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Filed Pursuant to Rule 497(c)

1933 Act File No. 033-81396

1940 Act File No. 811-08614

BRANDES INVESTMENT TRUST

On behalf of Brandes Investment Trust (the “Trust”) and pursuant to Rule 497(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, attached for filing are exhibits containing interactive data format risk/return summary information that mirrors the risk/return summary information in the definitive form of Prospectus for Brandes Global Equity Fund, Brandes International Equity Fund, Brandes Emerging Markets Fund, Brandes International Small Cap Equity Fund, Brandes Core Plus Fixed Income Fund, Brandes Credit Focus Yield Fund, and Brandes Separately Managed Account Reserve Trust, which was filed pursuant to Rule 497(c) on February 5, 2013.  The purpose of this filing is to submit the 497(c) filing dated February 5, 2013 in XBRL for the Brandes Global Equity Fund, Brandes International Equity Fund, Brandes Emerging Markets Fund, Brandes International Small Cap Equity Fund, Brandes Core Plus Fixed Income Fund, Brandes Credit Focus Yield Fund, and Brandes Separately Managed Account Reserve Trust.

The XBRL exhibits attached hereto consist of the following:

INDEX TO EXHIBITS

Exhibit	Exhibit No.
Instance Document	EX-101.INS
Schema Document	EX-101.SCH
Calculation Linkbase Document	EX-101.CAL
Definition Linkbase Document	EX-101.DEF
Label Linkbase Document	EX-101.LAB
Presentation Linkbase Document	EX-101.PRE

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Brandes Separately Managed Account Reserve Trust | Brandes Separately Managed Account Reserve Trust

Brandes Separately Managed Account Reserve Trust

Investment Objective

The Separately Managed Account Reserve Trust (the “Fund”) seeks to maximize long-term total return.

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 (USD $)	Brandes Separately Managed Account Reserve Trust
Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)	none

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (fees paid from Fund assets)

Annual Fund Operating Expenses		Brandes Separately Managed Account Reserve Trust
Management Fees	[1][2]	0.55%
Other Expenses	[2][3]	0.32%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses	[2]	0.87%
Less Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement	[2]	(0.87%)
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement		none

Example

This Example illustrates the amount of expenses you could incur if the Advisor charged the Fund for its services.  This Example is intended to help you compare the costs 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 (USD $)	1 Year	3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
Brandes Separately Managed Account Reserve Trust	89	278	482	1,073

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 annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.  During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 27.44% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

The Fund invests primarily in a diversified portfolio of debt securities. These include debt obligations issued or guaranteed by the U.S. Government and foreign governments and their agencies and instrumentalities, debt securities issued by U.S. and foreign companies, collateralized mortgage obligations, and U.S. and foreign mortgage-backed and asset-backed debt securities.  The Fund may invest up to 60% of its total assets in non-U.S. dollar securities, and may engage in currency hedging.  Brandes Investment Partners, L.P., the investment advisor to the Fund (the “Advisor”), generally uses the principles of value investing to analyze and select debt securities for the Fund’s investment portfolio.  As part of this process, the Advisor reviews such measures as the issuer’s free cash flow, debt-to-equity ratio, earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (“EBITDA”)-to-interest ratio, debt-to-EBITDA ratio, or other measures of credit worthiness in evaluating the securities of a particular issuer.

The Fund may invest in debt instruments of any maturity or with no maturity and it may invest in both investment-grade securities and non-investment grade securities (also known as “high-yield bonds” or “junk bonds”).  (Up to 60% of the Fund’s total debt securities may be in junk bonds.) The Fund invests in debt securities that can be purchased at prices or yield premiums over U.S. Treasury securities (or other relatively risk free securities) which the Advisor believes to be attractive based on the Advisor’s assessment of each security’s intrinsic value.  The Advisor will typically sell a security from the Fund’s portfolio when the Advisor’s research process identifies a significantly better investment opportunity.  The Advisor may also sell certain portfolio securities from time to time in order to adjust the average maturity, duration or yield of the Fund’s portfolio or to meet requirements for redemption of Fund shares.

Principal Investment Risks

Because the values of the Fund’s investments will fluctuate with market conditions, so will the value of your investment in the Fund.  You could lose money on your investment in the Fund, or the Fund could underperform other investments.  Principal risks of the Fund are as follows:

· Credit Risk – Fixed income securities are subject to varying degrees of credit risk, which are often reflected in credit ratings.  The value of an issuer’s securities held by the Fund may decline in response to adverse developments with respect to the issuer.

· Currency Risks – Because the Fund invests in securities denominated in foreign currencies, the U.S. dollar values of its investments fluctuate as a result of changes in foreign exchange rates.  Such changes will also affect the Fund’s income.

· Interest Rate Risk – As with most fixed income funds, the income on and value of your shares in the Fund will fluctuate along with interest rates.  When interest rates rise, the market prices of the debt securities the Fund owns usually decline.  When interest rates fall, the prices of these securities usually increase.

