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<b><font style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Investment Objective:</font></b>
<p>The Fund's goal is to achieve long-term capital appreciation. </p> <p> </p>
<b><font style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Fees and Expenses of the Fund:</font></b>
<p>This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.  You may qualify for sales charge discounts on purchases of Class A shares if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in the Fund.  More information about these and other discounts is available from your financial professional and in How to Buy Shares on page 9 of the Fund's Prospectus.</p>
<p><b>Shareholder Fees</b></p> <p><b>(fees paid directly from your investment)</b></p>
<p><b>Annual Fund Operating Expenses</b></p> <p><b>(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)</b></p>
<b><font style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Example:</font></b>
<p>This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds.  The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated, and then redeem all of your shares at the end of those periods.  The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses remain the same.  Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:</p>
<b><font style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Portfolio Turnover:</font></b>
<p>The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio).  A higher portfolio turnover may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account.  These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the Example, affect the Fund's performance.</p>
<p><b>Principal Investment Strategies: </b></p>
<p style="text-align:justify; text-indent:.5in">The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing primarily in a diversified portfolio of industry sector based and geographically based exchange traded funds (“ETFs”) providing exposure to approximately 1200 different companies and commodities. Industry sector ETFs invest in companies that operate in a particular industry or sector of the economy.  Geographically based ETFs confine their investments to securities from a specified geographical area. Under normal market conditions, the Fund’s equity exposure is designed to have a weighting of approximately 60% in domestic ETFs, which Signal Point Capital Management, LLC (“SignalPoint”), the Fund’s investment adviser, defines as ETFs that generally invest in companies that are listed on U.S. exchanges or organized in the U.S.) and 40% in international ETFs, which SignalPoint defines as ETFs that generally invest in companies that are economically tied to, or organized in, countries outside the United States.   The domestic exposure is invested primarily in industry sector based ETFs, while the international exposure is achieved with geographically defined ETFs. The Fund also may hold cash, money market instruments or high-quality, short-term debt instruments for liquidity and risk management purposes.</p> <p style="text-align:justify; text-indent:.5in"> </p> <p style="text-align:justify; text-indent:.5in">The ETFs in which the Fund invests may have holdings (i) in any industry sector, including, but not limited to technology, financials, health care, consumer staples and basic materials, (ii) in any geographic market, including, but not limited to, emerging markets, and (iii) in securities of companies of any market capitalization.  The Fund’s investment model (described in more detail below) assists SignalPoint in determining the sectors and geographic area allocations for the Fund.</p> <p style="text-align:justify; text-indent:.5in"> </p> <p style="text-align:justify; text-indent:.5in">SignalPoint primarily uses a proprietary trading discipline to tactically<font style="color:#4F81BD"> </font>manage the Fund holdings. SignalPoint establishes pre-determined price targets that direct the buys and sells of individual ETFs without the influence of market sentiment. SignalPoint’s goal is to steadily and methodically trim the Fund’s positions in ETFs of a particular industry sector when share prices in that particular industry sector increase and to systematically add to the Fund’s positions in ETFs of a particular industry sector when share prices in that particular industry sector decrease. Decisions as to trimming the Fund’s ETF positions or adding to the Fund’s ETF are also made based on the level of risk in the markets as determined by SignalPoint’s Market Risk Indicator (“MRI”).  The MRI is a tactical, quantitative risk assessment model that analyzes and continuously monitors market data such as relative valuation, speculation, and divergence and IPO actively. Generally, (i) as the level of risk in the overall market rises, as measured by MRI, the Fund will decrease, or incrementally sell shares of, its positions in rising industry sector ETFs and (ii) as the level of risk in the overall market decreases, as measured by MRI, the Fund will increase, or buy shares of, its positions in declining industry sector ETFs. SignalPoint’s trading disciple involves using cash allocations as the primary mechanism for controlling the level of risk in the Fund. Generally, the Fund’s cash allocation will increase as the level of risk increases or decrease as the level of risk decreases, as measured by MRI. </p>
<b><font style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund:</font></b>
