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Entity Registrant Name dei_EntityRegistrantName ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND III
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Entity Inv Company Type dei_EntityInvCompanyType N-1A
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Document Creation Date dei_DocumentCreationDate Apr. 12, 2022
Document Effective Date dei_DocumentEffectiveDate Apr. 12, 2022
Prospectus Date rr_ProspectusDate Apr. 12, 2022
FS Multi-Strategy Alternatives Fund  
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Risk/Return [Heading] rr_RiskReturnHeading FS MULTI-STRATEGY ALTERNATIVES FUND
Objective [Heading] rr_ObjectiveHeading Investment Objective
Objective, Primary [Text Block] rr_ObjectivePrimaryTextBlock

The FS Multi-Strategy Alternatives Fund (the “Multi-Strategy Fund” or the “Fund”) seeks to provide shareholders with positive absolute returns over a complete market cycle.

Expense [Heading] rr_ExpenseHeading Fund Fees and Expenses
Expense Narrative [Text Block] rr_ExpenseNarrativeTextBlock

These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold Class A shares or Class I shares of the Fund. You may be required to pay commissions and/or other forms of compensation to a broker for transactions in Class I shares, which are not reflected in the "Annual Fund Operating Expenses" table or the Example below. You may qualify for sales charge discounts if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in Class A shares of the Fund. More information about these and other discounts is available (i) from your financial professional and (ii) in the “Purchasing, Selling and Exchanging Fund Shares – Sales Charges” section on page 86 of this prospectus.

Shareholder Fees Caption [Text] rr_ShareholderFeesCaption Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investments)
Operating Expenses Caption [Text] rr_OperatingExpensesCaption Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Fee Waiver or Reimbursement over Assets, Date of Termination rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssetsDateOfTermination April 11, 2024
Portfolio Turnover [Heading] rr_PortfolioTurnoverHeading Portfolio Turnover
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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 total annual Fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During its most recent fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, the portfolio turnover rate of the Predecessor Multi-Strategy Fund was 183% of the average value of its portfolio.

Portfolio Turnover, Rate rr_PortfolioTurnoverRate 183.00%
Expense Breakpoint Discounts [Text] rr_ExpenseBreakpointDiscounts You may qualify for sales charge discounts if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in Class A shares of the Fund.
Expenses Restated to Reflect Current [Text] rr_ExpensesRestatedToReflectCurrent Other Expenses Not Including Dividend or Interest Expense have been restated to reflect expenses expected to be incurred for the current fiscal year.
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Expense Example Narrative [Text Block] rr_ExpenseExampleNarrativeTextBlock

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 that the Fund’s operating expenses (including one year of capped expenses) remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

Strategy [Heading] rr_StrategyHeading Principal Investment Strategies
Strategy Narrative [Text Block] rr_StrategyNarrativeTextBlock

The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by actively allocating its assets across a broad spectrum of alternative investment strategies. The Fund will seek to provide exposure to alternative strategies with low correlation to traditional equity and fixed income markets, which can enhance portfolio diversification. The strategy will be implemented through a rigorous quantitative and qualitative process intended to select high quality Underlying Managers and Alternative Beta Strategies (each as defined below).

 

The Adviser typically allocates the assets of the Fund among a number of (i) asset managers (the “Underlying Managers”) that directly manage a portion of Fund assets in alternative investment strategies, and (ii) alternative beta providers (“Alternative Beta Providers”) that offer the Fund exposure to the “beta” portion — or market-related portion — of the returns of particular investment strategies (“Alternative Beta Strategies”). The Adviser may also manage all or a portion of the Fund’s assets directly. The Underlying Managers are sub-advisers to the Fund. The Fund invests in Alternative Beta Strategies by entering into a total return swap with an Alternative Beta Provider, a financial institution. Alternative Beta Providers are swap counterparties, not sub-advisers. The strategies employed by the Underlying Managers and Alternative Beta Providers are collectively referred to in this prospectus as “Alternative Investment Strategies.”

 

The Adviser, with the assistance of the Fund’s primary sub-adviser, Wilshire Associates Incorporated (“Wilshire”), determines the allocation of the Fund’s assets. The Adviser is ultimately responsible for selecting the Alternative Investment Strategies, for identifying and retaining Underlying Managers with expertise in the selected strategies, and for determining the amount of Fund assets to allocate to each Alternative Investment Strategy. The Adviser may adjust allocations from time to time among Alternative Investment Strategies based on its assessment of market conditions and/or other factors.

 

The Adviser, from time to time, may also choose not to allocate to certain Alternative Investment Strategies and there may be periods of time when there is no allocation to particular Alternative Investment Strategies, Underlying Managers or other strategies described in this prospectus. Each Underlying Manager is responsible for the day-to-day management of the Fund’s assets that the Adviser allocates to it.

 

The Adviser has entered into sub-advisory agreements with, and may allocate the Fund’s assets to, the following Underlying Managers:

 

Underlying Manager Strategy

Chilton Investment Company, LLC (“Chilton”)

Chilton pursues a long/short equity strategy focused on high-quality companies with strong business models and growth potential at reasonable valuations.

Equity Long/Short

MidOcean Credit Fund Management, L.P. (“MidOcean Credit Partners”)

MidOcean implements an event-driven long/short credit strategy which seeks to capture current income and growth from three primary pockets of inefficiencies in the credit market: callable bonds, short-dated credit and crossover credit.

Credit Long/Short

Crabel Capital Management, LLC (“Crabel”)

Crabel specializes in the systematic, automated trading of worldwide futures and foreign exchange designed to capture market anomalies implemented through a technologically advanced, low latency infrastructure to deliver uncorrelated return.

Systematic Trading

 

The investment strategy for each Underlying Manager listed above is its principal investment strategy, but the Underlying Managers may also implement other investment strategies in the portion of assets assigned to them.

 

As noted above, the Fund’s primary sub-adviser, Wilshire, assists the Adviser by evaluating and recommending Alternative Investment Strategies to the Adviser for use by the Fund. In addition, Wilshire provides recommendations to the Adviser for allocating and reallocating Fund assets among the Underlying Managers and Alternative Beta Providers and may also provide the Adviser with advice on investment decisions and underlying positions. However, Wilshire does not have discretionary authority with respect to the investment of the Fund’s assets.

 

In conjunction with recommending Alternative Investment Strategies to the Fund, Wilshire performs due diligence on prospective Underlying Managers. In evaluating Underlying Managers and their strategies, Wilshire employs a due diligence process that includes both qualitative and quantitative analysis, including a proprietary six-step qualitative manager review process that analyzes factors including organization and team, portfolio construction, investment process and risk management. Wilshire’s recommendations to the Adviser regarding investments and asset allocation are guided by portfolio construction techniques and are designed to maximize perceived opportunity sets and minimize unintended risks. Wilshire’s team takes a multi-faceted approach, focusing on expected return, expected risk, market dependency, diversification benefits, potential downside and other factors.

 

Wilshire monitors risk with respect to each Underlying Manager, Alternative Beta Provider, Alternative Investment Strategy and the Fund overall through a comprehensive assessment of risk factors, market sensitivities and exposures. Complementing Wilshire’s review process, the Adviser performs its own due diligence, which may include reviews of the performance, personnel, compliance history, and infrastructure of current and prospective Underlying Managers.

 

The Fund generally seeks to obtain exposure to Alternative Investment Strategies in a cost-efficient manner, particularly as compared to private investment vehicles that have historically been used to access alternative investment strategies. Alternative Beta Providers in particular may offer cost advantages over traditional alternative asset managers.

 

Principal Strategies — Underlying Managers

 

The Adviser, based on recommendations from Wilshire, may determine to allocate the Fund’s assets to Underlying Managers employing all or a subset of the non-traditional and alternative strategies described below at any one time, and may change those allocations from time to time in its sole discretion. The Adviser may also direct an Underlying Manager to reduce or omit its investment in certain assets or asset classes in an effort to achieve its desired combination of the Fund’s strategies. In the future, Underlying Managers may employ other strategies not described herein.

 

•“Equity Long/Short” strategies seek to generate positive absolute returns by long and short investing, based on fundamental evaluations, research and various analytical measurements (e.g., statistical, technical or other factors), in equity and equity-related investments. Short investing is discussed in more detail below in the seventh paragraph under “Principal Investment Strategies – General.”
•“Relative Value” strategies seek to identify and benefit from price discrepancies between related assets (assets that share a common financial factor, such as interest rates, an issuer or an index). Relative Value opportunities generally rely on arbitrage (the simultaneous purchase and sale of related assets) and may exist between two issuers or within the capital structure of a single issuer.
•“Global Macro” strategies seek to analyze macroeconomic variables to forecast future moves in global asset prices. A variety of different trading and investing styles can be utilized to identify opportunities across an unconstrained universe of markets and investments.
•“Event Driven” strategies seek to achieve gains from market movements in security prices caused by specific corporate events or changes in perceived relative value. Event Driven investing involves taking a view on the likelihood and potential outcome of certain types of corporate events, including business combinations, recapitalizations, restructurings, management changes, and other situations, and taking a long and/or short position in the company’s equity and/or debt securities. Short positions are discussed in more detail below in the seventh paragraph under “Principal Investment Strategies – General.”
•“Credit Long/Short” strategies seek to deliver growth and income based returns through long/short credit investing. Credit Long/Short managers seek to maintain exposure and adjust portfolio weightings based on opportunity. They generally employ a bottom-up credit analysis and a value approach in selecting investments.
•“Systematic Trading” strategies seek to produce total return by long and short investing across global fixed income, equity, currency and commodity markets. Systematic Trading managers may employ various investment styles. Some Tactical Trading managers may employ both fundamental analysis and quantitative modeling techniques. Tactical Trading managers typically have no bias towards long, short or neutral holdings.

 

Principal Strategies — Alternative Beta Strategies

 

Alternative Beta Providers provide the Fund exposure to Alternative Beta Strategies. Alternative Beta Strategies, sometimes referred to as risk premia strategies, seek to generate returns through particular investments in the broader securities markets that are designed to give exposure to independent risk factors, such as price momentum, size risk, commodity carry risk (i.e., the risk of price fluctuations in raw materials), and currency carry risk (i.e., the risk that foreign exchange rates may change in a manner that would require the Fund to pay back a more expensive currency with a less valuable currency). Risk premia strategies call for investments in securities possessing one or more attributes that have historically been associated with, or are otherwise believed to offer, attractive investor returns as a result of their exposure to a particular risk factor. In general, Alternative Beta Strategies, while dependent on market movements for success, are expected to have relatively low correlation to broader market movements.

 

The Adviser, with assistance from Wilshire, evaluates the actual and potential performance of Alternative Beta Strategies on a risk-adjusted basis (i.e., relative to the amount of risk the Alternative Beta Strategies have represented through a given period). The Adviser will generally seek to allocate capital to Alternative Beta Strategies that offer attractive returns relative to the level of volatility in their investment results. In making investment decisions, the Adviser (and Wilshire, in making recommendations) will consider both the volatility of investment results associated with particular Alternative Beta Strategies and the effect of individual Alternative Beta Strategies on the risk-return profile of the Fund as a whole. The Fund may strategically allocate capital to relatively high-risk strategies if those strategies have the potential to generate correspondingly high returns or otherwise have a positive impact on the risk-return profile of the Fund as a whole.

 

Alternative Beta Providers may pursue a wide range of investment approaches, including strategies that seek to replicate key investment characteristics of the strategies described under “Principal Strategies — Underlying Managers” above. Alternative Beta Strategies may also include, without limitation:

 

•Value Strategies: Value strategies seek to take advantage of instruments that have low valuations. These strategies can be deployed to identify exposures to buy and/or sell in a either a directional or relative value manner.
•Carry Strategies: Carry strategies seek to capture the tendency of higher-yielding assets to provide higher returns than lower-yielding assets. An asset’s “carry” is defined as its return assuming that market conditions stay the same, meaning that carry is the income earned if the asset’s price remains constant over the holding period. These strategies can be deployed to identify exposures to buy and/or sell in either a directional (i.e., either long or short) or relative value (i.e., both long and short) manner.
•Curve Strategies: Curve strategies seek to benefit from structural inefficiencies often present in rate and commodity future yield curves. Different points on these curves can be impacted by excessive demand or supply stemming from structural flows from different market participants such as hedgers, producers, borrowers or lenders. These strategies can be deployed to identify exposures to buy and/or sell in either a directional or relative value manner.
•Trend/Momentum Strategies: Momentum strategies seek to benefit from the historical tendency of assets’ recent relative performance to continue, typically focusing on investments that have performed relatively well over those that have underperformed. Trend strategies are effectively aggregations of momentum strategies, taking long positions in markets with recent positive returns and short positions in those with recent negative returns. The persistence in price trends has delivered excess returns over time, including and during some abnormal market conditions. These strategies can be deployed to identify exposures to buy and/ or sell in either a directional or relative value manner.
•Mean Reversion Strategies: Mean reversion investment strategies seek to benefit from the tendency of securities prices to exhibit mean-reverting behavior (i.e., when an asset moves in the opposite direction of a recent movement or trend) in a somewhat predictable fashion over specific time periods. These strategies can be deployed to identify exposures to buy and/or sell in either a directional or relative value manner.
•Equity Risk Premia / Alternative Beta Strategies:
oLow Beta: Low-Beta strategies aim to benefit from the tendency of low-beta stocks to outperform high-beta stocks on a risk-adjusted basis (where “beta” refers to a security’s sensitivity to broader market movements). Investors that have the ability to take long positions only or are subject to constraints on their use of leverage may prefer high-beta stocks, which provides an opportunity for low-beta stocks to outperform on a relative basis.
oSize: Size-based strategies seek to take advantage of the tendency of smaller companies to outperform larger companies on a risk-adjusted basis. This may be due to the fact that smaller companies may be viewed as less transparent and less liquid, and may be avoided by some investors.
oValue: Value-based equity strategies seek to take advantage of stocks that may be perceived as risky. Value stocks may be discounted by more than is justified, as investors often overestimate their riskiness, potentially positioning these stocks to outperform on a risk-adjusted basis.

 

oQuality: Quality equity strategies seek to benefit from the tendency of stocks of companies with strong balance sheets to outperform at times when market sentiment favors companies with strong fundamentals. Investors may tend to underestimate this outperformance, potentially allowing Alternative Beta Strategies to obtain high-quality stocks at attractive prices under certain market conditions.
oMomentum: Momentum equity strategies aim to take advantage of the tendency for strong relative performers to continue to outperform for certain periods of time. One explanation is that some investors react more slowly to new information, creating a “first-mover” advantage.
•Thematic Strategies: Strategies can be employed to express views on market themes (i.e., macro, political, structural, regulatory) that are expected to influence the absolute or relative price change of individual securities and/or indices.
•Volatility Strategies: Volatility strategies seek to capture returns from market participants’ tendency to overpay for volatility protection. Historically, the average implied volatility of index options has exceeded the realized volatility of the underlying index. This difference represents the volatility premium, or market participants’ willingness to pay for protection against losses when volatility suddenly increases. This strategy can be carried out in many asset classes, such as equities, foreign currencies, and rates.
•Congestion Strategies and Similar Strategies: Congestion strategies seek to monetize structural inefficiencies around indices or other market participants adjusting their positions in a somewhat predictable fashion. For example, many benchmark bond indices rebalance on the last business day of each month. The rebalancing involves bringing new issuances during the month into the index, which leads to buying pressure at month-end from asset managers that seek to track the index. This process has historically resulted in a persistent bullish market phenomenon at month-end. Congestion strategies seek to benefit from this phenomenon. Similar Alternative Beta Strategies may also include other strategies that seek to benefit from other structural market phenomena, such has those involving extension of fixed income instruments.
•Opportunistic, Hedge and Other Strategies: These strategies aim to provide systematic trading methods to capture a perceived or desired risk-adjusted return profile. Certain strategies may use entry or timing mechanisms, while others may exploit more obscure and hard-to-extract risk premia such as strategies that seek to benefit from equity index dispersion (the variance in performance of securities within an index).

 

In sum, the Alternative Beta Strategies seek to capitalize upon investment opportunities present in markets by employing a systematic, rules-based approach. As discussed above, such opportunities may arise from, among other sources, market inefficiencies or investor behavioral biases.

 

The Adviser may use Alternative Beta Strategies for longer-term investments, as well as for tactical purposes, including temporary positions pending placement of capital, as a hedge on the Fund’s overall portfolio, and/or for investing the Fund’s excess cash.

 

The Adviser will make determinations regarding whether a particular strategy is most efficiently expressed through an Underlying Manager or an Alternative Beta Provider in its discretion on a case-by-case basis.

 

Principal Strategies — General

 

The Adviser may allocate up to 100% of the assets of the Fund among one or more Alternative Beta Providers that offer the Fund exposure to the returns of rules-based Alternative Investment Strategies that seek to achieve the Fund’s objective. An Alternative Beta Provider is a financial institution that serves as a counterparty to the Fund in a total return swap that offers exposure to the returns of a specified underlying asset. In a typical total return swap transaction with an Alternative Beta Provider, the Fund agrees to pay a fixed or variable interest rate to the Alternative Beta Provider in exchange for return earned on a specified underlying asset. Alternative Beta Providers in particular may offer cost advantages over traditional alternative asset managers. In general, Alternative Beta Strategies seek to identify and capitalize upon market inefficiencies and market behavioral biases (or risk premia). Alternative Beta Strategies typically have less correlation to traditional equity and fixed income markets than traditional investment strategies. In this regard, when the performance of traditional markets improves, Alternative Beta Strategies my decline or improve to a greater or lesser degree. Conversely, when traditional markets decline, Alternative Beta Strategies my improve or decline to a greater or lesser degree.

 

The Fund generally seeks to obtain exposure to Alternative Investment Strategies in a cost-efficient manner, particularly as compared to private investment vehicles that have historically been used to access alternative investment strategies. Strategies may include historical trend (seeking to benefit from the historical tendency of securities with certain characteristics to outperform others), carry and curve (investing in assets with high carry and selling assets with low carry), low beta (seeking to capture outperformance of assets with low beta over those with high beta), value (investing in undervalued and selling overvalued assets) and volatility premium (monetizing the concept that implied volatility tends to be higher than realized volatility) and momentum strategies (which emphasize investing in securities that have better recent performance compared to other securities). The Adviser may also manage all or a portion of the Fund’s assets directly. The Adviser, Underlying Managers, and Alternative Beta Providers may use investment programs that are fundamentally dependent on proprietary or licensed technology through such manager’s use of, among other things, certain hardware, software, model-based strategies, data gathering systems, order execution, and trade allocation systems, and/or risk management systems.

 

The Fund’s portfolio may include, without limitation: (i) equity securities, including common and preferred stocks, convertible securities, rights and warrants, depositary receipts, real estate investment trusts (“REITs”), pooled investment vehicles, including other investment companies, such as exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”), exchange-traded vehicles (“ETVs”) and partnership interests; (ii) fixed income and/or floating rate securities, including debt issued by companies, debt issued by governments (including the U.S. and foreign governments), their agencies, instrumentalities, sponsored entities and political subdivisions, covered bonds, notes, debentures, debt participations, convertible bonds, non-investment grade securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”), bank loans (including senior secured loans) and other direct indebtedness and exchange-traded notes (“ETNs”); (iii) mortgage-backed and other mortgage-related securities, asset-backed securities, municipal securities, to-be announced (“TBA”) securities and custodial receipts; and (iv) currencies. The Fund’s investments may be publicly traded or privately issued or negotiated. The Fund may invest without restriction as to issuer capitalization, currency, maturity or credit rating.

 

The Fund’s investments may include U.S. securities and non-U.S. securities (including emerging market securities), including securities denominated in a currency other than the U.S. dollar.

