How These ETFs Screen for Quality

Let's take a deeper dive into this Alps O'Shares lineup. You've got these four products inside of it. What makes it a compelling solution for ETF investors? And maybe give us some nuggets of some of these four products.

Yeah, so O Gig, the global internet giants ETF, is kind of the one sore thumb, if you want to call it that, within the lineup because it's distinct in terms of what it's trying to do for investors. And so I'll just focus on the quality components of the lineup: OEFA, the developed XUS version, as well as the small cap version OUSM, and the large cap version OUSA.

Ultimately what all of these products are trying to do is take a segment of the market and improve the overall quality through screening for things like return on assets. So are you able to generate profitability on your asset base, net debt to EBITDA? Are you able to generate that profitability without excess leverage?

And then also make sure that the portfolio doesn't have a vicious drawdown profile and doesn't have significantly higher volatility. And so if you're looking at large caps, if you're looking at small and midcaps, if you're looking at developed XUS stocks, what the O'Shares lineup does is take that universe, that starting universe, which is made up of a number of different types of companies in different sectors, and ensure that the companies you own have profits that are generated without excess leverage.

They pay a dividend, they grow a dividend, and they have low relative volatility. And so at its core, the strategies do exactly what they say they do in their name, which is quality dividends. So quality companies with a strong dividend profile driven by their ability to grow their dividends over time and cover those dividends.