AdvisorShares Trust - AdvisorShares KIM Korea Equity ETF

As of October 8, 2018 AdvisorShares Trust - AdvisorShares KIM Korea Equity ETF has gone out of business. AdvisorShares Trust - AdvisorShares KIM Korea Equity ETF is an exchange traded fund launched and managed by AdvisorShares Investments, LLC. The fund is co-managed by Korea Investment Management Co., Ltd. It invests in public equity markets of South Korea. The fund invests in stocks of companies operating across diversified sectors. It invests in growth stocks of companies across all market capitalizations. The fund employs fundamental analysis with a combination of bottom-up and top-down stock picking approach with a focus on factors such as a company’s annual sales growth with sustained profit margins, annual earnings per share growth, anticipated sales or earnings per share growth, a company’s stock price reaches its target price, a company in the portfolio experiences negative fundamental changes, errors are found in the previous assumptions or forecasts of a company, and more profitable alternatives are found to create its portfolio. It seeks to benchmark the performance of its portfolio against the MSCI Korea Index. AdvisorShares Trust - AdvisorShares KIM Korea Equity ETF was formed on September 28, 2016 and is domiciled in the United States.