 

The Fund may use derivatives for a variety of purposes, such as to seek economic exposure to one or more alternative strategies, enhance returns, increase investment flexibility, speculate on a targeted investment opportunity, or for hedging purposes (although the Fund is not required to hedge any of its positions or to use derivatives). The Fund’s derivative investments may include, without limitation: (i) futures contracts, including futures based on equity or fixed income securities and/or equity or fixed income indices, interest rate futures, currency futures and swap futures; (ii) swaps, including equity, currency, interest rate, total return, variance and credit default swaps, and swaps on futures contracts; (iii) options, including long and short positions in call options and put options on indices, individual securities or currencies, swaptions and options on futures contracts; (iv) forward contracts, including forwards based on equity or fixed income securities and/or equity or fixed income indices, currency forwards, interest rate forwards, swap forwards and non-deliverable forwards; and (v) other instruments, including structured securities and contracts for differences (“CFDs”) (collectively, “Financial Instruments”). CFDs are privately negotiated contracts between two parties, buyer and seller, stipulating that the seller will pay to or receive from the buyer the difference between the nominal value of the underlying instrument at the opening of the contract and that instrument’s value at the end of the contract. As a result of the Fund’s use of Financial Instruments or as an investment strategy, the Fund may also hold significant amounts of U.S. Treasury Bills or short-term investments, including money market funds, repurchase agreements, cash and time deposits.

 

The Fund may obtain investment leverage through the use of Financial Instruments or borrowing cash or securities. As a result, the sum of the Fund’s investment exposures may significantly exceed the amount of assets invested in the Fund, although these exposures may vary over time.

 

The Fund may take long and/or short positions in a wide range of asset classes, including equities, fixed income, commodities and currencies, among others. The Fund may implement short positions through short sales of any instrument (including ETFs) that the Fund may purchase for investment or by using options, swaps, futures, forwards and other Financial Instruments. For example, the Fund may enter into a futures contract pursuant to which it agrees to sell an asset that it does not currently own at a specified price and time in the future. This gives the Fund a short position with respect to that asset.

 

The Fund may make investments through one or more subsidiaries organized under the laws of the Cayman Islands (each, a “Subsidiary” and collectively, the “Subsidiaries”) and may invest up to 25% of its total assets in the Subsidiaries. Generally, each Subsidiary will invest primarily in commodity futures, forwards and swaps, but it may also invest in financial futures, option and swap contracts, fixed income securities, pooled investment vehicles, including those that are not registered pursuant to the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), and other investments intended to serve as margin or collateral for the Subsidiary’s derivative positions. The Fund will invest in each Subsidiary in order to gain exposure to the commodities markets within the limitations of the federal tax laws, rules and regulations that apply to registered investment companies. Unlike the Fund, each Subsidiary may invest without limitation in commodity-linked derivative instruments, however, each Subsidiary will comply with the same 1940 Act asset coverage requirements with respect to its investments in commodity-linked derivatives that are applicable to the Fund’s transactions in derivatives. In addition, the Fund and each Subsidiary will be subject to the same fundamental investment restrictions on a consolidated basis and, to the extent applicable to the investment activities of each Subsidiary, each Subsidiary will follow the same compliance policies and procedures as the Fund. Unlike the Fund, each Subsidiary will not seek to qualify as a regulated investment company (a “RIC”) under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). The Fund is the sole shareholder of each Subsidiary and does not expect shares of a Subsidiary to be offered or sold to other investors. To the extent the Fund invests in instruments that provide exposure to the commodity markets directly, it will seek to restrict its income from instruments that do not generate qualifying income to a maximum of 10% of its gross income (when combined with its other investments that produce non-qualifying income) to comply with certain qualifying income tests necessary for the Fund to qualify as a RIC under Subchapter M of the Code.

 

Up to 15% of the Fund’s net assets may be invested in illiquid investments, which may include privately placed securities that may only be resold in reliance on Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933.

 

Although the Fund intends to normally invest in Alternative Investment Strategies, it retains the flexibility to allocate as little as none or as much as all of its capital to particular Underlying Managers and/or Alternative Beta Providers. The Fund is considered non-diversified, which means that the percentage of its assets that may be invested in the securities of a single issuer is not limited by the 1940 Act.

 

The Adviser may engage in active and frequent trading of the Fund’s portfolio investments. To the extent that it does so, the Fund may incur greater transaction costs and may make greater distributions of income and gains, which will be taxable to shareholders who do not hold their shares through a tax-advantaged or tax-deferred account.

Risk [Heading] rr_RiskHeading Principal Risks
Risk Narrative [Text Block] rr_RiskNarrativeTextBlock

As with all mutual funds, there is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its investment objective. You could lose money by investing in the Fund. A Fund share is not a bank deposit and it is not insured or guaranteed by the FDIC or any other government agency. The principal risk factors affecting shareholders’ investments in the Fund are set forth below.

 

Unless otherwise specified, references in this section to investments by the Fund refer to direct investments made or held by the Fund and/or indirect investments to which the Fund may have exposure through an Alternative Beta Strategy.

 

Derivatives Risk – The Fund may invest in Financial Instruments, including swap agreements, futures contracts, forwards and other derivative instruments, that may involve risks different from, or greater than, those associated with more traditional investments. Due to leverage, small changes in the value of the Financial Instruments’ reference assets, rates, or indexes may produce disproportionate losses to the Fund. The value of Financial Instruments may not move as expected relative to the value of the reference assets, rates or indexes. Financial Instruments used for hedging purposes may not hedge risks as expected, and Financial Instruments used for non-hedging purposes may not provide the anticipated investment exposure. Financial Instruments may be highly illiquid, and the Fund may not be able to close out or sell a Financial Instrument position at a particular time or at an anticipated price. Various legislative and regulatory initiatives may impact the availability, liquidity and cost of derivatives. Financial Instruments also may be subject to interest rate risk, currency risk and counterparty risk.

 

Equity Risk – The prices of equity securities in which the Fund holds long and short positions may rise and fall daily. A variety of factors can negatively impact the value of equity securities, including factors affecting individual companies, industries, securities markets or economies.

 

Market Risk – Investments in securities, in general, are subject to market risks, including increased volatility, illiquidity, or other potentially adverse effects in response to changing market conditions, inflation, changes in interest rates, market disruptions caused by local or regional events such as war, acts of terrorism, the spread of infectious illness (including epidemics and pandemics) or other public health issues, recessions or other events or adverse investor sentiment that may cause their prices to fluctuate over time. An investment in the Fund may lose money.

 

Volatility Risk – The Fund may have investments that appreciate or decrease significantly in value over short periods of time. This may cause the Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”) per share to experience significant increases or declines in value over short periods of time, however, all investments long- or short-term are subject to risk of loss.

 

Counterparty Risk – The stability and liquidity of many derivative transactions depends in large part on the creditworthiness of the parties to the transactions. If a counterparty to such a transaction defaults, exercising contractual rights may involve delays or costs for the Fund. Furthermore, there is a risk that a counterparty could become the subject of insolvency proceedings, and that the recovery of securities and other assets from such counterparty will be delayed or be of a value less than the value of the securities or assets originally entrusted to such counterparty.

 

Credit/Default Risk – An issuer or guarantor of fixed income securities or instruments held by the Fund may default on its obligation to pay interest and principal when due or default on any other obligation, which may impair the liquidity and value of the Fund’s investment. In addition, the Fund may incur expenses in an effort to protect the Fund’s interests or enforce its rights against an issuer, guarantor or counterparty or may be hindered or delayed in exercising these rights.

 

Event-Driven Trading Risk – The Fund may seek to profit from the occurrence of specific corporate or other events. A delay in the timing of these events, or the failure of these events to occur at all, may have a significant negative effect on the Fund’s performance.

 

Foreign Investments and Emerging Markets Risk – The Fund may invest in the securities of non-U.S. issuers, including those located in developing countries, which securities involve risks beyond those associated with investments in U.S. securities. These risks may relate to foreign political, social and economic matters, less developed markets, political immobility and less developed legal and accounting practices.

 

Interest Rate Risk – Interest rate risk is the risk that prices of fixed income securities generally increase when interest rates decline and decrease when interest rates increase. The Fund may lose money if short-term or long-term interest rates rise sharply or otherwise change in a manner not anticipated by the Adviser or Wilshire. There may be less governmental action in the future to maintain low interest rates. The negative impact on fixed income securities from the resulting rate increases for that and other reasons could be swift and significant.

 

Market Capitalization Risk (Small-, Mid- and Large-Cap Stocks Risk) – To the extent the Fund emphasizes small-, mid-, or large-cap stocks, it takes on the associated risks. At any given time, any of these market capitalizations may be out of favor with investors. Small- or mid-cap capitalization stocks may be more volatile and more affected by sector or market events than larger-capitalization stocks.

 

Model and Technology Risk – The Adviser, Underlying Managers, and Alternative Beta Providers may use investment programs that are fundamentally dependent on proprietary or licensed technology through such manager’s use of, among other things, certain hardware, software, model-based strategies, data gathering systems, order execution, and trade allocation systems, and/or risk management systems. These strategies may not be successful on an ongoing basis or could contain errors, omissions, imperfections, or malfunctions. These errors may result in, among other things, execution and allocation failures and failures to properly gather and organize large amounts of data from third parties and other external sources.

 

Multi-Manager and Allocation Risk – The success of the Fund’s investment strategy depends on, among other things, the Adviser’s ability, based on recommendations from Wilshire, to select Underlying Managers, Alternative Beta Providers and Alternative Investment Strategies to implement the Fund’s investment objective and the Adviser’s success in allocating assets, based on recommendations from Wilshire, to those Underlying Managers and Alternative Beta Providers. The Fund’s Underlying Managers and/or Alternative Beta Strategies may underperform the market generally or underperform other investment managers that could have been selected for the Fund. In addition, some Underlying Managers may have little or no experience managing assets for an open-end fund, which is different from the hedge funds and similar vehicles with which most Underlying Managers have expertise. Mutual funds, unlike hedge funds (with which the Underlying Managers are experienced), are subject to daily inflows and outflows of securities and cash and are subject to certain legal and tax-related restrictions on their investments and operations, including, for example, restrictions on illiquid investments and leverage. Accordingly, an Underlying Manager may not be able to achieve the level of returns for the Fund that the Underlying Manager would be able to achieve if it were managing the same strategy in a hedge fund or similar investment vehicle.

 

Non-Investment Grade Fixed Income Securities Risk – Non-investment grade fixed income securities and unrated securities of comparable credit quality (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are considered speculative and are subject to the increased risk of an issuer’s inability to meet principal and interest payment obligations, increased risk of price volatility, increased risk of illiquidity and other risks.

 

Short Sales Risk – A short sale of a security involves the theoretical risk of unlimited loss because of increases in the market price of the security sold short. The Fund’s use of short sales, in certain circumstances, can result in significant losses.

 

Arbitrage Strategies Risk – The Fund may purchase securities at prices only slightly below the anticipated value to be paid or exchanged for such securities in a merger, exchange offer or cash tender offer, and substantially above the prices at which such securities traded immediately prior to announcement of the transaction. If there is a perception that the proposed transaction will not be consummated or will be delayed, the market price of the security may decline sharply.

 

Commodities Risk – To the extent that the Fund gains exposure to the commodities markets, such exposure may subject the Fund to greater volatility than investments in traditional securities. The value of commodity-linked investments may be affected by changes in overall market movements, commodity index volatility, changes in interest rates, or sectors affecting a particular industry or commodity, such as drought, floods, weather, embargoes, tariffs and international economic, political and regulatory developments. The prices of certain commodities may fluctuate widely due to factors such as changes in value, supply and demand and governmental regulatory policies. Some commodity-linked investments are issued by companies in the financial services sector, including the banking, brokerage and insurance sectors. As a result, events affecting issuers in the financial services sector may cause the Fund’s share value to fluctuate.

 

Currency Risk – The Fund’s returns may be adversely impacted by changes in currency exchange rates.

 

Hedging Transactions Risk – The Fund may invest in securities and utilize financial instruments for a variety of hedging purposes. Hedging transactions may limit the opportunity for gain if the value of the portfolio position should increase. There can be no assurance that the Fund will engage in hedging transactions at any given time, even under volatile market conditions, or that any hedging transactions the Fund engages in will be successful. Moreover, it may not be possible for the Fund to enter into a hedging transaction at a price sufficient to protect its assets. The Fund may not anticipate a particular risk so as to hedge against it.

 

High Portfolio Turnover Risk – Active and frequent trading of the Fund’s portfolio securities may result in increased transaction costs to the Fund, including brokerage commissions, dealer mark-ups and other transaction costs, which could reduce the Fund’s return.

 

Highly Leveraged Transactions Risk – The loans or other debt instruments in which the Fund invests may include highly leveraged transactions whereby the borrower assumes large amounts of debt in order to have the financial resources to attempt to achieve its business objectives. Loans or other debt instruments that are part of highly leveraged transactions involve a greater risk (including default and bankruptcy) than other investments.

 

Investment Style Risk – Different investment styles (e.g., “growth”, “value” or “quantitative”) tend to shift in and out of favor depending upon market and economic conditions and investor sentiment. The Fund employs various non-traditional and alternative investment styles, and may outperform or underperform other funds that invest in similar asset classes but employ different investment styles. Risks also exist that Underlying Managers may fail to fully adhere to stated or agreed-upon investment strategies and goals. An Underlying Manager may make certain changes to the strategies that the manager has previously used, may not use such strategies at all, may use additional strategies or may lose a license permitting the use of a proprietary model. Such changes may not be fully disclosed to the Fund’s Board of Trustees or the Adviser. As a result, the Fund’s portfolio could correlate with broader securities markets more closely than anticipated, or may otherwise fail to achieve desired performance.

 

Alternative Beta Strategies seek to generate returns through exposure to portfolios of risky assets that are selected based on non-traditional criteria. These strategies may involve elevated risk insofar as they may not involve detailed, issuer-specific fundamental analysis. Alternative Beta Strategies may give the Fund exposure to individual issuers that face significant operational, financial, regulatory or other challenges.

 

Rule 144A and Other Exempted Securities Risk – The Fund may invest in privately placed and other securities or instruments exempt from Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) registration (collectively “private placements”), subject to liquidity and other regulatory restrictions. In the U.S. market, private placements are typically sold only to qualified institutional buyers, or qualified purchasers, as applicable. An insufficient number of buyers interested in purchasing private placements at a particular time could affect adversely the marketability of such investments and the Fund might be unable to dispose of them promptly or at reasonable prices, subjecting the Fund to liquidity risk.

 

Valuation Risk – The sales price the Fund could receive for any particular portfolio investment may differ from the Fund’s valuation of the investment, particularly for securities that trade in thin or volatile markets or that are valued using a fair value methodology. Investors who purchase or redeem Fund shares on days when the Fund is holding fair-valued securities may receive fewer or more shares or lower or higher redemption proceeds than they would have received if the Fund had not fair-valued the security or had used a different valuation methodology.

 

Leverage Risk – Leverage occurs when the Fund directly or indirectly increases its assets available for investment using borrowings, short sales, Financial Instruments, or similar instruments or techniques. The use of leverage may make any change in the Fund’s NAV greater than it otherwise would be and thus result in increased volatility of returns and the risk that the Fund will lose more than it has invested or the margin it supplies to its counterparty on the instrument. Leverage can also create interest or other transactional expenses that may lower the Fund’s overall returns. The use of leverage may cause the Fund to liquidate portfolio positions at disadvantageous times in order to satisfy its obligations or to meet any asset segregation or position coverage requirements.

 

Cyber Security and Operational Risk – The Fund and its service providers may experience disruptions that arise from breaches in cyber security, human error, processing and communications errors, counterparty or third-party errors, technology or systems failures, any of which may have an adverse impact on the Fund. Failures or breaches of the electronic systems of the Fund, the Fund’s adviser, distributor, and other service providers, or the issuers of securities in which the Fund invests have the ability to cause disruptions and negatively impact the Fund’s operations, potentially resulting in financial losses to the Fund and its shareholders.

 

Issuer Risk – An issuer in which the Fund invests or to which it has exposure may perform poorly, and the value of its loans or securities may therefore decline, which would negatively affect the Fund’s performance. Poor performance may be caused by poor management decisions, competitive pressures, breakthroughs in technology, reliance on suppliers, labor problems or shortages, corporate restructurings, fraudulent disclosures, natural disasters, the spread of infectious illness (including epidemics and pandemics) or other events, conditions or factors.

 

Liquidity Risk – Although the Fund will invest primarily in liquid, publicly traded securities, the Fund may make investments that may be illiquid or that may become less liquid in response to market developments or adverse investor perceptions. Illiquid investments may be more difficult to value and more difficult to sell in response to redemption requests than liquid investments. If the Fund must sell illiquid or less liquid assets to meet redemption requests or other cash needs, it may be forced to sell at a loss.

 

Non-Diversification Risk – The Fund is classified as a “non-diversified” investment company, which means that the percentage of its assets that may be invested in the securities of a single issuer is not limited by the 1940 Act. As a result, the Fund’s investment portfolio may be subject to greater risk and volatility than if investments had been made in the securities of a broad range of issuers.

 

Regulatory Risk – Legal, tax, and regulatory developments may adversely affect the Fund. The regulatory environment for the Fund is evolving, and changes in the regulation of investment funds, their managers, and their trading activities and capital markets, or a regulator’s disagreement with the Fund’s interpretation of the application of certain regulations, may adversely affect the ability of the Fund to pursue its investment strategy, its ability to obtain leverage and financing, and the value of investments held by the Fund.

 

Structured Products and Structured Notes Risk – A structured product may decline in value due to changes in the underlying instruments on which the product is based. The cash flow or rate of return on the underlying investments may be apportioned among the newly issued securities to create different investment characteristics, such as varying maturities, credit quality, payment priorities and interest rate provisions. The cash flow or rate of return on a structured investment may be determined by applying a multiplier to the rate of total return on the underlying investments or referenced indicator. Application of a multiplier is comparable to the use of financial leverage, a speculative technique.

 

Holders of structured products indirectly bear risks associated with the underlying investments, index or reference obligation, and are subject to counterparty risk. Structured products are generally privately offered and sold, and thus, are not registered under the securities laws. Certain structured products may be thinly traded or have a limited trading market and may have the effect of increasing the Fund’s illiquidity to the extent that the Fund, at a particular point in time, may be unable to find qualified buyers for these securities. Structured notes are derivative securities for which the amount of principal repayment and/or interest payments is based on the movement of one or more “factors.” Investments in structured notes involve risks including interest rate risk, credit risk and market risk. Where the Fund’s investments in structured notes are based upon the movement of one or more factors, depending on the factor used and the use of multipliers or deflators, changes in interest rates and movement of the factor may cause significant price fluctuations.

 

Tax Risk – To comply with its asset diversification test applicable to a RIC, the Fund will limit its investments in the Subsidiary to 25% of the Fund’s total assets at the end of each quarter. The Fund intends to invest in complex derivatives for which there is not clear guidance from the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) as to the calculation of such investments under the asset diversification test applicable to RICs. There are no assurances that the IRS will agree with the Fund’s calculation under the asset diversification test which could cause the Fund to fail to qualify as a RIC.

 

The tax treatment of certain commodity investments and derivative instruments in which the Fund may invest may be affected by future regulatory or legislative changes that could affect the character, timing and/or amount of the Fund’s taxable income or gains and distributions. 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. Failure to comply with the requirements for qualification as a RIC would have significant negative tax consequences to Fund shareholders.

 

Activist Strategies Risk – The Fund may purchase securities of companies that are the subject of proxy contests or which activist investors are attempting to influence, in the expectation that new management or a change in business strategies will cause the price of such company’s securities to increase. There is a risk that the market price of the company’s securities will fall if the proxy contest, or the new management, is not successful.

 

Convertible Securities Risk – If market interest rates rise, the value of a convertible security usually falls. In addition, convertible securities are subject to the risk that the issuer will not be able to pay interest or dividends when due, and their market value may change based on changes in the issuer’s credit rating or the market’s perception of the issuer’s creditworthiness. Since it derives a portion of its value from the common stock into which it may be converted, a convertible security is also subject to the same types of market and issuer risks that apply to the underlying common stock. “Mandatory” convertible bonds, which must be converted into common stock by a certain date, may be more exposed to the risks of the underlying common stock.

