485BPOS
JOHCM
CREDIT INCOME FUND
Institutional
Shares (JOCIX)
Advisor
Shares (JOCEX)
Investor
Shares (Not currently offered)
Class Z
Shares (Not currently offered)
JOHCM
EMERGING MARKETS
OPPORTUNITIES
FUND
Institutional
Shares (JOEMX)
Advisor
Shares (JOEIX)
Investor
Shares (JOEAX)
Class Z
Shares (Not currently offered)
JOHCM
GLOBAL SELECT FUND
Institutional
Shares (JOGIX)
Advisor
Shares (JOGEX)
Investor
Shares (Not currently offered)
Class Z
Shares (Not currently offered)
JOHCM
INTERNATIONAL SELECT FUND
Institutional
Shares (JOHIX)
Investor
Shares (JOHAX)
Class Z
Shares (Not currently offered)
TSW
EMERGING MARKETS FUND
Institutional
Shares (TSWMX)
Advisor
Shares (Not currently offered)
Investor
Shares (Not currently offered)
Class Z
Shares (Not currently offered)
TSW
LARGE CAP VALUE FUND
Institutional
Shares (TSWEX)
Advisor
Shares (Not currently offered)
Investor
Shares (Not currently offered)
Class Z
Shares (Not currently offered)
JOHCM
EMERGING MARKETS DISCOVERY FUND
(formerly,
JOHCM Emerging Markets Small Mid Cap Equity Fund)
Institutional
Shares (JOMMX)
Advisor
Shares (JOMEX)
Investor
Shares (Not currently offered)
Class Z
Shares (Not currently offered)
JOHCM
GLOBAL INCOME BUILDER FUND
Institutional
Shares (JOBIX)
Advisor
Shares (JOFIX)
Investor
Shares (JOIIX)
Class Z
Shares (Not currently offered)
JOHCM
INTERNATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FUND
Institutional
Shares (JOPSX)
Advisor
Shares (Not currently offered)
Investor
Shares (Not currently offered)
Class Z
Shares (Not currently offered)
REGNAN
GLOBAL EQUITY IMPACT SOLUTIONS
Institutional
Shares (REGIX)
Advisor
Shares (Not currently offered)
Investor
Shares (Not currently offered)
Class Z
Shares (Not currently offered)
TSW
HIGH YIELD BOND FUND
Institutional
Shares (TSWHX)
Advisor
Shares (Not currently offered)
Investor
Shares (Not currently offered)
Class Z
Shares (Not currently offered)
PROSPECTUS
DATED JANUARY 27,
2023
THE
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION HAS NOT APPROVED OR DISAPPROVED THESE
SECURITIES OR PASSED UPON THE ADEQUACY OF THIS PROSPECTUS. ANY REPRESENTATION TO
THE CONTRARY IS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE.
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FUND SUMMARY
JOHCM
Credit Income Fund
Investment
Objective
The
investment objective of the JOHCM Credit Income Fund (the “Fund”) is to preserve
capital and deliver returns through a combination of income and modest capital
appreciation.
Fees
and Expenses
This
table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell
shares of the Fund. You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and
other fees to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the tables
and examples below.
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Institutional Shares |
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Advisor Shares |
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Investor Shares |
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Class Z Shares |
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Shareholder Fees (Fees paid directly from
your investment) |
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Maximum
Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering
price) |
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None |
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None |
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None |
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None |
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Maximum
Deferred Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of net
asset value) |
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None |
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None |
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None |
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None |
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Redemption
Fee |
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None |
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None |
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None |
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None |
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Annual Fund
Operating Expenses |
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(Expenses that you pay each
year as a percentage of the value of your
investment) |
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Management
Fee |
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0.55 |
% |
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0.55 |
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0.55 |
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0.55 |
% |
Distribution
(Rule 12b‑1) Fees |
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None |
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0.10 |
% |
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0.25 |
% |
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None |
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Other
Expenses1 |
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1.66 |
% |
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1.66 |
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1.66 |
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1.66 |
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Acquired
Fund Fees and Expenses2 |
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0.02 |
% |
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0.02 |
% |
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0.02 |
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0.02 |
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Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses |
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2.23 |
% |
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2.33 |
% |
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2.48 |
% |
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2.23 |
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Fee
Waivers and Reimbursements3 |
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(1.63 |
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(1.63 |
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(1.63 |
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(1.63 |
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Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waivers and
Reimbursements |
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0.60 |
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0.70 |
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0.85 |
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0.60 |
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Restated to reflect current
expenses. |
2 |
Expenses
associated with investments in underlying investment companies are
excluded from the contractual expense
limitation. |
3 |
JOHCM
(USA) Inc (the “Adviser”) has contractually agreed to waive fees and
reimburse expenses to the extent that Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(excluding brokerage costs, interest, taxes, dividends, litigation and
indemnification expenses, expenses associated with investments in
underlying investment companies, and extraordinary expenses) exceed 0.58%,
0.68%, 0.83%, and 0.58% for Institutional Shares, Advisor Shares, Investor
Shares, and Class Z Shares, respectively, until January 28, 2024. If it
becomes unnecessary for the Adviser to waive fees or make reimbursements,
the Adviser may recapture any of its prior waivers or reimbursements for a
period not to exceed three years from the date on which the waiver or
reimbursement was made to the extent that such a recapture does not cause
the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses (excluding brokerage costs,
interest, taxes, dividends, litigation and indemnification expenses,
expenses associated with investments in underlying investment companies,
and extraordinary expenses) to exceed the current expense limitation or
the applicable expense limitation that was in effect
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the time of the waiver
or reimbursement. The agreement to waive fees and reimburse expenses may
be terminated by the Board of Trustees at any time and will terminate
automatically upon termination of the Investment Advisory Agreement. Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waivers and Reimbursements may
exceed 0.58%, 0.68%, 0.83%, and 0.58% for Institutional Shares, Advisor
Shares, Investor Shares, and Class Z Shares, respectively, due to
certain excluded expenses. |
Example
This
Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with
the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The Example assumes that you invest
$10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your
shares at the end of those periods. The Example also assumes that each year your
investment has a 5% return and Fund operating expenses remain the same. The
contractual expense limitation for the Fund is reflected only in the 1 year
example and for the first year of the 3, 5 and 10 year examples. Although your
actual costs and returns might be different, your approximate costs of investing
$10,000 in the Fund would be:
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Institutional
Shares |
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61 |
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540 |
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1,045 |
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2,437 |
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Advisor
Shares |
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72 |
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571 |
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1,097 |
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2,540 |
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Investor
Shares |
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87 |
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$ |
616 |
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1,173 |
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$ |
2,692 |
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Class Z
Shares |
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61 |
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$ |
540 |
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1,045 |
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2,437 |
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Portfolio
Turnover
The
Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells
securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may
indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund
shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in
annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.
During the most recently completed fiscal year, the portfolio turnover rate of
the Fund was 48.18% of the average value of its
portfolio.
Principal
Investment Strategies
The
Fund invests, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of its net assets (plus
the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes) in fixed income
securities. The fixed income investments give exposure to a wide range of
maturities and can include investment grade corporate debt, high yield
securities (higher risk, lower rated fixed income securities rated below BBB‑ by
S&P or below Baa3 by Moody’s, also known as “junk bonds”), convertible bonds
(including contingent convertible bonds), floating-rate debt, collateralized
debt, municipal debt, non‑U.S. debt (including in emerging markets), commercial
paper, loans and loan participations. The Fund may also gain exposure to up to
10% of equity securities, including through depositary receipts, issued by
companies of any size. The Fund expects to invest in preferred stock, which it
considers similar to fixed income securities (including for purposes of the 80%
test above). The Fund intends to invest in non‑U.S. debt (including in emerging
markets). The Fund may also seek to obtain exposure to fixed income investments
through investments in affiliated or unaffiliated investment companies,
including exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) and closed‑end funds.
The
portfolio managers seek to build a portfolio that reflects their investment
views across the fixed income markets that is consistent with the Fund’s
objective of preserving capital and delivering returns through a combination of
income and modest capital appreciation. The portfolio managers seek to identify
resilient income streams by evaluating credit investments on factors such
as: (1) a business’s durability and capacity to avoid permanent impairment
of capital; (2) a company’s financial position, particularly its cash flow,
stability of revenues and cost structure; and (3) an investment’s corporate
and legal structure.
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The
Fund typically invests across a wide range of maturities. As market conditions
change, the volatility and attractiveness of sectors, securities, and strategies
can change as well. To optimize the Fund’s risk/return, the portfolio managers
may dynamically adjust the mix of different asset class
exposures.
The
Fund retains the flexibility to enter into derivatives transactions and various
other hedging assets that the portfolio managers believe will reduce the overall
volatility of the Fund, protecting capital, in certain market environments. The
Fund may also use hedging and derivative instruments to reduce certain risk
exposures present in the Fund’s holdings. The Fund may also engage in short
sales or take short positions for hedging or other investment
purposes.
The
Fund is permitted to invest in contingent securities structured as contingent
convertible securities also known as “CoCos.” A contingent convertible security
is a hybrid debt security either convertible into equity at a predetermined
share price or written down in value based on the specific terms of the
individual security if a pre‑specified trigger event occurs (the “Trigger
Event”), such as a decline in the issuer’s capital below a specified threshold
or increase in the issuer’s risk-weighted
assets.
When
the portfolio managers believe that asset prices are attractive (for example,
during widespread market selloffs), the portfolio managers may use leverage in
an amount up to 15% of the Fund’s total assets in order to increase market
exposure and pursue additional investments in such
assets.
Additionally,
as part of the research process, the portfolio managers consider financially
material environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) factors, including
potential impacts on the long-term risk and return profile of a company. Such
factors, alongside other relevant factors, may be taken into account in the
Fund’s securities selection
process.
Principal
Investment Risks
All
investments carry a certain amount of risk, and the Fund cannot guarantee that
it will achieve its investment objective. The value of the Fund’s investments
will fluctuate with market conditions, and the value of your investment in the
Fund also will vary. You could lose money on
your investment in the Fund, or the Fund could perform worse than other
investments. Investments in the Fund are not deposits of a bank
and are not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
(“FDIC”) or any other government agency. Below are the principal
risks of investing in the Fund. All of the risks listed below are material to
the Fund, regardless of the order in which they appear.
Credit
Risk. An issuer of debt securities may fail to make interest
payments or repay principal when due, in whole or in part. Changes in an
issuer’s financial strength or in a security’s credit rating may affect a
security’s value.
Interest Rate
Risk. When interest rates increase, fixed income securities or
instruments held by the Fund will generally decline in value. When interest
rates fall, the value of fixed income securities generally increase. Long-term
fixed income securities or instruments will normally have more price volatility
because of this risk than short term fixed income securities or instruments. The
risks associated with changing interest rates may have unpredictable effects on
the markets and the Fund’s investments. Fluctuations in interest rates may also
affect the liquidity of fixed income securities and instruments held by the
Fund. Your investment will decline in value if the value of the Fund’s
investments decreases. Recently, there have been inflationary price movements,
which have caused the fixed income securities markets to experience heightened
levels of interest rate volatility and liquidity risk. The risks associated with
rising interest rates may be particularly acute in the current market
environment because the Federal Reserve Board recently raised rates and may
continue to do so.
Focused Investment
Risk. Focusing investments in a particular market, sector or value
chain (which may include issuers in a number of different industries) increases
the risk of loss because the stocks of many or all of
the
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companies
in such market, sector or value chain may decline in value due to economic,
market, technological, political or regulatory developments adversely affecting
the market or value chain.
High Yield (“Junk
Bond”) Investments Risk. Below investment grade fixed income
securities, also known as “junk bonds,” are not investment grade and are
generally considered speculative because they present a greater risk of loss
than higher quality debt securities. These lower-rated or defaulted debt
securities may fluctuate more in price, and are less liquid than higher-rated
securities because issuers of such lower-rated debt securities are not as strong
financially, and are more likely to encounter financial difficulties and be more
vulnerable to adverse changes in the
economy.
Non‑U.S. Securities
Risk. Investing in non‑U.S. securities poses additional market
risks since political and economic events unique in a country or region will
affect those markets and their issuers and may not affect the U.S. economy or
U.S. issuers. In addition, issuers of non‑U.S. securities often are not subject
to as much regulation as U.S. issuers, and the reporting, accounting, custody,
and auditing standards to which those issuers are subject often are not as
rigorous as U.S. standards. Investments in non‑U.S. securities may also be
subject to greater environmental, credit and information risks. The Fund’s
investments in non‑U.S. securities also are subject to non‑U.S. currency
fluctuations and other non‑U.S. currency-related risks. Non‑U.S. securities may
be subject to higher volatility than U.S. securities, varying degrees of
regulation and limited liquidity.
Emerging Markets
Risk. In addition to the risks of investing in non‑U.S.
investments generally, emerging markets investments are subject to greater risks
arising from political or economic instability, nationalization or confiscatory
taxation, currency exchange restrictions, sanctions by other countries (such as
the United States) and an issuer’s unwillingness or inability to make principal
or interest payments on its obligations. Emerging markets companies may be
smaller and have shorter operating histories than companies in developed
markets. To the extent a Fund invests in frontier countries, these risks will be
magnified. Frontier countries generally have smaller economies or less developed
capital markets than traditional emerging market
countries.
Currency
Risk. Investments in non‑U.S. countries are also subject to
currency risk. As the Fund’s investments in non‑U.S. securities are generally
denominated in non‑U.S. currencies, changes in the value of those currencies
compared to the U.S. dollar may affect the value of the Fund’s investments. Some
of the currencies in emerging markets have experienced devaluations relative to
the U.S. dollar, and major adjustments have been made periodically in certain
such currencies. Certain developing countries face serious exchange
constraints.
Loan-Related
Investments Risk. In addition to risks generally associated with
debt investments (e.g., interest rate risk and default risk), loan-related
investments such as loan participations and assignments are subject to other
risks. Although a loan obligation may be fully collateralized at the time of
acquisition, the collateral may decline in value, be or become illiquid or less
liquid, or lose all or substantially all of its value subsequent to
investment.
Liquidity
Risk. The Fund may make investments that are illiquid or that may
become less liquid in response to market developments or adverse investor
perceptions. Illiquid investments may be more difficult to
value.
LIBOR
Risk. Certain instruments in which the Fund may invest rely in
some fashion upon the London Interbank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”). On March 5,
2021, the United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and LIBOR’s
administrator, ICE Benchmark Administration (IBA), announced that most LIBOR
settings would no longer be published after the end of 2021 and a majority of
U.S. dollar LIBOR settings would no longer be published after June 30,
2023. Abandonment of or modifications to LIBOR could have adverse impacts on
newly issued financial instruments and existing financial instruments which
reference LIBOR and lead to significant short-term and long-term uncertainty and
market instability.
Management
Risk. The Adviser’s judgments about the attractiveness, value, and
potential appreciation of, or social and environmental factors related to, a
particular asset class or individual security in which the Fund invests may
prove to be incorrect, and there is no guarantee that individual securities will
perform as anticipated.
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Any
given investment strategy may fail to produce the intended results, and a Fund’s
portfolio may underperform other comparable funds because of portfolio
management decisions related to, among other things, the selection of
investments, portfolio construction, risk assessments, and/or the outlook on
market trends and
opportunities.
CLO
Risk. Collateralized loan obligations (“CLOs”) issue classes or
“tranches” that vary in risk and yield and may experience substantial losses due
to actual defaults, decrease of market value due to collateral defaults and
removal of subordinate tranches, market anticipation of defaults and investor
aversion to CLO securities as a class. The risks of investing in CLOs depends
largely on the tranche and the type of the underlying debts and loans in the
tranche. Investments in subordinate tranches may carry greater risk. CLOs also
carry risks including, but not limited to, interest rate risk and credit risk.
Because the underlying assets in CLOs are loans, in the event an underlying loan
is subject to liquidity risks such as the risk of extended settlement,
investments in the corresponding CLOs may be indirectly subject to the same
risks.
Convertible
Securities Risk. Convertible securities subject the Fund to the
risks associated with both fixed-income securities and equity securities. If a
convertible security’s investment value is greater than its conversion value,
its price will likely increase when interest rates fall and decrease when
interest rates rise. If the conversion value exceeds the investment value, the
price of the convertible security will tend to fluctuate directly with the price
of the underlying equity security. Certain “triggering events” may cause the
Fund to lose the principal amount invested in a contingent convertible security
and coupon payments on contingent convertible securities may be discretionary
and cancelled by the issuer. Due to these factors, the value of contingent
convertible securities is unpredictable, and holders of contingent convertible
securities may suffer a loss of capital when comparable equity holders do
not.
Derivatives
Risk. The Fund’s use of derivative instruments involves risks
different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing
directly in securities and other traditional investments. These risks include
(i) the risk that the counterparty to a derivative transaction may not
fulfill its contractual obligations; (ii) risk of mispricing or improper
valuation; and (iii) the risk that changes in the value of the derivative
may not correlate perfectly with the underlying asset, rate or
index.
Equity Securities
Risk. The risk that events negatively affecting issuers,
industries or financial markets in which the Fund invests will impact the value
of the stocks held by the Fund and thus, the value of the Fund’s shares over
short or extended periods.
ESG Factor Risk.
Considering ESG factors when evaluating an investment may result
in the selection or exclusion of certain investments based on the Adviser’s view
of these factors and carries the risk that the Fund may underperform funds that
do not take ESG factors into account. In evaluating an issuer, the Adviser may
be dependent upon information and data obtained through voluntary reporting by
issuers or third-party research that may be incomplete, inaccurate or
unavailable, which could impact the portfolio managers’ assessment of related
risks and opportunities.
ETF
Risk. Shareholders of the Fund will indirectly be subject to the
fees and expenses of the individual ETFs in which the Fund invests. In addition,
an ETF may not replicate exactly the performance of the benchmark index it seeks
to track for a number of reasons, including transaction costs incurred by the
ETF, the temporary unavailability of certain index securities in the secondary
market or discrepancies between the ETF and the index with respect to the
weighting of securities or the number of securities
held.
Hedging
Risk. Hedging is a strategy in which the Fund uses a derivative or
other security to offset certain risks associated with other Fund holdings or to
render the portfolio more resilient to market fluctuations. There can be no
assurance that the Fund’s hedging strategy will reduce risk or that hedging
transactions will be either available or cost effective. The Fund is not
required to use hedging and may choose not to do
so.
Investment Company
Risk. If the Fund invests in shares of another investment company,
shareholders will indirectly bear fees and expenses charged by the underlying
investment companies in which the Fund invests in
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addition
to the Fund’s direct fees and expenses. The Fund also will incur brokerage costs
when it purchases investment company securities, including ETFs and closed‑end
funds. Furthermore, investments in other funds could affect the timing, amount,
and character of distributions to shareholders and therefore may increase the
amount of taxes payable by investors in the
Fund.
Municipal Securities
Risk. The value of municipal bonds that depend on a specific
revenue source or general revenue source to fund their payment obligations may
fluctuate as a result of changes in the cash flows generated by the revenue
source(s) or changes in the priority of the municipal obligation to receive the
cash flows generated by the revenue source(s). In addition, changes in federal
tax laws or the activity of an issuer may adversely affect the tax‑exempt status
of municipal bonds.
Preferred Stock
Risk. The value of preferred stocks will fluctuate with changes in
interest rates. Typically, a rise in interest rates causes a decline in the
value of preferred stock. Preferred stocks are also subject to credit risk,
which is the possibility that an issuer of preferred stock will fail to make its
dividend payments.
Regulatory
Risk. Changes in the laws or regulations of the United States or
other countries, including any changes to applicable tax laws and regulations,
could impair the ability of the Fund to achieve its investment objective and
could increase the operating expenses of the
Fund.
Performance
Information
The
Fund commenced operations upon the reorganization of the Predecessor Fund into
the Fund on July 19, 2021. With the reorganization, the Fund assumed the
financial and performance history of the Predecessor Fund. The bar chart and performance table below provide
an indication of the risks of an investment in the Fund (and the Predecessor
Fund for periods prior to the reorganization) by showing how the Fund’s
performance has varied from year to year, and by showing how the Fund’s average
annual returns compare with those of a broad measure of market
performance. Performance reflects contractual fee waivers in
effect. If fee waivers were not in place, performance would be reduced.
After‑tax returns are calculated using the
historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not
reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after‑tax returns depend on an investor’s
tax situation and may differ from those shown. After‑tax returns shown are not
relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax‑deferred
arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts
(“IRAs”). Past performance (before and after taxes) is not
necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the
future. Updated performance information is available by calling
866‑260‑9549 (toll free) or
312‑557‑5913.
Annual
Total Returns – Institutional Shares for year ended
December 31*
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Worst
quarter: |
|
|
04/01/2022 – 06/30/2022 – (6.21 |
%) |
* |
The Fund’s fiscal year end is September
30. The Fund’s most recent
quarterly return (since the end of the last fiscal year)
through December 31, 2022 was
2.04%. |
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Average
Annual Total Returns – for the Periods Ended December 31,
2022
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
1 Year |
|
|
Since Inception^ |
|
Institutional
Shares – Before Taxes |
|
|
(8.42 |
%) |
|
|
(1.77 |
%) |
Institutional
Shares – After Taxes on Distributions |
|
|
(9.75 |
%) |
|
|
(3.20 |
%) |
Institutional
Shares – After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares |
|
|
(4.97 |
%) |
|
|
(1.88 |
%) |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Bloomberg
Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (reflects no deductions for fees,
expenses, or taxes) |
|
|
(13.01 |
%) |
|
|
(6.11 |
%) |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I.C.E.
BofAML BB‑B Global High Yield Constrained Index USD (reflects no
deductions for fees, expenses, or taxes) |
|
|
(12.97 |
%) |
|
|
(3.01 |
%) |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Advisor
Shares – Before Taxes |
|
|
(8.44 |
%) |
|
|
(2.14 |
%) |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
^ |
The Advisor Shares of the Predecessor
Fund commenced operations on December 18, 2021.
