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Vert Global Sustainable
Real Estate Fund
Trading Symbol: VGSRX
Institutional Shares
Summary Prospectus
October 31, 2023
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Before you invest, you may want to review the Prospectus for the Vert Global Sustainable Real Estate Fund (the “Fund”), which contains more information about the Fund and its risks. The Fund’s Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information, each dated October 31, 2023 (as each may be amended or supplemented), are incorporated by reference into this Summary Prospectus. You can find the Fund’s Prospectus, reports to shareholders, and other information about the Fund (including the Fund’s Statement of Additional Information) online at http://www.vertfunds.com/fund-information/#documents. You can also obtain this information at no cost by calling (844)740-VERT or by sending an e-mail request to info@vertasset.com.
Investment Objective
The Vert Global Sustainable Real Estate Fund (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.
Shareholder Fees
(fees paid directly from your investment)
Institutional
Shares
none
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Management Fees0.40%
Other Expenses0.22%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses0.62%
Less: Fee Waivers and/or Expense Reimbursements-0.12%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waivers and/or Expense Reimbursements(1)
0.50%
(1)Vert Asset Management, LLC (the “Advisor”), the Fund’s investment advisor, has contractually agreed to waive a portion of its fees and reimburse certain expenses for the Fund to limit the total annual fund operating expenses (excluding certain expenses such as taxes, leverage expenses, extraordinary expenses, interest (including interest incurred in connection with bank and custody overdrafts), brokerage commissions and other transactional expenses, expenses incurred with any merger or reorganization, dividends or interest on short positions, acquired fund fees and expenses or extraordinary expenses such as litigation (collectively, “Excludable Expenses”)) to 0.50% of the Fund’s average daily net assets. To the extent the Fund incurs Excludable Expenses, Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waivers and/or Expense Reimbursements may be greater than 0.50%. The waivers and reimbursements will remain in effect through October 31, 2025 unless terminated sooner by mutual agreement of the Trust’s Board of Trustees (the “Board of Trustees” or the “Board”) and the Advisor. The Advisor may request recoupment of previously waived fees and paid expenses from the Fund for three years from the date such fees and expenses were waived or paid, if such reimbursement will not cause the Fund's total expense ratio to exceed the lesser of: (1) the expense limitation in
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place at the time of the waiver and/or expense payment; or (2) the expense limitation in place at the time of the recoupment.
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 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 that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. The fee waiver/expense reimbursement agreement discussed above is reflected only through October 31, 2025. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions, your costs would be:
Share ClassOne YearThree YearsFive YearsTen Years
Institutional Shares$51$174$321$751
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 the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the Example, affect the Fund’s performance. For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2023, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 9% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund seeks to provide exposure to a broad portfolio of sustainable real estate companies. Under normal market conditions, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets in securities of companies principally engaged in the real estate industry that meet the Advisor’s environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) criteria, as described below. The Fund invests in the securities of U.S. and non-U.S. companies with a focus on real estate investment trusts (“REITs”) or companies that the Advisor considers to be similar to REITs because of the way they are treated by tax authorities or because of the way they are required to conduct their business (“REIT-like entities”). The Fund may invest in companies of any size.
REITs and REIT-like entities are types of real estate companies that pool investors’ funds for investment primarily in income-producing real estate or real estate related loans or interests, and may include foreign REIT-like entities. The Fund generally considers a company to be principally engaged in the real estate industry if the company: (i) derives at least 50% of its revenue or profits from the ownership, management, development, construction, or sale of residential, commercial, industrial, or other real estate; (ii) has at least 50% of the value of its assets invested in residential, commercial, industrial, or other real estate; or (iii) is organized as a REIT or REIT‑like entity.
