As at July 31, 2025

Meritage Tactical ETF Balanced Portfolio

Advisor Series

Category: Tactical Balanced

Investment Objective

To achieve a combination of income and long-term capital appreciation by making tactical investments primarily in a diverse mix of exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) that are fixed income funds and equity funds.

Fund Details

Investment horizon

At least 3 years

Fund volatility

Low to medium

Minimum Initial Investment:

$500

Subsequent Investment:

$50

Systematic Investment:

$25

Distribution Frequency:

Quarterly

Assets Under Management ($M):

$184.5

Price per Unit:

$13.94

Inception Date:

March 1, 2016

Value of $10,000 since inception:

$15,684

Management Fee:

1.40%

MER:

1.74%

Management Fee Reduction Plan¹

For High Net Worth investors
Amount Applicable

Level to the level* Reduction
1 First $250,000 0.050%
2 Next $250,000 0.100%
3 In excess of $500,000 0.150%

¹ Subject to satisfying one of the Plan admissibility criteria.

* The levels apply according to the market value of the
   assets.

Available Fund Code:

Trust Portfolios Fund Code
Advisor Series
Initial Sales Charge NBC7443
Deferred Sales Charge NBC7543
Low Sales Charge NBC7643
F Series NBC7743
F5 Series NBC8743
T5 Series
Initial Sales Charge NBC8443
Deferred Sales Charge NBC8543
Low Sales Charge NBC8643

Portfolio Statistics

Alpha

-0.04

Beta

0.97

R-squared

0.91

Standard Deviation

7.76

Sharpe

0.43

Portfolio Asset Mix

(% of Net Assets)

Canadian Equity 23.22
International Equity 21.39
US Equity 19.84
Canadian Government Bonds 19.45
Canadian Corporate Bonds 9.05
Other 3.84
Foreign Corporate Bonds 3.21
Third-Party funds %
BMO Aggregate Bond Index ETF (ZAG) 22.45
Schwab US Broad Market ETF (SCHB) 14.42
BMO S&P/TSX Capped Composite Index ETF (ZCN) 13.38
iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF (IEFA) 11.49
CI MStar Canada Moment Indx ETF (WXM) 6.60
Schwab amental EM Large Co Index ETF (FNDE) 4.57
BMO Corporate Bond Index ETF (ZCB) 3.83
iShares Broad USD High Yield Corp Bond ETF (USHY) 3.21
BMO MSCI USA High Quality Index ETF (ZUQ) 3.07
Invesco S&P 500 Eql Wght ETF (RSP) 3.05

Geographic Allocation

Canada 52.88%
United States 23.39%
Other 10.91%
Japan 2.67%
United Kingdom 2.38%
China 2.14%
Switzerland 1.50%
Germany 1.48%
France 1.44%
Taiwan 1.21%

Sector Allocation

Fixed Income 31.37%
Other 16.38%
Financial Services 13.20%
Technology 12.00%
Consumer Services 4.96%
Energy 4.90%
Basic Materials 4.81%
Exchange Traded Fund 4.36%
Industrial Goods 4.08%
Consumer Goods 3.94%

Calendar Returns (%)

YTD 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019
Portfolio 3.80 11.14 8.54 -10.89 9.01 7.27 12.45

Annualized Returns (%)

Portfolio 1 M 3 M 6 M 1 Y 3 Y 5 Y 10 Y Incp. Incp. Date
Portfolio 0.80 5.61 1.38 7.84 7.29 5.38 - 4.90

Disclosure

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