 

Exchange-Traded Product Risk – The Fund may invest in long (or short) positions in ETFs, ETVs and ETNs (collectively with ETFs and ETVs, “ETPs”). Through its positions in ETPs, the Fund will be subject to the risks associated with such vehicles’ investments, including the possibility that the value of the securities or instruments held by an ETP could decrease (or increase), and will bear its proportionate share of the ETP’s fees and expenses. In addition, certain of the ETPs may hold common portfolio positions, thereby reducing any diversification benefits.

 

Fixed Income Risk – The price of fixed-income securities responds to economic developments, particularly interest rate changes, as well as to perceptions about the credit risk of individual issuers. Rising interest rates generally will cause the price of bonds and other fixed-income debt securities to fall. Falling interest rates may cause an issuer to redeem, call or refinance a security before its stated maturity, which may result in the Fund having to reinvest the proceeds in lower yielding securities. Bonds and other fixed-income debt securities are subject to credit risk, which is the possibility that the credit strength of an issuer will weaken and/or an issuer of a fixed-income security will fail to make timely payments of principal or interest and the security will go into default. Loans and other direct indebtedness involve the risk that the Fund will not receive payment of principal, interest and other amounts due in connection with these investments, which depend primarily on the financial condition of the borrower.

 

Investment in Other Investment Companies Risk – As with other investments, investments in other investment companies, including ETFs, are subject to market and manager risk. In addition, if the Fund acquires shares of investment companies, shareholders bear both their proportionate share of expenses in the Fund (including management and advisory fees) and, indirectly, the expenses of the investment companies. The Fund may invest in money market mutual funds. An investment in a money market mutual fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. Although money market mutual funds that invest in U.S. government securities seek to preserve the value of the Fund’s investment at $1.00 per share, it is possible to lose money by investing in a stable NAV money market mutual fund. Moreover, SEC rules require prime money market mutual funds to use floating NAVs that do not preserve the value of the Fund’s investment at $1.00 per share.

 

Limited Capacity Risk – Alternative investment strategies utilized by the Fund may have limited capacity, and the Adviser may not be able to allocate as much of the Fund’s assets to one or more alternative investment strategies as it desires. This capacity limitation may negatively impact the performance and portfolio composition of the Fund.

 

Mortgage-Backed and Other Asset-Backed Risk – Mortgage-backed and other asset-based securities are subject to risks associated with credit/default risk, interest rate risk, and prepayment risk, as well as the risk of declining values of underlying collateral assets. Small movements in interest rates may dramatically affect the value of certain mortgage- and asset-backed securities.

 

Preferred Stock Risk – Preferred stock is a type of stock that generally pays dividends at a specified rate and that has preference over common stock in the payment of dividends and the liquidation of assets. Preferred stock does not ordinarily carry voting rights. The price of a preferred stock is generally determined by earnings, type of products or services, projected growth rates, experience of management, liquidity, and general market conditions of the markets on which the stock trades. The most significant risks associated with investments in preferred stock include issuer risk, market risk and interest rate risk (i.e., the risk of losses attributable to changes in interest rates).

 

Prepayment Risk – The Fund faces prepayment risk with respect to certain fixed-income investments. When interest rates fall, certain fixed income obligations will be paid off by the obligor more quickly than originally anticipated, and the Fund may have to invest the proceeds in securities with lower yields, potentially reducing overall Fund returns.

 

U.S. Government Securities Risk – The U.S. government may not provide financial support to U.S. government agencies, instrumentalities or sponsored enterprises that have issued debt securities that may be held by the Fund. Such issuers may not have the funds to meet their payment obligations in the future.

 

Custody Risk – The Fund invests in securities markets that are less developed than those in the U.S., which may expose the Fund to risks in the process of clearing and settling trades and the holding of securities by local banks, agents and depositories. The less developed a country’s securities market is, the greater the likelihood of custody problems.

 

Subsidiary Risk – By investing in a Subsidiary, the Fund is indirectly exposed to the risks associated with the Subsidiary’s investments. The derivatives and other investments held by the Subsidiary are generally similar to those that are permitted to be held by the Fund and are subject to the same risks that apply to similar investments if held directly by the Fund. The Subsidiary is not registered under the 1940 Act, and unless otherwise noted in this prospectus, is not subject to all the investor protections of the 1940 Act. Changes in the laws of the United States and/or the Cayman Islands could result in the inability of the Fund and/or Subsidiary to continue to operate as it does currently and could adversely affect the Fund.

 

Swap Agreements Risk – In a typical swap transaction, two parties agree to exchange the return earned on a specified underlying reference for a fixed return or the return from another underlying reference during a specified period of time. Swaps may be difficult to value and may be illiquid. Swaps could result in Fund losses if the underlying asset or reference does not perform as anticipated. Swaps create significant investment leverage such that a relatively small price movement in a swap may result in immediate and substantial losses to the Fund. The Fund may only close out a swap with its particular counterparty, and may only transfer a position with the consent of that counterparty. Certain swaps, such as short swap transactions and total return swaps, have the potential for unlimited losses, regardless of the size of the initial investment. Swaps can increase the Fund’s risk exposure to underlying references and their attendant risks, such as credit risk, market risk, foreign currency risk and interest rate risk, while also exposing the Fund to correlation risk, counterparty risk, hedging risk, inflation risk, leverage risk, liquidity risk, pricing risk and volatility risk.

 

Loans and Other Direct Indebtedness Risk – Investments in loans (through both assignments and participations) are generally subject to the same risks as investments in other types of debt instruments, including, in many cases, investments in high yield bonds. There may be limited public information available regarding loans and loans may be difficult to value. If the Fund holds a loan through another financial institution, or relies on a financial institution to administer the loan, its receipt of principal and interest on the loan may be subject to the credit risk of that financial institution. It is possible that collateral securing a loan, if any, may be insufficient or unavailable to the Fund, and that the Fund’s rights to collateral may be limited by bankruptcy or insolvency laws. In addition, the secondary market for loans may be subject to irregular trading activity and wide bid/ask spreads, which may cause the Fund to be unable to realize the full value of its investment in a loan. Loans may have extended settlement periods that exceed seven days and, accordingly, may be considered illiquid. Purchases and sales of loans in the secondary market generally are subject to contractual restrictions that may delay the Fund’s ability to make timely redemptions.

 

Loans may not be considered “securities,” and purchasers, such as the Fund, therefore may not be entitled to rely on the anti-fraud protections of the federal securities laws.

 

Contracts for Differences Risk – As is the case with owning any financial instrument, there is the risk of loss associated with buying a CFD. There may be liquidity risk if the underlying instrument is illiquid because the liquidity of a CFD is based on the liquidity of the underlying instrument. Adverse movements in the underlying security will require the buyer to post additional margin. CFDs also carry counterparty risk, i.e., the risk that the counterparty to the CFD transaction may be unable or unwilling to make payments or to otherwise honor its financial obligations under the terms of the contract. If the counterparty were to do so, the value of the contract may be reduced. To the extent that there is an imperfect correlation between the return on the Fund’s obligation to its counterparty under the CFDs and the return on related assets in its portfolio, the CFD transaction may increase the Fund’s financial risk.

 

Depositary Receipts Risk – Depositary receipts are certificates evidencing ownership of shares of a foreign issuer that are issued by depositary banks and generally trade on an established market. Depositary receipts are subject to many of the risks associated with investing directly in foreign securities, including, among other things, political, social and economic developments abroad, currency movements, and different legal, regulatory and tax environments.

 

Municipal Securities Risk – Municipal securities, like other fixed income securities, rise and fall in value in response to economic and market factors, primarily changes in interest rates, and actual or perceived credit quality. Rising interest rates will generally cause municipal securities to decline in value. Longer-term securities respond more sharply to interest rate changes than do shorter-term securities. A municipal security will also lose value if, due to rating downgrades or other factors, there are concerns about the issuer’s current or future ability to make principal or interest payments. State and local governments rely on taxes and, to some extent, revenues from private projects financed by municipal securities, to pay interest and principal on municipal debt. Poor statewide or local economic results or changing political sentiments may reduce tax revenues and increase the expenses of municipal issuers, making it more difficult for them to meet their obligations. Actual or perceived erosion of the creditworthiness of municipal issuers may reduce the value of the Fund’s holdings. As a result, the Fund will be more susceptible to factors that adversely affect issuers of municipal obligations than a mutual fund that does not have as great a concentration in municipal obligations.

 

Non-U.S. Government Securities Risk – Foreign sovereign debt securities are subject to the risks that: (i) the governmental entity that controls the repayment of sovereign debt may not be willing or able to repay the principal and/or interest when it becomes due, due to factors such as debt service burden, political constraints, cash flow problems and other national economic factors; (ii) governments may default on their debt securities, which may require holders of such securities to participate in debt rescheduling or additional lending to defaulting governments; and (iii) there is no bankruptcy proceeding by which defaulted sovereign debt may be collected in whole or in part. 

 

Real Estate-Related Investment Risk – Investments in REITs and in securities of other companies (wherever organized) principally engaged in the real estate industry subject the Fund to, among other things, risks similar to those of direct investments in real estate and the real estate industry in general. These include risks related to general and local economic conditions, possible lack of availability of financing and changes in interest rates or property values. REITs are entities that either own properties or make construction or mortgage loans, and also may include operating or finance companies. The value of interests in a REIT may be affected by, among other factors, changes in the value of the underlying properties owned by the REIT, changes in the prospect for earnings and/or cash flow growth of the REIT itself, defaults by borrowers or tenants, market saturation, decreases in market rates for rents, and other economic, political, or regulatory matters affecting the real estate industry, including REITs. REITs and similar non-U.S. entities depend upon specialized management skills, may have limited financial resources, may have less trading volume in their securities, and may be subject to more abrupt or erratic price movements than the overall securities markets. REITs are also subject to the risk of failing to qualify for favorable tax treatment under the Code. Some REITs (especially mortgage REITs) are affected by risks similar to those associated with investments in debt securities including changes in interest rates and the quality of credit extended.

 

Unregistered Fund Risk – Unlike the Fund, unregistered funds are not subject to the investor protections provided under the 1940 Act. Accordingly, (i) the relationship between the unregistered fund and its adviser will not be regulated by the 1940 Act; (ii) unregistered funds are not required to have a majority of disinterested directors; (iii) unregistered funds are not subject to the various custody and safekeeping provisions under the 1940 Act designed to protect fund assets; and (iv) unregistered funds are not subject to the various investment limitations under the 1940 Act. The Fund’s performance is subject to the risks associated with the securities and other investments held by an unregistered fund in which the Fund may invest. The ability of the Fund to achieve its investment objective may depend upon the ability of an unregistered fund to achieve its investment objectives. When the Fund invests in an unregistered fund, in addition to directly bearing the expenses associated with its own operations, it will bear a pro rata portion of the unregistered fund’s expenses.

 

As part of the Fund’s investments in unregistered funds, the Fund may invest in limited partnership interests. There may be fewer protections afforded to investors in a limited partnership than investors in a corporation. In addition, limited partnerships may be subject to state taxation in certain jurisdictions which may reduce the amount of income paid by the limited partnership to its investors. In addition, investments in limited partnerships may be illiquid and may not have daily pricing information available for their investors, which will require a Fund to employ fair value procedures to value its holdings in such investments.

 

Warrants and Rights Risk – Warrants and rights do not carry with them the right to dividends or voting rights with respect to the securities that they entitle the holder to purchase, and they do not represent any rights in the assets of the issuer. As a result, warrants and rights may be considered more speculative than certain other types of equity-like securities. In addition, the values of warrants and rights do not necessarily change with the values of the underlying securities or commodities and these instruments cease to have value if they are not exercised prior to their expiration dates. 

Risk Lose Money [Text] rr_RiskLoseMoney You could lose money by investing in the Fund.
Risk Not Insured Depository Institution [Text] rr_RiskNotInsuredDepositoryInstitution A Fund share is not a bank deposit and it is not insured or guaranteed by the FDIC or any other government agency.
Risk Nondiversified Status [Text] rr_RiskNondiversifiedStatus The Fund is classified as a “non-diversified” investment company, which means that the percentage of its assets that may be invested in the securities of a single issuer is not limited by the 1940 Act. As a result, the Fund’s investment portfolio may be subject to greater risk and volatility than if investments had been made in the securities of a broad range of issuers.
Bar Chart and Performance Table [Heading] rr_BarChartAndPerformanceTableHeading Performance Information
Performance Narrative [Text Block] rr_PerformanceNarrativeTextBlock

The bar chart and the performance table below illustrate the risks and volatility of an investment in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund’s Class I shares’ performance from year to year and by showing how the Fund’s Class I shares’ and Class A shares’ average annual total returns for 1 year, 5 years and since inception compare with those of broad measures of market performance. The bar chart does not reflect the deduction of applicable sales charges for Class A shares. If sales charges had been reflected, the returns for Class A shares would be less than those shown below. Of course, the Fund’s past performance (before and after taxes) does not necessarily indicate how the Fund will perform in the future.

 

Before the Fund commenced operations, the Fund acquired the assets and liabilities of the Predecessor Multi-Strategy Fund (the “Reorganization”) on April 11, 2022. As a result of the Reorganization, the Fund assumed the performance and accounting history of the Predecessor Multi-Strategy Fund prior to the date of the Reorganization. Accordingly, the performance shown for periods prior to the Reorganization represents the performance of the Predecessor Multi-Strategy Fund. The Predecessor Multi-Strategy Fund’s returns in the bar chart and table have not been adjusted to reflect the Fund’s expenses. If the Predecessor Multi-Strategy Fund’s performance information had been adjusted to reflect the Fund’s expenses, the performance may have been higher or lower for a given period depending on the expenses incurred by the Predecessor Multi-Strategy Fund for that period.

 

Updated performance information is available by calling 1-877-628-8575 or by visiting the Fund’s website at www.fsinvestments.com.

Performance Information Illustrates Variability of Returns [Text] rr_PerformanceInformationIllustratesVariabilityOfReturns The bar chart and the performance table below illustrate the risks and volatility of an investment in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund’s Class I shares’ performance from year to year and by showing how the Fund’s Class I shares’ and Class A shares’ average annual total returns for 1 year, 5 years and since inception compare with those of broad measures of market performance.
Performance Availability Phone [Text] rr_PerformanceAvailabilityPhone 1-877-628-8575
Performance Availability Website Address [Text] rr_PerformanceAvailabilityWebSiteAddress www.fsinvestments.com
Performance Past Does Not Indicate Future [Text] rr_PerformancePastDoesNotIndicateFuture Of course, the Fund’s past performance (before and after taxes) does not necessarily indicate how the Fund will perform in the future.
Bar Chart Does Not Reflect Sales Loads [Text] rr_BarChartDoesNotReflectSalesLoads The bar chart does not reflect the deduction of applicable sales charges for Class A shares. If sales charges had been reflected, the returns for Class A shares would be less than those shown below.
Bar Chart Closing [Text Block] rr_BarChartClosingTextBlock

 

Best Quarter Worst Quarter
7.04% (5.56)%
(03/31/2021) (03/31/2020)
Performance Table Heading rr_PerformanceTableHeading Average Annual Total Returns for Periods Ended December 31, 2021
Performance Table Uses Highest Federal Rate rr_PerformanceTableUsesHighestFederalRate 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.
Performance Table Not Relevant to Tax Deferred rr_PerformanceTableNotRelevantToTaxDeferred After-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.
Performance Table One Class of after Tax Shown [Text] rr_PerformanceTableOneClassOfAfterTaxShown After-tax returns are shown for Class I shares only. After-tax returns for Class A shares will vary.
Performance Table Explanation after Tax Higher rr_PerformanceTableExplanationAfterTaxHigher Returns after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund shares may be higher than before-tax returns when a net capital loss occurs upon the redemption of Fund shares.
Performance Table Narrative rr_PerformanceTableNarrativeTextBlock

This table compares the Predecessor Multi-Strategy Fund’s average annual total returns for the periods ended December 31, 2021 to those of broad based indices.

 

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 an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. After-tax returns are shown for Class I shares only. After-tax returns for Class A shares will vary.

 

Returns after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund shares may be higher than before-tax returns when a net capital loss occurs upon the redemption of Fund shares.

FS Multi-Strategy Alternatives Fund | BofAML US 3 Month T-Bill (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes)  
Prospectus [Line Items] rr_ProspectusLineItems  
1 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01 0.05% [1]
Since Inception rr_AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception 1.19% [1]
Inception Date rr_AverageAnnualReturnInceptionDate May 16, 2017 [1]
FS Multi-Strategy Alternatives Fund | HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes)  
Prospectus [Line Items] rr_ProspectusLineItems  
1 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01 3.65% [2]
Since Inception rr_AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception 3.27% [2]
Inception Date rr_AverageAnnualReturnInceptionDate May 16, 2017 [2]
FS Multi-Strategy Alternatives Fund | Class A  
Prospectus [Line Items] rr_ProspectusLineItems  
Trading Symbol dei_TradingSymbol FSMMX
Maximum Sales Charge Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of Offering Price) rr_MaximumSalesChargeImposedOnPurchasesOverOfferingPrice 5.75%
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (as a percentage) rr_MaximumDeferredSalesChargeOverOther none
Management Fees (as a percentage of Assets) rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets 1.25%
Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees rr_DistributionAndService12b1FeesOverAssets 0.25%
Component1 Other Expenses rr_Component1OtherExpensesOverAssets 0.90% [3],[4]
Component2 Other Expenses rr_Component2OtherExpensesOverAssets 0.22%
Other Expenses (as a percentage of Assets): rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets 1.12%
Expenses (as a percentage of Assets) rr_ExpensesOverAssets 2.62%
Fee Waiver or Reimbursement rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssets (0.66%) [5]
Net Expenses (as a percentage of Assets) rr_NetExpensesOverAssets 1.96%
Expense Breakpoint, Minimum Investment Required [Amount] rr_ExpenseBreakpointMinimumInvestmentRequiredAmount $ 50,000
Expense Example, with Redemption, 1 Year rr_ExpenseExampleYear01 763
Expense Example, with Redemption, 3 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear03 1,284
Expense Example, with Redemption, 5 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear05 1,830
Expense Example, with Redemption, 10 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear10 $ 3,313
1 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01 7.04%
Since Inception rr_AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception 1.69%
Inception Date rr_AverageAnnualReturnInceptionDate May 16, 2017
FS Multi-Strategy Alternatives Fund | Class I  
Prospectus [Line Items] rr_ProspectusLineItems  
Trading Symbol dei_TradingSymbol FSMSX
Maximum Sales Charge Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of Offering Price) rr_MaximumSalesChargeImposedOnPurchasesOverOfferingPrice none
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (as a percentage) rr_MaximumDeferredSalesChargeOverOther none
Management Fees (as a percentage of Assets) rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets 1.25%
Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees rr_DistributionAndService12b1FeesOverAssets none
Component1 Other Expenses rr_Component1OtherExpensesOverAssets 0.91% [3],[4]
Component2 Other Expenses rr_Component2OtherExpensesOverAssets 0.22%
Other Expenses (as a percentage of Assets): rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets 1.13%
Expenses (as a percentage of Assets) rr_ExpensesOverAssets 2.38%
Fee Waiver or Reimbursement rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssets (0.66%) [5]
Net Expenses (as a percentage of Assets) rr_NetExpensesOverAssets 1.72%
Expense Example, with Redemption, 1 Year rr_ExpenseExampleYear01 $ 175
Expense Example, with Redemption, 3 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear03 679
Expense Example, with Redemption, 5 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear05 1,211
Expense Example, with Redemption, 10 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear10 $ 2,666
Annual Return 2018 rr_AnnualReturn2018 (3.82%)
Annual Return 2019 rr_AnnualReturn2019 7.77%
Annual Return 2020 rr_AnnualReturn2020 (3.65%)
Annual Return 2021 rr_AnnualReturn2021 13.96%
Highest Quarterly Return, Label rr_HighestQuarterlyReturnLabel Best Quarter
Highest Quarterly Return, Date rr_BarChartHighestQuarterlyReturnDate Mar. 31, 2021
Highest Quarterly Return rr_BarChartHighestQuarterlyReturn 7.04%
Lowest Quarterly Return, Label rr_LowestQuarterlyReturnLabel Worst Quarter
Lowest Quarterly Return, Date rr_BarChartLowestQuarterlyReturnDate Mar. 31, 2020
Lowest Quarterly Return rr_BarChartLowestQuarterlyReturn (5.56%)
1 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01 13.96%
Since Inception rr_AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception 3.25%
Inception Date rr_AverageAnnualReturnInceptionDate May 16, 2017
FS Multi-Strategy Alternatives Fund | Class I | After Taxes on Distributions  
Prospectus [Line Items] rr_ProspectusLineItems  
1 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01 12.65%
Since Inception rr_AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception 2.69%
Inception Date rr_AverageAnnualReturnInceptionDate May 16, 2017
FS Multi-Strategy Alternatives Fund | Class I | After Taxes on Distributions and Sales  
Prospectus [Line Items] rr_ProspectusLineItems  
1 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01 10.52%
Since Inception rr_AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception 2.35%
Inception Date rr_AverageAnnualReturnInceptionDate May 16, 2017
FS Chiron Real Asset Fund  
Prospectus [Line Items] rr_ProspectusLineItems  
Risk/Return [Heading] rr_RiskReturnHeading FS CHIRON REAL ASSET FUND
Objective [Heading] rr_ObjectiveHeading Investment Objective
Objective, Primary [Text Block] rr_ObjectivePrimaryTextBlock

The FS Chiron Real Asset Fund (the “Real Asset Fund” or the “Fund”) seeks to provide returns consisting of capital appreciation and income.

