a potential conflict could arise if the
Adviser were to exercise undue influence with respect to regular and/or
extraordinary updates to the methodology or composition of the Underlying Index,
including in a manner that might improve the apparent performance of the Fund
relative to the performance of the Underlying Index. Additionally, potential
conflicts could arise to the extent that portfolio managers of the Adviser
become aware of contemplated methodology changes or rebalance activity prior to
disclosure to the public, which could facilitate “front running” on behalf of
other funds managed by the Adviser with similar exposure. Although the Adviser
has taken steps designed to ensure that these potential conflicts are mitigated
(e.g., via the adoption of policies and procedures that are designed to minimize
potential conflicts of interest and ensure independence with respect to the
operation of the Underlying Index, as well as the implementation of
informational barriers designed to minimize the potential for the misuse of
information about the Underlying Index), there can be no assurance that such
measures will be successful.
Asset
Class Risk:
Securities and other assets in the Underlying Index or otherwise held in the
Fund's portfolio may underperform in comparison to the general securities
markets, a particular securities market or other asset classes.
Depositary
Receipts Risk: The
Fund may invest in depositary receipts, such as ADRs and GDRs. Depositary
receipts are receipts listed on U.S. or foreign exchanges issued by banks or
trust companies that entitle the holder to all dividends and capital gains that
are paid out on the underlying foreign shares. Depositary receipts are generally
subject to the same risks associated with direct investments in the securities
of foreign companies. A holder of depositary receipts may also be subject to
fees and the credit risk of the financial institution acting as depositary.
Unsponsored depositary receipts may involve higher expenses, fewer shareholder
rights, and may be less liquid.
Equity
Securities Risk: Equity securities are subject to
changes in value, and their values may be more volatile than other asset
classes, as a result of a company’s business performance, investor perceptions,
stock market trends and general economic
conditions.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Infrastructure Development Companies:
The Fund invests in infrastructure development companies, including companies
involved in construction, engineering, production of raw materials, production
and distribution of heavy construction equipment and infrastructure
transportation. General risks of infrastructure development companies
include the general state of the economy, intense competition, consolidation,
domestic and international politics, and excess capacity. In addition,
infrastructure development companies may also be significantly affected by
overall capital
spending levels (including both private and public sector spending),
economic cycles, technical obsolescence, delays in modernization, labor
relations and government regulations. Some infrastructure development
companies may rely heavily on local, state or national government contracts, and
are therefore subject to higher degrees of political risk and could be
negatively impacted by changes in government policies or a deterioration in
government balance sheets in the future. The customers and/or suppliers of
Infrastructure Development companies may be concentrated in a particular
country, region or industry. Any adverse event affecting one of these countries,
regions or industries could have a negative impact on infrastructure development
companies.
Capitalization
Risk:
Investing in issuers within the same market capitalization category carries the
risk that the category may be out of favor due to current market conditions or
investor sentiment.
Large-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Large-capitalization
companies may adapt more slowly to new competitive challenges and changing
market conditions than smaller capitalization companies. In addition,
large-capitalization companies may be more mature and subject to more limited
growth potential and consequently may underperform other segments of the equity
market or the market as a whole.
Mid-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Mid-capitalization
companies may have greater price volatility, lower trading volume and less
liquidity than large-capitalization companies. In addition, mid-capitalization
companies may have smaller revenues, narrower product lines, less management
depth and experience, smaller shares of their product or service markets, fewer
financial resources and less competitive strength than large-capitalization
companies. These securities may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly,
from the overall securities market.
Cash
Transaction Risk:
Unlike most exchange-traded funds ("ETFs"), the Fund intends to effect a
significant portion of creations and redemptions for cash, rather than in-kind
securities. As such, the Fund may be required to sell portfolio securities in
order to obtain the cash needed to distribute redemption proceeds. As a result,
an investment in the Fund may be less tax-efficient than an investment in a more
conventional ETF. Moreover, cash transactions may have to be carried out over
several days if the securities market is relatively illiquid and may involve the
Fund recognizing a capital gain and/or incurring considerable brokerage fees and
taxes. These factors may result in wider spreads between the bid and the offered
prices of the Fund’s Shares than for more conventional ETFs. Additionally, to
the extent that brokerage or other costs are costs or taxable gains or losses
that the Fund might not offset by transaction fees, such costs may be borne by
the Fund and result in a decrease in the value of the
Fund.
Currency
Risk: The Fund may invest in securities denominated in foreign
currencies. Because the Fund's NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the Fund's NAV
could decline if currencies of the underlying securities depreciate against the
U.S. dollar or if there are delays or limits on repatriation of such currencies.
Generally, an increase in the value of the U.S. dollar against a foreign
currency will reduce the value of a security denominated in that foreign
currency, thereby decreasing the Fund's NAV. Exchange rates may be volatile and
may change quickly and without warning, which could have a significant negative
impact on the Fund.
Custody
Risk: Custody risk refers to the risks in the process of clearing and
settling trades, as well as the holding of securities and other assets by local
banks, agents, and securities depositories. These risks are heightened in
jurisdictions with less developed markets or less robust settlement and custody
infrastructure and processes.
Cybersecurity
Risk: With the increased use of technologies such as the Internet to
conduct business, the Fund, like all companies, may be susceptible to
operational, information security and related risks. Cybersecurity incidents
involving the Fund and its service providers (including, without limitation, the
Adviser, fund accountant, custodian, transfer agent and financial
intermediaries) have the ability to cause disruptions and impact business
operations, potentially resulting in financial losses, impediments to trading,
the inability of Fund shareholders to transact business, violations of
applicable privacy and other laws, regulatory fines, penalties, reputational
damage, reimbursement or other compensation costs, and/or additional compliance
costs.
Focus
Risk:
To the extent that the Underlying Index focuses on investments related to a
particular industry or group of industries, the Fund will also focus its
investments to approximately the same extent. Similarly, if the Underlying Index
has significant exposure to one or more sectors, the Fund’s investments will
likely have significant exposure to such sectors. In such event, the Fund’s
performance will be particularly susceptible to adverse events impacting such
industry or sector, which may include, but are not limited to, the following:
general economic conditions or cyclical market patterns that could negatively
affect supply and demand; competition for resources; adverse labor relations;
political or world events; obsolescence of technologies; and increased
competition or new product introductions that may affect the profitability or
viability of companies
in
a particular industry or sector. As a result, the value of the Fund’s
investments may rise and fall more than the value of shares of a fund that
invests in securities of companies in a broader range of industries or sectors.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Industrials Sector: Companies in the industrials sector are subject to fluctuations in
supply and demand for their specific product or service. The products of
manufacturing companies may face product obsolescence due to rapid technological
developments. Government regulation, world events and economic conditions affect
the performance of companies in the industrials sector. Companies also may be
adversely affected by environmental damage and product liability claims. Also,
commodity price volatility, changes in exchange rates, imposition of import
controls or tariffs, increased competition, depletion of resources,
technological developments and labor relations could adversely affect the
companies in this sector.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Materials
Sector: Companies in the materials sector are
affected by commodity price volatility, exchange rates, import and export
controls, supply chain disruptions, worldwide competition, social and political
unrest, war, depletion of resources, technical advances, labor relations,
over-production, litigation and government regulations, among other factors,
among other factors.
Foreign
Securities Risk: Investments in foreign securities can be riskier than U.S.
securities investments. Investments in the securities of foreign issuers
(including investments in American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) and Global
Depositary Receipts (“GDRs”)) are subject to additional risks, including lower
levels of liquidity and market efficiency; greater securities price volatility;
exchange rate fluctuations and exchange controls; less availability of public
information about issuers; limitations on foreign ownership of securities;
imposition of withholding or other taxes; imposition of restrictions on the
expatriation of the assets of the Fund; restrictions placed on U.S. investors by
U.S. regulations governing foreign investments; higher transaction and custody
costs and delays in settlement procedures; difficulties in enforcing contractual
obligations; lower levels of regulation of the securities market; weaker
accounting, disclosure and reporting requirements; and legal principles relating
to corporate governance and directors’ fiduciary duties and liabilities. The
countries in which the Fund invests may also be subject to structural risks,
including economic, political and social instability. Additionally, certain
securities held by the Fund, while traded on U.S. exchanges, may be issued by
foreign financial institutions and as such, may be subject to the risks of
investing in securities issued by foreign companies, which may not be subject to
the same regulations as companies domiciled in the U.S. Where all or a portion
of the Fund's securities trade in a market that is closed when the market in
which the Fund's Shares are listed and trading is open, there may be differences
between the last quote from the security’s closed foreign market and the value
of the security during the Fund’s domestic trading day. This, in turn, could
lead to differences between the market price of the Fund’s Shares and the
underlying value of those shares.
Geographic
Risk: The
Fund’s investments in securities of issuers located in a particular country or
geographic region may subject the Fund to certain risks to a greater extent than
if its investments were less focused, including: natural, biological or other
disasters and the spread of infectious diseases; economic, political and social
instability; security concerns; and trade disputes with key trading partners.
The securities in which the Fund invests and, consequently, the Fund is also
subject to specific risks as a result of their business operations in a
particular country or region, including, but not limited to:
China
Exposure Risk:
China may be subject to considerable degrees of economic, political and social
instability. Concerns about the rising government and household debt levels
could impact the stability of the Chinese economy. China is an emerging market
and demonstrates significantly higher volatility from time to time in comparison
to developed markets. Over the last few decades, the Chinese government has
undertaken reform of economic and market practices, including recent reforms to
liberalize its capital markets and expand the sphere for private ownership of
property in China. However, Chinese markets generally continue to experience
inefficiency, volatility and pricing anomalies resulting from governmental
influence, a lack of publicly available information and/or political and social
instability. Chinese companies are also subject to the risk that Chinese
authorities can intervene in their operations and structure. Internal social
unrest or confrontations with other neighboring countries, including military
conflicts in response to such events, may also disrupt economic development in
China and result in a greater risk of currency fluctuations, currency
convertibility, interest rate fluctuations and higher rates of
inflation.
The customers and/or suppliers of infrastructure development
companies may be concentrated in China. Any adverse event affecting China could
have a negative impact on infrastructure development
companies.
Risk
of Investing in Developed Markets:
Investments in a developed country’s issuer may subject the Fund to legal,
regulatory, political, currency, security, and economic risks specific to
developed countries. Developed countries tend to represent a significant portion
of the global economy and have generally experienced slower economic growth than
some less developed countries. Certain developed countries have experienced
security concerns, such as war, terrorism and strained international relations.
Incidents involving a country’s or region’s security may cause uncertainty in
its
markets and may adversely affect its economy and the Fund’s
investments. In addition, developed countries may be adversely impacted by
changes to the economic conditions of certain key trading partners, regulatory
burdens, debt burdens and the price or availability of certain
commodities.
Risk
of Investing in Emerging Markets: Investments in emerging markets may be subject to a greater risk of
loss than investments in developed markets. Securities markets of emerging
market countries are less liquid, subject to greater price volatility, have
smaller market capitalizations, have less government regulation, and are not
subject to as extensive and frequent accounting, financial, and other reporting
requirements as the securities markets of more developed countries, and there
may be greater risk associated with the custody of securities in emerging
markets. It may be difficult or impossible for the Fund to pursue claims against
an emerging market issuer in the courts of an emerging market country. There may
be significant obstacles to obtaining information necessary for investigations
into or litigation against emerging market companies and shareholders may have
limited legal rights and remedies. Emerging markets may be more likely to
experience inflation, political turmoil and rapid changes in economic conditions
than more developed markets. Emerging markets may also face other significant
internal or external risks, including the risk of war, terrorism, or other
social or political conflicts.
Risk
of Investing in India: Investments in Indian issuers may
subject the Fund to legal, regulatory, political, currency, security, and
economic risks specific to India. Strained relations with neighboring countries
may escalate to conflict, which may adversely affect the Indian economy.
Additionally, the Reserve Bank of India has, at times, limited foreign
investment in certain Indian securities, which could limit the Fund’s
investments in Indian issuers. Political and legal uncertainty, greater
government control over the economy, currency fluctuations or blockage,
relatively underdeveloped securities markets and the risk of nationalization or
expropriation of assets may result in higher potential for losses for
investments in Indian securities.
Indexing
Strategy Risk:
The Fund is not actively managed, and the Adviser does not attempt to take
defensive positions in declining markets. Unlike many investment companies, the
Fund does not seek to outperform its Underlying Index. Therefore, it would not
necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed,
respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is
underperforming. Additionally, if a constituent of the Underlying Index were
removed, even outside of a regular rebalance of the Underlying Index, the
Adviser anticipates that the Fund would sell such security. Maintaining
investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of
individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund
employed an active strategy.
Index-Related
Risk:
There is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve a high degree of correlation to
the Underlying Index and therefore achieve its investment objective. Market
disruptions and regulatory restrictions could have an adverse effect on the
Fund’s ability to adjust its exposure to the required levels in order to track
the Underlying Index. Errors in index data, index computations and/or the
construction of the Underlying Index in accordance with its methodology may
occur from time to time and may not be identified and corrected by the Index
Provider for a period of time or at all, which may have an adverse impact on the
Fund and its shareholders.
Management
Risk:
The Fund may not fully replicate its Underlying Index and may hold securities
not included in its Underlying Index. The Adviser’s investment strategy, the
implementation of which is subject to a number of constraints, may cause the
Fund to underperform the market or its relevant benchmark or adversely affect
the ability of the Fund to achieve its investment
objective.
Tracking
Error Risk:
Tracking error may occur because of differences between the instruments held in
the Fund's portfolio and those included in the Underlying Index, pricing
differences, transaction costs incurred by the Fund, the Fund's holding of
uninvested cash, size of the Fund, differences in timing of the accrual of or
the valuation of dividends or interest, tax gains or losses, changes to the
Underlying Index or the costs to the Fund of complying with various new or
existing regulatory requirements. This risk may be heightened during times of
increased market volatility or other unusual market conditions. Tracking error
also may result because the Fund incurs fees and expenses, while the Underlying
Index does not. ETFs that track indices with significant weight in emerging
markets issuers may experience higher tracking error than other ETFs that do not
track such indices.
International
Closed Market Trading Risk: To
the extent that the underlying investments held by the Fund trade on foreign
exchanges that may be closed when the securities exchange on which the Fund’s
Shares trade is open, there are likely to be deviations between the current
price of such an underlying security and the last quoted price for the
underlying security (i.e., the Fund’s quote from the closed foreign market).
These deviations could result in premiums or discounts to the Fund’s NAV that
may be greater than those experienced by other exchange-traded funds
("ETFs").
Issuer
Risk: Fund performance depends on the performance of individual companies
in which the Fund invests. Changes to the financial condition of any of those
companies may cause the value of such company's securities to
decline.
Market
Risk:
Turbulence in the financial markets and reduced liquidity may negatively affect
issuers, which could have an adverse effect on the Fund and its investments. The
Fund’s NAV could decline over short periods due to short-term market movements
and over longer periods during market downturns. Trade policy, including the
imposition of tariffs, may dampen consumer spending and result in decreased
confidence in the markets. Additionally, political uncertainty regarding U.S.
policy, including the U.S. government’s approach to trade, may also impact the
markets. Furthermore, local, regional or global events such as war, acts of
terrorism, the spread of infectious diseases, inflation and recessions, changes
in interest or exchange rates, or other events could have a significant impact
on the Fund and its investments and trading of its Shares. Market risk factors
may result in increased volatility and/or decreased liquidity in the securities
markets.
Non-Diversification
Risk:
The Fund is classified as a “non-diversified” investment company under the
Investment Company Act of 1940 ("1940 Act"). As a result, the Fund is subject to
the risk that it may be more volatile than a diversified fund because the Fund
may invest its assets in a smaller number of issuers or may invest a larger
proportion of its assets in a single issuer. As a result, the gains and losses
on a single investment may have a greater impact on the Fund’s NAV and may make
the Fund more volatile than more diversified funds.
Operational
Risk: The Fund is exposed to operational risk arising from a number of
factors, including but not limited to human error, processing and communication
errors, errors of the Fund's service providers, counterparties or other
third-parties, failed or inadequate processes, cyber security incidents, and
technology or systems failures. The Fund and the Adviser seek to reduce these
operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do
not address every possible risk and may be inadequate for those risks that they
are intended to address.
Risks
Associated with Exchange-Traded Funds:
As an ETF, the Fund is subject to the following risks:
Authorized
Participants Concentration Risk:
The Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may act as
Authorized Participants and engage in creation or redemption transactions
directly with the Fund, and none of those Authorized Participants is obligated
to engage in creation and/or redemption transactions. To the extent that those
Authorized Participants exit the business or are unable to process creation
and/or redemption orders, such as in times of market stress, Shares may be more
likely to trade at a premium or discount to NAV and/or at wider intraday bid-ask
spreads, and possibly face trading halts and/or delisting from an exchange.
Authorized Participants Concentration Risk may be heightened because the Fund
invests in non-U.S. securities.
Large
Shareholder Risk: Certain
shareholders, including an Authorized Participant, the Adviser, an affiliate of
the Adviser, or funds managed by the Adviser, may own a substantial amount of
the Fund’s Shares. Redemptions by large shareholders could have a significant
negative impact on the Fund. If a large shareholder were to redeem all, or a
large portion, of its Shares, there is no guarantee that the Fund will be able
to maintain sufficient assets to continue operations in which case the Board of
Trustees may determine to liquidate the Fund. In addition, transactions by large
shareholders may account for a large percentage of the trading volume on a
national securities exchange and may, therefore, have a material upward or
downward effect on the market price of the Shares.
Listing
Standards Risk: The
Fund is required to comply with listing requirements adopted by the listing
exchange. Non-compliance with such requirements may result in the Fund's shares
being delisted by the listing exchange. Any resulting liquidation of the Fund
could cause the Fund to incur elevated transaction costs and could result in
negative tax consequences for its shareholders.
Market
Trading Risks and Premium/Discount Risks:
Shares of the Fund are publicly traded on a national securities exchange, which
may subject shareholders to numerous market trading risks. In stressed market
conditions, the market for the Shares may become less liquid in response to the
deteriorating liquidity of the Fund’s portfolio. This adverse effect on the
liquidity of the Shares, as well as disruptions to creations and redemptions,
the existence of extreme market volatility or potential lack of assets in the
Fund or an active trading market for Shares may result in Shares trading at a
significant premium or discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases Shares at a
time when the market price is at a premium to the NAV or sells Shares at a time
when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain
losses. The NAV of the Fund is calculated at the end of each business day and
fluctuates with changes in the market value of the Fund’s holdings. The trading
price of the Fund’s Shares fluctuates, in some cases materially, throughout
trading hours in response to changes in the Fund’s
NAV.
Trading
Halt Risk:
An exchange or market may close or issue trading halts on specific securities,
or the ability to buy or sell certain securities or financial instruments may be
restricted, which may result in the Fund being unable to buy or sell certain
securities or financial instruments. In such circumstances, the Fund may be
unable to rebalance its portfolio, may be unable to accurately price its
investments and/or may incur substantial trading
losses.
Valuation
Risk:
The sales price the Fund could receive for a security may differ from the Fund’s
valuation of the security and may differ from the value used by the Underlying
Index, particularly for securities that trade in low value or volatile markets
or that are valued using a fair value methodology (such as during trading
halts). The value of the securities in the Fund's portfolio may change on days
when shareholders will not be able to purchase or sell the Fund's
Shares.
PERFORMANCE
INFORMATION
The bar chart
and table that follow show how the Fund performed on a calendar year basis and
provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes
in the Fund's performance from year to year and by showing the Fund's average
annual total returns for the indicated periods compared with the Fund's
broad-based benchmark index, which reflects a broad measure of market
performance, and the Underlying Index, which the Fund seeks to
track. The Fund's past performance
(before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will
perform in the future. Updated performance information is
available online at
www.globalxetfs.com.
Annual Total Returns
(Years Ended December 31)
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| Best
Quarter: |
6/30/2025 |
12.88% |
| Worst
Quarter: |
9/30/2025 |
3.47% |
Average Annual
Total Returns (for the Periods Ended December 31,
2025)
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| |
One
Year Ended December 31, 2025 |
Since
Inception 08/27/24 |
| Global
X Infrastructure Development ex-U.S. ETF |
| |
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·Return
before taxes |
29.16% |
14.74% |
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·Return
after taxes on distributions1 |
28.93% |
14.53% |
|
·Return
after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund Shares1 |
17.71% |
11.39% |
|
MSCI
ACWI Index (USD) (NR)
(Index returns reflect
invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflect no deduction for
fees, expenses, or other
taxes). |
22.34% |
17.62% |
|
Global
X Infrastructure Development ex-U.S. Index (NR) (USD)
(Index
returns reflect invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflect
no deduction for fees, expenses, or other
taxes). |
30.19% |
22.34% |
1
After-tax returns are
calculated using the historical highest individual U.S. federal marginal income
tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local
taxes. Your actual after-tax
returns will depend on your specific tax situation and may differ from those
shown above. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold Shares of
the Fund through tax-advantaged arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual
retirement accounts (IRAs).
FUND
MANAGEMENT
Investment
Adviser:
Global X Management Company LLC.
Portfolio
Managers:
The professionals primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the
Fund are Nam To, CFA and Wayne Xie (“Portfolio Managers”). Mr. To and Mr. Xie
have been a Portfolio Manager of the Fund since the Fund's inception.
PURCHASE
AND SALE OF FUND SHARES
Shares
of the Fund are or will be listed and traded at market prices on a national
securities exchange. Shares may only be purchased and sold on the exchange
through a broker-dealer. The price of Shares is based on market price, and
because ETF shares trade at market prices rather than at NAV, Shares may trade
at a price greater than NAV (a premium) or less than NAV (a discount). Only
"Authorized Participants" (as defined in the SAI) who have entered into
agreements with the Fund's distributor, SEI Investments Distribution Co.
("Distributor"), may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with
the Fund. The Fund will only issue or redeem Shares that have been aggregated
into blocks called "Creation Units". The Fund will issue or redeem Creation
Units in return for a basket of cash and/or securities that the Fund specifies
any day that the national securities exchanges are open for business (“Business
Day”). An investor may incur costs attributable to the difference between the
highest price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase shares of the Fund (bid) and
the lowest price a seller is willing to accept for shares of the Fund (ask) when
buying or selling shares in the secondary market (the “bid-ask spread”). To
access information regarding the Fund’s net asset value, market price, premiums
and discounts, and bid-ask spreads, please go to
www.globalxetfs.com.
TAX
INFORMATION
The
Fund intends to make distributions that may be taxable to you as ordinary income
or capital gains, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement
such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account ("IRA"), in which case
distributions from such tax-advantaged arrangement may be taxable to you.
PAYMENTS
TO BROKER-DEALERS AND OTHER FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES
The
Adviser and its related companies may pay broker-dealers or other financial
intermediaries (such as a bank) for the sale of Fund Shares and related
services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing your
broker-dealer, sales persons or other intermediary or its employees or
associated persons to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your
financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary's website for more
information.
Global X AI
Semiconductor & Quantum ETF
Ticker:
CHPX Exchange: NASDAQ
INVESTMENT
OBJECTIVE
The
Global X AI Semiconductor & Quantum ETF ("Fund") seeks to provide investment
results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before
fees and expenses, of the Global X AI Semiconductor & Quantum Index (the
"Underlying Index").
FEES AND
EXPENSES
This
table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and
sell shares (“Shares”) of the Fund. You
may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial
intermediaries, which are not reflected in the tables and examples
below.
Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment):
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Management
Fees: |
0.50% |
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Distribution
and Service (12b-1) Fees: |
None |
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Other
Expenses:1 |
0.00% |
|
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses: |
0.50% |
1 Other Expenses are based on
estimated amounts for the current fiscal
year.
Example:
The following example
is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost
of investing in other funds. This example does not take into account customary
brokerage commissions that you pay when purchasing or selling Shares of the Fund
in the secondary market. The example assumes
that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then hold
or sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes
that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating
expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower,
based on these assumptions, your costs would be:
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One
Year |
Three
Years |
| $51 |
$160 |
Portfolio
Turnover:
The Fund pays transaction
costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over"
its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction
costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account.
These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the
example, affect the Fund's performance. From the Fund's commencement of
operations on September 30, 2025 to the end of the most recent fiscal period,
the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 5.88% of the average value of its
portfolio.
PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT
STRATEGIES
The
Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets, plus borrowings for investment
purposes (if any), in the securities of the Underlying Index, which may include
common stocks, American Depositary Receipts ("ADRs") and Global Depository
Receipts (“GDRs”). The Fund's 80% investment policy is non-fundamental and
requires 60 days prior written notice to shareholders before it can be
changed.
The
Underlying Index is owned and was developed by Global X Management Company LLC
(the “Index Provider”), the Fund's investment adviser (the “Adviser”) and an
affiliate of the Fund. The Underlying Index is administered and calculated by
Mirae Asset Global Indices Pvt. Ltd. (the “Index Administrator”), an affiliate
of the Index Provider and the Fund.
The
Underlying Index, as presently constituted, is designed to track the performance
of companies that are involved in the artificial intelligence (“AI”)
semiconductor and quantum computing ecosystems. “AI Semiconductor” companies
refers to companies involved in AI Semiconductors, Compute System Enablers and
Data Center Infrastructure, as described below. “Quantum” companies are
companies involved in Quantum Computing Technologies, as described below. In
constructing the Underlying Index, the Index Administrator analyzes industries
and business segments within FactSet’s classification system
that
the Index Administrator considers to be related to the AI Semiconductors and
Quantum themes to create an initial universe of eligible securities. FactSet is
an independent leading financial data provider that maintains a comprehensive
structured taxonomy designed to offer precise classification of global companies
and their individual business units. Companies that are identified as deriving a
significant proportion of their revenue from the following sub-themes will be
evaluated for inclusion in the initial universe:
•AI
Semiconductors:
Companies primarily engaged in the design and manufacture of graphics processing
units (GPUs), central processing units (CPUs), application-specific integrated
circuits (ASICs), networking chips, memory solutions, and other semiconductor
chips that enable AI model training and inference.
•Compute
Systems Enablers:
Companies primarily engaged in the architecture, engineering, and production of
AI-focused hardware systems and software systems, including servers, networking,
and integration, and next-generation data center computing and
storage.
•Data
Center Infrastructure and Equipment:
Companies primarily engaged in delivering HVAC, cooling systems, and specialized
infrastructure critical to ensuring energy efficiency and optimal performance in
AI data centers. This also includes firms involved in power management
components tailored for AI and machine learning applications.
•Quantum
Computing Technologies:
Companies primarily engaged in the development of quantum computing systems that
use quantum mechanics to solve problems beyond the reach of classical computing
systems.
To
be a part of the initial universe, companies must meet certain minimum market
capitalization and liquidity criteria, as determined by the Index Administrator.
As of January 31, 2026, companies must have a minimum market capitalization
of $1 billion and an average daily turnover for the last 6 months greater than
or equal to $2 million for inclusion in the initial universe. Newly listed
securities may be considered for inclusion subject to certain criteria related
to trading history, number of days traded and market capitalization, determined
by the Index Administrator. Additionally, companies must be listed in developed
or emerging market countries to be eligible for inclusion in the initial
universe. As of January 31, 2026, companies listed in the following
countries are not eligible for inclusion: Bangladesh, China, India, Kuwait,
Pakistan, Russia, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia. As of January 31, 2026,
companies must have a minimum of 10% of their outstanding shares available for
public investment.
After
identifying business segments eligible for inclusion in the initial universe,
the Index Administrator further screens securities within the segments to
identify companies that derive a majority of their revenues from one or more of
the stated business activities of the sub-themes. To be considered for inclusion
in the Underlying Index, and therefore be considered an "AI Semiconductor " or a
"Quantum” company, companies must generate at least 50% of their revenues from
one or more of the stated business activities of the above sub-themes, in
aggregate, as determined by the Index Administrator.
The
Underlying Index is weighted according to a modified capitalization weighting
methodology and is reconstituted and re-weighted on a semi-annual basis. The
modified capitalization weighting seeks to weight constituents based on their
“free float” market capitalization subject to caps on the weights of the
individual securities. Free float market capitalization measures a company’s
market capitalization discounted by the percentage of its shares readily
available to be traded by the general public in the open market (“free float”).
At each rebalance, the maximum weight of an individual security is capped at
10%. Modified capitalization weighting is expected to limit the Fund’s exposure
to the largest market capitalization companies in the Underlying Index. The
Underlying Index may include large-, mid- or small-capitalization companies;
however, the Underlying Index is not required to reflect any one or all market
capitalizations. As of January 31, 2026, the Underlying Index had 36
constituents. The Fund's investment objective and Underlying Index may be
changed without shareholder approval.
The
Underlying Index is created and sponsored by the Index Provider. Any
determinations related to the constituents of the Underlying Index are made by
the Index Administrator and are independent of the Fund's portfolio managers.
The Index Administrator determines the composition and relative weightings of
the securities in the Underlying Index.
The
Adviser uses an indexing approach to try to achieve the Fund's investment
objective. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not try to outperform
the Underlying Index and does not seek temporary defensive positions when
markets decline or appear overvalued.
The
Fund generally will use a replication strategy. A replication strategy is an
indexing strategy that involves investing in the securities of the Underlying
Index in approximately the same proportions as in the Underlying Index. However,
the Fund may utilize a representative sampling strategy with respect to the
Underlying Index when a replication strategy might be detrimental or
disadvantageous to shareholders, such as when there are practical difficulties
or substantial costs involved in compiling a portfolio of equity securities to
replicate the Underlying Index, in instances in which a security in the
Underlying Index
becomes
temporarily illiquid, unavailable or less liquid, or as a result of legal
restrictions or limitations (such as tax diversification requirements) that
apply to the Fund but not the Underlying Index.
The
Adviser expects that, over time, the correlation between the Fund's performance
and that of the Underlying Index, before fees and expenses, will exceed 95%. A
correlation percentage of 100% would indicate perfect correlation. If the Fund
uses a replication strategy, it can be expected to have greater correlation to
the Underlying Index than if it uses a representative sampling
strategy.
The Fund
concentrates its investments (i.e., holds 25% or more of its total assets) in a
particular industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent that
the Underlying Index is concentrated. As of January 31, 2026, the
Underlying Index was concentrated in the semiconductors and semiconductor
equipment industry and had significant exposure to the information technology
sector.
The
Fund is classified as “non-diversified,” which means it may invest a larger
percentage of its assets in a smaller number of issuers than a diversified
fund.
SUMMARY
OF PRINCIPAL RISKS
As with any
investment, you could lose all or part of your investment in the Fund, and the
Fund's performance could trail that of other investments. There
is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its investment objective.
An investment in the Fund is not a bank deposit and it is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other
government agency, the Adviser or any of its affiliates. The
Fund is subject to the principal risks noted below, any of which may adversely
affect the Fund's net asset value ("NAV"), trading price, yield, total return
and ability to meet its investment objective, as well as other risks that are
described in greater detail in the Additional
Information About the Fund
section of the Prospectus and in the Statement of Additional Information
("SAI").
Affiliated
Index Provider Risk: The
Adviser also serves as the Fund’s Index Provider, which may present a potential
conflict of interest. For example, a potential conflict could arise if the
Adviser were to exercise undue influence with respect to regular and/or
extraordinary updates to the methodology or composition of the Underlying Index,
including in a manner that might improve the apparent performance of the Fund
relative to the performance of the Underlying Index. Additionally, potential
conflicts could arise to the extent that portfolio managers of the Adviser
become aware of contemplated methodology changes or rebalance activity prior to
disclosure to the public, which could facilitate “front running” on behalf of
other funds managed by the Adviser with similar exposure. Although the Adviser
has taken steps designed to ensure that these potential conflicts are mitigated
(e.g., via the adoption of policies and procedures that are designed to minimize
potential conflicts of interest and ensure independence with respect to the
operation of the Underlying Index, as well as the implementation of
informational barriers designed to minimize the potential for the misuse of
information about the Underlying Index), there can be no assurance that such
measures will be successful.
Asset
Class Risk: Securities
and other assets in the Underlying Index or otherwise held in the Fund's
portfolio may underperform in comparison to the general securities markets, a
particular securities market or other asset classes.
Depositary
Receipts Risk: The
Fund may invest in depositary receipts, such as ADRs and GDRs. Depositary
receipts are receipts listed on U.S. or foreign exchanges issued by banks or
trust companies that entitle the holder to all dividends and capital gains that
are paid out on the underlying foreign shares. Depositary receipts are generally
subject to the same risks associated with direct investments in the securities
of foreign companies. A holder of depositary receipts may also be subject to
fees and the credit risk of the financial institution acting as depositary.
Unsponsored depositary receipts may involve higher expenses, fewer shareholder
rights, and may be less liquid.
Equity
Securities Risk: Equity
securities are subject to changes in value, and their values may be more
volatile than other asset classes, as a result of a company’s business
performance, investor perceptions, stock market trends and general economic
conditions.
U.S.
Treasury Obligations Risk: U.S.
Treasury obligations may differ in their interest rates, maturities, times of
issuance and other characteristics. U.S. Treasury obligations are subject to
inflation risk, as the price of short term U.S. Treasury obligations tends to
fall during inflationary periods as investors seek higher yielding investments.
Changes to interest rates may also adversely affect the value and liquidity of
the U.S. Treasury obligations. Similar to other issuers, changes to the
financial condition or credit rating of the U.S. government may cause the value
of the Fund's investments in U.S. Treasury obligations to decline.
Notwithstanding that U.S. Treasury obligations are backed by the full faith and
credit of the United States, circumstances could arise that could prevent the
timely payment of interest or
principal,
such as reaching the legislative "debt ceiling," which can in turn drive debt
higher. Such non-payment could result in losses to the Fund and substantial
negative consequences for the U.S. economy and the global financial
system.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in AI Semiconductor and Semiconductor Equipment
Companies:
Companies involved in developing artificial intelligence (“AI”) infrastructure
and related products and hardware that rely heavily on technological advances
are vulnerable to rapid changes in product cycles, rapid product obsolescence,
supply chain disruptions, government regulation, and competition, both
domestically and internationally. Companies involved in the semiconductors and
semiconductor equipment industry face increased risk from trade agreements
between countries that develop these technologies and countries in which
customers of these technologies are based. The success of such companies
frequently depends on the ability to develop and produce competitive new
semiconductor technologies. Companies in this industry frequently undertake
substantial research and development expenses in order to remain competitive,
and a failure to successfully demonstrate advanced functionality and performance
can have a material impact on the company’s
business.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Quantum Computing Companies: Quantum
computing is an emerging industry characterized by early-stage development.
Companies in this industry may have limited operating histories, minimal
revenues, and uncertain prospects for profitability. Valuations of quantum
computing companies may be based more on speculative potential than on current
financial performance, which can lead to elevated volatility and the risk of
significant losses. In addition, quantum computing companies may be exposed to
risk due to rapid technological change, intense competition, consumer demand,
shifts in government funding, evolving regulatory frameworks, and export control
restrictions. As a result, the Fund’s exposure to quantum computing companies
may cause it to experience greater price volatility and an increased risk of
loss compared to funds that do not invest in this
industry.
Capitalization
Risk: Investing
in issuers within the same market capitalization category carries the risk that
the category may be out of favor due to current market conditions or investor
sentiment.
Large-Capitalization
Companies Risk: Large-capitalization
companies may adapt more slowly to new competitive challenges and changing
market conditions than smaller capitalization companies. In addition,
large-capitalization companies may be more mature and subject to more limited
growth potential and consequently may underperform other segments of the equity
market or the market as a whole.
Currency
Risk: The
Fund may invest in securities denominated in foreign currencies. Because the
Fund's NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the Fund's NAV could decline if
currencies of the underlying securities depreciate against the U.S. dollar or if
there are delays or limits on repatriation of such currencies. Generally, an
increase in the value of the U.S. dollar against a foreign currency will reduce
the value of a security denominated in that foreign currency, thereby decreasing
the Fund's NAV. Exchange rates may be volatile and may change quickly and
without warning, which could have a significant negative impact on the
Fund.
Custody
Risk: Custody
risk refers to the risks in the process of clearing and settling trades, as well
as the holding of securities and other assets by local banks, agents, and
securities depositories. These risks are heightened in jurisdictions with less
developed markets or less robust settlement and custody infrastructure and
processes.
Cybersecurity
Risk: With the increased use of technologies such as the Internet to
conduct business, the Fund, like all companies, may be susceptible to
operational, information security and related risks. Cybersecurity incidents
involving the Fund and its service providers (including, without limitation, the
Adviser, fund accountant, custodian, transfer agent and financial
intermediaries) have the ability to cause disruptions and impact business
operations, potentially resulting in financial losses, impediments to trading,
the inability of Fund shareholders to transact business, violations of
applicable privacy and other laws, regulatory fines, penalties, reputational
damage, reimbursement or other compensation costs, and/or additional compliance
costs.
Focus
Risk: The
Fund may from time to time have a significant amount of its assets invested in a
particular industry, group of industries, or one or more sectors to
approximately the same extent that the Underlying Index focuses in investments
related to a particular industry, group of industries, and/or one or more
sectors. In such event, the Fund’s performance will depend to a greater extent
on the overall condition of such industry(ies) or sector(s), and an economic,
business, political, regulatory, or other occurrence affecting such
industry(ies) or sector(s) will have an increased impact on the value of the
Fund’s shares compared to the value of shares of a fund that invests in a
broader range of industries or sectors.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Information Technology Sector: The
AI Semiconductor companies in which the Fund invests are a subset of the
Information Technology sector. Companies in the information technology sector
are
subject
to rapid changes in technology product cycles, rapid product obsolescence,
government regulation, and increased competition. Information technology
companies are particularly vulnerable to failure to obtain, or delays in
obtaining, financing or regulatory approval, and also are heavily dependent on
patent and intellectual property rights. In addition, information technology
companies may have limited product lines, markets, financial resources or
personnel.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Semiconductors and Semiconductor Equipment Industry:
The
semiconductors and semiconductor equipment industry is highly competitive, and
certain companies in this industry may be restricted from operating in certain
markets due to the sensitive nature of these technologies. Companies in this
space generally seek to increase silicon capacity, improve yields, and reduce
the size in their product designs which may result in significant increases in
worldwide supply and downward pressure on prices. Companies involved in the
semiconductors and semiconductor equipment industry face increased risk from
trade agreements between countries that develop these technologies and countries
in which customers of these technologies are based. Lack of resolution or
potential imposition of trade tariffs may hinder the companies’ ability to
successfully deploy their inventories. The success of such companies frequently
depends on the ability to develop and produce competitive new semiconductor
technologies. Companies in this industry frequently undertake substantial
research and development expenses in order to remain competitive, and a failure
to successfully demonstrate advanced functionality and performance can have a
material impact on the company’s
business.
Foreign
Securities Risk: Investments
in foreign securities can be riskier than U.S. securities investments.
Investments in the securities of foreign issuers (including investments in
American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) and Global Depositary Receipts (“GDRs”))
are subject to additional risks, including lower levels of liquidity and market
efficiency; greater securities price volatility; exchange rate fluctuations and
exchange controls; less availability of public information about issuers;
limitations on foreign ownership of securities; imposition of withholding or
other taxes; imposition of restrictions on the expatriation of the assets of the
Fund; restrictions placed on U.S. investors by U.S. regulations governing
foreign investments; higher transaction and custody costs and delays in
settlement procedures; difficulties in enforcing contractual obligations; lower
levels of regulation of the securities market; weaker accounting, disclosure and
reporting requirements; and legal principles relating to corporate governance
and directors’ fiduciary duties and liabilities. The countries in which the Fund
invests may also be subject to structural risks, including economic, political
and social instability. Additionally, certain securities held by the Fund, while
traded on U.S. exchanges, may be issued by foreign financial institutions and as
such, may be subject to the risks of investing in securities issued by foreign
companies, which may not be subject to the same regulations as companies
domiciled in the U.S. Where all or a portion of the Fund's securities trade in a
market that is closed when the market in which the Fund's Shares are listed and
trading is open, there may be differences between the last quote from the
security’s closed foreign market and the value of the security during the Fund’s
domestic trading day. This, in turn, could lead to differences between the
market price of the Fund’s Shares and the underlying value of those
shares.
Geographic
Risk: The
Fund’s investments in securities of issuers located in a particular country or
geographic region may subject the Fund to certain risks to a greater extent than
if its investments were less focused, including: natural, biological or other
disasters and the spread of infectious diseases; economic, political and social
instability; security concerns; and trade disputes with key trading partners.
The securities in which the Fund invests and, consequently, the Fund is also
subject to specific risks as a result of their business operations in a
particular country or region, including, but not limited to:
Risk
of Investing in Developed Markets: Investments
in a developed country’s issuer may subject the Fund to legal, regulatory,
political, currency, security, and economic risks specific to developed
countries. Developed countries tend to represent a significant portion of the
global economy and have generally experienced slower economic growth than some
less developed countries. Certain developed countries have experienced security
concerns, such as war, terrorism and strained international relations. Incidents
involving a country’s or region’s security may cause uncertainty in its markets
and may adversely affect its economy and the Fund’s investments. In addition,
developed countries may be adversely impacted by changes to the economic
conditions of certain key trading partners, regulatory burdens, debt burdens and
the price or availability of certain commodities.
Risk
of Investing in Emerging Markets: Investments
in emerging markets may be subject to a greater risk of loss than investments in
developed markets. Securities markets of emerging market countries are less
liquid, subject to greater price volatility, have smaller market
capitalizations, have less government regulation, and are not subject to as
extensive and frequent accounting, financial, and other reporting requirements
as the securities markets of more developed countries, and there may be greater
risk associated with the custody of securities in emerging markets. It may be
difficult or impossible for the Fund to pursue claims against an emerging market
issuer in the courts of an emerging market country. There may be significant
obstacles to obtaining information necessary for investigations into or
litigation against emerging market companies and shareholders may have limited
legal rights and remedies.
Emerging markets may be more likely to experience inflation,
political turmoil and rapid changes in economic conditions than more developed
markets. Emerging markets may also face other significant internal or external
risks, including the risk of war, terrorism, or other social or political
conflicts.
Risk
of Investing in Taiwan: Investments
in Taiwanese issuers involve risks that are specific to Taiwan, including legal,
regulatory, political and economic risks. Political and economic developments of
Taiwan’s neighbors may have an adverse effect on Taiwan’s economy. Specifically,
Taiwan’s geographic proximity and history of political contention with China
have resulted in ongoing tensions, which may materially affect the Taiwanese
economy and its securities
market.
Risk
of Investing in the United States:
Investments in United States issuers
may subject the Fund to legal, regulatory, political, currency, security, and
economic risks specific to the United States. A decrease in imports or exports,
changes in trade regulations, inflation and/or an economic recession in the U.S.
may have a material adverse effect on the U.S.
economy.
Indexing
Strategy Risk: The
Fund is not actively managed, and the Adviser does not attempt to take defensive
positions in declining markets. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does
not seek to outperform its Underlying Index. Therefore, it would not necessarily
buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed, respectively,
from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is underperforming.
Additionally, if a constituent of the Underlying Index were removed, even
outside of a regular rebalance of the Underlying Index, the Adviser anticipates
that the Fund would sell such security. Maintaining investments in securities
regardless of market conditions or the performance of individual securities
could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund employed an active
strategy.
Index-Related
Risk: There
is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve a high degree of correlation to the
Underlying Index and therefore achieve its investment objective. Market
disruptions and regulatory restrictions could have an adverse effect on the
Fund’s ability to adjust its exposure to the required levels in order to track
the Underlying Index. Errors in index data, index computations and/or the
construction of the Underlying Index in accordance with its methodology may
occur from time to time and may not be identified and corrected by the Index
Provider for a period of time or at all, which may have an adverse impact on the
Fund and its shareholders.
Management
Risk: The
Fund may not fully replicate its Underlying Index and may hold securities not
included in its Underlying Index. The Adviser’s investment strategy, the
implementation of which is subject to a number of constraints, may cause the
Fund to underperform the market or its relevant benchmark or adversely affect
the ability of the Fund to achieve its investment
objective.
Tracking
Error Risk: Tracking error may occur because of
differences between the instruments held in the Fund's portfolio and those
included in the Underlying Index, pricing differences, transaction costs
incurred by the Fund, the Fund's holding of uninvested cash, size of the Fund,
differences in timing of the accrual of or the valuation of dividends or
interest, tax gains or losses, changes to the Underlying Index or the costs to
the Fund of complying with various new or existing regulatory requirements. This
risk may be heightened during times of increased market volatility or other
unusual market conditions. Tracking error also may result because the Fund
incurs fees and expenses, while the Underlying Index does
not.
International
Closed Market Trading Risk: To
the extent that the underlying investments held by the Fund trade on foreign
exchanges that may be closed when the securities exchange on which the Fund’s
Shares trade is open, there are likely to be deviations between the current
price of such an underlying security and the last quoted price for the
underlying security (i.e., the Fund’s quote from the closed foreign market).
These deviations could result in premiums or discounts to the Fund’s NAV that
may be greater than those experienced by other exchange-traded funds
("ETFs").
Investable
Universe of Companies Risk:
The investable universe of companies in which the Fund may invest may be
limited. If a company no longer meets the Index Provider’s criteria for
inclusion in the Underlying Index, the Fund may need to reduce or eliminate its
holdings in that company. The reduction or elimination of the Fund’s holdings in
the company may have an adverse impact on the liquidity of the Fund’s overall
portfolio holdings and on Fund performance.
Issuer
Risk: Fund
performance depends on the performance of individual companies in which the Fund
invests. Changes to the financial condition of any of those companies may cause
the value of such company's securities to decline.
Market
Risk: Turbulence
in the financial markets and reduced liquidity may negatively affect issuers,
which could have an adverse effect on the Fund and its investments. The Fund’s
NAV could decline over short periods due to short-term market
movements
and over longer periods during market downturns. Trade policy, including the
imposition of tariffs, may dampen consumer spending and result in decreased
confidence in the markets. Additionally, political uncertainty regarding U.S.
policy, including the U.S. government’s approach to trade, may also impact the
markets. Furthermore, local, regional or global events such as war, acts of
terrorism, the spread of infectious diseases, inflation and recessions, changes
in interest or exchange rates, or other events could have a significant impact
on the Fund and its investments and trading of its Shares. Market risk factors
may result in increased volatility and/or decreased liquidity in the securities
markets.
New
Fund Risk: The
Fund is a new fund, with limited or no operating history, which may result in
additional risks for investors in the Fund. There can be no assurance that the
Fund will grow to or maintain an economically viable size, in which case the
Board of Trustees may determine to liquidate the Fund. While shareholder
interests will be the paramount consideration, the timing of any liquidation may
not be favorable to certain individual shareholders. New funds are also subject
to Large Shareholder Risk.
Non-Diversification
Risk:
The Fund is classified as a “non-diversified” investment company under the
Investment Company Act of 1940 ("1940 Act"), which means that the Fund may
invest a greater portion of its assets in securities of individual issuers than
a diversified fund. As a result, changes in the market value of a single
investment may have a greater impact on the Fund’s NAV and may make the Fund
more volatile than more diversified funds.
Operational
Risk: The
Fund is exposed to operational risk arising from a number of factors, including
but not limited to human error, processing and communication errors, errors of
the Fund's service providers, counterparties or other third-parties, failed or
inadequate processes, cyber security incidents, and technology or systems
failures. The Fund and the Adviser seek to reduce these operational risks
through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every
possible risk and may be inadequate for those risks that they are intended to
address.
Risks
Associated with Exchange-Traded Funds: As
an ETF, the Fund is subject to the following risks:
Authorized
Participants Concentration Risk: The
Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may act as Authorized
Participants and engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the
Fund, and none of those Authorized Participants is obligated to engage in
creation and/or redemption transactions. To the extent that those Authorized
Participants exit the business or are unable to process creation and/or
redemption orders, such as in times of market stress, Shares may be more likely
to trade at a premium or discount to NAV and/or at wider intraday bid-ask
spreads, and possibly face trading halts and/or delisting from an
exchange.
Authorized
Participants Concentration Risk may be heightened because the Fund invests in
non-U.S. securities.
Large
Shareholder Risk: Certain
shareholders, including an Authorized Participant, the Adviser, an affiliate of
the Adviser, or funds managed by the Adviser, may own a substantial amount of
the Fund’s Shares. Redemptions by large shareholders could have a significant
negative impact on the Fund. If a large shareholder were to redeem all, or a
large portion, of its Shares, there is no guarantee that the Fund will be able
to maintain sufficient assets to continue operations in which case the Board of
Trustees may determine to liquidate the Fund. In addition, transactions by large
shareholders may account for a large percentage of the trading volume on a
national securities exchange and may, therefore, have a material upward or
downward effect on the market price of the Shares.
