497K 1 wolverine.htm DESTRA WOLVERINE ALTERNATIVE OPPORTUNITIES FUND


Summary Prospectus
February 1, 2017


Destra Wolverine Alternative Opportunities Fund
Class A Shares
Class C Shares
Class I Shares
DWAAX
DWACX
DWAIX
 
Before you invest, you may want to review the Fund’s Prospectus, which contains more information about the Fund and its risks. You can find the Fund’s Statutory Prospectus and other information about the Fund online at www.destracapital.com/literature. You can also get this information at no cost by calling 877.287.9646 or by sending an e-mail to info@destracapital.com. The Fund’s Statutory Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information, each dated February 1, 2017, are incorporated by reference into (and are considered part of) this Summary Prospectus. The Statement of Additional Information may be obtained, free of charge, at the website, phone number or email address noted above.

 
Investment Objective
The investment objective of Destra Wolverine Alternative Opportunities Fund (the “Fund”) is to seek long-term capital appreciation by investing in broad asset classes.
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. For Class A shares, you may qualify for sales charge discounts if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $100,000 in the Fund or in other Destra mutual funds. More information about these and other discounts, as well as eligibility requirements for each share class, is available from your financial professional and in “Shareholder Information” on page 29 of this Prospectus and “Purchases” on page 35 of the Fund’s Statement of Additional Information.
Shareholder Fees
(fees paid directly from your investment)
       
 
Class A 
Class C 
Class I 
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases
(as a percentage of offering price) 
 
 
 
4.50% 
None 
None 
 
 
 
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as a 
 
 
 
percentage of the lower of original purchase price 
None 
1.00% 
None 
or redemption proceeds) 
 
 
 
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on
Reinvested Dividends 
 
 
 
None 
None 
None 
 
 
 
Redemption Fee on shares held for 90 days or less
(as a percentage of amount redeemed) 
 
 
 
None 
None 
None 
 
 
 
Exchange Fees 
 
None
 
None 
None 
 
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
       
 
Class A 
Class C 
Class I 
Management Fees 
 
1.20%
 
1.20% 
1.20% 
Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees 
 
0.25%
 
1.00% 
0.00% 
Other Expenses 
 
0.96%
 
0.95% 
0.95% 
Expenses of the Subsidiary 
 
0.01%
 
0.01% 
0.01% 
Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses 
 
0.17%
 
0.17% 
0.17% 
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 
 
2.59%
 
3.33% 
2.33% 
Fee Waiver1 
 
(0.42)%
 
(0.41)% 
(0.41)% 
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver 
 
2.17%
 
2.92% 
1.92% 
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The Adviser has agreed to cap expenses such that the total annual fund operating expenses, excluding brokerage commissions and other trading expenses, taxes, acquired fund fees and other extraordinary expenses (such as litigation and other expenses not incurred in the ordinary course of business) are 2.00% for Class A, 2.75% for Class C and 1.75% for Class I. The arrangement will continue in effect until December 31, 2027 and may be terminated or modified prior to December 31, 2027 only with the approval of the Board of Trustees of the Trust. Fees waived and/or expenses assumed pursuant to the arrangement are subject to recovery by the Adviser for up to three years from the date the fee was waived and/or expense assumed, but no reimbursement payment will be made by the Fund if it results in the Fund exceeding an expense ratio equal to the expense cap in place at the time the fees were waived and/or expenses assumed by the Adviser.
 
   
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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 either redeem or do not 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:
                 
 
Redeemed 
Not Redeemed 
Share Class 
1 year 
3 years 
5 years 
10 years 
1 year 
3 years 
5 years 
10 years 
Class A 
$660 
$1,099 
$1,562 
$2,841 
$660 
$1,099 
$1,562 
$2,841 
Class C 
$395 
$904 
$1,538 
$3,242 
$295 
$904 
$1,538 
$3,242 
Class I 
$195 
$603 
$1,037 
$2,243 
$195 
$603 
$1,037 
$2,243 
 