Expense [Heading] rr_ExpenseHeading Fund Fees and Expenses
Expense Narrative [Text Block] rr_ExpenseNarrativeTextBlock

These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold Class A shares or Class I shares of the Fund. You may be required to pay commissions and/or other forms of compensation to a broker for transactions in Class I shares, which are not reflected in the "Annual Fund Operating Expenses" table or the Example below. You may qualify for sales charge discounts if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in Class A shares of the Fund. More information about these and other discounts is available (i) from your financial professional and (ii) in the “Purchasing, Selling and Exchanging Fund Shares – Sales Charges” section on page 86 of this prospectus.

Shareholder Fees Caption [Text] rr_ShareholderFeesCaption Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investments)
Operating Expenses Caption [Text] rr_OperatingExpensesCaption Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Fee Waiver or Reimbursement over Assets, Date of Termination rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssetsDateOfTermination April 11, 2024
Portfolio Turnover [Heading] rr_PortfolioTurnoverHeading Portfolio Turnover
Portfolio Turnover [Text Block] rr_PortfolioTurnoverTextBlock

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 total annual Fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During its most recent fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, the portfolio turnover rate of the Predecessor Real Asset Fund was 651% of the average value of its portfolio. However, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate is calculated without regard to derivative instruments and instruments with a maturity of one year or less at the time of acquisition. If such instruments were included, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate would be significantly higher.

Portfolio Turnover, Rate rr_PortfolioTurnoverRate 651.00%
Expense Breakpoint Discounts [Text] rr_ExpenseBreakpointDiscounts You may qualify for sales charge discounts if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in Class A shares of the Fund.
Expenses Restated to Reflect Current [Text] rr_ExpensesRestatedToReflectCurrent Other Expenses have been restated to reflect expenses expected to be incurred for the current fiscal year.
Expense Example [Heading] rr_ExpenseExampleHeading Example
Expense Example Narrative [Text Block] rr_ExpenseExampleNarrativeTextBlock

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 that the Fund’s operating expenses (including one year of capped expenses) remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

Strategy [Heading] rr_StrategyHeading Principal Investment Strategies
Strategy Narrative [Text Block] rr_StrategyNarrativeTextBlock

Under normal circumstances, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets (including any borrowings for investment purposes) in (a) “real assets,” (b) securities of companies that derive a significant portion of their profits or revenues from real assets, and (c) instruments with economic characteristics similar to the foregoing. Real assets are defined broadly by the Fund and are considered to include any assets that own, operate, extract, produce, and manufacture goods with physical properties, such as energy and natural resources, real estate, basic materials, equipment, utilities, infrastructure, automobiles, consumer durables and staples, health care equipment and facilities, life science tools and products, technology hardware and equipment (including semiconductors), telecommunication networks, and commodities. Industries or sectors of the economy comprised of such assets are defined by the Adviser as “Real Asset Industries or Sectors.” Real assets also include Bitcoin, although the Fund will not invest in Bitcoin directly. Instead, the Fund may gain indirect exposure to Bitcoin by investing in Bitcoin futures contracts or exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) that provide exposure to Bitcoin. Real asset securities may also include: (i) companies operating in Real Asset Industries or Sectors that are directly involved in real asset activities (such as logistics, data centers, communication towers, life sciences office and lab space, cold storage and renewable power, among others); and (ii) inflation-indexed securities that can generate returns in inflationary environments. The Adviser considers a company to derive a significant portion of its assets or profits from real assets if 50% or more of the company’s revenues or profits are being derived from real assets or an independent third party classifies the company as operating in a Real Asset Industry or Sector.

 

A majority of the Fund’s assets will typically be invested in common stocks and the Fund’s goal is to hold a portfolio of securities and other investments that, over time, seek to provide protection against the impact of inflation. In selecting investments, the Adviser seeks sectors in equity markets across the globe that are expected to outperform the overall equity market during periods of high or rising inflation.

 

The Fund utilizes a “quantamental” approach, which combines quantitative and fundamental research. The quantitative process identifies opportunities for growth with the fundamental approach identifying changes not captured by the quantitative research, such as regulatory environment and industry dynamics. As markets are not static and go through various stages, the Fund seeks to identify the current stage in each market in which it invests and makes investment decisions accordingly, in order to capitalize on the underlying factors driving that particular market stage. The Fund aims to reduce volatility and risk through diversifying its investment choices across a range of industries.

 

Companies involved in activities related to real assets may produce cash flows and subsequent valuations that increase when the overall price level in the economy is rising. The Fund may also seek companies whose revenue and earnings are expected to rise if the prices of certain real assets rise during a period of general inflation.

 

The Fund may invest in securities issued by companies of any market capitalization, as well as real estate investment trusts (“REITs”).

 

The Fund may invest up to 15% of its total assets in Bitcoin futures contracts and ETFs that provide exposure to Bitcoin. For purposes of this 15% limit, these investments are measured at notional value. The Bitcoin futures in which the Fund may invest are exchange-traded and cash settled. The Fund may make such investments either directly or indirectly through a Subsidiary (as defined below). Bitcoins are a digital commodity that are not issued by a government, bank or central organization. Bitcoins exist on an online, peer-to-peer computer network (the “Bitcoin Network”) that hosts a public transaction ledger where Bitcoin transfers are recorded (the “Blockchain”). Bitcoins have no physical presence beyond the record of transactions on the Blockchain. The Fund also may invest in other Bitcoin-related investments such as Bitcoin trading platforms, miners, custodians, digital wallet providers, companies that facilitate payments in bitcoin, and companies that provide other technology, equipment or services to companies operating in the bitcoin ecosystem

 

Other than with respect to the limitation on investments in Bitcoin futures contracts and ETFs that provide exposure to Bitcoin, there is no limit on the amount of the Fund’s exposures to any one or more specific sectors, and the Fund may at times have significant exposure to a single real asset sector (up to 100% of the Fund’s non-cash related exposure). The Fund may invest without limit in investments tied to any one or more foreign countries, including emerging market countries, and investments denominated in foreign currencies. The Fund may invest in A-Shares of companies based in the People’s Republic of China (“PRC”) that trade on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange through the Shanghai – Hong Kong and Shenzhen – Hong Kong Stock Connect programs (“Stock Connect”). Stock Connect is a mutual stock market access program designed to, among other things, enable foreign investments in the PRC.

 

FS and Chiron Investment Management, LLC, a co-adviser to the Fund, (“Chiron” and together with FS with respect to the FS Chiron Real Asset Fund only, the “Adviser”), may allocate a portion of the assets of the Fund among one or more alternative beta providers (“Alternative Beta Providers”) that offer the Fund exposure to the returns of particular investment strategies (“Alternative Beta Strategies”). An Alternative Beta Provider is a financial institution that serves as a counterparty to the Fund in a total return swap that offers exposure to the returns of a specified underlying asset. In a typical total return swap transaction with an Alternative Beta Provider, the Fund agrees to pay a fixed or variable interest rate to the Alternative Beta Provider in exchange for return earned on a specified underlying asset. Alternative Beta Providers are swap counterparties, not sub-advisers. Alternative Beta Providers in particular may offer cost advantages over traditional alternative asset managers. The strategies employed by the use of Alternative Beta Providers are referred to in this prospectus as “Alternative Investment Strategies.” In general, Alternative Beta Strategies seek to identify and capitalize upon market inefficiencies and market behavioral biases (or risk premia). Alternative Beta Strategies typically have less correlation to traditional equity and fixed income markets than traditional investment strategies. In this regard, when the performance of traditional markets improves, Alternative Beta Strategies my decline or improve to a greater or lesser degree. Conversely, when traditional markets decline, Alternative Beta Strategies my improve or decline to a greater or lesser degree.

 

The Fund generally seeks to obtain exposure to Alternative Investment Strategies in a cost-efficient manner, particularly as compared to private investment vehicles that have historically been used to access alternative investment strategies. Alternative Beta Strategies may include historical trend (seeking to benefit from the historical tendency of securities with certain characteristics to outperform others), carry and curve (investing in assets with high carry and selling assets with low carry), low beta (seeking to capture outperformance of assets with low beta over those with high beta), value (investing in undervalued and selling overvalued assets) and volatility premium (monetizing the concept that implied volatility tends to be higher than realized volatility) and momentum strategies (which emphasize investing in securities that have better recent performance compared to other securities). The Adviser may also manage all or a portion of the Fund’s assets directly. The Adviser and Alternative Beta Providers may use investment programs that are fundamentally dependent on proprietary or licensed technology through such manager’s use of, among other things, certain hardware, software, model-based strategies, data gathering systems, order execution, and trade allocation systems, and/or risk management systems.

 

If the Fund obtains its real asset exposures through futures contracts and other derivatives not requiring significant investments of the Fund’s cash, the Fund would have free cash available to invest in other assets. The Fund currently expects that those other investments will comprise principally fixed-income investments. It is possible that the Fund might lose money on both its real asset exposures and on its fixed-income investments

 

The Fund may invest directly in debt instruments. Fixed income investments in which the Fund may invest consist of (i) securities or other income-producing instruments issued or guaranteed by the U.S. Government, its agencies, instrumentalities or sponsored corporations (including inflation-protected securities); (ii) short-term investments, such as commercial paper, repurchase agreements and money market funds; and (iii) various types of loans, consisting of collateral loan obligations and bank loans, including those that are part of highly leveraged transactions where the borrower already has a high level of debt and/or a poor credit rating.

 

Under normal circumstances, the Fund’s portfolio of fixed income investments is expected to include primarily fixed income and other income-producing instruments rated investment grade and unrated securities considered by the Adviser to be of comparable credit quality. The Fund may, however, invest in fixed income and other income producing instruments rated below investment grade (known as “junk bonds”) and those that are unrated but determined by the Adviser to be of comparable credit quality.

 

The Fund may invest in privately placed and other securities or instruments exempt from Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) registration (collectively, “private placements”). The Fund may engage in short sales, either to earn additional return or to hedge existing investments.

 

The Fund may enter into derivatives transactions of any kind for hedging purposes or otherwise to gain, or reduce, long or short exposure to one or more asset classes or issuers. A derivative is a financial contract whose value depends on changes in the value of one or more underlying assets, reference rates, or indexes. These instruments include, among others, options, futures contracts, forward currency contracts, swap agreements and similar instruments. The Fund may use derivatives transactions with the purpose or effect of creating investment leverage. Although the Fund reserves the right to invest in derivatives of any kind, it currently expects that it may use the following types of derivatives: futures contracts and options on futures contracts, in order to gain efficient long or short investment exposures as an alternative to cash investments or to hedge against portfolio exposures; interest rate swaps, to gain indirect long or short exposures to interest rates, issuers, or currencies, or to hedge against portfolio exposures; and total and excess return swaps and credit derivatives (such as credit default swaps), put and call options, and exchange-traded and structured notes, to take indirect long or short positions on indexes, commodities, securities, currencies, or other indicators of value. Any use of derivatives strategies entails the risks of investing directly in the securities or instruments underlying the derivatives strategies, as well as the risks of using derivatives generally, and in some cases the risks of leverage, described in this prospectus and in the Fund’s Statement of Additional Information.

 

The Fund may invest in a variety of instruments, such as total and excess return swaps (which are contracts in which one party agrees to make periodic payments to another party based on the change in market value of the assets of the underlying contract), exchange traded products, including ETFs, common or preferred stocks of subsidiaries of the Fund that invest directly or indirectly in commodities, and other investments intended to provide long or short exposure to one or more commodities.

 

The Fund expects that many of the instruments in which it will invest will involve leverage.

 

The Fund may make investments through one or more offshore, wholly-owned subsidiaries organized under the laws of the Cayman Islands (each, a “Subsidiary” and collectively, the “Subsidiaries”) and may invest up to 25% of its total assets in the Subsidiaries. Generally, each Subsidiary will invest primarily in commodity futures, forwards and swaps, but it may also invest in financial futures, option and swap contracts, fixed income securities, pooled investment vehicles, including those that are not registered pursuant to the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), and other investments intended to serve as margin or collateral for the Subsidiary’s derivative positions. The Fund will invest in each Subsidiary in order to gain direct or indirect exposure to the commodities markets and/or indirect exposure to Bitcoin through investments in ETFs that provide exposure to Bitcoin and Bitcoin futures contracts within the limitations of the federal tax laws, rules and regulations that apply to registered investment companies. Unlike the Fund, each Subsidiary may invest without limitation in commodity-linked derivative instruments, however, each Subsidiary will comply with the same 1940 Act asset coverage requirements with respect to its investments in commodity-linked derivatives that are applicable to the Fund’s transactions in derivatives. In addition, the Fund and each Subsidiary will be subject to the same fundamental investment restrictions on a consolidated basis and, to the extent applicable to the investment activities of each Subsidiary, each Subsidiary will follow the same compliance policies and procedures as the Fund. Additionally, the Subsidiary and the Fund in the aggregate will comply with the 15% Bitcoin limits described above. Unlike the Fund, each Subsidiary will not seek to qualify as a regulated investment company (“RIC”) under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). The Fund is the sole shareholder of each Subsidiary and does not expect shares of a Subsidiary to be offered or sold to other investors. To the extent the Fund invests in instruments that provide exposure to the commodity markets and Bitcoin futures contracts and ETFs that provide exposure to Bitcoin directly, it will seek to restrict its income from instruments that do not generate qualifying income to a maximum of 10% of its gross income (when combined with its other investments that produce non-qualifying income) to comply with certain qualifying income tests necessary for the Fund to qualify as a RIC under Subchapter M of the Code.

 

The Adviser may engage in active and frequent trading of the Fund’s portfolio investments. To the extent that it does so, the Fund may incur greater transaction costs and may make greater distributions of income and gains, which will be taxable to shareholders who do not hold their shares through a tax-advantaged or tax-deferred account.

 

Any percentage limitation and requirement as to investments will apply only at the time of an investment to which the limitation or requirement is applicable and shall not be considered violated unless an excess or deficiency occurs or exists immediately after and as a result of such investment. Accordingly, any later increase or decrease resulting from a change in values, net assets or other circumstances will not be considered in determining whether any investment complies with the Fund’s limitation or requirement, except as otherwise provided herein. Portfolio investments may be sold at any time. By way of example, sales may occur when the Fund’s portfolio manager determines to take advantage of what the portfolio manager considers to be a better investment opportunity, when the portfolio manager believes the portfolio investments no longer represent relatively attractive investment opportunities, when the portfolio manager perceives deterioration in the credit fundamentals of the issuer, or when the individual security has reached the portfolio manager’s sell target.

 

Except with respect to the Bitcoin exposure described above, the Fund may access the strategies and instruments described above either through direct investments or Alternative Beta Providers. As described above, the Fund may gain exposure to Bitcoin indirectly through futures contracts and ETFs. Neither the Fund nor the Subsidiary will invest directly in Bitcoin.

 

Although a portion of the Fund’s assets may be invested in instruments the performance of which is based on an index, the Fund’s overall portfolio is not designed to replicate the performance of any index. The Fund’s performance will deviate, potentially significantly, from the performance of any index used by the Fund. The Fund retains the flexibility to allocate as little as none or as much as all of its capital to particular Alternative Beta Providers. The Fund is considered non-diversified, which means that the percentage of its assets that may be invested in the securities of a single issuer is not limited by the 1940 Act.

Risk [Heading] rr_RiskHeading Principal Risks
Risk Narrative [Text Block] rr_RiskNarrativeTextBlock

As with all mutual funds, there is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its investment objective. You could lose money by investing in the Fund. A Fund share is not a bank deposit and it is not insured or guaranteed by the FDIC or any other government agency. The principal risk factors affecting shareholders’ investments in the Fund are set forth below.

 

Unless otherwise specified, references in this section to investments by the Fund refer to direct investments made or held by the Fund and/or indirect investments to which the Fund may have exposure through an Alternative Beta Strategy.

 

Equity Risk – The prices of equity securities in which the Fund holds long and short positions may rise and fall daily. A variety of factors can negatively impact the value of equity securities, including factors affecting individual companies, industries, securities markets or economies.

 

Commodities Risk – To the extent that the Fund gains exposure to the commodities markets, such exposure may subject the Fund to greater volatility than investments in traditional securities. The value of commodity-linked investments may be affected by changes in overall market movements, commodity index volatility, changes in interest rates, or sectors affecting a particular industry or commodity, such as drought, floods, weather, embargoes, tariffs and international economic, political and regulatory developments. The prices of certain commodities may fluctuate widely due to factors such as changes in value, supply and demand and governmental regulatory policies. Some commodity-linked investments are issued by companies in the financial services sector, including the banking, brokerage and insurance sectors. As a result, events affecting issuers in the financial services sector may cause the Fund’s share value to fluctuate.

 

Volatility Risk – The Fund may have investments, such as ETFs that provide exposure to Bitcoin and Bitcoin futures contracts, that appreciate or decrease significantly in value over short periods of time. This may cause the Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”) per share to experience significant increases or declines in value over short periods of time, however, all investments long- or short-term are subject to risk of loss.

 

Natural Resources Risk – Investments related to natural resources may be affected by numerous factors, including events occurring in nature, inflationary pressures and domestic and international politics. For example, events occurring in nature (such as earthquakes or fires in prime natural resource areas) and political events (such as coups or military confrontations) can affect the overall supply of a natural resource and the value of companies involved in such natural resource. Political risks and other risks to which non-US companies are subject also may affect US companies if they have significant operations or investments in non-US countries. In addition, interest rates, prices of raw materials and other commodities, international economic developments, energy conservation, tax and other government regulations (both US and non-US) may affect the supply of and demand for natural resources, which can affect the profitability and value of securities issued by companies in the natural resources category. Securities of companies within specific natural resources sub-categories can perform differently than the overall market. This may be due to changes in such things as the regulatory or competitive environment or to changes in investor perceptions.

 

Infrastructure Companies Risk – Securities and instruments of infrastructure companies are more susceptible to adverse economic or regulatory occurrences affecting their industries. Infrastructure companies may be subject to a variety of factors that may adversely affect their business or operations, including high interest costs in connection with capital construction programs, high leverage, costs associated with environmental and other regulations, the effects of economic slowdown, surplus capacity, increased competition from other providers of services, uncertainties concerning the availability of fuel at reasonable prices, the effects of energy conservation policies and other factors. Infrastructure companies also may be affected by or subject to, among other factors, regulation by various government authorities, including rate regulation, and service interruption due to environmental, operational or other mishaps.

