Weakness in Global X MSCI SuperDividend® EAFE ETF's People and Process Pillar ratings limits this strategy to a Morningstar Medalist Rating of Negative. The portfolio maintains a cost advantage over competitors, priced within the cheapest fee quintile among peers.  

 The team managing the passive strategy earns a Low People Pillar. 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 overweight position in yield exposure and has a significant underweight in quality exposure compared with category peers. High yield exposure is attributed to holding high dividend-paying or buyback stocks, and is suitable for income seekers outside of fixed-income. And a low quality exposure is rooted in stocks with higher financial leverage and lower profitability. 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 benchmark on a risk-adjusted basis over the long term. Global X MSCI SuperDividend® EAFE ETF earns a Below Average Process Pillar rating. 

The process benefits from tracking 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. However, the rating is limited by the fund's unimpressive long-term risk-adjusted performance. This can be seen in its five-year alpha calculated relative to the category index, which suggests that the process has struggled over that period. The parent firm's five-year risk-adjusted success ratio of 28% also weakens the process. The measure indicates the percentage of a firm's funds that survived and beat their respective category's median Morningstar Risk-Adjusted Return for the period. The parent's subpar success ratio suggests that the firm could do better across its fund lineup.

 This strategy skews toward smaller, more undervalued companies than its average peer in the Foreign Large Value Morningstar Category. Looking at additional factor exposure, this strategy has continually had more high-yield exposure than the Morningstar Category average during recent years, with the portfolio holding more stocks with high dividend or buyback yields. Higher-yield stocks can provide dependable income, but also have their risks. Dividend payers may cut payouts, for instance, if their earnings fall. In recent months, the strategy was more exposed to the Yield factor compared with its Morningstar Category peers as well. This strategy has also favored low-quality stocks. This means the fund avoids holding companies that are consistently profitable, growing, and have solid balance sheets. Lacking this ballast, the fund's prospects could rest on its ability to beat peers during economic booms. Similarly, in recent months, the strategy also had less exposure to the Quality factor than peers. Additionally, this strategy has demonstrated a bias away from momentum stocks during these years. Momentum investors tend to expect stocks that have done well recently to continue to do so in the short term. Momentum approaches can entail higher turnover and trading costs since the top stocks can often change. In this month, however, the strategy had more exposure to the Momentum factor than its peers. More information on a fund and its respective category's factor exposure can be found in the Factor Profile module within the Portfolio section. 

 The portfolio is overweight in utilities and financial services relative to the category average by 8.4 and 6.9 percentage points, respectively. The sectors with low exposure compared to category peers are healthcare and technology, underweight the average by 9.4 and 7.4 percentage points of assets, respectively. The portfolio is positioned across 51 holdings and is relatively top-heavy. Of the strategy's assets, 26.8% are concentrated within the top 10 holdings, as opposed to the typical peer's 13.9%. And in closing, in terms of portfolio turnover, on a year-over-year basis, 37% of the fund's holdings have turned over, whether through increasing, decreasing, or changing a position.

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Global X’s team earns a Low People Pillar rating. The most meaningful 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 outperformed their respective category's median return for the period. The parent's relatively low success ratio suggests that the firm could do better across its fund lineup. The parent firm's five-year retention rate of 67% also weakens the team. The experience of the management team, which averages four years at this fund, limits the team as well.

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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.

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