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361 Managed Futures Strategy Fund
SUMMARY SECTION – 361 MANAGED FUTURES STRATEGY FUND
Investment Objective

The investment objective of the 361 Managed Futures Strategy Fund (the "Managed Futures Strategy Fund" or "Fund") is to seek positive absolute returns that have a low correlation to the returns of broad stock and bond markets.

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 - 361 Managed Futures Strategy Fund - USD ($)
Investor Class
Class I
Maximum sales charge (load) imposed on purchases none none
Maximum deferred sales charge (load) none none
Redemption fee if redeemed within 90 days of purchase none none
Wire fee 20 20
Overnight check delivery fee 25 25
Retirement account fees (annual maintenance fee) $ 15 $ 15
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Annual Fund Operating Expenses - 361 Managed Futures Strategy Fund
Investor Class
Class I
Management fees 1.59% 1.59%
Distribution and service (Rule 12b-1) fees 0.25% none
Shareholder service fee [1] 0.12% 0.12%
All other expenses 0.20% 0.20%
Other expenses 0.32% 0.32%
Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses 0.03% 0.03%
Total annual fund operating expenses [2] 2.19% 1.94%
[1] The maximum shareholder service fee for Investor Class and Class I shares is 0.15%.
[2] The total annual fund operating expenses do not correlate to the ratio of expenses to average net assets appearing in the financial highlights table, which reflects only the operating expenses of the Fund and does not include acquired fund fees and expenses.
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. 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 - 361 Managed Futures Strategy Fund - USD ($)
One Year
Three Years
Five Years
Ten Years
Investor Class 222 685 1,175 2,524
Class I 197 609 1,047 2,264
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 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 28% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

In pursuing the Fund's investment objective, 361 Capital, LLC ("361" or the "Advisor"), the Fund's advisor, employs a set of quantitative models to make investment decisions. Using a combination of market inputs, these models systematically identify when to purchase and sell specific investments for the Fund. The Advisor uses these models for the purpose of seeking to achieve favorable returns for the Fund from short-term movements in various U.S. and foreign markets. The Advisor may also use other quantitative models that focus on longer term market trends rather than on identifying short-term purchase and sale opportunities. The Advisor may also base purchase and sale decisions for the Fund on its judgment regarding various market and economic factors rather than its quantitative models.

 

In pursuing its investment objective, the Fund will primarily seek to establish both long and short positions in futures contracts on various U.S. and foreign equity indices. However, the Advisor's quantitative models will seek to identify periods during which the Fund should not enter into futures contracts. Accordingly, there will be significant periods of time during which the Fund will not hold any long or short futures positions. The Fund will be required to use a portion of its assets as margin for the Fund's futures positions. The amount of margin will be based on the notional value of the futures contracts held by the Fund. The Advisor allocates the Fund's assets not invested in futures or used as margin to a fixed income strategy that invests primarily in investment grade fixed income securities in order to generate interest income. These investments may include collateralized mortgage obligations, which are a type of mortgage-backed security, and other types of asset-backed securities. The Advisor delegates management of the Fund's fixed income strategy portfolio to Federated Investment Management Company ("Federated" or the "Sub-Advisor"). The Fund's overall portfolio duration is expected to be less than one year with a weighted average maturity of less than two years.

 

The Fund may hold fixed income securities and liquid money market instruments during periods when the Fund is already invested in futures positions, when the Fund is not invested in futures positions, or as needed to comply with current SEC guidance relating to asset coverage for derivatives investments held by investment companies. As a result, a substantial portion of the Fund's portfolio may be invested in instruments other than futures contracts. While those other investments may contribute to the Fund's performance, the Advisor expects that over time a majority of the Fund's performance will be attributable to the Fund's futures positions.

 

The Fund may also write put and call options and purchase put and call options on futures, securities indices and shares of ETFs. The Fund may purchase or write options in combination with each other (i.e., simultaneously writing call options and purchasing put options) to adjust the risk and return of its overall investment positions. Futures contracts and put and call options are among the types of instruments commonly referred to as derivatives.

Principal Risks of Investing

Risk is inherent in all investing. A summary description of certain principal risks of investing in the Fund is set forth below. Before you decide whether to invest in the Fund, carefully consider these risk factors associated with investing in the Fund, which may cause investors to lose money. There can be no assurance that the Fund will achieve its investment objective.

