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SHELTON TACTICAL CREDIT FUND

SHELTON TACTICAL CREDIT FUND Ticker Symbols: DEBIX and DEBTX

Investment Objective

The Fund investment objective is to seek current income and capital appreciation.

Fees and Expenses of the Fund

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay when you buy and hold shares of the Fund. The table and example do not reflect any transaction fees that may be charged by financial intermediaries or commissions that a shareholder may be required to pay directly to its financial intermediary when buying or selling shares.

Shareholder Fees (fee paid directly from your investment)

Shareholder Fees - SHELTON TACTICAL CREDIT FUND
Institutional Class
Investor Class
Sales and redemption charges none none

Annual Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

Annual Fund Operating Expenses - SHELTON TACTICAL CREDIT FUND
Institutional Class
Investor Class
Management fees 1.17% 1.17%
Distribution (12b-1) fees none 0.25%
Other expenses 0.50% 0.50%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expense 1.67% 1.92%
Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement [1] (0.25%) (0.25%)
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and/ or Expense Reimbursement 1.42% 1.67%
[1] The Fund's Advisor, Shelton Capital Management, has contractually agreed to reimburse expenses incurred by the Fund to the extent that total annual fund operating expenses (excluding acquired fund fees and expenses, and extraordinary expenses such as litigation or merger and reorganization expenses, for example) exceed 1.42% and 1.67% until May 1, 2019. This agreement may only be terminated with the approval of the Board of Trustees of the Fund. Shelton may be reimbursed for any foregone advisory fees or unreimbursed expenses within three fiscal years following a particular reduction or expense, but only to the extent the reimbursement does not cause the Fund to exceed applicable expense limits, and the effect of the reimbursement is measured after all ordinary operating expenses are calculated. Any such reimbursement is subject to the review and approval of the Fund's Board of Trustees.

Example of Expenses

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. This example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

Expense Example - SHELTON TACTICAL CREDIT FUND - USD ($)
One Year
Three Years
Five Years
Ten Years
Institutional Class 145 502 884 1,955
Investor Class 170 579 1,014 2,223

Portfolio Turnover

The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the Example of Expenses, affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 239% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

The Advisor uses an unconstrained, opportunistic, tactical approach to credit investing, which focuses on corporate fixed income- sensitive securities that generally includes securities like bonds, junk bonds (commonly referred to as high yield), convertible bonds and bank debt. "Tactical" means that the Advisor will make purchases and sales based on its expectations of short-term market opportunities. This can be contrasted with a "buy and hold" strategy where funds tend to have lower turnover and hold positions for longer periods of time. This actively-managed strategy seeks to take advantage of short-term investment opportunities and reduce the correlation to the overall market by trading in and out of positions. The Advisor combines a macro-economic view with company-specific analysis (including a consideration of liquidity) in the construction of the portfolio positions. Macro-economic views are built by evaluating trends in global economies, central bank activities, fund flows and assessing market risk levels. From this analysis, the Advisor then formulates appropriate purchasing and hedging strategies. Hedging is an integral part of portfolio construction and the Advisor uses various investment tools to seek to reduce overall market risk and correlation. Risk limits and portfolio stress tests are performed regularly to evaluate the Fund's exposure to various risks. The Advisor seeks to preserve capital in challenging markets and will quickly reposition the portfolio if it is necessary in its judgement. The Advisor seeks to add value by using a tactical credit strategy and at times of elevated risk, the Fund may invest 100% of the portfolio in cash or cash equivalents in an effort to protect the portfolio against these perceived risks.

 

The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing primarily, under normal market conditions, in corporate fixed income and/or equity securities that it believes are undervalued. It employs relative value, event-driven, and hedging investment styles in allocating Fund assets across asset classes and capital structures including both long and/or short positions in seeking to achieve its investment objective and reduce risk.

 

Relative value strategies are designed to profit by the change in values between two securities instead of the movements of the overall market. They typically include long and short positions that seek to exploit disparities in pricing relationships between two instruments, thereby seeking profit from the correction in the "relative value" of the prices of the two securities. Acting on the assumption that prices will revert to true value, as defined by the Advisor using a valuation measure such as dividend yield or price to earnings ratio, over time, the Advisor will sell short the overpriced security and buy the underpriced security. If prices revert to this true value, the trade can be liquidated at a profit.