Listing
Standards Risk: The
Fund is required to comply with listing requirements adopted by the listing
exchange. Non-compliance with such requirements may result in the Fund's shares
being delisted by the listing exchange. Any resulting liquidation of the Fund
could cause the Fund to incur elevated transaction costs and could result in
negative tax consequences for its shareholders.
Market
Trading Risks and Premium/Discount Risks: Shares
of the Fund are publicly traded on a national securities exchange, which may
subject shareholders to numerous market trading risks. In stressed market
conditions, the market for the Shares may become less liquid in response to the
deteriorating liquidity of the Fund’s portfolio. This adverse effect on the
liquidity of the Shares, as well as disruptions to creations and redemptions,
the existence of extreme market volatility or potential lack of assets in the
Fund or an active trading market for Shares may result in Shares trading at a
significant premium or discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases Shares at a
time when the market price is at a premium to the NAV or sells Shares at a time
when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain
losses. The NAV of the Fund is calculated at the end of each business day and
fluctuates with changes in the market value of the Fund’s holdings. The trading
price of the Fund’s Shares fluctuates, in some cases materially, throughout
trading hours in response to changes in the Fund’s
NAV.
Trading
Halt Risk: An
exchange or market may close or issue trading halts on specific securities, or
the ability to buy or sell certain securities or financial instruments may be
restricted, which may result in the Fund being unable to buy or sell certain
securities or financial instruments. In such circumstances, the Fund may be
unable to rebalance its portfolio, may be unable to accurately price its
investments and/or may incur substantial trading
losses.
Valuation
Risk: The
sales price the Fund could receive for a security may differ from the Fund’s
valuation of the security and may differ from the value used by the Underlying
Index, particularly for securities that trade in low value or volatile markets
or that are valued using a fair value methodology (such as during trading
halts). The value of the securities in the Fund's portfolio may change on days
when shareholders will not be able to purchase or sell the Fund's
Shares.
PERFORMANCE
INFORMATION
The Fund does not have a full calendar year
of performance. Once the Fund
has completed a full calendar year of operations, a bar chart and table will be
included that will provide some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund
by showing the variability of the Fund's returns and comparing the Fund's
performance to a broad-based benchmark index and the Underlying
Index. The Fund's performance is not
necessarily indicative of how the Fund will perform in the
future.
FUND
MANAGEMENT
Investment
Adviser:
Global X Management Company LLC.
Portfolio
Managers:
The professionals primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the
Fund are Nam To, CFA and Wayne Xie (“Portfolio Managers”). Messrs. To and Xie
have been Portfolio Managers of the Fund since the Fund's inception.
PURCHASE
AND SALE OF FUND SHARES
Shares
of the Fund are or will be listed and traded at market prices on a national
securities exchange. Shares may only be purchased and sold on the exchange
through a broker-dealer. The price of Shares is based on market price, and
because ETF shares trade at market prices rather than at NAV, Shares may trade
at a price greater than NAV (a premium) or less than NAV (a discount). Only
"Authorized Participants" (as defined in the SAI) who have entered into
agreements with the Fund's distributor, SEI Investments Distribution Co.
("Distributor"), may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with
the Fund. The Fund will only issue or redeem Shares that have been aggregated
into blocks called "Creation Units". The Fund will issue or redeem Creation
Units in return for a basket of cash and/or securities that the Fund specifies
any day that the national securities exchanges are open for business (“Business
Day”). An investor may incur costs attributable to the difference between the
highest price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase shares of the Fund (bid) and
the lowest price a seller is willing to accept for shares of the Fund (ask) when
buying or selling shares in the secondary market (the “bid-ask spread”). To
access information regarding the Fund’s net asset value, market price, premiums
and discounts, and bid-ask spreads, please go to
www.globalxetfs.com.
TAX
INFORMATION
The
Fund intends to make distributions that may be taxable to you as ordinary income
or capital gains, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement
such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account ("IRA"), in which case
distributions from such tax-advantaged arrangement may be taxable to you.
PAYMENTS
TO BROKER-DEALERS AND OTHER FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES
The
Adviser and its related companies may pay broker-dealers or other financial
intermediaries (such as a bank) for the sale of Fund Shares and related
services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing your
broker-dealer, sales persons or other intermediary or its employees or
associated persons to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your
financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary's website for more
information.
ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION ABOUT THE FUNDS
This
Prospectus contains information about investing in a Fund. Please read this
Prospectus carefully before you make any investment decisions. Shares of a Fund
are listed for trading on a national securities exchange. The market price for a
Share of a Fund may be different from the Fund's most recent NAV. ETFs are funds
that trade like other publicly-traded securities. A Fund is designed to track an
Underlying Index. Similar to shares of an index mutual fund, each Share of a
Fund represents an ownership interest in an underlying portfolio of securities.
Unlike shares of a mutual fund, which can be bought and redeemed from the
issuing fund by all shareholders at a price based on NAV, Shares of a Fund may
be purchased or redeemed directly from the Fund at NAV solely by Authorized
Participants and only in Creation Unit increments. Also, unlike shares of a
mutual fund, Shares of a Fund are listed on a national securities exchange and
trade in the secondary market at market prices that change throughout the day. A
Fund is designed to be used as part of broader asset allocation strategies.
Accordingly, an investment in a Fund should not constitute a complete investment
program. An index is a financial calculation, based on a grouping of financial
instruments, and is not an investment product, while a Fund is an actual
investment portfolio. The performance of a Fund and its Underlying Index may
vary for a number of reasons, including transaction costs, non-U.S. currency
valuations, asset valuations, corporate actions (such as mergers and spin-offs),
timing variances and differences between a Fund’s portfolio and the Underlying
Index resulting from the Fund's legal restrictions (such as diversification
requirements) that apply to the Fund but not to the Underlying Index.
Each
Fund invests at least 80% of its total assets in the securities of the
Underlying Index. Each Fund’s 80% investment policy, displayed in the table
below, is non-fundamental and requires 60 days prior written notice to
shareholders before it can be changed.
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Underlying
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80%
Investment Policy/Policies |
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Global
X Millennial Consumer ETF |
Indxx
Millennials Thematic Index |
The
Fund invests more than 80% of its total assets in the securities of the
Indxx Millennials Thematic Index ("Underlying Index"). |
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Global
X Aging Population ETF |
Indxx
Aging Population Thematic Index |
The
Fund invests more than 80% of its total assets in the securities of the
Indxx Aging Population Thematic Index ("Underlying Index").
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Global
X FinTech ETF |
Indxx
Global Fintech Thematic Index |
The
Fund invests at least 80% of its total assets in the securities of the
Indxx Global Fintech Thematic Index ("Underlying
Index"). |
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Global
X Internet of Things ETF |
Indxx
Global Internet of Things Thematic Index |
The
Fund invests at least 80% of its total assets in the securities of the
Indxx Global Internet of Things Thematic Index ("Underlying
Index"). |
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Global
X Robotics & Artificial Intelligence ETF |
Indxx
Global Robotics & Artificial Intelligence Thematic
Index |
The
Fund invests at least 80% of its total assets in the securities of the
Indxx Global Robotics & Artificial Intelligence Thematic Index
("Underlying Index"). |
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Global
X U.S. Infrastructure Development ETF |
Indxx
U.S. Infrastructure Development Index |
The
Fund invests at least 80% of its total assets in the securities of the
Indxx U.S. Infrastructure Development Index ("Underlying
Index"). |
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Global
X Autonomous & Electric Vehicles ETF |
Solactive
Autonomous & Electric Vehicles Index |
The
Fund invests at least 80% of its total assets in the securities of the
Solactive Autonomous & Electric Vehicles Index ("Underlying
Index"). |
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Global
X Artificial Intelligence & Technology ETF |
Indxx
Artificial Intelligence & Big Data Index |
The
Fund invests at least 80% of its total assets in the securities of the
Indxx Artificial Intelligence & Big Data Index ("Underlying
Index"). |
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Global
X Genomics & Biotechnology ETF |
Solactive
Genomics Index |
The
Fund invests at least 80% of its total assets in the securities of the
Solactive Genomics Index ("Underlying
Index"). |
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Global
X Cloud Computing ETF |
Indxx
Global Cloud Computing Index |
The
Fund invests at least 80% of its total assets in the securities of the
Indxx Global Cloud Computing Index ("Underlying Index") and in American
Depositary Receipts ("ADRs") and Global Depositary Receipts ("GDRs") based
on the securities in the Underlying Index. |
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Global
X Cybersecurity ETF |
Indxx
Cybersecurity Index |
The
Fund invests at least 80% of its total assets in the securities of the
Indxx Cybersecurity Index ("Underlying Index") and in American Depositary
Receipts ("ADRs") and Global Depositary Receipts ("GDRs") based on the
securities in the Underlying Index. The Fund will also invest, under
normal circumstances, at least 80% of its net assets, plus borrowings for
investment purposes (if any), in Cybersecurity Companies (as defined
below), and in ADRs and GDRs based on such securities. |
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Global
X Dorsey Wright Thematic ETF |
Nasdaq
Dorsey Wright Thematic RotationTM
Total Return Index |
The
Fund invests at least 80% of its total assets in the securities of the
Nasdaq Dorsey Wright Thematic RotationTM
Total Return Index (the "Underlying Index"). |
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Global
X Video Games & Esports ETF |
Solactive
Video Games & Esports Index |
The
Fund invests at least 80% of its total assets in the securities of the
Solactive Video Games & Esports Index ("Underlying Index") and in
American Depositary Receipts ("ADRs") and Global Depositary Receipts
("GDRs") based on the securities in the Underlying Index. The Fund will
also invest, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of its net assets,
plus borrowings for investment purposes (if any), in Video Games &
Esports Companies (as defined below), and in ADRs and GDRs based on such
securities. |
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Global
X HealthTech ETF |
Global
X HealthTech Index |
The
Fund invests at least 80% of its total assets, plus borrowings for
investment purposes (if any), in the securities of the Global X HealthTech
Index (the "Underlying Index") and in American Depositary Receipts
("ADRs") and Global Depositary Receipts ("GDRs") based on the securities
in the Underlying Index. |
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Global
X ClimateTech ETF (formerly known as the Global X CleanTech
ETF) |
Indxx
Global ClimateTech Index |
The
Fund invests at least 80% of its total assets, plus borrowings for
investment purposes (if any), in the securities of the Indxx Global
ClimateTech Index ("Underlying Index") and in American Depositary Receipts
("ADRs") and Global Depositary Receipts ("GDRs") based on the securities
in the Underlying Index. |
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Global
X Data Center & Digital Infrastructure ETF |
Solactive
Data Center REITs & Digital Infrastructure Index |
The
Fund invests at least 80% of its total assets, plus borrowings for
investment purposes (if any), in the securities of the Solactive Data
Center REITs & Digital Infrastructure Index (the "Underlying Index")
and in American Depositary Receipts ("ADRs") and Global Depositary
Receipts ("GDRs") based on the securities in the Underlying Index.
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Global
X Clean Water ETF |
Solactive
Global Clean Water Industry Index |
The
Fund invests at least 80% of its total assets, plus borrowings for
investment purposes (if any), in the securities of the Solactive Global
Clean Water Industry Index (the "Underlying Index") and in American
Depositary Receipts ("ADRs") and Global Depositary Receipts ("GDRs") based
on the securities in the Underlying Index. |
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Global
X AgTech & Food Innovation ETF |
Solactive
AgTech & Food Innovation Index |
The
Fund invests at least 80% of its total assets, plus borrowings for
investment purposes (if any), in the securities of the Solactive AgTech
& Food Innovation Index (the "Underlying Index") and in American
Depositary Receipts ("ADRs") and Global Depositary Receipts ("GDRs") based
on the securities in the Underlying Index. |
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Global
X Blockchain ETF |
Solactive
Blockchain Index |
The
Fund invests at least 80% of its total assets, plus borrowings for
investment purposes (if any), in the securities of the Solactive
Blockchain Index (the "Underlying Index") and in American Depositary
Receipts ("ADRs") and Global Depositary Receipts ("GDRs") based on the
securities in the Underlying Index. |
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Global
X Hydrogen ETF |
Solactive
Global Hydrogen Index |
The
Fund invests at least 80% of its total assets, plus borrowings for
investment purposes (if any), in the securities of the Solactive Global
Hydrogen Index (the "Underlying Index") and in American Depositary
Receipts ("ADRs") and Global Depositary Receipts ("GDRs") based on the
securities in the Underlying Index. |
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Global
X Defense Tech ETF |
Global
X Defense Tech Index |
The
Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets, plus borrowings for
investment purposes (if any), in the securities of the Global X Defense
Tech Index (the "Underlying Index"), which may include common stocks,
American Depositary Receipts ("ADRs") and Global Depositary Receipts
("GDRs") based on the securities in the Underlying
Index. |
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Global
X Infrastructure Development ex-U.S. ETF |
Global
X Infrastructure Development ex-U.S. Index |
The
Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets, plus borrowings for
investment purposes (if any), in the securities of the Global X
Infrastructure Development ex-U.S. Index (the "Underlying Index"), which
may include common stocks, American Depositary Receipts ("ADRs") and
Global Depositary Receipts ("GDRs") based on the securities in the
Underlying Index. |
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Global
X AI Semiconductor & Quantum ETF |
Global
X AI Semiconductor & Quantum Index |
The
Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets, plus borrowings for
investment purposes (if any), in the securities of the Underlying Index,
which may include common stocks, American Depositary Receipts ("ADRs") and
Global Depository Receipts
(“GDRs”). |
Each
Fund will hold all of the securities that comprise its Underlying Index in
proportion to their weightings in such Underlying Index. However, under various
circumstances, it may not be possible or practicable to purchase all of those
securities in those weightings. In these circumstances, a Fund may purchase a
sample of securities in its Underlying Index. There also may be instances in
which the Adviser may choose to underweight or overweight a security in a Fund’s
Underlying Index, purchase securities not in the Fund’s Underlying Index that
the Adviser believes are appropriate to substitute for certain securities in
such Underlying Index or utilize various combinations of other available
investment techniques in seeking to replicate as closely as possible, before
fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of a Fund’s Underlying Index.
In addition, each Fund may also invest in equity index futures for cash flow
management purposes and as a portfolio management technique. Each Fund may sell
securities that are represented in its Underlying Index in anticipation of their
removal from such Underlying Index or purchase securities not represented in its
Index in anticipation of their addition to such Underlying Index. Each Fund’s
investment objective and its Underlying Index may be changed without shareholder
approval upon at least 60 days prior written notice to
shareholders.
A
FURTHER DISCUSSION OF PRINCIPAL RISKS
Each
Fund may be subject to various risks, including the principal risks noted below,
any of which may adversely affect the Fund’s NAV, trading price, yield, total
return and ability to meet its investment objective. You could lose all or part
of your investment in the Fund, and the Fund could underperform other
investments.
Affiliated
Index Provider Risk
Affiliated
Index Provider Risk applies to the Global X HealthTech ETF, Global X Defense
Tech ETF, Global X Infrastructure Development ex-U.S. ETF and Global X AI
Semiconductor & Quantum ETF
The
Adviser also serves as the Fund’s Index Provider, which may present a potential
conflict of interest. For example, a potential conflict could arise if the
Adviser were to exercise undue influence with respect to regular and/or
extraordinary updates to the methodology or composition of the Underlying Index,
including in a manner that might improve the apparent performance of the Fund
relative to the performance of the Underlying Index. Additionally, potential
conflicts could arise to the extent that portfolio managers of the Adviser
become aware of contemplated methodology changes or rebalance activity prior to
disclosure to the public, which could facilitate “front running” on behalf of
other funds managed by the Adviser with similar exposure. Although the Adviser
has taken steps designed to ensure that these potential conflicts are mitigated
(e.g., via the adoption of policies and procedures that are designed to minimize
potential conflicts of interest and ensure independence with respect to the
operation of the Underlying Index, as well as the implementation of
informational barriers designed to minimize the potential for the misuse of
information about the Underlying Index), there can be no assurance that such
measures will be successful.
Asset
Class Risk
Asset
Class Risk applies to each Fund
The
returns from the types of securities and/or assets in which the Fund invests may
under-perform returns from the various general securities markets or different
asset classes. The assets in the Underlying Index may under-perform investments
that track other markets, segments, sectors or assets. Different types of assets
tend to go through cycles of out-performance and under-performance in comparison
to the general securities markets.
China
A-Shares Risk
China
A-Shares Risk applies to the Global X Robotics & Artificial Intelligence ETF
and Global X AgTech & Food Innovation ETF
A-Shares
are issued by companies incorporated in mainland China and are traded on Chinese
exchanges. Foreign investors can access investments in A-Shares by obtaining a
QFII or a RQFII license, as well as through the Stock Connect Programs. The Fund
currently intends to gain exposure to A-Shares through the Stock Connect
Programs. Trading suspensions in certain stocks could lead to greater market
execution risk, valuation risks, liquidity risks and costs for the Fund, as well
as for Authorized Participants that create and redeem Creation Units of the
Fund. The SSE and SZSE currently apply a daily limit of the amount of
fluctuation permitted in the prices of A-shares during a single trading day. The
daily limit refers to price movements only and does not restrict trading within
the relevant limit. In addition, investors from outside mainland China may face
difficulties or prohibitions accessing certain A-Shares that are part of a
restricted list in countries such as the U.S. A-Shares may also be subject to
frequent and widespread trading halts, which can increase pricing volatility and
cause the A-Shares to become illiquid. There can be no assurance that a liquid
market on an exchange will exist for any particular A-share or for any
particular time. Additionally, during instances where aggregate limits on
foreign ownership are exceeded. the Fund may be unable to purchase additional
equity securities of a particular company. This could increase the Fund’s
tracking error and/or cause the Fund to trade in the market at greater bid-ask
spreads or greater premiums or discounts to the Fund’s NAV. Given that the
A-share market is considered volatile and unstable (with the risk of widespread
trading suspensions or government intervention), the creation and redemption of
Creation Units (as defined below) may also be disrupted. These risks, among
others, could adversely affect the value of the Fund’s
investments.
Investments in China A-shares may not be covered by the
securities investor protection programs of the exchanges and, without the
protection of such programs, are subject to the risk of default. In the event of
a default on the Stock Connect Program, the Fund may not be able to recover its
losses.
Depositary
Receipts Risk
Depositary
Receipts Risk applies to the Global X Millennial Consumer ETF, Global X Aging
Population ETF, Global X FinTech ETF, Global X Autonomous & Electric
Vehicles ETF, Global X Artificial Intelligence & Technology ETF, Global X
Genomics & Biotechnology ETF, Global X Cloud Computing ETF, Global X Video
Games & Esports ETF, Global X ClimateTech ETF, Global X Data Center &
Digital Infrastructure ETF, Global X Blockchain ETF, Global X Infrastructure
Development ex-U.S. ETF and Global X AI Semiconductor & Quantum
ETF
The
Fund may invest in depositary receipts, such as ADRs and GDRs. Depositary
receipts, such as ADRs and GDRs, are receipts listed on U.S. or foreign
exchanges issued by banks or trust companies that entitle the holder to all
dividends and capital gains that are paid out on the underlying foreign shares.
ADRs are certificates that evidence ownership of shares of a foreign issuer and
are alternatives to purchasing the underlying foreign securities directly in
their national markets and currencies. GDRs are certificates issued by an
international bank that generally are traded and denominated in the currencies
of countries other than the home country of the issuer of the underlying shares.
Depositary receipts are generally subject to the same risks associated with
direct investments in the securities of foreign companies. In addition, the
underlying issuers of certain depositary receipts are under no obligation to
distribute shareholder communications or pass through any voting rights with
respect to the deposited securities to the holders of such receipts. A holder of
a depositary receipt may therefore receive less timely information or have less
control than if it invested directly in the foreign issuer. Certain countries
may limit the ability to convert depositary receipts into the underlying foreign
securities and vice versa, which may cause the securities of the foreign company
to trade at a discount or premium to the market price of the related depositary
receipts. A holder of depositary receipts may also be subject to fees and the
credit risk of the financial institution acting as depositary. Unsponsored
depositary receipts may involve higher expenses, fewer shareholder rights, and
may be less liquid. Additionally, the issuers of unsponsored depositary receipts
are not obligated to disclose information that would be considered material in
the U.S. Therefore, there may be less information available regarding these
issuers and there may not be a correlation between such information and the
market value of the depositary receipts.
Equity
Securities Risk
Equity
Securities Risk applies to each Fund
The
Fund may invest in equity securities, which are subject to changes in value that
may be attributable to market perception of a particular issuer, general stock
market fluctuations, or as a result of such factors as a company’s business
performance, investor perceptions, stock market trends and general economic
conditions. For example, the value of a company’s common stock may fall solely
because of factors that negatively impact other companies in the same region,
industry or sector of the market. A company’s common stock also may decline
significantly in price over a short period of time due to factors specific to
that company, including decisions made by its management or lower
demand
for the company’s products or services. Investments in equity securities may be
more volatile than investments in other asset classes.
ETF
Investment Risk
ETF
Investment Risk applies to the Global X Dorsey Wright Thematic ETF
The
Fund is expected to primarily hold ETFs to gain exposure to certain asset
classes. As a result, the Fund will be subject to the same risks as the
Underlying ETFs. While the risks of owning shares of an Underlying ETF generally
reflect the risks of owning the underlying securities of the index the ETF is
designed to track, lack of liquidity in an Underlying ETF can result in its
value being more volatile than the underlying portfolio securities. Because the
value of an Underlying ETF's shares depends on the demand in the market, the
Adviser may not be able to liquidate the Fund’s holdings in those shares at the
most optimal time, thereby adversely affecting the Fund’s performance. An
Underlying ETF may experience tracking error in relation to the index tracked by
the Underlying ETF, which could contribute to tracking error for the Fund. In
addition, an Underlying ETF's shares may trade at a premium or discount to NAV.
Underlying ETFs in which the Fund invests may be non-diversified under the 1940
Act. This means that there is no restriction under the 1940 Act on how much the
Underlying ETF may invest in the securities of a single issuer. Therefore, the
value of the Underlying ETF’s shares may be volatile and fluctuate more than
shares of a diversified fund that invests in a broader range of securities. If
an Underlying ETF fails to achieve its investment objective, the value of the
Fund’s investment may decline, adversely affecting the Fund’s performance.
In
addition, investments in the securities of Underlying ETFs may involve
duplication of certain expenses. The Fund will pay brokerage commissions in
connection with the purchase and sale of shares of the Underlying ETFs, which
could result in greater expenses to the Fund. By investing in an Underlying ETF,
the Fund becomes a shareholder thereof. As a result, Fund shareholders
indirectly bear the Fund’s proportionate share of certain of the fees and
expenses indirectly paid by shareholders of the Underlying ETF, in addition to
the fees and expenses Fund shareholders indirectly bear in connection with the
Fund’s own operations. In addition, certain of the Underlying ETFs may hold
common portfolio positions, thereby reducing the diversification benefits of an
asset allocation style.
A
complete list of each Underlying ETF held by the Fund can be found daily on the
Trust’s website. Each investor should review the complete description of the
principal risks of each Underlying ETF prior to investing in the
Fund.
Real
Estate Stocks and Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) Investment
Risk
Real
Estate Stocks and Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) Investment Risk applies
to the Global X Millennial Consumer ETF, Global X Aging Population ETF, Global X
Cloud Computing ETF and Global X Data Center & Digital Infrastructure ETF
The
Fund invests in companies or underlying funds that invest in real estate, such
as REITs, which exposes investors in the Fund to the risks of owning real estate
directly, as well as to risks that relate specifically to the way in which real
estate companies are organized and operated. Real estate is highly sensitive to
general and local economic conditions and developments, and characterized by
intense competition and periodic overbuilding. Many real estate companies,
including REITs, utilize leverage (and some may be highly leveraged), which
increases risk and could adversely affect a real estate company's operations and
market value in periods of rising interest rates.
Concentration
Risk
Real
estate companies may own a limited number of properties and concentrate their
investments in a particular geographic region or property type. Economic
downturns affecting a particular region, industry or property type may lead to a
high volume of defaults within a short period.
Equity
REITs Risk
Certain
REITs may make direct investments in real estate. These REITs are often referred
to as "Equity REITs." Equity REITs invest primarily in real properties and earn
rental income from leasing those properties. Equity REITs may also realize gains
or losses from the sale of the properties. Equity REITs will be affected by
conditions in the real estate rental market and by changes in the value of the
properties they own. A decline in rental income may occur because of extended
vacancies, limitations on rents, the failure to collect rents, increased
competition from other properties or poor management. Equity REITs also can be
affected by rising interest rates. Rising interest rates may
cause
investors to demand a high annual yield from future distributions that, in turn,
could decrease the market prices for such REITs. In addition, rising interest
rates also increase the costs of obtaining financing for real estate projects.
Because many real estate projects are dependent upon receiving financing, this
could cause the value of the Equity REITs in which the Fund invests to
decline.
Mortgage
REITs Risk
Mortgage
REITs invest in mortgages or mortgage-backed securities. Mortgage REITs are
exposed to the risks specific to the real estate market as well as the risks
that relate specifically to the way in which Mortgage REITs are organized and
operated. Mortgage REITs are subject to the credit risk of the borrowers to whom
they extend credit. Mortgage REITs are subject to significant interest rate
risk. Mortgage REITs typically use leverage and many are highly leveraged, which
exposes them to leverage risk and may impair a Mortgage REIT’s liquidity, cause
it to liquidate positions at an unfavorable time, increase the volatility of the
values of securities issued by the Mortgage REIT and incur substantial losses if
its borrowing costs increase. Mortgage REITs are also subject to prepayment
risk, which is the risk that borrowers may prepay their mortgage loans at faster
than expected rates.
Interest
Rate Risk
Rising
interest rate could result in higher costs of capital for real estate companies,
which could negatively affect a real estate company's ability to meet its
payment obligations. Declining interest rates could result in increased
prepayment on loans and require redeployment of capital in less desirable
investments.
Leverage
Risk
Real
estate companies may use leverage (and some may be highly leveraged), which
increases investment risk and the risks normally associated with debt financing,
and could adversely affect a real estate company's operations and market value
in periods of rising interest rates. Financing covenants related to a real
estate company's leveraging may affect the ability of the real estate company to
operate effectively. In addition, real property may be subject to quality of
credit extended and defaults by borrowers and tenants. Leveraging may also
increase repayment risk.
Liquidity
Risk
Investing
in real estate companies may involve risks similar to those associated with
investing in small-capitalization companies. Real estate company securities may
be volatile. There may be less trading in real estate company shares, which
means that buy and sell transactions in those shares could have a magnified
impact on share price, resulting in abrupt or erratic price fluctuations. In
addition, real estate is relatively illiquid and, therefore, a real estate
company may have a limited ability to vary or liquidate its investments in
properties in response to changes in economic or other conditions.
Operational
Risk
Real
estate companies are dependent upon management skills and may have limited
financial resources. Real estate companies are generally not diversified and may
be subject to heavy cash flow dependency, default by borrowers and
self-liquidation. In addition, transactions between real estate companies and
their affiliates may be subject to conflicts of interest, which may adversely
affect a real estate company's shareholders. A real estate company may also have
joint ventures in certain of its properties and, consequently, its ability to
control decisions relating to such properties may be limited.
Property
Risk
Real
estate companies may be subject to risks relating to functional obsolescence or
reduced desirability of properties; extended vacancies due to economic
conditions and tenant bankruptcies; catastrophic events such as earthquakes,
hurricanes, tornadoes and terrorist acts; and casualty or condemnation losses.
Real estate income and values also may be greatly affected by demographic
trends, such as population shifts, changing tastes and values, or increasing
vacancies or declining rents resulting from legal, cultural, technological,
global or local developments and changes in tax law.
Regulatory
Risk
Real
estate income and values may be adversely affected by applicable domestic and
foreign laws (including tax laws). Government actions, such as tax increases,
zoning law changes, mandated closures or other commercial restrictions, reduced
funding for schools, parks, garbage collection and other public services or
environmental regulations also may have a major impact on real estate income and
values.
Repayment
Risk
The
prices of real estate company securities may drop because of the failure of
borrowers to repay their loans, poor management, or the inability to obtain
financing either on favorable terms or at all. If the properties do not generate
sufficient income to meet operating expenses, including, where applicable, debt
service, ground lease payments, tenant improvements, third-party leasing
commissions and other capital expenditures, the income and ability of the real
estate companies to make payments of interest and principal on their loans will
be adversely affected.
U.S.
Tax Risk
Certain
U.S. real estate companies are subject to special U.S. federal tax requirements.
A REIT that fails to comply with such tax requirements may be subject to U.S.
federal income taxation, which may affect the value of the REIT and the
characterization of the REIT's distributions. The U.S. federal tax requirement
that a REIT distributes substantially all of its net income to its shareholders
may result in the REIT having insufficient capital for future expenditures. A
REIT that successfully maintains its qualification may still become subject to
U.S. federal, state and local taxes, including excise, penalty, franchise,
payroll, mortgage recording, and transfer taxes, both directly and indirectly
through its subsidiaries.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Aging Population Companies
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Aging Population Companies applies to the Global X
Aging Population ETF
The
Fund invests in aging population companies, including pharmaceutical and
biotechnology companies involved in the research, development, production and/or
manufacturing of drugs; suppliers or manufacturers of medical devices; companies
operating skilled nursing homes, senior living homes and continuing care
communities; and providers of health care services, including home healthcare
providers. Aging population companies may be affected by industry competition,
dependency on a limited number of products, obsolescence of products, government
approvals and regulations, loss or impairment of intellectual property rights
and litigation regarding product liability. Aging population companies may also
be affected by unforeseen health circumstances including but not limited to the
spread of infectious disease which could impact longevity-related drug
development priorities and pipelines, supply and demand dynamics for longevity
health care equipment as well as the ability to receive care in
longevity-related health care service facilities. Aging population companies may
be affected by government regulations and government healthcare programs, as
well as increases or decreases in the cost of medical products and services and
product liability claims. Many aging population companies are heavily dependent
on patent protection, and the expiration of a company’s patent may adversely
affect that company’s profitability. The customers and/or suppliers of aging
population companies may be concentrated in a particular country, region or
industry. Any adverse event affecting one of these countries, regions or
industries could have a negative impact on aging population companies.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in AgTech & Food Innovation
Companies
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in AgTech & Food Innovation Companies applies to
the Global X AgTech & Food Innovation ETF
AgTech
& Food Innovation companies may have limited product lines, markets,
financial resources or personnel. These companies typically face intense
competition and potentially rapid product obsolescence. These companies are also
heavily dependent on intellectual property rights and may be adversely affected
by loss or impairment of those rights. AgTech & Food Innovation companies
are substantially affected by developments related to the agriculture industry,
including the impact of global climate change on agricultural production. AgTech
& Food Innovation companies, especially smaller companies, tend to be more
volatile than companies that do not rely heavily on technology. AgTech &
Food Innovation companies may be adversely affected by commodity price
volatility, changes in exchange rates, imposition of import controls,
availability of certain inputs and materials required for production, depletion
of resources, technological developments and labor relations. AgTech & Food
Innovation companies are also subject to significant environmental and safety
regulations that could adversely affect their business. The customers and/or
suppliers of AgTech & Food Innovation companies may be concentrated in a
particular country, region or industry. Any adverse event affecting one of these
countries, regions or industries could have a negative impact on AgTech &
Food Innovation companies.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in AI Semiconductor and Semiconductor Equipment
Companies
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in AI Semiconductor and Semiconductor Equipment
Companies applies to the Global X AI Semiconductor & Quantum
ETF
Companies
involved in developing artificial intelligence (“AI”) infrastructure and related
products and hardware that rely heavily on technological advances are vulnerable
to rapid changes in product cycles, rapid product obsolescence, supply chain
disruptions, government regulation, and competition, both domestically and
internationally. The semiconductors and semiconductor equipment industry is
highly competitive, and certain companies in this industry may be restricted
from operating in certain markets due to the sensitive nature of these
technologies. Companies in this space generally seek to increase silicon
capacity, improve yields, and reduce the size in their product designs which may
result in significant increases in worldwide supply and downward pressure on
prices.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Artificial Intelligence & Big Data
Companies
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Artificial Intelligence & Big Data Companies
applies to the Global X Artificial Intelligence & Technology ETF
Artificial
Intelligence & Big Data Companies typically face intense competition and
potentially rapid product obsolescence. These companies are also heavily
dependent on intellectual property rights and may be adversely affected by loss
or impairment of those rights. There can be no assurance these companies will be
able to successfully protect their intellectual property to prevent the
misappropriation of their technology, or that competitors will not develop
technology that is substantially similar or superior to such companies’
technology. Artificial Intelligence & Big Data Companies typically engage in
significant amounts of spending on computing infrastructure, research and
development and mergers and acquisitions, and there is no guarantee that the
products or services produced by these companies will be successful. Artificial
Intelligence & Big Data Companies are potential targets for cyberattacks,
which can have a materially adverse impact on the performance of these
companies. In addition, artificial intelligence technology could face increasing
regulatory scrutiny in the future, which may limit the development of this
technology and impede the growth of companies that develop and/or utilize this
technology. Similarly, the collection of data from consumers and other sources
could face increased scrutiny as regulators consider how the data is collected,
stored, safeguarded and used. Artificial Intelligence & Big Data Companies
may face regulatory fines and penalties, including potential forced break-ups,
that could hinder the ability of the companies to operate on an ongoing basis.
The customers and/or suppliers of Artificial Intelligence & Big Data
Companies may be concentrated in a particular country, region or industry. Any
adverse event affecting one of these countries, regions or industries could have
a negative impact on Artificial Intelligence & Big Data Companies. Country,
government, and/or region-specific regulations or restrictions could have an
impact on Artificial Intelligence & Big Data companies.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Autonomous & Electric Vehicle
Companies
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Autonomous & Electric Vehicle Companies
applies to the Global X Autonomous & Electric Vehicles ETF
Autonomous
& Electric Vehicle Companies typically face intense competition and
potentially rapid product obsolescence. Many of these companies are also heavily
dependent on intellectual property rights and may be adversely affected by loss
or impairment of those rights. There can be no assurance these companies will be
able to successfully protect their intellectual property to prevent the
misappropriation of their technology, or that competitors will not develop
technology that is substantially similar or superior to such companies’
technology. Autonomous & Electric Vehicle companies typically engage in
significant amounts of spending on research and development, capital
expenditures and mergers and acquisitions, and there is no guarantee that the
products or services produced by these companies will be successful. In
addition, autonomous vehicle technology could face increasing regulatory
scrutiny in the future, which may limit the development of this technology and
impede the growth of companies that develop and/or utilize this technology.
Autonomous & Electric Vehicle companies rely on artificial intelligence and
big data technologies for the development of their platforms and, as a result,
could face increased scrutiny as regulators consider how the data is collected,
stored, safeguarded and used. Autonomous vehicle technology companies could be
adversely affected by cybersecurity breaches, traffic accidents related to
autonomous vehicles, and other issues, such as product liability claims and
insurance costs, that could lead to litigation and/or additional regulation. The
customers and/or suppliers of Autonomous & Electric Vehicle companies may be
concentrated in a particular country, region or industry. Any adverse event
affecting one of these countries, regions or industries could have a negative
impact on Autonomous & Electric Vehicle companies. Additionally, electric
vehicle companies may be significantly affected by tax incentives, subsidies,
and other governmental regulations and policies that could change due to
geopolitical shifts and election outcomes.
Companies
that produce the raw materials that are used in electric vehicles may be
concentrated in certain commodities, and therefore be exposed to the price
fluctuations of those commodities. In addition, these companies may have
operations in emerging and frontier markets, and are therefore subject to higher
degrees of economic and political risk associated with these markets. For
example, certain commodities used in electric vehicles, such as cobalt, may be
affected by supply chain issues, increased scrutiny of labor practices and
working conditions, local or regional conflict, or government intervention,
among other things.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Blockchain Companies
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Blockchain Companies applies to the Global X
Blockchain ETF
Blockchain
companies may be adversely impacted by government regulations, limited operating
histories, or economic conditions. Blockchain technology is new, and its uses
are in many cases untested or unclear. Companies involved in the blockchain
industry may have significant exposure to fluctuations in the spot prices of
digital assets and are subject to the risks associated with blockchain
technology. The market for cryptocurrencies may be subject to sharp selloffs and
certain cryptocurrencies may rise in value when others fall. Blockchain
companies may be adversely affected by volatility in cryptocurrency and digital
asset markets. Adverse events affecting other Blockchain companies may
negatively affect overall consumer confidence in or attitude towards Blockchain
companies as a whole. Blockchain technology is relatively new, and its uses are
in many cases untested or unclear. There is no assurance that widespread
adoption of blockchain technology will occur. Blockchain companies typically
face intense competition and potentially rapid product obsolescence. In
addition, many Blockchain companies store sensitive consumer information and
could be the target of cybersecurity attacks and other types of theft, which
could have a negative impact on these companies. Access to a given blockchain
may require a specific cryptographic key (in effect, a string of characters
granting unique access to initiate transactions related to specific digital
assets) or set of keys, the theft, loss, or destruction of which, either by
accident or as a result of the efforts of a third party, could irrevocably
impair a claim to the digital assets stored on that blockchain.
Many
Blockchain companies currently operate under less regulatory scrutiny than
traditional financial services companies and banks, but the regulatory
environment is rapidly evolving and there is significant risk that regulatory
oversight could increase in the future. Companies engaged in blockchain
activities may be exposed to adverse regulatory oversight, regulatory action,
fraudulent activity, or even failure, which may negatively impact the value of
these companies and therefore the Fund’s investments. Higher levels of
regulation could increase costs and adversely impact the current business models
of some Blockchain companies and could even result in the outright prohibition
of certain business activities. Restrictions imposed by governments, such as
China or the U.S., on cryptocurrency related activities may adversely impact
Blockchain Companies and, in turn, the performance of the Fund. Blockchain
companies could also be negatively impacted by disruptions in service caused by
hardware or software failure, or by interruptions or delays in service by
third-party data center hosting facilities and maintenance providers. Blockchain
companies, especially smaller companies, tend to be more volatile than companies
that do not rely heavily on technology. Many Blockchain companies have limited
operating histories and may lack the necessary safeguards to ensure their
long-term viability.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Clean Water Companies
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Clean Water Companies applies to the Global X
Clean Water ETF
Clean
Water Companies typically face intense competition, short product lifecycles and
potentially rapid product obsolescence. These companies may also be heavily
dependent on intellectual property rights and may be adversely affected by loss
or impairment of those rights. There can be no assurance these companies will be
able to successfully protect their intellectual property to prevent the
misappropriation of their technology, or that competitors will not develop
technology that is substantially similar or superior to such companies’
technology. Clean Water Companies are subject to significant regulation
regarding the usage, treatment, and distribution of water. Clean Water Companies
may also be adversely affected by the impact of global climate change and
extreme weather events on the available supply of clean water reserves. The
ability of Clean Water Companies to effectively distribute clean water is
dependent on the infrastructure in which they operate. The customers and/or
suppliers of Clean Water Companies may be concentrated in a particular country,
region or industry. Any adverse event affecting one of these countries, regions
or industries could have a negative impact on Clean Water
Companies.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in ClimateTech Companies
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in ClimateTech Companies applies to the Global X
ClimateTech ETF
ClimateTech
Companies typically face intense competition, short product lifecycles and
potentially rapid product obsolescence. These companies may be significantly
affected by fluctuations in energy prices and in the supply and demand of
renewable energy, tax incentives, subsidies, and other governmental regulations
and policies. These companies are also heavily dependent on intellectual
property rights and may be adversely affected by loss or impairment of those
rights. ClimateTech Companies may be adversely affected by commodity price
volatility, changes in exchange rates, imposition of import controls,
availability of certain inputs and materials required for production, depletion
of resources, permitting approval timelines, technological developments and
labor relations. A decline in the price of conventional energy such as oil and
natural gas could have a materially adverse impact on ClimateTech Companies.
Renewable energy resources may be highly dependent upon government policies that
support renewable energy generation and enhance the economic viability of owning
renewable electric generation assets. Such policies can include tax credits,
accelerated cost-recovery systems of depreciation and renewable portfolio
standard programs, which mandate that a specified percentage of electricity
sales come from eligible sources of renewable energy. Any failure to extend such
policies could materially and adversely affect the business, financial
condition, results of operations and cash flow of ClimateTech Companies.
Additionally, investors should take notice of the distinction between
implemented government policy based on legislation and less guaranteed
commitments which may be aspirational, subject to political risk, and difficult
to enforce.
The
electricity produced and revenues generated by variable renewable energy
generation facilities, including solar, electric or wind energy, is highly
dependent on suitable environmental conditions. Furthermore, components used in
the generation of renewable energy could be damaged by severe weather events,
such as hailstorms or tornadoes. In addition, replacement and spare parts for
key components may be difficult or costly to acquire or may be unavailable.
Unfavorable environmental conditions could impair the effectiveness of assets or
reduce their output beneath their rated capacity or require shutdown of key
equipment, impeding operation of renewable energy assets. Actual climatic
conditions at a facility site, particularly wind conditions, may not conform to
the historical findings and, therefore, renewable energy facilities may not meet
anticipated production levels or the rated capacity of the generation assets,
which could adversely affect the business, financial condition and results of
operations and cash flows of ClimateTech Companies.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Cloud Computing Companies
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Cloud Computing Companies applies to the Global X
Cloud Computing ETF
Cloud
Computing companies may have limited product lines, markets, financial resources
or personnel. These companies typically face intense competition and potentially
rapid product obsolescence. These companies may potentially also be threatened
by artificial intelligence based competitive product offerings. In addition,
many Cloud Computing companies store sensitive consumer information and could be
the target of cybersecurity attacks and other types of theft, which could have a
negative impact on these companies. As a result, Cloud Computing companies may
be adversely impacted by government regulations, and may be subject to
additional regulatory oversight with regard to privacy concerns and
cybersecurity risk. These companies are also heavily dependent on intellectual
property rights and may be adversely affected by loss or impairment of those
rights. Cloud Computing companies could be negatively impacted by disruptions in
service caused by hardware or software failure, or by interruptions or delays in
service by third-party data center hosting facilities and maintenance providers.
Cloud Computing companies, especially smaller companies, tend to be more
volatile than companies that do not rely heavily on technology. The customers
and/or suppliers of Cloud Computing companies may be concentrated in a
particular country, region or industry. Any adverse event affecting one of these
countries, regions or industries could have a negative impact on Cloud Computing
companies. Cloud Computing companies may participate in monopolistic practices
that could make them subject to higher levels of regulatory scrutiny and/or
potential break ups in the future, which could severely impact the viability of
these companies.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Cybersecurity Companies
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Cybersecurity Companies applies to the Global X
Cybersecurity ETF
Cybersecurity
companies may have limited product lines, markets, financial resources or
personnel. These companies typically face intense competition and potentially
rapid product obsolescence. Cybersecurity companies may be adversely impacted by
government regulations and actions, and may be subject to additional regulatory
oversight with regard to privacy concerns and cybersecurity risk. Cybersecurity
companies may also be negatively affected by the decline or fluctuation of
subscription renewal rates for their products and services, which may have an
adverse effect on profit margins. These companies are also heavily dependent on
intellectual property rights and may be adversely affected by loss or impairment
of those rights. Cybersecurity companies, especially smaller companies, tend to
be more volatile than companies that do not rely heavily on technology. The
customers and/or suppliers of Cybersecurity companies may be concentrated in a
particular country, region or
industry.
Any adverse event affecting one of these countries, regions or industries could
have a negative impact on Cybersecurity companies. Confronting cyberthreats amid
increasing remote work environments could result in challenges for Cybersecurity
companies.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Data Center REITs and Digital Infrastructure
Companies
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Data Center REITs and Digital Infrastructure
Companies applies to the Global X Data Center & Digital Infrastructure
ETF
Data
Center REITs and Digital Infrastructure Companies are exposed to the risks
specific to the real estate market as well as the risks that relate specifically
to the way in which Data Center REITs and Digital Infrastructure Companies are
utilized and operated. Data Center REITs and Digital Infrastructure Companies
may be affected by unique supply and demand factors that do not apply to other
real estate sectors, such as changes in demand for communications
infrastructure, consolidation of tower sites, and new technologies that may
affect demand for data centers. Companies serving or depending on data centers
may face risks from rising energy costs, grid pressures, and environmental
policies, while slower artificial intelligence adoption or efficiency gains
could reduce demand growth, creating volatility for the Fund’s investments. Data
Center REITs and Digital Infrastructure Companies are particularly affected by
changes in demand for wireless infrastructure and wireless connectivity which
may be affected by factors including, but not limited to, consumer demand for
wireless connectivity; availability or capacity of wireless infrastructure or
associated land interests; location of wireless infrastructure; financial
condition of customers; increased use of network sharing, roaming, joint
development, or resale agreements by customers; mergers or consolidations by and
among customers; governmental regulations, including local or state restrictions
on the proliferation of wireless infrastructure; and technological changes. Data
Center REITs and Digital Infrastructure Companies may be subject to external
risks including, but not limited to, natural disasters and supplier outages.
Natural disasters and supplier outages can lead to significant downtime, data
loss, and associated expenses. Data Center REITs and Digital Infrastructure
Companies may be subject to internal risks such as water supply and climate risk
and data security risk, which could cause extensive damage to critical
infrastructure. Data centers are potential targets for cyberattacks, which may
have a materially adverse impact on the performance of these companies. Data
centers that do not implement more advanced access control and security
monitoring in response to internal and external threats may be at greater risk
of potential breaches or damage to data integrity.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Defense Tech Companies
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Defense Tech Companies applies to the Global X
Defense Tech ETF
Defense
Tech companies are primarily exposed to the risks specific to the technology and
defense markets. Defense Tech companies typically engage in significant amounts
of spending on research and development and could face intense competition and
potentially rapid product obsolescence. These companies are also heavily
dependent on intellectual property rights and may be adversely affected by loss
or impairment of those rights. There can be no assurance these companies will be
able to successfully protect their intellectual property to prevent the
misappropriation of their technology, or that competitors will not develop
technology that is substantially similar or superior to such companies’
technology. Defense Tech companies may be significantly affected by aerospace
and defense regulation and spending policies, as companies involved in this
industry rely to a significant extent on government defense spending policies
and budgets for their products and services. These companies could also be
subject to sanctions and/or investment restrictions imposed by other countries,
which could have an adverse effect on companies that are impacted. Defense Tech
companies may be concentrated in a particular country or region, and any adverse
event affecting one of these countries or regions could have a negative impact
on Defense Tech companies.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in FinTech Companies
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in FinTech Companies applies to the Global X FinTech
ETF
FinTech
companies may be adversely impacted by government regulations, economic
conditions and deterioration in credit markets. These companies may have
significant exposure to consumers and businesses (especially small businesses)
in the form of loans and other financial products or services. FinTech companies
typically face intense competition and potentially rapid product obsolescence.
Certain FinTech companies may seek to disrupt or displace established financial
institutions and may face competition from larger and more established
companies. In addition, many FinTech companies store sensitive consumer
information and could be the target of cybersecurity attacks and other types of
theft, which could have a negative impact on these companies. Many FinTech
companies currently operate under less regulatory scrutiny than traditional
financial services companies and banks, but there is significant risk that
regulatory oversight could increase in the future. Higher levels of regulation
could increase costs and adversely impact the current business models of some
FinTech companies. These companies could be negatively impacted by disruptions
in service caused by hardware or software failure, or by interruptions or delays
in
service
by third-party data center hosting facilities and maintenance providers. FinTech
companies involved in alternative currencies, such as cryptocurrency, may face
slow adoption rates and be subject to higher levels of regulatory scrutiny in
the future, which could severely impact the viability of these companies.
FinTech companies with significant alternative currency exposure may also be
negatively impacted during high periods of volatility within the cryptocurrency
markets. FinTech companies, especially smaller companies, tend to be more
volatile than companies that do not rely heavily on technology.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Genomics Companies
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Genomics Companies applies to the Global X
Genomics & Biotechnology ETF
Genomics
companies typically face intense competition and potentially rapid product
obsolescence. These companies are also heavily dependent on intellectual
property rights and may be adversely affected by loss or impairment of those
rights. There can be no assurance these companies will be able to successfully
protect their intellectual property to prevent the misappropriation of their
technology, or that competitors will not develop technology that is
substantially similar or superior to such companies’ technology. Genomics
companies typically engage in significant amounts of spending on research and
development, and there is no guarantee that the products or services produced by
these companies will be successful. In addition, the field of genomic science
could face increasing regulatory scrutiny in the future, which may limit the
development of this technology and impede the growth of companies that develop
and/or utilize this technology. The customers and/or suppliers of genomics
companies may be concentrated in a particular country, region or industry. Any
adverse event affecting one of these countries, regions or industries could have
a negative impact on genomics companies. Demand for Genomics products, generally
speaking and specific to sub-segments, may fluctuate due to unexpected events,
including but not limited to global health crises like pandemics which could
strain health care systems and shift health care needs. Such demand fluctuations
could positively or negatively impact Genomics Companies.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in HealthTech Companies
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in HealthTech Companies applies to the Global X
HealthTech ETF
HealthTech
Companies can face intense competition, fluctuating demand, strict regulatory
scrutiny and potentially rapid product obsolescence. These companies are also
heavily dependent on intellectual property rights and may be adversely affected
by loss or impairment of those rights. There can be no assurance these companies
will be able to successfully protect their intellectual property to prevent the
misappropriation of their technology, or that competitors will not develop
technology that is substantially similar or superior to such companies’
technology. HealthTech Companies typically engage in significant amounts of
spending on research and development, and there is no guarantee that the
products or services produced by these companies will be successful. Some
companies in the HealthTech industry are small start-ups that have thinly traded
securities leading to pricing volatility. In addition, the field of Healthcare
Technology is heavily affected by government regulation, including regulation of
the storage and transmission of sensitive health data by HealthTech Companies.
