# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001849998
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**Filing Date:** 2025-8
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001623632-25-001046.hdr.sgml**: 20250821

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001623632-25-001046

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 497K

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 3

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20250821

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20250821

**EFFECTIVENESS DATE**: 20250821

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** Federated Hermes ETF Trust
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001849998

**ORGANIZATION NAME:**
- **EIN:** 000000000
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** DE

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 497K
- **SEC ACT:** 1933 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 333-258934
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251240645

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 4000 ERICSSON DRIVE
- **CITY:** WARRENDALE
- **STATE:** PA
- **ZIP:** 15086
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 412-288-1900

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 4000 ERICSSON DRIVE
- **CITY:** WARRENDALE
- **STATE:** PA
- **ZIP:** 15086

## Series and Classes Contracts Data

### Federated Hermes MDT Market Neutral ETF (Series ID: S000094625)

| Class ID   | Class Name                              | Ticker Symbol   |
|:---|:---|:---|
| C000263160 | Federated Hermes MDT Market Neutral ETF |  |

**Summary Prospectus**

***August 22, 2025***![](img2cbc0a091.jpg)

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**NYSE Arca** MKTN<br>

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Federated Hermes MDT Market Neutral ETF <br>

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A Portfolio of Federated Hermes ETF Trust

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, including the Statement of Additional Information and most recent reports to shareholders, online at FederatedHermes.com/us/FundInformation. You can also get this information at no cost by calling 1-800-341-7400, by sending an email request via Contact Us on FederatedHermes.com/us, or from a financial intermediary through which Shares of the Fund may be bought or sold. The Fund's Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information, both dated August 22, 2025, are incorporated by reference into this Summary Prospectus.

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The Fund seeks to provide long-term capital appreciation while limiting exposure to general stock market risk.

As with all funds, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has not approved or disapproved these securities or passed upon the adequacy of this Prospectus. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

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**Not FDIC Insured ▪ May Lose Value ▪ No Bank Guarantee**

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Fund Summary Information

**Federated Hermes MDT Market Neutral ETF** <br> **(the "Fund")**

**RISK/RETURN SUMMARY: INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE**

The Fund's investment objective is to seek to provide long-term capital appreciation while limiting exposure to general stock market risk.

**RISK/RETURN SUMMARY: FEES AND EXPENSES**

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell the Fund's Shares (Shares). **You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the tables and examples below.** 

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

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| Management Fee | 1.08% |
| Distribution (12b-1) Fee<sup>1</sup> | 0.00% |
| Other Expenses<sup>2</sup> | 1.13% |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dividends and Other Operating Expenses Related to Short Sales | 1.12% |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Other Operating Expenses | 0.01% |
| Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses<sup>2</sup> | 0.02% |
| Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses | 2.23% |
| Fee Waivers and/or Expense Reimbursements<sup>3</sup> | (0.13)% |
| Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waivers and/or Expense Reimbursements | 2.10% |

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The Fund has adopted a Distribution (12b-1) Plan pursuant to which the Fund may incur and pay a

Distribution (12b-1) Fee of up to a maximum of 0.25%. No such fee is currently incurred and paid by

the Fund. The Fund will not incur and pay such a Distribution (12b-1) Fee until such time as approved

by the Fund's Board of Trustees (the "Trustees").

Other Expenses and Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses are based on estimated amounts for the

current fiscal year.

The Adviser and certain of its affiliates have agreed to waive certain amounts of their respective fees

and/or reimburse expenses. Total annual fund operating expenses (excluding Acquired Fund Fees

and Expenses, Dividends and Other Operating Expenses Related to Short Sales, interest expense,

taxes, litigation expenses, extraordinary expenses and proxy-related expenses, if any) paid by the

Fund (after the voluntary waivers and/or reimbursements) will not exceed 0.95% (the "Fee Limit") up

to but not including the later of (the "Termination Date"): (a) September 1, 2026; or (b) the date of

the Fund's next effective Prospectus. While the Adviser and its affiliates currently do not anticipate

terminating or increasing these arrangements prior to the Termination Date, these arrangements may

only be terminated or the Fee Limit increased prior to the Termination Date with the approval of the

Trustees.

