AMERICAN CENTURY LAUNCHES SMALL CAP INSIGHTS ETFs

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Oct 16, 2025, 10:03 ET

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- American Century Investments, a $300 billion global asset manager*, expands its exchange traded fund (ETF) platform with the launch of American Century Small Cap Growth Insights ETF (ACSG) and American Century Small Cap Value Insights ETF (ACSV), fundamental active ETFs designed to capture upside potential within benchmark-consistent portfolios well-suited to represent strategic allocations. Both ETFs are now available on CBOE BZX Exchange, Inc.

"At American Century, we believe making clients successful will make us successful, leading us to continuously strive to ensure our investment offerings evolve to meet the needs and preferences of our clients," said Victor Zhang, chief investment officer. "We're delighted to launch two fundamental active small cap transparent ETFs and offer clients options in a segment of the market with limited choices. ACSG and ACSV combine our expertise with disciplined portfolio construction to offer robust, repeatable and resilient paths to seeking alpha. These offerings marry our long history of successful stock selection in small caps with the attributes of ETFs many investors prefer with the goal of optimizing portfolio construction."

Fundamental research coupled with ETF advantages
The Small Cap Insights ETFs leverage stock selection processes from American Century's established and experienced small cap growth and small cap value teams to deliver investment strategies well suited for the liquidity, capacity, tax-efficiency and pricing expectations of the ETF marketplace. Managers of the funds employ a bottom-up stock selection process utilizing proprietary fundamental research and systematic, risk aware portfolio construction to invest primarily in U.S. small cap companies. ACSG seeks companies with accelerating growth rates and strong or improving business fundamentals, and ACSV seeks companies that are higher quality businesses selling at a discount to fair value.

ACSG is co-managed by Senior Portfolio Managers Jackie Wagner and Jeff Hoernemann, and Stephen Quance, chief investment officer of disciplined equity, head of analytics and strategy implementation. ACSV is co-managed by Portfolio Manager Ryan Cope and Quance. The American Century small cap equities team oversees $48 billion in assets under management (AUM).**

"Small caps offer ample opportunities for price discovery," said Quance. "ACSG and ACSV combine the deep, bottom-up research experience of American Century's seasoned small cap growth and small cap value teams with quantitative tools to optimize portfolio construction, enhance tax efficiency and minimize transaction costs through efficient ETF execution."

American Century introduced its ETF program in 2018 to provide clients with lower-cost, tax-efficient investment strategies. Today, American Century is the fourth-largest issuer of active ETFs in the United States.¹

About American Century Investments
American Century Investments is a leading global asset manager focused on delivering investment results and building long-term client relationships while supporting breakthrough medical research. Founded in 1958, American Century Investments' 1,400 employees serve financial professionals, institutions, corporations and individual investors from offices in Kansas City, Missouri; New York; Los Angeles; Santa Clara, California; Portland, Oregon; London; Frankfurt, Germany; Hong Kong; and Sydney. Jonathan S. Thomas is chairman, chief executive officer and president, and Victor Zhang serves as chief investment officer. Delivering investment results to clients enables American Century Investments to distribute over 40% of its dividends to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, a 500-person, nonprofit biomedical research organization with a focus on foundational research. The Institute owns more than 40% of American Century Investments and has received dividend payments of more than $2 billion since 2000. For more information about American Century Investments, visit www.americancentury.com.

Alpha is typically used to represent the value added or subtracted by active investment management strategies. It shows how an actively managed investment portfolio performed compared with the expected portfolio returns produced simply by benchmark volatility (beta) and market changes. A positive alpha shows that an investment manager has been able to capture more of the upside movement in the benchmark while softening the downswings. A negative alpha means that the manager's strategies have caught more benchmark downside than upside.

*Assets under supervision as of 09/19/25.

**Assets under management as of 06/30/25.

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This fund is an actively managed ETF that does not seek to replicate the performance of a specified index. To determine whether to buy or sell a security, the portfolio managers consider, among other things, various fund requirements and standards, along with economic conditions, alternative investments, interest rates and various credit metrics. If the portfolio manager considerations are inaccurate or misapplied, the fund's performance may suffer.

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Investment return and principal value of security investments will fluctuate. The value at the time of redemption may be more or less than the original cost. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

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IRS Circular 230 Disclosure: American Century Companies, Inc. and its affiliates do not provide tax advice. Accordingly, any discussion of U.S. tax matters contained herein (including any attachments) is not intended or written to be used, and cannot be used, in connection with the promotion, marketing or recommendation by anyone unaffiliated with American Century Companies, Inc. of any of the matters addressed herein or for the purpose of avoiding U.S. tax-related penalties.

Historically, small cap stocks [and mid cap] have been more volatile than the stock of larger, more-established companies. Smaller companies may have limited resources, product lines and markets, and their securities may trade less frequently and in more limited volumes than the securities of larger companies.

Diversification does not assure a profit, nor does it protect against loss of principal.

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¹ Ranking is based on AUM of 326 active ETF issuers excluding fund-of-funds and feeders, reporting to Morningstar Direct as of September 30, 2025.

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