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IPSAX

IPS Strategic Capital Absolute Return Fund

Expense Ratio
1.51%
AUM
$40M
Inception
4/18/2016
1Y Return
+0.9%11th %ilevs 251 asset-class peers
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The fund primarily invests in put and call options on equity indexes and exchange-traded funds (ETFs), managing a portfolio designed to reduce overall volatility of returns. It sells put options to generate income while potentially obligating itself to purchase underlying assets if their value declines, and sells call options to generate income, which may limit participation in market gains. The fund may also take defensive positions, investing up to 100% of assets in cash or cash equivalents when market conditions are deemed unsuitable.

Time Series
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Performance

NameCumulative ReturnAnn. ReturnAnn. VolSharpeMax DD
IPSAX
IPS Strategic Capital Absolute Return Fund
0.9%0.9%10.9%-0.27-12.0%
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ETF performance based on market prices. Drag on chart to select period. Sharpe Ratio uses the one-month T-bill as the risk-free rate. From 10/7/2025 to 10/7/2026.

Trailing Returns

Name
YTD1D5D1M3M6M1Y2Y3Y5YMAX
IPSAX
IPS Strategic Capital Absolute Return Fund
1.5%-0.3%1.4%0.8%1.6%9.6%0.9%6.5%12.1%6.0%6.3%
ⓘ Methodology

ETF performance based on market prices. Returns for periods greater than one year are annualized. As of 10/7/2026.

Annual Returns

Name
2016201720182019202020212022202320242025YTD
IPSAX
IPS Strategic Capital Absolute Return Fund
1.1%*13.6%-5.4%13.7%3.1%18.3%-16.0%16.1%17.0%9.1%1.5%
ⓘ Methodology

* partial year — the series ran for only part of it (its first year, or the year it closed); the figure is the return over the part it did run. ETF performance based on market prices. As of 10/7/2026.

Correlation Matrix

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Factor Regression

Name
Ann. αβ MKTβ SMBβ HMLβ RMWβ CMAβ UMDβ iHMLR²Obs
IPSAXUS
IPS Strategic Capital Absolute Return Fund
-9.2%0.65**-0.12*0.02-0.01-0.01-0.03-0.090.61226
ⓘ Methodology

ETF performance based on market prices. US factor set. Daily OLS of excess return (fund − T-bill) on factor spread returns over the selected date range, intersected with each series' history. Bold with * |t| ≥ 1.96, ** |t| ≥ 2.58. Cell shading tracks each loading's t-stat. Betas are returns-based — compare with the holdings-based factor scores below. Factor returns are long-short spread returns (© Ken French, Dartmouth). From 10/7/2025 to 8/31/2026.

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Fund Profile

Fund Documents(opens the fund company’s site in a new tab)
Family
Registrant
Type
Mutual Fund
Asset Class
Peer Asset Class
Alternatives
Region
Peer Group Benchmark
Prospectus Benchmark
S&P 500 ® Index
Peer Group
Alts - Global Macro (22 peers)
1Y Peer Percentile
5
3Y Peer Percentile
88
Expense Ratio
1.51%
5Y Tax Drag
2.87%/yr
AUM
$40M
3Y Flow
-16.5%
Yield
0.25%
Inception
4/18/2016
Holdings (Reported)
36
Turnover
116%
Equity
97%
Derivatives
97%
Net Equity Exposure
0%
Option Notional
-2000%
Strategy Summary

The fund primarily invests in put and call options on equity indexes and exchange-traded funds (ETFs), managing a portfolio designed to reduce overall volatility of returns. It sells put options to generate income while potentially obligating itself to purchase underlying assets if their value declines, and sells call options to generate income, which may limit participation in market gains. The fund may also take defensive positions, investing up to 100% of assets in cash or cash equivalents when market conditions are deemed unsuitable.

ⓘ Methodology

Expense ratio and its components from the fund's prospectus fee table; tax drag from its after-tax return table. Turnover from the SEC annual report (5/6/2026). Yield as of 10/6/2026, AUM 9/30/2026. Holdings, asset class, style, peer group and exposures as of 5/31/2026. Strategy summary from the fund's prospectus.

