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SEGALL BRYANT & HAMILL SELECT EQUITY ETF Ticker symbol: USSE |
| Summary Prospectus | April 29, 2024, as revised November 1, 2024 |
Before you invest, you may want to review the Segall Bryant & Hamill Select Equity ETF’s (the “Fund”) prospectus, which contains more information about the Fund and its risks. You can find the Fund’s prospectus, reports to shareholders and other information about the Fund online at https://cisbh.com/funds/etfs. You can also get this information at no cost by calling (800) 392 -2673, or by contacting your financial intermediary. You may get this information at no cost by sending an email request to Fulfillment@ultimusfundsolutions.com. The Fund’s prospectus and statement of additional information, each dated April 29, 2024, along with the Fund’s most recent annual report dated December 31, 2023, are incorporated by reference into this summary prospectus and may be obtained, free of charge, at the website, phone number or email address noted above.
Investment Objective
The Fund seeks to achieve long-term capital appreciation.
Fees and Expenses of the Fund
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and sell shares of the Fund. You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and Example below.
| Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) | |
| Management Fee | 0.55% |
| Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees | 0.00% |
| Other Expenses(1) | 0.28% |
| Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses | 0.83% |
| Fee Waiver/Expense Reimbursement(2) | (0.18)% |
| Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Waiver/Reimbursement | 0.65% |
| (1) | “Other Expenses” are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year. |
| (2) | Segall Bryant & Hamill, LLC, (the “SBH” or the “Adviser”), the Fund’s investment adviser, has contractually agreed until at least April 30, 2025 to waive the investment advisory and/or administration fees and/or to reimburse other expenses (not including acquired fund fees and expenses, taxes, brokerage expenses, class action claim fees, tax reclaim fees, and extraordinary expenses), so that the ratio of expenses of average net assets as reported in the Fund’s Financial Highlights will be no more than 0.65%. This agreement may not be terminated or modified by the Adviser prior to the termination date without the approval of the Board of Trustees. |
Example
This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds. The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell all of your shares at the end of those periods. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses (including one year of capped expenses each period) remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your cost would be:
| One Year | Three Years | Five Years | Ten Years |
| $66 | $247 | $443 | $1,009 |
Your expenses would be the same if you did not redeem your shares.
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 operating expenses or in the Example above, affect the Fund’s performance. This portfolio turnover rate excludes securities received or delivered from in-kind processing of creations or redemptions. For the period August 29, 2023 (commencement of operations) to December 31, 2023, the Fund’s portfolio turnover was 13% of the average value of its portfolio.
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Principal Investment Strategies of the Fund
| ● | Under normal circumstances, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets, plus any borrowings for investment purposes, in securities of companies whose stock is traded on U.S. markets, including depositary receipts (ADRs) or shares issued by companies incorporated outside of the United States. The Fund will provide shareholders with written notice sixty (60) days prior to any change in this investment policy. |
| ● | The Adviser invests the Fund’s assets opportunistically based on market information and does not limit its investment analysis approach to value, growth, or core (exhibiting neither overwhelming growth nor value attributes) investment styles. |
| ● | The Adviser believes that returns in excess of general market returns can be achieved by actively managing investment portfolios. The Fund invests in companies that the Adviser believes have superior growth potential and are trading at a discount to the Adviser’s estimate of the companies’ intrinsic value. |
| ● | The Adviser’s investment process is driven by fundamental research utilizing a combination of external and proprietary research in its selection process. Through a combination of quantitative analysis (which may encompass techniques such as evaluation of financial data or statistical/mathematical modeling), fundamental analysis (which may include assessments of a company’s holdings or key characteristics, as well as broader economic factors) and experienced judgment, the Adviser seeks to identify companies that have historically generated, or are positioned to generate, superior returns on investments. |
| ● | The team integrates a company’s environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) practices within its investment processes. Specifically, the team evaluates the materiality of ESG exposures for companies in the strategy universe, benchmarks exposures against industry peers, and lastly integrates exposures into the team’s valuation process. |
| ● | Stocks may be sold when conditions have changed and the company’s prospects are no longer attractive, its stock price has achieved the team’s valuation target or better relative investment opportunities have been identified. |
Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund
Risk is inherent in all investing and you could lose money by investing in the Fund. A summary description of certain principal risks of investing in the Fund is set forth below. Before you decide whether to invest in the Fund, carefully consider these risk factors associated with investing in the Fund, which may cause investors to lose money. There can be no assurance that the Fund will achieve its investment objective.
