As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 6, 2026
File No. 333-[ ]
File No. 811-24238
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM N-1A
☑ REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
☐ Pre-Effective Amendment No. ____
☐ Post-Effective Amendment No. ____
and/or
☑ REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940
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INTEGRITY INVESTMENT FUNDS TRUST
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
120 N. Hale St., Suite 300,
Wheaton, Illinois 60187
(Address of Principal Executive Office) (Zip Code)
630.763.1215
(Registrant’s Telephone Number, including Area Code)
The Corporation Trust Company
Corporation Trust Center
1209 Orange Street
New Castle County
Wilmington, DE 19801
(Name and address of agent for service)
Copies of communications to:
William Weicher
Integrity Quantitative Advisors LLC
120 N. Hale St., Suite 300,
Wheaton, Illinois 60187
Bibb L. Strench, Esq.
Thompson Hine LLP
1999 K Street, N.W., Suite 600
Washington, D.C. 20006
Approximate date of proposed public offering: As soon as practicable after the effective date of this registration statement.
The registrant hereby amends this registration statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that the registration statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 or until the registration statement shall become effective on such date as the Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.
PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS
SUBJECT TO COMPLETION
November 6, 2026
THE INFORMATION IN THIS PROSPECTUS IS NOT COMPLETE AND MAY BE CHANGED. WE MAY NOT SELL THESE SECURITIES UNTIL THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION IS EFFECTIVE. THIS PROSPECTUS IS NOT AN OFFER TO SELL THESE SECURITIES AND IS NOT SOLICITING AN OFFER TO BUY THESE SECURITIES IN ANY STATE WHERE THE OFFER OR SALE IS NOT PERMITTED.
PROSPECTUS
[ ], 2026
| Fund Name | Ticker | Exchange |
| Integrity US All Cap Integrated Factor ETF | [ ] | [ ] |
| Integrity US Large Cap Integrated Factor ETF | [ ] | [ ] |
| Integrity US Small Cap Value Factor ETF | [ ] | [ ] |
each a series of Integrity Investment Funds Trust (the “Trust”) listed on [ ] (the “Exchange”)
The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has not approved or disapproved these securities or passed upon the adequacy of this Prospectus. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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FUND SUMMARY — INTEGRITY US ALL CAP INTEGRATED FACTOR ETF
Investment Objective
Integrity US All Cap Integrated Factor ETF (the “Fund”) seeks long term capital appreciation.
Fund Fees and Expenses
The table below describes the fees and expenses that you pay if you buy, sell, and hold shares of the Fund (“Shares”). Future expenses may be greater or less. You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the tables or the examples below.
| Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment) | None |
| Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) | |
| Management Fee | [ ]% |
| Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees | None |
| Other Expenses | [ ]% |
| Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses | [ ]% |
| Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses | [ ]% |
Example
This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds. This example does not take into account brokerage commissions that you pay when purchasing or selling Shares.
The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then hold or redeem all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% annual return 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 would be:
| Year | Expenses | |
| 1 | $[ ] | |
| 3 | $[ ] |
Portfolio Turnover
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it purchases and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may result in higher transaction costs and higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in the Annual Fund Operating Expenses table or in the Example above, may affect the Fund’s performance. The Fund’s portfolio turnover rate is only shown once the Fund has completed its first fiscal period of operations.
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Principal Investment Strategies of the Fund
Under normal conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus borrowings for investment purposes) in equity securities of U.S. issuers listed on U.S. exchanges. For purposes of this policy, equity securities include common stock, preferred stock and instruments whose value is linked to the value of common stock.
Integrity Quantitative Advisors, LLC (the “Adviser”) implements the Fund’s investment strategy by taking an integrated factor approach that ranks the eligible U.S. equity universe on market capitalization and on the joint distribution of value and profitability characteristics, emphasizing smaller market capitalizations and higher value and profitability characteristics considered together, and underweights or excludes securities it expects to have lower returns. “Value” is determined mainly by price-to-fundamental ratios (e.g., book/price) and an equity issuer is considered to have high profitability if it has high earnings or profits from operations in relation to its book value or assets. The Adviser may consider additional factors such as price to cash flow or price to earnings ratios. The Fund may invest in issuers of any market capitalization and, because the Adviser emphasizes smaller capitalizations relative to the broad U.S. equity market, is expected to hold a meaningful portion of its assets in small- and mid-capitalization issuers.
The Adviser will also systematically underweight or exclude categories it expects to have lower returns or behave as a separate asset class: small-cap low-profitability growth stocks, high asset-growth issuers, REITs, announced cash-merger targets, and negative-momentum securities.
The Fund applies a values-based screen maintained by the Adviser. The screen is designed to identify issuers involved in activities the Adviser regards as potentially incompatible with natural law, and to exclude those issuers whose involvement the Adviser determines to warrant exclusion. The Adviser’s methodology is drawn from the classical moral-theological analysis of cooperation with evil. In applying the screen, the Adviser distinguishes an issuer’s own conduct from conduct in which the issuer participates only indirectly, and considers how proximate the participation is, how central the activity is to the issuer’s business, and whether continued ownership would misrepresent the Fund’s mandate.
The screen is designed to identify issuers involved in activities the Adviser determines to be incompatible with natural law as determined by Christian moral teaching, including abortion; abortifacients and contraceptives; human embryonic research; artificial reproduction; interventions for sex reassignment; and pornography and other adult entertainment. Identification of an issuer by the screens does not by itself result in exclusion. Where the Adviser has identified an activity as warranting categorical exclusion by reason of the gravity of the matter involved, such as abortion, an issuer that engages directly in the activity, or that manufactures or produces a product whose principal purpose is the activity, is excluded without regard to the significance of the activity to its business. For other activities, the Adviser excludes an issuer whose operations are organized around the activity, and may otherwise retain the position and monitor the activity. This list is not exhaustive, the Adviser’s determinations as to particular topics and issuers may change, and the Adviser may modify the screening criteria at any time, without prior shareholder approval or notice.
The screen is applied at the issuer level. Involvement in an activity means a connection the Adviser determines to be sufficiently direct and substantial, and the Adviser may determine that goods, services, inputs or platforms having substantial uses unrelated to an activity do not constitute involvement in it. Indirect involvement, for example through ownership structures, franchising or supply relationships, does not itself result in categorical exclusion and is instead evaluated as described above. Where the Adviser has no indication that an issuer is involved in an activity, the Adviser will deem there to be no involvement.
In identifying and evaluating issuer conduct, the Adviser applies proprietary research technology to gather, filter and categorize information about issuer business activities, drawing principally on issuers’ public filings and other primary sources and supplementing that process with data obtained from third-party providers.
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The application of the screen requires the exercise of judgment. Reasonable persons who also seek to invest consistently with Christian moral teaching could reach materially different conclusions about particular issuers. It is not possible for the Adviser to be aware of every activity of every issuer, and information may be incomplete, inaccurate or unavailable, which may result in an issuer being incorrectly excluded as well as incorrectly retained. The Adviser seeks to review issuers and update its determinations at regular intervals, but a determination may not immediately reflect all information that has become available. The Adviser will endeavor to ensure that the Fund’s investments are consistent with the screens, but there can be no guarantee that every investment will be.
The Adviser establishes the criteria used to screen issuers and remains solely responsible for those criteria, for its screening determinations and for the Fund’s portfolio composition. The Adviser’s determinations are informed, but not bound, by one or more ethical advisers it may engage and by works in the natural law tradition and in Christian moral teaching on economic life, including documents issued by church bodies and related scholarly commentary. An ethical adviser acts in an advisory capacity only, has no discretionary authority to make investment decisions for the Fund and is not an investment adviser to the Fund. Each ethical adviser is compensated by the Adviser, and not by the Fund. The number and identity of the Adviser’s ethical advisers may change without notice to shareholders.
At times the Fund may hold a security that does not meet that Fund’s values-based criteria, because an issuer’s activities changed after the Fund purchased the security, because information was incomplete or inaccurate, or otherwise, including indirectly through investments in other ETFs or pooled investment vehicles, such as those the Fund may receive in an in-kind contribution of securities, whose holdings the Adviser does not control. Where the Adviser determines that a Fund holds such a security, the Adviser will seek to sell it within a reasonable period, taking into account liquidity, trading costs, portfolio turnover and the interests of shareholders. Where such a security is held indirectly through another investment vehicle, the Adviser will seek to dispose of that vehicle within a reasonable period and, pending disposition, may seek to offset the Fund’s exposure to the security, including through short sales. When a security is excluded by a screen, the Adviser seeks to replace it with one or more substitute securities drawn as nearly as reasonably possible from the same size, value and profitability segment and having, in the Adviser’s assessment, equivalent or higher expected returns, so as to preserve the Fund’s intended exposures to those characteristics. There can be no assurance that it will succeed in doing so, and the Fund’s characteristics and returns may differ materially, and for extended periods, from those of an unscreened portfolio constructed on the same basis.
The Adviser uses proprietary quantitative models to rank securities and to construct the Fund’s portfolio. Securities are weighted using relative market capitalization as a baseline, then over- or underweighted based on the characteristics above. The Fund does not rebalance on a fixed schedule. Instead, under the oversight of the Portfolio Manager, the Adviser trades flexibly and opportunistically to maintain the portfolio’s intended exposures while seeking to avoid unnecessary transaction costs and portfolio turnover.
The Fund may lend its portfolio securities to brokers, dealers and other financial institutions in order to earn additional income. Any such loans will be continuously secured by collateral at least equal to the market value of the securities loaned, and the Fund will not lend securities having a value of more than one-third of its total assets.
For cash management purposes, the Fund may hold cash and cash equivalents, including short-term U.S. government securities and shares of money market funds. To maintain market exposure on cash balances, such as cash held pending investment or to meet redemptions, the Fund may invest in exchange-traded equity index futures contracts. The Fund may also invest in other ETFs and pooled investment vehicles, including those received in an in-kind contribution of securities, and may engage in short sales of securities, including to offset its exposure to issuers, held directly or through such vehicles, that do not meet the Fund’s values-based criteria.
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Principal Risks of the Fund
There is no assurance that the Fund will meet its investment objective. The value of your investment in the Fund, as well as the amount of return you receive on your investment in the Fund, may fluctuate significantly. You may lose part or all of your investment in the Fund or your investment may not perform as well as other similar investments. Therefore, you should consider carefully the following risks before investing in the Fund. An investment in the Fund is not a bank deposit and is not insured or guaranteed by the FDIC or any government agency.
Values-Based Screening Risk. The Fund applies a values-based investment screen grounded in principles of natural law as understood through Christian moral teaching. As a result, the Fund may decline to purchase, or may sell, securities that otherwise satisfy its financial investment criteria, which could cause the Fund to underperform comparable funds that do not apply similar screening criteria. There can be no guarantee that the activities of companies in which the Fund invests, or the conduct of persons associated with those companies, will align (or be perceived to align) with an investor’s interpretation of the moral principles underlying the Fund’s screening methodology. The Adviser may fail to identify all instances in which a company’s activities are inconsistent with the Fund’s screening criteria, potentially resulting in investments that conflict with the Fund’s guidelines. Conversely, if a company in which the Fund has invested is subsequently determined to engage in activities inconsistent with those criteria, the Fund may be required to sell its securities at a financially disadvantageous time. The Adviser’s determinations involve the exercise of judgment, including judgments concerning the nature and proximity of an issuer’s involvement in a particular activity and the significance of that activity to its business. Such determinations may be informed by one or more ethical advisers whose recommendations are not binding on the Adviser. Other investment managers applying the same moral tradition may reach different conclusions.
Value Securities Risk. Value securities are those issued by companies that may be perceived as undervalued. Such securities may decline in price or fail to appreciate for long periods of time, and they may never realize their full potential value. Value securities may underperform growth securities and other types of assets as well as the overall stock market. Value securities may go in and out of favor over time, which could affect the performance of the Fund.
Active Management Risk. The Fund is actively managed, which means that investment decisions are made based on investment views of the Adviser. There is no guarantee that the investment views will produce the desired results or expected returns, which may cause the Fund to fail to meet its investment objective or to underperform its benchmark index or funds with similar investment objectives and strategies. Furthermore, active trading that can accompany active management may result in high portfolio turnover, which may have a negative impact on performance. Active trading may result in higher brokerage costs or mark-up charges, which are ultimately passed on to shareholders of the Fund. Active trading may also result in adverse tax consequences.
Equity Securities Risk. Equity securities are subject to changes in value, and their values may be more volatile than those of other asset classes. Common stocks generally subject their holders to more risks than preferred stocks and debt securities because common stockholders’ claims are subordinated to those of holders of preferred stocks and debt securities upon the bankruptcy of the issuer.
Absence of Prior Active Market Risk. While the Fund’s Shares are listed on [ ] (the “Exchange”), there can be no assurance that an active trading market for Shares will develop or be maintained. The Fund’s distributor does not maintain a secondary market in Shares.
Authorized Participants, Market Makers, and Liquidity Providers Concentration Risk. The Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may act as Authorized Participants (or “APs”). In addition, there may be a limited number of market makers and/or liquidity providers in the marketplace. To the extent either of the following events occur, Shares may trade at a material discount to NAV and possibly face delisting: (i) APs exit the business or otherwise become unable to process creation and/or redemption orders and no other APs step forward to perform these services, or (ii) market makers and/or liquidity providers exit the business or significantly reduce their business activities and no other entities step forward to perform their functions.
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Cybersecurity Risk. Cybersecurity incidents may allow an unauthorized party to gain access to Fund assets or proprietary information, or cause the Fund, the adviser, the sub-adviser and/or other service providers (including custodians and financial intermediaries) to suffer data breaches or data corruption. Additionally, cybersecurity failures or breaches of the electronic systems of the Fund, the adviser, the sub-adviser, or the Fund’s other service providers, market makers, Authorized Participants, the Exchange, or the issuers of securities in which the Fund invests have the ability to disrupt and negatively affect the Fund’s business operations, including the ability to purchase and sell Shares, potentially resulting in financial losses to the Fund and its shareholders.