Historical performance for Advisor Shares prior to its inception is based
on the performance of Institutional Shares. The performance of Advisor
Shares has been adjusted to reflect differences in
expenses. |
Portfolio
Management
Investment Adviser
The
Fund’s investment adviser is JOHCM (USA) Inc (the “Adviser”).
Portfolio Managers
|
| |
Giorgio
Caputo
Senior
Fund Manager
Length
of Service: Since July 18, 2020* |
|
Adam
Gittes
Senior
Fund Manager
Length
of Service: Since November 23, 2020* |
* |
Each
Portfolio Manager served as portfolio manager of the Fund’s predecessor,
which reorganized into the Trust on July 19, 2021.
|
Buying
and Selling Fund Shares
Minimum Initial Investment
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Institutional |
|
Advisor |
|
Investor |
|
Class Z |
$1,000,000 |
|
No minimum |
|
No minimum |
|
$10,000,000 |
There is no minimum for additional investments. If
you hold shares through a financial intermediary, the financial intermediary may
impose its own, different, investment minimums.
To Buy or Sell Shares:
JOHCM
Funds Trust
c/o
The Northern Trust Company
P.O.
Box 4766
Chicago,
IL 60680-4766
Telephone:
866‑260‑9549 (toll free) or 312‑557‑5913
You
can buy or sell shares of the Fund on any day the New York Stock Exchange
(“NYSE”) is open through your broker or financial intermediary, or by mail or
telephone. You can pay for shares by wire. The Adviser and JOHCM Funds
Distributors, LLC, the Fund’s distributor, reserve the right to waive any
minimum in their sole discretion, and to reject any purchase order for any
reason.
7
Dividends,
Capital Gains and Taxes
The
Fund intends to make distributions that are generally taxable as ordinary income
or capital gains, except when your investment is in an IRA, 401(k), or other
tax‑advantaged investment plan. However, you may be subject to tax when you
withdraw monies from a tax‑advantaged plan.
Payments
to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If
you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary
(such as a bank), the Fund and its related companies may pay the intermediary
for the sale of Fund shares and related services. These payments may create a
conflict 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 web site for more
information.
8
FUND SUMMARY
JOHCM
Emerging Markets Discovery Fund
(formerly,
JOHCM Emerging Markets Small Mid Cap Equity Fund)
Investment
Objective
The
investment objective of the JOHCM Emerging Markets Discovery Fund (the “Fund”)
is to seek long-term capital appreciation.
Fees
and Expenses
This
table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell
shares of the Fund. You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and
other fees to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the tables
and examples below.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
Institutional Shares |
|
|
Advisor Shares |
|
|
Investor Shares |
|
|
Class Z Shares |
|
Shareholder Fees (Fees paid directly from
your investment) |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
| |
Maximum
Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering
price) |
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
Maximum
Deferred Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of net
asset value) |
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
Redemption
Fee |
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
|
Annual Fund
Operating Expenses |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
| |
(Expenses that you pay
each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment) |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
| |
Management
Fee |
|
|
1.30 |
% |
|
|
1.30 |
% |
|
|
1.30 |
% |
|
|
1.30 |
% |
Distribution
(Rule 12b‑1) Fees |
|
|
None |
|
|
|
0.10 |
% |
|
|
0.25 |
% |
|
|
None |
|
Other
Expenses |
|
|
0.46 |
% |
|
|
0.46 |
% |
|
|
0.46 |
% |
|
|
0.46 |
% |
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses |
|
|
1.76 |
% |
|
|
1.86 |
% |
|
|
2.01 |
% |
|
|
1.76 |
% |
Fee
Waivers and Reimbursements1 |
|
|
(0.27 |
%) |
|
|
(0.27 |
%) |
|
|
(0.27 |
%) |
|
|
(0.27 |
%) |
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waivers and
Reimbursements |
|
|
1.49 |
% |
|
|
1.59 |
% |
|
|
1.74 |
% |
|
|
1.49 |
% |
1 |
JOHCM
(USA) Inc (the “Adviser”) has contractually agreed to waive fees and
reimburse expenses to the extent that Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(excluding brokerage costs, interest, taxes, dividends, litigation and
indemnification expenses, expenses associated with investments in
underlying investment companies, and extraordinary expenses) exceed 1.49%,
1.59%, 1.74%, and 1.49% for Institutional Shares, Advisor Shares, Investor
Shares, and Class Z Shares, respectively, until January 28, 2024. If it
becomes unnecessary for the Adviser to waive fees or make reimbursements,
the Adviser may recapture any of its prior waivers or reimbursements for a
period not to exceed three years from the date on which the waiver or
reimbursement was made to the extent that such a recapture does not cause
the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses (excluding brokerage costs,
interest, taxes, dividends, litigation and indemnification expenses,
expenses associated with investments in underlying investment companies,
and extraordinary expenses) to exceed the current expense limitation or
the applicable expense limitation that was in effect at the time of the
waiver or reimbursement. The agreement to waive fees and reimburse
expenses may be terminated by the Board of Trustees at any time and will
terminate automatically upon termination of the Investment Advisory
Agreement. |
9
Example
This
Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with
the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The Example assumes that you invest
$10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your
shares at the end of those periods. The Example also assumes that each year your
investment has a 5% return and Fund operating expenses remain the same. The
contractual expense limitation for the Fund is reflected only in the 1 year
example and for the first year of the 3, 5 and 10 year examples. Although your
actual costs and returns might be different, your approximate costs of investing
$10,000 in the Fund would be:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
1 year |
|
|
3 years |
|
|
5 years |
|
|
10 years |
|
Institutional
Shares |
|
$ |
152 |
|
|
$ |
528 |
|
|
$ |
929 |
|
|
$ |
2,051 |
|
Advisor
Shares |
|
$ |
162 |
|
|
$ |
559 |
|
|
$ |
981 |
|
|
$ |
2,158 |
|
Investor
Shares |
|
$ |
177 |
|
|
$ |
604 |
|
|
$ |
1,058 |
|
|
$ |
2,316 |
|
Class Z
Shares |
|
$ |
152 |
|
|
$ |
528 |
|
|
$ |
929 |
|
|
$ |
2,051 |
|
Portfolio
Turnover
The
Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells
securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may
indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund
shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in
annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.
During the most recently completed fiscal year, the portfolio turnover rate of
the Fund was 123.95% of the average value of its
portfolio.
Principal
Investment Strategies
The
Fund invests, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of its net assets (plus
the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes) in equity securities
issued by companies located in emerging markets, including frontier markets.
Equity securities include common and preferred stocks, and include rights and
warrants to subscribe to common stock or other equity securities. The Fund may
achieve its equity exposure either directly or indirectly, such as through
depositary receipts, exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) and participatory notes
(commonly known as “P‑notes”). Emerging market countries are those countries
included in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index and MSCI Frontier Markets Index,
countries with low to middle-income economies according to the International
Bank for Reconstruction and Development (more commonly referred to as the World
Bank), and other countries with similar emerging market characteristics.
The
portfolio managers use a disciplined fundamental bottom‑up research approach,
namely by focusing on analyzing individual companies rather than by beginning
with a “top down” allocation across particular countries, regions, markets or
sectors. As part of this approach, the portfolio managers aim to identify
emerging market companies that they believe are inefficiently priced and that
typically demonstrate positive growth characteristics. As part of the selection
process for its “discovery” strategy, the portfolio managers typically look for
companies that are: (a) in emerging industries with pioneering business
models, or (b) have innovative technologies that have the potential to disrupt
the status quo, or (c) are offering products or services that are not yet
widely available or adopted in the local market, with the potential for
long-term growth. The portfolio managers also seek to identify growth potential
in companies that they believe are recovering (or will soon begin to recover)
from significant market or business setbacks and therefore have the potential to
outpace broader financial markets on a relative basis. While the portfolio
managers build the Fund’s portfolio primarily from a bottom-up growth philosophy
and individual stock selection process they also consider top-down macroeconomic
information, particularly in determining sector and country weightings in the
portfolio. The portfolio managers consider the country and sector allocation of
the Fund’s performance benchmark (the MSCI Emerging Markets Small Cap Index) but
may depart from the benchmark’s allocations at any time. In selecting companies
for investment, the portfolio managers also consider the investment risks
associated with the liquidity
10
of
the company’s stock, taking into account the depth of the trading market for the
company’s shares, and how reliable the company’s reporting (particularly its
financial reporting) appears to be while also seeking to take advantage of
market inefficiencies as to individual companies and
industries.
Under
normal circumstances, the Fund will typically hold securities of 70 to 120
companies and will invest at least 80% of its assets in small and medium
capitalization companies, which the Fund currently considers to be companies
with market capitalizations below U.S. $8 billion. The Fund may invest a
significant portion of its assets in issuers located in one country or a small
number of countries. These countries may change from time to time. While the
Fund does not pursue active or frequent trading as a principal strategy, it has
in the past and could in the future experience elevated levels of portfolio
turnover when implementing its strategy in certain economic and market
conditions.
The
Fund expects to invest a portion of its assets in securities of developed
markets companies that derive, or are expected to derive, a significant portion
of their revenues from their operations in emerging or frontier markets. The
Fund may also participate in initial public offerings
(“IPO”s).
The
Fund also may purchase futures contracts and other derivative contracts,
including index derivatives for equities and currencies. Although the Fund did
not invest significantly in derivatives instruments as of the most recent fiscal
year end, it may do so at any time. The Fund also may invest in physical
currencies and spot and forward currency contracts. The Fund typically does not
seek to hedge its exposure to non‑U.S. dollar
currencies.
Principal
Investment Risks
All
investments carry a certain amount of risk, and the Fund cannot guarantee that
it will achieve its investment objective. The value of the Fund’s investments
will fluctuate with market conditions, and the value of your investment in the
Fund also will vary. You could lose money on your investment in the
Fund, or the Fund could perform worse than other
investments. Investments in the Fund are not deposits of a bank
and are not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
(“FDIC”) or any other government agency. Below are the
principal risks of investing in the Fund. All of the risks listed below are
material to the Fund, regardless of the order in which they appear. The Fund
should only be purchased by investors seeking long-term growth of capital who
can withstand the share price volatility of equity investing with a focus on
emerging market stocks.
Equity Securities
Risk. The risk that events negatively affecting issuers,
industries, or financial markets in which the Fund invests will impact the value
of the stocks held by the Fund and thus, the value of the Fund’s shares over
short or extended periods.
Small‑Cap and Mid‑Cap
Company Risk. The small- and mid‑capitalization companies in which
the Fund invests in may be more vulnerable to adverse business or economic
events than larger, more established companies. In particular, these small- and
mid‑capitalization companies may have limited product lines, markets, and
financial resources, and may depend upon relatively small management groups.
Therefore, small- and mid‑capitalization stocks may be more volatile than those
of larger companies.
Non‑U.S. Securities
Risk. Investing in non‑U.S. securities poses additional market
risks since political and economic events unique in a country or region will
affect those markets and their issuers and may not affect the U.S. economy or
U.S. issuers. In addition, issuers of non‑U.S. securities often are not subject
to as much regulation as U.S. issuers, and the reporting, accounting, custody,
and auditing standards to which those issuers are subject often are not as
rigorous as U.S. standards. Investments in non‑U.S. securities may also be
subject to greater environmental, credit and information risks. The Fund’s
investments in non‑U.S. securities also are subject to non‑U.S. currency
fluctuations and other non‑U.S. currency-related risks. Non‑U.S. securities may
be subject to higher volatility than U.S. securities, varying degrees of
regulation and limited liquidity.
11
ETF
Risk. Shareholders of the Fund will indirectly be subject to the
fees and expenses of the individual ETFs in which the Fund invests. In addition,
an ETF may not replicate exactly the performance of the benchmark index it seeks
to track for a number of reasons, including transaction costs incurred by the
ETF, the temporary unavailability of certain index securities in the secondary
market or discrepancies between the ETF and the index with respect to the
weighting of securities or the number of securities
held.
Emerging Markets
Risk. In addition to the risks of investing in non‑U.S.
investments generally, emerging markets investments are subject to greater risks
arising from political or economic instability, nationalization or confiscatory
taxation, currency exchange restrictions, sanctions by other countries (such as
the United States) and an issuer’s unwillingness or inability to make principal
or interest payments on its obligations. Emerging markets companies may be
smaller and have shorter operating histories than companies in developed
markets. To the extent a Fund invests in frontier countries, these risks will be
magnified. Frontier countries generally have smaller economies or less developed
capital markets than traditional emerging market
countries.
Geographic Focus
Risk. The risk that events negatively affecting the fiscal
stability of a particular country or region in which the Fund focuses its
investments will cause the value of the Fund’s shares to decrease, perhaps
significantly. To the extent the Fund focuses its assets in a particular country
or region, the Fund is more vulnerable to financial, economic, or other
political developments in that country or region as compared to a fund that does
not focus on holdings in a particular country or region. As a result, the Fund
may be more volatile than a fund which is broadly diversified
geographically.
Currency
Risk. Investments in non‑U.S. countries are also subject to
currency risk. As the Fund’s investments in non‑U.S. securities are generally
denominated in non‑U.S. currencies, changes in the value of those currencies
compared to the U.S. dollar may affect the value of the Fund’s investments. Some
of the currencies in emerging markets have experienced devaluations relative to
the U.S. dollar, and major adjustments have been made periodically in certain
such currencies. Certain developing countries face serious exchange
constraints.
Management
Risk. The Adviser’s judgments about the attractiveness, value, and
potential appreciation of, or social and environmental factors related to, a
particular asset class or individual security in which the Fund invests may
prove to be incorrect and there is no guarantee that individual securities will
perform as anticipated. Any given investment strategy may fail to produce the
intended results, and a Fund’s portfolio may underperform other comparable funds
because of portfolio management decisions related to, among other things, the
selection of investments, portfolio construction, risk assessments, and/or the
outlook on market trends and
opportunities.
Convertible
Securities Risk. Convertible securities are hybrid securities that
have characteristics of both fixed income and equity securities and are subject
to risks associated with both fixed income and equity
securities.
Investment Company
Risk. Shareholders in the Fund will indirectly bear fees and
expenses charged by the underlying investment companies in which the Fund
invests in addition to the Fund’s direct fees and expenses. Investments in other
funds also may increase the amount of taxes payable by investors in the
Fund.
Participatory Notes
Risk. P‑notes, which are designed to replicate the performance of
certain issuers and markets where direct investment is either impossible or
difficult due to local restrictions, represent interest in securities listed on
certain non‑U.S. exchanges, and thus present similar risks to investing directly
in such securities. P‑notes also expose investors to counterparty risk, which is
risk that the entity issuing the note may not be able to honor its financial
commitments. The liquidity of a P‑note reflects the liquidity in the underlying
security. At times, it may be more illiquid than trading the underlying security
as broker selection is restricted to the underwriter of the
P‑note.
Portfolio Turnover
Risk. The Fund may sell its portfolio securities, regardless of
the length of time that they have been held, if the Adviser determines that it
would be in the Fund’s best interest to do so. These transactions will increase
the Fund’s “portfolio turnover.” High turnover rates generally result in higher
brokerage costs to the Fund and higher amounts of taxable distributions to
shareholders.
12
Regulatory
Risk. Changes in the laws or regulations of the United States or
other countries, including changes to applicable tax laws and regulations, could
impair the ability of the Fund to achieve its investment objective and could
increase the operating expenses of the
Fund.
Derivatives
Risk. The Fund’s use of derivative instruments involves risks
different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing
directly in securities and other traditional investments. These risks include
(i) the risk that the counterparty to a derivative transaction may not
fulfill its contractual obligations; (ii) risk of mispricing or improper
valuation; and (iii) the risk that changes in the value of the derivative
may not correlate perfectly with the underlying asset, rate or
index.
Performance
Information
The
Fund commenced operations upon the reorganization of the Predecessor Fund into
the Fund on July 19, 2021. With the reorganization, the Fund assumed the
financial and performance history of the Predecessor Fund. The bar chart and performance table below provide
an indication of the risks of an investment in the Fund (and the Predecessor
Fund for periods prior to the reorganization) by showing how the Fund’s
performance has varied from year to year, and by showing how the Fund’s average
annual returns compare with those of a broad measure of market
performance. Performance reflects contractual fee waivers in
effect. If fee waivers were not in place, performance would be reduced.
After‑tax returns are shown for Institutional
Shares only and will vary from the after‑tax returns for other share
classes. After‑tax returns are calculated using the
historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not
reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after‑tax returns depend on an investor’s
tax situation and may differ from those shown. After‑tax returns shown are not
relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax‑deferred
arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts
(“IRAs”). Past performance (before and after taxes) is not
necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the
future. Updated performance information is available by calling
866‑260‑9549 (toll free) or
312‑557‑5913.
Annual
Total Returns – Institutional Shares for year ended
December 31*
|
|
|
| |
Best quarter: |
|
|
04/01/2020 – 06/30/2020 – 30.15% |
|
Worst quarter: |
|
|
01/01/2020 – 03/31/2020 – (25.59%) |
|
* |
The Fund’s fiscal year end is September
30. The Fund’s most recent
quarterly return (since the end of the last fiscal year)
through December 31, 2022 was
6.33%. |
13
Average
Annual Total Returns – for the Periods Ended December 31,
2022
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
1 Year |
|
|
5 Years |
|
|
Since Inception^ |
|
Institutional
Shares – Before Taxes |
|
|
(21.37 |
%) |
|
|
2.35 |
% |
|
|
7.82 |
% |
Institutional
Shares – After Taxes on Distributions |
|
|
(21.29 |
%) |
|
|
0.62 |
% |
|
|
5.88 |
% |
Institutional
Shares – After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares |
|
|
(12.22 |
%) |
|
|
1.73 |
% |
|
|
5.89 |
% |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
MSCI
Emerging Markets Small Cap Index (reflects no deductions for fees or
expenses)* |
|
|
(18.02 |
%) |
|
|
1.06 |
% |
|
|
4.17 |
% |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Advisor
Shares – Before Taxes |
|
|
(21.33 |
%) |
|
|
2.27 |
% |
|
|
7.74 |
% |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
^ |
The Institutional Shares of the
Predecessor Fund commenced operations on December 17,
2014.
Advisor Shares commenced operations on January 28, 2016.
Historical performance for Advisor Shares prior to its inception is based
on the performance of the Institutional Shares. The performance of Advisor
Shares has been adjusted to reflect differences in
expenses. |
* |
Index returns shown are net of
withholding taxes. |
Portfolio
Management
Investment Adviser
The
Fund’s investment adviser is JOHCM (USA) Inc (the “Adviser”).
Portfolio Managers
|
|
|
| |
Emery
Brewer |
|
Dr. Ivo
Kovachev |
|
Stephen
Lew |
Senior Fund Manager |
|
Senior
Fund Manager |
|
Senior
Fund Manager |
Length of Service: Since 2014* |
|
Length
of Service: Since 2014* |
|
Length
of Service: Since 2014* |
* |
Each
Portfolio Manager served as portfolio manager of the Fund’s predecessor,
which reorganized into the Trust on July 19, 2021.
|
Buying
and Selling Fund Shares
Minimum Initial Investment
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Institutional |
|
Advisor |
|
Investor |
|
Class Z |
$1,000,000 |
|
No minimum |
|
No minimum |
|
$10,000,000 |
There is no minimum for additional investments. If
you hold shares through a financial intermediary, the financial intermediary may
impose its own, different, investment minimums.
To Buy or Sell Shares:
JOHCM
Funds Trust
c/o
The Northern Trust Company
P.O.
Box 4766
Chicago,
IL 60680-4766
Telephone:
866‑260‑9549 (toll free) or 312‑557‑5913
You
can buy or sell shares of the Fund on any day the New York Stock Exchange
(“NYSE”) is open through your broker or financial intermediary, or by mail or
telephone. You can pay for shares by wire. The Adviser and
14
JOHCM
Funds Distributors, LLC, the Fund’s distributor, reserve the right to waive any
minimum in their sole discretion, and to reject any purchase order for any
reason.
Dividends,
Capital Gains and Taxes
The
Fund intends to make distributions that are generally taxable as ordinary income
or capital gains, except when your investment is in an IRA, 401(k), or other
tax‑advantaged investment plan. However, you may be subject to tax when you
withdraw monies from a tax‑advantaged plan.
Payments
to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If
you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary
(such as a bank), the Fund and its related companies may pay the intermediary
for the sale of Fund shares and related services. These payments may create a
conflict 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 web site for more
information.
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FUND SUMMARY
JOHCM
Emerging Markets Opportunities Fund
Investment
Objective
The
investment objective of the JOHCM Emerging Markets Opportunities Fund (the
“Fund”) is to seek long-term capital
appreciation.
Fees
and Expenses
This
table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell
shares of the Fund. You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and
other fees to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the tables
and examples below.