 

Futures risk. The Fund's use of futures contracts (and related options) expose the Fund to leverage and tracking risks because a small investment in futures contracts may produce large losses and futures contracts may not be perfect substitutes for securities. The value of a futures contract tends to increase and decrease in correlation with the value of the underlying instrument. Risks of futures contracts may arise from an imperfect correlation between movements in the price of the futures and the price of the underlying instrument. The Fund's use of futures contracts (and related options) exposes the Fund to leverage risk because of the small margin requirements relative to the value of the futures contract. A relatively small market movement will have a proportionately larger impact on the funds that the Fund has deposited or will have to deposit with a broker to maintain its futures position. Leverage can lead to large losses as well as gains. While futures contracts are generally liquid instruments, under certain market conditions they may become illiquid. Futures exchanges may impose daily or intraday price change limits and/or limit the volume of trading. Additionally, government regulation may further reduce liquidity through similar trading restrictions. As a result, the Fund may be unable to close out its futures contracts at a time that is advantageous. The price of futures can be highly volatile; using them could lower total return, and the potential loss from futures could exceed the Fund's initial investment in such contracts.

 

Derivatives risk. Derivatives include instruments and contracts that are based on and valued in relation to one or more underlying securities, financial benchmarks, indices, or other reference obligations or measures of value. Major types of derivatives include futures, options, swaps and forward contracts. Using derivatives exposes the Fund to additional or heightened risks, including leverage risk, liquidity risk, valuation risk, market risk, counterparty risk, and credit risk. Derivatives transactions can be highly illiquid and difficult to unwind or value, they can increase Fund volatility, and changes in the value of a derivative held by the Fund may not correlate with the value of the underlying instrument or the Fund's other investments. Many of the risks applicable to trading the instruments underlying derivatives are also applicable to derivatives trading. However, derivatives are subject to additional risks such as operational risk, including settlement issues, and legal risk, including that underlying documentation is incomplete or ambiguous. For derivatives that are required to be cleared by a regulated clearinghouse, other risks may arise from the Fund's relationship with a brokerage firm through which it submits derivatives trades for clearing, including in some cases from other clearing customers of the brokerage firm.

 

Fixed income securities risk. The prices of fixed income securities respond to economic developments, particularly interest rate changes, as well as to changes in an issuer's credit rating or market perceptions about the creditworthiness of an issuer. Generally fixed income securities decrease in value if interest rates rise and increase in value if interest rates fall, and longer-term and lower rated securities are more volatile than shorter-term and higher rated securities. Recent and potential future changes in monetary policy made by central banks and/or their governments are likely to affect the level of interest rates.

 

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk. Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities represent interests in "pools" of mortgages or other assets, including consumer loans or receivables held in trust. Mortgage-backed securities are subject to "prepayment risk" (the risk that borrowers will repay a loan more quickly in periods of falling interest rates) and "extension risk" (the risk that borrowers will repay a loan more slowly in periods of rising interest rates). If the Fund invests in mortgage-backed or asset-backed securities that are subordinated to other interests in the same pool, the Fund may only receive payments after the pool's obligations to other investors have been satisfied. An unexpectedly high rate of defaults on the assets held by a pool may limit substantially the pool's ability to make payments of principal or interest to the Fund, reducing the values of those securities or in some cases rendering them worthless. The risk of such defaults is generally higher in the case of mortgage pools that include so-called "subprime" mortgages. Collateralized mortgage obligations generally entail greater market, prepayment and liquidity risk than other mortgage-backed securities. For example, their prices are more volatile and their trading market may be more limited.

 

Market risk. The market price of a security or instrument may decline, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably, due to general market conditions that are not specifically related to a particular company, such as real or perceived adverse economic or political conditions, throughout the world, changes in the general outlook for corporate earnings, changes in interest or currency rates or adverse investor sentiment generally. The market value of a security or instrument also may decline because of factors that affect a particular industry or industries, such as labor shortages or increased production costs and competitive conditions within an industry.

 

ETF and mutual fund risk. Investing in ETFs or mutual funds (including other funds managed by the Advisor or Sub-Advisor) will provide the fund with exposure to the risks of owning the underlying securities the ETFs or mutual funds hold. Shares of ETFs typically trade on securities exchanges and may at times trade at a premium or discount to their net asset values. In addition, an ETF or a mutual fund, if the mutual fund is an index fund, may not replicate exactly the performance of the benchmark index it seeks to track for a number of reasons, including transaction costs incurred by the ETF or mutual fund, the temporary unavailability of certain index securities in the secondary market, or discrepancies between the ETF or mutual fund and the index with respect to the weighting of securities or the number of securities held. It may be more expensive for the Fund to invest in an ETF or mutual fund than to own the portfolio securities of these investment vehicles directly. Investing in ETFs and mutual funds, which are investment companies, involves duplication of advisory fees and certain other expenses. The Fund will pay brokerage commissions in connection with the purchase and sale of shares of ETFs.

 

Management and strategy risk. The value of your investment depends on the judgment of the Advisor about the quality, relative yield, value or market trends affecting a particular security, industry, sector or region, which may prove to be incorrect.

