Westwood Salient Enhanced Midstream Income ETF·Financial Services

Westwood Salient Enhanced Midstream Income ETF (MDST) offers a ~9% yield via aggressive covered call writing on a midstream equity portfolio. MDST's structure caps upside, underperforms in rallies, and fails to deliver significant alpha in flat markets versus alternatives like ENFR. The ETF's income is broadly sustainable, but NAV erosion occurs even in consolidating markets, making it a Strong Hold rather than a Buy.

DALLAS, Feb. 19, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Westwood Holdings Group (NYSE: WHG), a leading boutique asset manager, today announced the Westwood Enhanced Income Series™ ETFs, a key component of Westwood's growing ETF platform, has surpassed $250 million in assets under management (AUM). Concurrently, the Westwood Salient Enhanced Midstream Income ETF (NYSE: MDST) which provides access to an actively managed portfolio of midstream and MLP energy infrastructure companies with an income-focused options overlay, has reached $200 million in assets.

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DALLAS, Jan. 12, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Westwood Holdings Group (WHG), a publicly-traded investment management boutique and wealth management firm, today announced monthly income distributions for Westwood Salient Enhanced Midstream Income ETF (NYSE: MDST) and Westwood Salient Enhanced Energy Income ETF (NASDAQ: WEEI) as shown in the table below. This pair of Westwood Exchange- Traded Funds (ETFs) deliver income from both dividends and options premiums to help provide monthly income distributions for investors.
The fund is an actively managed exchange-traded fund (“ETF”) that seeks to achieve its investment objectives by investing, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of its net assets (plus the amount of borrowings, if any, for investment purposes) in securities of Midstream North American corporations and Midstream U.S. master limited partnerships (“MLPs”). The fund is non-diversified.
Financial Services
Asset Management
2024-04-09
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