Risk/Return Summary - Arrow Dow Jones Global Yield ETF |
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| Risk/Return [Heading] | Fund Summary | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Objective [Heading] | Investment Objective | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Objective, Primary [Text Block] | The Fund seeks investment results that generally correspond, before fees and expenses, to the price and yield performance of the Dow Jones Global Composite Yield Index (the “Underlying Index”). |
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| Expense [Heading] | Fees and Expenses | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Expense Narrative [Text Block] | The table below describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund (“Shares”). Investors may pay brokerage commissions on their purchases and sales of Shares in the secondary market, which are not reflected in the table or the example below. |
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| Shareholder Fees Caption [Text] | Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Shareholder Fees [Table] |
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| Operating Expenses Caption [Text] | Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Annual Fund Operating Expenses [Table] |
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| Expense Example [Heading] | Example | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Expense Example Narrative [Text Block] | This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds. |
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| Expense Example by, Year, Caption [Text] | This 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. This example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses are as shown in the table above and remain the same. This example does not reflect the brokerage commissions that you may pay to buy and sell Shares. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions, your costs would be: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Portfolio Turnover [Heading] | Portfolio Turnover | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Portfolio Turnover [Text Block] | The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it purchases and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover will cause the Fund to incur additional transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the example, may affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 72% of the average value of its portfolio. |
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| Strategy [Heading] | Principal Investment Strategies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strategy Narrative [Text Block] |
The Underlying Index aggregates five different sub-indexes to identify its component securities – one sub-index for each type of security. The component securities of each sub-index are equal-weighted. The equity, real estate and energy sub-indexes are rebalanced quarterly and reconstituted annually. The sovereign and corporate debt sub-indexes are rebalanced and reconstituted quarterly. Securities in the Underlying Index may include securities from developed or emerging market countries and securities of any credit quality, including junk bonds. Preferred stocks, other debt securities, convertible securities and sovereign debt securities may be rated by credit rating agencies and their ratings may be considered by the Underlying Index’s methodology. The Fund may be concentrated in an industry or group of industries or in a sector to the extent the Underlying Index is concentrated in an industry or group of industries or sector. Although it is expected that the Fund will invest in all of the positions in the Underlying Index in the same weight as they appear in the Underlying Index (i.e., replicate the Underlying Index), the Fund may use a “sampling” methodology to seek its investment objective. Sampling involves using a quantitative analysis to select securities that in the aggregate have investment characteristics resembling the Underlying Index in terms of key risk factors, performance attributes and other characteristics. The Fund may invest up to 20% of its total assets in instruments that are not component securities of the Underlying Index, including other exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”). |
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| Risk [Heading] | Principal Investment Risks | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Risk Narrative [Text Block] | As with all funds, there is the risk that you could lose money through your investment in the Fund. Many factors affect the Fund’s net asset value, price of shares, and performance. The following describes the risks the Fund bears with respect to its investments. As with any fund, there is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its objective. Concentration Risk. A significant percentage of the Underlying Index may be comprised of issuers in a single industry or group of industries. If the Fund is focused in an industry or group of industries, the value of Shares may rise and fall more than the value of shares of funds that invest in a broader range of securities. Counterparty Risk. The Fund may invest in financial instruments involving counterparties for the purpose of attempting to gain exposure to particular securities or asset classes without actually purchasing those securities or investments. These financial instruments may involve risks that are different from those associated with ordinary portfolio securities transactions, and expose the Fund to the risk that the counterparty will be unable or unwilling to pay obligations due to the Fund. 