KSET — KraneShares Global Carbon Offset Strategy ETF

KSET Fund Overview

KSET — KraneShares Global Carbon Offset Strategy ETF is a US ETF managed by Krane Shares Trust, categorised as Alternative. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.

• Type: US ETF
• Manager: Krane Shares Trust
• Category: Alternative
• Assets under management: $872.03K
• 1-year return: -90.1%
• Ticker: KSET
• SEC CIK: 0001547576
• SEC series ID: S000075545
• Share class ID: C000234731

KSET Investment Objective and Strategy

KraneShares Global Carbon Offset Strategy ETF describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Krane Shares Trust.

Investment objective

The KraneShares Global Carbon Offset Strategy ETF (the Fund) seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, tracks the performance of the S&P GSCI Global Voluntary Carbon Liquidity Weighted Index (the Index), which is an index comprised of futures contracts on voluntary carbon offset credits which represent projects that seek to reduce the impact of greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to curb climate change.

Principal investment strategy

In seeking to achieve its investment objective, the Fund attempts to maintain exposure to futures contracts on carbon offset credits (carbon offset credit futures) that are substantially the same as those included in the Index, which is an index comprised of futures contracts on voluntary carbon offset credits which represent projects that seek to reduce the impact of greenhouse gas emissions through avoidance, reduction or capture (sinking) in an effort to curb climate change. Each carbon offsets credit represents the reduction or removal of a specific amount of carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gas (GHG) from the atmosphere. Carbon offsets credits are designed to provide a mechanism for people and businesses to mitigate the adverse environmental impact of their GHG-generating activities in an effort to curb climate change.

For example, a frequent flyer can mitigate the adverse environmental impact of her travel by purchasing carbon offset credits from an organization that will invest the transaction proceeds in projects that have a positive environmental impact, such as reforestation. The Index is designed to measure the performance of a portfolio of liquid carbon offset credit futures. The Index includes only carbon offset credit futures that that mature in the next two years and meet certain trading and price criteria. The Index weights eligible carbon offset credit futures based on the total value of their traded volume over the prior six months. The Index is rebalanced and reconstituted semi-annually. Currently, the Index includes futures contracts on carbon offset credits that are traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) -- Global Emissions Offsets (GEOs) and Nature-Based Global Emission Offsets (N-GEOs).

GEOs and N-GEOs are designed to allow businesses to manage their GHG-reduction goals by purchasing today carbon offset credits for delivery in the future. As the global carbon offset credit market grows, additional carbon offset credit futures are expected to enter the Index if they meet the trading and price criteria of the Index. GEO futures contracts are based on voluntary carbon offset credits from three registries: Verified Carbon Standard (VCS), American Carbon Registry (ACR), and Climate Action Reserve (CAR). N-GEO futures contracts are based on voluntary carbon offset credits from VCS that are Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use (AFOLU) projects and certified by Verra Registrys Climate Community and Biodiversity (CCB) Standard. Cap-and-trade regimes involve a cap set by a regulator, such as a governmental entity, on the total greenhouse gas emissions that regulated entities can emit.

Capping and reducing the cap on greenhouse gases is viewed as a key policy tool for reaching climate change objectives. The regulated entities are issued or sold emission allowances (i.e., carbon credits), which the regulated entities can buy or sell (trade) on the open market. To the extent that the regulator may then reduce the cap on emission allowances, regulated entities are thereby incentivized to reduce their emissions; otherwise they must purchase emission allowances on the open market, where the price of such allowances will likely be increasing as a result of demand, and regulated entities that reduce their emissions will be able to sell unneeded emission allowances for profit. While the Fund generally seeks to obtain exposure to the same carbon offset credit futures that are in the Index, the Fund and Subsidiary (as defined below) may not replicate the Index.

For example, the Fund may invest in carbon offset credit futures with different maturity dates, the Fund may weight the carbon offset credit futures differently than the Index, or the Fund may purchase carbon offset credit futures on different dates than the rebalancing date for the Index. The Fund may also use futures and forward contracts on currencies to manage its exposure to currencies. In addition, the Fund may invest in futures on carbon credits issued under cap-and-trade regulatory regimes (carbon credit futures) in order to obtain investment exposures that are similar to carbon offset credits. The Fund may also invest in other instruments that are consistent with its investment objective. For example, the Fund may invest in futures contracts that are not carbon offset credit futures, options on futures contracts, swap contracts, and other investment companies and notes, which may or may not be exchange traded.

The Fund may also invest in debt instruments. The debt instruments in which the Fund intends to invest include government securities and corporate or other non-government fixed-income securities with maturities of up to 12 months of any investment grade. The Fund may invest in debt instruments indirectly through short-term bond funds and ETFs. The Fund may also invest in cash and cash equivalents, including money market funds. The Fund utilizes a subsidiary (the Subsidiary) for purposes of investing in futures. The Subsidiary is a corporation operating under Cayman Islands law that is wholly-owned and controlled by the Fund. The Subsidiary is advised by the Adviser. The Funds investment in the Subsidiary may not exceed 25% of the value of its total assets (ignoring any subsequent market appreciation in the Subsidiarys value), which limitation is imposed by the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and is measured at the end of each quarter.

The Subsidiary has the same investment objective as the Fund and follows the same investment policies and restrictions as the Fund. Except as noted, for purposes of this Prospectus, references to the Funds investment strategies and risks include those of its Subsidiary, and references to the Fund include the Subsidiary. The Commodities Futures Trading Commission (the CFTC) has adopted certain requirements that subject registered investment companies and their advisers to regulation by the CFTC if a registered investment company invests more than a prescribed level of its net assets in CFTC-regulated futures, options and swaps, or if a registered investment company markets itself as providing investment exposure to such instruments. Due to the Funds use of CFTC-regulated futures and swaps above CFTC Rule 4.5 limits, it is considered a commodity pool under the Commodity Exchange Act.

The Fund is non-diversified.

KSET Holdings

Top 3 holdings of KraneShares Global Carbon Offset Strategy ETF by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.

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KSET Portfolio Allocation

Asset-class allocation of KraneShares Global Carbon Offset Strategy ETF by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.

KSET Performance

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

KSET Risk Information

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

• 1-year volatility (annualised): 113.1%

KSET Costs and Fees

KSET costs about $79 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.

• Net expense ratio: 0.79%
• Gross expense ratio: 0.79%
• Portfolio turnover: 0%
• Brokerage commissions: 0.00 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)

KSET Cashflows

Over the 12 months to 2023-12, KraneShares Global Carbon Offset Strategy ETF had net inflows of $1.12M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.

KSET Debt Constituents

No individual debt constituents are reported in KraneShares Global Carbon Offset Strategy ETF's latest SEC N-PORT filing.

KSET Prospectus and SEC Filings

Official KraneShares Global Carbon Offset Strategy ETF filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.

• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2023-07-28
• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2022-04-25
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2024-02-28
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2023-11-29
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2023-08-29
• Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2023-06-14

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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.