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O'Shaughnessy Emerging Markets Fund
O'Shaughnessy Emerging Markets Fund
Investment Objective
The O’Shaughnessy Emerging Markets Fund’s (the “Emerging Markets Fund”) investment objective is to seek long-term 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 Emerging Markets Fund.
SHAREHOLDER FEES (fees paid directly from your investment)
Shareholder Fees
O'Shaughnessy Emerging Markets Fund
Class I Shares
Redemption Fee (as a percentage of amount redeemed on shares held for 90 days or less) 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
O'Shaughnessy Emerging Markets Fund
Class I Shares
Management Fees 0.80%
Distribution (Rule 12b-1) Fees none
Other Expenses (includes Shareholder Servicing Plan Fees) 2.00% [1]
Shareholder Servicing Plan Fees 0.25%
Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses 0.01% [1]
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 2.81%
Less: Fee Waiver and Expense Reimbursement (1.61%) [2]
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and Expense Reimbursement 1.20%
[1] Other Expenses and Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses ("AFFE") are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.
[2] O'Shaughnessy Asset Management, LLC (the "Adviser") has contractually agreed to waive all or a portion of its management fees and pay expenses of the Fund to ensure that Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses (excluding AFFE, interest, taxes and extraordinary expenses) do not exceed 1.19% of average daily net assets of the Fund's Class I shares (the "Expense Cap"). The Expense Cap will remain in effect through at least November 27, 2016, and may be terminated only by the Trust's Board of Trustees (the "Board"). The Adviser may request recoupment of previously waived fees and paid expenses from the Fund for three years from the date they were waived or paid, subject to the Expense Cap.
Example
This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Emerging Markets Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds.  The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your shares at the end of those periods.  The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same (taking into account the Expense Cap only in the first year).
Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions, your costs would be:
Expense Example
1 Year
3 Years
O'Shaughnessy Emerging Markets Fund | Class I Shares | USD ($) 122 718
Portfolio Turnover
The Emerging Markets 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.  As the Fund is new, it does not have any portfolio turnover as of the date of this Prospectus.
Principal Investment Strategies of the Fund
Under normal market conditions, the Emerging Markets Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (including any borrowings for investment purposes) in a diversified portfolio of common stocks and other equity securities of issuers in emerging markets, as defined by the Morgan Stanley Capital International (“MSCI”) Emerging Markets Index.  Emerging markets issuers are determined on the basis of an issuer’s domicile or location of headquarters (as determined by the Adviser from publicly available data sources at the time of purchase).  The Fund may invest in companies of any size.  The Fund may from time to time emphasize investment in certain countries or sectors of the market.  The Fund’s investments may include securities in both growth and value style investing.

The Emerging Markets Fund invests primarily in common stocks and other equity securities, including preferred stocks, convertible securities, rights and warrants to purchase common stock and depositary receipts.  The Fund may invest up to 10% of its total assets in REITs and emerging real estate companies.  The Fund may invest up to 15% of its total assets in other investment companies, including non-money market mutual funds and ETFs.  The Fund may also invest in participation notes (“P-Notes”) as a primary investment strategy.  P-Notes are a type of equity-linked derivative which generally are traded over-the-counter.  The Fund may purchase and sell certain derivative instruments, such as futures contracts and currency-related transactions involving futures contracts and forward contracts for the sole purpose of hedging currency risk.  The Fund may hedge up to 100% of the portfolio’s currency exposure to mitigate risks at the discretion of the portfolio management team.   The Adviser expects that the Fund’s investment strategy may result in a portfolio turnover rate in excess of 100% on an annual basis.

The Adviser employs a proprietary quantitatively-driven approach to security selection based on research and analysis of historical data.  The Adviser screens securities for attractive growth, value and yield characteristics using a factor-based model.  In selecting value securities, the Adviser evaluates factors that may include, but are not limited to, attractive valuations, strong financial strength and earnings quality, market capitalization and volume.  In selecting growth securities, the Adviser evaluates factors that may include, but are not limited to, superior momentum, fair valuations, strong financial strength and earnings quality, market capitalization and volume.  In selecting high yielding securities, the Adviser evaluates factors that may include, but are not limited to, superior dividend yield, fair valuations, strong financial strength and earnings quality, market capitalization and volume.  The Adviser may eliminate or substitute factors at its discretion.  Portfolio securities may be sold generally upon periodic rebalancings of the Emerging Markets Fund’s portfolio.  The Adviser considers the same factors it uses in evaluating a security for purchase and generally sells securities when it believes such securities no longer meet its investment criteria.

