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SUMMARY PROSPECTUS
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Ticker: BRGIX | April 30, 2025 |
Capital Stock
Before you invest, you may want to review the Bridges Investment Fund (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 http://bridgesfund.com/resources/. You can also get this information at no cost by calling 1-866-934-4700. The Fund’s Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information, both dated April 30, 2025, are incorporated by reference into this Summary Prospectus.
Investment Objective: Bridges Investment Fund (the “Fund”) seeks long-term capital appreciation, with a secondary objective of generating a modest amount of current income.
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 tables and examples below.
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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment) | |
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Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering price) | None |
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) on Reinvested Dividends and other Distributions | None |
Redemption Fee (as a percentage of amount redeemed) | None |
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Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) | |
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Management Fees | 0.50 | % |
Distribution (12b-1) Fees | None |
Other Expenses | 0.21 | % |
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses | 0.71 | % |
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 these periods. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
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1 Year | 3 Years | 5 Years | 10 Years |
$73 | $227 | $395 | $883 |
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, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 6.0% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies of the Fund: The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objectives by investing primarily in a diversified portfolio of common stocks, which Fund management believes offers the potential for increased earnings and dividends over time. Normally, such equity securities will represent 60% or more of the Fund’s net assets. However, the overall asset allocation is set by Fund management’s determination of the most attractive risk adjusted return opportunities available in both equity and fixed income securities.
The equity investment approach of Bridges Investment Management, Inc. (“BIM” or the “Adviser”) emphasizes owning securities of the companies in the Fund which it believes offer the best potential for above-average, long-term capital appreciation. The Adviser’s equity investment process focuses on identifying companies which have accelerating revenues, earnings growth, strong dividend growth potential, free cash flow growth, expanding margins and strong balance sheets. Market capitalization or company size is a result of this investment approach rather than an active investment consideration. Historically, the Fund has primarily owned equity securities in larger companies, although at
any time, the Fund may own securities in small, medium, or large size companies. The Fund may also invest in common stocks which the Adviser believes may be cyclically depressed or undervalued, and therefore, may offer potential for capital appreciation. The Fund may, from time to time, have significant exposure to one or more sectors of the market.
In pursuing these principal investment objectives, the Fund may invest up to 15% of its total assets in U.S. dollar-denominated securities of foreign issuers traded on U.S. exchanges, and up to 20% of its total assets in American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) traded on U.S. exchanges or in the U.S. over-the-counter market.
In addition, to generate current income, as part of its principal strategy the Fund may acquire investment grade corporate bonds, debentures, U.S. Treasury bonds and notes, and preferred stocks. Historically, such fixed income securities have not constituted more than 40% of the market value of the Fund’s portfolio and generally represent a small portion of the Fund’s portfolio. When the Fund acquires fixed income securities, the Adviser primarily has two considerations that drive its maturity strategy. First, the Adviser will generally manage the weighted average life of the Fund’s fixed income portfolio given its perception of where value lies at any point in time on the yield curve. Second, the Adviser will manage the weighted average life of the Fund’s fixed income portfolio based on its intermediate to longer-term outlook for interest rates at any point in time.
The allocation of Fund investments among common stocks and other equity securities and bonds and other debt securities (including U.S. Treasury securities) is based on the Adviser’s judgments about the potential returns and risks of each class. The Adviser considers a number of factors when making these allocations, including economic conditions and monetary factors, inflation and interest levels and trends, and fundamental factors (such as price/earnings ratios or growth rates) of individual companies in which the Fund invests.
The Adviser may sell a security or reduce its position if the investment strategy is violated, a more attractively priced security is found, or the security becomes overvalued relative to the long-term expectation.
Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund: The risks associated with an investment in the Fund can increase during times of significant market volatility. There is the risk that you could lose all or a portion of your investment in the Fund. The following risks are considered principal to the Fund and could affect the value of your investment in the Fund:
Equity Securities Risk. Equity securities are susceptible to general stock market fluctuations which may result in volatile increases and decreases in value. The price of equity securities fluctuates based on changes in a company’s financial condition and overall market and economic conditions. These fluctuations may cause a security to be worth less than its cost when originally purchased or less than it was worth at an earlier time.
Large-Cap Investment Risk. Larger, more established companies may be unable to respond quickly to new competitive challenges like changes in consumer tastes or innovative smaller competitors.
Mid-Cap and Small-Cap Investment Risk. Securities of mid-cap and small-cap companies may possess comparatively greater price volatility and less liquidity than the securities of companies that have larger market capitalizations.
Sector Emphasis Risk. From time to time, the Fund may invest 25% or more of its assets in one or more sectors subjecting the Fund to sector emphasis risk. This is the risk that the Fund is subject to a greater risk of loss as a result of adverse economic, business, or other developments affecting a specific sector that the Fund has a focused position in, than if its investments were diversified across a greater number of industry sectors. Some sectors possess particular risks that may not affect other sectors.
The remaining risks are also considered “principal risks” of investing in the Fund, regardless of the order in which they appear.
