Direxion Shares ETF Trust

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Summary Prospectus by Investment Company (Form 497K)

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Summary Prospectus
November 23, 2021
Direxion Shares ETF Trust
Direxion Nanotechnology ETF
Ticker: TYNE
Listed on NYSE Arca
Before you invest, you may want to review the Fund's prospectus, which contains more information about the Fund and its risks. You can find the Fund's prospectus, reports to shareholders, and other information about the Fund online at http://www.direxion.com/regulatory-documents. You can also get this information at no cost by calling (866) 476-7523 or by sending an email request to [email protected]. The Fund's prospectus and statement of additional information, both dated November 16, 2021, are incorporated by reference into this Summary Prospectus.
Investment Objective
The Direxion Nanotechnology ETF (the "Fund") seeks investment results, before fees and expenses, that track the S&P Kensho Extended Nanotechnology Index (the "Index").
Fees and Expenses of the Fund
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and sell shares of the Fund ("Shares"). You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and example below.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Management Fees
0.60%
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees
0.00%
Other Expenses (Operating Services Fees)(1),(2)
0.05%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses
0.65%
(1)
Rafferty Asset Management, LLC ("Rafferty" or "Adviser") has entered into an Operating Services Agreement with the Fund. Under this Operating Services Agreement, Rafferty has contractually agreed to pay all expenses of the Fund as long as it is the advisor of the Fund other than the following: management fees, Rule 12b-1 distribution and/or service fees, taxes, swap financing and related costs, dividends or interest on short positions, other interest expenses, brokerage commissions, expenses incurred in connection with any merger or reorganization, acquired fund fees and expenses, and extraordinary expenses. The Operating Services Agreement may be terminated at any time by the Board of Trustees.
(2)
Estimated for the Fund's current fiscal year.
Example - This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
1 Year
3 Years
$66
$208
Portfolio Turnover
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected
in Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the example, affect the Fund's performance.
Principal Investment Strategy
The Fund, under normal circumstances, invests at least 80% of its assets in the securities that comprise the Index.
The Index is provided by S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC (the "Index Provider") and is designed to measure the performance of U.S.-listed securities, including depositary receipts, of companies involved in the nanotechnology industry. The Index Provider defines nanotechnology as the creation and/or manipulation of matter at the molecular (or smaller) level. The Index includes companies that produce nanomaterials or provide systems, products and services that allow for construction, measurement, simulation or manipulation of nanomaterials. Nanomaterials include the following types of products or services:
Fabrication and manufacturing processes -devices/systems/processes that allow for construction/manipulation of matter at the molecular level as a part of the production process, which includes, but is not limited to, nanobots, nanolithography, atomic layer deposition and molecular self-assembly.
Measurement and simulation - services that simulate design of nanomaterials and products/services related to measurement at the molecular level, which includes, but is not limited to, nanoelectromechanical systems.
Materials - outputs created from nanofabrication and manufacturing processes, which includes, but is not limited to, nanotextiles and nanoparticles.
Delivery systems - systems that enable delivery of nanomaterials to targeted locations, which includes, but is not limited to, engineered nanoparticles and nanocapsules.
The Index Provider distills each of the nanotechnology-related business activities down to representative search terms and conducts automated, proprietary natural language processing searches of annual company-issued filings for the representative search terms in order to identify nanotechnology companies. Only companies that prominently discuss such search terms in the applicable filings (i.e., based on the location and context of such terms) are eligible for inclusion in the Index.
To be eligible for inclusion, securities must have a minimum float-adjusted market capitalization of $100 million as well as a minimum three-month average daily value traded of
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$1 million as of each rebalance reference date. The Index constituents are then categorized as "core" and "non-core." A core nanotechnology company is a pure play company that is singularly focused on providing nanotechnology-related products or services, and a "non-core" nanotechnology company is one that has significant economic stakes tied to nanotechnology activities in addition to providing other products or services. Core constituents are over-weighted as compared to non-core constituents. The Index Provider also applies a diversification screen to ensure that the sum of the weights of all constituents with individual weights over 4.5% does not exceed 45% of the total Index weight. The Index is reconstituted annually and rebalanced quarterly.
As of November 12, 2021, the Index was comprised of 29 constituents, which had a median total market capitalization of $4 billion, total market capitalizations ranging from $98 million to $250 billion, and was concentrated in the healthcare and information technology sectors.