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Institutional Shares |
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Advisor Shares |
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Investor Shares |
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Class Z Shares |
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Shareholder Fees (Fees paid directly from
your investment) |
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| |
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Maximum
Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering
price) |
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None |
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None |
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None |
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None |
|
Maximum
Deferred Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of net
asset value) |
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None |
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None |
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None |
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None |
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Redemption
Fee |
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None |
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None |
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None |
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None |
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Annual Fund
Operating Expenses |
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(Expenses that you pay
each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment) |
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Management
Fee |
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0.90 |
% |
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|
0.90 |
% |
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|
0.90 |
% |
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|
0.90 |
% |
Distribution
(Rule 12b‑1) Fees |
|
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None |
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|
0.10 |
% |
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|
0.25 |
% |
|
|
None |
|
Other
Expenses |
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|
0.13 |
% |
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|
0.11 |
% |
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|
0.11 |
% |
|
|
0.11 |
% |
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses1 |
|
|
1.03 |
% |
|
|
1.11 |
% |
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|
1.26 |
% |
|
|
1.01 |
% |
1 |
JOHCM
(USA) Inc (the “Adviser”) has contractually agreed to waive fees and
reimburse expenses to the extent that Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(excluding brokerage costs, interest, taxes, dividends, litigation and
indemnification expenses, expenses associated with investments in
underlying investment companies, and extraordinary expenses) exceed 1.04%,
1.12%, 1.27%, and 1.02% for Institutional Shares, Advisor Shares, Investor
Shares, and Class Z Shares, respectively, until January 28, 2024. If it
becomes unnecessary for the Adviser to waive fees or make reimbursements,
the Adviser may recapture any of its prior waivers or reimbursements for a
period not to exceed three years from the date on which the waiver or
reimbursement was made to the extent that such a recapture does not cause
the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses (excluding brokerage costs,
interest, taxes, dividends, litigation and indemnification expenses,
expenses associated with investments in underlying investment companies,
and extraordinary expenses) to exceed the current expense limitation or
the applicable expense limitation that was in effect at the time of the
waiver or reimbursement. The agreement to waive fees and reimburse
expenses may be terminated by the Board of Trustees at any time and will
terminate automatically upon termination of the Investment Advisory
Agreement. |
Example
This
Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with
the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The Example assumes that you invest
$10,000 in the Fund for the time periods
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indicated
and then redeem all of your shares at the end of those periods. The Example also
assumes that each year your investment has a 5% return and Fund operating
expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs and returns might be
different, your approximate costs of investing $10,000 in the Fund would
be:
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1 year |
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3 years |
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5 years |
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|
10 years |
|
Institutional
Shares |
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$ |
105 |
|
|
$ |
328 |
|
|
$ |
569 |
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|
$ |
1,259 |
|
Advisor
Shares |
|
$ |
113 |
|
|
$ |
353 |
|
|
$ |
612 |
|
|
$ |
1,352 |
|
Investor
Shares |
|
$ |
128 |
|
|
$ |
400 |
|
|
$ |
692 |
|
|
$ |
1,523 |
|
Class Z
Shares |
|
$ |
103 |
|
|
$ |
322 |
|
|
$ |
558 |
|
|
$ |
1,236 |
|
Portfolio
Turnover
The
Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells
securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may
indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund
shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in
annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.
During the most recently completed fiscal year, the portfolio turnover rate of
the Fund was 41.23% of the average value of its
portfolio.
Principal
Investment Strategies
The
Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing, under normal
circumstances, at least 80% of its net assets (plus the amount of any borrowings
for investment purposes) in equity securities of companies located in emerging
market countries. The Fund may invest in companies of any size, including small-
and mid‑capitalization companies. Emerging market countries are those countries
included in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index and MSCI Frontier Markets Index,
countries with low to middle-income economies according to the International
Bank for Reconstruction and Development (more commonly referred to as the World
Bank) and other countries with similar emerging market characteristics. The Fund
may also invest up to 5% of its assets in frontier markets, which are generally
smaller, less liquid, and less developed than emerging markets.
The
equity securities in the Fund’s portfolio can include direct and indirect
investments in common and preferred stocks, as well as rights and warrants to
subscribe to equity securities. The Fund obtains indirect exposure to equity
securities through instruments such as depositary receipts and participatory
notes. Depositary receipts, such as American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) and
Global Depositary Receipts (“GDRs”) are receipts issued by a bank or trust
company evidencing ownership of underlying securities issued by a foreign
issuer. Depositary receipts are alternatives to directly purchasing the
underlying foreign securities in their national markets and currencies.
The
Fund utilizes a core investment style with a modest growth tilt (growth at a
reasonable price, or “GARP”) over all capitalization ranges to invest in equity
securities of companies located in emerging markets. The GARP investment
strategy is a blend of growth and value investing, which seeks to find companies
that have strong earnings growth at a good price. The Fund combines top‑down and
bottom‑up research to assess potential investments in the Fund. A top‑down
country view represents an assessment of the investment prospects in a country
(in this case, a particular emerging market country) based on macroeconomic,
geopolitical and other factors affecting the country as a whole. The portfolio
managers seek to invest in companies that possess attractive fundamentals (for
example, a company’s revenues, earnings, or management) and that fit with the
portfolio managers top‑down country views within the emerging markets. The
portfolio is managed with reference to its performance benchmark, the MSCI
Emerging Markets Index, as to country and sector allocation but may depart from
the benchmark’s allocations at any time. The Fund will typically own between 40
and 60 companies.
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The
Fund may invest a significant portion of its assets in investments located in
one country or a small number of countries. These countries may change from time
to time. The Fund’s performance benchmark index currently includes substantial
exposure to China.
The
Fund may also participate in initial public offerings
(IPOs).
Principal
Investment Risks
All
investments carry a certain amount of risk, and the Fund cannot guarantee that
it will achieve its investment objective. The value of the Fund’s investments
will fluctuate with market conditions, and the value of your investment in the
Fund also will vary. You could lose money on your investment in the
Fund, or the Fund could perform worse than other investments.
Investments in the Fund are not deposits of a bank
and are not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
(“FDIC”) or any other government agency. The Fund should only be
purchased by investors seeking long-term growth of capital who can withstand the
share price volatility of equity investing with a focus on emerging market
stocks. Below are the principal risks of investing in the Fund. All of the risks
listed below are material to the Fund, regardless of the order in which they
appear.
Non‑U.S. Securities
Risk. Investing in non‑U.S. securities poses additional market
risks since political and economic events unique in a country or region will
affect those markets and their issuers and may not affect the U.S. economy or
U.S. issuers. In addition, issuers of non‑U.S. securities often are not subject
to as much regulation as U.S. issuers, and the reporting, accounting, custody,
and auditing standards to which those issuers are subject often are not as
rigorous as U.S. standards. Investments in non‑U.S. securities may also be
subject to greater environmental, credit and information risks. The Fund’s
investments in non‑U.S. securities also are subject to non‑U.S. currency
fluctuations and other non‑U.S. currency-related risks. Non‑U.S. securities may
be subject to higher volatility than U.S. securities, varying degrees of
regulation and limited liquidity.
Emerging Markets
Risk. In addition to the risks of investing in non‑U.S.
investments generally, emerging markets investments are subject to greater risks
arising from political or economic instability, nationalization or confiscatory
taxation, currency exchange restrictions, sanctions by other countries (such as
the United States) and an issuer’s unwillingness or inability to make principal
or interest payments on its obligations. Emerging markets companies may be
smaller and have shorter operating histories than companies in developed
markets. To the extent a Fund invests in frontier countries, these risks will be
magnified. Frontier countries generally have smaller economies or less developed
capital markets than traditional emerging market countries.
Currency
Risk. Investments in non‑U.S. countries are also subject to
currency risk. As the Fund’s investments in non‑U.S. securities are generally
denominated in non‑U.S. currencies, changes in the value of those currencies
compared to the U.S. dollar may affect the value of the Fund’s investments. Some
of the currencies in emerging markets have experienced devaluations relative to
the U.S. dollar, and major adjustments have been made periodically in certain
such currencies. Certain developing countries face serious exchange
constraints.
Equity Securities
Risk. The risk that events negatively affecting issuers,
industries or financial markets in which the Fund invests will impact the value
of the stocks held by the Fund and thus, the value of the Fund’s shares over
short or extended periods.
Management
Risk. The Adviser’s judgments about the attractiveness, value, and
potential appreciation of, or social and environmental factors related to, a
particular asset class or individual security in which the Fund invests may
prove to be incorrect, and there is no guarantee that individual securities will
perform as anticipated. Any given investment strategy may fail to produce the
intended results, and a Fund’s portfolio may underperform other comparable funds
because of portfolio management decisions related to, among other things, the
selection of investments, portfolio construction, risk assessments, and/or the
outlook on market trends and opportunities.
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Geographic Focus
Risk. The risk that events negatively affecting the fiscal
stability of a particular country or region in which the Fund focuses its
investments will cause the value of the Fund’s shares to decrease, perhaps
significantly. To the extent the Fund focuses its assets in a particular country
or region, the Fund is more vulnerable to financial, economic, or other
political developments in that country or region as compared to a fund that does
not focus on holdings in a particular country or region. As a result, the Fund
may be more volatile than a fund which is broadly diversified
geographically.
China
Risk. To the extent a Fund invests in securities of Chinese
issuers, it may be subject to certain risks and considerations not typically
associated with investing in securities of U.S. issuers, including, among
others, more frequent trading suspensions and government interventions
(including by nationalization of assets), currency exchange rate fluctuations or
blockages, limits on the use of brokers and on non‑U.S. ownership, variable
interest entities risks, different financial reporting standards, higher
dependence on exports and international trade, potential for increased trade
tariffs, embargoes and other trade limitations, and custody
risks.
Growth Investing
Risk. The prices of growth stocks may be based largely on
expectations of future earnings, and their prices can decline rapidly and
significantly in reaction to negative news. Growth stocks may underperform
stocks in other broad style categories (and the stock market as a whole) over a
short or long period of time and may shift in and out of favor with investors
generally, sometimes rapidly, depending on changes in market, economic, and
other factors.
GARP Investment
Strategy Risk. GARP investing involves buying stocks that have a
reasonable price/earnings ratio in relationship to the relevant company’s
earnings growth rate. To the extent the Fund uses a GARP investing strategy, the
Fund’s performance may be adversely affected when stocks preferred by a GARP
investing strategy underperform or are not favored by investors in prevailing
market and economic conditions.
Small‑Cap and Mid‑Cap
Company Risk. The small- and mid‑capitalization companies in which
the Fund invests in may be more vulnerable to adverse business or economic
events than larger, more established companies. In particular, these small- and
mid‑capitalization companies may have limited product lines, markets, and
financial resources, and may depend upon relatively small management groups.
Therefore, small- and mid‑capitalization stocks may be more volatile than those
of larger companies.
Participatory Notes
Risk. P‑notes, which are designed to replicate the performance of
certain issuers and markets where direct investment is either impossible or
difficult due to local restrictions, represent interest in securities listed on
certain non‑U.S. exchanges, and thus present similar risks to investing directly
in such securities. P‑notes also expose investors to counterparty risk, which is
risk that the entity issuing the note may not be able to honor its financial
commitments. The liquidity of a P‑note reflects the liquidity in the underlying
security. At times, it may be more illiquid than trading the underlying security
as broker selection is restricted to the underwriter of the
P‑note.
Regulatory
Risk. Changes in the laws or regulations of the United States or
other countries, including changes to applicable tax laws and regulations, could
impair the ability of the Fund to achieve its investment objective and could
increase the operating expenses of the
Fund.
IPO
Risk. The Fund may purchase securities in IPOs. These securities
are subject to many of the same risks of investing in companies with smaller
market capitalizations. Securities issued in IPOs have no trading history, and
information about the companies may be available for very limited periods. In
addition, the prices of securities sold in IPOs may be highly
volatile.
Value Investing
Risk. Value securities are securities of companies that may have
experienced adverse business, industry, or other developments or may be subject
to special risks that have caused the securities to be out of favor and, in
turn, potentially undervalued. It may take longer than expected for the value of
such securities to rise to the anticipated value, or the value may never do
so.
19
Performance
Information
The
Fund commenced operations upon the reorganization of the Predecessor Fund into
the Fund on July 19, 2021. With the reorganization, the Fund assumed the
financial and performance history of the Predecessor Fund. The bar chart and performance table below provide
an indication of the risks of an investment in the Fund (and the Predecessor
Fund for periods prior to the reorganization) by showing how the Fund’s
performance has varied from year to year, and by showing how the Fund’s average
annual returns compare with those of a broad measure of market
performance. Performance reflects contractual fee waivers in
effect. If fee waivers were not in place, performance would be reduced.
After‑tax returns are shown for Institutional
Shares only and will vary from the after‑tax returns for other share
classes. After‑tax returns are calculated using the
historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not
reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after‑tax returns depend on an investor’s
tax situation and may differ from those shown. After‑tax returns shown are not
relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax‑deferred
arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts
(“IRAs”). Past performance (before and after taxes) is not
necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the
future. Updated performance information is available by calling
866‑260‑9549 (toll free) or
312‑557‑5913.
Annual
Total Returns – Institutional Shares for year ended
December 31*
|
|
|
| |
Best
quarter: |
|
|
04/01/2020 – 06/30/2020 – 20.95 |
% |
Worst quarter: |
|
|
01/01/2020 – 03/31/2020 – (24.46 |
%) |
* |
The Fund’s fiscal year end is September
30. The Fund’s most recent
quarterly return (since the end of the last fiscal year)
through December 31, 2022 was
9.26%. |
Average
Annual Total Returns – for the Periods Ended December 31,
2022
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|
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|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
1 Year |
|
|
5 Years |
|
|
10 Years |
|
|
Since Inception^
|
|
Institutional
Shares – Before Taxes |
|
|
(15.74 |
%) |
|
|
(0.46 |
%) |
|
|
2.96 |
% |
|
|
3.45 |
% |
Institutional
Shares – After Taxes on Distributions |
|
|
(15.98 |
%) |
|
|
(1.11 |
%) |
|
|
2.14 |
% |
|
|
2.62 |
% |
Institutional
Shares – After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares |
|
|
(8.86 |
%) |
|
|
(0.27 |
%) |
|
|
2.19 |
% |
|
|
2.58 |
% |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
MSCI
Emerging Markets Index (reflects no deductions for fees or
expenses)* |
|
|
(20.09 |
%) |
|
|
(1.40 |
%) |
|
|
1.44 |
% |
|
|
2.18 |
% |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Advisor
Shares – Before Taxes |
|
|
(15.77 |
%) |
|
|
(0.54 |
%) |
|
|
2.88 |
% |
|
|
3.37 |
% |
Investor
Shares – Before Taxes |
|
|
(15.90 |
%) |
|
|
(0.68 |
%) |
|
|
2.74 |
% |
|
|
3.23 |
% |
| |
|
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|
|
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
^ |
The
Institutional Shares and Advisor Shares of the Predecessor Fund commenced
operations on November 21,
2012.
Investor Shares commenced operations on December 18, 2013.
Historical performance for Investor |
20
|
Shares prior to its
inception is based on the performance of Advisor Shares, the share class
most similar to Investor. The performance of Investor Shares has been
adjusted to reflect differences in expenses. |
* |
Index returns shown are net of
withholding taxes. |
Portfolio
Management
Investment Adviser
The
Fund’s investment adviser is JOHCM (USA) Inc (the “Adviser”).
Portfolio Managers
|
|
|
| |
James
Syme, CFA |
|
Paul
Wimborne |
|
Ada
Chan |
Senior Fund Manager |
|
Senior Fund Manager |
|
Fund Manager |
Length of Service: Since 2013* |
|
Length of Service: Since 2013* |
|
Length of Service: Since
2022 |
* |
Served
as portfolio manager of the Fund’s predecessor, which reorganized into the
Trust on July 19, 2021. |
Buying
and Selling Fund Shares
Minimum Initial Investment
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Institutional |
|
Advisor |
|
Investor |
|
Class Z |
$1,000,000 |
|
No minimum |
|
No minimum |
|
$10,000,000 |
There is no minimum for additional investments. If
you hold shares through a financial intermediary, the financial intermediary may
impose its own, different, investment minimums.
To Buy or Sell Shares:
JOHCM
Funds Trust
c/o
The Northern Trust Company
P.O.
Box 4766
Chicago,
IL 60680-4766
Telephone:
866‑260‑9549 (toll free) or 312‑557‑5913
You
can buy or sell shares of the Fund on any day that the New York Stock Exchange
(“NYSE”) is open through your broker or financial intermediary, or by mail or
telephone. You can pay for shares by wire. The Adviser and JOHCM Funds
Distributors, LLC, the Fund’s distributor, reserve the right to waive any
minimum in their sole discretion, and to reject any purchase order for any
reason.
Dividends,
Capital Gains and Taxes
The
Fund intends to make distributions that are generally taxable as ordinary income
or capital gains, except when your investment is in an IRA, 401(k), or other
tax‑advantaged investment plan. However, you may be subject to tax when you
withdraw monies from a tax‑advantaged plan.
Payments
to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If
you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary
(such as a bank), the Fund and its related companies may pay the intermediary
for the sale of Fund shares and related services. These payments may create a
conflict 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 web site for more
information.
21
FUND SUMMARY
JOHCM
Global Income Builder Fund
Investment
Objective
The
investment objective of the JOHCM Global Income Builder Fund (the “Fund”) is to
seek a level of current income that is consistent with the preservation and
long-term growth of capital in inflation-adjusted
terms.
Fees
and Expenses
This
table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell
shares of the Fund. You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and
other fees to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the tables
and examples below.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
Institutional Shares |
|
|
Advisor Shares |
|
|
Investor Shares |
|
|
Class Z Shares |
|
Shareholder Fees (Fees paid directly from
your investment) |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
| |
Maximum
Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering
price) |
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
Maximum
Deferred Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of net
asset value) |
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
Redemption
Fee |
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
|
Annual
Fund Operating Expenses |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
| |
(Expenses that you pay each
year as a percentage of the value of your
investment) |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
| |
Management
Fee |
|
|
0.67 |
% |
|
|
0.67 |
% |
|
|
0.67 |
% |
|
|
0.67 |
% |
Distribution
(Rule 12b‑1) Fees |
|
|
None |
|
|
|
0.10 |
% |
|
|
0.25 |
% |
|
|
None |
|
Other
Expenses |
|
|
0.21 |
% |
|
|
0.21 |
% |
|
|
0.21 |
% |
|
|
0.21 |
% |
Acquired
Fund Fees and Expenses1 |
|
|
0.02 |
% |
|
|
0.02 |
% |
|
|
0.02 |
% |
|
|
0.02 |
% |
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses |
|
|
0.90 |
% |
|
|
1.00 |
% |
|
|
1.15 |
% |
|
|
0.90 |
% |
Fee
Waivers and Reimbursements2 |
|
|
(0.16 |
%) |
|
|
(0.16 |
%) |
|
|
(0.16 |
%) |
|
|
(0.16 |
%) |
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waivers and
Reimbursements |
|
|
0.74 |
% |
|
|
0.84 |
% |
|
|
0.99 |
% |
|
|
0.74 |
% |
1 |
Expenses
associated with investments in underlying investment companies are
excluded from the contractual expense
limitation. |
2 |
JOHCM
(USA) Inc (the “Adviser”) has contractually agreed to waive fees and
reimburse expenses to the extent that Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(excluding brokerage costs, interest, taxes, dividends, litigation and
indemnification expenses, expenses associated with investments in
underlying investment companies, and extraordinary expenses) exceed 0.72%,
0.82%, 0.97%, and 0.72% for Institutional Shares, Advisor Shares, Investor
Shares, and Class Z Shares, respectively, until January 28, 2024. If it
becomes unnecessary for the Adviser to waive fees or make reimbursements,
the Adviser may recapture any of its prior waivers or reimbursements for a
period not to exceed three years from the date on which the waiver or
reimbursement was made to the extent that such a recapture does not cause
the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses (excluding brokerage costs,
interest, taxes, dividends, litigation and indemnification expenses,
expenses associated with investments in underlying investment companies,
and extraordinary expenses) to exceed the current expense limitation or
the applicable expense limitation that was in effect at the time of the
waiver or reimbursement. The agreement to waive fees and reimburse
expenses may be |
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terminated by the Board
of Trustees at any time and will terminate automatically upon termination
of the Investment Advisory Agreement. Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses
After Fee Waivers and Reimbursements may exceed 0.72%, 0.82%, 0.97%, and
0.72% for Institutional Shares, Advisor Shares, Investor Shares, and
Class Z Shares, respectively, due to certain excluded expenses.
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Example
This
example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with
the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest
$10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your
shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that each year your
investment has a 5% return and Fund operating expenses remain the same. The
contractual expense limitation for the Fund is reflected only in the 1 year
example and for the first year of the 3, 5 and 10 year examples. Although your
actual costs and returns might be different, your approximate costs of investing
$10,000 in the Fund would be:
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1 year |
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3 years |
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5 years |
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10 years |
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Institutional
Shares |
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$ |
76 |
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$ |
271 |
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$ |
483 |
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$ |
1,093 |
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Advisor
Shares |
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$ |
86 |
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$ |
302 |
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$ |
537 |
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$ |
1,210 |
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Investor
Shares |
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$ |
101 |
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$ |
350 |
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$ |
618 |
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$ |
1,383 |
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Class Z
Shares |
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$ |
76 |
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$ |
271 |
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$ |
483 |
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$ |
1,093 |
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Portfolio
Turnover
The
Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells
securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may
indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund
shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in
annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.
During the most recently completed fiscal year, the portfolio turnover rate of
the Fund was 122.58% of the average value of its
portfolio.
Principal
Investment Strategies
The
Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by applying a bottom‑up,
long-term global value investing philosophy across a broad range of asset
classes. In a bottom‑up approach, companies and securities are researched and
chosen individually. While the Fund may hold investments in non‑income producing
securities, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of its net assets (plus the
amount of any borrowings for investment purposes) will be comprised of income
producing securities.
The
Fund normally will invest in a range of income-producing equity securities of
U.S. and non‑U.S. companies, including common stocks that offer attractive
dividend yields. The Fund’s equity securities include investments in common and
preferred stocks, as well as rights and warrants to subscribe to common stock or
other equity securities. The Fund may invest in initial public offerings
(“IPOs”) and real estate investment trusts (“REITs”). The Fund obtains exposure
to equity securities either directly or indirectly such as through participatory
notes and depositary receipts.