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 fiscal year ended September 30, 2016, the Fund had a portfolio turnover rate that was 424% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing in exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”), exchange-traded commodity linked instruments and commodity futures contracts (“Commodities Instruments”) through a wholly owned subsidiary of the Fund organized under the laws of the Cayman Islands (the “Subsidiary”) and cash equivalents. The Fund will not invest directly in Commodities Instruments. The Fund expects to gain exposure to Commodities Instruments by investing in the Subsidiary and ETFs. The sub-adviser of the Fund and Subsidiary, Wolverine Asset Management, LLC (the “Sub-Adviser”), employs a systematic investment strategy by investing in broad asset classes in an effort to generate long-term capital appreciation.
The Fund’s investment in the Subsidiary is intended to provide the Fund with exposure to commodity markets within the limits of current federal income tax laws applicable to investment companies such as the Fund, which limit the ability of investment companies to invest directly in Commodities Instruments. The Subsidiary has the same investment objective as the Fund but, unlike the Fund, it may invest without limitation in Commodities Instruments. Except as otherwise noted, for purposes of this Prospectus, references to the Fund’s investments include the Fund’s indirect investments through the Subsidiary. The Fund will invest up to 25% of its total assets in the Subsidiary.
The Sub-Adviser attempts to select investments for the Fund and the Subsidiary ahead of large shifts in institutional asset allocations by using market data to infer the flow of funds. The Sub-Adviser also utilizes market data and integrates this information with economic analysis to rank the various asset classes in its universe with the goal of gaining exposure through the purchase or sale of securities within the most attractively priced asset classes and, conversely, reduces exposure to the least attractively priced asset classes.
The Fund will have investment exposure to the following select asset classes through its investments in ETFs and in the Subsidiary: (a) U.S. equity securities, which will include small, mid and large capitalization companies; (b) non-U.S. equity securities, which will include emerging markets securities, European and Japanese equity securities and depositary receipts; (c) fixed income securities, which may include either
   
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variable or floating-rate instruments; (d) currencies; (e) real estate; and (f) commodities, which will include gold. The Fund will also invest in cash equivalents, which may include cash, money market funds, U.S. dollar-denominated high-quality money market instruments and other short-term securities.
The Subsidiary’s holdings in Commodities Instruments will consist, in part, of futures contracts, which are contractual agreements to buy or sell a particular commodity or financial instrument at a predetermined price in the future. The Subsidiary may also invest in commodity-linked instruments, which may be pooled investment vehicles that invest primarily in commodities and commodity-related instruments.
Although the Fund intends to invest in ETFs and the Subsidiary to meet its investment objective, the Fund may also invest in individual equity securities and other instruments or funds, including index funds, or may utilize basket trades to replicate an ETF by relying on its publicly available portfolio holding information to purchase the same securities in the same ratio as those held by the ETF to achieve the desired allocations and exposures that are deemed to be advantageous to the Fund in the view of the Sub-Adviser. Additionally, the Fund may invest directly in the following derivatives: options; futures contracts; options on futures contracts; interest rate caps, collars and floors; foreign currency contracts; swap agreements; and options on foreign currencies.
The Fund and the ETFs in which it invests may use these derivatives for speculative purposes in an effort to increase the Fund’s yield or to enhance returns. The Fund may also use derivatives to gain exposure to non-dollar-denominated securities markets. The use of a derivative is speculative if the Fund is primarily seeking to enhance returns, rather than offset the risk of other positions. When the Fund invests in a derivative for speculative purposes, the Fund will be fully exposed to the risks of loss of that derivative, which may sometimes be greater than the derivative’s cost.
PRINCIPAL RISKS
Risk is inherent in all investing. The value of your investment in the Fund, as well as the amount of return you receive on your investment, may fluctuate significantly from day to day and over time. You may lose part or all of your investment in the Fund or your investment may not perform as well as other similar investments. The risks of the Fund will result from both the Fund’s direct investments and its indirect investments made through the Subsidiary. Accordingly, the risks that result from the Subsidiary’s activities will be described herein as the Fund’s risks.
Active Management Risk: The Fund is an actively managed portfolio and its success depends upon the investment skills and analytical abilities of the Sub-Adviser to develop and effectively implement strategies that achieve the Fund’s investment objective. Subjective decisions made by the Sub-Adviser may cause the Fund to incur losses or to miss profit opportunities on which it may otherwise have capitalized.
Call Risk: If an issuer calls higher-yielding debt instruments held by the Fund or an ETF in which the Fund invests, performance could be adversely impacted.
Clearing Broker Risk: The failure or bankruptcy of the Fund’s and the Subsidiary’s clearing broker could result in a substantial loss of Fund assets. Under current Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) regulations, a clearing broker maintains customers’ assets in a bulk segregated account. If a clearing broker fails to do so, or is unable to satisfy a substantial deficit in a customer account, its other customers may be subject to risk of loss of their funds in the event of that clearing broker’s bankruptcy. In that event, the clearing broker’s customers, such as the Fund and the Subsidiary, are entitled to recover, even in respect of property specifically traceable to them, only a proportional share of all property available for distribution to all of that clearing broker’s customers.
Commodities Risk: The value of Commodities Instruments typically is based upon the price movements of a physical commodity or an economic variable linked to such price movements. The prices of Commodities Instruments may fluctuate quickly and dramatically and may not correlate to price movements in other asset classes. An active trading market may not exist for certain commodities. Each of these factors and events could have a significant negative impact on the Fund.
   
