TrueShares ConVex Protect ETF
Summary Prospectus
June 26, 2025
Trading Symbol: PVEX
Listed on Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc.
www.True-Shares.com
Before you invest, you may want to review the TrueShares ConVex Protect ETF (the “Fund”) statutory prospectus and statement of additional information, which contain more information about the Fund and its risks. The current statutory prospectus and statement of additional information dated June 26, 2025, are incorporated by reference into this Summary Prospectus. You can find the Fund’s statutory prospectus, statement of additional information, reports to shareholders, and other information about the Fund online at www.True-Shares.com. You can also get this information at no cost by calling 1.877.524.9155 or by sending an e-mail request to info@true-shares.com.
Investment Objective
The investment objective of TrueShares ConVex Protect ETF (the “Fund”) is capital appreciation with the potential for lower volatility relative to the broader U.S. large cap equity market.
Fees and Expenses of the Fund
The following table describes the fees and expenses you may pay if you buy, hold, and sell shares of the Fund (“Shares”). 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 Expenses1 | |
| (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) | |
| Management Fees | 0.79% |
| Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees | None |
| Other Expenses2 | 0.00% |
| Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses3 | 0.00% |
| Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses | 0.79% |
| 1 | The Fund’s adviser has agreed to pay substantially all expenses of the Fund out of its unitary management fee, including the cost of transfer agency, custody, fund administration, securities lending and other non-distribution related services necessary for the Fund to operate, except for: the fee paid to the Fund’s adviser pursuant to the Investment Advisory Agreement, interest charges on any borrowings, dividends and other expenses on securities sold short, taxes and related services, brokerage commissions and other expenses incurred in placing orders for the purchase and sale of securities and other investment instruments, acquired fund fees and expenses, accrued deferred tax liability, extraordinary expenses, and distribution (12b-1) fees and expenses. |
| 2 | Estimated amounts for the initial fiscal year. |
| 3 | Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses (“AFFE”), which are estimated for the Fund’s initial fiscal year, are the indirect costs of investing in other investment companies. The operating expenses in this fee table will not correlate to the expense ratio in the Fund’s financial highlights because the financial statements include only the direct operating expenses incurred by the Fund. |
Expense 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 hold or 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 remain the same. The Example does not take into account brokerage commissions that you may pay on your purchases and sales of Shares. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
| 1 Year | 3 Years |
| $81 | $252 |
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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 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. Because the Fund has not yet commenced operations, the portfolio turnover rate is not available. In the future, the portfolio turnover rate for the most recent fiscal year will be provided here.
Principal Investment Strategies of the Fund
The Fund is an actively managed exchange-traded fund (“ETF”) that aims to provide the benefits of partial U.S. large cap equity market exposure while mitigating a meaningful portion of the risk posed by a decline in U.S. large cap equity markets. The adviser’s strategy is designed to achieve the Fund’s goals, typically, through the use of annual (one-year) option positions laddered across rolling three-month periods. This strategy potentially results in capital appreciation with lower volatility and mitigated downside equity market risk. The Fund’s first “ladder” of options positions will have four sets of expiration dates set at approximately at one-quarter, two-quarters, three-quarters, and one-year from the date the Fund commences operations. Approximately one-fourth of the Fund’s option positions will expire quarterly and will be replaced with one-year options.
The Fund seeks to achieve these goals by combining: (1) an investment of substantially all its assets in a portfolio of income-generating securities with (2) an investment in a combination of written put options and purchased call options on securities or indexes that are representative of U.S. large capitalization companies. Additionally, ConVex in the Fund’s name is a reference to the expected accelerated (i.e. convex) returns from the Fund’s equity-linked call options portfolio. Protect in the Fund’s name is a reference to the partial protection from declines in the U.S. large cap equity market that is expected to be achieved from the Fund’s option strategy. The adviser expects that the options portfolio will contribute to capital appreciation, but with lower volatility relative to the broader U.S. large cap equity market.
Income Component
The Fund seeks income through a strategy focused primarily on a variety of income-producing securities. The Fund invests primarily in: (i) U.S. Treasuries; (ii) U.S. government and corporate bonds; (iii) AAA rated tranches of collateralized loan obligations (“CLOs”); (iv) preferred stock; (v) pre-merger special purpose acquisition companies (“SPACs”); (vi) investment company debt; and (vii) income-producing ETFs. CLOs are a type of special purpose vehicle that issue securities generally backed by an asset or a pool of assets that serve as collateral. Most CLOs are issued in multiple tranches, offering investors various maturity and credit risk characteristics, often categorized as senior, mezzanine and subordinated/equity according to their degree of risk. The Fund invests in only the highest-rated AAA senior tranches of CLOs. A SPAC is a “blank check” company with no commercial operations that is designed to raise capital via an initial public offering for the purpose of engaging in a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more operating companies. Pre-merger SPACs are SPACs that are either seeking a target for a business combination or have not yet completed a combination with an identified target. However, pre-merger SPACs do not typically pay dividends or other forms of income, rather they are purchased at a discount and accrue interest much like a zero coupon bond.