Exchange Traded Funds (“ETFs”) Risk. The Fund is structured as an ETF. As a result, the Fund is subject to special risks, including:
| ● | Market Trading Risk. The Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including the potential lack of an active market for the Shares, losses from trading in secondary markets, and disruption in the creation/redemption process of the Fund. Any of these factors may lead to the Shares trading at a premium or discount to the Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”). |
| ● | Shares May Trade at Prices Other Than NAV Risk. As with all ETFs, Shares may be bought and sold in the secondary market at market prices. Although it is expected that the market price of Shares will approximate the Fund’s NAV, there may be times when the market price of Shares is more than the NAV intra-day (premium) or less than the NAV intra-day (discount) due to supply and demand of Shares or during periods of market volatility. This risk is heightened in times of market volatility, periods of steep market declines, and periods when there is limited trading activity for Shares in the secondary market, in which case such premiums or discounts may be significant. |
| ○ | In times of market stress, market makers may step away from their role as market makers in the Shares and in executing trades, which can lead to differences between the market value of the Shares and the Fund’s NAV. |
| ○ | The market price of the Shares may deviate from the Fund’s NAV, particularly during times of market stress, with the result that investors may pay significantly more or significantly less for the Shares than the Fund’s NAV, which is reflected in the bid and ask price for the Shares or in the closing price. |
| ○ | In stressed market conditions, the market for the Shares may become less liquid in response to the deteriorating liquidity of the Fund’s portfolio. This adverse effect on the liquidity of the Shares may, in turn, lead to differences between the market value of the Shares and the Fund’s NAV. |
| ○ | Purchases and redemptions of creation units primarily with cash, rather than through in-kind delivery of portfolio securities, may cause the Fund to incur certain costs. These costs could include brokerage costs or taxable gains or losses that it might not have incurred if it had made redemption in-kind. These costs could be imposed on the Fund, and thus decrease the Fund’s NAV, to the extent that the costs are not offset by a transaction fee payable by an Authorized Participant. |
Index Futures Contracts Risk. The Fund’s use of index futures contracts involves risks different from, and possibly greater than, the risks of investing directly in securities. Changes in the value of a futures contract may not correlate perfectly with the cash position it is intended to equitize, and the Fund could lose more than the initial margin it deposits. These instruments may also be illiquid and may increase the volatility of the Fund’s returns.
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Investment Companies and Pooled Vehicles Risk. When the Fund invests in other ETFs or pooled investment vehicles, it bears its proportionate share of those vehicles’ fees and expenses in addition to its own, and it is exposed to the risks of the vehicles’ underlying holdings, which may include securities of issuers that do not meet the Fund’s values-based criteria. Shares of other ETFs may trade at a premium or discount to their net asset value.
Issuer Risk. Changes in the financial condition or credit rating of an issuer or counterparty, changes in specific economic or political conditions that affect a particular type of security or issuer, and changes in general economic or political conditions can affect a security’s or instrument’s value. The values of securities of smaller, less well-known issuers can be more volatile than those of larger issuers. Issuer-specific events can have a negative impact on the value of the Fund.
Key Person Risk. The Fund relies substantially on a single portfolio manager who is principally responsible for the Fund’s investment strategy, security selection, and portfolio construction. Although the Adviser may engage a trading subadviser to assist with trade execution and related portfolio implementation functions, the Adviser is a newly formed firm with a limited number of employees, and the continued management of the Fund depends substantially on the services of its portfolio manager. The loss of his services, whether through death, disability, departure, or otherwise, could adversely affect the Adviser’s ability to manage the Fund in accordance with its investment strategies. The Adviser may not be able to attract or retain a qualified replacement on a timely basis or at all.
Large Shareholder and Large-Scale Redemption Risk. Certain shareholders, including an Authorized Participant, a third-party investor, the Fund’s adviser or an affiliate of the Fund’s adviser, a market maker, or another entity, may from time to time own or manage a substantial amount of Fund shares, or may invest in the Fund and hold its investment for a limited period of time. There can be no assurance that any large shareholder or large group of shareholders would not redeem their investment. Redemptions of a large number of Fund shares could require the Fund to dispose of assets to meet the redemption requests, which can accelerate the realization of taxable income and/or capital gains and cause the Fund to make taxable distributions to its shareholders earlier than the Fund otherwise would have. In addition, under certain circumstances, non-redeeming shareholders may be treated as receiving a disproportionately large taxable distribution during or with respect to such year.
Market and Geopolitical Risk. The increasing interconnectivity between global economies and financial markets increases the likelihood that events or conditions in one region or financial market may adversely impact issuers in a different country, region or financial market. Securities in the Fund’s portfolio may underperform due to inflation (or expectations for inflation), interest rates, global demand for particular products or resources, natural disasters, climate change and climate-related events, pandemics, epidemics, terrorism, international conflicts, regulatory events and governmental or quasi-governmental actions. The occurrence of global events similar to those in recent years may result in market volatility and may have long term effects on both the U.S. and global financial markets.
Mid-and Small-Capitalization Companies Risk. Compared to large-capitalization companies, mid- and small-capitalization companies may be less stable and more susceptible to adverse developments. The securities of mid- and small-capitalization companies may be more volatile and less liquid than those of large-capitalization companies. As a result, the Fund’s share price may be more volatile than that of a fund with a greater investment in large-capitalization stocks.
New Adviser Risk. The Adviser is both a newly registered investment adviser and has limited experience managing a registered fund. As a result, there is no long-term track record against which an investor may judge the Adviser and it is possible the Adviser may not achieve the Fund’s intended investment objective.
New Fund Risk. The Fund is a new fund, with no operating history, which may result in additional risks for investors in the Fund. There can be no assurance that the Fund will grow to or maintain an economically viable size, in which case the Board of Trustees may determine to liquidate the Fund. While shareholder interests will be the paramount consideration, the timing of any liquidation may not be favorable to certain individual shareholders.
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Portfolio Turnover Risk. Due to its investment strategy, the Fund may buy and sell securities frequently. This may result in higher transaction costs and additional capital gains tax liabilities, which may affect the Fund’s performance.
Quantitative Model Risk. The Fund seeks to pursue its investment objective by using proprietary models that incorporate quantitative analysis. Investments selected using these quantitative models may perform differently than as forecasted due to the factors incorporated into the quantitative models and the weighting of each factor, changes from historical trends, and issues in the construction and implementation of the quantitative models (including, but not limited to, software issues, issues related to the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning (“AI”), and other technological issues). There is no guarantee that the Adviser’s use of these quantitative models will result in effective investment decisions for the Fund.
The information and data used in the quantitative models may be supplied by third parties. Inaccurate or incomplete data may limit the effectiveness of the quantitative models. In addition, some of the data that the Adviser uses may be historical data, which may not accurately predict future market movement. There is a risk that the quantitative models will not be successful in selecting investments or in determining the weighting of investment positions that will enable the Fund to achieve its investment objective.
Real Estate Companies Risk. Real estate companies, which include real estate investment trusts (“REITs”), real estate holding and operating companies, and real estate management or development companies, expose investors to the risks of owning real estate directly as well as to the risks from the way that such companies operate. Real estate is highly sensitive to general and local economic conditions and can be subject to intense competition and periodic overbuilding. Other real estate risks include decreases in property values, tax increases, zoning changes, casualty or condemnation losses, environmental liabilities, regulatory limitations on rent or eviction, and defaults by borrowers or tenants. Real estate companies may be heavily invested in one geographic region, industry or property type. They also may be highly leveraged, which can magnify losses, and interest rate increases can make it difficult to obtain financing and service debt.
Securities Lending Risk. The Fund may engage in securities lending. Securities lending involves the risk that the Fund may lose money because the borrower of the loaned securities fails to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. The Fund could also lose money in the event of a decline in the value of collateral provided for loaned securities or a decline in the value of any investments made with cash collateral. These events could also trigger adverse tax consequences for the Fund.
Short Sales Risk. Because making short sales or taking short positions in securities that it does not own would expose the Fund to the risks associated with those securities, such short sales or positions involve speculative exposure risk. In such situations, the Fund will incur a loss as a result of a short sale or position if the price of the reference instrument increases after the Fund entered into the short sale or position. The Fund may lose more money than the actual cost of a short sale or position. Losses on a short sale are theoretically unlimited, because the price of a security sold short may rise without limit, and the Fund may be unable to close out a short position at an acceptable price.
U.S. Government Securities Risk. U.S. government securities may differ from other securities in their interest rates, maturities, times of issuance and other characteristics and may provide relatively lower returns than those of other securities. Similar to other issuers, changes to the financial condition or credit rating of the U.S. government may cause the value of the Fund’s U.S. government securities to decline.
Performance
The Fund is new, and therefore, no performance information is presented for the Fund at this time. In the future, performance information will be presented in this section of this Prospectus. Also, shareholder reports containing financial and performance information will be mailed to shareholders semi-annually. Updated performance information will be available at no cost by visiting the Fund’s website at [ ].
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Management
Investment Adviser
Integrity Quantitative Advisors, LLC
Portfolio Manager
The following portfolio manager has served as the portfolio manager of the Fund since it commenced operations in [ ] 2026.
Peter J. Weicher, Chief Investment Officer of the Adviser
Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares
Authorized Participants
The Fund issues and redeems Shares at NAV only in a large, specified number of Shares each called a “Creation Unit,” or multiples thereof, and only with authorized participants (“Authorized Participants”) which have entered into contractual arrangements with the Fund’s distributor (“Distributor”). Creation Unit transactions are typically conducted in exchange for a portfolio of securities closely approximating the holdings of the Fund and/or cash.
Investors
Individual Shares of the Fund may only be purchased and sold on a national securities exchange through brokers. Shares of the Fund are listed on the Exchange and because Shares will trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares of the Fund may trade at a price greater than or less than NAV.
Tax Information
Fund distributions are generally taxable as ordinary income, qualified dividend income, or capital gains (or a combination), unless your investment is in an individual retirement account (“IRA”) or other tax-advantaged account. Distributions on investments made through tax-deferred arrangements may be taxed later upon withdrawal of assets from those accounts.
Payments to Broker-Dealer and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase Shares through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary, the Adviser or other related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of Shares or 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 website for more information.
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FUND SUMMARY — INTEGRITY US LARGE CAP INTEGRATED FACTOR ETF
Investment Objective
Integrity US Large Cap Integrated Factor ETF (the “Fund”) seeks long term capital appreciation.
Fund Fees and Expenses
The table below describes the fees and expenses that you pay if you buy, sell, and hold shares of the Fund (“Shares”). Future expenses may be greater or less. You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the tables or the examples below.
| Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment) | None |
| Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) | |
| Management Fee | [ ]% |
| Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees | None |
| Other Expenses | [ ]% |
| Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses | [ ]% |
| Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses | [ ]% |
Example
This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds. This example does not take into account brokerage commissions that you pay when purchasing or selling Shares.
The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then hold or redeem all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% annual return 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 would be:
| Year | Expenses | |
| 1 | $[ ] | |
| 3 | $[ ] |
Portfolio Turnover
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it purchases and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may result in higher transaction costs and higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in the Annual Fund Operating Expenses table or in the Example above, may affect the Fund’s performance. The Fund’s portfolio turnover rate is only shown once the Fund has completed its first fiscal period of operations.
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Principal Investment Strategies of the Fund
Under normal conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus borrowings for investment purposes) in equity securities of large-capitalization U.S. issuers listed on U.S. exchanges. For purposes of this policy, equity securities include common stock, preferred stock and instruments whose value is linked to the value of common stock. The Fund considers an issuer to be a large-capitalization issuer if, at the time of purchase, it is within the U.S. large-capitalization universe described below.
Integrity Quantitative Advisors, LLC (the “Adviser”) implements the Fund’s investment strategy by taking an integrated factor approach that ranks the eligible U.S. large-capitalization equity universe on market capitalization and on the joint distribution of value and profitability characteristics, emphasizing the smaller market capitalizations within that universe and higher value and profitability characteristics considered together, and underweights or excludes securities it expects to have lower returns. “Value” is determined mainly by price-to-fundamental ratios (e.g., book/price), and an equity issuer is considered to have high profitability if it has high earnings or profits from operations in relation to its book value or assets. The Adviser may consider additional factors such as price to cash flow or price to earnings ratios. Because the Adviser emphasizes the smaller capitalizations within the U.S. large-capitalization universe, the Fund is expected to hold a meaningful portion of its assets in issuers that are also commonly classified as mid-capitalization companies.
The Adviser defines the U.S. large-capitalization universe as the largest U.S. issuers listed on U.S. exchanges, ranked by market capitalization, that together account for approximately the top 90% of the total market capitalization of all such issuers. The Adviser determines the universe using its own market capitalization data and reconstitutes it periodically, and an issuer’s inclusion is measured at the time of purchase.
The Adviser will also systematically underweight or exclude companies with exceptionally low profitability or growth characteristics considered jointly. The Adviser will also exclude REITs, which it treats as a separate asset class, and avoid negative-momentum securities.
The Fund applies a values-based screen maintained by the Adviser. The screen is designed to identify issuers involved in activities the Adviser regards as potentially incompatible with natural law, and to exclude those issuers whose involvement the Adviser determines to warrant exclusion. The Adviser’s methodology is drawn from the classical moral-theological analysis of cooperation with evil. In applying the screen, the Adviser distinguishes an issuer’s own conduct from conduct in which the issuer participates only indirectly, and considers how proximate the participation is, how central the activity is to the issuer’s business, and whether continued ownership would misrepresent the Fund’s mandate.
The screen is designed to identify issuers involved in activities the Adviser determines to be incompatible with natural law as determined by Christian moral teaching, including abortion; abortifacients and contraceptives; human embryonic research; artificial reproduction; interventions for sex reassignment; and pornography and other adult entertainment. Identification of an issuer by the screen does not by itself result in exclusion. Where the Adviser has identified an activity as warranting categorical exclusion by reason of the gravity of the matter involved, such as abortion, an issuer that engages directly in the activity, or that manufactures or produces a product whose principal purpose is the activity, is excluded without regard to the significance of the activity to its business. For other activities, the Adviser excludes an issuer whose operations are organized around the activity, and may otherwise retain the position and monitor the activity. This list is not exhaustive, the Adviser’s determinations as to particular topics and issuers may change, and the Adviser may modify the screening criteria at any time, without prior shareholder approval or notice.