The
Fund also normally will invest in a range of fixed income instruments from
markets in the United States and multiple countries around the world such as
high-yield instruments (commonly referred to as ‘‘junk bonds’’), investment
grade instruments, sovereign debt, loans and loan participations. The Fund
maintains flexibility to have significant exposure to high-yield instruments in
response to current market conditions. The Fund may invest in securities of any
maturity or investment rating, as well as unrated securities, and will normally
invest in hybrid securities that embody elements of both equity and fixed income
securities such as preferred shares and convertible
bonds.
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Pursuant
to a value investing philosophy, the Fund seeks to invest in securities the
portfolio managers believe provide a discount (or “margin of safety”) between a
security’s price and what the portfolio managers believe to be the true value of
the underlying business (which is sometimes referred to as “intrinsic value”).
The portfolio managers examine economic, financial, and other qualitative and
quantitative factors to evaluate a security’s value. In order to estimate the
intrinsic value of a business, the portfolio managers will assess the overall
quality of the business, including the competitive advantages that it enjoys,
such as economies of scale, customer captivity, and access to scarce resources.
This margin of safety approach is common to both equity and debt investments, as
the Fund requires a similar buffer for buying common stock or for “lending” to
an issuer through the purchase of its debt securities. The outcome of this
analysis is then compared to the security’s current value to determine if it is
over- or underpriced. The portfolio managers believe that investing when such a
margin of safety is present can help reduce the likelihood of permanent loss of
capital, as opposed to temporary losses due to shifting investor sentiment or
other normal asset price
volatility.
Additionally,
as part of the investment process, the portfolio managers consider financially
material environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) factors to evaluate and
monitor the securities in the Fund’s investment universe. The portfolio managers
combine third-party data (sources may include Sustainalytics, ISS and/or MSCI)
and internal ESG assessments in constructing the Fund’s portfolio. The portfolio
managers believe there are long-term benefits in investing in companies with
strong records for managing ESG risks, advancing sustainable development goals
and applying good corporate
governance.
The
Fund will seek to invest in companies that the portfolio managers believe have
high quality management teams, strong balance sheets, and defensible businesses
models; however, the valuation of the specific investment under consideration is
the most important criterion. As a result, the Fund may invest in securities of
issuers which do not encompass all or, in some cases, any of the above
additional qualities beyond attractive valuation, if the portfolio managers
believe the security is significantly undervalued and an exceptional margin of
safety exists.
As
a multi-asset portfolio, the Fund invests in the various asset classes described
herein and may shift its investments from one asset class to another. The
portfolio managers’ decision to allocate incremental capital to a security in
one asset class versus another is typically based on a bottom‑up as opposed to a
top‑down assessment of asset class returns or macroeconomic predictions, relying
on both quantitative and qualitative assessments, to determine which
investments, in their opinion, provide the best risk-reward profile and/or
render the portfolio more resilient. The portfolio managers believe that
maintaining this flexible approach is critical to avoiding pockets of overvalued
securities. The portfolio managers also seek to preserve flexibility across
geographic areas and company size. As a result, the Fund may invest in
securities of companies of any market capitalization or domicile. The portfolio
managers anticipate that, under normal circumstances, the Fund will invest in a
portfolio of between 30% and 70% common equity securities, with the balance of
its assets invested in fixed income securities, hedging assets, and cash or cash
equivalents. However, the portfolio managers maintain the ability to adjust the
Fund’s allocations as needed to adapt the portfolio to various income, market,
and valuation environments. In pursuing the Fund’s investment objective, under
normal circumstances, at least 40% of the Fund’s investments will be in issuers
located outside of the United States. If market conditions are deemed
unfavorable the Fund reserves the right to invest as little as 30% of its assets
in non‑U.S. issuers.
The
Fund anticipates that it may enter into derivatives transactions and various
other hedging assets that the portfolio managers believe will reduce the overall
volatility of the Fund, protecting capital, in certain market environments. The
Fund may also use hedging and derivative instruments to reduce certain risk
exposures present in the Fund’s holdings. The Fund may also engage in short
sales or take short positions for hedging or other investment
purposes.
As
part of its investment strategy, the Fund may also invest in exchange-traded and
over‑the‑counter derivative instruments, including interest rate, credit, index,
and currency futures; currency, interest rate,
total
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rate
of return, and credit default swaps; currency, bond, and swap options;
deliverable and non‑deliverable currency forward contracts; bonds for forward
settlement; options, including buying and selling puts and calls; and
equity-linked notes.
The
Fund may invest in contingent securities structured as contingent convertible
securities also known as “CoCos.” A contingent convertible security is a hybrid
debt security either convertible into equity at a predetermined share price or
written down in value based on the specific terms of the individual security if
a pre‑specified trigger event occurs (the “Trigger Event”), such as a decline in
the issuer’s capital below a specified threshold or increase in the issuer’s
risk-weighted assets. The Fund anticipates that it may invest up to 20% of its
assets in CoCos.
Principal
Investment Risks
All
investments carry a certain amount of risk, and the Fund cannot guarantee that
it will achieve its investment objective. The value of the Fund’s investments
will fluctuate with market conditions, and the value of your investment in the
Fund also will vary. You could lose money on your investment in the
Fund, or the Fund could perform worse than other investments.
Investments in the Fund are not deposits of a bank
and are not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
(“FDIC”) or any other government agency. Below are the principal
risks of investing in the Fund. All of the risks listed below are material to
the Fund, regardless of the order in which they appear. The Fund should only be
purchased by investors seeking current income and long-term growth of capital
who can withstand the share price volatility of equity and fixed income
investing with a focus on securities of any market capitalization.
Value Investing
Risk. Value securities are securities of companies that may have
experienced adverse business, industry, or other developments or may be subject
to special risks that have caused the securities to be out of favor and, in
turn, potentially undervalued. It may take longer than expected for the value of
such securities to rise to the anticipated value, or the value may never do
so.
Asset Allocation
Risk. The risk that if the Fund’s strategy for allocating assets
among different asset classes does not work as intended, the Fund may not
achieve its objective or may underperform other funds with similar investment
strategies.
Equity Securities
Risk. The risk that events negatively affecting issuers,
industries, or financial markets in which the Fund invests will impact the value
of the stocks held by the Fund and thus, the value of the Fund’s shares over
short or extended periods.
ESG Factor Risk.
Considering ESG factors when evaluating an investment may result
in the selection or exclusion of certain investments based on the Adviser’s view
of these factors and carries the risk that the Fund may underperform funds that
do not take ESG factors into account. In evaluating an issuer, the Adviser may
be dependent upon information and data obtained through voluntary reporting by
issuers or third-party research that may be incomplete, inaccurate or
unavailable, which could impact the portfolio managers’ assessment of related
risks and opportunities.
Fixed Income
Risk. Fixed income securities will increase or decrease in value
based on changes in interest rates. If rates increase, the value of the Fund’s
fixed income securities generally declines. On the other hand, if rates fall,
the value of the fixed income securities generally increases. Your investment
will decline in value if the value of the Fund’s investments
decreases.
Management
Risk. The Adviser’s judgments about the attractiveness, value, and
potential appreciation of, or social and environmental factors related to, a
particular asset class or individual security in which the Fund invests may
prove to be incorrect, and there is no guarantee that individual securities will
perform as anticipated. Any given investment strategy may fail to produce the
intended results, and a Fund’s portfolio may
underperform
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other
comparable funds because of portfolio management decisions related to, among
other things, the selection of investments, portfolio construction, risk
assessments, and/or the outlook on market trends and
opportunities.
IPO
Risk. The Fund may purchase securities in IPOs. These securities
are subject to many of the same risks of investing in companies with smaller
market capitalizations. Securities issued in IPOs have no trading history, and
information about the companies may be available for very limited periods. In
addition, the prices of securities sold in IPOs may be highly
volatile.
Non‑U.S. Securities
Risk. Investing in non‑U.S. securities poses additional market
risks since political and economic events unique in a country or region will
affect those markets and their issuers and may not affect the U.S. economy or
U.S. issuers. In addition, issuers of non‑U.S. securities often are not subject
to as much regulation as U.S. issuers, and the reporting, accounting, custody,
and auditing standards to which those issuers are subject often are not as
rigorous as U.S. standards. Investments in non‑U.S. securities may also be
subject to greater environmental, credit and information risks. The Fund’s
investments in non‑U.S. securities also are subject to non‑U.S. currency
fluctuations and other non‑U.S. currency-related risks. Non‑U.S. securities may
be subject to higher volatility than U.S. securities, varying degrees of
regulation and limited liquidity.
Emerging Markets
Risk. In addition to the risks of investing in non‑U.S.
investments generally, emerging markets investments are subject to greater risks
arising from political or economic instability, nationalization or confiscatory
taxation, currency exchange restrictions, sanctions by other countries (such as
the United States) and an issuer’s unwillingness or inability to make principal
or interest payments on its obligations. Emerging markets companies may be
smaller and have shorter operating histories than companies in developed
markets. To the extent a Fund invests in frontier countries, these risks will be
magnified. Frontier countries generally have smaller economies or less developed
capital markets than traditional emerging market
countries.
Currency
Risk. Investments in non‑U.S. countries are also subject to
currency risk. As the Fund’s investments in non‑U.S. securities are generally
denominated in non‑U.S. currencies, changes in the value of those currencies
compared to the U.S. dollar may affect the value of the Fund’s investments. Some
of the currencies in emerging markets have experienced devaluations relative to
the U.S. dollar, and major adjustments have been made periodically in certain
such currencies. Certain developing countries face serious exchange
constraints.
Credit
Risk. An issuer of debt securities may fail to make interest
payments or repay principal when due, in whole or in part. Changes in an
issuer’s financial strength or in a security’s credit rating may affect a
security’s value.
High Yield (“Junk
Bond”) Investments Risk. Below investment grade fixed income
securities, also known as “junk bonds,” are not investment grade and are
generally considered speculative because they present a greater risk of loss
than higher quality debt securities. These lower-rated or defaulted debt
securities may fluctuate more in price, and are less liquid than higher-rated
securities because issuers of such lower-rated debt securities are not as strong
financially, and are more likely to encounter financial difficulties and be more
vulnerable to adverse changes in the
economy.
Small‑Cap and Mid‑Cap
Company Risk. The small- and mid‑capitalization companies the Fund
invests in may be more vulnerable to adverse business or economic events than
larger, more established companies. In particular, these small- and
mid‑capitalization companies may have limited product lines, markets and
financial resources, and may depend upon relatively small management groups.
Therefore, small- and mid‑capitalization stocks may be more volatile than those
of larger companies.
Commodities Related
Investment Risk. Exposure to the commodities markets may subject
the Fund to greater volatility than investments in traditional securities. The
value of commodity-linked derivative instruments, commodity-based exchange
traded trusts, and commodity-based exchange traded funds and notes may be
affected by changes in overall market movements, commodity index volatility,
changes in interest rates, or
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factors
affecting a particular industry or commodity, such as drought, floods, weather,
livestock disease, embargoes, tariffs, and international economic, political and
regulatory developments.
Convertible
Securities Risk. Convertible securities are hybrid securities that
have characteristics of both fixed income securities and equity securities and
are subject to risks associated with both fixed income and equity securities.
Certain “triggering events” may cause the Fund to lose the principal amount
invested in a contingent convertible security and coupon payments on contingent
convertible securities may be discretionary and cancelled by the issuer. Due to
these factors, the value of contingent convertible securities is unpredictable,
and holders of contingent convertible securities may suffer a loss of capital
when comparable equity holders do
not.
Derivatives
Risk. The Fund’s use of derivative instruments involves risks
different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing
directly in securities and other traditional investments. These risks include
(i) the risk that the counterparty to a derivative transaction may not
fulfill its contractual obligations; (ii) risk of mispricing or improper
valuation; and (iii) the risk that changes in the value of the derivative
may not correlate perfectly with the underlying asset, rate or
index.
Equity-Linked
Instruments Risk. There is a risk that, in addition to market risk
and other risks of the referenced equity security, the Fund may experience a
return that is different from that of the referenced equity security.
Equity-linked instruments also subject the Fund to counterparty risk, including
the risk that the issuing entity may not be able to honor its financial
commitment, which could result in a loss of all or part of the Fund’s
investment.
ETF
Risk. Shareholders of the Fund will indirectly be subject to the
fees and expenses of the individual ETFs in which the Fund invests. In addition,
the value of commodity-linked ETFs may be affected by changes in overall market
movements, commodity index volatility, change in interest rates, or factors
affecting a particular industry or commodity, such as drought, floods, weather,
livestock disease, embargoes, tariffs, and international economic, political,
and regulatory developments. The prices of commodity-related ETFs may fluctuate
quickly and dramatically and may not correlate to price movements in other asset
classes, such as stocks, bonds, and
cash.
Hedging
Risk. Hedging is a strategy in which the Fund uses a derivative or
other security to offset certain risks associated with other Fund holdings or to
render the portfolio more resilient to market fluctuations. There can be no
assurance that the Fund’s hedging strategy will reduce risk or that hedging
transactions will be either available or cost effective. The Fund is not
required to use hedging and may choose not to do
so.
Preferred Stock
Risk. The value of preferred stocks will fluctuate with changes in
interest rates. Typically, a rise in interest rates causes a decline in the
value of preferred stock. Preferred stocks are also subject to credit risk,
which is the possibility that an issuer of preferred stock will fail to make its
dividend payments.
Regulatory
Risk. Changes in the laws or regulations of the United States or
other countries, including changes to applicable tax laws and regulations, could
impair the ability of the Fund to achieve its investment objective and could
increase the operating expenses of the
Fund.
REIT and Real
Estate-Related Investment Risk. Adverse changes in the real estate
markets may affect the value of REIT
investments.
Loan-Related
Investments Risk. In addition to risks generally associated with
debt investments (e.g., interest rate risk and default risk), loan-related
investments such as loan participations and assignments are subject to other
risks. Although a loan obligation may be fully collateralized at the time of
acquisition, the collateral may decline in value, be or become illiquid or less
liquid, or lose all or substantially all of its value subsequent to
investment.
Sovereign Debt Risk.
Sovereign debt instruments are subject to the risk that a
governmental entity may delay, refuse, or be unable to pay interest or repay
principal on its sovereign debt. This risk is heightened for emerging and
frontier market issuers, for government entities in countries experiencing
economic downturns, or both.
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Performance
Information
The
Fund commenced operations upon the reorganization of the Predecessor Fund into
the Fund on July 19, 2021. With the reorganization, the Fund assumed the
financial and performance history of the Predecessor Fund. The bar chart and performance table below provide
an indication of the risks of an investment in the Fund (and the Predecessor
Fund for periods prior to the reorganization) by showing how the Fund’s
performance has varied from year to year, and by showing how the Fund’s average
annual returns compare with those of a custom-blended index.
Performance reflects contractual fee waivers in effect. If fee waivers were not
in place, performance would be reduced. After‑tax returns are shown for Institutional
Shares only and will vary from the after‑tax returns for other share
classes. After‑tax returns are calculated using the
historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not
reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after‑tax returns depend on an investor’s
tax situation and may differ from those shown. After‑tax returns shown are not
relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax‑deferred
arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts
(“IRAs”). Past performance (before and after taxes) is not
necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the
future. Updated performance information is available by calling
866‑260‑9549 (toll free) or
312‑557‑5913.
Annual
Total Returns – Institutional Shares for year ended
December 31*
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Best
quarter: |
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04/01/2020 – 06/30/2020 – 10.80 |
% |
Worst quarter: |
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01/01/2020 – 03/31/2020 – (15.76 |
%) |
* |
The
Fund’s fiscal year end is September 30. The Fund’s most recent
quarterly return (since the end of the last fiscal year)
through December 31, 2022 was
8.19%. |
Average
Annual Total Returns – for the Periods Ended December 31,
2022
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1 Year |
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5 Years |
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Since Inception^ |
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Institutional
Shares – Before Taxes |
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(12.34 |
%) |
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3.01 |
% |
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3.00 |
% |
Institutional
Shares – After Taxes on Distributions |
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(13.10 |
%) |
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1.75 |
% |
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1.74 |
% |
Institutional
Shares – After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares |
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(7.03 |
%) |
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1.97 |
% |
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1.96 |
% |
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60%
MSCI World High Dividend Yield/ 20% Bloomberg Barclays US Aggregate Bond
Index/ 20% ICE BofAML BB‑B Global High Yield Constrained (reflects no
deductions for fees or expenses)* |
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(7.99 |
%) |
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3.16 |
% |
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3.31 |
% |
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Advisor
Shares – Before Taxes |
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(12.44 |
%) |
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2.91 |
% |
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2.89 |
% |
Investor
Shares – Before Taxes |
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(12.55 |
%) |
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2.76 |
% |
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2.75 |
% |
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^ |
The Institutional Shares and the Advisor
Shares of the Predecessor Fund commenced operations on November 29,
2017.
Investor Shares commenced operation on June 28, 2019.
Historical performance for Investor Shares prior to its inception is based
on the performance of the Institutional Shares. The performance of
Investor Shares has been adjusted to reflect differences in
expenses. |
* |
Index returns shown are net of
withholding taxes. |
Portfolio
Management
Investment Adviser
The
Fund’s investment adviser is JOHCM (USA) Inc (the “Adviser”).
Portfolio Managers
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Giorgio
Caputo |
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Adam
Gittes |
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Robert
Hordon, CFA |
Senior Fund Manager |
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Senior Fund Manager |
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Senior Fund Manager |
Length of Service: |
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Length of Service: |
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Length of Service: |
Since November 29, 2017* |
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Since November 23, 2020* |
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Since November 29,
2017* |
* |
Each
Portfolio Manager served as portfolio manager of the Fund’s predecessor,
which reorganized into the Trust on July 19, 2021.
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Buying
and Selling Fund Shares
Minimum Initial Investment
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Institutional |
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Advisor |
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Investor |
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Class Z |
$1,000,000 |
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No minimum |
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No minimum |
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$10,000,000 |
There is no minimum for additional investments. If
you hold shares through a financial intermediary, the financial intermediary may
impose its own, different, investment minimums.
To Buy or Sell Shares:
JOHCM
Funds Trust
c/o
The Northern Trust Company
P.O.
Box 4766
Chicago,
IL 60680-4766
Telephone:
866‑260‑9549 (toll free) or 312‑557‑5913
You
can buy or sell shares of the Fund on any day the New York Stock Exchange
(“NYSE”) is open through your broker or financial intermediary, or by mail or
telephone. You can pay for shares by wire. The Adviser and JOHCM Funds
Distributors, LLC, the Fund’s distributor, reserve the right to waive any
minimum in their sole discretion, and to reject any purchase order for any
reason.
Dividends,
Capital Gains and Taxes
The
Fund intends to make distributions that are generally taxable as ordinary income
or capital gains, except when your investment is in an IRA, 401(k), or other
tax‑advantaged investment plan. However, you may be subject to tax when you
withdraw monies from a tax‑advantaged plan.
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Payments
to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If
you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary
(such as a bank), the Fund and its related companies may pay the intermediary
for the sale of Fund shares and related services. These payments may create a
conflict 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 web site for more
information.
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FUND SUMMARY
JOHCM
Global Select Fund
Investment
Objective
The
investment objective of the JOHCM Global Select Fund (the “Fund”) is to seek
long-term capital appreciation.
Fees
and Expenses
This
table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell
shares of the Fund. You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and
other fees to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the tables
and examples below.
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Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering
price) |
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None |
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None |
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None |
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None |
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Maximum
Deferred Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of net
asset value) |
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None |
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None |
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None |
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None |
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Redemption
Fee |
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None |
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Annual
Fund Operating Expenses |
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(Expenses that you pay each
year as a percentage of the value of your
investment) |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
| |
Management
Fee |
|
|
0.89 |
% |
|
|
0.89 |
% |
|
|
0.89 |
% |
|
|
0.89 |
% |
Distribution
(Rule 12b‑1) Fees |
|
|
None |
|
|
|
0.10 |
% |
|
|
0.25 |
% |
|
|
None |
|
Other
Expenses |
|
|
0.10 |
% |
|
|
0.10 |
% |
|
|
0.10 |
% |
|
|
0.10 |
% |
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses |
|
|
0.99 |
% |
|
|
1.09 |
% |
|
|
1.24 |
% |
|
|
0.99 |
% |
Fee
Waivers and Reimbursements1 |
|
|
(0.01 |
)% |
|
|
(0.01 |
)% |
|
|
(0.01 |
)% |
|
|
(0.01 |
)% |
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waivers and
Reimbursements |
|
|
0.98 |
% |
|
|
1.08 |
% |
|
|
1.23 |
% |
|
|
0.98 |
% |
1 |
JOHCM
(USA) Inc (the “Adviser”) has contractually agreed to waive fees and
reimburse expenses to the extent that Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(excluding brokerage costs, interest, taxes, dividends, litigation and
indemnification expenses, expenses associated with investments in
underlying investment companies, and extraordinary expenses) exceed 0.98%,
1.08%, 1.23%, and 0.98% for Institutional Shares, Advisor Shares, Investor
Shares, and Class Z Shares, respectively, until January 28, 2024. If it
becomes unnecessary for the Adviser to waive fees or make reimbursements,
the Adviser may recapture any of its prior waivers or reimbursements for a
period not to exceed three years from the date on which the waiver or
reimbursement was made to the extent that such a recapture does not cause
the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses (excluding brokerage costs,
interest, taxes, dividends, litigation and indemnification expenses,
expenses associated with investments in underlying investment companies,
and extraordinary expenses) to exceed the current expense limitation or
the applicable expense limitation that was in effect at the time of the
waiver or reimbursement. The agreement to waive fees and reimburse
expenses may be terminated by the Board of Trustees at any time and will
terminate automatically upon termination of the Investment Advisory
Agreement. |
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Example
This
Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with
the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The Example assumes that you invest
$10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your
shares at the end of those periods. The Example also assumes that each year your
investment has a 5% return and Fund operating expenses remain the same. Although
your actual costs and returns might be different, your approximate costs of
investing $10,000 in the Fund would be:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
1 year |
|
|
3 years |
|
|
5 years |
|
|
10 years |
|
Institutional
Shares |
|
$ |
100 |
|
|
$ |
314 |
|
|
$ |
546 |
|
|
$ |
1,212 |
|
Advisor
Shares |
|
$ |
110 |
|
|
$ |
346 |
|
|
$ |
600 |
|
|
$ |
1,328 |
|
Investor
Shares |
|
$ |
125 |
|
|
$ |
392 |
|
|
$ |
680 |
|
|
$ |
1,499 |
|
Class Z
Shares |
|
$ |
100 |
|
|
$ |
314 |
|
|
$ |
546 |
|
|
$ |
1,212 |
|
Portfolio
Turnover
The
Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells
securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may
indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund
shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in
annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.