**Example**

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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The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 for the time periods indicated and then redeem or hold 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. The expenses used to calculate the Fund's Example do not include fee waivers or expense reimbursements. Although your actual costs and returns may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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| 1 Year | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $226 |
| 3 Years | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $697 |

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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 above, affect the Fund's performance. The Fund is a new fund, has not yet completed its first fiscal year of operation and has no portfolio turnover yet to report.

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**RISK/RETURN SUMMARY: INVESTMENTS, RISKS and PERFORMANCE**

**What are the Fund's Main Investment Strategies?**

The Fund seeks to achieve its objective by selecting long positions in publicly traded common stocks which the Fund's quantitative model predicts will achieve above-market returns, and short positions in publicly traded common stocks which the Fund's quantitative model predicts will achieve below-market returns. The portfolio maintains long and short exposures in an attempt to neutralize market volatility. The Fund's investments primarily include, but are not limited to, equity securities of issuers listed in the Russell 3000 Index. The Fund may invest in companies with market capitalizations of any size, including small-capitalization, mid-capitalization and large-capitalization (or "small-cap," "mid-cap," and "large-cap") companies. The Russell 3000 Index measures the performance of the 3,000 largest U.S. companies by market capitalization representing approximately 98% of the investable domestic equity market. As of April 30, 2025, companies in the Russell 3000 Index ranged in market capitalization from $6.30 million to $3.2 trillion. The Fund may also invest in real estate investment trusts ("REITs").

The Adviser implements its strategy using a quantitative model driven by fundamental and technical stock selection variables. This process seeks to impose strict discipline over stock selection, unimpeded by market or manager psychology. It seeks to maximize compound annual return while controlling risk. The process also takes into account trading costs in an effort to ensure that trades are generated only to the extent they are expected to be profitable on an after-trading-cost basis. Additionally, risk is controlled through diversification constraints which limit exposure to individual companies as well as groups of correlated companies. The Adviser's stock selection process is expected to result in long and short investments in companies with both growth and value characteristics.

The Fund will attempt to realize investment gains on both the long and short sides of its investment strategies through stock selection. The style is termed market neutral in that it is not making bets regarding the direction of the equity markets. The market-neutral approach is roughly balanced by sector but not balanced across industries and businesses. The Fund's net positions will not be concentrated in any industry or group of industries. Thus, the Fund is not completely isolated from market movements. The overall performance of the Fund depends on the net performance of its long and short positions, and it is possible for the Fund to experience a net loss across both its long and short positions. If the Fund's investment strategy is successful, however, the net performance of its long and short positions will produce long-term capital appreciation that reflects the quality of the Adviser's security selections, with limited exposure to general stock market risk.

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Because of the Fund's market neutral strategy, the Fund's overall price movements are not expected to correlate with the general stock market's price movements. In other words, the Fund is expected to have returns that are independent of the returns and direction of the general stock market (i.e., zero beta).

The Fund may, but is not required to, use derivatives, such as futures, options, forward contracts, and swap agreements, as an alternative to selling a security short, to increase returns, or as part of a hedging strategy.

The Fund actively trades its portfolio securities in an attempt to achieve its investment objective, which will cause the Fund to have a higher portfolio turnover rate.

**What are the Main Risks of Investing in the Fund?**

All mutual funds take investment risks. Therefore, it is possible to lose money by investing in the Fund. The primary factors that may reduce the Fund's returns include:

■ **Quantitative Modeling Risk.** The Fund employs quantitative models as a management technique. These models examine multiple economic factors using various proprietary and third-party data. The results generated by quantitative analysis may perform differently than expected and may negatively affect Fund performance for various reasons (for example, human judgment, data imprecision, software or other technology malfunctions, or programming inaccuracies). The Adviser's security selection process may not eliminate all stock market risk factors associated with the long and short positions it establishes for the Fund. It is possible that the stocks the Fund holds long will decline in value at the same time that the stocks it holds short increase in value, thereby increasing potential losses to the Fund. Any gain from a short position may be partially or totally offset by a decline in a long position, or vice versa.

