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Praxis Small Cap Index Fund
Praxis Small Cap Index Fund
Investment Objective

The Small Cap Index Fund seeks to maximize long-term capital appreciation.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund. In addition to the fees and expenses described below, you may be required to pay a fee to a broker or other financial firm on purchases and sales of Class I shares of the Fund. 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 the Praxis Mutual Funds. More information about these and other discounts is available from your financial professional and in the section titled "Sales Charge Reductions" on page 57 of the Fund's prospectus.

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)
Shareholder Fees - Praxis Small Cap Index Fund
Class A
Class I
Maximum sales charge (load) imposed on purchases (as a percentage of offering price) 5.25% none
Redemption fee (as a percentage of amount redeemed, if applicable) 2.00% 2.00%
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Annual Fund Operating Expenses - Praxis Small Cap Index Fund
Class A
Class I
Management Fees 0.30% 0.30%
Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees 0.25% none
Other Expenses [1] 0.87% 0.15%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 1.42% 0.45%
Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement (0.30%) none
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement [2] 1.12% 0.45%
[1] Includes indirect expenses of securities of other mutual funds held by the Fund, if any.
[2] Everence Capital Management, Inc. (the "Adviser") has entered into a contractual expense limitation agreement with respect to the Small Cap Index Fund Class A until April 30, 2021. Pursuant to this agreement, the Adviser has agreed to waive fees and/or reimburse expenses to the extent necessary in order to limit the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses (excluding acquired fund fees and expenses ("AFFE"), brokerage costs, interest, taxes, dividends, Trustees fees and expenses, legal fees and expenses, and extraordinary expenses) of the Fund to 1.10 percent of the Fund's average daily net assets. The Fund has agreed to repay the Adviser for the amounts waived and/or reimbursed by the Adviser pursuant to this expense limitation agreement provided that such repayment does not cause the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses (excluding AFFE, brokerage costs, interest, taxes, dividends, Trustees fees and expenses, legal fees and expenses, and extraordinary expenses) to exceed 1.10 percent or any limit in place at the time of recoupment, whichever is lower, and the repayment is made within three years after the time in which the Adviser waived and/or reimbursed the expense.
Example

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 period indicated and then redeem all of your shares at the end of those periods. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5 percent return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses remain the same. This example reflects the net operating expenses with fee waiver for the one-year contractual period and the total operating expenses without fee waiver for the remaining periods shown below. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

Expense Example - Praxis Small Cap Index Fund - USD ($)
One Year
Three Years
Five Years
Ten Years
Class A 633 923 1,234 2,113
Class I 46 144 252 567
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 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 21.59 percent of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

The Fund invests primarily in U.S. equity securities and seeks to reflect the performance of the U.S. small capitalization equities market, as measured by the S&P SmallCap 6001 Index, its benchmark index. Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80 percent of the value of its assets in securities of, and investments related to, issuers in the Fund's benchmark index. Typically, the Fund invests substantially more than 80 percent of the value of its assets in securities of issuers in its benchmark index. The Fund seeks to invest in companies aligned with the Stewardship Investing core values, as discussed below. In addition, the Adviser uses optimization techniques, including ESG factors, to select securities according to their contribution to the Fund's overall objective, while seeking to replicate the characteristics of the index, including risk and return characteristics. The Adviser determines whether to sell an investment based upon its assessment of the relative costs and benefits of continuing to hold an investment versus replacing it with other available investments, in light of the Fund's investment objective, strategy and the characteristics of the overall portfolio.

 

Stewardship Investing

 

The Fund also analyzes potential investments for their ability to reflect certain core social values including:

 

● Respecting the dignity and value of all people

 

● Building a world at peace and free from violence

 

● Demonstrating a concern for justice in a global society

 

● Exhibiting responsible management practices

 

● Supporting and involving communities

 

● Practicing environmental stewardship

 

1 "S&P Small Cap 600" is a registered service mark of Standard & Poor's Corporation, which does not sponsor and is in no way affiliated with the Fund

 

Principal Investment Risks

Market Risk. The Fund is subject to market risk, which means the value of the Fund's shares will fluctuate based on market conditions and shareholders could lose money. The value of the Fund's shares could decline significantly and unexpectedly, based on many factors, including national and international political, economic, regulatory, market or other conditions, as well as global events such as war or other conflict, natural or environmental disasters and infectious disease outbreaks. Events in the financial markets and in the broader economy may cause uncertainty and volatility, and may adversely affect Fund performance. Events in one market may impact other markets. Future events may impact the Fund in unforeseen ways. Traditionally liquid investments may experience periods of diminished liquidity. The Fund could underperform other investments, and some of the Fund's holdings may underperform its other holdings.

 

Small Capitalization Company Risk. The Fund is also subject to small capitalization company risk. Investments in small capitalization companies may be riskier, more volatile and less liquid than investments in larger, more established companies. Small capitalization companies may not have the size, resources or other assets of large capitalization companies, and may be more vulnerable to economic, market and competitive pressures than larger companies.

 

Index Investing Risk. Because the Fund is designed to track the performance of an index, securities may be purchased, retained or sold at times when a more actively managed fund would not do so. If the value of securities that are heavily weighted in the index change, you can expect a greater risk of loss than if the Fund had a lower weighting to those securities. In addition, because the Fund uses optimization techniques to construct its portfolio and does not hold all securities in the index, it is subject to optimization risk, which is the risk that the performance of the Fund may vary from the performance of the index due to imperfect correlation between the Fund's holdings and the index components. This is also known as tracking error.

 

Screening Risk. Application of Stewardship Investing screens and ESG data integration may contribute to tracking error.

 

FUND PERFORMANCE

The bar chart and table that follow provide some indication of the risk of an investment in the Fund. The returns (i) include the Fund's performance when the Fund's portfolio was managed by a sub-adviser and pursued a different investment strategy prior to January 1, 2017; (ii) assume reinvestment of all dividends and distributions; and (iii) would be lower if the Fund's Class A shares operating expenses had not been limited. The bar chart shows how the performance of the Class A shares has varied from year to year for the last 10 years. The returns in the bar chart do not reflect any applicable sales charges. If sales charges were reflected in the bar chart, returns would have been lower. The table shows how the Fund's average annual total returns for different periods compared to those of a broad-based securities market index.

 

Please note that the Fund's past performance, before and after taxes, is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future. Updated performance information is available at www.praxismutualfunds.com

 

After-tax returns, which are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes, are shown only for Class A shares and will vary for Class I shares. Actual after-tax returns, which depend on an investor's particular tax situation, may differ from those shown and are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.

Class A — Annual Total Return Chart For the Periods Ended December 31, 2019
Bar Chart
Best Quarter Quarter Ended December 31, 2010 17.75%  
Worst Quarter Quarter Ended December 31, 2018 (20.05)%  
Average Annual Total Returns For the Periods Ended December 31, 2019 (with maximum sales charge)
Average Annual Total Returns - Praxis Small Cap Index Fund
1 Year
5 Years
10 Years
Class A 15.03% 3.75% 8.97%
Class A | After Taxes on Distributions 14.47% 1.17% 6.99%
Class A | After Taxes on Distributions and Sales 9.26% 2.38% 6.98%
Class I 22.12% 5.54% 10.23%
S&P® SmallCap 600 Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes) 22.78% 9.56% 13.35%

You cannot invest directly in an index. Unlike mutual funds, an index does not incur expenses. If expenses were deducted, the actual returns of an index would be lower.