During the most recently completed fiscal year, the portfolio turnover rate of
the Fund was 54.44% of the average value of its
portfolio.
Principal
Investment Strategies
The
Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing primarily in
common stocks and other equity securities of U.S. and non‑U.S. companies,
including in preferred stock, rights, and warrants. The Fund normally invests at
least 40% of its assets in companies located in countries other than the U.S.,
provided that the Fund reserves the flexibility to invest as little as 30% of
its assets in companies located outside the U.S. when market conditions are
unfavorable. Notwithstanding the previous sentence, the Fund may invest a
percentage lower than 40% in such non‑U.S. securities if the weighting of
non‑U.S. securities in the Fund’s performance benchmark (currently, the MSCI
ACWI Index) drops below 45%, in which case the minimum level investments in
non‑U.S. securities must remain within 5% of the benchmark’s weighting (e.g. if
the weighting of non‑U.S. securities in the Fund’s performance benchmark is 38%,
the minimum level for investing in non‑U.S. securities for the Fund would be
33%). Typically, the Fund invests in a number of different countries, including
emerging markets. The Fund may invest in companies of any size, including small-
and mid capitalization companies, in order to achieve its objective.
The
portfolio managers seek to identify and make investments based on a
multi-dimensional investment process, considering a number of factors, including
growth, valuation, size, momentum, and beta. Beta measures the volatility of a
stock relative to the overall market. The Fund utilizes a core investment style
with a growth tilt (growth at a reasonable price, or “GARP”) over all
capitalization ranges, which means that the Fund generally invests in larger,
more established companies, but would expect to invest a somewhat greater
portion of its assets in smaller, growth companies than would a typical large
cap mutual fund. The GARP investment strategy is a blend of growth and value
investing and seeks to find companies that have strong earnings growth at a good
price. The Fund seeks those stocks, sectors, and countries with positive
earnings surprises, sustainably high or increasing return on equity, and
attractive valuations. The investment process utilizes a combination of bottom
up investing and top down asset allocation that typically results in a portfolio
of 30 to 60 holdings. Bottom up investing utilizes techniques such as
fundamental analysis to assess growth and value potential of individual issuers.
In conducting fundamental analysis of companies that are being considered for
purchase by the Fund, the portfolio managers will evaluate, among other things,
the financial condition and management of a company, its industry, stability of
the country in which the company is located, and the interrelationship of these
variables over time.
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Additionally,
as a standard part of the multi-dimensional investment process, the portfolio
managers consider financially material environmental, social and governance
(“ESG”) factors, including potential impacts on the long-term risk and return
profile of a company. Such factors, alongside other relevant factors, may be
taken into account in the Fund’s securities selection process. Top down asset
allocation utilizes evaluations of, among other things, economic factors
including country risk, sector trends within individual countries and regions,
and currency impact.
Investments
are predominantly in common stock, however the Fund also expects to gain some of
its equity exposure indirectly, such as through purchasing depositary receipts,
exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) and/or participatory notes. Participatory notes
(commonly known as “P‑notes”) are instruments that provide exposure to,
primarily, equity securities of issuers listed on a non‑U.S. exchange and are
typically used when a direct investment in the underlying security is either
unpermitted, restricted or uneconomical due to country-specific regulations or
other restrictions.
Principal
Investment Risks
All
investments carry a certain amount of risk, and the Fund cannot guarantee that
it will achieve its investment objective. The value of the Fund’s investments
will fluctuate with market conditions, and the value of your investment in the
Fund also will vary. You could lose money on your investment in the
Fund, or the Fund could perform worse than other investments.
Investments in the Fund are not deposits of a bank
and are not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
(“FDIC”) or any other government agency. Below are the principal
risks of investing in the Fund. All of the risks listed below are material to
the Fund, regardless of the order in which they appear. The Fund should only be
purchased by investors seeking long-term growth of capital who can withstand the
share price volatility of equity investing with a focus on global stocks.
Equity Securities
Risk. The risk that events negatively affecting issuers,
industries, or financial markets in which the Fund invests will impact the value
of the stocks held by the Fund and thus, the value of the Fund’s shares over
short or extended periods.
Non‑U.S. Securities
Risk. Investing in non‑U.S. securities poses additional market
risks since political and economic events unique in a country or region will
affect those markets and their issuers and may not affect the U.S. economy or
U.S. issuers. In addition, issuers of non‑U.S. securities often are not subject
to as much regulation as U.S. issuers, and the reporting, accounting, custody,
and auditing standards to which those issuers are subject often are not as
rigorous as U.S. standards. Investments in non‑U.S. securities may also be
subject to greater environmental, credit and information risks. The Fund’s
investments in non‑U.S. securities also are subject to non‑U.S. currency
fluctuations and other non‑U.S. currency-related risks. Non‑U.S. securities may
be subject to higher volatility than U.S. securities, varying degrees of
regulation and limited liquidity.
Emerging Markets
Risk. In addition to the risks of investing in non‑U.S.
investments generally, emerging markets investments are subject to greater risks
arising from political or economic instability, nationalization or confiscatory
taxation, currency exchange restrictions, sanctions by other countries (such as
the United States) and an issuer’s unwillingness or inability to make principal
or interest payments on its obligations. Emerging markets companies may be
smaller and have shorter operating histories than companies in developed
markets. To the extent a Fund invests in frontier countries, these risks will be
magnified. Frontier countries generally have smaller economies or less developed
capital markets than traditional emerging market countries.
ESG Factor
Risk. Considering ESG factors when evaluating an investment may
result in the selection or exclusion of certain investments based on the
Adviser’s view of these factors and carries the risk that the Fund may
underperform funds that do not take ESG factors into account. In evaluating an
issuer, the Adviser may be dependent upon information and data obtained through
voluntary reporting by issuers or third-party research that may be incomplete,
inaccurate or unavailable, which could impact the portfolio managers’ assessment
of related risks and opportunities.
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ETF
Risk. Shareholders of the Fund will indirectly be subject to the
fees and expenses of the individual ETFs in which the Fund invests. In addition,
an ETF may not replicate exactly the performance of the benchmark index it seeks
to track for a number of reasons, including transaction costs incurred by the
ETF, the temporary unavailability of certain index securities in the secondary
market or discrepancies between the ETF and the index with respect to the
weighting of securities or the number of securities
held.
Management
Risk. The Adviser’s judgments about the attractiveness, value, and
potential appreciation of, or social and environmental factors related to, a
particular asset class or individual security in which the Fund invests may
prove to be incorrect, and there is no guarantee that individual securities will
perform as anticipated. Any given investment strategy may fail to produce the
intended results, and a Fund’s portfolio may underperform other comparable funds
because of portfolio management decisions related to, among other things, the
selection of investments, portfolio construction, risk assessments, and/or the
outlook on market trends and
opportunities.
Growth Investing
Risk. The prices of growth stocks may be based largely on
expectations of future earnings, and their prices can decline rapidly and
significantly in reaction to negative news. Growth stocks may underperform
stocks in other broad style categories (and the stock market as a whole) over a
short or long period of time and may shift in and out of favor with investors
generally, sometimes rapidly, depending on changes in market, economic, and
other factors.
GARP Investment
Strategy Risk. GARP investing involves buying stocks that the
portfolio managers believe have reasonable price/earnings ratios in relation to
the relevant company’s current or expected future earnings growth rate. To the
extent the Fund uses a GARP investing strategy, the Fund’s performance may be
adversely affected when stocks preferred by a GARP investing strategy
underperform or are not favored by investors in prevailing market and economic
conditions.
Preferred Stock
Risk. The value of preferred stocks will fluctuate with changes in
interest rates. Typically, a rise in interest rates causes a decline in the
value of preferred stock. Preferred stocks are also subject to credit risk,
which is the possibility that an issuer of preferred stock will fail to make its
dividend payments.
Small‑Cap and Mid‑Cap
Company Risk. The small- and mid‑capitalization companies in which
the Fund invests in may be more vulnerable to adverse business or economic
events than larger, more established companies. In particular, these small- and
mid‑capitalization companies may have limited product lines, markets and
financial resources, and may depend upon relatively small management groups.
Therefore, small- and mid‑capitalization stocks may be more volatile than those
of larger companies.
Regulatory
Risk. Changes in the laws or regulations of the United States or
other countries, including changes to applicable tax laws and regulations, could
impair the ability of the Fund to achieve its investment objective and could
increase the operating expenses of the
Fund.
Value Investing
Risk. Value securities are securities of companies that may have
experienced adverse business, industry, or other developments or may be subject
to special risks that have caused the securities to be out of favor and, in
turn, potentially undervalued. It may take longer than expected for the value of
such securities to rise to the anticipated value, or the value may never do
so.
Performance
Information
The
Fund commenced operations upon the reorganization of the Predecessor Fund into
the Fund on July 19, 2021. With the reorganization, the Fund assumed the
financial and performance history of the Predecessor Fund. The bar chart and performance table below provide
an indication of the risks of an investment in the Fund (and the Predecessor
Fund for periods prior to the reorganization) by showing how the Fund’s
performance has varied from year to year, and by showing how the Fund’s average
annual returns compare with those of a broad measure of market
performance. Performance reflects contractual fee waivers in
effect. If fee
34
waivers
were not in place, performance would be reduced. After‑tax returns are shown for Institutional
Shares only and will vary from the after‑tax returns for other share
classes. After‑tax returns are calculated using the
historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not
reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after‑tax returns depend on an investor’s
tax situation and may differ from those shown. After‑tax returns shown are not
relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax‑deferred
arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts
(“IRAs”). Past performance (before and after taxes) is not
necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the
future. Updated performance information is available by calling
866‑260‑9549 (toll free) or
312‑557‑5913.
Annual
Total Returns – Institutional Shares for year ended
December 31*
|
|
|
| |
Best
quarter: |
|
|
04/01/2020 – 06/30/2020 – 25.06 |
% |
Worst quarter: |
|
|
04/01/2022 – 06/30/2022 – (18.97 |
%) |
* |
The
Fund’s fiscal year end is September 30. The Fund’s most recent
quarterly return (since the end of the last fiscal year)
through December 31, 2022 was
7.26%. |
Average
Annual Total Returns – for the Periods Ended December 31,
2022
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
1 Year |
|
|
5 Years |
|
|
Since Inception^ |
|
Institutional
Shares – Before Taxes |
|
|
(32.83 |
%) |
|
|
5.02 |
% |
|
|
7.70 |
% |
Institutional
Shares – After Taxes on Distributions |
|
|
(34.18 |
%) |
|
|
2.64 |
% |
|
|
6.43 |
% |
Institutional
Shares – After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares |
|
|
(18.42 |
%) |
|
|
4.10 |
% |
|
|
6.38 |
% |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
MSCI
ACWI Index (reflects no deductions for fees or expenses)* |
|
|
(18.37 |
%) |
|
|
5.23 |
% |
|
|
7.55 |
% |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Advisor
Shares – Before Taxes |
|
|
(32.91 |
%) |
|
|
4.91 |
% |
|
|
7.61 |
% |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
^ |
The Institutional Shares and Advisor
Shares of the Predecessor Fund commenced operations on March 22,
2013.
Investor Shares had not yet commenced operations as of the periods ended
December 31, 2022. |
* |
Index returns shown are net of
withholding taxes. |
Portfolio
Management
Investment Adviser
The
Fund’s investment adviser is JOHCM (USA) Inc (the “Adviser”).
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Portfolio Managers
|
| |
Christopher
J.D. Lees, CFA
Senior
Fund Manager
Length
of Service: Since 2009* |
|
Nudgem
Richyal, CFA
Senior
Fund Manager
Length of Service: Since 2009* |
* |
Each
Portfolio Manager served as portfolio manager of the Fund’s predecessor,
which reorganized into the Trust on July 19, 2021.
|
Buying
and Selling Fund Shares
Minimum Initial Investment
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Institutional |
|
Advisor |
|
Investor |
|
Class Z |
$1,000,000 |
|
No minimum |
|
No minimum |
|
$10,000,000 |
There is no minimum for additional investments. If
you hold shares through a financial intermediary, the financial intermediary may
impose its own, different, investment minimums.
To Buy or Sell Shares:
JOHCM
Funds Trust
c/o
The Northern Trust Company
P.O.
Box 4766
Chicago,
IL 60680-4766
Telephone:
866‑260‑9549 (toll free) or 312‑557‑5913
You
can buy or sell shares of the Fund on any day the New York Stock Exchange
(“NYSE”) is open through your broker or financial intermediary, or by mail or
telephone. You can pay for shares by wire. The Adviser and JOHCM Funds
Distributors, LLC, the Fund’s distributor, reserve the right to waive any
minimum in their sole discretion, and to reject any purchase order for any
reason.
Dividends,
Capital Gains and Taxes
The
Fund intends to make distributions that are generally taxable as ordinary income
or capital gains, except when your investment is in an IRA, 401(k), or other
tax‑advantaged investment plan. However, you may be subject to tax when you
withdraw monies from a tax‑advantaged plan.
Payments
to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If
you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary
(such as a bank), the Fund and its related companies may pay the intermediary
for the sale of Fund shares and related services. These payments may create a
conflict 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 web site for more
information.
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FUND SUMMARY
JOHCM
International Opportunities Fund
Investment
Objective
The
investment objective of the JOHCM International Opportunities Fund (the “Fund”)
is to achieve long-term total return by investing in a focused portfolio of
international equity securities.
Fees
and Expenses
This
table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell
shares of the Fund. You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and
other fees to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the tables
and examples below.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
Institutional Shares |
|
|
Advisor Shares |
|
|
Investor Shares |
|
|
Class Z Shares |
|
Shareholder Fees (Fees paid directly from
your investment) |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
| |
Maximum
Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering
price) |
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
Maximum
Deferred Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of net
asset value) |
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
Redemption
Fee |
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
|
Annual
Fund Operating Expenses |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
| |
(Expenses that you pay each
year as a percentage of the value of your
investment) |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
| |
Management
Fee |
|
|
0.75 |
% |
|
|
0.75 |
% |
|
|
0.75 |
% |
|
|
0.75 |
% |
Distribution
(Rule 12b‑1) Fees |
|
|
None |
|
|
|
0.10 |
% |
|
|
0.25 |
% |
|
|
None |
|
Other
Expenses1 |
|
|
2.29 |
% |
|
|
2.29 |
% |
|
|
2.29 |
% |
|
|
2.29 |
% |
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses |
|
|
3.04 |
% |
|
|
3.14 |
% |
|
|
3.29 |
% |
|
|
3.04 |
% |
Fee
Waivers and Reimbursements2 |
|
|
(2.16 |
%) |
|
|
(2.16 |
%) |
|
|
(2.16 |
%) |
|
|
(2.16 |
%) |
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waivers and
Reimbursements |
|
|
0.88 |
% |
|
|
0.98 |
% |
|
|
1.13 |
% |
|
|
0.88 |
% |
1 |
Restated to reflect current
expenses. |
2 |
JOHCM
(USA) Inc (the “Adviser”) has contractually agreed to waive fees and
reimburse expenses to the extent that Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(excluding brokerage costs, interest, taxes, dividends, litigation and
indemnification expenses, expenses associated with investments in
underlying investment companies, and extraordinary expenses) exceed 0.88%,
0.98%, 1.13%, and 0.88% for Institutional Shares, Advisor Shares, Investor
Shares, and Class Z Shares, respectively, until January 28, 2024. If it
becomes unnecessary for the Adviser to waive fees or make reimbursements,
the Adviser may recapture any of its prior waivers or reimbursements for a
period not to exceed three years from the date on which the waiver or
reimbursement was made to the extent that such a recapture does not cause
the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses (excluding brokerage costs,
interest, taxes, dividends, litigation and indemnification expenses,
expenses associated with investments in underlying investment companies,
and extraordinary expenses) to exceed the current expense limitation or
the applicable expense limitation that was in effect at the time of the
waiver or reimbursement. The agreement to waive fees and reimburse
expenses may be terminated by the Board of Trustees at any time and will
terminate automatically upon termination of the Investment Advisory
Agreement. |
37
Example
This
example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with
the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest
$10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your
shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that each year your
investment has a 5% return and Fund operating expenses remain the same. The
contractual expense limitation for the Fund is reflected only in the 1 year
example and for the first year of the 3, 5 and 10 year examples. Although your
actual costs and returns might be different, your approximate costs of investing
$10,000 in the Fund would be:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
1 year |
|
|
3 years |
|
|
5 years |
|
|
10 years |
|
Institutional
Shares |
|
$ |
90 |
|
|
$ |
735 |
|
|
$ |
1,406 |
|
|
$ |
3,203 |
|
Advisor
Shares |
|
$ |
100 |
|
|
$ |
765 |
|
|
$ |
1,456 |
|
|
$ |
3,298 |
|
Investor
Shares |
|
$ |
115 |
|
|
$ |
810 |
|
|
$ |
1,530 |
|
|
$ |
3,438 |
|
Class Z
Shares |
|
$ |
90 |
|
|
$ |
735 |
|
|
$ |
1,406 |
|
|
$ |
3,203 |
|
Portfolio
Turnover
The
Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells
securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may
indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund
shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in
annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.
During the most recently completed fiscal year, the portfolio turnover rate of
the Fund was 68.19% of the average value of its
portfolio.
Principal
Investment Strategies
The
Fund invests, under normal market conditions, primarily in equity securities of
companies located outside the United States, including those located in emerging
market countries. The Fund may invest in non‑U.S. companies of any size,
including small- and mid‑capitalization companies, to achieve its objective.
Equity securities include common and preferred stocks, and include rights and
warrants to subscribe to common stock or other equity securities. The Fund may
achieve its equity exposure either directly or indirectly, such as through
participatory notes, though it does not use such indirect instruments as a means
of achieving leverage. The Fund may invest a significant portion of its assets
in investments located in one country or a small number of countries. These
countries may change from time to time.
The
Fund operates as a “diversified” investment company, and will typically own
between 25‑50 holdings. The portfolio managers aim to achieve above-average
risk-adjusted equity returns, over the medium term of three to five years. The
portfolio managers believe this is best achieved by investing in a
benchmark-agnostic portfolio of attractively valued high quality companies. The
portfolio managers seek to assess intrinsic value of such companies based on
long term competitive advantages and cash flow expectations. They prioritize
companies that they believe can generate cash profits reliably over many years
and have opportunities to pay dividends and/or reinvest some of those profits at
high rates of return.
The
portfolio managers believe that a key risk to any investor is permanent
impairment of capital from owning overvalued assets. Therefore, the Fund
maintains a valuation discipline intended to ensure that assets are only bought
when they are attractively valued, in absolute terms, with reference to their
estimated intrinsic value. The portfolio managers employ a scenario-based
approach to assessing intrinsic value, evaluating best- and worst-case outcomes
for potential and current investments and their related cash flows. Consistent
with the Fund’s absolute valuation discipline, the portfolio managers may
determine to delay reinvestment of sale proceeds or other available cash
immediately, instead holding positions in cash and cash equivalents, including
money market funds, potentially in an amount up to 20% of the net assets of the
Fund, while examining and awaiting available investment
opportunities.
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Additionally,
as part of the research and security selection processes, the portfolio managers
consider financially material environmental, social and governance (“ESG”)
factors, including potential impacts on the long-term risk and return profile of
a company. In doing so, the portfolio managers incorporate proprietary ESG
analysis into their investment decisions and have access to third-party
analytics sources, which may include Sustainalytics and
MSCI.
Principal
Investment Risks
All
investments carry a certain amount of risk, and the Fund cannot guarantee that
it will achieve its investment objective. The value of the Fund’s investments
will fluctuate with market conditions, and the value of your investment in the
Fund also will vary. You could lose money on your investment in the
Fund, or the Fund could perform worse than other investments.
Investments in the Fund are not deposits of a bank
and are not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
(“FDIC”) or any other government agency. Below are the principal
risks of investing in the Fund. All of the risks listed below are material to
the Fund, regardless of the order in which they appear. The Fund should only be
purchased by investors seeking long-term growth of capital who can withstand the
share price volatility of equity investing with a focus on global stocks.
Non‑U.S. Securities
Risk. Investing in non‑U.S. securities poses additional market
risks since political and economic events unique in a country or region will
affect those markets and their issuers and may not affect the U.S. economy or
U.S. issuers. In addition, issuers of non‑U.S. securities often are not subject
to as much regulation as U.S. issuers, and the reporting, accounting, custody,
and auditing standards to which those issuers are subject often are not as
rigorous as U.S. standards. Investments in non‑U.S. securities may also be
subject to greater environmental, credit and information risks. The Fund’s
investments in non‑U.S. securities also are subject to non‑U.S. currency
fluctuations and other non‑U.S. currency-related risks. Non‑U.S. securities may
be subject to higher volatility than U.S. securities, varying degrees of
regulation and limited liquidity.
