Hennessy Cornerstone Growth Fund

Hennessy Cornerstone Growth Fund

Investment Objective

The Hennessy Cornerstone Growth Fund seeks long-term growth of capital.

Fund Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

SHAREHOLDER FEES (fees paid directly from your investment)

Shareholder Fees - Hennessy Cornerstone Growth Fund - USD ($)	Investor Class	Institutional Class
SHAREHOLDER FEES (fees paid directly from your investment)	none	none

ANNUAL FUND OPERATING EXPENSES (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

Annual Fund Operating Expenses - Hennessy Cornerstone Growth Fund	Investor Class	Institutional Class
Management Fees	0.74%	0.74%
Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees	0.15%	none
Other Expenses	0.41%	0.22%
Shareholder Servicing	0.10%	none
Remaining Other Expenses	0.31%	0.22%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses	1.30%	0.96%

EXAMPLE

This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in shares of this 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 you reinvest all dividends and distributions, 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 those assumptions, your costs would be:

Expense Example - Hennessy Cornerstone Growth Fund - USD ($)	One Year	Three Years	Five Years	Ten Years
Investor Class	132	412	713	1,568
Institutional Class	98	306	531	1,178

Portfolio Turnover

The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities, or “turns over” its portfolio.  A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account.  These costs, which are not reflected in Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the Example, affect the Fund’s performance.  During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 133% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategy

The Fund may invest in any company whose securities are listed on a U.S. national securities exchange and in any foreign company through American Depositary Receipts or other types of depositary receipts, which are U.S. dollar-denominated securities of foreign issuers listed on U.S. national securities exchanges.  The Fund invests in growth-oriented common stocks by utilizing a quantitative formula known as the Cornerstone Growth Strategy® (the “Growth Strategy”). Generally, a majority of the companies selected by the Growth Strategy are small-cap companies (companies with market capitalizations under $1 billion), but the Growth Strategy may also select medium-cap companies (companies with market capitalizations of $1 billion to $8 billion) and large-cap companies (companies with market capitalizations in excess of $8 billion). From the universe of stocks of companies in the S&P Capital IQ Database with market capitalizations exceeding $175 million, the Growth Strategy identifies the 50 common stocks with the highest one-year price appreciation as of the date of purchase that also meet the following criteria:

1) Price-to-sales ratio below 1.5

The Growth Strategy uses sales as its value criterion because sales figures are more difficult for a company to manipulate than earnings and frequently provide a clearer picture of a company’s potential value.

2)	Annual earnings that are higher than the previous year
	The Growth Strategy considers improved earnings to be a key indicator of a company’s financial strength.
3)	Positive stock price appreciation over the past three-month and six-month periods
	The Growth Strategy considers stock price appreciation because it is often associated with positive fundamentals, such as strong growth or improving profitability.

The Fund purchases these 50 stocks weighted equally by dollar amount, with 2% of the portfolio’s assets invested in each. Using the Growth Strategy, the universe of stocks is re-screened and the portfolio is rebalanced annually, generally in the winter. Stocks meeting the Growth Strategy’s criteria not currently in the portfolio are purchased, and stocks that no longer meet the criteria are sold.

Holdings of all stocks in the Fund that continue to meet the criteria are appropriately increased or decreased to result in an equal 2% weighting.  Also, on a monthly basis, the Fund may elect to re-screen the universe of stocks and replace the lowest-performing stocks in the portfolio with up to five new stocks as dictated by the Growth Strategy.  If it does so, in addition to selling the lowest-performing stocks, the Fund will sell a portion of each of the remaining stocks in its portfolio on a pro rata basis so that it can purchase each of the new stocks to constitute 2% of its assets.

As of January 31, 2019, the average and median market capitalization of the stocks held by the Fund were $11.2 billion and $1.9 billion, respectively.

Principal Risks

As with any security, there are market and investment risks associated with your investment in the Fund. The value of your investment will fluctuate over time, and it is possible to lose money. The principal risks of investing in the Fund include the following:

Market and Equity Investments Risk: The market value of a security may move up or down, and these fluctuations may cause a security to be worth more or less than the price originally paid for it. Market risk may affect a single company, an industry, a sector of the economy, or the market as a whole.  The value of equity securities will fluctuate due to many factors, including the past and predicted earnings of the issuer, the quality of the issuer’s management, general market conditions, forecasts for the issuer’s industry, and the value of the issuer’s assets.