· Foreign and Emerging MarketsSecurities Risk – Investing in foreign securities poses additional risks.  The performance of foreign securities can be adversely affected by the different political, regulatory and economic environments and other overall economic conditions in the countries where the issuers of these securities are located.  Emerging markets countries involve greater risk and volatility than more developed markets.  Some emerging markets countries may have fixed or managed currencies that are not free-floating against the U.S. dollar.  Certain of these currencies may experience substantial fluctuations or steady devaluation relative to the U.S. dollar.

· Liquidity Risk – Liquidity risk exists when particular investments are difficult to purchase or sell.  Illiquid securities may also be difficult to value.The Fund’s investments in illiquid securities may reduce the return of the Fund because it may be unable to sell such illiquid securities at an advantageous time or price.

· Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Securities Risk – Mortgage- and asset-backed securities may decline in value when defaults on the underlying mortgages or assets occur and may exhibit additional volatility in periods of changing interest rates.  When interest rates decline, the prepayment of mortgages or assets underlying such securities may require the Fund to reinvest that money at lower prevailing interest rates, resulting in reduced returns.

· Non-Investment Grade (Junk Bond) Securities Risk – Below investment grade debt securities (commonly known as “high yield bonds” or “junk bonds”) are speculative and involve a greater risk of default and price change due to changes in the issuer’s creditworthiness.  The market prices of these debt securities may fluctuate more than the market prices of investment grade debt securities and may decline significantly in periods of general economic difficulty.

· Portfolio Turnover Risk – The Fund is actively managed, which means that the Advisor may frequently buy and sell securities.  Frequent trading increases a Fund’s portfolio turnover rate and may increase transaction costs, such as brokerage commissions and taxes.  Increased transaction costs could detract from the Fund’s performance.

Performance

The following information shows you how the Fund has performed and provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing how its performance has varied from year to year.  The bar chart shows changes in the yearly performance of the Fund since its inception.  The table below compares the Fund’s total return over time to broad-based indices.  The chart and table assume reinvestment of dividends and distributions. Of course, past performance, before and after taxes, does not indicate how the Fund will perform in the future.  Updated performance information is available on the Fund’s website at www.brandesinstitutionalfunds.com.

Separately Managed Account Reserve Trust Year-by-Year Total Returns as of December 31, 2012

Best Quarter	Q2	2009	20.91%
Worst Quarter	Q3	2008	-16.44%

Separately Managed Account Reserve Trust Average Annual Total Returns For periods ending December 31, 2012

Average Annual Returns	Average Annual Returns, 1 Year	Average Annual Returns, 5 Years	Average Annual Returns, Since Inception	Average Annual Returns, Inception Date
Brandes Separately Managed Account Reserve Trust	14.88%	7.27%	6.54%	Oct. 03, 2005
Brandes Separately Managed Account Reserve Trust After Taxes on Distributions	12.55%	4.43%	3.73%
Brandes Separately Managed Account Reserve Trust After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares	9.59%	4.42%	3.84%
Brandes Separately Managed Account Reserve Trust Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)	4.21%	5.95%	5.78%	Oct. 03, 2005
Brandes Separately Managed Account Reserve Trust Barclays Capital U.S. Intermediate Credit Bond Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)	8.10%	6.71%	6.10%	Oct. 03, 2005

After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes.  Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who are exempt from tax or hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.

[1] The Fund does not pay any management fees, advisory fees or expenses to the Advisor or affiliates of the Advisor. The amount under "Management fees" reflects the estimated amount of fees that would be attributable to advisory services if the Advisor charged the Fund for its services.

[2] Investors in the Fund must be clients of "wrap account" programs sponsored by broker-dealers which have an agreement with the Advisor, or certain other persons or entities. The Advisor has agreed to pay or reimburse all expenses of the Fund other than extraordinary expenses. See "Shareholder Information."

[3] The Fund does not pay any other ordinary expenses. The amount under "Other expenses" reflects the estimated amount of operating expenses of the Fund which would be paid if the fees were not paid by the Advisor.

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Brandes Credit Focus Yield Fund

Objective [Heading]

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Investment Objective

Objective, Primary [Text Block]

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The Brandes Credit Focus Yield Fund (the “Credit Focus Yield Fund”), seeks total return, consisting of both current income and capital appreciation.

Expense [Heading]

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Fees and Expenses of the Fund

Expense Narrative [Text Block]

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This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Credit Focus Yield Fund.  You may qualify for sales charge discounts if you or your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $25,000 in the Brandes Funds.  More information about these and other discounts is available from your financial professional and in the section titled “Shareholder Information” on page 22 of the Prospectus and “Additional Purchase and Redemption Information” on page B-77 of the Fund’s Statement of Additional Information.

Shareholder Fees Caption [Text]

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Operating Expenses Caption [Text]

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

Fee Waiver or Reimbursement over Assets, Date of Termination

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2014-01-31

Portfolio Turnover [Heading]

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Portfolio Turnover

Portfolio Turnover [Text Block]

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The Credit Focus Yield 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 annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.  During the most recent period from February 1, 2012 through September 30, 2012, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 162.73% of the average value of its portfolio.

