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Northern Lights Fund Trust II

Inflation Hedges Strategy Fund

Incorporated herein by reference is the definitive version of the prospectus for the Inflation Hedges Strategy Fund filed pursuant to Rule 497 (c) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, on February 26, 2013 (SEC Accession No. 0000910472-13-000590).

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Inflation Hedges Strategy Fund

Investment Objective.

The investment objective of the Inflation Hedges Strategy Fund is to seek to provide current income and real (after inflation) total returns.

Fees and Expenses of the Fund.

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Shareholder Fees Inflation Hedges Strategy Fund	Inflation Hedges Strategy Fund Class I Shares	Inflation Hedges Strategy Fund Class R Shares
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering price)	none	none
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load)	none	none
Redemption Fee (as a percentage of amount redeemed within 60 days of purchase)	2.00%	2.00%

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

Annual Fund Operating Expenses Inflation Hedges Strategy Fund		Inflation Hedges Strategy Fund Class I Shares	Inflation Hedges Strategy Fund Class R Shares
Management Fees		1.60%	1.60%
Distribution and Service (Rule 12b-1) Fees		none	0.25%
Other Expenses	[1]	0.48%	0.48%
Subsidiary Expenses	[1]	0.03%	0.03%
Remaining Other Expenses	[1]	0.45%	0.45%
Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses		0.01%	0.01%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses		2.09%	2.34%
Fee Waiver/Expense Reimbursement		0.38%	0.38%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver/Expense Reimbursement	[2]	1.71%	1.96%

Example.

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:

Expense Example Inflation Hedges Strategy Fund (USD $)	One Year	Three Years
Inflation Hedges Strategy Fund Class I Shares	174	618
Inflation Hedges Strategy Fund Class R Shares	199	694

Portfolio Turnover.

The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio).  A higher portfolio turnover rate 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 Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the Example, affect the Fund’s performance.  

Principal Investment Strategies.

The Adviser is responsible for developing, constructing and monitoring the asset allocation and portfolio strategy for the Fund.  The Adviser believes that the Fund’s investment reward and risk characteristics can be enhanced by employing multiple sub-advisory firms to manage the assets of the Fund using a “manager of managers” approach.  The Adviser has selected and oversees multiple sub-advisers who manage separate segments of the Fund’s portfolio using distinct, complimentary, investment styles.  The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objectives using three principal strategies.  Each of the three strategies is managed by one or more sub-advisers who are unaffiliated with the Adviser or its affiliates. The Fund’s three strategies are as follows:  

Commodity Strategy. The Fund will provide exposure to a broad spectrum of commodities by investing up to 25% of its total assets (measured at the time of investment) in one or more wholly-owned and controlled subsidiaries (each a “Subsidiary” and collectively, the “Subsidiaries”).  The Fund’s aggregate investment in the Subsidiaries will not exceed 25% of the Fund’s total assets. The Commodities Strategy will be managed by one or more sub-advisers who will oversee assets in a corresponding Subsidiary.  

Each Subsidiary will invest directly in commodity futures and options on futures and may also invest in swap contracts and structured notes.  Each sub-adviser assigned to the Commodity Strategy invests according to a sub-strategy in one or a combination of (i) options, (ii) futures, (iii) forwards or (iv) spot contracts, each of which may be tied to (i) commodities, (ii) financial indices and instruments, (iii) foreign currencies, or (iv) equity indices.  Swap contracts have payments linked to commodity or financial derivatives that are designed to produce returns similar to those of a Subsidiary and their respective sub-strategies.  The Fund may invest in structured notes, which are debt obligations that also contain an embedded derivative component with characteristics that adjust the obligation’s risk/return profile. Generally, the performance of a structured note will track that of the underlying debt obligation and the derivative embedded within it.  Commodity Strategies’ sub-strategies may include investment styles such as (i) long term trend-following, (ii) discretionary macro investing based on economic fundamentals and value, (iii) specialized approaches to specific or individual market sectors such as financials, equities, currencies, energy, metals, agricultural and soft commodities, (iv) short-term systematic trading, and (v) counter-trend or mean reversion strategies.  Commodity strategy investments will be made without restriction as to issuer capitalization, country, or currency.    

Futures contracts are contractual agreements to buy or sell a particular currency, commodity or financial instrument at a pre-determined price in the future.  The Fund’s use of futures contracts (including options on futures contracts) through its investment in the Subsidiaries will have the economic effect of financial leverage.  Financial leverage magnifies exposure to the swings in prices of a commodity underlying such an instrument and results in increased volatility, which means the Fund will have the potential for greater gains, as well as the potential for greater losses, than if the Fund does not use such instruments that have a leveraging effect.  Leveraging tends to magnify, sometimes significantly, the effect of any increase or decrease in the Fund’s exposure to a commodity and may cause the Fund’s net asset value to be volatile.  For example, if the Adviser seeks to gain enhanced exposure to a specific commodity through an instrument providing leveraged exposure to the commodity and that instrument increases in value, the gain to the Fund will be magnified; however, if that investment decreases in value, the loss to the Fund will be magnified.  A decline in the Fund’s assets due to losses magnified by the instruments providing leveraged exposure may require the Fund to liquidate portfolio positions to satisfy its obligations, to meet redemption requests or to meet asset segregation requirements when it may not be advantageous to do so.  There is no assurance that the Fund’s use of instruments providing enhanced exposure will enable the Fund to achieve its investment objective.

