PROSPECTUS

 

September 27, 2023

 

Sovereign's Capital Flourish Fund – SOVF

 

Principal U.S. Listing Exchange: NYSE Arca, Inc.

 

THE U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION (“SEC”) HAS NOT APPROVED OR

DISAPPROVED OF THESE SECURITIES OR PASSED UPON THE ACCURACY OR

ADEQUACY OF THIS PROSPECTUS. ANY REPRESENTATION TO THE CONTRARY IS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE.

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

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Sovereign's Capital Flourish Fund – Fund Summary  1
Additional Information About the Fund  6
Portfolio Holdings Information  10
Management  10
How to Buy and Sell Shares  12
Dividends, Distributions and Taxes  14
Distribution  17
Premium/Discount Information  17
Other Information; Additional Notices  17
Financial Highlights  18

 

 

Sovereign's Capital Flourish Fund – SOVF

 

FUND Summary

 

Investment Objective

 

The investment objective of Sovereign's Capital Flourish Fund (the “Fund”) is to provide long-term capital appreciation.

 

Fees and Expenses of the Fund

 

The following table describes the fees and expenses you may pay if you buy, hold, and sell shares of the Fund (“Shares”). You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and Example below.

 

Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
 
 
Management Fees 0.75%
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees None
Other Expenses1 0.00%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.75%

 

1 Estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.

 

Expense Example

 

This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds. The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. The Example does not take into account brokerage commissions that you may pay on your purchases and sales of Shares. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

 

1 Year 3 Years
$77 $240

 

Portfolio Turnover

 

The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the Example, affect the Fund’s performance. Because the Fund has not yet commenced operations, the portfolio turnover rate is not available. In the future, the portfolio turnover rate for the most recent fiscal year will be provided here.

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Principal Investment Strategies of the Fund

 

The Fund invests primarily in common stock of publicly traded U.S. companies that are selected by Sovereign’s Capital Management, LLC (the “Adviser” or “Sovereign’s Capital”), the Fund’s investment adviser. The Adviser selects companies that are led by faith-driven CEOs that seek to build exceptional corporate cultures based on biblical values that allow employees to flourish. A company is considered a “U.S. company” if (i) the security is listed on a U.S. national securities exchange, (ii) the issuer is headquartered in the U.S., or (iii) the issuer derives a substantial portion of their revenues from, or has a substantial portion of its operations in, the U.S.

 

The Adviser employs an active management strategy in seeking to achieve the Fund’s objective. The Adviser’s strategy employs “faith-driven” investing based on non-denominational Christian values and seeks companies that show “love of neighbor” for employees, customers and community with the goal of creating exceptional company cultures. To identify potential investments, the Adviser relies on the fundamental research and analysis conducted by its investment personnel and leverages its network of faith-driven individuals who share the values present in the Adviser’s proprietary culture framework to discover companies that may align with the Fund’s investment focus on companies with faith-driven leaders and exceptional cultures. The Adviser then applies its proprietary due diligence framework to evaluate whether a company demonstrates specific characteristics through its leadership and culture. In evaluating companies for investment, the Adviser considers the following factors: the presence and depth of faith-driven management, an assessment of the level and types of employee benefits, availability of counselors for employees, whether a company’s mission/values/vision statement aligns with biblical values, the presence of faith-based employee resource groups, and the company’s products and/or services and their affect on consumers and employees. The Adviser seeks to construct and maintain a portfolio that avoids industries and activities which it believes do not enable employees to flourish, specifically tobacco, alcohol, gaming, abortion, and pornography.

 

After the Adviser’s proprietary framework is applied, the Adviser conducts financial due diligence to consider variables such as business quality, return on invested capital, balance sheet integrity, market expectations, cyclicality, and risk/reward of companies in the Adviser’s investible universe. The Adviser considers the Fund’s allocations to various industries and sectors when determining whether to buy or sell a security. The Fund’s portfolio typically consists of 80 to 100 companies, but the Fund may own fewer or more companies at the Adviser’s discretion.

 

The Fund’s portfolio is continually reassessed in light of the Adviser’s proprietary culture framework and the financial characteristics of each company. With respect to a company’s management, the Adviser monitors each company for leadership changes. In the event of a change in a company’s chief executive officer, the company is re-evaluated using the Adviser’s proprietary culture framework.

 

Sovereign’s Capital believes that a faith-driven leader who is focused on creating a culture to enable its company employees to flourish will attract and retain some of the best talent in the marketplace. Further, Sovereign’s Capital believes that a company with strong and stable talent will outperform its peers along a variety of metrics that can enhance long-term operating results. Sovereign’s Capital believes this will be a key driver of the Fund’s performance.

 

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

 

The principal risks of investing in the Fund are summarized below. Each risk summarized below is considered a “principal risk” of investing in the Fund, regardless of the order in which it appears. As with any investment, there is a risk that you could lose all or a portion of your investment in the Fund. Some or all of these risks may adversely affect the Fund’s net asset value per share (“NAV”), trading price, yield, total return and/or ability to meet its objective. For more information about the risks of investing in the Fund, see the section in the Fund’s Prospectus titled “Additional Information About the Fund.”

 

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  Faith-Driven Leadership Risk. The Fund considers faith-driven leaders in its investment process and may choose not to purchase, or may sell, otherwise profitable investments in companies which have been identified as being in conflict with the Fund’s guidelines. This means that the Fund may underperform other similar funds that do not consider faith-driven leaders when making investment decisions.  

 

Equity Market Risk. The equity securities held in the Fund’s portfolio may experience sudden, unpredictable drops in value or long periods of decline in value. This may occur because of factors that affect securities markets generally or factors affecting specific issuers, industries, or sectors in which the Fund invests. Common stocks are generally exposed to greater risk than other types of securities, such as preferred stock and debt obligations, because common stockholders generally have inferior rights to receive payment from issuers. In addition, local, regional or global events such as war, acts of terrorism, spread of infectious diseases or other public health issues, recessions, or other events could have a significant negative impact on the Fund and its investments. For example, the global pandemic caused by COVID-19, a novel coronavirus, and the aggressive responses taken by many governments, including closing borders, restricting international and domestic travel, and the imposition of prolonged quarantines or similar restrictions, has had negative impacts, and in many cases severe impacts, on markets worldwide. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused prolonged disruptions to the normal business operations of companies around the world and the impact of such disruptions is hard to predict. Such events may affect certain geographic regions, countries, sectors and industries more significantly than others. Such events could adversely affect the prices and liquidity of the Fund’s portfolio securities or other instruments and could result in disruptions in the trading markets.  

