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Principal Street High Income
Municipal Fund
Institutional
Class – GSTAX
Investor
Class – GSTEX
A
Class – GSTFX
Principal Street Short Term
Municipal Fund
Investor
Class – PSTEX
Institutional
Class – PSTYX
Prospectus
December 29,
2023
The
SEC has not approved or disapproved of these securities or determined if this
Prospectus is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a
criminal offense.
Principal
Street High Income Municipal Fund
Principal
Street Short Term Municipal Fund
Each
a series of Managed Portfolio Series (the “Trust”)
Principal
Street High Income Municipal Fund
Investment
Objective
The
Principal Street High Income Municipal Fund’s (the “High Income Fund” or “Fund”)
primary investment objective is to provide current income exempt from regular
federal income tax. The Fund’s secondary
investment objective is to seek total return.
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
Examples below.
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Shareholder
Fees
(fees
paid directly from your investment) |
A
Class |
Investor Class |
Institutional
Class |
Maximum
Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases |
3.25% |
None |
None |
Maximum
Front-End Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of the
offering price) |
2.25% |
None |
None |
Maximum
Deferred Sales Charge (Load)
(as
a percentage of initial investment or the value of the investment at
redemption, whichever is lower)(1) |
1.00% |
None |
None |
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Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses
that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment) |
A
Class |
Investor
Class |
Institutional Class |
Management
Fees |
0.55% |
0.55% |
0.55% |
Distribution and Service (Rule 12b-1) Fees |
0.25% |
0.50% |
None |
Other
Expenses |
0.26% |
0.26% |
0.26% |
Interest
Expense(2) |
0.23% |
0.23% |
0.23% |
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses |
1.29% |
1.54% |
1.04% |
Less:
Expense Reimbursement |
-0.01% |
-0.01% |
-0.01% |
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Expenses Reimbursement(3)(4)(5) |
1.28% |
1.53% |
1.03% |
(1) A
contingent deferred sales charge (“CDSC”) of up to 1.00% may be imposed on A
Class purchases of $1 million or more that are redeemed within 18 months of
purchase. The CDSC will be reduced in the circumstances described in the
Contingent Deferred Sales Charge and Dealer Reallowance – A Class Shares section
on page 20 of this Prospectus.
(2) Reflects
interest expense paid in connection with borrowing against the Fund’s line of
credit.
(3) Principal
Street Partners, LLC (the “Adviser”) has contractually agreed to reduce its
management fees, and may reimburse the Fund for its operating expenses, in order
to ensure that Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses (excluding certain expenses
such as Rule 12b-1 fees, taxes, leverage/borrowing interest, interest expense,
dividends paid on short sales, brokerage commissions and other transactional
expenses, acquired fund fees and expenses (“AFFE”), or extraordinary expenses
(“Excluded Expenses”)) do not exceed 0.80% of the Fund’s average daily net
assets. Fees waived and expenses paid by the Adviser may be recouped by the
Adviser for a period of 36 months following the month during which such fee
waiver and/or expense payment was made, if such recoupment can be achieved
without exceeding the expense limit in effect at the time the fee waiver and/or
expense payment occurred and
the
expense limit in place at the time of recoupment. The Operating Expenses
Limitation Agreement is indefinite, but cannot be terminated through at least
December 29,
2024. Thereafter, the agreement may be terminated at any time
upon 60 days’ written notice by the Trust’s Board of Trustees (the “Board”) or
the Adviser.
(4) For
the period prior to February 15, 2023, the Adviser had
contractually agreed to reduce its management fees, and/or reimburse the Fund
for its operating expenses, in order to ensure that Total Annual Fund Operating
Expenses (excluding Excluded Expenses) do not exceed 0.73% of the Fund’s average
daily net assets.
(5) Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and Expense Reimbursement
includes Interest Expense of 0.23%, which is an excluded
expense.
Example
This Example is intended to help you compare the costs 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 (taking into account the expense
limitation for one year). Although your actual
costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions, your costs would
be:
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Year |
Three
Years |
Five
Years |
Ten
Years |
A
Class (assuming no sale of shares) |
$352 |
$624 |
$916 |
$1,746 |
A
Class (assuming sale of all shares at end of period) |
$452 |
$624 |
$916 |
$1,746 |
Investor
Class |
$156 |
$485 |
$838 |
$1,834 |
Institutional
Class |
$105 |
$330 |
$573 |
$1,270 |
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 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 21% of the average value of its
portfolio.
Principal Investment
Strategies
Under
normal market conditions, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its total assets
in tax exempt debt securities. The Fund expects to invest the majority of its
assets in debt securities that are rated below investment grade (or “junk
bonds”), including unrated securities, but may invest up to 40% of its total
assets in investment grade debt securities. The Fund may invest without limit in
municipal securities issued by or on behalf of states and local governmental
authorities throughout the United States and its territories. Municipal
securities include, among others, private activity bonds and industrial
development bonds, as well as general obligation notes, tax anticipation notes,
bond anticipation notes, revenue anticipation notes, other short-term tax-exempt
obligations, municipal leases, obligations of municipal housing authorities,
zero coupon bonds and single-family revenue bonds. The Fund may invest in all
types of municipal bonds that are exempt from federal income tax, but not
necessarily the federal alternative minimum tax (the “AMT”). The Adviser’s
security selection process focuses primarily on project revenue bonds in five
broad sectors: healthcare; education; housing; transportation; and power, but
may also include debt of distressed municipalities.
The
Fund may employ effective leverage through investment in municipal securities
whose interest payments vary inversely with changes in short-term tax-exempt
interest rates (“Inverse
Floaters”). Inverse Floaters provide leveraged exposure to underlying municipal
bonds. These investments are speculative, however, and also create the
possibility that income and returns will be diminished. The Fund may also invest
in defaulted municipal bonds, debt securities issued in accordance with Rule
144A (“Rule
144A
Securities”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities
Act”), restricted securities and illiquid securities.
The
Fund’s investments in debt securities may have fixed or variable principal
payments. The Fund’s investments may have varied interest rate payment and reset
terms, including fixed and floating rates, inverse floating rate, contingent,
deferred, payment in kind and auction rate features. The Fund will typically not
invest more than 5% of its assets, at the time of investment, in the securities
of any one obligor. From time to time the Fund may focus its investments in the
securities of issuers in the same economic sector. The Fund may invest in debt
securities with any maturity or duration.
In
selecting securities for the Fund, the Adviser employs a top-down/bottom-up
research approach with an emphasis on analyzing the stand-alone credit,
including financials, bond covenants, management team, and underlying asset
value. The Adviser believes that the below investment grade universe represents
some of the best value in the fixed income markets.
Additionally,
the Fund may utilize leverage (i.e., borrow against a line of credit) as part of the portfolio management
process. The Fund may borrow up to one third of the value of its assets for
investment purposes.
Principal
Risks
As
with any mutual fund, there are risks to investing. An investment in the Fund
is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation ("FDIC") or any other governmental
agency. In addition to
possibly not achieving your investment goals,
you
could lose a portion of your investment in the Fund over short or even long
periods of time. The principal risks of investing in the Fund
are:
General
Market Risk. The
Fund’s net asset value and investment return will fluctuate based upon changes
in the value of its portfolio securities. Certain securities selected for the
Fund’s portfolio may be worth less than the price originally paid for them, or
less than they were worth at an earlier
time.
Management
Risk. The
Fund may not meet its investment objective or may underperform the market or
other mutual funds with similar strategies if the Adviser cannot successfully
implement the Fund’s investment
strategies.
Municipal
Securities Risk.
The municipal market is volatile and can be significantly affected by adverse
tax, legislative or political changes and the financial condition of the issuers
of municipal securities. Changes in a municipality’s financial health may
make it difficult for the municipality to make interest and principal payments
when due. Failure of a municipal security issuer to comply with applicable tax
requirements may make income paid thereon taxable, resulting in a decline in the
security’s value. In addition, there could be changes in applicable tax laws or
tax treatments that reduce or eliminate the current federal income tax exemption
on municipal securities or otherwise adversely affect the current federal or
state tax status of municipal securities. A number of municipalities have had
significant financial problems recently, and these and other municipalities
could, potentially, continue to experience significant financial problems
resulting from lower tax revenues and/or decreased aid from state and local
governments in the event of an economic downturn. This could decrease the Fund’s
income or hurt the ability to preserve capital and
liquidity.
Fixed-Income
Securities Risks.
Fixed-income securities are or may be subject to interest rate, credit,
liquidity, prepayment and extension risks. Interest rates may go up resulting in
a decrease in the value of the fixed-income securities held by the Fund. Credit
risk is the risk that an issuer will not make timely payments of principal and
interest. There is also the risk that an issuer may “call,” or repay, its high
yielding bonds before their maturity dates. Fixed-income securities subject to
prepayment can offer less potential for gains during a declining interest rate
environment and similar or greater potential for loss in a rising interest rate
environment. Limited trading opportunities for certain fixed-income securities
may
make
it more difficult to sell or buy a security at a favorable price or time.
Changes in market conditions and government policies may lead to periods of
heightened volatility and reduced liquidity in the fixed-income securities
market, and could result in an increase in Fund redemptions. Interest rate
changes and their impact on the Fund and its share price can be sudden and
unpredictable.
•Call
Risk. During periods of declining interest rates, a bond issuer may
“call,” or repay, its high yielding bonds before their maturity dates. In this
event a Fund would then be forced to invest the unanticipated proceeds at lower
interest rates, resulting in a decline in its income.
•Credit
Risk. Fixed-income securities are generally subject to the risk that the
issuer may be unable or unwilling to make principal and interest payments when
they are due. Lower rated fixed-income securities involve greater credit risk,
including the possibility of default or bankruptcy.
•Interest
Rate Risk. In
times of rising interest rates, bond prices will decline. Generally, securities
with longer maturities and funds with longer weighted average maturities carry
greater interest rate risk.
The
Fund may be exposed to heightened interest rate risk as interest rates rise from
historically low levels.
•Extension
Risk.
In times of rising interest rates, prepayments will slow causing portfolio
securities considered short or intermediate term to be long-term securities,
which fluctuate more widely in response to changes in interest rates than
shorter term securities.
•Liquidity
Risk.
There may be no willing buyer of the Fund’s portfolio securities and the Fund
may have to sell those securities at a lower price or may not be able to sell
the securities at all, each of which would have a negative effect on
performance.
•Prepayment
Risk.
In times of declining interest rates, the Fund’s higher yielding securities may
be prepaid and the Fund may have to replace them with securities having a lower
yield.
•Duration
Risk.
The Fund can invest in securities of any maturity or duration. Holding long
duration and long maturity investments will magnify certain risks, including
interest rate risk and credit
risk.
High-Yield
Fixed-Income Securities Risk.
High-yield fixed income securities or “junk bonds” are fixed-income securities
held by the Fund that are rated below investment grade are subject to additional
risk factors such as increased possibility of default, illiquidity of the
security, and changes in value based on public perception of the issuer. Such
securities are generally considered speculative because they present a greater
risk of loss, including default, than higher quality debt
securities.
Restricted
Securities Risk.
The Fund may invest in restricted securities (securities with limited
transferability under the securities laws) acquired from the issuer in “private
placement” transactions. Private placement securities are not registered under
the Securities Act, and are subject to restrictions on resale. They are eligible
for sale only to certain qualified institutional buyers, like the Fund, and are
not sold on a trading market or exchange. While private placement securities
offer attractive investment opportunities otherwise not available on an open
market, because such securities are available to few buyers, they are often both
difficult to sell and to value.
Unrated
Securities Risk. Because the Fund purchases securities that are not rated by any
nationally recognized statistical rating organization, the Adviser may
internally assign ratings to those securities, after assessing their credit
quality and other factors, in categories similar to those of nationally
recognized statistical rating organizations. There can be no assurance, nor is
it intended, that the Adviser's credit analysis process is consistent or
comparable with the credit analysis process used by a nationally recognized
statistical rating organization. The Adviser’s rating does not constitute a
guarantee of the credit quality.
Floating
Rate/Variable Rate Obligations Risk.
Some municipal securities have variable or floating interest rates. Variable
rates are adjustable at stated periodic intervals. Because of the interest rate
adjustment feature, floating and variable rate securities provide an investor
with a certain degree of
protection
against rises in interest rates, although the Fund will participate in any
declines in interest rates as well. Generally, changes in interest rates will
have a smaller effect on the market value of floating and variable rate
securities than on the market value of comparable fixed-income obligations.
Thus, investing in floating and variable rate securities generally allows less
opportunity for capital appreciation and depreciation than investing in
comparable fixed-income securities.
Valuation
Risk.
The price the Fund could receive upon the sale of any particular portfolio
investment may differ from the Fund’s valuation of the investment, particularly
for securities that trade in thin or volatile markets or that are valued using a
fair valuation methodology or a price provided by an independent pricing
service. As a result, the Fund could realize a greater than expected loss or
lesser than expected gain upon the sale of the investment. Unlike equity
securities, which are valued using market quotations, the municipal bonds in
which the Fund primarily invests are fixed income securities which are typically
valued by independent pricing services utilizing a range of market-based and
security specific inputs and assumptions, including price quotations from
broker-dealers making markets in such instruments, transactions in comparable
investments and considerations about general market conditions. The Fund’s
ability to value its investments may also be impacted by technological issues
and/or errors by pricing services or other third-party service
providers.
Tax
Risks.
Municipal securities may decrease in value during times when federal income tax
rates are falling. The Fund’s investments are affected by changes in
federal income tax rates applicable to, or the continuing federal tax exempt
status of, interest income on municipal obligations. Any proposed or actual
changes in such rates or exempt status, therefore, can significantly affect the
liquidity, marketability and supply and demand for municipal obligations, which
would in turn affect the Fund’s ability to acquire and dispose of municipal
obligations at desirable yield and price levels. If you are subject to the
federal AMT, you may have to pay federal tax on a portion of your distributions
from tax exempt income. If this is the case, the Fund’s net after-tax return to
you may be lower. The Fund would typically not be a suitable investment for
investors investing through tax exempt or tax-deferred
accounts.
Sector
Emphasis Risk.
The securities of issuers in the same or related businesses (“industry
sectors”), if comprising a significant portion of the Fund’s portfolio, may in
some circumstances react negatively to market conditions, interest rates and
economic, regulatory or financial developments and adversely affect the value of
the portfolio to a greater extent than if such securities comprised a lesser
portion of the Fund’s portfolio or the Fund’s portfolio was diversified across a
greater number of industry sectors. Some industry sectors have particular risks
that may not affect other sectors.
Zero-Coupon
Bonds Risk.
Zero-coupon bonds do not pay interest on a current basis and may be highly
volatile as interest rates rise or fall. The higher yields and interest rates on
pay-in-kind securities reflect the payment deferral and increased credit risk
associated with such instruments and that such investments may represent a
higher credit risk than loans that periodically pay
interest.
Inverse
Floaters Risk. The use of inverse floaters by the Fund creates effective leverage.
Due to the leveraged nature of these investments, they will typically be more
volatile and involve greater risk than the fixed rate municipal bonds underlying
the inverse floaters. The price of Inverse Floaters is expected to decline when
interest rates rise, and generally will decline further than the price of a bond
with a similar maturity. An investment in certain inverse floaters will involve
the risk that the Fund could lose more than its original principal
investment.
Leverage
Risk. The use of leverage will allow the Fund to make additional
investments, thereby increasing its exposure to assets, such that its total
assets may be greater than its capital. However, leverage will also magnify the
volatility of changes in the value of the Fund’s portfolio. The effect of the
use of leverage by the Fund in a market that moves adversely to its investments
could result in substantial losses to the Fund, which would be greater than if
the Fund were not leveraged.
Defaulted
Bonds Risk.
Defaulted bonds are subject to greater risk of loss of income and principal than
higher rated securities and are considered speculative. In the event of a
default, the Fund may incur additional expenses to seek recovery. The repayment
of defaulted bonds is subject to significant uncertainties, and in some cases,
there may be no recovery of repayment. Defaulted bonds might be repaid only
after lengthy workout or bankruptcy proceedings, during which the issuer might
not make any interest or other payments. Workout or bankruptcy proceedings
typically result in only partial recovery of cash payments or an exchange of the
defaulted bond for other securities of the issuer or its affiliates, which may
in turn be illiquid or speculative.
Rule
144A Securities Risk.
The market for Rule 144A securities typically is less active than the market for
publicly-traded securities. Rule 144A securities carry the risk that the
liquidity of these securities may become impaired, making it more difficult for
the Fund to sell these bonds.
Liquidity
Risk. Liquidity
risk occurs when certain investments become difficult to purchase or sell.
Difficulty in selling less liquid securities may result in sales at
disadvantageous prices affecting the value of your investment in the Fund.
Liquid securities can become illiquid during periods of market stress. If a
significant amount of the Fund’s securities become illiquid, the Fund may not be
able to timely pay redemption proceeds and may need to sell securities at
significantly reduced prices.
Deferred
Interest and Payment In Kind Securities Risks.
Because these securities bear no interest and compound semiannually at the rate
fixed at the time of issuance, their value generally is more volatile than the
value of other fixed income securities. Accordingly, these securities may
involve greater credit risks and their value is subject to greater fluctuation
in response to changes in market interest rates than other fixed income
securities.
Auction
Rate Securities Risks.
While the auction rate process is designed to permit the holder to sell the
auction rate securities in an auction at par value at specified intervals, there
is the risk that an auction will fail due to insufficient demand for the
securities. Failed auctions may adversely impact the liquidity of auction rate
securities investments. Auction rate securities may also be subject to changes
in interest rates, including decreased interest rates. Although some issuers of
auction rate securities are redeeming or are considering redeeming such
securities, such issuers are not obligated to do so and, therefore, there is no
guarantee that a liquid market will exist for a Fund’s investments in auction
rate securities at a time when the Fund wishes to dispose of such
securities.
LIBOR
Risk. Changes
related to the use of the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) or similar
interbank offered rates could have adverse impacts on financial instruments that
reference LIBOR or a similar rate. While some instruments may contemplate a
scenario where LIBOR or a similar rate is no longer available by providing for
an alternative rate setting methodology, not all instruments have such fallback
provisions and the effectiveness of replacement rates is uncertain. The
abandonment of LIBOR and similar rates could affect the value and liquidity of
instruments that reference such rates, especially those that do not have
fallback provisions. The use of alternative reference rate products may impact
investment strategy performance.
Performance
The accompanying
bar chart and table provide some indication of the risks of investing in the
Fund by showing how the Fund’s total returns have varied from
year-to-year. Figures shown in the bar chart are for the Fund’s
Institutional Class. Following the bar chart are the Fund’s highest and lowest
quarterly returns during the period shown in the bar chart. The performance
table that follows shows how the Fund’s average annual total returns over time
compare with a broad-based securities market index. Past performance
(before and after taxes) will not necessarily continue in the
future. Investor Class and A Class shares have similar annual
returns to Institutional Class shares because the classes are invested in the
same portfolio of securities. However, the returns for Investor Class and A
Class shares are lower than Institutional Class shares because Investor Class
and A Class shares have higher expenses and A Class
shares
are subject to a load. Updated performance information is available on the
Fund’s website at https://principalstreetfunds.com/funds/
or by calling the Fund toll free at 1-877-914-7343.
