The Simplify China A Shares PLUS Income ETF (CAS) chiefly allocates its investments to China A-share equities, which are traded on mainland Chinese stock exchanges in Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Beijing. This segment of the market offers a substantially more diverse set of prospects spanning various industries and market capitalizations compared to the share classes typically available to foreign investors. The fund gains its market participation via total return swaps, a mechanism that delivers an unusual source of enhanced returns through advantageous funding costs. Layered upon these equity investments is a diligently managed options approach, engineered to generate income by writing short-dated spread options on a broad spectrum of underlying instruments, including equity, fixed income, and commodity indices or related ETFs.