 

Event-driven strategies seek to profit from pricing differences or inefficiencies among securities that may occur before or after a unique event, such as bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, spinoff or special dividend. Credit analysis-based strategies seek to profit from pricing differences or inefficiencies among debt securities of issuers that are in some sort of financial distress. Convertible arbitrage debt strategies seek returns from price improvement or recovery proceeds on debt securities of troubled issuers by anticipating improved fundamentals; acquisition by a stronger issuer; or liquidation proceeds in a re-organization, bankruptcy or foreclosure. Each type of strategy typically employs risk-reducing hedging techniques using short selling, futures contracts, options or credit-default swaps and total return swaps.

 

The Fund may also invest in long and short positions of exchange traded securities. By taking long and short positions in different securities, the Fund attempts to limit the effect of market movements on portfolio performance. The Fund will generally take long positions in securities that the Advisor believes to be undervalued and short positions in securities that they believe to be overvalued, based on the Advisor's analysis of the issuer's financial reports and market valuation.

 

The Fund intends to engage in short selling regularly in conjunction with convertible arbitrage positions, capital structure "event driven" positions, and overall portfolio hedges, as deemed appropriate. The Fund's short positions may equal up to 75% of the Fund's net asset value.

 

The Fund defines fixed income securities as bills, notes, debentures, bonds, loans or loan participations, levered loans or asset-backed securities. The Fund defines equity securities as common stock, preferred stock, or debt that is convertible into common stock. The Fund invests without restriction as to issuer capitalization, country, or credit quality and without restriction as to the maturity of fixed income securities. The Fund plans to invest in high-yield (below investment grade) fixed income securities. High yield or "below-investment grade" securities are securities that are un-rated or rated BB+ or below by S&P or Ba1 or below by Moody's. These securities involve more risk, and will generally be more volatile than securities rated BBB- or Baa3 or above.

Principal Risks of Investing

You could lose money by investing in the Fund, and the Fund could underperform other investments. You should expect the Fund's share price and total return to fluctuate within a wide range. The Fund's performance could be hurt by:

 

Convertible Securities Risk: The value of the Fund's convertible securities may decline in response to such factors as rising interest rates and fluctuations in the market price of the common stock underlying the convertible securities.

 

Credit (or Default) Risk: The risk that the inability or unwillingness of an issuer or guarantor of a fixed income security, or a counterparty to a repurchase or other transaction, to meet its payment or other financial obligations will adversely affect the value of the Fund's investments and its returns. Changes in the credit rating of a debt security held by the Fund could have a similar effect.

 

Debt Extension Risk: This refers to the risk to the Fund that when interest rates rise, certain obligations will be paid off by the obligor more slowly than anticipated, causing the value of these securities to fall.

 

Defaulted Securities Risk: Repayment of defaulted securities and obligations of distressed issuers (including insolvent issuers or issuers in payment or covenant default, in workout or restructuring or in bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings) is subject to significant uncertainties. Investments in defaulted securities and obligations of distressed issuers are considered speculative as are junk bonds in general (See High-Yield Securities risk" below).

 

Derivatives Risk: Investing with derivatives, such as options, and equity index futures, or other futures contracts involves risks additional to and possibly greater than those associated with investing directly in securities. The value of a derivative may not correlate to the value of the underlying instrument to the extent expected. Derivative transactions may be volatile, and can create leverage, which could cause the Fund to lose more than the amount of assets initially contributed to the transaction, if any. The Fund may not be able to close a derivatives position at an advantageous time or price. For over-the-counter derivatives transactions, the counterparty may be unable or unwilling to make required payments and deliveries, especially during times of financial market distress. Changes in regulation relating to a mutual fund's use of derivatives and related instruments may make derivatives more costly, limit the availability of derivatives, or otherwise adversely affect the value or performance of derivatives and the Fund.

 

Distressed Securities Risk: Distressed securities are speculative and involve substantial risks in addition to the risks of investing in junk bonds. The Fund will generally not receive interest payments on the distressed securities and may incur costs to protect its investment. In addition, distressed securities involve the substantial risk that principal will not be repaid. These securities may present a substantial risk of default or may be in default at the time of investment. The Fund may incur additional expenses to the extent it is required to seek recovery upon a default in the payment of principal of or interest on its portfolio holdings. In any reorganization or liquidation proceeding relating to an investment company, the Fund may lose its entire investment or may be required to accept cash or securities with a value less than its original investment.

 

Economic and Political Risks. Many factors will affect the performance of the stock market. Two major factors are economic and political events. The impact of positive or negative events could be short-term (by causing a change in the market that is corrected in a year or less) or long-term (by causing a change in the market that may last for many years). Events may affect one sector of the economy or a single stock, but may not have a significant impact on the overall market.