 

ETF Risks. The Fund is an exchange-traded fund (“ETF”), and, as a result of an ETF’s structure, it is exposed to the following risks:

   

  Authorized Participants, Market Makers, and Liquidity Providers Concentration Risk. The Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may act as Authorized Participants (“APs”). In addition, there may be a limited number of market makers and/or liquidity providers in the marketplace. To the extent either of the following events occur, Shares may trade at a material discount to NAV and possibly face delisting: (i) APs exit the business or otherwise become unable to process creation and/or redemption orders and no other APs step forward to perform these services, or (ii) market makers and/or liquidity providers exit the business or significantly reduce their business activities and no other entities step forward to perform their functions.

 

  Costs of Buying or Selling Shares. Due to the costs of buying or selling Shares, including brokerage commissions imposed by brokers and bid-ask spreads, frequent trading of Shares may significantly reduce investment results and an investment in Shares may not be advisable for investors who anticipate regularly making small investments.

 

  Shares May Trade at Prices Other Than NAV. As with all ETFs, Shares may be bought and sold in the secondary market at market prices. Although it is expected that the market price of Shares will approximate the Fund’s NAV, there may be times when the market price of Shares is more than the NAV intra-day (premium) or less than the NAV intra-day (discount) due to supply and demand of Shares or during periods of market volatility. This risk is heightened in times of market volatility, periods of steep market declines, and periods when there is limited trading activity for Shares in the secondary market, in which case such premiums or discounts may be significant.

 

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  Trading. Although Shares are listed for trading on NYSE Arca, Inc. (the “Exchange”) and may be traded on U.S. exchanges other than the Exchange, there can be no assurance that Shares will trade with any volume, or at all, on any stock exchange. In stressed market conditions, the liquidity of Shares may begin to mirror the liquidity of the Fund’s underlying portfolio holdings, which can be significantly less liquid than Shares, and this could lead to differences between the market price of the Shares and the underlying value of those Shares.

 

Limited History Risk. The Fund is a new ETF and has a limited history of operations for investors to evaluate. Investors in the Fund bear the risk that the Fund may not be successful in implementing its investment strategies, may be unable to implement certain of its investment strategies or may fail to attract sufficient assets, any of which could result in the Fund being liquidated and terminated at any time without shareholder approval and at a time that may not be favorable for all shareholders. Such a liquidation could have negative tax consequences for shareholders and will cause shareholders to incur expenses of liquidation.

 

Market Capitalization Risk

 

  Large-Capitalization Investing. The Fund’s performance may be adversely affected if securities of large cap companies underperform securities of smaller-capitalization companies or the market as a whole. The securities of large cap companies may be relatively mature compared to smaller companies and therefore subject to slower growth during times of economic expansion. Large-capitalization companies may also be unable to respond quickly to new competitive challenges, such as changes in technology and consumer tastes.

 

  Mid-Capitalization Investing. The Fund may invest in the securities of mid-capitalization companies. As a result, the Fund’s performance may be adversely affected if securities of mid-capitalization companies underperform securities of other capitalization ranges or the market as a whole. Securities of smaller companies are often more vulnerable to market volatility than securities of larger companies.

 

  Small-Capitalization Investing. The Fund may invest in the securities of small-capitalization companies. As a result, the Fund may be more volatile than funds that invest in larger, more established companies. The securities of small-capitalization companies generally trade in lower volumes and are subject to greater and more unpredictable price changes than larger capitalization stocks or the stock market as a whole. Small-capitalization companies may be particularly sensitive to changes in interest rates, government regulation, borrowing costs and earnings.

 

Sector Risk. The Fund may be subject to the risk that its assets are invested in a particular sector or group of sectors in the economy and as a result, the value of the Fund may be adversely impacted by events or developments in a sector or group of sectors.

 

Active Management Risk. The Adviser’s judgments about the growth, value or potential appreciation of an investment may prove to be incorrect or fail to have the intended results, which could adversely impact the Fund’s performance and cause it to underperform relative to its benchmark, or not to achieve its investment objectives.

 

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Investment Strategy Risk. There is no guarantee that a qualitative or quantitative framework used by the Adviser, and the investments selected based on the framework, will perform as expected or produce the desired results.

 

Performance

 

As of the date of this Prospectus, the Fund has not yet commenced operations and therefore does not report its performance information. Once available, the Fund’s performance information will be accessible on the Fund’s website at http://www.scetfs.com/ (the website does not form a part of this prospectus) and will provide some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in the fund’s performance and by showing how the Fund’s returns compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Past performance may not indicate future results.

 

Management

 

Adviser: Sovereign’s Capital Management, LLC
Trading Sub-Adviser: Vident Asset Management
   
Portfolio Managers: Matt Monson, since Fund inception
 

Rafael Zayas, CFA, since Fund inception 

Austin Wen, CFA, since Fund inception 

 

Purchase and Sale of Shares

 

Shares are listed on the Exchange, and individual Shares may only be bought and sold in the secondary market through brokers at market prices, rather than NAV. Because Shares trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares may trade at a price greater than NAV (premium) or less than NAV (discount).

 

The Fund issues and redeems Shares at NAV only in large blocks known as “Creation Units,” which only APs (typically, broker-dealers) may purchase or redeem. The Fund generally issues and redeems Creation Units in exchange for a portfolio of securities and/ or a designated amount of U.S. cash.

 

Investors may incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase Shares (bid) and the lowest price a seller is willing to accept for Shares (ask) when buying or selling Shares in the secondary market (the “bid-ask spread”). Recent information about the Fund, including its NAV, market price, premiums and discounts, and bid-ask spreads is available on the Fund’s website at http://www.scetfs.com/.

 

Tax Information

 

Fund distributions are generally taxable as ordinary income or capital gains (or a combination), unless your investment is in an IRA or other tax-advantaged account. Distributions on investments made through tax-deferred arrangements may be taxed later upon withdrawal of assets from those accounts.

 

Financial Intermediary Compensation

 

If you purchase Shares through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank) (an “Intermediary”), the Adviser or its affiliates may pay Intermediaries for certain activities related to the Fund, including participation in activities that are designed to make Intermediaries more knowledgeable about exchange traded products, including the Fund, or for other activities, such as marketing, educational training or other initiatives related to the sale or promotion of Shares. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the Intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment. Any such arrangements do not result in increased Fund expenses. Ask your salesperson or visit the Intermediary’s website for more information.