The screen is applied at the issuer level. Involvement in an activity means a connection the Adviser determines to be sufficiently direct and substantial, and the Adviser may determine that goods, services, inputs or platforms having substantial uses unrelated to an activity do not constitute involvement in it. Indirect involvement, for example through ownership structures, franchising or supply relationships, does not itself result in categorical exclusion and is instead evaluated as described above. Where the Adviser has no indication that an issuer is involved in an activity, the Adviser will deem there to be no involvement.
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In identifying and evaluating issuer conduct, the Adviser applies proprietary research technology to gather, filter and categorize information about issuer business activities, drawing principally on issuers’ public filings and other primary sources and supplementing that process with data obtained from third-party providers.
The application of the screen requires the exercise of judgment. Reasonable persons who also seek to invest consistently with Christian moral teaching could reach materially different conclusions about particular issuers. It is not possible for the Adviser to be aware of every activity of every issuer, and information may be incomplete, inaccurate or unavailable, which may result in an issuer being incorrectly excluded as well as incorrectly retained. The Adviser seeks to review issuers and update its determinations at regular intervals, but a determination may not immediately reflect all information that has become available. The Adviser will endeavor to ensure that the Fund’s investments are consistent with the screens, but there can be no guarantee that every investment will be.
The Adviser establishes the criteria used to screen issuers and remains solely responsible for those criteria, for its screening determinations and for the Fund’s portfolio composition. The Adviser’s determinations are informed, but not bound, by one or more ethical advisers it may engage and by works in the natural law tradition and in Christian moral teaching on economic life, including documents issued by church bodies and related scholarly commentary. An ethical adviser acts in an advisory capacity only, has no discretionary authority to make investment decisions for the Fund and is not an investment adviser to the Fund. Each ethical adviser is compensated by the Adviser, and not by the Fund. The number and identity of the Adviser’s ethical advisers may change without notice to shareholders.
At times the Fund may hold a security that does not meet that Fund’s values-based criteria, because an issuer’s activities changed after the Fund purchased the security, because information was incomplete or inaccurate, or otherwise, including indirectly through investments in other ETFs or pooled investment vehicles, such as those the Fund may receive in an in-kind contribution of securities, whose holdings the Adviser does not control. Where the Adviser determines that a Fund holds such a security, the Adviser will seek to sell it within a reasonable period, taking into account liquidity, trading costs, portfolio turnover and the interests of shareholders. Where such a security is held indirectly through another investment vehicle, the Adviser will seek to dispose of that vehicle within a reasonable period and, pending disposition, may seek to offset the Fund’s exposure to the security, including through short sales. When a security is excluded by a screen, the Adviser seeks to replace it with one or more substitute securities drawn as nearly as reasonably possible from the same size, value and profitability segment and having, in the Adviser’s assessment, equivalent or higher expected returns, so as to preserve the Fund’s intended exposures to those characteristics. There can be no assurance that it will succeed in doing so, and the Fund’s characteristics and returns may differ materially, and for extended periods, from those of an unscreened portfolio constructed on the same basis.
The Adviser uses proprietary quantitative models to rank securities and to construct the Fund’s portfolio. Securities are weighted using relative market capitalization as a baseline, then over- or underweighted based on the characteristics above. The Fund does not rebalance on a fixed schedule. Instead, under the oversight of the Portfolio Manager, the Adviser trades flexibly and opportunistically to maintain the portfolio’s intended exposures while seeking to avoid unnecessary transaction costs and portfolio turnover.
The Fund may lend its portfolio securities to brokers, dealers and other financial institutions in order to earn additional income. Any such loans will be continuously secured by collateral at least equal to the market value of the securities loaned, and the Fund will not lend securities having a value of more than one-third of its total assets.
For cash management purposes, the Fund may hold cash and cash equivalents, including short-term U.S. government securities and shares of money market funds. To maintain market exposure on cash balances, such as cash held pending investment or to meet redemptions, the Fund may invest in exchange-traded equity index futures contracts. The Fund may also invest in other ETFs and pooled investment vehicles, including those received in an in-kind contribution of securities, and may engage in short sales of securities, including to offset its exposure to issuers, held directly or through such vehicles, that do not meet the Fund’s values-based criteria.
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Principal Risks of the Fund
There is no assurance that the Fund will meet its investment objective. The value of your investment in the Fund, as well as the amount of return you receive on your investment in the Fund, may fluctuate significantly. You may lose part or all of your investment in the Fund or your investment may not perform as well as other similar investments. Therefore, you should consider carefully the following risks before investing in the Fund. An investment in the Fund is not a bank deposit and is not insured or guaranteed by the FDIC or any government agency.
Values-Based Screening Risk. The Fund applies a values-based investment screen grounded in principles of natural law as understood through Christian moral teaching. As a result, the Fund may decline to purchase, or may sell, securities that otherwise satisfy its financial investment criteria, which could cause the Fund to underperform comparable funds that do not apply similar screening criteria. There can be no guarantee that the activities of companies in which the Fund invests, or the conduct of persons associated with those companies, will align (or be perceived to align) with an investor’s interpretation of the moral principles underlying the Fund’s screening methodology. The Adviser may fail to identify all instances in which a company’s activities are inconsistent with the Fund’s screening criteria, potentially resulting in investments that conflict with the Fund’s guidelines. Conversely, if a company in which the Fund has invested is subsequently determined to engage in activities inconsistent with those criteria, the Fund may be required to sell its securities at a financially disadvantageous time. The Adviser’s determinations involve the exercise of judgment, including judgments concerning the nature and proximity of an issuer’s involvement in a particular activity and the significance of that activity to its business. Such determinations may be informed by one or more ethical advisers whose recommendations are not binding on the Adviser. Other investment managers applying the same moral tradition may reach different conclusions.
Value Securities Risk. Value securities are those issued by companies that may be perceived as undervalued. Such securities may decline in price or fail to appreciate for long periods of time, and they may never realize their full potential value. Value securities may underperform growth securities and other types of assets as well as the overall stock market. Value securities may go in and out of favor over time, which could affect the performance of the Fund.
Active Management Risk. The Fund is actively managed, which means that investment decisions are made based on investment views of the Adviser. There is no guarantee that the investment views will produce the desired results or expected returns, which may cause the Fund to fail to meet its investment objective or to underperform its benchmark index or funds with similar investment objectives and strategies. Furthermore, active trading that can accompany active management may result in high portfolio turnover, which may have a negative impact on performance. Active trading may result in higher brokerage costs or mark-up charges, which are ultimately passed on to shareholders of the Fund. Active trading may also result in adverse tax consequences.
Equity Securities Risk. Equity securities are subject to changes in value, and their values may be more volatile than those of other asset classes. Common stocks generally subject their holders to more risks than preferred stocks and debt securities because common stockholders’ claims are subordinated to those of holders of preferred stocks and debt securities upon the bankruptcy of the issuer.
Absence of Prior Active Market Risk. While the Fund’s Shares are listed on [ ] (the “Exchange”), there can be no assurance that an active trading market for Shares will develop or be maintained. The Fund’s distributor does not maintain a secondary market in Shares.
Authorized Participants, Market Makers, and Liquidity Providers Concentration Risk. The Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may act as Authorized Participants (or “APs”). In addition, there may be a limited number of market makers and/or liquidity providers in the marketplace. To the extent either of the following events occur, Shares may trade at a material discount to NAV and possibly face delisting: (i) APs exit the business or otherwise become unable to process creation and/or redemption orders and no other APs step forward to perform these services, or (ii) market makers and/or liquidity providers exit the business or significantly reduce their business activities and no other entities step forward to perform their functions.
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Cybersecurity Risk. Cybersecurity incidents may allow an unauthorized party to gain access to Fund assets or proprietary information, or cause the Fund, the adviser, the sub-adviser and/or other service providers (including custodians and financial intermediaries) to suffer data breaches or data corruption. Additionally, cybersecurity failures or breaches of the electronic systems of the Fund, the adviser, the sub-adviser, or the Fund’s other service providers, market makers, Authorized Participants, the Exchange, or the issuers of securities in which the Fund invests have the ability to disrupt and negatively affect the Fund’s business operations, including the ability to purchase and sell Shares, potentially resulting in financial losses to the Fund and its shareholders.
Exchange Traded Funds (“ETFs”) Risk. The Fund is structured as an ETF. As a result, the Fund is subject to special risks, including:
| ● | Market Trading Risk. The Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including the potential lack of an active market for the Shares, losses from trading in secondary markets, and disruption in the creation/redemption process of the Fund. Any of these factors may lead to the Shares trading at a premium or discount to the Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”). |
| ● | Shares May Trade at Prices Other Than NAV Risk. As with all ETFs, Shares may be bought and sold in the secondary market at market prices. Although it is expected that the market price of Shares will approximate the Fund’s NAV, there may be times when the market price of Shares is more than the NAV intra-day (premium) or less than the NAV intra-day (discount) due to supply and demand of Shares or during periods of market volatility. This risk is heightened in times of market volatility, periods of steep market declines, and periods when there is limited trading activity for Shares in the secondary market, in which case such premiums or discounts may be significant. |
| ○ | In times of market stress, market makers may step away from their role as market makers in the Shares and in executing trades, which can lead to differences between the market value of the Shares and the Fund’s NAV. |
| ○ | The market price of the Shares may deviate from the Fund’s NAV, particularly during times of market stress, with the result that investors may pay significantly more or significantly less for the Shares than the Fund’s NAV, which is reflected in the bid and ask price for the Shares or in the closing price. |
| ○ | In stressed market conditions, the market for the Shares may become less liquid in response to the deteriorating liquidity of the Fund’s portfolio. This adverse effect on the liquidity of the Shares may, in turn, lead to differences between the market value of the Shares and the Fund’s NAV. |
| ○ | Purchases and redemptions of creation units primarily with cash, rather than through in-kind delivery of portfolio securities, may cause the Fund to incur certain costs. These costs could include brokerage costs or taxable gains or losses that it might not have incurred if it had made redemption in-kind. These costs could be imposed on the Fund, and thus decrease the Fund’s NAV, to the extent that the costs are not offset by a transaction fee payable by an Authorized Participant. |
Index Futures Contracts Risk. The Fund’s use of index futures contracts involves risks different from, and possibly greater than, the risks of investing directly in securities. Changes in the value of a futures contract may not correlate perfectly with the cash position it is intended to equitize, and the Fund could lose more than the initial margin it deposits. These instruments may also be illiquid and may increase the volatility of the Fund’s returns.
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Investment Companies and Pooled Vehicles Risk. When the Fund invests in other ETFs or pooled investment vehicles, it bears its proportionate share of those vehicles’ fees and expenses in addition to its own, and it is exposed to the risks of the vehicles’ underlying holdings, which may include securities of issuers that do not meet the Fund’s values-based criteria. Shares of other ETFs may trade at a premium or discount to their net asset value.
Issuer Risk. Changes in the financial condition or credit rating of an issuer or counterparty, changes in specific economic or political conditions that affect a particular type of security or issuer, and changes in general economic or political conditions can affect a security’s or instrument’s value. The values of securities of smaller, less well-known issuers can be more volatile than those of larger issuers. Issuer-specific events can have a negative impact on the value of the Fund.
Key Person Risk. The Fund relies substantially on a single portfolio manager who is principally responsible for the Fund’s investment strategy, security selection, and portfolio construction. Although the Adviser may engage a trading subadviser to assist with trade execution and related portfolio implementation functions, the Adviser is a newly formed firm with a limited number of employees, and the continued management of the Fund depends substantially on the services of its portfolio manager. The loss of his services, whether through death, disability, departure, or otherwise, could adversely affect the Adviser’s ability to manage the Fund in accordance with its investment strategies. The Adviser may not be able to attract or retain a qualified replacement on a timely basis or at all.
Large-Capitalization Risk. Investments in large capitalization companies may go in and out of favor based on market and economic conditions and may underperform other market segments. Some large capitalization companies may be unable to respond quickly to new competitive challenges, such as changes in technology and consumer tastes, and may not be able to attain the high growth rate of successful smaller companies, especially during extended periods of economic expansion. As such, returns on investments in stocks of large capitalization companies could trail the returns on investments in stocks of small and mid-capitalization companies.
Large Shareholder and Large-Scale Redemption Risk. Certain shareholders, including an Authorized Participant, a third-party investor, the Fund’s adviser or an affiliate of the Fund’s adviser, a market maker, or another entity, may from time to time own or manage a substantial amount of Fund shares, or may invest in the Fund and hold its investment for a limited period of time. There can be no assurance that any large shareholder or large group of shareholders would not redeem their investment. Redemptions of a large number of Fund shares could require the Fund to dispose of assets to meet the redemption requests, which can accelerate the realization of taxable income and/or capital gains and cause the Fund to make taxable distributions to its shareholders earlier than the Fund otherwise would have. In addition, under certain circumstances, non-redeeming shareholders may be treated as receiving a disproportionately large taxable distribution during or with respect to such year.
Market and Geopolitical Risk. The increasing interconnectivity between global economies and financial markets increases the likelihood that events or conditions in one region or financial market may adversely impact issuers in a different country, region or financial market. Securities in the Fund’s portfolio may underperform due to inflation (or expectations for inflation), interest rates, global demand for particular products or resources, natural disasters, climate change and climate-related events, pandemics, epidemics, terrorism, international conflicts, regulatory events and governmental or quasi-governmental actions. The occurrence of global events similar to those in recent years may result in market volatility and may have long term effects on both the U.S. and global financial markets.
Mid-Capitalization Companies Risk. Compared to large-capitalization companies, mid-capitalization companies may be less stable and more susceptible to adverse developments, and their securities may be more volatile and less liquid. Large-capitalization companies may be unable to respond quickly to new competitive challenges, such as changes in technology and consumer tastes, and may not be able to attain the high growth rates of successful smaller companies.