Together, these factors may limit the development of this technology and impede
the growth of companies that develop and/or utilize this technology. Many
HealthTech Companies store and transmit sensitive data and may be particularly
vulnerable to cybersecurity breaches or other means by which sensitive data
could be exposed. Demand for Healthcare Technology services may fluctuate due to
events, including but not limited to pandemics and related strains on health
care systems and technological developments. HealthTech services may not be
eligible for reimbursement from insurance policies or government programs,
potentially limiting the adoption of such services which could in turn, impact
the operations of HealthTech service providers. Furthermore, the adoption of
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology by HealthTech Companies introduces
unique risks, including ethical, regulatory, and safety concerns.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Hydrogen Companies
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Hydrogen Companies applies to the Global X
Hydrogen ETF
Hydrogen
companies typically face intense competition, short product lifecycles and
potentially rapid product obsolescence due to significant R&D expenses and
the possibility that other emerging energy technologies could become more
commercially viable. These companies may be significantly affected by
fluctuations in energy prices and in the supply and demand of hydrogen, natural
gas, and renewable energy, as well as tax incentives, subsidies, and other
governmental regulations and policies. Investors should take notice of the
distinction between implemented government policy based on legislation and less
guaranteed commitments which may be aspirational, subject to political risk, and
difficult to enforce. These companies are also heavily dependent on intellectual
property rights and may be adversely affected by loss or impairment of those
rights. Hydrogen companies may be adversely affected by commodity price
volatility, changes in exchange rates, imposition of import controls,
availability of certain inputs and materials required for production, depletion
of resources, technological
developments
and labor relations. Changes in the price of conventional energy such as natural
gas could have a materially adverse impact on Hydrogen Companies. Energy
companies are increasingly becoming the target of malicious cybersecurity
attacks, which could adversely affect Hydrogen companies. Some companies
involved in climate change-related industries, such as Hydrogen, are in the
early stages of operation and have limited operating histories and smaller
market capitalizations on average than companies in other sectors. As a result
of these and other factors, the market prices of securities of Hydrogen
companies tend to be considerably more volatile than those of companies in more
established sectors and industries.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Infrastructure Development Companies
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Infrastructure Development Companies applies to
the Global X U.S. Infrastructure Development ETF and Global X Infrastructure
Development ex-U.S. ETF
The
Fund invests in infrastructure development companies, including companies
involved in construction, engineering, production of raw materials, production
and distribution of heavy construction equipment and industrial transportation.
General risks of infrastructure development companies include the general state
of the economy, intense competition, consolidation, domestic and international
politics, and excess capacity. In addition, infrastructure development companies
may also be significantly affected by overall capital spending levels (including
both private and public sector spending), economic cycles, technical
obsolescence, delays in modernization, labor relations, climate change and
extreme weather events, permitting processes and timelines, and other government
regulations. Some infrastructure development companies may rely heavily on
local, state or national government contracts, and are therefore subject to
higher degrees of political risk and could be negatively impacted by changes in
government policies or a deterioration in government balance sheets in the
future. The customers and/or suppliers of infrastructure development companies
may be concentrated in a particular country, region or industry. Any adverse
event affecting one of these countries, regions or industries could have a
negative impact on infrastructure development companies.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Internet of Things Companies
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Internet of Things Companies applies to the Global
X Internet of Things ETF
Internet
of Things companies may have limited product lines, markets, financial resources
or personnel. These companies typically face intense competition and potentially
rapid product obsolescence. In addition, many Internet of Things companies store
sensitive consumer information and could be the target of cybersecurity attacks
and other types of theft, which could have a negative impact on these companies.
As a result, Internet of Things companies may be adversely impacted by
government regulations, and may be subject to additional regulatory oversight
with regard to privacy concerns and cybersecurity risk. These companies are also
heavily dependent on intellectual property rights and may be adversely affected
by loss or impairment of those rights. Internet of Things companies could be
negatively impacted by disruptions in service caused by hardware or software
failure, or by interruptions or delays in service by third-party data center
hosting facilities and maintenance providers. Internet of Things companies,
especially smaller companies, tend to be more volatile than companies that do
not rely heavily on technology. The customers and/or suppliers of Internet of
Things companies may be concentrated in a particular country, region or
industry. Any adverse event affecting one of these countries, regions or
industries could have a negative impact on Internet of Things companies.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Millennial Companies
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Millennial Companies applies to the Global X
Millennial Consumer ETF
The
Fund invests in millennial companies, including companies involved in producing
or distributing clothing and apparel, food (including restaurants), and consumer
staples, as well as companies involved in the provision of social networks and
social media, digital media, live events and entertainment, travel and
transportation services, financial services and investments, housing and housing
services and educational services. Millennial companies may be affected by
changes in consumers’ disposable income, consumer preferences, social trends and
marketing campaigns. Millennial companies generally face a high degree of
competition and potentially rapid product obsolescence. The customers and/or
suppliers of millennial companies may be concentrated in a particular country,
region or industry. Any adverse event affecting one of these countries, regions
or industries could have a negative impact on millennial companies. Millennial
companies may participate in monopolistic practices that could make them subject
to higher levels of regulatory scrutiny and/or potential break ups in the
future, which could severely impact the viability of these companies.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Quantum Computing Companies
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Quantum Computing Companies applies to the Global
X AI Semiconductor & Quantum ETF
Quantum
computing is a nascent and highly experimental sector within the broader
technology industry, and investing in companies engaged in quantum computing
involves substantial risks. Many of these companies are in the research and
development phase, with few, if any, commercially viable products. As a result,
they may have limited operating histories, minimal or no revenues, negative cash
flows, and uncertain prospects for profitability. Their valuations may be driven
largely by market sentiment, theoretical potential, or expectations of future
government or private-sector investment, rather than demonstrable financial
performance. This disconnect can lead to significant volatility in share prices
and heightened susceptibility to market corrections.
The
industry is also subject to rapid technological obsolescence. Quantum computing
relies on breakthroughs in areas such as quantum coherence, error correction,
cryogenics, and quantum materials — areas in which progress is uncertain and
timelines for commercial adoption are difficult to predict. Quantum computing
companies may also be impacted by intense competition and shifting consumer
demand. A single scientific or engineering development by a competitor could
render a company’s approach obsolete or noncompetitive.
Moreover,
many quantum computing companies are dependent on government grants, defense
contracts, or academic partnerships, which may be reduced, reprioritized, or
withdrawn with changes in policy or administration. National security concerns
surrounding quantum technologies have also led to increasing scrutiny under
export control laws and restrictions on cross-border investment, particularly
between the U.S. and countries such as China. Companies engaged in quantum
research may face restrictions on partnerships, component sourcing, or global
operations due to evolving regulatory frameworks.
As
a result, the Fund’s exposure to quantum computing companies may cause it to
experience greater price volatility and an increased risk of loss compared to
funds that do not invest in this industry.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Robotics & Artificial Intelligence
Companies
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Robotics & Artificial Intelligence Companies
applies to the Global X Robotics & Artificial Intelligence ETF
Robotics
& Artificial Intelligence companies may have limited product lines, markets,
financial resources or personnel. These companies typically face risks posed by
intense competition and potentially rapid product obsolescence, as well as
government regulation and increased regulatory scrutiny, which may limit the
development of this technology and impede the growth of companies that develop
and/or utilize this technology. The collection of data from consumers and other
sources by these companies could face increased scrutiny as regulators consider
how the data is collected, stored, safeguarded and used. Artificial technology
in particular has rapidly evolved and may entail additional risks, including
risks associated with reliance on the collection, analysis, and storage of large
amounts of data and complex algorithms, which could result in reputational harm,
legal liability, adverse effects on business operations and/or operational
errors and investment losses, and which could impact the Fund’s investments in
these companies. Rapid changes to technologies that affect a company’s products
could have a material adverse effect on such company’s operating results. These
companies are also heavily dependent on intellectual property rights and may be
adversely affected by loss or impairment of those rights. Further, these
companies may rely on a combination of patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade
secret laws to establish and protect their proprietary rights in their products
and technologies. There can be no assurance these companies will be able to
successfully protect their intellectual property to prevent the misappropriation
of their technology, or that competitors will not develop technology that is
substantially similar or superior to such companies’ technology. Robotics &
Artificial Intelligence companies typically engage in significant amounts of
spending on research and development, and there is no guarantee that the
products or services produced by these companies will be successful. Robotics
& Artificial Intelligence companies are potential targets for cyberattacks,
which can have a materially adverse impact on the performance of these
companies. Robotics & Artificial Intelligence companies, especially smaller
companies, tend to be more volatile than companies that do not rely heavily on
technology. Robotics & Artificial Intelligence companies may also be
impacted by trade disputes, which could hinder the companies’ ability to
successfully deploy their inventories.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Thematic Companies
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Thematic Companies applies to the Global X Dorsey
Wright Thematic ETF
The
Fund’s investments in issuers associated with certain economic themes will limit
the Fund’s exposure to certain issuers, industries, sectors, regions and
countries and may impact the Fund’s performance depending on whether such
investments are in or out of favor. The Fund relies on the Index Provider to
identify investments for inclusion in the Underlying Index that reflect certain
themes. Additionally, investments included in the Underlying Index may
underperform other, similar thematic investments. Companies focused on business
activities in emerging economic themes typically face intense competition and
potentially rapid product obsolescence, and the business models employed by
companies focused on a particular economic theme may not prove to be successful.
The Fund’s investments in thematic companies may cause it to perform differently
than Funds that do not use such a strategy.
In
addition to all of the risks described above, companies focused on particular
economic themes may face more specific risks related to such themes, including,
but not limited to the risks described below.
Infrastructure
Development
Infrastructure
development companies face risks related to the general state of the economy,
intense competition, consolidation, domestic and international politics, climate
change and extreme weather events, and excess capacity. Some infrastructure
development companies may rely heavily on local, state or national government
contracts, and are therefore subject to higher degrees of political risk and
could be negatively impacted by changes in government policies or a
deterioration in government balance sheets in the future.
Lithium
Production and Battery Technology
Companies
involved in the manufacturing of lithium-ion batteries are subject to the
effects of price fluctuations of traditional and alternative sources of energy,
developments in battery and alternative energy technology, the possibility that
government subsidies for alternative energy and electric vehicles will be
eliminated and the possibility that lithium-ion technology is not suitable for
widespread adoption. The price of lithium may be affected by changes in
inflation rates, interest rates, monetary policy, economic conditions and
political stability. The price of lithium may fluctuate substantially over short
periods of time, therefore lithium production companies may be more volatile
than other types of investments. In addition, lithium production companies may
also be significantly affected by import controls, worldwide competition,
liability for environmental damage, depletion of resources, and mandated
expenditures for safety and pollution control devices.
Aging
Population
Aging
Population companies may be affected by government regulations and government
healthcare programs, as well as increases or decreases in the cost of medical
products and services and product liability claims. Aging population companies
may be affected by government regulations and government healthcare programs, as
well as increases or decreases in the cost of medical products and services and
product liability claims. Many aging population companies are heavily dependent
on patent protection, and the expiration of a company’s patent may adversely
affect that company’s profitability.
Millennial
Spending
Companies
that benefit from millennial purchasing power may be affected by changes in
consumers’ disposable income, consumer preferences, social trends and marketing
campaigns.
Internet
of Things
Companies
focused on the “internet of things” could be negatively impacted by disruptions
in service caused by hardware or software failure, or by interruptions or delays
in service by third-party data center hosting facilities and maintenance
providers.
Social
Media
Social
media companies may face disruption in service caused by hardware or software
failure, interruptions or delays in service by third-party data center hosting
facilities and maintenance providers, security breaches involving certain
private, sensitive, proprietary and confidential information managed and
transmitted by social media companies, and privacy concerns and laws, evolving
internet regulation and other foreign or domestic regulations that may limit or
otherwise affect the operations of such companies.
Financial
Technology (“FinTech”)
FinTech
companies may be adversely impacted by deterioration in credit markets, as these
companies may have significant exposure to consumers and businesses
(particularly small businesses) in the form of loans and other financial
products and services. Many FinTech companies currently operate under less
regulatory scrutiny than traditional financial services companies and banks, but
there is significant risk that regulatory oversight could increase in the
future. Higher levels of regulation could increase costs and adversely impact
the current business models of some FinTech companies. FinTech companies
involved in alternative currencies may face slow adoption rates and be subject
to higher levels of regulatory scrutiny in the future, which could severely
impact the viability of these companies.
Autonomous
and Electric Vehicles
Autonomous
& Electric Vehicle Companies typically face intense competition and
potentially rapid product obsolescence. Autonomous & Electric Vehicle
companies typically engage in significant amounts of spending on research and
development, capital expenditures and mergers and acquisitions, and there is no
guarantee that the products or services produced by these companies will be
successful. Companies that produce the raw materials that are used in electric
vehicles may be concentrated in certain commodities, and therefore be exposed to
the price fluctuations of those commodities. Additionally, companies throughout
the EV and autonomous vehicle value chains may be significantly affected by tax
incentives, subsidies, and other governmental regulations and policies that
could change due to geopolitical shifts and election outcomes.
E-commerce
E-commerce
companies typically compete aggressively on price, potentially affecting their
long run profitability. Due to the online nature of e-commerce companies and
their involvement in processing, storing and transmitting large amounts of data,
these companies are particularly vulnerable to cyber security risk.
Cloud
Computing
Cloud
computing companies store sensitive consumer information and could be the target
of cybersecurity attacks and other types of theft, which could have a negative
impact on these companies. As a result, cloud computing companies may be
adversely impacted by government regulations, and may be subject to additional
regulatory oversight with regard to privacy concerns and cybersecurity risk.
Video
Games and Esports
Video
game and esports companies may be dependent on one or a small number of product
or product franchises for a significant portion of their revenue and profits.
They may also be subject to shifting consumer preferences, including preferences
with respect to gaming console platforms, and changes in consumer discretionary
spending. Recently, video game and esports companies have faced enhanced
regulatory scrutiny, and certain regulators have at times suspended the issuance
of licenses for new video games.
Genomics
& Biotechnology
Genomics
companies typically face intense competition and potentially rapid product
obsolescence. These companies are also heavily dependent on intellectual
property rights and may be adversely affected by loss or impairment of those
rights. There can be no assurance these companies will be able to successfully
protect their intellectual property to prevent the misappropriation of their
technology, or that competitors will not develop technology that is
substantially similar or superior to such companies’ technology. Genomics
companies typically engage in significant amounts of spending on research and
development, and there is no guarantee that the products or services produced by
these companies will be successful. In addition, the field of genomic science
could face increasing regulatory scrutiny in the future, which may limit the
development of this technology and impede the growth of companies that develop
and/or utilize this technology.
Robotics
& Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
& Artificial Intelligence companies may have limited product lines, markets,
financial resources or personnel. These companies typically face intense
competition and potentially rapid product obsolescence. These companies are also
heavily dependent on intellectual property rights and may be adversely affected
by loss or impairment of those rights. There can be no assurance these companies
will be able to successfully protect their intellectual property to prevent the
misappropriation of their technology, or that competitors will not develop
technology that is substantially similar or superior to such companies’
technology. Robotics & Artificial Intelligence companies typically engage in
significant amounts of spending on research and development, and there is no
guarantee that the products or services produced by these companies will be
successful. Robotics
&
Artificial Intelligence companies are potential targets for cyberattacks, which
can have a materially adverse impact on the performance of these companies.
Robotics & Artificial Intelligence companies, especially smaller companies,
tend to be more volatile than companies that do not rely heavily on
technology.
Artificial
Intelligence & Technology
Artificial
Intelligence & Big Data Companies typically face intense competition and
potentially rapid product obsolescence. These companies are also heavily
dependent on intellectual property rights and may be adversely affected by loss
or impairment of those rights. There can be no assurance these companies will be
able to successfully protect their intellectual property to prevent the
misappropriation of their technology, or that competitors will not develop
technology that is substantially similar or superior to such companies’
technology. Artificial Intelligence & Big Data Companies typically engage in
significant amounts of spending on research and development and mergers and
acquisitions, and there is no guarantee that the products or services produced
by these companies will be successful. Artificial Intelligence & Big Data
Companies are potential targets for cyberattacks, which can have a materially
adverse impact on the performance of these companies. In addition, artificial
intelligence technology could face increasing regulatory scrutiny in the future,
which may limit the development of this technology and impede the growth of
companies that develop and/or utilize this technology. Similarly, the collection
of data from consumers and other sources could face increased scrutiny as
regulators consider how the data is collected, stored, safeguarded and used.
Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity
companies may have limited product lines, markets, financial resources or
personnel. These companies typically face intense competition and potentially
rapid product obsolescence. Cybersecurity companies may be adversely impacted by
government regulations and actions, and may be subject to additional regulatory
oversight with regard to privacy concerns and cybersecurity risk. Cybersecurity
companies may also be negatively affected by the decline or fluctuation of
subscription renewal rates for their products and services, which may have an
adverse effect on profit margins. These companies are also heavily dependent on
intellectual property rights and may be adversely affected by loss or impairment
of those rights. Cybersecurity companies, especially smaller companies, tend to
be more volatile than companies that do not rely heavily on technology.
HealthTech
HealthTech
Companies typically face intense competition and potentially rapid product
obsolescence. These companies are also heavily dependent on intellectual
property rights and may be adversely affected by loss or impairment of those
rights. There can be no assurance these companies will be able to successfully
protect their intellectual property to prevent the misappropriation of their
technology, or that competitors will not develop technology that is
substantially similar or superior to such companies’ technology. HealthTech
Companies typically engage in significant amounts of spending on research and
development, and there is no guarantee that the products or services produced by
these companies will be successful. In addition, the field of smart medical
sensors, AI drug discovery, telemedicine, and medical software digital health
and telemedicine could face increasing regulatory scrutiny in the future, which
may limit the development of this technology and impede the growth of companies
that develop and/or utilize this technology.
Clean
Water
Clean
Water Companies typically face intense competition, short product lifecycles and
potentially rapid product obsolescence. These companies may also be heavily
dependent on intellectual property rights and may be adversely affected by loss
or impairment of those rights. There can be no assurance these companies will be
able to successfully protect their intellectual property to prevent the
misappropriation of their technology, or that competitors will not develop
technology that is substantially similar or superior to such companies’
technology. Clean Water Companies are subject to significant regulation
regarding the usage, treatment, and distribution of water. Clean Water Companies
may also be adversely affected by the impact of global climate change on the
available supply of clean water reserves. The ability of Clean Water Companies
to effectively distribute clean water is dependent on the infrastructure in
which they operate. The customers and/or suppliers of Clean Water Companies may
be concentrated in a particular country, region or industry. Any adverse event
affecting one of these countries, regions or industries could have a negative
impact on Clean Water Companies.
Blockchain
Blockchain
companies may be adversely impacted by government regulations, limited operating
histories, or economic conditions. Companies involved in the blockchain industry
may have significant exposure to fluctuations in the spot prices of
digital
assets and are subject to the risks associated with blockchain technology.
Blockchain technology is relatively new and its uses are in many cases untested
or unclear. Blockchain companies typically face intense competition and
potentially rapid product obsolescence. In addition, many Blockchain companies
store sensitive consumer information and could be the target of cybersecurity
attacks and other types of theft, which could have a negative impact on these
companies. Many Blockchain companies currently operate under less regulatory
scrutiny than traditional financial services companies and banks, but the
regulatory environment is rapidly evolving and there is significant risk that
regulatory oversight could increase in the future. Blockchain companies could
also be negatively impacted by disruptions in service caused by hardware or
software failure, or by interruptions or delays in service by third-party data
center hosting facilities and maintenance providers.
ClimateTech
ClimateTech
Companies typically face intense competition, short product lifecycles and
potentially rapid product obsolescence. These companies may be significantly
affected by fluctuations in energy prices and in the supply and demand of
renewable energy, tax incentives, subsidies, permitting application timelines,
and other governmental regulations and policies. Investors should take notice of
the distinction between implemented government policy based on legislation and
less guaranteed commitments which may be aspirational, subject to political
risk, and difficult to enforce. These companies are also heavily dependent on
intellectual property rights and may be adversely affected by loss or impairment
of those rights. ClimateTech Companies may be adversely affected by commodity
price volatility, changes in exchange rates, imposition of import controls,
availability of certain inputs and materials required for production, depletion
of resources, technological developments and labor relations. A decline in the
price of conventional energy such as oil and natural gas could have a materially
adverse impact on ClimateTech Companies. Renewable energy resources may be
highly dependent upon government policies that support renewable energy
generation and enhance the economic viability of owning renewable electric
generation assets. Additionally, adverse environmental conditions may cause
fluctuations in renewable electric generation and adversely affect the cash
flows associated with ClimateTech Companies.
Data
Center REITs and Digital Infrastructure
Data
Center REITs and Digital Infrastructure Companies are exposed to the risks
specific to the real estate market as well as the risks that relate specifically
to the way in which Data Center REITs and Digital Infrastructure Companies are
utilized and operated. Data Center REITs and Digital Infrastructure Companies
may be affected by unique supply and demand factors that do not apply to other
real estate sectors, such as changes in demand for communications
infrastructure, consolidation of tower sites, and new technologies that may
affect demand for data centers. Companies serving or depending on data centers
may face risks from rising energy costs, grid pressures, and environmental
policies, while slower artificial intelligence adoption or efficiency gains
could reduce demand growth, creating volatility for the Fund’s investments. Data
Center REITs and Digital Infrastructure Data Center REITs and Digital
Infrastructure Companies may be subject to internal risks such as water supply
and climate risk and data security risk. Data centers are potential targets for
cyberattacks, which may have a materially adverse impact on the performance of
these companies.
Hydrogen
Hydrogen
companies typically face intense competition, short product lifecycles and
potentially rapid product obsolescence due to significant R&D expenses and
the possibility that other emerging energy technologies could become more
commercially viable. These companies may be significantly affected by
fluctuations in energy prices and in the supply and demand of hydrogen and
renewable energy, as well as tax incentives, subsidies and other governmental
regulations and policies. Investors should take notice of the distinction
between implemented government policy based on legislation and less guaranteed
commitments which may be aspirational, subject to political risk, and difficult
to enforce. These companies are also heavily dependent on intellectual property
rights and may be adversely affected by loss or impairment of those rights.
Hydrogen companies may be adversely affected by commodity price volatility,
changes in exchange rates, imposition of import controls, availability of
certain inputs and materials required for production, depletion of resources,
technological developments and labor relations. Changes in the price of
conventional energy such as natural gas could have a materially adverse impact
on Hydrogen Companies. Energy companies are increasingly becoming the target of
malicious cybersecurity attacks, which could adversely affect Hydrogen
companies. Some companies involved in climate change-related industries, such as
Hydrogen, are in the early stages of operation and have limited operating
histories and smaller market capitalizations on average than companies in other
sectors. As a result of these and other factors, the market prices of securities
of Hydrogen companies tend to be considerably more volatile than those of
companies in more established sectors and industries.
AgTech
& Food Innovation
AgTech
& Food Innovation companies may have limited product lines, markets,
financial resources or personnel. These companies typically face intense
competition and potentially rapid product obsolescence. These companies are also
heavily dependent on intellectual property rights and may be adversely affected
by loss or impairment of those rights. AgTech & Food Innovation companies
are substantially affected by developments related to the agriculture industry,
including the impact of global climate change on agricultural production. AgTech
& Food Innovation companies, especially smaller companies, tend to be more
volatile than companies that do not rely heavily on technology. AgTech &
Food Innovation companies may be adversely affected by commodity price
volatility, changes in exchange rates, imposition of import controls,
availability of certain inputs and materials required for production, depletion
of resources, technological developments and labor relations. AgTech & Food
Innovation companies are also subject to significant environmental and safety
regulations that could adversely affect their business. The customers and/or
suppliers of AgTech & Food Innovation companies may be concentrated in a
particular country, region or industry. Any adverse event affecting one of these
countries, regions or industries could have a negative impact on AgTech &
Food Innovation companies.
Renewable
Energy
Renewable
Energy Companies typically face intense competition, short product lifecycles
and potentially rapid product obsolescence. These companies may be significantly
affected by fluctuations in energy prices and in the supply and demand of
renewable energy, tax incentives, permitting application timelines, availability
of transmission capacity, subsidies, and other governmental regulations and
policies. These companies are also heavily dependent on intellectual property
rights and may be adversely affected by loss or impairment of those rights.
Renewable Energy Companies may be adversely affected by commodity price
volatility, changes in exchange rates, imposition of import controls,
availability of certain inputs and materials required for production, depletion
of resources, technological developments and labor relations. A decline in the
price of conventional energy such as oil and natural gas could have a materially
adverse impact on Renewable Energy Companies. Renewable energy resources may be
highly dependent upon government policies that support renewable generation and
enhance the economic viability of owning renewable electric generation assets.
Investors should additionally take notice of the distinction between implemented
government policy based on legislation and less guaranteed commitments which may
be aspirational, subject to political risk, and difficult to enforce.
Additionally, adverse environmental conditions may cause fluctuations in
renewable electric generation and adversely affect the cash flows associated
with Renewable Energy Companies.
Defense
Tech
Defense
Tech companies are primarily exposed to the risks specific to the technology and
defense markets. Defense Tech companies typically engage in significant amounts
of spending on research and development and could face intense competition and
potentially rapid product obsolescence. These companies are also heavily
dependent on intellectual property rights and may be adversely affected by loss
or impairment of those rights. There can be no assurance these companies will be
able to successfully protect their intellectual property to prevent the
misappropriation of their technology, or that competitors will not develop
technology that is substantially similar or superior to such companies’
technology. Defense Tech companies may be significantly affected by aerospace
and defense regulation and spending policies, as companies involved in this
industry rely to a significant extent on government defense spending policies
and budgets for their products and services. These companies could also be
subject to sanctions and/or investment restrictions imposed by other countries,
which could have an adverse effect on companies that are impacted. Defense Tech
companies may be concentrated in a particular country or region, and any adverse
event affecting one of these countries or regions could have a negative impact
on Defense Tech companies.
Electrification
Companies
General
risks of Electrification companies include the general state of the economy,
intense competition, consolidation, domestic and international politics, and
excess capacity. In addition, Electrification companies may also be
significantly affected by overall capital spending levels (including both
private and public sector spending), economic cycles, technological
obsolescence, delays in modernization, and labor relations. Electrification
companies may also be significantly impacted by government policies,
regulations, import controls, and contractual fixed pricing. Some
Electrification companies may rely heavily on local, state or national
government contracts, and are therefore subject to higher degrees of political
risk and could be negatively impacted by changes in government policies or a
deterioration in government balance sheets in the future. Seasonal weather
conditions and extreme weather events, fluctuations in the supply of and demand
for power, and changes in electricity prices may cause fluctuations in the
performance of such companies.
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Video Game & Esports Companies
Associated
Risks Related to Investing in Video Game & Esports Companies applies to the
Global X Video Games & Esports ETF
Video
Game & Esports companies may have limited product lines, markets, financial
resources or personnel. These companies typically face intense competition and
potentially rapid product obsolescence. Video Game & Esports companies may
be dependent on one or a small number of product or product franchises for a
significant portion of their revenue and profits. They may also be subject to
shifting consumer preferences, including preferences with respect to gaming
console platforms, and changes in consumer discretionary spending. Video Game
& Esports companies may be adversely impacted by government regulations, and
may be subject to additional regulatory oversight with regard to privacy
concerns and cybersecurity risk. Recently, Video Game & Esports companies
have faced enhanced regulatory scrutiny, and certain regulators have at times
suspended the issuance of licenses for new video games or limited the hours that
video games can be played by individuals. These companies are also heavily
dependent on intellectual property rights and may be adversely affected by loss
or impairment of those rights. Video Game & Esports companies could be
negatively impacted by disruptions in service caused by hardware or software
failure. Video Game & Esports companies, especially smaller companies, tend
to be more volatile than companies that do not rely heavily on technology. The
customers and/or suppliers of Video Game & Esports companies may be
concentrated in a particular country, region or industry. Any adverse event
affecting one of these countries, regions or industries could have a negative
impact on Video Game & Esports companies.
Capitalization
Risk
Capitalization
Risk applies to each Fund
Investing
in issuers within the same market capitalization category carries the risk that
the category may be out of favor due to current market conditions or investor
sentiment.
Large-Capitalization
Companies Risk
Large-Capitalization
Companies Risk applies to the Global X Millennial Consumer ETF, Global X Aging
Population ETF, Global X FinTech ETF, Global X Internet of Things ETF, Global X
Robotics & Artificial Intelligence ETF, Global X U.S. Infrastructure
Development ETF, Global X Autonomous & Electric Vehicles ETF, Global X
Artificial Intelligence & Technology ETF, Global X Genomics &
Biotechnology ETF, Global X Cloud Computing ETF, Global X Cybersecurity ETF,
Global X Dorsey Wright Thematic ETF, Global X Video Games & Esports ETF,
Global X HealthTech ETF, Global X ClimateTech ETF, Global X Data Center &
Digital Infrastructure ETF, Global X Clean Water ETF, Global X AgTech & Food
Innovation ETF, Global X Blockchain ETF, Global X Defense Tech ETF, Global X
Infrastructure Development ex-U.S. ETF and Global X AI Semiconductor &
Quantum ETF
Large-capitalization
companies may adapt more slowly to new competitive challenges and changing
market conditions than smaller capitalization companies. In addition,
large-capitalization companies may be more mature and subject to more limited
growth potential and consequently may underperform other segments of the equity
market or the market as a whole. Large-capitalization stocks tend to go through
cycles of doing better - or worse - than the stock market in general.
Mid-Capitalization
Companies Risk
Mid-Capitalization
Companies Risk applies to the Global X Millennial Consumer ETF, Global X FinTech
ETF, Global X Internet of Things ETF, Global X Robotics & Artificial
Intelligence ETF, Global X U.S. Infrastructure Development ETF, Global X
Autonomous & Electric Vehicles ETF, Global X Genomics & Biotechnology
ETF, Global X Cloud Computing ETF, Global X Cybersecurity ETF, Global X Dorsey
Wright Thematic ETF, Global X Video Games & Esports ETF, Global X HealthTech
ETF, Global X ClimateTech ETF, Global X Data Center & Digital Infrastructure
ETF, Global X Clean Water ETF, Global X AgTech & Food Innovation ETF, Global
X Blockchain ETF, Global X Hydrogen ETF and Global X Infrastructure Development
ex-U.S. ETF
Mid-capitalization
companies may have greater price volatility, lower trading volume and less
liquidity than large-capitalization companies. In addition, mid-capitalization
companies may have smaller revenues, narrower product lines, less management
depth and experience, smaller shares of their product or service markets, fewer
financial resources and less competitive strength than large-capitalization
companies. These securities may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly,
from the overall securities market.
Small-Capitalization
Companies Risk
Small-Capitalization
Companies Risk applies to the Global X Autonomous & Electric Vehicles ETF,
Global X Genomics & Biotechnology ETF, Global X Cloud Computing ETF, Global
X Cybersecurity ETF, Global X Video Games & Esports ETF, Global X HealthTech
ETF, Global X ClimateTech ETF, Global X Data Center & Digital Infrastructure
ETF, Global X AgTech & Food Innovation ETF, Global X Blockchain ETF and
Global X Hydrogen ETF
Small-capitalization
companies often have greater price volatility, lower trading volume and less
liquidity than larger, more established companies. In addition, these companies
are often subject to less analyst coverage and may be in early and less
predictable periods of their corporate existences. These companies tend to have
smaller revenues, narrower product lines, less management depth and experience,
smaller shares of their product or service markets, fewer financial resources
and less competitive strength than larger companies. These securities may have
returns that vary, sometimes significantly, from the overall securities market.
Micro-Capitalization
Companies Risk
Micro-Capitalization
Companies Risk applies to the Global X Blockchain ETF and Global X Hydrogen
ETF
Micro-capitalization
companies are subject to substantially greater risks of loss and price
fluctuations, and are more vulnerable to adverse business and economic
developments, than other securities with larger capitalizations because their
earnings and revenues tend to be less predictable (and some companies may
experience significant losses), their share prices tend to be more volatile and
their markets less liquid than companies with larger market capitalizations.
Micro-capitalization companies may be newly formed or in the early stages of
development, with limited product lines, markets or financial resources and may
lack management depth. In addition, there may be less public information
available about these companies. The shares of micro-capitalization companies
tend to trade less frequently than those of larger, more established companies,
which can adversely affect the pricing of these securities and the future
ability to buy and sell these securities.
Cash
Transaction Risk
Cash
Transaction Risk applies to the Global X Hydrogen ETF and Global X
Infrastructure Development ex-U.S. ETF
Unlike
most ETFs, the Fund intends to effect a significant portion of creations and
redemptions for cash, rather than in-kind securities. As a result, an investment
in the Fund may be less tax-efficient than an investment in a more conventional
ETF. Because the Fund currently intends to effect redemptions for cash, rather
than in-kind distributions, it may be required to sell portfolio securities in
order to obtain the cash needed to distribute redemption proceeds. If the Fund
recognizes gain on these sales, this generally will cause the Fund to recognize
gain it might not otherwise have recognized, or to recognize such gain sooner
than would otherwise be required if it were to distribute portfolio securities
in-kind. The Fund generally intends to distribute these gains to shareholders to
avoid being taxed on this gain at the Fund level and otherwise comply with the
special tax rules that apply to it. This strategy may cause shareholders to be
subject to tax on gains they would not otherwise be subject to, or at an earlier
date than, if they had made an investment in a different ETF. Moreover, cash
transactions may have to be carried out over several days if the securities
market is relatively illiquid and may involve the Fund recognizing a capital
gain and/or incurring considerable brokerage fees and taxes. These factors may
result in wider spreads between the bid and the offered prices of the Fund’s
Shares than for more conventional ETFs. To the extent that the maximum
additional variable charge for cash creation or cash redemption transactions is
insufficient to cover the transaction costs of purchasing or selling portfolio
securities, the Fund’s performance could be negatively impacted. Additionally,
to the extent that brokerage or other costs are costs or taxable gains or losses
that the Fund might not offset by transaction fees, such costs may be borne by
the Fund and result in a decrease in the value of the Fund.
Currency
Risk
Currency
Risk applies to the Global X Aging Population ETF, Global X FinTech ETF, Global
X Internet of Things ETF, Global X Robotics & Artificial Intelligence ETF,
Global X Autonomous & Electric Vehicles ETF, Global X Artificial
Intelligence & Technology ETF, Global X Genomics & Biotechnology ETF,
Global X Cloud Computing ETF, Global X Cybersecurity ETF, Global X Dorsey Wright
Thematic ETF, Global X Video Games & Esports ETF, Global X HealthTech ETF,
Global X ClimateTech ETF, Global X Data Center & Digital Infrastructure ETF,
Global X Clean Water ETF, Global X AgTech & Food
Innovation
ETF, Global X Blockchain ETF, Global X Hydrogen ETF, Global X Defense Tech ETF,
Global X Infrastructure Development ex-U.S. ETF and Global X AI Semiconductor
& Quantum ETF
The
Fund may invest in securities denominated in foreign currencies. Foreign
currencies are subject to risks, which include changes in the debt level and
trade deficit of the country issuing the foreign currency; inflation rates
and/or interest rates of the United States and the country issuing the foreign
currency; government involvement in and influence over currency markets; and
global or regional political, economic or financial events.
Foreign
exchange rates may also be influenced by: changing supply and demand for a
particular currency; monetary policies of governments (including exchange
control programs, restrictions on local exchanges or markets and limitations on
foreign investment in a country or on investment by residents of a country in
other countries); changes in balances of payments and trade; trade restrictions;
and currency devaluations and revaluations. The resulting volatility in the
USD/foreign currency exchange rate could materially and adversely affect the
performance of the Fund.
Generally, an increase in the value of the U.S.
dollar against a foreign currency will reduce the value of a security
denominated in that foreign currency, thereby decreasing the Fund's
NAV.
Custody
Risk
Custody
Risk applies to the Global X Internet of Things ETF, Global X Autonomous &
Electric Vehicles ETF, Global X Artificial Intelligence & Technology ETF,
Global X Genomics & Biotechnology ETF, Global X Cloud Computing ETF, Global
X Cybersecurity ETF, Global X Video Games & Esports ETF, Global X
ClimateTech ETF, Global X Clean Water ETF, Global X AgTech & Food Innovation
ETF, Global X Blockchain ETF, Global X Hydrogen ETF, Global X Defense Tech ETF,
Global X Infrastructure Development ex-U.S. ETF and Global X AI Semiconductor
& Quantum ETF
Custody
risk refers to risks in the process of clearing and settling trades and in the
holding of securities by local banks, agents and depositories. These risks are
heightened in jurisdictions with less developed markets or less robust
settlement and custody infrastructure and processes, and they may result in
losses or delays in payments, delivery or recovery of money or other assets. Low
trading volumes and volatile prices in less developed markets make trades harder
to complete and settle. Governments or trade groups may compel local agents to
hold securities in designated depositories that are subject to independent
evaluation. Local agents are held only to the standards of care of their local
markets, and may be subject to limited or no government oversight. Generally,
the less developed a country’s securities market, the greater the likelihood of
custody problems occurring.
Cybersecurity
Risk
Cybersecurity
Risk applies to each Fund
With
the increased use of technologies such as the Internet to conduct business, the
Fund, like all companies, may be susceptible to operational, information
security and related risks. Cybersecurity incidents involving the Fund,
Authorized Participants, or service providers (including, without limitation,
the Adviser, fund accountant, custodian, transfer agent and financial
intermediaries) have the ability to cause disruptions and impact business
operations, potentially resulting in financial losses, impediments to trading,
the inability of Fund shareholders to transact business, violations of
applicable privacy and other laws, regulatory fines, penalties, reputational
damage, reimbursement or other compensation costs, and/or additional compliance
costs.
Cybersecurity
incidents can result from deliberate cyberattacks or unintentional events and
may arise from external or internal sources. Cyber attacks may include infection
by malicious software or gaining unauthorized access to digital systems,
networks or devices that are used to service the Fund’s operations (e.g., by
“hacking” or “phishing”). Cyber attacks may also be carried out in a manner that
does not require gaining unauthorized access, such as causing denial-of-service
attacks on websites (i.e., efforts to make network services unavailable to
intended users). In addition, cyber-attacks may render records of Fund assets
and transactions, shareholder ownership of Fund Shares, and other data integral
to the functioning of the Fund inaccessible or inaccurate or incomplete.
Substantial costs may be incurred by the Fund in order to resolve or prevent
cyber incidents in the future. While the Fund has established business
continuity plans in the event of, and risk management systems to prevent, such
cyber-attacks, there are inherent limitations in such plans and systems,
including the possibility that certain risks have not been identified and that
prevention and remediation efforts will not be successful. Furthermore, the Fund
cannot control the cyber security plans and systems put in place by service
providers to the Fund, issuers in which the Fund invests, market makers or
Authorized Participants.
Similar
adverse consequences could result from cybersecurity incidents affecting issuers
of securities in which the Fund invests, counterparties with which the Fund
engages, governmental and other regulatory authorities, exchanges and other
financial market operators, banks, brokers, dealers, insurance companies, other
financial institutions and other parties. In addition, substantial costs may be
incurred in order to prevent any cybersecurity incidents in the future. Although
the Fund’s service providers may have established business continuity plans and
risk management systems to mitigate cybersecurity risks, there can be no
guarantee or assurance that such plans or systems will be effective, or that all
risks that exist, or may develop in the future, have been completely anticipated
and identified or can be protected against. The Fund and its shareholders could
be negatively impacted as a result.
The
rapid development and increasingly widespread use of artificial intelligence
technologies could increase the effectiveness of cyber attacks and exacerbate
the risks.
Focus
Risk
Focus
Risk applies to each Fund
In
following its methodology, the Underlying Index may be focused to a significant
degree in securities of issuers in a particular industry or group of industries
and/or may have significant exposure to one or more sectors. The Fund will also
focus its investments to approximately the same extent as the Underlying Index.
In such event, the Fund’s performance will be particularly susceptible to
adverse events impacting such industry(ies) or sector(s), and the Fund may be
susceptible to an increased risk of loss, including losses due to events that
adversely affect the Fund’s investments more than the market as a whole, to the
extent that the Fund's investments are focused in the securities of a particular
issuer or issuers within the same geographic region, market, industry, group of
industries, sector or asset class.
Such heightened risks, any of which
may adversely affect the issuers in which the Fund invests, may include, but are
not limited to, the following: general economic conditions or cyclical market
patterns that could negatively affect supply and demand; competition for
resources; adverse labor relations; political or world events; obsolescence of
technologies; and increased competition or new product introductions that may
affect the profitability or viability of issuers in a particular industry or
sector. In addition, at times, such industry(ies) or sector(s) may underperform
other such categories or the market as a whole.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Aerospace and Defense Industry
Risks
Related to Investing in the Aerospace and Defense Industry applies to the Global
X Defense Tech ETF
Companies
in the Aerospace & Defense industry are subject to government defense
budgets, geopolitical tensions, and regulatory changes, which can significantly
impact revenues and profitability. Many Aerospace & Defense companies rely
heavily on government contracts, making them vulnerable to shifts in defense
spending policies, political cycles, and procurement cycles. Additionally, these
companies face risks from supply chain disruptions, cost overruns, and
technological obsolescence, particularly as advancements in defense technology
evolve rapidly. Global political instability, trade restrictions, and changes in
international alliances can also affect the demand for aerospace and defense
products. Regulatory scrutiny over budgets, safety standards, procurement
practices, and military applications may impose additional costs and operational
constraints on companies in this industry.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Automobiles Industry
Risks
Related to Investing in the Automobiles Industry applies to the Global X
Autonomous & Electric Vehicles ETF
The
automobiles industry can be highly cyclical, and companies in the industry may
suffer periodic operating losses. The industry can be significantly affected by
labor relations and fluctuating component prices. While most of the major
manufacturers are large, financially strong companies, many others are small and
can be non-diversified in both product line and customer base. Additionally,
developments in automotive technologies (e.g., autonomous vehicle technologies)
may require significant capital expenditures that may not generate profits for
several years, if any. Companies in the automobiles industry may be
significantly subject to government policies and regulations regarding imports
and exports of automotive products. Governmental policies affecting the
automotive industry, such as taxes, tariffs, duties, subsidies, and import and
export restrictions on automotive products can influence industry profitability.
In addition, such companies must comply with environmental laws and regulations.
Additional or more stringent environmental laws and regulations may be enacted
in the future and such changes could have a material adverse effect on the value
of such companies.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Biotechnology Industry
Risks
Related to Investing in the Biotechnology Industry applies to the Global X
Genomics & Biotechnology ETF
Biotechnology
companies depend on the successful development of new and proprietary
technologies. There can be no assurance that the development of new technologies
will be successful or that intellectual property rights will be obtained with
respect to new technologies. The loss or impairment of intellectual property
rights may adversely affect the profitability of biotechnology companies. In
addition, companies in the biotechnology industry spend heavily on research and
development and their products or services may not prove commercially successful
or may become obsolete quickly. The risks of high development costs may be
exacerbated by the inability to raise prices as a result of managed care
pressure, government regulation or price controls. Biotechnology companies can
suffer persistent losses during the transition of new products from development
to production or when products are or may be subject to regulatory approval
processes or regulatory scrutiny and, as a consequence, the earnings of
biotechnology companies may be erratic. Companies in the biotechnology industry
are also exposed to the risk that they will be subject to products liability
claims. Companies involved in the biotechnology industry may be subject to
extensive government regulations by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Agriculture,
among other foreign and domestic regulators. Such regulation may significantly
affect and limit biotechnology research, product development and approval of
products.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Chemicals Industry
Risks
Related to Investing in the Chemicals Industry applies to the Global X AgTech
& Food Innovation ETF
The
chemicals industry can be significantly affected by competition, product
obsolescence, raw materials prices, and government regulation. As regulations
are developed and enforced, chemical companies could be required to alter or
cease production of a product, to pay fines, to pay for cleaning up a disposal
site, or to agree to restrictions on or supervision of their operations. Some of
the materials and processes used by these companies involve hazardous components
and there can be risks associated with their production, handling, and
disposal.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Communication Services Sector
Risks
Related to Investing in the Communication Services Sector applies to the Global
X Dorsey Wright Thematic ETF and Global X Video Games & Esports ETF
The
communication services sector consists of both companies in the
telecommunication services industry as well as those in the media and
entertainment industry. Examples of companies in the telecommunication services
industry group include providers of fiber-optic, fixed-line, cellular and
wireless telecommunications networks. Companies in the media and entertainment
industry group encompass a variety of services and products including television
broadcasting, gaming products, social media, networking platforms, online
classifieds, online review websites, and Internet search engines. Companies in
the communication services sector may be affected by industry competition,
substantial capital requirements, government regulation, and obsolescence of
communications products and services due to technological advancement.
Fluctuating domestic and international demand, shifting demographics and often
unpredictable changes in consumer tastes can drastically affect a communication
services company's profitability. In addition, while all companies may be
susceptible to network security breaches, certain companies in the communication
services sector may be particular targets of hacking and potential theft of
proprietary or consumer information or disruptions in service, which could have
a material adverse effect on their businesses.
The
communication services sector of a country’s economy is often subject to
extensive government regulation. The costs of complying with governmental
regulations, delays or failure to receive required regulatory approvals, or the
enactment of new regulatory requirements may negatively affect the business of
communications companies. Government actions around the world, specifically in
the area of pre-marketing clearance of products and prices, can be arbitrary and
unpredictable. Companies in the communication services sector may encounter
distressed cash flows due to the need to commit substantial capital to meet
increasing competition, particularly in developing new products and services
using new technology. Technological innovations may make the products and
services of certain communications companies obsolete.
In
the U.S., the communication services sector is characterized by increasing
competition and regulation by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission and
various state regulatory authorities. Companies in the communication services
sector are generally required to obtain franchises or licenses in order to
provide services in a given location.
Licensing
and franchise rights in the communication services sector are limited, which may
provide an advantage to certain participants. Limited availability of such
rights, high barriers to market entry and regulatory oversight, among other
factors, have led to consolidation of companies within the sector, which could
lead to further regulation or other negative effects in the future. Furthermore,
operations of foreign communication services sector companies may be perceived
by domestic regulators as national security risks, resulting in restrictions or
even bans on such operations.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Consumer Discretionary Sector
Risks
Related to Investing in the Consumer Discretionary Sector applies to the Global
X Millennial Consumer ETF, Global X Autonomous & Electric Vehicles ETF and
Global X Dorsey Wright Thematic ETF
The
success of consumer product manufacturers and retailers is tied closely to the
performance of the overall domestic and international economy, exchange and
interest rates, competition and consumer confidence. Success depends heavily on
disposable household income and consumer spending and may be strongly affected
by social trends and marketing campaigns. Moreover, the consumer discretionary
sector can be significantly affected by several factors, including, without
limitation, consumers’ disposable income and changing consumer preferences,
demographics, cyclical revenue generation, commodity price volatility, depletion
of resources, labor relations, inflation, import and export controls, supply
chain disruptions, intense competition, cyber-attacks, technological
developments and government regulation.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Consumer Staples Sector
Risks
Related to Investing in the Consumer Staples Sector applies to the Global X
AgTech & Food Innovation ETF
Companies
in the consumer staples sector may be affected by the regulation of various
product components and production methods, marketing campaigns and changes in
the global economy, consumer spending and consumer demand. Tobacco companies, in
particular, may be adversely affected by new laws, regulations and litigation.
