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Jun. 30, 2024
BNY Mellon Ultra Short Income ETF
Investment Objective

The fund seeks high current income consistent with the maintenance of liquidity and low volatility of principal.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell shares of the fund. 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)
  

Annual Fund Operating Expenses* 
(Expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

Management fees

0.12%

Distribution and service (12b-1) fees

None

Other expenses

0.00%

Total annual fund operating expenses

0.12%

* The fund's management agreement provides that BNY Mellon ETF Investment Adviser, LLC (Adviser), the fund's investment adviser, will pay substantially all expenses for the fund, except for the management fees, payments under the fund's 12b-1 plan (if any), interest expenses, taxes, acquired fund fees and expenses, brokerage commissions, costs of holding shareholder meetings, fees and expenses associated with any securities lending program to be adopted by the fund, and litigation and potential litigation and other extraordinary expenses not incurred in the ordinary course of the fund's business.

Example

The Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other funds. The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the fund for the time periods indicated and then hold or 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

5 Years

10 Years

$12

$39

$68

$154

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 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. For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2024, the fund's portfolio turnover rate was 42.44% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategy

To pursue its goal, the fund normally invests at least 80% of its net assets in investment grade, U.S. dollar denominated fixed, variable, and floating rate debt or cash equivalents, including the following:

 Corporate securities;

 Asset-backed securities;

 Repurchase agreements;

 High quality money market instruments, such as commercial paper, certificates of deposit, time deposits and bankers' acceptances;

 U.S. Treasury securities;

 Securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government, its agencies or instrumentalities, or government-sponsored enterprises (U.S. government securities);

 Obligations issued or guaranteed by one or more foreign governments or any of their political subdivisions or agencies;

 Securities issued by foreign corporations or a U.S. affiliate of a foreign corporation; and

 Securities subject to purchase and sale restrictions that are offered pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

The fund's investments are concentrated in the banking industry. In particular, the fund normally invests at least 25% of its net assets in domestic or dollar-denominated foreign bank obligations.

The fund typically seeks to maintain an effective duration of one year or less, although, under certain market conditions, such as in periods of significant volatility in interest rates and spreads, the fund's duration may be longer than one year. The fund does not have any restrictions on its average effective portfolio maturity or on the maturity or effective duration of the individual fixed-income securities the fund may purchase. Duration is an indication of an investment's "interest rate risk," or how sensitive a bond or the fund's portfolio may be to changes in interest rates. The maturity of a security measures the time until final payment is due.

The fund's portfolio, under normal market conditions, will have an average credit rating of at least A or equivalent. The fund's investments, at the time of purchase, will have a minimum long-term credit rating of Baa3, BBB-, or BBB- by Moody's Investors Service Inc. (Moody's), Standard & Poor's Corporation (S&P), or Fitch Ratings (Fitch), respectively, or the equivalent by another nationally recognized statistical rating organization (NRSRO); or a short-term credit rating in the top tier (P-1, A-1 or F-1) or second tier (P-2, A-2 or F2) of rating categories for short-term investments by Moody's, S&P, or Fitch, respectively, or the equivalent by another NRSRO; or if such investments are unrated, deemed by the fund's sub-adviser, Dreyfus, a division of Mellon Investments Corporation, an affiliate of the Adviser, to be of comparable quality. For purposes of calculating the fund's average credit rating, the fund uses the highest long-term or short-term credit rating assigned to an investment. All investments that do not have a long-term credit rating but are rated in the top tier short-term credit rating category are treated as having a long-term credit rating of AA and all investments that do not have a long-term credit rating but are rated in the second tier short-term credit rating category are treated as having a long-term credit rating of BBB.

The fund's sub-adviser seeks to achieve what it believes provides the optimal portfolio for the fund in terms of preservation of principal, liquidity and producing high current income. To do so, the sub-adviser uses a top-down and bottom-up investment process and leverages the breadth and depth of Dreyfus' research resources. The sub-adviser focuses on preservation of principal and downside protection by proactively monitoring issuer and counterparty risk and ensure appropriate portfolio liquidity through a combination of overnight investments and short-term, highly liquid securities.

In selecting securities for the fund's portfolio, the sub-adviser conducts broad top-down, macroeconomic analysis that focuses on overall positioning and asset allocation by identifying general global investment themes and risks with an emphasis on region, country, interest rate curve, duration and regulatory developments.

The sub-adviser uses a bottom-up approach based on proprietary research and their own broad perspective to make overall sector, individual security, duration and yield curve positioning investment decisions. The sub-adviser attempts to identify those sectors they believe will outperform. The sub-adviser uses a number of valuation indicators and quantitative models to help establish fair market values for individual bonds. Once the fair market value of a bond is estimated, the sub-adviser then assesses broad market factors that may impact the market price of a given security (e.g., expected future inflation, expected economic growth, path of interest rates) to determine if and why the bond is over- or undervalued. The sub-adviser believes it is best able to capture the highest risk-adjusted returns from a security: 1) when the sub-adviser can find a security that is undervalued, 2) where research indicates that the fund's portfolio should rebalance in favor of the security, and 3) when the consensus view towards the security is at a bearish extreme. The sub-adviser manages the fund's duration and yield curve positioning based on the sub-adviser expectations of future interest rates compared to current yield curves. Yield curves compare the interest rates of bonds that have the same credit quality, but different maturities.

The fund is not a money market fund and does not seek to maintain a stable net asset value of $1.00 per share.

Performance

The following bar chart and table provide some indication of the risks of investing in the fund. The bar chart shows the performance of the fund for its first complete calendar year of operations. The table compares the average annual total returns of the fund to those of the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, a broad measure of market performance, and the ICE BofA Merrill Lynch 3-Month US Treasury Bill Index, which measures the performance of a U.S. Treasury bill that matures within three months. The fund's past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.  Recent performance information may be available at www.bny.com/investments.

Year-by-Year Total Returns as of 12/31 each year (%)
  

Year-by-Year Total Returns as of 12/31 each year (%)

 

Best Quarter
Q4, 2023: 1.96%

Worst Quarter
Q4, 2022: -0.97%

(for the periods reflected in the bar chart)

Best Quarter
Q4, 2023: 1.96%

Worst Quarter
Q4, 2022: -0.97%

(for the periods reflected in the bar chart)

 

Year to date total return for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 was 4.43%.

Average Annual Total Returns as of 12/31/23

After-tax returns in the table below are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates, and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on the investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and the after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold their shares through U.S. tax-deferred arrangements such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Returns after taxes on distributions and sale of fund shares may be higher than returns before taxes and or returns after taxes on distributions due to an assumed tax benefit from losses on a sale of the fund's shares at the end of a period.

   

Average Annual Total Returns as of 12/31/23

 

1 Year

Since Inception
(8/09/2021)

Returns before taxes

5.74%

2.22%

Returns after taxes on distributions

3.91%

1.11%

Returns after taxes on distributions and sale of fund shares

3.37%

1.22%

Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index*(reflects no deductions for fees, expenses or taxes)

5.53%

-3.71%

ICE BofA Merrill Lynch 3-Month US Treasury Bill Index (reflects no deductions for fees, expenses or taxes)

5.01%

2.69%

* In accordance with regulatory changes requiring the Fund's primary benchmark to represent the overall applicable market, the Fund's primary prospectus benchmark changed to the indicated benchmark effective as of June 30, 2024.