As a result of the Fund’s strategy, the Fund may have highly leveraged exposure to one or more commodities at times.  The 1940 Act and the rules and interpretations thereunder impose certain limitations on the Fund’s ability to use leverage; however, the Fund is not subject to any additional limitations on its net long and short exposures.  For example, the Fund could hold instruments that provide five times the net return of a broad or narrow-based securities index.  For more information on these and other risk factors, please see the “Principal Risk Factors” section of the Prospectus.

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Inflation Linked Bonds and Leveraged Loans Strategies.  The inflation linked bonds strategy uses fixed income security selection strategies in inflation indexed bonds of both developed and emerging market countries. Like conventional bonds, inflation-indexed bonds generally pay interest at fixed intervals and return the principal at maturity. Unlike conventional bonds, an inflation-indexed bond’s principal or interest is adjusted periodically to reflect changes in a specified inflation index. Inflation-indexed bonds are designed to preserve purchasing power over the life of the bond while paying a “real” rate of interest (i.e., a return over and above the inflation rate). These bonds are generally issued at a fixed interest rate that is lower than that of conventional bonds of comparable maturity and quality, but they generally retain their value against inflation over time.

The inflation linked bonds strategy also invests in U.S. Treasury securities including repurchase agreements collateralized fully by U.S. Treasury securities. The sub-adviser(s) assigned to this strategy intends to utilize short positions in U.S. Treasury securities in order to hedge interest rate risk.

The Fund intends to invest in high quality fixed income securities backed by the U.S. government.  However, the Fund may also invest in income producing floating rate loans and other floating rate debt securities. The leveraged loans strategy invests in income producing floating rate loans and other floating rate debt securities. The Fund invests primarily in senior floating rate loans of domestic and foreign borrowers (“Senior Loans”). Senior Loans typically are of below investment grade quality and have below investment grade credit ratings, which ratings are associated with securities having high risk, speculative characteristics (sometimes referred to as “junk”). Until assets reach a level necessary to build a diversified portfolio of individual leveraged loans and other securities, the strategy will attempt to produce some of the income and return characteristics of the leveraged loan and high yield corporate bond markets synthetically through derivatives instruments, including swaps on credit indices. Thereafter, the strategy will utilize such derivatives when deemed appropriate by the portfolio manager.  The Fund will invest in fixed income securities without any limitation with respect to maturity.

Natural Resource Equities Strategy.  The natural resource equities strategy includes equity and equity-related securities of natural resource-related companies worldwide, including investing in emerging markets. Natural resource-related companies include companies that own or develop energy, metals, forest products and other natural resources, or supply goods and services to such companies.  The Fund seeks to invest in companies that are expected to benefit from rising demand for natural resources and natural resource-based products and services. The fund invests in four major sectors: (1) energy, (2) metals and mining, (3) forest products and (4) other natural resource-based companies.

The Fund currently intends to invest up to 25% of its total assets in the Subsidiaries collectively. Each Subsidiary is a wholly-owned and controlled subsidiary of the Fund, organized under the laws of the Cayman Islands as an exempted company. Generally, a Subsidiary will invest primarily in commodity futures and swaps on commodity futures but it may also invest in financial futures, option and swap contracts, fixed income securities, pooled investment vehicles, including those that are not registered pursuant to the 1940 Act, and other investments intended to serve as margin or collateral for the Subsidiary’s derivative positions. The Fund will invest in a Subsidiary in order to gain exposure to the commodities markets within the limitations of the federal tax laws, rules and regulations that apply to registered investment companies. Unlike the Fund, the Subsidiaries may invest without limitation in commodity-linked derivatives, however, the Subsidiaries will comply with the same 1940 Act asset coverage requirements with respect to its investments in commodity-linked derivatives that are applicable to the Fund’s transactions in derivatives.

The Adviser will allocate management of each strategy to a sub-adviser to manage in accordance with the strategy. The allocations may vary, however under normal market conditions, the Adviser anticipates that the Fund will allocate approximately up to 25% of its assets to the commodities strategy and approximately between 30% and 60% of its assets to the inflation linked bonds & leveraged loan strategies and between 20% and 50% to the natural resource equities strategy.  However, as market conditions change the portion allocated may be higher or lower.  

Principal Risks.

Remember that in addition to possibly not achieving your investment goals, you could lose money by investing in the Fund.  The principal risks of investing in the Fund are:

Commodities Risk: Investing in the commodities markets (directly or indirectly) may subject the Fund to greater volatility than investments in in traditional equity and fixed income securities.  Commodity prices may be influenced by unfavorable weather, animal and plant disease, geologic and environmental factors as well as changes in government regulation such as tariffs, embargoes or burdensome production rules and restrictions.

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Credit Risk: There is a risk that issuers and counterparties will not make payments on securities and other investments held by the Fund, resulting in losses to the Fund. In addition, the credit quality of securities held by the Fund may be lowered if an issuer’s financial condition changes.