The Advisor researches the impact that real estate companies have on the environment and other sustainability considerations when making investment decisions for the Fund’s investment portfolio. In assessing sustainability, the Advisor will consider ESG criteria. Some of the environmental criteria the Advisor may consider include energy efficiency, water use, land use, biodiversity, emissions and pollution, waste, among others. Some of the social criteria the Advisor may consider include employee policies and labor management, health and safety, tenant engagement, community relations and land use planning, among others. Some of the governance criteria that the Advisor may consider include reporting and disclosure, diversity, equity and inclusion, executive pay, ethics, among others. The Advisor makes best efforts to avoid investing in companies operating in the fossil fuel and prison industries. Some of the criteria that the Advisor may consider when excluding or removing companies include controversies related to bribery and corruption, human rights, displacements, environmental fines and other issues. The Advisor endeavors to avoid investing in companies with high exposure or inadequate preparation to climate risks including floods, sea level rise, heat stress,
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water stress, and storms. The Advisor will engage third party service providers to provide research relating to sustainability criteria of the securities in the Fund’s investment portfolio.
The Fund invests in the securities of companies associated with countries that the Advisor has identified as approved markets for investment for the Fund (which may include issuers in emerging markets). As of the date of this Prospectus, the Fund may invest in securities of companies associated with: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, and the United States (collectively, the “Approved Markets”). The Advisor also may authorize other countries for investment in the future, in addition to the Approved Markets listed above. In addition, the Fund may continue to hold securities of countries that are not listed above as Approved Markets, but had been authorized for investment in the past, and may reinvest distributions received in connection with such existing investments in such previously Approved Markets.
The Fund invests in companies principally engaged in the real estate industry using a modified market capitalization weighted approach. A company’s market capitalization is the number of its shares outstanding times its price per share. In general, the higher the relative market capitalization of a real estate company within an Approved Market, the greater its representation in the Fund. The Advisor may modify such market capitalization weightings by adjusting the representation in the Fund of an eligible company, or excluding a company, after considering the sustainability of the company, as well as free float, momentum, trading strategies, liquidity, profitability, and other factors that the Advisor determines to be appropriate. The Advisor also may limit or fix the Fund’s exposure to a particular country or issuer.
The Advisor has engaged Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (“DFA” or the “Sub-Advisor”) as sub-advisor to provide portfolio management and trading services to the Fund with respect to most of the Fund’s assets.
The Fund may lend portfolio securities to generate additional income.
As part of the Fund’s ESG strategy, the Advisor participates in shareholder engagement, which typically includes dialogue with company management, proxy voting on ESG matters (through the Sub-Advisor’s voting of the proxies), and/or participation with shareholder resolutions.
Principal Risks
Before investing in the Fund, you should carefully consider your own investment goals, the amount of time you are willing to leave your money invested, and the amount of risk you are willing to take. Remember, in addition to possibly not achieving your investment goals, you could lose all or a portion of your investment in the Fund over long or even short periods of time. The principal risks of investing in the Fund are:
Equity Market Risk. Equity securities are susceptible to general stock market fluctuations due to economic, market, political and issuer-specific considerations and to potential volatile increases and decreases in value as market confidence in and perceptions of their issuers change.
General Market Risk; Recent Market Events. The market value of a security may move up or down, sometimes rapidly and unpredictably. These fluctuations may cause a security to be worth less than the price originally paid for it, or less than it was worth at an earlier time. Market risk may affect a single issuer, industry, sector of the economy or the market as a whole. U.S. and international markets have experienced volatility in recent months and years due to a number of economic, political and global macro factors, including rising inflation, problems in the banking sector, the war between Russia and Ukraine and the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) global pandemic. While U.S. and global economies are recovering from the effects of COVID-19, labor shortages and
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the inability to meet consumer demand have restricted growth. Uncertainties regarding the level of central banks’ interest rate increases, political events, the Russia-Ukraine conflict, trade tensions and the possibility of a national or global recession have also contributed to market volatility.
Global economies and financial markets are increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibility that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. Continuing market volatility as a result of recent market conditions or other events may have adverse effects on the Fund’s returns. The Advisor and Sub-Advisor will monitor developments and seek to manage the Fund in a manner consistent with achieving the Fund’s investment objective, but there can be no assurance that they will be successful in doing so.