| ● | Market Risk: As with any fund, the value of your investment will fluctuate over time in response to overall movements in the stock market. Further, investments in common stocks tend to be more volatile than many other investment choices. The value of a security or other asset may decline due to changes in general market conditions, economic trends or events that are not specifically related to the issuer of the security or other asset, or factors that affect a particular issuer or issuers, country, group of countries, region, market industry, group of industries, sector or asset class. Local, regional, or global events such as war, acts of terrorism, the spread of infections, illness or other public health issues, recessions, or other events could have a significant impact on the Fund and its investments. During a general market downturn, multiple asset classes may be negatively affected. Changes in market conditions and interest rates generally do not have the same impact on all types of securities and instruments. |
| ● | Equity Securities Risk: This is the risk that the value of equity securities may fluctuate, sometimes rapidly and unpredictably, due to factors affecting the general market, an entire industry or sector, or particular companies. These factors include, without limitation, adverse changes in economic conditions, the general outlook for corporate earnings, interest rates or investor sentiment; increases in production costs; and significant management decisions. This risk is greater for small- and medium-sized companies, which tend to be more vulnerable to adverse developments than larger companies. |
| ● | Non-Diversification Risk: The Fund is classified as a “non-diversified” investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (“1940 Act”). As a result, the Fund is subject to the risk that it may be more volatile than a diversified fund because the Fund may invest its assets in a smaller number of issuers or may invest a larger proportion of its assets in a single issuer. As a result, the gains and losses on a single investment may have a greater impact on the Fund’s NAV and may make the Fund more volatile than a more diversified fund. |
| ● | Portfolio Management Risk: The Fund is subject to the risk that the securities held by the Fund will underperform other securities and/or may decline in value. |
| ● | Financial Sector Risk: To the extent the Fund invests a significant portion of its assets in the financial sector, the Fund’s performance could be negatively impacted by events affecting this sector. The financial sector includes, for example, banks and financial institutions providing mortgage and mortgage related services. This sector can be significantly affected by, among other things, changes in interest rates, government regulation, the rate of defaults on corporate, consumer and government debt, the availability and cost of capital, and fallout from the housing and sub-prime mortgage crisis. |
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| ● | Sector Focus Risk: The Fund may, for finite periods and from time to time, make significant investments in a particular sector which may make the Fund more susceptible to adverse economic, business, regulatory or other developments affecting that sector. If an economic downturn occurs in a sector in which the Fund’s investments are focused, the Fund may perform poorly during that period. |
| ● | Exchange Traded Fund Risk: Because shares of ETFs (“ETF Shares”) are traded on an exchange, they are subject to additional risks: |
The Fund’s ETF Shares are listed for trading on NYSE Arca and are bought and sold on the secondary market at market prices. Although it is expected that the market price of an ETF Share typically will approximate its net asset value (“NAV”), there may be times when the market price and the NAV differ significantly. Thus, you may pay more or less than NAV when you buy ETF Shares on the secondary market, and you may receive more or less than NAV when you sell those shares.
Although the Fund’s ETF Shares are listed for trading on NYSE Arca, it is possible that an active trading market may not be maintained.
| ● | ETF Liquidity Risk: Trading of the Fund’s ETF Shares may be halted by the activation of individual or marketwide trading halts (which halt trading for a specific period of time when the price of a particular security or overall market prices decline by a specified percentage). Trading of the Fund’s ETF Shares may also be halted if (1) the shares are delisted from NYSE Arca without first being listed on another exchange or (2) NYSE Arca officials determine that such action is appropriate in the interest of a fair and orderly market or for the protection of investors. |
Disruptions to creations and redemptions, the existence of extreme market volatility or potential lack of an active trading market for the Fund’s shares may result in the Fund’s shares trading significantly above (at a premium) or below (at a discount) to NAV. In addition, in stressed market conditions or periods of market disruption or volatility, the market shares may become less liquid in response to deteriorating liquidity in the markets for the Fund’s underlying portfolio holdings.
