Congress SMid Growth ETF
Summary Prospectus | February 28, 2025 Ticker: CSMD Listed on NYSE Arca, Inc. | ||
Before you invest, you may want to review the Fund’s Prospectus, which contains more information about the Fund and its risks. You can find the Fund’s Prospectus, Statement of Additional Information, reports to shareholders, and other information about the Fund online at https://etfs.congressasset.com. You may also obtain this information at no cost by calling 1-888-688-1299 or by sending an email to info@congressasset.com. The Fund’s Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information, both dated February 28, 2025, are incorporated by reference into this Summary Prospectus.
Investment Objective
The Congress SMid Growth ETF (the “SMid Fund” or “Fund”) seeks 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 SMid 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 Expenses (Expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) | |||||
| Management Fees | 0.68 | % | |||
| Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees | 0.00 | % | |||
Other Expenses(1) | 0.00 | % | |||
| Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses | 0.68 | % | |||
(1) Under the Investment Advisory Agreement, Congress Asset Management Company, LLP (the “Advisor”) has agreed to pay all expenses of the Fund except for the fee paid to the Advisor pursuant to the Investment Advisory Agreement, interest charges on any borrowings, taxes, 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 fees and expenses paid by the Fund under any distribution plan adopted pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act.
Example
The Example below is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. This 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% annual 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 | 5 Years | 10 Years | ||||||||
| $69 | $218 | $379 | $847 | ||||||||
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 fund operating expenses or in the Example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year ended October 31, 2024, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 23% of the average value of its portfolio.
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Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund is an actively-managed exchange-traded fund (“ETF”). The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in equity securities of small and mid-capitalization companies (“SMid-capitalization companies”). The Fund invests primarily in publicly traded stocks of U.S. companies which the Advisor considers to have a small to mid-size market capitalization. The Fund defines SMid-capitalization companies as those whose market capitalization, at the time of purchase, are consistent with the market capitalizations of companies in the Russell 2500™ Growth Index. As of the last reconstitution date, June 26, 2024, the market capitalization of companies in the Russell 2500™ Growth Index ranged from $10.95 million to $24.02 billion. The Fund may invest any portion of the remaining 20% of its net assets in equity securities of small-capitalization mid-capitalization and large-capitalization companies. The Fund may invest up to 20% of its total assets in U.S. dollar denominated foreign equity securities, including through American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) and Global Depositary Receipts (“GDRs”) issued by U.S. depository banks, which are traded on U.S. exchanges. The Fund invests in companies that the Advisor believes are experiencing or will experience earnings growth. The Advisor employs a “bottom-up” approach to research and stock selection, which means that the Advisor bases its investments on a company’s future prospects and not on any significant economic or market cycle. The Advisor also uses a growth-style approach to selecting securities with a focus on high quality companies. The Advisor’s fundamental approach emphasizes earnings growth and free cash flow. The Fund may, from time to time, have significant exposure to one or more sectors of the market. The Fund may also invest in other registered investment companies, including ETFs.
The Advisor may sell a security for a number of reasons including, but not limited to, if a determination is made that the security no longer meets its investment criteria or if a new security is judged more attractive than a current holding.
Principal Risks of Investing in the SMid Fund
There is a risk that you could lose all or a portion of your investment in the SMid Fund. The following risks are considered principal to the SMid Fund and could affect the value of your investment in the Fund:
•Mid-Capitalization Investing Risk. The securities of mid-capitalization companies may be more vulnerable to adverse issuer, market, political, or economic developments than securities of large-capitalization companies. The securities of mid-capitalization companies generally trade in lower volumes and are subject to greater and more unpredictable price changes than large capitalization stocks or the stock market as a whole.
•Small-Capitalization Investing Risk. The securities of small-capitalization companies may be more vulnerable to adverse issuer, market, political, or economic developments than securities of large- or mid-capitalization companies. The securities of small-capitalization companies generally trade in lower volumes and are subject to greater and more unpredictable price changes than large- or mid-capitalization stocks or the stock market as a whole. There is typically less publicly available information concerning smaller-capitalization companies than for larger, more established companies.
•Growth Style Investment Risk: Growth stocks may lose value or fall out of favor with investors. Growth stocks may be more sensitive to changes in current or expected earnings than the prices of other stocks.
•Equity Securities Risk: The price of equity securities may rise or fall because of economic or political changes or changes in a company’s financial condition, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably. These price movements may result from factors affecting individual companies, sectors or industries selected for the Fund’s portfolio or the securities market as a whole, such as changes in economic or political conditions.
