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BTS Tactical Fixed Income VIT Fund

FUND SUMMARY

Investment Objective:

The BTS Tactical Fixed Income VIT Fund (the “Portfolio”) seeks to provide total return.

Fees and Expenses of the Portfolio:

This table describes the annual operating expenses that you may indirectly pay if you invest in the Portfolio through your retirement plan or if you allocate your insurance contract premiums or payments to the Portfolio. However, each insurance contract and separate account involves fees and expenses that are not described in this Prospectus. If the fees and expenses of your insurance contract or separate account were included in this table, your overall expenses would be higher. You should review the insurance contract prospectus for a complete description of fees and expenses.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses

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

Annual Fund Operating Expenses BTS Tactical Fixed Income VIT Fund
Class 1 Shares
Class 2 Shares
Management Fees 0.85% 0.85%
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees none 0.50%
Other Expenses 1.70% 1.70%
Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses [1] 0.32% 0.32%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 2.87% 3.37%
Fee Waiver and/or Reimbursement [2] (0.55%) (0.55%)
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and/or Reimbursement 2.32% 2.82%
[1] Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses are the indirect costs of investing in other investment companies. The operating expenses in this fee table will not correlate to the expense ratio in the Portfolio's financial highlights because the financial statements include only the direct operating expenses incurred by the Portfolio, not the indirect costs of investing in other investment companies.
[2] The Portfolio's adviser has contractually agreed to reduce its fees and/or absorb expenses of the Portfolio, until at least April 30, 2015, to ensure that total annual fund operating expenses after fee waiver and/or reimbursement excluding any front-end or contingent deferred loads; brokerage fees and commissions, acquired fund fees and expenses, borrowing costs (such as interest and dividend expense on securities sold short), taxes; and extraordinary expenses, such as litigation expenses (which may include indemnification of the Portfolio's officers and Trustees, contractual indemnification of the Portfolio's service providers (other than the Adviser)) will not exceed 2.00% and 2.50% for Class 1 and Class 2 shares of the Portfolio's average net assets, respectively. Expense waivers and reimbursements are subject to possible recoupment from the Fund in future years on a rolling three year basis (within the three years after the fees have been waived or reimbursed) if such recoupment can be achieved within the foregoing expense limits. This agreement may be terminated only by the Portfolio's Board of Trustees, on 60 days' written notice to the adviser.

Example:

This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Portfolio with the cost of investing in other mutual funds.

The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Portfolio for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your shares at the end of those periods. However, each insurance contract and separate account involves fees and expenses that are not included in the Example.  If these fees and expenses were included in the Example, your overall expenses would be higher. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Portfolio's operating expenses remain the same.  Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based upon these assumptions your costs would be:

Expense Example BTS Tactical Fixed Income VIT Fund (USD $)
1 Year
3 Years
5 Years
10 Years
Class 1 Shares
235 837 1,465 3,156
Class 2 Shares
285 985 1,708 3,621

Portfolio Turnover:

The Portfolio 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. These costs, which are not reflected in Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the Example, affect the Portfolio’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Portfolio’s portfolio turnover rate was 198% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies:

Under normal circumstances, the Portfolio invests at least 80% of its assets (defined as net assets plus any borrowing for investment purposes) in fixed income instruments. The Portfolio defines fixed income instruments to include fixed income securities, derivatives based on fixed income securities, other investment companies that invest primarily in fixed income securities (“Underlying Funds”) and preferred stocks. This 80% fixed income investment policy can be changed without shareholder approval, however, shareholders would be given at least 60 days notice prior to any such change.

 

The Portfolio’s adviser seeks to achieve the Portfolio’s investment objective by investing in a diversified portfolio of fixed income securities without restriction as to maturity, credit quality, type of issuer, country or currency.

 

• The Portfolio may invest in bonds issued by the U.S. Government, its agencies and instrumentalities.

 

• The Portfolio may invest in investment grade corporate bonds, as well as higher-yielding, higher-risk corporate bonds’ commonly known as “high yield” or “junk” bonds” with medium to low credit quality ratings. High yield bonds are generally rated lower than Baa3 by Moody’s Investors Service (“Moody’s”) or lower than BBB- by Standard and Poor’s Rating Group (“S&P”). High yield bonds have a higher expected rate of default than investment grade bonds.