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Derivatives Risk: The Fund may use derivatives (including commodity futures, options on futures, swap agreements and structured notes) to enhance returns or hedge against market declines. The Fund’s indirect use of derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities including leverage risk, counterparty default risk and tracking risk.  The value of a commodity-linked derivative investment typically is based upon the price movements of a physical commodity (such as heating oil, livestock, or agricultural products), a commodity futures contract or commodity index, or some other readily measurable economic variable dependent upon changes in the value of commodities or the commodities markets. The value of these securities will rise or fall in response to changes in the underlying commodity or related benchmark or investment. These securities expose the Fund economically to movements in commodity prices.

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Counterparty Credit Risk: The Fund may make investments in financial instruments involving counterparties that attempt to gain exposure to a particular group of securities, index or asset class without actually purchasing those securities or investments, or to hedge a position. The Fund’s use of such financial instruments, including swap agreements and structured notes, involves risks that are different from those associated with ordinary portfolio securities transactions. For example, if a swap agreement counterparty defaults on its payment obligations to the Fund, this default will cause the value of your investment in the Fund to decrease. Swap agreements and structured notes also may be considered to be illiquid.

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Risk of Lower Rated Investments: Investments rated below investment grade and comparable unrated securities have speculative characteristics because of the credit risk associated with their issuers. Changes in economic conditions or other circumstances typically have a greater effect on the ability of issuers of lower rated investments to make principal and interest payments than they do on issuers of higher rated investments. An economic downturn generally leads to a higher non-payment rate, and a lower rated investment may lose significant value before a default occurs. Lower rated investments generally are subject to greater price volatility and illiquidity than higher rated investments.

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Fixed-Income Securities Risks: Fixed income securities are subject to the risk that securities could lose value because of interest rate changes.  Fixed income securities with longer maturities are subject to greater price shifts as a result of interest rate changes than fixed income securities with shorter maturities.  Fixed income securities are also subject to prepayment and credit risks.

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Fixed-Income Foreign Investment Risk: Investment in fixed-income securities or financial instruments of foreign issuers involves increased risks due to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, currency, market or economic developments. These developments may impact the ability of a foreign debt issuer to make timely and ultimate payments on its debt obligations to the Fund or impair the Fund’s ability to enforce its rights against the foreign debt issuer. These risks are heightened in emerging or developing markets. Foreign investments may also be less liquid and more difficult to value than investments in U.S. issuers.

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Foreign Securities and Currency Risk.  The risk of investments in foreign companies involve certain risks not generally associated with investments in the securities of U.S. companies, including changes in currency exchange rates, unstable political, social and economic conditions, a lack of adequate or accurate company information, differences in the way securities markets operate, less secure international banks or securities depositories than those in the U.S. and foreign controls on investment.  In addition, individual international country economies may differ favorably or unfavorably from the U.S. economy in such respects as growth of gross domestic product, rates of inflation, capital reinvestment, resources, self-sufficiency and balance of payments position.  These risks may be greater in emerging markets and in less developed countries.

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Emerging Markets Risk.  Investments in emerging markets instruments involve greater risks than investing in foreign instruments in general. Risks of investing in emerging market countries include political or social upheaval, nationalization of businesses, restrictions on foreign ownership and prohibitions on the repatriation of assets and risks from an economy’s dependence on revenues from particular commodities or industries. In addition, currency transfer restrictions, limited potential buyers for such instruments, delays and disruption in settlement procedures and illiquidity or low volumes of transactions may make exits difficult or impossible at times.

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Special Risks for Inflation-Indexed Bonds: The risk that interest payments on, or market values of, inflation-indexed investments decline because of a decline in inflation (or deflation) or changes in investors’ and/or the market’s inflation expectations. In addition, inflation indices may not reflect the true rate of inflation.

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Natural Resources Risk: The natural resources industry can be significantly affected by events relating to international political and economic developments, energy conservation, the success of exploration projects, commodity prices, and taxes and other governmental regulations.

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General Market Risk: The risk that the value of the Fund’s shares will fluctuate based on the performance of the Fund’s investments and other factors affecting the commodities and/or securities markets generally.

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Issuer-Specific Risk: The value of a specific security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.  The value of securities of smaller issuers can be more volatile than those of larger issuers.  The value of certain types of securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, or economic developments.

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Leverage Risk:  Using derivatives like commodity futures and options to increase the Fund’s combined long and short exposure creates leverage, which can magnify the Fund’s potential for gain or loss and, therefore, amplify the effects of market volatility on the Fund’s share price.

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Limited History of Operations: The Fund is a new mutual fund and has a limited history of operation.  In addition, the Adviser has not previously managed a mutual fund.  

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Liquidity Risk: Liquidity risk exists when particular investments of the Fund would be difficult to purchase or sell, possibly preventing the Fund from selling such illiquid securities at an advantageous time or price, or possibly requiring the Fund to dispose of other investments at unfavorable times or prices in order to satisfy its obligations.

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Management Risk: The risk that investment strategies employed by the Adviser in selecting investments and asset allocations for the Fund may not result in an increase in the value of your investment or in overall performance equal to other similar investment vehicles having similar investment strategies.

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Market Risk: Overall securities and derivatives market risks may affect the value of individual instruments in which the Fund invests.  Factors such as domestic and foreign economic growth and market conditions, interest rate levels, and political events affect the securities and derivatives markets.  When the value of the Fund’s investments goes down, your investment in the Fund decreases in value and you could lose money.

