ALTS — ProShares Morningstar Alternatives Solution ETF

Data updated: 2022-04-28

ALTS — ProShares Morningstar Alternatives Solution ETF. Inflation Hedge Allocation · $8.38M AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.

ALTS Fund Overview

ALTS — ProShares Morningstar Alternatives Solution ETF is a US ETF managed by Proshares Trust, categorised as Inflation Hedge Allocation. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.

  • Type: US ETF
  • Manager: Proshares Trust
  • Category: Inflation Hedge Allocation
  • Assets under management: $8.38M
  • 1-year return: 4.3%
  • Ticker: ALTS
  • SEC CIK: 0001174610
  • SEC series ID: S000046245
  • Share class ID: C000144553

ALTS Investment Objective and Strategy

ProShares Morningstar Alternatives Solution ETF describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Proshares Trust.

Investment objective

ProShares Morningstar Alternatives Solution ETF (the “Fund”) seeks investment results, before fees and expenses, that track the performance of the Morningstar ® Diversified Alternatives Index SM (the “Index”). The Index seeks to provide diversified exposure to alternatives asset classes. The Index consists of a comprehensive set of exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) in the ProShares lineup that employ alternative and non-traditional strategies such as long/short, market neutral, managed futures, hedge-fund replication, private equity, infrastructure or inflation-related investments.

Principal investment strategy

The Fund is a fund of ETFs and seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing primarily in the Underlying ETFs, each of which is a ProShares ETF. The Fund is designed to provide investors with a comprehensive solution to their alternatives allocation by investing in the alternative ETFs (i.e., ETFs that invest in alternative asset classes or that have non-traditional investment strategies) comprising its Index. The Index is designed to provide diversified exposure to alternative asset classes when combined with a range of traditional investments. It allocates among a comprehensive set of alternative ETFs that employ alternative and non-traditional strategies such as long/short, market neutral, managed futures, hedge fund replication, private equity, infrastructure or inflation-related investments.

The Index allocates to the Underlying ETFs based on a proprietary optimization model. The model annually calculates the allocation to each Underlying ETF based on the improvement in portfolio risk/return characteristics each Underlying ETF may provide to a traditional stock and bond portfolio. In addition, at each monthly rebalance, the Index applies a tactical momentum signal designed to increase the allocations towards asset classes that exhibited positive relative trends over the prior six months. As of June 30, 2018, the Underlying ETFs included: ProShares Managed Futures Strategy ETF, ProShares Hedge Replication ETF, ProShares Merger ETF, ProShares RAFI TM Long/Short, ProShares Global Listed Private Equity ETF, ProShares DJ Brookfield Global Infrastructure ETF and ProShares Inflation Expectations ETF.

A brief description of each of these Underlying ETFs follows. ProShares Managed Futures Strategy ETF (FUT) is an actively managed ETF that seeks to achieve positive returns that are not directly correlated to broad equity or fixed income markets. The Fund uses the S&P Strategic Futures Index as a performance benchmark. The S&P Strategic Futures Index was developed by Standard & Poors and is a long/short rules-based investable index that seeks to capture the economic benefit from trends (in either direction) in physical commodities, interest rates and currencies by taking long or short positions in related futures contracts based on the performance trends of the individual components. ProShares Hedge Replication ETF (HDG) seeks investment results, before fees and expenses, that track the performance of the Merrill Lynch Factor Model Exchange Series (Factor Model).

The Factor Model, established by Merrill Lynch International (the Model Sponsor), seeks to provide the risk and return characteristics of the hedge fund asset class by targeting a high correlation to the HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index (the HFRI). ProShares Merger ETF (MRGR) seeks investment results, before fees and expenses, that track the performance of the S&P Merger Arbitrage Index (Merger Arbitrage Index). The Merger Arbitrage Index is designed to provide exposure to a global merger arbitrage strategy. A global merger arbitrage strategy seeks to capture the spread between the price at which the stock of a company (each such company, a Target) trades after a proposed acquisition of such Target is announced and the value (cash plus stock) that the acquiring company (the Acquirer) has proposed to pay for the stock of the Target.

ProShares RAFI TM Long/Short (RALS) seeks investment results, before fees and expenses, that track the performance of the FTSE RAFI TM US 1000 Long/Short Total Return Index (RAFI Index). The RAFI Index methodology seeks to capitalize on a theory that traditional index weighting based on market capitalization (i.e., price) results in overweighting of overpriced securities and underweighting of underpriced securities. By obtaining long exposure to a non-capitalization weighted fundamental index and short exposure to a market capitalization weighted index in an equal dollar amount, the Index seeks to deliver the difference in performance (outperformance or underperformance) between the fundamentally weighted index and the market capitalization weighted index. In general, when fundamental weighting is outperforming capitalization weighting, the RAFI Index, expects to have positive performance.

