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Strategas launches two active funds after institutional clients express interest

Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia:

Strategas Asset Management, the investment advisory arm of Strategas, announced the launch of two new actively managed ETFs, following the interest from its institutional investor clients, said CEO Nicholas Bohnsack.

The Strategas Macro Thematic Opportunities ETF (SAMT) and the Strategas Global Policy Opportunities ETF (SAGP) are listed on the NYSE Arca, said a press release from the institutional macro research provider.

SAMT is an actively managed fund that leverages Strategas' research-driven approach to drive a holistic thematic rotation strategy, focused on those macro themes around which the Strategas team has the highest conviction, it said.

"The Fund will invest in three to five such themes at any given time, expressing the portfolio management team's views through U.S.-listed stocks across market capitalizations which meet certain liquidity parameters," said the release.

According to the press release, SAGP is an actively managed global equity fund that combines Strategas' proprietary super-cyclical "lobbying intensity" framework with the portfolio management team's recommended asset allocation approach.

"The result is a global portfolio focused on those public policy initiatives at the U.S. federal government level viewed as having the greatest potential positive impact on corporate profits with tactical tilts toward the most favorable equity sleeves, such as large-cap versus small-cap, domestic versus internation......................

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