Weakness in Brookstone Intermediate Bond ETF's Process and People Pillar ratings limits this strategy to a Morningstar Medalist Rating of Negative. Fees are a weakness here. The strategy's lofty fees are a high hurdle to clear, as it is priced within the most expensive quintile among peers.  

 The strategy earns a Below Average Process Pillar rating. Independent of the rating, analysis of the strategy's portfolio shows it has maintained a significant underweight position in corporate bonds and A rated bonds compared with category peers. The strategy suffers from its inexperienced portfolio management team. This largely drives the strategy's Below Average People Pillar rating. The strategy's parent organization still has a way to go to reach the industry standard, evidenced by  personal investments from portfolio managers and relatively short-tenured portfolio managers. As a result, the firm obtains a Below Average Parent Pillar rating.

Analyst Rating

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Morningstar's style-agnostic evaluation of this fund's process seeks to understand whether the strategy has a performance objective and sensible, repeatable execution. Brookstone Intermediate Bond ETF earns a Below Average Process Pillar rating.    The process benefits from the firm's five-year retention rate of 100% over the period. However, the rating is weakened by the experience of the management team, which averages four years at this fund. High costs across its parent firm's funds, whose fees rank in their respective category's second-costliest quintile on average, also limit the process. While this fund's costs are most relevant to investors, the pattern at the broader firm suggests it could do more to keep fees low.

 Compared with other funds in the Intermediate Core Bond Morningstar Category, this fund, historically, hews closely to peers' credit and interest-rate sensitivity over the past few years. Opening the analysis to additional factors, the portfolio has displayed biases over time, whether towards or away from certain fixed-income instruments. Compared with the category average, the managers have been meaningfully underweight corporate bonds in recent years. In the latest month, the strategy has also relatively underweighted corporate bonds compared with Morningstar Category peers. Additionally, there's been a bias away from A rated bonds over the past few years. Similarly, in recent months, the strategy also had less exposure to A rated bonds than peers. Finally, during the past few years, the fund leaned meaningfully away from debt with 10- to 15-year maturities. In recent months, the strategy also had less exposure to debt with 10- to 15-year maturities compared to its peers.

  The portfolio's average surveyed credit quality is on par with peers, with both the fund and the average being rated A.

Below Average

Process

Brookstone Intermediate Bond ETF earns a Below Average People Pillar rating. The team benefits from the firm's five-year retention rate of 100%. However, the rating is limited by the experience of the management team, which averages four years at this fund. The number of months that the management team has been running this vehicle together also holds the rating back. Since this is a newly incepted product, more time is needed to monitor the team's capability at executing the strategy.


Mark W. DiOrio’s veteran status, with 17 years of listed portfolio management experience, brings a wealth of experience to the table.  Although the team size is solid, together they are largely unproven. With four additional supporting listed managers, the team averages four years of listed portfolio management experience.

People

Brookstone Asset Management, with only six months of history as a firm, is too nascent to prove whether it has an edge over the competition, leading to a Below Average Parent Pillar rating. The firm currently manages eight vehicles, with a total of $337.5 million under management across a bench of five strategy managers. The management team at Brookstone Asset Management is unproven. Because the team members average just over four years in the industry, there's reason to be cautious until they grow more seasoned. The firm's earliest portfolio manager hire, Mark W. Diorio, has 17 years of industry experience. 
 
   

 As Brookstone Asset Management builds and continues to develop a track record, its rating will be adjusted accordingly.

Parent

Brookstone Intermediate Bond ETF

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