Emerging Markets
Risk. In addition to the risks of investing in non‑U.S.
investments generally, emerging markets investments are subject to greater risks
arising from political or economic instability, nationalization or confiscatory
taxation, currency exchange restrictions, sanctions by other countries (such as
the United States) and an issuer’s unwillingness or inability to make principal
or interest payments on its obligations. Emerging markets companies may be
smaller and have shorter operating histories than companies in developed
markets. To the extent a Fund invests in frontier countries, these risks will be
magnified. Frontier countries generally have smaller economies or less developed
capital markets than traditional emerging market countries.
ESG Factor
Risk. Considering ESG factors when evaluating an investment may
result in the selection or exclusion of certain investments based on the
Adviser’s view of these factors and carries the risk that the Fund may
underperform funds that do not take ESG factors into account. In evaluating an
issuer, the Adviser may be dependent upon information and data obtained through
voluntary reporting by issuers or third-party research that may be incomplete,
inaccurate or unavailable, which could impact the portfolio managers’ assessment
of related risks and opportunities.
Equity Securities
Risk. The risk that events negatively affecting issuers,
industries, or financial markets in which the Fund invests will impact the value
of the stocks held by the Fund and thus, the value of the Fund’s shares over
short or extended periods.
Currency
Risk. Investments in non‑U.S. countries are also subject to
currency risk. As the Fund’s investments in non‑U.S. securities are generally
denominated in non‑U.S. currencies, changes in the value of those currencies
compared to the U.S. dollar may affect the value of the Fund’s investments. Some
of the currencies in emerging markets have experienced devaluations relative to
the U.S. dollar, and major adjustments have been made periodically in certain
such currencies. Certain developing countries face serious exchange
constraints.
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Geographic Focus
Risk. The risk that events negatively affecting the fiscal
stability of a particular country or region in which the Fund focuses its
investments will cause the value of the Fund’s shares to decrease, perhaps
significantly. To the extent the Fund focuses its assets in a particular country
or region, the Fund is more vulnerable to financial, economic or other political
developments in that country or region as compared to a fund that does not focus
on holdings in a particular country or region. As a result, the Fund may be more
volatile than a fund which is broadly diversified
geographically.
Management
Risk. The Adviser’s judgments about the attractiveness, value, and
potential appreciation of, or social and environmental factors related to, a
particular asset class or individual security in which the Fund invests may
prove to be incorrect, and there is no guarantee that individual securities will
perform as anticipated. Any given investment strategy may fail to produce the
intended results, and a Fund’s portfolio may underperform other comparable funds
because of portfolio management decisions related to, among other things, the
selection of investments, portfolio construction, risk assessments, and/or the
outlook on market trends and
opportunities.
Small‑Cap and Mid‑Cap
Company Risk. The small- and mid‑capitalization companies in which
the Fund invests in may be more vulnerable to adverse business or economic
events than larger, more established companies. In particular, these small- and
mid‑capitalization companies may have limited product lines, markets, and
financial resources, and may depend upon relatively small management groups.
Therefore, small- and mid‑capitalization stocks may be more volatile than those
of larger companies.
Equity-Linked
Instruments Risk. There is a risk that, in addition to market risk
and other risks of the referenced equity security, the Fund may experience a
return that is different from that of the referenced equity security.
Equity-linked instruments also subject the Fund to counterparty risk, including
the risk that the issuing entity may not be able to honor its financial
commitment, which could result in a loss of all or part of the Fund’s
investment.
Participatory Notes
Risk. P‑notes, which are designed to replicate the performance of
certain issuers and markets where direct investment is either impossible or
difficult due to local restrictions, represent interest in securities listed on
certain non‑U.S. exchanges, and thus present similar risks to investing directly
in such securities. P‑notes also expose investors to counterparty risk, which is
risk that the entity issuing the note may not be able to honor its financial
commitments. The liquidity of a P‑note reflects the liquidity in the underlying
security. At times, it may be more illiquid than trading the underlying security
as broker selection is restricted to the underwriter of the
P‑note.
Regulatory
Risk. Changes in the laws or regulations of the United States or
other countries, including changes to applicable tax laws and regulations, could
impair the ability of the Fund to achieve its investment objective and could
increase the operating expenses of the
Fund.
Performance
Information
The
Fund commenced operations upon the reorganization of the Predecessor Fund into
the Fund on July 19, 2021. With the reorganization, the Fund assumed the
financial and performance history of the Predecessor Fund. The bar chart and performance table below provide
an indication of the risks of an investment in the Fund (and the Predecessor
Fund for periods prior to the reorganization) by showing how the Fund’s
performance has varied from year to year, and by showing how the Fund’s average
annual returns compare with those of a broad measure of market
performance. Performance reflects contractual fee waivers in
effect. If fee waivers were not in place, performance would be reduced.
After‑tax returns are shown for Institutional
Shares only and will vary from the after‑tax returns for other share
classes. After‑tax returns are calculated using the
historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not
reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after‑tax
returns depend on an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown.
After‑tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares
through tax‑deferred arrangements,
such
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as 401(k) plans or individual
retirement accounts (“IRAs”). Past performance (before and after taxes) is not
necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the
future. Updated performance information is available by calling
866‑260‑9549 (toll free) or
312‑557‑5913.
Annual
Total Returns – Institutional Shares for year ended
December 31*
|
|
|
| |
Best
quarter: |
|
|
10/01/2022 – 12/31/2022 – 22.26 |
% |
Worst
quarter: |
|
|
01/01/2020 – 03/31/2020 – (17.90 |
%) |
* |
The
Fund’s fiscal year end is September 30. The Fund’s most recent
quarterly return (since the end of the last fiscal year)
through December 31, 2022 was
22.26%. |
Average
Annual Total Returns – for the Periods Ended December 31,
2022
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
1 Year |
|
|
5 Years |
|
|
Since Inception^ |
|
Institutional
Shares – Before Taxes |
|
|
(0.59 |
%) |
|
|
3.69 |
% |
|
|
5.01 |
% |
Institutional
Shares – After Taxes on Distributions |
|
|
(0.69 |
%) |
|
|
2.58 |
% |
|
|
3.69 |
% |
Institutional
Shares – After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares |
|
|
0.39 |
% |
|
|
2.84 |
% |
|
|
3.72 |
% |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
MSCI
EAFE Index (reflects no deductions for fees or expenses)* |
|
|
(14.45 |
%) |
|
|
1.54 |
% |
|
|
4.74 |
% |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
^ |
The Institutional Shares of the
Predecessor Fund commenced operations on September 29,
2016. |
* |
Index returns shown are net of
withholding taxes. |
Portfolio
Management
Investment Adviser
The
Fund’s investment adviser is JOHCM (USA) Inc (the “Adviser”).
Portfolio Managers
|
| |
Robert
Lancastle, CFA
Senior
Fund Manager
Length
of Service: Since 2016* |
|
Ben
Leyland, CFA
Senior
Fund Manager
Length
of Service: Since 2016* |
* |
Each
Portfolio Manager served as portfolio manager of the Fund’s predecessor,
which reorganized into the Trust on July 19, 2021.
|
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|
Buying and
Selling Fund Shares |
|
Minimum Initial
Investment |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Institutional |
|
Advisor |
|
Investor |
|
Class Z |
$1,000,000 |
|
No minimum |
|
No minimum |
|
$10,000,000 |
|
There is no minimum for additional investments.
If you hold shares through a financial intermediary, the financial
intermediary may impose its own, different, investment
minimums. |
To Buy or Sell Shares:
JOHCM
Funds Trust
c/o
The Northern Trust Company
P.O.
Box 4766
Chicago,
IL 60680-4766
Telephone:
866‑260‑9549 (toll free) or 312‑557‑5913
You
can buy or sell shares of the Fund on any day the New York Stock Exchange
(“NYSE”) is open through your broker or financial intermediary, or by mail or
telephone. You can pay for shares by wire. The Adviser and JOHCM Funds
Distributors, LLC, the Fund’s distributor, reserve the right to waive any
minimum in their sole discretion, and to reject any purchase order for any
reason.
Dividends,
Capital Gains and Taxes
The
Fund intends to make distributions that are generally taxable as ordinary income
or capital gains, except when your investment is in an IRA, 401(k), or other
tax‑advantaged investment plan. However, you may be subject to tax when you
withdraw monies from a tax‑advantaged plan.
Payments
to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If
you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary
(such as a bank), the Fund and its related companies may pay the intermediary
for the sale of Fund shares and related services. These payments may create a
conflict 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 web site for more
information.
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FUND SUMMARY
JOHCM
International Select Fund
(The
Fund is offered on a limited basis only. Refer to “How to Purchase Shares –
Information Regarding Purchases of the JOHCM International Select Fund” on page
119 for more information.)
Investment
Objective
The
investment objective of the JOHCM International Select Fund (the “Fund”) is to
seek long-term capital appreciation.
Fees
and Expenses
This
table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell
shares of the Fund. You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and
other fees to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the tables
and examples below.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
Institutional Shares |
|
|
Investor Shares |
|
|
Class Z Shares |
|
Shareholder Fees (Fees paid directly from
your investment) |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
| |
Maximum
Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering
price) |
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
Maximum
Deferred Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of net
asset value) |
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
Redemption
Fee |
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
|
Annual
Fund Operating Expenses |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
| |
(Expenses that you pay
each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment) |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
| |
Management
Fee |
|
|
0.89 |
% |
|
|
0.89 |
% |
|
|
0.89 |
% |
Distribution (Rule 12b‑1) Fees |
|
|
None |
|
|
|
0.25 |
% |
|
|
None |
|
Other
Expenses |
|
|
0.09 |
% |
|
|
0.07 |
% |
|
|
0.07 |
% |
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses1 |
|
|
0.98 |
% |
|
|
1.21 |
% |
|
|
0.96 |
% |
1 |
JOHCM
(USA) Inc (the “Adviser”) has contractually agreed to waive fees and
reimburse expenses to the extent that Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(excluding brokerage costs, interest, taxes, dividends, litigation and
indemnification expenses, expenses associated with investments in
underlying investment companies, and extraordinary expenses) exceed 0.98%,
1.21%, and 0.96% for Institutional Shares, Investor Shares, and
Class Z Shares, respectively, until January 28, 2024. If it
becomes unnecessary for the Adviser to waive fees or make reimbursements,
the Adviser may recapture any of its prior waivers or reimbursements for a
period not to exceed three years from the date on which the waiver or
reimbursement was made to the extent that such a recapture does not cause
the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses (excluding brokerage costs,
interest, taxes, dividends, litigation and indemnification expenses,
expenses associated with investments in underlying investment companies,
and extraordinary expenses) to exceed the current expense limitation or
the applicable expense limitation that was in effect at the time of the
waiver or reimbursement. The agreement to waive fees and reimburse
expenses may be terminated by the Board of Trustees at any time and will
terminate automatically upon termination of the Investment Advisory
Agreement. |
Example
This
Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with
the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The Example assumes that you invest
$10,000 in the Fund for the time periods
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indicated
and then redeem all of your shares at the end of those periods. The Example also
assumes that each year your investment has a 5% return and Fund operating
expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs and returns might be
different, your approximate costs of investing $10,000 in the Fund would
be:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
1 year |
|
|
3 years |
|
|
5 years |
|
|
10 years |
|
Institutional
Shares |
|
$ |
100 |
|
|
$ |
312 |
|
|
$ |
542 |
|
|
$ |
1,201 |
|
Investor
Shares |
|
$ |
123 |
|
|
$ |
384 |
|
|
$ |
665 |
|
|
$ |
1,466 |
|
Class Z
Shares |
|
$ |
98 |
|
|
$ |
306 |
|
|
$ |
531 |
|
|
$ |
1,178 |
|
Portfolio
Turnover
The
Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells
securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may
indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund
shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in
annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.
During the most recently completed fiscal year, the portfolio turnover rate of
the Fund was 58.91% of the average value of its
portfolio.
Principal
Investment Strategies
The
Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing primarily in
common stocks and other equity securities of companies located outside the
United States. The Fund’s equity securities include common and preferred stock,
rights and warrants. Typically, the Fund invests in a number of different
countries, including emerging markets. The Fund may invest in companies of any
size, including small- and mid capitalization companies, in order to achieve its
objective.
The
portfolio managers seek to identify and make investments based on a
multi-dimensional investment process, considering a number of factors, including
growth, valuation, size, momentum, and beta. Beta measures the volatility of a
stock relative to the overall market. The Fund utilizes a core investment style
with a growth tilt (growth at a reasonable price, or “GARP”) over all
capitalization ranges, which means that the Fund generally invests in larger,
more established companies, but would expect to invest a somewhat greater
portion of its assets in smaller, growth companies than would a typical large
cap mutual fund. The GARP investment strategy is a blend of growth and value
investing and seeks to find companies that have strong earnings growth at a good
price. The Fund seeks those stocks, sectors, and countries with positive
earnings surprises, sustainably high or increasing return on equity, and
attractive valuations. The investment process utilizes a combination of bottom
up investing and top down asset allocation that typically results in a portfolio
of 30 to 60 holdings. Bottom up investing utilizes techniques such as
fundamental analysis to assess growth and value potential of individual issuers.
In conducting fundamental analysis of companies that are being considered for
purchase by the Fund, the portfolio managers will evaluate, among other things,
the financial condition and management of a company, its industry, stability of
the country in which the company is located, and the interrelationship of these
variables over time.
Additionally,
as a standard part of the multi-dimensional investment process, the portfolio
managers consider financially material environmental, social and governance
(“ESG”) factors, including potential impacts on the long-term risk and return
profile of a company. Such factors, alongside other relevant factors, may be
taken into account in the Fund’s securities selection process. Top down asset
allocation utilizes evaluations of, among other things, economic factors
including country risk, sector trends within individual countries and regions,
and currency impact.
Investments
are predominantly in common stock, however the Fund also expects to gain some of
its equity exposure indirectly, such as through purchasing depositary receipts,
exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) and/or participatory notes. Participatory notes
(commonly known as “P‑notes”) are instruments that provide
exposure
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to,
primarily, equity securities of issuers listed on a non‑U.S. exchange and are
typically used when a direct investment in the underlying security is either
unpermitted, restricted or uneconomical due to country-specific regulations or
other restrictions.
Principal
Investment Risks
All
investments carry a certain amount of risk, and the Fund cannot guarantee that
it will achieve its investment objective. The value of the Fund’s investments
will fluctuate with market conditions, and the value of your investment in the
Fund also will vary. You could lose money on your investment in the
Fund, or the Fund could perform worse than other investments.
Investments in the Fund are not deposits of a bank
and are not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
(“FDIC”) or any other government agency. Below are the principal
risks of investing in the Fund. All of the risks listed below are material to
the Fund, regardless of the order in which they appear. The Fund should only be
purchased by investors seeking long-term growth of capital who can withstand the
share price volatility of equity investing with a focus on international
stocks.
Equity Securities
Risk. The risk that events negatively affecting issuers,
industries, or financial markets in which the Fund invests will impact the value
of the stocks held by the Fund and thus, the value of the Fund’s shares over
short or extended periods.
Non‑U.S. Securities
Risk. Investing in non‑U.S. securities poses additional market
risks since political and economic events unique in a country or region will
affect those markets and their issuers and may not affect the U.S. economy or
U.S. issuers. In addition, issuers of non‑U.S. securities often are not subject
to as much regulation as U.S. issuers, and the reporting, accounting, custody,
and auditing standards to which those issuers are subject often are not as
rigorous as U.S. standards. Investments in non‑U.S. securities may also be
subject to greater environmental, credit and information risks. The Fund’s
investments in non‑U.S. securities also are subject to non‑U.S. currency
fluctuations and other non‑U.S. currency-related risks. Non‑U.S. securities may
be subject to higher volatility than U.S. securities, varying degrees of
regulation and limited liquidity.
Emerging Markets
Risk. In addition to the risks of investing in non‑U.S.
investments generally, emerging markets investments are subject to greater risks
arising from political or economic instability, nationalization or confiscatory
taxation, currency exchange restrictions, sanctions by other countries (such as
the United States) and an issuer’s unwillingness or inability to make principal
or interest payments on its obligations. Emerging markets companies may be
smaller and have shorter operating histories than companies in developed
markets. To the extent a Fund invests in frontier countries, these risks will be
magnified. Frontier countries generally have smaller economies or less developed
capital markets than traditional emerging market countries.
ESG Factor
Risk. Considering ESG factors when evaluating an investment may
result in the selection or exclusion of certain investments based on the
Adviser’s view of these factors and carries the risk that the Fund may
underperform funds that do not take ESG factors into account. In evaluating an
issuer, the Adviser may be dependent upon information and data obtained through
voluntary reporting by issuers or third-party research that may be incomplete,
inaccurate or unavailable, which could impact the portfolio managers’ assessment
of related risks and opportunities.
ETF
Risk. Shareholders of the Fund will indirectly be subject to the
fees and expenses of the individual ETFs in which the Fund invests. In addition,
an ETF may not replicate exactly the performance of the benchmark index it seeks
to track for a number of reasons, including transaction costs incurred by the
ETF, the temporary unavailability of certain index securities in the secondary
market or discrepancies between the ETF and the index with respect to the
weighting of securities or the number of securities held.
Management
Risk. The Adviser’s judgments about the attractiveness, value, and
potential appreciation of, or social and environmental factors related to, a
particular asset class or individual security in which the Fund invests may
prove to be incorrect, and there is no guarantee that individual securities will
perform as anticipated.
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Any
given investment strategy may fail to produce the intended results, and a Fund’s
portfolio may underperform other comparable funds because of portfolio
management decisions related to, among other things, the selection of
investments, portfolio construction, risk assessments, and/or the outlook on
market trends and
opportunities.
Growth Investing
Risk. The prices of growth stocks may be based largely on
expectations of future earnings, and their prices can decline rapidly and
significantly in reaction to negative news. Growth stocks may underperform
stocks in other broad style categories (and the stock market as a whole) over a
short or long period of time and may shift in and out of favor with investors
generally, sometimes rapidly, depending on changes in market, economic, and
other factors.
GARP Investment
Strategy Risk. GARP investing involves buying stocks that the
portfolio managers believe have reasonable price/earnings ratios in relation to
the relevant company’s current or expected future earnings growth rate. To the
extent the Fund uses a GARP investing strategy, the Fund’s performance may be
adversely affected when stocks preferred by a GARP investing strategy
underperform or are not favored by investors in prevailing market and economic
conditions.
Preferred Stock
Risk. The value of preferred stocks will fluctuate with changes in
interest rates. Typically, a rise in interest rates causes a decline in the
value of preferred stock. Preferred stocks are also subject to credit risk,
which is the possibility that an issuer of preferred stock will fail to make its
dividend payments.
Small‑Cap and Mid‑Cap
Company Risk. The small- and mid‑capitalization companies in which
the Fund invests in may be more vulnerable to adverse business or economic
events than larger, more established companies. In particular, these small- and
mid‑capitalization companies may have limited product lines, markets and
financial resources, and may depend upon relatively small management groups.
Therefore, small- and mid‑capitalization stocks may be more volatile than those
of larger companies.
Regulatory
Risk. Changes in the laws or regulations of the United States or
other countries, including changes to applicable tax laws and regulations, could
impair the ability of the Fund to achieve its investment objective and could
increase the operating expenses of the
Fund.
Value Investing
Risk. Value securities are securities of companies that may have
experienced adverse business, industry, or other developments or may be subject
to special risks that have caused the securities to be out of favor and, in
turn, potentially undervalued. It may take longer than expected for the value of
such securities to rise to the anticipated value, or the value may never do
so.
Performance
Information
The
Fund commenced operations upon the reorganization of the Predecessor Fund into
the Fund on July 19, 2021. With the reorganization, the Fund assumed the
financial and performance history of the Predecessor Fund. The bar chart and performance table below provide
an indication of the risks of an investment in the Fund (and the Predecessor
Fund for periods prior to the reorganization) by showing how the Fund’s
performance has varied from year to year, and by showing how the Fund’s average
annual returns compare with those of a broad measure of market
performance. Performance reflects contractual fee waivers in
effect. If fee waivers were not in place, performance would be reduced.
After‑tax returns are shown for Institutional
Shares only and will vary from the after‑tax returns for other share
classes. After‑tax returns are calculated using the
historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not
reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after‑tax returns depend on an investor’s
tax situation and may differ from those shown. After‑tax returns shown are not
relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax‑deferred
arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts
(“IRAs”). Past performance (before and after taxes) is not
necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the
future. Updated performance information is available by calling
866‑260‑9549 (toll free) or
312‑557‑5913.
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Annual
Total Returns – Institutional Shares for year ended
December 31*
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Best
quarter: |
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|
04/01/2020 – 06/30/2020 – 23.44 |
% |
Worst quarter: |
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04/01/2022 – 06/30/2022 – (20.53 |
%) |
* |
The Fund’s fiscal year end is September
30. The Fund’s most recent
quarterly return (since the end of the last fiscal year)
through December 31, 2022 was
14.62%. |
Average
Annual Total Returns – for the Periods Ended December 31,
2022
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| |
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1 Year |
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5 Years |
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|
10 Years^ |
|
|
Since Inception |
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Institutional
Shares – Before Taxes |
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|
(32.38 |
%) |
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|
0.90 |
% |
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|
6.57 |
% |
|
|
7.31 |
% |
Institutional
Shares – After Taxes on Distributions |
|
|
(32.46 |
%) |
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|
0.26 |
% |
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|
6.10 |
% |
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6.94 |
% |
Institutional
Shares – After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares |
|
|
(18.79 |
%) |
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|
0.99 |
% |
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|
5.49 |
% |
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|
6.21 |
% |
| |
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
MSCI
EAFE Index (reflects no deductions for fees or expenses)* |
|
|
(14.45 |
%) |
|
|
1.54 |
% |
|
|
4.67 |
% |
|
|
5.36 |
% |
| |
|
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|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Investor
Shares – Before Taxes |
|
|
(32.55 |
%) |
|
|
0.66 |
% |
|
|
6.31 |
% |
|
|
7.06 |
% |
| |
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|
|
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|
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|
^ |
While Institutional Shares of the
Predecessor Fund commenced operations on July 29,
2009,
Institutional Shares began investing consistent with its investment
objective on July 30, 2009. Investor Shares commenced operations on
March 31, 2010.
