Innovator Capital Management, LLC (Innovator) today announced the
new upside caps and return profiles for the January series of
Innovator’s Defined Outcome ETFs™, including the latest Stacker
ETFs™, which list today on the Cboe. The return profiles for the
ten ETFs in the January series will span the calendar year to
December 31st 2021, aligning with many advisors’ annual rebalancing
and portfolio management activities.
The January series includes the Power Buffer
ETFs™ on the Nasdaq-100 QQQ ETF (NJAN), the Russell 2000 IWM ETF
(KJAN), MSCI EAFE EFA ETF (IJAN) and MSCI Emerging Markets EEM ETF
(EJAN), which completed their first annual outcome period and reset
at the end of the month, as well as the S&P 500 Buffer ETFs™ –
Innovator S&P 500 Buffer ETF™ - January (BJAN), Innovator
S&P 500 Power Buffer ETF™ - December (PJAN) and Innovator
S&P 500 Ultra Buffer ETF™ - December (UJAN) – which finished
their second annual outcome period.
Additionally, Innovator is listing the second
quarterly series of its Stacker ETFs™, the world’s first ETFs that
seek to offer "stacked" exposure to two or three equity markets
(via the price returns of SPY, QQQ, and IWM) to a cap, and downside
exposure to the SPY only, over a one year outcome period. The
January Stacker ETFs include the Innovator Triple Stacker ETF™ -
January (TSJA), Innovator Double Stacker ETF™ - January (DSJA) and
Innovator Double Stacker 9 Buffer ETF™ - January (DBJA).
Return profiles for the Innovator Defined Outcome
ETFs™ – January series, as of
1/01/21
Ticker |
Name |
Buffer Level |
Cap* |
Outcome Period |
TSJA |
Innovator Triple Stacker ETF™ - January |
NA |
SPY Upside Cap: 6.10% |
12 months 1/01/21 – 12/31/21 |
|
QQQ Upside Cap: 6.10% |
|
IWM Upside Cap: 6.10% |
|
Total Upside Cap: 18.30% |
DSJA |
Innovator Double Stacker ETF™ - January |
NA |
SPY Upside Cap: 9.81% |
12 months 1/01/21 – 12/31/21 |
|
QQQ Upside Cap: 9.81% |
|
Total Upside Cap: 19.62% |
DBJA |
Innovator Double Stacker 9 Buffer ETF™ - January |
9.00% |
|
|
12 months 1/01/21 – 12/31/21 |
SPY Upside Cap: 6.20% |
|
QQQ Upside Cap: 6.20% |
|
Total Upside Cap: 12.40% |
NJAN |
Innovator Nasdaq-100 |
15.00% |
|
12.61% |
|
12 months |
Power Buffer ETF™ - January |
1/01/21 – 12/31/21 |
KJAN |
Innovator Russell 2000 |
15.00% |
|
12.75% |
|
12 months |
Power Buffer ETF™ - January |
1/01/21 – 12/31/21 |
IJAN |
Innovator MSCI EAFE |
15.00% |
|
8.82% |
|
12 months |
Power Buffer ETF™ - January |
1/01/21 – 12/31/21 |
EJAN |
Innovator MSCI Emerging Markets |
15.00% |
|
10.35% |
|
12 months |
Power Buffer ETF™ - January |
1/01/21 – 12/31/21 |
BJAN |
Innovator S&P 500 |
9.00% |
|
14.90% |
|
12 months |
Buffer ETF™ - January |
1/01/21 – 12/31/21 |
PJAN |
Innovator S&P 500 |
15.00% |
|
9.75% |
|
12 months |
Power Buffer ETF™ - January |
1/01/21 – 12/31/21 |
UJAN |
Innovator S&P 500 |
30.00% |
|
6.80% |
|
12 months |
Ultra Buffer ETF™ - January |
(-5% to -35%) |
1/01/21 – 12/31/21 |
* The Caps above are shown gross of each fund’s
management fee (.79% for all ETFs listed above except IJAN (.85%)
and EJAN (.89%)). “Cap” refers to the maximum potential return,
before fees and expenses and any shareholder transaction fees and
any extraordinary expenses, if held over the full Outcome Period.
“Buffer” refers to the amount of downside protection the fund seeks
to provide, before fees and expenses, over the full Outcome Period.
Outcome Period is the intended length of time over which the
defined outcomes are sought. Upon fund launch, the Caps can be
found on a daily basis via www.innovatoretfs.com.
