Despite People Pillar weakness and an Average Process Pillar, Global X CleanTech ETF gets enough right to retain its Morningstar Medalist Rating of Bronze. The portfolio maintains a sizable cost advantage over competitors, priced within the cheapest fee quintile among peers.  

 The strategy earns an Average Process Pillar rating. Independent of the rating, analysis of the strategy's portfolio shows it has maintained a significant overweight position in liquidity exposure and an underweight in quality exposure compared with category peers. High liquidity exposure is attributed to stocks with a high trading volume, lending managers more flexibility. And a low quality exposure is rooted in stocks with higher financial leverage and lower profitability. The team managing this passive strategy earns a Low People Pillar rating. The strategy's parent organization earns the firm an Average Parent Pillar rating, and this rating is inherited from vehicles belonging to the same branding entity and is indirectly assigned by an analyst.

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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. Global X CleanTech ETF earns an Average Process Pillar rating. The predominant contributor to the rating is that this fund tracks an index. Historical data, such as Morningstar's Active/Passive Barometer, finds that passively managed funds have generally outperformed their active counterparts, especially over longer time horizons. The size of the portfolio management team also bolsters the rating. With four portfolio managers, the fund is reasonably well-resourced. Lastly, the process is limited by the parent firm's five-year risk-adjusted success ratio of 28%. The measure indicates the percentage of a firm's funds that survived and outperformed their respective category's median Morningstar Risk-Adjusted Return for the period. The parent's relatively low success ratio suggests that the firm could do better across its fund lineup.

The investment strategy as stated in the fund's prospectus is:  The investment seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the Indxx Global CleanTech Index.  The fund invests at least 80% of its total assets, plus borrowings for investments purposes, in the securities of the index and in ADRs, and GDRs based on the securities in the index. The index is designed to provide exposure to exchange-listed companies that are positioned to benefit from the increased adoption of technologies focused on improving the efficiency of renewable energy production and/or mitigating the adverse environmental effects of resource consumption. It is non-diversified. 

 The portfolio is overweight in technology and industrials relative to the category average by 27.1 and 17.3 percentage points, respectively. The sectors with low exposure compared to category peers are healthcare and financial services, underweight the average by 10.5 and 10.1 percentage points of assets, respectively. The strategy owns 41 securities and is relatively concentrated. Specifically, 54.9% of the strategy's assets are housed within the top 10 holdings, as opposed to the typical peer's 15.4%. And finally, in terms of portfolio turnover, looking at year-over-year movements, 24% of the fund's holdings have changed, whether through increasing, decreasing, or changing a position.

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Process

Global X’s team earns a Low People Pillar rating. The main detractor from the rating is the parent firm's five-year success ratio of 30%. The measure indicates the percentage of a firm's funds that survived and beat their respective category's median return for the period. The parent's subpar success ratio suggests that the firm could do better across its fund lineup. The parent firm's five-year retention rate of 67% also holds the rating back. The experience of the management team, which averages four years at this fund, detracts from the rating as well.

People

Mirae Asset Global Investments is a Korean asset manager and a key player in the Asian financial market. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Mirae Asset Financial Group, founded by Hyeon Joo Park. Park’s leadership and entrepreneurial spirit have been the driving force behind the global rise of Mirae, and he holds a majority stake in the business. 
Mirae Asset has grown significantly over the years (USD 198 billion as of December 2022) across a diversified platform, of which about 60% of assets are managed in South Korea. We believe that Mirae’s core mutual fund business in the Asia-Pac region is relatively strong. It has a collaborative structure, a strong and large investment team, low manager turnover, competitive fees, and a disciplined approach to product-development pointing toward better stewardship practices relative to peers in these markets. However, this is in stark contrast to its exchange-traded fund business, which accounts for 41% of the total assets. 
The firm’s ETF lineup focuses largely on high-risk thematic strategies that seem gimmicky, emphasizing short-term asset-gathering. The firm appears to leverage trending topics such as robotics and artificial intelligence, virtual reality and gaming, and cloud computing. There’s a notable concern regarding the potential liquidation of these funds since they seem to be designed around investment fads. Furthermore, these products are often expensive, especially compared with broadly diversified index funds and ETFs. Unsurprisingly, Mirae's reflexive product-development strategy has led to an increase in fund closures.
Our experience engaging with the MAGI team to gather critical information for the parent assessment has not been as positive. It hasn’t been as transparent in its disclosures, and unlike its peers, its responsiveness has been inadequate. We prefer firms with a more transparent corporate culture. Overall, these actions hold us back, and the firm retains its Parent Pillar rating of Average.

Parent

Global X CleanTech ETF

CTEC tracks a market-cap weighted index of global companies involved in the development and production of technologies that reduce negative impact on the environment

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