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Additional Information About the Fund

 

Additional Information About the Fund’s Investment Objective. The Fund seeks to provide long-term capital appreciation.

 

Additional Information About the Fund’s Investment Strategies.

 

The Fund invests primarily in common stock of publicly traded U.S. companies selected by Sovereign’s Capital as companies led by faith-driven CEOs that seek to build exceptional corporate cultures based on biblical values that allow employees to flourish. A company is considered a “U.S. company” if (i) the security is listed on a U.S. national securities exchange, (ii) the issuer is headquartered in the U.S., or (iii) the issuer derives a substantial portion of their revenues from, or has a substantial portion of its operations in, the U.S.

 

The Adviser employs an active management strategy in seeking to achieve the Fund’s objective. The Adviser’s strategy employs “faith-driven” investing based on non-denominational Christian values and seeks companies that show “love of neighbor” for employees, customers and community with the goal of creating exceptional company cultures. To identify potential investments, the Adviser relies on the fundamental research and analysis conducted by its investment personnel and leverages its network of faith-driven individuals who share the values present in the Adviser’s proprietary culture framework to discover companies that may align with the Fund’s investment focus on companies with faith-driven leaders and exceptional cultures. The Adviser then applies its proprietary due diligence framework to evaluate whether a company demonstrates specific characteristics through its leadership and culture.

 

In evaluating companies for investment, the Adviser considers the following factors: 

the presence and depth of faith-driven management,
an assessment of the level and types of employee benefits,
the availability of counselors for employees,
whether a company’s mission/values/vision statement aligns with biblical values,
the presence of faith-based employee resource groups, and
the company’s products and/or services and their affect on consumers and employees.

 

The Adviser believes these factors can determine whether a company is establishing an exceptional company culture that allows employees to flourish. The Adviser believes that satisfied and engaged employees will help a company in delivering strong financial performance. The Adviser seeks to construct and maintain a portfolio that avoids industries and activities which it believes do not enable employees to flourish, specifically tobacco, alcohol, gaming, abortion, and pornography.

 

After the Adviser’s proprietary framework is applied, the Adviser conducts financial due diligence to consider variables such as business quality, return on invested capital, balance sheet integrity, market expectations, cyclicality, and risk/reward of companies in the Adviser’s investible universe. The Adviser considers the Fund’s allocations to various industries and sectors when determining whether to buy or sell a security. The Fund’s portfolio typically consists of 80 to 100 companies, but the Fund may own fewer or more companies at the Adviser’s discretion.

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The Fund’s portfolio is continually reassessed in light of the Adviser’s proprietary culture framework and the financial characteristics of each company. With respect to a company’s management, the Adviser monitors each company for leadership changes. In the event of a change in a company’s chief executive officer, the company is re-evaluated using the Adviser’s proprietary culture framework.

 

Sovereign’s Capital believes that a faith-driven leader who is focused on creating a culture to enable its company employees to flourish will attract and retain some of the best talent in the marketplace. Further, Sovereign’s Capital believes that a company with strong and stable talent will outperform its peers along a variety of metrics that can enhance long-term operating results. Sovereign’s Capital believes this will be a key driver of the Fund’s performance.

 

Investment Impact

 

Sovereign’s Capital seeks to deliver performance and impact for the shareholders of the Fund.

 

From an impact perspective, shareholders of the Fund are able to align their investment portfolio with CEOs and companies that are better aligned with their values than most other available ETFs and that are focused on enabling employees to flourish. For instance, the Fund may invest in companies that retain several counselors on staff who may employ faith or non-faith based programs to assist employees through daily struggles, including addiction, loss of a family member, depression, and suicidal thoughts. These issues are beyond the scope of a typical human resources department, but counselors are trained and experienced in dealing with them and can make a positive difference for these employees. In addition, Sovereign’s Capital studies and evaluates the best workplace culture practices of companies. Accordingly, the Adviser looks to assist the CEOs of the companies held by the Fund by both offering ideas for incremental steps that can be taken to build exceptional cultures and introducing these CEOs to their peers who are making similar investments into building such cultures. This may be through one-on-one introductions or roundtable sessions, allowing for faith-driven CEOs to come together, share best practices, and encourage one another to adopt tenants of their cultural playbooks that the Adviser believes will serve both employees and shareholders.

 

Additional Information About the Fund’s Principal Risks. This section provides additional information regarding the principal risks described in the Fund Summary. Each risk described below is considered a “principal risk” of investing in the applicable Fund, regardless of the order in which it appears. Each of the factors below could have a negative impact on the applicable Fund’s performance and trading prices.

 

Faith-Driven Leadership Investing Risk. The Fund considers faith-driven leaders in its investment process and may choose not to purchase, or may sell, otherwise profitable investments in companies which have been identified as being in conflict with the Fund’s guidelines. This means that the Fund may underperform other similar funds that do not consider faith-driven leaders when making investment decisions. In addition, there can be no guarantee that the activities of the companies, or the people associated with the companies, identified by the Fund’s investment process align (or be perceived to align) with biblical values.

 

Equity Market Risk. Common stocks are susceptible to general stock market fluctuations and to volatile increases and decreases in value as market confidence in and perceptions of their issuers change. These investor perceptions are based on various and unpredictable factors including: expectations regarding government, economic, monetary and fiscal policies; inflation and interest rates; economic expansion or contraction; and global or regional political, economic, public health, and banking crises. If you held common stock, or common stock equivalents, of any given issuer, you would generally be exposed to greater risk than if you held preferred stocks and debt obligations of the issuer because common stockholders, or holders of equivalent interests, generally have inferior rights to receive payments from issuers in comparison with the rights of preferred stockholders, bondholders, and other creditors of such issuers.

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Financial markets in the United States and around the world experienced extreme and, in many cases, unprecedented volatility and severe losses due to the global pandemic caused by COVID-19, a novel coronavirus. The pandemic has resulted in a wide range of social and economic disruptions, including closed borders, voluntary or compelled quarantines of large populations, stressed healthcare systems, reduced or prohibited domestic or international travel, and supply chain disruptions affecting the United States and many other countries. Some sectors of the economy and individual issuers have experienced particularly large losses as a result of these disruptions, and such disruptions may continue for an extended period of time or reoccur in the future to a similar or greater extent. In response, the U.S. government and the Federal Reserve have taken extraordinary actions to support the domestic economy and financial markets, resulting in very low interest rates and in some cases negative yields. It is unknown how long circumstances related to the pandemic will persist, whether they will reoccur in the future, whether efforts to support the economy and financial markets will be successful, and what additional implications may follow from the pandemic. The impact of these events and other epidemics or pandemics in the future could adversely affect Fund performance.

