SOIL — Global X Fertilizers/Potash ETF
Data updated: 2020-09-28
SOIL — Global X Fertilizers/Potash ETF. Global (incl. US) Blend / Core Equity · $7.87M AUM · 0.70% expense ratio. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
SOIL Fund Overview
SOIL — Global X Fertilizers/Potash ETF is a US ETF managed by Global X Funds, categorised as Global (incl. US) 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: Global X Funds
- Category: Global (incl. US) Blend / Core Equity
- Assets under management: $7.87M
- 1-year return: -19.3%
- Ticker: SOIL
- SEC CIK: 0001432353
- SEC series ID: S000032486
- Share class ID: C000100201
SOIL Investment Objective and Strategy
Global X Fertilizers/Potash ETF describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Global X Funds.
Investment objective
The Global X Fertilizers/Potash ETF (Fund) seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the Solactive Global Fertilizers/Potash Total Return Index (Underlying Index).
Principal investment strategy
"The Fund invests at least 80% of its total assets in the securities of the Underlying Index and in American Depositary Receipts (""ADRs"") and Global Depositary Receipts (""GDRs"") based on the securities in the Underlying Index. The Fund also invests at least 80% of its total assets in securities of companies that are economically tied to the fertilizer/potash industry. Companies primarily engaged in the fertilizer/potash industry include those engaged in the development, distribution and/or production of fertilizers. The Funds 80% investment policies are non-fundamental and require 60 days prior written notice to shareholders before they can be changed. The Underlying Index is designed to track the performance of the largest listed companies globally that are active in some aspect of the fertilizer/potash industry, as defined by Solactive AG, the provider of the Underlying Index (""Index Provider"").
As of December 29, 2017 , the Underlying Index had 31 constituents, 23 of which are foreign companies. The Funds investment objective and Underlying Index may be changed without shareholder approval. The Underlying Index is sponsored by the Index Provider, which is an organization that is independent of the Fund and Global X Management Company LLC, the investment adviser for the Fund (Adviser). The Index Provider determines the relative weightings of the securities in the Underlying Index and publishes information regarding the market value of the Underlying Index. The Adviser uses a passive or indexing approach to try to achieve the Funds investment objective. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not try to outperform the Underlying Index and does not seek temporary defensive positions when markets decline or appear overvalued.
The Fund generally will use a replication strategy. A replication strategy is an indexing strategy that involves investing in the securities of the Underlying Index in approximately the same proportions as in the Underlying Index. However, the Fund may utilize a representative sampling strategy with respect to the Underlying Index when a replication strategy might be detrimental or disadvantageous to shareholders, such as when there are practical difficulties or substantial costs involved in compiling a portfolio of equity securities to replicate the Underlying Index, in instances in which a security in the Underlying Index becomes temporarily illiquid, unavailable or less liquid, or as a result of legal restrictions or limitations (such as tax diversification requirements) that apply to the Fund but not the Underlying Index.
The Adviser expects that, over time, the correlation between the Funds performance and that of the Underlying Index, before fees and expenses, will exceed 95%. A correlation percentage of 100% would indicate perfect correlation. If the Fund uses a replication strategy, it can be expected to have greater correlation to the Underlying Index than if it uses a representative sampling strategy. The Fund concentrates its investments (i.e., holds 25% or more of its total assets) in a particular industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent that the Underlying Index is concentrated. As of December 29, 2017 , the Underlying Index was concentrated in the materials sector."
SOIL Performance
Total returns for SOIL (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | -19.3% |
SOIL Risk Information
Risk metrics for SOIL, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 28.9%
SOIL Costs and Fees
SOIL costs about $70 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.70%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.70%
- Portfolio turnover: 17%
- Brokerage commissions: 2.00 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
SOIL Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2020-07, Global X Fertilizers/Potash ETF had net inflows of $1.56M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2020-07 | $0 |
| 2020-06 | $0 |
| 2020-05 | $0 |
| 2020-04 | $81.00K |
| 2020-03 | $0 |
| 2020-02 | $597.00K |
SOIL Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Global X Fertilizers/Potash ETF's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
SOIL Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Global X Fertilizers/Potash ETF filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2020-03-17
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2019-03-20
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2018-03-12
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2020-09-28
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2020-06-26
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2020-03-30
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2020-01-13
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2019-01-14
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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.