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DWSHAdvisorSharesACTIVE

AdvisorShares Dorsey Wright Short ETF

$6.08+1.08% vs prior close
5.367.4752-WK

Price through Oct 2, 2026 · Flows through unavailable. Figures use the latest available records, not a live quote. Fund details retrieved Oct 3, 2026. Holdings snapshot retrieved Oct 3, 2026.

Dorsey, Wright & Associates, LLC (the "Sub-Advisor"), the sub-advisor to the fund, seeks to achieve the fund's investment objective by obtaining short exposure to investment returns of the broad U.S. large-capitalization equity market by engaging in short sales of U.S.-traded equity securities and exchange-traded funds ("ETFs"). Under normal circumstances, it invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in investments that create or result in short exposure to U.S. equity securities.

Price & daily flows
6.426.035.656.08DAILY NET FLOWApr 6Jun 3Aug 4Oct 2

SOURCE: MARKET TAPE & DAILY CREATION/REDEMPTION RECORDS · 6M SHOWN

The desk’s read

Recent fund-flow records are unavailable, while the price has returned -5.7% so far this year. At 2.84% a year it is not the cheapest way in — KCCA has a reported fee of 0.81%.

COMPOSED FROM THE FUND’S OWN DAILY RECORDS · UPDATED WITH EACH REFRESH

$11Massets under management
2.84%expense ratio · $284 per $10,000 a year
—net flow, trailing month
76Kavg daily volume, 30 days
102holdings · US-domiciled
2018listed July 11, 2018 · beta -0.63
Sector weights
Mutual fund205.41%
Cash & Others190.47%
Other185.4%
Cash1.5%
PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION, LATEST DISCLOSURE
Country weights
Other198.7%
Cash196.96%
Cayman Islands1.31%
PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION, LATEST DISCLOSURE
Performance
1 week+0.2%
1 month+11.3%
3 months+6.6%
6 months-7.0%
YTD-5.7%
1 year-9.5%
3 years—

PRICE RETURN, DISTRIBUTIONS NOT REINVESTED

Net flows
1 week—
1 month—
3 months—
YTD—
1 year—

CREATION/REDEMPTION DOLLARS, DAILY RECORDS

The risk read
15%realized volatility, 30 days (annualized)
24%realized volatility, 1 year
-28.3%deepest fall from a peak, 1 year
-18.7%latest close versus that peak

VOLATILITY & DRAWDOWN FROM THE DAILY TAPE · CONCENTRATION FROM THE LATEST DISCLOSED BOOK

The case against DWSH

Due diligence cuts both ways. These funds sit on the same shelf and beat DWSH on at least one dimension that matters — the fee, the asset base, or where the money is going.

FundFeeAssetsFlow, 1MThe case
DFUS Dimensional U.S. Equity Market ETF0.09%$10.2B—-275bp on fee · 965× the assetsHead-to-head
DFAU Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF0.12%$6.3B—-272bp on fee · 593× the assetsHead-to-head
AVUS Avantis U.S. Equity ETF0.15%$7.2B—-269bp on fee · 679× the assetsHead-to-head
AVLV Avantis U.S. Large Cap Value ETF0.15%$4.5B—-269bp on fee · 422× the assetsHead-to-head
DFAC Dimensional U.S. Core Equity 2 ETF0.17%$30.5B—-267bp on fee · 2872× the assetsHead-to-head
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