■ **Strategy Risk.** There is no guarantee that the use of long and short positions will succeed in limiting the Fund's exposure to domestic stock market movements, capitalization, sector-swings or other risk factors.

■ **Short Selling Risk.** The Fund can sell securities short to the maximum extent permitted under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the "1940 Act"). A short sale by the Fund involves borrowing a security from a lender which is then sold in the open market. At a future date, the security is repurchased by the Fund and returned to the lender. While the security is borrowed, the proceeds from the sale are deposited with the lender and the Fund may be required to pay interest and/or the equivalent of any dividend payments paid by the security to the lender. Short selling involves the risk of increased leverage of the Fund's assets. If the value of the security declines between the time the Fund borrows the security and the time it repurchases and returns the security to the lender, the Fund makes a profit on the difference (less any expenses the Fund is required to pay the lender). There is no assurance that a security will decline in value during the period of the short sale and make a profit for the Fund. If the value of the security sold

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short increases between the time that the Fund borrows the security and the time it repurchases and returns the security to the lender, the Fund will realize a loss on the difference (plus any expenses the Fund is required to pay to the lender). This loss is theoretically unlimited as there is no limit as to how high the security sold short can appreciate in value, thus increasing the cost of buying that security to cover a short position. The Fund may incur expenses in selling securities short and such expenses are investment expenses of the Fund.

■ **Stock Market Risk.** The value of equity securities in the Fund's portfolio will fluctuate and, as a result, the Fund's Share price may decline suddenly or over a sustained period of time. Information publicly available about a company, whether from the company's financial statements or other disclosures or from third parties, or information available to some but not all market participants, can affect the price of a company's shares in the market. Among other factors, equity securities may decline in value because of an increase in interest rates or changes in the stock market. Recent and potential future changes in industry and/or economic trends, as well as changes in monetary policy made by central banks and/or their governments, also can affect the level of interest rates and contribute to the development of or increase in volatility, illiquidity, shareholder redemptions and other adverse effects (such as a decline in a company's stock price), which could negatively impact the Fund's performance.

■ **Risk Related to the Economy.** Notwithstanding the Fund's investment objective, the value of the Fund's portfolio may decline in tandem with a drop in the overall value of the markets in which the Fund invests and/or other markets. Global economic, political and financial conditions including geopolitical conflicts, industry or economic trends and developments or public health risks, such as epidemics or pandemics, may, from time to time, and for varying periods of time, have a significant effect on financial markets generally and cause the Fund to experience volatility, illiquidity, shareholder redemptions and/or other potentially adverse effects.

■ **Small-Cap Company Risk.** The Fund may invest in small capitalization (or "small-cap") companies. Small-cap companies may have less liquid stock, a more volatile share price, unproven track records, a limited product or service base and limited access to capital. The above factors could make small-cap companies more likely to fail than larger companies, and increase the volatility of the Fund's portfolio, performance and Share price.

■ **Mid-Cap Company Risk.** The Fund may invest in mid-capitalization (or "mid cap") companies. Mid cap companies often have narrower markets, limited managerial and financial resources, more volatile performance and greater risk of failure, compared to larger, more established companies. These factors could increase the volatility of the Fund's portfolio, performance and Share price.

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■ **Large-Cap Company Risk.** The Fund may invest in large capitalization (or "large-cap") companies. Large cap companies may have fewer opportunities to expand the market for their products or services, may focus their competitive efforts on maintaining or expanding their market share, and may be less capable of responding quickly to competitive challenges. These factors could result in the share price of large companies not keeping pace with the overall stock market or growth in the general economy, and could have a negative effect on the Fund's portfolio, performance and Share price.

■ **Liquidity Risk.** Liquidity risk refers to the possibility that the Fund may not be able to sell a security or close out a derivative contract when it wants to. If this happens, the Fund will be required to continue to hold the security or keep the position open, and the Fund could incur losses. Over-the-counter (OTC) derivative contracts generally carry greater liquidity risk than exchange-traded contracts.

■ **Risk Related to Investing for Growth.** Due to their relatively high valuations, growth stocks are typically more volatile than value stocks. For instance, the price of a growth stock may experience a larger decline on a forecast of lower earnings, a negative fundamental development, or an adverse market development. Further, growth stocks may not pay dividends or may pay lower dividends than value stocks. This means they depend more on price changes for returns and may be more adversely affected in a down market compared to value stocks that pay higher dividends.