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High-Yield or “Junk” Security Risk: Investments in debt securities that are rated below investment grade by one or more nationally recognized statistical rating organization (“NRSRO”) (“high-yield securities” also known as “junk securities”) may be subject to greater risk of loss of principal and interest than investments in higher-rated debt securities. High-yield securities are also generally considered to be subject to greater market risk than higher-rated securities.

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Short Position Risk: The Fund will incur a loss as a result of a short position if the price of the short position instrument increases in value between the date of the short position sale and the date on which an offsetting position is purchased.  Short positions may be considered speculative transactions and involve special risks, including greater reliance on the Adviser’s or an underlying portfolio manager’s ability to accurately anticipate the future value of a security or instrument.  The Fund’s losses are potentially unlimited in a short position transaction.

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Strategy Risk: The risk that investment strategies employed by the Adviser in selecting investments and asset allocations for the Fund may not result in an increase in the value of your investment or in overall performance equal to other investments.

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Regulatory Change Risk:  In 2012, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) adopted certain rule amendments that significantly affected the exemptions from CFTC regulations available to the Fund and its Subsidiaries.  Effective as of January 1, 2013, the Fund and its Subsidiaries are subject to CFTC regulations as a result of these changes.  As a result, the Adviser is registered as a commodity pool operator (“CPO”) with the CFTC and, accordingly, is subject to CFTC regulations.  The on-going compliance implications of these amendments are not yet fully effective and their scope of application is still uncertain.  CFTC-mandated disclosure, reporting and recordkeeping obligations will apply with respect to the Fund once the CFTC proposal that seeks to “harmonize” these obligations with overlapping SEC regulations is finalized.  The effects of these regulatory changes could increase Fund expenses, reduce investment returns or limit the Fund’s ability to implement its investment strategy.

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Tax Risk: Certain of the Fund’s investment strategies, including transactions in options, futures contracts, hedging transactions, forward contracts and swap contracts, may be subject to the special tax rules, the effect of which may have adverse tax consequences for the Fund.  Also, by investing in commodities indirectly through the Subsidiaries, the Fund will obtain exposure to the commodities markets within the U.S. federal tax requirements that apply to the Fund.  However, because each Subsidiary is a controlled foreign corporation, any income received from its investments will be passed through to the Fund as ordinary income, which may be taxed at less favorable rates than capital gains.  Additionally, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) has issued a number of private letter rulings to other mutual funds (unrelated to the Fund), which indicate that certain income from a fund’s investment in a wholly-owned foreign subsidiary will constitute “qualifying income” for purposes of Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”).  However, the IRS has suspended issuance of any further letters pending a review of its position.  If the IRS were to change its position with respect to the conclusions reached in its private letter rulings (which change in position might be applied to the Fund retroactively), the income from the Fund’s investment in the Subsidiaries might not be qualifying income, and the Fund might not qualify as a regulated investment company for one or more years.

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Wholly-Owned Subsidiary Risk:  The Subsidiaries will not be registered under the 1940 Act and, unless otherwise noted in this Prospectus, will not be subject to all of the investor protections of the 1940 Act.  The Adviser has, on behalf of each Subsidiary, filed with the National Futures Association a notice claiming exemption from the CFTC’s reporting and disclosure requirements in accordance with Part 4 of the CFTC Regulations.  The CFTC regulations provide relief relating to CFTC disclosure and reporting requirements for commodity pools, such as the Subsidiaries, that are operated by a CPO that is the same as, controls, is controlled by or is under common control with the CPO of an offered pool (such as the Fund).  Changes in the laws or regulations of the United States and/or the Cayman Islands, under which the Fund and the Subsidiaries, respectively, are organized, could result in the inability of the Fund and/or a Subsidiary to operate as described in this Prospectus and could negatively affect the Fund and its shareholders.  Your cost of investing in the Fund will be higher because you indirectly bear the expenses of the Subsidiaries.

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Non-Diversification Risk. The Fund is classified as non-diversified under the 1940 Act. This means that the Fund may invest in securities of relatively few issuers. Thus, the performance of one or a small number of portfolio holdings can affect overall performance.

Performance.

Because the Fund has less than a full calendar year 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.  Also, shareholder reports containing financial and performance information will be mailed to shareholders semi-annually.  Updated performance information will be available at no cost by calling the Fund toll-free at 1-855-294-7538.

[1] These expenses are based on estimated amounts for the Fund's current fiscal year.

[2] Pursuant to an operating expense limitation agreement between North Peak Asset Management LLC (the "Adviser") and the Fund, the Adviser has agreed to waive its fees and/or absorb expenses of the Fund to ensure that Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses (excluding brokerage fees and commissions, acquired fund fees and expenses, borrowing costs, interest and tax expenses, dividends on short positions and extraordinary expenses) for the Fund do not exceed 1.70% and 1.95%, of the Fund's average net assets, for Class I and Class R shares, respectively, through March 31, 2014. This operating expense limitation agreement can be terminated only by, or with the consent of, the Board of Trustees. The Adviser is permitted to seek reimbursement from the Fund, subject to limitations, for fees it waived and Fund expenses it paid. The Adviser is permitted to seek reimbursement from the Fund for the prior three fiscal years, as long as the reimbursement does not cause the Fund's operating expenses to exceed the expense cap.

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The investment objective of the Inflation Hedges Strategy Fund is to seek to provide current income and real (after inflation) total returns.

