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Return Stacked™ 60/40: Absolute Return Index

DESCRIPTION

The Return Stacked™ 60/40: Absolute Return Index aims to provide exposure to a U.S. 60% equity, 40% bond allocation while “stacking” diversifying alternative exposures, including tail protection, on top. Stacking is achieved by allocating to a custom basket of widely available Mutual Funds and ETFs, which embed a variety of capital efficient exposures to equities, bonds and alternative strategies.

The Index is designed to preserve exposure to core stock and bond allocations, while bolstering expected risk-adjusted returns with non-correlated return streams like trend following, global macro, and tail-hedging strategies.

The Index targets a volatility and drawdown profile similar to a U.S.  balanced portfolio. Of course, there is no guarantee that the Index will meet this objective.

For information about the constituent funds and underlying exposures, please refer to the Index Methodology and Stacking Returns™ paper, respectively.

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Calendar Performance¹­

Date Mandate Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year Difference
2022 Stacked Index -4.46% -0.61% 3.38% -2.65% 1.02% -3.46% 8.04%
2022 Benchmark -4.51% -1.99% 0.84% -6.99% 0.82% -11.50%
2021 Stacked Index -0.82% 2.66% 1.28% 4.83% 1.58% 1.10% 2.14% 0.99% -3.43% 5.33% -1.96% 2.07% 16.56% 2.94%
2021 Benchmark -0.50% 1.27% 1.15% 3.44% 0.36% 1.87% 1.47% 1.66% -3.12% 4.04% -0.77% 2.17% 13.62%
2020 Stacked Index 0.96% 4.34% 5.34% 1.79%
2020 Benchmark 0.83% 2.70% 3.55%

¹ Results prior to the publication date of the index of September 30th, 2021 are hypothetical. You should not take hypothetical data as an indication of future Index data. The Index inception date of November 23, 2020 was the initial date when all open-end funds used in the index began providing capital efficient exposures to meet the index objectives. The benchmark is the Vanguard Balanced Index Fund Investor Shares (VBINX). Past performance is no guarantee of future results and may be lower or higher than current performance.

Historical Performance from October 1st, 2021
Hypothetical Performance Prior to September 30th, 2021²

² Results prior to the publication date of the index of September 30th, 2021 are hypothetical.  You should not take hypothetical data as an indication of future Index data. The Index inception date of November 23, 2020 was the initial date when all open-end funds used in the Index began providing capital efficient exposures to meet the Index objectives. The benchmark is the Vanguard Balanced Index Fund Investor Shares (VBINX). Past performance is no guarantee of future results and may be lower or higher than current performance.

Return Statistics April 30th, 2022

Time Period Index Benchmark
YTD -4.44% -12.22%
1 Month -2.65% -6.99%
3 Months 0.02% -8.07%
6 Months -4.37% -11.01%
1 Year 3.04% -5.40%
3 Years - -
5 Years - -
Since Inception 11.25% 2.18%

Holdings As of April 30th, 2022

Positions Ticker Index Weight %
Newfound Risk Managed U.S. Growth NFDIX 15.00%
Rational ReSolve Adaptive Asset Allocation Fund RDMIX 15.00%
Catalyst/Millburn Hedge Strategy Fund MBXIX 15.00%
Standpoint Multi Asset Fund BLNDX 12.50%
Abbey Capital Multi-Asset Fund MAFIX 12.50%
WisdomTree U.S Efficient Core Fund NTSX 6%
WisdomTree International Efficient Core Fund NTSI 6%
Simplify US Equity Plus Convexity ETF SPYC 10%
Simplify Risk Parity Treasury ETF TYA 5%
Simplify Tail Risk Strategy ETF CYA 3%

EMBEDDED EXPOSURES

The Index is designed to provide exposure to 60% equities, 40% bonds and capital efficient exposures to alternative strategies, which are designed to be lowly correlated to the traditional allocations. The index provider scrutinized fund documents and interviewed managers to determine underlying fund exposures on a best efforts basis.

Capital Efficient Funds Ticker Dollar Allocation Equity Bond Managed Futures Global Macro Convexity Volatility  
Newfound Risk Managed U.S. Growth NFDIX 15.0% 11.2% 11.2% 0.8%
Rational ReSolve Adaptive Asset Allocation Fund RDMIX 15.0% 3.0% 9.0% 3.0% 14.2% 0.8%
Catalyst/Millburn Hedge Strategy Fund MBXIX 15.0% 15.0% 15.0%
Standpoint Multi Asset Fund BLNDX 12.5% 6.2% 12.5%
Abbey Capital Multi-Asset Fund MAFIX 12.5% 6.2% 12.5%
WisdomTree U.S Efficient Core Fund NTSX 6.0% 5.4% 3.6%
WisdomTree International Efficient Core Fund NTSI 6.0% 5.4% 3.6%
Simplify US Equity Plus Convexity ETF SPYC 10.0% 9.8% 0.2%
Simplify Risk Parity Treasury ETF TYA 5.0% 12.5%
Simplify Tail Risk Strategy ETF CYA 3.0% 0.4%
Total Notional
Exposure
100.0% 62.3% 39.9% 28.0% 29.2% 1.4% 0.8% 161.7%

Notional allocations represent approximate averages estimated based upon fund holdings and strategy descriptions. Actual exposure may substantially deviate from the estimates displayed here.

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Benchmark Disclaimer
The Benchmark is the Vanguard Balanced Index Fund Investor Shares.

Hypothetical Index Performance Disclaimer
The performance data up to September 30th, 2021 represents backtested exposures to 15% NFDIX,15% RDMIX, 15% MBXIX, 12.5% BLNDX, 12.50% MAFIX,10% PSLDX, 10% SPYC, 10% AGG rebalanced monthly. From October 1st, 2021 hypothetical results are walk forward performance from exposures to 15% NFDIX,15% RDMIX, 15% MBXIX, 12.5% BLNDX, 12.50% MAFIX, 6% NTSX, 6% NTSI, 10% SPYC, 5% TYA, 3% CYA. Performance is expressed in US dollars and no additional management fees are deducted beyond the expense ratios embedded in the funds themselves. Indicated returns of one year or more are annualized. Past performance is not indicative of future performance.

Back-tested performance was achieved by the retroactive application of a model designed with the benefit of hindsight and is not based on live results. Trading fees, expenses, transaction costs, commissions or taxes have not been netted from the gross performance results except as is otherwise described in this presentation. The performance results include reinvestment of dividends, capital gains and other earnings. Backtested performance does not reflect contemporaneous advice or record keeping by an investment adviser. Actual, live results may have materially differed from the presented performance results.

Leverage Risk
Investments which use derivative instruments such as futures, options and swap agreements, have the economic effect of creating financial leverage and may give rise to losses that exceed the amount the Index has invested in those instruments. Financial leverage will magnify, sometimes significantly, the Index’s exposure to any increase or decrease in prices associated with a particular reference asset resulting in increased volatility in the value of the Index. The value of the Index is likely to experience greater volatility over short-term periods. While such financial leverage has the potential to produce greater gains, it also may result in greater losses, which in some cases may cause the underlying funds to liquidate other investments at a loss to comply with any margin limits set out by the custodian.

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