Overview
HTAA, LLC (“HTAA” or the “Adviser”)is a Delaware Limited Liability Company
formed in 2013. HTAA is a registered investment adviser located in Chicago, Illinois
that provides investment advisory services as the investment adviser to an exchange
traded fund, the Hull Tactical US ETF (“HTUS” or the “Fund”), a series of the Capitol
Series Trust (“CST”). The Fund is an actively managed exchange-traded fund that seeks
long-term capital appreciation. HTAA makes investment decisions for the Fund and
continuously reviews, supervises and administers the investment program of the Fund.
HTAA also provides investment advice and management to separately managed
accounts (the “Separate Accounts,” and collectively with the Fund, the “Clients”). The
services that HTAA provides to the Separate Accounts include initial advice regarding,
and ongoing monitoring of, a Separate Account’s asset allocation, general investment
consulting and active management of securities portfolios for those accounts.
Clients have no opportunity to select or evaluate any fund investments or strategies.
HTAA selects all investments and strategies and directs all trading via a discretionary
investment advisory agreement.
HTAA may tailor its services to the individual needs of Separate Account clients, but
generally manages each such account according to the strategy selected by HTAA.
Clients may impose restrictions on their Separate Accounts, but HTAA in the event
restrictions imposed on such accounts would affect HTAA’s investment strategy, HTAA
retains the right to terminate such accounts.
HTAA’s principal
owner is HTAA Holdings LLC. Blair Hull is HTAA’s Chairman and
Founder. As of December 31, 2023, HTAA had total discretionary assets under
management of approximately $58,057,540. HTAA only manages assets on a
discretionary basis.
HTAA’s approach to investing is rooted in capturing and combining into an “ensemble”
an array of signals spanning statistical, behavioral-sentimental, technical, fundamental,
and economic data sources. Through the use of statistical modeling tools , the portfolio
managers continually investigate these inputs and evaluate the evolving complex
relationships between these factors and the market. HTAA utilizes a proprietary
quantitative trading model that takes long and short positions in exchange traded
futures contracts and ETFs that seek to track the performance of the S&P 500 Index, as
well as leveraged ETFs or inverse ETFs that seek to deliver multiples, or the inverse, of
the performance of the S&P 500. The S&P 500 Index is a widely recognized benchmark
of U.S. stock market performance that is composed primarily of large capitalization U.S.
issuers. The goal of the model is to achieve long-term growth from investments in the
U.S. equity and Treasury markets, independent of market direction. Recognizing that
no single model can indefinitely survive the test of time, the HTAA team is continually
re-evaluating and adapting its models, combining strategies into a blended signal that
informs fund allocations on a day-to-day basis. Please see Item 8 – “Methods of Analysis,
Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss,” below for more information.