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TGAF.TO - Tralucent Global Alt (Long/Short) Equity Fund ETF

TGAF is a global long/short equity ETF, roughly 100% long and ~40% short across 200+ names, benchmarked to MSCI ACWI NR (CAD).

Alpha Efficiency:AAlpha Efficiency grades how much return this ETF generates above the risk-free rate, independent of the equity market. SPY sets the B baseline. A higher grade means more return per unit of non-equity risk. TGAF is a global long/short equity ETF (~100% long, ~40% short) benchmarked to MSCI ACWI NR (CAD).

TGAF price history

Range
+15.27%
Total return (1Y)
TGAF.TO

Total return (Yahoo adjusted close—dividends and splits per Yahoo), normalized to $10,000 at first available trade date. Educational only.

Strategy

TGAF runs a diversified global book: bottom-up longs across regions, shorts funding factor and single-name hedges, with room for options per alternative-fund rules. Gross near 140% notional is intentional engineering, not accidental drift.

Because TGAF is Class E of a pooled trust that also has mutual fund series, flows in those channels can affect cash balances and transaction costs for ETF unitholders.

Manager and Issuer Pedigree

TGAF’s ETF units are Class E of the same long/short pooled trust Tralucent has run since March 2020. OM, mutual-fund, and ETF series sit on one portfolio, not a parallel book with a different sleeve.

Launch materials cited ~$55M as firm AUM, not this fund’s NAV. All unit classes share one book; use Fund Facts or statements for today’s size.

Outperformance

Outperforms when global dispersion is wide enough that a 200-name book can short crowded winners and buy neglected quality without every leg sharing the same macro beta.

Underperforms when every region sells off together, overwhelming stock picking, or when short squeezes lift crowded shorts. Favorable tape is idiosyncratic earnings cycles with functioning short locates, not synchronized central-bank hiking.

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TickerNameScoreMERAUM
TGAFTralucent Global Alt (Long/Short) Equity Fund ETFA1.0%~$75M+ CAD
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HDGEAccelerate Absolute Return FundA3.95%~$105M CAD

Official ETF page

Read the official ETF page for current NAV, holdings, and documents: Tralucent (TGAF).

Beta and MER may not be accurate.
Educational content only; not investment advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results.