The components of the Index and the percentages represented by various sectors in the Index may change over time. The Fund will concentrate its investment in a particular industry or group of industries (i.e., hold 25% or more of its total assets in the stocks of a particular industry or group of industries) to approximately the same extent as the Index is so concentrated.
The Fund uses a "passive" or indexing approach to attempt to achieve its investment objective. The Fund does not try to outperform the Index and does not generally take temporary defensive positions. Although the Fund intends to fully replicate the Index, at times the Fund may hold a representative sample of the securities in the Index that have aggregate characteristics similar to those of the Index. This means the Fund may not hold all of the securities included in the Index, its weighting of investment exposure to such stocks or industries may be different from that of the Index and it may hold securities that are not included in the Index. The Fund will rebalance its portfolio when the Index rebalances. Additionally, if the Fund receives a creation unit in cash, the Fund repositions its portfolio in response to assets flowing into or out of the Fund.
The Fund is "non-diversified," meaning that a relatively high percentage of its assets may be invested in a limited number of issuers of securities. Additionally, the Fund's investment objective is not a fundamental policy and may be changed by the Fund's Board of Trustees without shareholder approval.
Principal Investment Risks
An investment in the Fund entails risk. The Fund may not achieve its investment objective and there is a risk that you could lose all of your money invested in the Fund. The Fund is not a complete investment program. It is important that investors closely review all of the risks listed below and understand them before making an investment in the Fund.
Index Correlation/Tracking Risk - There is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve a high degree of correlation to the Index and therefore achieve its investment objective. The Fund may have difficulty achieving its investment objective due to fees, expenses (including rebalancing expenses), transaction costs, income items, valuation methodology,
accounting standards, required compliance with the Fund's Exchange listing standards, disruptions or illiquidity in the markets for the securities held by the Fund, the Fund's holding of uninvested cash, costs of complying with various new or existing regulatory requirements (diversification requirements), and transactions carried out to minimize the distribution of capital gains to shareholders and other requirements to maintain pass-through tax treatment. These are costs that may be incurred by the Fund that are not incurred by the Index. Market disruptions, regulatory restrictions or extreme volatility will also adversely affect the Fund's ability to achieve its investment objective. Activities surrounding Index reconstitutions and other Index rebalancing events may hinder the Fund's ability to meet its investment objective.
The Fund may not have investment exposure to all of the securities in the Index or its weighting of investment exposure to the securities may be different from that of the Index. Any of these factors could decrease correlation between the performance of the Fund and the Index and may hinder the Fund's ability to meet its investment objective.
Index Strategy Risk -The Fund is linked to an Index maintained by a third party provider unaffiliated with the Fund. Securities held by the Fund will generally not be bought or sold in response to market fluctuations and may be concentrated in a particular industry if the Index is so concentrated. The Fund will generally not sell a security because its issuer is in financial trouble or its value has declined, unless that holding is removed or is anticipated to be removed from the Index.
The Index relies on various sources of information to assess the securities included in the Index, including information that may be based on assumptions or estimates, and there is no guarantee that the methodology utilized by the Index Provider will result in the Index achieving positive returns. There is no assurance that the Index Provider's calculation methodology or sources of information will provide an accurate assessment of the Index's securities and may result in the Index selecting or otherwise including companies that do not provide products or services in nanotechnology-related business activities, including due to market movements or other changes that may occur between rebalance dates. The Index may underperform other asset classes or similar indices. Errors in Index data, Index computations or the construction of the Index in accordance with its methodology may occur from time to time and may not be identified and corrected by the Index Provider for a period of time or at all, which may have an adverse impact on the Fund and its shareholders.
The Fund's performance may deviate from the Index due to legal restrictions or limitations, certain listing standards of the Fund's Exchange, a lack of liquidity of the securities in the Index, potential adverse tax consequences or other regulatory reasons (diversification requirements).
Natural Language Processing Risk - The natural language processing classification system utilized by the Index is different than traditional classification systems because it utilizes automated natural language processing, such as key word searching, rather than backward looking metrics, such as
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a company's past profits or revenue, to determine the classification of a company. The Index's use of natural language processing may result in the Index including companies that may not be classified as nanotechnology companies by other classification systems.
Market Risk -Turbulence in financial markets and reduced liquidity in equity, credit and fixed income markets may negatively affect many issuers worldwide, which could have an adverse effect on the Fund.
