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Alts - Short Volatility

Composite

Peer Group

Expense Ratio
0.90%
#NameTickerAUM
1Goldman Sachs Strategic Volatility Premium FundSVPBX$655M
2Simplify Volatility Premium ETFSVOL$514M
3ProShares Short VIX Short-Term Futures ETFSVXY$260M
4-1x Short VIX Futures ETFSVIX$140M
5Volatility Premium Plus ETFZVOL$12M
6Inverse VIX Short-Term Futures ETNs due March 22, 2045VYLD$4M
Time Series
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Performance

NameCumulative ReturnAnn. ReturnAnn. VolSharpeMax DD
Peer Group
23.7%23.7%21.0%0.95-17.5%
ⓘ Methodology

Peer composites equal-weight the group's share-class representatives' daily returns, including delisted members' alive-era history via the frozen year-end snapshots — though our coverage of closed funds is partial, so composite levels at older dates may run slightly high. Membership is the latest known — style migrators carry their full history. 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
Peer Group
15.5%-0.2%1.6%2.1%10.7%31.6%23.7%13.3%12.0%14.6%25.0%
ⓘ Methodology

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

Annual Returns

Name
201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025YTD
Peer Group
24.2%*150.4%106.2%-9.3%-17.5%80.3%181.8%-51.6%54.2%-36.5%30.7%-2.5%62.0%-0.7%4.5%15.5%
ⓘ 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.

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Factor Regression

Name
Ann. αβ MKTβ SMBβ HMLβ RMWβ CMAβ UMDβ iHMLR²Obs
US
Peer Group
-0.1%1.50**-0.090.29*0.13-0.05-0.06-0.090.70226
ⓘ 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.

SnapshotAs ofvsⓘ

Fund Profile

Type
83% ETF, 17% Mutual Fund
Asset Class
67% , 17% , 17%
Peer Asset Class
Alternatives
Region
Peer Group Benchmark
Peer Group
Alts - Short Volatility (6 peers)
Expense Ratio
0.90%
Median Member AUM
$200M
3Y Flow
+93.7%
Yield
0.00%
Inception
10/5/2011
Holdings (Reported)
420
Turnover
0%
Equity
6%
Derivatives
3%
Net Equity Exposure
1%
ⓘ Methodology

Every figure on this card is an equal-weight aggregate over the composite's share-class-deduped members: the median across the members reporting each field, blank where too few of them do. Three rows depart from that, because a median of them would say nothing: Inception is the group's OLDEST member — where its combined history can start; 3Y Flow is the group's own net flow over its own assets, not the middle member's rate; and Type, Asset Class and Region are compositions by member count. Holdings is the merged look-through book — distinct positions across the members' holdings.

Composite Factors

Not scored — PEER:Alts - Short Volatility’s holdings don’t clear the coverage floor for composite factor scores.

Factor Details

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ⓘ 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); percentile overlays are off (Peer Universe: None). Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

Asset Class Exposure

Alternatives50.0%
No Holdings Data50.0%
ⓘ Methodology

Shares of the fund's long book, from the asset category each position is filed under. 50.0% of this book sits in funds we hold no holdings file for and is drawn as its own slice. Alternatives holds funds counted by what they are rather than by what they hold - alternative strategies, and funds that are short. A pie cannot draw a negative, and adding a hedge to the class it offsets would make it look like more of that class.

Holdings

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6 funds

#NameTickerWeight %AUM
1Goldman Sachs Strategic Volatility Premium FundSVPBX
16.67
$655M
2Simplify Volatility Premium ETFSVOL
16.67
$514M
3ProShares Short VIX Short-Term Futures ETFSVXY
16.67
$260M
4-1x Short VIX Futures ETFSVIX
16.67
$140M
5Volatility Premium Plus ETFZVOL
16.67
$12M
6Inverse VIX Short-Term Futures ETNs due March 22, 2045VYLD
16.67
$4M
ⓘ Methodology

The funds this composite is made of, each counting once (100 ÷ 6 — the same equal weighting behind its returns and its median exposures), listed largest first by assets. Tick Look-Through to expand them into the stocks they hold. Holdings Concentration beside this card always describes that looked-through book, not this list — it is a statement about exposure, not about the roster. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

Concentration

Total Holdings420
Effective Holdings8.2
Top 10 Weight46.9%
Max Position13.7%
Top Sector (of Net Assets)0%
Top Country (of Net Assets)0%
ⓘ 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; percentile overlays are off (Peer Universe: None). Every row on this card describes the composite's merged look-through book — the stocks its members hold — not the list of member funds, whatever the Holdings card is showing.

Peer Group Rank

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Metric
Alts - Short Volatility Composite
6 funds
Peer Asset Class
251 funds
YTD Return
13.89%7.46%73
1Y Return
20.13%9.49%78
3Y Return (Ann.)
8.66%9.39%43
5Y Return (Ann.)
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Expense Ratiohigher = cheaper
0.90%1.42%76
ⓘ Methodology

Alts - Short Volatility Composite is a Sparkline peer composite — its members are the share-class representatives of the funds in the group (one class per fund: the exchange-listed class where the SEC series has one, else its longest-history class). This card ranks it against its asset class, Alternatives, which is the only pool a composite has: there is no peer group of peer groups, and the region tier is a fund-level grouping. Typical Member rows are medians across those representatives — the value is the group’s median, and the percentile is the median of the members’ own ranks within Alternatives, so both describe the middle fund rather than the group as a whole. Quartile chips fill the layer the rank falls in (top layer = best quartile). A dash is a window the group is younger than, or one too few Alternatives funds have a history for to rank against — hover it for which.