 

ETF Risks. The Fund is an ETF, and, as a result of an ETF’s structure, is exposed to the following risks:

 

  APs, Market Makers, and Liquidity Providers Concentration Risk. The Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may act as APs. In addition, there may be a limited number of market makers and/or liquidity providers in the marketplace. To the extent either of the following events occur, Shares may trade at a material discount to NAV and possibly face delisting: (i) APs exit the business or otherwise become unable to process creation and/or redemption orders and no other APs step forward to perform these services, or (ii) market makers and/or liquidity providers exit the business or significantly reduce their business activities and no other entities step forward to perform their functions.

 

  Costs of Buying or Selling Shares. Investors buying or selling Shares in the secondary market will pay brokerage commissions or other charges imposed by brokers, as determined by that broker. Brokerage commissions are often a fixed amount and may be a significant proportional cost for investors seeking to buy or sell relatively small amounts of Shares. In addition, secondary market investors will also incur the cost of the difference between the price at which an investor is willing to buy Shares (the “bid” price) and the price at which an investor is willing to sell Shares (the “ask” price). This difference in bid and ask prices is often referred to as the “spread” or “bid-ask spread.” The bid-ask spread varies over time for Shares based on trading volume and market liquidity, and the spread is generally lower if Shares have more trading volume and market liquidity and higher if Shares have little trading volume and market liquidity. Further, a relatively small investor base in the Fund, asset swings in the Fund, and/or increased market volatility may cause increased bid-ask spreads. Due to the costs of buying or selling Shares, including bid-ask spreads, frequent trading of Shares may significantly reduce investment results and an investment in Shares may not be advisable for investors who anticipate regularly making small investments.

 

 

Shares May Trade at Prices Other Than NAV. As with all ETFs, Shares may be bought and sold in the secondary market at market prices. Although it is expected that the market price of Shares will approximate the Fund’s NAV, there may be times when the market price of Shares is more than the NAV intra-day (premium) or less than the NAV intra-day (discount) due to supply and demand of Shares or during periods of market volatility. This risk is heightened in times of market volatility, periods of steep market declines, and periods when there is limited trading activity for Shares in the secondary market, in which case such premiums or discounts may be significant.

 

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  Trading. Although Shares are listed for trading on the Exchange and may be listed or traded on U.S. and non-U.S. stock exchanges other than the Exchange, there can be no assurance that an active trading market for such Shares will develop or be maintained. Trading in Shares may be halted due to market conditions or for reasons that, in the view of the Exchange, make trading in Shares inadvisable. In addition, trading in Shares on the Exchange is subject to trading halts caused by extraordinary market volatility pursuant to Exchange “circuit breaker” rules, which temporarily halt trading on the Exchange when a decline in the S&P 500® Index during a single day reaches certain thresholds (e.g., 7%, 13%, and 20%). Additional rules applicable to the Exchange may halt trading in Shares when extraordinary volatility causes sudden, significant swings in the market price of Shares. There can be no assurance that Shares will trade with any volume, or at all, on any stock exchange. In stressed market conditions, the liquidity of Shares may begin to mirror the liquidity of the Fund’s underlying portfolio holdings, which can be significantly less liquid than Shares, and this could lead to differences between the market price of the Shares and the underlying value of those Shares.

 

Limited History Risk. The Fund is a new ETF and has a limited history of operations for investors to evaluate. Investors in the Fund bear the risk that the Fund may not be successful in implementing its investment strategies, may be unable to implement certain of its investment strategies or may fail to attract sufficient assets, any of which could result in the Fund being liquidated and terminated at any time without shareholder approval and at a time that may not be favorable for all shareholders. Such a liquidation could have negative tax consequences for shareholders and will cause shareholders to incur expenses of liquidation.

 

Market Capitalization Risk.

 

  Large-Capitalization Investing. The securities of large-capitalization companies may be relatively mature compared to smaller companies and therefore subject to slower growth during times of economic expansion. Large-capitalization companies may also be unable to respond quickly to new competitive challenges, such as changes in technology and consumer tastes.

 

  Mid-Capitalization Investing. The securities of mid-capitalization companies may be more vulnerable to adverse issuer, market, political, or economic developments than securities of large- capitalization companies, but they may also be subject to slower growth than small-capitalization companies during times of economic expansion. The securities of mid-capitalization companies generally trade in lower volumes and are subject to greater and more unpredictable price changes than large capitalization stocks or the stock market as a whole, but they may also be nimbler and more responsive to new challenges than large-capitalization companies. Some mid-capitalization companies have limited product lines, markets, financial resources, and management personnel and tend to concentrate on fewer geographical markets relative to large-capitalization companies.

 

 

 

Small-Capitalization Investing. The Fund may invest in the securities of small-capitalization companies. As a result, the Fund may be more volatile than funds that invest in larger, more established companies. The securities of small-capitalization companies generally trade in lower volumes and are subject to greater and more unpredictable price changes than larger capitalization stocks or the stock market as a whole. Small-capitalization companies may be particularly sensitive to changes in interest rates, government regulation, borrowing costs and earnings.

 

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Sector Risk. The Fund may be subject to the risk that its assets are invested in a particular sector or group of sectors in the economy and as a result, the value of the Fund may be adversely impacted by events or developments in a sector or group of sectors. These events or developments might include additional governmental regulation, resource shortages or surpluses, changes in consumer demands or improvements in technology that make products or services of a particular sector less desirable.

 

Active Management Risk. The Fund’s judgments about the growth, value or potential appreciation of an investment may prove to be incorrect or fail to have the intended results, which could adversely impact the Fund’s performance and cause it to underperform relative to its benchmark, or not to achieve its investment goal.

 

Investment Strategy Risk. There is no guarantee that a qualitative or quantitative framework used by the Adviser, and the investments selected based on the framework, will perform as expected or produce the desired results.

 

Portfolio Holdings Information

 

Information about the Fund’s daily portfolio holdings is available at http://www.scetfs.com/. A description of the Fund’s policies and procedures with respect to the disclosure of the Fund’s portfolio holdings is available in the Fund’s Statement of Additional Information (“SAI”).