“While we’re very excited to put 2020 behind us,
with many stock and credit benchmarks near record highs, 2021
presents a challenging market environment for investment
portfolios,” said Bruce Bond, CEO of Innovator ETFs. “According to
Barron’s December 18th cover story, most Wall Street strategists
see low to modest potential gains for major stock benchmarks over
the calendar year. At the same time, the consensus of forecasters
thinks rates will rise, which could lead to losses in bond
portfolios. In a low-to-modest-return environment, advisors can
potentially enhance equity returns with Innovator’s Stacker ETFs.
For advisors who are wary of today’s high stock market levels and
valuations as the global economy continues to battle the pandemic,
as well as the potential for price losses on bonds if rates rise,
the Buffer ETFs can help clients stay invested in the market with
built-in buffers against a known amount of loss. Whether an advisor
has a bearish or bullish market view for 2021, or whether an
investor has a low or high risk tolerance, Innovator has a Defined
Outcome ETF to help them implement their view and better match
their risk appetite.”
The ETFs reset annually and can be held
indefinitely. For additional information, visit the
Innovator Defined Outcome ETF Pricing
Tool.
Starting with the January series, Innovator will
be transitioning reference assets of the underlying options within
its Defined Outcome Buffer ETFs™ to achieve the stated outcomes
with ETF-based, or fund-based, options rather than index-based
options. Innovator’s Equity Buffer ETFs™ have traditionally used
index-based options while the Defined Outcome Bond ETFs and Stacker
ETFs™ have been constructed using fund-based options. This change
is intended to streamline market making and increase the
operational efficiencies of the tax-efficient Buffer ETFs™ and will
not materially impact shareholders. The Buffer ETFs™ will continue
to draw from the same deeply liquid options markets pools that
underpin the strategies, the level of the upside caps achieved
should be unaffected and no tax event will be triggered given the
options can be transferred in-kind. “These operational changes are
intended to harness the power and efficiencies of the ETF wrapper
even further for the benefit of our Defined Outcome Buffer ETF™
investors,” added Bond.
Innovator Defined Outcome ETFs - Benefits to
Advisors
- Pioneer and creator
of Defined Outcome ETFs™ with 57 ETFs and over $3.6 billion AUM
across family1
- Tax-efficient
exposure to five broad equity benchmarks (S&P 500, NASDAQ-100,
Russell 2000, MSCI EAFE, MSCI EM), including ETFs based on those
indexes, the 20+ Year U.S. Treasury Market and now including the
Stacker ETFs, the world’s first ETFs to offer a “stacked” exposure
to two or three benchmark equity index ETFs on the upside, to a
cap, with downside exposure to the S&P 500 only
- Monthly issuance on
the S&P 500 and SPY with three buffer levels (9,15, or
30%)
Innovator's Defined Outcome ETFs™ are the
subject of a patent application filed with the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office.
The Funds have characteristics unlike
many other traditional investment products and may not be suitable
for all investors. For more information regarding whether an
investment in the Fund is right for you, please see “Investor
Suitability” in the prospectus.
About Innovator Defined Outcome
ETFs™ Defined Outcome ETFs™ are the world’s first ETFs
that seek to provide investors with known ranges of future
investment outcomes prior to investing. These outcome ranges
include multiple and single upside exposure, to a cap, with defined
levels of downside risk with buffers and floors over a set amount
of time. The Innovator Defined Outcome ETFs™ cover a large spectrum
of domestic and international equities and bonds. Innovator’s
category-creating Defined Outcome ETF™ family includes Buffer
ETFs™, Stacker ETFs™ and Floor ETFs™.
The Buffer ETFs™ seek to provide the upside
performance of broadly recognized benchmarks (e.g., S&P 500,
NASDAQ-100, Russell 2000, MSCI EAFE, and MSCI Emerging Markets, as
well as the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT)), or
underlying ETFs based on those benchmarks, as applicable, to a cap,
with built-in buffers, over an outcome period of one year. The ETFs
reset annually and can be held indefinitely.
Each Buffer ETF™ in Innovator’s Defined Outcome
ETF™ suite seeks to provide a defined exposure to a broad market
benchmark where the downside buffer level, upside growth potential
to a cap, and Outcome Period are all known, prior to investing. In
2019, Innovator began expanding its suite of S&P 500 Buffer
ETFs™ into a monthly series to provide investors more opportunities
to purchase shares as close to the beginning of their respective
Outcome Periods as possible.
Investors can purchase shares of a previously
listed Defined Outcome ETF™ throughout the entire Outcome Period,
obtaining a current set of defined outcome parameters, which are
disclosed daily through a web tool available at:
http://innovatoretfs.com/define.