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 securities or financial instruments may be restricted, which may prevent the Fund from buying or selling certain securities or financial instruments. In these circumstances, the Fund may be unable to rebalance its portfolio, may be unable to accurately price its investments and may incur substantial trading losses. ETF Structure Risks. The Fund is structured as an ETF and as a result is subject to the special risks, including: Not Individually Redeemable. Shares are not individually redeemable and may be redeemed by the Fund at net asset value (“NAV”) only in large blocks known as “Creation Units.” There can be no assurance that there will be sufficient liquidity in Shares in the secondary market to permit assembly of a Creation Unit. In addition, investors may incur brokerage and other costs in connection with assembling a Creation Unit. Trading Issues. Trading in Shares on the Exchange may be halted due to market conditions or for reasons that, in the view of the Exchange, make trading in Shares inadvisable, such as extraordinary market volatility. There can be no assurance that Shares will continue to meet the listing requirements of the Exchange, which may result in the Shares being delisted. An active trading market for the Shares may not be developed or maintained. If the securities in the Fund’s portfolio are traded outside a collateralized settlement system, the number of financial institutions that can act as authorized participants (“Authorized Participants”) that can post collateral on an agency basis is limited, which may limit the market for the Shares. Market Price Variance Risk. The market prices of Shares will fluctuate in response to changes in NAV and supply and demand for Shares and will include a “bid-ask spread” charged by the exchange specialists, market makers or other participants that trade the particular security. There may be times when the market price and the NAV vary significantly. This means that Shares may trade at a discount to NAV.
Equity Securities Risk. Fluctuations in the value of equity securities held by the Fund will cause the NAV of the Fund to fluctuate. Common Stock Risks. Common stock of an issuer in the Fund’s portfolio may decline in price if the issuer fails to make anticipated dividend payments. Common stock will be subject to greater dividend risk than preferred stocks or debt instruments of the same issuer. In addition, common stocks have experienced significantly more volatility in returns than other asset classes. Preferred Stock Risks. Generally, preferred stockholders (such as the Fund) have no voting rights with respect to the issuing company unless certain events occur. In addition, preferred stock will be subject to greater credit risk than debt instruments of an issuer, and could be subject to interest rate risk like fixed income securities, as described below. An issuer’s board of directors is generally not under any obligation to pay a dividend (even if dividends have accrued), and may suspend payment of dividends on preferred stock at any time. There is also a risk that the issuer of any of the Fund’s holdings will default and fail to make scheduled dividend payments on the preferred stock held by the Fund). Fixed-Income Securities Risk. Fixed-income securities are subject to special risks, including interest rate risk, credit risk and prepayment risk. Interest Rate Risk. Interest rate risk is the risk that fixed income securities will decline in value because of changes in interest rates. Generally, the value of debt securities falls as interest rates rise. Fixed income securities differ in their sensitivities to changes in interest rates. Fixed income securities with longer effective durations tend to be more sensitive to changes in interest rates, usually making them more volatile than securities with shorter effective durations. Credit Risk. Credit risk is the risk that the inability or perceived inability of an issuer to make interest and principal payments will cause the value of its securities to decrease, and cause the Fund a loss. If an issuer’s financial health deteriorates, it may result in a reduction of the credit rating of the issuer’s securities. Declines in credit quality can result in bankruptcy for the issuer and permanent loss of investment. The fixed income securities held by the Fund are subject to the risk that the issuer will be unwilling or unable to satisfy its obligations to the Fund, including the periodic payment of interest or the payment of principal upon maturity. Prepayment Risk. Prepayment risk is the risk that issuers of callable securities with high interest coupons prepay (or “call”) their bonds before their maturity date due to falling interest rates. If a call were exercised by the issuer during a period of declining interest rates, the Fund is likely to have to replace such called security with a lower yielding security. If that were to happen, it would decrease the Fund’s net investment income. Foreign and Emerging Markets Risk. Foreign investments are subject to the same risks as