497K 1 d588017d497k.htm UBS ULTRA SHORT INCOME FUND CLASS I UBS Ultra Short Income Fund Class I

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UBS Ultra Short Income Fund

Summary Prospectus  |  May 25, 2018

 

Before you invest, you may want to review the fund’s prospectus and statement of additional information (“SAI”), which contain more information about the fund and its risks. You can find the fund’s prospectus, SAI and other information about the fund online at www.ubs.com/usshortduration. You can also get this information at no cost by calling 1-800-647 1568. The current prospectus and SAI, dated May 25, 2018, are incorporated by reference into this summary prospectus (i.e., they are legally a part of this summary prospectus).

 

Investment objective

To provide current income while seeking to maintain low volatility of principal.

Fees and expenses

These tables describe 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)

 

      Class I    
Maximum front-end sales charge (load) imposed on purchases
(as a % of the offering price)
     None      
Maximum deferred sales charge (load) (as a % of the lesser of the offering or the redemption price)      None      
Exchange fee      None      

 

 

Annual fund operating expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

 

      Class I    
Management fees      0.20
Distribution and/or service (12b-1) fees      None  
Other expenses (includes administration fee of 0.10%)1      0.39  
Total annual fund operating expenses      0.59  
Management fee waiver/expense reimbursements2      0.36  
Total annual fund operating expenses after fee waiver and/or expense reimbursements2      0.23  

 

1  “Other expenses” are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.
2  The fund and UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc. (“UBS AM”) have entered into a written fee waiver/expense reimbursement agreement pursuant to which UBS AM is contractually obligated to waive its management fee and/or reimburse expenses so that the fund’s ordinary total operating expenses through August 31, 2019 (excluding dividend expense, borrowing costs, and interest expense relating to short sales, and expenses attributable to investment in other investment companies, interest, taxes, brokerage commissions and extraordinary expenses)
  would not exceed 0.23% for Class I. The fund has agreed to repay UBS AM for any waived fees/reimbursed expenses to the extent that it can do so over the following three fiscal years without causing the fund’s expenses in any of those three years to exceed this expense cap and that UBS AM has not waived the right to do so. The fee waiver/expense reimbursement agreement may be terminated by the fund’s board at any time and also will terminate automatically upon the expiration or termination of the fund’s advisory contract with UBS AM. Upon termination of the agreement, however, UBS AM’s three year recoupment rights will survive.

Example

This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your shares at the end of those periods unless otherwise stated. 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:

 

      1 year    3 years    5 years    10 years
Class I      24        153        293        703  

 

* Except that the expenses reflect the effects of the fund’s fee waiver/expense reimbursement agreement for the first year only.

Portfolio turnover

The fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions or dealer spreads, 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

 

 

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fund’s performance. Because the fund has not yet commenced operations as of the date of this prospectus, no portfolio turnover rate information is available.

Principal strategies

Principal investments

Under normal circumstances, the fund invests in fixed income securities and money market instruments. The fund’s investments in securities may include, but are not limited to, government obligations including agencies, debt issued by government-sponsored and supranational entities, as well as municipal securities, corporate debt, mortgage-backed, asset-backed, and inflation-linked securities. Investments in money market instruments may include, but are not limited to, commercial paper (including asset-backed commercial paper), certificates of deposit, notes, time deposits, repurchase agreements and other money market securities. The fund may invest in money market funds, including those advised by UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc. (“UBS AM”), the fund’s investment advisor.

The fund may invest in securities of any maturity, but will generally limit its weighted average portfolio duration to one year or less.

The fund normally invests in investment grade securities. Investment grade securities possess a minimum rating of Baa3 by Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. (“Moody’s”) or BBB- by Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC (“S&P”) or Fitch Ratings, Inc. (“Fitch”) for long-term ratings and/or equivalent short-term ratings, comparably rated by another nationally recognized statistical rating organization, or, if unrated, are determined by UBS AM to be of comparable quality. The fund may at times hold securities rated below-investment-grade if the rating for a security held by the fund is subsequently reduced to below-investment-grade (commonly referred to as “junk bonds,” which are considered speculative in nature).