The Fund may also invest up to 100% of the Fund’s total assets in cash, cash equivalents, and high-quality, short-term debt securities money market mutual funds and money market instruments for temporary defensive purposes.
Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund
Losing all or a portion of your investment is a risk of investing in the Emerging Markets Fund.  The following principal risks could affect the value of your investment:

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Market Risk and Equity Risks. The market value of securities owned by the Emerging Markets Fund may decline.  Investments in common stocks and other equity securities generally are affected by changes in the stock markets, which fluctuate substantially over time, sometimes suddenly and sharply.  The values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates rise and, because of the conversion feature, tend to vary with fluctuations in the market value of the underlying equity security.

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Management Risk. The Emerging Markets Fund is an actively managed portfolio.  The Adviser’s management practices and investment strategies might not work to meet the Fund’s investment objective.

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Emerging Market Risk.  There is an increased risk of price volatility associated with emerging market countries, which may be magnified by currency fluctuations relative to the U.S. dollar.

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Foreign Securities Risk.  The risks of investing in the securities of foreign issuers, including emerging market issuers and depositary receipts, can include fluctuations in foreign currencies, foreign currency exchange controls, political and economic instability, differences in securities regulation and trading, and foreign taxation issues.  These risks are greater in emerging markets.

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Foreign Currency Risk.  Currency movements may negatively impact value even when there is no change in value of the security in the issuer’s home country.  Currency management strategies, including forward currency contracts, may substantially change the Emerging Markets Fund’s exposure to currency exchange rates and could result in losses to the Fund if currencies do not perform as the Adviser expects.

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Small- and Medium-Sized Company Risk.  Small- and medium-sized companies often have less predictable earnings, more limited product lines, markets, distribution channels or financial resources and the management of such companies may be dependent upon one or few key people.  The market movements of equity securities of small- and medium-sized companies may be more abrupt and volatile than the market movements of equity securities of larger, more established companies or the stock market in general and small-sized companies in particular, are generally less liquid than the equity securities of larger companies.

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Sector Risk.  To the extent the Emerging Markets Fund invests a significant portion of its assets in the securities of companies in the same sector of the market, the Fund is more susceptible to economic, political, regulatory and other occurrences influencing those sectors.

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Country Risk.  When the Emerging Markets Fund invests a significant portion of assets in one country or region, this makes the Fund more dependent upon the economic, political, regulatory and other circumstances of that particular country or region than a Fund that is more widely diversified.

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REITs and Foreign Real Estate Companies Risk.  Investing in REITs and foreign real estate companies makes the Emerging Markets Fund more susceptible to risks associated with the ownership of real estate and with the real estate industry in general, as well as tax compliance risks, and may involve duplication of management fees and other expenses.  REITs and foreign real estate companies may be less diversified than other pools of securities, may have lower trading volumes and may be subject to more abrupt or erratic price movements than the overall securities markets.

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Investment Company Risk.  When the Emerging Markets Fund invests in an ETF or mutual fund, it will bear additional expenses based on its pro rata share of the ETF’s or mutual Fund’s operating expenses, including the potential duplication of management fees.  The risk of owning an ETF or mutual fund generally reflects the risks of owning the underlying securities the ETF or mutual fund holds.  The Fund also will incur brokerage costs when it purchases ETFs.

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Derivative Transactions Risk.  Risks of derivatives include the possible imperfect correlation between the value of the instruments and the underlying assets; risks of default by the other party to the transaction; risks that the transactions may result in losses that partially or completely offset gains in portfolio positions; and risks that the instruments may not be liquid.

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P-Note Risk.  Even though a P-Note is intended to reflect the performance of the underlying equity security, the performance of a P-Note will not replicate exactly the performance of the issuers or markets that the P-Note seeks to replicate due to transaction costs and other expenses.  In addition, P-Notes are subject to counterparty risk, which is the risk that the broker-dealer or bank that issues the P-Notes will not fulfill its contractual obligation to complete the transaction with the Emerging Markets Fund.

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Growth Stock Risk.  The risk that growth style companies lose value or move out of favor.  Growth style companies also may be more sensitive to changes in current or expected earnings than the prices of other stocks.

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Value Stock Risk.  Value stocks can perform differently from the market as a whole and from other types of stocks.  Value stocks may be purchased based upon the belief that a given security may be out of favor; that belief may be misplaced or the security may stay out of favor for an extended period of time.

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Portfolio Turnover Risk.  The Emerging Markets Fund’s investment process is expected to result in a high portfolio turnover rate.  A high portfolio turnover rate (100% or more) has the potential to result in the realization and distribution to shareholders of higher capital gains, which may subject you to a higher tax liability.  High portfolio turnover also necessarily results in greater transaction costs which may reduce Fund performance.

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New Fund Risk. The Emerging Markets Fund is new with no operating history and there can be no assurance that the Fund will grow to or maintain an economically viable size, in which case the Board may determine to liquidate the Fund.
Performance
When the Emerging Markets Fund has been in operation for a full calendar year, performance information will be shown here.  Updated performance information will be available on the Fund’s website at www.osfunds.com or by calling the Fund toll-free at 1-877-291-7827.