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The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio).  A higher portfolio turnover rate 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 Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the Example, affect the Fund’s performance.  

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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:

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The Adviser is responsible for developing, constructing and monitoring the asset allocation and portfolio strategy for the Fund.  The Adviser believes that the Fund’s investment reward and risk characteristics can be enhanced by employing multiple sub-advisory firms to manage the assets of the Fund using a “manager of managers” approach.  The Adviser has selected and oversees multiple sub-advisers who manage separate segments of the Fund’s portfolio using distinct, complimentary, investment styles.  The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objectives using three principal strategies.  Each of the three strategies is managed by one or more sub-advisers who are unaffiliated with the Adviser or its affiliates. The Fund’s three strategies are as follows:  

Commodity Strategy. The Fund will provide exposure to a broad spectrum of commodities by investing up to 25% of its total assets (measured at the time of investment) in one or more wholly-owned and controlled subsidiaries (each a “Subsidiary” and collectively, the “Subsidiaries”).  The Fund’s aggregate investment in the Subsidiaries will not exceed 25% of the Fund’s total assets. The Commodities Strategy will be managed by one or more sub-advisers who will oversee assets in a corresponding Subsidiary.  

Each Subsidiary will invest directly in commodity futures and options on futures and may also invest in swap contracts and structured notes.  Each sub-adviser assigned to the Commodity Strategy invests according to a sub-strategy in one or a combination of (i) options, (ii) futures, (iii) forwards or (iv) spot contracts, each of which may be tied to (i) commodities, (ii) financial indices and instruments, (iii) foreign currencies, or (iv) equity indices.  Swap contracts have payments linked to commodity or financial derivatives that are designed to produce returns similar to those of a Subsidiary and their respective sub-strategies.  The Fund may invest in structured notes, which are debt obligations that also contain an embedded derivative component with characteristics that adjust the obligation’s risk/return profile. Generally, the performance of a structured note will track that of the underlying debt obligation and the derivative embedded within it.  Commodity Strategies’ sub-strategies may include investment styles such as (i) long term trend-following, (ii) discretionary macro investing based on economic fundamentals and value, (iii) specialized approaches to specific or individual market sectors such as financials, equities, currencies, energy, metals, agricultural and soft commodities, (iv) short-term systematic trading, and (v) counter-trend or mean reversion strategies.  Commodity strategy investments will be made without restriction as to issuer capitalization, country, or currency.    

Futures contracts are contractual agreements to buy or sell a particular currency, commodity or financial instrument at a pre-determined price in the future.  The Fund’s use of futures contracts (including options on futures contracts) through its investment in the Subsidiaries will have the economic effect of financial leverage.  Financial leverage magnifies exposure to the swings in prices of a commodity underlying such an instrument and results in increased volatility, which means the Fund will have the potential for greater gains, as well as the potential for greater losses, than if the Fund does not use such instruments that have a leveraging effect.  Leveraging tends to magnify, sometimes significantly, the effect of any increase or decrease in the Fund’s exposure to a commodity and may cause the Fund’s net asset value to be volatile.  For example, if the Adviser seeks to gain enhanced exposure to a specific commodity through an instrument providing leveraged exposure to the commodity and that instrument increases in value, the gain to the Fund will be magnified; however, if that investment decreases in value, the loss to the Fund will be magnified.  A decline in the Fund’s assets due to losses magnified by the instruments providing leveraged exposure may require the Fund to liquidate portfolio positions to satisfy its obligations, to meet redemption requests or to meet asset segregation requirements when it may not be advantageous to do so.  There is no assurance that the Fund’s use of instruments providing enhanced exposure will enable the Fund to achieve its investment objective.

As a result of the Fund’s strategy, the Fund may have highly leveraged exposure to one or more commodities at times.  The 1940 Act and the rules and interpretations thereunder impose certain limitations on the Fund’s ability to use leverage; however, the Fund is not subject to any additional limitations on its net long and short exposures.  For example, the Fund could hold instruments that provide five times the net return of a broad or narrow-based securities index.  For more information on these and other risk factors, please see the “Principal Risk Factors” section of the Prospectus.

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Inflation Linked Bonds and Leveraged Loans Strategies.  The inflation linked bonds strategy uses fixed income security selection strategies in inflation indexed bonds of both developed and emerging market countries. Like conventional bonds, inflation-indexed bonds generally pay interest at fixed intervals and return the principal at maturity. Unlike conventional bonds, an inflation-indexed bond’s principal or interest is adjusted periodically to reflect changes in a specified inflation index. Inflation-indexed bonds are designed to preserve purchasing power over the life of the bond while paying a “real” rate of interest (i.e., a return over and above the inflation rate). These bonds are generally issued at a fixed interest rate that is lower than that of conventional bonds of comparable maturity and quality, but they generally retain their value against inflation over time.

The inflation linked bonds strategy also invests in U.S. Treasury securities including repurchase agreements collateralized fully by U.S. Treasury securities. The sub-adviser(s) assigned to this strategy intends to utilize short positions in U.S. Treasury securities in order to hedge interest rate risk.

