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New York, December 17, 2025

Man Group, a leading global alternative investment manager, announced today the launch of two additional ETFs (the “Funds”), Man Active Emerging Markets Alternatives ETF (ticker: MEMA) and Man Active Trend Enhanced ETF (ticker: MATE). The actively managed Funds, which will be listed today on Nasdaq, seek to provide capital growth over the medium to long-term and bring the firm’s ETF offering in the US wealth market to four Funds.

MEMA will invest, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of its net assets, plus any borrowings for investment purposes, in equity and equity-related securities of emerging market issuers. The Fund generally considers emerging market countries to be those represented in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index (the “Index”). The Fund’s strategy is to identify stocks with prospects of long-term value creation often missed by short-term oriented investors and will objectively evaluate company fundamentals and intangibles using data-driven models and advanced machine-learning with human oversight. With the experience of the portfolio management team, the Fund will seek to systematically solve for return, risk and implementation costs, delivered typically in a 130/30¹ strategy profile.

Daniel (“Dan”) Taylor and Ben Zhao are the portfolio managers primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of MEMA. Taylor brings almost three decades of investment experience that includes overseeing small cap and hedge fund strategies and serves as a senior member of the strategic alpha research team. Zhao brings over a decade of investment experience in quantitative research, machine learning and leading long horizon strategy efforts, and holds a doctorate degree in economics and financial econometrics.

MEMA’s model systematically aims to identify companies to invest in for the long-term, size them with systematic risk optimization, and trade them in a tax efficient and low-cost way. The Fund focuses on predicting longer-term value creation, forecasting earnings surprises three years into the future with statistical significance. Its fundamental investment themes include earnings quality, business risk, valuation (tangible and intangible), investor insight, industry dynamics, growth potential, and alternative insights.

Dan Taylor said:

“Emerging markets equities present an exciting opportunity to diversity equity risk away from the US and the Magnificent 7.² This is an area where quantitative investing approaches have generally excelled, and active extension can potentially enhance the alpha opportunity, providing access to a strategy that sophisticated institutions have been employing for years.”

MATE employs a quantitative model to identify investment opportunities across a wide range of global markets, targeting 100% exposure to each of the two respective strategies. The Trend-Following Strategy involves investing in derivative instruments, including futures and forwards contracts, to achieve long and short exposures to global developed and emerging market equity and fixed-income securities, indices, currencies, and commodities. The Equity Strategy primarily consists of investing in U.S. equity securities, U.S. equity ETFs, and/or futures contracts on U.S. equity indices. The Fund will hold U.S. Treasury securities, cash and cash equivalents as collateral for the Fund’s investments in derivatives, as well as to generate incremental income.

The Fund is designed to combine U.S. equity market participation with a systematic trend-following overlay across global futures markets. MATE seeks to efficiently replicate S&P 500 exposure and deploy spare cash into momentum models spanning rates, commodities, currencies, and equities, aiming to improve portfolio resilience through different market regimes.

Russell Korgaonkar and Giuliana Bordigoni are the portfolio managers primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of MATE. Korgaonkar has been with Man Group for over two decades and previously oversaw Liquid Strategies, as well as the firm’s systematic Institutional Solutions business. Bordigoni has nearly two decades of quantitative investing experience, and brings an expertise in Specialist Strategies, Alternative Markets, and holds a doctorate degree in Mathematics and Applications.

Russell Korgaonkar said:

“This ETF represents a compelling solution for investors seeking to diversify their portfolios without sacrificing equity exposure. By pairing efficient S&P 500 exposure with a trend-following overlay across macro asset classes, we aim to help investors participate in the upside while seeking to cushion drawdowns and deliver more robust outcomes through challenging market conditions. We have been building and refining our proprietary trend-following models for more than 35 years and are quite pleased that investors can now access sophisticated alpha generation techniques in a liquid structure.”

Mark Bedford, Global Head of Wealth, Man Group, said:

“As a firm best known for its deep quantitative investing heritage, we are thrilled to further expand our ETF offering by making these institutional-grade alternatives strategies accessible for all. We fundamentally believe that individual investors deserve access to the same rigorous, data-driven investment process that has long been limited to sophisticated hedge fund investors. These funds are designed to complement traditional stock-bond allocations, improve diversification, and make portfolio construction more efficient. We are confident that this will resonate with advisors and their clients who want the discipline and characteristics that quantitative investing can provide, packaged up in a transparent, liquid, and cost-efficient vehicle.”

Disclosures

An investor should consider the investment objectives, risks, and charges and expenses of the funds carefully before investing. A prospectus and a summary prospectus which contains this and other information about the funds may be obtained by calling +1 866-505-1108 or visiting www.man.com/etfs. The prospectus and a summary prospectus should be read carefully before investing.

Investing involves risk, including possible loss of principal. ETFs are subject to additional risks that do not apply to conventional mutual funds, including the risks that the market price of an ETF's shares may trade at a premium or discount to its net asset value, an active secondary trading market may not develop or be maintained, or trading may be halted by the exchange in which they returns. Investments in foreign securities may involve risks such as social and political instability, market illiquidity, exchange-rate fluctuations, a high level of volatility and limited regulation. Investing in emerging markets involves different and greater risks, as these countries are substantially smaller, less liquid, and more volatile than securities markets in more developed markets. The Funds are non-diversified, which means that it may invest a greater percentage of its assets than a diversified mutual fund in the securities of a limited number of issuers. Mortgage- and asset-backed securities may decline in value and become less liquid when defaults on the underlying mortgages or assets occur and may exhibit additional volatility in periods of rising interest rates.

Shares of the ETFs may only be purchased on Nasdaq through a U.S. registered broker-dealer.

The Man Active Emerging Markets Alternatives ETF and the Man Active Trend Enhanced ETF are distributed by Foreside Financial Services, LLC., a registered broker-dealer and FINRA member.

1. A 130/30 strategy invests 130% of capital in stocks expected to rise and shorts 30% in stocks expected to fall, netting 100% market exposure.
2. The "Magnificent Seven" refers to seven dominant U.S. tech companies—Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet (Google), Nvidia, Meta (Facebook), and Tesla.