domestic investments and additional risks, including international trade, currency, political, regulatory and diplomatic risks, which may affect their value. Foreign markets are subject to special risks associated with foreign investment including, but not limited to: lower levels of liquidity and market efficiency; greater securities price volatility; exchange rate fluctuations and exchange controls; limitations on foreign ownership of securities; imposition of withholding or other taxes; imposition of restrictions on the expatriation of the assets of the Fund; difficulties in enforcing contractual obligations; lower levels of regulation of the securities market; risks in clearance and settlement processes; and weaker accounting, disclosure and reporting requirements. Shareholder and bondholder rights under the laws of some foreign countries may not be as favorable as U.S. laws. Also, foreign securities are subject to the risk that their market price may not reflect the issuer’s condition because there is not sufficient publicly available information about the issuer. Currency Risk. Currency risk is the potential for price fluctuations in the dollar value of foreign securities because of changing currency exchange rates. Because the Fund’s NAV is determined on the basis of U.S. dollars, the Fund may lose money if the local currency of a foreign market depreciates against the U.S. dollar, even if the local currency value of the Fund’s holdings goes up. Emerging Markets Risk. Emerging markets securities are subject to the same risks as foreign investments and to additional risks due to greater political and economic uncertainties, including governmental interference in the markets, as well as a relative lack of information about companies in these markets. As a result, emerging markets may experience greater market volatility and lower trading volumes. Moreover, many emerging securities markets are relatively small, potentially illiquid, occasionally volatile and subject to high transaction costs. Investing in Other ETFs Risk. ETFs are subject to investment advisory and other expenses, which will be indirectly paid by the Fund. As a result, your cost of investing in the Fund will be higher than the cost of investing directly in ETFs and may be higher than other mutual funds that invest directly in bonds. Each ETF is subject to specific risks, depending on its investments. “Junk Bond” Risk. Non-investment grade securities and unrated securities of comparable credit quality – generally known as junk bonds – are subject to the increased risk of an issuer’s inability to meet principal and interest payment obligations and are considered highly speculative. These securities may be subject to greater price volatility due to such factors as specific corporate developments, interest rate sensitivity, negative perceptions whether real or perceived, and adverse economic conditions. In addition, there may be little trading in the secondary market for particular bonds or other debt securities, which may make them more difficult to value or sell. Issuers of lower-rated securities also have a greater risk of default and bankruptcy. Liquidity Risk. Some securities held by the Fund may be difficult to sell or illiquid, particularly during times of market turmoil. Illiquid securities also may be difficult to value. If the Fund is forced to sell an illiquid security at an unfavorable time, the Fund may incur a loss and may not achieve a high correlation with the Underlying Index. Market Risk. The Fund’s NAV and investment return will fluctuate based upon changes in the value of its portfolio securities, which could go down in value, sometimes sharply and unpredictably. Securities in the Fund’s portfolio may underperform due to inflation (or expectations for inflation), interest rates, global demand for particular products or resources, natural disasters, pandemics, epidemics, terrorism, regulatory events and governmental or quasi-governmental actions. You could lose money on your investment in the Fund, or the Fund could underperform other investments. MLP Securities Risk. Investments in the debt and equity securities of MLPs involve risks that differ from an investment in common stock. Holders of units of MLPs have more limited control rights and limited rights to vote on matters affecting the MLP as compared to holders of stock of a corporation. MLPs are controlled by their general partners, which may be subject to conflicts of interest. General partners typically have limited fiduciary duties to an MLP, which could allow a general partner to favor its own interests over the MLP’s interests. General partners of MLPs also often have limited call rights that may require unitholders to sell their common units at an undesirable time or price. MLPs may issue additional common units without unitholder approval, which would dilute the interests of existing unitholders, including the Fund’s ownership interest. The amount of cash that each individual MLP can distribute to the Fund, which the Fund then uses to pay or distribute to its shareholders, will depend on the amount of cash the MLP generates from operations. This will vary from quarter to quarter depending on factors affecting the natural gas infrastructure market generally and on factors affecting the particular business lines of the MLP. Available cash will also depend on an MLP’s level of operating costs (including