Key Documents
FUND SUMMARY
The Rize Sustainable Future of Food UCITS ETF (FOOD) seeks to invest in companies that potentially stand to benefit from the accelerating transition to more sustainable food production systems and consumption patterns and thereby safeguarding our nature and ecosystems, promoting transparency and safety and encouraging plant-based consumption in order to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. FOOD seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the Foxberry Tematica Research Sustainable Future of Food Index.
KEY INFORMATION
- AUM ($USD): 154,444,676
- TER: 0.45%
- ISIN: IE00BLRPQH31
- Base Code: FOOD
- SFDR Classification: Article 9
- MSCI ESG Rating: AA

INVESTMENT CASE
The security of our food system is one of the world’s most pressing challenges. With dwindling natural resources, the challenge of providing healthy, affordable and nutritious food to a growing global population – all while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and environmental harm – is intensifying. The food industry has started to respond, expanding plant-based protein options and increasing sustainability of farming, and improving supply-chains and packaging. Consumers too, have become more concerned about food safety and the provenance of what they eat. The global food system now requires urgent transformation if we want to avoid the sorts of planetary damage that awaits if we do nothing – loss of biodiversity, freshwater depletion, pollution of our rivers and oceans and enduring damage to our soils. The good news is that system-wide and holistic change comes with new opportunities. Our pioneering investment strategy and ETF – Europe’s first sustainable food ETF – provides investors with exposure to companies that are innovating across the food value chain to build a more sustainable, secure and fair food system for our planet.
WHY FOOD?
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Favourable Growth Prospects
FOOD is Europe’s first sustainable food ETF, and provides investors with exposure to companies that are innovating across the food value chain to build a more sustainable and equitable food system.
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Powered by Tematica Research®
FOOD is purpose-built in collaboration with Tematica Research, a thematic research firm based in Washington, D.C., and leverages their unique insights and proprietary classification system of companies that are innovators across the food value chain.
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Unconstrained Approach
FOOD’s composition transcends classic sector, size and geographic classifications by tracking a global theme.
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ETF Efficiency
In a single trade, FOOD delivers access to dozens of companies that are favourably positioned to ride the tailwinds of the sustainable future of food theme.
Thematic Classification
FOOD invests in companies within the 8 sub-sectors of our Sustainable Future of Food thematic classification built in partnership with thematic research experts Tematica Research. The classification is an enabling taxonomy designed for the investment and research communities with the aim of identifying the key areas of sustainable innovation in food and agriculture and business activities that are aligned with our transition to a more sustainable food system.
SUSTAINABLE FUTURE OF FOOD

Plant Based Foods and Organic Foods

Ingredients, Flavours and Fragrances

Food Safety and Testing

Precision Farming

Agricultural Science

Water Technology

Supply Chain Technology

Sustainable Packaging
Performance
Capital at risk. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results. The value of your investment and income generated will vary, your initial investment amount cannot be guaranteed. The return of your investment may increase or decrease as a result of currency fluctuations.
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Capital at risk. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results. The value of your investment and income generated will vary, your initial investment amount cannot be guaranteed. The return of your investment may increase or decrease as a result of currency fluctuations.
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Top 10 Holdings
Name | ISIN | Weight | CCY |
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LAMB WESTON HLDGS INC COM | US5132721045 | 3.85 | USD |
YARA INTERNATIONAL ASA NOK1.7 | NO0010208051 | 3.49 | NOK |
JOHN BEAN TECHNOLOGIES CORP COM | US4778391049 | 3.49 | USD |
SIG GROUP AG | CH0435377954 | 3.34 | CHF |
AMERICOLD REALTY TST. | US03064D1081 | 3.15 | USD |
BALL | US0584981064 | 3.15 | USD |
GIVAUDAN SA CHF10 | CH0010645932 | 2.85 | CHF |
BALCHEM CORP COM | US0576652004 | 2.77 | USD |
SYMRISE AG NPV (BR) | DE000SYM9999 | 2.73 | EUR |
DEERE & CO. COMMON STOCK $1 PAR | US2441991054 | 2.72 | USD |
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Fund Details
Net Assets | USD 154,444,676 |
NAV per share | USD 3.8025 |
Shares Outstanding | 40,616,431 |
Total Expense Ratio | 0.45 |
Inception | 27/08/2020 |
ISIN | IE00BLRPQH31 |
Base Code | FOOD |
Base Currency | USD |
Index Name | Foxberry Tematica Research Sustainable Future of Food Index / FXBYFOOD |
Thematic Classification | Tematica Research Sustainable Future of Food Global Classification |
Index Replication Method | Physical – full replication |
Income Treatment | Accumulating |
No. of holdings | 51 |
UCITS | Yes |
Domicile | Ireland |
Issuer | Rize UCITS ICAV |
Promoter | ARK Invest International Ltd |
Manager | IQ EQ Fund Management (Ireland) Limited |
Investment Manager | IQ EQ Fund Management (Ireland) Limited |
Depositary / Custodian | Northern Trust Fiduciary Services (Ireland) Limited |
ISA Eligible (UK) | Yes |
SIPP Eligible (UK) | Yes |
Reporting Fund Status (UK) | Yes |
Equity Fund (DE) | Yes |
SFDR Classification | Article 9 |
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Registrations
- Austria
- Denmark
- Finland
- Germany
- Ireland
- Italy
- Luxembourg
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- United Kingdom
Listings
Exchange | Currency | Listing Date | SEDOL | Bloomberg Ticker | RIC |
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Borsa Italiana | EUR | 03-Sep-20 | BMVLGB8 | FOOD IM | FOOD.MI |
Deutsche Börse Xetra | EUR | 03-Sep-20 | BMVLGD0 | RIZF GY | RIZF.DE |
Euronext Amsterdam | EUR | 15-Feb-21 | BLH1VY3 | FOOD NA | FOGB.AS |
London Stock Exchange | USD | 03-Sep-20 | BMY7CV5 | FOOD LN | FOOD.L |
London Stock Exchange | GBP | 03-Sep-20 | BMY7CW6 | FOGB LN | FOGB.L |
SIX Swiss Exchange | CHF | 15-Sep-20 | BL6L069 | ESSN SE | ESSNR.S |
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Fund documents
All Other DocumentsRisks
The Fund may be subject to the risks associated with companies operating in the food and agriculture technology sectors including rapidly changing technologies and obsolescence of existing products, fierce international competition, the loss of patent, copyright and trademark protections and evolving industry standards. Companies will also be subject to external risk factors impacting the broader food and agriculture markets related to changing and unpredictable weather conditions (including drought and flooding) and fluctuating commodity prices.
The Fund also invests in small publicly-traded companies which may be less mature and therefore more vulnerable to adverse business or economic events and greater and more unpredictable price changes than larger companies, the food, agricultural and technology sectors or the stock market as a whole.
The Fund invests in global equity securities. As such there is a risk of loss arising from exchange rate fluctuations or exchange control regulations.
Other: (1) Third party service providers (such as the ICAV’s depositary) may go bankrupt and fail to pay money due to the Fund or return property belonging to the Fund. (2) If the Index provider stops calculating the Index or if the Fund’s license to replicate the Index is terminated, the Fund may have to be closed. (3) It may not always be possible to buy and sell the Fund’s Shares on a stock exchange or at prices closely reflecting the Net Asset Value. (4) There is no capital guarantee or protection on the value of the Fund and investors can lose all the capital invested in the Fund. (5) Please refer to the “Risk Factors” section of the ICAV’s Prospectus and the Fund Supplement.