 

Management

 

Investment Adviser

 

Sovereign’s Capital Management, LLC (the “Adviser”) serves as the investment adviser to the Fund. The Adviser is a SEC registered investment adviser with approximately $563 million in assets under management as of July 18, 2023. Its principal office is located at 310 S. West Street, Suite 100, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27603. Pursuant to the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Fund pays the Adviser a unitary management fee, which is calculated daily and paid monthly, at an annual rate of 0.75% of the Fund’s average daily net assets.

 

Out of the unitary management fee, the Adviser has agreed to pay substantially all expenses of the Fund, including the cost of transfer agency, custody, fund administration, securities lending and other non-distribution related services necessary for the Fund to operate, except for: the fee paid to the Adviser pursuant to the Investment Advisory Agreement, interest charges on any borrowings, dividends and other expenses on securities sold short, taxes and related services, brokerage commissions and other expenses incurred in placing orders for the purchase and sale of securities and other investment instruments, acquired fund fees and expenses, accrued deferred tax liability, and extraordinary expenses.

 

The basis for the Board’s approval of the Fund’s Investment Advisory Agreement and Sub-Advisory Agreement will be available in the Fund’s first shareholder report.

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Manager of Managers Structure

 

Section 15(a) of the 1940 Act requires that all contracts pursuant to which persons serve as investment advisers to investment companies be approved by shareholders. This requirement also applies to the appointment of sub-advisers to the Fund. The Trust and the Adviser have applied for exemptive relief from the SEC (the “Order”), which will permit the Adviser, subject to the approval of the Board of Trustees (“Board”), including the approval of the Trustees who are not interested persons of the Trust, as defined in the 1940 Act (the “Independent Trustees”), to hire, replace, and/or modify any existing or future sub-advisory agreement with sub-advisers (the “Manager-of-Managers Structure”). The Adviser, subject to the oversight of the Board, has the ultimate responsibility for overseeing the Fund’s sub-advisers and recommending their hiring, termination and replacement. Assuming the Order is granted, it will also provide relief from certain disclosure obligations with regard to sub-advisory fees paid by the Adviser (not the Fund. The Order will be subject to various conditions, including that the Fund will notify shareholders and provide them with certain information required by the exemptive order within 90 days of hiring a new sub-adviser. The sole initial shareholder of the Fund has approved the Fund’s operation under the Manager-of-Managers Structure as permitted by the Order.

 

The Manager-of-Managers Structure will enable the Trust to operate with greater efficiency by not incurring the expense and delays associated with obtaining shareholder approvals for matters relating to sub-advisers or sub-advisory agreements. Operation of the Fund under the Manager-of-Managers Structure will not permit management fees paid by the Fund to the Adviser to be increased without shareholder approval. Shareholders will be notified of any changes made to the Sub-Adviser or material changes to sub-advisory agreements within 90 days of the change. There is no assurance that the Order will be granted.

 

Sub-Adviser

 

The Adviser has retained Vident Asset Management (the “Sub-Adviser”) to serve as trading sub-adviser for the Fund. The Sub-Adviser is responsible for is responsible for trading portfolio securities for the Fund. Its principal office is located at 1125 Sanctuary Parkway, Suite 515, Alpharetta, Georgia 30009. The Sub-Adviser was formed in 2016 and provides investment advisory services to ETFs, including the Fund. For its services, the Sub-Adviser is paid a fee by the Adviser, not the Fund, out of its management fee, calculated daily and paid monthly, at an annual rate of 0.05% of the average daily net assets of the Fund, subject to a minimum annual fee of $40,000.

 

Portfolio Manager of the Adviser

 

The Fund is managed by the Adviser’s portfolio manager. The individual responsible for the day-to-day management of the Fund’s portfolios is listed below.

 

Matt Monson, Portfolio Manager and Partner – Mr. Monson is responsible for portfolio management and investment-related activities concerning publicly traded U.S. companies. Prior to joining the Adviser, Mr. Monson served as an investment analyst at ArrowMark Partners, Deccan Value Investors, and Brave Warrior Advisors where he was responsible for investing in publicly traded companies. Prior to his investment analyst roles, Mr. Monson was a private equity investment associate at FTV Capital, a growth-equity fund, and an investment banker at UBS. Mr. Monson holds a BSB from the University of Minnesota and later earned his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

 

Portfolio Managers of the Sub-Adviser

 

The Fund’s trading is managed by the Sub-Adviser’s portfolio management team. The individual members of the team responsible for the day-to-day trading of the Fund’s portfolio are listed below.

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Rafael Zayas, CFA, Senior Vice President and Head of Portfolio Management & Trading — Mr. Zayas has over 15 years of trading and portfolio management experience in global equity products and ETFs. He is SVP, Head of Portfolio Management and Trading for the Sub-Adviser. Mr. Zayas specializes in managing and trading of developed, emerging, and frontier market portfolios. Prior to joining the Sub-Adviser in 2017, he was a Portfolio Manager at Russell Investments for over $5 billion in quantitative strategies across global markets, including emerging, developed and frontier markets and listed alternatives. Before that, he was an equity Portfolio Manager at BNY Mellon Asset Management, where he was responsible for $150 million in internationally listed global equity ETFs and assisted in managing $3 billion of global ETF assets. Mr. Zayas holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

 

Austin Wen, CFA, Portfolio Manager — Mr. Wen has eight years of investment management experience. He is a Portfolio Manager at the Sub-Adviser, specializing in portfolio management and trading of equity portfolios and commodities-based portfolios, as well as risk monitoring and investment analysis. Prior to joining the Sub-Adviser in 2016, he was an analyst for Vident Financial, working on the development and review of investment solutions. He began his career as a State Examiner for the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance. Mr. Wen obtained a BA in Finance from the University of Georgia and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

 

The Fund’s SAI provides additional information about the Portfolio Managers’ compensation structure, other accounts managed by the Portfolio Managers, and the Portfolio Managers’ ownership of Shares of the Fund.

 

How to Buy and Sell Shares

 

The Fund issues and redeems Shares at NAV only in Creation Units. Only APs may acquire Shares directly from the Fund, and only APs may tender their Shares for redemption directly to the Fund, at NAV. APs must be a member or participant of a clearing agency registered with the SEC and must execute a Participant Agreement that has been agreed to by the Distributor (defined below), and that has been accepted by the Fund’s transfer agent, with respect to purchases and redemptions of Creation Units. Once created, Shares trade in the secondary market in quantities less than a Creation Unit.