Calendar Year Total Returns
as of December 31 - Institutional Class
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Worst
Quarter |
Q2 2021 4.03% |
Q1 2020 -11.03% |
Year-to-Date as of
September 30,
2023 |
-1.09% |
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Average Annual
Total Returns for the periods ended December 31,
2022 |
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Year |
Five
Years |
Since
Inception
(9/15/2017) |
Institutional
Class |
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Return Before
Taxes |
-13.34% |
0.24% |
0.61% |
Return After
Taxes on Distributions |
-13.52% |
-0.09% |
0.29% |
Return After
Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares |
-5.94% |
1.43% |
1.71% |
Investor
Class(1) |
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Return Before
Taxes |
-13.82% |
-0.17% |
0.20% |
A
Class(2) |
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Return Before
Taxes |
-15.85% |
-0.54% |
-0.15% |
Bloomberg
High Yield Municipal Bond Index |
-13.10% |
2.63% |
2.77% |
(1)Investor
Class commenced operations on March 23, 2020.
Performance for the Investor Class prior to that date is based on the
performance of the Institutional Class, adjusted for the higher expenses
applicable to the Investor Class.
(2)A
Class commenced operations on February 16, 2022.
Performance for the A Class prior to that date is based on the performance of
the Institutional Class, adjusted for the higher expenses applicable to the A
Class.
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-advantaged arrangements such as
401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts
(“IRAs”).
The Return After Taxes on
Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares is higher than other return figures when a
capital loss occurs upon redemption and provides an assumed tax deduction that
benefits the investor.
Management
Investment
Adviser
Principal
Street Partners, LLC is the Fund’s investment adviser.
Portfolio
Managers
Troy
E. Willis, J.D., CFA, Senior Portfolio Manager of the Adviser, and Charlie S.
Pulire, CFA, Senior Portfolio Manager of the Adviser, are responsible for the
day-to-day management of the Fund. Mr. Willis has been portfolio manager of the
Fund since January 2021. Mr. Pulire has been a portfolio manager of the
Fund since March 2022.
Purchase
and Sale of Fund Shares
You
may purchase, redeem or exchange Fund shares on any day that the New York Stock
Exchange (“NYSE”) is open for business by written request via mail (Principal
Street High Income Municipal Fund, c/o U.S. Bank Global Fund Services, P.O.
Box 701, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201-0701), by contacting the Fund by telephone
at 1-877-914-7343 or through a financial intermediary. You may also purchase or
redeem Fund shares by wire transfer. Investors who wish to purchase, redeem or
exchange Fund shares through a financial intermediary should contact the
financial intermediary directly. The Fund’s minimum initial and subsequent
investments are shown below. The Adviser may reduce or waive the minimums in its
discretion.
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Initial
Investments |
Minimum
Subsequent
Investments |
Investor
Class |
$1,000 |
$100 |
Institutional
Class |
$1,000,000 |
$1,000 |
A
Class |
$25,000 |
$1,000 |
Tax
Information
Distributions
reported by the Fund as "exempt-interest dividends" are exempt from regular
federal income tax but may be subject to state or local income taxes and may be
tax preference items for purposes of the AMT. Distributions of the Fund's
capital gains are generally subject to tax.
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 or financial advisor), the Fund and/or its 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.
Principal
Street Short Term Municipal Fund
Investment
Objective
The
Principal Street Short Term Municipal Fund’s (the “Short Term Fund” or “Fund”)
primary investment objective is to provide current income exempt from regular
federal income tax.
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 example below.
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Annual
Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses
that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment) |
Investor Class |
Institutional Class |
Management
Fees |
0.45% |
0.45% |
Distribution
and Service (Rule 12b-1) Fees |
0.25% |
None |
Other
Expenses |
0.67% |
0.63% |
Interest
Expense |
0.00% |
0.01% |
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses |
1.37% |
1.09% |
Less:
Fee Waiver (1) |
-0.42% |
-0.38% |
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and Expense Reimbursement
(1)(2)
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0.95% |
0.71% |
(1) Principal
Street Partners, LLC (the “Adviser”) has contractually agreed to reduce its
management fees, and may reimburse the Fund for its operating expenses, in order
to ensure that Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses (excluding certain expenses
such as Rule 12b-1 fees, taxes, leverage/borrowing interest, interest expense,
dividends paid on short sales, brokerage commissions and other transactional
expenses, acquired fund fees and expenses (“AFFE”), or extraordinary expenses)
do not exceed 0.70% of the Fund’s average daily net assets. Fees waived and
expenses paid by the Adviser may be recouped by the Adviser for a period of 36
months following the day on which such fee waiver and/or expense payment was
made, if such recoupment can be achieved without exceeding the expense limit in
effect at the time the fee waiver and/or expense payment occurred and the
expense limit in place at the time of recoupment. The Operating Expenses
Limitation Agreement is indefinite, but cannot be terminated through at least
December 29,
2024. Thereafter, the agreement may be terminated at any time
upon 60 days’ written notice by the Trust’s Board of Trustees (the “Board”) or
the Adviser.
(2) Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and Expense Reimbursement for
Institutional Class shares includes Interest Expense of 0.01%, which is an
excluded expense.
Example
This Example is intended to help you compare the costs 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 (taking into account the expense
limitation for one year). Although your actual
costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions, your costs would
be:
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$73 |
$309 |
$564 |
$1,295 |
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
annual fund operating expenses or in the Example, affect the Fund’s
performance. Portfolio turnover rate for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2023
was 75%.
Principal Investment
Strategies
Under
normal market conditions, and as a fundamental policy, the Fund will invest at
least 80% of its total assets (plus borrowings for investment purposes) in
municipal debt securities, the income from which is exempt from federal regular
individual income tax. The Fund may invest in all types of municipal bonds that
are exempt from federal income tax, but may not invest more than 15% of its net
assets in securities that produce income subject to the federal alternative
minimum tax (the “AMT”). The Adviser’s security selection process focuses
primarily on tax free income-producing securities across sectors and industries.
The
Fund’s investments in debt securities may have fixed or variable principal
payments. The Fund’s investments may have varied interest rate payment and reset
terms, including fixed and floating rates, contingent, deferred, payment in kind
and auction rate features. These various features are evaluated in the Adviser’s
selection process in the context of certain factors, such as current economic
conditions and the current composition of the portfolio. From time to time the
Fund may focus its investments in the securities of issuers in the same economic
sector, with such focus occurring when a particular sector offers the most
opportunities for value. The Fund may invest in debt securities with any
maturity or duration.
The
Fund seeks to maintain a dollar-weighted average effective portfolio maturity of
three (3) years or less; however, it can buy securities that have short,
intermediate or long maturities. A substantial percentage (i.e.,
as much as market opportunities will permit) of the securities the Fund buys may
be “callable,” meaning that the issuer can redeem them before their maturity
date. Because of events affecting the bond markets and interest rate changes,
the effective portfolio maturity might not meet that target for temporary
periods.
The
Fund will not invest more than 10% of its total assets in securities that are
rated below investment grade (sometimes referred to as "junk bonds") by a
nationally recognized statistical rating organization, such as Standard &
Poor's, or, if unrated, assigned a comparable rating by the Adviser, Principal
Street Partners LLC. The Fund also will not invest more than 20% of its total
assets in securities rated below the top three investment grade categories. For
unrated securities, the Adviser may internally assign ratings to those
securities in investment-grade or below-investment-grade categories similar to
those of nationally recognized statistical rating organizations, after assessing
their credit quality and other factors typically utilized by the nationally
recognized statistical rating organizations, such as probability of default
calculations. There can be no assurance, nor is it intended, that the Adviser's
credit analysis process is consistent or comparable with the credit analysis
process used by a nationally recognized statistical rating organization. The
Fund will not invest more than 10% of its total assets in securities that are
unrated by a nationally recognized statistical rating organization, which
includes private placement and restricted securities that are unrated. However,
this limitation does not apply to an unrated security that the Adviser, in its
discretion, determines to be comparable to another security (i) that has
substantially similar characteristics, (ii) that is comparable in priority and
security (if applicable), (iii) that is issued by the same issuer or guaranteed
by the same guarantor, and (iv) that is rated by a nationally recognized
statistical rating organization.
In
selecting investments for the Fund, the portfolio managers look for high current
income; favorable credit characteristics (e.g.,
willingness and ability to make payments, credit history, etc.);
a wide range of issuers including different municipalities, agencies, sectors
and revenue sources (e.g.,
property tax receipts, sales tax receipts, etc.);
unrated bonds or securities of smaller issuers that might be overlooked by other
investors, which are typically bonds that are non-rated and trade on secondary
markets; and special situations that may offer high current income or
opportunities for value because such issuers are facing distressed financial or
operating circumstances, but the bonds may additionally have specifically
pledged security interest or other credit enhancements which deem them
attractive to the portfolio
managers.
The portfolio managers may consider selling a security if any of these factors
no longer apply, but are not required to do so.
In
selecting securities for the Fund, the Adviser employs a bottom-up research
approach with an emphasis on analyzing the stand-alone credit, including
financials, bond covenants, management team, and underlying asset value. The
above factors are generally applied uniformly to all bond types being evaluated,
as the Fund’s strategy seeks to identify the best value opportunities regardless
of bond type.
Additionally,
the Fund may utilize leverage (i.e.,
borrow against a line of credit) as part of the portfolio management process
when the Adviser identifies viable investment opportunities that would not
otherwise be possible. The Fund may borrow up to one third of the value of its
assets for investment purposes.
The Fund is a non-diversified fund which means that it may invest
more of its assets in fewer issuers than “diversified” mutual funds and, as a
result, each position will have a greater impact on the Fund’s returns than
would be the case for a “diversified” mutual fund.
Principal
Risks
As
with any mutual fund, there are risks to investing. An investment in the
Fund is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation ("FDIC") or any other governmental
agency. As with all funds, a shareholder of the
Fund is subject to the risk that his or her investment could lose
money. The principal risks of investing in the Fund
are:
General
Market Risk. The
Fund’s net asset value and investment return will fluctuate based upon changes
in the value of its portfolio securities. Certain
securities selected for the Fund’s portfolio may be worth less than the price
originally paid for them, or less than they were worth at an earlier
time.
Management
Risk. The
Fund may not meet its investment objective or may underperform the market or
other mutual funds with similar strategies if the Adviser cannot successfully
implement the Fund’s investment strategies or if the Adviser makes poor strategy
choices and/or individual investment
decisions.
Municipal
Securities Risk.
The municipal market is volatile and can be significantly affected by adverse
tax, legislative or political changes and the financial condition of the issuers
of municipal securities. Changes in a municipality’s financial health may
make it difficult for the municipality to make interest and principal payments
when due. Failure of a municipal security issuer to comply with applicable tax
requirements may make income paid thereon taxable, resulting in a decline in the
security’s value. In addition, there could be changes in applicable tax laws or
tax treatments that reduce or eliminate the current federal income tax exemption
on municipal securities or otherwise adversely affect the current federal or
state tax status of municipal securities. A number of municipalities have had
significant financial problems recently, and these and other municipalities
could, potentially, continue to experience significant financial problems
resulting from lower tax revenues and/or decreased aid from state and local
governments in the event of an economic downturn. This could decrease the Fund’s
income or hurt the ability to preserve capital and
liquidity.
Fixed-Income
Securities Risks.
Fixed-income securities are or may be subject to interest rate, credit,
liquidity, prepayment and extension risks. Interest rates may go up resulting in
a decrease in the value of the fixed-income securities held by the Fund. Credit
risk is the risk that an issuer will not make timely payments of principal and
interest. There is also the risk that an issuer may “call,” or repay, its high
yielding bonds before their maturity dates. Fixed-income securities subject to
prepayment can offer less potential for gains during a declining interest rate
environment and similar or greater potential for loss in a rising interest rate
environment. Limited trading opportunities for certain fixed-income securities
may make it more difficult to sell or buy a security at a favorable price or
time. Changes in market conditions and government policies may lead to periods
of heightened volatility and reduced liquidity in the
fixed-
income
securities market, and could result in an increase in Fund redemptions. Interest
rate changes and their impact on the Fund and its share price can be sudden and
unpredictable.
•Call
Risk.
During periods of declining interest rates, a bond issuer may “call,” or repay,
its high yielding bonds before their maturity dates. In this event a Fund would
then be forced to invest the unanticipated proceeds at lower interest rates,
resulting in a decline in its income.
•Credit
Risk.
Fixed-income securities are generally subject to the risk that the issuer may be
unable or unwilling to make principal and interest payments when they are due.
Lower rated fixed-income securities involve greater credit risk, including the
possibility of default or bankruptcy.
•Interest
Rate Risk. In
times of rising interest rates, bond prices will decline. Generally,
securities with longer maturities and funds with longer weighted average
maturities and therefore higher durations carry greater interest rate
risk.
For example, if interest rates increase by 1%, the market value of a
portfolio with a duration of three years would decline by approximately 3%. The
Fund may be exposed to heightened interest rate risk as interest rates rise from
historically low levels.
•Extension
Risk. In times of rising interest rates, prepayments will slow causing
portfolio securities considered short or intermediate term to be long-term
securities, which fluctuate more widely in response to changes in interest rates
than shorter term securities.
•Liquidity
Risk. There may be no willing buyer of the Fund’s portfolio securities
and the Fund may have to sell those securities at a lower price or may not be
able to sell the securities at all, each of which would have a negative effect
on performance.
•Prepayment
Risk. In times of declining interest rates, the Fund’s higher yielding
securities may be prepaid and the Fund may have to replace them with securities
having a lower yield.
•Duration
Risk. The Fund can invest in securities of
any maturity or duration. Holding long duration and long maturity investments
will magnify certain risks, including interest rate risk and credit
risk.
High-Yield
Fixed-Income Securities Risk.
High-yield fixed income securities or “junk bonds” are fixed-income securities
held by the Fund that are rated below investment grade are subject to additional
risk factors such as increased possibility of default, illiquidity of the
security, and changes in value based on public perception of the issuer. Such
securities are generally considered speculative because they present a greater
risk of loss, including default, than higher quality debt
securities.
Restricted
Securities Risk.
The Fund may invest in restricted securities (securities with limited
transferability under the securities laws) acquired from the issuer in “private
placement” transactions. Private placement securities are not registered under
the Securities Act, and are subject to restrictions on resale. They are eligible
for sale only to certain qualified institutional buyers, like the Fund, and are
not sold on a trading market or exchange. While private placement securities
offer attractive investment opportunities otherwise not available on an open
market, because such securities are available to few buyers, they are often both
difficult to sell and to value.
Unrated
Securities Risk. Because the Fund purchases securities that are not rated by any
nationally recognized statistical rating organization, the Adviser may
internally assign ratings to those securities, after assessing their credit
quality and other factors, in categories similar to those of nationally
recognized statistical rating organizations. There can be no assurance, nor is
it intended, that the Adviser's credit analysis process is consistent or
comparable with the credit analysis process used by a nationally recognized
statistical rating organization. The Adviser's rating does not constitute a
guarantee of the credit quality.
Floating
Rate/Variable Rate Obligations Risk.
Some municipal securities have variable or floating interest rates. Variable
rates are adjustable at stated periodic intervals. Because of the interest rate
adjustment feature, floating and variable rate securities provide an investor
with a certain degree of protection against rises in interest rates, although
the Fund will participate in any declines in interest rates
as well. Generally, changes in interest rates will have a smaller
effect on the market value of floating and variable rate securities than on the
market value of comparable fixed-income obligations. Thus, investing in floating
and variable rate securities generally allows less opportunity for capital
appreciation and depreciation than investing in comparable fixed-income
securities.
Valuation
Risk.
The price the Fund could receive upon the sale of any particular portfolio
investment may differ from the Fund’s valuation of the investment, particularly
for securities that trade in thin or volatile markets or that are valued using a
fair valuation methodology or a price provided by an independent pricing
service. As a result, the Fund could realize a greater than expected loss or
lesser than expected gain upon the sale of the investment. Unlike equity
securities, which are valued using market quotations, the municipal bonds in
which the Fund primarily invests are fixed income securities which are typically
valued by independent pricing services utilizing a range of market-based and
security specific inputs and assumptions, including price quotations from
broker-dealers making markets in such instruments, transactions in comparable
investments and considerations about general market conditions. The Fund’s
ability to value its investments may also be impacted by technological issues
and/or errors by pricing services or other third-party service
providers.
Tax
Risks.
Municipal securities may decrease in value during times when federal income tax
rates are falling. The Fund’s investments are affected by changes in federal
income tax rates applicable to, or the continuing federal tax exempt status of,
interest income on municipal obligations. Any proposed or actual changes in such
rates or exempt status, therefore, can significantly affect the liquidity,
marketability and supply and demand for municipal obligations, which would in
turn affect the Fund’s ability to acquire and dispose of municipal obligations
at desirable yield and price levels. If you are subject to the federal AMT, you
may have to pay federal tax on a portion of your distributions from tax exempt
income. If this is the case, the Fund’s net after-tax return to you may be
lower. The Fund would typically not be a suitable investment for investors
investing through tax exempt or tax-deferred
accounts.
Municipal
Sector Focus Risk.
The Fund will not concentrate its investments in issuers in any one industry.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has taken the position that investment of
more than 25% of a fund's total assets in issuers in the same industry
constitutes concentration in that industry. Many types of municipal securities
(such as general obligation, government appropriation, municipal leases, special
assessment and special tax bonds) are not considered a part of any "industry"
for purposes of this policy. Therefore, the Fund may invest more than 25% of its
total assets in those types of municipal securities. General obligation bonds
are
generally secured by the obligor’s pledge of its full faith, credit and taxing
power for the payment of principal and interest. However, the taxing power of
any governmental entity may be limited by provisions of state constitutions or
laws and an entity’s credit will depend on many factors.
By
contrast, revenue bonds are generally backed by and payable from the revenues
derived from a specific facility or specific revenue source or sources. As a
result, the revenue bonds in which the Fund invests may entail greater credit
risk than the Fund’s investments in general obligation bonds.
Legislation that affects the financing of a particular municipal project, or
economic factors that have a negative impact on a project, would be likely to
affect many other similar projects. At times, the Fund may change the relative
emphasis of its investments in securities issued by certain municipalities. If
the Fund has a greater emphasis on investments in one or more particular
municipalities, it may be subject to greater risks from adverse events affecting
such municipalities than a fund that invests in different municipalities or that
is more diversified.
Zero-Coupon
Bonds Risk. Zero-coupon bonds do not pay interest on a current basis and may be
highly volatile as interest rates rise or fall. The higher yields and interest
rates on pay-in-kind securities reflect the payment deferral and increased
credit risk associated with such instruments and that such investments may
represent a higher credit risk than loans that periodically pay
interest.
