
The Innovator U.S. Equity Accelerated 9 Buffer ETF is designed to deliver magnified returns, aiming for twice the upside performance of the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY), subject to a predetermined limit. Over its one-year investment cycle, it also offers a degree of downside protection by absorbing the first 9% of losses, while generally maintaining single exposure to declines beyond that buffer. Although these outcome periods reset approximately once per year, the fund can be held for an extended duration.
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Buffer exchange traded fund strategies can help investors remain fully invested in the markets up to a cap, with built-in buffers to help manage downside risks. In the recent webcast, How to Stay Invested While Seeking to Buffer Against Risk In 2022, Innovator ETFs' co-founder and CEO, Bruce Bond, warned that there are no shortage [.

Innovator Capital Management, LLC (Innovator), a provider of Defined Outcome ETFs™, today announced the upside caps of the new January series of the Innovator Accelerated ETFs™. Accelerated ETFs™ are the world's first ETFs that seek to offer a multiple of the upside return of a reference asset (SPY1 or QQQ2), up to a cap, with approximately single exposure on the downside. Part of Innovator's Defined Outcome ETF™ family, the accumulation-oriented Accelerated ETFs™ offer advisors the ability to accelerate a portfolio's equity performance to a cap over a one-year or three-month outcome period. The strategies within the new January series will operate on an annual basis.