Composite Factors

Not scored — IPSAX’s holdings don’t clear the coverage floor for composite factor scores.

Factor DetailsRef: Alternatives Funds

None of the selected metrics are scored for IPSAX — switch the picker to All, or add metrics under Metrics (top right).

ⓘ Methodology

Hover or click for factor definitions. Weighted average of underlying company-level values with weights equal to position size. Solid blue dots mark the fund's position within the clean equity fund universe (5th–95th percentile scale); the shaded band spans the fund's broad class (Alternatives Funds) 25th–75th percentile, notched at the median. Holdings as of 5/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026. Expense ratio, yield, and turnover as of 10/6/2026. AUM as of 9/30/2026.

Country Exposure

Level
100.0%
100.0%
ⓘ Methodology

Shares are percentages of the holdings that carry a country, not portfolio weights. Based on N-PORT domicile; ADRs list under their exchange. Holdings as of 5/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

Holdings

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34 positions (top 10 shown, create for full holdings) · 6.5% in funds

#NameTickerWeight %SectorIndustryCountry
1S&P 500 IndexSPX
60.35
IndustrialsHeavy MachineryUSA
2S&P 500 IndexSPX
13.69
IndustrialsHeavy MachineryUSA
3S&P 500 IndexSPX
13.48
IndustrialsHeavy MachineryUSA
4S&P 500 IndexSPX
7.47
IndustrialsHeavy MachineryUSA
5S&P 500 IndexSPX
7.22
IndustrialsHeavy MachineryUSA
6S&P 500 IndexSPX
6.00
IndustrialsHeavy MachineryUSA
7EA Series Trust - Alpha Architect 1-3 Month Box ETFBOXX
5.97
--USA
8S&P 500 IndexSPX
4.30
IndustrialsHeavy MachineryUSA
9Money Market Obligations Trust-
3.12
--USA
10S&P 500 IndexSPX
1.56
IndustrialsHeavy MachineryUSA
ⓘ Methodology

Sector, country and factor detail need a security match; the share of weight that matched is a member figure, so the rows without one appear here with those columns blank. "In funds" adds up the rows tagged Fund — holdings that are themselves funds this app covers, which is what look-through can expand; a held vehicle that files no holdings of its own (a commodity or currency trust, a money-market fund) is not counted and stays a single line. Holdings as of 5/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

ConcentrationRef: Alternatives Funds

Total Holdings36
Effective Holdings3.8
Top 10 Weight123.2%
Max Position60.4%
Top Sector (of Net Assets)117%
Top Country (of Net Assets)100%
ⓘ Methodology

Hover or click for definitions. Solid blue dots mark the fund: percentage rows on a 0–100% scale, holdings counts log-scaled across the clean-universe 5th–95th percentile range. The shaded band spans the fund's broad class (Alternatives Funds) 25th–75th percentile, notched at the median. Holdings as of 5/31/2026.

Benchmark DifferentiationRef: Alternatives Funds

vs SPYBroad Benchmark
Active Share100.0%
Tracking Error9.9%
Benchmark Correlation0.78
ⓘ Methodology

One sub-card per benchmark: the market primary, then the style secondary — the gap between them is the style sleeve itself. Both anchors are Sparkline-inferred (market from asset class and region, style from the holdings size-and-style map), not the fund's official prospectus benchmark. Solid blue dot marks the fund; the shaded band spans the reference set's 25th–75th percentile, notched at the median (band follows the Peer Universe selector). Active Share compares the fund's book with the benchmark's, share for share; Tracking Error is the annualized daily deviation over the trailing two years (ruler runs to just past the universe's 95th percentile, or past the fund's own figure where that is larger); Benchmark Correlation is the plain daily correlation over the trailing year. Hover the labels for full definitions.

Peer Group Rank

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Metric
IPSAX
IPS Strategic Capital Absolute Return Fund
Peer Group
22 funds
Peer Asset Class
251 funds
YTD Return
1.49%7.04%57.46%16
1Y Return
0.87%8.61%59.49%11
3Y Return (Ann.)
12.07%9.28%889.39%67
5Y Return (Ann.)
5.96%5.70%535.24%59
Expense Ratiohigher = cheaper
1.51%1.13%271.42%45
ⓘ Methodology

Sparkline's own holdings-based peer taxonomy (57 share classes across 22 funds). One share class shown per fund — the exchange-listed class where the SEC series has one, else its longest-history class; percentile ranks and medians are computed against the same deduped set. Quartile chips fill the layer the fund's rank falls in (top layer = best quartile). Funds without a full return history rank only on the horizons they cover.