 

Real Estate-Related Investment Risk – Investments in REITs and in securities of other companies (wherever organized) principally engaged in the real estate industry subject the Fund to, among other things, risks similar to those of direct investments in real estate and the real estate industry in general. These include risks related to general and local economic conditions, possible lack of availability of financing and changes in interest rates or property values. REITs are entities that either own properties or make construction or mortgage loans, and also may include operating or finance companies. The value of interests in a REIT may be affected by, among other factors, changes in the value of the underlying properties owned by the REIT, changes in the prospect for earnings and/or cash flow growth of the REIT itself, defaults by borrowers or tenants, market saturation, decreases in market rates for rents, and other economic, political, or regulatory matters affecting the real estate industry, including REITs. REITs and similar non-U.S. entities depend upon specialized management skills, may have limited financial resources, may have less trading volume in their securities, and may be subject to more abrupt or erratic price movements than the overall securities markets. REITs are also subject to the risk of failing to qualify for favorable tax treatment under the Code. Some REITs (especially mortgage REITs) are affected by risks similar to those associated with investments in debt securities including changes in interest rates and the quality of credit extended.

 

Inflation-Indexed Security Risk – Interest payments on inflation-indexed securities can be unpredictable and will vary as the principal and/or interest is periodically adjusted based on the rate of inflation. If the index measuring inflation falls, the interest payable on these securities will be reduced. The US Treasury has guaranteed that, in the event of a drop in prices, it would repay the par amount of its inflation-indexed securities.

 

Inflation-indexed securities issued by corporations generally do not guarantee repayment of principal. Any increase in the principal amount of an inflation-indexed security will be considered taxable ordinary income, even though investors do not receive their principal until maturity. As a result, the Fund may be required to make annual distributions to shareholders that exceed the cash the Fund received, which may cause the Fund to liquidate certain investments when it is not advantageous to do so. Also, if the principal value of an inflation-indexed security is adjusted downward due to deflation, amounts previously distributed may be characterized in some circumstances as a return of capital.

 

Market Risk – Investments in securities, in general, are subject to market risks, including increased volatility, illiquidity, or other potentially adverse effects in response to changing market conditions, inflation, changes in interest rates, market disruptions caused by local or regional events such as war, acts of terrorism, the spread of infectious illness (including epidemics and pandemics) or other public health issues, recessions or other events or adverse investor sentiment that may cause their prices to fluctuate over time. An investment in the Fund may lose money.

 

Derivatives Risk – The Fund may invest in financial instruments, including swap agreements, futures contracts, forwards and other derivative instruments, that may involve risks different from, or greater than, those associated with more traditional investments. Due to leverage, small changes in the value of the financial instruments’ reference assets, rates, or indexes may produce disproportionate losses to the Fund. The value of financial instruments may not move as expected relative to the value of the reference assets, rates or indexes. Financial instruments used for hedging purposes may not hedge risks as expected, and financial instruments used for non-hedging purposes may not provide the anticipated investment exposure. Financial instruments may be highly illiquid, and the Fund may not be able to close out or sell a financial instrument position at a particular time or at an anticipated price. Various legislative and regulatory initiatives may impact the availability, liquidity and cost of derivatives. Financial instruments also may be subject to interest rate risk, currency risk and counterparty risk.

 

Counterparty Risk – The stability and liquidity of many derivative transactions depends in large part on the creditworthiness of the parties to the transactions. If a counterparty to such a transaction defaults, exercising contractual rights may involve delays or costs for the Fund. Furthermore, there is a risk that a counterparty could become the subject of insolvency proceedings, and that the recovery of securities and other assets from such counterparty will be delayed or be of a value less than the value of the securities or assets originally entrusted to such counterparty.

 

Bitcoin Futures Contract Risk – The Fund expects to obtain exposure to Bitcoin through futures contracts. Bitcoin futures are financial contracts the value of which depends on, or is derived from, Bitcoin as the underlying reference asset. Bitcoin futures contracts involve the risk that changes in their value may not move as expected relative to changes in the value of Bitcoin. Futures contracts exhibit “futures basis,” which refers to the difference between the current market value of Bitcoin (the “spot” price) and the price of the cash-settled Bitcoin futures contracts. A negative futures basis exists when cash-settled Bitcoin futures contracts generally trade at a premium to the current market value of Bitcoin. If a negative futures basis exists, the Fund’s investments in Bitcoin futures contracts will generally underperform a direct investment in Bitcoin. There can also be no guarantee that there will be a correlation between price movements in Bitcoin futures contracts and in the price of Bitcoin. As a result, the use of Bitcoin futures contracts involves risks that are in addition to, and potentially greater than, the risks of investing directly in securities and other more traditional assets, and may be considered a speculative investment.

 

Bitcoin Risks – The value of the Fund’s investments in Bitcoin-related instruments, including Bitcoin futures and ETFs that provide exposure to Bitcoin, is subject to fluctuations in the value of Bitcoins. The value of Bitcoins is determined by the supply of and demand for Bitcoins in the global market for the trading of Bitcoins, which consists of transactions on Bitcoin Exchanges. Pricing on Bitcoin Exchanges and other venues can be volatile and can adversely affect the value of the Fund’s investments. Currently, there is relatively small use of Bitcoins in the retail and commercial marketplace in comparison to the relatively large use by speculators, thus contributing to price volatility that could adversely affect the Fund’s Bitcoin-related investments. Bitcoin transactions are irrevocable, and stolen or incorrectly transferred Bitcoins may be irretrievable. As a result, any incorrectly executed Bitcoin transactions could adversely affect the value of the Fund’s Bitcoin-related investments. Bitcoin is generally not subject to the same degree of regulation as are registered U.S. securities. The reporting, accounting and auditing standards for Bitcoin may differ from the standards for U.S. registered securities. Furthermore, countries, including the United States, may in the future curtail or outlaw the acquisition, use or redemption of Bitcoins.

 

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

 

Interest Rate Risk – Interest rate risk is the risk that prices of fixed income securities generally increase when interest rates decline and decrease when interest rates increase. The Fund may lose money if short-term or long-term interest rates rise sharply or otherwise change in a manner not anticipated by the Adviser. There may be less governmental action in the future to maintain low interest rates. The negative impact on fixed income securities from the resulting rate increases for that and other reasons could be swift and significant.

 

Allocation Risk – The success of the Fund’s investment strategy depends on, among other things, the Adviser’s ability to select Alternative Beta Providers and Alternative Investment Strategies to implement the Fund’s investment objective and the Adviser’s success in allocating assets to those Alternative Beta Providers. The Fund’s Alternative Beta Strategies may underperform the market generally or underperform other investment managers that could have been selected for the Fund.

 

Sector Risk – Companies in similar businesses may be similarly affected by particular economic or market events, which may, in certain circumstances, cause the value of securities of all companies in a particular sector of the market to decrease.

 

Technology Securities Risk – Securities of technology companies may be subject to greater price volatility than securities of companies in other sectors. These securities may fall in and out of favor with investors rapidly, which may cause sudden selling and dramatically lower market prices. Technology securities also may be affected adversely by changes in technology, consumer and business purchasing patterns, government regulation and/or obsolete products or services.

 

High Portfolio Turnover Risk – Active and frequent trading of the Fund’s portfolio securities may result in increased transaction costs to the Fund, including brokerage commissions, dealer mark-ups and other transaction costs, which could reduce the Fund’s return.

 

Liquidity Risk – Although the Fund will invest primarily in liquid, publicly traded securities, the Fund may make investments that may be illiquid or that may become less liquid in response to market developments or adverse investor perceptions. Illiquid investments may be more difficult to value and more difficult to sell in response to redemption requests than liquid investments. If the Fund must sell illiquid or less liquid assets to meet redemption requests or other cash needs, it may be forced to sell at a loss.

 

Credit/Default Risk – An issuer or guarantor of fixed income securities or instruments held by the Fund may default on its obligation to pay interest and principal when due or default on any other obligation, which may impair the liquidity and value of the Fund’s investment. In addition, the Fund may incur expenses in an effort to protect the Fund's interests or enforce its rights against an issuer, guarantor or counterparty or may be hindered or delayed in exercising these rights.

 

Currency Risk – The Fund’s returns may be adversely impacted by changes in currency exchange rates.

 

Custody Risk – The Fund invests in securities markets that are less developed than those in the U.S., which may expose the Fund to risks in the process of clearing and settling trades and the holding of securities by local banks, agents and depositories. The less developed a country’s securities market is, the greater the likelihood of custody problems.

 

Cyber Security and Operational Risk – The Fund and its service providers may experience disruptions that arise from breaches in cyber security, human error, processing and communications errors, counterparty or third-party errors, technology or systems failures, any of which may have an adverse impact on the Fund. Failures or breaches of the electronic systems of the Fund, the Fund’s adviser, distributor, and other service providers, or the issuers of securities in which the Fund invests have the ability to cause disruptions and negatively impact the Fund’s operations, potentially resulting in financial losses to the Fund and its shareholders.

 

Exchange-Traded Product Risk – The Fund may invest in long (or short) positions in ETFs, exchange-traded notes (“ETNs”) and other exchange traded vehicles (“ETVs” and collectively with ETFs and ETNs, “ETPs”). Through its positions in ETPs, the Fund will be subject to the risks associated with such vehicles’ investments, including the possibility that the value of the securities or instruments held by an ETP could decrease (or increase), and will bear its proportionate share of the ETP’s fees and expenses. In addition, certain of the ETPs may hold common portfolio positions.

 

Foreign Investments and Emerging Markets Risk – The Fund may invest in the securities of non-U.S. issuers, including those located in developing countries, which securities involve risks beyond those associated with investments in U.S. securities. These risks may relate to foreign political, social and economic matters, less developed markets, political immobility and less developed legal and accounting practices.

 

Hedging Transactions Risk – Hedging transactions may limit the opportunity for gain if the value of the portfolio position should increase. There can be no assurance that the Fund will engage in hedging transactions at any given time, even under volatile market conditions, or that any hedging transactions the Fund engages in will be successful. Moreover, it may not be possible for the Fund to enter into a hedging transaction at a price sufficient to protect its assets. The Fund may not anticipate a particular risk so as to hedge against it.

 

Highly Leveraged Transactions Risk – The loans or other debt instruments in which the Fund invests may include highly leveraged transactions whereby the borrower assumes large amounts of debt in order to have the financial resources to attempt to achieve its business objectives. Loans or other debt instruments that are part of highly leveraged transactions involve a greater risk (including default and bankruptcy) than other investments.

 

Investment in Other Investment Companies Risk – As with other investments, investments in other investment companies, including ETFs, are subject to market and manager risk. In addition, if the Fund acquires shares of investment companies, shareholders bear both their proportionate share of expenses in the Fund (including management and advisory fees) and, indirectly, the expenses of the investment companies. The Fund may invest in money market mutual funds. An investment in a money market mutual fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. Although money market mutual funds that invest in U.S. government securities seek to preserve the value of the Fund’s investment at $1.00 per share, it is possible to lose money by investing in a stable NAV money market mutual fund. Moreover, SEC rules require prime money market mutual funds to use floating NAVs that do not preserve the value of the Fund’s investment at $1.00 per share.

 

Investment Style Risk – Different investment styles (e.g., “growth”, “value” or “quantitative”) tend to shift in and out of favor depending upon market and economic conditions and investor sentiment. The Fund employs various non-traditional and alternative investment styles, and may outperform or underperform other funds that invest in similar asset classes but employ different investment styles.

 

Alternative Beta Strategies seek to generate returns through exposure to portfolios of risky assets that are selected based on non-traditional criteria. These strategies may involve elevated risk insofar as they may not involve detailed, issuer-specific fundamental analysis. Alternative Beta Strategies may give the Fund exposure to individual issuers that face significant operational, financial, regulatory or other challenges.

 

Issuer Risk – An issuer in which the Fund invests or to which it has exposure may perform poorly, and the value of its loans or securities may therefore decline, which would negatively affect the Fund’s performance. Poor performance may be caused by poor management decisions, competitive pressures, breakthroughs in technology, reliance on suppliers, labor problems or shortages, corporate restructurings, fraudulent disclosures, natural disasters, the spread of infectious illness (including epidemics and pandemics) or other events, conditions or factors.

 

Leverage Risk – Leverage occurs when the Fund directly or indirectly increases its assets available for investment using borrowings, short sales, financial instruments, or similar instruments or techniques. The use of leverage may make any change in the Fund’s NAV greater than it otherwise would be and thus result in increased volatility of returns and the risk that the Fund will lose more than it has invested or the margin it supplies to its counterparty on the instrument. Leverage can also create interest or other transactional expenses that may lower the Fund’s overall returns. The use of leverage may cause the Fund to liquidate portfolio positions at disadvantageous times in order to satisfy its obligations or to meet any asset segregation or position coverage requirements.

 

Limited Capacity Risk – Alternative investment strategies utilized by the Fund may have limited capacity, and the Adviser may not be able to allocate as much of the Fund’s assets to one or more alternative investment strategies as it desires. This capacity limitation may negatively impact the performance and portfolio composition of the Fund.

 

Market Capitalization Risk (Small-, Mid- and Large-Cap Stocks Risk) – To the extent the Fund emphasizes small-, mid-, or large-cap stocks, it takes on the associated risks. At any given time, any of these market capitalizations may be out of favor with investors. Small- or mid-cap capitalization stocks may be more volatile and more affected by sector or market events than larger-capitalization stocks.

Model and Technology Risk – The Adviser and Alternative Beta Providers may use investment programs that are fundamentally dependent on proprietary or licensed technology through such manager’s use of, among other things, certain hardware, software, model-based strategies, data gathering systems, order execution, and trade allocation systems, and/or risk management systems. These strategies may not be successful on an ongoing basis or could contain errors, omissions, imperfections, or malfunctions. These errors may result in, among other things, execution and allocation failures and failures to properly gather and organize large amounts of data from third parties and other external sources.

 

Non-Diversification Risk – The Fund is classified as a “non-diversified” investment company, which means that the percentage of its assets that may be invested in the securities of a single issuer is not limited by the 1940 Act. As a result, the Fund’s investment portfolio may be subject to greater risk and volatility than if investments had been made in the securities of a broad range of issuers.

 

Non-Investment Grade Fixed Income Securities Risk – Non-investment grade fixed income securities and unrated securities of comparable credit quality (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are considered speculative and are subject to the increased risk of an issuer’s inability to meet principal and interest payment obligations, increased risk of price volatility, increased risk of illiquidity and other risks.

 

Prepayment Risk – The Fund faces prepayment risk with respect to certain fixed-income investments. When interest rates fall, certain fixed income obligations will be paid off by the obligor more quickly than originally anticipated, and the Fund may have to invest the proceeds in securities with lower yields, potentially reducing overall Fund returns.

 

Regulatory Risk – Legal, tax, and regulatory developments may adversely affect the Fund. The regulatory environment for the Fund is evolving, and changes in the regulation of investment funds, their managers, and their trading activities and capital markets, or a regulator’s disagreement with the Fund’s interpretation of the application of certain regulations, may adversely affect the ability of the Fund to pursue its investment strategy, its ability to obtain leverage and financing, and the value of investments held by the Fund.

 

Rule 144A and Other Exempted Securities Risk – In the U.S. market, private placements are typically sold only to qualified institutional buyers, or qualified purchasers, as applicable. An insufficient number of buyers interested in purchasing private placements at a particular time could affect adversely the marketability of such investments and the Fund might be unable to dispose of them promptly or at reasonable prices, subjecting the Fund to liquidity risk.

 

Short Sales Risk – A short sale of a security involves the theoretical risk of unlimited loss because of increases in the market price of the security sold short. The Fund’s use of short sales, in certain circumstances, can result in significant losses.

 

Structured Products and Structured Notes Risk – A structured product may decline in value due to changes in the underlying instruments on which the product is based. The cash flow or rate of return on the underlying investments may be apportioned among the newly issued securities to create different investment characteristics, such as varying maturities, credit quality, payment priorities and interest rate provisions. The cash flow or rate of return on a structured investment may be determined by applying a multiplier to the rate of total return on the underlying investments or referenced indicator. Application of a multiplier is comparable to the use of financial leverage, a speculative technique.

 

Holders of structured products indirectly bear risks associated with the underlying investments, index or reference obligation, and are subject to counterparty risk. Structured products are generally privately offered and sold, and thus, are not registered under the securities laws. Certain structured products may be thinly traded or have a limited trading market and may have the effect of increasing the Fund’s illiquidity to the extent that the Fund, at a particular point in time, may be unable to find qualified buyers for these securities. Structured notes are derivative securities for which the amount of principal repayment and/or interest payments is based on the movement of one or more “factors.” Investments in structured notes involve risks including interest rate risk, credit risk and market risk. Where the Fund’s investments in structured notes are based upon the movement of one or more factors, depending on the factor used and the use of multipliers or deflators, changes in interest rates and movement of the factor may cause significant price fluctuations.

 

Subsidiary Risk – By investing in a Subsidiary, the Fund is indirectly exposed to the risks associated with the Subsidiary’s investments. The derivatives and other investments held by the Subsidiary are generally similar to those that are permitted to be held by the Fund and are subject to the same risks that apply to similar investments if held directly by the Fund. The Subsidiary is not registered under the 1940 Act, and unless otherwise noted in this Prospectus, is not subject to all the investor protections of the 1940 Act. Changes in the laws of the United States and/or the Cayman Islands could result in the inability of the Fund and/or Subsidiary to continue to operate as it does currently and could adversely affect the Fund.

 

Swap Agreements Risk – In a typical swap transaction, two parties agree to exchange the return earned on a specified underlying reference for a fixed return or the return from another underlying reference during a specified period of time. Swaps may be difficult to value and may be illiquid. Swaps could result in Fund losses if the underlying asset or reference does not perform as anticipated. Swaps create significant investment leverage such that a relatively small price movement in a swap may result in immediate and substantial losses to the Fund. The Fund may only close out a swap with its particular counterparty, and may only transfer a position with the consent of that counterparty.

 

Certain swaps, such as short swap transactions and total return swaps, have the potential for unlimited losses, regardless of the size of the initial investment. Swaps can increase the Fund’s risk exposure to underlying references and their attendant risks, such as credit risk, market risk, foreign currency risk and interest rate risk, while also exposing the Fund to correlation risk, counterparty risk, hedging risk, inflation risk, leverage risk, liquidity risk, pricing risk and volatility risk.

 

Tax Risk – To comply with its asset diversification test applicable to a RIC, the Fund will limit its investments in the Subsidiary to 25% of the Fund’s total assets at the end of each quarter. The Fund intends to invest in complex derivatives for which there is not clear guidance from the IRS as to the calculation of such investments under the asset diversification test applicable to RICs. There are no assurances that the IRS will agree with the Fund’s calculation under the asset diversification test which could cause the Fund to fail to qualify as RIC.

 

The tax treatment of certain commodity investments, derivative instruments and Bitcoin-related investments in which the Fund may invest may be affected by future regulatory or legislative changes that could affect the character, timing and/or amount of the Fund’s taxable income or gains and distributions. 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. Failure to comply with the requirements for qualification as a RIC would have significant negative tax consequences to Fund shareholders.

 

Unregistered Fund Risk – Unlike the Fund, unregistered funds are not subject to the investor protections provided under the 1940 Act. Accordingly, (i) the relationship between the unregistered fund and its adviser will not be regulated by the 1940 Act; (ii) unregistered funds are not required to have a majority of disinterested directors; (iii) unregistered funds are not subject to the various custody and safekeeping provisions under the 1940 Act designed to protect fund assets; and (iv) unregistered funds are not subject to the various investment limitations under the 1940 Act. The Fund’s performance is subject to the risks associated with the securities and other investments held by an unregistered fund in which the Fund may invest. The ability of the Fund to achieve its investment objective may depend upon the ability of an unregistered fund to achieve its investment objectives. When the Fund invests in an unregistered fund, in addition to directly bearing the expenses associated with its own operations, it will bear a pro rata portion of the unregistered fund’s expenses.