Portfolio Turnover, Rate

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162.73%

Expense Breakpoint Discounts [Text]

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You may qualify for sales charge discounts if you or your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $25,000 in the Brandes Funds.

Expense Breakpoint, Minimum Investment Required [Amount]

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$ 25,000

Expense Example [Heading]

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Example

Expense Example Narrative [Text Block]

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This Example is intended to help you compare the costs of investing in the Credit Focus Yield 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 (taking into account the contractual expense limitation for 1 year).

Expense Example by, Year, Caption [Text]

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Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

Strategy [Heading]

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Principal Investment Strategies

Strategy Narrative [Text Block]

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Under normal market conditions, the Credit Focus Yield Fund invests primarily in debt securities issued by U.S. and foreign companies and debt obligations issued or guaranteed by the U.S. Government and foreign governments and their agencies and instrumentalities.  The Fund may also make investments in U.S. and foreign mortgage-backed securities, collateralized mortgage obligations, asset-backed debt securities and other forms of debt obligations and income producing securities, including but not limited to preferred stock, and loan participations and assignments.  The Credit Focus Yield Fund may invest up to 30% of its total fixed income assets, measured at the time of purchase, in non-U.S. dollar securities and may engage in currency hedging.  Brandes Investment Partners, L.P., the investment advisor (the “Advisor”), uses the principles of value investing to analyze and select debt Fund’s securities for the Credit Focus Yield Fund’s investment portfolio.  As part of this process, the Advisor reviews such measures as the issuer’s free cash flow, debt-to-equity ratio, earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (“EBITDA”)-to-interest ratio, debt-to-EBITDA ratio or other measures of credit worthiness in evaluating the securities of a particular issuer.

The Credit Focus Yield Fund may invest in instruments of any maturity or with no maturity and it may invest in both investment-grade securities and non-investment grade securities (also known as “high-yield bonds” or “junk bonds”).  (Up to 50% of the Fund’s total debt securities may be in junk bonds.)  The Credit Focus Yield Fund invests in securities that can be purchased at prices or yield premiums over U.S. Treasury securities (or other relatively risk free securities) which the Advisor believes to be attractive based on the Advisor’s assessment of each security’s intrinsic value.  The Advisor will typically sell a security from the Fund’s portfolio when the Advisor’s research process identifies a significantly better investment opportunity.  The Advisor may also sell certain portfolio securities from time to time in order to adjust the average maturity, duration or yield of the Fund’s portfolio or to meet requests for redemption of Fund shares.

Risk [Heading]

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Principal Investment Risks

Risk Narrative [Text Block]

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Because the values of the Credit Focus Yield Fund’s investments will fluctuate with market conditions, so will the value of your investment in the Fund.  You could lose money on your investment in the Credit Focus Yield Fund, or the Fund could underperform other investments.  Principal risks of the Fund are as follows:

· Bank Debt Risks – Investments in bank debt involve credit risk, interest rate risk, liquidity risk and other risks, including the risk that any loan collateral may become impaired or that the Fund may obtain less than the full value for the loan interests when sold.

· Credit Risks – Fixed income securities are subject to varying degrees of credit risk, which are often reflected in credit ratings.  The value of an issuer’s securities held by the Fund may decline in response to adverse developments with respect to the issuer.

· Interest Rate Risks – As with most fixed income funds, the income on and value of your shares in the Credit Focus Yield Fund will fluctuate along with interest rates. When interest rates rise, the market prices of the debt securities the Fund owns usually decline. When interest rates fall, the prices of these securities usually increase.

· Equity Market Risks – The Credit Focus Yield Fund may invest in preferred stocks.  The values of equity securities fluctuate in response to the activities of individual companies and general stock market and economic conditions.

· Foreign and Emerging Markets Securities Risks – Investing in foreign securities poses additional risks.  The performance of foreign securities can be adversely affected by the different political, regulatory and economic environments and other overall economic conditions in the countries where the Credit Focus Yield Fund invests.  Emerging markets countries involve greater risk and volatility than more developed markets.  Some emerging markets countries may have fixed or managed currencies that are not free-floating against the U.S. dollar.  Certain of these currencies may experience substantial fluctuations or steady devaluation relative to the U.S. dollar.

· Liquidity Risks – Liquidity risk exists when particular investments are difficult to purchase or sell.  The Fund’s investments in illiquid securities may reduce the return of the Fund because it may be unable to sell such illiquid securities at an advantageous time or price.  Illiquid securities may also be difficult to value.

· Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Securities Risks – Mortgage- and asset-backed securities may decline in value when defaults on the underlying mortgage or assets occur and may exhibit additional volatility in periods of changing interest rates.  When interest rates decline, the prepayment of mortgages or assets underlying such securities may require the Fund to reinvest that money at lower prevailing interest rates, resulting in reduced returns.

