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Institutional Shares Prospectus | GuidePath® Absolute Return Allocation Fund
GuidePath® Absolute Return Allocation Fund
Investment Objective
GuidePath® Absolute Return Allocation Fund (formerly known as GuidePath® Absolute Return Asset Allocation Fund) (the “Fund”) seeks to achieve consistent absolute positive returns over time regardless of the market environment.
Fees and Expenses of the Fund
The following 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) None
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
Institutional Shares Prospectus
GuidePath® Absolute Return Allocation Fund
Institutional Shares
Management Fees 0.35%
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees none
Other Expenses 0.16%
Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses 0.52% [1]
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 1.03% [2]
[1] Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses are indirect fees and expenses that the Fund incurs from investing in the shares of other investment companies, including money market funds and other mutual funds, closed end funds, business development companies or certain exchange-traded funds. Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses have been restated to reflect the Fund's current fees and are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year. Actual Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2015 were 0.59%.
[2] Note that the amount of Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses shown in the above table will differ from the Ratio of Expenses to Average Net Assets included in the "Financial Highlights" section of the Prospectus which reflects the operating expenses of the Fund and does not include indirect expenses such as Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses, but includes the expense reductions generated when the Fund loaned its portfolio securities.
Example
The following Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in Institutional Shares of the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds.  The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in Institutional Shares of the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your shares at the end of those periods.  The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same.
Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
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Institutional Shares Prospectus | GuidePath® Absolute Return Allocation Fund | Institutional Shares | USD ($) 105 328 569 1,259
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.  The Fund does not pay transaction costs when buying and selling shares of other mutual funds, however, the underlying funds pay transaction costs when buying and selling securities for their portfolio.  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 91.93% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies of the Fund
The Fund operates as a fund of funds, investing primarily in registered mutual funds, including exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”).  The funds in which the Fund may invest are referred to herein as the “Underlying Funds.”  AssetMark, Inc. (“AssetMark” or the “Advisor”) believes that investing in Underlying Funds provides the Fund with an efficient means of creating a portfolio that provides investors with indirect exposure to a broad range of securities.  By investing in the Fund, you will indirectly bear fees and expenses of the Underlying Funds in addition to the Fund’s direct fees and expenses.  In order to obtain exposure to certain markets, asset classes or active management styles, the Fund may buy Underlying Funds managed by the Advisor or its affiliates, which, in turn, invest in various securities, including ETFs.  The Fund may also invest directly in securities and other exchange-traded products, such as exchange-traded notes (“ETNs”).

The Advisor’s asset allocation decisions will be based on different factors and analytical approaches, derived from absolute return asset allocation approaches developed by various research providers and considered by the Advisor in constructing the Fund’s portfolio.  The research providers’ absolute return asset allocation approaches typically utilize fundamental and quantitative analyses of global market and economic conditions and assumptions regarding risks and returns.  The Advisor seeks to create a portfolio that is optimized to seek to achieve consistent absolute positive returns over time regardless of the market environment.

In pursuing the Fund’s objective, the Fund invests, either directly or indirectly via the Underlying Funds, in fixed income or equity-oriented investments across global markets, using varying active asset allocation strategies among different security types, asset classes, yield and duration, valuation analyses, and currency exposure considerations.

The Fund may utilize an absolute return asset allocation strategy that builds on a foundation of alternative investments, such as long/short equity funds that seek a modest positive return from equity investments, that attempts to stay insulated from general stock market volatility, combined with opportunistic equity and fixed income investments strategically selected to enhance returns.  The Fund may invest in Underlying Funds that use alternative strategies and/or use derivatives for risk management purposes or as part of their investment strategies.  An Underlying Fund may use derivatives to earn income and enhance returns, to manage or adjust the risk profile of the Underlying Fund, to replace more traditional direct investments, or to obtain exposure to certain markets.