Leverage
Risk. The
use of leverage will allow the Fund to make additional investments, thereby
increasing its exposure to assets, such that its total assets may be greater
than its capital. However, leverage will also magnify the volatility of changes
in the value of the Fund’s portfolio. The effect of the
use
of leverage by the Fund in a market that moves adversely to its investments
could result in substantial losses to the Fund, which would be greater than if
the Fund were not leveraged.
Risks
of Shorter-Term Securities.
Normally, when interest rates change, the values of shorter-term debt securities
change less than the values of securities with longer maturities. The Fund tries
to reduce the volatility of its share prices by seeking to maintain a shorter
average effective portfolio maturity. However, shorter-term securities may have
lower yields than longer-term securities. Shorter-term securities are also
subject to extension and reinvestment risk. The Fund is subject to extension
risk when principal payments on a debt security occur at a slower rate than
expected, potentially extending the average life of the security. For securities
with a call date in the near future, there is the risk that an increase in
interest rates could result in the issuer of that security choosing not to
redeem the security as anticipated on the security's call date. Such a decision
by the issuer may effectively change a short- or intermediate-term security into
a longer term security, which could have the effect of locking in a below-market
interest rate on the security, increasing the security's duration, making the
security more vulnerable to interest rate risk, reducing the security's market
value and increasing the Fund's average effective portfolio maturity. Under such
circumstances, because the values of longer term securities generally fluctuate
more widely in response to interest rate changes than shorter term securities,
the Fund's volatility could increase. Reinvestment risk is the risk that if
interest rates fall the Fund may need to invest the proceeds of redeemed
securities in securities with lower interest rates.
Rule
144A Securities Risk.
The
market for Rule 144A securities typically is less active than the market for
publicly-traded securities. Rule 144A securities carry the risk that the
liquidity of these securities may become impaired, making it more difficult for
the Fund to sell these bonds.
Liquidity
Risk.
Liquidity risk occurs when certain investments become difficult to purchase or
sell. Difficulty in selling less liquid securities may result in sales at
disadvantageous prices affecting the value of your investment in the Fund.
Liquid securities can become illiquid during periods of market stress. If a
significant amount of the Fund’s securities become illiquid, the Fund may not be
able to timely pay redemption proceeds and may need to sell securities at
significantly reduced prices.
Deferred
Interest and Payment In Kind Securities Risks.
Because these securities bear no interest and compound semiannually at the rate
fixed at the time of issuance, their value generally is more volatile than the
value of other fixed income securities. Accordingly, these securities may
involve greater credit risks and their value is subject to greater fluctuation
in response to changes in market interest rates than other fixed income
securities.
Risks
of Borrowing and Leverage.
The Fund can borrow up to one-third of the value of its assets (including the
amount borrowed), as permitted under the Investment Company Act of 1940. It can
use those borrowings for a number of purposes, including purchasing securities,
which creates "leverage." In that case, changes in the value of the Fund's
investments will have a larger effect on its share price than if it did not
borrow.
Auction
Rate Securities Risks.
While the auction rate process is designed to permit the holder to sell the
auction rate securities in an auction at par value at specified intervals, there
is the risk that an auction will fail due to insufficient demand for the
securities. Failed auctions may adversely impact the liquidity of auction rate
securities investments. Auction rate securities may also be subject to changes
in interest rates, including decreased interest rates. Although some issuers of
auction rate securities are redeeming or are considering redeeming such
securities, such issuers are not obligated to do so and, therefore, there is no
guarantee that a liquid market will exist for a Fund’s investments in auction
rate securities at a time when the Fund wishes to dispose of such
securities.
LIBOR
Risk. Changes
related to the use of the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) or similar
interbank offered rates could have adverse impacts on financial instruments that
reference LIBOR or a similar rate. While some instruments may contemplate a
scenario where LIBOR or a similar rate is no longer available by providing for
an alternative rate setting methodology, not all instruments have such fallback
provisions and the effectiveness of replacement rates is uncertain. The
abandonment of LIBOR and similar rates could affect the value and liquidity of
instruments that reference such rates, especially those that do not have
fallback provisions. The use of alternative reference rate products may impact
investment strategy performance.
Non-Diversified
Fund Risk. Because
the Fund is “non-diversified” and may invest a greater percentage of its assets
in the securities of a single issuer, a decline in the value of an investment in
a single issuer could cause the Fund’s overall value to decline to a greater
degree than if the Fund held a more diversified
portfolio.
Performance
Performance
information will be available once the Fund has at least one calendar year of
performance. In the future, performance information for the Fund will be present
in this section. Updated performance information is available on the Fund’s
website at https://principalstreetfunds.com/shortterm/ or by calling the Fund
toll free at 1-877-914-7343.
Management
Investment
Adviser
Principal
Street Partners, LLC is the Fund’s investment adviser.
Portfolio
Managers
Troy
E. Willis, J.D., CFA, Senior Portfolio Manager of the Adviser, and Charlie S.
Pulire, CFA, Senior Portfolio Manager of the Adviser, are responsible for the
day-to-day management of the Fund. Mr. Willis and Mr. Pulire have been portfolio
managers of the Fund since its inception in April 2022.
Purchase
and Sale of Fund Shares
You
may purchase, redeem or exchange Fund shares on any day that the New York Stock
Exchange (“NYSE”) is open for business by written request via mail (Principal
Street Short Term Municipal Fund, c/o U.S. Bank Global Fund Services, P.O.
Box 701, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201-0701), by contacting the Fund by telephone
at 1-877-914-7343 or through a financial intermediary. You may also purchase or
redeem Fund shares by wire transfer. Investors who wish to purchase, redeem or
exchange Fund shares through a financial intermediary should contact the
financial intermediary directly. The Fund’s minimum initial and subsequent
investments are shown below. The Adviser may reduce or waive the minimums in its
discretion.
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Tax
Information
Distributions
reported by the Fund as "exempt-interest dividends" are exempt from regular
federal income tax but may be subject to state or local income taxes and may be
tax preference items for purposes of the AMT. Distributions of the Fund's
capital gains are generally subject to tax.
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 or financial advisor), the Fund and/or its 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.
High
Income Fund
The
Fund’s primary investment objective is to provide current income exempt from
regular federal income tax. The Fund’s secondary investment objective is to seek
total return. The investment objective is not fundamental and may be changed
without the approval of the Fund’s shareholders upon 60 days’ prior written
notice to shareholders.
Short
Term Fund
The
Fund’s primary investment objective is to provide current income exempt from
regular federal income tax. The investment objective is not fundamental and may
be changed without the approval of the Fund’s shareholders upon 60 days’ prior
written notice to shareholders.
High
Income Fund
Under
normal market conditions, the High Income Fund will invest at least 80% of its
total assets in tax exempt debt securities. Tax exempt debt securities are
investments the income from which is exempt from federal income tax but which
may be subject to the alternative minimum tax. The policy above is a fundamental
policy of the Fund and may not be changed without shareholder approval of a
majority of the Fund’s outstanding voting securities, as defined in the
Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. The Fund expects to invest the
majority of its assets in debt securities that are rated below investment grade
(or “junk bonds”), including unrated securities, but may invest up to 40% of its
total assets in investment grade debt securities. The Fund may invest
without limit in municipal securities issued by or on behalf of states and local
governmental authorities throughout the United States and its territories.
Municipal securities include, among others, bonds issued by 501(c)(3)s, private
activity bonds and industrial development bonds, as well as general obligation
notes, tax anticipation notes, bond anticipation notes, revenue anticipation
notes, other short-term tax exempt obligations, municipal leases, obligations of
municipal housing authorities, zero coupon bonds and single family revenue
bonds. The Fund may invest in all types of municipal bonds that are exempt
from federal income tax, but not necessarily the AMT.
The
High Income Fund may employ effective leverage through investment in Inverse
Floaters. Inverse Floaters provide leveraged exposure to underlying municipal
bonds. These investments are speculative, however, and also create the
possibility that income and returns will be diminished. The Fund may also invest
in defaulted municipal bonds, Rule 144A Securities, restricted securities and
illiquid securities.
The
High Income Fund’s investments in debt securities may have fixed or variable
principal payments. The Fund’s investments may have varied interest rate payment
and reset terms, including fixed and floating rates, inverse floating rate,
contingent, deferred, payment in kind and auction rate features. From time to
time the Fund may focus its investments in the securities of issuers in the same
economic sector. The Fund may invest in debt securities with any maturity or
duration.
In
selecting securities for the High Income Fund, the Adviser employs a
top-down/bottom-up research approach with an emphasis on analyzing the
stand-alone credit, including financials, bond covenants, management team, and
underlying asset value. The Adviser believes that the below investment grade
universe represents some of the best value in the fixed income
markets.
Additionally,
the Adviser factors in top down economic factors such as interest rates, credit
cycles and political trends. Individual local and state analysis is conducted
including fiscal policy, political climate, surplus/deficits, as well as
industry analysis. While value is the primary focus, duration management, sector
allocation, yield curve positioning, buy/sell trade execution, and geographic
allocation also play a role in security selection.
The
Fund will not have any duration or weighted average maturity
restrictions.
Short
Term Fund
Under
normal market conditions, the Short Term Fund will invest at least 80% of its
total assets (plus borrowings for investment purposes) in municipal debt
securities, the income from which is exempt from federal regular individual
income tax. Tax exempt debt securities are investments the income from which is
exempt from federal income tax but which may be subject to the AMT. The policy
above is a fundamental policy of the Fund and may not be changed without
shareholder approval of a majority of the Fund’s outstanding voting securities,
as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. The Fund expects
to invest the majority of its assets in municipal securities issued by or on
behalf of states and local governmental authorities throughout the United States
and its territories, but
may invest up to 20% of its total assets in securities rated below the top three
rating categories, including investment-grade or unrated securities that are
assigned similar ratings (measured at the time of purchase). In addition, up to
10% of the Fund’s total assets may be invested in securities rated below
investment-grade or unrated securities that are assigned similar ratings
(measured at the time of purchase).
The Fund may invest without limit in municipal securities issued by or on behalf
of states and local governmental authorities throughout the United States and
its territories. Municipal securities include, among others:
•bonds
issued by 501(c)(3)s (i.e.,
bonds issued by non-profit organizations),
•private
activity bonds and industrial development bonds (i.e.,
bonds that finance a variety of economic or public development projects for
private and public entities),
•general
obligation bonds (i.e.,
bonds backed solely by the credit and taxing power of the issuing jurisdiction),
•tax
anticipation notes (i.e.,
short-term notes that municipalities issue with the intent to repay once tax
payments are collected),
•bond
anticipation notes (i.e.,
short-term notes that municipalities issue in advance of a larger bond
offering),
•revenue
anticipation notes (i.e.,
short-term notes that municipalities issue with payment to come from a named
revenue source),
•other
short-term tax exempt obligations,
•municipal
leases (i.e.,
an arrangement where a municipality purchases equipment or makes other capital
expenditures through a lease financing),
•obligations
of municipal housing authorities,
•zero-coupon
bonds, and
•single
family revenue bonds (i.e.,
bonds issued to finance mortgage loans of single-family homes).
The
Short Term Fund may invest in all types of municipal bonds that are exempt from
federal income tax, but not necessarily the AMT. The Adviser’s security
selection process focuses primarily on generating high current income; favorable
credit characteristics (e.g.,
willingness and ability to make payments, credit history, etc.);
a wide range of issuers including different municipalities, agencies, sectors
and revenue sources (e.g.,
property tax receipts, sales tax receipts, etc.);
unrated bonds or securities of smaller issuers that might be overlooked by other
investors, which are typically issuers that are non-rated and trade on secondary
markets; and special situations that may offer high current income or
opportunities for value because such issuers are facing distressed financial or
operating circumstances, but the bonds may
additionally
have specifically pledged security interest or other credit enhancements which
deem them attractive to the portfolio managers.
The
Short Term Fund’s investments in debt securities may have fixed or variable
principal payments. The Fund’s investments may have varied interest rate payment
and reset terms, including fixed and floating rates, contingent, deferred,
payment in kind and auction rate features. These various features are evaluated
in the Adviser’s selection process in the context of certain factors, such as
current economic conditions and the current composition of the
portfolio.
From
time to time the Fund may focus its investments in the securities of issuers in
the same economic sector, with such focus occurring when a particular sector
offers the most opportunities for value. The Fund may invest in debt securities
with any maturity or duration.
The
overall composition of the Fund’s portfolio with respect to these various
security types is determined by the best available opportunities when investment
decisions are made.
In
selecting securities for the Short Term Fund, the Adviser employs a
top-down/bottom-up research approach with an emphasis on analyzing credit
characteristics, including financials, bond covenants, management team, and
underlying asset value.
The
above factors are generally applied uniformly to all bond types being evaluated,
as the Fund’s strategy seeks to identify the best value opportunities regardless
of bond type.
Cash
or Similar Investments and Temporary Strategies of the Funds
At
the Adviser’s discretion, a Fund may invest in high-quality, short-term debt
securities and money market instruments for (i) temporary defensive purposes in
amounts up to 100% of its assets in response to adverse market, economic or
political conditions and (ii) retaining flexibility in meeting redemptions,
paying expenses, and identifying and assessing investment opportunities.
These short-term debt securities and money market instruments include cash,
shares of other mutual funds, commercial paper, certificates of deposit,
bankers’ acceptances, U.S. government securities, discount notes and repurchase
agreements. To the extent that a Fund invests in money market mutual funds
for its cash position, there will be some duplication of expenses because the
Fund will bear its pro rata portion of such money market funds’ management fees
and operational expenses. When investing for temporary defensive purposes,
the Adviser may invest up to 100% of a Fund’s total assets in such instruments.
Taking a temporary defensive position may result in the Fund not achieving its
investment objective.
Before
investing in a 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. An investment in a Fund is not a deposit of a
bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the FDIC or any other governmental
agency. There can be no assurance that the Fund will achieve its investment
objective. In addition to possibly not achieving your investment goals,
you
could lose a portion of your investment in the Fund.
The principal risks of investing in the Funds are:
General
Market Risk (Both Funds).
The net asset value (“NAV”) and investment return of a Fund will fluctuate based
upon changes in the value of the Fund’s portfolio securities. 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, and may continue to
experience, volatility, which may increase risks associated with an investment
in a Fund. Certain social, political, economic, environmental and other
conditions and events (such as natural disasters and weather-related phenomena
generally, epidemics and pandemics, terrorism, conflicts and social unrest) may
adversely interrupt the global economy and result in prolonged periods of
significant market volatility. The market value of securities in which the Funds
invest is based upon the market’s perception of value and is not necessarily an
objective
measure of the securities’ value. In some cases, for example, the stock prices
of individual companies have been negatively impacted even though there may be
little or no apparent degradation in the financial condition or prospects of the
issuers. Similarly, the debt markets have experienced substantially lower
valuations, reduced liquidity, price volatility, credit downgrades, increased
likelihood of default, and valuation difficulties. As a result of this
significant volatility, many of the following risks associated with an
investment in a Fund may be increased. Continuing market volatility may have
adverse effects on the Funds.
Management
Risk (Both Funds).
The ability of the Funds to meet their investment objectives is directly related
to the Adviser’s investment strategies for each Fund. The value of your
investment in a Fund may vary with the effectiveness of the Adviser’s research,
analysis and asset allocation among portfolio securities. If the Adviser’s
investment strategies do not produce the expected results, the value of your
investment could be diminished or even lost entirely and the Funds could
underperform the market or other mutual funds with similar investment
objectives.
Municipal
Securities Risk (Both Funds).
The municipal market is volatile and can be significantly affected by adverse
tax, legislative or political changes and the financial condition of the issuers
of municipal securities. Changes in a municipality’s financial health may
make it difficult for the municipality to make interest and principal payments
when due. Municipal obligations may be more susceptible to downgrades or
defaults during recessions or similar periods of economic stress. Municipal
securities structured as revenue bonds are generally not backed by the taxing
power of the issuing municipality but rather the revenue from the particular
project or entity for which the bonds were issued. If the Internal Revenue
Service determines that an issuer of a municipal security has not complied with
applicable tax requirements, interest from the security could be treated as
taxable, which could result in a decline in the security’s value. In addition,
there could be changes in applicable tax laws or tax treatments that reduce or
eliminate the current federal income tax exemption on municipal securities or
otherwise adversely affect the current federal or state tax status of municipal
securities.
A
number of municipalities have had significant financial problems recently, and
these and other municipalities could, potentially, continue to experience
significant financial problems resulting from lower tax revenues and/or
decreased aid from state and local governments in the event of an economic
downturn. This could decrease the Fund’s income or hurt the ability to preserve
capital and liquidity.
Under
some circumstances, municipal securities might not pay interest unless the state
legislature or municipality authorizes money for that purpose. Some securities,
including municipal lease obligations, carry additional risks. For example, they
may be difficult to trade or interest payments may be tied only to a specific
stream of revenue.
Since
some municipal securities may be secured or guaranteed by banks and other
institutions, the risk to the Funds could increase if the banking or financial
sector suffers an economic downturn and/or if the credit ratings of the
institutions issuing the guarantee are downgraded or at risk of being downgraded
by a national rating organization. If such events were to occur, the value of
the security could decrease or the value could be lost entirely, and it may be
difficult or impossible for a Fund to sell the security at the time and the
price that normally prevails in the market. Interest on municipal obligations,
while generally exempt from federal income tax, may not be exempt from federal
alternative minimum tax.
Fixed-Income
Securities Risks (Both Funds).
Fixed-income securities held by the Funds are or may be subject to interest rate
risk, call risk, prepayment and extension risk, credit risk, and liquidity risk,
which are more fully described below. Changes in market conditions and
government policies may lead to periods of heightened volatility and reduced
liquidity in the fixed-income securities market, and could result in an increase
in Fund redemptions. Interest rate changes and their impact on a Fund and its
share price can be sudden and unpredictable.
•Call
Risk (Both Funds).
During periods of declining interest rates, a bond issuer may “call,” or repay,
its high yielding bonds before their maturity dates. In this event a Fund would
then be forced to invest the unanticipated proceeds at lower interest rates,
resulting in a decline in its income.
•Credit
Risk (Both Funds).
Fixed-income securities are generally subject to the risk that the issuer may be
unable or unwilling to make principal and interest payments when they are due.
There is also the risk that the securities could lose value because of a loss of
confidence in the ability of the borrower to pay back debt. Lower rated
fixed-income securities involve greater credit risk, including the possibility
of default or bankruptcy.
•Interest
Rate Risk (Both Funds). Fixed-income
securities are subject to the risk that the securities could lose value because
of interest rate changes. For example, bonds tend to decrease in value if
interest rates rise. Fixed-income securities with longer maturities sometimes
offer higher yields, but are subject to greater price shifts as a result of
interest rate changes than fixed-income securities with shorter maturities. The
historically low interest rate environment increases the risk associated with
rising interest rates. The Funds may be exposed to heightened interest rate risk
as interest rates rise from historically low levels.
•Prepayment
and Extension Risk (Both Funds).
