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About First Trust Switzerland AlphaDEX Fund
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Inception date
Feb 14, 2012
Structure
Open-Ended Fund
Distributes
Capital Gains
Max ST capital gains rate
39.60%
Max LT capital gains rate
20.00%
Tax on distributions
Qualified dividends
Primary advisor
First Trust Advisors LP
Distributor
First Trust Portfolios LP
FSZ seeks to outperform its market benchmark by using a quantitative model to select, rank and weight stocks from the NASDAQ Switzerland Index based on a variety of growth and value style factors. Specifically, growth factors includes 3-, 6- and 12-month price appreciation, sales to price and one year sales growth, while value factors includes book value to price, cash flow to price and return on assets. Based on their style ranking, the top-40 selected stocks are divided into quintiles, and the top-ranked quintiles receives greater weight in the index. Stocks within each quintile are equally weighted. This method makes the funds performance deviate from its benchmark. The index is rebalanced and reconstituted semi-annually each January and July.
Classification
What's in the fund
Exposure type
Finance
Producer Manufacturing
Health Technology
Stock breakdown by region
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