· Non-Investment Grade (Junk Bond) Securities Risks – Below investment grade debt securities (also known as “junk bonds”) are speculative and involve a greater risk of default and price change due to changes in the issuer’s creditworthiness.  The market prices of these debt securities may fluctuate more than the market prices of investment grade debt securities and may decline significantly in periods of general economic difficulty.

· Portfolio Turnover Risks – The Credit Focus Yield Fund is actively managed, which means that the Advisor may frequently buy and sell securities.  Frequent trading increases a Fund’s portfolio turnover rate and may increase transaction costs, such as brokerage commissions and taxes.  Increased transaction costs could detract from the Fund’s performance.

· U.S. Government Obligations Risks – U.S. Government obligations may be adversely impacted by changes in interest rates, and may not be backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government.

Risk Lose Money [Text]

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You could lose money on your investment in the Credit Focus Yield Fund, or the Fund could underperform other investments.

Bar Chart and Performance Table [Heading]

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Performance

Performance Narrative [Text Block]

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The following performance information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Credit Focus Yield Fund.  The bar chart below illustrates how the Fund’s total returns have varied from year to year.  The table below compares the Fund’s total return over time to a broad-based securities index.  The chart and table assume reinvestment of dividends and distributions.  Of course, past performance, before and after taxes, does not indicate how the Credit Focus Yield Fund will perform in the future.  Updated performance is available on the Fund’s website www.brandesfunds.com.

Performance Information Illustrates Variability of Returns [Text]

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The following performance information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Credit Focus Yield Fund.

Performance Availability Website Address [Text]

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www.brandesfunds.com

Performance Past Does Not Indicate Future [Text]

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Of course, past performance, before and after taxes, does not indicate how the Credit Focus Yield Fund will perform in the future.

Bar Chart [Heading]

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Brandes Credit Focus Yield Fund Year-by-Year Total Returns as of December 31, 2012 for Class I Shares

Bar Chart Closing [Text Block]

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Best Quarter	Q2	2009	17.43%
Worst Quarter	Q3	2008	-13.78%

Highest Quarterly Return, Label

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Best Quarter

Highest Quarterly Return, Date

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Jun. 30, 2009

Highest Quarterly Return

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17.43%

Lowest Quarterly Return, Label

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Worst Quarter

Lowest Quarterly Return, Date

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Sep. 30, 2008

Lowest Quarterly Return

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(13.78%)

Index No Deduction for Fees, Expenses, Taxes [Text]

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(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Performance Table Uses Highest Federal Rate

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After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes.

Performance Table Not Relevant to Tax Deferred

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Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who are exempt from tax or hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.

Performance Table One Class of after Tax Shown [Text]

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After-tax returns are shown for Class I shares only. After-tax returns for other Classes will vary.

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Performance information shown for Class I shares prior to February 1, 2012, is that of a private investment fund managed by the Advisor with policies, guidelines and restrictions that were, in all material respects, equivalent to those of the Fund.  Prior to January 31, 2013, Class A shares were known as Class S shares.  (Class A shares have the same operating expenses as Class S shares.)  Performance shown prior to the inception of Class A shares on February 1, 2012 reflects the performance of Class I shares, adjusted to reflect Class A sales loads.

After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes.  Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who are exempt from tax or hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.  After-tax returns are shown for Class I shares only.  After-tax returns for other Classes will vary.

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Brandes Credit Focus Yield Fund Average Annual Total Returns For periods ending December 31, 2012

Barclays U.S. Intermediate Credit Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Risk/Return:

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Average Annual Returns, 1 Year

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8.10%

Average Annual Returns, 5 Years

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6.71%

Average Annual Returns, 10 Years

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5.59%

Average Annual Returns, Since Inception

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6.59%

Class A

Risk/Return:

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

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3.75%

Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load)

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none

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Management Fees

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0.50%

Distribution (12b-1) Fees

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0.25%

Other Expenses

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1.85%

Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses

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2.60%

Less: Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement

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(1.65%)

Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement

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0.95%

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Expenses Deferred Charges [Text Block]

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Investments of $1 million or more are not subject to a front-end sales charge but generally will be subject to a deferred sales charge of 1.00% if redeemed within one year from the date of purchase.

Expense Example, with Redemption, 1 Year

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468

Expense Example, with Redemption, 3 Years

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1,002

Expense Example, with Redemption, 5 Years

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1,561

Expense Example, with Redemption, 10 Years

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3,081

Average Annual Returns, 1 Year

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5.79%

Average Annual Returns, 5 Years

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4.70%

Average Annual Returns, 10 Years

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6.43%

Average Annual Returns, Since Inception

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6.53%

Class I

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

Management Fees

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0.50%

Distribution (12b-1) Fees

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none

Other Expenses

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1.90%

Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses

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2.40%

Less: Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement

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(1.70%)

Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement

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0.70%

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Expense Example, with Redemption, 1 Year