incentive distributions to its general partner), level of capital expenditures, debt service requirements, acquisition costs (if any), fluctuations in working capital needs and other factors. One benefit of MLPs depends largely on the MLPs being classified as partnerships for federal tax purposes and the MLPs having no federal income tax liability at the entity level. A change in current federal tax law or a change in an MLP’s business might cause the MLP not to be taxed as a partnership. Treatment of one or more MLPs as a corporation for federal tax purposes could affect the Fund’s ability to meet its investment objective and would reduce the amount of cash available to pay or distribute to shareholders. MLP Tax Risks. The benefit you are expected to derive from the Fund’s investments in MLPs depends largely on the MLPs being classified as partnerships for federal tax purposes. As a partnership, an MLP has no federal income tax liability at the entity level. If, as a result of a change in current law or a change in an MLP’s business, an MLP were treated as a corporation for federal purposes, the MLP would be obligated to pay federal income tax on its taxable income at the corporate tax rate and the amount of cash available for distribution would be reduced and part of all of the distributions the Fund receives might be taxed entirely as dividend income. Therefore, treatment of one or more MLPs as a corporation for federal tax purposes could affect the Fund’s ability to meet its investment objective and would reduce the amount of cash available to pay or distribute to shareholders. Non-Correlation Risk. The Fund’s return may not match the return of the Underlying Index for a number of reasons, including: the Fund incurs operating expenses not applicable to the Underlying Index, and incurs costs in buying and selling securities; the Fund may not be fully invested at times; the performance of the Fund and the Underlying Index may vary due to asset valuation differences and differences between the Fund’s portfolio and the Underlying Index resulting from legal restrictions, cost or liquidity constraints and; if used, representative sampling may cause the Fund’s tracking error to be higher than would be the case if the Fund purchased all of the securities in the Underlying Index. Passive Strategy/Index. The Fund is managed with a passive investment strategy, attempting to track the performance of an unmanaged index of underlying securities. This differs from an actively-managed fund, which typically seeks to outperform a benchmark index. As a result, the Fund may hold constituent securities of the Underlying Index regardless of the current or projected performance of a specific security or a particular industry, market sector, country or currency. Maintaining investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower or higher than if the Fund employed an active strategy. Preferred Stock Risks. Generally, preferred stockholders (such as the Fund) have no voting rights with respect to the issuing company unless certain events occur. In addition, preferred stock will be subject to greater credit risk than debt instruments of an issuer, and could be subject to interest rate risk like fixed income securities, as described below. Prepayment Risk. Prepayment risk is the risk that issuers of callable securities with high interest coupons prepay (or “call”) their bonds before their maturity date due to falling interest rates. If a call were exercised by the issuer during a period of declining interest rates, the Fund is likely to have to replace such called security with a lower yielding security. If that were to happen, it would decrease the Fund’s net investment income. Recent Market Conditions Risk. The financial crisis in the U.S. and global economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt crisis, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. Liquidity in some markets has decreased; credit has become scarcer worldwide; and the values of some sovereign debt and of securities of issuers that hold that sovereign debt have fallen. These market conditions may continue or get worse. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. REIT Risk. Investments in securities of real estate companies involve risks including, among others, adverse changes in national, state or local real estate conditions; obsolescence of properties; changes in the availability, cost and terms of mortgage funds; and the impact of changes in environmental laws. The value of a REIT can depend on the structure of and cash flow generated by the REIT. In addition, like mutual funds, REITs have expenses, including advisory and administration fees, which are paid by their shareholders. Further, the failure of a company to qualify as a REIT or comply with applicable federal tax requirements could have adverse consequences for the Fund, including significantly reducing return to the Fund on its investment. RIC Qualification Risk. To qualify for treatment as a regulated investment company (“RIC”) under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, the Fund must meet certain income source, asset diversification and annual distribution requirements. The Fund’s MLP investments may make it more difficult for the Fund to meet these requirements. The asset diversification requirements include a requirement that, at the end of each quarter of each taxable year, not more