Weakness in Global X SuperIncome™ Preferred 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 fund merits a Low Process 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.

Analyst Rating

Morningstar's style-agnostic investment process evaluation looks for strategies that should be able to outperform their Morningstar Category index on a risk-adjusted basis over time. Global X SuperIncome™ Preferred ETF earns a Low Process Pillar rating.    The most substantial detractor from the rating is the fund's mediocre 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 outperformed 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. The parent firm's inferior risk-adjusted performance, as shown by its average 10-year Morningstar Rating of 2.1 stars, detracts from the process as well. A lower star rating suggests that the firm has struggled to outperform on a risk-adjusted basis.

 The investment strategy as stated in the fund's prospectus is as follows: 


The investment seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the Global X U.S. High Yield Preferred Index ("underlying index").  The fund will invest at least 80% of its total assets in the securities of the underlying index and in American Depositary Receipts ("ADRs") and Global Depositary Receipts ("GDRs") based on the securities in the underlying index. The underlying index tracks the performance of the highest-yielding preferred securities listed in the United States, as determined by Solactive AG, and the administrator of the underlying index (“Index Administrator”).

 This strategy has a 6.3% 12-month yield, higher than its average peer's 5.9%. Plus, its 30-day SEC yield (a measure similar to yield-to-maturity) sits at 6.0%. Higher yields tend to indicate higher credit risk.

Process

Global X’s team earns a Low People Pillar rating. The most substantial 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 modest success ratio suggests that the firm could do better across its fund lineup. The parent firm's five-year retention rate of 67% also detracts from the team. 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.

Average

Parent

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