<p style="text-align:justify; text-indent:.5in">As with any mutual fund, there is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal. The Fund's net asset value and returns will vary and you could lose money on your investment in the Fund.</p> <p style="text-align:justify; text-indent:.5in"> </p> <p style="margin-top:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:.5in; text-align:justify"><b>Acquired Fund Risk. </b>Because the Fund invests in other investment companies such as ETFs, the value of your investment will fluctuate in response to the performance of the acquired funds. Investing in acquired funds involves certain additional expenses and certain tax results that would not arise if you invested directly in the securities of the acquired funds.</p> <p style="margin-top:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:.5in; text-align:justify"><b>Commodity Risk.</b><font style="font-family:Arial"> </font>Commodity-related risks include production risks caused by unfavorable weather, animal and plant disease, geologic and environmental factors.  Commodity-related risks also include unfavorable changes in government regulation such as tariffs, embargoes or burdensome production rules and restrictions.</p> <p style="margin-top:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:.5in; text-align:justify"><b>Currency Risk.</b><i> </i> <font style="color:black">The Fund’s net asset value could decline as a result of changes in the exchange rates between foreign currencies and the U.S. dollar. Additionally, certain foreign countries may impose restrictions on the ability of issuers of foreign securities to make payment of principal and interest to investors located outside the country, due to blockage of foreign currency exchanges or otherwise.</font></p> <p style="margin-top:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:.5in; text-align:justify"><b>Emerging Markets. </b>Investing in emerging markets involves not only the risks described above with respect to investing in foreign securities, but also other risks, including exposure to economic structures that are generally less diverse and mature, and to political systems that can be expected to have less stability, than those of developed countries.  The typically small size of the markets of securities of issuers located in emerging markets and the possibility of a low or nonexistent volume of trading in those securities may also result in a lack of liquidity and in price volatility of those securities.</p> <p style="margin-top:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:.5in; text-align:justify"><b>Foreign Exposure Risk.</b>  Special risks associated with investments in foreign markets may include less liquidity, greater volatility, less developed or less efficient trading markets, lack of comprehensive company information, political instability and differing auditing and legal standards.</p> <p style="margin-top:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:.5in; text-align:justify"><b>Limited History of Operations.</b> The Fund is a new mutual fund and has a limited history of operations. The advisor is a newly formed investment advisor and has a limited history of operations.</p> <p style="margin-left:.5in; text-indent:0in"><b>Management Risk</b>.  The portfolio managers’ judgments about the attractiveness, value and potential appreciation of particular stocks or other securities in which the Fund invests may prove to be incorrect and there is no guarantee that the portfolio managers’ judgment will produce the desired results.  </p> <p style="margin-top:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:.5in; text-align:justify"><b>Market Risk.  </b>Overall stock market risks may also affect the value of the Fund.  Factors such as domestic economic growth and market conditions, interest rate levels and political events affect the securities markets.</p> <p style="margin-top:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:.5in; text-align:justify"><b> </b></p> <p style="margin-left:.5in; text-indent:0in"><b><font style="color:windowtext">Industry Sector Risk.</font></b><font style="color:windowtext">  The Fund may be subject to the risk that its assets are invested in a particular industry sector or group of industry sectors in the economy and as a result, the value of the Fund may be adversely impacted by events or developments in a industry sector or group of industry sectors.  </font></p> <p style="margin-top:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:.5in; text-align:justify"><b>Security Risk.  </b>The value of the Fund may decrease in response to the activities and financial prospects of an individual security in the Fund’s portfolio.</p> <p style="margin-top:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:.5in; text-align:justify"><b><font style="color:black">Small and Mid Capitalization Stock Risk. </font></b> <font style="color:black">The earnings and prospects of smaller-sized companies are more volatile than larger companies and may experience higher failure rates than larger companies.  Smaller-sized companies normally have a lower trading volume than larger companies, which may tend to make their market price fall more disproportionately than larger companies in response to selling pressures and may have limited markets, product lines, or financial resources and lack management experience.</font></p>
<b><font style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Performance:</font></b>
<p style="text-align:justify; tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt"><font style="color:black">Because the Fund is a new fund and does not yet have a full calendar of investment operations, no performance information is presented for the Fund at this time. In the future, performance information will be presented in this section of this Prospectus. </font>Updated performance information will be available at no cost by calling 1-866-691-2120.<font style="color:black"></font></p>
<font style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Fund's net asset value and returns will vary and you could lose money on your investment in the Fund.</font>
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Estimated for the current fiscal year.
Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses are the indirect costs of investing in other investment companies. The operating expenses in this fee table will not correlate to the expense ratio in the Fund's financial highlights because the financial statements include only the direct operating expenses incurred by the Fund, not the indirect costs of investing in other investment companies.
The advisor has contractually agreed to waive fees and/or reimburse expenses of the Fund through January 31, 2014. This agreement may be terminated by the Fund's Board of Trustees on 60 days' written notice to the advisor.