Real Estate Investment Risk. The risks related to investments in real estate securities include, but are not limited to, adverse changes in general economic and local market conditions; adverse developments in employment; changes in supply or demand for similar or competing properties; unfavorable changes in applicable taxes, governmental regulations, or interest rates; operating or developmental expenses and lack of available financing.
Real Estate-Related Securities Concentration Risk. The Fund could lose money due to the performance of real estate-related securities even if securities markets generally are experiencing positive results.
Foreign Securities and Currency Risk. Foreign securities are subject to risks relating to political, social and economic developments abroad and differences between U.S. and foreign regulatory requirements and market practices, including fluctuations in foreign currencies. Income earned on foreign securities may be subject to foreign withholding taxes. The Fund may invest in emerging market countries, which can involve higher degrees of risk as compared with developed economies.
Sustainability Considerations Risk. The Fund’s focus on sustainability considerations (ESG criteria) may limit the number of investment opportunities available to the Fund, and as a result, at times, the Fund may underperform funds that are not subject to similar investment considerations.
REIT Risk. A REIT’s share price may decline because of adverse developments affecting the real estate industry, including changes in interest rates. The returns from REITs may trail returns from the overall market. The Fund’s investments in REITs may be subject to special tax rules, or a particular REIT may fail to qualify for the favorable federal income tax treatment applicable to REITs, the effect of which may have adverse tax consequences for the Fund and shareholders.
Operational Risk. Operational risks include human error, changes in personnel, system changes, faults in communication, and failures in systems, technology, or processes. Various operational events or circumstances are outside the Advisor’s or Sub-Advisor’s control, including instances at third parties. The Fund, the Advisor and the Sub-Advisor seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
Liquidity Risk. The Fund may make investments that are illiquid or that may become less liquid in response to market developments or adverse investor perceptions. Illiquid investments may be more difficult to value. Liquidity risk may be the result of, among other things, the reduced number and capacity of traditional market participants to make a market in the specific security type or the lack of an active market.
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Management Risk. Investment strategies employed by the Advisor or Sub-Advisor in selecting investments for the Fund may not result in an increase in the value of your investment or in overall performance equal to other investments.
Cybersecurity Risk. With the increased use of technologies such as the Internet to conduct business, the Fund is susceptible to operational, information security, and related risks. Cyber incidents affecting the Fund or its service providers may cause disruptions and impact business operations, potentially resulting in financial losses, interference with the Fund’s ability to calculate its net asset value (“NAV”), impediments to trading, the inability of shareholders to transact business, violations of applicable privacy and other laws, regulatory fines, penalties, reputational damage, reimbursement or other compensation costs, or additional compliance costs.
Other Investment Companies and Exchange Traded Funds (“ETFs”) Risks. When the Fund invests in other investment companies or ETFs for temporary purposes, it will bear additional expenses based on its pro rata share of the other investment company’s operating expenses, including the potential duplication of management fees. The risk of owning shares of an investment company or ETF generally reflects the risks of owning the underlying investments held by that company. The Fund will incur brokerage costs when it purchases and sells shares of an ETF. ETFs may trade at a discount or premium to net asset value.
Securities Lending Risk. Securities lending involves the risk that the borrower may fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. As a result, the Fund may lose money and there may be a delay in recovering the loaned securities. The Fund could also lose money if it does not recover the securities and/or the value of the collateral falls, including the value of investments made with cash collateral. Securities lending also may have certain adverse tax consequences.
Passive Foreign Investment Company (“PFIC”) Risk. Many foreign entities that operate similarly to REITs may be deemed for U.S. federal income tax purposes to be PFICs, which could result in taxable distributions to you at unfavorable tax rates.
Performance Information
The bar chart and performance table below illustrate the risks and volatility of an investment in the Fund by showing the performance of the Fund for the past five calendar years and by showing changes in how the Fund’s average annual returns for the one year, five year, and since inception periods compared with those of a broad measure of market performance. The Fund’s past performance, both before and after taxes, does not necessarily indicate how the Fund will perform in the future. Updated performance information is available on the Fund’s website at www.vertfunds.com or by calling 1-844-740-VERT.