Formula Investing Risk: The Fund will adhere to the Growth Strategy during the course of the year, subject to applicable Securities and Exchange Commission requirements and federal tax requirements relating to mutual funds, regardless of any adverse developments that may arise. This could result in substantial losses to the Fund if, for example, the stocks selected for the Fund in a given year are experiencing financial difficulty or are out of favor with investors.

Small-Sized and Medium-Sized Companies Risk: The Fund invests in small-sized and medium-sized companies, which may have more limited liquidity and greater price volatility than larger, more established companies. Smaller companies may have limited product lines, markets, and financial resources, and their management may be dependent on a limited number of key individuals.

Foreign Securities Risk: The Fund may invest in foreign companies. There are specific risks associated with investing in foreign companies not typically associated with investing in domestic companies. Risks include fluctuations in the exchange rates of foreign currencies, which may affect the U.S. dollar value of a security, and the possibility of substantial price volatility or reduced liquidity as a result of political and economic instability or policy and legislative changes in the foreign country. Further, foreign companies may be subject to significantly higher levels of taxation than U.S. companies, including potentially confiscatory levels of taxation, thereby reducing the earnings potential of such foreign companies. Substantial withholding taxes may apply to distributions from foreign companies.

Growth and Value Investing Risk: Growth and value securities may perform differently from the market as a whole and may be out of favor with investors for periods of time. Growth securities typically are very sensitive to market movements because their market prices tend to reflect future expectations. When it appears those expectations will not be met, the prices of growth securities typically fall. Value securities may remain undervalued, their undervaluation may become more severe, or their perceived undervaluation may actually represent their intrinsic value.

High Portfolio Turnover Risk:  High portfolio turnover will produce higher transaction costs (such as brokerage commissions and dealer markups) that the Fund must pay, thus reducing the Fund’s performance. High portfolio turnover may also result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account.

Performance Information

The following performance information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in its performance from year to year and how the Fund’s average annual returns for one, five, and ten years compare with those of indices that reflect broad measures of market performance, the Russell 2000® Index and the S&P 500^® Index. For additional information on these indices, please see “Descriptions of Indices” on page 69 of this Prospectus. The Fund is the successor to the Hennessy Cornerstone Growth Fund, a series of Hennessy Mutual Funds, Inc. (the “Predecessor Growth Fund”). The performance information provided for the periods on or prior to February 28, 2014, is historical information for the Predecessor Growth Fund, which had the same investment adviser and the same investment objective and investment strategy as the Fund. The Fund’s past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of future performance. Performance may be higher or lower in the future. Updated performance information is available at www.hennessyfunds.com.

HENNESSY CORNERSTONE GROWTH FUND CALENDAR YEAR TOTAL RETURNS OF INVESTOR SHARES

For the period shown in the bar chart, the Fund’s highest quarterly return was 23.23% for the quarter ended March 31, 2012, and the lowest quarterly return was -29.48% for the quarter ended September 30, 2011.

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL RETURNS (for the periods ended December 31, 2018)

Performance of the Fund’s Institutional Class shares differs from that of the Fund’s Investor Class shares because the share classes have different expenses.

Average Annual Returns - Hennessy Cornerstone Growth Fund	Label	Average Annual Returns, 1 Year	Average Annual Returns, 5 Years	Average Annual Returns, 10 Years
Investor Class	Hennessy Cornerstone Growth Fund - Investor Return before taxes	(21.22%)	2.31%	8.09%
Institutional Class	Hennessy Cornerstone Growth Fund - Institutional Return before taxes	(20.91%)	2.60%	8.44%
After Taxes on Distributions | Investor Class	Hennessy Cornerstone Growth Fund - Investor Return after taxes on distributions	(22.89%)	1.86%	7.86%
After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares | Investor Class	Hennessy Cornerstone Growth Fund - Investor Return after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund shares	(11.21%)	1.80%	6.63%
Russell 2000® Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes)	Russell 2000® Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes)	(11.01%)	4.41%	11.97%
S&P 500® Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes)	S&P 500 Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes)	(4.38%)	8.49%	13.12%

The after-tax returns are calculated using the highest historical individual stated federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an individual 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. After-tax returns are shown for Investor Class shares only, and after-tax returns for Institutional Class shares will vary.  The Fund’s “return after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund shares” may be higher than its “returns before taxes” or “returns after taxes on distributions” because it may include a tax benefit due to the capital losses generated by the sale of Fund shares.