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O'Shaughnessy Market Leaders Value Fund
O'Shaughnessy Market Leaders Value Fund
Investment Objective
The O’Shaughnessy Market Leaders Value Fund’s (the “Value Fund”) investment objective is to seek long-term capital appreciation and current income.
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 Value Fund.
SHAREHOLDER FEES (fees paid directly from your investment)
Shareholder Fees
O'Shaughnessy Market Leaders Value Fund
Class I
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 Market Leaders Value Fund
Class I
Management Fees 0.55%
Other Expenses 0.65%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 1.20%
Less: Fee Waiver and Expense Reimbursement (0.55%) [1]
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and Expense Reimbursement 0.65%
[1] O'Shaughnessy Asset Management, LLC (the "Adviser") has agreed to temporarily pay for all operating expenses (excluding acquired fund fees and expenses ("AFFE"), interest, taxes and extraordinary expenses) incurred by the Value Fund to the extent necessary to limit Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses for the Fund to 0.65% of the average daily net assets of the Class I shares through at least November 27, 2018 (the "expense limitation"). The expense limitation may be discontinued at any time after November 27, 2018. The Adviser may not recoup amounts subject to the expense limitation in future periods.
Example
This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Value Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your shares at the end of those periods. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same (taking into account the expense limitation only in the first year).
Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions, your costs would be:
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O'Shaughnessy Market Leaders Value Fund | Class I | USD ($) 66 326 607 1,406
Portfolio Turnover
The Value 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 Value Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 63.30% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies of the Fund
Under normal market conditions, the Value Fund invests primarily in a diversified portfolio of common stocks and other equity securities of companies of all sizes, including but not limited to, American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”), preferred stocks, limited partnerships, and convertible securities. The Adviser employs a bottom-up, quantitative, factor-based approach to security selection based on research and analysis of historical data. The Adviser may eliminate or substitute factors at its discretion. Portfolio securities may be sold generally upon periodic rebalancings of the Fund’s portfolio. For selling decisions, 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 from time to time emphasize investment in certain sectors of the market.

The Adviser screens securities using a factor-based model that seeks to identify market leading companies by analysis of a number of factors including, but not limited to, low valuations, strong financial strength, conservative earnings reporting (earnings quality), strong earnings growth, market capitalization and volume. The Value Fund selects companies that offer a strong “shareholder yield” – the combination of dividend yield and the rate at which the company is buying back shares of its stock – at the time of initial purchase. While stocks often have both a strong dividend yield and a high rate of share repurchases, that may not always be the case. An individual stock may be deemed to be attractive even if its entire shareholder yield is generated from either dividends or share repurchases. Due to ongoing research, the Adviser may modify the characteristics utilized in the investment strategy, without prior notice to shareholders, in order to better achieve the investment objective.

The Value Fund will primarily invest in common stocks of U.S. issuers but may also invest up to 20% of its total assets in common stocks of foreign securities and issuers, which may also include issuers located in emerging markets and frontier markets, also known as “pre-emerging markets,” as defined by countries listed on the Morgan Stanley Capital International (“MSCI”) Emerging Markets Index and/or the MSCI Frontier Markets Index. The Fund may also invest up to 20% of its total assets in depositary receipts of foreign based companies (i.e. ADRs, European Depositary Receipts (“EDRs”), and Global Depositary Receipts (“GDRs”), etc.) whose common stock is not itself listed on a U.S. exchange. Depositary receipts may be purchased through “sponsored” or “unsponsored” facilities. A sponsored facility is established jointly by the issuer of the underlying security and a depositary, whereas a depositary may establish an unsponsored facility without participation by the issuer of the depositary security. The Fund may invest up to 10% of its total assets in other investment companies, including exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”).

The Value 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. The Fund may also invest up to 50% of its total assets in ETFs that are aligned with the Fund’s principal investment strategies, 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 Value Fund. The following principal risks could affect the value of your investment:

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General Market Risk. Economies and financial markets throughout the world are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the likelihood that events or conditions in one country or region will adversely impact markets or issuers in other countries or regions.

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Equity Risk. The market value of securities owned by the Value 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.

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Management Risk. The Value 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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Foreign Securities and Emerging Markets Risk. The risks of investing in the securities of foreign issuers, including 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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Frontier Markets Risk. There is an additional increased risk of price volatility associated with frontier market countries (pre-emerging markets), which may be further magnified by currency fluctuations relative to the U.S. dollar. Frontier market countries generally have smaller economies or less developed capital markets than in more advanced emerging markets and, as a result, the risks of investing in emerging market countries may be magnified in frontier market countries.

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Large-Sized Companies Risk. Larger, more established companies may be unable to respond quickly to new competitive challenges like changes in consumer tastes or innovative smaller competitors. In addition, large-cap companies are sometimes unable to attain the high growth rates of successful, smaller companies, especially during extended periods of economic expansion.

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Small- and Medium-Sized Companies 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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Depositary Receipt Risk. The Value Fund’s equity investments may take the form of sponsored or unsponsored depositary receipts. Holders of unsponsored depositary receipts generally bear all the costs of such facilities and the depositary of an unsponsored facility frequently is under no obligation to distribute shareholder communications received from the issuer of the deposited security or to pass through voting rights to the holders of such receipts of the deposited securities.

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Value Style Investing Risk. At times when the value investing style is out of favor, the Fund may underperform other funds that use different investing styles. 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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Sector Risk. To the extent the Value 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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Newer Fund Risk. The Value Fund is newer with limited 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.

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Investment Company Risk. When the Value 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.
Performance
When the Value Fund has been in operation for a full calendar year, performance information will be shown here.   Updated performance information is available by calling 1-877-291-7827 or by visiting www.osfunds.com.