Household and personal products are particularly sensitive to increased
competition, decreased demand due to changes in consumer preferences and brand
diminution. Food products are subject to the risk that raw materials are
accidentally or maliciously contaminated or that products are contaminated
through the supply chain due to human error or equipment failure. Such incidents
may result in loss of market share and loss of revenue for companies in the
consumer staples sector. Companies in the consumer staples sector may also be
adversely affected by changes or trends in commodity prices, which may be
influenced by unpredictable factors. These companies may be subject to severe
competition, which may have an adverse impact on their
profitability.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Electrical Equipment Industry
Risks
Related to Investing in the Electrical Equipment Industry applies to the Global
X ClimateTech ETF and Global X Hydrogen ETF
The
Electrical Equipment Industry includes companies that produce electric cables
and wires, electrical components or equipment; and manufacturers of
power-generating equipment and other heavy electrical equipment (including power
turbines, heavy electrical machinery intended for fixed-use and large electrical
systems). The Electrical Equipment Industry is fragmented but includes a number
of large incumbent companies that may compete heavily for market share in the
space. Companies in the Electrical Equipment Industry may involve operations
with high fixed costs. Because copper, aluminum, steel and other raw materials
are often critical components of the products manufactured in the Electrical
Equipment Industry, fluctuations in commodities prices for such raw materials
may impact the profitability of companies in this industry. Purchasers of such
products may be geographically dispersed, which may subject companies in this
industry to any increases in geopolitical uncertainty or global macroeconomic
trends.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Entertainment Industry
Risks
Related to Investing in the Entertainment Industry applies to the Global X Video
Games & Esports ETF
Entertainment
companies may be impacted by high costs of research and development of new
content and services in an effort to stay relevant in a highly competitive
industry, and entertainment products may face a risk of rapid obsolescence.
Entertainment companies are subject to risks that include cyclicality of
revenues and earnings, changing tastes and topical interests, and decreases in
the discretionary income of their targeted consumers. Sales of content
through
physical formats and traditional content delivery services may be displaced by
new content delivery mechanisms, such as streaming technology, and it is
possible that such new content delivery mechanisms may themselves become
obsolete over time. The entertainment industry is regulated, and changes
to rules regarding advertising and the content produced by entertainment
companies can increase overall production and distribution costs. Companies in
the entertainment industry have at times faced increased regulatory pressure
which has delayed or prohibited the release of entertainment
content.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Financials Sector
Risks
Related to Investing in the Financials Sector applies to the Global X FinTech
ETF
Companies
in the financials sector are subject to government intervention and extensive
governmental regulation, which may adversely affect the scope of their
activities, the amount and types of loans and other commitments they can make,
the prices they can charge, the amount of capital they must maintain and their
size, among other things. Governmental regulation may change frequently and may
have significant adverse consequences for companies in the financials sector,
including effects not intended by such regulation. The impact of changes in
capital requirements, or recent or future regulation in various countries, on
any individual financial company or on the financials sector as a whole cannot
be predicted.
The financials sector is exposed to risks that may impact
the value of investments in the financials sector more severely than investments
outside this sector, including operating with substantial financial leverage,
and financial services companies may themselves have concentrated portfolios,
which makes them vulnerable to economic conditions that affect that sector. The
financials sector may be adversely affected by economic conditions, including
increases in interest rates and loan losses, decreases in the availability of
money or asset valuations, and adverse conditions in other related markets.
Financial services companies may also be adversely affected by volatility in
financial markets, a deterioration of the credit markets, credit losses
resulting from financial difficulties of borrowers, particularly issuers with
concentrated loan portfolios, and the risk that a market shock or other
unexpected market, economic, political, regulatory, or other event might lead to
a sudden decline in the values of most or all companies in the financial
services sector, among other things. The financials sector is a target for
cyber-attacks and financial services companies may experience technological
malfunctions, disruptions, and/or failures, which may cause losses and may
negatively impact the Fund.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Financial Services Industry
Risks
Related to Investing in the Financial Services Industry applies to the Global X
FinTech ETF
The
performance of stocks in the Financial Services industry may be adversely
impacted by the banking, insurance, mortgage financing, and transaction &
payment processing services activities, government regulations, economic
conditions, credit rating downgrades, and other factors which could adversely
affect financial markets.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Health Care Equipment & Supplies
Industry
Risks
Related to Investing in the Health Care Equipment & Supplies Industry
applies to the Global X Aging Population ETF and Global X HealthTech
ETF
Companies
in the health care equipment and supplies industry may be heavily dependent on
patent protection, and the expiration of patents may adversely affect the
profitability of these companies. Companies in the health care equipment
industry may be subject to extensive litigation based on product liability and
similar claims as well as competitive forces that may make it difficult to raise
prices and, in fact, may result in price discounting. The profitability of some
health care equipment companies may be dependent on a relatively limited number
of products. In addition, their products can become obsolete due to industry
innovation, changes in technologies or other market developments. Many new
products in the health care equipment industry are subject to regulatory
approvals, and the process of obtaining such approvals may be long and costly.
Demand for health care equipment, generally speaking and specific to
sub-segments, may fluctuate due to unexpected events, including but not limited
to global health crises like pandemics which could strain health care systems
and alter health care needs. Such demand fluctuations could positively or
negatively impact health care equipment companies.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Health Care Sector
Risks
Related to Investing in the Health Care Sector applies to the Global X Aging
Population ETF, Global X Genomics & Biotechnology ETF and Global X
HealthTech ETF
The
profitability of companies in the health care sector may be adversely affected
by the following factors, among others: extensive government regulations,
restrictions on government reimbursement for medical expenses, rising costs of
medical products and services, pricing pressure, an increased emphasis on
outpatient services, changes in the demand for medical products and services, a
limited number of products, industry innovation, changes in technologies and
other market developments. A number of issuers in the health care sector have
recently merged or otherwise experienced consolidation. The effects of this
trend toward consolidation are unknown and may be far-reaching. Many health care
companies are heavily dependent on patent protection. The expiration of a
company’s patents may adversely affect that company’s profitability. Many health
care companies are subject to extensive litigation based on product liability
and similar claims. Health care companies are subject to competitive forces that
may make it difficult to raise prices and, in fact, may result in price
discounting. Many new products in the health care sector may be subject to
regulatory approvals. The process of obtaining such approvals may be long and
costly, and such efforts ultimately may be unsuccessful. Companies in the health
care sector may be thinly capitalized and may be susceptible to product
obsolescence. In addition, a number of legislative proposals concerning health
care have been considered by the U.S. Congress in recent years. It is unclear
what proposals will ultimately be enacted, if any, and what effect they may have
on U.S. and non-U.S. companies in the health care sector. Companies in the
health care sector may also be affected by unforeseen circumstances including
but not limited to the spread of infectious disease which could impact drug
development priorities and pipelines, supply and demand dynamics for health care
equipment, as well as the ability to receive care in health care service
facilities.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Health Care Technology Industry
Risks
Related to Investing in the Health Care Technology Industry applies to the
Global X HealthTech ETF
The
health care technology industry includes companies providing information
technology services primarily to health care providers. Includes companies
providing applications, systems and/or data processing software, internet-based
tools, and IT consulting services to doctors, hospitals or businesses operating
primarily in the Health Care Sector. Market or economic factors impacting
companies that rely heavily on technological advances could have a major effect
on the value of the Fund’s investments. The value of companies in the health
care technology industry and companies that rely heavily on technology is
particularly vulnerable to rapid changes in technology product cycles, rapid
product obsolescence, government regulation and increased competition, both
domestically and internationally, including competition from foreign competitors
with lower production costs. Companies in the health care technology industry
may be particularly susceptible to changes in government regulation, and
companies that rely on subscription services may also be negatively affected by
the decline or fluctuation of subscription renewal rates for their products and
services, which may have an adverse effect on profit margins. Companies may also
be adversely affected by, among other things, actual or perceived security
vulnerabilities in their products and services, which may result in individual
or class action lawsuits, state or federal enforcement actions and other
remediation costs. In addition, companies in the health care technology industry
may have limited product lines, markets, financial resources or personnel.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Industrials Sector
Risks
Related to Investing in the Industrials Sector applies to the Global X Robotics
& Artificial Intelligence ETF, Global X U.S. Infrastructure Development ETF,
Global X ClimateTech ETF, Global X Clean Water ETF, Global X AgTech & Food
Innovation ETF, Global X Hydrogen ETF, Global X Defense Tech ETF and Global X
Infrastructure Development ex-U.S. ETF
Companies
in the industrials sector are affected by supply and demand both for their
specific product or service and for industrials sector products in general. The
products of manufacturing companies may face product obsolescence due to rapid
technological developments and frequent new product introduction. Government
regulation, trade disputes, world events and economic conditions affect the
performance of companies in the industrials sector. Companies in the industrials
sector may be adversely affected by damages from environmental claims and
product liability claims, cyber-attacks, commodity price trends or volatility,
changes in exchange rates, increased competition, depletion of resources,
technological developments, and labor relations. The performance of such
companies may also be affected by changes in domestic and international
economies, changes in government spending policies, changes in or failures of
trade agreements, and imposition of export or import controls or trade tariffs.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Information Technology Sector
Risks
Related to Investing in the Information Technology Sector applies to the Global
X FinTech ETF, Global X Internet of Things ETF, Global X Robotics &
Artificial Intelligence ETF, Global X Autonomous & Electric Vehicles ETF,
Global X Artificial Intelligence & Technology ETF, Global X Cloud Computing
ETF, Global X Cybersecurity ETF, Global X ClimateTech ETF, Global X Data Center
& Digital Infrastructure ETF, Global X Blockchain ETF and Global X AI
Semiconductor & Quantum ETF
Companies
in the information technology sector are particularly vulnerable to failure to
obtain, or delays in obtaining, financing or regulatory approval, rapid changes
in technology product cycles, rapid product obsolescence, government regulation
and increased competition, both domestically and internationally, including
competition from foreign competitors with lower production costs. Information
technology companies and companies that rely heavily on technology, especially
those of smaller, less-seasoned companies, tend to be more volatile than the
overall market. The information technology sector is subject to rapid and
significant changes in technology, and success of sector participants depends
substantially on the timely and successful introduction of new products. These
companies also are heavily dependent on patent and intellectual property rights,
the loss or impairment of which may adversely affect profitability.
Companies in the information technology sector may face dramatic and
often unpredictable changes in growth rates, competition for the services of
qualified personnel, the decline or fluctuation of subscription renewal rates
for their products and services, increased government and regulatory scrutiny,
and adverse government or regulatory action. Companies in the information
technology industry may be adversely affected by, among other things, actual or
perceived security vulnerabilities in their products and services, which may
result in individual or class action lawsuits, state or federal enforcement
actions and other remediation costs. Certain companies in the information
technology sector may be particular targets of cyber-attacks and potential theft
of proprietary or consumer information or disruptions in service, which could
have a material adverse effect on their businesses.
Risks
Related to Investing in the IT Services Industry
Risks
Related to Investing in the IT Services Industry applies to the Global X Cloud
Computing ETF
The
IT services industry can be significantly affected by competitive pressures,
such as technological developments, fixed-rate pricing, and the ability to
attract and retain skilled employees, and the success of companies in the
industry is subject to continued demand for IT services.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Lithium-Ion Battery Industry
Risks
Related to Investing in the Lithium-Ion Battery Industry applies to the Global X
Autonomous & Electric Vehicles ETF
Securities
in the Fund’s portfolio involved in the manufacturing of lithium-ion batteries
are subject to the effects of price fluctuations of minerals as well as
traditional and alternative sources of energy, developments in battery and
alternative energy technology, government regulations, supply and demand of
alternative energy sources and electric vehicles, energy conservation, the
success of exploration projects, costs related to exploration, mining, and
production, and tax and other government regulations and policies. The
lithium-ion battery industry can be significantly affected by obsolescence of
existing technology, short product lifecycles, falling prices and profits,
competition from new market entrants and general economic conditions. Companies
in this industry could be adversely affected by commodity price volatility,
imposition of import controls, increased competition, depletion of resources,
technological developments and labor relations, and may face risks associated
with the production, handling and disposal of hazardous components, and
litigation arising out of environmental contamination. The reduction or
elimination of government subsidies and economic incentives for alternative
energy may cause a decline in the demand for lithium-ion batteries, and may
cause corresponding declines in the revenues and profits of lithium-ion battery
companies. If lithium-ion technology is not suitable for widespread adoption, or
sufficient demand for lithium-ion products does not develop or takes long
periods of time to develop, the revenues of lithium-ion battery companies may
decline.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Machinery Industry
Risks
Related to Investing in the Machinery Industry applies to the Global X Robotics
& Artificial Intelligence ETF, Global X Clean Water ETF and Global X AgTech
& Food Innovation ETF
The
machinery industry is capital-intensive. Working capital and cash flow
management can be crucial to a company's success, as investments in research and
development and acquisitions may be important to maintain sales and earnings. A
long capital investment cycle can add challenges to management decisions
regarding the expansion of capacity, which may limit a company’s ability to grow
during periods of increasing demand and may result in overcapacity during
periods of decreasing demand. The performance of the machine industry may
therefore be highly dependent on the business cycle and highly correlated with
the performance of the broader equity market. Machine industry companies with
large barriers to entry based on proprietary technology may face potentially
rapid product obsolescence. Conversely, machine industry companies that produce
commodity-like offerings are likely to face thin margins and must maintain
expansive distribution and support networks in order to maintain adequate
volume.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Materials Sector
Risks
Related to Investing in the Materials Sector applies to the Global X AgTech
& Food Innovation ETF and Global X Infrastructure Development ex-U.S.
ETF
The
materials sector tends to be closely tied to the economic cycle and can be
significantly affected by supply-demand dynamics. Issuers in the materials
sector could be adversely affected by commodity price volatility, exchange
rates, import and export controls, supply chain disruptions, worldwide
competition, social and political unrest, war, depletion of resources, technical
advances, labor relations, over-production, litigation and government
regulations, among other factors. At times, worldwide production of industrial
materials has exceeded demand as a result of over-building or economic
downturns, leading to poor investment returns or losses. Issuers in the
materials sector are at risk for environmental damage and product liability
claims, and may incur significant costs in complying with environmental
laws.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Pharmaceuticals Industry
Risks
Related to Investing in the Pharmaceuticals Industry applies to the Global X
Aging Population ETF
Companies
in the pharmaceuticals industry are subject to competitive forces that may make
it difficult to raise prices and, in fact, may result in price discounting. The
profitability of some companies in the pharmaceuticals industry may be dependent
on a relatively limited number of products. In addition, their products can
become obsolete due to industry innovation, changes in technologies or other
market developments. Many new products in the pharmaceuticals industry are
subject to government approvals, regulation and reimbursement rates. The process
of obtaining government approval may be long and costly. Many companies in the
pharmaceuticals industry are heavily dependent on patents and intellectual
property rights. The loss or impairment of these rights may adversely affect the
profitability of these companies. Companies in the pharmaceuticals industry may
be subject to extensive litigation based on product liability and similar
claims. Demand for pharmaceuticals, generally speaking and specific to
sub-segments, may fluctuate due to unexpected events, including but not limited
to global health crises like pandemics which could strain health care systems
and alter health care needs. Such demand fluctuations could positively or
negatively impact pharmaceutical companies.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Real Estate Sector
Risks
Related to Investing in the Real Estate Sector applies to the Global X Data
Center & Digital Infrastructure ETF
The
real estate sector includes real estate companies focused on commercial and
residential real estate development, sales, operations, and services, as well as
real estate investment trusts (“REITs”). Real estate is highly sensitive to
general and local economic conditions and developments and characterized by
intense competition and periodic overbuilding. Many real estate companies
utilize leverage (and some may be highly leveraged), which increases risk and
could adversely affect a real estate company's operations and market value in
periods of rising interest rates.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Semiconductors and Semiconductor Equipment
Industry
Risks
Related to Investing in the Semiconductors and Semiconductor Equipment Industry
applies to the Global X Internet of Things ETF, Global X Artificial Intelligence
& Technology ETF and Global X AI Semiconductor & Quantum ETF
The
semiconductors and semiconductor equipment industry is highly competitive, and
certain companies in this industry may be restricted from operating in certain
markets due to the sensitive nature of these technologies. Companies in this
space generally seek to increase silicon capacity, improve yields, and reduce
the size in their product designs which may result in significant increases in
worldwide supply and downward pressure on prices. Companies involved in the
semiconductors and semiconductor equipment industry face increased risk from
trade agreements between countries that develop these technologies and countries
in which customers of these technologies are based. Lack of resolution or
potential imposition of trade tariffs may hinder the companies' ability to
successfully deploy their inventories. The success of such companies frequently
depends on the ability to develop and produce competitive new semiconductor
technologies. Companies in this industry frequently undertake substantial
research and development expenses in order to remain competitive, and a failure
to successfully demonstrate advanced functionality and performance can have a
material impact on the company’s business.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Software Industry
Risks
Related to Investing in the Software Industry applies to the Global X FinTech
ETF, Global X Cloud Computing ETF, Global X Cybersecurity ETF and Global X
Blockchain ETF
The
software industry can be significantly affected by intense competition,
aggressive pricing, technological innovations, and product obsolescence.
Companies in the application software industry, in particular, may also be
negatively affected by the decline or fluctuation of subscription renewal rates
for their products and services, which may have an adverse effect on profit
margins. Companies in the systems software industry may be adversely affected
by, among other things, actual or perceived security vulnerabilities in their
products and services, which may result in individual or class action lawsuits,
state or federal enforcement actions and other remediation costs.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Specialized REITs Industry
Risks
Related to Investing in the Specialized REITs Industry applies to the Global X
Data Center & Digital Infrastructure ETF
The
specialized REITs industry is subject to risks specific to companies or trusts
engaged in the acquisition, development, ownership, leasing, management, and
operation of properties such as natural gas and crude oil pipelines, gas
stations, fiber optic cables, prisons, automobile parking, and automobile
dealerships, as well as self storage properties, telecom towers and related
structures that support wireless telecommunications, timberland and
timber-related properties, and data center properties.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Utilities Sector
Risks
Related to Investing in the Utilities Sector applies to the Global X Clean Water
ETF
Stock
prices for companies in the utilities sector are affected by supply and demand,
operating costs, government regulation, environmental factors such as extreme
weather events and seasonal weather patterns, liabilities for environmental
damage and general civil liabilities, and rate caps or rate exchanges. Although
rate changes of a utility usually fluctuate in approximate correlation with
financing costs due to political and regulatory factors, rate changes ordinarily
occur only following a delay after the changes in financing costs. This factor
will tend to favorably affect a regulated utility company's earnings and
dividends in times of decreasing costs, but conversely, will tend to adversely
affect earnings and dividends are rising in times of rising costs. The value of
regulated utility equity securities may tend to have an inverse relationship to
the movement of interest rates. Certain utility companies have experienced full
or partial deregulation in recent years. These utility companies are frequently
more similar to industrial companies in that they are subject to greater
competition and have been permitted by regulators to diversify outside of their
original geographic regions and their traditional lines of business. These
opportunities may permit certain utility companies to earn more than their
traditional regulated rate of return. Some companies, however, may be forced to
defend their core business and may be less profitable. In addition, natural
disasters, terrorist attacks, government intervention or other factors may
render a utility company's equipment unusable or obsolete and negatively impact
profitability.
Risks
Related to Investing in the Water Utilities Industry
Risks
Related to Investing in the Water Utilities Industry applies to the Global X
Clean Water ETF
Companies
in the water utilities industry are subject to significant regulation regarding
the usage, treatment, and distribution of water, and may be faced with increased
regulation or operating costs. Companies in the water utilities industry may be
adversely affected by the impact of extreme weather events and global climate
change, and may face difficulty in obtaining water resources for resale. The
ability of Companies in the water utilities industry to effectively distribute
water is dependent on the infrastructure in which they operate. Reliance on
capital construction projects may increase the risks associated with natural
disasters, terrorist attacks, government intervention or other factors that may
render a water utility company’s equipment unusable or obsolete and negatively
impact profitability.
Foreign
Securities Risk
Foreign
Securities Risk applies to the Global X Millennial Consumer ETF, Global X Aging
Population ETF, Global X FinTech ETF, Global X Internet of Things ETF, Global X
Robotics & Artificial Intelligence ETF, Global X Autonomous & Electric
Vehicles ETF, Global X Artificial Intelligence & Technology ETF, Global X
Genomics & Biotechnology ETF, Global X Cloud Computing ETF, Global X
Cybersecurity ETF, Global X Dorsey Wright Thematic ETF, Global X Video Games
& Esports ETF, Global X HealthTech ETF, Global X ClimateTech ETF, Global X
Data Center & Digital Infrastructure ETF, Global X Clean Water ETF, Global X
AgTech & Food Innovation ETF, Global X Blockchain ETF, Global X Hydrogen
ETF, Global X Defense Tech ETF, Global X Infrastructure Development ex-U.S. ETF
and Global X AI Semiconductor & Quantum ETF
Investments
in foreign securities can be riskier than U.S. securities investments.
Investments in the securities of foreign issuers (including investments in
American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) and Global Depositary Receipts (“GDRs”))
are subject to additional risks, including, but not limited to: lower levels of
liquidity and market efficiency; greater securities price volatility; exchange
rate fluctuations and exchange controls; less availability of public information
about issuers; limitations on foreign ownership of securities; imposition of
withholding or other taxes; imposition of restrictions on the expatriation of
the assets of the Fund; restrictions placed on U.S. investors by U.S.
regulations governing foreign investments; higher transaction and custody costs
and delays in settlement procedures; difficulties in enforcing contractual
obligations; lower levels of regulation of the securities market; weaker
accounting, disclosure and reporting requirements; and legal principles relating
to corporate governance and directors’ fiduciary duties and liabilities. The
countries in which the Fund invests may also be subject to structural risks,
including economic, political and social instability. Additionally, certain
securities held by the Fund, while traded on U.S. exchanges, may be issued by
foreign financial institutions and as such, may be subject to the risks of
investing in securities issued by foreign companies, which may not be subject to
the same regulations as companies domiciled in the U.S. Shareholder rights under
the laws of some foreign countries may not be as favorable as U.S. laws. Thus, a
shareholder may have more difficulty in asserting its rights or enforcing a
judgment against a foreign company than a shareholder of a comparable U.S.
company. Where all or a portion of the Fund's underlying securities trade in a
market that is closed when the market in which the Fund's Shares are listed and
trading is open, there may be differences between the last quote from the
security’s closed foreign market and the value of the security during the Fund’s
domestic trading day. This in turn could lead to differences between the market
price of the Fund’s Shares and the underlying value of those shares.
Foreign
issuers may not be subject to uniform accounting, auditing and financial
reporting standards and there may be less reliable and publicly available
financial and other information about such issuers, as compared to U.S. issuers.
Certain countries’ legal institutions, financial markets, and services are less
developed than those in the U.S. or other major economies. The Fund may have
greater difficulty voting proxies, exercising shareholder rights, securing
dividends and obtaining information regarding corporate actions on a timely
basis, pursuing legal remedies, and obtaining judgments with respect to foreign
investments in foreign courts than with respect to domestic issuers in U.S.
courts. Countries in which the Fund may invest have experienced security
concerns, such as war and other types of conflict, terrorism, strained
international relations and territorial disputes. Incidents involving a
country's or region's security may cause uncertainty in the markets, including
short term market volatility, and may adversely affect the economy and the
Fund's investments.
Geographic
Risk
Geographic
Risk applies to each Fund
Geographic
risk is the risk that the Fund’s assets may be focused in countries located in
the same geographic region. This investment focus will subject the Fund to risks
associated with that particular region, or a region economically tied to that
particular region, such as a natural, biological, or other disasters and the
spread of infectious diseases. The Fund may invest in countries or regions with
economies that are heavily dependent upon trading with key partners. Any
reduction in this trading may cause an adverse impact on the economy in which
the Fund invests and on the Fund’s investments. The countries in which the Fund
invests may be subject to considerable degrees of economic, political and social
instability. Additionally, countries in which the Fund may invest have
experienced security concerns, which may cause uncertainty in the markets and
may adversely affect the economy and the Fund’s investments. As a result, an
economic downturn, social or political unrest, or government
restrictions
on international trade, among other things, in one or more of these regions may
impact the performance of the constituents in which the Fund invests, even if
the Fund does not invest directly in companies located in such region.
The
securities in which the Fund invests and, consequently, the Fund is also subject
to specific risks as a result of their business operations a particular country
or region, including, but not limited to:
China
Exposure Risk
China
Exposure Risk applies to the Global X Infrastructure Development ex-U.S.
ETF
China
may be subject to considerable degrees of economic, political and social
instability. Concerns about the rising government and household debt levels
could impact the stability of the Chinese economy. China is an emerging market
and demonstrates significantly higher volatility from time to time in comparison
to developed markets. Over the last few decades, the Chinese government has
undertaken reform of economic and market practices, including recent reforms to
liberalize its capital markets and expand the sphere for private ownership of
property in China. However, Chinese markets generally continue to experience
inefficiency, volatility and pricing anomalies resulting from governmental
influence, a lack of publicly available information and/or political and social
instability. Chinese companies are also subject to the risk that Chinese
authorities can intervene in their operations and structure. Internal social
unrest or confrontations with other neighboring countries, including military
conflicts in response to such events, may also disrupt economic development in
China and result in a greater risk of currency fluctuations, currency
convertibility, interest rate fluctuations and higher rates of
inflation.
The customers and/or suppliers of infrastructure development
companies may be concentrated in China. Any adverse event affecting China could
have a negative impact on infrastructure development companies.
Risk
of Investing in China
Risk
of Investing in China applies to the Global X Robotics & Artificial
Intelligence ETF, Global X Autonomous & Electric Vehicles ETF, Global X
Dorsey Wright Thematic ETF, Global X Video Games & Esports ETF, Global X
ClimateTech ETF, Global X Data Center & Digital Infrastructure ETF, Global X
AgTech & Food Innovation ETF and Global X Hydrogen ETF
Investments
in Chinese issuers may subject the Fund to legal, regulatory, political,
currency, security, and economic risks specific to China.
Political
and Social Risk
The
Chinese government is authoritarian and has periodically used force to suppress
civil dissent. Disparities of wealth and the pace of economic liberalization may
lead to social turmoil, violence and labor unrest. In addition, China continues
to experience disagreements related to integration with Hong Kong and religious
and nationalist disputes in Tibet and Xinjiang. There is also a greater risk in
China than in many other countries of currency fluctuations, currency
nonconvertibility, interest rate fluctuations and higher rates of inflation as a
result of internal social unrest or conflicts with other countries.
Unanticipated political or social developments may result in sudden and
significant investment losses. China’s growing income inequality, rapidly aging
population and significant environmental issues also are factors that may affect
the Chinese economy. Concerns about the rising government and household debt
levels could impact the stability of the Chinese economy.
Government
Control and Regulations Risk
Despite
the Chinese government’s implementation of economic and market reforms in recent
decades, government control over certain sectors or enterprises and significant
regulation of investment and industry is still pervasive. China has restrictions
on investment in companies or industries deemed to be sensitive to particular
national interests, trading of securities of Chinese issuers, foreign ownership
of Chinese corporations and/or the repatriation of assets by foreign investors.
Limitations or restrictions on foreign ownership of Chinese securities may have
adverse effects on the liquidity and performance of the Fund and could lead to
higher tracking error. Chinese government intervention in the market may have a
negative impact on market sentiment, which may in turn affect the performance of
the Chinese economy and the Fund’s investments. Chinese markets generally
continue to experience inefficiency, volatility and pricing anomalies that may
be connected to governmental influence, lack of publicly-available information,
and political and social instability.
Economic
Risk
The
Chinese economy is heavily reliant on trade and may be adversely affect by,
among other things, a deterioration in global demand and spending for Chinese
export or in spending on domestic goods by Chinese consumers. The institution of
additional tariffs or other trade barriers (including as a result of heightened
trade tensions between China and the U.S. or in response to actual or alleged
Chinese cyber activity), or a downturn in any of the economies of China’s key
trading partners may have an adverse impact on the Chinese economy and companies
in which the Fund invests. The continuation or worsening of the current
political climate between China and the U.S. could result in additional
regulatory, trade or business restrictions that could have a negative impact on
the Fund’s performance.
Expropriation
Risk
The
Chinese government maintains a major role in economic policy making and
investing in China involves risk of loss due to expropriation, nationalization,
confiscation of assets and property or the imposition of restrictions on foreign
investments and on repatriation of capital invested.
Security
Risk
China
has strained international relations with Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, India,
and other neighbors due to territorial disputes, historical animosities, defense
and other security concerns. Relations between China’s Han ethnic majority and
other ethnic groups in China, including Tibetans and Uighurs, are also strained
and have been marked by protests and violence. Additionally, China is alleged to
have participated in state-sponsored cyberattacks against foreign companies and
foreign governments. Actual and threatened responses to such activity and
strained international relations, including purchasing restrictions, sanctions,
export controls, tariffs or cyberattacks on the Chinese government or Chinese
companies, may impact China’s economy and Chinese issuers of securities in which
the Fund invests. These situations may cause uncertainty in the Chinese economy.
VIE
Structure Risk
Chinese
companies, including those listed on U.S. exchanges, are not subject to the same
degree of regulatory requirements, accounting standards or auditor oversight as
companies in more developed countries. As a result, information about the
Chinese securities in which the Fund invests may be less reliable or complete.
Chinese companies with securities listed on U.S. exchanges may be delisted if
they do not meet U.S. accounting standards and auditor oversight requirements,
or for other reasons, which would significantly decrease the liquidity and value
of the securities.
There
may be significant obstacles to obtaining information necessary for
investigations into or litigation against Chinese companies, and shareholders
may have limited legal remedies.
Many
Chinese companies listed on U.S. exchanges use variable interest entities or
“VIEs” in their structure as a result of foreign ownership restrictions. In a
VIE structure, a Chinese operating company establishes a shell company in
another jurisdiction to issue stock to public shareholders. When a VIE structure
is used by a Chinese company to list its stock in the U.S., instead of owning
the equity securities of the Chinese company, the U.S.-listed shell company
directly or indirectly enters into contracts with the Chinese operating company
under Chinese law. These contracts provide the U.S.-listed shell company with
only economic exposure to the Chinese company and do not represent equity
ownership in the operating company.
While
VIEs are a longstanding practice that is well known by Chinese officials and
regulators, the structure has not been formally recognized under Chinese law. It
is uncertain whether Chinese officials or regulators will withdraw their
implicit acceptance of the structure or whether the contractual arrangements
would be enforced by Chinese courts or arbitration bodies. Prohibitions of these
structures by the Chinese government, or the inability to enforce such
contracts, from which the shell company derives its value, would likely cause
the VIE structured holding(s) to suffer significant, detrimental, and possibly
permanent losses, and in turn, adversely affect the Fund.
Risk
of Investing in Developed Markets
Risk
of Investing in Developed Markets applies to each Fund
Investments
in a developed country’s issuers may subject the Fund to legal, regulatory,
political, currency, security, and economic risk specific to developed
countries. Developed countries generally tend to rely on services sectors (e.g.,
the financial services sector) as the primary means of economic growth. A
prolonged slowdown in one or more services sectors is likely to have a negative
impact on economies of certain developed countries, although economies of
individual developed countries can be impacted by slowdowns in other sectors. In
the past, certain developed countries have been targets of terrorism, and some
geographic areas in which the Fund invests have experienced strained
international relations due to territorial disputes, historical animosities,
defense concerns and other security concerns. These situations may cause
uncertainty in the financial markets in these countries or geographic areas and
may adversely affect the performance of the issuers to which the Fund has
exposure. Heavy regulation of certain markets, including labor and product
markets, may have an adverse effect on certain issuers. Such regulations may
negatively affect economic growth or cause prolonged periods of recession. Many
developed countries are heavily indebted and face rising healthcare and
retirement expenses. In addition, price fluctuations of certain commodities and
regulations impacting the import of commodities may negatively affect developed
country economies. Developed countries may also be impacted by changes to the
economic conditions of certain key trading partners or the imposition of tariffs
by or on trading partners.
Risk
of Investing in Emerging Markets
Risk
of Investing in Emerging Markets applies to the Global X Aging Population ETF,
Global X Internet of Things ETF, Global X Robotics & Artificial Intelligence
ETF, Global X Autonomous & Electric Vehicles ETF, Global X Artificial
Intelligence & Technology ETF, Global X Dorsey Wright Thematic ETF, Global X
Video Games & Esports ETF, Global X ClimateTech ETF, Global X Data Center
& Digital Infrastructure ETF, Global X Clean Water ETF, Global X AgTech
& Food Innovation ETF, Global X Hydrogen ETF, Global X Defense Tech ETF,
Global X Infrastructure Development ex-U.S. ETF and Global X AI Semiconductor
& Quantum ETF
The
securities markets of emerging market countries may be less liquid, subject to
greater price volatility, have smaller market capitalizations, have less
government regulation and not be subject to as extensive and frequent
accounting, financial and other reporting requirements as the securities markets
of more developed countries. Issuers and securities markets in emerging markets
are generally not subject to as extensive and frequent accounting, financial and
other reporting requirements or as comprehensive government regulations as are
issuers and securities markets in the developed markets. Substantially less
information may be publicly available about emerging market issuers than is
available about issuers in developed markets. It may be difficult or impossible
for the Fund to pursue claims against an emerging market issuer in the courts of
an emerging market country. There may be significant obstacles to obtaining
information necessary for investigations into or litigation against emerging
market companies and shareholders may have limited legal rights and
remedies.
Emerging markets typically are classified as such by lacking
one or more of the following characteristics: sustainability of economic
development, large and liquid securities markets, openness to foreign ownership,
ease of capital inflows and outflows, efficiency of the market’s operational
framework, and/or stability of the institutional framework. The Fund’s purchase
and sale of portfolio securities in certain emerging market countries may be
constrained by limitations relating to daily changes in the prices of listed
securities, periodic trading or settlement volume and/or limitations on
aggregate holdings of foreign investors. Such limitations may be computed based
on the aggregate trading volume by or holdings of the Fund, the Adviser, its
affiliates and their respective clients and other service providers. The Fund
may not be able to sell securities in circumstances where price, trading or
settlement volume limitations have been reached.
Foreign investment in
the securities markets of certain emerging market countries is restricted or
controlled to varying degrees, which may limit investment in such countries or
increase the administrative costs of such investments. Emerging market
securities also are subject to the risks of expropriation, nationalization or
other adverse political or economic developments and the difficulty of enforcing
obligations in other countries. Investments in emerging market securities also
may be subject to dividend withholding or confiscatory taxes, currency blockage
and/or transfer restrictions and higher transactional costs. In addition,
emerging markets often have greater risk of capital controls through such
measures as taxes or interest rate control than developed markets. Certain
emerging market countries may also lack the infrastructure necessary to attract
large amounts of foreign trade and investment. Chronic structural public sector
deficits in some countries may adversely impact a Fund’s
investments.
Many emerging market countries have experienced currency
devaluations, substantial (and, in some cases, extremely high) rates of
inflation, and economic recessions. These circumstances have had a negative
effect on the economies and securities markets of those emerging market
countries. Economies in emerging market countries generally are dependent upon
international trade and may be affected adversely by the economies of their
trading partners, trade barriers, exchange controls, managed adjustments in
relative currency values and other protectionist measures imposed
or
negotiated by the countries with which they trade. As a result, emerging market
countries are particularly vulnerable to downturns of the world
economy.
Many emerging market countries are subject to a substantial
degree of economic, political and social instability. Emerging markets may also
face other significant internal or external risks, including the risk of war,
terrorism, border disputes, or other social or political conflicts.
Unanticipated political, social, and public health developments may cause
uncertainty in the markets and/or result in sudden and significant investment
losses that adversely affect the performance of these economies. These
developments may result in increased market volatility, disruptions to business
operations and supply chains, and restrictions on travel.
As a result of
heightened geopolitical tensions, various countries have imposed economic
sanctions, imposed non-trade barriers and renewed existing economic sanctions on
certain emerging markets and on issuers within those markets. These non-trade
barriers consist of prohibiting certain securities trades, prohibiting certain
private transactions in certain sectors and with respect to certain companies,
asset freezes, and prohibition of all business, against certain individuals and
companies. These actions, any future sanctions or other actions, or even the
threat of further sanctions or other actions, may negatively affect the value
and liquidity of the Fund’s investments. In addition, sanctions may require the
Fund to freeze its existing investments, prohibiting the Fund from buying,
selling or otherwise transacting in these investments. Also, if an affected
security is included in the Fund's Underlying Index, the Fund may, where
practicable, seek to eliminate its holdings of the affected security by
employing or augmenting its representative sampling strategy to seek to track
the investment results of the Underlying Index. Additionally, lack of relevant
data and reliable public information, including financial information, about
securities in emerging markets may contribute to incorrect weightings and data
and computational errors. The use of (or increased use of) a representative
sampling strategy may increase the Fund’s tracking error risk. Actions barring
some or all transactions with a specific company will likely have a substantial,
negative impact on the value of such company’s securities. These sanctions may
also lead to changes in the Fund’s Underlying Index. The Fund’s index provider
may remove securities from the Underlying Index or implement caps on the
securities of certain issuers that have been subject to recent economic
sanctions. In such an event, it is expected that the Fund will rebalance its
portfolio to bring it in line with its Underlying Index as a result of any such
changes, which may result in transaction costs and increased tracking error. The
Fund’s investment in emerging market countries may also be subject to
withholding or other taxes, which may be significant and may reduce the return
to the Fund from an investment in such countries.
Settlement and
clearance procedures in emerging market countries are frequently less developed
and reliable than those in the United States and may involve the Fund’s delivery
of securities before receipt of payment for their sale. In addition, significant
delays may occur in certain markets in registering the transfer of securities.
Settlement, clearance or registration problems may make it more difficult for
the Fund to value its portfolio securities and could cause the Fund to miss
attractive investment opportunities, to have a portion of its assets uninvested
or to incur losses due to the failure of a counterparty to pay for securities
the Fund has delivered or the Fund’s inability to complete its contractual
obligations because of theft or other reasons.
Risk
of Investing in India
Risk
of Investing in India applies to the Global X Infrastructure Development ex-U.S.
ETF
Investments
in Indian issuers may subject the Fund to legal, regulatory, political,
currency, security, and economic risks specific to India. India is an emerging
market country and exhibits significantly greater market volatility from time to
time in comparison to more developed markets. Political and legal uncertainty,
greater government control over the economy, currency fluctuations or blockage,
and the risk of nationalization or expropriation of assets may result in higher
potential for losses.
Moreover, governmental actions can have a
significant effect on the economic conditions in India, which could adversely
affect the value and liquidity of the Fund’s investments. The limited liquidity
of the Indian securities markets may also affect the Fund’s ability to acquire
or dispose of securities at the price and time that it desires.
Global
factors and foreign actions may also inhibit the flow of foreign capital on
which India is dependent to sustain its growth. India’s strained relations with
neighboring countries like Pakistan and China could adversely affect the Indian
economy and stock market should tensions escalate. In addition, the Reserve Bank
of India (“RBI”) has imposed limits on foreign ownership of Indian securities,
which may limit the amount the Fund can invest in certain types of companies.
Foreign ownership limits generally apply to investment in certain sectors which
the RBI has determined that local ownership is strategically important, such as
banking and insurance, but may be applied to other types of companies by the RBI
from time to time. These factors, coupled with the lack of extensive accounting,
auditing
and financial reporting standards and practices, as compared to the U.S., may
increase the Fund’s risk of loss.
Further, certain Indian regulatory
approvals, including approvals from the Securities and Exchange Board of India
(“SEBI”), the RBI, the central government and the tax authorities (to the extent
that tax benefits need to be utilized), may be required before the Fund can make
investments in the securities of Indian companies. Capital gains from Indian
securities may be subject to local taxation.
Extreme weather patterns can
lead to below-average rainfall during India's critical monsoon season and
negatively affect crop yields, which may put pressure on inflation.
India
is a net importer of oil. Fluctuations in global oil prices can have a direct
impact on the country's trade balance, fiscal balance, FX reserves, and
inflation, which can lead to market volatility.
Risk
of Investing in Japan
Risk
of Investing in Japan applies to the Global X Robotics & Artificial
Intelligence ETF and Global X Video Games & Esports ETF
Investments
in Japanese issuers may subject the Fund to legal, regulatory, political,
currency, security, and economic risks specific to Japan. Japan’s economic
growth rate has generally remained low relative to other advanced economies, and
it may continue to remain low. Japan’s economy is heavily dependent on
international trade and government policy supporting its export market and has
been affected by trade tariffs and competition from emerging economies. As such,
economic growth is heavily dependent on continued growth in international trade,
relatively low commodities prices, government support of the financial services
sector, and other government policies. Any changes or trends in these economic
factors could have a significant impact on Japanese markets overall and may
negatively affect the Fund’s investments. Other risks to Japan’s economic growth
and competitiveness include significant public debt and deficits as well as
labor shortages due to an aging and declining population. Japan’s economy and
equity market also share a strong correlation with U.S. markets, and the
Japanese economy may be affected by economic problems in the U.S. Additionally,
despite a strengthening in the economic relationship between Japan and China,
the countries’ political relationship has at times been strained. Should
political tension increase, it could adversely affect the economy and
destabilize the region as a whole. Additionally, escalated tensions involving
North Korea and any outbreak of hostilities involving North Korea could have a
severe adverse effect on Japan’s economy. Japan is also heavily dependent on oil
and other commodity imports, and higher commodity prices could therefore have a
negative impact on the Japanese economy.
Japan is located in a part of
the world that has historically been prone to natural disasters such as
earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis, and is economically sensitive to
environmental events. Any such event could result in a significant adverse
impact on the Japanese economy.
Currency fluctuations also could
adversely impact Japan’s export market and its economy. If the Japanese
government were to intervene in the currency market, as it has in the past, e
the value of the yen could fluctuate sharply and unpredictably, which could
cause losses to investors.
Risk
of Investing in South Korea
Risk
of Investing in South Korea applies to the Global X Dorsey Wright Thematic ETF,
Global X Video Games & Esports ETF and Global X Hydrogen ETF
Investments
in South Korean issuers may subject the Fund to legal, regulatory, political,
currency, security, and economic risks specific to South Korea. Substantial
political tensions exist between North Korea and South Korea. Escalated tensions
involving the two nations and the outbreak of hostilities between the two
nations, or even the threat of an outbreak of hostilities, could have a severe
adverse effect on the South Korean economy. In addition, South Korea’s economic
performance is subject to risks arising from a rapidly aging workforce, lagging
productivity, and structural problems. The South Korean economy is heavily
reliant on trading exports, especially from other Asian countries and the U.S.,
and disruptions or decreases in trade activity could lead to further economic
declines. The South Korean economy’ s dependence on the economies of Asia and
the U.S. means that a reduction in spending by these economies on South Korean
products and services or negative changes in any of these economies may cause an
adverse impact on the South Korean economy and therefore, on the Fund’s
investments.
Risk
of Investing in Taiwan
Risk
of Investing in Taiwan applies to the Global X AI Semiconductor & Quantum
ETF
Investments
in Taiwanese issuers may subject the Fund to legal, regulatory, political,
currency and economic risks that are specific to Taiwan. Specifically, Taiwan’s
geographic proximity and history of political contention with China have
resulted in ongoing tensions between the two countries. These tensions may
materially affect the Taiwanese economy and its securities market. These
tensions may evolve into a military conflict between China and Taiwan, with
potential participation by other regional powers such as the US and Japan.
Taiwan’s lack of formal recognition by most countries around the world leaves
its legal status ambiguous and often prevents Taiwan from membership in
international organizations. The establishment of diplomatic ties between Taiwan
and another country could result in both Taiwan and that country facing economic
or diplomatic retaliation from China. Taiwan’s economy is export-oriented, so it
depends on an open world trade regime and remains vulnerable to fluctuations in
the world economy. Rising labor costs and increasing environmental consciousness
have led some labor-intensive industries to relocate to countries with cheaper
work forces, and continued labor outsourcing may adversely affect the Taiwanese
economy.
Risk
of Investing in the United States
Risk
of Investing in the United States applies to the Global X Millennial Consumer
ETF, Global X Aging Population ETF, Global X FinTech ETF, Global X Internet of
Things ETF, Global X Robotics & Artificial Intelligence ETF, Global X U.S.
Infrastructure Development ETF, Global X Autonomous & Electric Vehicles ETF,
Global X Artificial Intelligence & Technology ETF, Global X Genomics &
Biotechnology ETF, Global X Cloud Computing ETF, Global X Cybersecurity ETF,
Global X Dorsey Wright Thematic ETF, Global X Video Games & Esports ETF,
Global X HealthTech ETF, Global X ClimateTech ETF, Global X Data Center &
Digital Infrastructure ETF, Global X Clean Water ETF, Global X AgTech & Food
Innovation ETF, Global X Blockchain ETF, Global X Hydrogen ETF, Global X Defense
Tech ETF and Global X AI Semiconductor & Quantum ETF
Investments
in United States issuers may subject the Fund to legal, regulatory, political,
currency, security, and economic risks specific to the United States. A decrease
in imports or exports, changes in trade regulations, including the imposition of
tariffs on trading partners, inflation and/or an economic recession in the U.S.
may have a material adverse effect on the U.S. economy and the securities listed
on U.S. exchanges. Proposed and adopted policy and legislative changes in the
U.S. are changing many aspects of financial, commercial, public health,
environmental, and other regulation and may have a significant effect on U.S.
markets generally, as well as on the value of certain securities. Governmental
agencies project that the U.S. will continue to maintain elevated public debt
levels for the foreseeable future. Although elevated debt levels do not
necessarily indicate or cause economic problems, elevated public debt service
costs may constrain future economic growth. The U.S. has developed increasingly
strained relations with a number of foreign countries. If relations with certain
countries deteriorate, it could adversely affect U.S. issuers as well as
non-U.S. issuers that rely on the U.S. for trade. The U.S. has also experienced
increased internal political discord. If this trend were to continue, it may
have an adverse impact on the U.S. economy and the issuers in which the Fund
invests.
Indexing
Strategy Risk
Indexing
Strategy Risk applies to each Fund
The
Fund is not actively managed and may be affected by a general decline in market
segments relating to the Underlying Index. The Fund invests in securities
included in, or representative of, the Underlying Index regardless of their
investment merits, and the Adviser does not otherwise attempt to take defensive
positions in declining markets. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does
not seek to outperform its Underlying Index. Therefore, the Fund would not
necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed,
respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is
underperforming. Additionally, if a constituent of the Underlying Index were
removed, even outside of a regular rebalance of the Underlying Index, the
Adviser anticipates that the Fund would sell such security. Maintaining
investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of
individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund
employed an active strategy.
Index-Related
Risk
Index-Related
Risk applies to each Fund
There
is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve a high degree of correlation to the
Underlying Index and therefore achieve its investment objective. Market
disruptions and regulatory restrictions could have an adverse effect on the
Fund’s ability to adjust its exposure to the required levels in order to track
the Underlying Index. There is no assurance that the Index Provider will compile
the Underlying Index accurately, or that the Underlying Index will be
determined, comprised or calculated accurately. Errors in index data, index
computations and/or the construction of the Underlying Index in accordance with
its methodology may occur from time to time and may not be identified and
corrected by the Index Provider for a period of time or at all, which may have
an adverse impact on the Fund and its shareholders. The Index Provider may be
exposed to operational risks, including the failure of its systems or
technology, which may impact the Fund and its ability to track the Underlying
Index.
Management
Risk
Management
Risk applies to each Fund
The
Fund may not fully replicate its Underlying Index and may hold securities not
included in its Underlying Index. Therefore, the Fund is subject to the risk
that the Adviser’s investment strategy, the implementation of which is subject
to a number of constraints, may cause the Fund to underperform the market or its
relevant benchmark or adversely affect the ability of the Fund to achieve its
investment objective. While the Fund uses an indexing approach, implementation
of the Fund’s principal investment strategy may result in tracking error risk,
which is described below. There is no guarantee that a Fund’s investment results
will have a high degree of correlation to those of its Underlying Index or that
a Fund will achieve its investment objective.
Tracking
Error Risk
Tracking
Error Risk applies to each Fund
The
Fund is not actively managed and may be affected by a general decline in market
segments relating to the Underlying Index. The Fund invests in securities
included in, or representative of, the Underlying Index regardless of their
investment merits, and the Adviser does not attempt to take defensive positions
in declining markets or seek to outperform its Underlying Index. Therefore, the
Fund would not necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added
or removed, respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security
generally is underperforming. Maintaining investments in securities regardless
of market conditions or the performance of individual securities could cause the
Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund employed an active strategy. ETFs
that track indices with significant weight in emerging markets issuers may
experience higher tracking error than other ETFs that do not track such
indices.
