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Investment Objective/Strategy - The First Trust Japan AlphaDEX® Fund is an exchange-traded fund. The investment objective of the Fund is to seek investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield, before the Fund's fees and expenses, of an equity index called the Defined Japan Index.
There can be no assurance that the Fund's investment objectives will be achieved.
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The Defined Japan Index is an “enhanced” index created and administered by Standard & Poor’s which employs the AlphaDEX® stock selection methodology to
select stocks from the S&P Japan BMI universe that meet certain criteria.
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Standard & Poor’s constructs the Defined Japan Index by ranking the eligible stocks from the S&P Japan BMI universe on growth factors including 3-, 6- and 12-
month price appreciation, sales to price and one year sales growth, and separately on value factors including book value to price, cash flow to price and return
on assets. All stocks are ranked on the sum of ranks for the growth factors and, separately, all stocks are ranked on the sum of ranks for the value factors. A stock
must have data for all growth and/or value factors to receive a rank for that style.
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Each stock receives the best style rank from the previous step as its selection score.
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The top 100 stocks based on the selection score determined in the previous step comprise the “selected stocks”. The selected stocks are divided into quintiles
based on their rankings and the top ranked quintiles receive a higher weight within the index. The stocks are equally-weighted within each quintile.
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Each stock is then tested in order of its selection score rank to check if the weight assigned to that stock is outside the sector weighting constraints, which are
set at 15% above the benchmark weight.
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If the weight assigned to the stock, when added with the weight assigned to all higher ranking stocks in its sector, is greater than the constraint, then the stock’s
weight is lowered to the highest rank in the next quintile. Stocks previously lower in rank then move up one rank. Such stocks in the lowest quintile that violate
a constraint are removed from the portfolio and replaced by the highest scoring stock not originally selected, subject to sector constraints. This process
continues until all the sector weightings meet the constraint.
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The index is reconstituted and rebalanced semi-annually.
| Ticker | FJP |
| Fund Type | International Equity |
| Investment Advisor | First Trust Advisors L.P. |
| Investor Servicing Agent | Brown Brothers Harriman |
| CUSIP | 33737J158 |
| Intraday NAV | FJPIV |
| Fiscal Year-End | 12/31 |
| Exchange | NYSE Arca |
| Inception | 4/18/2011 |
| Inception Price | $39.90 |
| Inception NAV | $39.90 |
| Expense Ratio | 0.80% |
| Rebalance Frequency | Semi-Annual |
| Closing NAV1 | $44.99 |
| Closing Share Price2 | $45.34 |
| Bid/Ask Midpoint | $44.94 |
| Bid/Ask Discount | 0.11% |
| Total Net Assets | $20,244,418 |
| Outstanding Shares | 450,002 |
| Daily Volume | 5,792 |
| Average 30-Day Daily Volume | 5,900 |
| Closing Share Price 52-Week High/Low | $45.34 / $34.01 |
| Closing NAV 52-Week High/Low | $44.99 / $34.14 |
| Number of Holdings | 100 |
| Median Market Cap. | $6,385 |
| Maximum Market Cap. | $197,430 |
| Minimum Market Cap. | $2,016 |
| Price/Earnings | 14.59 |
| Price/Book | 1.16 |
| Price/Cash Flow | 6.24 |
| Price/Sales | 0.47 |
| Holding |
Percent |
| The Tokyo Electric Power Company Incorporated |
3.30% |
| Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. |
2.36% |
| Hino Motors, Ltd. |
2.36% |
| Tokyu Land Corporation |
2.06% |
| Nomura Holdings, Inc. |
2.04% |
| Fuji Media Holdings, Inc. |
1.84% |
| Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd. |
1.74% |
| Toyota Motor Corporation |
1.73% |
| The Yokohama Rubber Company, Ltd. |
1.72% |
| Daiwa House Industry Co., Ltd. |
1.70% |
Past performance is not indicative of future results.
Number of Days Bid/Ask Midpoint Above NAV
| Quarter Ended |
0-49 Basis Points |
50-99 Basis Points |
100-199 Basis Points |
>=200 Basis Points |
| 3/31/2013 |
14 |
18 |
15 |
4 |
| 12/31/2012 |
29 |
13 |
3 |
1 |
| 9/30/2012 |
29 |
5 |
1 |
0 |
| 6/30/2012 |
23 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
Number of Days Bid/Ask Midpoint Below NAV
| Quarter Ended |
0-49 Basis Points |
50-99 Basis Points |
100-199 Basis Points |
>=200 Basis Points |
| 3/31/2013 |
8 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
| 12/31/2012 |
13 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
| 9/30/2012 |
25 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
| 6/30/2012 |
26 |
8 |
1 |
0 |
The price used to calculate market return is determined by using the midpoint between the highest bid and the lowest offer on the stock exchange, on which shares of the Fund are listed for trading, as of the time that the Fund's NAV is calculated.
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Consumer Discretionary
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28.24%
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Consumer Staples
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0.28%
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Energy
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2.27%
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Financials
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18.80%
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Health Care
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0.67%
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Industrials
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27.10%
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Information Technology
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5.82%
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Materials
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6.75%
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Telecommunication Services
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4.12%
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Utilities
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5.95%
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The MSCI Japan Index is a free-float adjusted market capitalization weighted index that is designed to track the equity market performance of Japanese securities listed on Tokyo Stock Exchange, Osaka Stock Exchange, JASDAQ and Nagoya Stock Exchange.
The S&P Japan BMI Index is a comprehensive, rules-based index measuring performance of the Japanese equity market.
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