SCY — Simplify US Small Cap Plus Income ETF

SCY Fund Overview

SCY — Simplify US Small Cap Plus Income ETF is a US ETF managed by Simplify Exchange Traded Funds, categorised as United States Multi-Cap / All-Cap Blend / Core Equity. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.

• Type: US ETF
• Manager: Simplify Exchange Traded Funds
• Category: United States Multi-Cap / All-Cap Blend / Core Equity
• Assets under management: $2.44M
• Ticker: SCY
• SEC CIK: 0001810747
• SEC series ID: S000088356
• Share class ID: C000254612

SCY Investment Objective and Strategy

Simplify US Small Cap Plus Income ETF describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Simplify Exchange Traded Funds.

Investment objective

Investment Objective: The Simplify US Small Cap PLUS Income ETF (the Fund or SCY) seeks capital appreciation and income.

Principal investment strategy

The Fund is an actively managed ETF. The adviser seeks to achieve the Funds investment objective by investing primarily in equity securities of U.S. small cap companies and applying an income generating option strategy. US Small Cap Strategy Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in securities of U.S. small-capitalization companies, primarily by purchasing exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The Fund considers the holdings of the ETFs to assure compliance with its 80% investment policy and to assure the Fund is not concentrated in an industry. The adviser does not frequently trade U.S. securities but seeks to maintain consistent exposure to the U.S. small cap market though a representative ETF or ETFs. The adviser evaluates an ETFs liquidity and fees when making portfolio selections.

The Fund defines U.S. companies as those organized in the U.S.; having a class of securities whose principal securities market is in the U.S.; or derives 50% or more of its total revenues or earnings from goods produced, sales made, or services provided in the U.S., or maintains 50% or more of its employees, assets, investments, operations, or other business activity in the U.S. The Fund defines small-capitalization companies as those with market capitalizations between $300 million and $9 billion at the time of purchase. Income Generating Option Strategy To generate income, the Fund employs an exchange traded and over-the-counter (OTC) option spread writing strategy on equity, fixed income, and currency ETFs. The adviser focuses on index-based domestically-traded ETFs, for example, such as those linked to the S&P 500 Index or the Bloomberg US Aggregate Bond Index.

The adviser selects equity ETFs holding stocks of any market capitalization and fixed income ETFs holding securities of any maturity or credit quality. A call option gives the owner the right, but not the obligation, to buy an ETF at a specified price (strike price) within a specific time period. A put option gives the owner the right, but not the obligation, to sell an ETF at a specified price (strike price) within a specific time period. By selling put and call options, in a spread writing strategy, in return for the receipt of premiums (the purchase price of an option), the adviser attempts to increase Fund income as the passage of time decreases the value of the written option leg of the spread. Gains from written option premiums are capital gains, but commonly referred to as income. The option writing strategy is a form of leveraged investing.

The adviser focuses on writing short-term options with less than one-month to maturity because their value erodes faster than long-term options. Call Spread Sub-Strategy When the adviser believes an ETFs price will decrease, remain unchanged, or only increase slightly it employs a call spread strategy. In a call option spread, the Fund sells (writes) an out of the money (above current market price) call option while also purchasing a further out of the money call option. Put Spread Sub-Strategy When the adviser believes an ETFs price will increase, remain unchanged, or only decrease slightly it employs a put spread strategy. In a put option spread, the Fund sells (writes) an out of the money (below current market price) put option while also purchasing a further out of the money put option.

The adviser expects the written options to expire worthless, but purchases lower-cost further out of the money options to insulate the Fund from large losses if the written options increase in value. The adviser expects options to be held to expiration, but may adjust positions following a large (over 10%) price swing in an options reference ETF. The Fund limits net economic exposure at the time of investment to any one over-the-counter counterparty to 25% of Fund net assets. When writing options, the Fund is required to post collateral to assure its performance to the option buyer. The Fund will hold cash and cash-like instruments or high-quality short term fixed income securities (collectively, Collateral). The Collateral may consist of (1) U.S. Government securities, such as bills, notes and bonds issued by the U.S.

Treasury; (2) money market funds; (3) fixed income ETFs; and/or (4) corporate debt securities, such as commercial paper and other short-term unsecured promissory notes issued by companies that are rated investment grade or of comparable quality. The adviser considers an unrated security to be of comparable quality to a security rated investment grade if it believes it has a similar low risk of default. Fund assets not required to be pledged as Collateral nor allocated to U.S. small-capitalization companies will be invested in a portfolio substantially similar to the Collateral portfolio. The Fund is classified as a non-diversified investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, which means that the Fund may invest a higher percentage of its assets in a fewer number of issuers than is permissible for a diversified Fund.

SCY Holdings

Top 10 holdings of Simplify US Small Cap Plus Income ETF by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.

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SCY Portfolio Allocation

Asset-class allocation of Simplify US Small Cap Plus Income ETF by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.

SCY Costs and Fees

SCY costs about $55 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.

• Net expense ratio: 0.55%
• Gross expense ratio: 0.55%

SCY Cashflows

Over the 12 months to 2025-03, Simplify US Small Cap Plus Income ETF had net inflows of $3.05M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.

SCY Debt Constituents

No individual debt constituents are reported in Simplify US Small Cap Plus Income ETF's latest SEC N-PORT filing.

SCY Prospectus and SEC Filings

Official Simplify US Small Cap Plus Income ETF filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.

• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-11-21
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2025-05-23
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2025-02-27

Related Funds

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• MFS International Diversification Fund (MDIDX)
• Vanguard Lifestrategy Growth Fund (VASGX)
• Vanguard Lifestrategy Moderate Growth Fund (VSMGX)
• Vanguard Star Fund (VGSTX)
• Eaton Vance Short Duration Strategic Income Fund (ETSIX)

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.