Many types of fixed-income securities are subject to prepayment risk. Prepayment
occurs when the issuer of a fixed-income security can repay principal faster
than expected prior to the security’s maturity. Fixed-income securities subject
to prepayment risk can offer less potential for gains during a declining
interest rate environment and similar or greater potential for loss in a rising
interest rate environment. In addition, the potential impact of prepayment
features on the price of a fixed-income security can be difficult to predict and
result in greater volatility. On the other hand, rising interest rates could
cause prepayments of the obligations to decrease. This is known as extension
risk and may increase a Fund’s sensitivity to rising rates and its potential for
price declines.
•Liquidity
Risk (Both Funds).
Trading opportunities are more limited for fixed-income securities that have not
received any credit ratings, have received ratings below investment grade or are
not widely held. These features may make it more difficult to sell or buy a
security at a favorable price or time. Consequently, a Fund may have to accept a
lower price to sell a security, sell other securities to raise cash or give up
an investment opportunity, any of which could have a negative effect on its
performance. Infrequent trading of securities may also lead to an increase in
their price volatility. Liquidity risk also refers to the possibility that a
Fund may not be able to sell a security or close out a position in a timely
manner. If this happens, the Fund may be required to hold the security or keep
the position open, and it could incur losses.
•Duration
Risk (Both Funds).
The Funds may invest in securities of any maturity or duration.
Holding
long duration and long maturity investments will magnify certain risks,
including interest rate risk and credit risk.
High-Yield
Fixed-Income Securities Risk (Both Funds).
High-yield fixed-income securities or “junk bonds” are fixed-income securities
rated below investment grade. Although junk bonds generally pay higher rates of
interest than higher-rated securities, they are subject to a greater risk of
loss of income and principal. Junk bonds are subject to greater credit risk than
higher grade securities and have a higher risk of default. Companies issuing
high-yield junk bonds are more likely to experience financial difficulties that
may lead to a weakened capacity to make principal and interest payments than
issuers of higher grade securities. Issuers of junk bonds are often highly
leveraged or undergoing restructuring and are more vulnerable to changes in the
economy, such as a recession or rising interest rates, which may affect their
ability to meet their interest or principal payment obligations. As a result,
junk bonds generally are more sensitive to credit risk and are considered more
speculative than securities in the higher-rated categories. The risk of loss due
to default by an issuer of these securities is significantly greater than
issuers of higher-rated securities because such securities are generally
unsecured and are often subordinated to other creditors. The secondary market
for securities that are junk bonds may be less liquid than the markets for
higher
quality securities, and, as such, may have an adverse effect on the market
prices of and a Fund’s ability to arrive at a fair value for certain
securities.
Restricted
Securities Risk (Both Funds).
The Funds may invest in restricted securities (securities with limited
transferability under the securities laws) acquired from the issuer in “private
placement” transactions. Private placement securities are not registered under
the Securities Act, and are subject to restrictions on resale. They are eligible
for sale only to certain qualified institutional buyers, like the Fund, and are
not sold on a trading market or exchange. While private placement securities
offer attractive investment opportunities otherwise not available on an open
market, because such securities are available to few buyers, they are often both
difficult to sell and to value.
Unrated
Securities Risk (Both Funds).
Because the Funds may purchase securities that are not rated by any nationally
recognized statistical rating organization, the Adviser may internally assign
ratings to those securities, after assessing their credit quality and other
factors, in categories similar to those of nationally recognized statistical
rating organizations. There can be no assurance, nor is it intended, that the
Adviser's credit analysis process is consistent or comparable with the credit
analysis process used by a nationally recognized statistical rating
organization. Unrated securities are considered "investment-grade" or
"below-investment-grade" if judged by the Adviser to be comparable to rated
investment-grade or below-investment-grade securities. The Adviser's rating does
not constitute a guarantee of the credit quality. In addition, some unrated
securities may not have an active trading market or may trade less actively than
rated securities, which means that the Funds might have difficulty selling them
promptly at an acceptable price.
In
evaluating the credit quality of a particular security, whether rated or
unrated, the Adviser will normally take into consideration a number of factors
including, but not limited to, the financial resources of the issuer, the
underlying source of funds for debt service on a security, the issuer's
sensitivity to economic conditions and trends, any operating history of the
facility financed by the obligation, the degree of community support for the
financed facility, the capabilities of the issuer's management, and regulatory
factors affecting the issuer or the particular facility.
A
reduction in the rating of a security after a Fund buys it will not require the
Fund to dispose of the security. However, the Adviser will evaluate such
downgraded securities to determine whether to keep them in the Fund’s
portfolio.
Floating
Rate/Variable Rate Obligations Risk (Both Funds).
Some municipal securities have variable or floating interest rates. Variable
rates are adjustable at stated periodic intervals. Floating rates are
automatically adjusted according to a specified market rate for those
investments, such as, for example, the percentage of LIBOR, the SIFMA Municipal
Swap Index or the percentage of the prime rate of a bank. These obligations may
be secured by bank letters of credit or other credit support arrangements.
Because of the interest rate adjustment feature, floating and variable rate
securities provide an investor with a certain degree of protection against rises
in interest rates, although the Fund will participate in any declines in
interest rates as well. Generally, changes in interest rates will have a smaller
effect on the market value of floating and variable rate securities than on the
market value of comparable fixed-income obligations. Thus, investing in floating
and variable rate securities generally allows less opportunity for capital
appreciation and depreciation than investing in comparable fixed-income
securities.
Valuation
Risk (Both Funds).
The price a Fund could receive upon the sale of any particular portfolio
investment may differ from the Fund’s valuation of the investment, particularly
for securities that trade in thin or volatile markets or that are valued using a
fair valuation methodology or a price provided by an independent pricing
service. As a result, a Fund could realize a greater than expected loss or
lesser than expected gain upon the sale of the investment. Unlike equity
securities, which are valued using market quotations, the municipal bonds in
which the Funds primarily invest are fixed income securities which are typically
valued by independent pricing services utilizing a range of market-based and
security specific
inputs
and assumptions, including price quotations from broker-dealers making markets
in such instruments, transactions in comparable investments and considerations
about general market conditions. A Fund’s ability to value its investments may
also be impacted by technological issues and/or errors by pricing services or
other third-party service providers.
Tax
Risks (Both Funds).
Municipal securities may decrease in value during times when federal income tax
rates are falling. Each Fund’s investments are affected by changes in federal
income tax rates applicable to, or the continuing federal tax exempt status of,
interest income on municipal obligations. Any proposed or actual changes in such
rates or exempt status, therefore, can significantly affect the liquidity,
marketability and supply and demand for municipal obligations, which would in
turn affect a Fund’s ability to acquire and dispose of municipal obligations at
desirable yield and price levels. If you are subject to the federal AMT, you may
have to pay federal tax on a portion of your distributions from tax exempt
income. If this is the case, a Fund’s net after-tax return to you may be
lower. The Funds would not be suitable investments for investors investing
through tax exempt or tax-deferred accounts.
Municipal
Sector Focus Risk (Both Funds).
The Fund will not concentrate its investments in issuers in any one industry.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has taken the position that investment of
more than 25% of a fund's total assets in issuers in the same industry
constitutes concentration in that industry. Many types of municipal securities
(such as general obligation, government appropriation, municipal leases, special
assessment and special tax bonds) are not considered a part of any "industry"
for purposes of this policy. Therefore, the Fund may invest more than 25% of its
total assets in those types of municipal securities. General obligation
bonds
are generally secured by the obligor’s pledge of its full faith, credit and
taxing power for the payment of principal and interest. However, the taxing
power of any governmental entity may be limited by provisions of state
constitutions or laws and an entity’s credit will depend on many
factors.
By
contrast, revenue bonds are generally backed by and payable from the revenues
derived from a specific facility or specific revenue source or sources. As a
result, the revenue bonds in which the Fund invests may entail greater credit
risk than the Fund’s investments in general obligation bonds.
Legislation that affects the financing of a particular municipal project, or
economic factors that have a negative impact on a project, would be likely to
affect many other similar projects. At times, the Fund may change the relative
emphasis of its investments in securities issued by certain municipalities. If
the Fund has a greater emphasis on investments in one or more particular
municipalities, it may be subject to greater risks from adverse events affecting
such municipalities than a fund that invests in different municipalities or that
is more diversified.
Sector
Emphasis Risk (High Income Fund).
The securities of issuers in the same or related businesses (“industry
sectors”), if comprising a significant portion of the Fund’s portfolio, may in
some circumstances react negatively to market conditions, interest rates and
economic, regulatory or financial developments and adversely affect the value of
the portfolio to a greater extent than if such securities comprised a lesser
portion of the Fund’s portfolio or the Fund’s portfolio was diversified across a
greater number of industry sectors. Some industry sectors have particular risks
that may not affect other sectors.
Zero-Coupon
Bonds Risk (Both Funds).
As interest on zero-coupon bonds is not paid on a current basis, the values of
the bonds are subject to greater fluctuations than are the value of bonds that
distribute income regularly and may be more speculative than such
bonds. Accordingly, the values of zero-coupon bonds may be highly volatile
as interest rates rise or fall. In addition, while zero-coupon bonds
generate income for tax purposes and for purposes of generally accepted
accounting standards, they do not generate cash flow and thus could cause a Fund
to be forced to liquidate securities at an inopportune time in order to
distribute cash, as required by Subchapter M of the Code of the Internal Revenue
Code in order for the Fund to maintain its status as a regulated investment
company.
Investors
may purchase zero coupon and pay-in-kind securities at a price below the amount
payable at maturity. Because such securities do not entitle the holder to any
periodic payments of interest prior to maturity, this prevents any reinvestment
of interest payments at prevailing interest rates if prevailing interest rates
rise. The higher yields and interest rates on pay-in-kind securities reflect the
payment
deferral
ad increased credit risk associated with such instruments and that such
investments may represent a higher credit risk than coupon loans.
Inverse
Floaters Risk (High Income Fund).
The use of inverse floaters by the High Income Fund creates effective leverage.
Due to the leveraged nature of these investments, they will typically be more
volatile and involve greater risk than the fixed rate municipal bonds underlying
the inverse floaters. Inverse Floaters represent interests in bonds with
interest rates that vary inversely to changes in short-term rates. As short-term
rates rise, inverse floaters produce less income, and as short-term rates
decline, inverse floaters produce more income. As a result, the price of inverse
floaters is expected to decline when interest rates rise, and generally will
decline further than the price of a bond with similar maturity. An investment in
certain inverse floaters will involve the risk that the Fund could lose more
than its original principal investment. Distributions on inverse floaters bear
an inverse relationship to short-term municipal bond interest rates. Thus,
distributions paid to the Fund on its inverse floaters will be reduced or even
eliminated as short-term municipal interest rates rise and will increase when
short-term municipal interest rates fall. Inverse floaters generally will
underperform the market for fixed rate municipal bonds in a rising interest rate
environment.
Leverage
Risk (Both Funds). The
use of leverage will allow the Funds to make additional investments, thereby
increasing its exposure to assets, such that its total assets may be greater
than its capital. However, leverage will also magnify the volatility of changes
in the value of the Fund’s portfolio. The effect of the use of leverage by the
Funds in a market that moves adversely to its investments could result in
substantial losses to the Funds, which would be greater than if a Fund were not
leveraged.
Defaulted
Bonds Risk (High Income Fund).
Defaulted bonds are subject to greater risk of loss of income and principal than
higher rated securities and are considered speculative. In the event of a
default, the High Income Fund may incur additional expenses to seek recovery.
The repayment of defaulted bonds is subject to significant uncertainties, and in
some cases, there may be no recovery of repayment. Defaulted bonds might be
repaid only after lengthy workout or bankruptcy proceedings, during which the
issuer might not make any interest or other payments. Workout or bankruptcy
proceedings typically result in only partial recovery of cash payments or an
exchange of the defaulted bond for other securities of the issuer or its
affiliates, which may in turn be illiquid or speculative.
Rule
144A Securities Risk (Both Funds).
The market for Rule 144A securities typically is less active than the market for
publicly-traded securities. Rule 144A securities carry the risk that the
liquidity of these securities may become impaired, making it more difficult for
a Fund to sell these bonds.
Liquidity
Risk (Both Funds).
Liquidity risk occurs when certain investments become difficult to purchase or
sell. Difficulty in selling less liquid securities may result in sales at
disadvantageous prices affecting the value of your investment in a Fund. Causes
of liquidity risk may include low trading volumes, large positions and heavy
redemptions of Portfolio shares. Over recent years liquidity risk has also
increased because the capacity of dealers in the secondary market for
fixed-income securities to make markets in these securities has decreased, even
as the overall bond market has grown significantly, due to, among other things,
structural
changes,
additional regulatory requirements and capital and risk restraints that have led
to reduced inventories. Liquidity risk may be higher in a rising interest rate
environment, when the value and liquidity of fixed-income securities generally
decline. Municipal securities may have more liquidity risk than other
fixed-income securities because they trade less frequently and the market for
municipal securities is generally smaller than many other markets.
Deferred
Interest and Payment In Kind Securities Risks (Both Funds).
Because these securities bear no interest and compound semiannually at the rate
fixed at the time of issuance, their value generally is more volatile than the
value of other fixed income securities. Accordingly, these securities may
involve greater credit risks and their value is subject to greater fluctuation
in response to changes in market interest rates than other fixed income
securities. Since the bondholders do not receive interest payments, when
interest rates rise, these securities fall more dramatically in value than bonds
paying interest on a current basis.
When
interest rates fall, these securities rise more rapidly in value because the
bonds reflect a fixed rate of return. If the issuer defaults, a Fund may not
receive any return on its investment.
These
securities may also have unreliable valuations because their continuing accruals
require ongoing judgment about the collectability of deferred payments and the
value of any associated collateral. Payment in kind securities have the effect
of generating investment income and increasing incentive fees payable to the
Adviser at a compounding rate. In addition, the deferral of payment in kind
interest reduces the loan-to-value ratio at a compounding rate. These securities
create the risk that incentive fees will be paid to the Adviser based on
non-cash accruals that ultimately may not be realized. The Adviser will be under
no obligation to reimburse a Fund for these fees.
Auction
Rate Securities Risks (Both Funds).
While the auction rate process is designed to permit the holder to sell the
auction rate securities in an auction at par value at specified intervals, there
is the risk that an auction will fail due to insufficient demand for the
securities. Failed auctions may adversely impact the liquidity of auction rate
securities investments. Auction rate securities may also be subject to changes
in interest rates, including decreased interest rates. Although some issuers of
auction rate securities are redeeming or are considering redeeming such
securities, such issuers are not obligated to do so and, therefore, there is no
guarantee that a liquid market will exist for the Funds’ investments in auction
rate securities at a time when the Funds wish to dispose of such
securities.
Risks
of Borrowing and Leverage (Both Funds).
Each Fund can borrow up to one-third of the value of its assets (including the
amount borrowed), as permitted under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended. The Funds can use those borrowings for a number of purposes, including
purchasing securities, which creates "leverage." In that case, changes in the
value of a Fund's investments will have a larger effect on its share price than
if it did not borrow. Borrowing results in interest payments to the lenders and
related expenses. Borrowing for investment purposes might reduce a Fund's return
if the yield on the securities purchased is less than those borrowing costs. The
Funds may also borrow to meet redemption obligations or for temporary and
emergency purposes. The Funds participate in a line of credit with other
Principal Street Partners LLC funds for its borrowing.
LIBOR
Risk (Both Funds). Changes
related to the use of the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) or similar
interbank offered rates could have adverse impacts on financial instruments that
reference LIBOR or a similar rate. While some instruments may contemplate a
scenario where LIBOR or a similar rate is no longer available by providing for
an alternative rate setting methodology, not all instruments have such fallback
provisions and the effectiveness of replacement rates is uncertain. The
abandonment of LIBOR and similar rates could affect the value and liquidity of
instruments that reference such rates, especially those that do not have
fallback provisions. The use of alternative reference rate products may impact
investment strategy performance.
Non-Diversified
Fund Risk (Short Term Fund).
The Short Term Fund “non-diversified” and therefore is not required to meet
certain diversification requirements under federal laws. The Fund may invest a
greater percentage of its assets in the securities of a single issuer and may
have fewer holdings than other mutual funds. As a result, a decline in the value
of an investment in a single issuer could cause the Fund’s overall value to
decline to a greater degree than if the Fund held a more diversified
portfolio.
Other
Non-Principal Investment Strategies and Risks.
The
Funds can also use the investment techniques and strategies described below. The
Funds might not use all of these techniques or strategies or might only use them
from time to time.
When-Issued
and Delayed-Delivery Transactions (Both Funds).
The Funds may purchase municipal securities on a "when-issued" basis and may
purchase or sell such securities on a "delayed-delivery" basis. "When-issued" or
"delayed-delivery" refers to securities whose terms and indenture are available
and for which a market exists, but which are not available for immediate
delivery. During the period between the purchase and the settlement dates, the
buyer makes no payment for the security and receives no interest. When-issued or
delayed-delivery securities the Funds buy are subject to changes in value as a
result
of market fluctuations during that period and the value of the security on the
delivery date may be more or less than the Funds paid. The Funds may lose money
if the value of the security has declined below the purchase price.
Percentage
of LIBOR Notes (PLNs) (Both Funds).
The Funds may invest in Percentage of LIBOR Notes ("PLNs") which are variable
rate municipal securities based on the London Interbank Offered Rate ("LIBOR"),
a widely used benchmark for short-term interest rates and used by banks for
interbank loans with other banks. A PLN typically pays interest based on a
percentage of a LIBOR rate for a specified time plus an established yield
premium. Due to their variable rate features, PLNs will generally pay higher
levels of income in a rising short-term interest rate environment and lower
levels of income as short-term interest rates decline. In times of substantial
market volatility, however, PLNs may not perform as anticipated. The value of a
PLN also may decline due to other factors, such as changes in credit quality of
the underlying bond.
The
Funds’ ability to engage in transactions using PLNs may be limited due to market
factors. There is no assurance that a liquid secondary market will exist for any
particular PLN or at any particular time, and so the Fund may not be able to
close a position in a PLN when it is advantageous to do so.
Distressed
Debt Securities (Short Term Fund).
The Short Term Fund may invest in debt securities issued by companies that are
involved in reorganizations, financial restructurings or bankruptcy. Such
distressed debt securities are speculative and involve substantial risks in
addition to the risks of investing in below-investment-grade debt securities.
The Fund will generally not receive interest payments on the distressed
securities and may also incur costs to protect its investment. In addition,
distressed securities involve the substantial risk that principal will not be
repaid. These securities may present a substantial risk of default or may be in
default at the time of investment. The Fund may incur additional expenses to the
extent it is required to seek recovery upon a default in the payment of
principal of or interest on its portfolio holdings. In any reorganization or
liquidation proceeding relating to a portfolio company, the Fund may lose its
entire investment or may be required to accept cash or securities with a value
less than its original investment. Distressed securities and any securities
received in an exchange for such securities may be subject to restrictions on
resale. Distressed securities are subject to the Fund's limitation on holding
below-investment-grade securities.
Defaulted
Securities (Both Funds).