Natural Disaster/Epidemic and Market Disruption Risk-Natural or environmental disasters, such as earthquakes, fires, floods, hurricanes, and tsunamis and widespread disease, including pandemics and epidemics, have been and can be highly disruptive to economies and markets and have recently led, and may continue to lead to increased market volatility and significant market losses. Such natural disasters and health crises could exacerbate political, social and economic risks, and result in significant breakdowns, delays, shutdowns, social isolation, and other disruptions to important global, local and regional supply chains. A climate of uncertainty and panic, including the contagion of infectious viruses and diseases, may adversely affect global, regional, and local economies and reduce the availability of potential investment opportunities, and increases the difficulty of performing due diligence and modeling market conditions, potentially reducing the accuracy of financial projections. A widespread crisis would also affect the global economy in ways that cannot necessarily be foreseen. Adverse effects may be more pronounced for developing or emerging market countries that have less established health care systems. How long such events will last and whether they will continue or recur cannot be predicted.
Significant market volatility and market downturns may limit the Fund's ability to sell securities and the Fund's sales may exacerbate the market volatility and downturn. Under such circumstances, the Fund may have difficulty achieving its investment objective for one or more trading days, which may adversely impact the Fund's returns on those days and periods inclusive of those days. Alternatively, the Fund may incur higher costs in order to achieve its investment objective and may be forced to purchase and sell securities (including other ETFs' shares) at market prices that do not represent their fair value (including in the case of an ETF, its net asset value) or at times that result in differences between the price the Fund receives for the security and the market closing price of the security. Under those circumstances, the Fund's ability to track its Index is likely to be adversely affected, the market price of Fund shares may reflect a greater premium or discount to net asset value, and bid-ask spreads in the Fund's shares may widen, resulting in increased transaction costs for secondary market purchasers and sellers. The Fund may also incur additional tracking error due to the use of other securities that are not perfectly correlated to the Fund's Index.
The recent pandemic spread of the novel coronavirus known as COVID-19 has proven to be a market disrupting event. The impact of this virus, like other pandemics that may arise in the future, has negatively affected and may continue to negatively affect the economies of many nations,
companies and the global securities and commodities markets, including by reducing liquidity in the markets. Adverse effects may be more pronounced for developing or emerging market countries that have less established health care systems. How long such events will last and whether they will continue or recur cannot be predicted.
Nanotechnology Investing Risk - Nanotechnology companies are engaged in emerging industries and new technologies that may be unproven. Such industries and technologies may be adversely affected by technological advances, competition, rapid product or service obsolescence, and new and evolving regulations. Companies related to nanotechnology may rely on a combination of patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secret laws to establish and protect their proprietary rights in their products and technologies, and may be adversely affected by loss or impairment of those rights. In addition, nanotechnology companies may have limited product lines, markets, financial resources, or personnel. Nanotechnology companies may be smaller, less-seasoned companies that may be more volatile than the overall market.
Unrelated Business Lines Risk - Companies in the Index may have significant business lines that are not nanotechnology related. These unrelated business lines may be a larger portion of a company's current business, in terms of profit or revenue, for example, than the portion represented by the Index theme. Consequently, these unrelated business lines may have a significant impact on the performance of the company, Index, and the Fund. In particular, these unrelated business lines may cause the Fund to underperform investments that do not have exposure to unrelated business lines. For example, if an unrelated business line of a company underperforms its nanotechnology related business line, it may negatively affect the performance of the company, the Index, and the Fund.
Healthcare Sector Risk - The profitability of companies in the healthcare sector may be affected by extensive, costly and uncertain government regulation, restrictions on government reimbursement for medical expenses, rising costs of medical products and services, pricing pressure, an increased emphasis on outpatient services, limited product lines, industry innovation, changes in technologies and other market developments. Many healthcare companies are heavily dependent on patent protection, which may be time consuming and costly. The expiration of patents may adversely affect the profitability of these companies. Many healthcare companies are subject to extensive litigation based on product liability and similar claims. Healthcare companies are subject to competitive forces that may make it difficult to raise prices and, in fact, may result in price discounting. Many new products in the healthcare sector require significant research and development and may be subject to regulatory approvals. The process of obtaining such approvals may be long and costly with no guarantee that any product will come to market.
Information Technology Sector Risk - The value of stocks of information technology companies and companies that rely heavily on technology is particularly vulnerable to rapid changes in technology product cycles, rapid product
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obsolescence, government regulation, and competition, both domestically and internationally, including competition from competitors with lower production costs. In addition, many information technology companies have limited product lines, markets, financial resources or personnel. The prices of information technology companies and companies that rely heavily on technology, especially those of smaller, less-seasoned companies, tend to be more volatile and less liquid than the overall market. Information technology companies are heavily dependent on patent and intellectual property rights, the loss or impairment of which may adversely affect profitability. Additionally, companies in the information technology sector may face dramatic and often unpredictable changes in growth rates and competition for the services of qualified personnel.