 

As part of the Fund’s investments in unregistered funds, the Fund may invest in limited partnership interests. There may be fewer protections afforded to investors in a limited partnership than investors in a corporation. In addition, limited partnerships may be subject to state taxation in certain jurisdictions which may reduce the amount of income paid by the limited partnership to its investors. In addition, investments in limited partnerships may be illiquid and may not have daily pricing information available for their investors, which will require a Fund to employ fair value procedures to value its holdings in such investments.

 

U.S. Government Securities Risk – The U.S. government may not provide financial support to U.S. government agencies, instrumentalities or sponsored enterprises that have issued debt securities that may be held by the Fund. Such issuers may not have the funds to meet their payment obligations in the future.

 

Valuation Risk – The sales price the Fund could receive for any particular portfolio investment may differ from the Fund’s valuation of the investment, particularly for assets that trade in thin or volatile markets, such as ETFs that provide exposure to Bitcoin and Bitcoin futures contracts, or that are valued using a fair value methodology. Investors who purchase or redeem Fund shares on days when the Fund is holding fair-valued securities may receive fewer or more shares or lower or higher redemption proceeds than they would have received if the Fund had not fair-valued the security or had used a different valuation methodology. Bitcoin-related investments, including ETFs that provide exposure to Bitcoin and Bitcoin futures contracts, may trade at a substantial premium to the net asset value of such assets. Shares that trade at a premium mean that an investor who purchases $1 of a portfolio will actually own less than $1 in assets.

 

Loans and Other Direct Indebtedness Risk – Investments in loans (through both assignments and participations) are generally subject to the same risks as investments in other types of debt instruments, including, in many cases, investments in high yield bonds. There may be limited public information available regarding loans and loans may be difficult to value. If the Fund holds a loan through another financial institution, or relies on a financial institution to administer the loan, its receipt of principal and interest on the loan may be subject to the credit risk of that financial institution. It is possible that collateral securing a loan, if any, may be insufficient or unavailable to the Fund, and that the Fund’s rights to collateral may be limited by bankruptcy or insolvency laws. In addition, the secondary market for loans may be subject to irregular trading activity and wide bid/ask spreads, which may cause the Fund to be unable to realize the full value of its investment in a loan. Loans may have extended settlement periods that exceed seven days and, accordingly, may be considered illiquid. Purchases and sales of loans in the secondary market generally are subject to contractual restrictions that may delay the Fund’s ability to make timely redemptions.

 

Loans may not be considered “securities,” and purchasers, such as the Fund, therefore may not be entitled to rely on the anti-fraud protections of the federal securities laws.

 

Stock Connect Investing Risk – Trading through Stock Connect is subject to a number of restrictions that may affect the Fund’s investments and returns, including a daily quota that limits the maximum net purchases under Stock Connect each day. In addition, investments made through Stock Connect are subject to relatively untested trading, clearance and settlement procedures. Moreover, A-Shares purchased through Stock Connect generally may only be sold or otherwise transferred through Stock Connect. The Fund’s investments in A-Shares purchased through Stock Connect are generally subject to Chinese securities regulations and listing rules. While overseas investors currently are exempt from paying capital gains or value added taxes on income and gains from investments in A-Shares purchased through Stock Connect, these tax rules could be changed, which could result in unexpected tax liabilities for the Fund. Stock Connect operates only on days when both the PRC and Hong Kong markets are open for trading and when banks in both markets are open on the corresponding settlement days. Therefore, the Fund may be subject to the risk of price fluctuations of A-Shares when Stock Connect is not trading. 

Risk Lose Money [Text] rr_RiskLoseMoney You could lose money by investing in the Fund.
Risk Not Insured Depository Institution [Text] rr_RiskNotInsuredDepositoryInstitution A Fund share is not a bank deposit and it is not insured or guaranteed by the FDIC or any other government agency.
Risk Nondiversified Status [Text] rr_RiskNondiversifiedStatus The Fund is classified as a “non-diversified” investment company, which means that the percentage of its assets that may be invested in the securities of a single issuer is not limited by the 1940 Act. As a result, the Fund’s investment portfolio may be subject to greater risk and volatility than if investments had been made in the securities of a broad range of issuers.
Bar Chart and Performance Table [Heading] rr_BarChartAndPerformanceTableHeading Performance Information
Performance Narrative [Text Block] rr_PerformanceNarrativeTextBlock

The bar chart and the performance table below illustrate the risks and volatility of an investment in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund’s Class I shares’ performance from year to year and by showing how the Fund’s Class I shares’ and Class A shares’ average annual total returns for 1 year and since inception compare with those of broad measures of market performance. The bar chart does not reflect the deduction of applicable sales charges for Class A shares. If sales charges had been reflected, the returns for Class A shares would be less than those shown below. Of course, the Fund’s past performance (before and after taxes) does not necessarily indicate how the Fund will perform in the future.

 

Before the Fund commenced operations, the Fund acquired the assets and liabilities of the Predecessor Real Asset Fund (the “Reorganization”) on April 11, 2022. As a result of the Reorganization, the Fund assumed the performance and accounting history of the Predecessor Real Asset Fund prior to the date of the Reorganization. Accordingly, the performance shown for periods prior to the Reorganization represents the performance of the Predecessor Real Asset Fund. The Predecessor Real Asset Fund’s returns in the bar chart and table have not been adjusted to reflect the Fund’s expenses. If the Predecessor Real Asset Fund’s performance information had been adjusted to reflect the Fund’s expenses, the performance may have been higher or lower for a given period depending on the expenses incurred by the Predecessor Real Asset Fund for that period.

 

Updated performance information is available by calling 1-877-628-8575 or by visiting the Fund’s website at www.fsinvestments.com.

Performance Information Illustrates Variability of Returns [Text] rr_PerformanceInformationIllustratesVariabilityOfReturns The bar chart and the performance table below illustrate the risks and volatility of an investment in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund’s Class I shares’ performance from year to year and by showing how the Fund’s Class I shares’ and Class A shares’ average annual total returns for 1 year and since inception compare with those of broad measures of market performance.
Performance Availability Phone [Text] rr_PerformanceAvailabilityPhone 1-877-628-8575
Performance Availability Website Address [Text] rr_PerformanceAvailabilityWebSiteAddress www.fsinvestments.com
Performance Past Does Not Indicate Future [Text] rr_PerformancePastDoesNotIndicateFuture Of course, the Fund’s past performance (before and after taxes) does not necessarily indicate how the Fund will perform in the future.
Bar Chart Does Not Reflect Sales Loads [Text] rr_BarChartDoesNotReflectSalesLoads The bar chart does not reflect the deduction of applicable sales charges for Class A shares. If sales charges had been reflected, the returns for Class A shares would be less than those shown below.
Bar Chart Closing [Text Block] rr_BarChartClosingTextBlock

 

Best Quarter Worst Quarter
11.20% (16.37)%
(06/30/2020) (03/31/2020)
Performance Table Heading rr_PerformanceTableHeading Average Annual Total Returns for Periods Ended December 31, 2021
Performance Table Market Index Changed rr_PerformanceTableMarketIndexChanged Effective September 1, 2021, the Fund changed its benchmark to a blended benchmark (the “Blended Benchmark”) comprised of 35% MSCI ACWI Net Return Index, 32.5% Bloomberg Commodity Total Return Index and 32.5% Bloomberg US Treasury Inflation-Linked Bond Index. The Adviser believes the Blended Benchmark is more appropriate in light of the Fund’s current investment strategy.
Performance Table Uses Highest Federal Rate rr_PerformanceTableUsesHighestFederalRate 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.
Performance Table Not Relevant to Tax Deferred rr_PerformanceTableNotRelevantToTaxDeferred After-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.
Performance Table One Class of after Tax Shown [Text] rr_PerformanceTableOneClassOfAfterTaxShown After-tax returns are shown for Class I shares only. After-tax returns for Class A shares will vary.
Performance Table Narrative rr_PerformanceTableNarrativeTextBlock

This table compares the Predecessor Real Asset Fund’s average annual total returns for the periods ended December 31, 2021 to those of broad based indices.

 

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 an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. After-tax returns are shown for Class I shares only. After-tax returns for Class A shares will vary.

FS Chiron Real Asset Fund | Blended Benchmark (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes)  
Prospectus [Line Items] rr_ProspectusLineItems  
1 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01 17.31% [6],[7]
Since Inception rr_AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception 13.50% [6],[7]
Inception Date rr_AverageAnnualReturnInceptionDate Dec. 31, 2018 [6],[7]
FS Chiron Real Asset Fund | 60% BAML 3 Month T Bill, 40% S&P 500 (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes)  
Prospectus [Line Items] rr_ProspectusLineItems  
1 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01 10.89% [8]
Since Inception rr_AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception 11.03% [8]
Inception Date rr_AverageAnnualReturnInceptionDate Dec. 31, 2018 [8]
FS Chiron Real Asset Fund | Class A  
Prospectus [Line Items] rr_ProspectusLineItems  
Trading Symbol dei_TradingSymbol FARLX
Maximum Sales Charge Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of Offering Price) rr_MaximumSalesChargeImposedOnPurchasesOverOfferingPrice 5.75%
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (as a percentage) rr_MaximumDeferredSalesChargeOverOther none
Management Fees (as a percentage of Assets) rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets 0.95% [9]
Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees rr_DistributionAndService12b1FeesOverAssets 0.25%
Other Expenses (as a percentage of Assets): rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets 2.14% [10],[11]
Expenses (as a percentage of Assets) rr_ExpensesOverAssets 3.34%
Fee Waiver or Reimbursement rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssets (1.89%) [12]
Net Expenses (as a percentage of Assets) rr_NetExpensesOverAssets 1.45%
Expense Breakpoint, Minimum Investment Required [Amount] rr_ExpenseBreakpointMinimumInvestmentRequiredAmount $ 50,000
Expense Example, with Redemption, 1 Year rr_ExpenseExampleYear01 714
Expense Example, with Redemption, 3 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear03 1,377
Expense Example, with Redemption, 5 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear05 2,062
Expense Example, with Redemption, 10 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear10 $ 3,876
1 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01 11.19%
Since Inception rr_AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception 9.56%
Inception Date rr_AverageAnnualReturnInceptionDate Dec. 31, 2018
FS Chiron Real Asset Fund | Class I  
Prospectus [Line Items] rr_ProspectusLineItems  
Trading Symbol dei_TradingSymbol FSRLX
Maximum Sales Charge Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of Offering Price) rr_MaximumSalesChargeImposedOnPurchasesOverOfferingPrice none
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (as a percentage) rr_MaximumDeferredSalesChargeOverOther none
Management Fees (as a percentage of Assets) rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets 0.95% [9]
Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees rr_DistributionAndService12b1FeesOverAssets none
Other Expenses (as a percentage of Assets): rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets 2.27% [10],[11]
Expenses (as a percentage of Assets) rr_ExpensesOverAssets 3.22%
Fee Waiver or Reimbursement rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssets (2.02%) [12]
Net Expenses (as a percentage of Assets) rr_NetExpensesOverAssets 1.20%
Expense Example, with Redemption, 1 Year rr_ExpenseExampleYear01 $ 122
Expense Example, with Redemption, 3 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear03 803
Expense Example, with Redemption, 5 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear05 1,508
Expense Example, with Redemption, 10 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear10 $ 3,382
Annual Return 2019 rr_AnnualReturn2019 10.14%
Annual Return 2020 rr_AnnualReturn2020 8.07%
Annual Return 2021 rr_AnnualReturn2021 18.02%
Highest Quarterly Return, Label rr_HighestQuarterlyReturnLabel Best Quarter
Highest Quarterly Return, Date rr_BarChartHighestQuarterlyReturnDate Jun. 30, 2020
Highest Quarterly Return rr_BarChartHighestQuarterlyReturn 11.20%
Lowest Quarterly Return, Label rr_LowestQuarterlyReturnLabel Worst Quarter
Lowest Quarterly Return, Date rr_BarChartLowestQuarterlyReturnDate Mar. 31, 2020
Lowest Quarterly Return rr_BarChartLowestQuarterlyReturn (16.37%)
1 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01 18.02%
Since Inception rr_AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception 11.98%
Inception Date rr_AverageAnnualReturnInceptionDate Dec. 31, 2018
FS Chiron Real Asset Fund | Class I | After Taxes on Distributions  
Prospectus [Line Items] rr_ProspectusLineItems  
1 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01 14.65%
Since Inception rr_AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception 7.49%
Inception Date rr_AverageAnnualReturnInceptionDate Dec. 31, 2018
FS Chiron Real Asset Fund | Class I | After Taxes on Distributions and Sales  
Prospectus [Line Items] rr_ProspectusLineItems  
1 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01 13.59%
Since Inception rr_AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception 8.72%
Inception Date rr_AverageAnnualReturnInceptionDate Dec. 31, 2018
FS Managed Futures Fund  
Prospectus [Line Items] rr_ProspectusLineItems  
Risk/Return [Heading] rr_RiskReturnHeading FS MANAGED FUTURES FUND
Objective [Heading] rr_ObjectiveHeading Investment Objective
Objective, Primary [Text Block] rr_ObjectivePrimaryTextBlock

The FS Managed Futures Fund (the “Managed Futures Fund” or the “Fund”) seeks to provide positive absolute returns with low correlation to traditional investments.

Expense [Heading] rr_ExpenseHeading Fund Fees and Expenses
Expense Narrative [Text Block] rr_ExpenseNarrativeTextBlock

These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold Class A shares or Class I shares of the Fund. You may be required to pay commissions and/or other forms of compensation to a broker for transactions in Class I shares, which are not reflected in the "Annual Fund Operating Expenses" table or the Example below. You may qualify for sales charge discounts if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in Class A shares of the Fund. More information about these and other discounts is available (i) from your financial professional and (ii) in the “Purchasing, Selling and Exchanging Fund Shares – Sales Charges” section on page 86 of this prospectus.

Shareholder Fees Caption [Text] rr_ShareholderFeesCaption Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investments)
Operating Expenses Caption [Text] rr_OperatingExpensesCaption Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Fee Waiver or Reimbursement over Assets, Date of Termination rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssetsDateOfTermination April 11, 2024
Portfolio Turnover [Heading] rr_PortfolioTurnoverHeading Portfolio Turnover
Portfolio Turnover [Text Block] rr_PortfolioTurnoverTextBlock

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 total annual Fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During its most recent fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, the portfolio turnover rate of the Predecessor Managed Futures Fund was 0% of the average value of its portfolio. However, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate is calculated without regard to derivative instruments and instruments with a maturity of one year or less at the time of acquisition. If such instruments were included, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate would be significantly higher.

Portfolio Turnover, Rate rr_PortfolioTurnoverRate none
Expense Breakpoint Discounts [Text] rr_ExpenseBreakpointDiscounts You may qualify for sales charge discounts if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in Class A shares of the Fund.
Expenses Restated to Reflect Current [Text] rr_ExpensesRestatedToReflectCurrent Other Expenses have been restated to reflect expenses expected to be incurred for the current fiscal year.
Expense Example [Heading] rr_ExpenseExampleHeading Example
Expense Example Narrative [Text Block] rr_ExpenseExampleNarrativeTextBlock

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 that the Fund’s operating expenses (including one year of capped expenses) remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

 

Strategy [Heading] rr_StrategyHeading Principal Investment Strategies
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The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by allocating its assets across a broad spectrum of Alternative Investment Strategies (as defined below). The Fund may provide exposure to alternative strategies across the five major asset classes (commodities, currencies, fixed income, equities and credit). The strategy will normally be implemented through rules-based strategies that typically use historical price data to determine whether to take a long, short, or cash position in a given instrument. The Adviser uses macroeconomic analysis, time-series data (which are observations obtained through repeated measurements over time), and forward-looking risk analysis to determine the Fund’s portfolio allocations. A rules-based strategy is a methodology based on a systematic approach. Principal strategies include “momentum/trend” based strategies that buy and sell securities in the same direction as the historical price movement and “counter-trend/mean reversion” based strategies that buy and sell securities in the opposite direction as the historical price movement. Combining momentum and trend strategies across asset classes with mean reversion strategies is designed to allow the Fund to achieve its low correlation objective, as the Adviser believes these strategies do not have any inherent bias to be long or short. Other alternative strategies that do not rely on historical prices may also be utilized to enhance return.

 

The Adviser expects to allocate up to 100% of the assets of the Fund among one or more alternative beta providers (“Alternative Beta Providers”) that offer the Fund exposure to the returns of particular investment strategies (“Alternative Beta Strategies”). An Alternative Beta Provider is a financial institution that serves as a counterparty to the Fund in a total return swap that offers exposure to the returns of a specified underlying asset. In a typical total return swap transaction with an Alternative Beta Provider, the Fund agrees to pay a fixed or variable interest rate to the Alternative Beta Provider in exchange for return earned on a specified underlying asset. Alternative Beta Providers are swap counterparties, not sub-advisers. Alternative Beta Providers in particular may offer cost advantages over traditional alternative asset managers. The strategies employed by the use of Alternative Beta Providers are referred to in this Prospectus as “Alternative Investment Strategies.” In general, Alternative Beta Strategies seek to identify and capitalize upon market inefficiencies and market behavioral biases (or risk premia). Alternative Beta Strategies typically have less correlation to traditional equity and fixed income markets than traditional investment strategies. In this regard, when the performance of traditional markets improves, Alternative Beta Strategies my decline or improve to a greater or lesser degree. Conversely, when traditional markets decline, Alternative Beta Strategies my improve or decline to a greater or lesser degree.

 

The Adviser may access the following strategies through Alternative Beta Strategies:

 

·Equity: Investing in stocks to generate returns less sensitive to market direction based on specific factors (e.g., size, quality)

 

·Macro: Investing in bonds, currencies, and commodities to generate risk-adjusted returns through specific factors (e.g., value, carry)

 

·Technical Trading: Investing across asset classes to generate uncorrelated returns-based on price trends and trading patterns (e.g., momentum, mean reversion)

 

·Volatility: Investing in volatility markets to profit from price inefficiencies and relative value opportunities (e.g., realized volatility vs. implied volatility).

 

The Fund generally seeks to obtain exposure to Alternative Investment Strategies in a cost-efficient manner, particularly as compared to private investment vehicles that have historically been used to access alternative investment strategies. Alternative Beta Strategies may include historical trend (seeking to benefit from the historical tendency of securities with certain characteristics to outperform others), carry and curve (investing in assets with high carry and selling assets with low carry), low beta (seeking to capture outperformance of assets with low beta over those with high beta), value (investing in undervalued and selling overvalued assets), volatility premium (monetizing the concept that implied volatility tends to be higher than realized volatility) and momentum strategies (which emphasize investing in securities that have better recent performance compared to other securities). The Adviser may also manage all or a portion of the Fund’s assets directly. The Adviser and Alternative Beta Providers may use investment programs that are fundamentally dependent on proprietary or licensed technology through such manager’s use of, among other things, certain hardware, software, model-based strategies, data gathering systems, order execution, and trade allocation systems, and/or risk management systems.

 

Generally, the Fund gains exposure to asset classes by investing in derivative instruments, including structured notes, futures contracts, futures-related instruments, forwards and swaps, including, but not limited to, equity index futures and equity swaps; bond futures and swaps; interest rate futures and swaps; commodity futures, forwards and swaps; and currencies and currency futures and forwards. The Adviser generally expects that the Fund’s performance will have a low correlation to the long-term performance of the general global equity, fixed income, currency and commodity markets; however, the Fund’s performance may correlate to the performance of any one or more of those markets over short-term periods. The Fund will not gain investment exposure to the commodities markets directly, but may do so indirectly through structured investments or in one or more Subsidiaries (as defined below). The Fund may invest in derivatives for both hedging and non-hedging purposes, including, for example, seeking to enhance returns or as a substitute for a position in an underlying asset, instrument, or other reference, to increase market exposure and investment flexibility, or to obtain or reduce particular exposures. The Fund may engage in forward foreign currency transactions for speculative purposes. The Fund may purchase or sell foreign currencies through the use of forward contracts based on the Adviser’s judgment regarding the direction of the market for a particular foreign currency or currencies. In pursuing this strategy, the Fund seeks to profit from anticipated movements in currency rates by establishing “long” and/or “short” positions in forward contracts on various foreign currencies. The Fund agrees to buy the currency underlying the forward contract when taking a long position and sell the currency underlying the forward contract when taking a short position.