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The Fund invests without restriction as to the maturity of any individual debt instrument, but anticipates a typical average maturity of less than five years for the debt instrument portion of its income portfolio. The Fund restricts credit quality to investment grade debt instruments, at the time of purchase. The Fund defines investment grade debt as that rated BBB- or higher by S&P Global Ratings (formerly known as Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services) or similarly by another nationally recognized statistical rating organization, or, if unrated, determined by the adviser to be of equivalent quality. Generally, the adviser constructs this portion of the Fund’s portfolio to maximize yield within the constraints described above. The adviser focuses on a buy and hold approach but may sell a security when a more attractive security becomes available.
To generate higher income, the Fund may also employ an option box spread strategy. While gains from options are capital gains, this options strategy is commonly referred to as an income producer and, therefore, is included in the Fund’s income component description. A box spread is a four-part, same expiration date, option portfolio with a maturity payout that does not vary and is considered a form of synthetic money market instrument. For example, the four parts of a box spread could be composed of (i) a long $5 in-the-money call option position paired with (ii) a written $5 out-of-the-money call option position; and (iii) a long $5 in-the-money put option position paired with (iv) a written $5 out-of-the-money put option position. At expiration of the options, no matter what the price of the underlying reference asset is, the payout to the Fund will be $10. If the Fund can construct this portfolio for less than $10 it will be profitable at expiration.
The chart below illustrates the $10 payout that results from the example above. As the call leg increases in value, the put leg decreases in value such that, in total, the payoff is always $10.
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Options Component
The Fund seeks partial U.S. large cap equity exposure by investing in standardized exchange-listed options or in exchange-traded FLexible EXchange Options® (“FLEX Options”), which are customized exchange-traded option contracts available through the Chicago Board Option Exchange (“Cboe”) that are guaranteed for settlement by The Options Clearing Corporation (“OCC”). The adviser selects options on securities, indexes, or ETFs that it believes are representative of U.S. large capitalization companies. The Fund defines large-capitalization companies as those with market capitalizations above $10 billion at the time of measurement, and defines U.S. companies as those organized in the U.S.; having a class of securities whose principal securities market is in the U.S.; or derives 50% or more of its total revenues or earnings from goods produced, sales made, or services provided in the U.S., or maintains 50% or more of its employees, assets, investments, operations, or other business activity in the U.S.
A call option gives the owner the right, but not the obligation, to buy a reference asset at a specified price (strike price) within or at the end of a specific time period. In the event the reference asset declines in value, the value of a call option generally will decrease, whereas the value of a call option will generally increase if the reference asset appreciates in value. A put option gives the owner the right, but not the obligation, to sell a reference asset at a specified price (strike price) within or at the end of a specific time period. In the event the reference asset declines in value, the value of a put option generally will increase, whereas the value of a put option will generally decrease if the reference asset appreciates in value. Under normal circumstances, the Fund anticipates trading annual (one-year) options laddered across rolling three-month periods (i.e., quarterly); however, the Fund may trade options with expiration dates that are modestly longer or shorter for a number of reasons such as if market volatility renders them more cost-effective. “Laddered” in this context refers to the Fund trading one-year options positions at the beginning of each quarter so that the expiration dates of the overall options portfolio are staggered (i.e., three-months apart). The goal of this laddered approach is to mitigate timing risks associated with the entire options portfolio expiring at a time when the relative price of the reference asset is unfavorable.
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To generate partial exposure to U.S. large capitalization companies, the Fund writes a put option that is modestly in-the-money (e.g. strike price of $104 when the reference asset is at $100); while also purchasing a modestly out-of-the-money call option (e.g. strike price of $106 when the reference asset is at $100). The Fund may also use a ladder of call options (i.e., purchasing call options with varying strike prices that are modestly out-of-the-money) when the adviser believes this is a more economically efficient means to capture U.S. large cap equity market gains. The Fund writes put options that collectively represent approximately 50% of notional portfolio exposure, while utilizing the call options (that collectively represent approximately 100% of notional portfolio exposure) to provide significant exposure to the U.S. large cap equity market. The adviser’s selection of option strike prices is dependent on an analysis of the complex interaction between strike price, interest rates, maturity, and volatility. By using this combination of options, the Fund intends to capture a significant portion of U.S. large cap equity market gains if the option strike price is breached while only exposing the Fund to approximately half of U.S. large cap equity market losses.
