BNY Mellon US Large Cap Core Equity ETF’s management team is rated Average, but a solid investment process still helps this strategy retain its Morningstar Medalist Rating of Silver. The portfolio maintains a cost advantage over competitors, priced within the lowest fee quintile among peers.  

 The strategy's sensible investment philosophy merits an Above Average Process Pillar rating. Independent of the rating, analysis of the strategy's portfolio shows it has maintained an overweight in liquidity exposure and volatility exposure compared with category peers. High liquidity exposure is attributed to stocks with a high trading volume, lending managers more flexibility. And high volatility exposure is rooted in stocks that have a higher standard deviation of returns. The strategy’s management team earns an Average People Pillar rating. The strategy's parent organization earns the firm an Average Parent Pillar rating. People Pillar and Parent Pillar ratings for this strategy are indirectly assigned by a Morningstar analyst rather than algorithmically derived. Please see the notes following each pillar section for more details. The details of assigning methods can be found in each pillar section.

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Morningstar's evaluation of this security's process aims to determine the likelihood that it will outperform its Morningstar Category index on a risk-adjusted basis over the long term. BNY Mellon US Large Cap Core Equity ETF earns an Above Average Process Pillar rating. The main contributor to the rating is that this fund tracks an index. Historical data, like Morningstar's Active/Passive Barometer, finds that passively managed funds have generally outperformed their active counterparts, especially over longer time horizons. 

The investment strategy as stated in the fund's prospectus is:  The investment seeks to track the performance of the Solactive GBS United States 500 Index TR.  Under normal circumstances and the fund generally invests in all of the stocks in the index in proportion to their weighting in the index. The index is a float-adjusted market capitalization weighted index designed to measure the performance of 500 of the largest companies listed on U.S. stock markets. It is non-diversified. 

 The portfolio is overweight in technology by 3.6 percentage points in terms of assets compared with the category average, and its communication services allocation is similar to the category. The sectors with low exposure compared to category peers are industrials and financial services; however, the allocations are similar to the category. The portfolio is positioned across 508 holdings and its assets are more dispersed than the typical peer in the category. In the most recent disclosure, 31.1% of the fund’s assets were concentrated in the top 10 fund holdings, compared to the category average's 48.8%.

Above Average

Process

BNY Mellon’s team is valuable but does not stand out as one of the industry's best, warranting an Average People Pillar rating. There’s a deep bench of five managers listed on the fund. Together, they manage a total of 113 strategies, with solid long-term prospects. The strategies average a Bronze asset-weighted Morningstar Medalist Rating, indicating a position to deliver positive alpha relative to the category median in aggregate.  

 Note: The People Pillar rating is indirectly assigned by an analyst. The longest-tenured manager of the fund also manages a different product rated by an analyst. Their analyst-assigned People Pillar rating is combined here with the People scores (algorithmic or analyst-assigned) for the fund’s other managers on a tenure-weighted basis.

Average

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BNY Mellon Investment Management, the asset-management arm of financial conglomerate Bank of New York Mellon, has been busy with changes since CEO Hanneke Smits ascended to her seat in October 2020. The firm’s seven wholly owned but autonomous investment affiliates mostly focus on distinct asset classes. Smits streamlined this arrangement in February 2021 by consolidating most of BNYIM’s active fixed-income and equity capabilities into two affiliates, Insight and Newton, respectively, and by trimming overlapping investment teams; further, the firm sold private-credit-focused Alcentra to Franklin Templeton in May 2022 partially because of that boutique’s operational complexity. Smits believes these organizational changes should help BNYIM’s affiliates manage their strategies more effectively. Yet the firm’s broad strategy lineup remains bloated owing in part to the affiliates’ openness to customized client requests regardless of asset size. 

Smits has sought to improve collaboration across the firm’s investment teams, including by pushing affiliate CEOs to replace “star managers” with comanagers on most strategies. This is a noteworthy effort, but it led to the departure of some managers who didn’t want to partake in the new model. Amid the uncertainty of how these and other changes ultimately shake out, the firm retains its Average Parent rating.

Parent

BNY Mellon US Large Cap Core Equity ETF

BKLC tracks a market-cap-weighted index of large-cap stocks that represent the top 70% of the US equity market, in terms of capitalization.

BKLC tracks an index of the 500 largest companies in the US equity market, selected and weighted based on their respective market capitalization across all sectors.

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