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PRINCIPAL INTERNATIONAL MULTI-FACTOR INDEX ETF
Ticker Symbol
Principal U.S. Listing Exchange
PXUS
The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC
Principal Exchange-Traded Funds Summary Prospectus November 8, 2017
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 and other information about the Fund online at www.principalfunds.com/prospectuses-etfs. You can also get this information at no cost by calling 1-800-787-1621 or by sending an email request to www.principalfunds.com/prospectuses-etfs.
This Summary prospectus incorporates by reference the Statutory Prospectus dated October 10, 2017 and the Statement of Additional Information dated October 10, 2017 (which may be obtained in the same manner as the Prospectus).
Objective:
The Fund seeks to provide investment results that closely correspond, before expenses, to the performance of the Nasdaq Developed Select Leaders Index (the "Index").
Fees and Expenses of the Fund
This table 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, which are not reflected in the table or the example below.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses    
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Management Fees
0.39%
Other Expenses
—%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses(1)
0.39%
(1) 
The investment management agreement (the “Management Agreement”) between the Fund and Principal Global Investors, LLC (“PGI”) provides that PGI will pay all operating expenses of the Fund, except for the Management Fee, payments made under each Series 12b-1 plan (if or when such fees are imposed), brokerage commissions and other expenses connected to the execution of portfolio transactions, interest expense, taxes, acquired fund fees and expenses, litigation expenses and other extraordinary expenses.
Example
This 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. 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
Principal International Multi-Factor Index ETF
$40
$125

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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. This is a new Fund and does not yet have a portfolio turnover rate to disclose.
Principal Investment Strategies
Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets, plus any borrowings for investment purposes, in equity securities that compose the Index at the time of purchase. The Index uses a quantitative model designed to identify equity securities of companies in the Nasdaq Developed Market Ex-US Ex-Korea Large Mid Cap Index (the "Parent Index") that exhibit a combination of value, growth and momentum characteristics, with higher weights given to securities that are more liquid and less volatile.
The Parent Index is composed of developed foreign market equity securities of issuers that have medium and large market capitalizations. Securities in the top 90% of the Parent Index based on three month average daily dollar trading volume are eligible for the Index. Each security is ranked according to three factors:
The Shareholder Yield (value factor) ranks securities based on the collective financial impact on a company's shareholders from the return of free cash flow through cash dividends, stock repurchases, and debt reduction. This factor is designed to identify securities with low prices relative to their fundamental value.
The Price Setters (growth factor) ranks securities based on pricing power, which is the extent to which a company can raise the prices of its products without reducing the demand for them.
The Momentum Factor ranks securities based on recent performance relative to their peers.
The three separate ranks are normalized by country (meaning each security has a rank based on that security's country, allowing the ranks to be country-neutral). The ranks are then averaged to determine a final rank. Securities that rank in the top 20% are included in the Index, in addition to securities already in the Index that rank in the top 50%. Securities are weighted by their liquidity-volatility score, which gives higher weight to securities that are more liquid and less volatile. Each security weight is capped at 1.5%, and any excess weight is distributed proportionally first by country then across the Index.
The Index is rebalanced semi-annually. Additionally, throughout the year securities that become ineligible for the Index are removed and not replaced. The Fund will make corresponding changes to its portfolio shortly after the Index changes are made public. As of September 30, 2017, the Underlying Index included 327 components, and the Parent Index included 1,207 components.
NASDAQ (the “Index Provider”) developed the Index methodology with input from Principal Global Investors, LLC ("PGI"). The Index Provider sponsors and owns the Index, determines the composition and relative weightings of the securities in the Index, and publishes information regarding the market value of the Index. The Index Provider is not affiliated with the Fund or PGI. More detailed information about the Index methodology is provided under "Fund Account information" in the prospectus.
The Fund employs a passive investment approach designed to attempt to track the performance of the Index. In seeking its objective, the Fund typically employs a "full replication" strategy which involves investing in all the securities that make up the Index, in the same approximate proportions as the Index. The Fund can, however, use a “sampling” methodology to purchase a subset of the securities in the Index in an effort to hold a portfolio of securities with generally the same risk and return characteristics of the Index. The Fund can also purchase securities not included in the Index that PGI believes will help the fund track the Index.
The Fund will not concentrate its investments (invest more than 25% of its assets) in a particular industry except to the extent the Index is so concentrated.