The Fund is classified as a “non-diversified” investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, which means that the Fund may invest a higher percentage of its assets in a fewer number of issuers than is permissible for a “diversified” fund.
Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund
The principal risks of investing in the Fund are summarized below. Each risk summarized below is considered a “principal risk” of investing in the Fund, regardless of the order in which it appears. As with any investment, there is a risk that you could lose all or a portion of your investment in the Fund. Some or all of these risks may adversely affect the Fund’s net asset value per share (“NAV”), trading price, yield, total return and/or ability to meet its objective. For more information about the risks of investing in the Fund, see the section in the Fund’s Prospectus titled “Additional Information About the Fund.”
| ● | Options Risk. Buying and selling (writing) options are speculative activities and entail greater than ordinary investment risks. As the buyer of a call option, the Fund risks losing the entire premium invested in the option if the Fund does not exercise the option. As the writer of a put option the Fund risks significant losses if the reference asset price falls below the strike price. |
| ● | FLEX Options Risk. The Fund may invest in FLEX Options issued and guaranteed for settlement by the OCC. The Fund bears the risk that the OCC will be unable or unwilling to perform its obligations under the FLEX Options contracts. Additionally, FLEX Options may become illiquid, and in such cases, the Fund may have difficulty closing out certain FLEX Options positions at desired times and prices. |
| ● | Derivatives Risk. Options are a derivative investment. The Fund’s use of derivatives involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments. These risks include (i) the risk that the counterparty to a derivative transaction may not fulfill its contractual obligations; (ii) the risk of mispricing or improper valuation; and (iii) the risk that changes in the value of a derivative may not correlate perfectly with the underlying asset or index. Derivative prices may be highly volatile at times and may fluctuate substantially during a short period of time. |
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| ● | Active Management Risk. The adviser’s judgments about an investment may prove to be incorrect or fail to have the intended results, which could adversely impact the Fund’s performance. The adviser’s strategy will not fully protect the Fund from declines in the U.S. large cap equity market and will not allow the Fund to fully participate in U.S. large cap market upside. When the adviser selects out-of-the-money call options, the Fund will not participate in U.S. large cap equity market gains until they exceed the strike price of the call option. Higher call option prices in relation to put option prices will tend to increase the cost of the Fund’s strategy. |
| ● | Equity Market Risk. The Fund invests in options that track the performance of U.S. large capitalization companies, which are made up of common stocks. Common stocks are susceptible to general stock market fluctuations and to volatile increases and decreases in value as market confidence in and perceptions of their issuers change. These investor perceptions are based on various and unpredictable factors including, expectations regarding government, economic, monetary and fiscal policies; inflation and interest rates; economic expansion or contraction; and global or regional political, economic and banking crises. The Fund also may invest in preferred stocks, which are subject to both fixed income risk and common stock risk. The value of preferred stocks will fluctuate with changes in interest rates. Typically, a rise in interest rates causes a decline in the value of preferred stock. Preferred stocks are also subject to credit risk, which is the possibility that an issuer of preferred stock will fail to make its dividend payments. Preferred stock prices tend to move more slowly upwards than common stock prices. |
| ● | Large-Capitalization Companies Risk. The securities of large-capitalization companies may be relatively mature compared to smaller companies and therefore subject to slower growth during times of economic expansion. Large-capitalization companies may also be unable to respond quickly to new competitive challenges, such as changes in technology and consumer tastes. |
| ● | Non-Diversification Risk. Because the Fund is non-diversified and may invest a greater portion of its assets in fewer issuers than a diversified fund, changes in the market value of a single portfolio holding could cause greater fluctuations in the Fund’s share price than would occur in a diversified fund. This may increase the Fund’s volatility and cause the performance of a single portfolio holding or a relatively small number of portfolio holdings to have a greater impact on the Fund’s performance. |
| ● | Fixed Income Securities Risk. When the Fund invests in fixed income securities, the value of your investment in the Fund will fluctuate with changes in interest rates. Typically, a rise in interest rates causes a decline in the value of fixed income securities owned by the Fund. In general, the market price of fixed income securities with longer maturities will increase or decrease more in response to changes in interest rates than shorter-term securities. Other risk factors include credit risk (the debtor may default), extension risk (an issuer may exercise its right to repay principal on a fixed rate obligation held by the Fund later than expected), and prepayment risk (the debtor may pay its obligation early, reducing the amount of interest payments). These risks could affect the value of a particular investment by the Fund, possibly causing the Fund’s share price and total return to be reduced and fluctuate more than other types of investments. |