Semiconductor Industry Risk- Semiconductor companies may face intense competition, both domestically and internationally, and such competition may have an adverse effect on such companies' profit margins. Semiconductor companies may have limited product lines, markets, financial resources or personnel. Companies in the semiconductor industry may have products that fact obsolescence due to rapid technological developments and frequent new product introduction, unpredictable changes in growth rates and competition for qualified personnel. Capital equipment expenditures may be substantial and equipment generally suffers from rapid obsolescence. Semiconductor companies are also heavily dependent on patent and intellectual property rights. The loss or impairment of those rights, would adversely impact the profitability of these companies.
Micro-Capitalization Company Risk - Micro-capitalization companies often have limited product lines, narrower markets for their goods and/or services and more limited managerial and financial resources than larger, more established companies, including companies which are considered small- or mid-capitalization. As a result, their performance can be more volatile and they face greater risk of business failure, which could increase the volatility of the Fund's portfolio.
Small- and/or Mid-Capitalization Company Risk -Small- and mid-capitalization companies often have narrower markets for their goods and/or services and more limited managerial and financial resources and often have limited product lines, services, markets, financial resources or are dependent on a small management group. Because these stocks are not well-known to the investing public, do not have significant institutional ownership and are followed by relatively few security analysts, there will normally be less publicly available information concerning these securities compared to what is available for the securities of larger companies. Adverse publicity and investor perceptions, whether or not based on fundamental analysis, can decrease the value and liquidity of securities held by the Fund resulting in more volatile performance. These companies may face greater risk of business failure, which could increase the volatility of the Fund's portfolio.
Large-Capitalization Company Risk - Large-capitalization companies may be less able to adapt to changing market conditions or to respond quickly to competitive challenges or to changes in business, product,
financial, or market conditions and may not be able to maintain growth at rates that may be achieved by well-managed smaller and mid-size companies, which may affect the companies' returns.
Early Close/Trading Halt Risk - An exchange or market may close or issue trading halts on specific securities, or the ability to buy or sell certain portfolio securities or financial instruments may be restricted, which may result in the Fund being unable to buy or sell certain securities or financial instruments. In such circumstances, the Fund may be unable to rebalance its portfolio, may be unable to accurately price its investments, may incur significant tracking differences with its Index, may incur substantial losses and may limit or stop purchases of the Fund.
Equity Securities Risk - Investments in publicly issued equity securities, including common stocks, are subject to market risks that may cause their prices to fluctuate over time. Fluctuations in the value of equity securities in which the Fund invests will cause the net asset value of the Fund to fluctuate.
High Portfolio Turnover Risk - The Fund may engage in active and frequent trading, which may lead to increased portfolio turnover, higher transaction costs, and the possibility of increased short-term capital gains (which will be taxable to shareholders as ordinary income when distributed to them) and/or long-term capital gains. Active and frequent trading may be due to Index rebalancing, cash purchases and sales of the Fund's shares or other portfolio management reasons.
Non-Diversification Risk - The Fund is non-diversified, which means it invests a high percentage of its assets in a limited number of securities. Its net asset value and total return may fluctuate more or fall greater in times of weaker markets than a diversified fund.
Securities Lending Risk- Securities lending involves the risk that the Fund may lose money because the borrower of the loaned securities fails to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. The Fund could also lose money in the event of a decline in the value of collateral provided for loaned securities, a decline in the value of any investments made with cash collateral, or a "gap" between the return on cash collateral reinvestments and any fees the Fund has agreed to pay a borrower. These events could also trigger adverse tax consequences for the Fund.
Special Risks of Exchange-Traded Funds
Authorized Participants Concentration Risk. The Fund may have a limited number of financial institutions that may act as Authorized Participants. To the extent that those Authorized Participants exit the business or are unable to process creation and/or redemption orders, Shares may trade at larger bid-ask spreads and/or premiums or discounts to net asset value. Authorized Participant concentration risk may be heightened for a fund that invests in non-U.S. securities or other securities or instruments that have lower trading volumes.