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72

Expense Example, with Redemption, 3 Years

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585

Expense Example, with Redemption, 5 Years

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1,126

Expense Example, with Redemption, 10 Years

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$ 2,606

Annual Return 2003

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18.41%

Annual Return 2004

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8.59%

Annual Return 2005

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3.28%

Annual Return 2006

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9.36%

Annual Return 2007

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2.10%

Annual Return 2008

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(25.36%)

Annual Return 2009

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34.26%

Annual Return 2010

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14.05%

Annual Return 2011

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4.06%

Annual Return 2012

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10.37%

Average Annual Returns, 1 Year

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10.37%

Average Annual Returns, 5 Years

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5.59%

Average Annual Returns, 10 Years

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6.89%

Average Annual Returns, Since Inception

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6.89%

Class I | After Taxes on Distributions

Risk/Return:

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Average Annual Returns, 1 Year

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9.11%

Average Annual Returns, 5 Years

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5.35%

Average Annual Returns, 10 Years

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6.76%

Average Annual Returns, Since Inception

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6.80%

Class I | After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares

Risk/Return:

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Average Annual Returns, 1 Year

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6.77%

Average Annual Returns, 5 Years

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4.69%

Average Annual Returns, 10 Years

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6.01%

Average Annual Returns, Since Inception

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6.08%

[1] Investments of $1 million or more are not subject to a front-end sales charge but generally will be subject to a deferred sales charge of 1.00% if redeemed within one year from the date of purchase.

[2] The Advisor has contractually agreed to limit the Credit Focus Yield Fund's Class A and Class I annual operating expenses (excluding Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses, interest expense in connection with investment activities, taxes and extraordinary expenses), including repayment of previous waivers, to the following percentages of the Fund's average daily net assets attributable to the specific classes through January 31, 2014: 0.95% and 0.70%, respectively (the "Expense Caps"). The Expense Caps may be terminated at any time by the Board of Trustees upon 60 days notice to the Advisor, or by the Advisor with the consent of the Board. The Advisor is permitted, with Board approval, to be reimbursed for fee reductions and/or expense payments made in the prior three years with respect to any Class of the Fund. The Advisor may request reimbursement if the aggregate amount paid by the Fund toward operating expenses for the Class for the fiscal year (taking into account the reimbursement) does not exceed the Expense Cap with respect to such Class or any lower expense cap for the Class in effect at the time of the reimbursement.

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Brandes Credit Focus Yield Fund

Investment Objective

The Brandes Credit Focus Yield Fund (the “Credit Focus Yield Fund”), seeks total return, consisting of both current income and capital appreciation.

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 Credit Focus Yield Fund.  You may qualify for sales charge discounts if you or your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $25,000 in the Brandes Funds.  More information about these and other discounts is available from your financial professional and in the section titled “Shareholder Information” on page 22 of the Prospectus and “Additional Purchase and Redemption Information” on page B-77 of the Fund’s Statement of Additional Information.

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Shareholder Fees Brandes Credit Focus Yield Fund	Class A		Class I
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering price)	3.75%		none
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load)	none	[1]	none

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

Annual Fund Operating Expenses Brandes Credit Focus Yield Fund		Class A	Class I
Management Fees		0.50%	0.50%
Distribution (12b-1) Fees		0.25%	none
Other Expenses		1.85%	1.90%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses		2.60%	2.40%
Less: Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement		(1.65%)	(1.70%)
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement	[1]	0.95%	0.70%

Example

This Example is intended to help you compare the costs of investing in the Credit Focus Yield 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 (taking into account the contractual expense limitation for 1 year).

Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

Expense Example Brandes Credit Focus Yield Fund (USD $)	1 Year	3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
Class A	468	1,002	1,561	3,081
Class I	72	585	1,126	2,606

Portfolio Turnover

The Credit Focus Yield 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 annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.  During the most recent period from February 1, 2012 through September 30, 2012, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 162.73% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the Credit Focus Yield Fund invests primarily in debt securities issued by U.S. and foreign companies and debt obligations issued or guaranteed by the U.S. Government and foreign governments and their agencies and instrumentalities.  The Fund may also make investments in U.S. and foreign mortgage-backed securities, collateralized mortgage obligations, asset-backed debt securities and other forms of debt obligations and income producing securities, including but not limited to preferred stock, and loan participations and assignments.  The Credit Focus Yield Fund may invest up to 30% of its total fixed income assets, measured at the time of purchase, in non-U.S. dollar securities and may engage in currency hedging.  Brandes Investment Partners, L.P., the investment advisor (the “Advisor”), uses the principles of value investing to analyze and select debt Fund’s securities for the Credit Focus Yield Fund’s investment portfolio.  As part of this process, the Advisor reviews such measures as the issuer’s free cash flow, debt-to-equity ratio, earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (“EBITDA”)-to-interest ratio, debt-to-EBITDA ratio or other measures of credit worthiness in evaluating the securities of a particular issuer.