Historical performance for Investor Shares prior to its inception is based
on the performance of Institutional Shares. The performance of Investor
Shares has been adjusted to reflect differences in
expenses. |
* |
Index returns shown are net of
withholding taxes. |
Portfolio
Management
Investment Adviser
The
Fund’s investment adviser is JOHCM (USA) Inc (the “Adviser”).
Portfolio Managers
|
| |
Christopher
J.D. Lees, CFA
Senior
Fund Manager
Length
of Service: Since 2009* |
|
Nudgem
Richyal, CFA
Senior
Fund Manager
Length
of Service: Since 2009* |
* |
Each
Portfolio Manager served as portfolio manager of the Fund’s predecessor,
which reorganized into the Trust on July 19, 2021.
|
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Buying
and Selling Fund Shares
Minimum Initial Investment
|
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| |
Institutional |
|
Advisor |
|
Investor |
|
Class Z |
$1,000,000 |
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No minimum |
|
No minimum |
|
$10,000,000 |
There is no minimum for additional investments. If
you hold shares through a financial intermediary, the financial intermediary may
impose its own, different, investment minimums.
To Buy or Sell Shares:
JOHCM
Funds Trust
c/o
The Northern Trust Company
P.O.
Box 4766
Chicago,
IL 60680-4766
Telephone:
866‑260‑9549 (toll free) or 312‑557‑5913
You
can buy or sell shares of the Fund on any day the New York Stock Exchange
(“NYSE”) is open through your broker or financial intermediary, or by mail or
telephone. You can pay for shares by wire. The Adviser and JOHCM Funds
Distributors, LLC, the Fund’s distributor, reserve the right to waive any
minimum in their sole discretion, and to reject any purchase order for any
reason.
Dividends,
Capital Gains and Taxes
The
Fund intends to make distributions that are generally taxable as ordinary income
or capital gains, except when your investment is in an IRA, 401(k), or other
tax‑advantaged investment plan. However, you may be subject to tax when you
withdraw monies from a tax‑advantaged plan.
Payments
to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If
you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary
(such as a bank), the Fund and its related companies may pay the intermediary
for the sale of Fund shares and related services. These payments may create a
conflict 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 web site for more
information.
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FUND SUMMARY
Regnan
Global Equity Impact Solutions
Investment
Objective
The
investment objective of Regnan Global Equity Impact Solutions (the “Fund”) is to
seek to achieve long-term capital appreciation by investing in companies that
contribute solutions to addressing the world’s major social and environmental
challenges.
Fees
and Expenses
This
table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell
shares of the Fund. You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and
other fees to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the tables
and examples below.
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Institutional Shares |
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|
Advisor Shares |
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|
Investor Shares |
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|
Class Z Shares |
|
Shareholder Fees (Fees paid directly from
your investment) |
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| |
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| |
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| |
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| |
Maximum
Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering
price) |
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|
None |
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|
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None |
|
|
|
None |
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|
|
None |
|
Maximum
Deferred Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of net
asset value) |
|
|
None |
|
|
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None |
|
|
|
None |
|
|
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None |
|
Redemption
Fee |
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
|
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None |
|
|
|
None |
|
|
Annual
Fund Operating Expenses |
|
|
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| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
| |
(Expenses that you pay
each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment) |
|
|
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| |
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| |
|
|
| |
|
| |
Management
Fee |
|
|
0.75 |
% |
|
|
0.75 |
% |
|
|
0.75 |
% |
|
|
0.75 |
% |
Distribution
(Rule 12b‑1) Fees |
|
|
None |
|
|
|
0.10 |
% |
|
|
0.25 |
% |
|
|
None |
|
Other
Expenses |
|
|
3.28 |
% |
|
|
3.28 |
% |
|
|
3.28 |
% |
|
|
3.28 |
% |
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses |
|
|
4.03 |
% |
|
|
4.13 |
% |
|
|
4.28 |
% |
|
|
4.03 |
% |
Fee
Waivers and Reimbursements1 |
|
|
(3.14 |
%) |
|
|
(3.14 |
%) |
|
|
(3.14 |
%) |
|
|
(3.14 |
%) |
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waivers and
Reimbursements |
|
|
0.89 |
% |
|
|
0.99 |
% |
|
|
1.14 |
% |
|
|
0.89 |
% |
1 |
JOHCM
(USA) Inc (the “Adviser”) has contractually agreed to waive fees and
reimburse expenses to the extent that Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(excluding brokerage costs, interest, taxes, dividends, litigation and
indemnification expenses, expenses associated with investments in
underlying investment companies, and extraordinary expenses) exceed 0.89%,
0.99%, 1.14%, and 0.89% for Institutional Shares, Advisor Shares, Investor
Shares, and Class Z Shares, respectively, until January 28, 2024. If it
becomes unnecessary for the Adviser to waive fees or make reimbursements,
the Adviser may recapture any of its prior waivers or reimbursements for a
period not to exceed three years from the date on which the waiver or
reimbursement was made to the extent that such a recapture does not cause
the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses (excluding brokerage costs,
interest, taxes, dividends, litigation and indemnification expenses,
expenses associated with investments in underlying investment companies,
and extraordinary expenses) to exceed the current expense limitation or
the applicable expense limitation that was in effect at the time of the
waiver or reimbursement. The agreement to waive fees and reimburse
expenses may be terminated by the Board of Trustees at any time and will
terminate automatically upon termination of the Investment Advisory
Agreement. |
49
Example
This
example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with
the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest
$10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your
shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that each year your
investment has a 5% return and Fund operating expenses remain the same. The
contractual expense limitation for the Fund is reflected only in the 1 year
example and for the first year of the 3, 5 and 10 year examples. Although your
actual costs and returns might be different, your approximate costs of investing
$10,000 in the Fund would be:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
1 year |
|
|
3 years |
|
|
5 Years |
|
|
10 Years |
|
Institutional
Shares |
|
$ |
91 |
|
|
$ |
938 |
|
|
$ |
1,802 |
|
|
$ |
4,036 |
|
Advisor
Shares |
|
$ |
101 |
|
|
$ |
968 |
|
|
$ |
1,849 |
|
|
$ |
4,122 |
|
Investor
Shares |
|
$ |
116 |
|
|
$ |
1,012 |
|
|
$ |
1,920 |
|
|
$ |
4,249 |
|
Class Z
Shares |
|
$ |
91 |
|
|
$ |
938 |
|
|
$ |
1,802 |
|
|
$ |
4,036 |
|
Portfolio
Turnover
The
Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells
securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may
indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund
shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in
annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.
During the most recently completed fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover
rate was 49.28% of the average value of its
portfolio.
Principal
Investment Strategies
The
Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing primarily in a
high-conviction global equity portfolio of companies the portfolio managers
believe have the potential to contribute solutions to the world’s major social
and environmental challenges. The Fund invests, under normal circumstances, at
least 80% of its net assets (plus the amount of any borrowings for investment
purposes) in equity securities of companies that the portfolio managers believe
satisfy their criteria for positive social or environmental impact. The Adviser
measures this impact by applying the Regnan Taxonomy, as described below, in
conjunction with a proprietary impact assessment, by the portfolio managers.
This impact assessment is based upon qualitative and quantitative assessment,
including the measurement of the activities that currently constitute, or that
the portfolio managers expect over the long term will constitute, a significant
portion (i.e., at least 30%) of a company’s business (using metrics that may
include, without limitation, any of the following: revenues, earnings, capital
expenditures, research and development investment, or book value). The Fund
gains exposure to equity securities either directly or indirectly, through
equity-linked instruments such as participatory notes or index exchange-traded
funds (“ETFs”), and may invest in preferred stocks.
Under
normal market conditions, the Fund will invest at least 40% of its assets in
companies located in countries other than the U.S., including developing,
frontier market or emerging market countries. Notwithstanding, the Fund may
invest a percentage lower than 40% in such non‑U.S. securities if the weighting
of non‑U.S. securities in the Fund’s performance benchmark (currently the MSCI
ACWI Investable Market Index) drops below 45%, in which case the Fund’s minimum
level for investments in non‑U.S. securities must remain within 5% of the
benchmark’s weighting. Under normal circumstances, the Fund expects to invest in
a range of countries, typically at least 10 different countries. While the Fund
may invest in companies of any size, the portfolio managers investment approach
will typically result in a bias toward investment in small and
mid‑capitalization companies, including initial public offerings (“IPOs”). The
Fund’s high-conviction investment approach may result in the Fund having
significant exposure to one or a handful of economic sectors, however the Fund
will not concentrate its investments in a particular
industry.
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The
Fund’s investment strategy is built on the belief that companies that undertake
to solve the challenges increasingly faced by the environment and society are
well-positioned for growth in the future, particularly where the need for a
solution to a particular challenge remains largely unmet. The portfolio managers
believe that these underserved environmental and societal needs will result in
demand for a product or service that is scarcely available, so companies that
are able to fulfill these needs should therefore be rewarded with revenue growth
over time, as the size of the market into which they sell their core products or
services grows. The portfolio managers believe that this is particularly true if
a company’s solution uses a degree of technological ingenuity or a
differentiated approach. The portfolio managers seek to invest in companies that
sell products or services that are at the early stages of their adoption, as the
economic value of such products and services tends, in the portfolio managers’
view, to be underestimated by the market. The stage at which the portfolio
managers choose to invest may vary by industry or by product, although in each
case, the portfolio managers generally intend to invest before a company’s full
value is recognized by the broader
market.
For
purposes of establishing the Fund’s investment universe, the portfolio managers
make use of a proprietary research framework, referred to as the Regnan
Taxonomy, in an effort to gain exposure to truly mission-driven companies that
are able to drive additional positive impacts through the sale of an innovative
solution to a particular environmental or social problem. In identifying
investment opportunities, the Regnan Taxonomy seeks to: (i) understand and
identify the underlying environmental and social problems which need to be
addressed; (ii) identify the products and services that contribute to
finding solutions to these problems; and (iii) identify suitable companies
that are selling these products and services. In identifying the underlying
environmental and social problems to be addressed, the Regnan Taxonomy draws on
the targets that underlie the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
(the “UN SDGs”). The UN SDGs may change over time, and the Regnan Taxonomy may
also incorporate other goals linked to other sustainability frameworks as
determined by the Adviser. The Regnan Taxonomy uses proprietary research to
determine which companies derive a significant portion of their revenue from
producing the products and services that contribute to finding solutions to
these problems.
Once
the investment universe is established, the portfolio managers undertake
qualitative analyses of potential candidates, including a fundamental business
analysis and an extensive impact assessment that seeks to evaluate companies’
potential to drive a positive impact in the future. Following the impact
assessment, the portfolio managers then undertake a comprehensive value analysis
and a risk assessment. The value analysis looks at the value that each holding
is expected to generate and whether the value is distributed equitably to all
stakeholders. The risk assessment seeks to identify the key risks that could
potentially derail the company, what kinds and levels of risks are acceptable,
how the risks can be monitored, and whether the company could be encouraged to
address the risks through engagement with the
Fund.
The
intended outcome of the investment process is a portfolio that will typically
consist of between 25 and 50 companies. The portfolio managers select companies
without regard to the Fund’s performance benchmark and expects to depart
significantly from the holdings and weightings in that benchmark. The portfolio
managers add issuers to the Fund’s portfolio typically with the intention of
holding the securities for longer periods (typically at least 5 years), which is
expected to result in a relatively low portfolio turnover rate that aligns with
the Fund’s long-term investment outlook. Although the Fund did not invest
significantly in derivatives instruments as of the most recent fiscal year end,
it may do so at any time.
Principal
Investment Risks
All
investments carry a certain amount of risk, and the Fund cannot guarantee that
it will achieve its investment objective. The value of the Fund’s investments
will fluctuate with market conditions, and the value of your investment in the
Fund also will vary. You could lose money on your investment in the
Fund, or the Fund could perform worse than other investments.
Investments in the
Fund are not deposits of a bank and are not
51
insured or guaranteed by the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) or any other government
agency. The principal risks of investing in the Fund (in
alphabetical order after the first five risks)
are:
Impact Investing
Risk. The Fund intends to invest its assets in companies that meet
its impact investing criteria pursuant to the Regnan Taxonomy. This may affect
the Fund’s exposure to certain companies or industries and the Fund will forego
certain investment opportunities. The Fund’s results may be lower than other
funds that do not seek to invest in companies based on expected environmental or
societal impact outcomes. The portfolio managers seek to identify companies that
they believe may have a positive environmental or societal impact outcome, but
may not be successful in assessing and identifying companies that have or will
have a positive environmental or societal impact outcomes. Successful
application of the Fund’s impact investing strategy will depend on its portfolio
managers’ ability to identify and analyze a company’s impact, and there can be
no assurance that the strategy or techniques employed will be successful.
Further, investors may differ in their views of what constitutes positive or
negative environmental or societal impact outcomes. As a result, the Fund may
invest in companies that do not reflect the beliefs and values of any particular
investor.
Equity Securities
Risk. The risk that events negatively affecting issuers,
industries or financial markets in which the Fund invests will impact the value
of the stocks held by the Fund and thus, the value of the Fund’s shares over
short or extended periods.
Focused Investment
Risk. Focusing investments in a particular market, sector or value
chain (which may include issuers in a number of different industries) increases
the risk of loss because the stocks of many or all of the companies in such
market, sector or value chain may decline in value due to economic, market,
technological, political or regulatory developments adversely affecting the
market or value chain.
Small‑Cap and Mid‑Cap
Company Risk. The small- and mid‑capitalization companies in which
the Fund invests in may be more vulnerable to adverse business or economic
events than larger, more established companies. In particular, these small- and
mid‑capitalization companies may have limited product lines, markets and
financial resources, may sell products or services that are at the early stages
of their adoption, and may depend upon relatively small management groups.
Therefore, small- and mid‑capitalization stocks may be more volatile than those
of larger companies.
Non‑U.S. Securities
Risk. Investing in non‑U.S. securities poses additional market
risks since political and economic events unique in a country or region will
affect those markets and their issuers and may not affect the U.S. economy or
U.S. issuers. In addition, issuers of non‑U.S. securities often are not subject
to as much regulation as U.S. issuers, and the reporting, accounting, custody,
and auditing standards to which those issuers are subject often are not as
rigorous as U.S. standards. Investments in non‑U.S. securities may also be
subject to greater environmental, credit and information risks. The Fund’s
investments in non‑U.S. securities also are subject to non‑U.S. currency
fluctuations and other non‑U.S. currency-related risks. Non‑U.S. securities may
be subject to higher volatility than U.S. securities, varying degrees of
regulation and limited liquidity.
Currency
Risk. Investments in non‑U.S. countries are also subject to
currency risk. As the Fund’s investments in non‑U.S. securities are generally
denominated in non‑U.S. currencies, changes in the value of those currencies
compared to the U.S. dollar may affect the value of the Fund’s investments. Some
of the currencies in emerging markets have experienced devaluations relative to
the U.S. dollar, and major adjustments have been made periodically in certain
such currencies. Certain developing countries face serious exchange
constraints.
Derivatives
Risk. The Fund’s use of derivative instruments involves risks
different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing
directly in securities and other traditional investments. These risks include
(i) the risk that the counterparty to a derivative transaction may not
fulfill its contractual obligations; (ii) risk of mispricing or improper
valuation; and (iii) the risk that changes in the value of the derivative
may not correlate perfectly with the underlying asset, rate or
index.
52
Emerging Markets
Risk. In addition to the risks of investing in non‑U.S.
investments generally, emerging markets investments are subject to greater risks
arising from political or economic instability, nationalization or confiscatory
taxation, currency exchange restrictions, sanctions by other countries (such as
the United States) and an issuer’s unwillingness or inability to make principal
or interest payments on its obligations. Emerging markets companies may be
smaller and have shorter operating histories than companies in developed
markets. To the extent a Fund invests in frontier countries, these risks will be
magnified. Frontier countries generally have smaller economies or less developed
capital markets than traditional emerging market
countries.
Equity-Linked
Instruments Risk. There is a risk that, in addition to market risk
and other risks of the referenced equity security, the Fund may experience a
return that is different from that of the referenced equity security.
Equity-linked instruments also subject the Fund to counterparty risk, including
the risk that the issuing entity may not be able to honor its financial
commitment, which could result in a loss of all or part of the Fund’s
investment.
Growth Investing
Risk. The prices of growth stocks may be based largely on
expectations of future earnings, and their prices can decline rapidly and
significantly in reaction to negative news. Growth stocks may underperform
stocks in other broad style categories (and the stock market as a whole) over a
short or long period of time and may shift in and out of favor with investors
generally, sometimes rapidly, depending on changes in market, economic, and
other factors.
Hedging
Risk. Hedging is a strategy in which the Fund uses a derivative or
other security to offset certain risks associated with other Fund holdings or to
render the portfolio more resilient to market fluctuations. There can be no
assurance that the Fund’s hedging strategy will reduce risk or that hedging
transactions will be either available or cost effective. The Fund is not
required to use hedging and may choose not to do
so.
IPO
Risk. The Fund may purchase securities in IPOs. These securities
are subject to many of the same risks of investing in companies with smaller
market capitalizations. Securities issued in IPOs have no trading history, and
information about the companies may be available for very limited periods. In
addition, the prices of securities sold in IPOs may be highly
volatile.
Limited History of
Operations. The Fund is a newly organized, diversified, open‑end
management investment company with a limited operating history. As a result,
prospective investors have a limited track record or history on which to base
their investment decision.
Liquidity
Risk. The Fund may make investments that are illiquid or that may
become less liquid in response to market developments or adverse investor
perceptions. Illiquid investments may be more difficult to
value.
Long-Term Investment
Strategy Risk. The Fund pursues a long-term investment approach,
typically seeking returns over a period of several years. This investment style
may cause the Fund to lose money or underperform compared to its benchmark index
or other mutual funds over extended periods of time, and the Fund may not
perform as expected in the long term. An investment in the Fund may be more
suitable for long-term investors who can bear the risk of short- or medium-term
fluctuations in the value of the Fund’s portfolio.
Management
Risk. The Adviser’s judgments about the attractiveness, value and
potential appreciation of, or social and environmental factors related to, a
particular asset class or individual security in which the Fund invests may
prove to be incorrect, and there is no guarantee that individual securities will
perform as anticipated. Any given investment strategy may fail to produce the
intended results, and a Fund’s portfolio may underperform other comparable funds
because of portfolio management decisions related to, among other things, the
selection of investments, portfolio construction, risk assessments, and/or the
outlook on market trends and
opportunities.
Participatory Notes
Risk. P‑notes, which are designed to replicate the performance of
certain issuers and markets where direct investment is either impossible or
difficult due to local restrictions, represent interest in
securities
53
listed
on certain non‑U.S. exchanges, and thus present similar risks to investing
directly in such securities. P‑notes also expose investors to counterparty risk,
which is risk that the entity issuing the note may not be able to honor its
financial commitments. The liquidity of a P‑note reflects the liquidity in the
underlying security. At times, it may be more illiquid than trading the
underlying security as broker selection is restricted to the underwriter of the
P‑note.
Preferred Stock
Risk. The value of preferred stocks will fluctuate with changes in
interest rates. Typically, a rise in interest rates causes a decline in the
value of preferred stock. Preferred stocks are also subject to credit risk,
which is the possibility that an issuer of preferred stock will fail to make its
dividend payments.
Regulatory
Risk. Changes in the laws or regulations of the United States or
other countries, including any changes to applicable tax laws and regulations,
could impair the ability of the Fund to achieve its investment objective and
could increase the operating expenses of the
Fund.
Value Investing
Risk. Value securities are securities of companies that may have
experienced adverse business, industry, or other developments or may be subject
to special risks that have caused the securities to be out of favor and, in
turn, potentially undervalued. It may take longer than expected for the value of
such securities to rise to the anticipated value, or the value may never do
so.
Performance
Information
The bar chart and performance table below provide
an indication of the risks of an investment in the Fund by showing how the
Fund’s performance has varied from year to year, and by showing how the Fund’s
average annual returns compare with those of a broad measure of market
performance. Performance reflects contractual fee waivers in
effect. If fee waivers were not in place, performance would be reduced.
After‑tax returns are shown for Institutional
Shares only and will vary from the after‑tax returns for other share
classes. After‑tax returns are calculated using the
historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not
reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after‑tax returns depend on an investor’s
tax situation and may differ from those shown. After‑tax returns shown are not
relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax‑deferred
arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts
(“IRAs”). Past performance (before and after taxes) is not
necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the
future. Updated performance information is available by calling
866‑260‑9549 (toll free) or
312‑557‑5913.
Annual
Total Returns – Institutional Shares for year ended
December 31*
|
| |
Best
quarter: |
|
10/01/2022 – 12/31/2022 – 12.86% |
Worst
quarter: |
|
04/01/2022 – 06/30/2022 – (17.60%) |
* |
The Fund’s fiscal year end is September
30. The Fund’s most recent
quarterly return (since the end of the last fiscal year)
through December 31, 2022 was
12.86%. |
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Average
Annual Total Returns – for the Periods Ended December 31,
2022
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
1 Year |
|
|
Since Inception^ |
|
Institutional
Shares – Before Taxes |
|
|
(25.04 |
%) |
|
|
(22.51 |
%) |
Institutional
Shares – After Taxes on Distributions |
|
|
(24.99 |
%) |
|
|
(22.47 |
%) |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Institutional
Shares – After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares |
|
|
(14.75 |
%) |
|
|
(16.91 |
%) |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
MSCI
ACWI Investable Market Index (reflects no deductions for fees or
expenses)* |
|
|
(18.40 |
%) |
|
|
(11.67 |
%) |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
^ |
The Institutional Shares of the Fund
commenced operations on August 23,
2021. |
* |
Index returns shown are net of
withholding taxes. |
Portfolio
Management
Investment Adviser
The
Fund’s investment adviser is JOHCM (USA) Inc (the “Adviser”).