The Fund may also utilize absolute return asset allocation strategies that allocate assets to various fixed income instruments and sectors using various passive index-oriented ETFs focusing on instruments such as U.S. Government bonds and notes, corporate bonds, bank loans, mortgage-related securities and asset-backed securities, inflation-protected debt securities, corporate bonds of various quality levels and maturity/duration, and cash equivalent investments.  Using this type of strategy, the Fund seeks to tactically avoid risk by reducing exposure at the appropriate times, while increasing exposure to attractive sectors on a timely basis.
Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund
The risks associated with an investment in the Fund can increase during times of significant market volatility.  There is the risk that you could lose all or a portion of the money you have invested in the Fund.  The Fund is subject to a number of risks either directly or indirectly through its investment in Underlying Funds.  The following risks could affect the value of your investment in the Fund:

Fund of Funds Risk:  The Fund is subject to fund of funds risk, which means that the ability of the Fund to meet its investment objective is directly related to the ability of the Underlying Funds to meet their investment objectives.  There can be no assurance that either the Fund or the Underlying Funds will achieve their investment objectives.  Additionally, each Fund may invest in other investment companies for which the Advisor or an affiliate serves as investment advisor (i.e., affiliated Underlying Funds). Such investments in the Underlying Funds could create a conflict of interest for the Advisor in managing the Fund’s assets.

Management Risk:  An investment or allocation strategy used by the Advisor may fail to produce the intended results.

Market Risk:  The value of the Fund’s investments and the net asset values of the shares of the Fund will fluctuate in response to various market and economic factors related to the equity and fixed income markets as well as the financial condition and prospects of companies in which the Fund invests.

Exchange-Traded Funds Risk:  An ETF may represent a portfolio of securities, or may use derivatives in pursuit of its stated objective.  The risks of owning an ETF generally reflect the risks of owning the underlying securities held by the ETF, although a lack of liquidity in an ETF could result in it being more volatile.  ETFs have management fees and other expenses which the Fund will indirectly bear.

Alternative Strategies Risk:  Certain Underlying Funds that use alternative investment strategies may be subject to risks including, but not limited to, derivatives risk, liquidity risk, credit risk and commodities risk.  Certain alternative strategies involve the risk that a counterparty to a transaction will not perform as promised, which could result in losses to the Fund.  Furthermore, alternative strategies may employ leverage, involve extensive short positions and/or focus on narrow segments of the market, which may magnify the overall risks and volatility associated with such investments.

Value Investment Risk:  The Fund’s investments in value-oriented securities may be out of favor and potentially undervalued in the marketplace due to adverse business, industry or other developments.  The Fund’s investments in value-oriented securities may not reach what the Fund’s Advisor believes are their full value.

Growth Investment Risk:  The Fund’s investments in growth-oriented securities may be subject to greater price volatility and may be more sensitive to changes in the issuer’s current or expected earnings than other equity securities.

Foreign Securities Risk:  The risks of investing in foreign securities (including ADRs and GDRs) can increase the potential for losses in the Fund and may include currency fluctuations, political and economic instability, less government regulation, less publicly available information, limited trading markets, differences in financial reporting standards, fewer protections for passive investors and less stringent regulation of securities markets.

Foreign Exchange Trading Risk:  The trading of foreign currencies directly generates risks separate from those faced from the risks of inactive or indirect exposures to non-dollar denominated instruments, insofar as the Fund may experience a loss from the buying and selling of currencies without any related exposure to non-dollar-denominated assets.

Emerging Markets Risk:  In addition to the risks generally associated with investing in foreign securities described above, countries with emerging markets may also have relatively unstable governments, fewer shareholder protections, and more limited economies and securities markets.

Interest Rate Risk:  The market value of fixed income securities will fluctuate with changes in interest rates.  For example, when interest rates rise, the market value of fixed income securities declines.

High-Yield Debt Securities Risk:  High-yield debt securities or “junk bonds” are debt securities rated below investment grade by an NRSRO.  Junk bonds are subject to greater credit risk than higher-grade securities and have a greater risk of default.  Issuers of junk bonds are more likely to experience financial difficulties that may impair their ability to make principal and interest payments.

Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Securities Risk:  Mortgage- and asset-backed securities are subject to prepayment risk, which is the risk that the borrower will prepay some or all of the principal owed to the issuer.  If that happens, the Fund may have to replace the security by investing the proceeds in a less attractive security.

Liquidity Risk:  Liquidity risk is the risk that certain investments may be difficult or impossible to buy or sell at the time and price that a Fund would like to buy or sell the security.

Maturity Risk:  The Fund may invest in fixed income securities with a range of maturities.  Generally, the longer a security’s maturity, the greater the risk that interest rate fluctuations may adversely affect the value of the security.

Municipal Securities Risk:  The risk of a municipal security depends on the ability of the issuer, or any entity providing a credit enhancement, to continue to meet its obligations for the payment of interest and principal when due.

