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(Loomis Sayles Core Disciplined Alpha Bond Fund)

INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE

The Fund seeks to outperform the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (the "Index") consistently over time while maintaining a risk profile similar to that of the Index.

FUND FEES & EXPENSES

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

The Fund does not impose a sales charge, a redemption fee or an exchange fee.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses

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

Annual Fund Operating Expenses - (Loomis Sayles Core Disciplined Alpha Bond Fund)
Institutional Class
Management fees 0.30%
Distribution and/or service (12b-1) fees none
Other expenses (estimated for current fiscal year end) 0.55%
Total annual fund operating expenses 0.85%
Fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement 0.40% [1]
Total annual fund operating expenses after fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement 0.45%
[1] Loomis, Sayles & Company, L.P. ("Loomis Sayles" or the "Adviser") has given a binding contractual undertaking to the Fund to limit the amount of the Fund's total annual fund operating expenses to 0.45% of the Fund's average daily net assets for Institutional Class shares, exclusive of brokerage expenses, interest expense, taxes, acquired fund fees and expenses, organizational and extraordinary expenses, such as litigation and indemnification expenses. This undertaking is in effect through January 31, 2018 and may be terminated before then only with the consent of the Fund's Board of Trustees. The Adviser will be permitted to recover management fees waived and/or expenses reimbursed to the extent that expenses in later periods fall below the expense limitation for Institutional Class shares. The Fund will not be obligated to repay any such waived/reimbursed fees and expenses more than one year after the end of the fiscal year in which the fees or expenses were waived/reimbursed.

Example

The 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 the Fund's operating expenses remain the same, except that the example is based on Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement for the first 14 months and on Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses for the remaining periods. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

Expense Example - (Loomis Sayles Core Disciplined Alpha Bond Fund)
1 Year
3 Years
Institutional Class | USD ($) 46 224

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 for you if your 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.

INVESTMENTS, RISKS AND PERFORMANCE

Principal Investment Strategies

The Fund intends to pursue its investment goal by utilizing a fundamental research-based investment approach with a focus on relative value investing on a risk-adjusted basis. Under normal circumstances, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings made for investment purposes) in fixed-income securities (for example, bonds and other investments that Loomis Sayles believes have similar economic characteristics, such as notes, debentures and loans). The Fund will invest primarily in investment grade securities. "Investment grade" securities are those securities that are rated in one of the top four ratings categories at the time of purchase by at least one of the three major ratings agencies (Moody's Investors Service, Inc. ("Moody's"), Fitch Investors Services, Inc. ("Fitch") or Standard and Poor's Ratings Group ("S&P")), or, if unrated, are determined by Loomis Sayles to be of comparable quality. The Fund will generally seek to maintain an effective duration of +/- 10% relative to the Index. Duration is a measure of the expected life of a fixed-income security that is used to determine the sensitivity of a security's price to changes in interest rates. A fund with a longer average portfolio duration will be more sensitive to changes in interest rates than a fund with a shorter average portfolio duration. By way of example, the price of a bond fund with an average duration of five years would be expected to fall approximately 5% if interest rates rose by one percentage point. While the effective duration for the Index fluctuates, as of September 30, 2016, the effective duration was approximately 5.46 years. The Fund may invest in U.S. dollar-denominated foreign securities including, but not limited to, Yankee bonds and securities issued by foreign governments, their agencies, instrumentalities and sponsored entities. The Fund may also have net exposures to futures transactions (including interest rate futures and U.S. Treasury futures) of up to 20% of its net assets for hedging and investment purposes.