New Adviser Risk. The Adviser is both a newly registered investment adviser and has limited experience managing a registered fund. As a result, there is no long-term track record against which an investor may judge the Adviser and it is possible the Adviser may not achieve the Fund’s intended investment objective.
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New Fund Risk. The Fund is a new fund, with no operating history, which may result in additional risks for investors in the Fund. There can be no assurance that the Fund will grow to or maintain an economically viable size, in which case the Board of Trustees may determine to liquidate the Fund. While shareholder interests will be the paramount consideration, the timing of any liquidation may not be favorable to certain individual shareholders.
Portfolio Turnover Risk. Due to its investment strategy, the Fund may buy and sell securities frequently. This may result in higher transaction costs and additional capital gains tax liabilities, which may affect the Fund’s performance.
Quantitative Model Risk. The Fund seeks to pursue its investment objective by using proprietary models that incorporate quantitative analysis. Investments selected using these quantitative models may perform differently than as forecasted due to the factors incorporated into the quantitative models and the weighting of each factor, changes from historical trends, and issues in the construction and implementation of the quantitative models (including, but not limited to, software issues, issues related to the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning (“AI”), and other technological issues). There is no guarantee that the Adviser’s use of these quantitative models will result in effective investment decisions for the Fund.
The information and data used in the quantitative models may be supplied by third parties. Inaccurate or incomplete data may limit the effectiveness of the quantitative models. In addition, some of the data that the Adviser uses may be historical data, which may not accurately predict future market movement. There is a risk that the quantitative models will not be successful in selecting investments or in determining the weighting of investment positions that will enable the Fund to achieve its investment objective.
Real Estate Companies Risk. Real estate companies, which include real estate investment trusts (“REITs”), real estate holding and operating companies, and real estate management or development companies, expose investors to the risks of owning real estate directly as well as to the risks from the way that such companies operate. Real estate is highly sensitive to general and local economic conditions and can be subject to intense competition and periodic overbuilding. Other real estate risks include decreases in property values, tax increases, zoning changes, casualty or condemnation losses, environmental liabilities, regulatory limitations on rent or eviction, and defaults by borrowers or tenants. Real estate companies may be heavily invested in one geographic region, industry or property type. They also may be highly leveraged, which can magnify losses, and interest rate increases can make it difficult to obtain financing and service debt.
Securities Lending Risk. The Fund may engage in securities lending. Securities lending involves the risk that the Fund may lose money because the borrower of the loaned securities fails to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. The Fund could also lose money in the event of a decline in the value of collateral provided for loaned securities or a decline in the value of any investments made with cash collateral. These events could also trigger adverse tax consequences for the Fund.
Short Sales Risk. Because making short sales or taking short positions in securities that it does not own would expose the Fund to the risks associated with those securities, such short sales or positions involve speculative exposure risk. In such situations, the Fund will incur a loss as a result of a short sale or position if the price of the reference instrument increases after the Fund entered into the short sale or position. The Fund may lose more money than the actual cost of a short sale or position. Losses on a short sale are theoretically unlimited, because the price of a security sold short may rise without limit, and the Fund may be unable to close out a short position at an acceptable price.
U.S. Government Securities Risk. U.S. government securities may differ from other securities in their interest rates, maturities, times of issuance and other characteristics and may provide relatively lower returns than those of other securities. Similar to other issuers, changes to the financial condition or credit rating of the U.S. government may cause the value of the Fund’s U.S. government securities to decline.
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Performance
The Fund is new, and therefore, no performance information is presented for the Fund at this time. In the future, performance information will be presented in this section of this Prospectus. Also, shareholder reports containing financial and performance information will be mailed to shareholders semi-annually. Updated performance information will be available at no cost by visiting the Fund’s website at [ ].
Management
Investment Adviser
Integrity Quantitative Advisors LLC
Portfolio Manager
The following portfolio manager has served as the portfolio manager of the Fund since it commenced operations in [ ] 2026.
Peter J. Weicher, Chief Investment Officer of the Adviser
Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares
Authorized Participants
The Fund issues and redeems Shares at NAV only in a large, specified number of Shares each called a “Creation Unit,” or multiples thereof, and only with authorized participants (“Authorized Participants”) which have entered into contractual arrangements with the Fund’s distributor (“Distributor”). Creation Unit transactions are typically conducted in exchange for a portfolio of securities closely approximating the holdings of the Fund and/or cash.
Investors
Individual Shares of the Fund may only be purchased and sold on a national securities exchange through brokers. Shares of the Fund are listed on the Exchange and because Shares will trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares of the Fund may trade at a price greater than or less than NAV.
Tax Information
Fund distributions are generally taxable as ordinary income, qualified dividend income, or capital gains (or a combination), unless your investment is in an individual retirement account (“IRA”) or other tax-advantaged account. Distributions on investments made through tax-deferred arrangements may be taxed later upon withdrawal of assets from those accounts.
Payments to Broker-Dealer and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase Shares through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary, the Adviser or other related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of Shares or 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 website for more information.
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FUND SUMMARY — INTEGRITY US SMALL CAP VALUE FACTOR ETF
Investment Objective
Integrity US Small Cap Value Factor ETF (the “Fund”) seeks long term capital appreciation.
Fund Fees and Expenses
The table below describes the fees and expenses that you pay if you buy, sell, and hold shares of the Fund (“Shares”). Future expenses may be greater or less. You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the tables or the examples below.
| Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment) | None |
| Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) | |
| Management Fee | [ ]% |
| Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees | None |
| Other Expenses | [ ]% |
| Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses | [ ]% |
| Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses | [ ]% |
Example
This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds. This example does not take into account brokerage commissions that you pay when purchasing or selling Shares.
The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then hold or redeem all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% annual return 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 would be:
| Year | Expenses | |
| 1 | $[ ] | |
| 3 | $[ ] |
Portfolio Turnover
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it purchases and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may result in higher transaction costs and higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in the Annual Fund Operating Expenses table or in the Example above, may affect the Fund’s performance. The Fund’s portfolio turnover rate is only shown once the Fund has completed its first fiscal period of operations.
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Principal Investment Strategies of the Fund
Under normal conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus borrowings for investment purposes) in equity securities of small-capitalization U.S. issuers listed on U.S. exchanges that Integrity Quantitative Advisors, LLC (the “Adviser”) considers to have value characteristics. For purposes of this policy, equity securities include common stock, preferred stock and instruments whose value is linked to the value of common stock. The Fund considers a company to be a small-capitalization issuer if, at the time of purchase, it is not within the U.S. large-capitalization universe, which the Adviser defines as the largest U.S. issuers listed on U.S. exchanges, ranked by market capitalization, that together account for approximately the top 90% of the total market capitalization of all such issuers. Small-capitalization issuers therefore together account for approximately the bottom 10% of that total market capitalization. As of [ ], 202[ ], the largest small-capitalization issuer had a market capitalization of approximately $[ ] billion. The Fund considers an issuer to have value characteristics if the Adviser ranks it in the [ ] of the eligible small-capitalization universe on the price-to-fundamental measures described below.
The Adviser emphasizes small-capitalization U.S. equities with higher value and profitability characteristics considered jointly, and underweights or excludes securities it expects to have lower returns. “Value” is determined mainly by price-to-fundamental ratios (e.g., book/price). An equity issuer is considered to have high profitability if it has high earnings or profits from operations in relation to its book value or assets, and profitability is applied as a secondary consideration to value. The Adviser may consider additional factors such as price to cash flow or price to earnings ratios.
The Adviser will also systematically underweight or exclude categories it expects to have lower returns or behave as a separate asset class: small-cap low-profitability growth stocks, high asset-growth issuers, REITs, announced cash-merger targets, and negative-momentum securities.
The Fund applies a values-based screen maintained by the Adviser. The screen is designed to identify issuers involved in activities the Adviser regards as potentially incompatible with natural law, and to exclude those issuers whose involvement the Adviser determines to warrant exclusion. The Adviser’s methodology is drawn from the classical moral-theological analysis of cooperation with evil. In applying the screen, the Adviser distinguishes an issuer’s own conduct from conduct in which the issuer participates only indirectly, and considers how proximate the participation is, how central the activity is to the issuer’s business, and whether continued ownership would misrepresent the Fund’s mandate.
The screen is designed to identify issuers involved in activities the Adviser determines to be incompatible with natural law as determined by Christian moral teaching, including abortion; abortifacients and contraceptives; human embryonic research; artificial reproduction; interventions for sex reassignment; and pornography and other adult entertainment. Identification of an issuer by the screen does not by itself result in exclusion. Where the Adviser has identified an activity as warranting categorical exclusion by reason of the gravity of the matter involved, such as abortion, an issuer that engages directly in the activity, or that manufactures or produces a product whose principal purpose is the activity, is excluded without regard to the significance of the activity to its business. For other activities, the Adviser excludes an issuer whose operations are organized around the activity, and may otherwise retain the position and monitor the activity. This list is not exhaustive, the Adviser’s determinations as to particular topics and issuers may change, and the Adviser may modify the screening criteria at any time, without prior shareholder approval or notice.
The screen is applied at the issuer level. Involvement in an activity means a connection the Adviser determines to be sufficiently direct and substantial, and the Adviser may determine that goods, services, inputs or platforms having substantial uses unrelated to an activity do not constitute involvement in it. Indirect involvement, for example through ownership structures, franchising or supply relationships, does not itself result in categorical exclusion and is instead evaluated as described above. Where the Adviser has no indication that an issuer is involved in an activity, the Adviser will deem there to be no involvement.
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In identifying and evaluating issuer conduct, the Adviser applies proprietary research technology to gather, filter and categorize information about issuer business activities, drawing principally on issuers’ public filings and other primary sources and supplementing that process with data obtained from third-party providers.
The application of the screen requires the exercise of judgment. Reasonable persons who also seek to invest consistently with Christian moral teaching could reach materially different conclusions about particular issuers. It is not possible for the Adviser to be aware of every activity of every issuer, and information may be incomplete, inaccurate or unavailable, which may result in an issuer being incorrectly excluded as well as incorrectly retained. The Adviser seeks to review issuers and update its determinations at regular intervals, but a determination may not immediately reflect all information that has become available. The Adviser will endeavor to ensure that the Fund’s investments are consistent with the screens, but there can be no guarantee that every investment will be.
The Adviser establishes the criteria used to screen issuers and remains solely responsible for those criteria, for its screening determinations and for the Fund’s portfolio composition. The Adviser’s determinations are informed, but not bound, by one or more ethical advisers it may engage and by works in the natural law tradition and in Christian moral teaching on economic life, including documents issued by church bodies and related scholarly commentary. An ethical adviser acts in an advisory capacity only, has no discretionary authority to make investment decisions for the Fund and is not an investment adviser to the Fund. Each ethical adviser is compensated by the Adviser, and not by the Fund. The number and identity of the Adviser’s ethical advisers may change without notice to shareholders.
At times the Fund may hold a security that does not meet that Fund’s values-based criteria, because an issuer’s activities changed after the Fund purchased the security, because information was incomplete or inaccurate, or otherwise, including indirectly through investments in other ETFs or pooled investment vehicles, such as those the Fund may receive in an in-kind contribution of securities, whose holdings the Adviser does not control. Where the Adviser determines that a Fund holds such a security, the Adviser will seek to sell it within a reasonable period, taking into account liquidity, trading costs, portfolio turnover and the interests of shareholders. Where such a security is held indirectly through another investment vehicle, the Adviser will seek to dispose of that vehicle within a reasonable period and, pending disposition, may seek to offset the Fund’s exposure to the security, including through short sales. When a security is excluded by a screen, the Adviser seeks to replace it with one or more substitute securities drawn as nearly as reasonably possible from the same size, value and profitability segment and having, in the Adviser’s assessment, equivalent or higher expected returns, so as to preserve the Fund’s intended exposures to those characteristics. There can be no assurance that it will succeed in doing so, and the Fund’s characteristics and returns may differ materially, and for extended periods, from those of an unscreened portfolio constructed on the same basis.
The Adviser uses proprietary quantitative models to rank securities and to construct the Fund’s portfolio. Securities are weighted using relative market capitalization as a baseline, then over- or underweighted based on the characteristics above. The Fund does not rebalance on a fixed schedule. Instead, under the oversight of the Portfolio Manager, the Adviser trades flexibly and opportunistically to maintain the portfolio’s intended exposures while seeking to avoid unnecessary transaction costs and portfolio turnover.
The Fund may lend its portfolio securities to brokers, dealers and other financial institutions in order to earn additional income. Any such loans will be continuously secured by collateral at least equal to the market value of the securities loaned, and the Fund will not lend securities having a value of more than one-third of its total assets.
For cash management purposes, the Fund may hold cash and cash equivalents, including short-term U.S. government securities and shares of money market funds. To maintain market exposure on cash balances, such as cash held pending investment or to meet redemptions, the Fund may invest in exchange-traded equity index futures contracts. The Fund may also invest in other ETFs and pooled investment vehicles, including those received in an in-kind contribution of securities, and may engage in short sales of securities, including to offset its exposure to issuers, held directly or through such vehicles, that do not meet the Fund’s values-based criteria.
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Principal Risks of the Fund
There is no assurance that the Fund will meet its investment objective. The value of your investment in the Fund, as well as the amount of return you receive on your investment in the Fund, may fluctuate significantly. You may lose part or all of your investment in the Fund or your investment may not perform as well as other similar investments. Therefore, you should consider carefully the following risks before investing in the Fund. An investment in the Fund is not a bank deposit and is not insured or guaranteed by the FDIC or any government agency.
