Increased confidence in ProShares Inflation Expectations's prospects relative to its Morningstar Category peers leads to an upgrade in this strategy's Morningstar Medalist Rating to Silver from Bronze. The portfolio maintains a cost advantage over competitors, priced within the cheapest fee quintile among peers.  

 The strategy's effective investment philosophy earns it an Above Average Process Pillar rating. The team managing this passive strategy earns a Below Average People Pillar rating. The strategy's parent firm has some investor-friendly attributes, like overall affordable fees, but it is held back by a disappointing average Morningstar Rating. As a result, the firm gets an Average Parent Pillar rating.

Analyst Rating

ProShares Inflation Expectations earns an Above Average Process Pillar rating. 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. The primary contributor to the rating is the fund's excellent 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 was successful over that period. This fund tracks an index, which also increases its process rating. Historical data, like Morningstar's Active/Passive Barometer, shows that passively managed funds have generally outperformed their active counterparts, especially over longer time horizons. Lastly, the process is limited by the parent firm's five-year risk-adjusted success ratio of 38%. 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 investment results, before fees and expenses, that track the performance of the FTSE 30-Year TIPS (Treasury Rate Hedged) Index (the "index").  Under normal circumstances, the fund will invest at least 80% of its total assets in component securities of the index. The index tracks the performance of (i) long position in the most recently issued 30-year Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities ("TIPS") and (ii) duration-adjusted short position in U.S. Treasury bonds of, in aggregate, and approximate equivalent duration dollars to the TIPS. The fund is non-diversified.  

 This strategy's 12-month yield is 5.0%, which is near its average peer.

Above Average

Process

ProShares’s team receives a Below Average People Pillar rating. The team is strengthened by the portfolio managers' outperformance of peers at the funds they run, as measured by their combined three-year manager excess returns. However, the rating is held back by the parent firm's five-year success ratio of 27%. 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 instability of its management team also holds the team back. The fund last saw a manager change two years ago.

Below Average

People

In a competitive industry, ProShares doesn't differentiate itself enough, leading to an Average Parent Pillar rating. A strength of ProShares is that its product shelf of open-end and exchange-traded funds is, on average, offered at a minimal cost, suggesting that it considers what's best for its investor base. On average, fees for funds are in the lowest quintile of respective category peers. Looking at the firm's risk-adjusted performance, the product lineup compares similarly to competitors. Across its open-end and exchange-traded funds, the firm's average 10-year Morningstar Rating is 3.1 stars. ProShares has faced above-average manager turnover in the past five years. This is a concern, as long-term stability tends to support positive results.

Average

Parent

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