■ **Risk Related to Investing for Value.** Due to their relatively low valuations, value stocks are typically less volatile than growth stocks. Additionally, value stocks tend to have higher dividends than growth stocks. This means they depend less on price changes for returns and may lag behind growth stocks in an up market. The value approach to stock selection also carries the risk that the market will not recognize a security's intrinsic value for a long time (if ever), or that a stock judged to be undervalued may actually be appropriately priced.

■ **Real Estate Investment Trust Risk.** Real estate investment trusts (REITs) carry risks associated with owning real estate, including the potential for a decline in value due to economic or market conditions.

■ **Focused Investment Risk.** To the extent that the Fund focuses its investments in the securities of a particular issuer or companies in a particular country, group of countries, region, market, industry, group of industries, sector, or asset class, the Fund's exposure to various risks may be heightened, including price volatility and adverse economic, market, political, or regulatory occurrences affecting that issuer, country, group of countries, region, market, industry, group of industries, sector, or asset class.

■ **Counterparty Risk.** Counterparty risk includes the possibility that a party to a transaction (such as a derivative transaction) involving the Fund will fail to meet its obligations. This could cause the Fund to lose money or to lose the benefit of the transaction or prevent the Fund from selling or buying other securities to implement its investment strategy.

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■ **Portfolio Turnover Risk.** The Fund expects that the Adviser will need to frequently rebalance its long and short positions as it attempts to neutralize volatility because of continuous changes in the prices of securities. The Fund's use of short sales is likely to increase the rate of active trading. The Fund's holdings will also need to reflect changes in the universe of securities the Adviser considers undervalued or overvalued. As a result, the Fund is expected to experience a high portfolio turnover rate, possibly in excess of 100%.

■ **Risk of Investing in Derivative Contracts.** Derivative contracts involve risks different from, or possibly greater than, risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments. Specific risk issues related to the use of such contracts include valuation and tax issues, increased potential for losses and/or costs to the Fund and a potential reduction in gains to the Fund. Each of these issues is described in greater detail in this Prospectus. Derivative contracts may also involve other risks described in this Prospectus, such as stock market, credit, currency, liquidity and leverage risks.

■ **Leverage Risk.** The Fund's short selling activities and investment in derivative contracts and certain hybrid instruments may expose the Fund to a level of risk that exceeds the amount invested.

■ **ETF Risk.** As an ETF, the Fund is subject to the following risks:

**Authorized Participants Concentration Risk.** To the extent that the Fund invests in instruments that trade outside of a collateralized settlement system, it may have a limited number of financial institutions that act as Authorized Participants. To the extent they cannot or are otherwise unwilling to engage in creation and redemption transactions with the Fund and no other Authorized Participant steps in, trading in Shares of the Fund may be significantly diminished, bid-ask spreads may widen, and the market price of Shares may represent a significant discount to net asset value (NAV). To the extent that no Authorized Participants are willing to trade in the Fund's shares, the Fund may have difficulty maintaining compliance with the requirements of the Exchange necessary to maintain the listing of the Fund, and the Fund may face delisting from the Exchange.

**Premium/Discount Risk.** There may be times when the market price of the Fund's Shares is more than the NAV intra-day (i.e., the market price represents a premium to NAV) or less than the NAV intra-day (i.e., the market price represents a discount to NAV) and when bid-ask spreads widen. As a result, shareholders of the Fund may pay more than NAV when purchasing Shares and receive less than NAV when selling Fund Shares. This risk is heightened in times of market volatility and in steep market declines. In addition, a Fund's end-of-day market price may deviate from its NAV to the extent that the Fund invests in foreign securities whose local trading markets close before the U.S. market closes because, although

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the Fund may value such securities at their local market closing prices for purposes of calculating NAV, the broader market may assign them a different value, including due to after-hours developments in their local markets, which may be reflected in the market price of Shares**.**

**Secondary Market Trading Risk.** Investors buying or selling Shares in the secondary market will normally pay brokerage commissions, which are often a fixed amount and may be a significant proportional cost for investors buying or selling relatively small amounts of Shares. Secondary market trading is subject to bid-ask spreads and trading in Fund Shares may be halted by the Exchange because of market conditions or other reasons. If a trading halt occurs, a shareholder may temporarily be unable to purchase or sell Shares of the Fund. In addition, although the Fund's Shares are listed on the Exchange, there can be no assurance that an active trading market for Shares will develop or be maintained, that bid-ask spreads will be narrow, or that the Fund's Shares will continue to be listed.