 

There are no geographic limits on the market exposure of the Fund’s assets. This flexibility allows the Adviser to look for investments or gain exposure to asset classes and markets around the world, including emerging markets, that it believes will enhance the Fund’s ability to meet its objective. The Fund may also invest in exchange-traded notes (“ETNs”) through which the Fund can participate in the performance of one or more instruments. The Fund’s return is expected to be derived principally from changes in the value of securities and its portfolio is expected to consist principally of securities. 

 

The Fund’s strategies typically use quantitative measurements of historical prices to determine long, short, or neutral positioning. The owner of a “long” position in a derivative instrument will benefit from an increase in the price of the underlying instrument. The owner of a “short” position in an instrument will benefit from a decrease in the price of the underlying instrument. The Adviser generally expects that the Fund will have exposure in long and short positions across all five major asset classes (commodities, currencies, fixed income, equities and credit), but at any one time the Fund may allocate to one or two of the asset classes or a limited number of exposures within an asset class. Credit indices that deliver both investment grade and high yield (sometimes referred to as junk) exposure (such as CDX IG, CDX HY, iTraxx Main, and iTraxx Crossover) may be used, but individual, single-name credit exposure will not be utilized. The duration of these indices will range from 3 years to 10 years. Government bond futures will also be utilized, with durations ranging from 3 months to 30 years. Equity indices and single name equity securities may be utilized. Individual securities are expected to have a market capitalization greater than $500 million.

 

As a result of the Fund’s strategy, the Fund may have highly leveraged exposure to one or more asset classes at a time. The Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”) and the rules and interpretations thereunder impose certain limitations on the Fund’s ability to use leverage; however, the Fund is not subject to any additional limitations on its net long and short exposures. For more information on these and other risk factors, please see the “More Information about Risk” section of the prospectus.

 

When taking into account derivative instruments and instruments with a maturity of one year or less at the time of acquisition, the Fund’s strategy will result in frequent portfolio trading and high portfolio turnover (typically greater than 300% per year).

 

A significant portion of the assets of the Fund (up to 100%) may be invested directly or indirectly in money market instruments, which may include, but are not be limited to, U.S. Government securities, U.S. Government agency securities, short-term fixed income securities, overnight and/or fixed term repurchase agreements, money market mutual fund shares, and cash and cash equivalents with one year or less term to maturity. These cash or cash equivalent holdings may serve as collateral for the positions the Fund takes and also earn income for the Fund.

 

The Fund may pursue its investment objective and obtain exposures to some or all of the asset classes described in this prospectus by investing in other investment companies, including, for example, other open-end or closed-end investment companies, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and domestic or foreign private investment vehicles, including investment companies sponsored or managed by the Adviser or its related parties. The Fund may also invest in privately placed and other securities or instruments exempt from Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) registration (collectively, “private placements”).

 

The Fund intends to make investments through one or more offshore, wholly-owned subsidiaries organized under the laws of the Cayman Islands (each, a “Subsidiary” and collectively, the “Subsidiaries”) and may invest up to 25% of its total assets in the Subsidiaries. Generally, each Subsidiary will invest primarily in commodity futures, forwards and swaps, but it may also invest in financial futures, option and swap contracts, fixed income securities, pooled investment vehicles, including those that are not registered pursuant to the 1940 Act, and other investments intended to serve as margin or collateral for the Subsidiary’s derivative positions. The Fund will invest in each Subsidiary in order to gain exposure to the commodities markets within the limitations of the federal tax laws, rules and regulations that apply to registered investment companies. Unlike the Fund, each Subsidiary may invest without limitation in commodity-linked derivative instruments, however, each Subsidiary will comply with the same 1940 Act asset coverage requirements with respect to its investments in commodity-linked derivatives that are applicable to the Fund’s transactions in derivatives. In addition, the Fund and each Subsidiary will be subject to the same fundamental investment restrictions on a consolidated basis and, to the extent applicable to the investment activities of each Subsidiary, each Subsidiary will follow the same compliance policies and procedures as the Fund. Unlike the Fund, each Subsidiary will not seek to qualify as a regulated investment company (“RIC”) under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). The Fund is the sole shareholder of each Subsidiary and does not expect shares of a Subsidiary to be offered or sold to other investors. To the extent the Fund invests in instruments that provide exposure to the commodity markets directly, it will seek to restrict its income from instruments that do not generate qualifying income to a maximum of 10% of its gross income (when combined with its other investments that produce non-qualifying income) to comply with certain qualifying income tests necessary for the Fund to qualify as a RIC under Subchapter M of the Code.

 

The Fund may access the strategies and instruments described above either through direct investments or Alternative Beta Providers Although the Fund intends to normally invest in Alternative Investment Strategies, it retains the flexibility to allocate as little as none or as much as all of its capital to particular Alternative Beta Providers. The Fund is considered non-diversified, which means that the percentage of its assets that may be invested in the securities of a single issuer is not limited by the 1940 Act.

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As with all mutual funds, there is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its investment objective. You could lose money by investing in the Fund. A Fund share is not a bank deposit and it is not insured or guaranteed by the FDIC or any other government agency. The principal risk factors affecting shareholders’ investments in the Fund are set forth below.

 

Unless otherwise specified, references in this section to investments by the Fund refer to direct investments made or held by the Fund and/or indirect investments to which the Fund may have exposure through an Alternative Beta Strategy.

 

Equity Risk – The prices of equity securities in which the Fund holds long and short positions may rise and fall daily. A variety of factors can negatively impact the value of equity securities, including factors affecting individual companies, industries, securities markets or economies.

 

Market Risk – Investments in securities, in general, are subject to market risks, including increased volatility, illiquidity, or other potentially adverse effects in response to changing market conditions, inflation, changes in interest rates, market disruptions caused by local or regional events such as war, acts of terrorism, the spread of infectious illness (including epidemics and pandemics) or other public health issues, recessions or other events or adverse investor sentiment that may cause their prices to fluctuate over time. An investment in the Fund may lose money.

 

Volatility Risk – The Fund may have investments that appreciate or decrease significantly in value over short periods of time. This may cause the Fund’s NAV per share to experience significant increases or declines in value over short periods of time, however, all investments long- or short-term are subject to risk of loss.

 

Derivatives Risk – The Fund may invest in financial instruments, including swap agreements, futures contracts, forwards and other derivative instruments, that may involve risks different from, or greater than, those associated with more traditional investments. Due to leverage, small changes in the value of the financial instruments’ reference assets, rates, or indexes may produce disproportionate losses to the Fund. The value of financial instruments may not move as expected relative to the value of the reference assets, rates or indexes. Financial instruments used for hedging purposes may not hedge risks as expected, and financial instruments used for non-hedging purposes may not provide the anticipated investment exposure. Financial instruments may be highly illiquid, and the Fund may not be able to close out or sell a financial instrument position at a particular time or at an anticipated price. Various legislative and regulatory initiatives may impact the availability, liquidity and cost of derivatives. Financial instruments also may be subject to interest rate risk, currency risk and counterparty risk.

 

Allocation Risk – The success of the Fund’s investment strategy depends on, among other things, the Adviser’s ability to select Alternative Beta Providers and Alternative Investment Strategies to implement the Fund’s investment objective and the Adviser’s success in allocating assets to those Alternative Beta Providers. The Fund’s Alternative Beta Strategies may underperform the market generally or underperform other investment managers that could have been selected for the Fund.

 

Counterparty Risk – The stability and liquidity of many derivative transactions depends in large part on the creditworthiness of the parties to the transactions. If a counterparty to such a transaction defaults, exercising contractual rights may involve delays or costs for the Fund. Furthermore, there is a risk that a counterparty could become the subject of insolvency proceedings, and that the recovery of securities and other assets from such counterparty will be delayed or be of a value less than the value of the securities or assets originally entrusted to such counterparty.

 

Currency Risk – The Fund’s returns may be adversely impacted by changes in currency exchange rates.

 

Forward and Futures Risk – The successful use of forward and futures contracts draws upon the Adviser’s skill and experience with respect to such instruments and are subject to special risk considerations. The primary risks associated with the use of futures contracts are (a) the imperfect correlation between the change in market value of instruments held by the Fund and the price of the forward or futures contract; (b) possible lack of a liquid secondary market, and possible regulatory position limits and restrictions, for a forward or futures contract and the resulting inability to close a forward or futures contract when desired; (c) losses caused by unanticipated market movements, which are potentially unlimited; (d) the Adviser’s inability to predict correctly the direction of securities prices, interest rates, currency exchange rates and other economic factors; (e) the possibility that the counterparty will default in the performance of its obligations; and (f) if the Fund has insufficient cash, it may have to sell securities from its portfolio to meet daily variation margin requirements, and the Fund may have to sell securities at a time when it may be disadvantageous to do so.

 

Hedging Transactions Risk – Hedging transactions may limit the opportunity for gain if the value of the portfolio position should increase. There can be no assurance that the Fund will engage in hedging transactions at any given time, even under volatile market conditions, or that any hedging transactions the Fund engages in will be successful. Moreover, it may not be possible for the Fund to enter into a hedging transaction at a price sufficient to protect its assets. The Fund may not anticipate a particular risk so as to hedge against it.

 

Interest Rate Risk – Interest rate risk is the risk that prices of fixed income securities generally increase when interest rates decline and decrease when interest rates increase. The Fund may lose money if short-term or long-term interest rates rise sharply or otherwise change in a manner not anticipated by the Adviser. There may be less governmental action in the future to maintain low interest rates. The negative impact on fixed income securities from the resulting rate increases for that and other reasons could be swift and significant.

 

Investment Style Risk – Different investment styles (e.g., “growth”, “value” or “quantitative”) tend to shift in and out of favor depending upon market and economic conditions and investor sentiment. The Fund employs various non-traditional and alternative investment styles, and may outperform or underperform other funds that invest in similar asset classes but employ different investment styles.

 

Alternative Beta Strategies seek to generate returns through exposure to portfolios of risky assets that are selected based on non-traditional criteria. These strategies may involve elevated risk insofar as they may not involve detailed, issuer-specific fundamental analysis. Alternative Beta Strategies may give the Fund exposure to individual issuers that face significant operational, financial, regulatory or other challenges.

 

Model and Technology Risk – The Adviser and Alternative Beta Providers may use investment programs that are fundamentally dependent on proprietary or licensed technology through such manager’s use of, among other things, certain hardware, software, model-based strategies, data gathering systems, order execution, and trade allocation systems, and/or risk management systems. These strategies may not be successful on an ongoing basis or could contain errors, omissions, imperfections, or malfunctions. These errors may result in, among other things, execution and allocation failures and failures to properly gather and organize large amounts of data from third parties and other external sources.

 

Non-Diversification Risk – The Fund is classified as a “non-diversified” investment company, which means that the percentage of its assets that may be invested in the securities of a single issuer is not limited by the 1940 Act. As a result, the Fund’s investment portfolio may be subject to greater risk and volatility than if investments had been made in the securities of a broad range of issuers.

 

Non-Hedging Foreign Currency Trading Risk – Foreign exchange rates can be extremely volatile and a variance in the degree of volatility of the market or in the direction of the market from the Adviser’s expectations may produce significant losses to the Fund. Some of these transactions may also be subject to interest rate risk.

 

Short Sales Risk – A short sale of a security involves the theoretical risk of unlimited loss because of increases in the market price of the security sold short. The Fund’s use of short sales, in certain circumstances, can result in significant losses.

 

Foreign Investments and Emerging Markets Risk – The Fund may invest in the securities of non-U.S. issuers, including those located in developing countries, which securities involve risks beyond those associated with investments in U.S. securities. These risks may relate to foreign political, social and economic matters, less developed markets, political immobility and less developed legal and accounting practices.

 

Commodities Risk – To the extent that the Fund gains exposure to the commodities markets, such exposure may subject the Fund to greater volatility than investments in traditional securities. The value of commodity-linked investments may be affected by changes in overall market movements, commodity index volatility, changes in interest rates, or sectors affecting a particular industry or commodity, such as drought, floods, weather, embargoes, tariffs and international economic, political and regulatory developments. The prices of certain commodities may fluctuate widely due to factors such as changes in value, supply and demand and governmental regulatory policies. Some commodity-linked investments are issued by companies in the financial services sector, including the banking, brokerage and insurance sectors. As a result, events affecting issuers in the financial services sector may cause the Fund’s share value to fluctuate.

 

Cyber Security and Operational Risk – The Fund and its service providers may experience disruptions that arise from breaches in cyber security, human error, processing and communications errors, counterparty or third-party errors, technology or systems failures, any of which may have an adverse impact on the Fund. Failures or breaches of the electronic systems of the Fund, the Fund’s adviser, distributor, and other service providers, or the issuers of securities in which the Fund invests have the ability to cause disruptions and negatively impact the Fund’s operations, potentially resulting in financial losses to the Fund and its shareholders.

 

High Portfolio Turnover Risk – Active and frequent trading of the Fund’s portfolio securities may result in increased transaction costs to the Fund, including brokerage commissions, dealer mark-ups and other transaction costs, which could reduce the Fund’s return.

 

Market Capitalization Risk (Small-, Mid- and Large-Cap Stocks Risk) – To the extent the Fund emphasizes small-, mid-, or large-cap stocks, it takes on the associated risks. At any given time, any of these market capitalizations may be out of favor with investors. Small- or mid-cap capitalization stocks may be more volatile and more greatly affected by sector or market events than larger-capitalization stocks.

 

Options Risk – An option is a type of derivative instrument that gives the holder the right (but not the obligation) to buy (a “call”) or sell (a “put”) an asset in the near future at an agreed upon price prior to the expiration date of the option. The Fund may “cover” a call option by owning the security underlying the option or through other means. The value of options can be highly volatile, and their use can result in loss if the Adviser is incorrect in its expectation of price fluctuations.

 

Valuation Risk – The sales price the Fund could receive for any particular portfolio investment may differ from the Fund’s valuation of the investment, particularly for securities that trade in thin or volatile markets or that are valued using a fair value methodology. Investors who purchase or redeem Fund shares on days when the Fund is holding fair-valued securities may receive fewer or more shares or lower or higher redemption proceeds than they would have received if the Fund had not fair-valued the security or had used a different valuation methodology.

 

Leverage Risk – Leverage occurs when the Fund directly or indirectly increases its assets available for investment using borrowings, short sales, financial instruments, or similar instruments or techniques. The use of leverage may make any change in the Fund’s NAV greater than it otherwise would be and thus result in increased volatility of returns and the risk that the Fund will lose more than it has invested or the margin it supplies to its counterparty on the instrument. Leverage can also create interest or other transactional expenses that may lower the Fund’s overall returns. The use of leverage may cause the Fund to liquidate portfolio positions at disadvantageous times in order to satisfy its obligations or to meet any asset segregation or position coverage requirements.

 

Custody Risk – The Fund invests in securities markets that are less developed than those in the U.S., which may expose the Fund to risks in the process of clearing and settling trades and the holding of securities by local banks, agents and depositories. The less developed a country’s securities market is, the greater the likelihood of custody problems.

 

Exchange-Traded Product Risk – The Fund may invest in long (or short) positions in ETFs, ETNs and other exchange traded vehicles (“ETVs” and collectively with ETFs and ETNs, “ETPs”). Through its positions in ETPs, the Fund will be subject to the risks associated with such vehicles’ investments, including the possibility that the value of the securities or instruments held by an ETP could decrease (or increase), and will bear its proportionate share of the ETP’s fees and expenses. In addition, certain of the ETPs may hold common portfolio positions.

 

Issuer Risk – An issuer in which the Fund invests or to which it has exposure may perform poorly, and the value of its loans or securities may therefore decline, which would negatively affect the Fund’s performance. Poor performance may be caused by poor management decisions, competitive pressures, breakthroughs in technology, reliance on suppliers, labor problems or shortages, corporate restructurings, fraudulent disclosures, natural disasters, the spread of infectious illness (including epidemics and pandemics) or other events, conditions or factors.

 

Liquidity Risk – Although the Fund will invest primarily in liquid, publicly traded securities, the Fund may make investments that may be illiquid or that may become less liquid in response to market developments or adverse investor perceptions. Illiquid investments may be more difficult to value and more difficult to sell in response to redemption requests than liquid investments. If the Fund must sell illiquid or less liquid assets to meet redemption requests or other cash needs, it may be forced to sell at a loss.

 

Regulatory Risk – Legal, tax, and regulatory developments may adversely affect the Fund. The regulatory environment for the Fund is evolving, and changes in the regulation of investment funds, their managers, and their trading activities and capital markets, or a regulator’s disagreement with the Fund’s interpretation of the application of certain regulations, may adversely affect the ability of the Fund to pursue its investment strategy, its ability to obtain leverage and financing, and the value of investments held by the Fund.

 

Structured Products and Structured Notes Risk – A structured product may decline in value due to changes in the underlying instruments on which the product is based. The cash flow or rate of return on the underlying investments may be apportioned among the newly issued securities to create different investment characteristics, such as varying maturities, credit quality, payment priorities and interest rate provisions. The cash flow or rate of return on a structured investment may be determined by applying a multiplier to the rate of total return on the underlying investments or referenced indicator. Application of a multiplier is comparable to the use of financial leverage, a speculative technique. Holders of structured products indirectly bear risks associated with the underlying investments, index or reference obligation, and are subject to counterparty risk. Structured products are generally privately offered and sold, and thus, are not registered under the securities laws. Certain structured products may be thinly traded or have a limited trading market and may have the effect of increasing the Fund’s illiquidity to the extent that the Fund, at a particular point in time, may be unable to find qualified buyers for these securities. Structured notes are derivative securities for which the amount of principal repayment and/or interest payments is based on the movement of one or more “factors.” Investments in structured notes involve risks including interest rate risk, credit risk and market risk. Where the Fund’s investments in structured notes are based upon the movement of one or more factors, depending on the factor used and the use of multipliers or deflators, changes in interest rates and movement of the factor may cause significant price fluctuations.

 

Tax Risk – To comply with its asset diversification test applicable to a RIC, the Fund will limit its investments in the Subsidiary to 25% of the Fund’s total assets at the end of each quarter. The Fund intends to invest in complex derivatives for which there is not clear guidance from the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) as to the calculation of such investments under the asset diversification test applicable to RICs. There are no assurances that the IRS will agree with the Fund’s calculation under the asset diversification test which could cause the Fund to fail to qualify as a RIC.

 

The tax treatment of certain commodity investments and derivative instruments in which the Fund may invest may be affected by future regulatory or legislative changes that could affect the character, timing and/or amount of the Fund’s taxable income or gains and distributions. 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. Failure to comply with the requirements for qualification as a RIC would have significant negative tax consequences to Fund shareholders.

 

Activist Strategies Risk – The Fund may purchase securities of companies that are the subject of proxy contests or which activist investors are attempting to influence, in the expectation that new management or a change in business strategies will cause the price of such company’s securities to increase. There is a risk that the market price of the company’s securities will fall if the proxy contest, or the new management, is not successful.

 

Credit/Default Risk – An issuer or guarantor of fixed income securities or instruments held by the Fund may default on its obligation to pay interest and principal when due or default on any other obligation, which may impair the liquidity and value of the Fund’s investment. In addition, the Fund may incur expenses in an effort to protect the Fund’s interests or enforce its rights against an issuer, guarantor or counterparty or may be hindered or delayed in exercising these rights.

 

Investment in Other Investment Companies Risk – As with other investments, investments in other investment companies, including ETFs, are subject to market and manager risk. In addition, if the Fund acquires shares of investment companies, shareholders bear both their proportionate share of expenses in the Fund (including management and advisory fees) and, indirectly, the expenses of the investment companies. The Fund may invest in money market mutual funds. An investment in a money market mutual fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. Although money market mutual funds that invest in U.S. government securities seek to preserve the value of the Fund’s investment at $1.00 per share, it is possible to lose money by investing in a stable NAV money market mutual fund. Moreover, SEC rules require prime money market mutual funds to use floating NAVs that do not preserve the value of the Fund’s investment at $1.00 per share.