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| ● | Limited History Risk. The Fund has a limited history of operations for investors to evaluate. Investors in the Fund bear the risk that the Fund may not be successful in implementing its investment strategies, may be unable to implement certain of its investment strategies or may fail to attract sufficient assets, any of which could result in the Fund being liquidated and terminated at any time without shareholder approval and at a time that may not be favorable for all shareholders. Such a liquidation could have negative tax consequences for shareholders and will cause shareholders to incur expenses of liquidation. |
| ● | Market and Geopolitical Risk. The increasing interconnectivity between global economies and financial markets increases the likelihood that events or conditions in one region or financial market may adversely impact issuers in a different country, region or financial market. Securities in the Fund’s portfolio may underperform due to inflation (or expectations for inflation), interest rates, global demand for particular products or resources, natural disasters, climate change and climate-related events, pandemics, epidemics, terrorism, international conflicts, regulatory events and governmental or quasi-governmental actions. The occurrence of global events similar to those in recent years may result in market volatility and may have long term effects on both the U.S. and global financial markets. |
| ● | Options Premium Tax Risk. The Fund’s investment strategy may limit its ability to distribute dividends eligible for treatment as qualified dividend income, which for non-corporate shareholders are subject to federal income tax at rates of up to 20%. The Fund’s investment strategy may also limit its ability to distribute dividends eligible for the dividends-received deduction for corporate shareholders. For these reasons, a significant portion of distributions received by Fund shareholders may be subject to tax at effective tax rates that are higher than the rates that would apply if the Fund were to engage in a different investment strategy. You should consult your tax advisor as to the tax consequences of acquiring, owning and disposing of Shares in the Fund. |
| ● | U.S. Government Risk. U.S. Treasury obligations are backed by the “full faith and credit” of the U.S. government and generally have negligible credit risk. Securities issued or guaranteed by federal agencies or authorities and U.S. government-sponsored instrumentalities or enterprises may or may not be backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government. |
| ● | CLO Risk. The Fund and other investors in CLO securities ultimately bear the credit risk of the underlying collateral held by the CLO. If default rates are higher than expected, the collateral cushion supporting a AAA senior tranche will erode, may result in a credit downgrade and decrease the value of the AAA tranche. |
| ● | Pre-Merger SPAC Risk. Unless and until a business combination is completed, a SPAC generally invests its assets in U.S. government securities, money market securities, and cash. Because SPACs have no operating history or ongoing business other than seeking business combinations, the value of their securities is particularly dependent on the ability of the entity’s management to identify and complete a profitable business combination. |
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| ● | Underlying Funds Risk. The Fund, as a shareholder of the underlying income-producing ETFs, indirectly bears its proportionate share of any investment management fees and other expenses of the underlying income-producing ETFs. Further, due to the fees and expenses paid by the Fund, as well as variations in the Fund’s actual allocations to the underlying income-producing ETFs, the performance and income distributions of the Fund will not be the same as the performance and income distributions of the underlying income-producing ETFs. |
| ● | Sector Concentration Risk. U.S. large capitalization companies may be focused in a particular sector or group of sectors. Economic, legislative or regulatory developments may occur that significantly affect such sector or group of sectors. This may cause the Fund’s net asset value to fluctuate more than that of a fund that does not focus in a particular sector or group of sectors. U.S. large capitalization companies, and thereby the Fund, have significant exposure to the technology sector. Technology companies face intense competition and potentially rapid product obsolescence. Technology companies are heavily dependent on patent and intellectual property rights, the loss or impairment of which may adversely affect profitability. |
| ● | Early Close/Trading Halt Risk. An exchange or market may close or issue trading halts on specific securities, or the ability to buy or sell certain securities or financial instruments may be restricted, which may prevent the Fund from buying or selling certain securities or financial instruments. In these circumstances, the Fund may be unable to rebalance its portfolio, may be unable to accurately price its investments and may incur substantial trading losses. |
| ● | ETF Structure Risks. The Fund is an ETF, and, as a result of an ETF’s structure, it is exposed to the following risks: |