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Counterparty Risk: The Fund bears the risk that the counterparty to a commodity, derivative or other contract with a third party may default on its obligations or otherwise fail to honor its obligations. If a counterparty defaults on its payment obligations, the Fund will lose money and the value of an investment in Fund shares may decrease. In addition, the Fund may engage in such investment transactions with a limited number of counterparties.
Credit Risk: Credit risk is the risk that an issuer of a security will be unable or unwilling to make dividend, interest and/or principal payments when due and the related risk that the value of a security may decline because of concerns about the issuer’s ability to make such payments.
Currency Risk: The Fund, the Subsidiary or an ETF in which the Fund invests may hold investments that are denominated in non-U.S. currencies, or in securities that provide exposure to such currencies, currency exchange rates or interest rates denominated in such currencies. Changes in currency exchange rates and the relative value of non-U.S. currencies will affect the value of the Fund’s investment and the value of Fund shares. Currency exchange rates can be very volatile and can change quickly and unpredictably. As a result, the value of an investment in the Fund may change quickly and without warning, and you may lose money.
Cybersecurity Risk: As the use of Internet technology has become more prevalent in the course of business, the Fund has become more susceptible to potential operational risks through breaches in cyber security. A breach in cyber security refers to both intentional and unintentional events that may cause the Fund to lose proprietary information, suffer data corruption or lose operational capacity. Such events could cause the Fund to incur regulatory penalties, reputational damage, additional compliance costs associated with corrective measures and/or financial loss. Cyber security breaches may involve unauthorized access to the Fund’s digital information systems through “hacking” or malicious software coding, but may also result from outside attacks such as denial-of-service attacks through efforts to make network services unavailable to intended users. In addition, cyber security breaches of the Fund’s third party service providers, such as its administrator, transfer agent, custodian, or sub-advisor, as applicable, or issuers in which a Fund invests, can also subject the Fund to many of the same risks associated with direct cyber security breaches. The Fund has established risk management systems designed to reduce the risks associated with cyber security. However, there is no guarantee that such efforts will succeed, especially because the Fund does not directly control the cyber security systems of issuers or third party service providers.
Derivatives Risk: The Fund and the ETFs in which it invests may invest in derivatives in an attempt to increase yield or enhance returns. The use of derivatives involves certain execution, market, liquidity, hedging and tax risks and transaction costs, which could leave the Fund or an underlying ETF in a worse position than if it had not used these instruments.
Equity Securities Risk: The Fund and the ETFs in which the Fund invests hold equity securities. The value of the Fund’s and the underlying ETFs’ shares will fluctuate with changes in the value of these equity securities.
ETF Risk: An ETF trades like common stock and represents a portfolio of securities. The risks of owning an ETF generally reflect the risks of owning the underlying securities, although lack of liquidity in an ETF could result in its being more volatile, and ETFs have management fees that increase their costs.
Europe Investment Risk: The Fund, the Subsidiary and the underlying ETFs may be subject to certain risks associated specifically with Europe. A significant number of countries in Europe are member states in the European Union, and no longer control their own monetary policies. Furthermore, the European sovereign debt crisis continues to have a significant negative impact on their economies and their future economic outlooks.
Foreign Commodity Markets Risk: The Fund, through the Subsidiary, engages in trading on commodity markets outside the United States on behalf of the Fund. Trading on such markets is not regulated by any U.S. government agency and may involve certain risks not applicable to trading on U.S. exchanges. The Fund may not have the same access to certain trades as do various other participants in foreign markets. Furthermore, as the Fund determines its net assets in U.S. dollars, with respect to trading in foreign markets the Fund is
   