Values-Based Screening Risk. The Fund applies a values-based investment screen grounded in principles of natural law as understood through Christian moral teaching. As a result, the Fund may decline to purchase, or may sell, securities that otherwise satisfy its financial investment criteria, which could cause the Fund to underperform comparable funds that do not apply similar screening criteria. There can be no guarantee that the activities of companies in which the Fund invests, or the conduct of persons associated with those companies, will align (or be perceived to align) with an investor’s interpretation of the moral principles underlying the Fund’s screening methodology. The Adviser may fail to identify all instances in which a company’s activities are inconsistent with the Fund’s screening criteria, potentially resulting in investments that conflict with the Fund’s guidelines. Conversely, if a company in which the Fund has invested is subsequently determined to engage in activities inconsistent with those criteria, the Fund may be required to sell its securities at a financially disadvantageous time. The Adviser’s determinations involve the exercise of judgment, including judgments concerning the nature and proximity of an issuer’s involvement in a particular activity and the significance of that activity to its business. Such determinations may be informed by one or more ethical advisers whose recommendations are not binding on the Adviser. Other investment managers applying the same moral tradition may reach different conclusions.
Value Securities Risk. Value securities are those issued by companies that may be perceived as undervalued. Such securities may decline in price or fail to appreciate for long periods of time, and they may never realize their full potential value. Value securities may underperform growth securities and other types of assets as well as the overall stock market. Value securities may go in and out of favor over time, which could affect the performance of the Fund.
Active Management Risk. The Fund is actively managed, which means that investment decisions are made based on investment views of the Adviser. There is no guarantee that the investment views will produce the desired results or expected returns, which may cause the Fund to fail to meet its investment objective or to underperform its benchmark index or funds with similar investment objectives and strategies. Furthermore, active trading that can accompany active management may result in high portfolio turnover, which may have a negative impact on performance. Active trading may result in higher brokerage costs or mark-up charges, which are ultimately passed on to shareholders of the Fund. Active trading may also result in adverse tax consequences.
Equity Securities Risk. Equity securities are subject to changes in value, and their values may be more volatile than those of other asset classes. Common stocks generally subject their holders to more risks than preferred stocks and debt securities because common stockholders’ claims are subordinated to those of holders of preferred stocks and debt securities upon the bankruptcy of the issuer.
Absence of Prior Active Market Risk. While the Fund’s Shares are listed on [ ] (the “Exchange”), there can be no assurance that an active trading market for Shares will develop or be maintained. The Fund’s distributor does not maintain a secondary market in Shares.
Authorized Participants, Market Makers, and Liquidity Providers Concentration Risk. The Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may act as Authorized Participants (or “APs”). In addition, there may be a limited number of market makers and/or liquidity providers in the marketplace. To the extent either of the following events occur, Shares may trade at a material discount to NAV and possibly face delisting: (i) APs exit the business or otherwise become unable to process creation and/or redemption orders and no other APs step forward to perform these services, or (ii) market makers and/or liquidity providers exit the business or significantly reduce their business activities and no other entities step forward to perform their functions.
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Cybersecurity Risk. Cybersecurity incidents may allow an unauthorized party to gain access to Fund assets or proprietary information, or cause the Fund, the adviser, the sub-adviser and/or other service providers (including custodians and financial intermediaries) to suffer data breaches or data corruption. Additionally, cybersecurity failures or breaches of the electronic systems of the Fund, the adviser, the sub-adviser, or the Fund’s other service providers, market makers, Authorized Participants, the Exchange, or the issuers of securities in which the Fund invests have the ability to disrupt and negatively affect the Fund’s business operations, including the ability to purchase and sell Shares, potentially resulting in financial losses to the Fund and its shareholders.
Exchange Traded Funds (“ETFs”) Risk. The Fund is structured as an ETF. As a result, the Fund is subject to special risks, including:
| ● | Market Trading Risk. The Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including the potential lack of an active market for the Shares, losses from trading in secondary markets, and disruption in the creation/redemption process of the Fund. Any of these factors may lead to the Shares trading at a premium or discount to the Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”). |
| ● | Shares May Trade at Prices Other Than NAV Risk. As with all ETFs, Shares may be bought and sold in the secondary market at market prices. Although it is expected that the market price of Shares will approximate the Fund’s NAV, there may be times when the market price of Shares is more than the NAV intra-day (premium) or less than the NAV intra-day (discount) due to supply and demand of Shares or during periods of market volatility. This risk is heightened in times of market volatility, periods of steep market declines, and periods when there is limited trading activity for Shares in the secondary market, in which case such premiums or discounts may be significant. |
| ○ | In times of market stress, market makers may step away from their role as market makers in the Shares and in executing trades, which can lead to differences between the market value of the Shares and the Fund’s NAV. |
| ○ | The market price of the Shares may deviate from the Fund’s NAV, particularly during times of market stress, with the result that investors may pay significantly more or significantly less for the Shares than the Fund’s NAV, which is reflected in the bid and ask price for the Shares or in the closing price. |
| ○ | In stressed market conditions, the market for the Shares may become less liquid in response to the deteriorating liquidity of the Fund’s portfolio. This adverse effect on the liquidity of the Shares may, in turn, lead to differences between the market value of the Shares and the Fund’s NAV. |
| ○ | Purchases and redemptions of creation units primarily with cash, rather than through in-kind delivery of portfolio securities, may cause the Fund to incur certain costs. These costs could include brokerage costs or taxable gains or losses that it might not have incurred if it had made redemption in-kind. These costs could be imposed on the Fund, and thus decrease the Fund’s NAV, to the extent that the costs are not offset by a transaction fee payable by an Authorized Participant. |
Index Futures Contracts Risk. The Fund’s use of index futures contracts involves risks different from, and possibly greater than, the risks of investing directly in securities. Changes in the value of a futures contract may not correlate perfectly with the cash position it is intended to equitize, and the Fund could lose more than the initial margin it deposits. These instruments may also be illiquid and may increase the volatility of the Fund’s returns.
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Investment Companies and Pooled Vehicles Risk. When the Fund invests in other ETFs or pooled investment vehicles, it bears its proportionate share of those vehicles’ fees and expenses in addition to its own, and it is exposed to the risks of the vehicles’ underlying holdings, which may include securities of issuers that do not meet the Fund’s values-based criteria. Shares of other ETFs may trade at a premium or discount to their net asset value.
Issuer Risk. Changes in the financial condition or credit rating of an issuer or counterparty, changes in specific economic or political conditions that affect a particular type of security or issuer, and changes in general economic or political conditions can affect a security’s or instrument’s value. The values of securities of smaller, less well-known issuers can be more volatile than those of larger issuers. Issuer-specific events can have a negative impact on the value of the Fund.
Key Person Risk. The Fund relies substantially on a single portfolio manager who is principally responsible for the Fund’s investment strategy, security selection, and portfolio construction. Although the Adviser may engage a trading subadviser to assist with trade execution and related portfolio implementation functions, the Adviser is a newly formed firm with a limited number of employees, and the continued management of the Fund depends substantially on the services of its portfolio manager. The loss of his services, whether through death, disability, departure, or otherwise, could adversely affect the Adviser’s ability to manage the Fund in accordance with its investment strategies. The Adviser may not be able to attract or retain a qualified replacement on a timely basis or at all.
Large Shareholder and Large-Scale Redemption Risk. Certain shareholders, including an Authorized Participant, a third-party investor, the Fund’s adviser or an affiliate of the Fund’s adviser, a market maker, or another entity, may from time to time own or manage a substantial amount of Fund shares, or may invest in the Fund and hold its investment for a limited period of time. There can be no assurance that any large shareholder or large group of shareholders would not redeem their investment. Redemptions of a large number of Fund shares could require the Fund to dispose of assets to meet the redemption requests, which can accelerate the realization of taxable income and/or capital gains and cause the Fund to make taxable distributions to its shareholders earlier than the Fund otherwise would have. In addition, under certain circumstances, non-redeeming shareholders may be treated as receiving a disproportionately large taxable distribution during or with respect to such year.
Market and Geopolitical Risk. The increasing interconnectivity between global economies and financial markets increases the likelihood that events or conditions in one region or financial market may adversely impact issuers in a different country, region or financial market. Securities in the Fund’s portfolio may underperform due to inflation (or expectations for inflation), interest rates, global demand for particular products or resources, natural disasters, climate change and climate-related events, pandemics, epidemics, terrorism, international conflicts, regulatory events and governmental or quasi-governmental actions. The occurrence of global events similar to those in recent years may result in market volatility and may have long term effects on both the U.S. and global financial markets.
New Adviser Risk. The Adviser is both a newly registered investment adviser and has limited experience managing a registered fund. As a result, there is no long-term track record against which an investor may judge the Adviser and it is possible the Adviser may not achieve the Fund’s intended investment objective.
New Fund Risk. The Fund is a new fund, with no operating history, which may result in additional risks for investors in the Fund. There can be no assurance that the Fund will grow to or maintain an economically viable size, in which case the Board of Trustees may determine to liquidate the Fund. While shareholder interests will be the paramount consideration, the timing of any liquidation may not be favorable to certain individual shareholders.
Portfolio Turnover Risk. Due to its investment strategy, the Fund may buy and sell securities frequently. This may result in higher transaction costs and additional capital gains tax liabilities, which may affect the Fund’s performance.
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Quantitative Model Risk. The Fund seeks to pursue its investment objective by using proprietary models that incorporate quantitative analysis. Investments selected using these quantitative models may perform differently than as forecasted due to the factors incorporated into the quantitative models and the weighting of each factor, changes from historical trends, and issues in the construction and implementation of the quantitative models (including, but not limited to, software issues, issues related to the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning (“AI”), and other technological issues). There is no guarantee that the Adviser’s use of these quantitative models will result in effective investment decisions for the Fund.
The information and data used in the quantitative models may be supplied by third parties. Inaccurate or incomplete data may limit the effectiveness of the quantitative models. In addition, some of the data that the Adviser uses may be historical data, which may not accurately predict future market movement. There is a risk that the quantitative models will not be successful in selecting investments or in determining the weighting of investment positions that will enable the Fund to achieve its investment objective.
Real Estate Companies Risk. Real estate companies, which include real estate investment trusts (“REITs”), real estate holding and operating companies, and real estate management or development companies, expose investors to the risks of owning real estate directly as well as to the risks from the way that such companies operate. Real estate is highly sensitive to general and local economic conditions and can be subject to intense competition and periodic overbuilding. Other real estate risks include decreases in property values, tax increases, zoning changes, casualty or condemnation losses, environmental liabilities, regulatory limitations on rent or eviction, and defaults by borrowers or tenants. Real estate companies may be heavily invested in one geographic region, industry or property type. They also may be highly leveraged, which can magnify losses, and interest rate increases can make it difficult to obtain financing and service debt.
Securities Lending Risk. The Fund may engage in securities lending. Securities lending involves the risk that the Fund may lose money because the borrower of the loaned securities fails to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. The Fund could also lose money in the event of a decline in the value of collateral provided for loaned securities or a decline in the value of any investments made with cash collateral. These events could also trigger adverse tax consequences for the Fund.
Short Sales Risk. Because making short sales or taking short positions in securities that it does not own would expose the Fund to the risks associated with those securities, such short sales or positions involve speculative exposure risk. In such situations, the Fund will incur a loss as a result of a short sale or position if the price of the reference instrument increases after the Fund entered into the short sale or position. The Fund may lose more money than the actual cost of a short sale or position. Losses on a short sale are theoretically unlimited, because the price of a security sold short may rise without limit, and the Fund may be unable to close out a short position at an acceptable price.
Small-Capitalization Companies Risk. Compared to large-capitalization companies, small-capitalization companies may be less stable and more susceptible to adverse developments. The securities of small-capitalization companies may be more volatile and less liquid than those of large-capitalization companies. As a result, the Fund’s share price may be more volatile than that of a fund with a greater investment in large-capitalization stocks.
U.S. Government Securities Risk. U.S. government securities may differ from other securities in their interest rates, maturities, times of issuance and other characteristics and may provide relatively lower returns than those of other securities. Similar to other issuers, changes to the financial condition or credit rating of the U.S. government may cause the value of the Fund’s U.S. government securities to decline.
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Performance
The Fund is new, and therefore, no performance information is presented for the Fund at this time. In the future, performance information will be presented in this section of this Prospectus. Also, shareholder reports containing financial and performance information will be mailed to shareholders semi-annually. Updated performance information will be available at no cost by visiting the Fund’s website at [ ].
Management
Investment Adviser
Integrity Quantitative Advisors, LLC
Portfolio Manager
The following portfolio manager has served as the portfolio manager of the Fund since it commenced operations in [ ] 2026.
Peter J. Weicher, Chief Investment Officer of the Adviser
Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares
Authorized Participants
The Fund issues and redeems Shares at NAV only in a large, specified number of Shares each called a “Creation Unit,” or multiples thereof, and only with authorized participants (“Authorized Participants”) which have entered into contractual arrangements with the Fund’s distributor (“Distributor”). Creation Unit transactions are typically conducted in exchange for a portfolio of securities closely approximating the holdings of the Fund and/or cash.
Investors
Individual Shares of the Fund may only be purchased and sold on a national securities exchange through brokers. Shares of the Fund are listed on the Exchange and because Shares will trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares of the Fund may trade at a price greater than or less than NAV.
Tax Information
Fund distributions are generally taxable as ordinary income, qualified dividend income, or capital gains (or a combination), unless your investment is in an individual retirement account (“IRA”) or other tax-advantaged account. Distributions on investments made through tax-deferred arrangements may be taxed later upon withdrawal of assets from those accounts.
Payments to Broker-Dealer and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase Shares through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary, the Adviser or other related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of Shares or 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 website for more information.
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE FUNDS
Additional Information About Each Fund’s Investment Objective.
| Fund | Investment Objective | |
| Integrity US All Cap Integrated Factor ETF | [ ] | |
| Integrity US Large Cap Integrated Factor ETF | [ ] | |
| Integrity US Small Cap Value Factor ETF | [ ] |
Each Fund’s investment objective may be changed by the Board of Trustees of the Trust (the “Board”) upon written notice to shareholders.
Additional Information About Each Fund’s Investment Strategies.
