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&lt;td style="background-color:#D9E5F1;padding-bottom:2pt;padding-top:3pt;vertical-align:Bottom;width:176.36pt;"&gt; &lt;div style="line-height:9pt;text-align:left;"&gt; &lt;div style="margin-left:6pt;margin-right:12pt;text-align:center;white-space:nowrap;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003c78;font-family:arial;font-size:8pt;margin-left:0.00pt"&gt;1/1/2026&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="margin-top:12pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003c78;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic"&gt;On June 18, 2026, the Fund's Board of Trustees approved certain changes to the Fund's subadvisers and principal &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003c78;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic"&gt;investment strategies effective on or about August 21, 2026 (the Effective Date). As a result, from the Effective &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003c78;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic"&gt;Date,&#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003c78;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic"&gt;Conestoga Capital Advisors, LLC (Conestoga)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003c78;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic"&gt;&#160;no longer serves as a subadviser to the Fund. Accordingly, as of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003c78;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic"&gt;the Effective Date, the changes described in this Supplement are hereby made to the Fund&#x2019;s Prospectus and Summary &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003c78;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic"&gt;Prospectus.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-top:12pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003c78;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic"&gt;The information under&#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003c78;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic"&gt;the heading &#x201c;Principal Investment Strategies&#x201d; in the Summary Prospectus and in both &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003c78;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic"&gt;the&#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003c78;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic"&gt;&#x201c;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003c78;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic"&gt;Summary of the Fund&#x201d;&#160;and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003c78;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic"&gt;&#x201c;More Information About the Fund&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003c78;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic"&gt;&#x201d;&#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003c78;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic"&gt;sections of the Prospectus between the fifth and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003c78;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic"&gt;last paragraph is hereby superseded and replaced with the following:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-top:4pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003c78;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt"&gt;The Fund may also invest in exchange-traded funds (ETFs), including pending the engagement of one or more &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003c78;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt"&gt;additional subadvisers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-top:4pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003c78;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt"&gt;Columbia Management is responsible for providing day-to-day portfolio management of one sleeve of the Fund and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003c78;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt"&gt;is also responsible for oversight of the Subadvisers. The Fund&#x2019;s Subadvisers are Hotchkis and Wiley Capital &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003c78;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt"&gt;Management, LLC (Hotchkis &amp;amp; Wiley), J.P. Morgan Investment Management Inc. (JPMIM) and&#160;Jacobs Levy Equity &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003c78;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt"&gt;Management, Inc. (Jacobs Levy). Columbia Management and the Subadvisers act independently of each other and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003c78;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt"&gt;use their own methodologies for selecting investments. Columbia Management, subject to the oversight of the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003c78;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt"&gt;Fund&#x2019;s Board of Trustees, determines the allocation of the Fund&#x2019;s assets to each sleeve and may change these &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003c78;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt"&gt;allocations at any time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</oef:SupplementToProspectusTextBlock>
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