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- First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII – FT Vest Laddered U.S. Equity Equal Weight Buffer ETF is an actively managed exchange-traded fund, launched on April 7, 2026, that seeks capital appreciation by providing U.S. large-cap equity market exposure through a laddered portfolio of affiliated buffer ETFs. The Fund is a separate, non-diversified series of First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII, a U.S.-registered management investment company, and principally trades on Cboe BZX under the ticker BFEW. It is advised by First Trust Advisors L.P., which is headquartered in Wheaton, Illinois, and sub-advised by Vest Financial LLC; First Trust Portfolios L.P., an affiliate of First Trust Advisors, serves as distributor. The Fund offers publicly traded ETF shares to retail and institutional investors, with creation and redemption activity conducted in Creation Units through authorized participants. BFEW invests substantially all of its assets in four FT Vest U.S. Equity Equal Weight Buffer ETFs: FT Vest U.S. Equity Equal Weight Buffer ETF – March (RSMR); FT Vest U.S. Equity Equal Weight Buffer ETF – June (RSJN); FT Vest U.S. Equity Equal Weight Buffer ETF – September (RSSE); and FT Vest U.S. Equity Equal Weight Buffer ETF – December (RSDE). The portfolio is generally rebalanced quarterly to equal weight these underlying ETFs, providing staggered exposure to four annual target-outcome periods. The underlying ETFs seek, before fees and expenses, to track the price return of the Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF, subject to predetermined upside caps, while buffering the first 10% of reference-ETF losses over approximately one-year target-outcome periods. They implement these strategies principally through exchange-traded FLEX Options on the Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF, with caps reset and buffers refreshed annually in March, June, September, and December. BFEW itself does not offer a stated buffer or directly pursue a defined-outcome strategy, and its returns can differ materially from those of its holdings because it may purchase or sell underlying ETF shares during, rather than at the beginning or end of, their target-outcome periods. The Fund’s principal product is a single-investment, laddered U.S. equal-weight equity-buffer ETF strategy intended to diversify timing risk across multiple capped-upside and partial-downside-protection periods. Its most significant recent development is its formation, launch and exchange listing in April 2026, which introduced the FT Vest Laddered U.S. Equity Equal Weight Buffer ETF as a new fund-of-funds vehicle within the First Trust and Vest Financial target-outcome ETF platform.