ALTL: 42% Win Rate Signals It's Time To Exit

ALTL is a market-timing ETF alternating between high-beta and low-volatility strategies, represented by SPHB and SPLV, based on a proprietary relative strength signal. Since its inception, it's substantially lagged behind SPY, logging an unimpressive 42% win rate over the last 50 months. ALTL has done little to justify its 0.61% expense ratio. Besides the poor win rate, SPHB and SPLV are sub-optimal single-factor choices that come with significant growth and quality sacrifices.

Seeking Alpha • Jul 12, 2024

Pacer Lunt Large Cap Alternator ETF: This One's Easy, Don't Buy

ALTL alternates between a low-volatility and high-beta S&P 500 portfolio based on a relative strength signal. Fees are 0.60%, and ALTL has outperformed the S&P 500 since June 2020. However, don't be fooled by this "outperformance". ALTL has only selected the winning portfolio 48% of the time. ALTL beat SPY because the high-beta portfolio was preferable more times.

Seeking Alpha • Apr 6, 2023

ALTL: Innovative ETF, But Style Is Prone To Huge Risk

ALTL alternates between holding high beta stocks and low volatility stocks. This ETF's annual turnover rate is over 700%. That can help or hurt, and it's less important than if the strategy works most of the time.

Seeking Alpha • Feb 13, 2023

Pacer ETFs Celebrates Banner Year of Growth in 2022, Crosses $20B to Kickoff New Year

MALVERN, Pa.--( BUSINESS WIRE )--Pacer ETFs celebrates an incredible year of growth driven by its suite of strategy-driven, rules-based ETFs, capped off by the outstanding achievement of reaching $19.6 billion in assets as of Dec. 30, 2022. After starting 2022 with $10.2 billion in AUM, Pacer achieved a 92.2% growth rate, nearly doubling its assets. Within the first week of the New Year, Pacer surpassed $20 billion in assets signaling a strong start for 2023.

Business Wire • Jan 10, 2023

A Dynamic ETF Strategy that Adopts Factor Tilts on Prevailing Market Trends

Investors can consider a dynamic factor-based exchange traded fund strategy to alternate between S&P 500 investment factors in response to market changes.

ETF Trends • Sep 14, 2022

Take Advantage of Market Rotation by Using a High Beta and Low Volatility Rotation Strategy

Market rotations happen all of the time. There are rotation strategies that can move with the market and help investors maximize gains over time.

ETF Trends • Sep 13, 2022

Pacer ETFs Factor Series Crosses $1 Billion in Assets Under Management

MALVERN, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pacer ETFs (“Pacer”), an ETF provider that offers strategy-driven, rules-based ETFs, announces the Pacer Factor ETF Series (“Factor series”) has surpassed $1 billion in assets under management. Pacer's Factor series has accumulated roughly $450 million, or 75%, of those assets since January 2022 as demand for formulaic, factor-driven investment products grows among investors and advisors in an increasingly volatile market. “We have seen a rapid increase in demand

Business Wire • Aug 3, 2022

The S&P 500 Is Evolving. Stay Ahead of the Curve with These ETFs

Investors looking to diversify can consider an ETF strategy that alternates its tilt toward S&P 500 investment factors as the market itself changes. In the recent webcast, Factor Rotation Strategies May Help You Profit in Varying Market Cycles, Sean O'Hara, President, Pacer ETFs Distributors; and John Lunt, President, Lunt Capital Management, explained that public instruments [.

ETF Trends • Jun 22, 2021

Factor Rotation Strategies May Help You Profit in Varying Market Cycles

In an ever-changing market environment, equity factor investments experience ebbs and flows. While this cyclicality may frustrate some investors, it offers forward-thinking advisors the opportunity to potentially profit in both the good times and the bad.

ETF Trends • Jun 21, 2021

ALTL: This Momentum ETF Has Outperformed The Market Since Inception, But Is It A Buy?

A long-time reader asked for my thoughts on ALTL. As other Pacer funds, ALTL uses a rules-based trend following strategy to alternate exposure between asset classes. Low and high volatility stocks in this case.

Seeking Alpha • Jun 6, 2021