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subject to the risk of fluctuations in the exchange rate between the local currency and dollars as well as the possibility of exchange controls. Certain futures contracts traded on foreign exchanges are treated differently for federal income tax purposes than are domestic contracts.
Frequent Trading Risk: The Fund regularly purchases and subsequently sells, i.e., “rolls,” individual commodity futures contracts throughout the year so as to maintain a fully invested position. As the commodity contracts near their expiration dates, the Fund rolls them into new contracts. This frequent trading of contracts may increase the amount of commissions or markups to broker-dealers that the Fund pays when it buys and sells contracts, which may detract from the Fund’s performance.
Futures Risk: The Fund invests in futures through the Subsidiary. All futures and futures-related products are highly volatile. Price movements are influenced by, among other things, changing supply and demand relationships; climate; government agricultural, trade, fiscal, monetary and exchange control programs and policies; national and international political and economic events; crop diseases; the purchasing and marketing programs of different nations; and changes in interest rates. In addition, governments from time to time intervene, directly and by regulation, in certain markets, particularly those in currencies.
Gap Risk: The Fund is subject to the risk that a commodity price will change from one level to another with no trading in between. Usually such movements occur when there are adverse news announcements, which can cause a commodity price to drop substantially from the previous day’s closing price.
General Fund Investing Risks: The Fund is not a complete investment program and you may lose money by investing in the Fund. All investments carry a certain amount of risk and there is no guarantee that the Fund will be able to achieve its investment objective. An investment in the Fund is not a deposit in a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency, entity or person.
High Yield Securities Risk: The Fund or the ETFs in which the Fund invests may invest in high yield or “junk” securities. High yield securities are generally less liquid, have more volatile prices and have greater credit risk than investment-grade securities.
Income Risk: Income from the Fund’s fixed income investments could decline during periods of falling interest rates.
Interest Rate Risk: The value of the Fund’s or an underlying ETF’s portfolio may decline because of rising interest rates. The Fund may be subject to a greater risk of rising interest rates than would normally be the case due to the recent period of historically low rates and the effect of potential government fiscal policy initiatives and resulting market reaction to those initiatives. Interest rate risk is generally lower for shorter-term investments and higher for longer-term investments.
Investment Risk: When you sell your shares of the Fund, they could be worth less than what you paid for them. Therefore, as with any mutual fund investment, you may lose some or all of your investment by investing in the Fund.
Japan Investment Risk: The Fund, the Subsidiary or the underlying ETFs may be subject to certain risks associated specifically with Japan. Because Japan’s economy and securities market share a strong correlation with the U.S. markets, the Japanese economy may be affected by economic problems in the United States. Japan also has a growing economic relationship with China and other Southeast Asian countries, and thus Japan’s economy may also be affected by economic, political or social instability in those countries. Japanese securities may also be subject to lack of liquidity, excessive taxation, government seizure of assets, different legal or accounting standards and less government supervision and regulation of exchanges than in the United States.
Liquidity Risk. The Fund invests in Commodities Instruments, which may be less liquid than other types of investments. The illiquidity of Commodities Instruments could have a negative effect on the Fund’s ability to achieve its investment objective and may result in losses to Fund shareholders.
   