 

Government intervention and regulatory changes risk. In response to the global financial crisis that began in 2008, which caused a significant decline in the value and liquidity of many securities and unprecedented volatility in the markets, the U.S. government and the Federal Reserve, as well as certain foreign governments and their central banks took steps to support financial markets, including by keeping interest rates low. The Federal Reserve has reduced its market support activities and has raised interest rates. These policy changes may expose fixed-income and related markets to heightened volatility and may reduce liquidity for certain Fund investments, which could cause the value of the Fund's investments and share price to decline. In addition, legal and regulatory changes could occur that may adversely affect the Fund, its investments, and its ability to pursue its investment strategies and/or increase the costs of implementing such strategies. For example, changes in regulation related to the Fund's use of derivatives and related instruments could potentially limit or impact the Fund's ability to invest in derivatives, limit the Fund's ability to employ certain strategies that use derivatives and/or adversely affect the value of derivatives and the Fund's performance. The Fund also may be adversely affected by changes in the enforcement or interpretation of existing statutes and rules by governmental regulatory authorities or self-regulatory organizations.

 

Asset segregation risk. As a series of an investment company registered with the SEC, the Fund must segregate liquid assets, or engage in other measures, to "cover" open positions with respect to certain kinds of derivatives and short sales. The Fund may incur losses on derivatives and other leveraged investments (including the entire amount of the Fund's investment in such investments) even if they are covered.

 

Leveraging risk. Certain Fund transactions, including entering into futures contracts and taking short positions in financial instruments, may give rise to a form of leverage. Leverage can magnify the effects of changes in the value of the Fund's investments and make the Fund more volatile. Leverage creates a risk of loss of value on a larger pool of assets than the Fund would otherwise have had, potentially resulting in the loss of all assets. The Fund may also have to sell assets at inopportune times to satisfy its obligations in connection with such transactions.

 

Short sales risk. In connection with a short sale of a security or other instrument, the Fund is subject to the risk that instead of declining, the price of the security or other instrument sold short will rise. If the price of the security or other instrument sold short increases between the date of the short sale and the date on which the Fund replaces the security or other instrument borrowed to make the short sale, the Fund will experience a loss, which is theoretically unlimited since there is a theoretically unlimited potential for the market price of a security or other instrument sold short to increase. Shorting options or futures may have an imperfect correlation to the assets held by the Fund and may not adequately protect against losses in or may result in greater losses for the Fund's portfolio.

 

LIBOR risk. Many financial instruments, financings or other transactions to which the Fund may be a party use or may use a floating rate based on the London Interbank Offered Rate ("LIBOR"). In July 2017, the Financial Conduct Authority, the United Kingdom's financial regulatory body, announced that after 2021 it will cease its active encouragement of banks to provide the quotations needed to sustain LIBOR. The future publication and utilization of LIBOR, and the nature of any replacement rate, is uncertain. Therefore, the potential effect of a transition away from LIBOR on the Fund or the financial instruments in which the Fund invests cannot yet be determined.

 

Cybersecurity risk. Cybersecurity incidents may allow an unauthorized party to gain access to Fund assets, customer data (including private shareholder information), or proprietary information, or cause the Fund, the Advisor, the Sub-Advisor, and/or other service providers (including custodians, sub-custodians, transfer agents and financial intermediaries) to suffer data breaches, data corruption or loss of operational functionality. In an extreme case, a shareholder's ability to exchange or redeem Fund shares may be affected. Issuers of securities in which the Fund invests are also subject to cybersecurity risks, and the value of those securities could decline if the issuers experience cybersecurity incidents.

Performance

The bar chart and table below provide some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund's performance from year to year for Class I shares and by showing how the average annual total returns of each class of the Fund compare with the average annual total returns of a broad-based market index. The Fund's past performance, before and after taxes, is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future. The bar chart shows the performance of the Fund's Class I shares. Investor Class shares' performance would be lower than the Fund's Class I shares because of the higher expenses paid by Investor Class shares. Updated performance information is available on the Fund's website at www.361funds.com.

Calendar Year Total Return (before taxes) for Class I Shares For each calendar year at NAV
Bar Chart
Class I
Highest Calendar Quarter Return at NAV 8.15% Quarter Ended 06/30/2012
Lowest Calendar Quarter Return at NAV (5.05)% Quarter Ended 09/30/2015
Average Annual Total Returns (for periods ended December 31, 2019)
Average Annual Total Returns - 361 Managed Futures Strategy Fund
1 Year
5 Years
Since Inception
Inception Date
Investor Class 6.11% 1.43% 3.01% Dec. 20, 2011
Class I 6.38% 1.69% 3.26% Dec. 20, 2011
Class I | After Taxes on Distributions [1] 5.81% 1.58% 2.98% Dec. 20, 2011
Class I | After Taxes on Distributions and Sales [1] 3.77% 1.25% 2.48% Dec. 20, 2011
FTSE 3-month T-Bill Index (Reflects No Deductions for Fees, Expenses or Taxes) 2.25% 1.05% 0.67% Dec. 20, 2011
[1] 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 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 and after-tax returns for classes other than Class I will vary from returns shown for Class I.