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DuPont Capital Emerging Markets Debt Fund

DUPONT CAPITAL EMERGING MARKETS DEBT FUND

Investment Objective

The DuPont Capital Emerging Markets Debt Fund (the "Emerging Markets Debt Fund" or the "Fund") seeks high total return from current income and capital appreciation.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund. More information about these and other discounts is available from your financial professional and in the section entitled "Purchase of Shares" on page 20 of the Fund's Prospectus.

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment):

Shareholder Fees
DuPont Capital Emerging Markets Debt Fund
Class I
Redemption Fee (as a percentage of amount redeemed within 60 days of purchase) 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
DuPont Capital Emerging Markets Debt Fund
Class I
Management Fees 0.60%
Distribution and/or Service (Rule 12b-1) Fees none
Other Expenses 2.86%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 3.46%
Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement (2.57%) [1]
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement 0.89% [1]
[1] DuPont Capital Management Corporation (the "Adviser") has contractually agreed to reduce its investment advisory fee and/or reimburse certain expenses of the Fund to the extent necessary to ensure that the Fund's total operating expenses, excluding taxes, fees and expenses attributable to a distribution or service plan adopted by the Trust, "Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses," interest, extraordinary items, and brokerage commissions do not exceed 0.89% (on an annual basis) of the Fund's average daily net assets (the "Expense Limitation"). The Expense Limitation will remain in place until August 31, 2019, unless the Board of Trustees approves its earlier termination. The Adviser is entitled to recover, subject to approval by the Board of Trustees of Fund Vantage Trust (the "Trust"), such amounts reduced or reimbursed for a period of up to three (3) years from the date on which the Adviser reduced its compensation and/or assumed expenses for the Fund. The Adviser is permitted to seek reimbursement from the Fund, subject to certain limitations, for fees it waived and Fund expenses it paid to the extent the total annual fund operating expenses do not exceed the limits described above or any lesser limits in effect at the time of reimbursement. No recoupment will occur unless the Fund's expenses are below the Expense Limitation amount.

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's Class I shares 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
1 Year
3 Years
5 Years
10 Years
DuPont Capital Emerging Markets Debt Fund | Class I | USD ($) 91 822 1,577 3,566

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 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 Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 16.9% of the average value of its portfolio.

Summary of Principal Investment Strategies

The Fund will normally invest at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings made for investment purposes) in a portfolio of emerging markets debt instruments issued or guaranteed by government entities, financial institutions, and companies in emerging market countries. These debt instruments may be denominated in U.S. Dollars or a foreign currency (typically the currency of an emerging markets country).

 

The term "emerging markets" includes any country: (i) having an "emerging stock market" as defined by the International Finance Corporation; (ii) with low- to middle-income economies according to the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the "World Bank"); (iii) listed in World Bank publications as developing; or (iv) determined by the Adviser to be an emerging market. Currently, these countries generally include every country in the world except Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. The Fund is considered to be "non-diversified" which means that it may invest in fewer securities than a "diversified" fund.

 

The Fund will invest predominantly in sovereign debt securities issued or guaranteed by governments of emerging market countries, their agencies or instrumentalities, or other government-related entities. The Fund's investments may also include, among other things, corporate debt securities, convertible securities, securities issued by supranational organizations, floating rate commercial loans, securitized loan participations, Rule 144A securities, U.S. and non-U.S. currencies, forward currency contracts and other foreign currency transactions, and derivatives related to these types of securities and instruments. The Fund may also invest in money market and short-term debt securities and cash equivalents.

 

The Fund may invest in debt securities of any credit rating (including unrated securities) and may invest without limit in higher risk, below-investment grade debt securities, commonly referred to as "high yield" securities or "junk bonds." Such securities may include those that are in default with respect to the payment of principal or interest. The Adviser does not manage the Fund to have a specific average portfolio maturity or duration.