The Fund intends to invest in high quality fixed income securities backed by the U.S. government.  However, the Fund may also invest in income producing floating rate loans and other floating rate debt securities. The leveraged loans strategy invests in income producing floating rate loans and other floating rate debt securities. The Fund invests primarily in senior floating rate loans of domestic and foreign borrowers (“Senior Loans”). Senior Loans typically are of below investment grade quality and have below investment grade credit ratings, which ratings are associated with securities having high risk, speculative characteristics (sometimes referred to as “junk”). Until assets reach a level necessary to build a diversified portfolio of individual leveraged loans and other securities, the strategy will attempt to produce some of the income and return characteristics of the leveraged loan and high yield corporate bond markets synthetically through derivatives instruments, including swaps on credit indices. Thereafter, the strategy will utilize such derivatives when deemed appropriate by the portfolio manager.  The Fund will invest in fixed income securities without any limitation with respect to maturity.

Natural Resource Equities Strategy.  The natural resource equities strategy includes equity and equity-related securities of natural resource-related companies worldwide, including investing in emerging markets. Natural resource-related companies include companies that own or develop energy, metals, forest products and other natural resources, or supply goods and services to such companies.  The Fund seeks to invest in companies that are expected to benefit from rising demand for natural resources and natural resource-based products and services. The fund invests in four major sectors: (1) energy, (2) metals and mining, (3) forest products and (4) other natural resource-based companies.

The Fund currently intends to invest up to 25% of its total assets in the Subsidiaries collectively. Each Subsidiary is a wholly-owned and controlled subsidiary of the Fund, organized under the laws of the Cayman Islands as an exempted company. Generally, a Subsidiary will invest primarily in commodity futures and swaps on commodity futures but it may also invest in financial futures, option and swap contracts, fixed income securities, pooled investment vehicles, including those that are not registered pursuant to the 1940 Act, and other investments intended to serve as margin or collateral for the Subsidiary’s derivative positions. The Fund will invest in a Subsidiary in order to gain exposure to the commodities markets within the limitations of the federal tax laws, rules and regulations that apply to registered investment companies. Unlike the Fund, the Subsidiaries may invest without limitation in commodity-linked derivatives, however, the Subsidiaries will comply with the same 1940 Act asset coverage requirements with respect to its investments in commodity-linked derivatives that are applicable to the Fund’s transactions in derivatives.

The Adviser will allocate management of each strategy to a sub-adviser to manage in accordance with the strategy. The allocations may vary, however under normal market conditions, the Adviser anticipates that the Fund will allocate approximately up to 25% of its assets to the commodities strategy and approximately between 30% and 60% of its assets to the inflation linked bonds & leveraged loan strategies and between 20% and 50% to the natural resource equities strategy.  However, as market conditions change the portion allocated may be higher or lower.  

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Principal Risks.

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Remember that in addition to possibly not achieving your investment goals, you could lose money by investing in the Fund.  The principal risks of investing in the Fund are:

Commodities Risk: Investing in the commodities markets (directly or indirectly) may subject the Fund to greater volatility than investments in in traditional equity and fixed income securities.  Commodity prices may be influenced by unfavorable weather, animal and plant disease, geologic and environmental factors as well as changes in government regulation such as tariffs, embargoes or burdensome production rules and restrictions.

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Credit Risk: There is a risk that issuers and counterparties will not make payments on securities and other investments held by the Fund, resulting in losses to the Fund. In addition, the credit quality of securities held by the Fund may be lowered if an issuer’s financial condition changes.

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Derivatives Risk: The Fund may use derivatives (including commodity futures, options on futures, swap agreements and structured notes) to enhance returns or hedge against market declines. The Fund’s indirect use of derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities including leverage risk, counterparty default risk and tracking risk.  The value of a commodity-linked derivative investment typically is based upon the price movements of a physical commodity (such as heating oil, livestock, or agricultural products), a commodity futures contract or commodity index, or some other readily measurable economic variable dependent upon changes in the value of commodities or the commodities markets. The value of these securities will rise or fall in response to changes in the underlying commodity or related benchmark or investment. These securities expose the Fund economically to movements in commodity prices.

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Counterparty Credit Risk: The Fund may make investments in financial instruments involving counterparties that attempt to gain exposure to a particular group of securities, index or asset class without actually purchasing those securities or investments, or to hedge a position. The Fund’s use of such financial instruments, including swap agreements and structured notes, involves risks that are different from those associated with ordinary portfolio securities transactions. For example, if a swap agreement counterparty defaults on its payment obligations to the Fund, this default will cause the value of your investment in the Fund to decrease. Swap agreements and structured notes also may be considered to be illiquid.

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Risk of Lower Rated Investments: Investments rated below investment grade and comparable unrated securities have speculative characteristics because of the credit risk associated with their issuers. Changes in economic conditions or other circumstances typically have a greater effect on the ability of issuers of lower rated investments to make principal and interest payments than they do on issuers of higher rated investments. An economic downturn generally leads to a higher non-payment rate, and a lower rated investment may lose significant value before a default occurs. Lower rated investments generally are subject to greater price volatility and illiquidity than higher rated investments.

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Fixed-Income Securities Risks: Fixed income securities are subject to the risk that securities could lose value because of interest rate changes.  Fixed income securities with longer maturities are subject to greater price shifts as a result of interest rate changes than fixed income securities with shorter maturities.  Fixed income securities are also subject to prepayment and credit risks.