Market Price Variance Risk. Fund Shares are listed for trading on NYSE Arca and can be bought and sold in the secondary market at market prices rather than at net asset value. The market prices of Shares will fluctuate in response to changes
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in the value of the Fund's holdings and supply and demand for Shares. Shareholders that purchase or sell Shares on the secondary market may trade Shares at a price greater than net asset value (a premium) or less than net asset value (a discount). There may be times when the market price and the net asset value vary significantly. The Fund's investment results are measured based upon the net asset value of the Fund over a period of time. Investors purchasing and selling Shares in the secondary market may not experience the same investment results as experienced by those creating and redeeming Shares at net asset value. There is no guarantee that an active secondary market will develop for Shares. To the extent that exchange specialists, market makers, Authorized Participants, or other participants are unavailable or unable to trade the Fund's Shares and/or create or redeem Creation Units, market disruptions or significant market volatility, bid-ask spreads and premiums or discounts may widen.
Fund Shares Trading Risk/Bid-Ask Spread Risk. Investments in Fund shares are subject to risks as a result of their trading in the secondary market. For example, investors transacting in the secondary market may incur costs as a result of there being a (potentially significant) spread (or difference) between the price that purchasers are willing to pay for shares (the bid) and the price at which sellers are willing to sell shares (the ask). This spread, which is known as a bid-ask spread, will vary based on, among other things, market demand for shares, the liquidity of the Fund portfolio and other factors. In addition, like other securities that are listed on an exchange, Fund shares can be sold short. Accordingly, their price can be volatile and they can be subject to pressure from short sales. Further, trading in all listed securities, including Fund shares, can be halted, including due to market volatility triggering "circuit breaker" rules.
Fund Performance
No prior investment performance is provided for the Fund because it had not commenced operations prior to the date of this Prospectus. Upon commencement of operations, updated performance will be available on the Fund's website at www.direxion.com/etfs?producttab=performance or by calling the Fund toll-free at (866) 476-7523.
Management
Investment Adviser. Rafferty Asset Management, LLC is the Fund's investment adviser.
Portfolio Managers. The following members of Rafferty's investment team are jointly and primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the Fund:
Portfolio Managers
Years of Service
with the Fund
Primary Title
Paul Brigandi
Since Inception
Portfolio Manager
Tony Ng
Since Inception
Portfolio Manager
Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares
The Fund's individual shares may only be purchased or sold in the secondary market through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediaries at market price rather than at net asset value. The market price of Shares will fluctuate in response to changes in the value of the Fund's holdings and supply and demand for the Shares, which may result
in shareholders purchasing or selling the Shares on the secondary market at a market price that is greater than net asset value (a premium) or less than net asset value (a discount). A shareholder may incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest price a buyer is willing to pay for the Fund's Shares (bid) and the lowest price a seller is willing to accept for the Fund's Shares (ask) when buying or selling Shares on the secondary market (the "bid-ask spread") in addition to brokerage commissions. The bid-ask spread may vary over time for Shares based on trading volume and market liquidity. Recent information regarding the Fund Shares such as net asset value, market price, premiums and discounts, bid-ask spreads and related other information is available on the Fund's website, www.direxion.com/etfs?producttab=performance.
The Fund's shares are not individually redeemable by the Fund. The Fund will issue and redeem Shares only to Authorized Participants in exchange for cash or a deposit or delivery of a basket of assets (securities and/or cash) in large blocks, known as creation units, each of which is comprised of 25,000 Shares.
If a market disruption or similar occurs, making it not reasonably practicable for the Fund to dispose of its securities or to determine its net asset value, the Fund could seek to limit or suspend purchases of creation units. Under such circumstances, the Fund's shares could trade at a significant premium or discount to their net asset value or wide bid-ask spreads and the Fund could experience substantial redemptions, which may cause the Fund to sell portfolio holdings, experience increased transaction costs and make greater taxable distributions. The Fund may seek to change its investment objective by, for example, seeking to track an alternative index or the Fund may close. The Fund could liquidate all, or a portion of, its assets, which may be at unfavorable prices.
Tax Information
The Fund intends to make distributions that may be taxed as ordinary income or long-term capital gains. Those distributions will be subject to federal income tax and may also be subject to state and local taxes, unless you are investing through a tax-deferred arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account. Distributions or investments made through tax-deferred arrangements may be taxed later upon withdrawal. Distributions by the Fund may be significantly higher than those of most other ETFs.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase shares of the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank or financial advisor), the Fund and/or its Adviser may pay the intermediary for the sale of Fund shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other financial intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary's website for more information.
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SEC File Number: 811-22201