•Foreign Investment Risk: Foreign securities involve increased risks due to political, social and economic developments abroad, as well as due to differences between U.S. and foreign regulatory practices. When the Fund invests in ADRs as a substitute for an investment directly in the underlying foreign shares, the Fund is exposed to the risk that the ADRs may not provide a return that corresponds precisely with that of the underlying foreign shares. GDRs generally are subject to the same risks as the foreign securities that they evidence or into which they may be converted.
•Sector-Focus Risk: Investing a significant portion of the Fund’s assets in one sector of the market exposes the Fund to greater market risk and potential monetary losses than if those assets were spread among various sectors.
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The remaining principal risks are presented in alphabetical order. Each risk summarized below is considered a “principal risk” of investing in the SMid Fund, regardless of the order in which it appears.
•ETF 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.
◦Trading: Although Shares are listed for trading on NYSE Arca, 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.
•General Market Risk: Economies and financial markets throughout the world are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the likelihood that events or conditions in one country or region will adversely impact markets or issuers in other countries or regions. Securities in the Fund’s portfolio may underperform in comparison to securities in the general financial markets, a particular financial market, or other asset classes due to a number of factors, including: inflation (or expectations for inflation); deflation (or expectations for deflation); interest rates; global demand for particular products or resources; natural disasters or events; pandemic diseases; terrorism; regulatory events; other governmental trade or market control programs and related geopolitical events. In addition, the value of the Fund’s investments may be negatively affected by the occurrence of global events such as war, terrorism, environmental disasters, natural disasters or events, country instability, and infectious disease epidemics or pandemics.
•Large Companies Risk: Larger, more established companies may be unable to respond quickly to new competitive challenges like changes in consumer tastes or innovative smaller competitors. Also, large‑cap companies are sometimes unable to attain the high growth rates of successful, smaller companies, especially during extended periods of economic expansion.
•Investments in Other Investment Companies: To the extent the Fund invests in shares of other investment companies, you will indirectly bear fees and expenses charged by those investment companies and will be subject to the risks that those investment companies are subject to.
•Management Risk: The Fund is actively-managed and may not meet its investment objective based on the Advisor’s success or failure to implement investment strategies for the Fund.
•Newer Fund Risk: The Fund is a recently organized investment company with a limited operating history. As a result, prospective investors have a limited track record and history on which to base their investment decision.
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Performance Information
The following performance information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart below illustrates the SMid Growth ETF’s total returns. The table below illustrates how the Fund’s average annual total returns for the 1‑year and since inception periods compare with a domestic broad‑based market index and a secondary index provided to offer a broader market perspective. The Fund’s performance, before and after taxes, is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future. Updated performance information is available on the Fund’s website at https://etfs.congressasset.com/smid-growth-etf.html.
Congress SMid Growth ETF
Calendar Year Total Return as of December 31
| Highest Quarterly Return: | 3/31/2024 | 12.50 | % | |||||
Lowest Quarterly Return: | 6/30/2024 | -4.29 | % | |||||
Average Annual Total Returns as of December 31, 2024 | ||||||||
| 1 Year | Since Inception (8/21/2023) | |||||||
| Return Before Taxes | 12.14% | 14.02% | ||||||
| Return After Taxes on Distributions | 12.14% | 14.02% | ||||||
| Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares | 7.19% | 10.74% | ||||||
Russell 2500 Growth Total Return (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes) | 13.90% | 17.23% | ||||||
S&P 500® Total Return (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes) | 25.02% | 25.55% | ||||||
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 your situation and may differ from those shown. Furthermore, the after‑tax returns shown are not relevant to those who hold their shares through tax‑deferred arrangements such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts (“IRAs”).
The “Return After Taxes on Distributions” shows the effect of taxable distributions (dividends and capital gains distributions), but assumes that you still hold Fund shares at the end of the period. The “Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares” shows the effect of both taxable distributions and any taxable gain or loss that would be realized if a Fund’s shares were sold at the end of the specified period.
Investment Advisor
Congress Asset Management Company, LLP.
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Portfolio Managers
Nancy T. Huynh, Senior Vice President, Advisor; Portfolio Manager for the Fund since its inception in August 2023, and Chair of the SMid Growth Investment Policy Committee.
Daniel A. Lagan, CFA, CEO/CIO, Advisor; Portfolio Manager for the Fund since its inception in August 2023, and co-Chair of the SMid Growth Investment Policy Committee.
Purchase and Sale of Fund 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).
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 https://etfs.congressasset.com/smid-growth-etf.html
Tax Information
The Fund’s distributions will be taxed as ordinary income or capital gains, unless you are investing through a tax‑deferred arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account. Distributions on investments made through tax-deferred arrangements may be taxed later upon withdrawal of assets from those accounts.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase Shares through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank) (an “Intermediary”), the Advisor 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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