 

In constructing the portfolio, the Adviser applies a disciplined investment process that integrates top-down global analysis and bottom-up country research together with active risk management to systematically analyze emerging market debt instruments and to create a portfolio of emerging market debt instruments of countries that have a global competitive advantage and attractive valuation. The Adviser will consider factors such as liquidity, volatility, tax implications, interest rate sensitivity, counterparty risks, economic factors, and currency exchange rates. The Adviser attempts to build a portfolio with a focus on total return and capital appreciation that it believes will achieve excess returns over a full market cycle.

 

The Adviser may sell a security when it believes the security is approaching full valuation, changing circumstances affect the original reasons for its purchase or more attractive opportunities are identified.

Summary of Principal Risks

The Fund is subject to the principal risks summarized below. These risks could adversely affect the Fund's net asset value ("NAV"), yield and total return. There is no assurance that the Fund will achieve its investment objectives and you can lose money investing in this Fund.

 

•  Credit (or Default) Risk: The risk that the inability or unwillingness of an issuer or guarantor of a fixed income security, or a counterparty to a repurchase or other transaction, to meet its payment or other financial obligations will adversely affect the value of the Fund's investments and its returns. Changes in the credit rating of a debt security held by the Fund could have a similar effect.

 

•  Currency Risk: The risk that foreign currencies will decline in value relative to the U.S. dollar and affect the Fund's investments in foreign (non-U.S.) currencies or in securities that trade in, and receive revenues in, or in derivatives that provide exposure to, foreign (non-U.S.) currencies.

 

•  Cyber Security Risk: As part of its business, the Adviser processes, stores and transmits large amounts of electronic information, including information relating to the transactions of the Fund. The Adviser and Fund may be susceptible to operational and information security risk. Cyber security failures or breaches of the Adviser or the Fund’s other service providers have the ability to cause disruptions and impact business operations, potentially resulting in financial losses, the inability of the Fund's shareholders to transact business, violations of applicable privacy and other laws, regulatory fines, penalties and/or reputational damage. The Fund and its shareholders could be negatively impacted as a result.

 

•  Derivatives Risk: The risk of investing in derivative instruments, including liquidity, interest rate, market, credit and management risks, mispricing or improper valuation. Changes in the value of the derivative may not correlate perfectly with the underlying asset, rate or index, and the Fund could lose more than the principal amount invested.

 

•  Emerging Markets Risk: The risk that markets of emerging market countries are less developed and less liquid, subject to greater price volatility and generally subject to increased economic, political, regulatory and other uncertainties than more developed markets.

 

•  Foreign Securities Risk: The risk that investing in foreign (non-U.S.) securities may result in the Fund experiencing more rapid and extreme changes in value than a fund that invests exclusively in securities of U.S. companies, due to less liquid markets, and adverse economic, political, diplomatic, financial, and regulatory factors. Foreign governments also may impose limits on investment and repatriation and impose taxes. Any of these events could cause the value of the Fund's investments to decline.

 

•  High Yield Securities Risk: High yield securities (also known as junk bonds) are generally considered more risky than investment grade, fixed income securities. The total return and yield of high yield securities can be expected to fluctuate more than the total return and yield of higher quality securities. High yield securities are regarded as predominantly speculative with respect to the issuer's continuing ability to meet principal and interest payments. Successful investment in high yield securities involves greater investment risk and is highly dependent on the Adviser's credit analysis and market analysis.

 

•  Interest Rate/Maturity Risk: The risk that the value of the Fund's assets will decline because of rising interest rates. The magnitude of this decline will often be greater for longer term fixed income securities than shorter-term securities.

 

•  Leveraging Risk: The risk that certain transactions of the Fund, such as reverse repurchase agreements, loans of portfolio securities, and the use of when-issued, delayed delivery or forward commitment transactions, or derivative instruments, may give rise to leverage, causing the Fund to be more volatile than if it had not been leveraged.