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Market Risk: The trading prices of commodities futures, fixed income securities, underlying ETFs and other instruments fluctuate in response to a variety of factors. The Fund’s net asset value and market price may fluctuate significantly in response to these factors. As a result, an investor could lose money over short or long periods of time.
New Fund Risk: The Fund currently has fewer assets than larger funds, and like other relatively new funds, large inflows and outflows may impact the Fund’s market exposure for limited periods of time. This impact may be positive or negative, depending on the direction of market movement during the period affected.
Non-Diversification/Limited Holdings Risk: The Fund is non-diversified, which means that it may invest in the securities of fewer issuers than a diversified fund can. As a result, it may be more susceptible to a single adverse economic or regulatory occurrence affecting one or more of these issuers, may experience increased volatility and may be highly concentrated in certain securities.
Non-U.S. Investments and Emerging Markets Risk: The Fund, the Subsidiary or the underlying ETFs may be subject to certain risks associated specifically with non-U.S. issuers. Such securities are subject to higher volatility than securities of domestic issuers due to possible adverse political, social or economic developments; restrictions on foreign investment or exchange of securities; lack of liquidity; excessive taxation; government seizure of assets; different legal or accounting standards; and less government supervision and regulation of exchanges in foreign countries. These risks may be heightened for securities of companies located in, or with significant operations in, emerging market countries.
Options Risk: Investing in options can provide a greater potential for profit or loss than an equivalent investment in the underlying asset. The value of an option may decline because of a decline in the value of the underlying asset relative to the strike price, the passage of time, changes in the market’s perception as to the future price behavior of the underlying asset, or any combination thereof.
Portfolio Turnover Risk: The Fund’s strategy may frequently involve buying and selling portfolio securities to rebalance the Fund’s exposure to various market sectors. portfolio turnover may result in the Fund paying higher levels of transaction costs and generating greater tax liabilities for shareholders. Portfolio turnover risk may cause the Fund’s performance to be less than you expect.
Real Estate Investment Risk: The Fund, the Subsidiary and the underlying ETFs may invest in companies in the real estate industry, including REITs. The risks associated with investing in real estate may include, but are not limited to, fluctuations in the value of underlying properties; defaults by borrowers or tenants; market saturation; changes in general and local economic conditions; decreases in market rates for rents; increases in competition, property taxes, capital expenditures or operating expenses; and other economic, political or regulatory occurrences affecting companies in the real estate industry.
Regulatory Risk: The Fund’s investment decisions may need to be modified, and commodity contract positions held by the Fund may have to be liquidated at disadvantageous times or prices, to avoid exceeding any applicable position limits established by the CFTC, potentially subjecting the Fund to substantial losses. The regulation of commodity transactions in the United States is a rapidly changing area of law and is subject to ongoing modification by government, self-regulatory and judicial action. The effect of any future regulatory change with respect to any aspect of the Fund is impossible to predict but could be substantial and adverse to the Fund. In addition, the CFTC has adopted amendments to CFTC Rule 4.5, which subject the Fund and the Subsidiary to regulation by the CFTC and impose additional disclosure, reporting and recordkeeping rules on the Fund and the Subsidiary. Compliance with these additional rules may increase the Fund’s expenses.
Smaller Companies Risk: The Fund, the Subsidiary and the underlying ETFs may hold securities of small and/or mid-capitalization companies. Such companies may be more vulnerable to adverse general market or economic developments, and their securities may be less liquid and may experience greater price volatility than those of larger, more established companies.
   
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Subsidiary Investment Risk: Changes in the laws of the United States and/or the Cayman Islands, under which the Fund and the Subsidiary are organized, respectively, could result in the inability of the Fund to operate as intended and could negatively affect the Fund and its shareholders. The Subsidiary is not registered under the 1940 Act and is not subject to all the investor protections of the 1940 Act. Thus, the Fund, as an investor in the Subsidiary, will not have all the protections offered to investors in registered investment companies.
Swap Agreements Risk: The Fund, the Subsidiary and the underlying ETFs may enter into various types of swap agreements, including total return swaps. Swap agreements can be individually negotiated and structured to include exposure to a variety of different types of investments or market factors. Depending on their structure, swap agreements may increase or decrease the Fund’s, the Subsidiary’s or the underlying ETF’s exposure to long-term or short-term interest rates (in the United States or abroad), foreign currency values, mortgage securities, corporate borrowing rates or other factors such as security prices, baskets of equity securities or inflation rates.
Tax Risk: The Fund intends to treat any income it may derive from Commodities Instruments (other than derivatives described in Revenue Rulings 2006-1 and 2006-31) received by the Subsidiary as “qualifying income” under the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, applicable to “regulated investment companies” (“RICs”), based on a tax opinion received from special counsel which was based, in part, on numerous private letter rulings (“PLRs”) provided to third parties not associated with the Fund or its affiliates (which only those parties may rely on as precedent). Shareholders and potential investors should be aware, however, that in September 2016 the Internal Revenue Service released proposed Regulations that, if finalized in the form proposed, would limit the qualifying income from the Subsidiary to the income distributed in the same year in which the income is required to be included in the income of the Fund under the controlled foreign corporation rules. The Fund intends to distribute the income in the same year as the income is required to be included, but a failure to do so could cause the Fund to have non-qualifying income and potentially loose RIC status.
If the Fund did not qualify as a RIC for any taxable year and certain relief provisions were not available, the Fund’s taxable income would be subject to tax at the Fund level and to a further tax at the shareholder level when such income is distributed. In such event, in order to re-qualify for taxation as a RIC, the Fund might be required to recognize unrealized gains, pay substantial taxes and interest and make certain distributions. This would cause investors to incur higher tax liabilities than they otherwise would have incurred, which have a negative impact on Fund returns. In such event, the Fund’s Board of Trustees may determine to reorganize or close the Fund or materially change the Fund’s investment objective and strategies. In the event that the Fund fails to qualify as a RIC, the Fund will promptly notify shareholders of the implications of that failure.
Volatility Risk: Frequent or significant short-term price movements could adversely impact the performance of the Fund. In addition, the net asset value of the Fund over short-term periods may be more volatile than other investment options because of the Fund’s significant use of financial instruments that have a leveraging effect. For example, because of the low margin deposits required, futures trading involves an extremely high degree of leverage and, as a result, a relatively small price movement in a Commodities Instrument may result in immediate and substantial losses to the Fund.
Whipsaw Markets Risk: The Fund may be subject to the forces of “whipsaw” markets (as opposed to choppy or stable markets), in which significant price movements develop but then repeatedly reverse. Such market conditions could cause substantial losses to the Fund.
Fund Performance
The following bar chart and table provide some indication of the potential risks of investing in the Fund. The Fund’s past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future. Updated performance information is available at destracapital.com or by calling (877) 287-9646.
   