International
Closed Market Trading Risk
International
Closed Market Trading Risk applies to the Global X Aging Population ETF, Global
X FinTech ETF, Global X Internet of Things ETF, Global X Robotics &
Artificial Intelligence ETF, Global X Autonomous & Electric Vehicles ETF,
Global X Artificial Intelligence & Technology ETF, Global X Genomics &
Biotechnology ETF, Global X Cloud Computing ETF, Global X Cybersecurity ETF,
Global X Video Games & Esports ETF, Global X HealthTech ETF, Global X
ClimateTech ETF, Global X Data Center & Digital Infrastructure ETF, Global X
Clean Water ETF, Global X AgTech & Food Innovation ETF, Global X Blockchain
ETF, Global X Hydrogen ETF, Global X Defense Tech ETF, Global X Infrastructure
Development ex-U.S. ETF and Global X AI Semiconductor & Quantum ETF
To
the extent that the underlying investments held by the Fund trade on foreign
exchanges that may be closed when the securities exchange on which the Fund’s
Shares trade is open, there are likely to be deviations between the current
price of such an underlying security and the last quoted price for the
underlying security (i.e., the Fund’s quote from the closed foreign market).
These deviations could result in premiums or discounts to the Fund’s NAV that
may be greater than those experienced by other ETFs.
Investable
Universe of Companies Risk
Investable
Universe of Companies Risk applies to the Global X Robotics & Artificial
Intelligence ETF, Global X Cloud Computing ETF, Global X Cybersecurity ETF,
Global X HealthTech ETF, Global X ClimateTech ETF, Global X Data Center &
Digital Infrastructure ETF, Global X Clean Water ETF, Global X AgTech & Food
Innovation ETF, Global X Blockchain ETF, Global X Hydrogen ETF, Global X Defense
Tech ETF and Global X AI Semiconductor & Quantum ETF
The
investable universe of companies in which the Fund may invest may be limited. If
a company no longer meets the Index Provider’s criteria for inclusion in the
Underlying Index, the Fund may need to reduce or eliminate its holdings in that
company. The reduction or elimination of the Fund’s holdings in the company may
have an adverse impact on the liquidity of the Fund’s overall portfolio holdings
and on Fund performance.
Issuer
Risk
Issuer
Risk applies to each Fund
Issuer
risk is the risk that any of the individual companies that the Fund invests in
may perform badly, causing the value of its securities to decline. Poor
performance may be caused by poor management decisions, competitive pressures,
changes in technology, disruptions in supply, labor problems or shortages,
corporate restructurings, fraudulent disclosures or other factors. Issuers may,
in times of distress or on their own discretion, decide to reduce or eliminate
dividends, which would also cause their stock prices to decline.
Limited
Portfolio Holdings Risk
Limited
Portfolio Holdings Risk applies to the Global X Dorsey Wright Thematic
ETF
Because
the Fund may hold large positions in the Underlying ETFs, an increase or
decrease in the value of the shares or interests issued by these vehicles will
have a greater impact on the Fund’s value and total return. Funds that invest in
a relatively small number of securities may be subject to greater volatility
than a more diversified investment.
Market
Risk
Market
Risk applies to each Fund
Market
risk is the risk that the value of the securities in which the Fund invests may
go up or down in response to the prospects of individual issuers and/or general
economic conditions. Turbulence in the financial markets and reduced liquidity
may negatively affect issuers, which could have an adverse effect on the Fund
and its investments. The Fund’s NAV could decline over short periods due to
short-term market movements and over longer periods during market downturns.
Policy changes by central governments and governmental agencies, including the
Federal Reserve or the European Central Bank, could cause increased volatility
in financial markets and lead to higher levels of Fund redemptions from
Authorized Participants, which could have a negative impact on the Fund. Trade
policy, including the imposition of tariffs, may dampen consumer spending and
result in decreased confidence in the markets. Additionally, political
uncertainty regarding U.S. policy, including the U.S. government’s approach to
trade, may also impact the markets. Furthermore, local, regional or global
events such as war, acts of terrorism, the spread of infectious diseases,
inflation and recessions, changes in interest or exchange rates, or other events
could have a significant impact on the Fund and its investments and trading of
its Shares. Market risk factors may result in increased volatility and/or
decreased liquidity in the securities markets.
Model
Portfolio Risk
Model
Portfolio Risk applies to the Global X Dorsey Wright Thematic ETF
The
Underlying Index utilizes a proprietary methodology to determine its allocations
to the securities in which the Fund invests. Investments selected using a
proprietary methodology, including quantitative models, may perform differently
from the market as a whole or from their expected performance. There can be no
assurance that use of a model will enable the Fund to achieve positive returns
or outperform the market.
Momentum
Strategy Risk
Momentum
Strategy Risk applies to the Global X Dorsey Wright Thematic ETF
The
Underlying Index uses a momentum-based quantitative methodology to determine its
allocations to the Underlying ETFs in which the Fund invests. Momentum is an
investment strategy premised on the tendency of securities to exhibit persistent
price performance trends over time. Underlying ETFs are only removed from the
Underlying Index when their performance falls sufficiently out of favor versus
the other members of the eligible Underlying ETFs inventory on a relative
strength basis. A new Underlying ETF is added to the Underlying Index only when
an existing Underlying ETF in the Underlying Index is removed. Momentum can
shift rapidly, and as a result, the Fund may be exposed to downward trends
and/or market volatility.
New
Fund Risk
New
Fund Risk applies to the Global X AI Semiconductor & Quantum ETF
The
Fund is a new fund, with limited or no operating history, which may result in
additional risks for investors in the Fund. There can be no assurance that the
Fund will grow to or maintain an economically viable size, in which case the
Board of Trustees may determine to liquidate the Fund. While shareholder
interests will be the paramount consideration, the timing of any liquidation may
not be favorable to certain individual shareholders. From time to time an
Authorized Participant, a third-party investor, the Adviser or another affiliate
of the Adviser or the Fund may invest in the Fund and hold its investment for a
specific period of time in order to facilitate commencement of the Fund’s
operations or for the Fund to achieve size or scale. There can be no assurance
that any such entity would not redeem its investment or that the size of the
Fund would be maintained at such levels which could negatively impact the Fund.
Non-Diversification
Risk
Non-Diversification
Risk applies to the Global X FinTech ETF, Global X Internet of Things ETF,
Global X Robotics & Artificial Intelligence ETF, Global X Genomics &
Biotechnology ETF, Global X Cloud Computing ETF, Global X Cybersecurity ETF,
Global X Video Games & Esports ETF, Global X HealthTech ETF, Global X
ClimateTech ETF, Global X Data Center & Digital Infrastructure ETF, Global X
Clean Water ETF, Global X AgTech & Food Innovation ETF, Global X Blockchain
ETF, Global X Hydrogen ETF, Global X Defense Tech ETF, Global X Infrastructure
Development ex-U.S. ETF and Global X AI Semiconductor & Quantum ETF
The
Fund is classified as a “non-diversified” investment company under the 1940 Act.
This means that the Fund may invest a greater portion of its assets in
securities of individual issuers as compared to a diversified fund. As a result,
the Fund may be more susceptible to the risks associated with these particular
issuers, or to a single economic, business, political, regulatory, or other
occurrence affecting these issuers, which may negatively impact the Fund’s
performance and result in greater fluctuation in the value of the Fund’s shares.
Operational
Risk
Operational
Risk applies to each Fund
The
Fund is exposed to operational risk arising from a number of factors, including
but not limited to human error, processing and communication errors, errors of
the Fund's service providers, counterparties or other third-parties, failed or
inadequate processes, cybersecurity incidents, and technology or systems
failures. Disruptions of the systems of the Adviser and the Fund’s distributor
and other service providers (including, but not limited to, fund accountants,
custodians, transfer agents and administrators), market makers, Authorized
Participants, or the issuers of securities in which the Fund invests, have the
ability to cause disruptions and impact business operations, potentially
resulting in: financial losses, interference with the Fund’s ability to
calculate its NAV, disclosure of confidential trading information, impediments
to trading, submission of erroneous trades or erroneous creation or redemption
orders, the inability of the Fund or its service providers to transact business,
violations of applicable privacy and other laws, regulatory fines, penalties,
reputational damage, reimbursement or other compensation costs, or additional
compliance costs. While the Fund has established business continuity plans in
the event of, and risk management systems to prevent, technological or other
disruptions to the Fund’s operations, there are inherent limitations in such
plans and systems, including the possibility that certain risks have not been
identified and that prevention and remediation efforts will not be successful.
Furthermore, the Fund cannot control the cyber security plans and systems put in
place by service providers to the Fund, issuers in which the Fund invests,
market makers or Authorized Participants. The Fund and its shareholders could be
negatively impacted as a result. The Fund and the Adviser seek to reduce these
operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do
not address every possible risk and may be inadequate for those risks that they
are intended to address.
Risks
Associated with Exchange-Traded Funds
Risks
Associated with Exchange-Traded Funds applies to each Fund
As
an ETF, the Fund is subject to the following risks:
Authorized
Participants Concentration Risk
The
Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may act as Authorized
Participants. Only Authorized Participants who have entered into agreements with
the Fund's distributor may engage in creation or redemption transactions
directly with the Fund, and none of those Authorized Participants is obligated
to engage in creation and/or redemption transactions. To the extent that those
Authorized Participants exit the business or are unable to process creation
and/or redemption orders, such as in times of market stress, and no other
Authorized Participant is able to step forward to create and redeem in either of
those cases, Shares may trade like closed-end fund shares at a discount to NAV
and/or at wider intraday bid-ask spreads, and may possibly face trading halts
and/or delisting from the Fund's exchange.
Large
Shareholder Risk
Certain
shareholders, including an Authorized Participant, the Adviser, an affiliate of
the Adviser, or funds managed by the Adviser, may own a substantial amount of
the Fund’s Shares. Additionally, from time to time an Authorized Participant, a
third-party investor, the Adviser, or an affiliate of the Adviser may invest in
the Fund and hold its investment for a specific period of time in order to
facilitate commencement of the Fund’s operations or to allow the Fund to achieve
size or scale. There can be no assurance that any large shareholder would not
redeem its investment. These large redemptions may force the Fund to sell
portfolio securities or other assets when it might not otherwise do so, which
may negatively impact the Fund’s NAV, increase the Fund’s brokerage costs and/or
have a material effect on the market price of Fund. Redemptions by large
shareholders could have a significant negative impact on the Fund. If a large
shareholder were to redeem all, or a large portion, of its Shares, there is no
guarantee that the Fund will be able to maintain sufficient assets to continue
operations in which case the Board of Trustees may determine to liquidate the
Fund. In addition, transactions by large shareholders may account for a large
percentage of the trading volume on the Fund's exchange and may, therefore, have
a material upward or downward effect on the market price of the
Shares.
Listing
Standards Risk
The
Fund is required to comply with listing requirements adopted by the listing
exchange. Non-compliance with such requirements may result in the Fund's Shares
being delisted by the listing exchange. Any resulting liquidation of the Fund
could cause the Fund to incur elevated transaction costs and could result in
negative tax consequences for its shareholders.
Market
Trading Risks and Premium/Discount Risks
Absence
of Active Market
Although
Shares of the Fund are or will be listed for trading on a U.S. exchange and may
be listed on certain foreign exchanges, there can be no assurance that an active
trading market for the Shares will develop or be maintained.
Risks
of Secondary Listings
The
Fund's Shares may be listed or traded on U.S. and non-U.S. exchanges other than
the U.S. exchange where the Fund’s primary listing is maintained. There can be
no assurance that the Fund’s Shares will continue to trade on any such exchange
or in any market or that the Fund's Shares will continue to meet the
requirements for listing or trading on any exchange or in any market. The Fund's
Shares may be less actively traded in certain markets than others, and investors
are subject to the execution and settlement risks and market standards of the
market where they or their brokers direct their trades for execution. Certain
information available to investors who trade Shares on a U.S. exchange during
regular U.S. market hours may not be available to investors who trade in other
markets, which may result in secondary market prices in such markets being less
efficient.
Secondary
Market Trading Risk
Only
Authorized Participants who have entered into agreements with the Fund's
distributor may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the
Fund. Shares of the Fund may trade in the secondary market on days when the Fund
does not accept orders to purchase or redeem Shares from Authorized
Participants. On such days, Shares may trade in the secondary market with more
significant premiums or discounts than might be experienced on days when
the
Fund accepts purchase and redemption orders. Secondary market trading in Fund
Shares may be halted by a stock exchange because of market conditions or other
reasons. In addition, trading in Fund Shares on a stock exchange or in any
market may be subject to trading halts caused by extraordinary market volatility
pursuant to "circuit breaker" rules on the stock exchange or market. During a
“flash crash,” the market prices of the Fund’s shares may decline suddenly and
significantly. Such a decline may not reflect the performance of the portfolio
securities held by the Fund. Flash crashes may cause Authorized Participants and
other market makers to limit or cease trading in the Fund’s Shares for temporary
or longer periods. Shareholders could suffer significant losses to the extent
that they sell shares at these temporarily low market prices. There can be no
assurance that the requirements necessary to maintain the listing or trading of
Fund Shares will continue to be met or will remain unchanged.
Shares
of the Fund May Trade at Prices Other Than NAV
Shares
of the Fund may trade at, above or below NAV. The per share NAV of the Fund will
fluctuate with changes in the market value of the Fund’s holdings. The trading
prices of Shares will fluctuate in accordance with changes in the Fund's NAV as
well as market supply and demand. The trading prices of the Fund's Shares may
deviate significantly from NAV during periods of market volatility or when the
Fund has relatively few assets or experiences a lower trading volume. In
stressed market conditions, the market for the Shares may become less liquid in
response to the deteriorating liquidity of the Fund’s portfolio. Any of these
factors may lead to the Fund's Shares trading at a premium or discount to NAV.
While the creation/redemption feature is designed to make it likely that Shares
normally will trade close to the Fund’s NAV, market prices are not expected to
correlate exactly with the Fund's NAV due to timing reasons as well as market
supply and demand factors. In addition, disruptions to creations and redemptions
or the existence of extreme market volatility may result in trading prices that
differ significantly from NAV. If a shareholder purchases at a time when the
market price is at a premium to the NAV or sells at a time when the market price
is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain losses. Since foreign
exchanges may be open on days when the Fund does not price Shares, the value of
the securities in the Fund’s portfolio may change on days when shareholders will
not be able to purchase or sell Shares.
Costs
of Buying or Selling Fund Shares
Buying
or selling Fund Shares involves two types of costs that apply to all securities
transactions. When buying or selling Shares of the Fund through a broker, you
will likely incur a brokerage commission or other charges imposed by brokers as
determined by that broker. In addition, you may incur the cost of the "spread" -
that is, the difference between what professional investors are willing to pay
for Fund Shares (the "bid" price) and the market price at which they are willing
to sell Fund Shares (the "ask" price). Because of the costs inherent in buying
or selling Fund Shares, frequent trading may detract significantly from
investment results and an investment in Fund Shares may not be advisable for
investors who anticipate regularly making small investments.
Risks
Related to Stock Connect Programs
Risks
Related to Stock Connect Programs applies to the Global X Robotics &
Artificial Intelligence ETF and Global X AgTech & Food Innovation
ETF
Investing
in securities in mainland China through Stock Connect Programs is subject to
trading, clearance, settlement and other procedures, which could pose risks to
the Fund. Trading through the Stock Connect Programs is subject to a number of
restrictions, including daily and aggregate quota limitations, which limit the
maximum daily net purchases on any particular day by Hong Kong investors (and
foreign investors trading through Hong Kong) trading mainland Chinese listed
securities and mainland Chinese investors trading Hong Kong listed securities
trading through the relevant Stock Connect Programs. The daily quota is not
specific to the Fund and is utilized on a first-come-first-serve basis. As such,
buy orders via the Stock Connect Programs could be rejected once the daily quota
is exceeded. The daily quota may thereby restrict the Fund’s ability to invest
through Stock Connect Programs on a timely basis, which could affect the Fund’s
ability to effectively pursue its investment strategy. The daily quota is also
subject to change. It is possible for securities eligible to be purchased via
the Stock Connect Programs to lose such designation, which could impact the
Fund's ability to pursue its investment strategy. In order to comply with
applicable local market rules and to facilitate orderly operations of the Fund,
including the timely settlement of Stock Connect Programs trades placed by or on
behalf of the Fund, the Fund utilizes an operating model that may reduce the
risks of trade failures; however, it will also allow Stock Connect Programs
trades to be settled without the prior verification by the Fund. Accordingly,
this operating model may subject the Fund to additional risks, including an
increased risk of inadvertently exceeding certain trade or other restrictions or
limits placed on the Fund and/or its affiliates, and a heightened risk
of
erroneous trades, which may negatively impact the Fund.
The Stock
Connect Programs operate only on days when both the Chinese and Hong Kong
markets are open for trading. Additionally, the Shenzhen and Shanghai markets
may operate when the Stock Connect Programs are not active. Consequently the
prices of shares held via Stock Connect Programs may fluctuate at times when the
Fund is unable to add to or exit its positions.
The Fund's investments
in A-Shares though the Stock Connect Programs are held by its custodian in
accounts in Central Clearing and Settlement System ("CCASS") maintained by the
Hong Kong Securities Clearing Company Limited ("HKSCC"), which in turn holds the
A-Shares, as the nominee holder, through an omnibus securities account in its
name registered with the CSDCC. The precise nature and rights of the Fund as the
beneficial owner of the SSE Securities or SZSE Securities through HKSCC as
nominee is not well defined under Chinese law. There is no guarantee that the
Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Hong Kong Stock Exchanges will continue to support the
Stock Connect Programs in the future. The securities regimes and legal systems
of China and Hong Kong differ significantly, and issues may arise based on these
differences that could have a detrimental effect on the Fund’s investments and
returns. Different fees, costs and taxes are imposed on foreign investors
acquiring securities through Stock Connect Programs, and these fees, costs and
taxes may be higher than comparable fees, costs and taxes imposed on owners of
other Chinese securities providing similar investment exposure.
The Stock
Connect Programs are relatively new trading platforms, and the effect of the
introduction of large numbers of foreign investors on the market for trading
Chinese-listed securities is not yet well understood. Further developments are
likely and there can be no assurance as to whether or how such developments may
restrict or affect the Fund’s investments or returns. Chinese regulations, such
as limitations on redemptions or suspension of trading, may also adversely
impact the value of the Fund’s investments.
Securities
Lending Risk
As
of the date of the prospectus, Securities Lending Risk applies to the Global X
Millennial Consumer ETF, Global X FinTech ETF, Global X Internet of Things ETF,
Global X Robotics & Artificial Intelligence ETF, Global X U.S.
Infrastructure Development ETF, Global X Autonomous & Electric Vehicles ETF,
Global X Artificial Intelligence & Technology ETF, Global X Genomics &
Biotechnology ETF, Global X Cloud Computing ETF, Global X Cybersecurity ETF,
Global X Dorsey Wright Thematic ETF, Global X Video Games & Esports ETF,
Global X HealthTech ETF, Global X ClimateTech ETF, Global X Data Center &
Digital Infrastructure ETF, Global X AgTech & Food Innovation ETF, Global X
Blockchain ETF, Global X Hydrogen ETF and Global X Defense Tech ETF. However,
the Board of Trustees of the Trust reserves the right to add or remove a Fund to
the Funds’ securities lending program from time to time, and as a consequence,
this risk could apply to Funds other than those listed above.
The
Fund may engage in lending its portfolio securities. Securities lending involves
a risk of loss because the borrower may fail to return the securities in a
timely manner or at all. If the Fund is not able to recover the securities
loaned, it may sell the collateral and purchase a replacement security in the
market. In connection with such loans, the Fund generally receives liquid
collateral equal to at least 102% of the value of domestic equity securities and
ADRs and 105% of the value of the foreign equity securities (other than ADRs)
being lent. This collateral is marked-to-market on a daily basis. Although the
Fund will receive collateral in connection with all loans of its securities
holdings, the Fund would be exposed to a risk of loss should a borrower default
on its obligation to return the borrowed securities (e.g., the loaned securities
may have appreciated beyond the value of the collateral held by the Fund). In
addition, the Fund will bear the risk of loss of any cash collateral that it
invests. These events could also trigger adverse tax consequences for the Fund.
Also, as securities on loan may not be voted by the Fund, there is a risk that
the Fund may not be able to recall the securities in sufficient time to vote on
material proxy matters.
Trading
Halt Risk
Trading
Halt Risk applies to each Fund
An
exchange or market may close or issue trading halts on specific securities, or
the ability to buy or sell certain securities or financial instruments may be
restricted, which may result in the Fund being unable to buy or sell certain
securities or financial instruments. In such circumstances, the Fund may be
unable to rebalance its portfolio, may be unable to accurately price its
investments and/or may incur substantial trading losses.
Turnover
Risk
Turnover
Risk applies to the Global X Dorsey Wright Thematic ETF
The
Fund may engage in frequent and active trading, which may significantly increase
the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate. At times, the Fund may have a portfolio
turnover rate substantially greater than 100%. For example, a portfolio turnover
rate of 300% is equivalent to the Fund buying and selling all of its securities
three times during the course of a year. A high portfolio turnover rate would
result in high brokerage costs for the Fund, may result in higher taxes when
Shares are held in a taxable account and lower Fund performance.
Valuation
Risk
Valuation
Risk applies to each Fund
The
sales price the Fund could receive for a security may differ from the Fund’s
valuation of the security and may differ from the value used by the Underlying
Index, particularly for securities that trade in low value or volatile markets
or that are valued using a fair value methodology (such as during trading
halts). Fund securities that are valued using techniques other than market
quotations, including “fair valued” securities, may be subject to greater
fluctuations in their value from one day to the next than would be the case if
market quotations were used. Because non-U.S. exchanges may be open on days when
the Fund does not price its Shares, the value of the securities in the Fund's
portfolio may change on days when shareholders will not be able to purchase or
sell the Fund's Shares.
A
FURTHER DISCUSSION OF OTHER RISKS
Each
Fund may also be subject to certain other risks associated with its investments
and investment strategies.
Exclusion
from the Definition of a Commodity Pool Operator Risk
With
respect to the Fund, the Adviser has claimed an exclusion from the definition of
“commodity pool operator” (“CPO”) under the Commodity Exchange Act, as amended
(“CEA”), and the rules of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) and,
therefore, is not subject to CFTC registration or regulation as a CPO. In
addition, with respect to the Funds, the Adviser is relying upon a related
exclusion from the definition of “commodity trading advisor” (“CTA”) under the
CEA and the rules of the CFTC. The terms of the CPO exclusion require the Fund,
among other things, to adhere to certain limits on its investments in “commodity
interests.” Commodity interests include commodity futures, commodity options and
swaps. Because the Adviser and the Funds intend to comply with the terms of the
CPO exclusion, the Funds may, in the future, need to adjust its investment
strategies, consistent with its investment objective, to limit its investments
in these types of instruments. The Fund is not intended as a vehicle for trading
in the commodity futures, commodity options or swaps markets. The CFTC has
neither reviewed nor approved the Adviser’s reliance on these exclusions, or the
Fund, its investment strategies or this Prospectus.
Leverage
Risk
Under
the 1940 Act, the Fund is permitted to borrow from a bank up to 33 1/3% of its
net assets for short term or emergency purposes. The Fund may borrow money at
fiscal quarter end to maintain the required level of diversification to qualify
as a regulated investment company ("RIC") for purposes of the Code. As a result,
the Fund may be exposed to the risks of leverage, which may be considered a
speculative investment technique. Leverage magnifies the potential for gain and
loss on amounts invested and therefore increases the risks associated with
investing in the Fund. If the value of the Fund's assets increases, then
leveraging would cause the Fund's NAV to increase more sharply than it would
have had the Fund not leveraged. Conversely, if the value of the Fund's assets
decreases, leveraging would cause the Fund's NAV to decline more sharply than it
otherwise would have had the Fund not leveraged. The Fund may incur additional
expenses in connection with borrowings.
Qualification
as a Regulated Investment Company Risk
The
Fund must meet a number of diversification requirements to qualify as a RIC
under Section 851 of the Code and, if qualified, to continue to qualify. If the
Fund experiences difficulty in meeting those requirements for any fiscal
quarter, it might enter into borrowings in order to increase the portion of the
Fund’s total assets represented by cash, cash items, and U.S. government
securities shortly thereafter and, as of the close of the following fiscal
quarter, to attempt to meet the requirements. However, the Fund may incur
additional expenses in connection with any such borrowings, and increased
investments by the
Fund
in cash, cash items, and U.S. government securities (whether the Fund makes such
investments from borrowings) are likely to reduce the Fund’s return to
investors.
Tax
Treaty Reclaims Uncertainty
When
the Funds receive dividend and interest income (if any) from issuers in certain
countries, such distributions may be subject to partial withholding by local tax
authorities in order to satisfy potential local tax obligations. The Funds may
file claims to recover such withholding tax in jurisdictions where withholding
tax reclaim is possible, which may be the case as a result of bilateral treaties
between the United States and local governments. Whether or when the Funds will
receive a withholding tax refund in the future is within the control of the tax
authorities in such countries. The receipt of a refund of withholding tax would
preclude claiming a foreign tax credit, to the extent available or applicable,
with respect to such withholding tax. Where the Funds expect to recover
withholding tax based on a continuous assessment of probability of recovery, the
NAV of a Fund generally includes accruals for such tax refunds. The Funds
continue to evaluate tax developments for potential impact to the probability of
recovery. If the likelihood of receiving refunds materially decreases, for
example due to a change in tax regulation or approach, accruals in the Funds'
NAV for such refunds may need to be written down partially or in full, which
will adversely affect the Funds' NAV. Investors in a Fund at the time an accrual
is written down will bear the impact of any resulting reduction in NAV
regardless of whether they were investors during the accrual period. Conversely,
if a Fund receives a tax refund that has not been previously accrued, investors
in the Fund at the time the claim is successful will benefit from any resulting
increase in the Fund’s NAV. Investors who sold their shares prior to such time
will not benefit from such NAV increase.
PORTFOLIO
HOLDINGS INFORMATION
A
description of the policies and procedures of Global X Funds®
(the "Trust") with respect to the disclosure of the Funds’ portfolio securities
is available in the Funds’ combined Statement of Additional Information (“SAI”).
The top holdings of each Fund and Fund Fact Sheets providing information
regarding each Fund’s top holdings can be found at
www.globalxetfs.com/explore/(click on the name of your Fund) and may be
requested by calling 1-888-493-8631.
FUND
MANAGEMENT
Investment
Adviser
Global
X Management Company LLC (the "Adviser") serves as the investment adviser and
the administrator for the Funds. Subject to the supervision of the Trust's Board
of Trustees, the Adviser is responsible for managing the investment activities
of the Funds and the Funds' business affairs and other administrative matters.
The Adviser has been a registered investment adviser since 2008. The Adviser is
a Delaware limited liability company with its principal offices located at 605
3rd Avenue, 43rd Floor, New York, New York 10158. As of March 2, 2026, the
Adviser provided investment advisory services for assets of approximately $94.1
billion.
Pursuant
to a Supervision and Administration Agreement and subject to the general
supervision of the Board of Trustees, the Adviser provides, or causes to be
furnished, all supervisory, administrative and other services reasonably
necessary for the operation of the Funds and also bears the costs of various
third-party services required by the Funds, including audit, certain custody,
portfolio accounting, legal, transfer agency and printing costs. The Supervision
and Administration Agreement also requires the Adviser to provide investment
advisory services to the Funds pursuant to an Investment Advisory Agreement. The
Supervision and Administration Agreement for the Global X Dorsey Wright Thematic
ETF provides that the Adviser also bears the costs for acquired fund fees and
expenses generated by investments by the Fund in affiliated investment
companies.
Each
Fund pays the Adviser a fee ("Management Fee") in return for providing
investment advisory, supervisory and administrative services under an all-in fee
structure. For the fiscal year ended November 30, 2025, the Funds paid a
monthly Management Fee to the Adviser at the following annual rates (stated as a
percentage of the average daily net assets of each Fund taken separately):
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| Fund |
Management
Fee |
| Global
X Millennial Consumer ETF |
0.50% |
| Global
X Aging Population ETF |
0.50% |
| Global
X FinTech ETF |
0.68% |
| Global
X Internet of Things ETF |
0.68% |
| Global
X Robotics & Artificial Intelligence ETF |
0.68% |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| Global
X U.S. Infrastructure Development ETF |
0.47% |
| Global
X Autonomous & Electric Vehicles ETF |
0.68% |
| Global
X Artificial Intelligence & Technology ETF |
0.68% |
| Global
X Genomics & Biotechnology ETF |
0.50% |
| Global
X Cloud Computing ETF |
0.68% |
| Global
X Cybersecurity ETF |
0.50% |
| Global
X Dorsey Wright Thematic ETF |
0.50% |
| Global
X Video Games & Esports ETF |
0.50% |
|
Global
X HealthTech ETF1 |
0.56% |
| Global
X ClimateTech ETF (formerly known as the Global X CleanTech ETF) |
0.50% |
|
Global
X Data Center & Digital Infrastructure ETF |
0.50% |
| Global
X Clean Water ETF |
0.50% |
| Global
X AgTech & Food Innovation ETF |
0.50% |
| Global
X Blockchain ETF |
0.50% |
| Global
X Hydrogen ETF |
0.50% |
| Global
X Defense Tech ETF |
0.50% |
| Global
X Infrastructure Development ex-U.S. ETF |
0.55% |
| Global
X AI Semiconductor & Quantum ETF |
0.50% |
1
The
Board of Trustees of the Trust voted to approve a lower Management Fee for the
Global X HealthTech ETF of 0.50% effective April 1, 2025. Prior to that, the
Fund was subject to a Management Fee of 0.68%.
In
addition, each Fund bears other fees and expenses that are not covered by the
Supervision and Administration Agreement, which may vary and will affect the
total expense ratio of each Fund, such as taxes, brokerage fees, commissions and
other transaction expenses, interest and extraordinary expenses (such as
litigation and indemnification expenses). The Adviser may earn a profit on the
Management Fee paid by each Fund. Also, the Adviser, and not shareholders of the
Funds, would benefit from any price decreases in third-party services, including
decreases resulting from an increase in net assets.
The
Adviser or its affiliates may pay compensation, out of profits derived from the
Adviser’s Management Fee or other resources and not as an additional charge to
the Funds, to certain financial institutions (which may include banks,
securities dealers and other industry professionals) for the sale and/or
distribution of Fund Shares or the retention and/or servicing of Fund investors
and Fund Shares (“revenue sharing”). These payments are in addition to any other
fees described in the fee table or elsewhere in the Prospectus or SAI. Examples
of “revenue sharing” payments include, but are not limited to, payments to
financial institutions for “shelf space” or access to a third party platform or
fund offering list or other marketing programs, including, but not limited to,
inclusion of the Funds on preferred or recommended sales lists, mutual fund
“supermarket” platforms and other formal sales programs; granting the Adviser
access to the financial institution’s sales force; granting the Adviser access
to the financial institution’s conferences and meetings; assistance in training
and educating the financial institution’s personnel; and obtaining other forms
of marketing support. The level of revenue sharing payments made to financial
institutions may be a fixed fee or based upon one or more of the following
factors: gross sales, current assets and/or number of accounts of a Fund
attributable to the financial institution, or other factors as agreed to by the
Adviser and the financial institution or any combination thereof. The amount of
these revenue sharing payments is determined at the discretion of the Adviser
from time to time, may be substantial, and may be different for different
financial institutions depending upon the services provided by the financial
institution. Such payments may provide an incentive for the financial
institution to make Shares of the Funds available to its customers and may allow
the Funds greater access to the financial institution’s customers.
Approval
of Advisory Agreement
Discussions
regarding the basis for the Board of Trustees' approval of the Supervision and
Administration Agreement and the related Investment Advisory Agreement for each
Fund are (or will be) available in the Funds' report filed on Form N-CSR for the
period ended May 31 or November 30, respectively
Portfolio
Management
The
Portfolio Managers who are currently responsible for the day-to-day management
of the Fund's portfolio are Nam To and Wayne Xie.
Nam
To:
Nam To, CFA, Portfolio Manager, joined the Adviser in July 2017. Prior to that,
Mr. To was a Global Economics Research Analyst at Bunge Limited. Mr. To received
his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Economics from Cornell University and is
a CFA charterholder.
Wayne
Xie:
Wayne Xie, Head of Portfolio Management, joined the Adviser in July 2018 as a
Portfolio Management Associate. Previously, Mr. Xie was an Analyst at VanEck
Associates on the Equity ETF Investment Management team from 2010 to 2018. Mr.
Xie received his Bachelor of Science from the State University of New York at
Buffalo in 2002.
The
SAI provides additional information about the Portfolio Managers’ compensation
structure, other accounts managed by the Portfolio Managers, and the Portfolio
Managers' ownership of Shares of the Funds.
DISTRIBUTOR
SEI
Investments Distribution Co. ("Distributor") distributes Creation Units for the
Funds on an agency basis. The Distributor does not maintain a secondary market
in Shares. The Distributor has no role in determining the policies of the Funds
or the securities that are purchased or sold by each Fund. The Distributor’s
principal address is One Freedom Valley Drive, Oaks, PA 19456. The Distributor
is not affiliated with the Adviser.
BUYING
AND SELLING FUND SHARES
Shares
of the Funds trade on a national securities exchange and in the secondary market
during the trading day. Shares can be bought and sold throughout the trading day
like other shares of publicly-traded securities. There is no minimum investment
for purchases made on a national securities exchange. When buying or selling
Shares through a broker, you will incur customary brokerage commissions and
charges. In addition, you will also incur the cost of the “spread,” which is the
difference between what professional investors are willing to pay for Shares
(the “bid” price) and the price at which they are willing to sell Shares (the
“ask” price). The commission is frequently a fixed amount and may be a
significant proportional cost for investors seeking to buy or sell small amounts
of Shares. The spread with respect to Shares varies over time based on a Fund’s
trading volume and market liquidity and is generally lower if a Fund has
significant trading volume and market liquidity and higher if a Fund has little
trading volume and market liquidity. Because of the costs of buying and selling
Shares, frequent trading may reduce investment returns.
Shares
of a Fund may be acquired or redeemed directly from the Fund only by Authorized
Participants (as defined in the SAI) and only in Creation Units or multiples
thereof, as discussed in the "Creations and Redemptions" section in the SAI. The
Funds anticipate regularly meeting redemption requests primarily through in-kind
redemptions. However, the Funds reserve the right to pay redemption proceeds to
an Authorized Participant in cash, consistent with the Trust’s exemptive relief.
Cash used for redemptions will be raised from the sale of portfolio assets or
may come from existing holdings of cash or cash equivalents.
Shares
generally trade in the secondary market in amounts less than a Creation Unit.
Shares of the Funds trade under the trading symbol listed for each Fund in the
Fund Summaries section of the Prospectus.
The
Funds are listed on a national securities exchange, which is open for trading
Monday through Friday and is closed on weekends and the following holidays, as
observed: New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Presidents’ Day, Good
Friday, Memorial Day, Juneteenth National Independence Day, Independence Day,
Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
Book
Entry
Shares
of the Funds are held in book-entry form, which means that no stock certificates
are issued. The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) or its nominee is the record
owner of all outstanding Shares and is recognized as the owner of all Shares for
all purposes.
Investors
owning Shares are beneficial owners as shown on the records of DTC or its
participants. DTC serves as the securities depository for all Shares.
Participants include DTC, securities brokers and dealers, banks, trust
companies, clearing corporations and other institutions that directly or
indirectly maintain a custodial relationship with DTC. As a beneficial owner of
Shares, you are not entitled to receive physical delivery of stock certificates
or to have Shares registered in your name, and you are not considered a
registered owner of Shares. Therefore, to exercise any rights as an owner of
Shares, you must rely upon the procedures of DTC and its participants. These
procedures are the same as those that apply to any securities that you hold in
book entry or “street name” form.
FREQUENT
TRADING
Unlike
frequent trading of shares of a traditional open-end mutual fund (i.e., not
exchange-traded shares), frequent trading of Shares on the secondary market does
not disrupt portfolio management, increase a Fund's trading costs, lead to
realization of capital gains, or otherwise harm Fund shareholders because these
trades do not involve a Fund directly. A few institutional investors are
authorized to purchase and redeem the Funds' Shares directly with the Funds.
When these trades are effected in-kind (i.e.,
for securities, and not for cash), they do not cause any of the harmful effects
(noted above) that may result from frequent cash trades. Moreover, each Fund
imposes transaction fees on in-kind purchases and redemptions of the Fund
intended to cover the custodial and other costs incurred by the Fund in
effecting in-kind trades. These fees increase if an investor substitutes cash in
part or in whole for securities, reflecting the fact that a Fund’s trading costs
increase in those circumstances, although transaction fees are subject to
certain limits and therefore may not cover all related costs incurred by a Fund.
For these reasons, the Board of Trustees has determined that it is not necessary
to adopt policies and procedures to detect and deter frequent trading and
market-timing in Shares of the Funds.
DISTRIBUTION
AND SERVICES PLAN
The
Board of Trustees of the Trust has adopted a Distribution and Services Plan
(“Plan”) pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act. Under the Plan, each Fund is
authorized to pay distribution fees in connection with the sale and distribution
of its Shares and pay service fees in connection with the provision of ongoing
services to shareholders of each class and the maintenance of shareholder
accounts in an amount up to 0.25% of its average daily net assets each year.
No
Rule 12b-1 fees are currently paid by a Fund, and there are no current plans to
impose these fees. However, in the event Rule 12b-1 fees are charged in the
future, because these fees are paid out of each Fund’s assets on an ongoing
basis, these fees will increase the cost of your investment in a Fund. By
purchasing Shares subject to distribution fees and service fees, you may pay
more over time than you would by purchasing Shares with other types of sales
charge arrangements. Long-term shareholders may pay more than the economic
equivalent of the maximum front-end sales charge permitted by the rules of
FINRA. The net income attributable to Shares will be reduced by the amount of
distribution fees and service fees and other expenses of a Fund.
DIVIDENDS
AND DISTRIBUTIONS
Dividends
from net investment income, including any net foreign currency gains, generally
are declared and paid at least annually and any net realized capital gains are
distributed at least annually. In order to improve tracking error or comply with
the distribution requirements of the Code, dividends may be declared and paid
more frequently than annually for a Fund.
Dividends
and other distributions on Shares are distributed on a pro rata basis to
beneficial owners of such Shares. Dividend payments are made through DTC
participants to beneficial owners then of record with proceeds received from a
Fund. Dividends and security gain distributions are distributed in U.S. dollars
and cannot be automatically reinvested in additional Shares.
No
dividend reinvestment service is provided by the Trust. Broker-dealers may make
available the DTC book-entry Dividend Reinvestment Service for use by beneficial
owners of a Fund for reinvestment of their dividend distributions. Beneficial
owners should contact their broker to determine the availability and costs of
the service and the details of participation therein. Brokers may require
beneficial owners to adhere to specific procedures and timetables. If this
service is available and used, dividend distributions of both income and
realized gains will be automatically reinvested in additional whole Shares
purchased in the secondary market.
INVESTMENTS
BY INVESTMENT COMPANIES
Section
12(d)(1) of the 1940 Act restricts investments by investment companies in the
securities of other investment companies, including shares of the Funds.
Registered investment companies and unit investment trusts that enter into a
fund-of-funds investment agreement with the Trust ("Investing Funds") may be
permitted to invest in certain Global X Funds beyond the limits set forth in
Section 12(d)(1) of the 1940 Act, subject to certain conditions set forth in
Rule 12d1-4 under the 1940 Act.
TAXES
The
following is a summary of certain tax considerations that may be relevant to an
investor in a Fund. Except where otherwise indicated, the discussion relates to
investors who are individual United States citizens or residents and is based on
current tax
law.
You should consult your tax advisor for further information regarding federal,
state, local and/or foreign tax consequences relevant to your specific
situation.
Fund
Taxation.
Each Fund has elected and intends to qualify as a RIC under Subchapter M of
Subtitle A, Chapter 1, of the Code. As a RIC, each Fund generally will be exempt
from federal income tax on its net investment income and realized capital gains
that it distributes to shareholders, provided that it distributes an amount
equal to at least the sum of 90% of its tax-exempt income and 90% of its
investment company taxable income (net investment income and the excess of net
short-term capital gain over net long-term capital loss), if any, for the year
(the “Distribution Requirement”) and satisfies certain other requirements of the
Code. In addition to satisfaction of the Distribution Requirement, a Fund must
derive with respect to a taxable year at least 90% of its gross income from
dividends, interest, certain payments with respect to securities loans and gains
from the sale or other disposition of stock or securities or foreign currencies,
or from other income derived with respect to its business of investing in such
stock, securities, or currencies or net income derived from an interest in a
qualified publicly traded partnership (the “Income Requirement”). Also, at the
close of each quarter of its taxable year, at least 50% of the value of a Fund’s
assets must consist of cash and cash items, U.S. government securities,
securities of other regulated investment companies and securities of other
issuers (as to which the Fund does not hold more than 5% of the value of its
total assets in securities of such issuer and as to which the Fund does not hold
more than 10% of the outstanding voting securities (including securities of a
“qualified publicly traded partnership” (“QPTP”) of such issuer), and no more
than 25% of the value of the Fund’s total assets may be invested in the
securities of (i) any one issuer (other than U.S. government securities and
securities of other regulated investment companies), (ii) two or more issuers
which such Fund controls and which are engaged in the same or similar trades or
businesses or (iii) one or more QPTPs (the “Asset Diversification Requirement”).
Each Fund intends to comply with these requirements.
If
for any period a Fund were to fail to meet the distribution, income or asset
diversification requirements described above, existing laws generally permit the
fund to take certain actions to bring itself back into compliance. If a Fund
were ineligible to or otherwise did not cure such a failure, or otherwise failed
to qualify as a RIC, all of the Fund’s taxable income would be subject to
federal income tax at regular corporate rates at the Fund level (without any
deduction for distributions to its shareholders). In addition, all distributions
to shareholders from earnings and profits would be taxed as dividend income,
even if the distributions were attributable to long-term capital gains or exempt
interest income earned by the Fund. Some portions of such distributions may be
eligible for the dividends- received deduction in the case of corporate
shareholders or to be treated as qualified dividend income to non-corporate
shareholders, provided, in both cases, that the shareholder meets certain
holding period and other requirements in respect of the fund shares.
Furthermore, in order to re-qualify for taxation as a RIC, the Fund may be
required to recognize unrealized gains, pay substantial taxes and interest, and
make substantial distributions. See “Taxes – Fund Taxation” section of the
Statement of Additional Information for further discussion.
Distributions.
Each Fund receives income and gains on its investments. The income, less
expenses incurred in the operation of a Fund, constitutes the Fund's net
investment income from which dividends may be paid to you. Each Fund has elected
and intends to qualify as a RIC under the Code for federal tax purposes and to
distribute to shareholders substantially all of its net investment income and
net capital gain each year. Except as otherwise noted below, you will generally
be subject to federal income tax on a Fund’s distributions you receive. For
federal income tax purposes, Fund distributions attributable to short-term
capital gains and net investment income are taxable to you as ordinary income.
Distributions attributable to net capital gains (the excess of net long- term
capital gains over net short-term capital losses) of a Fund generally are
taxable to you as long-term capital gains. This is true no matter how long you
own your Shares or whether you take distributions in cash or additional Shares.
The maximum long-term capital gain rate applicable to individuals is 20%.
Distributions
of “qualifying dividends” will also generally be taxable to you at long-term
capital gain rates as long as certain requirements are met. In general, if 95%
or more of the gross income of a Fund (other than net capital gain) consists of
dividends received from domestic corporations or “qualified” foreign
corporations (“qualifying dividends”), then all distributions received by
individual shareholders of a Fund will be treated as qualifying dividends. But
if less than 95% of the gross income of a Fund (other than net capital gain)
consists of qualifying dividends, then distributions received by individual
shareholders of a Fund will be qualifying dividends only to the extent they are
derived from qualifying dividends earned by such Fund. For the lower rates to
apply, you must have owned your Shares for at least 61 days during the 121-day
period beginning on the date that is 60 days before such Fund’s ex-dividend date
(and such Fund will need to have met a similar holding period requirement with
respect to the Shares of the corporation paying the qualifying dividend). The
amount of a Fund’s distributions that qualify for this favorable treatment may
be reduced as a result of such Fund’s securities lending activities (if any), a
high portfolio turnover rate or investments in debt securities or
“non-qualified” foreign corporations. In addition, whether distributions
received from foreign corporations are qualifying dividends will depend on
several factors including the country of residence of the corporation making the
distribution. Accordingly, distributions from many of the Funds’ holdings may
not be qualifying dividends.
A
portion of distributions paid to shareholders that are corporations may also
qualify for the dividends-received deduction for corporations, subject to
certain holding period requirements and debt financing limitations. The amount
of the dividends qualifying for this deduction may, however, be reduced as a
result of such Fund’s securities lending activities, by a high portfolio
turnover rate or by investments in debt securities or foreign corporations.
Distributions
from a Fund will generally be taxable to you in the year in which they are paid,
with one exception. Dividends and distributions declared by a Fund in October,
November or December and paid in January of the following year are taxed as
though they were paid on December 31.
You
should note that if you buy Shares of a Fund shortly before it makes a
distribution, the distribution will be fully taxable to you even though, as an
economic matter, it simply represents a return of a portion of your investment.
This adverse tax result is known as “buying into a dividend.”
You
will be informed of the amount of your ordinary income dividends, qualifying
dividend income, and capital gain distributions at the time they are paid, and
you will be advised of the tax status for federal income tax purposes shortly
after the close of each calendar year. If you have not held Shares for a full
year, a Fund may designate and distribute to you, as ordinary income or capital
gain, a percentage of income that is not equal to the actual amount of such
income earned during the period of your investment in such Fund.
A
Fund’s investments in partnerships, including in partnerships defined as
Qualified Publicly Traded Partnerships for tax purposes, may result in such Fund
being subject to state, local or foreign income, franchise or withholding tax
liabilities.
Qualified
REIT Dividends.
Under the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, “qualified REIT dividends” (i.e., ordinary
REIT dividends other than capital gain dividends and portions of REIT dividends
designated as qualified dividend income) are treated as eligible for a 20%
deduction by noncorporate taxpayers. This deduction, if allowed in full, equates
to a maximum effective tax rate of 29.6% (37% top rate applied to income after
20% deduction). A Fund may choose to report the special character of “qualified
REIT dividends”. A noncorporate shareholder receiving such dividends would treat
them as eligible for the 20% deduction, provided Fund shares were held by the
shareholder for more than 45 days during the 91-day period beginning on the date
that is 45 days before the date on which the shares become ex-dividend with
respect to such dividend). The amount of a RIC’s dividends eligible for the 20%
deduction for a taxable year is limited to the excess of the RIC’s qualified
REIT dividends for the taxable year over allocable expenses.
Excise
Tax Distribution Requirements.
Under the Code, a nondeductible excise tax of 4% is imposed on the excess of a
RIC’s “required distribution” for the calendar year ending within the RIC’s
taxable year over the “distributed amount” for such calendar year. The term
“required distribution” means the sum of (a) 98% of ordinary income (generally
net investment income) for the calendar year, (b) 98.2% of capital gain (both
long-term and short-term) for the one-year period ending on October 31 (or
December 31, if a Fund so elects), and (c) the sum of any untaxed, undistributed
net investment income and net capital gains of the RIC for prior periods. The
term “distributed amount” generally means the sum of (a) amounts actually
distributed by a Fund from its current year’s ordinary income and capital gain
net income and (b) any amount on which a Fund pays income tax for the taxable
year ending in the calendar year. Although each Fund intends to distribute its
net investment income and net capital gains so as to avoid excise tax liability,
a Fund may determine that it is in the interest of shareholders to distribute a
lesser amount. The Funds intend to declare and pay these amounts in December (or
in January, which must be treated by you as received in December) to avoid these
excise taxes but can give no assurances that their distributions will be
sufficient to eliminate all such taxes.
Foreign
Currencies.
Under the Code, gains or losses attributable to fluctuations in exchange rates
which occur between the time a Fund accrues interest or other receivables or
accrues expenses or other liabilities denominated in a foreign currency, and the
time such Fund actually collects such receivables or pays such liabilities, are
treated as ordinary income or ordinary loss. Similarly, gains or losses from the
disposition of foreign currencies, from the disposition of debt securities
denominated in a foreign currency, or from the disposition of a forward foreign
currency contract which are attributable to fluctuations in the value of the
foreign currency between the date of acquisition of the asset and the date of
disposition also are treated as ordinary income or loss. These gains or losses,
referred to under the Code as “section 988” gains or losses, increase or
decrease the amount of a Fund’s investment company taxable income available to
be distributed to its shareholders as ordinary income, rather than increasing or
decreasing the amount of such Fund’s net capital gain.
Foreign
Taxes.
Each Fund will be subject to foreign withholding taxes with respect to certain
payments received from sources in foreign countries. If at the close of the
taxable year more than 50% in value of a Fund’s assets consists of stock in
foreign corporations, such Fund will be eligible to make an election to treat a
proportionate amount of those taxes as constituting a distribution to each
shareholder, which would allow you either (subject to certain limitations) (1)
to credit that proportionate
amount
of taxes against your U.S. Federal income tax liability as a foreign tax credit
or (2) to take that amount as an itemized deduction. If a Fund is not eligible
or chooses not to make this election, it will be entitled to deduct such taxes
in computing the amounts it is required to distribute.