The Funds may purchase defaulted securities if the Adviser believes that there
is potential for resumption of income payments or realization of income on the
sale of the securities or the collateral or other advantageous developments
appear likely in the near future. Notwithstanding the Adviser's belief about the
resumption of income payments or realization of income, the purchase of
defaulted securities is highly speculative and involves a high degree of risk,
including the risk of a substantial or complete loss of the Funds' investment.
Defaulted securities are subject to the Funds' limitation on holding
below-investment-grade securities. The Adviser does not expect that this will be
a significant investment strategy of the Funds.
Taxable
Investments (Both Funds).
The Funds may invest in taxable investments but do not anticipate investing
substantial amounts of their assets in taxable investments under normal market
conditions or as part of their normal trading strategies and policies. Taxable
investments include, for example, hedging instruments, repurchase agreements,
and many of the types of securities the Funds would buy for temporary defensive
purposes.
Who
Are the Funds Designed For?
The Funds are designed for investors seeking tax-free income. Because they
invest in tax-exempt securities, the Funds are not appropriate for a retirement
plan or other tax-exempt or tax-deferred account. The Funds are not complete
investment programs. You should carefully consider your own investment goals and
risk tolerance before investing in the Funds.
A
description of the Funds’ policies and procedures with respect to the disclosure
of the Funds’ portfolio holdings is available in the Funds’ Statement of
Additional Information (“SAI”).
The
Trust has entered into an investment advisory agreement (“Advisory Agreement”),
on behalf of the Funds, with Principal Street Partners, LLC located at 949 South
Shady Grove Road, Suite 402, Memphis, Tennessee 38120. Established in 2016, the
Adviser is an SEC-registered investment adviser that provides investment
advisory services to private clients and institutions and is responsible for
about $2.78 billion in assets under management as of August 31, 2023. Prior to
October 15, 2019, the Adviser was named Green Square Asset Management, LLC.
Under the Advisory Agreement, the Adviser manages the Funds’ investments subject
to the supervision of the Board.
The
Adviser has overall supervisory responsibility for the general management and
investment of the Fund’s securities portfolio. The Adviser also furnishes the
Funds with office space and certain administrative services, and provides most
of the personnel needed to fulfill its obligations under the Advisory Agreement.
For its services, each Fund pays the Adviser a monthly management fee that is
calculated as follows:
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Rate |
High
Income Fund |
0.55%
of average daily net assets |
Short
Term Fund |
0.45%
of average daily net assets |
For
the fiscal year ended August 31, 2023, the High Income Fund effectively paid
Principal Street Partners, LLC a management fee of 0.51% of its average daily
net assets and the Short Term Fund effectively paid Principal Street Partners,
LLC a management fee of 0.06% of its average daily net assets.
Fund
Expenses.
Each Fund is responsible for its own operating expenses. Pursuant to an
Operating Expenses Limitation Agreement between the Adviser and the Funds, the
Adviser has contractually agreed to reduce its management fees, and reimburse
each Fund for its operating expenses, in order to ensure that Total Annual Fund
Operating Expenses (excluding certain expenses such as Rule 12b-1 fees, taxes,
leverage/borrowing interest, interest expense, dividends paid on short sales,
brokerage commissions and other transactional expenses, AFFE, or extraordinary
expenses) do not exceed 0.80% of the High Income Fund’s average daily net assets
and 0.70% of the Short Term Fund’s average daily net assets. Expenses reimbursed
and/or fees reduced by the Adviser may be recouped by the Adviser for a period
of 36 months following the month during which such fee waiver and/or expense
payment was made, if such recoupment can be achieved without exceeding the
expense limit in effect at the time the fee waiver and/or expense payment
occurred and the expense limit in effect at the time of recoupment. The
Operating Expenses Limitation Agreement is indefinite, but cannot be terminated
through at least December 29, 2024. Thereafter, the agreement may be terminated
at any time upon 60 days’ written notice by the Trust’s Board of Trustees (the
“Board”) or the Adviser.
A
discussion regarding the basis of the Board’s approval of the Advisory
Agreement, with respect to the High Income Fund, is available in the Fund’s
semi-annual report to shareholders for the period ended February 28, 2023. A
discussion regarding the basis of the Board’s approval of the Advisory
Agreement, with respect to the Short Term Fund, is available in the Fund’s
annual report to shareholders for the period ended August 31, 2022.
The
Funds, as series of the Trust, do not hold themselves out as related to any
other series of the Trust for purposes of investment and investor services, nor
do they share the same investment adviser with any other series.
Troy
E. Willis, J.D., CFA
Troy
E. Willis is the Chief Investment Officer, Municipal Bond Strategies, and a
Senior Portfolio Manager for the Adviser. Prior to joining the Adviser, Mr.
Willis was the co-head of the Oppenheimer Funds Rochester Municipal Bond Team
where he was responsible for $26 billion assets under management and delivering
top decile weighted average performance for over a decade.
Mr.
Willis received his Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from West Virginia
University, a Juris Doctor with a focus on Corporate Law from West Virginia
College of Law, and a Masters of Business Administration with a concentration in
Finance and Economics from the University of Rochester Simon School of Business.
Mr. Willis is a Chartered Financial Analyst®
(CFA) charter holder, member of the National Federation of Municipal Analysts
and the CFA Society of New York.
Charlie
S. Pulire, CFA
Charlie
S. Pulire is a Senior Portfolio Manager, Municipal Bond Strategies, for the
Adviser. From 2006 to 2020, Charlie was as a senior portfolio manager on the
municipal bond team at OppenheimerFunds and then Invesco. Prior to that, he
worked at Wise Construction Corporation in Boston and served as a structural
engineer on nuclear submarines for the Department of Defense in New Hampshire.
Mr. Pulire has been in the municipal bond industry since 2005.
Mr.
Pulire earned a BS degree in civil engineering from the University of Maine and
an MBA in finance and corporate accounting from the William E. Simon Graduate
School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester. Mr. Pulire has
held a Chartered Financial Analyst®
(CFA) designation since 2012, and is member of the CFA Institute and the CFA
Society of Rochester.
The
Funds’ SAI provides additional information about the portfolio managers’
compensation, other accounts managed by the portfolio managers, and the
portfolio managers’ ownership of Fund shares.
The
price of each class of each of the Fund’s shares is its NAV. The NAV of each
class is calculated by dividing its total assets, less its liabilities, by the
number of shares outstanding in each class. The NAV of each class is calculated
at the close of regular trading of the NYSE, which is generally 4:00 p.m.,
Eastern Time. The NAV will not be calculated, nor may investors purchase or
redeem Fund shares, on days that the NYSE is closed for trading, even though
certain Fund securities (i.e.,
foreign or debt securities) may trade on days the NYSE is closed and such
trading may materially affect a Fund’s NAV.
Each
Fund’s assets are generally valued at their market price using valuations
provided by independent pricing services. Debt securities, including short-term
debt securities and money market instruments with a maturity of 60 days or less,
are valued at the evaluated mean in accordance with prices supplied by an
approved independent pricing service. Where the price of a debt security is not
available from an independent pricing service, fair value will be determined.
Quotations will be valued at the mean between the bid and the offer. When a Fund
buys a when-issued, new issue or delayed delivery debt security and the security
is not yet being traded or priced by an approved independent pricing service,
the security will be valued at cost. Thereafter, the security will be valued at
its market value (if it has commenced trading or is priced by an independent
pricing service) or its fair value if the security has not commenced trading or
is not priced by an approved independent pricing service for more than five
days.
When
market quotations are not readily available, a security or other asset is valued
at its fair value as determined under fair value pricing procedures approved by
the Board. The Board reviews, no less frequently than annually, the adequacy of
the policies and procedures of the Fund and the effectiveness of their
implementation. These fair value pricing procedures will also be used to price a
security when corporate events, events in the securities market and/or world
events cause the Adviser to believe that a security’s last sale price may not
reflect its actual market value. The intended effect of using fair value pricing
procedures is to ensure that the Funds are accurately priced. The Board will
regularly evaluate whether the Trust’s fair value pricing procedures continue to
be appropriate in light of the specific circumstances of each Fund and the
quality of prices obtained through the application of such procedures by the
Adviser’s valuation designee.
When
fair value pricing is employed, the security prices that the Funds use to
calculate their NAVs may differ from quoted or published prices for the same
securities. Due to the subjective and variable nature of fair value pricing, it
is possible that the fair value determined for a particular security may be
materially different (higher or lower) than the price of the security quoted or
published by others, the value when trading resumes, and/or the value realized
upon the security’s sale. Therefore, if a shareholder purchases or redeems Fund
shares when a Fund holds securities priced at a fair value, the number of shares
purchased or redeemed may be higher or lower than it would be if a Fund were
using market value pricing.
The
High Income Fund currently offers three different classes of shares: Investor
Class shares, Institutional Class shares, and A Class shares and the Short Term
Fund offers two different classes of shares: Investor Class shares and
Institutional Class shares. The different classes of shares represent
investments in the same portfolio of securities but are subject to different
expenses, which may affect their performance. The High Income Fund’s Investor
Class and A Class shares impose a 0.50% and 0.25% Rule 12b-1 fee, respectively,
that is assessed against the assets of the High Income Fund attributable to
those classes. In addition, the Short Term Fund’s Investor Class shares impose a
0.25% Rule 12b-1 fee that is assessed against the assets of the Short Term Fund
attributable to that class. See “Rule 12b-1 Distribution Fees” below for further
information. Investor Class shares may be converted to Institutional Class
shares if you are an eligible investor and your account balance exceeds the
initial minimum investment for Institutional Class shares. Any such conversion
will be effected at net asset value without the imposition of any fee or other
charges by the applicable Fund. Please contact your financial intermediary about
any fees that it may charge. A conversion from Investor Class shares of a Fund
to Institutional Class shares of a Fund is not expected to result in realization
of a capital gain or loss for federal income tax purposes.
The
Institutional Class is generally limited to institutional investors or certain
programs, including the following:
•Investors
making purchases through financial intermediaries that aggregate customer
accounts to accumulate the minimum initial investment;
•Clients
of financial intermediaries that have an agreement in place with Quasar
Distributors, LLC, the Funds’ distributor (the “Distributor”) or its affiliates
who charge clients an ongoing fee for advisory, investment, consulting, or
similar services, or who charge clients transaction fees with respect to their
investments in the Funds;
•Financial
intermediaries with clients of a registered investment adviser (“RIA”)
purchasing fund shares in fee based advisory accounts, through certain
broker-dealers utilizing omnibus accounts;
•Individuals
and institutional investors, such as financial institutions, corporations,
trusts, defined benefit plans, foundations, endowments, estates, and
educational, religious, and charitable organizations;
•Institutions
and individuals that use trust departments or family/multi-family offices that
exercise investment discretion;
•Institutions
and individuals that use trust departments or family/multi-family offices that
exercise investment discretion;
•Certain
retirement and benefit plans, including pension plans and employer sponsored
retirement plans established under Section 403(b) or Section 457, or qualified
under Section 401, of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended, (the
“Code”);
•Certain
qualified plans under Section 529 of the Code;
•Certain
insurance related products that have an agreement in place with the Distributor
or its affiliates;
•Certain
advisory accounts of the Adviser or its affiliates;
•Trustees
and officers of the Trust; directors, officers and employees of the Adviser and
its affiliates (including the spouse, life partner, or minor children under 21
of any such person); any trust or individual retirement account or self-employed
retirement plan for the benefit of any such person; or the estate of any such
person; and
•Employee
retirement plans sponsored by the Adviser or its affiliates.
At
the time you purchase shares of a Fund, you must inform your financial
intermediary or the Transfer Agent of your qualifications to invest in
Institutional Class shares. In addition, the Fund may, in its sole discretion,
accept investment in Institutional Class shares from purchasers not listed
above.
A
Class shares of the High Income Fund can be purchased directly through the
Distributor or through registered broker-dealers, banks, advisers and other
financial institutions. A Class shares are purchased at net asset value, plus
front-end sales charge (unless you qualify for a reduction or waiver of the sale
charge) and are subject to 12b-1 fees and shareholder servicing fees. There is
no front-end sales charge on purchases of A Class shares of $1 million or more;
however, a contingent deferred sales charge (“CDSC”) of up to 1.00% may be
imposed if such A Class shares are redeemed within 18 months of their purchase.
Investors meeting the investment minimum of $25,000 or otherwise investing in
the A Class shares via a financial intermediary platform where the Class A
shares is available for purchase may invest in the Class A share
class.
Information
about sales charges, including applicable waivers, breakpoints, and discounts to
the sales charges, is fully disclosed in this Prospectus, which is available,
free of charge, on the Fund’s website at https://principalstreetfunds.com, or by
calling the Fund toll-free at 877-914-7343. The Fund believes that it is very
important that an investor fully consider all aspects of their investment and be
able to access all relevant information in one location. Therefore, the Fund
does not make the sales charge information available to investors on the website
independent of the Prospectus.
Sales
Charge
The
public offering price of A Class shares of the High Income Fund is the NAV per
share plus a sales charge, as shown in the table below. Because of rounding in
the calculation of the “offering price,” the actual sales charge you pay may be
more or less than that calculated using the percentages show below. Certain
persons may be entitled to purchase A Class shares of a Fund without paying a
sales charge. See “Waived Sales Charges.” The sales charge payable to the
Distributor and the dealer reallowances may be
suspended,
terminated, or amended. The Distributor or the Adviser, at their expense, may,
from time to time, provide additional promotional incentives to broker-dealers
who sell shares of the Fund. Sales charges are not imposed on shares purchased
with reinvested dividends or distributions. The breakpoint table below also
shows what percentage of the initial investment is paid by the individual
investor (deducted from their account) to the broker-dealer or financial
intermediary through whom you purchased your A Class shares as a
commission/sales charge.
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Amount
of Investment |
Public
Offering Price |
Net
Amount Invested |
Dealer
Reallowance as & of Public Offering Price |
Less
than $100,000 |
2.25% |
2.30% |
2.25% |
$100,000
but less than $250,000 |
1.75% |
1.78% |
1.75% |
$250,000
but less than $500,000 |
1.25% |
1.27% |
1.25% |
$500,000
but less than $1,000,000 |
1.00% |
1.01% |
1.00% |
$1,000,000
or more(1) |
None |
None |
None |
(1)A
maximum contingent deferred sales charge (“CDSC”) of 1.00% will be imposed on
redemptions of these shares (exclusive of shares purchased with reinvested
dividends and/or distributions) within the first 18 months after the initial
sale. The Adviser intends to pay a commission to financial advisers who place an
order for a single purchaser based on the rates set forth in the section below
entitled "Contingent Deferred Sales Charge and Dealer Reallowance."
The
following sections discuss ways to obtain discounts on purchases and waivers of
contingent deferred sales charges on A Class shares of the High Income Fund. The
availability of sales charge waivers and discounts may depend on the particular
financial intermediary or type of account through which you purchase or hold
Fund shares. The Fund’s sales charge waivers and discounts described in this
Prospectus are available for Fund share purchases made directly from the Fund
(or the Distributor) and are generally available through financial
intermediaries.
Reduced
Sales Charges.
Consistent with the policies in this Prospectus, certain investments in the High
Income Fund may be combined for purposes of purchasing shares with a lower sales
charge.
Aggregating
Accounts.
Investors and members of the same household may aggregate investments in
A Class shares held in all accounts (e.g.,
non-retirement and retirement accounts) with the High Income Fund and/or with
financial intermediaries in order to obtain a reduced sales charge.
Concurrent
Purchases.
For purposes of qualifying for a lower sales charge, investors have the
privilege of combining concurrent purchases of A Class shares of the High Income
Fund. This privilege may be modified or eliminated at any time by the Trust
without notice.
Rights
of Accumulation.
The sales charge applicable to a purchase of A Class shares by an investor is
determined by adding the purchase price of the A Class shares to be purchased,
including any concurrent purchases as described above, to the aggregate value of
A Class shares of the High Income Fund previously purchased and then owned,
provided the Distributor is notified by the investor or the investor’s
broker-dealer each time a purchase is made which would so qualify. For example,
an investor who is purchasing A Class shares with an aggregate value of $100,000
and who currently owns A Class shares of the Fund with an aggregate value of
$250,000 would pay a sales charge of 1.25% of the offering price on the new
investment.
Letter
of Intent. You
may also enter into a letter of intent (“LOI”), which expresses your intent to
invest $100,000 or more in the High Income Fund’s A Class within the next
thirteen months. Under an LOI, your individual purchases will be assessed
the sales load applicable to the amount you intend to invest over a
thirteen-month period. Any shares purchased within 90 days prior to the
date you sign the LOI may be used as credit toward your commitment, but the
reduced sales load will only apply to new purchases
made
on or after the date you sign your LOI. Purchases resulting from the
reinvestment of dividends and capital gains do not apply toward fulfillment of
the LOI. Shares equal to 2.25% of the amount of the LOI will be held in
escrow during the thirteen-month period. If, at the end of that time the
total amount of purchases made is less than the amount intended, you will be
required to pay the difference between the reduced sales load and the
sales load applicable to the individual purchases had the LOI not been in
effect. This amount will be obtained from redemption of the escrow
shares. Any remaining escrow shares will be released to you.
If
you establish an LOI, you can aggregate your accounts as well as the accounts of
your immediate family members. You will need to submit to your financial
intermediary or the Transfer Agent from which you established
your LOI (1) written
instruction with respect to the other accounts whose purchases should be
considered in fulfillment of the LOI and (2) all subsequent purchases. This
letter of intent option may be modified or eliminated at any time or from time
to time by the Trust without notice. Modifications to the letter of intent do
not apply retroactively to investors already relying on it.
Waived
Sales Charges.
To encourage investment in the High Income Fund, the Fund may sell A Class
shares at a purchase price equal to the net asset value of such shares, without
a sales charge, to Trustees, officers, directors, managers, and employees of the
Trust, the Adviser, and other service providers to the Trust, and to employees
and principals of related organizations and their families, and certain parties
related thereto, including clients and related accounts of the Adviser. Clients
of financial intermediaries may also purchase A Class shares at net asset value,
without a sales charge, if the financial intermediary has made arrangements to
permit them to do so with the Adviser or the Distributor. The public offering
price of A Class shares of the Fund may also be reduced to the net asset value
of such shares in connection with the acquisition of the assets of, or merger or
consolidation with, a personal holding company or a public or private investment
company.
The
conditions upon which A Class shares of the High Income Fund may be purchased
without a front-end sales charge, provided that you notify the Fund in advance
that the trade qualifies for this privilege, include the following:
•Purchases
by current and former officers, Trustees, directors, managers, and employees of
the High Income Fund, the Adviser, or any of the Adviser’s current affiliates
and those that may in the future be created. At the direction of such persons,
their family members (regardless of age), and any employee benefit plan
established by any of the foregoing entities may also purchase shares at
NAV.
•Participants
in “no transaction fee” programs of discount brokerages that maintain an omnibus
account with the High Income Fund.
•Purchases
resulting from the reinvestment of a distribution.