The portfolio managers lead a team of investment professionals with responsibility for researching, selecting, and trading securities in specific sectors including government, mortgage-backed, credit, commercial mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities. These sector specialists are responsible for working closely with Loomis Sayles' research teams to generate investment ideas and implement them. In deciding which securities to buy and sell, the team may consider factors including, but not limited to, fundamental and quantitative analysis provided by Loomis Sayles' credit research team, current market conditions and trading information and the overall risk profile of the portfolio. Loomis Sayles' credit research team provides deep fundamental and quantitative analysis as well as ratings on individual issuers. The portfolio management team analyzes current market conditions, trading relationships and other fundamental factors and combines this analysis with a dynamic risk framework in an effort to find securities that it believes may produce attractive returns for the Fund in comparison to the Index. The portfolio management team will sell a security when it has reached its target level of valuation, when there has been a change in the fundamental credit quality of the security that is not reflected in its current price or when the portfolio management team is attempting to reduce the overall risk of the Fund's portfolio.

The Fund may engage in active and frequent trading of securities. Frequent trading may produce a high level of taxable gains, including short-term capital gains taxable as ordinary income, as well as increased trading costs, which may lower the Fund's return. The portfolio management team continuously rotates to the best opportunities in the Fund's allowable universe. The portfolio management team identifies relative value opportunities and seeks to sell a security when its target level valuation is reached and the security has become fully valued.

The fixed-income securities in which the Fund may invest include, among other things, corporate bonds and other debt securities, U.S. government and agency securities, mortgage-related securities (including adjustable rate mortgage securities, mortgage dollar rolls and collateralized mortgage obligations) and other asset-backed securities, when-issued and "to be announced" securities, securities issued pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended ("Rule 144A securities"), structured notes and convertible securities.

Principal Risks

The principal risks of investing in the Fund are summarized below. The Fund does not represent a complete investment program. You may lose money by investing in the Fund.

Agency Securities Risk is the risk that the Fund's agency securities are subject to fixed-income securities risk. Certain debt securities issued or guaranteed by agencies of the U.S. government are guaranteed as to the payment of principal and interest by the relevant entity but have not been backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government. Instead, they have been supported only by the discretionary authority of the U.S. government to purchase the agency's obligations. An event affecting the guaranteeing entity could adversely affect the payment of principal or interest or both on the security and, therefore, these types of securities should be considered to be riskier than U.S. government securities.

Credit/Counterparty Risk is the risk that the issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security in which the Fund invests, or the counterparty to a derivatives or other transaction, will be unable or unwilling to make timely payments of interest or principal or to otherwise honor its obligations.

Derivatives Risk is the risk that the value of the Fund's derivative investments such as futures will fall, for example, because of changes in the value of the underlying reference instruments, pricing difficulties or lack of correlation with the underlying investments. The use of derivatives for other than hedging purposes may be considered a speculative activity, and involves greater risks than are involved in hedging. There is also the risk that the Fund may be unable to terminate or sell a derivatives position at an advantageous time or price. The Fund's derivative counterparties may experience financial difficulties or otherwise be unwilling or unable to honor their obligations, possibly resulting in losses to the Fund. This risk is greater for futures and other over-the-counter traded derivatives. Investing in derivatives gives rise to other risks, such as leverage risk, liquidity risk, credit risk, counterparty risk, interest rate risk and market/issuer risk. The use of derivatives may cause the Fund to incur losses greater than those which would have occurred had derivatives not been used.

Extension Risk is the risk that an unexpected rise in interest rates will extend the life of a mortgage-related or asset-backed security beyond the expected prepayment time, typically reducing the security's value.

Foreign Securities Risk is the risk that the value of the Fund's foreign investments will fall as a result of foreign political, social, economic, environmental, credit, informational or currency changes or other issues relating to foreign investing generally. Foreign securities may be subject to higher volatility than U.S. securities, varying degrees of regulation and limited liquidity. The Fund's investments in foreign securities may be subject to foreign withholding or other taxes, which would decrease the yield on those securities.

Inflation/Deflation Risk is the risk that the value of assets or income from investments will be worth less in the future as inflation decreases the present value of future payments. Deflation risk is the risk that prices throughout the economy decline over time - the opposite of inflation. Deflation may have an adverse effect on the creditworthiness of issuers and may make issuer default more likely, which may result in a decline in the value of the Fund's portfolio.