Sales
and Exchanges.
The sale of Shares is a taxable event on which a gain or loss is recognized. The
amount of gain or loss is based on the difference between your tax basis in
Shares and the amount you receive for them upon disposition. Generally, you will
recognize long-term capital gain or loss if you have held your Shares for over
one year at the time you sell or exchange them. Gains and losses on Shares held
for one year or less will generally constitute short-term capital gains, except
that a loss on Shares held six months or less will be re-characterized as a
long-term capital loss to the extent of any long-term capital gain distributions
that you have received on the Shares. A loss realized on a sale or exchange of
Shares may be disallowed under the so-called “wash sale” rules to the extent the
Shares disposed of are replaced with other Shares of that same Fund within a
period of 61 days beginning 30 days before and ending 30 days after the Shares
are disposed of, such as pursuant to a dividend reinvestment in Shares of a
Fund. If disallowed, the loss will be reflected in an adjustment to the basis of
the Shares acquired.
Taxes
on Purchase and Redemption of Creation Units. An
Authorized Participant who exchanges equity securities for Creation Units
generally will recognize a gain or a loss. The gain or loss will be equal to the
difference between the market value of the Creation Units at the time of
purchase (plus any cash received by the Authorized Participant as part of the
issue) and the Authorized Participant’s aggregate basis in the securities
surrendered (plus any cash paid by the Authorized Participant as part of the
issue). An Authorized Participant who exchanges Creation Units for equity
securities generally will recognize a gain or loss equal to the difference
between the Authorized Participant’s basis in the Creation Units (plus any cash
paid by the Authorized Participant as part of the redemption) and the aggregate
market value of the securities received (plus any cash received by the
Authorized Participant as part of the redemption). The Internal Revenue Service
(the “IRS”), however, may assert that a loss realized upon an exchange of
securities for Creation Units cannot be deducted currently under the rules
governing “wash sales,” or on the basis that there has been no significant
change in economic position. Persons exchanging securities should consult their
own tax advisor with respect to whether the wash sale rules apply and when a
loss might be deductible. Under current federal tax laws, any capital gain or
loss realized upon redemption of Creation Units is generally treated as
long-term capital gain or loss if the Shares have been held for more than one
year and as a short-term capital gain or loss if the Shares have been held for
one year or less, assuming such Creation Units are held as a capital
asset.
IRAs
and Other Tax-Qualified Plans.
The one major exception to the preceding tax principles is that distributions
on, and sales, exchanges and redemptions of, Shares held in an IRA or other
tax-qualified plan are not currently taxable but may be taxable when funds are
withdrawn from the tax qualified plan, unless the Shares were purchased with
borrowed funds.
Medicare
Tax. An
additional 3.8% Medicare tax is imposed on certain net investment income
(including ordinary dividends and capital gain distributions received from a
Fund and net gains from redemptions or other taxable dispositions of Fund
Shares) of U.S. individuals, estates and trusts to the extent that such person’s
“modified adjusted gross income” (in the case of an individual) or “adjusted
gross income” (in the case of an estate or trust) exceeds a threshold amount.
This Medicare tax, if applicable, is reported by you on, and paid with, your
federal income tax return.
Backup
Withholding.
Each Fund will be required in certain cases to withhold and remit to the U.S.
Treasury backup withholding at the applicable rate on dividends and gross sales
proceeds paid to any shareholder (i) who has either provided an incorrect tax
identification number or no number at all, (ii) who is subject to backup
withholding by the IRS, or (iii) who has failed to certify to a Fund, when
required to do so, that he or she is not subject to backup withholding or is an
“exempt recipient.”
Cost
Basis Reporting.
Federal law requires that shareholders' cost basis, gain/loss, and holding
period be reported to the IRS and to shareholders on the Consolidated Form 1099s
when “covered” securities are sold. Covered securities are any RIC and/or
dividend reinvestment plan shares acquired on or after January 1, 2012.
For
those securities defined as "covered" under current IRS cost basis tax reporting
regulations, accurate cost basis and tax lot information must be maintained for
tax reporting purposes. This information is not required for Shares that are not
"covered." The Funds and their service providers do not provide tax advice. You
should consult independent sources, which may include a tax professional, with
respect to any decisions you may make with respect to choosing a tax lot
identification method. Shareholders should contact their financial
intermediaries with respect to reporting of cost basis and available elections
for their accounts.
State
and Local Taxes.
You may also be subject to state and local taxes on income and gain attributable
to your ownership of Shares. You should consult your tax advisor regarding the
tax status of distributions in your state and locality.
U.S.
Tax Treatment of Foreign Shareholders.
A non-U.S. shareholder generally will not be subject to U.S. withholding tax on
gain from the redemption of Shares or on capital gain dividends (i.e., dividends
attributable to long-term capital gains of a Fund) unless, in the case of a
shareholder who is a non-resident alien individual, the shareholder is present
in the United States for 183 days or more during the taxable year and certain
other conditions are met. Non-U.S. shareholders generally will be subject to
U.S. withholding tax at a rate of 30% (or a lower treaty rate, if applicable) on
distributions by a Fund of net investment income, other ordinary income, and the
excess, if any, of net short-term capital gain over net long-term capital loss
for the year, unless the distributions are effectively connected with a U.S.
trade or business of the shareholder. Exemptions from U.S. withholding tax are
provided for certain capital gain dividends paid by a Fund from net long-term
capital gains, if any, interest-related dividends paid by the Fund from its
qualified net interest income from U.S. sources and short-term capital gain
dividends, if such amounts are reported by the Fund. Non-U.S. shareholders are
subject to special U.S. tax certification requirements to avoid backup
withholding and claim any treaty benefits. Non-U.S. shareholders should consult
their tax advisors regarding the U.S. and foreign tax consequences of investing
in a Fund.
Other
Reporting and Withholding Requirements. Under
the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (“FATCA”), a 30% withholding tax is
imposed on income dividends paid by a Fund to certain foreign entities, referred
to as foreign financial institutions or nonfinancial foreign entities, that fail
to comply (or be deemed compliant) with extensive reporting and withholding
requirements designed to inform the U.S. Department of the Treasury of
U.S.-owned foreign investment accounts. After December 31, 2018, FATCA
withholding also would have applied to certain capital gain distributions,
return of capital distributions and the proceeds arising from the sale of Fund
Shares; however, based on proposed regulations issued by the IRS, which may be
relied upon currently, such withholding is no longer required unless final
regulations provide otherwise (which is not expected). Information about a
shareholder in a Fund may be disclosed to the IRS, non-U.S. taxing authorities
or other parties as necessary to comply with FATCA. Withholding also may be
required if a foreign entity that is a shareholder of a Fund fails to provide
the appropriate certifications or other documentation concerning its status
under FATCA.
Consult
Your Tax Professional.
Your investment in a Fund could have additional tax consequences. You should
consult your tax professional for information regarding all tax consequences
applicable to your investments in a Fund. More tax information relating to the
Funds is also provided in the SAI. This short summary is not intended as a
substitute for careful tax planning.
DETERMINATION
OF NET ASSET VALUE
Each
Fund calculates its NAV as of the regularly scheduled close of business of the
NYSE Arca Inc. (“NYSE Arca”), The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC ("NASDAQ"), or the
Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc. (“Cboe BZX”) (each referred to herein as the "Exchange")
(normally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time) on each day that the Exchange is open for
business, based on prices at the time of closing, provided that any assets or
liabilities denominated in currencies other than the U.S. dollar shall be
translated into U.S. dollars at the prevailing market rates on the date of
valuation as quoted by one or more major banks or dealers that make a two-way
market in such currencies (or a data service provider based on quotations
received from such banks or dealers). The NAV of each Fund is calculated by
dividing the value of the net assets of such Fund (i.e., the value of its total
assets less total liabilities) by the total number of outstanding Shares,
generally rounded to the nearest cent. The price of Fund Shares is based on
market price, and because ETF shares trade at market prices rather than NAV,
Shares may trade at a price greater than NAV (a premium) or less than NAV (a
discount).
In
calculating a Fund’s NAV, the Fund’s investments are generally valued using
market valuations. A market valuation generally means a valuation (i) obtained
from an exchange or a major market maker (or dealer), (ii) based on a price
quotation or other equivalent indication of value supplied by an exchange, a
pricing service, or a major market maker (or dealer), or (iii) based on
amortized cost, provided the amortized cost is approximately the value on
current sale of the security. In the case of shares of funds that are not traded
on an exchange, a market valuation means such fund’s published NAV per share. A
Fund may use various pricing services or discontinue the use of any pricing
service.
In
the event that current market valuations are not readily available or such
valuations do not reflect current market values, the affected investments will
be valued using fair value pricing pursuant to the pricing policy and procedures
approved by the Board of Trustees. A price obtained from a pricing service based
on such pricing service's valuation matrix may be used to fair value a security.
The frequency with which a Fund’s investments are valued using fair value
pricing is primarily a function of the types of securities and other assets in
which the Fund invests pursuant to its investment objective, strategies and
limitations.
Investments
that may be valued using fair value pricing include, but are not limited to: (i)
an unlisted security related to corporate actions; (ii) a restricted security
(i.e., one that may not be publicly sold without registration under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”)); (iii) a security
whose trading has been suspended or which has been de-listed from its primary
trading exchange; (iv) a security that is thinly traded; (v) a security in
default or bankruptcy proceedings for which there is no current market
quotation; (vi) a security affected by currency controls or restrictions; and
(vii) a security affected by
a
significant event (i.e., an event that occurs after the close of the markets on
which the security is traded but before the time as of which the Fund’s NAV is
computed and that may materially affect the value of the Fund’s investments).
Examples of events that may be “significant events” are government actions,
natural disasters, armed conflict, acts of terrorism, and significant market
fluctuations.
Valuing
a Fund’s investments using fair value pricing will result in using prices for
those investments that may differ from current market valuations. Use of fair
value prices and certain current market valuations could result in a difference
between the prices used to calculate a Fund’s NAV and the prices used by the
Fund’s Underlying Index, which, in turn, could result in a difference between
the Fund’s performance and the performance of the Fund’s Underlying Index.
Because
foreign markets may be open on different days than the days during which a
shareholder may purchase Shares, the value of a Fund’s investments may change on
days when shareholders are not able to purchase Shares. Additionally, due to
varying holiday schedules, redemption requests made on certain dates may result
in a settlement period exceeding seven calendar days.
The
value of assets denominated in foreign currencies is converted into U.S. dollars
using exchange rates deemed appropriate by the Adviser. Any use of a different
rate from the rates used by each Index Provider may adversely affect a Fund’s
ability to track its Underlying Index.
The
right of redemption may be suspended or the date of payment postponed with
respect to a Fund (1) for any period during which the Exchange is closed (other
than customary weekend and holiday closings), (2) for any period during which
trading on the Exchange is suspended or restricted, (3) for any period during
which an emergency exists as a result of which disposal of the Fund’s portfolio
securities or determination of its NAV is not reasonably practicable, or (4) in
such other circumstances as the SEC permits.
Subject
to oversight by the Board of Trustees, the Adviser, as “valuation designee,”
pursuant to Rule 2a-5 under the 1940 Act, performs fair value determinations of
Fund investments. In addition, the Adviser, as the valuation designee, is
responsible for periodically assessing any material risks associated with the
determination of the fair value of a Fund's investments; establishing and
applying fair value methodologies; testing the appropriateness of fair value
methodologies; and overseeing and evaluating third-party pricing services. The
Adviser has established a fair value committee to assist with its designated
responsibilities as valuation designee.
PREMIUM/DISCOUNT
AND SHARE INFORMATION
Once
available, information regarding how often the Shares of each Fund traded on the
national securities exchanges at a price above (i.e., at a premium to) or below
(i.e., at a discount to) the NAV of the Fund, the Fund's per share NAV, and the
median bid-ask spread of the Shares can be found at www.globalxetfs.com.
TOTAL
RETURN INFORMATION
Each
Fund had commenced operations as of the most recent fiscal year
end.
The
tables that follow present information about the total returns of each Fund's
Underlying Index and the total returns of each Fund. The information presented
for each Fund is as of its fiscal year ended November 30,
2025.
“Annualized
Total Returns” or "Cumulative Total Returns" represent the total change in value
of an investment over the periods indicated.
The
Fund’s per share NAV is the value of one share of the Fund as calculated in
accordance with the standard formula for valuing mutual fund Shares. The NAV
return is based on the NAV of the Fund and the market return is based on the
market prices of the Fund. The price used to calculate market prices is
determined by using the midpoint between the bid and the ask on the primary
stock exchange on which Shares of the Fund are listed for trading, as of the
time that the Fund’s NAV is calculated. Market and NAV returns assume that
dividends and capital gain distributions have been reinvested in the Fund at
market prices and NAV, respectively.
An
index is a statistical composite that tracks a specified financial market or
sector. Unlike a Fund, an Underlying Index does not actually hold a portfolio of
securities and therefore does not incur the expenses incurred by the Fund. These
expenses negatively impact the performance of a Fund. Also, market returns do
not include brokerage commissions that may be payable on secondary market
transactions. If brokerage commissions were included, market returns would be
lower. The returns shown
in
the tables below do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would
pay on Fund distributions or the redemption or sale of Fund Shares. The
investment return and principal value of Shares of the Fund will vary with
changes in market conditions. Shares of the Fund may be worth more or less than
their original cost when they are redeemed or sold in the market. The Fund’s
past performance is no guarantee of future results.
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| Annualized
Total Returns |
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Inception
to 11/30/25 |
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NAV |
MARKET |
UNDERLYING
INDEX |
|
Global
X Millennial Consumer ETF1 |
13.01% |
12.97% |
13.54% |
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Global
X Aging Population ETF2 |
10.46% |
10.74% |
10.78% |
|
Global
X FinTech ETF3 |
8.80% |
8.80% |
9.38% |
|
Global
X Internet of Things ETF4 |
11.00% |
10.97% |
11.45% |
|
Global
X Robotics & Artificial Intelligence ETF5 |
10.25% |
10.24% |
10.66% |
|
Global
X U.S. Infrastructure Development ETF6 |
15.07% |
15.08% |
15.69% |
|
Global
X Autonomous & Electric Vehicles ETF7 |
10.74% |
10.74% |
10.92% |
|
Global
X Artificial Intelligence & Technology ETF8 |
17.72% |
17.73% |
18.29% |
|
Global
X Genomics & Biotechnology ETF9 |
-4.01% |
-3.75% |
-3.53% |
|
Global
X Cloud Computing ETF10 |
6.67% |
6.70% |
7.34% |
|
Global
X Cybersecurity ETF11 |
13.15% |
13.50% |
13.50% |
|
Global
X Dorsey Wright Thematic ETF12 |
1.28% |
1.41% |
1.02% |
|
Global
X Video Games & Esports ETF13 |
13.67% |
13.57% |
14.18% |
|
Global
X HealthTech ETF14 |
-6.59% |
-6.57% |
-6.13% |
|
Global
X ClimateTech ETF15
(formerly
known as the Global X CleanTech ETF) |
-5.24% |
-5.22% |
-5.50% |
|
Global
X Data Center & Digital Infrastructure ETF16 |
8.31% |
8.37% |
8.54% |
|
Global
X Clean Water ETF17 |
7.00% |
6.97% |
7.43% |
|
Global
X AgTech & Food Innovation ETF18 |
-17.40% |
-17.40% |
-17.14% |
|
Global
X Blockchain ETF19 |
-1.49% |
-1.45% |
-2.37% |
|
Global
X Hydrogen ETF20 |
-23.95% |
-23.86% |
-24.17% |
|
Global
X Defense Tech ETF21 |
52.22% |
52.11% |
53.06% |
|
Global
X Infrastructure Development ex-U.S. ETF22 |
13.67% |
14.23% |
14.46% |
|
Global
X AI Semiconductor & Quantum ETF23 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
1 For
the period since inception on 05/04/16 to 11/30/25
2 For
the period since inception on 05/09/16 to 11/30/25
3 For
the period since inception on 09/12/16 to 11/30/25
4 For
the period since inception on 09/12/16 to 11/30/25
5 For
the period since inception on 09/12/16 to 11/30/25
6 For
the period since inception on 03/06/17 to 11/30/25
7 For
the period since inception on 04/13/18 to 11/30/25
8 For
the period since inception on 05/11/18 to 11/30/25
9 For
the period since inception on 04/05/19 to 11/30/25
10 For
the period since inception on 04/12/19 to 11/30/25
11 For
the period since inception on 10/25/19 to 11/30/25
12 For
the period since inception on 10/25/19 to 11/30/25
13 For
the period since inception on 10/25/19 to 11/30/25
14 For
the period since inception on 07/29/20 to 11/30/25
15 For
the period since inception on 10/27/20 to 11/30/25
16 For
the period since inception on 10/27/20 to 11/30/25
17
For
the period since inception on 04/08/21 to 11/30/25
18
For
the period since inception on 07/12/21 to 11/30/25
19
For
the period since inception on 07/12/21 to 11/30/25
20
For
the period since inception on 07/12/21 to 11/30/25
21
For
the period since inception on 09/11/23 to 11/30/25
22
For
the period since inception on 08/27/24 to 11/30/25
23
Did
not have more than a year of performance as of 11/30/25
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| Cumulative
Total Returns |
|
Inception
to 11/30/25 |
| |
NAV |
MARKET |
UNDERLYING
INDEX |
|
Global
X Millennial Consumer ETF1 |
222.73% |
221.59% |
237.63% |
|
Global
X Aging Population ETF2 |
159.01% |
165.40% |
166.28% |
|
Global
X FinTech ETF3 |
117.67% |
117.66% |
128.52% |
|
Global
X Internet of Things ETF4 |
161.88% |
161.17% |
171.65% |
|
Global
X Robotics & Artificial Intelligence ETF5 |
145.92% |
145.72% |
154.46% |
|
Global
X U.S. Infrastructure Development ETF6 |
241.14% |
241.35% |
257.44% |
|
Global
X Autonomous & Electric Vehicles ETF7 |
117.95% |
117.98% |
120.70% |
|
Global
X Artificial Intelligence & Technology ETF8 |
243.26% |
243.68% |
256.21% |
|
Global
X Genomics & Biotechnology ETF9 |
-23.85% |
-22.50% |
-21.26% |
|
Global
X Cloud Computing ETF10 |
53.50% |
53.84% |
60.09% |
|
Global
X Cybersecurity ETF11 |
112.60% |
116.62% |
116.61% |
|
Global
X Dorsey Wright Thematic ETF12 |
8.06% |
8.93% |
6.37% |
|
Global
X Video Games & Esports ETF13 |
118.63% |
117.46% |
124.61% |
|
Global
X HealthTech ETF14 |
-30.52% |
-30.43% |
-28.67% |
|
Global
X ClimateTech ETF15 |
-23.99% |
-23.89% |
-25.04% |
|
Global
X Data Center & Digital Infrastructure ETF16 |
50.21% |
50.65% |
51.80% |
|
Global
X Clean Water ETF17 |
36.96% |
36.81% |
39.55% |
|
Global
X AgTech & Food Innovation ETF18 |
-56.79% |
-56.80% |
-56.18% |
|
Global
X Blockchain ETF19 |
-6.40% |
-6.20% |
-9.98% |
|
Global
X Hydrogen ETF20 |
-69.93% |
-69.77% |
-70.30% |
|
Global
X Defense Tech ETF24 |
154.37% |
153.95% |
157.48% |
|
Global
X Infrastructure Development ex-U.S. ETF25 |
17.52% |
18.25% |
18.56% |
|
Global
X AI Semiconductor & Quantum ETF26 |
8.48% |
8.64% |
8.60% |
1 For
the period since inception on 05/04/16 to 11/30/25
2 For
the period since inception on 05/09/16 to 11/30/25
3 For
the period since inception on 09/12/16 to 11/30/25
4 For
the period since inception on 09/12/16 to 11/30/25
5 For
the period since inception on 09/12/16 to 11/30/25
6 For
the period since inception on 03/06/17 to 11/30/25
7 For
the period since inception on 04/13/18 to 11/30/25
8 For
the period since inception on 05/11/18 to 11/30/25
9 For
the period since inception on 04/05/19 to 11/30/25
10 For
the period since inception on 04/12/19 to 11/30/25
11 For
the period since inception on 10/25/19 to 11/30/25
12 For
the period since inception on 10/25/19 to 11/30/25
13 For
the period since inception on 10/25/19 to 11/30/25
14 For
the period since inception on 07/29/20 to 11/30/25
15 For
the period since inception on 10/27/20 to 11/30/25
16 For
the period since inception on 10/27/20 to 11/30/25
17
For
the period since inception on 04/08/21 to 11/30/25
18
For
the period since inception on 07/12/21 to 11/30/25
19
For
the period since inception on 07/12/21 to 11/30/25
20
For
the period since inception on 07/12/21 to 11/30/25
21
For
the period since inception on 09/08/21 to 11/30/25
22
For
the period since inception on 09/08/21 to 11/30/25
23
For
the period since inception on 04/11/23 to 11/30/25
24
For
the period since inception on 09/11/23 to 11/30/25
25
For
the period since inception on 08/27/24 to 11/30/25
26
For
the period since inception on 09/30/25 to 11/30/25
INFORMATION
REGARDING THE INDICES AND THE INDEX PROVIDERS
Indxx
Millennials Thematic Index
The
Indxx Millennials Thematic Index (the "Underlying Index") is designed to measure
the performance of U.S. listed companies that provide exposure to the millennial
generation consumption trends, (collectively, "Millennial Companies"), as
defined by Indxx, LLC, the provider of the Underlying Index ("Index Provider").
The millennial generation refers to the demographic in the U.S. with birth years
ranging from 1980 to 2000.
The
eligible universe of the Underlying Index includes the most liquid and
investable companies in accordance with the standard market capitalization and
liquidity criteria associated with developed markets, as defined by the Index
Provider. As of January 31, 2026, companies must have a minimum market
capitalization of $500 million and a minimum average daily turnover for the last
6 months (or since the IPO launch date for Significant IPOs as defined by the
Index Provider or 3 months, in the case of other IPOs) greater than or equal to
$2 million in order to be eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index. The
Underlying Index only includes companies listed in the United States. The
Underlying Index is developed using a proprietary, multi-step research process
to identify Millennial Companies. First, the Index Provider conducts fundamental
research on trends related to the millennial generation, including but not
limited to: consumer spending data, consumer behavior, technology and
demographics. Based on this analysis, the Index Provider determines key
categories that appear to be most reflective of how individuals from the
millennial generation spend their time and money (collectively, "Spending
Categories"). As of January 31, 2026, the Index Provider has identified the
following eight key Spending Categories for millennials: (1) Social and
Entertainment, (2) Clothing and Apparel, (3) Travel and Mobility, (4)
Food/Restaurants and Consumer Staples, (5) Financial Services and Investments,
(6) Housing and Home Goods, (7) Education and Employment, and (8) Health and
Fitness. These Spending Categories may change over time, as determined by the
Index Provider.
After
establishing these Spending Categories, the Index Provider uses a variety of
sources - including, but not limited to: industry reports, investment research
and financial statements published by companies - to identify companies with
significant exposure to these Spending Categories. A company is determined to
have significant exposure to the Spending Categories if (i) it derives a
significant portion of its revenue from the Spending Categories, or (ii) it has
stated its primary business to be in products and services focused on the
Spending Categories, as determined by the Index Provider. The companies
identified at this stage are then considered for further analysis, which
ultimately determines their eligibility for inclusion in the Underlying
Index.
In
the final step of the selection process, the Index Provider conducts a composite
analysis on the remaining companies to identify Millennial Companies within each
of the Spending Categories. As part of this process, the Index Provider utilizes
the fundamental research it has conducted on trends related to the millennial
generation in order to evaluate companies based on quantitative and qualitative
criteria that have been identified as being consistent with millennial
demographics and consumer preferences. As of January 31, 2026, some
examples of the criteria used in the evaluation process include but are not
limited to: E-commerce, social and professional networks, digital media
streaming services, athletic and outdoor apparel, multi-family apartments, and
peer reviews/recommendations. The Index Provider then scores the companies based
on these criteria to determine the companies that are most reflective of
Millennial Companies within each Spending Category. These criteria will vary by
Spending Category and are subject to evaluation by the Index Provider on an
annual basis. A minimum of five and a maximum of fifteen companies from each
Spending Category are included in the Underlying Index, primarily based on their
score in the composite analysis conducted by the Index Provider.
The
Underlying Index is weighted according to a modified capitalization weighting
methodology and is reconstituted and rebalanced annually. The Underlying Index
may include large-, mid- or small-capitalization companies, and components
primarily include consumer discretionary, consumer staples, information
technology and financial services companies as well as real estate investment
trusts ("REITs").
Indxx
Aging Population Thematic Index
The
Indxx Aging Population Thematic Index (the "Underlying Index") is designed to
provide exposure to exchange-listed companies in developed markets that
facilitate the demographic trend of longer average life spans and the aging of
the global population, including but not limited to companies involved in
biotechnology, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, senior living
facilities
and specialized health care services (collectively, "Aging Population
Companies"), as defined by Indxx, LLC, the provider of the Underlying Index
("Index Provider").
The
eligible universe of the Underlying Index includes the most liquid and
investable companies in accordance with the standard market capitalization and
liquidity criteria associated with developed markets, as defined by the Index
Provider. As of January 31, 2026, companies must have a minimum market
capitalization of $500 million and a minimum average daily turnover for the last
6 months (or since the IPO launch date for Significant IPOs as defined by the
Index Provider) greater than or equal to $2 million in order to be eligible for
inclusion in the Underlying Index. The Underlying Index may include components
from the following countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark,
Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands,
New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden,
Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and the United States.
From
the eligible universe, the Index Provider identifies Aging Population Companies
by applying a proprietary analysis that consists of two primary components:
theme identification and company analysis. As of January 31, 2026, the
Index Provider has identified the following four themes that are expected to
provide the most exposure to Aging Population Companies: (1) Health Care
Products, (2) Health Care Services, (3) Medical Devices, and (4) Senior Homes
(collectively, "Longevity Themes"). In order to be included in the Underlying
Index, a company must be identified as having significant exposure to these
Aging Population Themes, as determined by the Index Provider. Companies are
analyzed based on two primary criteria: revenue exposure and primary business
operations. A company is deemed to have significant exposure to the Aging
Population Themes if (i) it derives a significant portion of its revenue from
the Aging Population Themes, or (ii) it has stated its primary business to be in
products and services focused on the Aging Population Themes, as determined by
the Index Provider. Accordingly, the Fund assets will be concentrated (that is,
it will hold 25% or more of its total assets) in companies that provide products
and services that facilitate the aging of the global population.
The
Underlying Index is weighted according to a modified capitalization weighting
methodology and is reconstituted and rebalanced annually. The Underlying Index
may include large-, mid- or small-capitalization companies, and components
primarily include health care, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals companies as
well as real estate investment trusts ("REITs").
Indxx
Global Fintech Thematic Index
The
Indxx Global Fintech Thematic Index (the "Underlying Index") is designed to
provide exposure to exchange-listed companies in developed markets that provide
financial technology products and services, including companies involved in
mobile payments, peer-to-peer ("P2P") and marketplace lending, financial
analytics software and alternative currencies (collectively, "FinTech
Companies"), as defined by Indxx, LLC, the provider of the Underlying Index
("Index Provider").
The
eligible universe of the Underlying Index includes among the most liquid and
investable companies in accordance with the standard market capitalization and
liquidity criteria associated with developed markets, as defined by the Index
Provider. As of January 31, 2026, companies must have a minimum market
capitalization of $300 million and a minimum average daily turnover for the last
6 months (or since the IPO launch date for Significant IPOs as defined by the
Index Provider or 3 months, in the case of other IPOs) greater than or equal to
$2 million in order to be eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index. As of
January 31, 2026, components from the following countries were eligible for
inclusion in the Underlying Index: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark,
Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands,
New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden,
Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and the United States.
From
the eligible universe, the Index Provider identifies FinTech Companies by
applying a proprietary analysis that consists of two primary components: theme
identification and company analysis. As part of the theme identification
process, the Index Provider analyzes industry reports, investment research and
consumer data related to the fintech industry in order to establish the themes
that are expected to provide the most exposure to the growth of the fintech
industry. As of January 31, 2026, the Index Provider has identified the
following six fintech themes: (1) Mobile Payments, (2) P2P and Marketplace
Lending, (3) Enterprise Solutions, (4) Blockchain and Alternative Currencies,
(5) Crowdfunding, and (6) Personal Finance Software and Automated Wealth
Management/Trading (collectively, "FinTech Themes"). In order to be included in
the Underlying Index, a company must be identified as having significant
exposure to these FinTech Themes, as determined by the Index Provider. In the
second step of the process, companies are analyzed based on two primary
criteria: revenue exposure and primary business operations. A company is deemed
to have significant exposure to the FinTech Themes if (i) it derives a
significant portion of its revenue from the FinTech Themes, or (ii) it has
stated its primary business to be in products and services focused on the
FinTech Themes, in each case as determined by the Index Provider. Accordingly,
the Fund assets will be concentrated (that is, it will hold 25% or more of its
total assets) in companies that provide exposure to FinTech Themes.
The
Underlying Index is weighted according to a modified capitalization weighting
methodology and is reconstituted and rebalanced annually. At the annual
rebalance, a capping methodology is applied to reduce concentration in
individual securities and increase diversification of the Underlying Index. The
Underlying Index may include large-, mid- or small-capitalization companies, and
components primarily include financial and information technology companies.
Indxx
Global Internet of Things Thematic Index
The
Indxx Global Internet of Things Thematic Index (the "Underlying Index") is
designed to provide exposure to exchange-listed companies in developed markets
that facilitate the Internet of Things industry, including companies involved in
wearable technology, home automation, connected automotive technology, sensors,
networking infrastructure/software, smart metering and energy control devices
(collectively, "Internet of Things Companies"), as defined by Indxx, LLC, the
provider of the Underlying Index ("Index Provider"). The Internet of Things
refers to the network of physical objects (such as electronic devices,
wearables, connected vehicles, infrastructure, equipment, smart home appliances,
buildings) that are connected to the internet. Such objects often utilize
embedded semiconductors, sensors, and software to collect, analyze, receive, and
transfer data via networks enabled by technologies such as WiFi, 4G and 5G
telecommunications infrastructure, and fiber optics.
The
eligible universe of the Underlying Index includes among the most liquid and
investable companies in accordance with the standard market capitalization and
liquidity criteria associated with developed markets, as defined by the Index
Provider. As of January 31, 2026, companies must have a minimum market
capitalization of $300 million and a minimum average daily turnover for the last
6 months (or since the IPO launch date for Significant IPOs as defined by the
Index Provider or 3 months, in the case of other IPOs) greater than or equal to
$2 million in order to be eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index. As of
January 31, 2026, components from the following countries were eligible for
inclusion in the Underlying Index: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark,
Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands,
New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden,
Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and the United States.
From
the eligible universe, the Index Provider identifies Internet of Things
Companies by applying a proprietary analysis that consists of two primary
components: theme identification and company analysis. As part of the theme
identification process, the Index Provider analyzes industry reports, investment
research and consumer data related to the Internet of Things industry in order
to establish the themes that are expected to provide the most exposure to the
growth of the Internet of Things industry. As of January 31, 2026, the
Index Provider has identified the following four Internet of Things themes: (1)
Consumer Internet of Things Technology, (2) Equipment, Vehicle, and
Infrastructure/Building Technology, (3) Semiconductors and Sensors and (4)
Networking Infrastructure/Software (collectively, "Internet of Things Themes").
In order to be included in the Underlying Index, a company must be identified as
having significant exposure to these Internet of Things Themes, as determined by
the Index Provider. In the second step of the process, companies are analyzed
based on two primary criteria: revenue exposure and primary business operations.
A company is deemed to have significant exposure to the Internet of Things
Themes if (i) according to a public filing, it derives a significant portion of
its revenue from the Internet of Things Themes, or (ii) it has stated its
primary business to be in products and services focused on the Internet of
Things Themes, as determined by the Index Provider. In addition, companies with
more diversified revenue streams may also be included in the Underlying Index if
they meet the following criteria: (1) identified as being critical to the
Internet of Things ecosystem due to scale in certain Internet of Things
technologies and services, (2) have a distinct business unit focused on Internet
of Things products and services, and (3) have a core competency that is expected
to benefit from increased adoption of Internet of Things, as determined by the
Index Provider. Companies that meet these criteria are eligible for inclusion in
the Underlying Index with a weighting cap of 2%. Accordingly, the Fund assets
will be concentrated (that is, it will hold 25% or more of its total assets) in
companies that provide products and services that provide exposure to Internet
of Things Themes.
The
Underlying Index is weighted according to a modified capitalization weighting
methodology and is reconstituted and rebalanced annually. At the annual
rebalance, a capping methodology is applied to reduce concentration in
individual securities and increase diversification of the Underlying Index. The
Underlying Index may include large-, mid- or small-capitalization companies, and
components primarily include industrials and information technology
companies.
Indxx
Global Robotics & Artificial Intelligence Thematic Index
The
Indxx Global Robotics & Artificial Intelligence Thematic Index (the
"Underlying Index") is designed to provide exposure to exchange-listed companies
in developed markets and China that are involved in the development of robotics
and/or artificial intelligence, including companies involved in developing
industrial robotics and automation, non-industrial robots, humanoid technology,
artificial intelligence and unmanned vehicles (collectively, "Robotics &
Artificial Intelligence Companies"), as defined by Indxx, LLC, the provider of
the Underlying Index ("Index Provider")..
The
eligible universe of the Underlying Index includes among the most liquid and
investable companies in accordance with the standard market capitalization and
liquidity criteria, as defined by the Index Provider. As of January 31,
2026, companies must have a minimum market capitalization of $300 million and a
minimum average daily turnover for the last 6 months (or since the IPO launch
date for Significant IPOs as defined by the Index Provider or 3 months, in the
case of other IPOs) greater than or equal to $2 million in order to be eligible
for inclusion in the Underlying Index. As of January 31, 2026, components
from the following countries were eligible for inclusion in the Underlying
Index: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France,
Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand,
Norway, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,
Taiwan, the United Kingdom and the United States. The Fund may invest in China
A-Shares, which are issued by companies incorporated in mainland China and
traded on Chinese exchanges. In addition, ADRs and GDRs of companies
incorporated or with primary listing in China are eligible for inclusion.
Investments in ADRs and GDRs based on the securities in the Underlying Index are
considered investments in securities of the Underlying Index for purposes of the
Fund’s 80% investment policy.
From
the eligible universe, the Index Provider identifies Robotics & Artificial
Intelligence Companies by applying a proprietary analysis that consists of two
primary components: theme identification and company analysis. As part of the
first step of the process, theme identification, the Index Provider analyzes
industry reports, investment research and consumer data related to the robotics
and artificial intelligence industry in order to establish the themes that are
expected to provide the most exposure to the growth of the robotics and
artificial intelligence industry. As of January 31, 2026, the Index
Provider has identified the following five robotics and artificial intelligence
themes: (1) Industrial Robotics and Automation, (2) Unmanned Vehicles and
Drones, (3) Non-Industrial Robotics, (4) Humanoid Technology and (5) Artificial
Intelligence (collectively, "Robotics & Artificial Intelligence Themes").
In
the second step of the process, company analysis, companies are analyzed based
on two primary criteria: revenue exposure and primary business operations.
“Robotics & Artificial Intelligence Companies” are those companies
identified by the Index Provider that derive at least 50% of their revenues from
the eligible robotics and artificial intelligence sub-themes or have stated
their primary business to be in products and services focused on these segments.
In addition, companies identified by the Index Provider as deriving less than
50% of revenue from the eligible robotics and artificial intelligence themes but
are recognized as significant contributors to the space ("Diversified Robotics
& Artificial Intelligence Companies"), as well as companies identified by
the Index Provider as having primary business operations in the business
activities described above but that do not currently generate revenues
(“Pre-Revenue Robotics & Artificial Intelligence Companies”), are eligible
for inclusion in the Underlying Index. A maximum of 10 Diversified Robotics
& Artificial Intelligence Companies may be included in the Underlying Index
at any time.
The
Underlying Index is weighted according to a modified capitalization weighting
methodology and is reconstituted and rebalanced semi-annually. At the
semi-annual rebalance, a capping methodology is applied to reduce concentration
in individual securities and increase diversification of the Underlying Index.
During each rebalance, Diversified Robotics & Artificial Intelligence
Companies are subject to an individual weight cap of 2% and an aggregate cap of
10%, Chinese companies are subject to an individual weight cap of 8% and an
aggregate cap of 10%, and Robotics & Artificial Intelligence Companies and
Pre-Revenue Robotics & Artificial Intelligence Companies are subject to an
individual weight cap of 8%. The Underlying Index may include large-, mid- or
small-capitalization companies, and components primarily include industrials and
information technology companies.
Indxx
U.S. Infrastructure Development Index
The
Indxx U.S. Infrastructure Development Index (the "Underlying Index") is designed
to measure the performance of U.S. listed companies that provide exposure to
domestic infrastructure development, including companies involved in
construction and engineering; production of infrastructure raw materials,
composites and products; industrial transportation; and producers/distributors
of heavy construction equipment (collectively, "U.S. Infrastructure Development
Companies"), as defined by Indxx, LLC, the provider of the Underlying Index
("Index Provider").
The
eligible universe of the Underlying Index includes the most liquid and
investable companies in accordance with the standard market capitalization and
liquidity criteria associated with developed markets, as defined by the Index
Provider. As of January 31, 2026, companies must have a minimum market
capitalization of $300 million and a minimum average daily turnover for the last
6 months (or since the IPO launch date for Significant IPOs as defined by the
Index Provider) greater than or equal to $1 million in order to be eligible for
inclusion in the Underlying Index. The Underlying Index only includes companies
listed in the United States.
From
the eligible universe, the Index Provider identifies U.S. Infrastructure
Development Companies by applying a proprietary analysis that consists of two
primary components: theme identification and company analysis. As part of the
theme identification process, the Index Provider analyzes industry reports,
investment research and spending trends related to
infrastructure
development in order to establish the themes that are expected to provide the
most exposure to increased investment in U.S. infrastructure. As of
January 31, 2026, the Index Provider has identified the following four U.S.
infrastructure development themes: (1) Construction and Engineering Services,
(2) Raw Materials and Composites, (3) Products and Equipment, and (4) Industrial
Transportation (collectively, "U.S. Infrastructure Development Themes").
In
the second step of the process, companies are analyzed based on two primary
criteria: revenue exposure and primary business operations. A company is
eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index if (i) it derives a significant
portion of its revenue from the U.S. Infrastructure Development Themes, or (ii)
it has stated its primary business to be in products and services focused on the
U.S. Infrastructure Development Themes, as determined by the Index Provider.
Furthermore, only companies that generate greater than 50% of revenues from the
United States as of the index selection date, as determined by the Index
Provider, are eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index. Accordingly, the
Fund assets will be concentrated (that is, it will hold 25% or more of its total
assets) in companies that provide exposure to U.S. infrastructure development.
The
Underlying Index is weighted according to a modified capitalization weighting
methodology and is reconstituted and rebalanced semi-annually. At the
semi-annual rebalance, a capping methodology is applied to reduce concentration
in individual securities and increase diversification of the Underlying Index.
The Underlying Index may include large-, mid- or small-capitalization companies,
and components primarily include industrials and materials
companies.
Solactive
Autonomous & Electric Vehicles Index
The
Solactive Autonomous & Electric Vehicles Index (the "Underlying Index") is
designed to provide exposure to exchange-listed companies that are involved in
the development of electric vehicles and/or autonomous vehicles, including
companies that produce electric/hybrid vehicles, electric/hybrid vehicle
components and materials, autonomous driving technology, and network connected
services for transportation, (collectively, "Autonomous and Electric Vehicle
Companies"), as defined by Solactive AG, the provider of the Underlying Index
("Index Provider").
The
eligible universe of the Underlying Index includes among the most liquid and
investable companies in accordance with the market capitalization and liquidity
criteria associated with the eligible markets, as defined by the Index Provider.
As of January 31, 2026, companies must have a minimum market capitalization
of $500 million and a minimum average daily turnover for the last 6 months
greater than or equal to $2 million in order to be eligible for inclusion in the
Underlying Index. As of January 31, 2026, companies from the following
countries were eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index: Australia,
Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland,
Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal,
Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, South Korea, Taiwan, the United Kingdom,
and the United States.
From
the eligible universe, the Index Provider identifies Autonomous and Electric
Vehicle Companies by applying a proprietary natural language processing
algorithm process that seeks to identify companies with exposure to the
following categories:
•Electric
Vehicles ("EV")
- companies that produce electric/hybrid vehicles, including cars, trucks,
motorcycles/scooters, buses, and electric rail.
•Electric
Vehicle Components ("EVC")
- companies that produce electric/hybrid vehicle components, including electric
drivetrains, lithium-ion and other types of electric batteries, and fuel cells.
In addition, companies that produce the chemicals and raw materials (including
but not limited to lithium and cobalt) that comprise these electric/hybrid
vehicle components are eligible for inclusion.
•Autonomous
Vehicle Technology ("AVT")
- companies that build autonomous vehicles and/or develop hardware and software
that facilitates the development of autonomous vehicles, including sensors,
mapping technology, artificial intelligence, advanced driver assistance systems,
ride-share platforms, and network-connected services for
transportation.
In
order to be included in the Underlying Index, a company must be identified as
having exposure to these categories based on the ranking it receives from the
natural language processing algorithm ("Segment Score"), as determined by the
Index Provider. Within each category listed above, companies are ranked by the
Index Provider according to their respective Segment Score. The Index Provider
then reviews the companies to ensure relevance to one or more of the categories
above based on the business operations of the company. The Underlying Index is
comprised of the highest ranking 15 companies in the EV segment, the highest
ranking 30 companies in the EVC segment, and the highest ranking 30 companies in
the AVT segment, as determined by the Index Provider and subject to certain
buffer rules intended to reduce turnover. Accordingly, the Fund assets
will
be concentrated (that is, it will hold 25% or more of its total assets) in
companies that provide exposure to electric vehicles and autonomous
vehicles.
The
Underlying Index is weighted according to a modified capitalization weighting
methodology and is reconstituted semi-annually. At the semi-annual
reconstitution, a capping methodology is applied to reduce concentration in
individual securities and increase diversification of the Underlying Index. The
Underlying Index may include large-, mid- or small-capitalization companies, and
components primarily include industrials, information technology, materials, and
consumer discretionary companies.
Indxx
Artificial Intelligence & Big Data Index
The
Indxx Artificial Intelligence & Big Data Index (the "Underlying Index") is
designed to provide exposure to exchange-listed companies that are positioned to
benefit from the further development and utilization of artificial intelligence
technology in their products and services, as well as to companies that provide
hardware which facilitates the use of artificial intelligence for the analysis
of big data (collectively, "Artificial Intelligence & Big Data Companies"),
as defined by Indxx, LLC the provider of the Underlying Index (the "Index
Provider").
As
technology continues to advance, artificial intelligence and big data are
converging as complementary technology themes that enable companies to extract
useful information from large and complex data sets. The increasing availability
and accessibility of big data is creating more potential applications for
artificial intelligence technology, which further incentivizes companies to
develop capabilities in this area. Advances in artificial intelligence and big
data technology have the potential to impact companies across many sectors, and
are particularly applicable to companies that have acquired significant amounts
of consumer, industrial, financial or other types of data.
The
eligible universe of the Underlying Index includes exchange-listed companies
that meet minimum market capitalization and liquidity criteria, as defined by
the Index Provider. As of January 31, 2026, companies must have a minimum
market capitalization of $500 million and a minimum average daily turnover for
the last 6 months (or since the IPO launch date for Significant IPOs as defined
by the Index Provider or 3 months, in the case of other IPOs) greater than or
equal to $2 million in order to be eligible for inclusion in the Underlying
Index. As of January 31, 2026, companies listed or incorporated in the
following countries were eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index:
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong
Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal,
Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom,
and the United States. In addition, ADRs and GDRs of companies incorporated or
with primary listing in China are eligible for inclusion.
From
the eligible universe, the Index Provider identifies Artificial Intelligence
& Big Data Companies by applying a proprietary analysis that seeks to
identify companies that can be classified in the following
categories:
•Artificial
Intelligence Developers
▪Artificial
Intelligence Applied to Products and Services - Companies
that have developed internal artificial intelligence capabilities (organically
or through acquisition) and are applying artificial intelligence technology
directly in their products and services. Artificial intelligence applications
include but are not limited to language/ image processing and recognition,
automated communications, threat detection, recommendation generation, and other
predictive analytics.
▪Artificial
Intelligence-as-a-Service ("AIaaS") for Big Data Applications - Companies
that provide artificial intelligence capabilities to their customers as a
service. Companies in this segment typically offer cloud-based platforms that
allow their customers to apply artificial intelligence techniques to big data
without the need for a direct investment in their own artificial
intelligence-related infrastructure or capabilities.
Many
companies in the Artificial Intelligence Developers category are considered "big
data owners" due to the large amounts of consumer, industry, financial or other
types of data that has been acquired through their platforms, products and
services. These companies have typically developed internal capabilities
in artificial intelligence technology and are using these capabilities to create
competitive advantage in their businesses. This category may include
companies from sectors including, but not limited to, Information Technology,
Industrials, Financials, and Consumer Discretionary.
•Artificial
Intelligence and Big Data Analytics Hardware
◦Artificial
Intelligence Hardware - Companies
that produce semiconductors, memory storage and other hardware that is utilized
for artificial intelligence applications. This currently includes, but is not
limited to, companies that produce graphics processing units (GPUs),
application-specific integrated circuit ("ASIC") chips, field-programmable gate
array ("FPGA") chips, and all-flash array storage.
◦Quantum
Computing - Companies
that are developing quantum computing technology. While currently in the
process of being commercialized, quantum computing is expected to have
significant potential for artificial intelligence and big data applications.
In
order to be included in the Underlying Index, a company must be classified in
the categories described above, as determined by the Index Provider. This
classification is based on a composite analysis of public filings, products and
services, official company statements and other information regarding direct
involvement in the artificial intelligence and big data categories as described
above. Eligible companies are then ranked by the Index Provider using a research
framework that assesses a company's exposure to these categories. Companies must
receive a minimum score within a given category to be selected in the Underlying
Index, as determined by the Index Provider. Accordingly, the Fund assets will be
concentrated (that is, it will hold 25% or more of its total assets) in
companies that provide exposure to Artificial Intelligence & Big Data.
The
Underlying Index is weighted according to a modified capitalization weighting
methodology and is reconstituted annually with a semi-annual re-weighting. The
Underlying Index may include large-, mid- or small-capitalization companies, and
components primarily include information technology companies.
Solactive
Genomics Index
The
Solactive Genomics Index (the "Underlying Index") is designed to provide
exposure to exchange-listed companies that are positioned to benefit from
further advances in the field of genomic science, as well as applications
thereof (collectively, "Genomics Companies"), as defined by Solactive AG, the
provider of the Underlying Index ("Index Provider"). Genomics Companies may
include companies in the biotechnology industry. Companies in the biotechnology
industry include companies that are involved in business activities related to
the research, development, manufacturing and/or marketing of products based on
genetic analysis and genetic engineering.
In
order to be eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index, a company is
considered by the Index Provider to be a Genomics Company if it is involved in
business activities that include but are not limited to: (i) gene editing, (ii)
genomic sequencing, (iii) development and testing of genetic medicine/therapies,
and/or (iv) computational genomics and genetic diagnostics.
In
constructing the Underlying Index, the Index Provider first establishes the
eligible universe by utilizing FactSet sector classifications: only companies
classified by FactSet as healthcare companies are eligible for the Underlying
Index. The Index Provider then applies a proprietary natural language processing
algorithm to the eligible universe, which seeks to identify and rank companies
with direct exposure to the genomics industry based on filings, disclosures and
other public information (e.g. regulatory filings, earnings transcripts, etc.).
The highest ranking companies identified by the natural language processing
algorithm, as of the selection date, are further reviewed by the Index Provider
to confirm their involvement in the following business activities:
i.Gene
Editing:
Companies that develop technology for the insertion, deletion, or replacement of
DNA at a specific site in the genome of an organism.
ii.Genomic
Sequencing:
Companies that are engaged in the process of determining the complete DNA
sequence of an organism's genome.
iii.Genetic
Medicine/Therapies:
Companies that seek to detect, cure or treat diseases by identifying and/or
modifying an organism's gene expression or functioning.
iv.Computational
Genomics and Genetic Diagnostics:
Companies that use computational and statistical analysis to decipher biological
insights from genome sequences and related data.