 

Most investors buy and sell Shares in secondary market transactions through brokers. Shares are listed for trading on the secondary market on the Exchange and can be bought and sold throughout the trading day like other publicly traded securities.

 

When buying or selling Shares through a broker, you will incur customary brokerage commissions and charges, and you may pay some or all of the spread between the bid and the offer price in the secondary market on each leg of a round trip (purchase and sale) transaction. In addition, because secondary market transactions occur at market prices, you may pay more than NAV when you buy Shares and receive less than NAV when you sell those Shares.

 

Book Entry

 

Shares are held in book-entry form, which means that no stock certificates are issued. The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) or its nominee is the record owner of all outstanding Shares.

 

Investors owning Shares are beneficial owners as shown on the records of DTC or its participants. DTC serves as the securities depository for all Shares. DTC’s participants include securities brokers and dealers, banks, trust companies, clearing corporations and other institutions that directly or indirectly maintain a custodial relationship with DTC. As a beneficial owner of Shares, you are not entitled to receive physical delivery of stock certificates or to have Shares registered in your name, and you are not considered a registered owner of Shares. Therefore, to exercise any right as an owner of Shares, you must rely upon the procedures of DTC and its participants. These procedures are the same as those that apply to any other securities that you hold in book entry or “street name” through your brokerage account.

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Frequent Purchases and Redemptions of Shares

 

The Fund imposes no restrictions on the frequency of purchases and redemptions of Shares. In determining not to approve a written, established policy, the Board evaluated the risks of market timing activities by Fund shareholders. Purchases and redemptions by APs, who are the only parties that may purchase or redeem Shares directly with the Fund, are an essential part of the ETF process and help keep Share trading prices in line with NAV. As such, the Fund accommodates frequent purchases and redemptions by APs. However, the Board has also determined that frequent purchases and redemptions for cash may increase tracking error and portfolio transaction costs and may lead to the realization of capital gains. To minimize these potential consequences of frequent purchases and redemptions, the Fund employs fair value pricing and may impose transaction fees on purchases and redemptions of Creation Units to cover the custodial and other costs incurred by the Fund in effecting trades. In addition, the Fund and the Adviser reserve the right to reject any purchase order at any time.

 

Determination of NAV

 

The Fund’s NAV is calculated as of the scheduled close of regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”), generally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time, each day the NYSE is open for business. Each NAV for a Fund is calculated by dividing the applicable Fund’s net assets by its Shares outstanding.

 

In calculating its NAV, the Fund generally values its assets on the basis of market quotations, last sale prices, or estimates of value furnished by a pricing service or brokers who make markets in such instruments. If the foregoing information is not available for a security held by a Fund or is determined to be unreliable, the security will be valued at fair value estimates under guidelines established by the Board (as described below).

 

Fair Value Pricing

 

The Adviser has been designated by the Board as the valuation designee for the Fund pursuant to Rule 2a-5 under the 1940 Act. In its capacity as valuation designee, the Adviser has adopted procedures and methodologies to fair value Fund securities whose market prices are not “readily available” or are deemed to be unreliable. For example, such circumstances may arise when: (i) a security has been de-listed or has had its trading halted or suspended; (ii) a security’s primary pricing source is unable or unwilling to provide a price; (iii) a security’s primary trading market is closed during regular market hours; or (iv) a security’s value is materially affected by events occurring after the close of the security’s primary trading market.

 

Generally, when fair valuing a security held by a Fund, the Adviser will take into account all reasonably available information that may be relevant to a particular valuation including, but not limited to, fundamental analytical data regarding the issuer, information relating to the issuer’s business, recent trades or offers of the security, general and/or specific market conditions and the specific facts giving rise to the need to fair value the security. Fair value determinations are made in good faith by the Adviser and in accordance with the Adviser’s fair value methodologies. Due to the subjective and variable nature of determining the fair value of a security or other investment, there can be no assurance that Adviser’s fair value will match or closely correlate to any market quotation that subsequently becomes available or the price quoted or published by other sources. In addition, the Adviser may not be able to obtain the fair value assigned to the security upon the sale of such security.

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Delivery of Shareholder Documents – Householding

 

Householding is an option available to certain investors of the Fund. Householding is a method of delivery, based on the preference of the individual investor, in which a single copy of certain shareholder documents can be delivered to investors who share the same address, even if their accounts are registered under different names. Householding for the Fund is available through certain broker- dealers. If you are interested in enrolling in householding and receiving a single copy of prospectuses and other shareholder documents, please contact your broker-dealer. If you are currently enrolled in householding and wish to change your householding status, please contact your broker-dealer.

 

Dividends, Distributions and Taxes

 

Dividends and Distributions

 

The Fund intends to pay out dividends, if any, annually. The Fund intends to distribute any net realized capital gains to its shareholders at least annually. The Fund will declare and pay capital gain distributions, if any, in cash. Distributions in cash may be reinvested automatically in additional whole Shares only if the broker through whom you purchased Shares makes such option available. Your broker is responsible for distributing the income and capital gain distributions to you.

 

Taxes

 

The following discussion is a summary of some important U.S. federal income tax considerations generally applicable to investments in the Fund. Your investment in the Fund may have other tax implications. Please consult your tax advisor about the tax consequences of an investment in Shares, including the possible application of foreign, state, and local tax laws.

 

The Fund has elected and intends to qualify each year for treatment as a regulated investment company (a “RIC”) within the meaning of Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). If it meets certain minimum distribution requirements, a RIC is not subject to tax at the fund level on income and gains from investments that are timely distributed to shareholders. However, the Fund’s failure to qualify as a RIC or to meet minimum distribution requirements would result (if certain relief provisions were not available) in fund-level taxation and, consequently, a reduction in income available for distribution to shareholders.

 

Unless your investment in Shares is made through a tax-exempt entity or tax-advantaged account, such as an IRA plan, you need to be aware of the possible tax consequences when the Fund makes distributions, when you sell your Shares listed on the Exchange, and when you purchase or redeem Creation Units (APs only).

