FUT — ProShares Managed Futures Strategy ETF
Data updated: 2022-04-28
FUT — ProShares Managed Futures Strategy ETF. Commodity · $6.11M AUM · 0.75% expense ratio · -2.3% 1-yr return. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
FUT Fund Overview
FUT — ProShares Managed Futures Strategy ETF is a US ETF managed by Proshares Trust, categorised as Commodity. 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: Commodity
- Assets under management: $6.11M
- 1-year return: -2.3%
- Ticker: FUT
- SEC CIK: 0001174610
- SEC series ID: S000051124
- Share class ID: C000161021
FUT Investment Objective and Strategy
ProShares Managed Futures Strategy ETF describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Proshares Trust.
Investment objective
ProShares Managed Futures Strategy ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to provide positive returns that are not directly correlated to broad equity or fixed income markets.
Principal investment strategy
The Fund is an actively managed exchange -traded fund (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 Benchmark). The Benchmark seeks to capture the economic benefit from trends (in either direction) in the physical commodities, interest rates and currencies markets by taking long or short positions in related futures contracts. While the Fund generally will seek exposure to the commodity and financial markets included in the Benchmark, the Fund is not an index tracking ETF and will seek to enhance its performance by actively selecting investments with varying maturities from the underlying components of the Benchmark. There can be no assurance that the Funds performance will be positive or that its performance will exceed the performance of the Benchmark at any time.
The Benchmark was formed in August 2014. Accordingly, the Benchmark has limited historical performance. Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests in a portfolio of commodity futures contracts (Commodity Futures Contracts) and currency and U.S. Treasury futures contracts (Financial Futures Contracts) (collectively, Futures Contracts). The Fund attempts to capture the economic benefit derived from rising and declining trends based on the price changes of these Futures Contracts. Each month, each Futures Contract will generally be positioned long if it is experiencing a positive price trend or short if it is experiencing a negative price trend. This positioning is based on a comparison of the recent returns of each Futures Contract with such contracts seven-month weighted moving average return.
If the returns are greater than or equal to the seven-month weighted moving average return, the Futures Contract is positioned long. To be long means to hold or have long exposure to an asset with the expectation that its value will increase over time. If the returns are below the seven-month weighted moving average return, the Futures Contract is positioned short. To be short means to sell or have short exposure to an asset with the expectation that it will fall in value. The Fund will benefit if it is long an asset that increases in value or is short an asset that decreases in value. Conversely, the Fund will be adversely impacted if it is long an asset that decreases in value or short an asset that increases in value. The Fund will also hold cash or cash equivalents such as short-term U.S.
Treasury securities or other high credit quality, short-term fixed-income or similar securities (such as shares of money market funds and collateralized repurchase agreements) for direct investment or as collateral for Futures Contracts. The Fund may also invest up to 100% of its assets in any of these types of cash or cash equivalent instruments. The Fund will not invest directly in Commodity Futures Contracts. The Fund expects to gain exposure to these investments by investing a portion of its assets in the ProShares Cayman Portfolio I, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Fund organized under the laws of the Cayman Islands (the Subsidiary). The Subsidiary is advised by ProShare Advisors, the Funds investment advisor. Unlike the Fund, the Subsidiary is not an investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act).
The Funds investment in the Subsidiary is intended to provide the Fund with exposure to commodity markets in accordance with applicable rules and regulations. The Subsidiary has the same investment objective as the Fund. The Fund will invest up to 25% of its total assets in the Subsidiary. Except as otherwise noted, references to the Funds investment strategies and risks include the investment strategies and risks of the Subsidiary. The following Futures Contracts are included in the Benchmark as of May 31, 2018: Light Crude; Heating Oil; RBOB Gas; Natural Gas; Copper; Gold; Silver; Lean Hogs; Live Cattle; Corn; Soybeans; Wheat; Coffee; Cocoa; Sugar; Cotton; Australian Dollar; British Pound; Canadian Dollar; Euro; Japanese Yen; Swiss Franc; U.S. Treasury Notes; and U.S. Treasury Bonds. The Fund will invest principally in the financial instruments set forth below.
Futures Contracts Standardized contracts traded on, or subject to the rules of, an exchange that call for the future delivery of a specified quantity and type of asset at a specified time and place or, alternatively, may call for cash settlement. The Fund will use futures contracts to achieve its investment objective. Money Market Instruments The Fund invests in short-term cash instruments that have a remaining maturity of 397 days or less and exhibit high quality credit profiles, for example: Repurchase Agreements Contracts in which a seller of securities, usually U.S. government securities or other money market instruments, agrees to buy the securities back at a specified time and price. Repurchase agreements are primarily used by the Fund as a short-term investment vehicle for cash positions.
Please see Investment Objectives, Principal Investment Strategies and Related Risks in the Funds Full Prospectus for additional details.
FUT Holdings
Top 4 holdings of ProShares Managed Futures Strategy ETF by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Repurchase Agreement | 39.27% |
| Repurchase Agreement | 23.96% |
| Repurchase Agreement | 19.99% |
| Repurchase Agreement | 12.20% |
FUT Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of ProShares Managed Futures Strategy ETF by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | 95.4% |
FUT Performance
Total returns for FUT (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | -2.3% |
| 3 years (annualised) | -0.1% |
FUT Risk Information
Risk metrics for FUT, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 3.3%
FUT Costs and Fees
FUT costs about $75 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.75%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.75%
- Portfolio turnover: 1195%
- Brokerage commissions: 6.17 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
FUT Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2022-02, ProShares Managed Futures Strategy ETF had net inflows of $1.59M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2022-02 | $0 |
| 2022-01 | $0 |
| 2021-12 | $0 |
| 2021-11 | −$4.51M |
| 2021-10 | $4.48M |
| 2021-09 | $0 |
FUT Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in ProShares Managed Futures Strategy ETF's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
FUT Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official ProShares Managed Futures Strategy ETF filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2021-09-23
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2020-09-25
- Prospectus supplement (497) — filed 2022-02-01
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2022-04-28
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2022-01-27
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2021-10-28
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2021-08-12
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2020-08-13
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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.