Innovator is focused on delivering defined
outcome-based solutions inside the benefit-rich ETF wrapper,
retaining many of the features that have contributed to the success
of structured products2 (e.g., downside buffer levels, upside
participation, defined outcome parameters), but with the added
benefits of transparency, liquidity, the elimination of credit risk
and lower costs afforded by the ETF structure.
About Innovator Stacker
ETFs™ The outcomes that the Stacker Funds
seek to provide may only be realized if you are holding shares on
the first day of the Outcome Period and continue to hold them on
the last day of the Outcome Period, approximately one year. The
Funds should not be considered if an investor is unwilling to hold
shares for the duration of the Outcome Period in order to achieve
the outcomes the funds seek to provide. There is no guarantee that
the Outcomes for an Outcome Period will be realized or that the
Fund will achieve its investment objective. The returns the Funds
seek to provide are based on price return of the corresponding
ETFs. An investor that purchases Fund Shares after the start of an
outcome period may be exposed to the downside risks of QQQ and
IWM.
While the Fund will not participate in any QQQ
or IWM ETF (as applicable) losses over the duration of the Outcome
Period as whole, a decrease in the value of the QQQ or IWM ETF
share price will cause a decrease in the Fund’s NAV while an
Outcome Period is ongoing. In the event an Outcome Period has
begun, and the QQQ or IWM ETF share price has increased in value,
such an increase will be reflected in the value of the Fund’s
purchased call option on the QQQ or IWM ETF. Accordingly, in the
event that the QQQ or IWM ETF share price were to subsequently
decrease in value, that decrease would also be reflected in the
value of that option, and therefore the Fund’s NAV. An investor
that purchases Fund Shares after the QQQ or IWM ETF has increased
in value during an Outcome Period may be negatively affected by
future decreases during the remainder of the Outcome Period.
About Innovator Capital Management,
LLCAwarded ETF.com's "ETF Issuer of the Year -
2019"*, Innovator Capital Management LLC
(Innovator) is an SEC-registered investment advisor (RIA) based in
Wheaton, IL. Formed in 2014, the firm is currently headed by
ETF visionaries Bruce Bond and John Southard, founders of one of
the largest ETF providers in the world. Bond and Southard reentered
the asset management industry to bring to market
first-of-their-kind investment opportunities, including the Defined
Outcome ETFs™, products that they felt would change the
investing landscape and bring more certainty to the financial
planning process. Innovator’s category-creating Defined Outcome
ETF™ family includes Buffer ETFs™, Stacker ETFs™ and Floor ETFs.
Buffer ETFs™ and Floor ETFs™ seek to provide investors structured
exposures to broad markets, where the upside growth potential,
buffer or floor against the downside, and outcome period are all
known, prior to investing. Stacker ETFs™ are the
world’s first ETFs to offer a multiple or "stacked" exposure to two
or three benchmark index ETFs (SPY, QQQ, IWM) to a cap, with only
downside exposure to the SPY over a one year outcome period. Having
launched the first Defined Outcome ETFs™ in 2018 -- the flagship
Innovator S&P 500 Buffer ETF™ Suite – Innovator’s solutions
allow advisors to construct diversified portfolios with known
outcome ranges to aid in risk management and financial planning.
Built on a foundation of innovation and driven by a commitment to
help investors better control their financial outcomes, Innovator
is leading the Defined Outcome ETF Revolution™. For additional
information, visit www.innovatoretfs.com.
About Cboe Global Markets,
Inc.Cboe Global Markets (Cboe: CBOE) is one of the world’s
largest exchange-holding companies, offering cutting-edge trading
and investment solutions to investors around the world. For more
information, visit www.cboe.com.
About Milliman Financial Risk Management
LLCMilliman Financial Risk Management LLC (Milliman FRM)
is a global leader in financial risk management to the retirement
industry, providing investment advisory, hedging, and consulting
services on over $143 billion in global assets as of June 30, 2020.
Milliman FRM is one of the largest and fastest-growing subadvisors
of ETFs. For more information about Milliman FRM, visit
www.Milliman.com/FRM.
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Interim Period Shareholders
Unlike structured notes, which offer limited
liquidity, Innovator Defined Outcome ETFs™ trade throughout the day
on an exchange, like a stock. As a result, investors purchasing
shares of a Fund after its launch date may achieve a different
payoff profile than those who entered the Fund on day one.
Innovator recognizes this as a benefit of the Funds and provides a
web-based tool that allows investors to know, in real-time
throughout the trading day, their potential defined outcome return
profile before they invest, based on the current ETF price and the
Outcome Period remaining. Innovator’s web tool can be accessed at
http://www.innovatoretfs.com/define.
