RATE is an actively managed Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) that seeks to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns with low volatility in all interest rate environments. Unlike traditional fixed income strategies, RATE etf maintains attractive exposure to a diversified portfolio of Canadian investment grade corporate bonds, seeking to eliminate the interest rate risk associated with such bonds
RATE provides investors with an inflation-protected fixed income solution to diversify their portfolio. RATE etf is a corporate bond portfolio of the largest most credit-worthy issuers in North America incorporating hedging strategies to reduce the interest rate risk associated with fixed income holdings
Enhanced exposure to credit spreads for potential capital gains
4.7% current internal portfolio yield provides substantial payout coverage
Low portfolio duration and low correlation to DEX provides significant fixed income portfolio diversification
RATE offers advisors a monthly peer analysis that provides key metrics to evaluate the strategy for your clients. Please click on the button below to get the full peer analysis showing performance, upside / downside capture, beta and correlation
Arrow EC IncomeAdvantage Alternative ETF | BMO Short Corporate Bond ETF |
Picton Mahoney FortifiedInc Alt ETF | iShares Core CanadianST Corp Bond ETF |
Vanguard Canadian Short-term Bond ETF | iShares Core CanadianCorporate Bond ETF |
BMO Short Federal Bond ETF | CIBC Active Investment GradeCorp Bond ETF |
Vanguard Canadian Short-term Corp Bond ETF | BMO Mid Federal Bond ETF |
1 Mth (%) | 3 Mth (%) | 6 Mth (%) | YTD (%) | 1 Yr (%) | 3 Yr (%) | 5 Yr (%) | 10 Yr (%) | Ann ITD |
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0.38% | 1.59% | 3.30% | 8.16% | 8.16% | 6.74% | - | - | 5.81% |
Name of Position | % of Portfolio |
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T 4 11/25/25 | 7.2% |
SUCN 5.6 11/17/25 | 6.7% |
NAB 3.515 06/12/30 | 6.7% |
BAC Float 09/15/27 | 6.3% |
BMO 4.709 12/07/27 | 5.8% |
ANZ 2.95 07/22/30 | 5.6% |
BMO 3.803 12/15/32 | 5.5% |
BNS 5 1/2 05/08/26 | 5.4% |
CM 4 3/8 10/28/2080 | 5.0% |
C 5.592 11/19/34 | 4.9% |
sector | % of Portfolio |
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Financial | 60.9% |
Energy | 19.2% |
Communications | 9.3% |
Utilities | 6.8% |
Consumer Cyclical | 5.2% |
Mortgage Securities | 1.0% |
Diversified | 0.5% |
Asset Backed Securities | 0.2% |
Basic Materials | -0.1% |
Industrial | -0.2% |
Funds | -0.4% |
Technology | -0.8% |
Consumer Non-cyclical | -1.4% |
region | % of Portfolio |
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Canada | 79.8% |
U.S. | 15.9% |
Other | 4.3% |
The Series ETF Units of the Arrow EC Income Advantage Alternative Fund were launched on June 15, 2021 and are listed on the TSX with the ticker “RATE”. On June 26, 2020, the East Coast Investment Grade Income Fund (TSX: ECF.UN) was converted from a closed end fund into an open-end alternative mutual fund, renamed Arrow EC Income Advantage Alternative Fund and delisted from the TSX. Details of the conversion are outlined in the information circular which is available at www.sedar.com. Unitholders of Fund had their units redesignated as Series FD Units.
Commissions, trailing commissions, management fees, performance fees and expenses all may be associated with ETF investments. Please read the prospectus before investing. The indicated rates of return are the historical annual compounded total returns net of fees and expenses payable by the fund (except for figures of one year or less, which are simple total returns) including changes in security value and reinvestment of all dividends/distributions and do not take into account sales, redemption, distribution or optional charges or income taxes payable by any securityholder that would have reduced returns. ETFs are not guaranteed, their values change frequently, and past performance may not be repeated. You will usually pay brokerage fees to your dealer if you purchase or sell units of an ETF on recognized Canadian exchanges. If the units are purchased or sold on these Canadian exchanges, investors may pay more than the current net asset value when buying units of the ETF and may receive less than the current net asset value when selling them.
The rates of return are used only to illustrate the effects of the compound growth rate and are not intended to reflect future values or returns on investment in an investment fund.
The “Growth of $1,000” chart shows the final value of a hypothetical $1,000 investment in securities in this class/series of the fund as at the end of the investment period indicated and is not intended to reflect future values or returns on investment in such securities.
The risk level of a fund has been determined in accordance with a standardized risk classification methodology in National Instrument 81-102, that is based on the fund’s historical volatility as measured by the 10-year standard deviation of the fund’s returns. Where a fund has offered securities to the public for less than 10 years, the standardized methodology requires that the standard deviation of a reference mutual fund or index that reasonably approximates the fund’s standard deviation be used to determine the fund’s risk rating. Please note that historical performance may not be indicative of future returns and a fund’s historical volatility may not be indicative of future volatility.
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