Portfolio Managers
|
| |
Mohsin
Ahmad, CFA
Senior
Fund Manager
Length
of Service: Since 2021 (inception) |
|
Tim
Crockford
Senior
Fund Manager
Length
of Service: Since 2021 (inception) |
Buying
and Selling Fund Shares
Minimum Initial Investment
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Institutional |
|
Advisor |
|
Investor |
|
Class Z |
$1,000,000 |
|
No
minimum |
|
No
minimum |
|
$10,000,000 |
There is no minimum for additional investments. If
you hold shares through a financial intermediary, the financial intermediary may
impose its own, different, investment minimums.
To Buy or Sell Shares:
JOHCM
Funds Trust
c/o
The Northern Trust Company
P.O.
Box 4766
Chicago,
IL 60680-4766
Telephone:
866‑260‑9549 (toll free) or 312‑557‑5913
You
can buy or sell shares of the Fund on any day the New York Stock Exchange
(“NYSE”) is open through your broker or financial intermediary, or by mail or
telephone. You can pay for shares by wire. The Adviser and JOHCM Funds
Distributors, LLC, the Fund’s distributor, reserve the right to waive any
minimum in their sole discretion, and to reject any purchase order for any
reason.
Dividends,
Capital Gains and Taxes
The
Fund intends to make distributions that are generally taxable as ordinary income
or capital gains, except when your investment is in an IRA, 401(k), or other
tax‑advantaged investment plan. However, you may be subject to tax when you
withdraw monies from a tax‑advantaged plan.
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Payments
to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If
you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary
(such as a bank), the Fund and its related companies may pay the intermediary
for the sale of Fund shares and related services. These payments may create a
conflict 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 web site for more
information.
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FUND SUMMARY
TSW
Emerging Markets Fund
Investment
Objective
The
investment objective of the TSW Emerging Markets Fund (the “Fund”) is to
maximize long-term capital appreciation.
Fees
and Expenses
This
table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell
shares of the Fund. You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and
other fees to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the tables
and examples below.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
Institutional Shares |
|
|
Advisor Shares |
|
|
Investor Shares |
|
|
Class Z Shares |
|
Shareholder Fees (Fees paid directly from
your investment) |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
| |
Maximum
Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering
price) |
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
Maximum
Deferred Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of net
asset value) |
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
Redemption
Fee |
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
|
Annual
Fund Operating Expenses |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
| |
(Expenses that you pay
each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment) |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
| |
Management
Fee |
|
|
0.80 |
% |
|
|
0.80 |
% |
|
|
0.80 |
% |
|
|
0.80 |
% |
Distribution
(Rule 12b‑1) Fees |
|
|
None |
|
|
|
0.10 |
% |
|
|
0.25 |
% |
|
|
None |
|
Other
Expenses |
|
|
1.42 |
% |
|
|
1.42 |
% |
|
|
1.42 |
% |
|
|
1.42 |
% |
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses |
|
|
2.22 |
% |
|
|
2.32 |
% |
|
|
2.47 |
% |
|
|
2.22 |
% |
Fee
Waivers and Reimbursements1 |
|
|
(1.23 |
%) |
|
|
(1.23 |
%) |
|
|
(1.23 |
%) |
|
|
(1.23 |
%) |
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waivers and
Reimbursements |
|
|
0.99 |
% |
|
|
1.09 |
% |
|
|
1.24 |
% |
|
|
0.99 |
% |
1 |
JOHCM
(USA) Inc (the “Adviser”) has contractually agreed to waive fees and
reimburse expenses to the extent that Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(excluding brokerage costs, interest, taxes, dividends, litigation and
indemnification expenses, expenses associated with investments in
underlying investment companies, and extraordinary expenses) exceed 0.99%,
1.09%, 1.24%, and 0.99% for Institutional Shares, Advisor Shares, Investor
Shares, and Class Z Shares, respectively, until January 28, 2024. If it
becomes unnecessary for the Adviser to waive fees or make reimbursements,
the Adviser may recapture any of its prior waivers or reimbursements for a
period not to exceed three years from the date on which the waiver or
reimbursement was made to the extent that such a recapture does not cause
the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses (excluding brokerage costs,
interest, taxes, dividends, litigation and indemnification expenses,
expenses associated with investments in underlying investment companies,
and extraordinary expenses) to exceed the current expense limitation or
the applicable expense limitation that was in effect at the time of the
waiver or reimbursement. The agreement to waive fees and reimburse
expenses may be terminated by the Board of Trustees at any time and will
terminate automatically upon termination of the Investment Advisory
Agreement. |
57
Example
This
example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with
the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest
$10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your
shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that each year your
investment has a 5% return and Fund operating expenses remain the same. The
contractual expense limitation for the Fund is reflected only in the 1 year
example and for the first year of the 3, 5 and 10 year examples. Although your
actual costs and returns might be different, your approximate costs of investing
$10,000 in the Fund would be:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
1 year |
|
|
3 years |
|
|
5 years |
|
|
10 years |
|
Institutional
Shares |
|
$ |
101 |
|
|
$ |
576 |
|
|
$ |
1,077 |
|
|
$ |
2,458 |
|
Advisor
Shares |
|
$ |
111 |
|
|
$ |
606 |
|
|
$ |
1,128 |
|
|
$ |
2,561 |
|
Investor
Shares |
|
$ |
126 |
|
|
$ |
652 |
|
|
$ |
1,205 |
|
|
$ |
2,713 |
|
Class Z
Shares |
|
$ |
101 |
|
|
$ |
576 |
|
|
$ |
1,077 |
|
|
$ |
2,458 |
|
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
total annual Fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s
performance. During the period from Fund inception through September 30,
2022, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 11.47% of the average value of its
portfolio.
Principal
Investment Strategies
The
Fund invests, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of its net assets (plus
the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes) in equity securities of
companies that are located in emerging market countries, including frontier
markets. The Fund’s investments in equity securities can include common and
preferred stocks, as well as rights and warrants to subscribe to common stock or
other equity securities. The Fund obtains its exposure to equity securities
either directly or indirectly, including through Depositary Receipts or
participatory notes. Emerging market countries are those countries included in
the MSCI Emerging Markets Index and MSCI Frontier Markets Index and other
countries with similar emerging or frontier market characteristics, (for
example, relatively low gross national product per capita compared to the
world’s major economies).
The
Fund utilizes a bottom‑up, business-focused approach based on study of
individual companies and their competitive dynamics of the industries in which
they participate. The portfolio manager strives to identify companies whose
shares are underpriced relative to their intrinsic value. The portfolio is
managed with reference to the MSCI Emerging Markets Index as to country
allocation, but the Fund is not benchmark constrained. The portfolio manager
intends, under normal circumstances, to have approximately 40‑80 equity
securities in the Fund’s portfolio.
Pursuant
to a value investing philosophy, the Fund seeks to invest in securities that the
portfolio manager believes provide a discount or “margin of safety” between a
security’s price and what the portfolio manager believes to be the true value of
the underlying business (which is sometimes referred to as “intrinsic value”).
In order to first narrow the Fund’s investment universe, the portfolio manager
uses quantitative tools linked to a variety of relative value assessments
(including cash flow, earnings and share price). Next, the portfolio manager
combines fundamental research and qualitative analysis to make individual
security selections. The portfolio manager seeks to invest in the best
risk-reward candidates within the investment universe, defined as companies that
he believes have both attractive fundamentals (for example, a company’s
revenues, earnings,
58
or
management) and are undervalued. The portfolio manager also analyzes
country-specific factors such as geopolitical risk and its potential impact on
expected returns.
The
Fund may invest in unaffiliated investment companies, including exchange-traded
funds, and may also invest a portion of its assets in real estate investment
trusts (“REITs”). The Fund typically does not engage in active hedging of
currency but retains flexibility to do so depending on market
performance.
The
Fund may invest a significant portion of its assets in investments located in
one country or a small number of countries. The Fund’s benchmark index currently
includes substantial exposure to China. These countries may change from time to
time.
Principal
Investment Risks
All
investments carry a certain amount of risk, and the Fund cannot guarantee that
it will achieve its investment objective. The value of the Fund’s investments
will fluctuate with market conditions, and the value of your investment in the
Fund also will vary. You could lose money on your investment in the
Fund, or the Fund could perform worse than other investments.
Investments in the Fund are not deposits of a bank
and are not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
(“FDIC”) or any other government agency. The Fund should only be
purchased by investors seeking long-term growth of capital who can withstand the
share price volatility of equity investing with a focus on emerging market
stocks. Below are the principal risks of investing in the Fund. All of the risks
listed below are material to the Fund, regardless of the order in which they
appear.
Non‑U.S. Securities
Risk. Investing in non‑U.S. securities poses additional market
risks since political and economic events unique in a country or region will
affect those markets and their issuers and may not affect the U.S. economy or
U.S. issuers. In addition, issuers of non‑U.S. securities often are not subject
to as much regulation as U.S. issuers, and the reporting, accounting, custody,
and auditing standards to which those issuers are subject often are not as
rigorous as U.S. standards. Investments in non‑U.S. securities may also be
subject to greater environmental, credit and information risks. The Fund’s
investments in non‑U.S. securities also are subject to non‑U.S. currency
fluctuations and other non‑U.S. currency-related risks. Non‑U.S. securities may
be subject to higher volatility than U.S. securities, varying degrees of
regulation and limited liquidity.
Emerging Markets
Risk. In addition to the risks of investing in non‑U.S.
investments generally, emerging markets investments are subject to greater risks
arising from political or economic instability, nationalization or confiscatory
taxation, currency exchange restrictions, sanctions by other countries (such as
the United States) and an issuer’s unwillingness or inability to make principal
or interest payments on its obligations. Emerging markets companies may be
smaller and have shorter operating histories than companies in developed
markets. To the extent a Fund invests in frontier countries, these risks will be
magnified. Frontier countries generally have smaller economies or less developed
capital markets than traditional emerging market countries.
Value Investing
Risk. Value securities are securities of companies that may have
experienced adverse business, industry, or other developments or may be subject
to special risks that have caused the securities to be out of favor and, in
turn, potentially undervalued. It may take longer than expected for the value of
such securities to rise to the anticipated value, or the value may never do
so.
Currency
Risk. Investments in non‑U.S. countries are also subject to
currency risk. As the Fund’s investments in non‑U.S. securities are generally
denominated in non‑U.S. currencies, changes in the value of those currencies
compared to the U.S. dollar may affect the value of the Fund’s investments. Some
of the currencies in emerging markets have experienced devaluations relative to
the U.S. dollar, and major adjustments have been made periodically in certain
such currencies. Certain developing countries face serious exchange
constraints.
59
Equity Securities
Risk. The risk that events negatively affecting issuers,
industries or financial markets in which the Fund invests will impact the value
of the stocks held by the Fund and thus, the value of the Fund’s shares over
short or extended periods.
ETF
Risk. Shareholders of the Fund will indirectly be subject to the
fees and expenses of the individual ETFs in which the Fund invests. In addition,
an ETF may not replicate exactly the performance of the benchmark index it seeks
to track for a number of reasons, including transaction costs incurred by the
ETF, the temporary unavailability of certain index securities in the secondary
market or discrepancies between the ETF and the index with respect to the
weighting of securities or the number of securities
held.
China
Risk. To the extent a Fund invests in securities of Chinese
issuers, it may be subject to certain risks and considerations not typically
associated with investing in securities of U.S. issuers, including, among
others, more frequent trading suspensions and government interventions
(including by nationalization of assets), currency exchange rate fluctuations or
blockages, limits on the use of brokers and on non‑U.S. ownership, variable
interest entities risks, different financial reporting standards, higher
dependence on exports and international trade, potential for increased trade
tariffs, embargoes and other trade limitations, and custody
risks.
REIT and Real
Estate-Related Investment Risk. Adverse changes in the real estate
markets may affect the value of REIT investments.
Management
Risk. The Adviser’s judgments about the attractiveness, value, and
potential appreciation of, or social and environmental factors related to, a
particular asset class or individual security in which the Fund invests may
prove to be incorrect, and there is no guarantee that individual securities will
perform as anticipated. Any given investment strategy may fail to produce the
intended results, and a Fund’s portfolio may underperform other comparable funds
because of portfolio management decisions related to, among other things, the
selection of investments, portfolio construction, risk assessments, and/or the
outlook on market trends and
opportunities.
Preferred Stock
Risk. The value of preferred stocks will fluctuate with changes in
interest rates. Typically, a rise in interest rates causes a decline in the
value of preferred stock. Preferred stocks are also subject to credit risk,
which is the possibility that an issuer of preferred stock will fail to make its
dividend payments.
Geographic Focus
Risk. The risk that events negatively affecting the fiscal
stability of a particular country or region in which the Fund focuses its
investments will cause the value of the Fund’s shares to decrease, perhaps
significantly. To the extent the Fund focuses its assets in a particular country
or region, the Fund is more vulnerable to financial, economic, or other
political developments in that country or region as compared to a fund that does
not focus on holdings in a particular country or region. As a result, the Fund
may be more volatile than a fund which is broadly diversified
geographically.
Investment Company
Risk. lf a Fund invests in shares of another investment company,
shareholders will indirectly bear fees and expenses charged by the underlying
investment companies in which the Fund invests in addition to the Fund’s direct
fees and expenses. The Fund also will incur brokerage costs when it purchases
ETFs and closed‑end funds. Furthermore, investments in other funds could affect
the timing, amount, and character of distributions to shareholders and therefore
may increase the amount of taxes payable by investors in the
Fund.
Small‑Cap and Mid‑Cap
Company Risk. The small- and mid‑capitalization companies in which
the Fund invests in may be more vulnerable to adverse business or economic
events than larger, more established companies. In particular, these small- and
mid‑capitalization companies may have limited product lines, markets, and
financial resources, and may depend upon relatively small management groups.
Therefore, small- and mid‑capitalization stocks may be more volatile than those
of larger companies.
Participatory Notes
Risk. P‑notes, which are designed to replicate the performance of
certain issuers and markets where direct investment is either impossible or
difficult due to local restrictions, represent interest in
securities
60
listed
on certain non‑U.S. exchanges, and thus present similar risks to investing
directly in such securities. P‑notes also expose investors to counterparty risk,
which is risk that the entity issuing the note may not be able to honor its
financial commitments. The liquidity of a P‑note reflects the liquidity in the
underlying security. At times, it may be more illiquid than trading the
underlying security as broker selection is restricted to the underwriter of the
P‑note.
Limited History of
Operations. The Fund is a newly organized, diversified, open‑end
management investment company with a limited operating history. As a result,
prospective investors have a limited track record or history on which to base
their investment decision.
Regulatory
Risk. Changes in the laws or regulations of the United States or
other countries, including changes to applicable tax laws and regulations, could
impair the ability of the Fund to achieve its investment objective and could
increase the operating expenses of the
Fund.
Liquidity
Risk. The Fund may make investments that are illiquid or that may
become less liquid in response to market developments or adverse investor
perceptions. Illiquid investments may be more difficult to
value.
Performance
Information
The bar chart and performance table below provide
an indication of the risks of an investment in the Fund by showing how the
Fund’s performance has varied from year to year, and by showing how the Fund’s
average annual returns compare with those of a broad measure of market
performance. Performance reflects contractual fee waivers in
effect. If fee waivers were not in place, performance would be reduced.
After‑tax returns are shown for Institutional
Shares only and will vary from the after‑tax returns for other share
classes. After‑tax returns are calculated using the
historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not
reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after‑tax returns depend on an investor’s
tax situation and may differ from those shown. After‑tax returns shown are not
relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax‑deferred
arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts
(“IRAs”). Past performance (before and after taxes) is not
necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the
future. Updated performance information is available by calling
866‑260‑9549 (toll free) or
312‑557‑5913.
Annual
Total Returns – Institutional Shares for year ended
December 31*
|
| |
Best quarter: |
|
10/01/2022 – 12/31/2022 – 17.19% |
Worst quarter: |
|
04/01/2022 – 06/30/2022 – (13.40%) |
* |
The Fund’s fiscal year end is September
30. The Fund’s most recent
quarterly return (since the end of the last fiscal year)
through December 31, 2022 was
17.19%. |
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Average
Annual Total Returns – for the Periods Ended December 31,
2022
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
1 Year |
|
|
Since Inception^ |
|
Institutional
Shares – Before Taxes |
|
|
(16.79 |
%) |
|
|
(14.67 |
%) |
Institutional
Shares – After Taxes on Distributions |
|
|
(16.93 |
%) |
|
|
(14.82 |
%) |
Institutional
Shares – After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares |
|
|
(9.54 |
%) |
|
|
(11.00 |
%) |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
MSCI
Emerging Markets Index (reflects no deductions for fees or
expenses)* |
|
|
(20.09 |
%) |
|
|
(17.69 |
%) |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
^ |
The Institutional Shares of the Fund
commenced operations on December 21,
2021. |
* |
Index returns shown are net of
withholding taxes. |
Portfolio
Management
Investment Adviser
The
Fund’s investment adviser is JOHCM (USA) Inc (the “Adviser”).
Subadviser
The
Fund’s subadviser is Thompson, Siegel & Walmsley LLC (“TSW” or the
“Subadviser”).
Portfolio Manager
|
Elliott
W. Jones, CFA
Portfolio
Manager
Length
of Service: Since 2021 (inception) |
Buying
and Selling Fund Shares
Minimum Initial Investment
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Institutional |
|
Advisor |
|
Investor |
|
Class Z |
$1,000,000 |
|
No minimum |
|
No minimum |
|
$10,000,000 |
There is no minimum for additional investments. If
you hold shares through a financial intermediary, the financial intermediary may
impose its own, different, investment minimums.
To Buy or Sell Shares:
JOHCM
Funds Trust
c/o
The Northern Trust Company
P.O.
Box 4766
Chicago,
IL 60680-4766
Telephone:
866‑260‑9549 (toll free) or 312‑557‑5913
You
can buy or sell shares of the Fund on any day the New York Stock Exchange
(“NYSE”) is open through your broker or financial intermediary, or by mail or
telephone. You can pay for shares by wire. The Adviser and JOHCM Funds
Distributors, LLC, the Fund’s distributor, reserve the right to waive any
minimum in their sole discretion, and to reject any purchase order for any
reason.
62
Dividends,
Capital Gains and Taxes
The
Fund intends to make distributions that are generally taxable as ordinary income
or capital gains, except when your investment is in an IRA, 401(k), or other
tax‑advantaged investment plan. However, you may be subject to tax when you
withdraw monies from a tax‑advantaged plan.
Payments
to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If
you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary
(such as a bank), the Fund and its related companies may pay the intermediary
for the sale of Fund shares and related services. These payments may create a
conflict 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 web site for more
information.
63
FUND SUMMARY
TSW
High Yield Bond Fund
Investment
Objective
The primary investment objective of the TSW High Yield Bond Fund
(the “Fund”) is to seek high current income with a secondary focus on capital
appreciation.
Fees
and Expenses
This
table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell
shares of the Fund. You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and
other fees to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the tables
and examples below.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
Institutional Shares |
|
|
Advisor Shares |
|
|
Investor Shares |
|
|
Class Z Shares |
|
Shareholder Fees (Fees paid directly from
your investment) |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
| |
Maximum
Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering
price) |
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
Maximum
Deferred Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of net
asset value) |
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
Redemption
Fee |
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
|
|
None |
|
|
Annual
Fund Operating Expenses |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
| |
(Expenses that you pay
each year as a percentage of the value of your
investment) |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
| |
Management
Fee |
|
|
0.50 |
% |
|
|
0.50 |
% |
|
|
0.50 |
% |
|
|
0.50 |
% |
Distribution
(Rule 12b‑1) Fees |
|
|
None |
|
|
|
0.10 |
% |
|
|
0.25 |
% |
|
|
None |
|
Other
Expenses |
|
|
1.40 |
% |
|
|
1.40 |
% |
|
|
1.40 |
% |
|
|
1.40 |
% |
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses |
|
|
1.90 |
% |
|
|
2.00 |
% |
|
|
2.15 |
% |
|
|
1.90 |
% |
Fee
Waivers and Reimbursements1 |
|
|
(1.25 |
%) |
|
|
(1.25 |
%) |
|
|
(1.25 |
%) |
|
|
(1.25 |
%) |
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waivers and
Reimbursements |
|
|
0.65 |
% |
|
|
0.75 |
% |
|
|
0.90 |
% |
|
|
0.65 |
% |
1 |
JOHCM
(USA) Inc (the “Adviser”) has contractually agreed to waive fees and
reimburse expenses to the extent that Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(excluding brokerage costs, interest, taxes, dividends, litigation and
indemnification expenses, expenses associated with investments in
underlying investment companies, and extraordinary expenses) exceed 0.65%,
0.75%, 0.90%, and 0.65% for Institutional Shares, Advisor Shares, Investor
Shares, and Class Z Shares, respectively, until January 28, 2024. If it
becomes unnecessary for the Adviser to waive fees or make reimbursements,
the Adviser may recapture any of its prior waivers or reimbursements for a
period not to exceed three years from the date on which the waiver or
reimbursement was made to the extent that such a recapture does not cause
the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses (excluding brokerage costs,
interest, taxes, dividends, litigation and indemnification expenses,
expenses associated with investments in underlying investment companies,
and extraordinary expenses) to exceed the current expense limitation or
the applicable expense limitation that was in effect at the time of the
waiver or reimbursement. The agreement to waive fees and reimburse
expenses may be terminated by the Board of Trustees at any time and will
terminate automatically upon termination of the Investment Advisory
Agreement. |
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