The fund’s investments may have all types of interest rate payment and reset terms, including floating or variable rate, zero coupon and other features. In addition, the fixed income securities purchased by the fund may be of US and non-US issuers. The fund’s investments are typically denominated in US dollars or hedged to US dollars.

The fund will, under normal circumstances, invest more than 25% of its total assets in the financial services group of industries.

The fund may engage in derivatives transactions; however, it is not a principal strategy of the fund. Derivatives instruments such as futures, forwards, options, and/or swaps may be used for risk management purposes or as part of the fund’s investment strategies.

 

The fund is not a money market fund and does not seek to maintain a stable net asset value (“NAV”). The fund should not be considered to be a money market fund or the equivalent of a money market fund.

Management process

UBS AM acts as the investment advisor to the fund, and makes the fund’s investment decisions. UBS AM selects investments for the fund based on a rigorous valuation and research framework, combining top-down macroeconomic and quantitative research with issuer level credit analysis. This dynamic approach allows UBS AM to exploit diversified sources of return, which UBS AM believes is key to delivering consistent performance over time.

The top-down process involves formulation of broad investment views and views regarding macroeconomic trends. UBS AM’s views on the direction of interest rates, yield curve shape, sectors, and volatility help formulate final portfolio positioning.

After UBS AM establishes the top-down strategy, the portfolio management team, working closely with UBS AM’s research analysts, builds portfolios that combines top-down allocation targets with bottom-up security specific strategies. Research is a fundamental component of UBS AM’s globally integrated investment platform and consists of top-down macroeconomic analysis as well as bottom-up sector and issuer level research. UBS AM uses rigorous credit/structure analysis and relative pricing to choose securities that it believes have superior risk/return characteristics. The ultimate goal of any purchase decision is to be compensated for a given level of risk. Prudent diversification seeks to ensure an appropriate risk/return relationship. Security selection represents the final level of decision-making in our investment process. UBS AM selects individual securities that it believes will give the portfolio the desired exposures with optimal relative value. UBS AM integrates risk management throughout the investment process.

UBS AM considers safety of principal and liquidity in selecting securities for the fund and thus may not buy securities that pay the highest yield. The fund may sell investments that UBS AM believes are no longer favorable with regard to these factors or for other reasons.

Principal risks

All investments carry a certain amount of risk, and the fund cannot guarantee that it will achieve its investment objective. The prices for the fund’s shares will fluctuate, and you may lose money by investing in the fund. An investment in the fund is not a bank deposit and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The principal risks presented by an investment in the fund are:

 

 

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Credit risk: The risk that the fund could lose money if the issuer or guarantor of a fixed income security is unable or unwilling to meet its financial obligations. This risk is likely greater for lower quality investments than for investments that are higher quality.

Concentration risk: The fund will invest a significant portion of its assets in securities issued by companies in the financial services group of industries or sectors, including US banking, non-US banking, broker-dealers, insurance companies, finance companies (e.g., automobile finance) and related asset-backed securities. Accordingly, the fund will be more susceptible to developments that affect those industries than other funds that do not concentrate their investments.

Derivatives risk: The value of derivatives—so called because their value derives from the value of an underlying asset, reference rate or index—may rise or fall more rapidly than other investments. It is possible for the fund to lose more than the amount it invested in the derivative. When using derivatives for hedging purposes, the fund’s overall returns may be reduced if the hedged investment experiences a favorable price movement. In addition, if the fund has insufficient cash to meet daily variation margin or payment requirements, it may have to sell securities from its portfolio at a time when it may be disadvantageous to do so. The risks of investing in derivative instruments also include market and management risks. Derivatives relating to fixed income markets are especially susceptible to interest rate risk and credit risk. In addition, many types of swaps and other derivatives may be subject to liquidity risk, counterparty risk, credit risk and mispricing or valuation complexity. Derivatives also involve the risk that changes in the value of a derivative may not correlate as anticipated with the underlying asset, rate, index or overall securities markets, thereby reducing their effectiveness. These derivatives risks are different from, and may be greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other instruments.

