AdvisorShares Global Alpha & Beta ETF (Prospectus Summary) | AdvisorShares Global Alpha & Beta ETF

AdvisorShares Global Alpha & Beta ETF (NYSE Arca Ticker: RRGR)

INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE

The AdvisorShares Global Alpha & Beta ETF (the “Fund”) seeks long-term capital growth.

FUND FEES AND EXPENSES

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund. Most investors will incur customary brokerage commissions when buying or selling shares of the Fund, which are not reflected in the table below.

SHAREHOLDER FEES (fees paid directly from your investment) None

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

Annual Fund Operating Expenses		AdvisorShares Global Alpha & Beta ETF
MANAGEMENT FEES		1.00%
DISTRIBUTION (12b-1) FEES		none
OTHER EXPENSES	[1]	0.57%
ACQUIRED FUND FEES AND EXPENSES	[2]	0.15%
TOTAL ANNUAL FUND OPERATING EXPENSES	[3]	1.72%
FEE WAIVER AND/OR EXPENSE REIMBURSEMENT	[4]	(0.32%)
TOTAL ANNUAL FUND OPERATING EXPENSES AFTER FEE WAIVER AND/OR EXPENSE REIMBURSEMENT		1.40%

EXAMPLE

This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the shares of the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds. This Example does not take into account creation or redemption transaction fees, or the brokerage commissions that you pay when purchasing or selling shares of the Fund. If commissions were included, your costs would be higher.

The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell 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 (USD $)	Expense Example, with Redemption, 1 Year	Expense Example, with Redemption, 3 Years
AdvisorShares Global Alpha & Beta ETF	143	443

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 Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the Example, affect the Fund’s performance. This rate excludes the value of portfolio securities received or delivered as a result of in-kind creations or redemptions of the Fund’s shares.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

The Fund is, in part, a ‘‘fund of funds’’ that seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing primarily in other exchange-traded funds (“ETFs’’), common stock of issuers of any capitalization range, and American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) that provide investment exposure to global equity markets and that meet certain selection criteria established by Your Source Financial, PLC (the “Sub-Advisor”).

The Sub-Advisor seeks to achieve the Fund’s investment objective by actively managing the Fund’s portfolio with a “top-down” perspective, focusing on tactical asset allocation and proprietary security selection. Prior to making an investment for the Fund, the Sub-Advisor will consider two indicators: (i) the 200-day moving average of the S&P 500 Index (the “Index”) and (ii) an inverted yield curve. If the Index is below its 200-day moving average or if the yield curve is inverted, the Sub-Advisor will maintain a defensive position in the Fund’s portfolio.

The Fund’s asset allocation and performance baseline benchmark is the Index. The Index consists of ten separate economic sectors – each of which has a weighting in the Index as a whole. In selecting investments for the Fund’s portfolio, the Sub-Advisor will seek to add value by overweighting sectors that the Sub-Advisor expects to perform well and underweighting sectors that it expects to perform poorly.

The Sub-Advisor seeks to maintain diversification among and across economic sectors, industries and countries. The Sub-Advisor will consider the following factors when selling investments in the Fund’s portfolio: (i) whether equity has reached price considered to be fully valued; (ii) business or sector risk exposure to a specific security or class of securities; (iii) overvaluation or overweighting of the position in the Fund’s portfolio; (iv) change in risk tolerance; and (v) identification of a better opportunity.

On a day-to-day basis, the Fund may hold money market instruments, cash, other cash equivalents, and ETFs that invest in these and other highly liquid instruments.

PRINCIPAL RISKS OF INVESTING IN THE FUND

The Fund is subject to a number of risks that may affect the value of its shares, including:

Allocation Risk. The Fund’s particular allocations may have a significant effect on the Fund’s performance. Allocation risk is the risk that the selection of ETFs and the allocation of assets among such ETFs will cause the Fund to underperform other funds with a similar investment objective that seek to achieve their investment objectives by investing directly in the securities held by ETFs, by investing in a different selection of ETFs, or by pursuing a different allocation of assets among such ETFs.

American Depositary Receipt (ADR) Risk. ADRs have the same currency and economic risks as the underlying non-U.S. shares they represent. They are affected by the risks associated with non-U.S. securities, such as changes in political or economic conditions of other countries and changes in the exchange rates of foreign currencies. In addition, investments in ADRs may be less liquid than the underlying securities in their primary trading market.

Early Closing Risk. An unanticipated early closing of the NYSE Arca, Inc. (the “Exchange”) may result in a shareholder’s inability to buy or sell shares of the Fund on that day.

Equity Risk. The prices of equity securities rise and fall daily. These price movements may result from factors affecting individual companies, industries or the securities market as a whole. In addition, equity markets tend to move in cycles which may cause stock prices to fall over short or extended periods of time.

