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Purchases of $1 million or more have no sales charge but a contingent deferred sales charge of up to 1% for redemptions within two years of purchase and up to 0.50 of 1% for redemptions during the third and fourth years after purchase.
Restated to reflect current fees.
Other Expenses of Class I Shares are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.
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Principal Investment Strategies
<div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"> <font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><font id="TAB1-0" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"></font>The Trust invests primarily in tax-free municipal obligations that pay interest exempt in the opinion of bond counsel from Hawaii state and regular Federal income taxes.  In general, almost all of these obligations are issued by the State of Hawaii, its counties and various other local authorities. We call these “Hawaiian Obligations.” These securities may include participation or other interests in municipal securities and variable rate demand notes.  Some Hawaiian Obligations, such as general obligation issues, are backed by the issuer’s taxing authority, while other Hawaiian Obligations, such as revenue bonds, are backed only by revenues from certain facilities or other sources and not by the issuer itself.</font> </div> <br/><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"> <font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><font id="TAB1-1" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"></font>Under normal circumstances, at least 80% of the Trust’s assets will consist of Hawaiian Obligations.  These obligations can be of any maturity, but the Trust’s average portfolio maturity has traditionally been between 8 and 12 years.</font> </div> <br/><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"> <font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">At the time of purchase, the Trust’s Hawaiian Obligations must be of investment grade quality. This means that they must either</font> </div> <br/><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="list" width="100%" style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman"> <tr valign="top"> <td align="right" style="WIDTH: 54pt"> <div> <font style="display: inline; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol, serif;">·  </font> </div> </td> <td> <div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"> <font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">be rated within the four highest credit ratings assigned by nationally recognized statistical rating organizations or,</font> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <br/><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="list-0" width="100%" style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman"> <tr valign="top"> <td align="right" style="WIDTH: 54pt"> <div> <font style="display: inline; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol, serif;">·  </font> </div> </td> <td> <div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"> <font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">if unrated, be determined to be of comparable quality by the Trust’s investment adviser, Asset Management Group of Bank of Hawaii (the “Adviser”).</font> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <br/><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"> <font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The Adviser selects obligations for the Trust’s portfolio to best achieve the Trust’s objective by considering various characteristics including quality, maturity and coupon rate.</font> </div>
Principal Risks
<div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"> <font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><font id="TAB1-2" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"></font><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Market and Interest Rate Risk.</font> The market prices of the Trust’s securities may go up or down, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably, due to general market conditions, such as real or perceived adverse economic or political conditions, inflation, changes in interest rates, lack of liquidity in the bond markets or adverse investor sentiment. When market prices fall, the value of your investment may go down. The value of your investment may also go down when interest rates rise. A rise in rates tends to have a greater impact on the prices of longer term securities.</font> </div> <br/><div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;" align="left"> <font style="display: inline; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt;"><font style="display: inline; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt;"><font style="display: inline; font-weight: bold;">Credit Risk.</font>If an issuer or obligor of a security held by the Trust or a counterparty to a financial contract with the Trust defaults or is downgraded, or if the value of the assets underlying a security</font></font> <font style="display: inline; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt;">declines, the value of your investment will typically decline.</font> </div> <br/><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"> <font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><font id="TAB1-4" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"></font><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Rating Agency Risk:</font> Investment grade debt securities may be downgraded by a major rating agency to below investment grade status, which would increase the risk of holding these securities. In addition, a rating may become stale in that it fails to reflect changes to an issuer’s financial condition. Ratings represent the rating agency’s opinion regarding the quality of the security and are not a guarantee of quality. Rating agencies may fail to make timely credit ratings in response to subsequent events. In addition, ratings agencies are subject to an inherent conflict of interest because they are often compensated by the same issuers whose securities they grade.</font> </div> <br/><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"> <font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><font id="TAB1-5" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"></font><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Risks Associated with Investments in Hawaii and Other Municipal Obligations.</font> The Trust may be affected significantly by adverse economic, political or other events affecting Hawaii and other municipal issuers.  Municipal issuers may be adversely affected by rising health care costs, increasing unfunded pension liabilities, and by the phasing out of federal programs providing financial support.  Unfavorable conditions and developments relating to projects financed with municipal securities can result in lower revenues to issuers of municipal securities.  