https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/793769/000119312524264328/d833406d497.htm497 1 d833406d497.htm HARBOR DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION FUND PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT
111 South Wacker Drive, 34th Floor
Chicago, IL 60606-4302
harborcapital.com
Supplement to Prospectus, Summary Prospectus, and Statement of Additional Information,
each dated March 1, 2024
Harbor Disruptive Innovation Fund
November 22, 2024
Harbor Funds’ Board of Trustees has determined to liquidate and dissolve Harbor Disruptive Innovation Fund (the “Fund”). The liquidation of the Fund is expected to occur on January 29, 2025 (the “Liquidation Date”). The liquidation proceeds will be distributed to any remaining shareholders on the Liquidation Date.
Shareholders may exchange shares of the Fund for another Harbor fund, or redeem shares out of the Fund, in accordance with Harbor’s exchange and redemption policies as set forth in the Fund’s prospectus, until the Liquidation Date.
In order to ready the Fund for liquidation, the Fund’s portfolio of investments will be transitioned prior to the planned Liquidation Date to one that consists of all or substantially all cash, cash equivalents and debt securities with remaining maturities of less than one year. As a result, shareholders should no longer expect that the Fund will seek to achieve its investment objective of seeking long-term growth of capital.
Because the Fund will be liquidating, the Fund is now closed to new investors. The Fund will no longer accept additional investments from existing shareholders beginning on January 22, 2025.
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Supplement to Prospectus, Summary Prospectus, and Statement of Additional Information, each dated March 1, 2024 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1860434/000119312524264329/d833326d497.htm
The management structure is something I hadn't seen before (perhaps I just wasn't paying attention). Usually when a firm contracts out subadvisors, the firm exercises oversight and the day-to-day management is executed by the subadvisors. Here, Harbor retained day-to-day management responsibilities and contracted five outside firms on a non-discretionary basis (not allowed to make trades on their own). Two of the subadvising firms (4BIO Capital and Tekne Capital Mgmt) quit earlier this year.
Harbor's ETF lineup makes it look like Harbor is a company flailing, trying to figure out how to fit in with the newer ETF world. Most of its ETFs (all but two) were launched in 2021 or later and many are what I would call gimmicky: 3 Human Capital Factor ETFs (happy employees), 3 AlphaEdge ETFs, 2 Scientific Alpha, and so on.
The poster child for disruptor innovation investing is ARKK, turning in a bottom 5% performance for this year. Unlike the Harbor funds, it retains $6.5B AUM.
Other funds with "disrupt" in their names include:
AB Disruptors ETF FWD (average 2023 part year performance, hot 2024)
ALPS Disruptive Technologies ETF DTEC 2*
Fidelity Disruptors ETF FDIF 1*
Fidelity Disruptive Automation ETF FBOT 2*
Fidelity Disruptive Communications ETF FDCF 3*
Fidelity Disruptive Finance ETF FDFF 3*
Fidelity Disruptive Medicine ETF FMED 2*
Fidelity Disruptive Technology ETF FDTX 2*
Franklin Disruptive Commerce ETF 1*
Global X Disruptive Materials ETF DMAT(-33% cumulative over its nearly 3 years)
GraniteShares Nasdaq Sel Disruptors ETF DRUP 3*
Neuberger Berman Disrupters ETF NBDS (underperforming annually since Apr 2022 start)