The Macro Compass: February 2025

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The Macro Compass: February 2025

By Clough Capital

2/13/2025

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Risk Factors:

Investing involves risk. Principal loss is possible. The equity securities held in the portfolio may experience sudden, unpredictable drops in value or long periods of decline in value. This may occur because of factors that affect securities markets generally or factors affecting specific issuers, industries or sectors in which the ETFs invest.

Short selling involves the sale of securities borrowed from a third party. The short seller profits if the borrowed security’s price declines. If a shorted security increases in value, a higher price must be paid to buy the stock back to cover the short sale, resulting in a loss. The ETFs may incur expenses related to short selling, including compensation, interest or dividends, and transaction costs payable to the security lender, whether the price of the shorted security increases or decreases. The amount the ETFs could lose on a short sale is theoretically unlimited. Short selling also involves counterparty risk – the risk associated with the third-party ceasing operations or failing to sell the security back.

Hedging Risk. Options used by the ETFs to reduce volatility and generate returns may not perform as intended. There can be no assurance that the ETFs’ option strategy will be effective. It may expose the ETFs to losses, e.g., option premiums, to which it would not have otherwise been exposed. Further, the option strategy may not fully protect the ETFs against declines in the value of its portfolio securities.

Definitions:

Indexes do not charge management fees or brokerage expenses, and no such fees or expenses were deducted from the performance shown. Indexes are unmanaged and an investor cannot invest directly in an index.

S&P 500 Index : a free-float capitalization-weighted index that measures the performance of 500 of the largest U.S. equities representing all major indices.

Dow Jones Industrial Average : a price-weighted average index of 30 blue-chip stocks that are generally the leaders in their industry.

NASDAQ Composite Index : a broad-based capitalization-weighted index of stocks that includes almost all stocks listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange, including both domestic and international companies.

Fed : the U.S. Federal Reserve

FOMC : the Federal Open Market Committee is the main monetary policy-making body of the U.S. Federal Reserve.

Basis point : a unit of measure equal to 1/100th of a percentage point.

Alpha : compares risk-adjusted performance relative to an index. Positive alpha means outperformance on a risk-adjusted basis

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