| ● | Indirect Foreign Exposure Risk: Investments in U.S.-traded securities that are organized under the laws of a foreign country or have significant business operations abroad may be impacted by certain foreign exposure risks indirectly. This includes securities in the form of sponsored and unsponsored depositary receipts. Unsponsored depositary receipts may be created without the participation of the foreign issuer. Holders of these depositary receipts generally bear all of the costs of the depositary facility and the bank or trust company depositary of an unsponsored depositary receipt may be under no obligation to distribute shareholder communications from the foreign issuer or to pass through voting rights. These risks will vary from time to time and from country to country especially if the country is considered an emerging market or developing country. |
| ● | ADR Risk: ADRs may be subject to some of the same risks as direct investment in foreign companies, which includes international trade, currency, political, regulatory and diplomatic risk. In a sponsored ADR arrangement, the foreign issuer assumes the obligation to pay some or all of the Depository’s transaction fees. Under an unsponsored ADR arrangement, the foreign issuer assumes no obligations and the Depository’s transaction fees are paid directly by the ADR holders. Because unsponsored ADR arrangements are organized independently and without cooperation of the issuer of the underlying securities, available information concerning the foreign issuer may not be as current as for sponsored ADRs and voting rights with respect to the deposited securities are not passed through. |
| ● | Cybersecurity Risk: Cybersecurity incidents may allow an unauthorized party to gain access to Fund assets, customer data (including private shareholder information), or proprietary information, or cause the Fund, the Adviser, and/or other service providers (including custodians, sub-custodians, transfer agents and financial intermediaries) to suffer data breaches, data corruption or loss of operational functionality. A cybersecurity incident may disrupt the processing of shareholder transactions, impact the Fund’s ability to calculate its net asset values, and prevent shareholders from redeeming their shares. |
An investment in the Fund is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
Performance
Performance information will be available after the Fund completes a full calendar year of operations. Updated performance information, when available, will be available online at https://cisbh.com/funds/etfs or by calling (800) 836-4265.
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Management
Investment Adviser
Segall Bryant & Hamill, LLC
Portfolio Managers
| Name(s) of Portfolio Manager(s) and Title(s) | Date Began Managing the Fund |
| Suresh Rajagopal, CFA | |
| Director All/Mid Cap Strategies – Segall Bryant & Hamill, LLC | |
| Portfolio Manager of the Fund | Since inception in 2023 |
Other Important Information Regarding Fund Shares
Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares
The Fund will issue and redeem shares at net asset value (“NAV”) only in large blocks of shares (each block of shares is called a “Creation Unit”) and only to Authorized Participants that have entered into agreements with the Fund’s distributor (the “Distributor”). Creation Units are issued and redeemed for cash and/or in-kind for securities. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, the shares are not redeemable securities of the Fund. When spreads widen or premiums and discounts become larger than usual, particularly during times of market stress, investors may pay significantly more or receive significantly less than the underlying value of the ETF’s shares when they buy or sell in secondary markets.
Individual shares may only be purchased and sold in secondary market transactions through a broker or dealer at a market price. Shares of the Fund are listed for trading on NYSE Arca (“NYSE Arca” or the “Exchange”) under the ticker symbol USSE.
Because the shares trade at market prices rather than NAV, shares of the Fund may trade at a price that is greater than (a premium), at, or less than (a discount) NAV. An investor may incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase shares of the Fund (bid) and the lowest price a seller is willing to accept for shares of the Fund (ask) when buying or selling shares in the secondary market (the “bid-ask spread”).
The Fund’s bid-ask spread, net asset value, market price, and premiums and discounts, will be disclosed on the Fund’s website at https://cisbh.com/funds/etfs.
Tax Information
The Fund’s distributions may be taxed as ordinary income, capital gains, section 199A dividends or qualified dividend income, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged account, such as a 401(k) plan, individual retirement account (“IRA”) or 529 college savings plan. Withdrawals from such a tax advantaged investment plan will be subject to special tax rules. Special rules will apply to distributions paid to shareholders who are foreign persons.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase shares of the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Adviser may pay the intermediary for the sale of Fund shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.
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