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Cavalier Hedged High Income Fund

CAVALIER 
HEDGED HIGH INCOME FUND
INVESTMENT OBJECTIVES
The Cavalier Hedged High Income Fund (the "Fund") seeks to achieve current income and real return.
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 - {Cavalier Hedged High Income Fund} - Cavalier Hedged High Income Fund
Institutional Class Shares
Class C Shares
Class A Shares
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed On Purchases (as a % of offering price) none none 4.50%
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as a % of the lesser of amount purchased or redeemed) none 1.00% none
Redemption Fee (as a % of amount redeemed) none none none

Annual Fund Operating Expenses

 

Annual Fund Operating Expenses - {Cavalier Hedged High Income Fund} - Cavalier Hedged High Income Fund
Institutional Class Shares
Class C Shares
Class A Shares
Management Fees [1] 1.00% 1.00% 1.00%
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees [1] none 1.00% 0.25%
Other Expenses [1] 3.46% 3.46% 3.46%
Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses [1],[2] 0.31% 0.31% 0.31%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses [1] 4.77% 5.77% 5.02%
Less Fee Waiver and/or Expense Limitation [1],[3] 3.21% 3.21% 3.21%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and/or Expense Limitation [1] 1.56% 2.56% 1.81%
[1] The expense information in the table has been restated to reflect current fees rather than the fees in effect during the previous fiscal year.
[2] "Acquired Fund" means any investment company in which the Fund invests or has invested during the previous fiscal year. The "Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses" and "Net Annual Fund Operating Expenses" will not match the Fund's gross and net expense ratios reported in the Financial Highlights from the Fund's financial statements, which reflect the operating expenses of the Fund and do not include Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses.
[3] Cavalier Investment Funds, LLC, the investment advisor to the Fund (the "advisor"), has entered into an Expense Limitation Agreement with the Fund under which it has agreed to waive or reduce its fees and to assume other expenses of the Fund, if necessary, in an amount that limits the Fund's annual operating expenses (exclusive of interest, taxes, brokerage fees and commissions, extraordinary expenses, acquired fund fees and expenses, and payments under the Rule 12b-1 distribution plan) to not more than 1.25% of the average daily net assets of the Fund for each of the share classes. Net annual operating expenses for the Fund may exceed these limits to the extent that it incurs expenses enumerated above as exclusions. The Expense Limitation Agreement runs September 30, 2019, and may be terminated by the Board of Trustees of the Fund (the "Board" or the "Trustees"). The Advisor cannot recoup from the Fund any amounts paid by the Advisor under the Expense Limitation Agreement.

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 the Fund's operating expenses remain the same.  The example includes the Fund's contractual expense limitation through September 30, 2019.  Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

Expense Example- {Cavalier Hedged High Income Fund} - Cavalier Hedged High Income Fund - USD ($)
1 Year
3 Years
5 Years
10 Years
Institutional Class Shares 159 1,148 2,141 4,646
Class C Shares 359 1,432 2,587 5,398
Class A Shares 626 1,615 2,604 5,074

You would pay the following expenses if you did not redeem your shares:

Expense Example, No Redemption- {Cavalier Hedged High Income Fund} - Cavalier Hedged High Income Fund - USD ($)
1 Year
3 Years
5 Years
10 Years
Institutional Class Shares 159 1,148 2,141 4,646
Class C Shares 259 1,432 2,587 5,398
Class A Shares 626 1,615 2,604 5,074

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 period, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 184.78% of the average value of its portfolio.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

The Fund's portfolio managers seek to achieve the Fund's investment objective of current income and real return by investing in mutual, exchange-traded, and/or closed end funds that are registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the "1940 Act") and not affiliated with the Fund ("Portfolio Funds") or making direct investments in portfolio securities based upon institutional research. The Fund may invest in Master Limited Partnerships ("MLPs"),  Real Estate Investment Trusts ("REITs"), and Limited Partnerships that the portfolio managers believe will generate income.  The Fund is considered "diversified" under the 1940 Act.

