WisdomTree Dynamic Currency Hedged Europe Equity Fund

Data updated: 2020-05-29

C000164641 — WisdomTree Dynamic Currency Hedged Europe Equity Fund. Europe Real Estate · $6.95M AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.

C000164641 Fund Overview

WisdomTree Dynamic Currency Hedged Europe Equity Fund is a US ETF managed by WisdomTree Trust, categorised as Europe Real Estate. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.

Type: US ETF
Manager: WisdomTree Trust
Category: Europe Real Estate
Assets under management: $6.95M
SEC CIK: 0001350487
SEC series ID: S000052357
Share class ID: C000164641

C000164641 Investment Objective and Strategy

WisdomTree Dynamic Currency Hedged Europe Equity Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by WisdomTree Trust.

Investment objective

The WisdomTree Dynamic Currency Hedged Europe Equity Fund (the “Fund”) seeks to track the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the WisdomTree Dynamic Currency Hedged Europe Equity Index (the “Index”).

Principal investment strategy

The Fund employs a passive management or indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the Index. The Fund generally uses a representative sampling strategy to achieve its investment objective, meaning it generally will invest in a sample of the securities in the Index whose risk, return and other characteristics resemble the risk, return and other characteristics of the Index as a whole. Under normal circumstances, at least 80% of the Funds total assets (exclusive of collateral held from securities lending) will be invested in component securities of the Index and investments that have economic characteristics that are substantially identical to the economic characteristics of such component securities. The Index is a dividend weighted index designed to provide exposure to European equity securities while at the same time dynamically hedging currency exposure to fluctuations between the value of the euro and the U.S.

dollar. The Index consists of the equity securities of the dividend-paying companies within the WisdomTree International Equity Index, which defines the dividend-paying universe of companies in the industrialized world, excluding Canada and the United States, that are organized under the laws of a European country, traded in euros, and have at least $1 billion in market capitalization. Countries represented in the Index include Germany, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Belgium, Finland, Italy, Portugal, Austria and Ireland, although this may change from time to time. To be eligible for inclusion in the Index, a company must meet the following criteria as of the annual Index screening date: (i) listed for trading on a stock exchange in one of the aforementioned European countries; (ii) payment of at least $5 million in cash dividends on shares of common stock in the prior annual cycle; (iii) average daily dollar volume of at least $100,000 for the preceding three months; and (iv) trading of at least 250,000 shares per month for each of the preceding six months.

The Index is reconstituted and rebalanced once each year on the annual Index reconstitution date. Securities are weighted in the Index based on dividends paid over the prior annual cycle. Companies that pay a greater total dollar amount of dividends are more heavily weighted. To derive a companys initial Index weight, (i) multiply the U.S. dollar value of the companys annual gross dividend per share by the number of common shares outstanding for that company (the Cash Dividend Factor); (ii) calculate the Cash Dividend Factor for each company; (iii) add together all of the companies Cash Dividend Factors; and (iv) divide the companys Cash Dividend Factor by the sum of all Cash Dividend Factors. The maximum weight of any single security in the Index is capped at 5% and the maximum weight of any one sector and any one country in the Index, is capped at 25%; however, sector, country and security weights may fluctuate above their specified caps in response to market conditions and/or the application of volume factor adjustments.

If a component security no longer meets applicable trading volume thresholds as of the annual Index screening date, the Index methodology applies a volume factor adjustment to reduce such component securitys weight in the Index and reallocates the reduction in the weight pro rata among the other remaining securities. WisdomTree Investments, Inc., as index provider, currently uses Standard & Poors Global Industry Classification Standards (S&P GICS) to define companies within a sector. The following sectors are included in the Index: consumer discretionary, consumer staples, energy, financials, health care, industrials, information technology, materials, real estate, communication services, and utilities. A sector is comprised of multiple industries. For example, the energy sector is comprised of companies in, among others, the natural gas, oil and petroleum industries.

As of September 30, 2018, a significant portion of the Index was comprised of companies in the financial sector. The Index dynamically hedges currency fluctuations in the relative value of the euro against the U.S. dollar, ranging from a 0% to 100% hedge. The Index determines and adjusts the hedge ratio on the euro on a monthly basis using three equally-weighted, quantitative signals: interest rate differentials, momentum, and value. Interest rate differentials are determined by measuring the difference in interest rates, as implied in one-month foreign exchange (FX) forwards, between the euro and the U.S. dollar. Momentum is the relative price momentum of the foreign currency as determined by comparing two moving average signals on the historically observed U.S. dollar spot rates over 10 and 240 business day periods.

Value is the relative purchasing power of the foreign currency as determined with reference to the foreign currency spot rate over 20 business days as compared to the latest purchasing power parity (PPP) numbers as published by the Office of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). This approach is designed to limit losses related to currency as the euro depreciates against the U.S. dollar while participating in gains related to currency when the euro appreciates against the U.S. dollar, thereby seeking to have the Fund benefit from such currency movements while reducing the volatility associated with currency returns. The Index applies an applicable published currency forward rate to the euro to hedge against fluctuations in the relative value of the euro against the U.S. dollar pursuant to the applicable hedge ratio.

The Fund uses forward currency contracts or futures contracts to the extent the euro is hedged. To the extent the Index concentrates (i.e., holds 25% or more of its total assets) in the securities of a particular industry or group of industries, the Fund will concentrate its investments to approximately the same extent as the Index.

C000164641 Costs and Fees

C000164641 costs about $43 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.

Net expense ratio: 0.43%
Gross expense ratio: 0.48%
Portfolio turnover: 109%
Brokerage commissions: 4.48 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)

C000164641 Cashflows

Over the 12 months to 2020-03, WisdomTree Dynamic Currency Hedged Europe Equity Fund had net outflows of $3.39M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.

Month	Net flow
2020-03	−$3.39M
2020-02	$0
2020-01	$0
2019-12	$0
2019-11	$0
2019-10	$0

C000164641 Debt Constituents

No individual debt constituents are reported in WisdomTree Dynamic Currency Hedged Europe Equity Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.

C000164641 Prospectus and SEC Filings

Official WisdomTree Dynamic Currency Hedged Europe Equity Fund 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.