Loan Risk:  Loans are subject to risk of loss, sensitivity to interest rate and economic changes, valuation difficulties and potential illiquidity to a greater extent than other types of investments.  The value of any collateral securing a loan may decline, be insufficient to meet the borrower’s obligations, or be difficult or costly to liquidate. It may take significantly longer than 7 days for investments in loans to settle, which can adversely affect an Underlying Fund’s ability to timely honor redemptions.

Derivatives Risk:  A derivative is an instrument with a value based on the performance of an underlying currency, security, index or other reference asset.  The use of derivatives involves risks different from, or greater than, the risks associated with investing in more traditional investments.  Derivatives may be illiquid, volatile, difficult to value, and the Fund may not be able to close out or sell a derivative position at a particular time or at an anticipated price.

Credit Risk:  Individual issues of fixed income securities may be subject to the credit risk of the issuer.  This means that the issuer of a fixed income security, or in the case of a municipal security, the underlying municipality, may experience financial problems, causing it to be unable to meet its payment obligations.

U.S. Government Agency Obligations Risk:  Government agency obligations have different levels of credit support and, therefore, different degrees of credit risk.  Some securities issued by agencies and instrumentalities of the U.S. Government are supported by the full faith and credit of the United States, but others are neither insured nor guaranteed by the U.S. Government. The U.S. Department of the Treasury has the authority to provide financial support to these debt obligations, but no assurance can be given that the U.S. Government will do so.

Changing Fixed Income Market Conditions: Following the financial crisis that began in 2007, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the “Federal Reserve”) has attempted to support the U.S. economic recovery by keeping the federal funds rate at a low level and purchasing large quantities of securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government, its agencies or instrumentalities on the open market (“Quantitative Easing”).  As the Federal Reserve reduces Quantitative Easing, and when the Federal Reserve raises the federal funds rate, interest rates across the U.S. financial system may rise.  These policy changes may expose fixed-income and related markets to heightened volatility and may reduce liquidity for certain Underlying Fund investments, which could cause the value of a Fund’s investments and share price to decline.  If an Underlying Fund invests in derivatives tied to fixed-income markets, the Underlying Fund may be more substantially exposed to these risks than a fund that does not invest in derivatives.  To the extent the Underlying Fund experiences high redemptions because of these policy changes, the Underlying Fund may experience increased portfolio turnover, which will increase the costs the Underlying Fund incurs and may lower its performance.  In addition, decreases in fixed income dealer market-making capacity may persist in the future, potentially leading to decreased liquidity and increased volatility in the fixed income markets.

Portfolio Turnover Risk: Depending on market and other conditions, the Fund may experience a high portfolio turnover, which may result in higher brokerage costs and transaction costs (which could reduce investment returns).  Distributions of net short-term capital gains are taxable as ordinary income when Fund shares are held in a taxable account.  A fund with a high portfolio turnover rate (a measure of how frequently assets within a fund are bought and sold) is more likely to generate short-term capital gains than a fund with a low portfolio turnover rate.
Performance
The bar chart and table that follow illustrate annual returns for Institutional Shares of the Fund for the periods ended December 31.  This information is intended to give you some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund’s performance from year to year and how the Fund’s average annual returns over time compare with those of a broad measure of market performance.  The Fund’s past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future.  The Fund changed its investment strategy on January 19, 2016.  The performance set forth below is mostly attributable to the previous investment strategies.
GUIDEPATH® ABSOLUTE RETURN ALLOCATION FUND – INSTITUTIONAL SHARES Calendar Year Returns as of 12/31
Bar Chart
During the period shown on the bar chart, the Fund’s best and worst quarters are shown below:

Best Quarter:
Quarter ended June 30, 2014
2.00%
Worst Quarter:
Quarter ended June 30, 2013
-2.46%
Average Annual Total Returns for Periods Ended December 31, 2015
Average Annual Returns - Institutional Shares Prospectus - GuidePath® Absolute Return Allocation Fund
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Average Annual Returns, 1 Year
Average Annual Returns, Since Inception
Average Annual Returns, Inception Date
Institutional Shares Return Before Taxes (0.61%) 1.15% Sep. 13, 2012
After Taxes on Distributions | Institutional Shares Return After Taxes on Distributions (1.76%) (0.07%)  
After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares | Institutional Shares Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares (0.32%) 0.38%  
Citigroup 3-Month Treasury Bill Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes) Citigroup 3-Month Treasury Bill Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes) 0.03% 0.04% Sep. 13, 2012
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.  In addition, the after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements such as 401(k) plans and individual retirement accounts because such accounts are only subject to taxes upon withdrawal.