 

Taxes on Distributions

 

The Fund intends to distribute, at least annually, substantially all of its net investment income and net capital gains. For federal income tax purposes, distributions of investment income are generally taxable as ordinary income or qualified dividend income. Taxes on distributions of capital gains (if any) are determined by how long the Fund owned the investments that generated them, rather than how long a shareholder has owned his or her Shares. Sales of assets held by the Fund for more than one year generally result in long- term capital gains and losses, and sales of assets held by the Fund for one year or less generally result in short-term capital gains and losses. Distributions of the Fund’s net capital gain (the excess of net long-term capital gains over net short-term capital losses) that are reported by the Fund as capital gain dividends (“Capital Gain Dividends”) will be taxable as long-term capital gains, which for non- corporate shareholders are subject to tax at reduced rates of up to 20% (lower rates apply to individuals in lower tax brackets). Distributions of short-term capital gain will generally be taxable as ordinary income. Dividends and distributions are generally taxable to you whether you receive them in cash or reinvest them in additional Shares.

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Distributions reported by the Fund as “qualified dividend income” are generally taxed to non-corporate shareholders at rates applicable to long-term capital gains, provided holding period and other requirements are met. “Qualified dividend income” generally is income derived from dividends paid by U.S. corporations or certain foreign corporations that are either incorporated in a U.S. possession or eligible for tax benefits under certain U.S. income tax treaties. In addition, dividends that the Fund received in respect of stock of certain foreign corporations may be qualified dividend income if that stock is readily tradable on an established U.S. securities market. Corporate shareholders may be entitled to a dividends received deduction for the portion of dividends they receive from the Fund that are attributable to dividends received by the Fund from U.S. corporations, subject to certain limitations.

 

Under recently issued final Treasury Regulations, a RIC that receives business interest income may pass through its net business interest income for purposes of the tax rules applicable to the interest expense limitations under Section 163(j) of the Code. A RIC’s total “Section 163(j) Interest Dividend” for a tax year is limited to the excess of the RIC’s business interest income over the sum of its business interest expense and its other deductions properly allocable to its business interest income. A RIC may, in its discretion, designate all or a portion of ordinary dividends as Section 163(j) Interest Dividends, which would allow the recipient shareholder to treat the designated portion of such dividends as interest income for purposes of determining such shareholder’s interest expense deduction limitation under Section 163(j). This can potentially increase the amount of a shareholder’s interest expense deductible under Section 163(j). In general, to be eligible to treat a Section 163(j) Interest Dividend as interest income, you must have held your shares in the Fund for more than 180 days during the 361-day period beginning on the date that is 180 days before the date on which the share becomes ex-dividend with respect to such dividend. Section 163(j) Interest Dividends, if so designated by the Fund, will be reported to your financial intermediary or otherwise in accordance with the requirements specified by the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”).

 

Shortly after the close of each calendar year, you will be informed of the amount and character of any distributions received from the Fund.

 

In general, your distributions are subject to federal income tax for the year in which they are paid. Certain distributions paid in January, however, may be treated as paid on December 31 of the prior year. Distributions are generally taxable even if they are paid from income or gains earned by the Fund before your investment (and thus were included in the Shares’ NAV when you purchased your Shares).

 

You may wish to avoid investing in the Fund shortly before a dividend or other distribution, because such a distribution will generally be taxable even though it may economically represent a return of a portion of your investment.

 

If you are neither a resident nor a citizen of the United States or if you are a foreign entity, distributions (other than Capital Gain Dividends) paid to you by the Fund will generally be subject to a U.S. withholding tax at the rate of 30%, unless a lower treaty rate applies. Gains from the sale or other disposition of your Shares generally are not subject to U.S. taxation, unless you are a nonresident alien individual who is physically present in the U.S. for 183 days or more per year. The Fund may, under certain circumstances, report all or a portion of a dividend as an “interest-related dividend” or a “short-term capital gain dividend,” which would generally be exempt from this 30% U.S. withholding tax, provided certain other requirements are met. Different tax consequences may result if you are a foreign shareholder engaged in a trade or business within the United States or if a tax treaty applies.

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Under legislation generally known as “FATCA” (the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act), the Fund is required to withhold 30% of certain ordinary dividends it pays to shareholders that are foreign entities and that fail to meet prescribed information reporting or certification requirements.

 

The Fund (or a financial intermediary, such as a broker, through which a shareholder owns Shares) generally is required to withhold and remit to the U.S. Treasury a percentage of the taxable distributions and sale or redemption proceeds paid to any shareholder who fails to properly furnish a correct taxpayer identification number, who has underreported dividend or interest income, or who fails to certify that he, she or it is not subject to such withholding.

 

Taxes When Fund Shares are Sold on the Exchange

 

Any capital gain or loss realized upon a sale of Shares generally is treated as a long-term capital gain or loss if Shares have been held for more than one year and as a short-term capital gain or loss if Shares have been held for one year or less. However, any capital loss on a sale of Shares held for six months or less is treated as long-term capital loss to the extent of Capital Gain Dividends paid with respect to such Shares. Any loss realized on a sale will be disallowed to the extent Shares of the Fund are acquired, including through reinvestment of dividends, within a 61-day period beginning 30 days before and ending 30 days after the disposition of Shares. The ability to deduct capital losses may be limited.

 

The cost basis of Shares of the Fund acquired by purchase will generally be based on the amount paid for the Shares and then may be subsequently adjusted for other applicable transactions as required by the Code. The difference between the selling price and the cost basis of Shares generally determines the amount of the capital gain or loss realized on the sale or exchange of Shares. Contact the broker through whom you purchased your Shares to obtain information with respect to the available cost basis reporting methods and elections for your account.

 

Taxes on Purchases and Redemptions of Creation Units

 

An AP having the U.S. dollar as its functional currency for U.S. federal income tax purposes who exchanges securities for Creation Units generally recognizes a gain or a loss. The gain or loss will be equal to the difference between the value of the Creation Units at the time of the exchange and the exchanging AP’s aggregate basis in the securities delivered, plus the amount of any cash paid for the Creation Units. An AP who exchanges Creation Units for securities will generally recognize a gain or loss equal to the difference between the exchanging AP’s basis in the Creation Units and the aggregate U.S. dollar market value of the securities received, plus any cash received for such Creation Units. The IRS may assert, however, that a loss that is realized upon an exchange of securities for Creation Units may not be currently deducted under the rules governing “wash sales” (for an AP who does not mark-to-market their holdings), or on the basis that there has been no significant change in economic position. APs exchanging securities should consult their own tax advisor with respect to whether wash sale rules apply and when a loss might be deductible.