The Credit Focus Yield Fund may invest in instruments of any maturity or with no maturity and it may invest in both investment-grade securities and non-investment grade securities (also known as “high-yield bonds” or “junk bonds”).  (Up to 50% of the Fund’s total debt securities may be in junk bonds.)  The Credit Focus Yield Fund invests in securities that can be purchased at prices or yield premiums over U.S. Treasury securities (or other relatively risk free securities) which the Advisor believes to be attractive based on the Advisor’s assessment of each security’s intrinsic value.  The Advisor will typically sell a security from the Fund’s portfolio when the Advisor’s research process identifies a significantly better investment opportunity.  The Advisor may also sell certain portfolio securities from time to time in order to adjust the average maturity, duration or yield of the Fund’s portfolio or to meet requests for redemption of Fund shares.

Principal Investment Risks

Because the values of the Credit Focus Yield Fund’s investments will fluctuate with market conditions, so will the value of your investment in the Fund.  You could lose money on your investment in the Credit Focus Yield Fund, or the Fund could underperform other investments.  Principal risks of the Fund are as follows:

· Bank Debt Risks – Investments in bank debt involve credit risk, interest rate risk, liquidity risk and other risks, including the risk that any loan collateral may become impaired or that the Fund may obtain less than the full value for the loan interests when sold.

· Credit Risks – Fixed income securities are subject to varying degrees of credit risk, which are often reflected in credit ratings.  The value of an issuer’s securities held by the Fund may decline in response to adverse developments with respect to the issuer.

· Interest Rate Risks – As with most fixed income funds, the income on and value of your shares in the Credit Focus Yield Fund will fluctuate along with interest rates. When interest rates rise, the market prices of the debt securities the Fund owns usually decline. When interest rates fall, the prices of these securities usually increase.

· Equity Market Risks – The Credit Focus Yield Fund may invest in preferred stocks.  The values of equity securities fluctuate in response to the activities of individual companies and general stock market and economic conditions.

· Foreign and Emerging Markets Securities Risks – Investing in foreign securities poses additional risks.  The performance of foreign securities can be adversely affected by the different political, regulatory and economic environments and other overall economic conditions in the countries where the Credit Focus Yield Fund invests.  Emerging markets countries involve greater risk and volatility than more developed markets.  Some emerging markets countries may have fixed or managed currencies that are not free-floating against the U.S. dollar.  Certain of these currencies may experience substantial fluctuations or steady devaluation relative to the U.S. dollar.

· Liquidity Risks – Liquidity risk exists when particular investments are difficult to purchase or sell.  The Fund’s investments in illiquid securities may reduce the return of the Fund because it may be unable to sell such illiquid securities at an advantageous time or price.  Illiquid securities may also be difficult to value.

· Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Securities Risks – Mortgage- and asset-backed securities may decline in value when defaults on the underlying mortgage or assets occur and may exhibit additional volatility in periods of changing interest rates.  When interest rates decline, the prepayment of mortgages or assets underlying such securities may require the Fund to reinvest that money at lower prevailing interest rates, resulting in reduced returns.

· Non-Investment Grade (Junk Bond) Securities Risks – Below investment grade debt securities (also known as “junk bonds”) are speculative and involve a greater risk of default and price change due to changes in the issuer’s creditworthiness.  The market prices of these debt securities may fluctuate more than the market prices of investment grade debt securities and may decline significantly in periods of general economic difficulty.

· Portfolio Turnover Risks – The Credit Focus Yield Fund is actively managed, which means that the Advisor may frequently buy and sell securities.  Frequent trading increases a Fund’s portfolio turnover rate and may increase transaction costs, such as brokerage commissions and taxes.  Increased transaction costs could detract from the Fund’s performance.

· U.S. Government Obligations Risks – U.S. Government obligations may be adversely impacted by changes in interest rates, and may not be backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government.

Performance

The following performance information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Credit Focus Yield Fund.  The bar chart below illustrates how the Fund’s total returns have varied from year to year.  The table below compares the Fund’s total return over time to a broad-based securities index.  The chart and table assume reinvestment of dividends and distributions.  Of course, past performance, before and after taxes, does not indicate how the Credit Focus Yield Fund will perform in the future.  Updated performance is available on the Fund’s website www.brandesfunds.com.

Brandes Credit Focus Yield Fund Year-by-Year Total Returns as of December 31, 2012 for Class I Shares

Best Quarter	Q2	2009	17.43%
Worst Quarter	Q3	2008	-13.78%

Brandes Credit Focus Yield Fund Average Annual Total Returns For periods ending December 31, 2012

Average Annual Returns Brandes Credit Focus Yield Fund	Average Annual Returns, 1 Year	Average Annual Returns, 5 Years	Average Annual Returns, 10 Years	Average Annual Returns, Since Inception
Class A	5.79%	4.70%	6.43%	6.53%
Class I	10.37%	5.59%	6.89%	6.89%
After Taxes on Distributions Class I	9.11%	5.35%	6.76%	6.80%
After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares Class I	6.77%	4.69%	6.01%	6.08%
Barclays U.S. Intermediate Credit Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)	8.10%	6.71%	5.59%	6.59%

Performance information shown for Class I shares prior to February 1, 2012, is that of a private investment fund managed by the Advisor with policies, guidelines and restrictions that were, in all material respects, equivalent to those of the Fund.  Prior to January 31, 2013, Class A shares were known as Class S shares.  (Class A shares have the same operating expenses as Class S shares.)  Performance shown prior to the inception of Class A shares on February 1, 2012 reflects the performance of Class I shares, adjusted to reflect Class A sales loads.

