DYNF vs SSUS

DYNFAiShares U.S. Equity Factor Rotation Active ETF

SSUSCStrategy Shares Day Hagan Smart Sector ETF

In short

DYNF Most factor funds make you pick a lane: value, momentum, quality. DYNF rotates across five styles instead, letting a factor model decide which one leads, and charges an index-fund-ish 0.26% to do it.

SSUS Sector rotation with a brake pedal. Day Hagan runs models co-developed with Ned Davis Research across the S&P 500's sectors, tilting toward the strongest ones and, when its risk model turns cautious, shifting up to half the portfolio into cash and Treasuries.

Stated mandate

DYNF The Fund seeks to outperform the U.S. equity market through diversified, tactical exposure to style factors using a factor rotation model.

SSUS The Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation and preservation of capital.

Why people hold it

• DYNF Five style factors in one ticket (value, quality, momentum, growth, low volatility), reweighted by a rotation model rather than locked to a single tilt.
• 0.26% is well under half the median fee in its active US equity peer group, which is unusual pricing for a strategy with a human-supervised model behind it.
• A multi-billion-dollar fund and one of the more actively traded names in its category, so getting in and out rarely becomes the hard part. Pays quarterly.
• Running since 2019 under one of the biggest ETF shops, and it stands among the strongest overall implementations in the active US equity group we track.

• SSUS The risk model is the whole point: on a low reward-to-risk reading, up to half of assets can move into cash, Treasuries or money funds, then back to equities when the model says major risks have subsided.sec.gov
• Sector calls, not stock calls. It holds unaffiliated ETFs covering the S&P 500 sectors and overweights or underweights each against the index, with a weak sector cut all the way to zero.sec.gov
• Live since January 2020 on the same published Day Hagan research framework, and it sits in the upper half of a crowded active US equity field.sec.gov

Worth knowing

• DYNF The yardstick isn't the S&P 500: it's a custom blend of 80% MSCI USA and 20% MSCI USA Minimum Volatility, so a low-vol tilt is baked into the benchmark itself.
• Active by design. The factor mix shifts, the book runs to a couple hundred stocks, and a rotation call can leave it out of step with a plain US market index fund.
• Cheap for active, not the cheapest shelf: systematic peers DFAU (0.12%), AVLC (0.15%), DFAC (0.17%) and FELC (0.18%) all undercut it on fee.

• SSUS At 0.76% with no fee waiver, it sits above the category median. Peers measured against the same S&P 500 benchmark include FELC at 0.18% and PQUS at 0.22%.
• Raising cash cuts both ways: the same mechanism that trims equity exposure can leave the fund underexposed if markets turn back up before the model does.sec.gov
• Not one of the heavily traded names in its category, and it distributes income only once or twice a year rather than monthly.

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