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Calendar Year Returns as of December 31
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The Fund’s calendar year-to-date return as of September 30, 2023 was -3.58%. During the period of time shown in the bar chart, the highest return for a calendar quarter was 15.36% for the quarter ended March 31, 2019, and the lowest return for a calendar quarter was -28.98% for the quarter ended March 31, 2020.
Average Annual Total Returns
(For the periods ended December 31, 2022)
1 Year5 Year
Since Inception (10/31/2017)
Return Before Taxes-26.19 %-0.20 %0.51 %
Return After Taxes on Distributions-26.47 %-1.06 %-0.36 %
Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares-15.32 %-0.33 %0.20 %
S&P Global REIT Index (Net)
(reflects reinvested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflects no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes)
-24.36 %0.92 %1.67 %
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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who are exempt from tax or hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred or other tax-advantaged arrangements such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts (“IRAs”). In certain cases, the figure representing “Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares” may be higher than the other return figures for the same period. A higher after-tax return results when a capital loss occurs upon redemption and provides an assumed tax deduction that benefits the investor.

Management
Investment Advisor and Sub-Advisor. Vert Asset Management, LLC is the Fund’s investment advisor. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP is the Fund’s sub-advisor.
Portfolio Managers.
Samuel Adams, Chief Executive Officer of the Advisor, has been responsible for the oversight of the Fund and the Sub-Advisor since the Fund’s inception. Mr. Adams has been responsible for
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the day-to-day management of the portion of the Fund that is managed by the Advisor since October 2019.
Jed S. Fogdall, Vice President, Global Head of Portfolio Management, and a Senior Portfolio Manager of DFA, and Allen Pu, Vice President, Deputy Head of Portfolio Management, North America, and a Senior Portfolio Manager of DFA, have managed the Fund since the Fund’s inception in October 2017. William B. Collins-Dean, Senior Portfolio Manager and Vice President of DFA, has managed the Fund since March 2019. Each of the Sub-Advisor’s portfolio managers are equally responsible for the day-to-day management of the portion of the Fund managed by the Sub-Advisor.
Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares
You may purchase or redeem Fund shares on any business day by written request via mail to: Vert Global Sustainable Real Estate Fund, c/o U.S. Bank Global Fund Services, P.O. Box 701, Milwaukee, WI 53201-0701, by telephone at 1-844-740-VERT, by wire transfer or through a financial intermediary. Investors who wish to purchase or redeem Fund shares through a financial intermediary should contact the intermediary directly. The minimum initial and subsequent investment amounts are shown below.
Share Purchase AmountsInstitutional Shares
Minimum Initial Investment - IRAs$2,500
Minimum Initial Investment – All Other Accounts$10,000
Minimum Subsequent Investment – All Accounts$1,000
Tax Information
The Fund’s distributions will be taxed as ordinary income or capital gains, unless you are investing through a tax-deferred or other tax-advantaged arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an IRA. You may be taxed later upon withdrawal of monies from tax-deferred arrangements.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase Fund shares through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Fund, the Advisor, and their related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of Fund shares and related services. These payments may create conflicts of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your advisor to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your advisor or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.
Recent Events
Pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Reorganization, the Fund will be converted into an exchange-traded fund through the reorganization of the Fund into the Vert Global Sustainable Real Estate ETF. The reorganization is expected to occur in the fourth quarter of 2023. In anticipation of the reorganization, shares of the Fund are no longer available for purchase directly from the Fund’s transfer agent. Due to the pending conversion, Fund shares may only be purchased in a brokerage account and only until November 27, 2023, which is five business days before the anticipated opening of business on December 4, 2023. Shareholders may continue to redeem shares of the Fund in the ordinary course. Redemption requests received after November 27, 2023, may be treated as requests to redeem shares of the Vert Global Sustainable Real Estate ETF. After the reorganization, the offering of shares of the Vert Global Sustainable Real Estate ETF will be subject to a separate prospectus and SAI, and the prospectus and SAI for the Fund will be withdrawn. In the event the Agreement and Plan of Reorganization is not consummated, the Fund will continue to operate as a mutual fund using the purchase and sale procedures described in this Prospectus.
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