Japan’s small cap market is benefiting from structural shifts—stronger corporate governance, capital reform, and demographic tailwinds—yet remains under-researched and inefficient. These dynamics create a timely entry point for active strategies. Launching an ETF now brings new access to this segment, pairing institutional insight with liquidity, transparency, and efficiency just as the opportunity set widens.
Yet access to this part of the market remains limited. Hedge funds and smaller asset managers face difficulty accessing this part of the market without impacting pricing or liquidity. That disconnect has created persistent inefficiencies—where fundamentals are improving, but valuations have yet to adjust.
MJSC was built to take advantage of this moment with a proven institutional small cap strategy, offering a vehicle that maintains a high-conviction, research-intensive portfolio approach with the structural benefits of an ETF. We’re enabling broader access to a market segment where price and potential remain meaningfully misaligned and are delivering benefits that today’s investors increasingly prioritize: lower cost, daily liquidity, tax efficiency, and full portfolio transparency.
Our portfolio construction is driven from the bottom up, with no preset caps or minimums for thematic exposure. Instead, allocation to each of our 18 core investment themes evolves naturally based on stock-level conviction.
While we don’t force diversification by theme, we actively monitor theme weights to avoid over-concentration and unintended correlation risks.
This allows us to pursue alpha across a wide thematic spectrum while maintaining a well-balanced portfolio structure.
Valuation is not a one-size-fits-all metric in our process. We evaluate companies within the context of their business model, growth stage, industry, and thematic positioning.
Our toolkit includes a range of metrics—Price-to-Sales Ratio (PSR), Price-to-Earnings (P/E), Price-to-Book (P/B), ROE, dividend yield, and payout ratios. Importantly, we assign target prices to each holding and reassess them regularly to guide conviction-weighted allocations.
This dynamic approach enables us to participate in high-growth narratives while maintaining valuation discipline.
We apply a disciplined sell framework to maintain a high-conviction, high-quality portfolio. Holdings are reduced or exited when:
This process ensures we remain focused on early-stage, high-growth opportunities rather than chasing momentum.


Carefully consider the Funds’ investment objectives, risk factors, charges and expenses before investing. This and additional information can be found in the Fund’s Prospectus and Summary Prospectus, which may be obtained by visiting www.mufgetfs.com/investor-materials. Read the Prospectus and Summary Prospectus carefully before investing.
The MUFG Japan Small Cap Active ETF is distributed by Quasar Distributors, LLC. Clearbrook Investment Consulting, LLC serves as the investment advisor; Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation and Exchange Traded Concepts, LLC both serve as sub-advisors.
Investing involves risk. Principal loss is possible. Investing in securities of foreign companies involves risks generally not associated with investments in the securities of U.S. companies, including the risks associated with fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates, more or less foreign government regulation; less public information; less stringent investor protections; less stringent accounting, corporate governance, financial reporting and disclosure standards; and less economic, political and social stability. Investing in emerging market countries involves risks in addition to and greater than those generally associated with investing in more developed foreign markets. In many less developed markets, there is less governmental supervision and regulation of business and industry practices, stock exchanges, brokers, and listed companies than there is in more developed markets. Because a significant portion of the assets of the Fund are invested in Japanese securities, the Fund’s performance is expected to be closely tied to the political, social and economic conditions within Japan.
Cyber security risk is the risk of an unauthorized breach and access to Fund assets, Fund or customer data (including private shareholder information), or proprietary information, or the risk of an incident occurring that causes the Fund, the investment adviser, custodian, transfer agent, distributor and other service providers and financial intermediaries to suffer data breaches, data corruption or lose operational functionality or prevent Fund investors from purchasing, redeeming or exchanging shares or receiving distributions. Securities of companies with small capitalizations tend to be riskier than securities of companies with large capitalizations. This is because small companies typically have smaller product lines and less access to liquidity than large cap companies, and are therefore more sensitive to economic downturns. The value of the Fund’s investments in REITs may change in response to changes in the real estate market such as declines in the value of real estate, lack of available capital or financing opportunities, and increases in property taxes or operating costs.
Price to Book (P/B): ratio of stock price to book value. Price to Earnings (P/E): ratio of stock price to earnings. Return on Equity (ROE): net income divided by equity. Alpha: measures an investment’s risk-adjusted excess return compared to a benchmark index. Price-to-Sales (P/S): ratio is a financial metric that compares a company’s stock price to its revenue, showing how much investors are willing to pay for each dollar of sales the company generates. Dividend Yield: is a financial ratio that shows a company’s annual dividend payments relative to its stock’s market price, expressed as a percentage. Tokyo Prime Market: is the top-tier market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE), requiring companies to meet high standards for market capitalization, financial health, corporate governance, and transparency to attract institutional investors. Payout Ratio: generally, refers to the proportion of a company’s earnings that it pays out to its shareholders, most commonly as dividends.
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