 

Equity Securities Risk: Stock markets are volatile. The price of equity securities held by the Fund may fluctuate based on changes in the issuing company's financial condition, as well as overall market and economic conditions.

 

Event-Driven Trading Risk: The Fund invests in certain securities which it believes may benefit from certain outcomes including special situations. This is known as "Event-Driven Trading." Event-Driven Trading involves the risk that the special situation may not occur as anticipated, in which case the Fund may realize losses.

 

Fixed Income Risk: The risk that the value of the Fund's investments in fixed income securities will fluctuate with changes in interest rates. Typically, a rise in interest rates causes a decline in the value of fixed income securities.

 

High-Yield ("Junk Bond") Securities Risk: Compared to higher quality debt securities, high-yield bonds (commonly referred to as ''junk'' bonds) involve a greater risk of default or price changes due to changes in the credit quality of the issuer because they are generally unsecured and may be subordinated to other creditors' claims. The values of junk bonds often fluctuate more in response to company, political, regulatory or economic developments than higher quality bonds. Their values can decline significantly over short periods of time or during periods of economic difficulty when the bonds could be difficult to value or sell at a fair price. Credit ratings on junk bonds do not necessarily reflect their actual market value.

 

Interest Rate/Maturity Risk: The risk that the value of the Fund's assets will decline because of rising interest rates. The magnitude of this decline will often be greater for longer term fixed income securities than shorter-term securities.

 

Issuer-Specific Risk: The value of a specific security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole. The value of securities of smaller issuers can be more volatile than those of larger issuers. The value of certain types of securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, or economic developments.

 

Liquidity Risk: Liquidity risk exists when particular investments of the Fund would be difficult to purchase or sell, possibly preventing the Fund from selling such illiquid securities at an advantageous time or price, or possibly requiring the Fund to dispose of other investments at unfavorable times or prices in order to satisfy its obligations. The Fund will not invest more than 15% in illiquid securities.

 

Manager Risk. Shelton Capital Management's opinion about the intrinsic worth or creditworthiness of a company or security may be incorrect or the market may continue to undervalue the company or security. Shelton Capital Management may not make timely purchases or sales of securities for the Fund.

 

Market Risk: The risk that the market value of a security may fluctuate, sometimes rapidly and unpredictably. The prices of securities change in response to many factors including the historical and prospective earnings of the issuer, the value of its assets, general economic conditions, interest rates, investor perceptions and market liquidity.

 

Portfolio Turnover Risk: The risk that high portfolio turnover is likely to lead to increased Fund expenses that may result in lower investment returns. High portfolio turnover also is likely to result in higher short-term capital gains taxable to shareholders.

 

Short Sale Risk: Short selling a security involves selling a borrowed security with the expectation that the value of that security will decline so that the security may be purchased at a lower price when returning the borrowed security. The risk of loss on short selling is greater than the original value of the securities sold short because the price of the borrowed security may rise, thereby increasing the price at which the security must be purchased. The Fund's potential loss is limited only by the maximum attainable price of the security, less the price at which the security was sold and may, theoretically, be unlimited. Government actions also may affect the Fund's ability to engage in short selling. In addition, the Fund may be subject to expenses related to short sales that are not typically associated with investing in securities directly, such as costs of borrowing and margin account maintenance costs associated with the Fund's open short positions.

Bar Chart and Performance Table

The following bar chart and table are intended to help you understand the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows calendar year returns and the average annual total return table indicates risk by illustrating how much returns can differ from one year to the next and how fund performance compares with that of a comparable market index. These figures assume that all distributions are reinvested. The Fund's performance will fluctuate, and past performance (before and after taxes) is no guarantee of future results. Updated performance information may be obtained on our website www.sheltoncap.com or by calling (800) 955-9988.

Bar Chart

Best Quarter: 4.41% (Q3, 2016)

Worst Quarter: -1.50% (Q3, 2015)

Year to date performance as of 12/31/17: 3.34%

Date of inception: 12/15/2014

 

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 the investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and the 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.

Average Annual Return (for the period ended 12/31/17)

Average Annual Total Returns - SHELTON TACTICAL CREDIT FUND
1 Year
Since Inception
Institutional Class 3.34% 6.46%
Institutional Class | After Taxes on Distributions 0.83% 4.07%
Institutional Class | After Taxes on Distributions and Sales 1.87% 3.87%
Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index 1.20% 1.64%

It is not possible for individuals to invest directly in an index. Performance figures for an index do not reflect deductions for sales charges, commissions, expenses or taxes.