Weitz Short Duration Bond ETF (WSDB)

The Weitz Short Duration Bond ETF (WSDB) functions as a strategic core fixed-income vehicle, designed to uncover advantageous risk-reward profiles within the bond market. The fund's managers construct its portfolio through a thorough assessment of each potential security's attributes, including its prospective yield, overall credit quality, market pricing, and specific structural components. Its investments are broadly diversified across a range of debt instruments, encompassing U.S. government obligations, corporate debt, structured products such as mortgage-backed (MBS) and asset-backed (ABS) securities, various types of loans, collateralized debt obligations, and international sovereign debt. Furthermore, the fund may employ derivatives, like futures and options, to serve multiple objectives: mitigating risk, boosting returns, and optimizing portfolio exposure. A core element of its methodology is maintaining an average portfolio duration of between one and three and a half years, a deliberate approach intended to lessen its susceptibility to interest rate shifts and dampen price fluctuations. Up to 15% of the fund's total assets can be directed towards higher-yielding, though riskier, bonds.