Similar Funds

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Nearest funds across the whole universe, by holdings and behavior — the peer taxonomy is ignored, so matches can come from any category.

Top Similarity37
Top Overlap
Top Active Tilt
Top Return Corr
Top FF Match
FundPeer Group
1AXSPX
AXS Adaptive Plus Fund
Allocation - Conservative
Allocation - Conservative
37----
2MOOD
Relative Sentiment Tactical Allocation ETF
Allocation - Tactical/Dynamic
Allocation - Tactical/Dynamic
9----
3CAOS
Alpha Architect Tail Risk ETF
Alts - Long Volatility
Alts - Long Volatility
5----
4GDMA
Gadsden Dynamic Multi-Asset ETF
Allocation - Moderate
Allocation - Moderate
5----
5SDTY
YieldMax(R) S&P 500 0dte Covered Call Strategy ETF
Options - Income
Options - Income
5----
6BOXA
Alpha Architect Aggregate Bond ETF
Fixed Income - Core
Fixed Income - Core
5----
7BOXX
Alpha Architect 1-3 Month Box ETF
Cash & Ultra-Short
Cash & Ultra-Short
5----
8CMIIX
Curasset Capital Management Limited Term Income Fund
Fixed Income - Short-Term
Fixed Income - Short-Term
2----
9BDGS
Bridges Capital Tactical ETF
Allocation - Tactical/Dynamic
Allocation - Tactical/Dynamic
2----
10ADOIX
AXS Dynamic Opportunity Fund
Allocation - Aggressive
Allocation - Aggressive
2----

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ⓘ Methodology

Rows are the consensus top matches (a fund must place in at least two methods' top 250 to qualify, and matches missing more than one of this fund's own methods are not ranked — a row scored on fewer methods is a noisier estimate, not a better match). Click a method column to see that method's own top matches across the whole universe instead. Gray (N) beside each method's metric is that fund's rank in the whole universe on that method. Similarity is a percentile among match-grade fund pairs, 0–100 — 87 means the pair is closer than 87% of the strongest matches in the universe, averaged across the methods — so it compares across funds: index clones tie at the top with thousands of other clone pairs, so scores top out in the high 80s to 90s, while a one-of-a-kind fund's best match can score in the 30s. Rows are ordered by the Consensus Rank — the geometric mean of those universe ranks, shown in each cell's tooltip — and the score is held down the list to the level of the closest match above it, so equal scores mean equally close and the number reads as a floor. A dash means that method has no figure for the pair at all (one of them lacks the holdings or return history it needs). Hover a column header for each method's definition. The “Top…” strips above compare against every fund's own top match across the whole universe (they deliberately don't follow the Peer Universe selector); Top Similarity is simply the best match's score, with no reference band; the Holdings and Active Tilt strips carry no reference band because computing every fund's best book overlap would require a full holdings scan per fund — the dot stands alone on its natural 0–100% scale. One share class shown per fund, and a fund's own sister share classes are excluded from its Top-match strips. Holdings as of 5/31/2026. Consensus Rank is the geometric mean of the match's universe-wide rank across the methods (#1.0 = top match on every one). Holdings Overlap = common-holdings weight (sum of the minimum weight across shared positions, long only). Active Tilt Overlap = the same statistic on active weights (holdings minus the fund's own default benchmark, floored at 0), which strips the benchmark ballast that dominates raw overlap. Return Correlation = correlation of market-hedged daily returns over the trailing two years (CAPM residuals), so only market-beta co-movement is removed; requires ~18 months of daily history (378 of the window's 504 trading days). Fama-French Similarity = 1/(1+d), where d is the Euclidean distance between factor betas (market, size, value, profitability, investment, momentum, intangible value) from up to three years of daily returns (min 378 daily observations and regression R² of at least 0.25); 1.00 = identical loadings.