Investment Risk. As with all investments, an investment in the Fund is subject to investment risk. Investors in the Fund could lose money, including the possible loss of the entire principal amount of an investment, over short or even long periods of time.

Market Risk. Due to market conditions, the value of the Fund’s investments may fluctuate significantly from day to day. This volatility may cause the value of your investment in the Fund to decrease.

Trading Risk. Shares of the Fund may trade below their net asset value (“NAV”). The NAV of shares will fluctuate with changes in the market value of the Fund’s holdings. In addition, although the Fund’s shares are currently listed on the Exchange, there can be no assurance that an active trading market for shares will develop or be maintained.

ETF Investment Risk. Through its investments in other ETFs, the Fund will be subject to the risks associated with such ETFs’ investments, including the possibility that the value of the securities or instruments held or tracked by an ETF could decrease. These risks include any combination of the risks described below. The Fund’s exposure to a particular risk will be proportionate to the Fund’s overall allocation to the ETFs and their exposure to various security types, currencies, market sectors, and geographic regions.

· Concentration Risk. An ETF may, at various times, concentrate in the securities of a particular industry, group of industries, or sector. When an ETF is overweighted in an industry, group of industries, or sector, it may be more sensitive to any single economic, business, political, or regulatory occurrence than a fund that is not overweighted in an industry, group of industries, or sector.

· Counterparty Risk. Commodity-linked derivatives, repurchase agreements, swap agreements and other forms of financial instruments that involve counterparties subject an ETF to the risk that the counterparty could default on its obligations under the agreement, either through the counterparty’s bankruptcy or failure to perform its obligations.

· Credit Risk. Certain of the ETFs are subject to the risk that a decline in the credit quality of a portfolio investment or a counterparty to a portfolio investment could cause the ETF’s share price to fall. The ETFs could lose money if the issuer or guarantor of a portfolio investment or the counterparty to a derivatives contract fails to make timely principal or interest payments or otherwise honor its obligations.

· Emerging Markets Risk. There is an increased risk of price volatility associated with an ETF’s investments in, or exposure to, emerging market countries, which may be magnified by currency fluctuations relative to the U.S. dollar.

· Equity Risk. The prices of equity securities in which an ETF invests or is exposed to rise and fall daily. These price movements may result from factors affecting individual companies, industries or the securities market as a whole.

· Foreign Currency Risk. Currency movements may negatively impact the value of an ETF portfolio security even when there is no change in the value of the security in the issuer’s home country. Certain of the ETFs may not hedge against the risk of currency exchange rate fluctuations, while other ETFs may if there is volatility in currency exchange rates.

· Foreign Securities Risk. An ETF’s investments in, or exposure to, foreign issuers involve certain risks including, but not limited to, risks of adverse changes in foreign economic, political, regulatory and other conditions, or changes in currency exchange rates or exchange control regulations (including limitations on currency movements and exchanges). In certain countries, legal remedies available to investors may be more limited than those available with respect to investments in the United States. In addition, the securities of some foreign companies may be less liquid and, at times, more volatile than securities of comparable U.S. companies.

· Investment Risk. The Fund may experience losses with respect to its investment in an ETF. Further, there is no guarantee that an ETF will be able to achieve its objective.

· Tracking Error Risk. Tracking error can arise due to factors such as the effect of transaction fees and expenses incurred by the ETF, changes in composition of the benchmark, and the ability of the ETF manager or sponsor to successfully implements his or her investment strategy.

As with any fund, there is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its investment objective.

FUND PERFORMANCE

A comparison of the Fund’s performance with that of a broad measure of market performance may give some indication of the risks of an investment in the Fund; however, the Fund is new and, therefore, does not have a performance history for a full calendar year. Of course, once the Fund has performance, this past performance (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.advisorshares.com.

[1] Because the Fund is new, "Other Expenses" are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.

[2] As a shareholder in certain underlying ETFs (the "Acquired Funds"), the Fund will indirectly bear its proportionate share of the fees and expenses of the Acquired Funds. "Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses" are based upon estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.

[3] The Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses in this fee table may not correlate to the expense ratios in the Fund's financial highlights (and the Fund's financial statements) because the financial highlights include only the Fund's direct operating expenses and do not include Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses.

[4] The Advisor has contractually agreed to reduce its fees and/or reimburse expenses in order to keep net expenses (excluding interest expense, taxes, brokerage commissions, acquired fund fees and expenses, and extraordinary expenses) from exceeding 1.25% of the Fund's average daily net assets for at least a year from the date of this Prospectus. The expense limitation agreement (i) may be terminated at any time by the Board of Trustees of the Trust (the "Board), and (ii) will be terminated upon termination of the investment advisory agreement between the Advisor and the Fund.