 

Any gain or loss realized upon a creation or redemption of Creation Units will be treated as capital or ordinary gain or loss, depending on the circumstances. Any capital gain or loss realized upon redemption of Creation Units is generally treated as long-term capital gain or loss if Shares have been held for more than one year and as a short-term capital gain or loss if Shares have been held for one year or less.

 

The Fund may include a payment of cash in addition to, or in place of, the delivery of a basket of securities upon the redemption of Creation Units. The Fund may sell portfolio securities to obtain the cash needed to distribute redemption proceeds. This may cause the Fund to recognize investment income and/or capital gains or losses that it might not have recognized if it had completely satisfied the redemption in-kind. As a result, the Fund may be less tax efficient if it includes such a cash payment in the proceeds paid upon the redemption of Creation Units.

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Net Investment Income Tax

 

U.S. individuals with income exceeding specified thresholds are subject to a 3.8% tax on all or a portion of their “net investment income,” which includes interest, dividends, and certain capital gains (generally including capital gains distributions and capital gains realized on the sale of Shares). This 3.8% tax also applies to all or a portion of the undistributed net investment income of certain shareholders that are estates and trusts.

 

The foregoing discussion summarizes some of the possible consequences under current federal tax law of an investment in the Fund. It is not a substitute for personal tax advice. You also may be subject to state and local tax on Fund distributions and sales of Shares. Consult your personal tax advisor about the potential tax consequences of an investment in Shares under all applicable tax laws. For more information, please see the section entitled “Federal Income Taxes” in the SAI.

 

Distribution

 

The Distributor, Paralel Distributors LLC, is a broker-dealer registered with the SEC. The Distributor distributes Creation Units for the Fund on an agency basis and does not maintain a secondary market in Shares. The Distributor has no role in determining the policies of the Fund or the securities that are purchased or sold by the Fund. The Distributor’s principal address is 1700 Broadway, Suite 1850, Denver, Colorado 80290 and is under common control of the Fund’s Administrator.

 

Premium/Discount Information

 

Information regarding how often Shares of the Fund trade on the Exchange at a price above (i.e., at a premium) or below (i.e., at a discount) the NAV of the Fund is available on the Fund’s website at http://www.scetfs.com/.

 

OTHER INFORMATION AND Additional Notices

 

Certain Conditions on Shareholder Legal Actions

 

Pursuant to the Trust’s primary governing document, the Second Amended and Restated Agreement and Declaration of Trust, shareholders wishing to pursue a derivative action (a suit brought by a shareholder on behalf of a Fund) are subject to various conditions including that: (i) the Trustees must have a reasonable amount of time to assess the complaining shareholders’ request for action, (ii) at least 10% of shareholders of the Fund must participate in the action (except with respect to claims arising under federal securities laws), and (iii) complaining shareholders must undertake to pay the expenses of advisers that the Trustees engage in consideration of whether to bring an action in the event the Trustees determine not to bring an action (except with respect to claims arising under federal securities laws).

 

In addition, shareholders wishing to pursue a derivative action (except with respect to claims arising under federal securities law) must bring the compliant all shareholder legal complaints must be brought in the courts of the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware, or if such court does not have subject matter jurisdiction, any other court with appropriate subject matter jurisdiction in the State of Delaware. For non-federal securities laws claims, this requirement may be inconvenient for some shareholders and may cause such claims to be made in a less favorable forum than otherwise may have been made.

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Additional Notices

 

Shares are not sponsored, endorsed, or promoted by the Exchange. The Exchange makes no representation or warranty, express or implied, to the owners of the Shares. The Exchange is not responsible for, nor has it participated in, the determination of the timing of, prices of, or quantities of the Shares to be issued, nor in the determination or calculation of the equation by which the Shares are redeemable. The Exchange has no obligation or liability to owners of the Shares in connection with the administration, marketing, or trading of the Shares.

 

Without limiting any of the foregoing, in no event shall the Exchange have any liability for any lost profits or indirect, punitive, special, or consequential damages even if notified of the possibility thereof.

 

Neither the Adviser, the Sub-Advisers, nor the Fund make any representation or warranty, express or implied, to the owners of Shares or any member of the public regarding the advisability of investing in securities generally or in the Fund particularly.

 

Financial Highlights

 

Because the Fund is newly offered, financial highlights are not yet available.

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Adviser

Sovereign’s Capital Management, LLC 

310 S. West Street, Suite 100,

Raleigh, North Carolina, 27603 

Sub-Adviser

Vident Asset Management  

1125 Sanctuary Parkway, Suite 515,

Alpharetta, Georgia 30009

Custodian, Transfer Agent

State Street 

One Lincoln Street, Boston,
Massachusetts 02111 

Distributor

Paralel Distributors LLC 

1700 Broadway, Suite 1850 

Denver, Colorado 80290 

Legal Counsel

Thompson Hine LLP 

41 S. High Street, Suite 1700 

Columbus, Ohio 43215 

Fund Accountant and Administrator

Paralel Technologies LLC 

1700 Broadway, Suite 1850
Denver, Colorado 80290 

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

Cohen & Company, Ltd.  

1350 Euclid Ave., Suite 800
Cleveland, OH 44115 

   

 

The Fund’s SAI provides additional details about the investments of the Fund and certain other additional information. A current SAI dated September 27, 2023 is on file with the SEC and is herein incorporated by reference into this Prospectus. It is legally considered a part of this Prospectus.

 

Annual/Semi-Annual Reports: Additional information about the Fund’s investments will be available in the Fund’s annual and semi-annual reports to shareholders. In the annual report you will find a discussion of the market conditions and investment strategies that significantly affected the Fund’s performance.

 

To make shareholder inquiries, for more detailed information on the Fund, or to request the SAI or annual or semi-annual shareholder reports (once available) free of charge, please call the Fund’s Distributor at 1.877.524.9155. Free copies of the Fund’s shareholder reports, Prospectus, and the Statement of Additional Information are also available from our website at http://www.scetfs.com/.

 

Shareholder reports and other information about the Fund are also available, free of charge, on the EDGAR Database on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov and copies of this information may be obtained, after paying a duplicating fee, by electronic request at the following e-mail address: [email protected].

 

No person is authorized to give any information or to make any representations about the Fund and its Shares not contained in this Prospectus and you should not rely on any other information. Read and keep this Prospectus for future reference.

 

SEC Investment Company Act File No. 811-23812

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