**Cash Transactions Risk.** Like other ETFs, the Fund sells and redeems its Shares only in large blocks called Creation Units and only to Authorized Participants. The Fund's investment strategy may require it to redeem Shares for cash or to otherwise include cash as part of its redemption proceeds, rather than in-kind securities. Accordingly, the Fund may be required to sell portfolio securities in order to obtain the cash needed to distribute redemption proceeds. As a result, an investment in the Fund may incur certain transaction costs, including brokerage costs in connection with investing cash received, and may recognize capital gains in connection with cash redemptions, unlike an ETF that effects creations and redemptions only in-kind. In addition, costs could be imposed on the Fund which would have the effect of decreasing the Fund's net asset value to the extent the costs are not offset by a transaction fee payable by an Authorized Participant.

■ **New Fund Risk**. A new fund's performance may not represent how the fund is expected to or may perform in the long term. In addition, new funds have limited operating histories for investors to evaluate and new funds may not attract sufficient assets to achieve investment and trading efficiencies. If a new fund were to fail to successfully implement its investment strategies or achieve its investment objective, performance may be negatively impacted, and any resulting liquidation could create negative transaction costs for the fund and tax consequences for investors.

The Shares offered by this Prospectus are not deposits or obligations of any bank, are not endorsed or guaranteed by any bank and are not insured or guaranteed by the U.S. government, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board or any other government agency.

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**Performance: Bar Chart and Table**

A performance bar chart and total return information for the Fund will be provided after the Fund has been in operation for a full calendar year. Updated performance information for the Fund is available under the "Products" section at FederatedHermes.com/us or by calling 1-800-341-7400.

**FUND MANAGEMENT**

The Fund's Investment Adviser is Federated MDTA LLC.

The Fund's portfolio managers are jointly and primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the Fund.

Daniel J. Mahr, CFA, Head of MDT, has been the Fund's portfolio manager since August 2025.

Damien Zhang, CFA, Head of MDT Research, has been the Fund's portfolio manager since August 2025.

Frederick L. Konopka, CFA, Portfolio and Trading Manager, has been the Fund's portfolio manager since August 2025.

John Paul Lewicke, Research Manager, has been the Fund's portfolio manager since August 2025.

**purchase and sale of fund shares**

The Fund is an exchange-traded fund (ETF). Individual Fund Shares may only be purchased and sold on a national securities exchange through a broker-dealer and may not be purchased or redeemed directly with the Fund. The price of Fund Shares is based on market price, and because ETF shares trade at market prices rather than net asset value (NAV), Shares may trade at a price greater than NAV (a premium) or less than NAV (a discount). An investor may incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase shares of a Fund ("bid") and the lowest price a seller is willing to accept for shares ("ask") when buying or selling shares in the secondary market (the "bid-ask spread"). Recent information, including information about the Fund's NAV, market price, premiums and discounts, and bid-ask spreads, is included on the Fund's website at FederatedHermes.com/us.

**Tax Information**

The Fund's distributions are taxable as ordinary income, qualified dividend income or capital gains, except when your investment is through a 401(k) plan, an Individual Retirement Account or other tax-advantaged investment plan.

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**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), the Fund and/or 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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Federated Hermes MDT Market Neutral ETF <br>Federated Hermes Funds <br>4000 Ericsson Drive <br>Warrendale, PA 15086-7561

Contact us at **FederatedHermes.com/us** <br>or call 1-800-341-7400.

Federated Securities Corp., Distributor

*Investment Company Act File No. 811-23730*

*CUSIP 31423L875* <br>

*Q457028 (08/25)*© 2025 Federated Hermes, Inc.

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