Integrity US All Cap Integrated Factor ETF
The Fund is an actively managed ETF that does not seek to track an index. Under normal conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus borrowings for investment purposes) in equity securities of U.S. issuers listed on U.S. exchanges. For purposes of this policy, equity securities include common stock, preferred stock and instruments whose value is linked to the value of common stock. The Adviser takes an integrated factor approach that ranks the eligible U.S. equity universe on market capitalization and on the joint distribution of value and profitability characteristics, emphasizing smaller capitalizations and higher value and profitability characteristics considered together. “Value” is determined mainly by price-to-fundamental ratios (e.g., book/price) and an equity issuer is considered to have high profitability if it has high earnings or profits from operations in relation to its book value or assets. The Adviser may consider additional factors such as price to cash flow or price to earnings ratios. The Adviser also systematically underweights or excludes categories it expects to have lower returns or behave as a separate asset class, including small-capitalization low-profitability growth stocks, high asset-growth issuers, REITs, announced cash-merger targets and negative-momentum securities. Because the Adviser emphasizes smaller capitalizations relative to the broad U.S. equity market, the Fund is expected to hold a meaningful portion of its assets in small- and mid-capitalization issuers. The Fund is expected to hold approximately [ ] to [ ] positions.
Integrity US Large Cap Integrated Factor ETF
The Fund is an actively managed ETF that does not seek to track an index. Under normal conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus borrowings for investment purposes) in equity securities of large-capitalization U.S. issuers listed on U.S. exchanges. For purposes of this policy, equity securities include common stock, preferred stock and instruments whose value is linked to the value of common stock. The Adviser defines the U.S. large-capitalization universe as the largest U.S. issuers listed on U.S. exchanges, ranked by market capitalization, that together account for approximately the top 90% of the total market capitalization of all such issuers, measured at the time of purchase. The Adviser takes an integrated factor approach that ranks that universe on market capitalization and on the joint distribution of value and profitability characteristics, emphasizing the smaller capitalizations within the universe and higher value and profitability characteristics considered together. “Value” is determined mainly by price-to-fundamental ratios (e.g., book/price), and an equity issuer is considered to have high profitability if it has high earnings or profits from operations in relation to its book value or assets. The Adviser may consider additional factors such as price to cash flow or price to earnings ratios. The Adviser also systematically underweights or excludes companies with exceptionally low profitability and growth characteristics considered jointly, excludes REITs, which it treats as a separate asset class, and avoids negative-momentum securities. Because the Adviser emphasizes the smaller capitalizations within the large-capitalization universe, the Fund is expected to hold a meaningful portion of its assets in issuers that are also commonly classified as mid-capitalization issuers. The Fund is expected to hold approximately [ ] to [ ] positions.
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Integrity US Small Cap Value Factor ETF
The Fund is an actively managed ETF that does not seek to track an index. Under normal conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus borrowings for investment purposes) in equity securities of small-capitalization U.S. issuers listed on U.S. exchanges that the Adviser considers to have value characteristics. For purposes of this policy, equity securities include common stock, preferred stock and instruments whose value is linked to the value of common stock. The Fund considers a company to be a small-capitalization issuer if, at the time of purchase, it is not within the U.S. large-capitalization universe, which the Adviser defines as the largest U.S. issuers listed on U.S. exchanges, ranked by market capitalization, that together account for approximately the top 90% of the total market capitalization of all such issuers. Small-capitalization issuers therefore together account for approximately the bottom 10% of that total market capitalization. As of [ ], 202[ ], the largest small-capitalization issuer had a market capitalization of approximately $[ ] billion. The Fund considers a company to have value characteristics if the Adviser ranks it in the [ ] of the eligible small-capitalization universe on price-to-fundamental measures, which are determined mainly by ratios such as book/price. Profitability characteristics are applied as a secondary consideration. The Fund is expected to hold approximately [ ] to [ ] positions.
Portfolio Construction and Other Investment Practices (All Funds)
For each Fund, the Adviser uses proprietary quantitative models to rank securities and to construct the Fund’s portfolio. Securities are weighted using relative market capitalization as a baseline, then over- or underweighted based on the characteristics described above. The Funds do not rebalance on a fixed schedule. Instead, under the oversight of the Portfolio Manager, the Adviser trades flexibly and opportunistically to maintain each Fund’s intended exposures while seeking to avoid unnecessary transaction costs and portfolio turnover.
Each Fund may lend its portfolio securities to brokers, dealers and other financial institutions in order to earn additional income. Any such loans will be continuously secured by collateral at least equal to the market value of the securities loaned, and a Fund will not lend securities having a value of more than one-third of its total assets. For cash management purposes, each Fund may hold cash and cash equivalents, including short-term U.S. government securities and shares of money market funds. To maintain market exposure on cash balances, such as cash held pending investment or to meet redemptions, a Fund may invest in exchange-traded equity index futures contracts. A Fund may also invest in other ETFs and pooled investment vehicles, including those received in an in-kind contribution of securities, and may engage in short sales of securities, including to offset its exposure to issuers, held directly or through such vehicles, that do not meet that Fund’s values-based criteria. Each Fund expects to limit its derivatives exposure, including short sales, so that it qualifies as a “limited derivatives user” under Rule 18f-4 under the 1940 Act.
Additional Information About the Funds’ Values-Based Screens.
Each Fund applies a values-based screen maintained by the Adviser. The screens are designed to identify issuers involved in activities the Adviser regards as potentially incompatible with natural law, and to exclude those issuers whose involvement the Adviser determines to warrant exclusion. The Adviser’s methodology is drawn from the classical moral-theological analysis of cooperation with evil. In applying the screens the Adviser distinguishes an issuer’s own conduct from conduct in which the issuer participates only indirectly, and considers how proximate the participation is, how central the activity is to the issuer’s business, and whether continued ownership would misrepresent the Funds’ mandate.
The screens are designed to identify issuers involved in activities the Adviser determines to be incompatible with natural law as determined by Christian moral teaching, including abortion; abortifacients and contraceptives; human embryonic research; artificial reproduction; interventions for sex reassignment; and pornography and other adult entertainment. Where the Adviser has identified an activity as warranting categorical exclusion by reason of the gravity of the matter involved, such as abortion, an issuer that engages directly in the activity, or that manufactures or produces a product whose principal purpose is the activity, is excluded without regard to the significance of the activity to its business. For other activities, the Adviser excludes an issuer whose operations are organized around the activity, and may otherwise retain the position and monitor the activity. This list is not exhaustive, the Adviser’s determinations as to particular topics and issuers may change, and the Adviser may modify the screening criteria at any time, without prior shareholder approval or notice.
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The screens are applied at the issuer level. Involvement in an activity means a connection the Adviser determines to be sufficiently direct and substantial, and the Adviser may determine that goods, services, inputs or platforms having substantial uses unrelated to an activity do not constitute involvement in it. Indirect involvement, for example through ownership structures, franchising or supply relationships, does not itself result in categorical exclusion and is instead evaluated as described above. Where the Adviser has no indication that an issuer is involved in an activity, the Adviser will treat the issuer as not involved, subject to its ongoing review.
In identifying and evaluating issuer conduct, the Adviser applies proprietary research technology to gather, filter and categorize information about issuer business activities, drawing principally on issuers’ public filings and other primary sources. The Adviser may also supplement that process with data obtained from third-party providers.
The application of the screens requires the exercise of judgment. Reasonable persons who also seek to invest consistently with Christian moral teaching could reach materially different conclusions about particular issuers. It is not possible for the Adviser to be aware of every activity of every issuer, and information may be incomplete, inaccurate or unavailable, which may result in an issuer being incorrectly excluded as well as incorrectly retained. The Adviser seeks to review issuers and update its determinations at regular intervals, but a determination may not immediately reflect all information that has become available. The Adviser will endeavor to ensure that each Fund’s investments are consistent with the screens, but there can be no guarantee that every investment will be.
The Adviser establishes the criteria used to screen issuers and remains solely responsible for those criteria, for its screening determinations and for each Fund’s portfolio composition. The Adviser’s determinations are informed, but not bound, by one or more ethical advisers it may engage and by works in the natural law tradition and in Christian moral teaching on economic life, including documents issued by church bodies and related scholarly commentary. An ethical adviser acts in an advisory capacity only, has no discretionary authority to make investment decisions for any Fund and is not an investment adviser to any Fund. Each ethical adviser is compensated by the Adviser, and not by the Funds. The number and identity of the Adviser’s ethical advisers may change without notice to shareholders.
At times a Fund may hold a security that does not meet that Fund’s values-based criteria, because an issuer’s activities changed after the Fund purchased the security, because information was incomplete or inaccurate, or otherwise, including indirectly through investments in other ETFs or pooled investment vehicles, such as those a Fund may receive in an in-kind contribution of securities, whose holdings the Adviser does not control. Where the Adviser determines that a Fund holds such a security, the Adviser will seek to sell it within a reasonable period, taking into account liquidity, trading costs, portfolio turnover and the interests of shareholders. Where such a security is held indirectly through another investment vehicle, the Adviser will seek to dispose of that vehicle within a reasonable period and, pending disposition, may seek to offset that Fund’s exposure to the security, including through short sales. When a security is excluded by a screen, the Adviser seeks to replace it with one or more substitute securities drawn as nearly as reasonably possible from the same size, value and profitability segment and having, in the Adviser’s assessment, equivalent or higher expected returns, so as to preserve each Fund’s intended exposures to those characteristics. There can be no assurance that it will succeed in doing so, and a Fund’s characteristics and returns may differ materially, and for extended periods, from those of an unscreened portfolio constructed on the same basis.
Additional Information About the Funds’ Principal Risks. This section provides additional information regarding the principal risks described in the Fund Summary sections. Each risk described below is considered a “principal risk” of investing in the Funds, regardless of the order in which it appears. Each of the risks described below could have a negative impact on the applicable Fund’s performance and trading prices.
Absence of Prior Active Market Risk. While each Fund’s Shares are listed on the Exchange, there can be no assurance that an active trading market for Shares will develop or be maintained. The Funds’ distributor does not maintain a secondary market in Shares.
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Active Management Risk. Each Fund is actively managed, which means that investment decisions are made based on the investment views of the Adviser. There is no guarantee that the investment views will produce the desired results or expected returns, which may cause a Fund to fail to meet its investment objective or to underperform its benchmark index or funds with similar investment objectives and strategies. Furthermore, active trading that can accompany active management may result in high portfolio turnover, which may have a negative impact on performance. Active trading may result in higher brokerage costs or mark-up charges, which are ultimately passed on to shareholders of the Funds. Active trading may also result in adverse tax consequences. Certain securities or other instruments in which a Fund seeks to invest may not be available in the quantities desired. To the extent a Fund employs strategies targeting perceived pricing inefficiencies, arbitrage strategies or similar strategies, it is subject to the risk that the pricing or valuation of the securities and instruments involved in such strategies may change unexpectedly, which may result in reduced returns or losses to that Fund. Additionally, legislative, regulatory, or tax restrictions, policies or developments may affect the investment techniques available to the Adviser and each individual portfolio manager in connection with managing the Funds and may also adversely affect the ability of a Fund to achieve its investment objective.
Authorized Participants, Market Makers, and Liquidity Providers Concentration Risk. The Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may act as Authorized Participants (“APs”). In addition, there may be a limited number of market makers and/or liquidity providers in the marketplace. To the extent either of the following events occur, Shares may trade at a material discount to NAV and possibly face delisting: (i) APs exit the business or otherwise become unable to process creation and/or redemption orders and no other APs step forward to perform these services, or (ii) market makers and/or liquidity providers exit the business or significantly reduce their business activities and no other entities step forward to perform their functions.
Cybersecurity Risk. With the increased use of technologies and the dependence on computer systems to perform business and operational functions, funds (such as the Funds) and their service providers may be prone to operational and information security risks resulting from cyber-attacks and/or technological malfunctions. In general, cyber-attacks are deliberate, but unintentional events may have similar effects. Cyber-attacks include, among others, stealing or corrupting data maintained online or digitally, preventing legitimate users from accessing information or services on a website, releasing confidential information without authorization, and causing operational disruption. Cybersecurity incidents may allow an unauthorized party to gain access to Fund assets or proprietary information, or cause a Fund, the adviser, the sub-adviser and/or other service providers (including custodians and financial intermediaries) to suffer data breaches or data corruption. Additionally, cybersecurity failures or breaches of the electronic systems of a Fund, the adviser, the sub-adviser or that Fund’s other service providers, market makers, APs, the Exchange or the issuers of securities in which such Fund invests have the ability to disrupt and negatively affect that Fund’s business operations, including the ability to purchase and sell Shares, potentially resulting in financial losses to that Fund and its shareholders. For instance, cyber-attacks or technical malfunctions may interfere with the processing of shareholder or other transactions, affect a Fund’s ability to calculate its NAV, cause the release of private shareholder information or confidential Fund information, impede trading, cause reputational damage, and subject a Fund to regulatory fines, penalties or financial losses, reimbursement or other compensation costs, and additional compliance costs. Cyber-attacks or technical malfunctions may render records of Fund assets and transactions, shareholder ownership of Shares, and other data integral to the functioning of a Fund inaccessible or inaccurate or incomplete. Each Fund also may incur substantial costs for cybersecurity risk management to prevent cyber incidents in the future. The Funds and their respective shareholders could be negatively impacted as a result.
Equity Securities Risk. Common stocks are susceptible to general stock market fluctuations and to volatile increases and decreases in value as market confidence in and perceptions of their issuers change. These investor perceptions are based on various and unpredictable factors including: expectations regarding government, economic, monetary and fiscal policies; inflation and interest rates; economic expansion or contraction; and global or regional political, economic, public health, and banking crises. If you held common stock, or common stock equivalents, of any given issuer, you would generally be exposed to greater risk than if you held preferred stocks and debt obligations of the issuer because common stockholders, or holders of equivalent interests, generally have inferior rights to receive payments from issuers in comparison with the rights of preferred stockholders, bondholders, and other creditors of such issuers.