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Principal Risks
The value of your investment in the Fund changes with the value of the Fund's investments. Many factors affect that value, and it is possible to lose money by investing in the Fund. An investment in the Fund is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The principal risks of investing in the Fund, in alphabetical order, are:
Equity Securities Risk. The value of equity securities could decline if the issuer's financial condition declines or in response to overall market and economic conditions. A fund's principal market segment(s) (such as market capitalization or style) may underperform other market segments or the equity markets as a whole.
Growth Stock Risk. If growth companies do not increase their earnings at a rate expected by investors, the market price of the stock may decline significantly, even if earnings show an absolute increase. Growth company stocks also typically lack the dividend yield that can lessen price declines in market downturns.
Medium Market Capitalization Companies. Investments in medium-sized companies may involve greater risk and price volatility than investments in larger, more mature companies.
Value Stock Risk. Value stocks may continue to be undervalued by the market for extended periods, including the entire period during which the stock is held by a fund, or the events that would cause the stock price to increase may not occur as anticipated or at all. Moreover, a stock that appears to be undervalued actually may be appropriately priced at a low level and therefore would not be profitable for the fund.
Foreign Currency Risk. Risks of investing in securities denominated in, or that trade in, foreign (non-U.S.) currencies include changes in foreign exchange rates and foreign exchange restrictions.
Foreign Securities Risk. The risks of foreign securities include loss of value as a result of: political or economic instability; nationalization, expropriation or confiscatory taxation; settlement delays; and limited government regulation (including less stringent reporting, accounting, and disclosure standards than are required of U.S. companies).
Index Fund Risk. An index fund has operating and other expenses, while an index does not. The correlation between fund performance and index performance may also be affected by changes in securities markets, changes in the composition of the index and the timing of purchases and sales of fund shares.
Market Trading Risks. The Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including the potential lack of an active market for Fund shares, losses from trading in secondary markets, and disruption to the activities of market makers, authorized participants, or other participants and in the creation/redemption process of the Fund. ANY OF THESE FACTORS MAY LEAD TO THE FUND’S SHARES TRADING AT A PREMIUM OR DISCOUNT TO NAV.
Momentum Style Risk. Stocks that previously exhibited high momentum characteristics may not experience positive momentum or may experience more volatility than the market as a whole. In addition, there may be periods when momentum style is out of favor, during which the investment performance of a Fund that uses momentum-based strategies may suffer.
Performance
No performance information is shown because the Fund has not yet had a calendar year of performance. The Fund’s performance is benchmarked against the Nasdaq Developed Select Leaders Index. Performance information provides an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. Past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future. You may get updated performance information by calling 1-800-787-1621 or online at www.PrincipalETFs.com.
Investment Advisor and Portfolio Managers
Principal Global Investors, LLC
Paul S. Kim, Portfolio Manager
Mark R. Nebelung, Portfolio Manager
Jeffrey A. Schwarte, Portfolio Manager

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Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares
The Fund issues and redeems Shares at net asset value (“NAV”) only with authorized participants who have entered into agreements with the Fund’s distributor and only in blocks of 50,000 Shares (each block of Shares is called a "Creation Unit"), or multiples thereof ("Creation Unit Aggregations"), in exchange for the deposit or delivery of a basket of securities that the Fund specifies each day. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, the Shares are not redeemable securities of the Fund. Typically, the basket of assets will be made up of securities, but may include a cash component. (See "Purchase and Redemption of Creation Units" in the Statement of Additional Information for more information.)
Individual Shares of the Fund may be purchased and sold only on a national securities exchange through brokers. Shares of the Fund are expected to be listed for trading on The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC ("NASDAQ") and because the Shares will trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares may trade at prices greater than NAV (at a premium), at NAV, or less than NAV (at a discount).
Tax Information
The Fund’s distributions you receive are generally subject to federal income tax as ordinary income or capital gain and may also be subject to state and local taxes, unless you are tax-exempt or your account is tax-deferred in which case your distributions would be taxed when withdrawn from the tax-deferred account.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank, insurance company, investment adviser, etc.), the Fund and its related companies 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 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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