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North Square Select Small Cap Fund

The Fund pursues its investment objectives by primarily investing in preferred securities and other income producing securities, including convertible securities, debt securities, mortgage-backed securities (residential and commercial), asset-backed securities, common stocks, derivatives, real estate investment trusts (“REITs”) and securities of other investment companies such as closed-end funds (exchange-traded only) and exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”).

Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests primarily in preferred securities and debt securities. Red Cedar Investment Management, LLC (“Red Cedar” or a “Sub-Adviser”), the Fund’s sub-adviser, retains broad discretion to allocate the Fund’s investments across various asset classes. Preferred securities in which the Fund may invest include traditional and convertible preferred securities, and hybrid preferred securities. From time to time, the Fund may invest a significant portion of its assets in one or more market sectors, such as the financials sector.

The Fund may invest in debt securities of any maturity. Debt securities in which the Fund may invest include U.S. Treasury and U.S. government agency securities, investment grade corporate debt instruments, investment grade municipal bonds, mortgage-backed (including collateralized mortgage backed-securities) and asset-backed securities and below investment grade securities. Investment grade securities are those rated at the time of acquisition Baa3 or higher by Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. (“Moody’s”), or BBB- or higher by Standard & Poor’s, a division of McGraw Hill Companies Inc. (“S&P”), or Fitch Ratings Ltd. (“Fitch”) or, if unrated by S&P, Moody’s or Fitch, determined by Red Cedar to be of comparable quality. Below investment grade securities are also known as “high yield” or “junk” securities.

The Fund may utilize derivatives, including futures, forward contracts, options, swaps, and other various derivative products. The Fund’s use of derivative instruments may be for enhancing returns, hedging against market risks, or providing synthetic exposure to specific industries or securities. The Fund intends to use futures and swaps to hedge against general market risk, while it intends to use interest rate swaps and credit default swaps to hedge against interest rate risk and credit risk, respectively. The Fund will use options to hedge against market risk and to enhance returns and gain synthetic exposure to a security without holding the underlying asset.

The Fund may invest its assets in securities of non-U.S. issuers, including those in emerging market countries. The Fund’s investments in foreign securities may include non-U.S. Dollar denominated securities traded outside of the United States, U.S. Dollar denominated securities of foreign issuers traded in the United States and American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”). ADRs are receipts that represent interests in foreign securities held on deposit by U.S. banks. The Fund may invest up to 20% of its net assets in securities of non-U.S. Dollar denominated securities.

Red Cedar seeks to identify securities which it believes offer significantly higher yields than U.S. Treasury securities of comparable maturity, while striving to maintain stability of principal and preserving good overall credit quality through extensive credit analysis and broad diversification across security types. Red Cedar selects preferred securities based upon a review of yield characteristics, call provisions, credit quality and ratings, and ability to continue paying dividends, among other features. In evaluating and selecting debt securities, Red Cedar balances various factors, including the potential for increased yield as compared to U.S. Treasuries, as well as the maturity, call provisions and credit quality of the debt security. Convertible preferred securities and debt securities are additionally evaluated on various features including conversion rights, conversion ratio, likelihood of conversion, and value of the underlying security into which the convertible security may convert, among others. Red Cedar selects common stocks based on the company’s business and financial strength and dividend history and policy, as well as its ability to potentially grow dividend distributions. The Fund will generally sell a security if its full valuation is realized, if better opportunities are identified, if news alters the Fund’s investment thesis, if the security’s credit quality deteriorates, or if the Fund requires cash to meet redemption requests.

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Under normal circumstances, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in equity securities of small-capitalization companies. The Fund considers small-capitalization companies to be companies with market capitalizations generally within the ranges of the Russell 2000 Value Total Return Index at the time of purchase. As of October 31, 2024, the market capitalization range of the Russell 2000 Value Total Return Index was between $9.17 million and $13.71 billion. The Fund’s investments in equity securities primarily include common stock, preferred securities, and convertible securities. While the Fund invests primarily in equity securities of U.S. issuers, it may invest in securities of foreign issuers, including those in emerging markets. In keeping with the Fund’s investment objective, investments in such foreign issuers is not expected to exceed 20% of the Fund’s net assets. The Fund follows an investing style that favors value investments.