| ○ | Authorized Participants, Market Makers, and Liquidity Providers Concentration Risk. The Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may act as Authorized Participants (“APs”). In addition, there may be a limited number of market makers and/or liquidity providers in the marketplace. To the extent either of the following events occur, Shares may trade at a material discount to NAV and possibly face delisting: (i) APs exit the business or otherwise become unable to process creation and/or redemption orders and no other APs step forward to perform these services, or (ii) market makers and/or liquidity providers exit the business or significantly reduce their business activities and no other entities step forward to perform their functions. |
| ○ | Costs of Buying or Selling Shares. Due to the costs of buying or selling Shares, including brokerage commissions imposed by brokers and bid-ask spreads, frequent trading of Shares may significantly reduce investment results and an investment in Shares may not be advisable for investors who anticipate regularly making small investments. |
| ○ | Shares May Trade at Prices Other Than NAV. As with all ETFs, Shares may be bought and sold in the secondary market at market prices. Although it is expected that the market price of Shares will approximate the Fund’s NAV, there may be times when the market price of Shares is more than the NAV intra-day (premium) or less than the NAV intra-day (discount) due to supply and demand of Shares or during periods of market volatility. This risk is heightened in times of market volatility, periods of steep market declines, and periods when there is limited trading activity for Shares in the secondary market, in which case such premiums or discounts may be significant. |
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| ○ | Trading. Although Shares are listed for trading on Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc. (the “Exchange”) and may be traded on U.S. exchanges other than the Exchange, there can be no assurance that Shares will trade with any volume, or at all, on any stock exchange. In stressed market conditions, the liquidity of Shares may begin to mirror the liquidity of the Fund’s underlying portfolio holdings, which can be significantly less liquid than Shares, and this could lead to differences between the market price of the Shares and the underlying value of those Shares. |
| ● | Cybersecurity Risk. Cybersecurity incidents may allow an unauthorized party to gain access to Fund assets or proprietary information, or cause the Fund, the adviser, and/or other service providers (including custodians and financial intermediaries) to suffer data breaches or data corruption. Additionally, cybersecurity failures or breaches of the electronic systems of the Fund, the adviser, the Fund’s other service providers, market makers, APs, the Exchange, or the issuers of securities in which the Fund invests have the ability to disrupt and negatively affect the Fund’s business operations, including the ability to purchase and sell Shares, potentially resulting in financial losses to the Fund and its shareholders. |
Performance
As of the date of this Prospectus, the Fund has not yet commenced operations and therefore does not report its performance information. Once available, the Fund’s performance information will be accessible on the Fund’s website at www.True-Shares.com (the website does not form a part of this prospectus) and will provide some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund’s performance and by showing how the Fund’s returns compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Past performance may not indicate future results.
Management
| Adviser: | TrueMark Investments, LLC |
| Portfolio Manager: | Jeffrey Feldman, Portfolio Manager of TrueMark Investments, LLC and Quantitative Risk Manager of RiverNorth Capital Management, LLC, has served the Fund as portfolio manager since it commenced operations in 2025. |
Purchase and Sale of Shares
Shares are listed on the Exchange, and individual Shares may only be bought and sold in the secondary market through brokers at market prices, rather than NAV. Because Shares trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares may trade at a price greater than NAV (premium) or less than NAV (discount).
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The Fund issues and redeems Shares at NAV only in large blocks known as “Creation Units,” which only APs (typically, broker-dealers) may purchase or redeem. The Fund generally issues and redeems Creation Units in exchange for a portfolio of securities and/ or a designated amount of U.S. cash.
Investors may incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase Shares (bid) and the lowest price a seller is willing to accept for Shares (ask) when buying or selling Shares in the secondary market (the “bid-ask spread”). Recent information about the Fund, including its NAV, market price, premiums and discounts, and bid-ask spreads is available on the Fund’s website at www.True-Shares.com.
Tax Information
Fund distributions are generally taxable as ordinary income or capital gains (or a combination), unless your investment is in an IRA or other tax-advantaged account. Distributions on investments made through tax-deferred arrangements may be taxed later upon withdrawal of assets from those accounts.
Financial Intermediary Compensation
If you purchase Shares through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank) (an “Intermediary”), the adviser or its affiliates may pay Intermediaries for certain activities related to the Fund, including participation in activities that are designed to make Intermediaries more knowledgeable about exchange traded products, including the Fund, or for other activities, such as marketing, educational training or other initiatives related to the sale or promotion of Shares. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the Intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment. Any such arrangements do not result in increased Fund expenses. Ask your salesperson or visit the Intermediary’s website for more information.
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