Financial services sector risk: Investments of the fund in the financial services group of industries or sectors may be particularly affected by economic cycles, business developments, interest rate changes and regulatory changes.

Floating or variable rate securities risk: Floating or variable rate securities bear interest at rates that are not fixed but that vary with changes in specified market rates or indices. The market value of floating rate and variable rate securities generally fluctuates less than the market value of fixed rate obligations. Accordingly, as interest rates decrease or increase, the potential for capital appreciation or capital depreciation is less than for fixed rate obligations.

 

Foreign investing risk: The value of the fund’s investments in foreign securities may fall due to adverse political, social and economic developments abroad. However, because, under normal circumstances, the fund’s foreign investments are typically denominated in US dollars or hedged to US dollars, it generally is not subject to the risk of changes in currency valuations.

Interest rate risk: An increase in prevailing interest rates typically causes the value of fixed income securities to fall. Changes in interest rates will likely affect the value of longer-duration fixed income securities more than shorter-duration securities and higher quality securities more than lower quality securities. When interest rates are falling, some fixed income securities provide that the issuer may repay them earlier than the maturity date, and if this occurs the fund may have to reinvest these repayments at lower interest rates. The risks associated with rising interest rates may be more pronounced going forward due to the end of an extended period of historically low rates.

Investments in money market funds risk: Certain money market funds may seek to maintain a stable $1 net asset value (“NAV”) per share (“stable NAV money market funds”) or have a share price that fluctuates (“variable NAV money market funds”). Although a stable NAV money market fund seeks to maintain a stable $1 NAV, it is possible to lose money by investing in such a money market fund. Because the NAV of a variable NAV money market fund will fluctuate, when the fund sells the shares it owns they may be worth more or less than what the fund originally paid for them. In addition, neither type of money market fund is designed to offer capital appreciation. Certain money market funds may impose a fee upon the sale of shares or may temporarily suspend the ability to sell shares if such fund’s liquidity falls below required minimums.

Liquidity risk: Although the fund invests in a diversified portfolio of high quality instruments, the fund’s investments may become less liquid as a result of market developments or adverse investor perception. If this happens, the fund’s ability to redeem its shares for cash may be affected.

Mortgage- and asset-backed securities risk: The fund may invest in mortgage- and asset-backed securities that are subject to prepayment or call risk, which is the risk that the borrower’s payments may be received earlier or later than expected due to changes in prepayment rates on underlying loans. Faster prepayments often happen when interest rates are falling. As a result, the fund may reinvest these early payments at lower interest rates, thereby reducing the fund’s income. Conversely, when interest rates rise, prepayments may happen more slowly, causing the security to lengthen in duration. Longer duration securities tend to be more

 

 

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volatile. Securities may be prepaid at a price less than the original purchase value. An unexpectedly high rate of defaults on the mortgages held by a mortgage pool may adversely affect the value of mortgage-backed securities and could result in losses to the fund.

Management risk: The risk that the investment strategies, techniques and risk analyses employed by the investment advisor may not produce the desired results.

Market risk: The risk that the market value of the fund’s investments may fluctuate, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably, as the stock and bond markets fluctuate. Market risk may affect a single issuer, industry, or sector of the economy, or it may affect the market as a whole. Moreover, changing market, economic and political conditions in one country or geographic region could adversely impact market, economic and political conditions in other countries or regions.

Municipal securities risk: Municipal securities are subject to interest rate and credit risks. The ability of a municipal issuer to make payments and the value of municipal securities can be affected by uncertainties in the municipal securities market. Such uncertainties could cause increased volatility in the municipal securities market and could negatively impact the fund’s NAV and/or the distributions paid by the fund. Municipalities continue to experience difficulties in the current economic and political environment.

NAV risk: The fund is not a money market fund, does not attempt to maintain a stable NAV, and is not subject to the rules that govern the quality, maturity, liquidity and other features of securities that money market funds may purchase. Under normal conditions, the fund’s investments are likely to be more susceptible than a money market fund’s investments to interest rate risk, valuation risk, credit risk, and other risks relevant to the fund’s investments. The fund’s NAV per share will fluctuate.