•Purchases
through eligible Retirement Plans. Eligible
“Retirement Plans” include 401(k) plans, 457 plans, employer-sponsored 403(b)
plans, rabbi trusts, profit-sharing plans, non-qualified deferred compensation
plans and other similar employer-sponsored retirement plans. Retirement Plans do
not include individual retirement vehicles, such as traditional and Roth
individual retirement accounts, Coverdell education savings accounts, individual
403(b)(7) custodial accounts, Keogh plans, SEPs, SARSEPs, SIMPLE IRAs or similar
accounts.
•Reinvestment
within 90 days.
The
High Income Fund reserves the right to modify or terminate these arrangements at
any time.
The
High Income Fund may also waive applicable sales charges under certain other
conditions. Please contact the Fund or the Distributor to determine eligibility
for waived sales charges.
Additional
Information About Sales Charges.
The availability of certain sales charge waivers and discounts will depend on
whether you purchase your shares directly from the High Income Fund or through a
financial intermediary. In all instances, it is the shareholder’s responsibility
to notify the Fund or the shareholder’s financial intermediary at the time of
purchase of any relationship or other facts qualifying the investor for sales
charge waivers or discounts. For
waivers and discounts not available through a particular intermediary,
shareholders will have to purchase Fund shares directly from the Fund or through
another intermediary to receive these waivers or discounts.
Information
regarding the High Income Fund’s sales charges, as well as information regarding
reduced sales charges and waived sales charges, and the terms and conditions for
the purchase, pricing and redemption of Fund shares is available on the Fund’s
website at https://principalstreetfunds.com. Further information is available by
calling the Fund toll free at 1-877-914-7343.
Contingent
Deferred Sales Charge and Dealer Reallowance – A Class Shares.
No sales load is payable at the time of purchase on investments of $1 million or
more of the High Income Fund’s A Class, although the Distributor may pay
broker-dealers 1.00% on investments with no initial sales load. Accordingly, the
Fund may impose a CDSC of up to 1.00% on certain redemptions of those
investments made within 18 months of the purchase. The CDSC is assessed on an
amount equal to the lesser of the initial value of the shares redeemed and the
value of shares redeemed at the time of redemption. No CDSC is imposed on
increases in NAV above the initial purchase price or High Income Fund shares
acquired as reinvested Fund distributions. The CDSC will be waived in the event
of the last surviving account holder’s death, provided the financial
intermediary or the Transfer Agent through which the account is held is
notified. The CDSC will be reduced for amounts over $3 million and for shares
held for at least 12 months. The CDSC will be calculated as follows:
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Purchased
Amount |
Less
than 12 months |
At
least 12 months and up to 15 months |
More
than 15 months and up to 18 months |
$1,000,000
to $3,000,000 |
1.00% |
0.50% |
0.25% |
$3,000,001
to $50,000,000 |
0.50% |
0.25% |
0.12% |
$50,000,001
and greater |
0.25% |
0.12% |
0.06% |
The
High Income Fund uses the first-in, first-out (“FIFO”) method to determine the
18-month holding period. Under this method, if a shareholder bought shares on
different days, the shares purchased first will be redeemed first for the
purpose of determining whether a CDSC applies. The CDSC will be applied on
redemptions of each investment made by a shareholder that does not remain in a
Fund for at least 18 months from the date of purchase. The CDSC does not apply
to Fund shares acquired through reinvested distributions (net investment income
and capital gains).
No
CDSC is applied in the following instances:
1.The
redemption is due to the death or post-purchase disability of a shareholder or
settlor of a living trust account;
2.Redemptions
from retirement plans qualified under Section 401 of the Code. The CDSC will be
waived for benefit payments made directly to plan participants. Benefit payments
will include, but are not limited to, payments resulting from death, disability,
retirement, separation from service, required minimum distributions (as
described under Section 401(a)(9) of the Code), in-service distributions,
hardships, loans, and qualified domestic relations orders. The CDSC waiver will
not apply in the event of termination of the plan or transfer of the plan to
another financial intermediary;
3.The
redemption is for a mandatory withdrawal from a traditional IRA account after
age 70 1/2.
4.In
the case of a divorce, where there exists a court decree that requires
redemption of the shares;
5.When
shares are involuntarily redeemed due to low balance or other
reasons;
6.When
shares are redeemed in accordance with the Fund’s Systematic Withdrawal
Program;
7.Circumstances
that the officers of the Fund, in their discretion, deem to warrant a waiver of
the CDSC; and
8.The
redemption relates to shares for which no commission was paid to the dealer of
record (as described below).”
Documentation
may be required prior to the waiver of the CDSC, including death certificates,
physicians’ certificates, etc., in applicable instances. Under certain
circumstances, the High Income Fund’s Distributor may change the reallowance to
dealers and may also compensate dealers out of its own assets. Dealers engaged
in the sale of shares of the Fund may be deemed to be underwriters under the
Securities Act of 1933. The Fund’s Distributor retains the entire sales charge
on all direct initial investments in the Fund and on all investments in accounts
with no designated dealer of record and any portion of a sales charge that is
not re-allowed to a broker-dealer or financial intermediary.
The
Trust has adopted a Rule 12b-1 Plan under which the Funds are authorized to pay
to the Distributor or such other entities as approved by the Board of Trustees,
as compensation for the distribution-related and/or shareholder services
provided by such entities, an annual fee of up to 0.50% and 0.25% of the average
daily net assets of the Investor Class and A Class of the High Yield Fund,
respectively and 0.25% of the average daily net assets of the Investor Class of
the Short Term Fund. The Distributor may pay any or all amounts received under
the Rule 12b-1 Plan to other persons, including the Adviser or its affiliates,
for any distribution service or activity designed to retain Fund
shareholders.
Because
the Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees are paid on an ongoing basis, your
investment cost over time may be higher than paying other types of sales
charges.
Shares
of the Funds are purchased at the NAV per share next calculated after your
purchase order is received in good order by a Fund (as defined below). Shares
may be purchased directly from the Funds or through a financial intermediary,
including but not limited to, certain brokers, financial planners, financial
advisors, banks, insurance companies, retirement, benefit and pension plans or
certain packaged investment products.
Shares
of the Funds have not been registered and are not offered for sale outside of
the United States. The Funds generally do not sell shares to investors residing
outside the United States, even if they are United States citizens or lawful
permanent residents, except to investors with United States military APO or FPO
addresses or in certain other circumstances where the Chief Compliance Officer
and Anti-Money Laundering Officer for the Trust conclude that such sale is
appropriate and is not in contravention of U.S. law.
A
service fee, currently $25, as well as any loss sustained by a Fund, will be
deducted from a shareholder’s account for any purchases that do not clear. The
Funds and U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC, doing business as U.S. Bank Global
Fund Services, the Funds’ transfer agent (the “Transfer Agent”), will not be
responsible for any losses, liability, cost, or expense resulting from rejecting
any
purchase
order. Your initial order will not be accepted until a completed account
application (an “Account Application”) is received by a Fund or the Transfer
Agent.
Investment
Minimums.
The minimum initial investment amount for the High Income Fund is $1,000,000 for
Institutional Class shares, $25,000 for A Class shares, and $1,000 for Investor
Class shares. The minimum investment amount for subsequent investments for the
High Income Fund is $1,000 for Institutional Class and A Class shares and $100
for Investor Class shares. The minimum initial investment amount for the Short
Term Fund is $25,000 for Institutional Class shares and $1,000 for Investor
Class shares. The minimum investment amount for subsequent investments for the
Short Term Fund is $1,000 for Institutional Class and $100 for Investor Class
shares.
The
Funds reserve the right to waive the minimum initial or subsequent investment
amounts at their sole discretion. Shareholders will be given at least 30 days’
written notice of any increase in the minimum dollar amount of initial or
subsequent investments.
Purchases
through Financial Intermediaries.
For share purchases through a financial intermediary, you must follow the
procedures established by your financial intermediary. Your financial
intermediary is responsible for sending your purchase order and payment to the
Funds’ Transfer Agent. Your financial intermediary holds the shares in your name
and receives all confirmations of purchases and sales from a Fund. Your
financial intermediary may charge for the services that it provides to you in
connection with processing your transaction order or maintaining an account with
them.
If
you place an order for a Fund’s shares through a financial intermediary that is
authorized by the Funds to receive purchase and redemption orders on their
behalf (an “Authorized Intermediary”), your order will be processed at the
applicable price next calculated after receipt by the Authorized Intermediary,
consistent with applicable laws and regulations. Authorized Intermediaries are
authorized to designate other Authorized Intermediaries to receive purchase and
redemption orders on a Fund’s behalf.
If
your financial intermediary is not an Authorized Intermediary, your order will
be processed at the applicable price next calculated after the Transfer Agent
receives your order from your financial intermediary. Your financial
intermediary must agree to send immediately available funds to the Transfer
Agent in the amount of the purchase price, in accordance with the Transfer
Agent’s procedures. If payment is not received in a timely manner, the Transfer
Agent may rescind the transaction and your financial intermediary will be held
liable for any resulting fees or losses. Financial intermediaries that are not
Authorized Intermediaries may set cut-off times for the receipt of orders that
are earlier than the cut-off times established by the Funds.
Purchase
Requests Must be Received in Good Order
Your
share price will be based on the next NAV per share calculated after the
Transfer Agent or your Authorized Intermediary receives your purchase request in
good order. “Good order” means that your purchase request includes:
•The
name of the Fund;
•The
class of shares to be purchased;
•The
dollar amount of shares to be purchased;
•Your
account application; and
•A
check payable to the name of the Fund or a wire transfer received by the
Fund.
An
Account Application or subsequent order to purchase Fund shares is subject to
acceptance by the Funds and is not binding until so accepted. The Funds reserve
the right to reject any Account Application or purchase order if, in their
discretion, it is in a Fund’s best interest to do so. For example, a purchase
order may be refused if it appears so large that it would disrupt the management
of a Fund. Purchases may also be rejected from persons believed to be
“market-timers,” as described under “Tools to Combat Frequent Transactions,”
below. Accounts opened by entities, such as credit unions, corporations, limited
liability
companies, partnerships or trusts, will require additional documentation. Please
note that if any information listed above is missing, your Account Application
will be returned and your account will not be opened.
Upon
acceptance by the Funds, all purchase requests received in good order before the
close of the NYSE (generally 4:00 p.m., Eastern Time) will be processed at
the applicable price next calculated after receipt. Purchase requests received
after the close of the NYSE will be priced on the next business
day.
Purchase
by Mail. To
purchase Fund shares by mail, simply complete and sign the Account Application
or investment stub and mail it, along with a check made payable to the Funds,
to:
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Street High Income Municipal Fund
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Street Short Term Municipal Fund
c/o
U.S. Bank Global Fund Services
615
East Michigan Street, 3rd Floor
Milwaukee,
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The
Funds do not consider the U.S. Postal Service or other independent delivery
services to be their agents. Therefore, a deposit in the mail or with such
services, or receipt at the U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC post office box, of
purchase orders or redemption requests does not constitute receipt by the
Transfer Agent. Receipt of purchase orders or redemption requests is based on
when the order is received at the Transfer Agent’s offices. All purchase checks
must be in U.S. dollars drawn on a domestic financial institution. The Funds
will not accept payment in cash or money orders. To prevent check fraud, the
Funds will not accept third party checks, Treasury checks, credit card checks,
traveler’s checks or starter checks for the purchase of shares. The Funds are
unable to accept post-dated checks or any conditional order or
payment.
Purchase
by Wire. If
you are making your first investment in a Fund, the Transfer Agent must have a
completed Account Application before you wire the funds. You can mail or use an
overnight service to deliver your Account Application to the Transfer Agent at
the above address. Upon receipt of your completed Account Application, the
Transfer Agent will establish an account for you. Once your account has been
established, you may instruct your bank to send the wire. Prior to sending the
wire, please call the Transfer Agent at 1-877-914-7343 to advise them of the
wire and to ensure proper credit upon receipt. Your bank must include the name
of the Fund, your name, and your account number so that your wire can be
correctly applied. Your bank should transmit immediately available funds by wire
to:
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Fund [Class of shares to be purchased] [Shareholder Name/Account
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Wired
funds must be received prior to the close of the NYSE (generally 4:00 p.m.,
Eastern Time) to be eligible for same day pricing. The Funds and U.S. Bank N.A.,
the Funds’ custodian, are not responsible for the consequences of delays
resulting from the banking or Federal Reserve wire system, or from incomplete
wiring instructions.
Investing
by Telephone.
You
may not make initial purchases of Fund shares by telephone.
If
you have accepted telephone transactions on your Account Application or have
been authorized to perform telephone transactions by subsequent arrangement in
writing a Fund and your account has been open for at least seven business days,
you may purchase additional shares by telephoning the Funds toll free at
1-877-914-7343. This option allows investors to move money from their bank
account to their Fund account upon request. Only bank accounts held at domestic
financial institutions that are Automated Clearing House (“ACH”) members may be
used for telephone transactions. The minimum telephone purchase amount is $100.
If your order is received prior to the close of the NYSE (generally 4:00 p.m.,
Eastern Time), shares will be purchased in your account at the applicable price
determined on the day your order is placed. Shareholders may encounter higher
than usual call waiting times during periods of high market activity. Please
allow sufficient time to place your telephone transaction. The Funds are not
responsible for delays due to communications or transmission outages or failure.
Once a telephone transaction has been placed, it cannot be canceled or modified
after the close of regular trading on the NYSE (generally 4:00 p.m., Eastern
Time).
Subsequent
Investments. Subject
to the minimum subsequent investment amount described above, you may add to your
account at any time by purchasing shares by mail, telephone, or wire. You must
call to notify the Fund at 1-877-914-7343 before wiring. All subsequent purchase
requests must include the Fund name, your name, address and your shareholder
account number.
Automatic
Investment Plan.
For your convenience, the Funds offer an Automatic Investment Plan (“AIP”).
Under the AIP, after your initial investment, you may authorize a Fund to
automatically withdraw any amount of at least $100 that you wish to invest in a
Fund, on a monthly, quarterly, semi-annual or annual basis, from your checking
or savings account. In order to participate in the AIP, your bank must be a
member of the ACH network. If you wish to enroll in the AIP, complete the
appropriate section in the Account Application. The Funds may terminate or
modify this privilege at any time. You may terminate your participation in the
AIP at any time by notifying the Transfer Agent five days prior to the next
scheduled withdrawal. A fee will be charged if your bank does not honor the AIP
draft for any reason.
Anti-Money
Laundering Program. The
Trust has established an Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Program (the
“Program”) as required by the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing
Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (the
“USA PATRIOT Act”) and related anti-money laundering laws and regulations. To
ensure compliance with these laws, the Account Application asks for, among other
things, the following information for all “customers” seeking to open an
“account” (as those terms are defined in rules adopted pursuant to the USA
PATRIOT Act):
•Full
name;
•Date
of birth (individuals only);
•Social
Security or taxpayer identification number; and
•Permanent
street address (a P.O. Box number alone is not acceptable).
In
compliance with the USA PATRIOT Act and other applicable anti-money laundering
laws and regulations, the Transfer Agent will verify the information on your
Account Application as part of the Program. As requested on the Account
Application, you must supply your full name, date of birth, social security
number and permanent street address. If you are opening the account in the name
of a legal entity (e.g.,
partnership, limited liability company, business trust, corporation, etc.), you
must also supply the identity of the beneficial owners. Mailing addresses
containing only a P.O. Box will not be accepted. Each Fund reserves the right to
request additional clarifying information and may close your account if
such
clarifying information is not received by a Fund within a reasonable time of the
request or if a Fund cannot form a reasonable belief as to the true identity of
a customer. If you require additional assistance when completing your
application, please contact the Transfer Agent at 1-877-914-7343.
Cancellations
and Modifications.
The Funds will not accept a request to cancel or modify a written transaction
once processing has begun. Please exercise care when placing a transaction
request.
In
general, orders to sell or “redeem” shares may be placed directly with a Fund or
through a financial intermediary. You may redeem all or part of your investment
in a Fund’s shares on any business day that the Fund calculates its
NAV.
However,
if you originally purchased your shares through a financial intermediary, your
redemption order must be placed with the same financial intermediary in
accordance with their established procedures. Your financial intermediary is
responsible for sending your order to the Transfer Agent and for crediting your
account with the proceeds. Your financial intermediary may charge for the
services that it provides to you in connection with processing your transaction
order or maintaining an account with it.
Shareholders
who have an IRA or other retirement plan must indicate on their written
redemption request whether to withhold federal income tax. Redemption requests
failing to indicate an election not to have tax withheld will generally be
subject to 10% withholding. Shares held in IRA or other retirement plan accounts
may be redeemed by telephone at 1-877-914-7343. Investors will be asked whether
or not to withhold taxes from any distribution.
Payment
of Redemption Proceeds.
You may redeem your Fund shares at the NAV per share next determined after the
Transfer Agent or an Authorized Intermediary receives your redemption request in
good order. Your redemption request cannot be processed on days the NYSE is
closed. All requests received by a Fund in good order after the close of the
regular trading session of the NYSE (generally 4:00 p.m., Eastern Time) will
usually be processed on the next business day.
Under
normal circumstances, the Funds expect to meet redemption requests through the
sale of investments held in cash or cash equivalents. In situations in which
investment holdings in cash or cash equivalents are not sufficient to meet
redemption requests, the Funds will typically borrow money through the Funds’
bank line-of-credit. The Funds may also choose to sell portfolio assets for the
purpose of meeting such requests. Each Fund further reserves the right to
distribute “in-kind” securities from a Fund’s portfolio in lieu (in whole or in
part) of cash under certain circumstances, including under stressed market
conditions. Redemptions-in-kind are discussed in greater detail
below.
A
redemption request will be deemed in “good order” if it includes:
•The
shareholder’s name;
•The
name of the Fund to be redeemed;
•The
class of shares to be redeemed;
•The
account number;
•The
share or dollar amount to be redeemed; and
•Signatures
by all shareholders on the account and signature guarantee(s), if
applicable.
Additional
documents are required for certain types of redemptions, such as redemptions
from accounts held by credit unions, corporations, limited liability companies,
or partnerships, or from accounts with executors, trustees, administrators or
guardians. Please contact the Transfer Agent to confirm the requirements
applicable to your specific redemption request. Redemption requests that do not
have the required documentation will be rejected.
While
redemption proceeds may be paid by check sent to the address of record, the
Funds are not responsible for interest lost on such amounts due to lost or
misdirected mail. Redemption proceeds may be wired to your pre-established bank
account or proceeds may be sent via electronic funds transfer through the ACH
network using the bank instructions previously established for your account. The
Funds typically send the redemption proceeds on the next business day (a day
when the NYSE is open for normal business) after the redemption request is
received in good order and prior to market close, regardless of whether the
redemption proceeds are sent via check, wire or ACH transfer. Wires are subject
to a $15 fee. There is no charge to have proceeds sent via ACH; however, funds
are typically credited to your bank within two to three days after redemption.
