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Calamos Active Hedged Equity ETF
Investment Objective

Calamos Active Hedged Equity ETF (the “Fund”) seeks total return with lower volatility than equity markets.

Fees and Expenses of the Fund

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

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment):

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment):

Management Fees

0.64

%

Distribution and/or Service Fees (12b‑1)

0.00

%

Other Expenses1

0.00

%

Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses2

0.02

%

Total Annual Operating Expenses

0.66

%

1

“Other Expenses” are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.

2

“Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses” include certain expenses incurred in connection with the Fund’s investment in various closed-end funds, exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”), and business development companies (“BDCs”). The amount shown is based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.

Example

This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated, and then sell all of your Fund Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs, whether you sell or hold your Fund Shares, would be:

You would pay the following expenses whether you sell or hold your Fund Shares at the end of the period:

 

One Year

 

 

 

Three Years

 

 

$67

 

 

 

$211

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You would pay the following expenses whether you sell or hold your Fund Shares at the end of the period:

 

One Year

 

 

 

Three Years

 

 

$67

 

 

 

$211

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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. Because the Fund has not yet commenced operations, portfolio turnover information is unavailable at this time.

Principal Investment Strategies

The Fund seeks to achieve total return with lower volatility than equity markets. Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in shares of other registered investment companies which in turn seek to provide investment results that, before expenses, correspond generally to the price and yield performance of the S&P 500® Index (the “S&P 500”), including, but not limited to, the State Street® SPDR® Portfolio S&P 500® ETF (“SPYM”), the State Street SPDR® S&P 500 ETF Trust (“SPY”) or the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (“VOO”) (collectively, the ”S&P 500® Funds”). The Fund invests in the S&P 500® Funds while also buying and selling index call and put options and/or entering into other options strategies, including the use of Flexible Exchange Options (“FLEX Options”) on the S&P 500® Funds and/or broad based indices (such as the S&P 500 or MSCI EAFE Index) or ETFs (exchange-traded funds).

In addition, to seek to offset some of the risk of a potential decline in value of certain long positions, the Fund may also purchase put options on the S&P 500® Funds or broad-based securities indices (such as the S&P 500). The Fund may also engage in active and frequent trading of portfolio securities.

Equity securities purchased by the Fund may also include U.S. exchange-listed common stocks, options on equities, and American Depositary Receipts (ADRs). The Fund may also invest in fixed-income securities. The Fund may also invest in ETFs.

The Fund may use derivatives for hedging (attempting to reduce risk by offsetting one investment position with another) or non-hedging purposes. In particular, the Fund may hedge some or all of the currency exposure of foreign securities by entering into forward foreign currency contracts, futures or other derivatives.

The Fund intends that its option-based risk management strategy will reduce the volatility inherent in investments in equity securities over time.

General Information about FLEX Options

FLEX Options are customizable exchange-traded option contracts guaranteed for settlement by the Options Clearing Corporation (the “OCC”). The OCC guarantees performance by each of the counterparties to the FLEX Options, becoming the “buyer for every seller and the seller for every buyer,” with the goal of protecting clearing members and options traders from counterparty risk. The OCC may make adjustments to FLEX Options for certain significant events, as more fully described in the Fund’s Statement of Additional Information. Although guaranteed for settlement by the OCC, FLEX Options are still subject to counterparty risk with the OCC and subject to the risk that the OCC may fail to perform the settlement of the FLEX Options due to bankruptcy or other adverse reasons. The FLEX Options that the Fund will hold and that reference the State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF (“SPY”) will give the Fund the right or the obligation to either receive or deliver shares of SPY, or the right or the obligation to either receive or deliver a cash payment on the option expiration date based upon the difference between SPY’s value and a strike price, depending on whether the option is a put or call option and whether the Fund purchases or sells the option. The Fund will purchase call options (giving the Fund the right to receive shares of SPY or a cash payment) and put options (giving the Fund the right to deliver shares of SPY or a cash payment), and may sell (i.e., write) call options (giving the Fund the obligation to deliver shares of SPY or a cash payment) and put options (giving the Fund the obligation to receive shares of SPY or a cash payment) in instances where it is deemed necessary or desirable to construct the Box Spread. In instances where the purchased call and put options are substantially in-the-money and the synthetic long and short positions comprising the Box Spread can effectively be constructed without writing call or put options, the Fund may elect not to write call or put options. The Fund intends to use FLEX Options in constructing Box Spreads. The Fund receives premiums in exchange for the written FLEX Options and pays premiums in exchange for the purchased FLEX Options. The OCC and securities exchanges on which the FLEX Options are listed do not charge ongoing fees to writers or purchasers of the FLEX Options during their life for continuing to hold the option contracts but may charge transaction fees.

Fund Performance

The Fund has not commenced operations as of the date of this prospectus. Once available, the Fund’s performance information, and information that gives some indication of the risks of an investment in the Fund by comparing the Fund’s performance with a broad measure of market performance, will be available at no cost by visiting the Fund’s website at www.calamos.com. Past performance (before and after taxes) is not an indication of future performance.