Issuers often depend on revenues from these projects to make principal and interest payments.  The value of municipal securities also can be adversely affected by changes in the financial condition of one or more individual municipal issuers or insurers of municipal issuers, regulatory developments, legislative actions, and by uncertainties and public perceptions concerning these and other factors.</font> </div> <br/><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"> <font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><font id="TAB1-6" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"></font><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Tax Risk.</font> The income on the Trust’s Hawaiian Obligations and other municipal obligations could become subject to Federal and/or state income taxes due to noncompliant conduct by issuers, unfavorable legislation or litigation or adverse interpretations by regulatory authorities.</font> </div> <br/><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"> <font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><font id="TAB1-7" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"></font><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Liquidity Risk.</font> Some securities held by the Trust may be difficult to sell, or illiquid, particularly during times of market turmoil. Illiquid securities may also be difficult to value. If the Trust is forced to sell an illiquid security to meet redemption requests or other cash needs, the Trust may be forced to sell the security at a loss.</font> </div> <br/><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"> <font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><font id="TAB1-8" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"></font><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Prepayment or Call Risk.</font> Many issuers have a right to prepay their securities. If interest rates fall, an issuer may exercise this right, and the Trust could be forced to reinvest prepayment proceeds at a time when yields on securities available in the market are lower than the yield on the prepaid security. The Trust may also lose any premium it paid on the security.</font> </div> <br/><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"> <font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><font id="TAB1-9" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"></font><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Portfolio Selection Risk.</font> The value of your investment may decrease if the Adviser’s judgment about the quality, relative yield, value or market trends affecting a particular security, industry, sector or region, or about interest rates, is incorrect.</font> </div> <br/><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"> <font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">An investment in the Trust is not a deposit in Bank of Hawaii, any of its bank or non-bank affiliates or any other bank, and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.</font> </div> <br/><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"> <font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The Trust is classified as a “non-diversified” investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “1940 Act”). Thus, compared with “diversified” funds, it may invest a greater percentage of its assets in obligations of a small number of issuers. In general, the more the Trust invests in the securities of specific issuers or issues of a similar project type, the more the Trust is exposed to risks associated with investments in those issuers or types of projects.  Also, the Trust may be more volatile than a more geographically diverse fund.</font> </div> <br/><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"> <font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Loss of money is a risk of investing in the Trust.</font> </div> <br/><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"> <font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><font id="TAB1-10" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"></font>These risks are discussed in more detail later in the Prospectus or in the SAI.</font> </div>
Loss of money is a risk of investing in the Trust.
The Trust is classified as a "non-diversified" investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the "1940 Act"). Thus, compared with "diversified" funds, it may invest a greater percentage of its assets in obligations of a small number of issuers. In general, the more the Trust invests in the securities of specific issuers or issues of a similar project type, the more the Trust is exposed to risks associated with investments in those issuers or types of projects. Also, the Trust may be more volatile than a more geographically diverse fund.
An investment in the Trust is not a deposit in Bank of Hawaii, any of its bank or non-bank affiliates or any other bank, and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
Portfolio Turnover
<div style="TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"> <font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The Trust 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 Trust shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual Trust operating expenses or in the example, affect the Trust's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Trust's portfolio turnover rate was 20% of the average value of its portfolio.</font> </div>
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Trust Performance
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These returns are calculated using the highest individual Federal marginal income and capital gains tax rates in effect at the time of each distribution and redemption, but do not reflect state and local taxes.
The following bar chart and table provide some indication of the risks of investing in the Trust by showing changes in the Trust's performance from year to year and by showing how the Trust's average annual total returns for the designated periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance.
The Trust's past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the Trust will perform in the future.
After-tax returns are shown only for Class Y Shares. After-tax returns for other classes of shares will vary.
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Average Annual Total Returns for the Periods Ended December 31, 2011
Example
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Fees and Expenses of the Trust
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Restated to reflect current fees.
Annual Trust Operating Expenses (Expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of your investment)
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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)
Investment Objective
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