Except as set forth below, proceeds will be paid within seven calendar days
after a Fund receives your redemption request. Under unusual circumstances, a
Fund may suspend redemptions, or postpone payment for up to seven days, as
permitted by federal securities law.
Please
note that if the Transfer Agent has not yet collected payment for the shares you
are redeeming, it may delay sending the proceeds until the payment is collected,
which may take up to 12 calendar days from the purchase date. This delay will
not apply if you purchased your shares via wire payment. Furthermore, there are
certain times when you may be unable to sell Fund shares or receive proceeds.
Specifically, the Funds may suspend the right to redeem shares or postpone the
date of payment upon redemption for more than seven calendar days: (1) for
any period during which the NYSE is closed (other than customary weekend or
holiday closings) or trading on the NYSE is restricted; (2) for any period
during which an emergency exists as a result of which disposal by a Fund of its
securities is not reasonably practicable or it is not reasonably practicable for
a Fund to fairly determine the value of its net assets; or (3) for such
other periods as the SEC may by order permit for the protection of shareholders.
Your ability to redeem shares by telephone will be restricted for 15 calendar
days after you change your address. You may change your address at any time by
telephone or written request, addressed to the Transfer Agent. Confirmations of
an address change will be sent to both your old and new address.
Signature
Guarantee. Redemption
proceeds will be sent to the address of record. The Transfer Agent may require a
signature guarantee for certain redemption requests. A signature guarantee
assures that your signature is genuine and protects you from unauthorized
account redemptions. Signature guarantees can be obtained from domestic banks,
brokers, dealers, credit unions, national securities exchanges, registered
securities associations, clearing agencies and savings associations, as well as
from participants in the New York Stock Exchange Medallion Signature Program and
the Securities Transfer Agents Medallion Program (“STAMP”), but
not from a notary public.
A signature guarantee, from either a Medallion program member or a non-Medallion
program member, is required of each owner in the following
situations:
•If
ownership is being changed on your account;
•When
redemption proceeds are payable or sent to any person, address or bank account
not on record;
•When
a redemption request is received by the Transfer Agent and the account address
has changed within the last 15 calendar days; or
•For
all redemptions in excess of $100,000 from any shareholder account.
Non-financial
transactions, including establishing or modifying the ability to purchase and
redeem Fund shares by telephone and certain other services on an account, may
require a signature guarantee, signature verification from a Signature
Validation Program member, or other acceptable form of authentication from a
financial institution source.
In
addition to the situations described above, the Funds and/or the Transfer Agent
reserve(s) the right to require a signature guarantee or other acceptable
signature verification in other instances based on the circumstances relative to
the particular situation.
Redemption
by Mail.
You may execute most redemptions by furnishing an unconditional written request
to a Fund to redeem your shares at the current NAV per share. Written redemption
requests should be sent to the Transfer Agent at:
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Street High Income Municipal Fund
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Street Short Term Municipal Fund
c/o
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615
East Michigan Street, 3rd Floor
Milwaukee,
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The
Funds do not consider the U.S. Postal Service or other independent delivery
services to be their agents. Therefore, deposit in the mail or with such
services, or receipt at the U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC post office box, of
purchase orders or redemption requests does not constitute receipt by the
Transfer Agent of the Funds. Receipt of purchase orders or redemption requests
is based on when the order is received at the Transfer Agent’s
offices.
Wire
Redemption. Wire
transfers may be arranged to redeem shares. However, the Transfer Agent charges
a fee, currently $15, per wire redemption against your account on dollar
specific trades, and from proceeds on complete redemptions and share-specific
trades.
Telephone
Redemption. If
you have accepted telephone transactions on your Account Application or have
been authorized to perform telephone transactions by subsequent arrangement in
writing with the Funds, you may redeem shares, in amounts of $100,000 or less,
by instructing a Fund by telephone at 1-877-914-7343. Investors in an IRA or
other retirement plan will be asked whether or not to withhold federal income
tax.
In
order to qualify for, or to change, telephone redemption privileges on an
existing account, a signature guarantee, signature verification from a Signature
Validation Program member, or other acceptable form of authentication from a
financial institution source may be required of all shareholders in order to
qualify for, or to change, telephone redemption privileges on an existing
account. Telephone redemptions will not be made if you have notified the
Transfer Agent of a change of address within 15 calendar days before the
redemption request. During periods of high market activity, shareholders may
encounter higher than usual call waiting times. Please allow sufficient time to
place your telephone transaction. The Funds are not responsible for delays due
to communication or transmission outages or failures.
Note:
Neither the Funds nor any of its service providers will be liable for any loss
or expense in acting upon instructions that are reasonably believed to be
genuine. To confirm that all telephone instructions are genuine, the Funds will
use reasonable procedures, such as requesting that you correctly
state:
•Your
Fund account number;
•The
name in which your account is registered; and/or
•The
Social Security or taxpayer identification number under which the account is
registered.
If
an account has more than one owner or person authorized to perform transactions,
the Funds will accept telephone instructions from any one owner or authorized
person.
Systematic
Withdrawal Program.
The Funds offer a systematic withdrawal plan (“SWP”) whereby shareholders or
their representatives may request a redemption in a specific dollar amount of at
least $100 be sent to them each month, calendar quarter, or annually. Investors
may choose to have a check sent to the address of record, or proceeds may be
sent to a pre-designated bank account via the ACH network. To start this
program, your account must have Fund shares with a value of at least $10,000.
This program may be terminated or modified by the Fund at any time. Any request
to change or terminate your SWP should be communicated in writing or by
telephone to the Transfer Agent no later than five days before
the
next scheduled withdrawal. A withdrawal under the SWP involves redemption of
Fund shares, and may result in a gain or loss for federal income tax purposes.
In addition, if the amount requested to be withdrawn exceeds the amount
available in your account, which includes any dividends credited to your
account, the account will ultimately be depleted. To establish the SWP, complete
the SWP section of the Account Application. Please call 1-877-914-7343 for
additional information regarding the SWP.
Each
Fund’s Right to Redeem an Account.
Each Fund reserves the right to redeem the shares of any shareholder whose
account balance is less than $1,000, other than as a result of a decline in the
NAV of a Fund. The Funds will provide a shareholder with written notice 30 days
prior to redeeming the shareholder’s account.
Redemption-in-Kind.
The Funds generally pay redemption proceeds in cash. However, under unusual
conditions that make the payment of cash unwise (and for the protection of a
Fund’s remaining shareholders), a Fund may pay all or part of a shareholder’s
redemption proceeds in portfolio securities with a market value equal to the
redemption price (redemption-in-kind).
Specifically,
if the amount you are redeeming from a Fund during any 90-day period is in
excess of the lesser of $250,000 or 1% of a Fund’s net assets, valued at the
beginning of such period, a Fund has the right to redeem your shares by giving
you the amount that exceeds this threshold in securities instead of cash. If a
Fund pays your redemption proceeds by a distribution of securities, you could
incur taxes, brokerage commissions, or other charges in converting the
securities to cash, and you may incur a taxable capital gain or loss as a result
of the distribution. In addition, you will bear any market risks associated with
such securities until they are converted into cash.
Cancellations
and Modifications.
The Funds will not accept a request to cancel or modify a transaction once
processing has begun. Please exercise care when placing a transaction
request.
Each
Fund will declare daily and make monthly distributions of net investment income.
Each Fund will also distribute net capital gains, if any, at least annually,
typically during the month of December. The Funds may make additional
distributions if deemed to be desirable at other times during the
year.
All
distributions will be reinvested in Fund shares unless you choose one of the
following options: (1) receive distributions of net capital gains in cash,
while reinvesting net investment income distributions in additional Fund shares;
(2) receive all distributions in cash; or (3) reinvest net capital gain
distributions in additional Fund shares, while receiving distributions of net
investment income in cash.
If
you wish to change your distribution option, write or call the Transfer Agent in
advance of the payment date of the distribution. However, any such change will
be effective only as to distributions for which the record date is five or more
calendar days after the Transfer Agent has received your request.
If
you elect to receive distributions in cash and the U.S. Postal Service is unable
to deliver your check, or if a check remains uncashed for six months, each Fund
reserves the right to reinvest the distribution check in your account at a
Fund’s then current NAV per share and to reinvest all subsequent
distributions.
The
Funds are intended for long-term investors. Short-term “market-timers” who
engage in frequent purchases and redemptions may disrupt a Fund’s investment
program and create additional transaction costs that are borne by all of a
Fund’s shareholders. The Board of Trustees has adopted policies and procedures
that are designed to discourage excessive, short-term trading and other abusive
trading practices that may disrupt portfolio management strategies and harm
performance. The Funds take steps to reduce the frequency and effect of these
activities in the Funds. These steps include, among other
things,
monitoring trading activity, and using fair value pricing. Although these
efforts are designed to discourage abusive trading practices, these tools cannot
eliminate the possibility that such activity will occur. The Fund seeks to
exercise judgment in implementing these tools to the best of its ability, and in
a manner that it believes is consistent with shareholder interests. Except as
noted herein, the Funds apply all restrictions uniformly in all applicable
cases.
Monitoring
Trading Practices.
Each Fund monitors selected trades in an effort to detect excessive short-term
trading activities. If, as a result of this monitoring, a Fund believes that a
shareholder has engaged in excessive short-term trading, it may, in its
discretion, ask the shareholder to stop such activities or refuse to process
purchases in the shareholder’s accounts. In making such judgments, each Fund
seeks to act in a manner that it believes is consistent with the best interests
of its shareholders. The Funds use a variety of techniques to monitor for and
detect abusive trading practices. These techniques may change from time to time
as determined by each Fund in its sole discretion. To minimize harm to a Fund
and its shareholders, the Funds reserve the right to reject any purchase order
(but not a redemption request), in whole or in part, for any reason and without
prior notice. The Funds may decide to restrict purchase and sale activity in
their shares based on various factors, including whether frequent purchase and
sale activity will disrupt portfolio management strategies and adversely affect
Fund performance.
Fair
Value Pricing.
Each Fund employs fair value pricing selectively to ensure greater accuracy in
its daily NAV and to prevent dilution by frequent traders or market timers who
seek to take advantage of temporary market anomalies. The Board of Trustees has
developed procedures that utilize fair value pricing when reliable market
quotations are not readily available or when corporate events, events in the
securities market and/or world events cause the Adviser to believe that a
security’s last sale price may not reflect its actual market value. Valuing
securities at fair value involves reliance on judgment. Fair value
determinations are made in good faith in accordance with procedures adopted by
the Board of Trustees. There can be no assurance that a Fund will obtain the
fair value assigned to a security if it were to sell the security at
approximately the time at which a Fund determines its NAV per share. More
detailed information regarding fair value pricing can be found in this
Prospectus under the heading titled, “Pricing of Fund Shares.”
Due
to the complexity and subjectivity involved in identifying abusive trading
activity and the volume of shareholder transactions the Fund handles, there can
be no assurance that a Fund’s efforts will identify all trades or trading
practices that may be considered abusive. In particular, since each Fund
receives purchase and sale orders through Authorized Intermediaries that use
group or omnibus accounts, a Fund cannot always detect frequent trading.
However, the Funds will work with Authorized Intermediaries as necessary to
discourage shareholders from engaging in abusive trading practices and to impose
restrictions on excessive trades. In this regard, each Fund has entered into
information sharing agreements with Authorized Intermediaries pursuant to which
these intermediaries are required to provide to a Fund, at the Fund’s request,
certain information relating to their customers investing in a Fund through
non-disclosed or omnibus accounts. The Funds will use this information to
attempt to identify abusive trading practices. Authorized Intermediaries are
contractually required to follow any instructions from the Funds to restrict or
prohibit future purchases from shareholders that are found to have engaged in
abusive trading in violation of the Funds’ policies. However, the Funds cannot
guarantee the accuracy of the information provided to them from Authorized
Intermediaries and cannot ensure that they will always be able to detect abusive
trading practices that occur through non-disclosed and omnibus accounts. As a
result, the Funds’ ability to monitor and discourage abusive trading practices
in non-disclosed and omnibus accounts may be limited.
The
Funds anticipate that substantially all of their distributions will be exempt
from regular federal income taxes. All or a portion of these dividends, however,
may be subject to state and local taxes or to the AMT. The Funds also may make
distribution that are taxable as ordinary income or capital gains.
Because
of these tax exemptions, a tax-free fund may not be a suitable investment for
retirement plans and other tax-exempt investors. These dividends may be taxable
to corporate shareholders subject to a state's corporate franchise tax,
corporate income tax, or both and such shareholders should consult with their
tax advisors about the taxability of this income before investing in a Fund.
Exempt-interest
dividends are taken into account when determining the taxable portion of your
social security or railroad retirement benefits. Each Fund may invest a portion
of its assets in private activity bonds. The income from these bonds is a tax
preference item when determining federal alternative minimum tax for
noncorporate shareholders, unless such bonds were issued in 2009 or 2010.
While
each Fund endeavors to purchase only bona fide tax-exempt securities, there are
risks that: (i) a security issued as tax-exempt may be reclassified by the
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) or a state tax authority as taxable and/or (ii)
future legislative, administrative, or court actions could adversely impact the
qualification of income from a tax-exempt security as tax-free. Such
reclassifications or actions could cause interest from a security to become
taxable, possibly retroactively, subjecting you to increased tax liability. In
addition, such reclassifications or actions could cause the value of a security,
and therefore, the value of a Fund's shares, to decline.
Distributions
of a Fund’s net investment company taxable income (which includes, but is not
limited to, interest, dividends, net short-term capital gains and net gains from
foreign currency transactions), if any, are generally taxable to a Fund’s
shareholders as ordinary income. To the extent that a Fund’s distributions of
net investment company taxable income are designated as attributable to
“qualified dividend” income, such income may be subject to tax at the reduced
rate of federal income tax applicable to non-corporate shareholders for net
long-term capital gains, if certain holding period requirements have been
satisfied by the shareholder. To the extent a Fund’s distributions of net
investment company taxable income are attributable to net short-term capital
gains, such distributions will be treated as ordinary dividend income for the
purposes of income tax reporting and will not be available to offset a
shareholder’s capital losses from other investments.
Distributions
of net capital gains (net long-term capital gains less net short-term capital
losses) are generally taxable as long-term capital gains (currently at a maximum
federal rate of 20% for individual shareholders in the highest income tax
bracket) regardless of the length of time that a shareholder has owned Fund
shares, unless you are a tax exempt organization or are investing through a
tax-advantaged arrangement such as a 401(k) plan or IRA. Distributions by a Fund
that are not paid from its earnings and profits will be treated as a return of
capital, which is applied against and will reduce the adjusted tax basis of your
shares (but not below zero) and, after such adjusted tax basis is reduced to
zero, be treated as a gain from the sale or exchange of shares.
A
3.8% Medicare tax on net investment income (including capital gains and
dividends) will also be imposed on individuals, estates and trusts, subject to
certain income thresholds.
You
will be taxed in the same manner whether you receive your distributions (whether
of net investment company taxable income or net capital gains) in cash or
reinvest them in additional Fund shares. Distributions are generally taxable
when received. However, distributions declared in October, November or December
to shareholders of record on a date in such a month and paid the following
January are taxable as if received on December 31.
Shareholders
who sell, or redeem, shares generally will have a capital gain or loss from the
sale or redemption. The amount of the gain or loss and the applicable rate of
federal income tax will depend generally upon the amount paid for the shares,
the amount of reinvested taxable distributions, if any, the amount received from
the sale or redemption and how long the shares were held by a shareholder. Any
loss arising from the sale or redemption of shares held for six months or less,
however, is treated as a long-term capital loss to the extent of any amounts
treated as distributions of net capital gain received on such shares. In
determining the holding period of such shares for this purpose, any period
during which
your
risk of loss is offset by means of options, short sales or similar transactions
is not counted. If you purchase Fund shares within 30 days before or after
redeeming other Fund shares at a loss, all or part of that loss will not be
deductible and will instead increase the basis of the newly purchased
shares.
Shareholders
will be advised annually as to the federal tax status of all distributions made
by a Fund for the preceding year. Distributions by a Fund and gains from the
sale of Fund shares may also be subject to state and local taxes. Additional tax
information may be found in the SAI.
This
section assumes you are a U.S. shareholder and is not intended to be a full
discussion of federal tax laws and the effect of such laws on you. There may be
other federal, state, foreign or local tax considerations applicable to a
particular investor. You are urged to consult your own tax advisor.
Telephone
Transactions. If
you have accepted telephone transactions on your Account Application or have
been authorized to perform telephone transactions by subsequent arrangement in
writing with a Fund, you may be responsible for fraudulent telephone orders made
to your account as long as a Fund has taken reasonable precautions to verify
your identity. In addition, once you place a telephone transaction request, it
cannot be canceled or modified
after
the close of regular trading on the NYSE (generally, 4:00 p.m., Eastern
Time).
During
periods of significant economic or market change, telephone transactions may be
difficult to complete. If you are unable to contact a Fund by telephone, you may
also mail the requests to a Fund at the address listed previously in the “How to
Purchase Shares” section.
Telephone
trades must be received by or prior to the close of the NYSE (generally 4:00
p.m., Eastern Time). Please allow sufficient time to ensure that you will be
able to complete your telephone transaction prior to the close of the
NYSE.
Policies
of Other Financial Intermediaries. Financial
intermediaries may establish policies that differ from those of a Fund. For
example, the institution may charge transaction fees, set higher minimum
investments or impose certain limitations on buying or selling shares in
addition to those identified in this Prospectus. Please contact your financial
intermediary for details.
Closing
the Fund. The
Board of Trustees retains the right to close (or partially close) a Fund to new
purchases if it is determined to be in the best interest of a Fund’s
shareholders. Based on market and Fund conditions, and in consultation with the
Adviser, the Board of Trustees may decide to close a Fund to new investors, all
investors or certain classes of investors (such as fund supermarkets) at any
time. If a Fund is closed to new purchases, it will continue to honor redemption
requests, unless the right to redeem shares has been temporarily suspended as
permitted by federal law.
Householding.
In an effort to decrease costs, each Fund intends to reduce the number of
duplicate prospectuses and other similar reports you receive by sending only one
copy of each to those addresses shared by two or more accounts and to
shareholders a Fund reasonably believes are from the same family or household.
If you would like to discontinue householding for your accounts, please call
toll-free at 1-877-914-7343 to request individual copies of these documents.
Once a Fund receives notice to stop householding, a Fund will begin sending
individual copies 30 days after receiving your request. This Householding policy
does not apply to account statements.
Lost
Shareholders, Inactive Accounts and Unclaimed Property.
It is important that the Funds maintain a correct address for each shareholder.
An incorrect address may cause a shareholder’s account statements and other
mailings to be returned to the Funds. Based upon statutory requirements for
returned mail, the Funds will attempt to locate the shareholder or rightful
owner of the account. If the Funds are unable to locate the shareholder, then
they will determine whether the shareholder’s account can legally be
considered
abandoned. Your mutual fund account may be transferred to the state government
of your state of residence if no activity occurs within your account during the
“inactivity period” specified in your state’s abandoned property laws. The Funds
are legally obligated to escheat (or transfer) abandoned property to the
appropriate state’s unclaimed property administrator in accordance with
statutory requirements. The shareholder’s last known address of record
determines which state has jurisdiction. Please proactively contact the Transfer
Agent toll-free at 1-877-914-7343 at least annually to ensure your account
remains in active status.