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Exchange Traded Funds (“ETFs”) Risk. Each Fund is structured as an ETF. As a result, each Fund is subject to special risks, including:
| ● | Market Trading Risk. Each Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including disruptions to the creation and redemption processes of that Fund, losses from trading in secondary markets, the existence of extreme market volatility or potential lack of an active trading market for Shares may result in Shares trading at a significant premium or discount to NAV. The NAV of Shares will fluctuate with changes in the market value of a Fund’s securities holdings. The market prices of Shares will fluctuate in accordance with changes in NAV and supply and demand on the Exchange. A Fund cannot predict whether Shares will trade below, at or above their NAV. If a shareholder purchases Shares at a time when the market price is at a premium to the NAV or sells Shares at a time when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain losses. Any of these factors, discussed above and further below, may lead to Shares trading at a premium or discount to a Fund’s NAV. |
| ● | Trading Issues. Trading in Shares on the Exchange may be halted due to market conditions or for reasons that, in the view of the Exchange, make trading in Shares inadvisable. In addition, trading in Shares on the Exchange is subject to trading halts caused by extraordinary market volatility pursuant to the Exchange’s “circuit breaker” rules. There can be no assurance that the requirements of the Exchange necessary to maintain the listing of a Fund will continue to be met or will remain unchanged. |
| ● | Shares May Trade at Prices Other Than NAV Risk. As with all ETFs, Shares may be bought and sold in the secondary market at market prices. Although it is expected that the market price of Shares will approximate a Fund’s NAV, there may be times when the market price of Shares is more than the NAV intra-day (premium) or less than the NAV intra-day (discount) due to supply and demand of Shares or during periods of market volatility. This risk is heightened in times of market volatility, periods of steep market declines, and periods when there is limited trading activity for Shares in the secondary market, in which case such premiums or discounts may be significant. |
| ○ | In times of market stress, market makers may step away from their role as market makers in the Shares and in executing trades, which can lead to differences between the market value of the Shares and a Fund’s NAV. | |
| ○ | The market price of the Shares may deviate from a Fund’s NAV, particularly during times of market stress, with the result that investors may pay significantly more or significantly less for the Shares than that Fund’s NAV, which is reflected in the bid and ask price for the Shares or in the closing price. | |
| ○ | In stressed market conditions, the market for the Shares may become less liquid in response to the deteriorating liquidity of a Fund’s portfolio. This adverse effect on the liquidity of the Shares may, in turn, lead to differences between the market value of the Shares and that Fund’s NAV. | |
| ○ | Purchases and redemptions of creation units primarily with cash, rather than through in-kind delivery of portfolio securities, may cause a Fund to incur certain costs. These costs could include brokerage costs or taxable gains or losses that it might not have incurred if it had made redemption in-kind. These costs could be imposed on a Fund, and thus decrease that Fund’s NAV, to the extent that the costs are not offset by a transaction fee payable by an Authorized Participant. |
Index Futures Contracts Risk. A Fund’s use of index futures contracts involves risks different from, and possibly greater than, the risks of investing directly in securities. Changes in the value of a futures contract may not correlate perfectly with the cash position it is intended to equitize, and that Fund could lose more than the initial margin it deposits. These instruments may also be illiquid and may increase the volatility of a Fund’s returns.
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Investment Companies and Pooled Vehicles Risk. When a Fund invests in other ETFs or pooled investment vehicles, it bears its proportionate share of those vehicles’ fees and expenses in addition to its own, and it is exposed to the risks of the vehicles’ underlying holdings, which may include securities of issuers that do not meet a Fund’s values-based criteria. Shares of other ETFs may trade at a premium or discount to their net asset value.
Issuer Risk. Changes in the financial condition or credit rating of an issuer or counterparty, changes in specific economic or political conditions that affect a particular type of security or issuer, and changes in general economic or political conditions can affect a security’s or instrument’s value. The values of securities of smaller, less well-known issuers can be more volatile than those of larger issuers. Issuer-specific events can have a negative impact on the value of a Fund.
Key Person Risk. Each Fund relies substantially on a single portfolio manager who is principally responsible for that Fund’s investment strategy, security selection and portfolio construction, and who is also responsible for the design and oversight of the Adviser’s quantitative models and for the application of the values-based screens. Although the Adviser may engage a trading sub-adviser to assist with trade execution and related portfolio implementation functions, the Adviser is a newly formed firm with a limited number of employees, and the continued management of each Fund depends substantially on the services of its portfolio manager. The loss of his services, whether through death, disability, departure or otherwise, could adversely affect the Adviser’s ability to manage the Funds in accordance with their investment strategies, could result in a change in the personnel responsible for a Fund, and could cause a Fund to underperform or, in an extreme case, to be liquidated. The Adviser may not be able to attract or retain a qualified replacement on a timely basis or at all. The Adviser has not established, and is not required to establish, any succession or key person insurance arrangement with respect to that individual.
Large-Capitalization Risk. Investments in large capitalization companies may go in and out of favor based on market and economic conditions and may underperform other market segments. Some large capitalization companies may be unable to respond quickly to new competitive challenges, such as changes in technology and consumer tastes, and may not be able to attain the high growth rate of successful smaller companies, especially during extended periods of economic expansion. As such, returns on investments in stocks of large capitalization companies could trail the returns on investments in stocks of small and mid-capitalization companies.
Large Shareholder and Large-Scale Redemption Risk. Certain shareholders, including an Authorized Participant, a third-party investor, a Fund’s adviser or an affiliate of a Fund’s adviser, a market maker, or another entity, may from time to time own or manage a substantial amount of Fund shares or may invest in a Fund and hold its investment for a limited period of time. These shareholders may also pledge or loan Fund shares (to secure financing or otherwise), which may result in the shares becoming concentrated in another party. There can be no assurance that any large shareholder or large group of shareholders would not redeem their investment or that the size of a Fund would be maintained. Redemptions of a large number of Fund shares by these shareholders may adversely affect a Fund’s liquidity and net assets. To the extent a Fund permits redemptions in cash, these redemptions may force that Fund to sell portfolio securities when it might not otherwise do so, which may negatively impact that Fund’s NAV, have a material effect on the market price of the Shares and increase that Fund’s brokerage costs and/or accelerate the realization of taxable income and/or gains and cause that Fund to make taxable distributions to its shareholders earlier than that Fund otherwise would have. In addition, under certain circumstances, non-redeeming shareholders may be treated as receiving a disproportionately large taxable distribution during or with respect to such tax year. A Fund also may be required to sell its more liquid Fund investments to meet a large redemption, in which case that Fund’s remaining assets may be less liquid, more volatile, and more difficult to price. To the extent these large shareholders transact in shares on the secondary market, such transactions may account for a large percentage of the trading volume for the shares of a Fund and may, therefore, have a material upward or downward effect on the market price of the Shares. In addition, large purchases of Fund shares may adversely affect a Fund’s performance to the extent that it is delayed in investing new cash and is required to maintain a larger cash position than it ordinarily would, diluting its investment returns.
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Market and Geopolitical Risk. The prices of securities held by a Fund may decline in response to certain events taking place around the world, including those directly involving the companies whose securities are owned by that Fund; conditions affecting the general economy; overall market changes; local, regional or global political, social or economic instability; and currency, interest rate and commodity price fluctuations. The equity securities purchased by a Fund may involve large price swings and potential for loss. Investors in the Funds should have a long-term perspective and be able to tolerate potentially sharp declines in value. The market’s daily movements, sometimes called volatility, may be greater or less depending on the types of securities a Fund owns and the markets in which the securities trade. The increasing interconnectivity between global economies and financial markets increases the likelihood that events or conditions in one region or financial market may adversely impact issuers in a different country, region or financial market. Securities in a Fund’s portfolio may underperform due to inflation (or expectations for inflation), interest rates, global demand for particular products or resources, natural disasters, climate change and climate-related events, pandemics, epidemics, war, terrorism, regulatory events, governmental or quasi- governmental actions, and public health emergencies. The occurrence of global events similar to those in recent years, such as terrorist attacks around the world, natural disasters, social and political discord or debt crises and downgrades, among others, may result in market volatility and may have long term effects on both the U.S. and global financial markets. The value and growth-oriented equity securities purchased by a Fund may experience large price swings and potential for loss.
Mid-Capitalization Companies Risk. Compared to large-capitalization companies, mid-capitalization companies may be less stable and more susceptible to adverse developments, and their securities may be more volatile and less liquid. Large-capitalization companies may be unable to respond quickly to new competitive challenges, such as changes in technology and consumer tastes, and may not be able to attain the high growth rates of successful smaller companies.
New Adviser Risk. The Adviser was recently formed and has not previously managed a registered investment company. The Funds are the Adviser’s first advisory clients, and the Adviser did not manage any assets prior to the commencement of the Funds’ operations. The Adviser has filed an application for registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission as an investment adviser under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and expects to be registered as an investment adviser prior to the commencement of the Funds’ operations. The Adviser therefore has no record as a manager of a registered fund against which investors may evaluate its ability to manage the Funds, and its personnel, systems, models and compliance program have not been tested through a full market cycle or through the operation of a registered fund. The Adviser’s revenues are expected to consist principally of the unitary management fees it receives from the Funds, and if the Funds do not attract sufficient assets the Adviser may not be able to fund the personnel, technology and research capability it presently contemplates, which could adversely affect its ability to manage the Funds. There can be no assurance that the Adviser will be able to manage the Funds successfully or that it will be able to continue to do so.
New Fund Risk. A new or smaller fund is subject to the risk that its performance may not represent how the fund is expected to or may perform in the long term. In addition, new funds have limited operating histories for investors to evaluate and new and smaller funds may not attract sufficient assets to achieve investment and trading efficiencies. There can be no assurance that the Fund will achieve an economically viable size, in which case it could ultimately liquidate. The Fund may be liquidated by the Board of Trustees without a shareholder vote. In a liquidation, shareholders of the Fund will receive an amount equal to the Fund’s NAV, after deducting the costs of liquidation, including the transaction costs of disposing of the Fund’s portfolio investments. Receipt of a liquidation distribution may have negative tax consequences for shareholders. Additionally, during the Fund’s liquidation all or a portion of the Fund’s portfolio may be invested in a manner not consistent with its investment objective and investment policies.
Quantitative Model Risk. Each Fund seeks to pursue its investment objective by using proprietary models that incorporate quantitative analysis. Investments selected using these quantitative models may perform differently than as forecasted due to the factors incorporated into the quantitative models and the weighting of each factor, changes from historical trends, and issues in the construction and implementation of the quantitative models (including, but not limited to, software issues, issues related to the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning (“AI”), and other technological issues). There is no guarantee that the Adviser’s use of these quantitative models will result in effective investment decisions for the Fund.
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The information and data used in the quantitative models may be supplied by third parties. Inaccurate or incomplete data may limit the effectiveness of the quantitative models. In addition, some of the data that the Adviser uses may be historical data, which may not accurately predict future market movement. There is a risk that the quantitative models will not be successful in selecting investments or in determining the weighting of investment positions that will enable a Fund to achieve its investment objective.
Real Estate Companies Risk. Real estate companies, which include real estate investment trusts (“REITs”), real estate holding and operating companies, and real estate management or development companies, expose investors to the risks of owning real estate directly as well as to the risks from the way that such companies operate. Real estate is highly sensitive to general and local economic conditions and can be subject to intense competition and periodic overbuilding. Other real estate risks include decreases in property values, tax increases, zoning changes, casualty or condemnation losses, environmental liabilities, regulatory limitations on rent or eviction, and defaults by borrowers or tenants. Real estate companies may be heavily invested in one geographic region, industry or property type. They also may be highly leveraged, which can magnify losses, and interest rate increases can make it difficult to obtain financing and service debt.
Securities Lending Risk. The Fund may engage in securities lending. Securities lending involves the risk that the Fund may lose money because the borrower of the loaned securities fails to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. The Fund could also lose money in the event of a decline in the value of collateral provided for loaned securities or a decline in the value of any investments made with cash collateral. These events could also trigger adverse tax consequences for the Fund.
Short Sales Risk. Because making short sales or taking short positions in securities that it does not own would expose the Fund to the risks associated with those securities, such short sales or positions involve speculative exposure risk. In such situations, the Fund will incur a loss as a result of a short sale or position if the price of the reference instrument increases after the Fund entered into the short sale or position. The Fund may lose more money than the actual cost of a short sale or position and the potential losses are theoretically unlimited on a short sale or position.
Small-Capitalization Companies Risk. Compared to large-capitalization companies, small-capitalization companies may be less stable and more susceptible to adverse developments. The securities of small-capitalization companies may be more volatile and less liquid than those of large-capitalization companies. As a result, the Fund’s share price may be more volatile than that of a fund with a greater investment in large-capitalization stocks.
U.S. Government Securities Risk. U.S. government securities may differ from other securities in their interest rates, maturities, times of issuance and other characteristics and may provide relatively lower returns than those of other securities. Similar to other issuers, changes to the financial condition or credit rating of the U.S. government may cause the value of a Fund’s U.S. government securities to decline.
Value Securities Risk. Value securities are those issued by companies that may be perceived as undervalued. Such securities may decline in price or fail to appreciate for long periods of time, and they may never realize their full potential value. Value securities may underperform growth securities and other types of assets as well as the overall stock market. Value securities may go in and out of favor over time, which could affect the performance of the Fund.
Values-Based Screening Risk. Each Fund applies a values-based investment screen grounded in principles of natural law as understood through Christian moral teaching. As a result, a Fund may decline to purchase, or may sell, securities that otherwise satisfy its financial investment criteria, which could cause that Fund to underperform comparable funds that do not apply similar screening criteria. There can be no guarantee that the activities of companies in which a Fund invests, or the conduct of persons associated with those companies, will align (or be perceived to align) with an investor’s interpretation of the moral principles underlying the Funds’ screening methodology. The Funds’ investment process relies, in part, on information that is provided by third parties, and such information may be inaccurate or outdated. The Adviser may fail to
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identify all instances in which a company’s activities are inconsistent with a Fund’s screening criteria, which could cause a Fund to inadvertently hold securities of companies that conflict with that Fund’s guidelines. Conversely, if a company in which a Fund has invested is subsequently determined to engage in activities inconsistent with those criteria, that Fund may be required to sell its securities at a financially disadvantageous time. The Adviser’s determinations require the exercise of judgment, including judgments about how proximate or remote an issuer’s connection to an activity is and how central that activity is to the issuer’s business. Those determinations are informed by one or more ethical advisers, who act in an advisory capacity only and whose views the Adviser is not obliged to follow, and by published guidance that is not binding on the Adviser. Another manager applying the same moral tradition could reach materially different conclusions, and the Adviser may change its determinations, or the criteria on which they rest, at any time without notice to shareholders. No Fund is sponsored, endorsed or reviewed by any church, diocese, religious order or ecclesiastical authority.