After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes.  Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who are exempt from tax or hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.  After-tax returns are shown for Class I shares only.  After-tax returns for other Classes will vary.

[1] Investments of $1 million or more are not subject to a front-end sales charge but generally will be subject to a deferred sales charge of 1.00% if redeemed within one year from the date of purchase.

[1] The Advisor has contractually agreed to limit the Credit Focus Yield Fund's Class A and Class I annual operating expenses (excluding Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses, interest expense in connection with investment activities, taxes and extraordinary expenses), including repayment of previous waivers, to the following percentages of the Fund's average daily net assets attributable to the specific classes through January 31, 2014: 0.95% and 0.70%, respectively (the "Expense Caps"). The Expense Caps may be terminated at any time by the Board of Trustees upon 60 days notice to the Advisor, or by the Advisor with the consent of the Board. The Advisor is permitted, with Board approval, to be reimbursed for fee reductions and/or expense payments made in the prior three years with respect to any Class of the Fund. The Advisor may request reimbursement if the aggregate amount paid by the Fund toward operating expenses for the Class for the fiscal year (taking into account the reimbursement) does not exceed the Expense Cap with respect to such Class or any lower expense cap for the Class in effect at the time of the reimbursement.

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The Separately Managed Account Reserve Trust (the “Fund”) seeks to maximize long-term total return.

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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 annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.  During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 27.44% of the average value of its portfolio.

Portfolio Turnover, Rate

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Example

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This Example illustrates the amount of expenses you could incur if the Advisor charged the Fund for its services.  This Example is intended to help you compare the costs 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.

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Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

Strategy [Heading]

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Principal Investment Strategies

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The Fund invests primarily in a diversified portfolio of debt securities. These include debt obligations issued or guaranteed by the U.S. Government and foreign governments and their agencies and instrumentalities, debt securities issued by U.S. and foreign companies, collateralized mortgage obligations, and U.S. and foreign mortgage-backed and asset-backed debt securities.  The Fund may invest up to 60% of its total assets in non-U.S. dollar securities, and may engage in currency hedging.  Brandes Investment Partners, L.P., the investment advisor to the Fund (the “Advisor”), generally uses the principles of value investing to analyze and select debt securities for the Fund’s investment portfolio.  As part of this process, the Advisor reviews such measures as the issuer’s free cash flow, debt-to-equity ratio, earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (“EBITDA”)-to-interest ratio, debt-to-EBITDA ratio, or other measures of credit worthiness in evaluating the securities of a particular issuer.

The Fund may invest in debt instruments of any maturity or with no maturity and it may invest in both investment-grade securities and non-investment grade securities (also known as “high-yield bonds” or “junk bonds”).  (Up to 60% of the Fund’s total debt securities may be in junk bonds.) The Fund invests in debt securities that can be purchased at prices or yield premiums over U.S. Treasury securities (or other relatively risk free securities) which the Advisor believes to be attractive based on the Advisor’s assessment of each security’s intrinsic value.  The Advisor will typically sell a security from the Fund’s portfolio when the Advisor’s research process identifies a significantly better investment opportunity.  The Advisor may also sell certain portfolio securities from time to time in order to adjust the average maturity, duration or yield of the Fund’s portfolio or to meet requirements for redemption of Fund shares.

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Principal Investment Risks

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Because the values of the Fund’s investments will fluctuate with market conditions, so will the value of your investment in the Fund.  You could lose money on your investment in the Fund, or the Fund could underperform other investments.  Principal risks of the Fund are as follows:

· Credit Risk – Fixed income securities are subject to varying degrees of credit risk, which are often reflected in credit ratings.  The value of an issuer’s securities held by the Fund may decline in response to adverse developments with respect to the issuer.

· Currency Risks – Because the Fund invests in securities denominated in foreign currencies, the U.S. dollar values of its investments fluctuate as a result of changes in foreign exchange rates.  Such changes will also affect the Fund’s income.

· Interest Rate Risk – As with most fixed income funds, the income on and value of your shares in the Fund will fluctuate along with interest rates.  When interest rates rise, the market prices of the debt securities the Fund owns usually decline.  When interest rates fall, the prices of these securities usually increase.