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The bar chart below shows the Fund’s performance for Class A shares. The performance of the other share classes will differ due to their different expense structures. The bar chart and highest/lowest quarterly returns that follow do not reflect sales charges; if these charges were reflected, the returns would be less than those shown.
Calendar Year Total Return as of 12/31



The Fund’s highest and lowest quarterly returns were 2.33% and -0.13%, respectively, for the quarters ended June 30, 2016 and December 31, 2016.
The table below shows the variability of the Fund’s average annual returns and how they compare over the time periods indicated to those of a broad measure of market performance. All 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. After-tax returns are shown for Class A shares only; after-tax returns for other share classes will vary. Your own actual after-tax returns will depend on your specific tax situation and may differ from what is shown here. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold Fund shares in tax-deferred accounts such as IRAs or employer-sponsored retirement plans.
Both the bar chart and the table assume that all distributions have been reinvested. Performance reflects fee waivers, if any, in effect during the periods presented. If any such waivers were not in place, returns would be reduced. The returns that follow reflect sales charges.
     
Average Annual Total Returns
for the Periods Ended December 31, 2016 
 
 
Since Inception
(October 7, 2015) 
 
1 Year 
 
 
Class A (return before taxes) 
 
(0.81)% 
 
(1.99)% 
Class A (return after taxes on distributions) 
 
(1.77)% 
 
(2.81)% 
Class A (return after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund shares) 
 
(0.34)% 
 
(1.82)% 
Class C (return before taxes) 
 
1.98% 
 
0.96% 
Class I (return before taxes) 
 
4.10% 
 
2.06% 
HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index (reflects no deduction for fees, 
expenses or taxes) 
 
 
2.50% 
0.95% 
 
 
 
   
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Management 
 
Investment Adviser 
 
Destra Capital Advisors LLC 
 
 
Investment Sub-Adviser 
 
Wolverine Asset Management, LLC (the “Sub-Adviser”) 
 
 
Portfolio Managers 
 
Wolverine Asset Management, LLC 
 
Andrew Sujdak 
Since 2015 
Kip Meyer 
Since 2015 
 
The portfolio managers are primarily and jointly responsible for the day-to-day management of the Fund.
Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares
You may purchase, redeem or exchange shares of the Fund on any business day, which is any day the New York Stock Exchange is open for business. Generally, you may purchase, redeem or exchange shares only through institutional channels, such as financial intermediaries and retirement platforms. The minimum investment for Class A shares and Class C shares is $2,500 per Fund account for non-retirement accounts and $500 per Fund account for certain tax-deferred accounts or UGMA/UTMA accounts. The maximum purchase in Class C shares is $500,000 for any single purchase. The sales charge and expense structure of Class A shares may be more advantageous for investors purchasing more than $500,000 of Fund shares. The minimum investment for Class I shares is $100,000 for institutional investors. Institutional investors generally may meet the minimum investment amount by aggregating multiple accounts within the Fund on a given day. Accounts offered through certain intermediary institutions may meet the minimum investment requirements of $500 for tax-deferred accounts and $2,500 for other account types. Please see the section entitled “Class I Shares” for additional information.
Tax Information
The Fund’s distributions are taxable and will generally be taxed as ordinary income or capital gain, unless you are investing through a tax-deferred arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account. Distributions from the Fund held in such a tax-deferred arrangement will be taxed at a later date.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase shares of the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Fund and its related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of Fund shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment or to recommend one share class over another. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.
   
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