 

The investments of the Fund and Portfolio Funds will be comprised primarily of fixed income securities, principally consisting of bonds, corporate debt securities, and government securities.  Such investments will frequently include high yield corporate bonds (or "junk bonds"), emerging market debt, and mortgage- and asset-backed securities.  The Fund will invest a significant amount of its assets in securities that are related below investment grade at the time of investment.  The Fund and Portfolio Funds may invest in fixed income securities of any maturity and any credit rating, including bonds of issuers in default. The Fund and Portfolio Funds may occasionally invest in inverse high yield investments (which attempt to short high yield or "junk" bonds) to provide a hedge to the portfolio during negative credit events, such as when an increase in the default rates of any of the U.S. high yield sectors occurs or when there is an increase in the high yield bond spread.  A high yield bond spread is the percentage difference in current yields of various classes of high-yield bonds compared investment-grade corporate bonds or another benchmark bond measure.  The inverse high yield investments that the Fund and Portfolio Funds may invest in are exchange-traded funds ("ETFs") that provide inverse exposure to high yield or "junk" bond markets.  The Fund and Portfolio Funds do not have an established average portfolio duration and the average portfolio durations will vary.  The Fund and Portfolio Funds will not be limited in their investments by sector criteria, and may invest in foreign securities, including foreign securities in emerging markets.  The Portfolio Funds in which the Fund invests will have an investment objective similar to the Fund's or will otherwise hold permitted investments under the Fund's investment policies.  Although the Fund principally invests in Portfolio Funds with no sales related expenses or very low sales related expenses, the Fund is not precluded from investing in Portfolio Funds with sales-related expenses, redemption fees, and/or service fees.

 

The portfolio managers will sell a Portfolio Fund when a more attractive investment opportunity is identified or the Fund's portfolio needs to be rebalanced.  Decisions by the Advisor or Sub-Advisor to sell other portfolio securities will be based upon institutional research.  As a result of this strategy, the Fund may have a relatively high level of portfolio turnover compared to other mutual funds, which may affect the Fund's performance due to higher transaction costs and taxes.  Portfolio turnover will not be a limiting factor in making investment decisions.

PRINCIPAL RISKS OF INVESTING IN THE FUND

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Average Annual Total Returns- {Cavalier Hedged High Income Fund} - Cavalier Hedged High Income Fund
Past 1 Year
Past 5 Years
Since Inception
[1]
Inception Date
Institutional Class Shares 9.28% 5.16% 4.91% Sep. 20, 2012
Institutional Class Shares | After taxes on distributions 7.35% 3.07% 2.87%  
Institutional Class Shares | After taxes on distributions and sale of shares 5.24% 3.01% 2.84%  
Institutional Class Shares | S&P Global Broad Market Index (reflects no deductions for fees and expenses) 10.43% 5.67% 6.16%  
Institutional Class Shares | S&P 500 Total Return Index (reflects no deductions for fees and expenses) [2] 7.47% 5.80% 5.99%  
Class C Shares 8.22% 4.00% 4.00% Sep. 26, 2012
Class C Shares | S&P Global Broad Market Index (reflects no deductions for fees and expenses) 10.43% 5.67% 6.34%  
Class C Shares | S&P 500 Total Return Index (reflects no deductions for fees and expenses) [2] 7.47% 5.80% 6.18%  
Class A Shares [3] none none none  
Class A Shares | S&P Global Broad Market Index (reflects no deductions for fees and expenses) [3] 10.43% 5.67% none  
Class A Shares | S&P 500 Total Return Index (reflects no deductions for fees and expenses) [2],[3] 7.47% 5.80% none  
[1] The Institutional Class Shares began operating on September 20, 2012. The Class C Shares began operating on September 26, 2012. The Class A Shares have not yet commenced operations. The performance of the fund is attributable to its previous investment adviser until July 31, 2015.
[2] In prior prospectuses, the Fund compared its performance against the Barclays Capital Global High-Yield Index. The Advisor believes the Bank of America Merrill Lynch US High Yield Index is a more appropriate and accurate index against which to compare the Fund's investment strategies than the Barclays Capital Global High-Yield Index and, therefore, the Bank of America Merrill Lynch US High-Yield Index will replace the Barclays Capital Global High-Yield Index in future comparisons.
[3] The Class A Shares have not yet commenced operations, and therefore will not have performance data to present for one calendar year.