· Foreign and Emerging MarketsSecurities Risk – Investing in foreign securities poses additional risks.  The performance of foreign securities can be adversely affected by the different political, regulatory and economic environments and other overall economic conditions in the countries where the issuers of these securities are located.  Emerging markets countries involve greater risk and volatility than more developed markets.  Some emerging markets countries may have fixed or managed currencies that are not free-floating against the U.S. dollar.  Certain of these currencies may experience substantial fluctuations or steady devaluation relative to the U.S. dollar.

· Liquidity Risk – Liquidity risk exists when particular investments are difficult to purchase or sell.  Illiquid securities may also be difficult to value.The Fund’s investments in illiquid securities may reduce the return of the Fund because it may be unable to sell such illiquid securities at an advantageous time or price.

· Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Securities Risk – Mortgage- and asset-backed securities may decline in value when defaults on the underlying mortgages or assets occur and may exhibit additional volatility in periods of changing interest rates.  When interest rates decline, the prepayment of mortgages or assets underlying such securities may require the Fund to reinvest that money at lower prevailing interest rates, resulting in reduced returns.

· Non-Investment Grade (Junk Bond) Securities Risk – Below investment grade debt securities (commonly known as “high yield bonds” or “junk bonds”) are speculative and involve a greater risk of default and price change due to changes in the issuer’s creditworthiness.  The market prices of these debt securities may fluctuate more than the market prices of investment grade debt securities and may decline significantly in periods of general economic difficulty.

· Portfolio Turnover Risk – The Fund is actively managed, which means that the Advisor may frequently buy and sell securities.  Frequent trading increases a Fund’s portfolio turnover rate and may increase transaction costs, such as brokerage commissions and taxes.  Increased transaction costs could detract from the Fund’s performance.

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The following information shows you how the Fund has performed and provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing how its performance has varied from year to year.  The bar chart shows changes in the yearly performance of the Fund since its inception.  The table below compares the Fund’s total return over time to broad-based indices.  The chart and table assume reinvestment of dividends and distributions. Of course, past performance, before and after taxes, does not indicate how the Fund will perform in the future.  Updated performance information is available on the Fund’s website at www.brandesinstitutionalfunds.com.

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The following information shows you how the Fund has performed and provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing how its performance has varied from year to year.

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Separately Managed Account Reserve Trust Year-by-Year Total Returns as of December 31, 2012

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Best Quarter	Q2	2009	20.91%
Worst Quarter	Q3	2008	-16.44%

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Best Quarter

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Highest Quarterly Return

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20.91%

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Worst Quarter

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Sep. 30, 2008

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(16.44%)

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Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who are exempt from tax or hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.

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After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes.  Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who are exempt from tax or hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.

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Separately Managed Account Reserve Trust Average Annual Total Returns For periods ending December 31, 2012

Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

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Average Annual Returns, 1 Year

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4.21%

Average Annual Returns, 5 Years

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5.95%

Average Annual Returns, Since Inception

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5.78%

Average Annual Returns, Inception Date

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Oct. 03, 2005

Barclays Capital U.S. Intermediate Credit Bond Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

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Average Annual Returns, 1 Year

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8.10%

Average Annual Returns, 5 Years

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6.71%

Average Annual Returns, Since Inception

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6.10%

Average Annual Returns, Inception Date

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Oct. 03, 2005

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0.55%

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0.32%

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0.87%

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none

Expense Example, with Redemption, 1 Year

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89

Expense Example, with Redemption, 3 Years

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278

Expense Example, with Redemption, 5 Years

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482

Expense Example, with Redemption, 10 Years

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1,073

Annual Return 2006

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11.00%

Annual Return 2007

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0.55%

Annual Return 2008

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(30.43%)

Annual Return 2009

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42.59%

Annual Return 2010

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18.97%

Annual Return 2011

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4.75%

Annual Return 2012

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14.88%

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14.88%

Average Annual Returns, 5 Years

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7.27%

Average Annual Returns, Since Inception

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6.54%

Average Annual Returns, Inception Date

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Oct. 03, 2005

Brandes Separately Managed Account Reserve Trust | After Taxes on Distributions

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Average Annual Returns, 1 Year

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12.55%

Average Annual Returns, 5 Years

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4.43%

Average Annual Returns, Since Inception

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3.73%

Brandes Separately Managed Account Reserve Trust | After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares

Risk/Return:

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Average Annual Returns, 1 Year

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9.59%

Average Annual Returns, 5 Years

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4.42%

Average Annual Returns, Since Inception

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3.84%

[1] The Fund does not pay any management fees, advisory fees or expenses to the Advisor or affiliates of the Advisor. The amount under "Management fees" reflects the estimated amount of fees that would be attributable to advisory services if the Advisor charged the Fund for its services.

[2] Investors in the Fund must be clients of "wrap account" programs sponsored by broker-dealers which have an agreement with the Advisor, or certain other persons or entities. The Advisor has agreed to pay or reimburse all expenses of the Fund other than extraordinary expenses. See "Shareholder Information."

[3] The Fund does not pay any other ordinary expenses. The amount under "Other expenses" reflects the estimated amount of operating expenses of the Fund which would be paid if the fees were not paid by the Advisor.

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