than 25% of the value of the Fund’s total assets is invested in the securities (including debt securities) of one or more “qualified publicly traded partnerships”; the Fund anticipates that the MLPs in which it invests will be “qualified publicly traded partnerships”. If the Fund’s MLP investments exceed this 25% limitation, then the Fund would not satisfy the diversification requirements and could fail to qualify as a RIC. If, in any taxable year, the Fund fails to qualify as a RIC for any reason, the Fund would be taxed as an ordinary corporation and would become (or remain) subject to corporate income tax. The resulting corporate taxes could substantially reduce the Fund’s net assets, the amount of income available for distribution and the amount of our distributions. Royalty Trust Risk. Investments in royalty trusts, which differ from owning shares of a corporation, will have varying degrees of risk depending on the sector and the underlying assets. They will also be subject to general risks associated with business cycles, commodity prices, interest rates, and other economic factors. Typically, royalty trusts are more volatile than fixed-income securities and preferred shares. To the extent that claims against a royalty trust are not satisfied by the trust, investors in the trust (including the Fund if it is an investor in the Trust) could be held responsible for those claims. Royalty trusts may be subject to certain risks associated with a decline in demand for crude oil, natural gas and refined petroleum products, which, in turn, could adversely affect income and royalty trust revenues and cash flows. Factors that could lead to a decrease in market demand include a recession or other adverse economic conditions, an increase in the market price of the underlying commodity, higher taxes or other regulatory actions that increase costs, or a shift in consumer demand for such products. A rising interest rate environment could adversely impact the performance of royalty trusts. Rising interest rates could limit the capital appreciation of royalty trusts because of the increased availability of alternative investments at more competitive yields. Sampling Risk. The Fund’s use of a representative sampling approach, if used, could result in its holding a smaller number of securities than are in the Underlying Index. As a result, an adverse development with an issuer of securities held by the Fund could result in a greater decline in NAV than would be the case if the Fund held all of the securities in the Underlying Index. To the extent the assets in the Fund are smaller, these risks will be greater. Sector Risk. Securities in the sectors of the Underlying Index or in the Fund’s portfolio may underperform in comparison to the general securities markets or other sectors. Small and Medium Capitalization Company Risk. Investing in securities of small and medium capitalization companies involves greater risk than is customarily associated with investing in larger, more established companies. These companies’ securities may be more volatile and less liquid than those of more established companies. These companies may be more dependent on single products or key personnel, and may be newer than larger, more established companies with less information to evaluate. Sovereign Debt Securities Risk. Investments in sovereign debt obligations involve special risks not present in corporate debt obligations. The issuer of the sovereign debt or the governmental authorities that control the repayment of the debt may be unable or unwilling to repay principal or interest when due, and the Fund may have limited recourse in the event of a default. During periods of economic uncertainty, the market prices of sovereign debt, and the Fund’s net asset value, may be more volatile than prices of U.S. debt obligations. In the past, certain non-U.S. markets have encountered difficulties in servicing their debt obligations, withheld payments of principal and interest and declared moratoria on the payment of principal and interest on their sovereign debts. |
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| Bar Chart and Performance Table [Heading] | Performance | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance Narrative [Text Block] | The bar chart and performance table below show the variability of the Fund’s returns, which is some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows performance of the Shares for each full calendar year since the Fund’s inception. The performance table compares the performance of the Shares over time to the performance of the Underlying Index. You should be aware that the Fund’s past performance (before and after taxes) may not be an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future. Updated performance information is available at no cost by visiting www.ArrowFunds.com or by calling 1-877-277-6933 (1-877-ARROW-FD). |
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| Bar Chart [Heading] | Total Return (Year ended December 31) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The year-to-date return as of the most recent calendar quarter which ended March 31, 2020 was (38.21)%. |
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| Performance Table Heading | Average Annual Total Returns (as of December 31, 2019) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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