Asset Allocation Risk: The risk that the Fund’s investment performance may depend, at least in part, on how its assets are allocated and reallocated among asset classes, sectors, underlying funds, and/or investments and that such allocation will focus on asset classes, sectors, underlying funds, or investments that perform poorly or underperform other asset classes, sectors, underlying funds, or available investments.
Debt Securities Risks:
•Credit Risk: The risk that an issuer of a fixed income security will fail to make interest payments or repay principal when due, in whole or in part. Changes in an issuer’s financial strength, the market’s perception of an issuer’s creditworthiness, or in a security’s credit rating may affect a security’s value. In addition, investments in sovereign debt involves a heightened risk that the issuer responsible for repayment of the debt may be unable or unwilling to pay interest and repay principal when due, and the Fund may lack recourse against the issuer in the event of default. Investments in sovereign debt are also subject to the risk that the issuer will default independently of its sovereign. Below investment grade securities (high yield/junk bonds) have speculative characteristics, and changes in economic conditions or other circumstances are more likely to impair the ability of issuers of those securities to make principal and interest payments than is the case with issuers of investment grade securities.
•Interest Rate Risk: The risk that debt instruments will change in value because of changes in interest rates. The value of an instrument with a longer duration (whether positive or negative) will be more sensitive to changes in interest rates than a similar instrument with a shorter duration. Bonds and other debt instruments typically have a positive duration. The value of a debt instrument with positive duration will generally decline if interest rates increase. Certain other investments, such as interest-only securities and certain derivative instruments, may have a negative duration. The value of instruments with a negative duration will generally decline if interest rates decrease. Inverse floaters, interest-only and principal-only securities are especially sensitive to interest rate changes, which can affect not only their prices but can also change the income flows and repayment assumptions about those investments.
Foreign Securities and ADR Risk. Investing in foreign securities and ADRs may involve increased risks including political and economic risks, greater volatility, currency fluctuations, higher transaction costs, and delayed settlement, possible foreign controls on investment, and less stringent investor protection and disclosure standards of foreign markets.
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.
Management Risk: The Fund may not meet its investment objective based on the Adviser’s success or failure to implement investment strategies for the Fund.
Performance: Effective at the close of business on December 31, 2022, the Bridges Investment Fund, Inc., a stand alone entity incorporated in the State of Nebraska (the “Predecessor Fund”), reorganized into the Fund, a series of Professionally Managed Portfolios (the “Reorganization”). Performance information shown prior to the close of business on December 31, 2022 is that of the Predecessor Fund. Additionally, the Fund has adopted the Financial Statements of the Predecessor Fund. The Predecessor Fund had the same portfolio management team, investment objectives and strategies as the Fund. The following bar chart and table provide some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund’s and Predecessor Fund’s performance from year to year and how the Fund’s and Predecessor Fund’s average annual returns over time compare with those of a broad measure of market performance, as well as indices that reflect the market sectors in which the Fund invests. The Fund’s past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future.
Total Return for the Calendar Years Ended December 31
The Fund’s highest and lowest returns for a calendar quarter during the 10-year period shown on the bar chart are a return of 26.30% for the quarter ended June 30, 2020, and -19.75% for the quarter ended June 30, 2022.
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Average Annual Total Returns for the Fund (for the periods ended December 31, 2024) | | | |
| Past One Year | Past Five Years | Past Ten Years |
Return Before Taxes | 27.80% | 15.03% | 12.87% |
Return After Taxes on Distributions | 25.04% | 13.42% | 11.76% |
Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares | 18.58% | 11.85% | 10.51% |
S&P 500® Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes) | 25.02% | 14.53% | 13.10% |
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. Furthermore, after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts (“IRAs”).
Management:
Investment Adviser: Bridges Investment Management, Inc. is the investment adviser for the Fund.
Portfolio Managers: Mr. Jack J. Holmes, CFA, CAP, Chief Investment Officer and Senior Vice President of the Adviser, serves as the lead portfolio manager of the Fund since June 2024. Mr. Connor Pugno, CFA, Senior Research Analyst of the Adviser, serves as a portfolio manager of the Fund since June 2024.
Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares: Investors may purchase Fund shares by mail (Bridges Investment Fund, c/o U.S. Bank Global Fund Services, P.O. Box 219252, Kansas City, MO 64121-9252), or by telephone at 1-866-934-4700. You may redeem your shares of the Fund directly at any time by sending a letter of instruction signed by all account holders. Redemptions by telephone are permitted only if investors receive prior authorization. Transactions will only occur on days the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) is open. Investors who wish to purchase or redeem Fund shares through a financial intermediary should contact the financial intermediary directly for information relative to the purchase or sale of Fund shares. The minimum initial amount of investment in the Fund is $1,000 for all accounts.
Tax Information: The Fund’s distributions are taxable, and 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. Such tax-deferred arrangements may be taxed later upon withdrawal of monies from those 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 and/or the Adviser 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 salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.