 

Limited Capacity Risk – Alternative investment strategies utilized by the Fund may have limited capacity, and the Adviser may not be able to allocate as much of the Fund’s assets to one or more alternative investment strategies as it desires. This capacity limitation may negatively impact the performance and portfolio composition of the Fund.

 

Non-Investment Grade Fixed Income Securities Risk – Non-investment grade fixed income securities and unrated securities of comparable credit quality (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are considered speculative and are subject to the increased risk of an issuer’s inability to meet principal and interest payment obligations, increased risk of price volatility, increased risk of illiquidity and other risks.

 

Prepayment Risk – The Fund faces prepayment risk with respect to certain fixed-income investments. When interest rates fall, certain fixed income obligations will be paid off by the obligor more quickly than originally anticipated, and the Fund may have to invest the proceeds in securities with lower yields, potentially reducing overall Fund returns.

 

Subsidiary Risk – By investing in a Subsidiary, the Fund is indirectly exposed to the risks associated with the Subsidiary’s investments. The derivatives and other investments held by the Subsidiary are generally similar to those that are permitted to be held by the Fund and are subject to the same risks that apply to similar investments if held directly by the Fund. The Subsidiary is not registered under the 1940 Act, and unless otherwise noted in this Prospectus, is not subject to all the investor protections of the 1940 Act. Changes in the laws of the United States and/or the Cayman Islands could result in the inability of the Fund and/or Subsidiary to continue to operate as it does currently and could adversely affect the Fund.

 

Swap Agreements Risk – In a typical swap transaction, two parties agree to exchange the return earned on a specified underlying reference for a fixed return or the return from another underlying reference during a specified period of time. Swaps may be difficult to value and may be illiquid. Swaps could result in Fund losses if the underlying asset or reference does not perform as anticipated. Swaps create significant investment leverage such that a relatively small price movement in a swap may result in immediate and substantial losses to the Fund. The Fund may only close out a swap with its particular counterparty, and may only transfer a position with the consent of that counterparty. Certain swaps, such as short swap transactions and total return swaps, have the potential for unlimited losses, regardless of the size of the initial investment. Swaps can increase the Fund’s risk exposure to underlying references and their attendant risks, such as credit risk, market risk, foreign currency risk and interest rate risk, while also exposing the Fund to correlation risk, counterparty risk, hedging risk, inflation risk, leverage risk, liquidity risk, pricing risk and volatility risk.

 

U.S. Government Securities Risk – The U.S. government may not provide financial support to U.S. government agencies, instrumentalities or sponsored enterprises that have issued debt securities that may be held by the Fund. Such issuers may not have the funds to meet their payment obligations in the future.

 

Unregistered Fund Risk – Unlike the Fund, unregistered funds are not subject to the investor protections provided under the 1940 Act. Accordingly, (i) the relationship between the unregistered fund and its adviser will not be regulated by the 1940 Act; (ii) unregistered funds are not required to have a majority of disinterested directors; (iii) unregistered funds are not subject to the various custody and safekeeping provisions under the 1940 Act designed to protect fund assets; and (iv) unregistered funds are not subject to the various investment limitations under the 1940 Act. The Fund’s performance is subject to the risks associated with the securities and other investments held by an unregistered fund in which the Fund may invest. The ability of the Fund to achieve its investment objective may depend upon the ability of an unregistered fund to achieve its investment objectives. When the Fund invests in an unregistered fund, in addition to directly bearing the expenses associated with its own operations, it will bear a pro rata portion of the unregistered fund’s expenses.

 

As part of the Fund’s investments in unregistered funds, the Fund may invest in limited partnership interests. There may be fewer protections afforded to investors in a limited partnership than investors in a corporation. In addition, limited partnerships may be subject to state taxation in certain jurisdictions which may reduce the amount of income paid by the limited partnership to its investors. In addition, investments in limited partnerships may be illiquid and may not have daily pricing information available for their investors, which will require a Fund to employ fair value procedures to value its holdings in such investments.

 

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

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Risk Nondiversified Status [Text] rr_RiskNondiversifiedStatus The Fund is classified as a “non-diversified” investment company, which means that the percentage of its assets that may be invested in the securities of a single issuer is not limited by the 1940 Act. As a result, the Fund’s investment portfolio may be subject to greater risk and volatility than if investments had been made in the securities of a broad range of issuers.
Bar Chart and Performance Table [Heading] rr_BarChartAndPerformanceTableHeading Performance Information
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The bar chart and the performance table below illustrate the risks and volatility of an investment in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund’s Class I shares’ performance from year to year and by showing how the Fund’s Class I shares’ and Class A shares’ average annual total returns for 1 year and since inception compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. The bar chart does not reflect the deduction of applicable sales charges for Class A shares. If sales charges had been reflected, the returns for Class A shares would be less than those shown below. Of course, the Fund’s past performance (before and after taxes) does not necessarily indicate how the Fund will perform in the future.

 

Before the Fund commenced operations, the Fund acquired the assets and liabilities of the Predecessor Managed Futures Fund (the “Reorganization”) on April 11, 2022. As a result of the Reorganization, the Fund assumed the performance and accounting history of the Predecessor Managed Futures Fund prior to the date of the Reorganization. Accordingly, the performance shown for periods prior to the Reorganization represents the performance of the Predecessor Managed Futures Fund. The Predecessor Managed Futures Fund’s returns in the bar chart and table have not been adjusted to reflect the Fund’s expenses. If the Predecessor Managed Futures Fund’s performance information had been adjusted to reflect the Fund’s expenses, the performance may have been higher or lower for a given period depending on the expenses incurred by the Predecessor Managed Futures Fund for that period.

 

Updated performance information is available by calling 1-877-628-8575 or by visiting the Fund’s website at www.fsinvestments.com.

Performance Information Illustrates Variability of Returns [Text] rr_PerformanceInformationIllustratesVariabilityOfReturns The bar chart and the performance table below illustrate the risks and volatility of an investment in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund’s Class I shares’ performance from year to year and by showing how the Fund’s Class I shares’ and Class A shares’ average annual total returns for 1 year and since inception compare with those of a broad measure of market performance.
Performance Availability Phone [Text] rr_PerformanceAvailabilityPhone 1-877-628-8575
Performance Availability Website Address [Text] rr_PerformanceAvailabilityWebSiteAddress www.fsinvestments.com
Performance Past Does Not Indicate Future [Text] rr_PerformancePastDoesNotIndicateFuture Of course, the Fund’s past performance (before and after taxes) does not necessarily indicate how the Fund will perform in the future.
Bar Chart Does Not Reflect Sales Loads [Text] rr_BarChartDoesNotReflectSalesLoads The bar chart does not reflect the deduction of applicable sales charges for Class A shares. If sales charges had been reflected, the returns for Class A shares would be less than those shown below.
Bar Chart Closing [Text Block] rr_BarChartClosingTextBlock

 

Best Quarter Worst Quarter
11.26% (2.03)%
(06/30/2020) (09/30/2021)
Performance Table Heading rr_PerformanceTableHeading Average Annual Total Returns for Periods Ended December 31, 2021
Performance Table Uses Highest Federal Rate rr_PerformanceTableUsesHighestFederalRate 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.
Performance Table Not Relevant to Tax Deferred rr_PerformanceTableNotRelevantToTaxDeferred After-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.
Performance Table One Class of after Tax Shown [Text] rr_PerformanceTableOneClassOfAfterTaxShown After-tax returns are shown for Class I shares only. After-tax returns for Class A shares will vary.
Performance Table Narrative rr_PerformanceTableNarrativeTextBlock

This table compares the Predecessor Managed Futures Fund’s average annual total returns for the periods ended December 31, 2021 to those of a broad based index.

 

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 an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. After-tax returns are shown for Class I shares only. After-tax returns for Class A shares will vary.

FS Managed Futures Fund | BofA Merrill Lynch US 3 Month T-Bill (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes)  
Prospectus [Line Items] rr_ProspectusLineItems  
1 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01 0.05% [13]
Since Inception rr_AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception 0.99% [13]
Inception Date rr_AverageAnnualReturnInceptionDate Dec. 31, 2018 [13]
FS Managed Futures Fund | Class A  
Prospectus [Line Items] rr_ProspectusLineItems  
Trading Symbol dei_TradingSymbol FMFFX
Maximum Sales Charge Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of Offering Price) rr_MaximumSalesChargeImposedOnPurchasesOverOfferingPrice 5.75%
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (as a percentage) rr_MaximumDeferredSalesChargeOverOther none
Management Fees (as a percentage of Assets) rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets 1.15%
Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees rr_DistributionAndService12b1FeesOverAssets 0.25%
Other Expenses (as a percentage of Assets): rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets 7.27% [14],[15]
Expenses (as a percentage of Assets) rr_ExpensesOverAssets 8.67%
Fee Waiver or Reimbursement rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssets (7.02%) [16]
Net Expenses (as a percentage of Assets) rr_NetExpensesOverAssets 1.65%
Expense Breakpoint, Minimum Investment Required [Amount] rr_ExpenseBreakpointMinimumInvestmentRequiredAmount $ 50,000
Expense Example, with Redemption, 1 Year rr_ExpenseExampleYear01 733
Expense Example, with Redemption, 3 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear03 2,361
Expense Example, with Redemption, 5 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear05 3,871
Expense Example, with Redemption, 10 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear10 $ 7,188
1 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01 (2.71%)
Since Inception rr_AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception 2.40%
Inception Date rr_AverageAnnualReturnInceptionDate Dec. 31, 2018
FS Managed Futures Fund | Class I  
Prospectus [Line Items] rr_ProspectusLineItems  
Trading Symbol dei_TradingSymbol FMGFX
Maximum Sales Charge Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of Offering Price) rr_MaximumSalesChargeImposedOnPurchasesOverOfferingPrice none
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (as a percentage) rr_MaximumDeferredSalesChargeOverOther none
Management Fees (as a percentage of Assets) rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets 1.15%
Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees rr_DistributionAndService12b1FeesOverAssets none
Other Expenses (as a percentage of Assets): rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets 7.27% [14],[15]
Expenses (as a percentage of Assets) rr_ExpensesOverAssets 8.42%
Fee Waiver or Reimbursement rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssets (7.02%) [16]
Net Expenses (as a percentage of Assets) rr_NetExpensesOverAssets 1.40%
Expense Example, with Redemption, 1 Year rr_ExpenseExampleYear01 $ 143
Expense Example, with Redemption, 3 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear03 1,828
Expense Example, with Redemption, 5 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear05 3,400
Expense Example, with Redemption, 10 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear10 $ 6,884
Annual Return 2019 rr_AnnualReturn2019 0.10%
Annual Return 2020 rr_AnnualReturn2020 10.83%
Annual Return 2021 rr_AnnualReturn2021 3.48%
Highest Quarterly Return, Label rr_HighestQuarterlyReturnLabel Best Quarter
Highest Quarterly Return, Date rr_BarChartHighestQuarterlyReturnDate Jun. 30, 2020
Highest Quarterly Return rr_BarChartHighestQuarterlyReturn 11.26%
Lowest Quarterly Return, Label rr_LowestQuarterlyReturnLabel Worst Quarter
Lowest Quarterly Return, Date rr_BarChartLowestQuarterlyReturnDate Sep. 30, 2021
Lowest Quarterly Return rr_BarChartLowestQuarterlyReturn (2.03%)
1 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01 3.48%
Since Inception rr_AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception 4.70%
Inception Date rr_AverageAnnualReturnInceptionDate Dec. 31, 2018
FS Managed Futures Fund | Class I | After Taxes on Distributions  
Prospectus [Line Items] rr_ProspectusLineItems  
1 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01 2.05%
Since Inception rr_AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception 3.32%
Inception Date rr_AverageAnnualReturnInceptionDate Dec. 31, 2018
FS Managed Futures Fund | Class I | After Taxes on Distributions and Sales  
Prospectus [Line Items] rr_ProspectusLineItems  
1 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01 2.05%
Since Inception rr_AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception 3.13%
Inception Date rr_AverageAnnualReturnInceptionDate Dec. 31, 2018
[1] The BofA Merrill Lynch 3-Month U.S. Treasury Bill Index is comprised of a single issue purchased at the beginning of the month and held for a month. At the end of the month, that issue is sold and rolled into a newly selected issue.
[2] The HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index is designed to be representative of the overall composition of the hedge fund universe. It is comprised of all eligible hedge fund strategies.
[3] Other Expenses Not Including Dividend or Interest Expense have been restated to reflect expenses expected to be incurred for the current fiscal year.
[4] The costs of investing in swaps are estimated to be between approximately 0.20% to 0.50% of the Fund’s average daily net assets. Such costs are indirect expenses of the Fund that are variable in nature and are not included in the fee table or expense example.
[5] FS Fund Advisor, LLC (the “Adviser” or “FS”) has entered into a contractual agreement (the “Expense Limitation Agreement”) pursuant to which it has agreed to waive fees and reimburse expenses to the extent necessary to keep Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses (excluding management fees, distribution or servicing fees, interest, taxes, brokerage fees and commissions and other costs and expenses relating to the securities that are purchased and sold by the Fund, dividends and interest paid on short positions, acquired fund fees and expenses, fees and expenses incurred in connection with tax reclaim recovery services, other expenditures which are capitalized in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and extraordinary expenses (as determined in the sole discretion of the Adviser) (collectively, “excluded expenses”)) from exceeding 0.25% of the average daily net assets of each of the Fund’s share classes until April 11, 2024 (the “expense cap”).

In addition, the Adviser may receive from the Fund all or a portion of its prior fee reductions or expense reimbursements made under the Expense Limitation Agreement or the expense limitation agreement between the Adviser and the Fund’s predecessor fund, the FS Multi-Strategy Alternatives Fund (the “Predecessor Multi-Strategy Fund” and such agreement, the “Predecessor Fund Expense Limitation Agreement”), a series of FS Series Trust, during the rolling three-year period preceding the date of the recoupment to the extent that the Fund’s total annual operating expenses (not including excluded expenses) at the time of the recoupment are below the lower of (i) the expense cap in effect at the time of the fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement and (ii) the expense cap in effect at the time of the recoupment. The Expense Limitation Agreement will terminate automatically upon the termination of the Fund’s investment advisory agreement and may be terminated: (i) by the Board of Trustees (the “Board”) of The Advisors’ Inner Circle Fund III (the “Trust”), for any reason at any time; or (ii) by the Adviser, upon ninety (90) days’ prior written notice to the Trust, effective as of the close of business on April 11, 2024.
[6] Effective September 1, 2021, the Fund changed its benchmark to a blended benchmark (the “Blended Benchmark”) comprised of 35% MSCI ACWI Net Return Index, 32.5% Bloomberg Commodity Total Return Index and 32.5% Bloomberg US Treasury Inflation-Linked Bond Index. The Adviser believes the Blended Benchmark is more appropriate in light of the Fund’s current investment strategy.
[7] The MSCI ACWI Net Return Index is designed to represent performance of the full opportunity set of large and mid-cap stocks across 23 developed and 27 emerging markets. The Bloomberg Commodity Total Return Index reflects commodity futures price movements. The Bloomberg US Treasury Inflation-Linked Bond Index measures the performance of the US Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) market.
[8] The BofA Merrill Lynch 3-Month U.S. Treasury Bill Index is comprised of a single issue purchased at the beginning of the month and held for a month. At the end of the month, that issue is sold and rolled into a newly selected issue. The S&P 500 Index is a benchmark of large-cap U.S. equities. The index includes 500 leading companies and captures approximately 80% coverage of available market capitalization.
[9] Management fees have been restated to reflect current fees.
[10] Other Expenses have been restated to reflect expenses expected to be incurred for the current fiscal year.
[11] The costs of investing in swaps are estimated to be between approximately 0.20% to 0.50% of the Fund’s average daily net assets. Such costs are indirect expenses of the Fund that are variable in nature and are not included in the fee table or expense example.
[12] FS Fund Advisor, LLC (the “Adviser” or “FS”) has entered into a contractual agreement (the “Expense Limitation Agreement”) pursuant to which it has agreed to waive fees and reimburse expenses to the extent necessary to keep Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses (excluding management fees, distribution or servicing fees, interest, taxes, brokerage fees and commissions and other costs and expenses relating to the securities that are purchased and sold by the Fund, dividends and interest paid on short positions, acquired fund fees and expenses, fees and expenses incurred in connection with tax reclaim recovery services, other expenditures which are capitalized in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and extraordinary expenses (as determined in the sole discretion of the Adviser) (collectively, “excluded expenses”)) from exceeding 0.25% of the average daily net assets of each of the Fund’s share classes until April 11, 2024 (the “expense cap”).

In addition, the Adviser may receive from the Fund all or a portion of its prior fee reductions or expense reimbursements made under the Expense Limitation Agreement or the expense limitation agreement between the Adviser and the Fund’s predecessor fund, the FS Chiron Real Asset Fund (the “Predecessor Real Asset Fund” and such agreement, the “Predecessor Fund Expense Limitation Agreement”), a series of FS Series Trust, during the rolling three-year period preceding the date of the recoupment to the extent that the Fund’s total annual operating expenses (not including excluded expenses) at the time of the recoupment are below the lower of (i) the expense cap in effect at the time of the fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement and (ii) the expense cap in effect at the time of the recoupment. The Expense Limitation Agreement will terminate automatically upon the termination of the Fund’s investment advisory agreement and may be terminated: (i) by the Board of Trustees (the “Board”) of The Advisors’ Inner Circle Fund III (the “Trust”), for any reason at any time; or (ii) by the Adviser, upon ninety (90) days’ prior written notice to the Trust, effective as of the close of business on April 11, 2024.
[13] The BofA Merrill Lynch 3-Month U.S. Treasury Bill Index is comprised of a single issue purchased at the beginning of the month and held for a month. At the end of the month, that issue is sold and rolled into a newly selected issue.
[14] Other Expenses have been restated to reflect expenses expected to be incurred for the current fiscal year.
[15] The costs of investing in swaps are estimated to be between approximately 0.20% to 0.50% of the Fund’s average daily net assets. Such costs are indirect expenses of the Fund that are variable in nature and are not included in the fee table or expense example.
[16] FS Fund Advisor, LLC (the “Adviser” or “FS”) has entered into a contractual agreement (the “Expense Limitation Agreement”) pursuant to which it has agreed to waive fees and reimburse expenses to the extent necessary to keep Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses (excluding management fees, distribution or servicing fees, interest, taxes, brokerage fees and commissions and other costs and expenses relating to the securities that are purchased and sold by the Fund, dividends and interest paid on short positions, acquired fund fees and expenses, fees and expenses incurred in connection with tax reclaim recovery services, other expenditures which are capitalized in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and extraordinary expenses (as determined in the sole discretion of the Adviser) (collectively, “excluded expenses”)) from exceeding 0.25% of the average daily net assets of each of the Fund’s share classes until April 11, 2024 (the “expense cap”).

In addition, the Adviser may receive from the Fund all or a portion of its prior fee reductions or expense reimbursements made under the Expense Limitation Agreement or the expense limitation agreement between the Adviser and the Fund’s predecessor fund, the FS Managed Futures Fund (the “Predecessor Managed Futures Fund” and such agreement, the “Predecessor Fund Expense Limitation Agreement”), a series of FS Series Trust, during the rolling three-year period preceding the date of the recoupment to the extent that the Fund’s total annual operating expenses (not including excluded expenses) at the time of the recoupment are below the lower of (i) the expense cap in effect at the time of the fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement and (ii) the expense cap in effect at the time of the recoupment. The Expense Limitation Agreement will terminate automatically upon the termination of the Fund’s investment advisory agreement and may be terminated: (i) by the Board of Trustees (the “Board”) of The Advisors’ Inner Circle Fund III (the “Trust”), for any reason at any time; or (ii) by the Adviser, upon ninety (90) days’ prior written notice to the Trust, effective as of the close of business on April 11, 2024.