Interest Rate Risk is the risk that the value of the Fund's investments will fall if interest rates rise. Generally, the value of fixed-income securities rises when prevailing interest rates fall and falls when interest rates rise. Interest rate risk generally is greater for funds that invest in fixed-income securities with relatively longer durations than for funds that invest in fixed-income securities with shorter durations. The value of securities with longer maturities are generally more sensitive to fluctuations in interest rates than other fixed-income securities. In addition, an economic downturn or period of rising interest rates could adversely affect the market of these securities and reduce the Fund's ability to sell them, negatively impacting the performance of the Fund.

Large Investor Risk is the risk associated with ownership of shares of the Fund that may be concentrated in one or a few large investors. Such investors may redeem shares in large quantities or on a frequent basis. Redemptions by a large investor can affect the performance of the Fund, may increase realized capital gains, may accelerate the realization of taxable income to shareholders and may increase transaction costs. These transactions potentially limit the use of any capital loss carryforwards and certain other losses to offset future realized capital gains (if any). Such transactions may also increase the Fund's expenses.

Leverage Risk is the risk associated with securities or practices (e.g., borrowing and the use of certain derivatives) and investment in certain types of derivatives that multiply small index, market or asset price movements into larger changes in value. Use of derivative instruments may involve leverage. When a derivative is used as a hedge against an offsetting position that the Fund also holds, any gains generated by the derivative should be substantially offset by losses on the hedged instrument, and vice versa. To the extent that the Fund uses a derivative for purposes other than as a hedge, or if the Fund hedges imperfectly, the Fund is directly exposed to the risks of that derivative and any loss generated by the derivative will not be offset by a gain. Futures are derivatives and may be subject to this type of risk.

Liquidity Risk is the risk that the Fund may be unable to find a buyer for its investments when it seeks to sell them or to receive the price it expects. Events that may lead to increased redemptions, such as market disruptions or increases in interest rates, may also negatively impact the liquidity of the Fund's investments when it needs to dispose of them. If the Fund is forced to sell its investments at an unfavorable time and/or under adverse conditions in order to meet redemption requests, such sales could negatively affect the Fund. Securities acquired in a private placement, such as Rule 144A securities, are generally subject to significant liquidity risk because they are subject to strict restrictions on resale and there may be no liquid secondary market or ready purchaser for such securities. Liquidity issues may also make it difficult to value the Fund's investments.

Management Risk is the risk that Loomis Sayles' investment techniques will be unsuccessful and cause the Fund to incur losses.

Market/Issuer Risk is the risk that the market value of the Fund's investments will move up and down, sometimes rapidly and unpredictably, based upon overall market and economic conditions, as well as, a number of reasons that directly relate to the issuers of the Fund's investments, such as management performance, financial condition and demand for the issuers' goods and services.

Mortgage-Related and Asset-Backed Securities Risk is the risk that the securities may be prepaid and result in the reinvestment of the prepaid amounts in securities with lower yields than the prepaid obligations. Conversely, there is a risk that a rise in interest rates will extend the life of a mortgage-related or asset-backed security beyond the expected prepayment time, typically reducing the security's value. The Fund may also incur a loss when there is a prepayment of securities that were purchased at a premium. It also includes risks associated with investing in the mortgages underlying the mortgage-backed securities. The Fund's investments in other asset-backed securities are subject to risks similar to those associated with mortgage-related securities, as well as additional risks associated with the nature of the assets and the servicing of those assets. The Fund's investments in mortgage-related and other asset-backed securities are also subject to the risks associated with investments in fixed-income securities generally (e.g., credit, liquidity and valuation risks).

Risk/Return Bar Chart and Table

Because the Fund is new and has not yet commenced operations as of the date of this Prospectus, information related to Fund performance, including a bar chart showing annual returns, has not been included in this Prospectus. The performance information provided by the Fund in the future will give some indication of the risks of an investment in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund's performance from year to year and by showing how the Fund's average annual returns compare against those of a broad measure of market performance.