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FlexShares Real Assets Allocation

ALTAR
Score™

6.2%

Recommen-
dation

OVERWEIGHT

2019E 2020E
P/E ratio	16.8x	P/Sales ratio	2.2x
P/BV ratio	1.7x	Div. yield	3.5%

Description
Performance
Comps
Fundamentals
Valuation
Rating

The FlexShares Real Assets Allocation Index Fund is a fund-of-funds ETF that gives investors diversified exposure to real assets.

FUND BASICS
Category	Global Equities
Fund Sponsor	Northern Trust
Website	www.flexshares.com
Inception date	Nov 23, 2015
Assets (mns)	$11
Currency	USD
Expense ratio	57 bp
Distributions	Quarterly

FUND STRUCTURE
Regulation	Open-Ended Fund
Custodian
Weighting	Technical
Index replication
Uses derivatives	No
Options available	No

SECTOR BREAKDOWN

CONSTITUENT BREAKDOWN
No. of constituents	3
Wgt avg mkt cap (mns)	$46,160
Large cap (>$10bn)	70.0%
Mid cap ($2-10bn)	26.2%
Small cap (<$2bn)	3.6%
Developed mkts	96.3%
Emerging mkts	3.7%

TOP TEN HOLDINGS
Total	99.8 %
FLEXSHARES STOXX GLOBAL BROAD INFR	50.6 %
FLEXSHARES GLOBAL QUALITY REAL EST	39.9 %
FLEXSHARES GLOBAL UPSTREAM NATURAL	9.3 %

TOP COUNTRY EXPOSURE
	UNITED STATES	46.2 %
	CANADA	9.9 %
	JAPAN	8.6 %
	HONG KONG	4.8 %
	BRITAIN	4.8 %
	AUSTRALIA	4.7 %
	GERMANY	2.8 %
	SPAIN	2.6 %
	FRANCE	2.0 %
	ITALY	1.9 %

HISTORICAL PERFORMANCE info

	Custom date range	Compare to
	thru

Standardized Annual Returns (thru October 31)
Year-to-date	1 year	5 years	10 years	Since Incep.
21.7%	17.2%	--	--	8.6%

Market Correlations
versus...	Beta	R-squared
S&P500	0.63	66%
MSCI EAFE	0.67	64%
MSCI Emg. Mkts.	0.47	51%

Technical Indicators
Recent close	$30.10
30d moving avg.	$30.07
Annualized volatility	9.4%
Short interest (ETF)	0.1%
Relative strength (RSI)	65

Liquidity measures
Avg. volume (thou.)	1
Turnover	0.3%
Bid/Ask (% of price)	0.10%
ADV underlying (mns)	$10,169

Distributions

There were no matches found with other funds under coverage.

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RESULTS & ESTIMATES

	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019E	2020E
Sales per share	**	**	**	**	**	**	**
Earnings per share	**	**	**	**	**	**	**
Dividends per share	**	**	**	**	**	**	**
Book value per share	**	**	**	**	**	**	**

Sales per share growth		**%	**%	**%	**%	**%	**%
EPS growth		**%	**%	**%	**%	**%	**%

Sales per share growth		**%	**%	**%	**%	**%	**%
EPS growth		**%	**%	**%	**%	**%	**%

OTHER FUNDAMENTAL METRICS

Long term EPS growth est.	**%		Debt-to-equity	**x
Asset turnover	**%		Assets-to-equity	**x

Return on equity

Revision activity*

*Six months ago = 100

Net margins

Compound annual growth rates

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VALUATION METRICS

	2018	2019E	2020E
Price-to-sales	**	**	**
Price-to-earnings	**	**	**
Price-to-cash flow	**	**	**
Price-to-growth	**	**	**
Price-to-book value	**	**	**
Yield	**	**	**

Historical valuation trends

Forward multiple:	FlexShares Real Assets Allocation
Relative to:	S&P500	MSCI EAFE	MSCI Emg. Mkts.	Other ETF:

OVERWEIGHT

Above average appreciation potential. A rating of OVERWEIGHT is assigned to ETFs with ALTAR Scores in the 4th quintile (ranking higher than 60%-80%) of their category. Typically, funds in this category consist of stocks trading at attractive valuations and/or having above-average fundamentals.

ALTAR Score™

Calculation of ALTAR Score™
Avg. Return on Equity	11.0	%
Divided by: Fwd. P/BV	1.6	x
Less: Expense ratio	57	bp
Equals: ALTAR Score	6.2	%

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CONSENSUS RECOMMENDATIONS: FUND CONSTITUENTS

COMPOSITE RATING	1.62	CATEGORY AVERAGE	1.54

The composite rating is a weighted average of analysts' consensus recommendations for individual ETF constituents, based on the following scale: BUY = 1; OVERWEIGHT = 1.5, HOLD = 2; UNDERWEIGHT = 2.5; and SELL = 3. Readers are cautioned that because analyst ratings tend to be inflated, the composite score may be more useful as a relative measure of sentiment between funds rather than as a stand-alone recommendation.