The
eligible universe of the Underlying Index includes exchange-listed companies
that meet minimum market capitalization and liquidity criteria, as defined by
the Index Provider. As of January 31, 2026, companies must have a minimum
market capitalization of $200 million and a minimum average daily turnover for
the last 6 months greater than or equal to $2 million in order to be eligible
for inclusion in the Underlying Index. As of January 31, 2026, companies
listed in the following countries were eligible for inclusion in the Underlying
Index: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,
Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway,
Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and
the United States. Additionally, ADRs of any company whose primary listing is in
a country that is part of the Emerging markets are eligible.
The
twenty highest-ranking companies identified by the Index Provider as deriving at
least 50% of revenues from genomics-related business activities (“Pure-Play
Genomics Companies”) as well as companies identified as having primary business
operations in genomics-related business activities but that do not currently
generate revenue (“Pre-Revenue Genomics Companies”) are eligible for inclusion
in the Underlying Index. In addition, the five highest-ranked companies
identified by the Index Provider as deriving greater than 0% but less than 50%
of revenues from genomics-related business activities (“Diversified Genomics
Companies”) are also eligible for inclusion. Existing index constituents are
retained in the Underlying Index by priority of their weight, provided they
remain ranked and meet the index criteria, up to a maximum of fifty index
constituents. If the total number of index constituents is below fifty,
additional companies are added according to their ranking until the maximum
number of index constituents is reached. The number of Diversified Genomics
Companies included in the final index will be capped at ten.
The
Underlying Index is weighted according to a modified free-float capitalization
weighting methodology and is reconstituted and re-weighted semi-annually.
Modified free-float capitalization weighting seeks to weight constituents
primarily based on free-float market capitalization, but subject to caps on the
weights of the individual securities. Generally speaking, this approach will
limit the amount of concentration in the largest market capitalization companies
and increase company-level diversification. During each rebalance, the maximum
weight of any company is capped at 4%. Additionally, Diversified Genomics
Companies are subject to an individual weight cap of 2% and an aggregate weight
cap of 10%. The Underlying Index may include large-, mid- or
small-capitalization companies, and components primarily include healthcare
companies. As of January 31, 2026, the Underlying Index had 49
constituents.
Indxx
Global Cloud Computing Index
The
Indxx Global Cloud Computing Index (the "Underlying Index") is designed to
provide exposure to exchange-listed companies that are positioned to benefit
from the increased adoption of cloud computing technology, including but not
limited to companies whose principal business is in offering computing
Software-as-a-Service ("SaaS"), Platform-as-a-Service ("PaaS"),
Infrastructure-as-a-Service ("IaaS"), managed server storage space and data
center real estate investment trusts ("REITs"), and/or cloud and edge computing
infrastructure and hardware (collectively, "Cloud Computing Companies"), as
defined by Indxx LLC, the provider of the Underlying Index ("Index
Provider").
In
constructing the Underlying Index, the Index Provider first identifies FactSet
Industries related to cloud computing. Companies within these Industries, as of
the selection date, are further reviewed by the Index Provider on the basis of
revenue related to cloud computing activities. To be eligible for the Underlying
Index, a company is considered by the Index Provider to be a Cloud Computing
Company if the company generates at least 50% of its revenues from cloud
computing activities, as determined by the Index Provider. The Index Provider
classifies Cloud Computing Companies as those companies that (i) license and
deliver software over the internet on a subscription basis (SaaS), (ii) provide
a platform for creating software applications which are delivered over the
internet (PaaS), (iii) provide virtualized computing infrastructure over the
internet, including Database-as-a-service companies or companies providing
cloud-based solutions for data management on a subscription basis (IaaS), (iv)
own and manage facilities customers use to store data and servers, including
data center REITs, and/or (v) manufacture or distribute infrastructure and/or
hardware components used in cloud and edge computing activities, as determined
by the Index Provider. In addition, companies that generate at least $500
million of revenue from providing public cloud infrastructure (but less than 50%
of their overall revenues), are eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index.
These companies are subject to an individual weight cap of 2% and an aggregate
weight cap of 10% at each semi-annual rebalance.
To
be a part of the eligible universe of the Underlying Index, certain minimum
market capitalization and liquidity criteria, as defined by the Index Provider,
must be met. As of January 31, 2026, companies must have a minimum market
capitalization of $200 million and a minimum average daily turnover for the last
6 months (or since the IPO launch date for Significant IPOs as defined by the
Index Provider) greater than or equal to $2 million in order to be eligible for
inclusion in the Underlying Index. As of January 31, 2026, companies listed
in the following countries were eligible for inclusion in the Indxx Global Cloud
Computing Index: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China,
Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong,
Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mexico,
Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar,
South Africa, South Korea, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand,
Turkey, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United
States.
The
Underlying Index is weighted according to a modified capitalization weighting
methodology and is reconstituted and re-weighted semi-annually. Modified
capitalization weighting seeks to weight constituents primarily based on market
capitalization, but subject to caps on the weights of the individual securities.
Generally speaking, this approach will limit the amount of concentration in the
largest market capitalization companies and increase company-level
diversification. The
Underlying
Index may include large-, mid- or small-capitalization companies, and components
primarily include information technology companies. As of January 31, 2026,
the Underlying Index had 37 constituents.
Global
X Cybersecurity ETF
The
Indxx Cybersecurity Index (the "Underlying Index") is designed to provide
exposure to exchange-listed companies that are positioned to benefit from
increased adoption of cybersecurity technology, including but not limited to
companies whose principal business is in the development and management of
security protocols preventing intrusion and attacks to systems, networks,
applications, computers, and mobile devices (collectively, "Cybersecurity
Companies"), as determined by Indxx LLC, the provider of the Underlying Index
("Index Provider").
In
constructing the Underlying Index, the Index Provider first identifies FactSet
Industries related to cybersecurity. Companies within these FactSet Industries,
as of the selection date, are further reviewed by the Index Provider on the
basis of revenue related to cybersecurity activities. To be eligible for the
Underlying Index as a Cybersecurity Company, a company must generate at least
50% of its revenues from cybersecurity activities, which the Index Provider
classifies as the development and management of security protocols preventing
intrusion and attacks to systems, networks, applications, computers, and mobile
devices.
To
be a part of the eligible universe of the Underlying Index, certain minimum
market capitalization and liquidity criteria, as defined by the Index Provider,
must be met. As of January 31, 2026, companies must have a minimum market
capitalization of $200 million and a minimum average daily turnover for the last
six months (or since the IPO launch date for Significant IPOs as defined by the
Index Provider) greater than or equal to $2 million in order to be eligible for
inclusion in the Underlying Index. As of January 31, 2026, companies listed
in the following countries were eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index:
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech
Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary,
Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands,
New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, South Africa,
South Korea, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United
Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
The
Underlying Index is weighted according to a modified capitalization weighting
methodology and is reconstituted and re-weighted semi-annually. Modified
capitalization weighting seeks to weight constituents primarily based on market
capitalization, but subject to caps on the weights of the individual securities.
Generally speaking, this approach will limit the amount of concentration in the
largest market capitalization companies and thereby increase exposure to other
companies. The Underlying Index may include large-, mid- or small-capitalization
companies, and components primarily include mid-capitalization companies. As of
January 31, 2026, the Underlying Index had 29 constituents.
Nasdaq
Dorsey Wright Thematic RotationTM
Total Return Index
The
Nasdaq Dorsey Wright Thematic RotationTM
Total Return Index (the "Underlying Index") seeks to provide broad exposure to
thematic strategies using a portfolio of exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) issued
by Global X Funds®
that target a specific theme or that has a significant overweight toward a
particular theme (each, an "Underlying ETF"), as determined by the Index
Provider (as defined below). The Underlying Index allocates equal index weights
among the five highest-ranked Underlying ETFs within the Nasdaq Dorsey Wright
Relative Strength Matrix, a proprietary, momentum-based quantitative methodology
developed by Nasdaq, Inc., the provider of the Underlying Index (the "Index
Provider"). “Relative strength” measures a security's performance relative to
that of other securities, benchmarks or broad market indexes. When determining
relative strength, the Index Provider takes into account a variety of data to
track historical performance patterns of the Underlying ETFs’ securities prices
over various time periods. The Underlying Index measures the relative strength
of each Underlying ETF compared to other Underlying ETFs. The Index is evaluated
on a monthly basis, using the Nasdaq Dorsey Wright Relative Strength Matrix data
as of the close of the last trading day of the month, to determine the five
highest-ranked Underlying ETFs. If an addition or deletion is made to the
Underlying Index, the Underlying Index is rebalanced so that the components are
equally weighted. The Underlying Index’s periodic rebalance and reconstitution
schedule may cause the Fund to experience a higher rate of portfolio turnover.
The
Underlying Index is constructed from the eligible universe of Underlying ETFs,
as determined by the Index Provider. As of January 31, 2026, the Underlying
ETFs eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index are: Global X Aging
Population ETF, Global X AgTech & Food Innovation ETF, Global X Artificial
Intelligence & Technology ETF, Global X Autonomous & Electric Vehicles
ETF, Global X Blockchain ETF, Global X Clean Water ETF, Global X ClimateTech
ETF, Global X Cloud Computing ETF, Global X Cybersecurity ETF, Global X Data
Center & Digital Infrastructure ETF, Global X Defense Tech ETF, Global X
E-commerce ETF, Global X FinTech ETF, Global X Genomics & Biotechnology ETF,
Global X HealthTech ETF, Global X Hydrogen ETF, Global X Infrastructure
Development ex-U.S. ETF, Global X Internet of Things ETF, Global X
Lithium
& Battery Tech ETF, Global X Millennial Consumer ETF, Global X Renewable
Energy Producers ETF, Global X Robotics & Artificial Intelligence ETF,
Global X Social Media ETF, Global X U.S. Electrification ETF, Global X U.S.
Infrastructure Development ETF, Global X Video Games & Esports
ETF.
Solactive
Video Games & Esports Index
The
Solactive Video Games & Esports Index (the "Underlying Index") is designed
to provide exposure to exchange-listed companies that are positioned to benefit
from increased consumption related to video games and esports, including
companies whose principal business is in video game development/publishing,
video game and esports content distribution and streaming, operating/owning
esports leagues/teams, and producing video game/esports hardware (collectively,
"Video Games & Esports Companies"), as defined by Solactive AG, the provider
of the Underlying Index ("Index Provider").
In
constructing the Underlying Index, the Index Provider first applies a
proprietary natural language processing algorithm to the eligible universe,
which screens filings, disclosures and other public information (e.g.,
regulatory filings, earnings transcripts, etc.) for keywords that describe the
index theme, to identify and rank companies with direct exposure to the video
games and esports industry. Companies identified by the natural language
processing algorithm, as of the selection date, are further reviewed by the
Index Provider on the basis of revenue related to video games and esports
activities. To be eligible for the Underlying Index, a company is considered by
the Index Provider to be a Video Games & Esports Company if the company
generates at least 50% of its revenues from video games and esports activities,
as determined by the Index Provider. Video Games & Esports Companies are
those companies that (i) develop and/or publish video games, (ii) facilitate the
streaming or distribution of video gaming and/or esports content, (iii) operate
and/or own competitive esports leagues and/or competitive esports teams, and/or
(iv) produce hardware used in video games and/or esports, including augmented
and virtual reality.
To
be a part of the eligible universe of the Underlying Index, certain minimum
market capitalization and liquidity criteria, as defined by the Index Provider,
must be met. As of January 31, 2026, companies must have a minimum market
capitalization of $200 million and a minimum average daily turnover for the last
6 months greater than or equal to $2 million in order to be eligible for
inclusion in the Underlying Index. As of January 31, 2026, companies listed
in the following countries were eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index:
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong
Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland,
Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, South Korea, Taiwan, the United
Kingdom, and the United States.
The
Underlying Index is weighted according to a modified capitalization weighting
methodology and is reconstituted and re-weighted semi-annually. Modified
capitalization weighting seeks to weight constituents primarily based on market
capitalization, but subject to caps on the weights of the individual securities.
Generally speaking, this approach will limit the amount of concentration in the
largest market capitalization companies and increase company-level
diversification. The Underlying Index may include large-, mid- or
small-capitalization companies. As of January 31, 2026, the Underlying
Index had 42 constituents.
Global
X HealthTech Index
The
Global X HealthTech Index (the "Underlying Index") is owned and was developed by
Global X Management Company LLC (the “Index Provider”), an affiliate of the Fund
and the Fund's investment adviser (the “Adviser”). The Underlying Index is
administered and calculated by Mirae Asset Global Indices Pvt. Ltd. (the “Index
Administrator”), an affiliate of the Index Provider.
The
Underlying Index is designed to provide exposure to exchange-listed companies
that are positioned to benefit from further advances in the field of healthcare
technology and the applications thereof, as determined by the Index
Administrator (collectively, "HealthTech Companies"). In order to be eligible
for inclusion in the Underlying Index, a company is considered by the Index
Administrator to be a HealthTech Company if it derives at least 50% of its
revenue from one or more of the following business activities: (i) Healthcare
Analytics and Software Solutions, (ii) Smart Medical Devices, (iii) Artificial
Intelligence-Enabled Drug Discovery, and/or (iv) Tech-Enabled Consumer
Healthcare, each of which is described further below.
In
constructing the Underlying Index, the Index Administrator first identifies
FactSet Industries related to healthcare technology. FactSet is a leading
financial data provider that maintains a comprehensive structured taxonomy
designed to offer precise classification of global companies and their
individual business units. Companies within these FactSet Industries, as of the
selection date, are further reviewed by the Index Administrator on the basis of
revenue related to HealthTech, which includes companies engaged in the following
business activities:
1.Healthcare
Analytics and Software Solutions: Companies that primarily engage in providing
software specifically for the healthcare industry. This includes insurance
technology (“Insurtech”), medical billing software, revenue cycle management,
electronic medical records, and clinical trial software.
2.Smart
Medical Devices: Companies that primarily engage in offering smart medical
devices and equipment including wearable medical devices, internet of things
(“IoT”) medical equipment, medical processing automation (such as pharmacy
fulfilment), and surgical robotics.
3.Artificial
Intelligence-Enabled Drug Discovery: Companies that offer artificial
intelligence-enabled drug development software or services.
4.Tech-Enabled
Consumer Healthcare: Companies that primarily engage in technology-focused
healthcare solutions for consumers. These include telemedicine, online
healthcare marketplaces, and online pharmacies.
The
eligible universe of the Underlying Index includes exchange-listed companies
that meet minimum market capitalization and liquidity criteria, as defined by
the Index Administrator. As of January 31, 2026, companies must be
regularly traded and, at the time of selection, have 1) a minimum of 10% of its
outstanding shares readily and publicly available for trading or $1 billion in
free float market capitalization, which is the company’s market capitalization
discounted by the percentage of its shares readily and publicly available for
trading), 2) a minimum market capitalization of $200 million, and 3) a minimum
average daily traded value (“ADTV”) for the last 6 months greater than or equal
to $2 million in order to be eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index. A
company is removed from the Underlying Index if its market capitalization drops
below $160 million or its average daily traded value (“ADTV”) for the last 6
months is less than $1.4 million. As of January 31, 2026, companies listed
in the following countries were eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index:
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong
Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland,
Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, South Korea, Taiwan, the United
Kingdom, and the United States.
The
Underlying Index is weighted according to a modified capitalization weighting
methodology and is reconstituted and re-weighted semi-annually. Modified
capitalization weighting seeks to weight constituents primarily based on free
float market capitalization, but subject to caps on the weights of the
individual securities. Generally speaking, this approach will limit the amount
of concentration in the largest market capitalization companies and increase
company-level diversification. The Underlying Index may include large-, mid- or
small-capitalization companies, and components primarily include healthcare
companies. As of January 31, 2026, the Underlying Index had 40
constituents.
Indxx
Global ClimateTech Index
The
Indxx Global ClimateTech Index (the "Underlying Index") is designed to provide
exposure to exchange-listed companies that are positioned to benefit from the
increased adoption of technologies focused on improving the efficiency of
renewable energy production and/or mitigating the adverse environmental effects
of resource consumption (“ClimateTech”), including, but not limited to,
companies whose principal business is in developing technology relating to
renewable energy, energy efficiency and storage, smart grid, lithium-ion
batteries and/or fuel cells, and/or pollution prevention/amelioration
(collectively, "ClimateTech Companies"), as defined by Indxx LLC, the provider
of the Underlying Index ("Index Provider").
In
constructing the Underlying Index, the Index Provider first identifies FactSet
Industries related to ClimateTech. Companies within these Industries, as of the
selection date, are further reviewed by the Index Provider on the basis of
revenue related to ClimateTech activities. To be eligible for the Underlying
Index, a company is considered by the Index Provider to be a ClimateTech Company
if the company generates at least 50% of its revenues from developing
technologies and/or equipment relating to: (i) renewable energy production, (ii)
residential and commercial energy efficiency and storage, (iii) smart grid
implementation, (iv) lithium-ion batteries and/or fuel cells, or (v)
preventing/ameliorating the negative environmental effects of pollution, in each
case, as determined by the Index Provider.
To
be a part of the eligible universe of the Underlying Index, certain minimum
market capitalization and liquidity criteria, as defined by the Index Provider,
must be met. As of January 31, 2026, companies must have a minimum market
capitalization of $500 million and a minimum average daily turnover for the last
6 months (or since the IPO launch date for Significant IPOs as defined by the
Index Provider) greater than or equal to $2 million in order to be eligible for
inclusion in the Underlying Index. As of January 31, 2026, companies listed
in the following countries were eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index:
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech
Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary,
Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands,
New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, South Africa,
South Korea, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey,
United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
The
Underlying Index is weighted according to a modified capitalization weighting
methodology and is reconstituted and re-weighted semi-annually. Modified
capitalization weighting seeks to weight constituents primarily based on market
capitalization,
but subject to caps on the weights of the individual securities. During each
rebalance, the maximum weight of a company is capped at 6%, the aggregate weight
of companies with a weight greater than or equal to 5% is capped at 40%, and all
remaining companies are capped at a weight of 4.5%, and all constituents are
subject to a minimum weight of 0.3%. Generally speaking, this approach will
limit the amount of concentration in the largest market capitalization companies
and increase company-level diversification. The Underlying Index may include
large-, mid- or small-capitalization companies, and components primarily include
industrials and information technology companies. As of January 31, 2026,
the Underlying Index had 38 constituents.
Solactive
Data Center REITs & Digital Infrastructure Index
The
Solactive Data Center REITs & Digital Infrastructure Index (the "Underlying
Index") is designed to provide exposure to companies that have business
operations in the fields of data centers, cellular towers, and/or digital
infrastructure hardware. Specifically, the Underlying Index will include
securities issued by “Data Center REITs & Digital Infrastructure Companies”
as defined by Solactive AG, the provider of the Underlying Index (the "Index
Provider"). Data Center REITs & Digital Infrastructure Companies are those
companies that derive at least 50% of their revenues, operating income, or
assets from the following business activities:
i.Data
Center Companies: Companies that own, operate, and/or develop data centers
(including data center REITs (as defined below)), which are publicly-listed
companies that own and manage facilities that customers use to safely and
efficiently store computer servers and data. Data Center Companies offer a range
of products and services to help secure, maintain, and facilitate the use of
servers and data within data centers, including providing uninterruptable power
supplies, temperature regulation, and physical security.
ii.Cellular
Tower Companies: Companies that own, operate and/or develop cellular towers
(including cellular tower REITs), which are publicly-listed companies that lease
antennae and equipment space on cellular towers to wireless carriers. Wireless
carriers utilize the cellular tower space provided by Cellular Tower Companies
to operate antennae and equipment that transmit and receive the signal reception
of cellular phones, televisions, radios, and other wireless communication
devices.
iii.Digital
Infrastructure Hardware Companies: Companies that manufacture, design, and/or
assemble the servers and/or other hardware often used in data centers and
cellular towers, including data center servers, processors and data center
switches.
Data
Center Companies and Cellular Tower Companies can be (but are not required to
be) structured as real estate investment trusts (“REITs”), which are publicly
listed companies that own or finance income-producing real estate assets. In
order to qualify as a REIT under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended,
a company needs to satisfy several regulatory requirements including but not
limited to:
i.Investing
at least 75% of its assets in real estate.
ii.Deriving
at least 75% of its gross income from rents from real property, interest on
mortgages financing real property, or from sales of real estate.
iii.Distributing
at least 90% of its taxable income in the form of shareholder dividends each
year.
In
constructing the Underlying Index, the Index Provider first applies a
proprietary natural language processing algorithm to the eligible universe,
which seeks to identify and rank companies that operate data centers and/or
companies with direct exposure to digital infrastructure based on filings,
disclosures and other public information (e.g. regulatory filings, earnings
transcripts, etc.). The highest ranking companies identified by the natural
language processing algorithm, as of the selection date, are further reviewed by
the Index Provider to confirm they derive at least 50% of their revenues,
operating income, or assets from Data Center REITs and/or Digital
Infrastructure.
The
eligible universe of the Underlying Index includes exchange-listed companies
that meet minimum market capitalization and liquidity criteria, as defined by
the Index Provider. As of January 31, 2026, companies must have a minimum
market capitalization of $200 million and a minimum average daily turnover for
the last 6 months greater than or equal to $2 million in order to be eligible
for inclusion in the Underlying Index. As of January 31, 2026, companies
listed in the following countries were eligible for inclusion in the Underlying
Index: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,
Hong Kong, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand,
Norway, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Spain,
Sweden,
Switzerland, South Korea, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The
Fund may invest in securities denominated in foreign currencies.
The
Underlying Index is weighted according to a modified capitalization weighting
methodology and is reconstituted and re-weighted semi-annually. Modified
capitalization weighting seeks to weight constituents primarily based on market
capitalization, but subject to caps on the weights of the individual securities.
During each rebalance, the maximum weight of a Data Center Company or Cellular
Tower Company (defined by the Index Provider as companies that own, operate,
and/or develop data centers (including data center REITs) and cellular towers
(including Cellular Tower REITs)), respectively, is capped at 12% and the
maximum weight of a Digital Infrastructure Hardware Company (defined by the
Index Provider as companies that manufacture the servers and/or other hardware
often used in data centers and cellular towers, including semiconductors,
integrated circuits, and processors) is capped at 2%, the aggregate weight of
companies with a weight greater than or equal to 4.5% is capped at 45%, all
remaining companies are capped at a weight of 4.5%, and all constituents are
subject to a minimum weight of 0.3%. Generally speaking, this approach will
limit the amount of concentration in the largest market capitalization companies
but may increase the number of constituents included within the Underlying
Index. The Underlying Index may include large-, mid- or small-capitalization
companies, and components primarily include real estate and information
technology companies. As of January 31, 2026, the Underlying Index had 25
constituents.
Solactive
Global Clean Water Industry Index
The
Solactive Global Clean Water Industry Index (the "Underlying Index") is designed
to provide exposure to companies that have business operations in the provision
of clean water. Specifically, the Underlying Index will include securities
issued by “Clean Water Companies” as defined by Solactive AG, the provider of
the Underlying Index (the "Index Provider"). Clean Water Companies are those
companies that derive at least 50% of their revenues, operating income, or
assets from the following business activities:
1.Industrial
water treatment, recycling (including water reclamation), purification, and
conservation.
2.Water
storage, transportation, metering, and distribution infrastructure.
3.Production
of household and commercial water purifier and heating products.
4.Provision
of consulting services identifying and implementing water efficiency strategies
at the corporate and/or municipal levels.
In
constructing the Underlying Index, the Index Provider first applies a
proprietary natural language processing algorithm to the eligible universe,
which seeks to identify and rank companies involved in the provision of clean
water based on filings, disclosures and other public information (e.g.
regulatory filings, earnings transcripts, etc.). The Index Provider also applies
an ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) screening process to the universe
of eligible companies. The Index Provider, in partnership with ESG data provider
Minerva, on a quarterly basis reviews each constituent of the Underlying Index
for compliance with the principles of the United Nations Global Compact. Any
existing or potential constituent of the Underlying Index which does not meet
the labor, human rights, environmental, and anti-corruption standards as defined
by the United Nations Global Compact Principles as of the quarterly review will
be excluded from the Underlying Index, as determined by the Index Provider. The
highest-ranking companies identified by the natural language processing
algorithm, as of the selection date, are further reviewed by the Index Provider
to confirm they derive at least 50% of their revenues from the provision of
clean water.
To
be a part of the eligible universe of the Underlying Index, certain minimum
market capitalization and liquidity criteria, as defined by the Index Provider,
must be met. As of January 31, 2026, companies must have a minimum market
capitalization of $200 million and a minimum average daily turnover for the last
6 months greater than or equal to $2 million in order to be eligible for
inclusion in the Underlying Index. As of January 31, 2026, companies listed
in the following countries were eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index:
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech
Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary,
Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands,
New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South
Africa, South Korea, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand,
Turkey, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United
States.
The
Underlying Index is weighted according to a modified capitalization weighting
methodology and is reconstituted and re-weighted semi-annually. Modified
capitalization weighting seeks to weight constituents primarily based on market
capitalization, but subject to caps on the weights of the individual securities.
During each rebalance, the maximum weight of a company is capped at 8%, the
aggregate weight of companies with a weight greater than or equal to 4.5% is
capped at 40%, and all remaining companies are capped at a weight of 4.5%, and
all constituents are subject to a minimum weight of 0.3%. Generally speaking,
this approach will limit the amount of concentration in the largest market
capitalization companies and
increase
company-level diversification. The Underlying Index may include large-, mid- or
small-capitalization companies, and components primarily include utilities and
industrials companies. As of January 31, 2026, the Underlying Index had 40
constituents.
Solactive
AgTech & Food Innovation Index
The
Solactive AgTech & Food Innovation Index (the "Underlying Index") is
designed to provide exposure to companies that are positioned to benefit from
further advances in the fields of agricultural technology (“AgTech”) and food
innovation. Specifically, the Solactive AgTech & Food Innovation Index will
include securities issued by “AgTech & Food Innovation Companies” as defined
by Solactive AG, the provider of the Solactive AgTech & Food Innovation
Index. “AgTech & Food Innovation Companies” are those companies that derive
at least 50% of their revenues, operating income, or assets from the following
business activities:
•AgTech
◦Precision
Agriculture:
Technologies used to increase crop yields and reduce levels of traditional
agricultural inputs (land, water, fertilizer, etc.) to grow crops more
profitably/efficiently. Business activities include the development of
Geographic Information System (“GIS”) software and hardware for GIS-based
agriculture, precision weed control technologies, soil and water sensors,
weather tracking, and satellite imaging.
◦Robotics/Automation:
Technologies used to reduce labor and other farming inputs. Business activities
include the development of farming drones and autonomous farm equipment for
irrigation, soil management (agronomy), pollination, harvesting and processing
(e.g. robotic-enabled harvesters).
◦Controlled
Environment Agriculture (“CEA”):
Technologies and systems that optimize plant and/or fish farming and use
controlled environments to reduce the types and/or quantity of inputs required
for farming. Business activities include vertical farming, hydroponics,
aquaponics and aeroponics.
◦Agricultural
Biotechnology:
Biological/genetic technologies used to enhance agricultural cultivation and
yield. Business activities include the use of gene editing to develop crops with
higher yield, less water requirements, greater insect resistance,
etc.
•Food
Innovation
◦Protein
& Dairy Alternatives:
Products containing protein-rich ingredients sourced from plants, insects,
fungi, or through tissue culture that replace conventional animal-based protein
sources like meat and dairy. Business activities include the development of
plant-based and/or food-technology (e.g. molecular based) alternative proteins
and dairy.
◦Food
Waste Reduction:
Technologies and/or systems designed to reduce food-waste in the supply chain.
Business activities include the development of technology to track, monitor,
and/or preserve food (e.g. blockchain-based food sourcing and tracking systems
and software), as well as the development of products and services (e.g.
marketplaces) that reduce food waste.
In
addition, companies identified by Solactive AG as deriving greater than 0% but
less than 50% of revenue from the business activities described above
("Diversified AgTech & Food Innovation Companies"), as well as companies
identified by Solactive AG as having primary business operations in the business
activities described above but that do not currently generate revenues
(“Pre-Revenue AgTech & Food Innovation Companies”), are eligible for
inclusion in the Solactive AgTech & Food Innovation Index if there are fewer
than 30 eligible AgTech & Food Innovation Companies. Diversified AgTech
& Food Innovation Companies and Pre-Revenue AgTech & Food Innovation
Companies are collectively subject to an aggregate weight cap of 15% at each
semi-annual rebalance.
In
constructing the Solactive AgTech & Food Innovation Index, Solactive AG
first applies a proprietary natural language processing algorithm to the
eligible universe, which seeks to identify and rank companies involved in the
fields of agriculture technology and food innovation based on filings,
disclosures and other public information (e.g. regulatory filings, earnings
transcripts, etc.). The highest-ranking companies identified by the natural
language processing algorithm, as of the selection date, are further reviewed by
Solactive AG to confirm they derive at least 50% of their revenues from the
business activities described above, greater than 0% of their revenues from the
business activities described above in the case of Diversified AgTech & Food
Innovation Companies, or that they have primary business operations in the
business activities described above but do not currently generate revenues in
the case of Pre-Revenue AgTech & Food Innovation Companies.
To
be a part of the eligible universe of the Solactive AgTech & Food Innovation
Index, certain minimum market capitalization and liquidity criteria, as defined
by the Index Provider, must be met. As of January 31, 2026, companies must
have a minimum market capitalization of $50 million and a minimum average daily
turnover for the last 6 months greater than or equal to $.5 million in order to
be eligible for inclusion in the Solactive AgTech & Food Innovation Index.
As of January 31, 2026, companies listed in the following countries were
eligible for inclusion in the Solactive AgTech & Food Innovation Index:
Australia,
Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic,
Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Indonesia,
Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New
Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South
Africa, South Korea, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand,
Turkey, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The
Fund may invest in China A-Shares, which are issued by companies incorporated in
mainland China and traded on Chinese exchanges.
The
Solactive AgTech & Food Innovation Index is weighted according to a modified
capitalization weighting methodology and is reconstituted and re-weighted
semi-annually. Modified capitalization weighting seeks to weight constituents
primarily based on market capitalization, but subject to caps on the weights of
the individual securities. During each rebalance, the maximum weight of a
company is capped at 12%, the aggregate weight of companies with a weight
greater than or equal to 4.5% is capped at 48%, and all remaining companies are
capped at a weight of 4.5%, and all constituents are subject to a minimum weight
of 0.3%. In addition, Diversified AgTech & Food Innovation Companies and
Pre-Revenue AgTech & Food Innovation Companies are subject to an individual
weight cap of 4% and an aggregate weight cap of 15% at each semi-annual
rebalance. Generally speaking, modified capitalization weighting will limit the
amount of concentration in the largest market capitalization companies and
increase company-level diversification. The Solactive AgTech & Food
Innovation Index may include large-, mid- or small-capitalization companies, and
components primarily include consumer staples and materials companies. As of
January 31, 2026, the Solactive AgTech & Food Innovation Index had 30
constituents.
Solactive
Blockchain Index
The
Solactive Blockchain Index (the "Underlying Index") is designed to provide
exposure to companies that are positioned to benefit from further advances in
the field of blockchain technology. A blockchain is a peer-to-peer shared,
distributed ledger (or decentralized database) that facilitates the recording of
transactions and tracking of assets without the need for the use of a central
authority acting as a trusted intermediary (i.e., a bank). Certain users, known
as nodes, elect to maintain a copy of the database (“ledger”) on their computer.
Nodes connect on a peer-to-peer basis with other nodes, propagating transactions
and blocks across the network to be independently verified by other nodes
according to the network’s rules. Transactions are aggregated into blocks which
record the time and sequence of transactions, like new pages of a ledger.
“Blocks” are linked together with the prior block to form a “chain”, or a
“blockchain”, which grows linearly in time with the addition of each subsequent
block, or page of the ledger. The resulting blockchain is a distributed,
time-stamped ledger of information—because the rules for adding information to
the ledger are public, any transactions and new pages of the ledger can be
independently verified by any user maintaining a copy of the ledger, resulting
in a shared and continually reconciled database. Blockchains may also be private
or public networks. A public blockchain network is a publicly available set of
rules that anyone can download and run to participate in the network. A private
blockchain network is a centralized blockchain that requires an invitation from
the originator of the network to participate. Specifically, the Underlying Index
will include securities issued by “Blockchain Companies” as defined by Solactive
AG, the provider of the Underlying Index (the "Index Provider"). “Blockchain
Companies” are those companies that derive at least 50% of their revenues,
operating income, or assets from the following business activities:
1.Digital
Asset Mining:
Companies involved in verifying and adding digital asset transactions to a
blockchain ledger (i.e., digital asset mining), or that produce technology used
in digital asset mining.
2.Blockchain
& Digital Asset Transactions:
Companies that operate trading platforms/exchanges, custodians, wallets, and/or
payment gateways for digital assets issued on a blockchain.
3.Blockchain
Applications:
Companies involved in the development and distribution of applications and
software services related to blockchain technology and digital assets issued on
a blockchain, including smart contracts.
4.Blockchain
& Digital Asset Hardware:
Companies that manufacture and distribute infrastructure and/or hardware used
for blockchain activities and digital assets issued on a blockchain.
5.Blockchain
& Digital Asset Integration:
Companies that provide engineering and consulting services for the adoption and
utilization of blockchain technology and digital assets issued on a blockchain.
For purposes of the definition of “Blockchain Companies”, the Index Provider
will consider only those revenues, operating income, or assets from consulting
and/or engineering services specifically related to blockchain and digital asset
technologies.
The
Fund will not invest in digital assets (including cryptocurrencies) (i) directly
or (ii) indirectly through the use of digital asset derivatives.
In
addition, companies identified by the Index Provider as deriving greater than 0%
but less than 50% of revenue from the business activities described above
("Diversified Blockchain Companies"), as well as companies identified by the
Index Provider as having primary business operations in the business activities
described above but that do not currently generate revenues (“Pre-Revenue
Blockchain Companies”, are eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index if
there are fewer than 25
eligible
Blockchain Companies. Diversified Blockchain Companies and Pre-Revenue
Blockchain Companies are collectively subject to an aggregate weight cap of 10%
at each semi-annual rebalance.
In
constructing the Underlying Index, the Index Provider first applies a
proprietary natural language processing algorithm to the eligible universe,
which seeks to identify and rank companies involved in the blockchain fields
based on filings, disclosures and other public information (e.g. regulatory
filings, earnings transcripts, etc.). The highest-ranking companies identified
by the natural language processing algorithm, as of the selection date, are
further reviewed by the Index Provider to confirm they derive at least 50% of
their revenues from the business activities described above, greater than 0% of
their revenues from the business activities described above in the case of
Diversified Blockchain Companies, or that they have primary business operations
in the business activities described above but do not currently generate
revenues in the case of Pre-Revenue Blockchain Companies.
To
be a part of the eligible universe of the Underlying Index, certain minimum
market capitalization and liquidity criteria, as defined by the Index Provider,
must be met. As of January 31, 2026, companies must have a minimum market
capitalization of $50 million and a minimum average daily turnover for the last
3 months greater than or equal to $0.5 million in order to be eligible for
inclusion in the Underlying Index. As of January 31, 2026, companies listed
in the following countries were eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index:
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech
Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary,
Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands,
New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South
Africa, South Korea, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand,
Turkey, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The
Fund may invest in China A-Shares, which are issued by companies incorporated in
mainland China and traded on Chinese exchanges.
The
Underlying Index is weighted according to a modified effective market
capitalization weighting methodology and is reconstituted and re-weighted
semi-annually. Modified effective market capitalization weighting seeks to
weight constituents based on market capitalization but accounting for liquidity
in determining final weights, and subject to caps on the weights of the
individual securities. During each rebalance, the maximum weight of a company is
capped at 12%, the aggregate weight of companies with a weight greater than or
equal to 4.5% is capped at 45%, and all remaining companies are capped at a
weight of 4.5%, and all constituents are subject to a minimum weight of 0.3%. In
addition, Diversified Blockchain Companies and Pre-Revenue Blockchain Companies
are subject to an individual weight cap of 2% and an aggregate weight cap of 10%
at each semi-annual rebalance. Generally speaking, modified effective market
capitalization weighting will limit the amount of concentration in the largest
market capitalization companies and increase company-level diversification. The
Underlying Index may include large-, mid- or small-capitalization companies, and
components primarily include information technology and financials companies. As
of January 31, 2026, the Underlying Index had 35 constituents.
Solactive
Global Hydrogen Index
The
Solactive Global Hydrogen Index (the "Underlying Index") is designed to provide
exposure to companies that are positioned to benefit from further advances in
the field of hydrogen technology. Hydrogen technology includes products and
services focused on the development and implementation of hydrogen gas as a
renewable fuel source. Hydrogen technology may play an important role in the
transition toward renewable energy from fossil fuels. Specifically, the
Underlying Index will include securities issued by “Hydrogen Companies” as
defined by Solactive AG, the provider of the Underlying Index (the "Index
Provider"). “Hydrogen Companies” are those companies that derive at least 50% of
their revenues, operating income, or assets from the following business
activities:
1.Hydrogen
Production:
Companies involved in the production, transportation, storage, and distribution
of hydrogen (including renewable hydrogen) that can be used as an energy
source.
2.Hydrogen
Fuel Cells:
Companies that develop and/or manufacture fuel cells (and the components
thereof) that convert chemical energy into electricity and heat, powered by
hydrogen fuel and/or reformed hydrogen-rich gas.
3.Hydrogen
Technology:
Companies involved in the production of hydrogen electrolyzers (which produce
hydrogen gas from water), tanks and pipelines, commercial and residential
infrastructure, generators, engines, and vehicles powered by hydrogen fuel
cells, as well as hydrogen fueling stations.
4.Hydrogen
Integration:
Companies that provide engineering and consulting services for the adoption and
utilization of hydrogen-based fuel and/or energy sources at the residential,
commercial, and industrial levels.
In
addition, companies identified by the Index Provider as deriving greater than 0%
but less than 50% of revenue from the business activities described above
("Diversified Hydrogen Companies"), as well as companies identified by the Index
Provider as having primary business operations in the business activities
described above but that do not currently generate revenues (“Pre-Revenue
Hydrogen Companies”), are eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index if
there are fewer than 25 eligible
Hydrogen
Companies. Diversified Hydrogen Companies and Pre-Revenue Hydrogen Companies are
collectively subject to an aggregate weight cap of 10% at each semi-annual
rebalance.
In
constructing the Underlying Index, the Index Provider first applies a
proprietary natural language processing algorithm to the eligible universe,
which seeks to identify and rank companies involved in the fields of hydrogen
and fuel cells based on filings, disclosures and other public information (e.g.
regulatory filings, earnings transcripts, etc.). The highest-ranking companies
identified by the natural language processing algorithm, as of the selection
date, are further reviewed by the Index Provider to confirm they derive at least
50% of their revenues from the business activities described above, greater than
0% of their revenues from the business activities described above in the case of
Diversified Hydrogen Companies, or that they have primary business operations in
the business activities described above but do not currently generate revenues
in the case of Pre-Revenue Hydrogen Companies.
To
be a part of the eligible universe of the Underlying Index, certain minimum
market capitalization and liquidity criteria, as defined by the Index Provider,
must be met. As of January 31, 2026, companies must have a minimum market
capitalization of $50 million and a minimum average daily turnover for the last
3 months greater than or equal to $0.5 million in order to be eligible for
inclusion in the Underlying Index. As of January 31, 2026, companies listed
in the following countries were eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index:
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech
Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary,
Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands,
New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South
Africa, South Korea, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand,
Turkey, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The
Fund may invest in China A-Shares, which are issued by companies incorporated in
mainland China and traded on Chinese exchanges. The Fund may invest in
securities of issuers located in emerging markets
The
Underlying Index is weighted according to a modified capitalization weighting
methodology and is reconstituted and re-weighted semi-annually. Modified
capitalization weighting seeks to weight constituents primarily based on market
capitalization, but subject to caps on the weights of the individual securities.
During each rebalance, the maximum weight of a company is capped at 12%, the
aggregate weight of companies with a weight greater than or equal to 4.5% is
capped at 45%, and all remaining companies are capped at a weight of 4.5%, and
all constituents are subject to a minimum weight of 0.3%. In addition,
Diversified Hydrogen Companies and Pre-Revenue Hydrogen Companies are subject to
an individual weight cap of 2% and an aggregate weight cap of 10% at each
semi-annual rebalance. Generally speaking, modified capitalization weighting
will limit the amount of concentration in the largest market capitalization
companies and increase company-level diversification. The Underlying Index may
include large-, mid- or small-capitalization companies, and components primarily
include industrials companies. As of January 31, 2026, the Underlying Index
had 25 constituents.
Global
X Defense Tech Index
The
Global X Defense Tech Index (the "Underlying Index") is owned and was developed
by Global X Management Company LLC (the “Index Provider”), an affiliate of the
Fund and the Fund's investment adviser (the “Adviser”). The Underlying Index is
administered and calculated by Mirae Asset Global Indices Pvt. Ltd. (the “Index
Administrator”), an affiliate of the Index Provider. The Underlying Index is
designed to provide exposure to defense technology (“Defense Tech”) companies
that are positioned to benefit from technology, services, systems and hardware
that cater to the defense and military sector. Specifically, the Underlying
Index consists of securities issued by “Defense Tech Companies”, as determined
by the Index Administrator. “Defense Tech Companies” are those companies that
derive at least 50% of their revenues from one or more of the following business
activities in aggregate, as determined by the Index Administrator:
•Cybersecurity:
Companies that develop and manage security protocols preventing intrusion and
attacks to systems, networks, applications, computers, and/or infrastructure for
local and/or national defense applications.
•Defense
Technology:
Companies that develop artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IoT),
augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR), human-machine collaboration, big data,
specialized 3D light detecting and ranging (LiDAR), analytics, geospatial
intelligence, and/or security scanning solutions (e.g., biometrics, credential
authentication, etc.) for local and/or national defense applications, as well as
companies that provide applications and services for mission support via a
combination of command, control, communications, computers, cyber-defense,
combat systems (“C6”), and companies involved in intelligence, surveillance, and
reconnaissance (ISR).
•Advanced
Military Systems and Hardware:
Companies that develop robotics, drones, advanced weapon systems and
military/naval munitions, defense-specific power and fuel systems, sensor
arrays, processors and networking equipment, space launch systems (including
satellites), radar systems, and/or military aircraft//naval ships/vehicle
production,
for local and/or national defense applications, as well as companies that
provide engineering, technical training and/or simulation for the above
systems.
Local
and/or national defense applications refer to the products and services that
local and/or national governmental organizations require in order to prepare for
and respond to threats, including but not limited to intelligence, surveillance,
combat systems and cyber-defense.
In
constructing the Underlying Index, the Index Administrator first identifies
FactSet Industries related to Defense Tech. FactSet is a leading financial data
provider that maintains a comprehensive structured taxonomy designed to offer
precise classification of global companies and their individual business units.
Companies within these FactSet Industries, as of the selection date, are further
reviewed by the Index Administrator on the basis of revenue related to Defense
Tech, as defined above.
To
be a part of the eligible universe of the Underlying Index, certain minimum
market capitalization and liquidity criteria, as defined by the Index
Administrator, must be met. As of January 31, 2026, companies must have a
minimum market capitalization of $200 million and a minimum average daily
turnover for the last 6 months greater than or equal to $2 million in order to
be eligible for initial inclusion in the Underlying Index. As of
January 31, 2026, companies listed in the following countries were eligible
for inclusion in the Underlying Index: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil,
Canada, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France,
Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan,
Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru,
Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, South Africa, South Korea, Singapore,
Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, the
United Kingdom, and the United States.
The
Underlying Index is weighted according to a modified capitalization weighting
methodology and is reconstituted and re-weighted semi-annually. Modified
capitalization weighting seeks to weight constituents primarily based on free
float market capitalization, but subject to caps on the weights of the
individual securities. Free float market capitalization measures a company’s
market capitalization discounted by the percentage of its shares readily
available to be traded by the general public in the open market (“free float”).
At each rebalance, the maximum weight of a company is capped at 8%. Generally
speaking, modified capitalization weighting will limit the amount of
concentration in the largest market capitalization companies. The Underlying
Index may include large-, mid- or small-capitalization companies, and components
primarily include industrials companies. As of January 31, 2026, the
Underlying Index had 49 constituents.
Global
X Infrastructure Development ex-U.S. Index
The
Global X Infrastructure Development ex-U.S. Index (the "Underlying Index") is
owned and was developed by Global X Management Company LLC (the “Index
Provider”), an affiliate of the Fund and the Fund's investment adviser (the
“Adviser”). The Underlying Index is administered and calculated by Mirae Asset
Global Indices Pvt. Ltd. (the “Index Administrator”), an affiliate of the Index
Provider.
The
Underlying Index is designed to provide exposure to equity securities listed and
domiciled in international markets, including developed and emerging markets but
excluding the U.S., that provide exposure to infrastructure development,
including companies involved in engineering and construction services;
production of infrastructure raw materials and composites; producers and
distributors of heavy construction equipment and products; infrastructure
transportation; and manufacturers and/or distributors of smart grid components,
(collectively, "International Infrastructure Development Companies").
“International Infrastructure Development Companies” are those companies that
derive at least 50% of their revenues from one or more of the following business
activities in aggregate outside of the U.S., as determined by the Index
Administrator:
•Engineering
and Construction Services:
Companies that provide engineering, consulting, design, procurement,
maintenance, dredging, and construction services for large-scale infrastructure
projects such as energy generation/distribution, transportation (e.g., roads,
bridges, tunnels, rail), water/wastewater, telecommunications, seaports, and
airports.
•Raw
and Composite Materials:
Companies that produce and supply composite and raw materials (e.g., aluminum,
steel, copper, nickel, tin, concrete, asphalt, cement, and specialty chemicals)
that are utilized in the development and construction of infrastructure
projects.
•Construction
Equipment and Products:
Companies that manufacture, distribute, sell, and/or rent heavy construction
equipment, electric and fiber optic cables, pipes, cranes, pumps, and other
products or equipment utilized in large-scale infrastructure projects.
•Infrastructure
Transportation:
Companies that transport infrastructure raw materials and equipment, such as the
materials used in the other business activities described in the other
sub-themes, as well as aggregates, alumina, base metals, bauxite, coal, coke,
iron ore, lumber, steel, and panels (solar and construction panels,
etc.).
•Smart
Grid Components: Companies
that manufacture or sell electrical components, energy storage devices, EV
charging equipment, smart meters and other applications related to smart grid
construction.
In
constructing the Underlying Index, the Index Administrator first identifies
FactSet Industries related to International Infrastructure Development. FactSet
is a leading financial data provider that maintains a comprehensive structured
taxonomy designed to offer precise classification of global companies and their
individual business units. Companies within these FactSet Industries, as of the
selection date, are further reviewed by the Index Administrator on the basis of
revenue related to International Infrastructure Development, as defined
above.
To
be a part of the eligible universe of the Underlying Index, certain minimum
market capitalization and liquidity criteria, as defined by the Index
Administrator, must be met. As of January 31, 2026, companies must have a
minimum market capitalization of $200 million and a minimum average daily
turnover for the last 6 months greater than or equal to $2 million in order to
be eligible for initial inclusion in the Underlying Index. As of
January 31, 2026, companies listed in the following countries were eligible
for inclusion in the Underlying Index: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil,
Canada, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,
Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan,
Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru,
Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea,
Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and
the United Kingdom.
The
Underlying Index is weighted according to a modified capitalization weighting
methodology and is reconstituted and re-weighted semi-annually. Modified
capitalization weighting seeks to weight constituents primarily based on free
float market capitalization, but subject to caps on the weights of the
individual securities. Free float market capitalization measures a company’s
market capitalization discounted by the percentage of its shares readily
available to be traded by the general public in the open market (“free float”).
At each rebalance, the maximum weight of a company is capped at 3%. Generally
speaking, modified capitalization weighting will limit the amount of
concentration in the largest market capitalization companies. The Underlying
Index may include large-, mid- or small-capitalization companies, and components
primarily include industrials companies. As of January 31, 2026, the
Underlying Index had 100 constituents.
Global
X AI Semiconductor & Quantum Index
The
Underlying Index is owned and was developed by Global X Management Company LLC
(the “Index Provider”), the Fund's investment adviser (the “Adviser”) and an
affiliate of the Fund. The Underlying Index is administered and calculated by
Mirae Asset Global Indices Pvt. Ltd. (the “Index Administrator”), an affiliate
of the Index Provider and the Fund.