 

•  Liquidity Risk/Illiquid Securities Risk: The risk that the Fund could lose money if it is unable to dispose of an investment at a time that is most beneficial. 

 

•  Management Risk: The risk that the investment techniques and risk analyses applied by the investment adviser will not produce the desired results and that legislative, regulatory, or tax developments may affect the investment techniques available to the investment adviser and the individual portfolio manager in connection with managing the Fund. There is no guarantee that the investment objective of the Fund will be achieved.

 

•  Market Risk: The risk that the market value of a security may fluctuate, sometimes rapidly and unpredictably. The prices of securities change in response to many factors including the historical and prospective earnings of the issuer, the value of its assets, general economic conditions, interest rates, investor perceptions and market liquidity.

 

•  Non-Diversification Risk: The risk of focusing investments in a small number of issuers, including being more susceptible to risks associated with a single economic, political or regulatory occurrence than a more diversified portfolio might be. Funds that are "non-diversified" may invest a greater percentage of their assets in the securities of a single issuer (such as bonds issued by a particular state) than funds that are "diversified."

 

•  Opportunity Risk: The risk of missing out on an investment opportunity because the assets necessary to take advantage of the opportunity are tied up in less advantageous investments.

 

•  Prepayment Risk: The risk that a debt security may be paid off and proceeds invested earlier than anticipated. Depending on market conditions, the new investments may or may not carry the same interest rate.

 

•  Valuation Risk: The risk that the Fund has valued certain of its securities at a higher price than it can sell them.

 

•  Tax Legislation Risk: On December 22, 2017, new tax legislation was enacted which includes changes to tax rates, restrictions on miscellaneous itemized deductions, changes to the dividends received deduction, restrictions on the deductibility of interest, and changes to the taxation of the international operations of domestic businesses. Certain changes have sunset provisions, which are important to note. Because the tax legislation is newly enacted and additional guidance is forthcoming, there is uncertainty in how the newly enacted tax legislation will affect the Fund’s investments, as such impact may be adverse. Shareholders are urged and advised to consult their own tax advisor with respect to the impact of this legislation.

Performance Information

The bar chart and the performance table illustrate the risks and volatility of an investment in the Fund for the past four calendar years and show how the Fund's average annual total returns for one year, and since inception, before and after taxes, compare with those of the J.P. Morgan EMBI Global Diversified Index, a broad measure of market performance. Total returns would have been lower had certain fees and expenses not been waived or reimbursed. Past performance, both before and after taxes, does not necessarily indicate how the Fund will perform in the future. Updated performance information is available on the Fund's website at www.mutualfunds.dupontcapital.com or by calling the Fund toll-free at (888) 447-0014.

Bar Chart

Calendar Year-to-Date Total Return as of June 30, 2018: (6.50)%
During the periods shown in the chart:

 

Best Quarter     Worst Quarter  
  7.37 %     (6.14 )%
  (June 30, 2014)       (December 31, 2016)  

Average Annual Total Returns for the
Periods Ended December 31, 2017

Average Annual Total Returns - DuPont Capital Emerging Markets Debt Fund
1 Year
Since Inception
Inception Date
Class I 11.47% 7.61% Sep. 27, 2013
Class I | After Taxes on Distributions 8.60% 3.84% Sep. 27, 2013
Class I | After Taxes on Distributions and Sales 6.46% 4.03% Sep. 27, 2013
J.P. Morgan EMBI Global Diversified Index (reflects no deductions for fees, expenses or taxes) [1] 10.26% 7.04% Sep. 27, 2013
[1] The J.P. Morgan EMBI Global Diversified Index currently covers 27 emerging market countries. Included in the EMBI Global Diversified Index are U.S.-dollar-denominated Brady bonds, Eurobonds, traded loans, and local market debt instruments issued by sovereign and quasi-sovereign entities. It is impossible to invest directly in an index.

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 your tax situation and may differ from those shown and are not relevant if you hold your shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.