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&lt;p style="font: 10pt/12pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 6pt 0 0; text-align: justify"&gt;Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
in the Fund&#x2019;s Prospectus, the second sentence in the first paragraph in the section entitled &#x201c;Annual Total Return&#x201d; is
deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="font: 10pt/12pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 6pt 0.5in 0; text-align: justify"&gt;The bar chart and table provide an indication
of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund&#x2019;s performance from year-to-year and by showing how the Fund&#x2019;s
average annual total returns based on net asset value for years 1, 5, 10 (as applicable) and since inception compared to those of the
Index and a broad-based securities market index.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="font: 10pt/12pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 6pt 0 0; text-align: justify"&gt;Additionally, the Average Annual Total Return
table in the section entitled &#x201c;Annual Total Return&#x201d; is deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="font: 10pt/12pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 6pt 0 0; text-align: justify"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Average Annual Total Returns for the
Periods Ended December 31, 2025&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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    &lt;td style="border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; width: 58%; padding-right: 10.5pt; text-align: left; line-height: 0.7pt"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
    &lt;td style="border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; padding-bottom: 3pt; width: 10%; padding-right: 10.5pt; padding-left: 10.5pt; text-align: center; line-height: 8.1pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 8pt"&gt;&lt;b&gt;1 Year&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
    &lt;td style="border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; padding-bottom: 3pt; width: 10%; padding-right: 10.5pt; padding-left: 10.5pt; text-align: center; line-height: 8.1pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 8pt"&gt;&lt;b&gt;5 Years&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
    &lt;td style="border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; padding-bottom: 3pt; width: 11%; padding-right: 10.5pt; padding-left: 10.5pt; text-align: center; line-height: 8.55pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 8pt"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Since&lt;br/&gt;
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    &lt;td style="border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; padding-bottom: 3pt; width: 11%; padding-left: 10.5pt; text-align: center; line-height: 8.55pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 8pt"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Inception&lt;br/&gt;
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    &lt;td style="border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; padding: 3pt 10.5pt; text-align: center; line-height: 9pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9pt"&gt;13.98%&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
    &lt;td style="border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; padding: 3pt 10.5pt; text-align: center; line-height: 9pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9pt"&gt;10.39%&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
    &lt;td style="border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; padding: 3pt 10.5pt; text-align: center; line-height: 9pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9pt"&gt;10.17%&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
    &lt;td style="border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; padding: 3pt 10.5pt; text-align: center; line-height: 9pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9pt"&gt;6/20/2017&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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    &lt;td style="border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; padding-top: 3pt; padding-right: 10.5pt; text-align: left; line-height: 9pt; padding-bottom: 3pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9pt"&gt;Return After Taxes on Distributions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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    &lt;td style="border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; padding: 3pt 10.5pt; text-align: center; line-height: 9pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9pt"&gt;&#160;&#160;8.92%&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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    &lt;td style="border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; padding-top: 3pt; padding-right: 10.5pt; text-align: left; line-height: 9pt; padding-bottom: 3pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9pt"&gt;S&amp;amp;P
    500&lt;sup&gt;&#xae;&lt;/sup&gt; Sector-Neutral Dividend Aristocrats Index&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt"&gt;&lt;sup&gt;(1),(2)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9pt"&gt;&#160;(reflects
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    &lt;td style="border-bottom: black 1pt solid; padding-right: 10.5pt; padding-left: 10.5pt; text-align: center; line-height: 9pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9pt"&gt;17.88%&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
    &lt;td style="border-bottom: black 1pt solid; padding-right: 10.5pt; padding-left: 10.5pt; text-align: center; line-height: 9pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9pt"&gt;14.42%&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
    &lt;td style="border-bottom: black 1pt solid; padding-left: 3.7pt; text-align: center; line-height: 9pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9pt"&gt;14.76%&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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    &lt;td style="font: 10pt/12pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 6pt 0 0; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 98%"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;sup&gt;On
    October 3, 2023, the Fund&#x2019;s underlying index changed from the Nasdaq Riskalyze US Large Cap Select DividendTM&#160;Index to
    the S&amp;amp;P 500&#xae; Sector-Neutral Dividend Aristocrats Index. Therefore, the Fund&#x2019;s performance and historical returns shown
    for the periods prior to this date are not necessarily indicative of the performance that the Fund, based on its current index, would
    have generated.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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    data is not available for all the periods shown in the table for the index because performance data does not exist for some of the
    entire periods.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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