0000894189-14-001663.txt : 20140407 0000894189-14-001663.hdr.sgml : 20140407 20140407094041 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000894189-14-001663 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 497 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20140407 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20140407 EFFECTIVENESS DATE: 20140407 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Cushing Funds Trust CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001493113 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1130 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 497 SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-167481 FILM NUMBER: 14747521 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 8117 PRESTON ROAD STREET 2: SUITE 440 CITY: DALLAS STATE: TX ZIP: 75225 BUSINESS PHONE: (214) 692-6334 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 8117 PRESTON ROAD STREET 2: SUITE 440 CITY: DALLAS STATE: TX ZIP: 75225 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: Cushing MLP Funds Trust DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20100601 0001493113 S000029794 The Cushing MLP Premier Fund C000091516 Class A Shares CSHAX C000091517 Class C Shares CSHCX C000091518 Class I Shares CSHZX 0001493113 S000037385 The Cushing Royalty Energy Income Fund C000115452 Class A Shares CURAX C000115453 Class C Shares CURCX C000115454 Class I Shares CURZX 0001493113 S000040217 The Cushing Renaissance Advantage Fund C000125002 Class A Shares CRZAX C000127231 Class C Shares CRZCX C000127232 Class I Shares CRZZX 497 1 cushing_497e.htm SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS cushing_497e.htm
 
 
Cushing® MLP Premier Fund
Cushing® Renaissance Advantage Fund
Cushing® Royalty Energy Income Fund

each a series of Cushing® MLP Funds Trust
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Supplement dated April 7, 2014, to the
Summary Prospectus, Prospectus and
Statement of Additional Information dated March 30, 2014
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Effective on or about April 7, 2014, Cushing® MLP Asset Management, LP will change its name to Cushing® Asset Management, LP.

The Board of Trustees of Cushing® Funds Trust (the “Trust”), at a meeting held on April 4, 2014, approved an Agreement and Plan of Reorganization (each, a “Plan of Reorganization”) for each series of the Trust, Cushing® MLP Premier Fund, Cushing® Renaissance Advantage Fund and Cushing® Royalty Energy Income Fund (each, a “Fund”).

Each Plan of Reorganization provides for the reorganization (each, a “Reorganization”) of each Fund into a corresponding newly created series (each, a “New Fund”) of MainStay Funds Trust, an open-end registered investment management company, as follows:

 
Fund
Fund
 
Cushing® MLP Premier Fund
MainStay Cushing® MLP Premier Fund
 
 
Cushing® Renaissance Advantage Fund
MainStay Cushing® Renaissance Advantage Fund
 
 
Cushing® Royalty Energy Income Fund MainStay Cushing® Royalty Energy Income Fund
 
The Board of Trustees of MainStay Funds Trust approved the Plan of Reorganization on April 3, 2014.

A notice of a special meeting of shareholders and a proxy statement seeking shareholder approval for each Plan of Reorganization will be sent in the near future to Fund shareholders of record as of April 10, 2014.  Shareholders of each Fund will vote on their respective Reorganization separate from the shareholders of the other Funds, and the completion of each Reorganization is not contingent upon the completion of the other Reorganizations. If a Fund’s Plan of Reorganization is approved, shareholders of the Fund will receive shares of the corresponding New Fund having the same aggregate net asset value as the shares of the Fund they hold on the date of the Reorganization.  The Reorganization will not affect the value of your account in the Fund at the time of the Reorganization.  The Reorganization is expected to be treated as a tax-free reorganization for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
 
 
 
 
 

Prior to the Reorganizations, which are expected to occur on or about July 11, 2014, Cushing® Asset Management, LP, the Funds’ current investment adviser, will continue to manage the Funds in the ordinary course.  After the Reorganizations, New York Life Investment Management LLC (“NYLIM”) will serve as investment adviser for the New Funds and Cushing® Asset Management, LP, will serve as sub-adviser for the New Funds.  Each New Fund will be managed pursuant to substantially the same investment policies and strategies as the corresponding Fund, as currently set forth in such Fund’s Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information.  NYLIM and Cushing® Asset Management, LP have agreed to assume the costs of the Reorganization.

Shareholders of a Fund may purchase and redeem shares of the Fund in the ordinary course until the last business day before the closing of the Fund’s Reorganization.  Purchase and redemption requests received after that time will be treated as purchase and redemption requests for shares of the corresponding New Fund.


Please retain this Supplement for future reference.
 
 
 
 
 
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