Advisory Research, Inc.’s (“ARI” or “Sub-Adviser”), the Fund’s sub-adviser, uses a bottom-up investment approach that seeks to identify companies with attractive valuations relative to their estimated full value. The Sub-Adviser employs a four-step investment process. First, the Sub-Adviser uses a quantitative screen to identify a group of what the Sub-Adviser considers to be value-oriented securities. Second, the Sub-Adviser conducts a thorough fundamental analysis of each company, focusing on key balance sheet information to determine the estimated value of the company. In the third step, the Sub-Adviser analyzes the companies’ senior management and their business plans with the goal of identifying competent senior management teams that are committed to unlocking value. Finally, the portfolio management team determines whether to buy, wait or pass on those companies that have passed the first three steps. The Sub-Adviser also considers other factors including political risk, monetary policy risk, and regulatory risk when selecting foreign (non-U.S.) securities, which may include securities of issuers located in emerging market countries.

The Fund also may invest in American, European, and Global Depositary Receipts (“ADRs,” “EDRs,” and “GDRs,” respectively). ADRs are receipts that represent interests in foreign securities held on deposit by U.S. banks. EDRs and GDRs have the same qualities as ADRs, except that they may be traded in several international trading markets.

North Square Altrinsic International Equity Fund

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In seeking to achieve the Fund’s investment objective, the Adviser has selected Altrinsic Global Advisors, LLC (“Altrinsic” or “Sub-Adviser”) to serve as the Fund’s investment sub-adviser and allocates the Fund’s assets to the Sub-Adviser. The Adviser retains the ability to manage all or a portion of the Fund’s assets directly.

The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing, under normal market conditions, at least 80% of the Fund’s net assets (plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes) in non-US equity securities (including common stock, preferred stock, and depositary receipts) of companies from at least three countries other than the United States. These countries may include emerging market countries, as defined by the World Bank, International Financial Corporation or the MSCI, Inc. emerging market indices or other comparable indices. The Fund considers a non-US equity security to be one if the issuing company of the security (i) derives at least 50% of its revenue or profits from business outside the US or has at least 50% of its sales or assets outside the US; (ii) trades on non-US exchanges or has securities that trade in the form of depositary receipts; or (iii) has been formed under the laws of non-US countries, including those of emerging markets.

The Fund’s Sub-Adviser employs a disciplined bottom-up approach to investment management based on an iterative four step investment process which includes (i) investment idea generation, (ii) fundamental company and industry analysis, (iii) portfolio management and (iv) risk management and control.

The Fund’s investment ideas are derived from two primary sources. The first source is a quantitative screening process to identify undervalued companies with either improving or stable return profiles. The second source is supported by step (ii) of the Fund’s investment process in which the Sub-Adviser performs an in-depth fundamental analysis of a prospective company’s attributes, including growth rate and profit potential. Once a company is identified as a potentially attractive candidate, step (ii) is finalized and risk factors, both internal and external, are identified for the company. An intrinsic valuation of the company is then determined. Ideas are then presented to the portfolio team for approval and possible investment by the Fund.

In step (iii), the Sub-Adviser constructs a portfolio from the approved companies that it believes to be the most attractive on the basis of risk adjusted returns.

Risk management, step (iv), is applied throughout the investment process by (a) primarily focusing on liquid securities, (b) fundamental security level return, accounting and risk analysis with an emphasis on cashflow and balance sheet as well as earnings quality analysis and (c) portfolio risk analytics which include third party risk tools as well as the Fund’s geography and industry cross sectional risk matrix.

North Square McKee Bond Fund

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