The
Underlying Index, as presently constituted, is designed to track the performance
of companies that are involved in the artificial intelligence (“AI”)
semiconductor and quantum computing ecosystems. “AI Semiconductor” companies
refers to companies involved in AI Semiconductors, Compute System Enablers and
Data Center Infrastructure, as described below . “Quantum” companies are
companies involved in Quantum Computing Technologies, as described below. In
constructing the Underlying Index, the Index Administrator analyzes industries
and business segments within FactSet’s classification system that the Index
Administrator considers to be related to the AI Semiconductors and Quantum
themes to create an initial universe of eligible securities. FactSet is an
independent leading financial data provider that maintains a comprehensive
structured taxonomy designed to offer precise classification of global companies
and their individual business units. Companies that are identified as deriving a
significant proportion of their revenue from the following sub-themes will be
evaluated for inclusion in the initial universe:
•AI
Semiconductors:
Companies primarily engaged in the design and manufacture of graphics processing
units (GPUs), central processing units (CPUs), application-specific integrated
circuits (ASICs), networking chips, memory solutions, and other semiconductor
chips that enable AI model training and inference.
•Compute
Systems Enablers:
Companies primarily engaged in the architecture, engineering, and production of
AI-focused hardware systems and software systems, including servers, networking,
and integration, and next-generation data center computing and
storage.
•Data
Center Infrastructure and Equipment:
Companies primarily engaged in delivering HVAC, cooling systems, and specialized
infrastructure critical to ensuring energy efficiency and optimal performance in
AI data centers. This also includes firms involved in power management
components tailored for AI and machine learning applications.
•Quantum
Computing Technologies:
Companies primarily engaged in the development of quantum computing systems that
use quantum mechanics to solve problems beyond the reach of classical computing
systems.
To
be a part of the initial universe, companies must meet certain minimum market
capitalization and liquidity criteria, as determined by the Index Administrator.
As of September 3, 2025, companies must have a minimum market capitalization of
$1 billion and an average daily turnover for the last 6 months greater than or
equal to $2 million for inclusion in the initial universe. Newly listed
securities may be considered for inclusion subject to certain criteria related
to trading history, number of days traded and market capitalization, determined
by the Index Administrator. Additionally, companies must be listed in developed
or emerging market countries to be eligible for inclusion in the initial
universe. As of September 3, 2025, companies listed in the following countries
are not eligible for inclusion: Bangladesh, China, India, Kuwait, Pakistan,
Russia, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia. As of January 31, 2026, companies must
have a minimum of 10% of their outstanding shares available for public
investment.
Disclaimers
The
Index Providers are independent of the Fund and Global X Management Company LLC,
the investment adviser for the Fund ("Adviser"). The Index Provider determines
the relative weightings of the constituents of the Underlying Index and
publishes information regarding the market value of the Underlying Index.
Solactive
AG ("Solactive") is a leading company in the structuring and indexing business
for institutional clients. Solactive runs the Solactive index platform.
Solactive indices are used by issuers worldwide as underlying indices for
financial products. Solactive does not sponsor, endorse or promote any Fund and
is not in any way connected to it and does not accept any liability in relation
to their issue, operation and trading.
Concinnity
has a background in corporate consulting with a focus on causal path modeling
comprised of stakeholder indices, as well as significant experience in
quantitative analysis and portfolio management. Concinnity has developed a
proprietary, blended qualitative and quantitative framework for identifying
companies guided by an MsOS and has been conducting this analysis for nearly a
decade. Concinnity makes no representation or warranty, express or implied, to
the shareholders of this Fund or any member of the public regarding the
advisability of investing in securities generally or in this Fund particularly
or the ability of any data supplied by Concinnity to track general stock market
performance.
The
Funds are not sponsored, promoted, sold or supported in any other manner by
Solactive AG or Concinnity, nor does Solactive AG or Concinnity offer any
express or implicit guarantee or assurance either with regard to the results of
using the index and/or index trade mark or the index price at any time or in any
other respect. The relevant indexes are calculated and published by Solactive AG
and/or Concinnity. Solactive AG and/or Concinnity uses its best efforts to
ensure that the relevant indexes are calculated correctly. Irrespective of its
obligations towards the issuer, Solactive AG and/or Concinnity have no
obligations to point out errors in the index to third parties including but not
limited to investors and/or financial intermediaries of the Funds. Neither
publication of the index by Solactive AG or Concinnity nor the licensing of the
index or index trade mark by Concinnity and/or Solactive AG for the purpose of
use in connection with the Funds constitutes a recommendation by Solactive AG or
Concinnity to invest capital in said Funds nor does it in any way represent an
assurance or opinion of Solactive AG or Concinnity with regard to any investment
in the Funds.
Indxx
is a service mark of Indxx LLC ("Indxx") and has been licensed for use for
certain purposes by the Adviser. The Funds are not sponsored, endorsed, sold or
promoted by Indxx. Indxx makes no representation or warranty, express or
implied, to the owners of the Funds or any member of the public regarding the
advisability of investing in securities generally or in the Funds particularly.
Indxx has no obligation to take the needs of the Adviser or the shareholders of
the Funds into consideration in determining, composing or calculating the
Underlying Indices. Indxx is not responsible for and has not participated in the
determination of the timing, amount or pricing of the Fund Shares to be issued
or in the determination or calculation of the equation by which the Fund Shares
are to be converted into cash. Indxx has no obligation or liability in
connection with the administration, marketing or trading of the
Funds.
Global
X Management Company LLC owns all rights to the trademark, name and intellectual
property associated with the Global X Defense Tech Index,
Global
X HealthTech Index, the Global X Infrastructure Development ex-U.S. Index, and
the Global X AI Semiconductor & Quantum Index. No representation is made by
Global X Management Company LLC that the Global X Defense Tech Index, Global X
HealthTech Index, the Global X Infrastructure Development ex-U.S. Index, or the
Global X AI Semiconductor & Quantum Index is accurate or complete or that
investment in the Global X Defense Tech Index, Global X HealthTech Index, Global
X Infrastructure Development ex-U.S. Index, the Global X AI Semiconductor &
Quantum Index, or the Funds will be profitable or suitable for any person. The
Global X Defense Tech Index, Global X HealthTech Index, the Global X
Infrastructure Development ex-U.S. Index, and the Global X AI Semiconductor
& Quantum Index are administered and calculated by Mirae Asset Global
Indices Pvt. Ltd and Global X Management Company LLC will have no liability for
any error in calculation of the Global X Defense Tech Index, Global X HealthTech
Index, the Global X Infrastructure Development ex-U.S. Index, or the Global X AI
Semiconductor & Quantum Index. Global
X Management Company LLC does not guarantee that the Global X Defense Tech
Index, the Global X HealthTech Index, the Global X Infrastructure Development
ex-U.S. Index, the Global X AI Semiconductor & Quantum Index or the
underlying methodology is accurate or complete.
OTHER
SERVICE PROVIDERS
SEI
Investments Global Funds Services is the sub-administrator for each Fund.
Brown
Brothers Harriman & Co. serves as the custodian and transfer agent for the
Global X Cloud Computing ETF, the Global X Millennial Consumer ETF, the Global X
HealthTech ETF, and the Global X U.S. Infrastructure Development ETF. The Bank
of New York Mellon serves as custodian and transfer agent to each Fund except
for the Global X Cloud Computing ETF, the Global X Millennial Consumer ETF, the
Global X HealthTech ETF, and the Global X U.S. Infrastructure Development
ETF.
Stradley
Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP serves as counsel for the Trust and the Trust's
Independent Trustees.
PricewaterhouseCoopers
LLP serves as each Fund's independent registered public accounting
firm.
ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION
The
Trust enters into contractual arrangements with various parties, including among
others, a Fund's Adviser, sub-adviser(s) (as applicable), custodian(s), and
transfer agent(s) who provide services to the Fund. Shareholders are not parties
to any such contractual arrangements and are not intended beneficiaries of those
contractual arrangements, and those contractual arrangements are not intended to
create in any shareholder any right to enforce them against the service
providers or to seek any remedy under them against the service providers, either
directly or on behalf of the Trust.
This
Prospectus provides information concerning the Funds that investors should
consider in determining whether to purchase Fund Shares. Neither this Prospectus
nor the SAI is intended, or should be read, to be or give rise to an agreement
or contract between the Trust or the Funds and any investor, or to give rise to
any rights in any shareholder or other person other than any rights under
federal or state law that may not be waived.
FINANCIAL
HIGHLIGHTS
Each
Fund has commenced operations and has financial highlights for the fiscal year
ended November 30, 2025.
The
financial highlights tables are intended to help investors understand each
Fund's financial performance since the Fund's inception. Certain information
reflects financial results for a single Share of each Fund. The total returns in
the tables represent the rate that an investor would have earned (or lost) on an
investment in each Fund, assuming reinvestment of all dividends and
distributions. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP served as the Funds' independent
registered public accounting firm for the fiscal years or periods ending
November 30, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 as applicable. The most recent
report appears in the Funds' November 30, 2025 annual reports to
shareholders, which is available without charge upon request.
Selected Per Share Data & Ratios
For a Share Outstanding Throughout the Period
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Asset Value, Beginning of Period ($) |
Net
Investment Income ($)* |
Net
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investments ($) |
Total
from Operations ($) |
Distribution
from Net Investment Income ($) |
Distribution
from Capital Gains ($) |
Return
of Capital ($) |
Total
from Distributions ($) |
Net Asset
Value, End of Period ($) |
Total
Return (%)** |
Net
Assets End of Period ($)(000) |
Ratio
of Expenses to Average Net Assets (%) |
Ratio
of Net Investment Income to Average Net Assets (%) |
Portfolio
Turnover (%)†† |
| Global
X Millennial Consumer ETF |
| 2025 |
46.96 |
0.09 |
-0.26 |
-0.17 |
-0.10 |
— |
— |
-0.10 |
46.69 |
-0.35 |
110,179 |
0.50 |
0.19 |
11.35 |
| 2024 |
32.86 |
0.12 |
14.11 |
14.23 |
-0.13 |
— |
— |
-0.13 |
46.96 |
43.42 |
131,031 |
0.50 |
0.31 |
10.95 |
| 2023 |
28.43 |
0.07 |
4.43 |
4.50 |
-0.07 |
— |
— |
-0.07 |
32.86 |
15.87 |
105,493 |
0.50 |
0.23 |
16.60 |
| 2022 |
42.68 |
0.05 |
-14.23 |
-14.18 |
-0.07 |
— |
— |
-0.07 |
28.43 |
-33.29 |
105,459 |
0.5 |
0.17 |
14.75 |
| 2021 |
35.23 |
0.08 |
7.43 |
7.51 |
-0.06 |
— |
— |
-0.06 |
42.68 |
21.33 |
227,075 |
0.50
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0.18 |
11.59 |
| Global
X Aging Population ETF |
| 2025 |
31.91 |
0.29 |
4.79 |
5.08 |
-0.29 |
— |
— |
-0.29 |
36.70 |
16.09 |
75,970 |
0.50 |
0.91 |
9.93 |
| 2024 |
26.93 |
0.24 |
4.97 |
5.21 |
-0.23 |
— |
— |
-0.23 |
31.91 |
19.41 |
61,902 |
0.50 |
0.80 |
18.26 |
| 2023 |
26.46 |
0.23 |
0.41 |
0.64 |
-0.17 |
— |
— |
-0.17 |
26.93 |
2.42 |
53,596 |
0.50 |
0.87 |
13.34 |
| 2022 |
27.41 |
0.20 |
-0.87 |
-0.67 |
-0.26 |
— |
-0.02 |
-0.28 |
26.46 |
-2.47 |
41,800 |
0.5 |
0.76 |
13.50 |
| 2021 |
26.82 |
0.13 |
0.55 |
0.68 |
-0.09 |
— |
— |
-0.09 |
27.41 |
2.51 |
59,756 |
0.50
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0.43 |
19.57 |
| Global
X FinTech ETF |
| 2025 |
33.96 |
-0.05 |
-3.06 |
-3.11 |
-0.17 |
— |
— |
-0.17 |
30.68 |
-9.18 |
265,978 |
0.68
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-0.15 |
12.64 |
| 2024 |
22.37 |
0.02 |
11.63 |
11.65 |
-0.06 |
— |
— |
-0.06 |
33.96 |
52.18 |
349,457 |
0.68
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0.07 |
13.79 |
| 2023 |
20.44 |
0.05 |
1.93 |
1.98 |
-0.05 |
— |
—
*** |
-0.05 |
22.37 |
9.70 |
351,478 |
0.68
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0.23 |
13.12 |
| 2022 |
45.52 |
0.09 |
-22.96 |
-22.87 |
-2.16 |
— |
-0.05 |
-2.21 |
20.44 |
-52.58 |
455,463 |
0.68
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0.33 |
38.15 |
| 2021 |
42.75 |
-0.13 |
2.90 |
2.77 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
45.52 |
6.48 |
1,289,006 |
0.68
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-0.28 |
29.60 |
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Per
share data calculated using average shares method. |
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Total
Return is for the period indicated and has not been annualized. The return
shown does not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay
on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares. |
| *** |
Amount
is less than $0.005. |
| †† |
Portfolio
turnover rate is for the period indicated and periods of less than one
year have not been annualized. Excludes effect of in-kind
transfers. |
Amounts
designated as "—" are either $0 or have been rounded to $0.
Selected Per Share Data & Ratios
For a Share Outstanding Throughout the Period
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Asset Value, Beginning of Period ($) |
Net
Investment Income (Loss) ($)* |
Net
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investments ($) |
Total
from Operations ($) |
Distribution
from Net Investment Income ($) |
Distribution
from Capital Gains ($) |
Return
of Capital ($) |
Total
from Distributions ($) |
Net Asset
Value, End of Period ($) |
Total
Return (%)** |
Net
Assets End of Period ($)(000) |
Ratio
of Expenses to Average Net Assets (%) |
Ratio
of Net Investment Income (Loss) to Average Net Assets (%) |
Portfolio
Turnover (%)†† |
| Global
X Internet of Things ETF |
| 2025 |
36.14 |
0.22 |
0.61 |
0.83 |
-0.23 |
— |
— |
-0.23 |
36.74 |
2.32 |
200,257 |
0.68 |
0.62 |
17.23 |
| 2024 |
32.45 |
0.18 |
3.73 |
3.91 |
-0.22 |
— |
— |
-0.22 |
36.14 |
12.06 |
240,722 |
0.68 |
0.52 |
19.16 |
| 2023 |
30.54 |
0.25 |
1.95 |
2.20 |
-0.29 |
— |
— |
-0.29 |
32.45 |
7.26 |
287,487 |
0.68 |
0.79 |
11.12 |
| 2022 |
37.68 |
0.21 |
-7.17 |
-6.96 |
-0.13 |
-0.05 |
— |
-0.18 |
30.54 |
-18.52 |
305,697 |
0.68 |
0.67 |
8.40 |
| 2021 |
29.95 |
0.13 |
7.72 |
7.85 |
-0.12 |
— |
— |
-0.12 |
37.68 |
26.24 |
517,291 |
0.68 |
0.37 |
9.25 |
| Global
X Robotics & Artificial Intelligence ETF |
| 2025 |
33.25 |
0.13 |
1.90 |
2.03 |
-0.08 |
— |
— |
-0.08 |
35.20 |
6.12 |
3,018,749 |
0.68 |
0.39 |
12.11 |
| 2024 |
26.47 |
0.02 |
6.81 |
6.83 |
-0.03 |
— |
-0.02 |
-0.05 |
33.25 |
25.81 |
2,648,468 |
0.68 |
0.08 |
10.43 |
| 2023 |
21.09 |
0.07 |
5.36 |
5.43 |
-0.05 |
— |
— |
-0.05 |
26.47 |
25.75 |
2,269,824 |
0.68 |
0.26 |
8.28 |
| 2022 |
36.24 |
0.04 |
-15.14 |
-15.10 |
-0.04 |
— |
-0.01 |
-0.05 |
21.09 |
-41.67 |
1,341,942 |
0.69 |
0.16 |
29.86 |
| 2021 |
31.78 |
0.02 |
4.50 |
4.52 |
-0.02 |
— |
-0.04 |
-0.06 |
36.24 |
14.23 |
2,703,488 |
0.68 |
0.06 |
22.66 |
| Global
X U.S. Infrastructure Development ETF |
| 2025 |
45.71 |
0.27 |
2.78 |
3.05 |
-0.25 |
— |
— |
-0.25 |
48.51 |
6.76 |
9,833,763 |
0.47 |
0.63 |
9.98 |
| 2024 |
31.50 |
0.24 |
14.21 |
14.45 |
-0.24 |
— |
— |
-0.24 |
45.71 |
46.08 |
9,715,853 |
0.47 |
0.63 |
4.41 |
| 2023 |
27.94 |
0.24 |
3.54 |
3.78 |
-0.22 |
— |
— |
-0.22 |
31.50 |
13.63 |
5,153,796 |
0.47 |
0.82 |
5.99 |
| 2022 |
27.19 |
0.19 |
0.74 |
0.93 |
-0.17 |
-0.01 |
— |
-0.18 |
27.94 |
3.48 |
3,748,693 |
0.47 |
0.74 |
9.78 |
| 2021 |
20.24 |
0.17 |
6.87 |
7.04 |
-0.09 |
—
*** |
— |
-0.09 |
27.19 |
34.90 |
5,186,497 |
0.47 |
0.64 |
10.07 |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| * |
Per
share data calculated using average shares method. |
| ** |
Total
Return is for the period indicated and has not been annualized. The return
shown does not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay
on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares. |
| *** |
Amount
is less than $0.005. |
| †† |
Portfolio
turnover rate is for the period indicated and periods of less than one
year have not been annualized. Excludes effect of in-kind
transfers. |
Amounts
designated as "—" are either $0 or have been rounded to $0.
Selected Per Share Data & Ratios
For a Share Outstanding Throughout the Period
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
Net
Asset Value, Beginning of Period ($) |
Net
Investment Income (Loss) ($)* |
Net
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investments ($) |
Total
from Operations ($) |
Distribution
from Net Investment Income ($) |
Distribution
from Capital Gains ($) |
Return
of Capital ($) |
Total
from Distributions ($) |
Net Asset
Value, End of Period ($) |
Total
Return (%)** |
Net
Assets End of Period ($)(000) |
Ratio
of Expenses to Average Net Assets (%) |
Ratio
of Net Investment Income to Average Net Assets (%) |
Portfolio
Turnover (%)†† |
| Global
X Autonomous & Electric Vehicles ETF |
| 2025 |
23.64 |
0.28 |
6.02 |
6.30 |
-0.46 |
— |
— |
-0.46 |
29.48 |
27.19 |
331,681 |
0.68 |
1.17 |
37.46 |
| 2024 |
23.19 |
0.29 |
0.57 |
0.86 |
-0.41 |
— |
— |
-0.41 |
23.64 |
3.65 |
415,073 |
0.68 |
1.21 |
26.13 |
| 2023 |
22.89 |
0.38 |
0.23 |
0.61 |
-0.31 |
— |
— |
-0.31 |
23.19 |
2.71 |
697,745 |
0.68 |
1.63 |
26.60 |
| 2022 |
30.41 |
0.19 |
-7.56 |
-7.37 |
-0.13 |
-0.02 |
— |
-0.15 |
22.89 |
-24.25 |
883,478 |
0.68 |
0.74 |
34.76 |
| 2021 |
21.75 |
0.09 |
8.65 |
8.74 |
-0.08 |
— |
— |
-0.08 |
30.41 |
40.22 |
1,323,546 |
0.68 |
0.33 |
18.17 |
| Global
X Artificial Intelligence & Technology ETF |
| 2025 |
38.75 |
0.03 |
11.36 |
11.39 |
-0.06 |
— |
— |
-0.06 |
50.08 |
29.42 |
6,965,661 |
0.68 |
0.06 |
15.52 |
| 2024 |
29.73 |
0.07 |
9.01 |
9.08 |
-0.06 |
— |
— |
-0.06 |
38.75 |
30.58 |
2,490,690 |
0.68 |
0.20 |
10.88 |
| 2023 |
21.54 |
0.07 |
8.21 |
8.28 |
-0.09 |
— |
— |
-0.09 |
29.73 |
38.56 |
789,875 |
0.68 |
0.28 |
19.08 |
| 2022 |
31.58 |
0.11 |
-10.08 |
-9.97 |
-0.07 |
— |
— |
-0.07 |
21.54 |
-31.58 |
130,518 |
0.68 |
0.46 |
21.28 |
| 2021 |
25.84 |
0.05 |
5.78 |
5.83 |
-0.09 |
— |
— |
-0.09 |
31.58 |
22.60 |
186,334 |
0.68 |
0.17 |
26.37 |
| Global
X Genomics & Biotechnology ETF |
|
2025(1) |
43.32 |
0.02 |
3.11
^ |
3.13 |
-0.03 |
— |
— |
-0.03 |
46.42 |
7.26 |
54,527 |
0.50 |
0.04 |
34.03 |
|
2024(1) |
41.64 |
-0.12 |
1.80 |
1.68 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
43.32 |
4.03 |
79,156 |
0.50 |
-0.23 |
18.89 |
|
2023(1) |
53.80 |
-0.16 |
-12.00 |
-12.16 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
41.64 |
-22.60 |
93,029 |
0.50 |
-0.34 |
16.59 |
|
2022(1) |
82.44 |
-0.12 |
-28.48 |
-28.60 |
-0.04 |
— |
— |
-0.04 |
53.80 |
-34.72 |
209,341 |
0.50 |
-0.21 |
39.39 |
|
2021(1) |
84.04 |
-0.32 |
-1.16 |
-1.48 |
— |
-0.12 |
— |
-0.12 |
82.44 |
-1.77 |
255,572 |
0.50 |
-0.35 |
29.25 |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| * |
Per
share data calculated using average shares method. |
| ** |
Total
Return is for the period indicated and has not been annualized. The return
shown does not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay
on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares. |
| †† |
Portfolio
turnover rate is for the period indicated and periods of less than one
year have not been annualized. Excludes effect of in-kind
transfers. |
| ^ |
The
amount shown for a share outstanding throughout the period does not accord
with the aggregate net gains on investments for the period because of the
sales and repurchases of fund shares in relation to fluctuating market
value of the investments of the Fund. |
| (1) |
Per
share amounts have been adjusted for a 1 for 4 reverse share split on
August 29, 2025. (See Note 10 in the Notes to Financial Statements.)
|
Amounts
designated as "—" are either $0 or have been rounded to $0.
Selected Per Share Data & Ratios
For a Share Outstanding Throughout the Period
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
Net
Asset Value, Beginning of Period ($) |
Net
Investment Income (Loss) ($)* |
Net
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investments ($) |
Total
from Operations ($) |
Distribution
from Net Investment Income ($) |
Distribution
from Capital Gains ($) |
Return
of Capital ($) |
Total
from Distributions ($) |
Net Asset
Value, End of Period ($) |
Total
Return (%)** |
Net
Assets End of Period ($)(000) |
Ratio
of Expenses to Average Net Assets (%) |
Ratio
of Net Investment Income (Loss) to Average Net Assets (%) |
Portfolio
Turnover (%)†† |
|
| Global
X Cloud Computing ETF |
|
| 2025 |
24.64 |
-0.12 |
-1.81 |
-1.93 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
22.71 |
-7.83 |
274,514 |
0.68 |
-0.51 |
12.34 |
|
| 2024 |
20.79 |
-0.11 |
3.96 |
3.85 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
24.64 |
18.52 |
376,498 |
0.68 |
-0.54 |
21.22 |
|
| 2023 |
16.77 |
-0.10 |
4.12 |
4.02 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
20.79 |
23.97 |
581,162 |
0.68 |
-0.54 |
21.60 |
|
| 2022 |
28.38 |
-0.15 |
-10.99 |
-11.14 |
— |
-0.47 |
— |
-0.47 |
16.77 |
-39.88 |
589,085 |
0.68 |
-0.74 |
31.21 |
|
| 2021 |
25.84 |
-0.15 |
2.69 |
2.54 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
28.38 |
9.83 |
1,317,544 |
0.68 |
-0.53 |
23.77 |
|
| Global
X Cybersecurity ETF |
|
| 2025 |
33.44 |
-0.03 |
-1.96 |
-1.99 |
— |
— |
-0.03 |
-0.03 |
31.42 |
-5.95 |
999,359 |
0.50 |
-0.10 |
35.93 |
|
| 2024 |
26.84 |
0.05 |
6.58 |
6.63 |
-0.03 |
— |
— |
-0.03 |
33.44 |
24.72 |
819,308 |
0.51 |
0.17 |
23.91 |
|
| 2023 |
22.85 |
-0.03 |
4.34 |
4.31 |
— |
-0.32 |
— |
-0.32 |
26.84 |
19.29 |
647,551 |
0.50 |
-0.12 |
18.77 |
|
| 2022 |
31.75 |
-0.03 |
-8.66 |
-8.69 |
-0.09 |
-0.12 |
— |
-0.21 |
22.85 |
-27.56 |
967,942 |
0.51 |
-0.11 |
57.81 |
|
| 2021 |
22.75 |
0.12 |
8.90 |
9.02 |
-0.01 |
-0.01 |
— |
-0.02 |
31.75 |
39.68 |
1,132,090 |
0.50
^ |
0.41 |
26.34 |
|
| Global
X Dorsey Wright Thematic ETF |
|
| 2025 |
25.46 |
0.12 |
0.03
^^ |
0.15 |
-0.19 |
— |
— |
-0.19 |
25.42 |
0.61 |
9,150 |
0.50
(1) |
0.48
(2) |
191.21 |
|
| 2024 |
23.05 |
0.26 |
2.66 |
2.92 |
-0.36 |
— |
-0.15 |
-0.51 |
25.46 |
12.78 |
15,783 |
0.50
(1) |
1.10
(2) |
30.26 |
|
| 2023 |
26.14 |
0.11 |
-2.79 |
-2.68 |
-0.41 |
— |
— |
-0.41 |
23.05 |
-10.30 |
32,270 |
0.50
(1) |
0.45
(2) |
54.28 |
|
| 2022 |
47.65 |
0.44 |
-21.33 |
-20.89 |
-0.62 |
— |
— |
-0.62 |
26.14 |
-44.36 |
50,979 |
0.50
(1) |
1.32
(2) |
55.00 |
|
| 2021 |
42.45 |
0.39 |
5.10 |
5.49 |
-0.29 |
— |
— |
-0.29 |
47.65 |
12.95 |
110,081 |
(0.13)
‡(1) |
0.77
(2) |
32.16 |
|
| Global
X Video Games & Esports ETF |
|
| 2025 |
24.35 |
0.30 |
7.15 |
7.45 |
-0.36 |
— |
— |
-0.36 |
31.44 |
30.85 |
121,673 |
0.50 |
1.02 |
30.12 |
|
| 2024 |
19.93 |
0.20 |
4.38 |
4.58 |
-0.16 |
— |
— |
-0.16 |
24.35 |
23.14 |
108,854 |
0.50 |
0.93 |
30.77 |
|
| 2023 |
18.96 |
0.10 |
0.90 |
1.00 |
-0.03 |
— |
— |
-0.03 |
19.93 |
5.29 |
132,339 |
0.50 |
0.49 |
26.11 |
|
| 2022 |
29.52 |
0.08 |
-10.39 |
-10.31 |
-0.14 |
-0.07 |
-0.04 |
-0.25 |
18.96 |
-35.19 |
174,075 |
0.50 |
0.36 |
55.72 |
|
| 2021 |
28.57 |
0.04 |
1.14 |
1.18 |
-0.23 |
—
*** |
— |
-0.23 |
29.52 |
4.09 |
485,235 |
0.50 |
0.09 |
23.45 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| * |
Per
share data calculated using average shares method. |
| ** |
Total
Return is for the period indicated and has not been annualized. The return
shown does not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay
on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares. |
| *** |
Amount
is less than $0.005. |
| †† |
Portfolio
turnover rate is for the period indicated and periods of less than one
year have not been annualized. Excludes effect of in-kind
transfers. |
| ‡ |
Effective
for the fiscal year ended November 30, 2022, the Fund began presenting
acquired fund fees borne by the Adviser as part of its unitary fee
agreement (See Note 3 in Notes to Financial Statements/Notes to
Consolidated Financial Statements) as a realized gain on the Statement of
Operations as compared to a contra-expense as in prior fiscal years. If
such amounts had been presented as a realized gain in years prior to 2022,
the ratio of Expenses to Average Net Assets would have been 0.50% each
year. |
| ^ |
Effective
April 1, 2021, the Fund’s management fees were permanently lowered to
0.50%. Prior to April 1, 2021, the ratio of Expenses to Average Net Assets
included the effect of a waiver. If these offsets were excluded, the ratio
would have been 0.52%, 0.60% and 0.60% for the years ended November 30,
2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively. |
| ^^ |
The
amount shown for a share outstanding throughout the period does not accord
with the aggregate net gains on investments for the period because of the
sales and repurchases of fund shares in relation to fluctuating market
value of the investments of the Fund. |
| (1) |
Excludes
fees and expenses incurred indirectly as a result of investments in
underlying funds. |
| (2) |
Net
investment income ratios do not reflect the proportionate share of income
and expenses of the underlying funds in which the fund
invests. |
Amounts
designated as "—" are either $0 or have been rounded to $0.
Selected Per Share Data & Ratios
For a Share Outstanding Throughout the Period
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
Net
Asset Value, Beginning of Period ($) |
Net
Investment Income (Loss) ($)* |
Net
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investments ($) |
Total
from Operations ($) |
Distribution
from Net Investment Income ($) |
Distribution
from Capital Gains ($) |
Return
of Capital ($) |
Total
from Distributions ($) |
Net Asset
Value, End of Period ($) |
Total
Return (%)** |
Net
Assets End of Period ($)(000) |
Ratio
of Expenses to Average Net Assets (%) |
Ratio
of Net Investment Income (Loss) to Average Net Assets (%) |
Portfolio
Turnover (%)†† |
|
| Global
X HealthTech ETF |
|
|
2025(1) |
31.38 |
0.24 |
0.11 |
0.35 |
-0.02 |
— |
— |
-0.02 |
31.71 |
1.13 |
51,049 |
0.56 |
0.77 |
59.68 |
|
|
2024(1) |
26.85 |
-0.12 |
4.65 |
4.53 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
31.38 |
16.87 |
43,511 |
0.68 |
-0.47 |
38.36 |
|
|
2023(1) |
36.69 |
-0.12 |
-9.72 |
-9.84 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
26.85 |
-26.82 |
64,919 |
0.68 |
-0.36 |
29.92 |
|
|
2022(1) |
48.96 |
-0.03 |
-12.24 |
-12.27 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
36.69 |
-25.06 |
150,075 |
0.68 |
-0.05 |
43.26 |
|
|
2021(1) |
55.23 |
-0.30 |
-5.94 |
-6.24 |
-0.03 |
— |
— |
-0.03 |
48.96 |
-11.32 |
475,576 |
0.68 |
-0.52 |
42.39 |
|
| Global
X ClimateTech ETF |
|
|
2025(2) |
37.05 |
0.37 |
18.71 |
19.08 |
-0.52 |
— |
— |
-0.52 |
55.61 |
52.34 |
30,027 |
0.50 |
0.97 |
34.80 |
|
|
2024(2) |
49.40 |
0.45 |
-12.40 |
-11.95 |
-0.40 |
— |
— |
-0.40 |
37.05 |
-24.39 |
34,846 |
0.50 |
1.01 |
19.45 |
|
|
2023(2) |
81.00 |
0.25 |
-31.70 |
-31.45 |
-0.15 |
— |
— |
-0.15 |
49.40 |
-38.9 |
58,874 |
0.50 |
0.38 |
23.91 |
|
|
2022(2) |
102.15 |
0.15 |
-20.95 |
-20.80 |
-0.35 |
— |
— |
-0.35 |
81.00 |
-20.38 |
127,842 |
0.50 |
0.17 |
15.72 |
|
|
2021(2) |
95.10 |
0.10 |
7.00 |
7.10 |
-0.05 |
— |
— |
-0.05 |
102.15 |
7.48 |
175,458 |
0.50 |
0.09 |
35.53 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| * |
Per
share data calculated using average shares method. |
| ** |
Total
Return is for the period indicated and has not been annualized. The return
shown does not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay
on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares. |
| †† |
Portfolio
turnover rate is for the period indicated and periods of less than one
year have not been annualized. Excludes effect of in-kind
transfers. |
| (1) |
Per
share amounts have been adjusted for a 1 for 3 reverse share split on
August 29, 2025. (See Note 10 in the Notes to Financial Statements.)
|
| (2) |
Per
share amounts have been adjusted for a 1 for 5 reverse share split on
August 29, 2025. (See Note 10 in the Notes to Financial Statements.)
|
Amounts
designated as "—" are either $0 or have been rounded to $0.
Selected Per Share Data & Ratios
For a Share Outstanding Throughout the Period
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
Net
Asset Value, Beginning of Period ($) |
Net
Investment Income (Loss) ($)* |
Net
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investments ($) |
Total
from Operations ($) |
Distribution
from Net Investment Income ($) |
Distribution
from Capital Gains ($) |
Return
of Capital ($) |
Total
from Distributions ($) |
Net Asset
Value, End of Period ($) |
Total
Return (%)** |
Net
Assets End of Period ($)(000) |
Ratio
of Expenses to Average Net Assets (%) |
Ratio
of Net Investment Income (Loss) to Average Net Assets (%) |
Portfolio
Turnover (%)†† |
|
| Global
X Data Center & Digital Infrastructure ETF |
|
| 2025 |
17.57 |
0.22 |
3.33 |
3.55 |
-0.27 |
— |
— |
-0.27 |
20.85 |
20.56 |
624,520 |
0.50 |
1.16 |
24.92 |
|
| 2024 |
14.30 |
0.25 |
3.22 |
3.47 |
-0.20 |
— |
— |
-0.20 |
17.57 |
24.56 |
138,297 |
0.50 |
1.62 |
28.84 |
|
| 2023 |
13.52 |
0.21 |
0.90 |
1.11 |
-0.22 |
-0.11 |
— |
-0.33 |
14.30 |
8.46 |
39,323 |
0.50 |
1.60 |
62.01 |
|
| 2022 |
17.83 |
0.15 |
-4.22 |
-4.07 |
-0.16 |
-0.08 |
— |
-0.24 |
13.52 |
-23.11 |
63,143 |
0.50 |
0.99 |
36.96 |
|
| 2021 |
14.94 |
0.16 |
2.84 |
3.00 |
-0.11 |
— |
— |
-0.11 |
17.83 |
20.17 |
78,098 |
0.50 |
0.93 |
15.80 |
|
| Global
X Clean Water ETF |
|
| 2025 |
18.43 |
0.28 |
0.89 |
1.17 |
-0.26 |
— |
— |
-0.26 |
19.34 |
6.48 |
21,859 |
0.50 |
1.53 |
17.03 |
|
| 2024 |
15.40 |
0.26 |
3.00 |
3.26 |
-0.23 |
— |
— |
-0.23 |
18.43 |
21.31 |
10,687 |
0.50 |
1.49 |
10.48 |
|
| 2023 |
14.30 |
0.25 |
1.09 |
1.34 |
-0.24 |
— |
— |
-0.24 |
15.40 |
9.5 |
9,394 |
0.50 |
1.71 |
15.27 |
|
| 2022 |
16.73 |
0.23 |
-2.41 |
-2.18 |
-0.25 |
—
*** |
— |
-0.25 |
14.30 |
-13.18 |
7,580 |
0.50 |
1.58 |
28.19 |
|
|
2021(1) |
15.04 |
0.26 |
1.47 |
1.73 |
-0.04 |
— |
— |
-0.04 |
16.73 |
11.52 |
8,699 |
0.50
† |
2.44
† |
4.84 |
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| Global
X AgTech & Food Innovation ETF |
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2025(2) |
31.50 |
0.66 |
-0.45 |
0.21 |
-0.52 |
— |
— |
-0.52 |
31.19 |
0.73 |
6,340 |
0.50 |
2.13 |
32.81 |
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|
2024(2) |
30.51 |
0.57 |
0.93 |
1.50 |
-0.51 |
— |
— |
-0.51 |
31.50 |
4.92 |
4,726 |
0.50 |
1.79 |
21.57 |
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2023(2) |
46.89 |
0.33 |
-16.41 |
-16.08 |
-0.30 |
— |
— |
-0.30 |
30.51 |
-34.41 |
4,476 |
0.51 |
0.86 |
54.45 |
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2022(2) |
59.28 |
0.33 |
-12.12 |
-11.79 |
-0.30 |
-0.30 |
— |
-0.60 |
46.89 |
-20.06 |
6,721 |
0.50 |
0.62 |
55.85 |
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|
2021(2)(3) |
76.02 |
0.15 |
-16.89 |
-16.74 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
59.28 |
-22.02 |
5,533 |
0.51
† |
0.58
† |
32.72 |
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Per
share data calculated using average shares method. |
| ** |
Total
Return is for the period indicated and has not been annualized. The return
shown does not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay
on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares. |
| *** |
Amount
is less than $0.005. |
| † |
Annualized. |
| †† |
Portfolio
turnover rate is for the period indicated and periods of less than one
year have not been annualized. Excludes effect of in-kind
transfers. |
| (1) |
The
Fund commenced operations on April 8, 2021. |
| (2) |
Per
share amounts have been adjusted for a 1 for 3 reverse share split on
August 29, 2025. (See Note 10 in the Notes to Financial Statements.)
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| (3) |
The
Fund commenced operations on July 12,
2021. |
Amounts
designated as "—" are either $0 or have been rounded to $0.
Selected Per Share Data & Ratios
For a Share Outstanding Throughout the Period
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Asset Value, Beginning of Period ($) |
Net
Investment Income (Loss) ($)* |
Net
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investments ($) |
Total
from Operations ($) |
Distribution
from Net Investment Income ($) |
Distribution
from Capital Gains ($) |
Return
of Capital ($) |
Total
from Distributions ($) |
Net Asset
Value, End of Period ($) |
Total
Return (%)** |
Net
Assets End of Period ($)(000) |
Ratio
of Expenses to Average Net Assets (%) |
Ratio
of Net Investment Income (Loss) to Average Net Assets (%) |
Portfolio
Turnover (%)†† |
| Global
X Blockchain ETF |
| 2025 |
71.18 |
0.12 |
13.43 |
13.55 |
-3.81 |
— |
— |
-3.81 |
80.92 |
21.99 |
363,803 |
0.50 |
0.20 |
58.03 |
| 2024 |
30.72 |
0.07 |
41.42 |
41.49 |
-1.03 |
— |
— |
-1.03 |
71.18 |
136.25 |
226,776 |
0.50 |
0.16 |
56.38 |
|
2023(1) |
16.39 |
0.28 |
14.27 |
14.55 |
-0.22 |
— |
— |
-0.22 |
30.72 |
89.03 |
87,124 |
0.50 |
1.16 |
39.77 |
|
2022(1) |
129.32 |
0.46 |
-109.52 |
-109.06 |
-3.80 |
— |
-0.07 |
-3.87 |
16.39 |
-86.7 |
45,227 |
0.50 |
1.15 |
36.47 |
|
2021(1)(2) |
100.04 |
0.24 |
29.04 |
29.28 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
129.32 |
29.27 |
127,720 |
0.50
† |
0.52
† |
19.49 |
| Global
X Hydrogen ETF |
| 2025 |
25.56 |
0.79 |
11.04 |
11.83 |
-0.36 |
— |
— |
-0.36 |
37.03 |
47.21 |
61,092 |
0.50 |
3.05 |
72.26 |
|
2024(3) |
32.60 |
0.08 |
-7.12 |
-7.04 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
25.56 |
-21.60 |
40,637 |
0.50 |
0.31 |
36.79 |
|
2023(3) |
61.35 |
-0.10 |
-28.65 |
-28.75 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
32.60 |
-46.86 |
35,777 |
0.50 |
-0.21 |
27.79 |
|
2022(3) |
121.90 |
-0.15 |
-60.35 |
-60.50 |
— |
-0.05 |
— |
-0.05 |
61.35 |
-49.64 |
38,035 |
0.50 |
-0.24 |
36.44 |
|
2021(2)(3) |
125.20 |
-0.15 |
-3.15 |
-3.30 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
121.90 |
-2.64 |
32,427 |
0.51
† |
(0.33)
† |
40.38 |
| Global
X Defense Tech ETF |
| 2025 |
39.26 |
0.33 |
23.17 |
23.50 |
-0.26 |
— |
— |
-0.26 |
62.50 |
60.10 |
4,827,481 |
0.50 |
0.56 |
32.79 |
| 2024 |
27.03 |
0.29 |
12.08 |
12.37 |
-0.13 |
-0.01 |
— |
-0.14 |
39.26 |
45.89 |
766,037 |
0.50 |
0.80 |
14.43 |
|
2023(4) |
24.82 |
0.08 |
2.13 |
2.21 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
27.03 |
8.90 |
4,595 |
0.50
† |
1.39
† |
2.94 |
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| * |
Per
share data calculated using average shares method. |
| ** |
Total
Return is for the period indicated and has not been annualized. The return
shown does not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay
on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares. |
| † |
Annualized. |
| †† |
Portfolio
turnover rate is for the period indicated and periods of less than one
year have not been annualized. Excludes effect of in-kind
transfers. |
| (1) |
Per
share amounts have been adjusted for a 1 for 4 reverse share split on
December 19, 2022 (See Note 10 in the Notes to Financial Statements.)
|
| (2) |
The
Fund commenced operations on July 12, 2021. |
| (3) |
Per
share amounts have been adjusted for a 1 for 5 reverse share split on June
14, 2024. (See Note 10 in the Notes to Financial Statements.) |
| (4) |
The
Fund commenced operations on September 11,
2023. |
Amounts
designated as "—" are either $0 or have been rounded to $0.
Selected Per Share Data & Ratios
For a Share Outstanding Throughout the Period
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Net
Asset Value, Beginning of Period ($) |
Net
Investment Income (Loss) ($)* |
Net
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investments ($) |
Total
from Operations ($) |
Distribution
from Net Investment Income ($) |
Distribution
from Capital Gains ($) |
Return
of Capital ($) |
Total
from Distributions ($) |
Net Asset
Value, End of Period ($) |
Total
Return (%)** |
Net
Assets End of Period ($)(000) |
Ratio
of Expenses to Average Net Assets (%) |
Ratio
of Net Investment Income to Average Net Assets (%) |
Portfolio
Turnover (%)†† |
|
| Global
X Infrastructure Development ex-U.S. ETF |
|
| 2025 |
23.97 |
0.45 |
4.72 |
5.17 |
-0.20 |
— |
— |
-0.20 |
28.94 |
21.69 |
4,630 |
0.55 |
1.68 |
45.14 |
|
|
2024(1) |
24.82 |
0.08 |
-0.93 |
-0.85 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
23.97 |
-3.42 |
2,397 |
0.56
† |
1.28
† |
7.99 |
|
| Global
X AI Semiconductor & Quantum ETF |
|
|
2025(2) |
50.35 |
-0.03 |
4.30 |
4.27 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
54.62 |
8.48 |
9,832 |
0.50
† |
(0.36)
† |
5.88 |
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| * |
Per
share data calculated using average shares method. |
| ** |
Total
Return is for the period indicated and has not been annualized. The return
shown does not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay
on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares. |
| † |
Annualized. |
| †† |
Portfolio
turnover rate is for the period indicated and periods of less than one
year have not been annualized. Excludes effect of in-kind
transfers. |
| (1) |
The
Fund commenced operations on August 27, 2024. |
| (2) |
The
Fund commenced operations on September 30,
2025. |
Amounts
designated as "—" are either $0 or have been rounded to $0.
OTHER
INFORMATION
The
Funds are not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by any national securities
exchange. No national securities exchange makes any representation or warranty,
express or implied, to the owners of Shares or any member of the public
regarding the advisability of investing in securities generally or in the Funds
particularly or the ability of the Funds to achieve their objectives. No
national securities exchange has any obligation or liability in connection with
the administration, marketing or trading of the Funds.
For
purposes of the 1940 Act, shares that are issued by a registered investment
company and purchases of such shares by investment companies and companies
relying on Sections 3(c)(1) or 3(c)(7) of the 1940 Act are subject to the
restrictions set forth in Section 12(d)(1) of the 1940 Act. Registered
investment companies may be permitted to invest in certain of the Funds beyond
the limits set forth in section 12(d)(1), subject to certain conditions set
forth in Rule 12d1-4 under the 1940 Act, including that such investment
companies enter into an agreement with such Fund.
The
method by which Creation Units are created and traded may raise certain issues
under applicable securities laws. Because new Creation Units are issued and sold
by the Funds on an ongoing basis, a “distribution,” as such term is used in the
Securities Act, may occur at any point. Broker-dealers and other persons are
cautioned that some activities on their part may, depending on the
circumstances, result in their being deemed participants in a distribution in a
manner which could render them statutory underwriters and subject them to the
prospectus delivery and liability provisions of the Securities Act.
For
example, a broker-dealer firm or its client may be deemed a statutory
underwriter if it takes Creation Units after placing an order with the
Distributor, breaks them down into constituent Shares, and sells such Shares
directly to customers, or if it chooses to couple the creation of a supply of
new Shares with an active selling effort involving solicitation of secondary
market demand for Shares. A determination of whether one is an underwriter for
purposes of the Securities Act must take into account all the facts and
circumstances pertaining to the activities of the broker-dealer or its client in
the particular case, and the examples mentioned above should not be considered a
complete description of all the activities that could lead to a categorization
as an underwriter.
Broker-dealers
who are not “underwriters” but are participating in a distribution (as
contrasted with ordinary secondary trading transactions), and thus dealing with
Shares that are part of an “unsold allotment” within the meaning of Section
4(a)(3)(C) of the Securities Act, would be unable to take advantage of the
prospectus delivery exemption provided by Section 4(a)(3) of the Securities Act.
This is because the prospectus delivery exemption in Section 4(a)(3) of the
Securities Act is not available in respect of such transactions as a result of
Section 24(d) of the 1940 Act. As a result, broker-dealer firms should note that
dealers who are not underwriters but are participating in a distribution (as
contrasted with ordinary secondary market transactions) and thus dealing with
the Shares that are part of an overallotment within the meaning of Section
4(a)(3)(A) of the Securities Act would be unable to take advantage of the
prospectus delivery exemption provided by Section 4(a)(3) of the Securities Act.
Firms that incur a prospectus delivery obligation with respect to Shares are
reminded that, under Rule 153 of the Securities Act, a prospectus delivery
obligation under Section 5(b)(2) of the Securities Act owed to an exchange
member in connection with a sale on NYSE Arca, NASDAQ or Cboe BZX is satisfied
by the fact that the prospectus is available at NYSE Arca, NASDAQ or Cboe BZX
upon request. The prospectus delivery mechanism provided in Rule 153 is only
available with respect to transactions on an exchange.
For
more information visit our website at
www.globalxetfs.com
or
call 1-888-493-8631
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Investment
Adviser and Administrator
Global
X Management Company LLC
605
3rd Avenue, 43rd Floor
New
York, NY 10158
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Distributor
SEI
Investments Distribution Co.
One
Freedom Valley Drive
Oaks,
PA 19456
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Custodians
and Transfer Agents The
Bank of New York Mellon
240
Greenwich Street
New
York, New York 10286
Brown
Brothers Harriman & Co.
50
Post Office Square
Boston,
MA 02110
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SEI
Investments Global Funds Services
One
Freedom Valley Drive
Oaks,
PA 19456
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Legal
Counsel to the Global X Funds®
and Independent Trustees
Stradley
Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP
2000
K Street, N.W., Suite 700
Washington,
DC 20006
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Independent
Registered Public Accounting Firm
PricewaterhouseCoopers
LLP
Two
Commerce Square, Suite 1800
2001
Market Street
Philadelphia,
PA 19103 |
A
Statement of Additional
Information
dated April 1, 2026, which contains more details about the Funds, is
incorporated by reference in its entirety into this Prospectus, which means that
it is legally part of this Prospectus.
Additional
information about each Fund that has commenced operations and its investments is
available in its annual and semi-annual reports to shareholders and in Form
N-CSR. The annual report explains the market conditions and investment
strategies affecting each Fund’s performance during its last fiscal year. In
Form N-CSR you will find each Fund’s annual and semi-annual financial
statements.
You
can ask questions or obtain a free copy of each such Fund’s semi-annual and
annual report, the Statement of Additional Information, or other information,
such as Fund financial statements, by calling 1-888-493-8631. Free copies of a
Fund’s semi-annual and annual report and the Statement of Additional Information
are available from our website at www.globalxetfs.com.
Information
about each Fund, including its semi-annual and annual reports and the Statement
of Additional Information, has been filed with the SEC. It can be reviewed and
copied on the EDGAR database on the SEC’s internet site (http://www.sec.gov).
You can also request copies of these materials, upon payment of a duplicating
fee, by electronic request at the SEC’s e-mail address ([email protected]).
PROSPECTUS
Distributor
SEI
Investments Distribution Co.
One
Freedom Valley Drive
Oaks,
PA 19456
April 1,
2026
Investment
Company Act File No.: 811-22209