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Fixed-Income Foreign Investment Risk: Investment in fixed-income securities or financial instruments of foreign issuers involves increased risks due to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, currency, market or economic developments. These developments may impact the ability of a foreign debt issuer to make timely and ultimate payments on its debt obligations to the Fund or impair the Fund’s ability to enforce its rights against the foreign debt issuer. These risks are heightened in emerging or developing markets. Foreign investments may also be less liquid and more difficult to value than investments in U.S. issuers.

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Foreign Securities and Currency Risk.  The risk of investments in foreign companies involve certain risks not generally associated with investments in the securities of U.S. companies, including changes in currency exchange rates, unstable political, social and economic conditions, a lack of adequate or accurate company information, differences in the way securities markets operate, less secure international banks or securities depositories than those in the U.S. and foreign controls on investment.  In addition, individual international country economies may differ favorably or unfavorably from the U.S. economy in such respects as growth of gross domestic product, rates of inflation, capital reinvestment, resources, self-sufficiency and balance of payments position.  These risks may be greater in emerging markets and in less developed countries.

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Emerging Markets Risk.  Investments in emerging markets instruments involve greater risks than investing in foreign instruments in general. Risks of investing in emerging market countries include political or social upheaval, nationalization of businesses, restrictions on foreign ownership and prohibitions on the repatriation of assets and risks from an economy’s dependence on revenues from particular commodities or industries. In addition, currency transfer restrictions, limited potential buyers for such instruments, delays and disruption in settlement procedures and illiquidity or low volumes of transactions may make exits difficult or impossible at times.

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Special Risks for Inflation-Indexed Bonds: The risk that interest payments on, or market values of, inflation-indexed investments decline because of a decline in inflation (or deflation) or changes in investors’ and/or the market’s inflation expectations. In addition, inflation indices may not reflect the true rate of inflation.

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Natural Resources Risk: The natural resources industry can be significantly affected by events relating to international political and economic developments, energy conservation, the success of exploration projects, commodity prices, and taxes and other governmental regulations.

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General Market Risk: The risk that the value of the Fund’s shares will fluctuate based on the performance of the Fund’s investments and other factors affecting the commodities and/or securities markets generally.

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Issuer-Specific Risk: The value of a specific security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.  The value of securities of smaller issuers can be more volatile than those of larger issuers.  The value of certain types of securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, or economic developments.

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Leverage Risk:  Using derivatives like commodity futures and options to increase the Fund’s combined long and short exposure creates leverage, which can magnify the Fund’s potential for gain or loss and, therefore, amplify the effects of market volatility on the Fund’s share price.

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Limited History of Operations: The Fund is a new mutual fund and has a limited history of operation.  In addition, the Adviser has not previously managed a mutual fund.  

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Liquidity Risk: Liquidity risk exists when particular investments of the Fund would be difficult to purchase or sell, possibly preventing the Fund from selling such illiquid securities at an advantageous time or price, or possibly requiring the Fund to dispose of other investments at unfavorable times or prices in order to satisfy its obligations.

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Management Risk: The risk that investment strategies employed by the Adviser in selecting investments and asset allocations for the Fund may not result in an increase in the value of your investment or in overall performance equal to other similar investment vehicles having similar investment strategies.

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Market Risk: Overall securities and derivatives market risks may affect the value of individual instruments in which the Fund invests.  Factors such as domestic and foreign economic growth and market conditions, interest rate levels, and political events affect the securities and derivatives markets.  When the value of the Fund’s investments goes down, your investment in the Fund decreases in value and you could lose money.

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High-Yield or “Junk” Security Risk: Investments in debt securities that are rated below investment grade by one or more nationally recognized statistical rating organization (“NRSRO”) (“high-yield securities” also known as “junk securities”) may be subject to greater risk of loss of principal and interest than investments in higher-rated debt securities. High-yield securities are also generally considered to be subject to greater market risk than higher-rated securities.

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Short Position Risk: The Fund will incur a loss as a result of a short position if the price of the short position instrument increases in value between the date of the short position sale and the date on which an offsetting position is purchased.  Short positions may be considered speculative transactions and involve special risks, including greater reliance on the Adviser’s or an underlying portfolio manager’s ability to accurately anticipate the future value of a security or instrument.  The Fund’s losses are potentially unlimited in a short position transaction.

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Strategy Risk: The risk that investment strategies employed by the Adviser in selecting investments and asset allocations for the Fund may not result in an increase in the value of your investment or in overall performance equal to other investments.

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Regulatory Change Risk:  In 2012, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) adopted certain rule amendments that significantly affected the exemptions from CFTC regulations available to the Fund and its Subsidiaries.  Effective as of January 1, 2013, the Fund and its Subsidiaries are subject to CFTC regulations as a result of these changes.  As a result, the Adviser is registered as a commodity pool operator (“CPO”) with the CFTC and, accordingly, is subject to CFTC regulations.  The on-going compliance implications of these amendments are not yet fully effective and their scope of application is still uncertain.  CFTC-mandated disclosure, reporting and recordkeeping obligations will apply with respect to the Fund once the CFTC proposal that seeks to “harmonize” these obligations with overlapping SEC regulations is finalized.  The effects of these regulatory changes could increase Fund expenses, reduce investment returns or limit the Fund’s ability to implement its investment strategy.