 

• The Portfolio may invest in high yield bonds directly or through derivative instruments, such as credit default swaps designed to replicate some or all of the features of an underlying portfolio of high yield bonds. Credit default swaps (“CDS”) are typically two-party financial contracts that transfer credit exposure between the two parties. Under a typical CDS, one party (the “seller”) receives pre-determined periodic payments from the other party (the “buyer”). The seller agrees to make compensating specific payments to the buyer if a negative credit event occurs, such as the bankruptcy or default by the issuer of the underlying debt instrument.

 

The adviser uses an active trading strategy based on a proprietary technical trend-following model to take advantage of trends and momentum in the bond market. Using this model the adviser expects the Portfolio to invest aggressively in securities of a particular bond asset category when trends are positive or, conversely, sell securities in that bond asset category when trends are unfavorable.

 

The adviser’s investment approach includes two primary components:

 

Defensive Capital Preservation. When the adviser believes that interest rates will rise or high yield market credit conditions will deteriorate, investments will be focused in money market instruments and/or defensive positions such as short sales, inverse Underlying Funds (Underlying Funds that seek to provide investment results that correspond to the inverse (opposite) of the daily performance of a specific benchmark) or short positions in derivatives.

 

Aggressive Total Return. When the adviser believes that interest rates will fall or remain steady and/or high yield market credit conditions will improve, investments will be focused in medium-term and long-term U.S. Government securities and/or high yield bond instruments, including derivatives. These investments produce income and have the potential for capital appreciation generated by declining interest rates and/or improving high yield market credit fundamentals.

 

Although the adviser’s investment strategy contemplates investments across multiple bond classes, the Portfolio may be entirely invested in one bond class. For example, the Portfolio may be invested entirely in high-yield bonds, or entirely in U.S. Government securities.

Principal Investment Risks:

Remember that in addition to possibly not achieving your investment goals, you could lose money by investing in the Portfolio. The Portfolio is not intended to be a complete investment program. The principal risks of investing in the Portfolio are:

 

• Derivatives Risk. Even a small investment in derivatives (which include options, futures, swap contracts and other transactions) may give rise to leverage risk (which can increase volatility and magnify the Portfolio’s potential for loss), and can have a significant impact on the Portfolio’s performance. Derivatives are also subject to credit risk (the counterparty may default) and liquidity risk (the Portfolio may not be able to sell the security or otherwise exit the contract in a timely manner).

 

• Fixed Income Risk. When the Portfolio invests in fixed income securities, derivatives on fixed income securities or Underlying Funds that invest in fixed income securities, the value of the Portfolio will fluctuate with changes in interest rates. Defaults by fixed income issuers in which the Portfolio invests will also harm performance.

 

• High-Yield Bond Risk. Lower-quality bonds, known as “high yield” or “junk” bonds, present greater risk than bonds of higher quality, including an increased risk of default. An economic downturn or period of rising interest rates could adversely affect the market for these bonds and reduce the Portfolio’s ability to sell its bonds. The lack of a liquid market for these bonds could decrease the Portfolio’s share price.

 

• Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of a specific security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

 

• Limited History of Operations Risk. The Portfolio is a new mutual fund and has a limited history of operations for investors to evaluate.

 

• Management Risk. The adviser’s judgments about the attractiveness, value and potential appreciation of particular security or derivative in which the Portfolio invests or sells short may prove to be incorrect and may not produce the desired results.

 

• Turnover Risk. A higher portfolio turnover may result in higher transactional and brokerage costs.

 

• Underlying Funds Risk. Underlying Funds are subject to investment advisory fees and other expenses, which will be indirectly paid by the Portfolios. As a result, the cost of investing in the Portfolio will be higher than the cost of investing directly in other investment companies and may be higher than other mutual funds that invest directly in stocks and bonds. Each investment company is subject to specific risks, depending on the nature of the fund.

 

• U.S. Government Securities Risk. The Portfolio may invest in obligations issued by agencies and instrumentalities of the U.S. Government. The U.S. Government may choose not to provide financial support to U.S. Government sponsored agencies or instrumentalities if it is not legally obligated to do so, in which case, if the issuer defaulted, the Portfolio might not be able to recover its investment.

Performance:

Because the Portfolio has less than a full calendar year of investment operations, no performance information is presented for the Portfolio at this time. However, prior performance of the adviser’s similarly managed fund is presented under “Management” below. In the future, Portfolio performance information will be presented in this section of the Prospectus. Also, shareholder reports containing financial and performance information will be mailed to shareholders semi-annually. Updated performance information will be available at no cost by visiting www.btsfunds.com or by calling 1-877-BTS-9820 (1-877-287-9820).