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March 28, 2019
Eric Smyth

Inspire’s Biblical ETFs Have Largest Volume Day On Record

The Inspire Global Hope ETF (NYSE: BLES), Inspire Small/Mid Cap ETF (NYSE: ISMD), and Inspire Corporate Bond ETF (NYSE: IBD) all had record trading volume on March 12th, 2019.

San Jose, Calif., March 20, 2019 — The Inspire Global Hope ETF (NYSE: BLES), Inspire Small/Mid Cap ETF (NYSE: ISMD), and Inspire Corporate Bond ETF (NYSE: IBD) all had record trading volume on March 12th, 2019.

BLES recorded 1.13 million shares traded, ISMD recorded 952,400 shares traded, and IBD recorded 978,200 shares traded. This buying volume represented roughly $80M in net new assets and propelled Inspire’s total assets under management (AUM) to $361M as of March 14th.

This influx of volume came from Ambassador Advisors, an independent Registered Investment Advisory (RIA) firm that decided to transition their entire $520M firm into biblically responsible investments.

“The biblically responsible investing (BRI) movement is continuing to gather momentum,” says Robert Netzly, CEO of Inspire, “It is exciting to see a sophisticated, half-billion dollar AUM firm making the decision to go all in with BRI. I believe we will see many more firms make decisions like this in the coming years. This is only the beginning.”

Ambassador Advisors is a financial planning and money management firm based out of Lancaster, PA that exists to support and promote biblical stewardship through financial planning, estate strategies, and money management services for non-profits, charities, individual donors and investors.

Here is what Ambassador Advisors’ Chief Investment Officer, Christopher Coolidge, CFA®, had to say about the transition,

“We believe you shouldn’t have to compromise performance to live your values. There’s more to making money than just making money. Biblically-responsible investing allows Christians to apply their stewardship and the belief that all money is God’s money, not only for budgeting and giving purposes, but all the way through investing and legacy planning.”

All Inspire ETFs seek to invest in the most inspiring, biblically aligned companies in the world, as measured by Inspire’s revolutionary Inspire Impact Score methodology, which measures a company’s alignment with biblical values and positive impact on the world.

About Inspire Global Hope ETF (NYSE: BLES)

Inspire Global Hope ETF is a biblically responsible, global equity ETF that seeks to deliver quality performance characteristics while also creating meaningful impact in the lives of people across the globe. This fund seeks to replicate investment results that generally correspond to the performance of the Inspire Global Hope Large Cap Equal Weight Index.

BLES invests on a global scale, searching out inspiring, biblically aligned large companies (with a $5B+ market cap) from both the U.S. and around the world, as determined by Inspire’s Impact Score methodology. BLES targets a geographic composition of 50% United States, 40% developed international and 10% emerging markets. The fund is equally-weighted, rebalanced quarterly and is designed as a core equity holding.

BLES was also nominated as a finalist for “Best New ESG ETF – 2017” in the ETF.com & Inside ETFs Industry Awards and currently has registered net assets over $136.8M as of March 14th, 2019.

About Inspire Small/Mid Cap ETF (NYSE: ISMD)

The Inspire Small/Mid Cap ETF is comprised of the 500 most inspiring, biblically aligned US small and mid-cap stocks from a diverse array of sectors, as measured by their Inspire Impact Scores. The fund is comprised of 50% U.S. mid cap companies with market cap between $2B-3.5B, and 50% U.S. small cap companies with market cap between $1B-2B. ISMD seeks to replicate investment results that generally correspond to the performance of the Inspire Small/Mid Cap Impact Equal Weight Index.

ISMD currently has total net assets over $79.2M as of March 14th, 2019.

About Inspire Corporate Bond ETF (NYSE: IBD)

The Inspire Corporate Bond ETF is the largest thematic fixed income ETF currently on the US market, beating out such industry giants as iShares, Nuveen, and VanEck.

IBD invests in 250 investment grade, intermediate term corporate bonds issued by some of the most inspiring large cap “blue chip” companies in the United States, as determined by Inspire’s revolutionary Inspire Impact Score methodology. Inspire defines “large cap” as a market capitalization of $5B or greater and “investment grade” as BBB-/Baa3 or higher.

This fund seeks to replicate investment results that generally correspond to the performance of the Inspire Corporate Bond Impact Equal Weight Index.

IBD currently has assets of $94.1M as of March 14th, 2019.

Inspire, the adviser, provides the index for the Inspire Funds to track. The indexes use software that analyzes publicly available data relating to the primary business activities, products and services, philanthropy, legal activities, policies and practices when assigning Inspire Impact Scores to a company. The securities with the highest Inspire Impact Scores are included in the Indexes and are equally weighted. As the Fund may not fully replicate the Index, it is subject to the risk that investment management strategy may not produce the intended results. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Securities in the Index or in the Fund’s portfolio may underperform in comparison to the general securities markets or other asset classes. The Fund may focus its investments in securities of a particular industry to the extent the Index does. This may cause the Fund's net asset value to fluctuate more than that of a fund that does not focus in a particular industry. Fluctuations in the value of equity securities held by the Fund will cause the net asset value (“NAV”) of the Fund to fluctuate. The Fund is not actively managed and the Adviser will not sell shares of an equity security due to current or projected underperformance of a security, industry or sector, unless that security is removed from the Index or the selling of shares of that security is otherwise required upon a rebalancing of the Index as addressed in the Index methodology. Tracking error may occur because of imperfect correlation between the Fund’s holdings of portfolio securities and those in the Index. The Fund’s use of a representative sampling approach, if used, could result in its holding a smaller number of securities than are in the Index. To the extent the assets in the Fund are smaller, these risks will be greater. ‍ Investors cannot invest directly in an index and unmanaged index returns do not reflect any fees, expenses or sales charges.

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ETF shares are not redeemable with the issuing fund other than in large Creation Unit aggregations. Instead, investors must buy or sell ETF Shares in the secondary market with the assistance of a stockbroker. In doing so, the investor may incur brokerage commissions and may pay more than net asset value when buying and receive less than net asset value when selling. The NAV of the Fund’s shares is calculated each day the national securities exchanges are open for trading as of the close of regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”), normally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time (the “NAV Calculation Time”). Shares are bought and sold at market price (closing price) not NAV. Market Price returns are based upon the official closing price on the listing exchange (NYSE ARCA) at 4:00 p.m. ET when NAV is normally determined for most Inspire Funds, and do not represent the returns you would receive if you traded shares at other times.

An active secondary market for the Fund’s shares may not exist. Although the Fund’s shares will be listed on an exchange, subject to notice of issuance, it is possible that an active trading market may not develop or be maintained. There is no guarantee that distributions will be paid. 

Investment advisory services offered through Inspire Investing, LLC, a Registered Investment Advisor with the SEC. 

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