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AAM/Bahl & Gaynor Income Growth Fund

Class A (Ticker Symbol: AFNAX)

Class C (Ticker Symbol: AFYCX)

Class I (Ticker Symbol: AFNIX)

 

A series of Investment Managers Series Trust (the “Trust”)

 

Supplement dated December 1, 2022, to the currently effective

Statement of Additional Information (“SAI”).

 

Effective December 1, 2022, James E. Ross is appointed as an Independent Trustee of the Board of Trustees of the Trust (the “Board”). Accordingly, the following changes are made to the Fund’s SAI.

 

The last sentence of the second paragraph of the “Trustees and Officers” section is replaced with the following:

 

Charles H. Miller, Ashley Toomey Rabun, William H. Young and James E. Ross are all of the Trustees who are not “interested persons” of the Trust, as that term is defined in the 1940 Act (collectively, the “Independent Trustees”).

 

The following is added to the table under the section entitled “Trustees and Officers”:

 

Name, Address, Year of Birth and Position(s) held with Trust Term of Officeb and Length of Time Served Principal Occupation During the Past Five Years and Other Affiliations

Number of Portfolios in the Fund Complex 

Overseen by Trusteec 

Other Directorships Held by Trusteed
“Independent” Trustees:

James E. Ross a

(born 1965)

Trustee

 

Since December 2022 Non-Executive Chairman and Director, Fusion Acquisition Corp. II, a special purpose acquisition company (March 2021 – present); Non-Executive Chairman and Director, Fusion Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company  (June 2020 – September 2021); Executive Vice President, State Street Global Advisors, a global asset management firm (2012 – March 2020); Chairman and Director, SSGA Funds Management, Inc., a registered investment advisor (2005-March 2020); Chief Executive Officer, Manager and Director, SSGA Funds Distributor, LLC, a broker-dealer (2017-March 2020) 4

SPDR Series Trust ETFs (March 2005 - present); Select Sector SPDR Trust ETFs (March 2005 - present); Fusion Acquisition Corp II (March 2021 - present).

 

 

aAddress for certain Trustees and certain officers: 235 West Galena Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53212.

bTrustees and officers serve until their successors have been duly elected.

cThe Trust is comprised of 52 series managed by unaffiliated investment advisors. Each Trustee serves as Trustee of each series of the Trust. The term “Fund Complex” applies only to the series managed by the same investment advisor. The Fund’s investment advisor also serves as investment advisor to the AAM/Insight Select Income Fund, AAM/HIMCO Short Duration Fund and AAM/Phocas Real Estate Fund, which are offered in separate prospectuses. The Fund does not hold itself out as related to any other series within the Trust, for purposes of investment and investor services.

 

 

d“Other Directorships Held” includes only directorships of companies required to register or file reports with the SEC under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (that is, “public companies”), or other investment companies registered under the 1940 Act.

 

The following is added to the Trustee compensation table under the section entitled “Compensation”:

 


Name of Person/Position
Aggregate Compensation From the Fund ($)1 Pension or Retirement Benefits Accrued as Part of Fund’s Expenses ($) Estimated Annual Benefits Upon Retirement ($) Total Compensation from Fund and Fund Complex Paid to Trustees ($)1,2
Independent Trustee:
James E. Ross, Trustee $0 None None $0

 

1For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2022.

2There are currently numerous portfolios comprising the Trust. The term “Fund Complex” applies only to the series managed by the same investment advisor. The Fund’s investment advisor also serves as investment advisor to the AAM/Insight Select Income Fund, AAM/HIMCO Short Duration Fund and AAM/Phocas Real Estate Fund, which are offered in separate prospectuses. The Fund does not hold itself out as related to any other series within the Trust, for purposes of investment and investor services. For the Fund’s fiscal year ended June 30, 2022, the aggregate Independent Trustees’ fees for the Trust were $585,000.

 

The first paragraph of the “Additional Information Concerning the Board and the Trustees” section is replaced with the following:

 

The current Trustees were selected in November 2007 (June 2019 for Ms. Quill and December 2022 for Mr. Ross) with a view towards establishing a Board that would have the broad experience needed to oversee a registered investment company comprised of multiple series employing a variety of different investment strategies. As a group, the Board has extensive experience in many different aspects of the financial services and asset management industries.

 

The following bullet-point is added under the section entitled “Additional Information Concerning the Board and the Trustees”:

 

Mr. Ross has significant senior executive experience with respect to marketing and distribution of mutual funds, including exchange-traded funds.

  

The following is added to the section entitled “Fund Shares Beneficially Owned by Trustees”:

 

As of December 1, 2022, Mr. Ross beneficially owned shares of the Funds and other series of the Trust as follows.

 

Name of Trustee Dollar Range of Equity Securities in the Funds (None, $1-$10,000, $10,001-$50,000, $50,001-$100,000, Over $100,000)

Aggregate Dollar Range of Equity Securities in all 

Registered Investment 

Companies Overseen by 

Trustee in Family of 

Investment Companies

James E. Ross, Independent Trustee None None

 

Additionally, effective December 31, 2022, John P. Zader has resigned as an interested Trustee of the Board of Trustees of the Trust. All references and information relating to Mr. Zader are removed in their entirety effective December 31, 2022.

 

Please file this Supplement with your records.