Although each Fund seeks to achieve the
defined outcomes stated in its investment objective, there is no
guarantee that it will do so. The returns that the Funds seek to
provide do not include the costs associated with purchasing shares
of the Fund and certain expenses incurred by the Fund.
Investing involves risks. Loss of
principal is possible. The Funds face numerous market
trading risks, including active markets risk, authorized
participation concentration risk, buffered loss risk, cap change
risk, capped upside return risk, correlation risk, liquidity risk,
management risk, market maker risk, market risk,
non-diversification risk, operation risk, options risk, trading
issues risk, upside participation risk and valuation risk. For a
detail list of fund risks see the prospectus.
Market Disruptions Resulting from
COVID-19. The outbreak of COVID-19 has negatively affected
the worldwide economy, individual countries, individual companies
and the market in general. The future impact of COVID-19 is
currently unknown, and it may exacerbate other risks that apply to
the Fund.
Foreign and Emerging Markets
Risk Non-U.S. securities and Emerging Markets are subject
to higher volatility than securities of domestic issuers due to
possible adverse political, social or economic developments,
restrictions on foreign investment or exchange of securities, lack
of liquidity, currency exchange rates, excessive taxation,
government seizure of assets, different legal or accounting
standards, and less government supervision and regulation of
securities exchanges in foreign countries.
Technology Sector Risk
Companies in the technology sector are often smaller and can be
characterized by relatively higher volatility in price performance
when compared to other economic sectors. They can face intense
competition, which may have an adverse effect on profit
margins.
Small-Cap Risk Small-cap
companies may be more volatile and susceptible to adverse
developments than their mid- and large-cap counterpart. In
addition, the small-cap companies may be less liquid than larger
companies.
FLEX Options Risk The Fund will
utilize FLEX Options issued and guaranteed for settlement by the
Options Clearing Corporation (OCC). In the unlikely event that the
OCC becomes insolvent or is otherwise unable to meet its settlement
obligations, the Fund could suffer significant losses.
Additionally, FLEX Options may be less liquid than standard
options. In a less liquid market for the FLEX Options, the Fund may
have difficulty closing out certain FLEX Options positions at
desired times and prices. The values of FLEX Options do not
increase or decrease at the same rate as the reference asset and
may vary due to factors other than the price of reference
asset.
These Funds are designed to provide
point-to-point exposure to the price return of the Reference Asset
via a basket of Flex Options. As a result, the ETFs are not
expected to move directly in line with the Reference Asset during
the interim period.
Investors purchasing shares after an outcome
period has begun may experience very different results than funds'
investment objective. Initial outcome periods are approximately
1-year beginning on the funds' inception date. Following the
initial outcome period, each subsequent outcome period will begin
on the first day of the month the fund was incepted. After the
conclusion of an outcome period, another will begin.
Fund shareholders are subject to an
upside return cap (the "Cap") that represents the maximum
percentage return an investor can achieve from an investment in the
funds' for the Outcome Period, before fees and expenses. If the
Outcome Period has begun and the Fund has increased in value to a
level near to the Cap, an investor purchasing at that price has
little or no ability to achieve gains but remains vulnerable to
downside risks. Additionally, the Cap may rise or fall from one
Outcome Period to the next. The Cap, and the Fund's position
relative to it, should be considered before investing in the Fund.
The Funds' website, www.innovatoretfs.com, provides important Fund
information as well information relating to the potential outcomes
of an investment in a Fund on a daily basis.
The Funds with buffer mechanisms only
seek to provide shareholders that hold shares for the entire
Outcome Period with their respective buffer level against Reference
Asset losses during the Outcome Period. You will bear all Reference
Asset losses exceeding 9, 15 or 30%. Depending upon market
conditions at the time of purchase, a shareholder that purchases
shares after the Outcome Period has begun may also lose their
entire investment. For instance, if the Outcome Period has begun
and the Fund has decreased in value beyond the pre-determined
buffer, an investor purchasing shares at that price may not benefit
from the buffer. Similarly, if the Outcome Period has begun and the
Fund has increased in value, an investor purchasing shares at that
price may not benefit from the buffer until the Fund's value has
decreased to its value at the commencement of the Outcome
Period.
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as to the results to be obtained from the Fund or the suitability
of the Index for the purpose to which it is being put by Innovator
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1 AUM in all Innovator Defined Outcome ETFs as of
12.31.2020.
2 Structured notes and structured annuities are
financial instruments designed and created to afford investors
exposure to an underlying asset through a derivative contract. It
is important to note that these ETFs are not structured notes or
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