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Tax Risk: Certain of the Fund’s investment strategies, including transactions in options, futures contracts, hedging transactions, forward contracts and swap contracts, may be subject to the special tax rules, the effect of which may have adverse tax consequences for the Fund.  Also, by investing in commodities indirectly through the Subsidiaries, the Fund will obtain exposure to the commodities markets within the U.S. federal tax requirements that apply to the Fund.  However, because each Subsidiary is a controlled foreign corporation, any income received from its investments will be passed through to the Fund as ordinary income, which may be taxed at less favorable rates than capital gains.  Additionally, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) has issued a number of private letter rulings to other mutual funds (unrelated to the Fund), which indicate that certain income from a fund’s investment in a wholly-owned foreign subsidiary will constitute “qualifying income” for purposes of Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”).  However, the IRS has suspended issuance of any further letters pending a review of its position.  If the IRS were to change its position with respect to the conclusions reached in its private letter rulings (which change in position might be applied to the Fund retroactively), the income from the Fund’s investment in the Subsidiaries might not be qualifying income, and the Fund might not qualify as a regulated investment company for one or more years.

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Wholly-Owned Subsidiary Risk:  The Subsidiaries will not be registered under the 1940 Act and, unless otherwise noted in this Prospectus, will not be subject to all of the investor protections of the 1940 Act.  The Adviser has, on behalf of each Subsidiary, filed with the National Futures Association a notice claiming exemption from the CFTC’s reporting and disclosure requirements in accordance with Part 4 of the CFTC Regulations.  The CFTC regulations provide relief relating to CFTC disclosure and reporting requirements for commodity pools, such as the Subsidiaries, that are operated by a CPO that is the same as, controls, is controlled by or is under common control with the CPO of an offered pool (such as the Fund).  Changes in the laws or regulations of the United States and/or the Cayman Islands, under which the Fund and the Subsidiaries, respectively, are organized, could result in the inability of the Fund and/or a Subsidiary to operate as described in this Prospectus and could negatively affect the Fund and its shareholders.  Your cost of investing in the Fund will be higher because you indirectly bear the expenses of the Subsidiaries.

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Non-Diversification Risk. The Fund is classified as non-diversified under the 1940 Act. This means that the Fund may invest in securities of relatively few issuers. Thus, the performance of one or a small number of portfolio holdings can affect overall performance.

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Remember that in addition to possibly not achieving your investment goals, you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

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The Fund is classified as non-diversified under the 1940 Act. This means that the Fund may invest in securities of relatively few issuers. Thus, the performance of one or a small number of portfolio holdings can affect overall performance.

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Performance.

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Because the Fund has less than a full calendar year 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.  Also, shareholder reports containing financial and performance information will be mailed to shareholders semi-annually.  Updated performance information will be available at no cost by calling the Fund toll-free at 1-855-294-7538.

Performance One Year or Less [Text]

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Because the Fund has less than a full calendar year of investment operations, no performance information is presented for the Fund at this time.

Performance Availability Phone [Text]

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1-855-294-7538

Inflation Hedges Strategy Fund Class I Shares

Risk/Return:

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Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering price)

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none

Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load)

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none

Redemption Fee (as a percentage of Amount Redeemed)

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(2.00%)

Management Fees

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1.60%

Distribution and Service (Rule 12b-1) Fees

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none

Subsidiary Expenses

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0.03%

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Remaining Other Expenses

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0.45%

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Other Expenses

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0.48%

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Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses

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0.01%

Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses

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2.09%

Fee Waiver or Reimbursement

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(0.38%)

Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver/Expense Reimbursement

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1.71%

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Expense Example, with Redemption, 1 Year

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174

Expense Example, with Redemption, 3 Years

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618

Inflation Hedges Strategy Fund Class R Shares

Risk/Return:

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Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering price)

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none

Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load)

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none

Redemption Fee (as a percentage of Amount Redeemed)

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(2.00%)

Management Fees

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1.60%

Distribution and Service (Rule 12b-1) Fees

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0.25%

Subsidiary Expenses

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0.03%

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Remaining Other Expenses

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0.45%

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Other Expenses

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0.48%

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Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses

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0.01%

Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses

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2.34%

Fee Waiver or Reimbursement

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(0.38%)

Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver/Expense Reimbursement

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1.96%

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Expense Example, with Redemption, 1 Year

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199

Expense Example, with Redemption, 3 Years

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694

[1] These expenses are based on estimated amounts for the Fund's current fiscal year.

[2] Pursuant to an operating expense limitation agreement between North Peak Asset Management LLC (the "Adviser") and the Fund, the Adviser has agreed to waive its fees and/or absorb expenses of the Fund to ensure that Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses (excluding brokerage fees and commissions, acquired fund fees and expenses, borrowing costs, interest and tax expenses, dividends on short positions and extraordinary expenses) for the Fund do not exceed 1.70% and 1.95%, of the Fund's average net assets, for Class I and Class R shares, respectively, through March 31, 2014. This operating expense limitation agreement can be terminated only by, or with the consent of, the Board of Trustees. The Adviser is permitted to seek reimbursement from the Fund, subject to limitations, for fees it waived and Fund expenses it paid. The Adviser is permitted to seek reimbursement from the Fund for the prior three fiscal years, as long as the reimbursement does not cause the Fund's operating expenses to exceed the expense cap.

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