New fund risk: The fund is new with no operating history. As a result, prospective investors have no track record or history on which to base their investment decisions.

Prepayment risk: Payments on bonds and other fixed income securities that are backed by mortgage loans or similar assets may be prepaid more rapidly than expected, especially when interest rates are falling, and the fund may have to reinvest those prepayments at lower interest rates. When interest rates are rising, slower prepayments may extend the duration of the securities and may reduce their value.

Sovereign debt risk: Sovereign debt includes bonds that are issued by foreign governments or their agencies, instrumentalities or political subdivisions or by foreign central banks. Sovereign debt also may be issued by

quasi-governmental entities that are owned by foreign governments but are not backed by their full faith and credit or general taxing powers. Investment in sovereign debt involves special risks. The issuer of the debt or the governmental authorities that control the repayment of the debt may be unable or unwilling to repay principal and/or interest when due in accordance with the terms of such debt, and the fund may have limited legal recourse in the event of a default.

US government securities risk: There are different types of US government securities with different levels of credit risk, including the risk of default, depending on the nature of the particular government support for that security. For example, a US government-sponsored entity, such as Federal National Mortgage Association (“Fannie Mae”) or Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (“Freddie Mac”), although chartered or sponsored by an Act of Congress, may issue securities that are neither insured nor guaranteed by the US Treasury and are therefore riskier than those that are.

Valuation risk: During periods of reduced market liquidity or in the absence of readily available market quotations the ability of the fund to value the fund’s investments becomes more difficult and the judgment of the fund’s investment advisor may play a greater role in the valuation of the investments due to reduced availability of reliable objective pricing data.

Variable rate demand obligations risk: Variable rate demand obligations are floating rate securities that combine an interest in a long-term bond, such as municipal debt, with a right to demand payment before maturity from a bank or other financial institution. If the bank or financial institution is unable to pay, the fund may lose money. The absence of an active secondary market for certain variable and floating rate obligations could make it difficult to dispose of these instruments, which could result in a loss.

Zero coupon securities risk: Zero coupon securities are securities on which no periodic interest payments are made but instead are sold at a deep discount from their face value. Zero coupon securities are generally more sensitive to changes in interest rates than debt obligations of comparable maturities that make current interest payments. This means that when interest rates fall, the value of zero coupon securities generally rises more rapidly than securities paying interest on a current basis. However, when interest rates rise, their value generally falls more dramatically.

Performance

There is no performance information quoted for the fund as the fund had not commenced investment operations as of the date of this prospectus.

 

 

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Investment advisor

UBS AM serves as the investment advisor to the fund.

Portfolio managers

Robert Sabatino, Vice President of UBS Series Funds, David Walczak, Vice President of UBS Series Funds, David Rothweiler, and James Law, are jointly and primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the fund and have been portfolio managers of the fund since commencement of operations.

Purchase & sale of fund shares

Shares can be purchased and redeemed on any business day on which the New York Stock Exchange is open. You may purchase or redeem shares of the fund directly from the fund or through a financial intermediary. In general, the minimum initial investment is $10,000,000 for Class I shares ($2,500,000 for foundations, endowments and religious and other charitable organizations described in Section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code).

 

 

Tax information

The dividends and distributions you receive from the fund are taxable and will generally be taxed as ordinary income, capital gains or some combination of both, unless you hold shares through a tax-exempt account or plan, such as an individual retirement account or 401(k) plan, in which case dividends and distributions on your shares generally will be taxed when withdrawn from the tax-exempt account or plan.

Payments to financial intermediaries

If you purchase the fund through a financial intermediary (such as a bank), the fund and its related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of fund shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the intermediary to recommend the fund over another investment. Visit your financial intermediary’s Web site for more information.

 

 

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UBS Series Funds—UBS Ultra Short Income Fund

Investment Company Act File No. 811-08767

UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc.

is a subsidiary of UBS AG.

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