When capitalization weighting is outperforming fundamental weighting, the RAFI Index and Fund expect to have negative performance. ProShares Global Listed Private Equity ETF (PEX) seeks investment results, before fees and expenses, that track the performance of the LPX Direct Listed Private Equity Index (LPX Index). The LPXI index consists of up to 30 qualifying listed private equity companies whose direct private equity investments, as well as cash and cash equivalent positions and post-initial public offering listed investments, represent more than 80% of the total assets of the company. ProShares DJ Brookfield Global Infrastructure ETF (TOLZ) seeks investment results, before fees and expenses, that track the performance of the Dow Jones Brookfield Global Infrastructure Composite Index (Global Infrastructure Index).

The Global Infrastructure Index, constructed and maintained by S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC, consists of companies domiciled globally that qualify as pure-play infrastructure companies companies whose primary business is the ownership and operation of infrastructure assets, activities that generally generate long-term stable cash flows. ProShares Inflation Expectations ETF (RINF) seeks investment results, before fees and expenses, that track the performance of the FTSE 30-Year TIPS (Treasury Rate-Hedged) Index (the FTSE Index) and will invest at least 80% of its total assets in securities of the FTSE Index. The FTSE Index tracks the performance of (i) long positions in the most recently issued 30-year Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) and (ii) duration-adjusted short positions in U.S.

Treasury bonds of, in aggregate, approximate equivalent duration dollars to the TIPS. The FTSE Index seeks to achieve an overall duration dollar amount of zero. The FTSE Index is not designed to measure the realized rate of inflation, nor does it seek to replicate the returns of any index or measure of actual consumer price levels. The Index is constructed and maintained by Morningstar, Inc., using the asset allocation expertise of its affiliate, Ibbotson Associates, Inc., a division of Morningstar Investment Management Group. The Index is published under the Bloomberg ticker symbol DIVALTT. Underlying ETFs are ETFs, sponsored by ProShare Advisors or its affiliates, in which the Fund invests. For a further description of the Fund, please see Additional Securities, Instruments and Strategies of ProShares Morningstar Alternatives Solution ETF in the Funds Full Prospectus.

The Fund invests in ETFs that ProShare Advisors believes, in combination, should track the performance of the Index. Under normal circumstances, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its total assets in Underlying ETFs. The Fund will invest principally in the securities set forth below. Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) The Fund invests in shares of other ETFs, which are listed, open-ended pooled investment entities that provide exposure to different asset classes and investment strategies. ProShare Advisors follows a passive approach to investing that is designed to track the performance of the Index. The Fund attempts to track the performance of the Index by investing all, or substantially all, of its assets in securities that make up the Index, holding each security in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the Index.

In managing the assets of the Fund, ProShare Advisors does not invest the assets of the Fund in securities based on ProShare Advisors view of the investment merit of a particular security or company, nor does it conduct conventional investment research or analysis or forecast market movement or trends. The Fund seeks to remain fully invested at all times in securities that, in combination, provide exposure to the Index without regard to market conditions, trends or direction. The Fund will concentrate its investments in a particular industry, group of industries, country or region to approximately the same extent as the Index is so concentrated. As of the close of business on May 31, 2018, the Index was not concentrated in an industry group. Please see Investment Objectives, Principal Investment Strategies and Related Risks in the Funds Full Prospectus for additional details.

ALTS Performance

Total returns for ALTS (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.

PeriodTotal return
1 year4.3%
3 years (annualised)3.3%

ALTS Risk Information

Risk metrics for ALTS, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.

  • 1-year volatility (annualised): 5.4%

ALTS Costs and Fees

ALTS costs about $95 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.

  • Net expense ratio: 0.95%
  • Gross expense ratio: 1.81%
  • Portfolio turnover: 62%
  • Brokerage commissions: 1.48 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)

ALTS Cashflows

Over the 12 months to 2022-02, ProShares Morningstar Alternatives Solution ETF had net outflows of $771.97K, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.

MonthNet flow
2022-02$0
2022-01$386.40K
2021-12−$1.55M
2021-11$0
2021-10$0
2021-09$0

ALTS Debt Constituents

No individual debt constituents are reported in ProShares Morningstar Alternatives Solution ETF's latest SEC N-PORT filing.

ALTS Prospectus and SEC Filings

Official ProShares Morningstar Alternatives Solution ETF filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.

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Data Sources

ABC INVEST compiles this page from public filings made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) through EDGAR: portfolio holdings and monthly cashflows from Form N-PORT, expenses and returns from fund prospectuses (Form 485BPOS) and the SEC DERA Risk/Return Summary data sets, annual data from Form N-CEN, and shareholder reports from Form N-CSR.