If
you are a resident of the state of Texas, you may designate a representative to
receive notifications that, due to inactivity, your mutual fund account assets
may be delivered to the Texas Comptroller. Please contact the Transfer Agent if
you wish to complete a Texas Designation of Representative form.
Quasar
Distributors, LLC (the “Distributor”) is located at 111 East Kilbourn Avenue,
Suite 2200 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202, and serves as distributor and principal
underwriter to the Funds. The Distributor is a registered broker-dealer and
member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. Shares of the Funds
are offered on a continuous basis.
The
Funds may pay service fees to intermediaries, such as banks, broker-dealers,
financial advisors or other financial institutions, including affiliates of the
Adviser, for sub-administration, sub-transfer agency and other shareholder
services associated with shareholders whose shares are held of record in omnibus
accounts, other group accounts or accounts traded through registered securities
clearing agents.
The
Adviser, out of its own resources and without additional cost to each Fund or
its shareholders, may provide additional cash payments to intermediaries who
sell shares of the Funds. These payments and compensation are in addition to
service fees paid by the Funds, if any. Payments are generally made to
intermediaries that provide shareholder servicing, marketing support or access
to sales meetings, sales representatives and management representatives of the
intermediary. Payments may also be paid to intermediaries for inclusion of the
Fund on a sales list, including a preferred or select sales list or in other
sales programs. Compensation may be paid as an expense reimbursement in cases in
which the intermediary provides shareholder services to the Funds. The Adviser
may also pay cash compensation in the form of finder’s fees that vary depending
on the dollar amount of the shares sold.
The
financial highlights in the following tables are intended to help you understand
a Fund's financial performance for the fiscal periods indicated. Certain
information reflects financial results for a single Fund share. The total
returns in the tables represent the rate that an investor would have earned or
lost on an investment in the Fund (assuming reinvestment of all dividends and
distributions). This information has been audited by Cohen & Company, Ltd.,
the Funds’ independent registered public accounting firm, whose report, along
with the Funds’ financial statements, are included in the annual report, which
is available upon request or on the Funds’ website at
https://principalstreetfunds.com/.
Principal
Street High Income Municipal Fund - For a Fund share outstanding throughout the
periods.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
A
Class |
Year
Ended August 31, 2023 |
|
For
the Period Inception(1)
through
August
31,
2022 |
PER
SHARE DATA: |
|
| |
Net
asset value, beginning of period |
$7.87 |
|
| $8.74 |
|
|
|
| |
INVESTMENT
OPERATIONS: |
|
| |
Net
investment income |
0.43 |
|
| 0.24 |
|
Net
realized and unrealized loss on investments |
(0.74) |
|
| (0.87) |
|
Total
from investment operations |
(0.31) |
|
| (0.63) |
|
|
|
| |
LESS
DISTRIBUTIONS FROM: |
|
| |
Net
investment income |
(0.45) |
|
| (0.24) |
|
Net
realized gains |
— |
|
| — |
|
Total
distributions |
(0.45) |
|
| (0.24) |
|
Net
asset value, end of period |
$7.11 |
|
| $7.87 |
|
|
|
| |
TOTAL
RETURN(2)(3) |
-4.02 |
% |
| -7.27 |
% |
|
|
| |
SUPPLEMENTAL
DATA AND RATIOS: |
|
| |
Net
assets, end of period (in 000’s) |
$5,739 |
|
| $375 |
|
Ratio
of expenses to average net assets: |
|
| |
Before
expense waiver(4) |
1.27 |
% |
| 1.27 |
% |
After
expense waiver(4) |
1.23 |
% |
| 1.20 |
% |
Ratio
of expenses excluding interest expense to average net assets: |
|
| |
Before
expense waiver(4) |
1.07 |
% |
| 1.06 |
% |
After
expense waiver(4) |
1.03 |
% |
| 0.98 |
% |
Ratio
of net investment income to average net assets: |
|
| |
After
expense waiver(4) |
5.52 |
% |
| 5.44 |
% |
Portfolio
turnover rate(2)(5) |
21 |
% |
| 53 |
% |
(1)Inception
date for the A Class was February 16, 2022.
(2)Not
annualized for period less than one year.
(3)Return
does not include sales load.
(4)Annualized
for period less than one year.
(5)Portfolio
turnover disclosed is for the Fund as a whole.
Principal
Street High Income Municipal Fund - For a Fund share outstanding throughout the
years.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Institutional
Class |
Year
Ended August 31, 2023 |
| Year
Ended August 31, 2022 |
| Year
Ended August 31, 2021 |
| Year
Ended August 31, 2020 |
| Year
Ended August 31, 2019 |
PER
SHARE DATA: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Net
asset value, beginning of year |
$7.91 |
|
| $9.27 |
|
| $9.12 |
|
| $10.36 |
|
| $10.34 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
INVESTMENT
OPERATIONS: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Net
investment income |
0.43 |
|
| 0.46 |
|
| 0.51 |
|
| 0.60 |
|
| 0.60 |
|
Net
realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments |
(0.67) |
|
| (1.35) |
|
| 0.15 |
|
| (1.24) |
|
| 0.22 |
|
Total
from investment operations |
(0.24) |
|
| (0.89) |
|
| 0.66 |
|
| (0.64) |
|
| 0.82 |
|
LESS
DISTRIBUTIONS FROM: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Net
investment income |
(0.46) |
|
| (0.47) |
|
| (0.51) |
|
| (0.56) |
|
| (0.60) |
|
Net
realized gains |
— |
|
| — |
|
| — |
|
| (0.04) |
|
| (0.20) |
|
Total
distributions |
(0.46) |
|
| (0.47) |
|
| (0.51) |
|
| (0.60) |
|
| (0.80) |
|
Net
asset value, end of year |
$7.21 |
|
| $7.91 |
|
| $9.27 |
|
| $9.12 |
|
| $10.36 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
TOTAL
RETURN |
-2.94 |
% |
| -9.88 |
% |
| 7.49 |
% |
| -6.34 |
% |
| 8.36 |
% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
SUPPLEMENTAL
DATA AND RATIOS: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Net
assets, end of year (in 000’s) |
$240,235 |
|
| $272,640 |
|
| $289,438 |
|
| $201,763 |
|
| $155,658 |
|
Ratio
of expenses to average net assets: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Before
expense waiver |
1.04 |
% |
| 0.86 |
% |
| 0.78 |
% |
| 0.80 |
% |
| 0.83 |
% |
After
expense waiver |
1.00 |
% |
| 0.83 |
% |
| 0.73 |
% |
| 0.74 |
% |
| 0.74 |
% |
Ratio
of expenses excluding interest expense to average net assets: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Before
expense waiver |
0.81 |
% |
| 0.76 |
% |
| 0.77 |
% |
| 0.79 |
% |
| 0.82 |
% |
After
expense waiver |
0.77 |
% |
| 0.73 |
% |
| 0.73 |
% |
| 0.73 |
% |
| 0.73 |
% |
Ratio
of net investment income to average net assets: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
After
expense waiver |
5.75 |
% |
| 5.35 |
% |
| 5.70 |
% |
| 6.28 |
% |
| 5.82 |
% |
Portfolio
turnover rate(1) |
21 |
% |
| 53 |
% |
| 64 |
% |
| 41 |
% |
| 33 |
% |
(1)Portfolio
turnover disclosed is for the Fund as a whole.
Principal
Street High Income Municipal Fund - For a Fund share outstanding throughout the
periods.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Investor
Class |
Year
Ended August 31, 2023 |
| Year
Ended August 31, 2022 |
| Year
Ended August 31, 2021 |
|
For
the Period
Inception(1)
through
August
31, 2020 |
PER
SHARE DATA: |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Net
asset value, beginning of period |
$7.96 |
|
| $9.32 |
|
| $9.18 |
|
| $8.66 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
INVESTMENT
OPERATIONS: |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Net
investment income |
0.40 |
|
| 0.41 |
|
| 0.48 |
|
| 0.22 |
|
Net
realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments |
(0.70) |
|
| (1.35) |
|
| 0.13 |
|
|
0.51(5) |
Total
from investment operations |
(0.30) |
|
| (0.94) |
|
| 0.61 |
|
| 0.73 |
|
LESS
DISTRIBUTIONS FROM: |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Net
investment income |
(0.43) |
|
| (0.42) |
|
| (0.47) |
|
| (0.21) |
|
Net
realized gains |
— |
|
| — |
|
| — |
|
| — |
|
Total
distributions |
(0.43) |
|
| (0.42) |
|
| (0.47) |
|
| (0.21) |
|
Net
asset value, end of period |
$7.23 |
|
| $7.96 |
|
| $9.32 |
|
| $9.18 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
TOTAL
RETURN(2) |
-3.81 |
% |
| -10.28 |
% |
| 6.82 |
% |
| 8.56 |
% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
SUPPLEMENTAL
DATA AND RATIOS: |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Net
assets, end of period (in 000’s) |
$28,801 |
|
| $20,740 |
|
| $12,420 |
|
| $278 |
|
Ratio
of expenses to average net assets: |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Before
expense waiver(3) |
1.54 |
% |
| 1.38 |
% |
| 1.28 |
% |
| 1.32 |
% |
After
expense waiver(3) |
1.50 |
% |
| 1.35 |
% |
| 1.24 |
% |
| 1.23 |
% |
Ratio
of expenses excluding interest expense to average net assets: |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Before
expense waiver(3) |
1.31 |
% |
| 1.26 |
% |
| 1.27 |
% |
| 1.32 |
% |
After
expense waiver(3) |
1.27 |
% |
| 1.23 |
% |
| 1.23 |
% |
| 1.23 |
% |
Ratio
of net investment income to average net assets: |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
After
expense waiver(3) |
5.25 |
% |
| 4.89 |
% |
| 5.20 |
% |
| 6.21 |
% |
Portfolio
turnover rate(2)(4) |
21 |
% |
| 53 |
% |
| 64 |
% |
| 41 |
% |
(1)Inception
date for the Investor Class was March 23, 2020.
(2)Not
annualized for period less than one year.
(3)Annualized
for period less than one year.
(4)Portfolio
turnover disclosed is for the Fund as a whole.
(5)The
realized and unrealized gain per share in this caption is a balancing amount
necessary to reconcile the change in net asset value per share for the period,
and may not reconcile with the aggregate gains on the Statement of Operations
due to share transactions for the period.
Principal
Street Short Term Municipal Fund - For a Fund share outstanding throughout the
periods.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Institutional
Class |
Year
Ended August 31, 2023 |
|
For
the Period Inception(1)
through
August
31,
2022 |
PER
SHARE DATA: |
|
| |
Net
asset value, beginning of period |
$4.26 |
|
| $4.25 |
|
|
|
| |
INVESTMENT
OPERATIONS: |
|
| |
Net
investment income |
0.14 |
|
| 0.03 |
|
Net
realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments |
(0.04) |
|
|
0.01(5) |
Total
from investment operations |
0.10 |
|
| 0.04 |
|
|
|
| |
LESS
DISTRIBUTIONS FROM: |
|
| |
Net
investment income |
(0.14) |
|
| (0.03) |
|
Net
realized gains |
— |
|
| — |
|
Total
distributions |
(0.14) |
|
| (0.03) |
|
Net
asset value, end of period |
$4.22 |
|
| $4.26 |
|
|
|
| |
TOTAL
RETURN(2) |
2.36 |
% |
| 1.02 |
% |
|
|
| |
SUPPLEMENTAL
DATA AND RATIOS: |
|
| |
Net
assets, end of period (in 000’s) |
$53,211 |
|
| $29,970 |
|
Ratio
of expenses to average net assets: |
|
| |
Before
expense waiver(3) |
1.09 |
% |
| 4.41 |
% |
After
expense waiver(3) |
0.71 |
% |
| 0.70 |
% |
Ratio
of expenses excluding interest expense to average net assets: |
|
| |
Before
expense waiver(3) |
1.09 |
% |
| 4.41 |
% |
After
expense waiver(3) |
0.70 |
% |
| 0.70 |
% |
Ratio
of net investment income to average net assets: |
|
| |
After
expense waiver(3) |
3.42 |
% |
| 2.52 |
% |
Portfolio
turnover rate(2)(4) |
75 |
% |
| 24 |
% |
(1)Inception
date for the Fund was April 27, 2022.
(2)Not
annualized for period less than one year.
(3)Annualized
for period less than one year.
(4)Portfolio
turnover disclosed is for the Fund as a whole.
(5)The
realized and unrealized gain per share in this caption is a balancing amount
necessary to reconcile the change in net asset value per share for the period,
and may not reconcile with the aggregate gains on the Statement of Operations
due to share transactions for the period.
Principal
Street Short Term Municipal Fund - For a Fund share outstanding throughout the
periods.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Investor
Class |
Year
Ended August 31, 2023 |
|
For
the Period Inception(1)
through
August
31,
2022 |
PER
SHARE DATA: |
|
| |
Net
asset value, beginning of period |
$ |
4.26 |
|
| $4.25 |
|
|
|
| |
INVESTMENT
OPERATIONS: |
|
| |
Net
investment income |
0.13 |
|
| 0.03 |
|
Net
realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments |
$ |
(0.05) |
|
|
0.01(5) |
Total
from investment operations |
0.08 |
|
| 0.04 |
|
|
|
| |
LESS
DISTRIBUTIONS FROM: |
|
| |
Net
investment income |
(0.13) |
|
| (0.03) |
|
Net
realized gains |
— |
| — |
|
Total
distributions |
(0.13) |
|
| (0.03) |
|
Net
asset value, end of period |
$4.21 |
|
| $4.26 |
|
|
|
| |
TOTAL
RETURN(2) |
1.87 |
% |
| 0.94 |
% |
|
|
| |
SUPPLEMENTAL
DATA AND RATIOS: |
|
| |
Net
assets, end of period (in 000’s) |
$127 |
| $28 |
|
Ratio
of expenses to average net assets: |
|
| |
Before
expense waiver(3) |
1.37 |
% |
| 5.60 |
% |
After
expense waiver(3) |
0.95 |
% |
| 0.96 |
% |
Ratio
of expenses excluding interest expense to average net assets: |
|
| |
Before
expense waiver(3) |
1.36 |
% |
| 5.59 |
% |
After
expense waiver(3) |
0.95 |
% |
| 0.95 |
% |
Ratio
of net investment income to average net assets: |
|
| |
After
expense waiver(3) |
3.18 |
% |
| 2.27 |
% |
Portfolio
turnover rate(2)(4) |
75 |
% |
| 24 |
% |
(1)Inception
date for the Fund was April 27, 2022.
(2)Not
annualized for period less than one year.
(3)Annualized
for period less than one year.
(4)Portfolio
turnover disclosed is for the Fund as a whole.
(5)The
realized and unrealized gain per share in this caption is a balancing amount
necessary to reconcile the change in net asset value per share for the period,
and may not reconcile with the aggregate gains on the Statement of Operations
due to share transactions for the period.
The
Funds collect only relevant information about you that the law allows or
requires them to have in order to conduct their business and properly service
you. The Funds collect financial and personal information about you (“Personal
Information”) directly (e.g.,
information on account applications and other forms, such as your name, address,
and social security number, and information provided to access account
information or conduct account transactions online, such as password, account
number, e-mail address, and alternate telephone number), and indirectly
(e.g.,
information about your transactions with us, such as transaction amounts,
account balance and account holdings).
The
Funds do not disclose any non-public personal information about its shareholders
or former shareholders other than for everyday business purposes such as to
process a transaction, service an account, respond to court orders and legal
investigations or as otherwise permitted by law. Third parties that may receive
this information include companies that provide transfer agency, technology and
administrative services to the Funds, as well as the Funds’ investment adviser
who is an affiliate of the Funds. If you maintain a retirement/educational
custodial account directly with the Funds, we may also disclose your Personal
Information to the custodian for that account for shareholder servicing
purposes. The Funds limit access to your Personal Information provided to
unaffiliated third parties to information necessary to carry out their assigned
responsibilities to the Funds. All shareholder records will be disposed of in
accordance with applicable law.
The
Funds maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect your
Personal Information and requires its third-party service providers with access
to such information to treat your Personal Information with the same high degree
of confidentiality.
In
the event that you hold shares of the Funds through a financial intermediary,
including, but not limited to, a broker-dealer, bank, credit union or trust
company, the privacy policy of your financial intermediary governs how your
non-public personal information is shared with unaffiliated third
parties.
Principal
Street High Income Municipal Fund
Principal
Street Short Term Municipal Fund
Each
a series of Managed Portfolio Series
You
can find more information about the Fund in the following
documents:
Statement
of Additional Information
The
SAI provides additional details about the investments and techniques of the
Funds and certain other additional information. A current SAI is on file with
the SEC and is incorporated into this Prospectus by reference. This means that
the SAI is legally considered a part of this Prospectus even though it is not
physically within this Prospectus.
Annual
and Semi-Annual Reports
The
Funds’ annual and semi-annual reports provide additional information about the
Funds’ investments. The annual reports contain a discussion of the market
conditions and investment strategies that affected the Funds’ performance during
its prior fiscal period.
You
can obtain a free copy of these documents and the SAI, request other
information, or make general inquiries about the Funds by calling the Funds
(toll-free) at 1-877-914-7343, by visiting the Funds’ website at
https://principalstreetfunds.com or by writing to:
Principal
Street High Income Municipal Fund
Principal
Street Short Term Municipal Fund
c/o
U.S. Bank Global Fund Services
P.O.
Box 701
Milwaukee,
Wisconsin 53201-0701
You
can review and copy information, including the Funds’ reports and SAI, at the
SEC’s Public Reference Room in Washington, D.C. You can obtain information on
the operation of the Public Reference Room by calling (202) 551‑8090.
Reports and other information about the Funds are also available:
•Free
of charge from the SEC’s EDGAR database on the SEC’s Internet website at
http://www.sec.gov; or
•For
a fee, by electronic request at the following e-mail address:
[email protected].
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Investment
Adviser
Principal
Street Partners, LLC
949
South Shady Grove Road, Suite 402
Memphis,
TN 38120
Independent
Registered Public Accounting Firm
Cohen
& Company, Ltd.
342
North Water Street, Suite 830
Milwaukee,
Wisconsin 53202
Legal
Counsel
Stradley
Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP
2005
Market Street, Suite 2600
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania 19103
Custodian
U.S.
Bank N.A.
Custody
Operations
1555
North RiverCenter Drive, Suite 302
Milwaukee,
Wisconsin 53212
Transfer
Agent, Fund Accountant and Fund Administrator
U.S.
Bancorp Fund Services, LLC
615
East Michigan Street
Milwaukee,
Wisconsin 53202
Distributor
Quasar
Distributors, LLC
111
East Kilbourn Avenue, Suite 2200
Milwaukee,
Wisconsin 53202