Other Risks
The following section provides information regarding certain other non-principal risks of investing in the Funds.
Costs of Buying or Selling Shares. Investors buying or selling Shares in the secondary market will pay brokerage commissions or other charges imposed by brokers as determined by that broker. Brokerage commissions are often a fixed amount and may be a significant proportional cost for investors seeking to buy or sell relatively small amounts of Shares. In addition, secondary market investors will also incur the cost of the difference between the price that an investor is willing to pay for Shares (the “bid” price) and the price at which an investor is willing to sell Shares (the “ask” price). This difference in bid and ask prices is often referred to as the “spread” or “bid/ask spread.” The bid/ask spread varies over time for Shares based on trading volume and market liquidity and is generally lower if a Fund’s Shares have more trading volume and market liquidity and higher if that Fund’s Shares have little trading volume and market liquidity. Further, increased market volatility may cause increased bid/ask spreads. Due to the costs of buying or selling Shares, including bid/ask spreads, frequent trading of Shares may significantly reduce investment results and an investment in Shares may not be advisable for investors who anticipate regularly making small investments.
Operations. Each Fund is exposed to operational risk arising from a number of factors, including but not limited to human error, processing and communication errors, errors of a Fund’s service providers, counterparties or other third-parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. Each Fund seeks to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may be inadequate for those risks that they are intended to address.
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PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS INFORMATION
Information about the Funds’ daily portfolio holdings is available at [ ]. A description of each Fund’s policies and procedures with respect to the disclosure of that Fund’s portfolio holdings is available in the Funds’ Statement of Additional Information (“SAI”).
Investment Adviser
Integrity Quantitative Advisors LLC, located at 120 N. Hale St., Suite 300, Wheaton, Illinois 60187, serves as the investment adviser to each Fund since that Fund commenced operations in [ ] 2026. The Adviser is a Delaware limited liability company. The Adviser was organized in Illinois in June 2025 and converted to a Delaware limited liability company in January 2026. The Adviser has filed an application for registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission as an investment adviser under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and expects to be registered as an investment adviser prior to the commencement of the Funds’ operations. The Funds are the Adviser’s first advisory clients, and the Adviser did not manage any assets prior to the commencement of the Funds’ operations.
The Adviser is responsible for each Fund’s investment operations and its business affairs. Pursuant to a management agreement between the Trust, on behalf of each Fund, and the Adviser (“Management Agreement”) and subject to the general oversight of the Board, the Adviser provides or causes other service providers to furnish all supervisory and other services reasonably necessary for the operation of each Fund, including audit, portfolio accounting, legal, transfer agency, custody, printing costs, certain administrative services (provided pursuant to a separate administration agreement), certain distribution services (provided pursuant to a separate distribution agreement) and certain shareholder and non-distribution-related services, under what is essentially an all-in fee structure. Under the Management Agreement, the Adviser has agreed to pay all expenses incurred by each Fund except for the management fee, interest, taxes, brokerage commissions and other expenses incurred in placing orders for the purchase and sale of securities and other investment instruments, acquired fund fees and expenses, distribution fees and expenses paid by a Fund under any distribution plan adopted pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act, and litigation expenses and any extraordinary expenses (in each case as determined by a majority of the Independent Trustees) (collectively, the “Excluded Expenses”).
The Adviser is paid a monthly unitary management fee at an annual rate, stated as a percentage of the average daily net assets of the applicable Fund, as follows:
| Fund | Unitary Management Fee | |||
| Integrity US All Cap Integrated Factor ETF | [ ] | % | ||
| Integrity US Large Cap Integrated Factor ETF | [ ] | % | ||
| Integrity US Small Cap Value Factor ETF | [ ] | % | ||
Under the unitary fee arrangement, the Adviser pays all operating expenses of each Fund other than the Excluded Expenses described above.
A discussion regarding the Board of Trustees’ approval of the Management Agreement with respect to each Fund will be available in the Funds’ first Form N-CSR filing.
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Changes in Investment Objective or Policies
The Trust’s Board of Trustees (the “Board”) may change a Fund’s investment objective and/or its 80% policy, both of which are non-fundamental, without shareholder approval upon 60 days’ written notice to shareholders. Each Fund’s other investment policies and strategies may be changed by the Board without shareholder approval unless otherwise provided in this prospectus or in the Statement of Additional Information.
Manager-of-Managers Order
The Trust and the Adviser may seek to obtain an exemptive order from the SEC that permits the Adviser, with the Board’s approval, to enter into sub-advisory agreements with one or more sub-advisers without obtaining shareholder approval. The exemptive order would permit the Adviser, subject to the approval of the Board, to replace sub-advisers or amend sub-advisory agreements, including fees, without shareholder approval if the Adviser and the Board believe such action will benefit the applicable Fund and its shareholders. There is no guarantee that the Trust or the Adviser would receive such relief from the SEC.
Trading Sub-Adviser
[ ]
A discussion regarding the Board’s approval of the Sub-Advisory Agreement with respect to each Fund will be available in the Funds’ Form N-CSR filing for [ ].
Other Service Providers
[ ]
The Adviser pays the fees of the service providers named above out of the unitary management fee it receives, and the Funds do not bear those fees separately, except as described under “Investment Adviser” above. The Adviser pays [ ] an annual fee for fund administration, fund accounting and transfer agency services of [$ ], subject to the minimums and asset-based charges set out in the applicable servicing agreements.
Portfolio Manager
The Funds are managed by the Adviser’s portfolio manager. The individual responsible for the day-to-day management of the Funds’ portfolios is listed below.
Peter J. Weicher serves as the portfolio manager of each Fund and has served in that capacity since each Fund commenced operations in [ ] 2026. Mr. Weicher is the Chief Investment Officer and Chief Executive Officer of the Adviser, which he founded in 2025. From 2023 until founding the Adviser, Mr. Weicher was a portfolio manager at First Trust Advisors L.P. Before that, he was a portfolio manager at Dimensional Fund Advisors LP. Earlier in his career Mr. Weicher was a consultant to institutional asset managers. Mr. Weicher has an MBA from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business and a B.A. in Economics from Boston College, and he holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and the Financial Risk Manager certification of the Global Association of Risk Professionals.
The Funds’ SAI provides additional information about the Portfolio Manager’s compensation structure, other accounts managed by the Portfolio Manager, and the Portfolio Manager’s ownership of Shares of the Funds.
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Transactions in shares of the Funds occur in the primary market and the secondary market. Primary market transactions occur when the Funds issue and redeem Shares at NAV in Creation Units. Only APs may acquire Shares directly from the Funds, and only APs may tender their Shares for redemption directly to the Funds, at NAV. APs must be a member or participant of a clearing agency registered with the SEC and must execute a Participant Agreement that has been agreed to by the Distributor (defined below), and that has been accepted by each Fund’s transfer agent, with respect to purchases and redemptions of Creation Units. Once created, Shares trade in the secondary market in quantities less than a Creation Unit.
Most investors buy and sell Shares in secondary market transactions through brokers. Shares are listed for trading on the secondary market on the Exchange and can be bought and sold throughout the trading day like other publicly traded securities.
When buying or selling Shares through a broker, you will incur customary brokerage commissions and charges, and you may pay some or all of the spread between the bid and the offer price in the secondary market on each leg of a round trip (purchase and sale) transaction. In addition, because secondary market transactions occur at market prices, you may pay more than NAV when you buy Shares and receive less than NAV when you sell those Shares.
Book Entry
Shares are held in book-entry form, which means that no stock certificates are issued. The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) or its nominee is the record owner of all outstanding Shares.
Investors owning Shares are beneficial owners as shown on the records of DTC or its participants. DTC serves as the securities depository for all Shares. DTC’s participants include securities brokers and dealers, banks, trust companies, clearing corporations and other institutions that directly or indirectly maintain a custodial relationship with DTC. As a beneficial owner of Shares, you are not entitled to receive physical delivery of stock certificates or to have Shares registered in your name, and you are not considered a registered owner of Shares. Therefore, to exercise any right as an owner of Shares, you must rely upon the procedures of DTC and its participants. These procedures are the same as those that apply to any other securities that you hold in book entry or “street name” through your brokerage account.
Frequent Purchases and Redemptions of Shares
The Funds impose no restrictions on the frequency of purchases and redemptions of Shares. In determining not to approve a written, established policy, the Board evaluated the risks of market timing activities by Fund shareholders. Purchases and redemptions by APs, who are the only parties that may purchase or redeem Shares directly with the Funds, are an essential part of the ETF process and help keep Share trading prices in line with NAV. As such, the Funds accommodate frequent purchases and redemptions by APs. However, the Board has also determined that frequent purchases and redemptions for cash may increase tracking error and portfolio transaction costs and may lead to the realization of capital gains. To minimize these potential consequences of frequent purchases and redemptions, the Funds employ fair value pricing and may impose transaction fees on purchases and redemptions of Creation Units to cover the custodial and other costs incurred by the Funds in effecting trades. In addition, the Funds and the adviser reserve the right to reject any purchase order at any time.
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Determination of NAV
Each Fund’s NAV is calculated as of the scheduled close of regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”), generally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time, each day the NYSE is open for business. Each NAV for a Fund is calculated by dividing the applicable Fund’s net assets by its Shares outstanding.
In calculating its NAV, a Fund generally values its assets on the basis of market quotations, last sale prices, or estimates of value furnished by a pricing service or brokers who make markets in such instruments. If the foregoing information is not available for a security held by a Fund or is determined to be unreliable, the security will be valued at fair value estimates under guidelines established by the Board (as described below).
Fair Value Pricing
The Adviser has been designated by the Board as the valuation designee for each Fund pursuant to Rule 2a-5 under the 1940 Act. In its capacity as valuation designee, the Adviser has adopted procedures and methodologies to fair value Fund securities whose market prices are not “readily available” or are deemed to be unreliable. For example, such circumstances may arise when: (i) a security has been de- listed or has had its trading halted or suspended; (ii) a security’s primary pricing source is unable or unwilling to provide a price; (iii) a security’s primary trading market is closed during regular market hours; or (iv) a security’s value is materially affected by events occurring after the close of the security’s primary trading market.
Generally, when fair valuing a security held by a Fund, the Adviser will take into account all reasonably available information that may be relevant to a particular valuation including, but not limited to, fundamental analytical data regarding the issuer, information relating to the issuer’s business, recent trades or offers of the security, general and/or specific market conditions and the specific facts giving rise to the need to fair value the security. Fair value determinations are made in good faith by the Adviser and in accordance with the Adviser’s fair value methodologies. Due to the subjective and variable nature of determining the fair value of a security or other investment, there can be no assurance that the Adviser’s fair value will match or closely correlate to any market quotation that subsequently becomes available or the price quoted or published by other sources. In addition, the Adviser may not be able to obtain the fair value assigned to the security upon the sale of such security.
Delivery of Shareholder Documents – Householding
Householding is an option available to certain investors of the Funds. Householding is a method of delivery, based on the preference of the individual investor, in which a single copy of certain shareholder documents can be delivered to investors who share the same address, even if their accounts are registered under different names. Householding for the Funds is available through certain broker- dealers. If you are interested in enrolling in householding and receiving a single copy of prospectuses and other shareholder documents, please contact your broker-dealer. If you are currently enrolled in householding and wish to change your householding status, please contact your broker-dealer.
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DIVIDENDS, DISTRIBUTIONS AND TAXES
Dividends and Distributions
The Funds intend to pay out dividends, if any, annually. The Funds intend to distribute any net realized capital gains to their shareholders at least annually. The Funds will declare and pay capital gain distributions, if any, in cash. Distributions in cash may be reinvested automatically in additional whole Shares only if the broker through whom you purchased Shares makes such option available. Your broker is responsible for distributing the income and capital gain distributions to you.
Taxes
The following discussion is a summary of some important U.S. federal income tax considerations generally applicable to investments in the Funds. Your investment in the Funds may have other tax implications. Please consult your tax advisor about the tax consequences of an investment in Shares, including the possible application of foreign, state, and local tax laws.
Each Fund has elected and intends to qualify each year for treatment as a regulated investment company (a “RIC”) within the meaning of Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). If it meets certain minimum distribution requirements, a RIC is not subject to tax at the fund level on income and gains from investments that are timely distributed to shareholders. However, a Fund’s failure to qualify as a RIC or to meet minimum distribution requirements would result (if certain relief provisions were not available) in fund-level taxation and, consequently, a reduction in income available for distribution to shareholders.
Unless your investment in Shares is made through a tax-exempt entity or tax-advantaged account, such as an IRA plan, you need to be aware of the possible tax consequences when the Funds make distributions, when you sell your Shares listed on the Exchange, and when you purchase or redeem Creation Units (APs only).
Taxes on Distributions
Each Fund intends to distribute, at least annually, substantially all of its net investment income and net capital gains. For federal income tax purposes, distributions of investment income are generally taxable as ordinary income or qualified dividend income. Taxes on distributions of capital gains (if any) are determined by how long a Fund owned the investments that generated them, rather than how long a shareholder has owned his or her Shares. Sales of assets held by a Fund for more than one year generally result in long- term capital gains and losses, and sales of assets held by that Fund for one year or less generally result in short-term capital gains and losses. Distributions of a Fund’s net capital gain (the excess of net long-term capital gains over net short-term capital losses) that are reported by that Fund as capital gain dividends (“Capital Gain Dividends”) will be taxable as long-term capital gains, which for non- corporate shareholders are subject to tax at reduced rates of up to 20% (lower rates apply to individuals in lower tax brackets). Distributions of short-term capital gain will generally be taxable as ordinary income. Dividends and distributions are generally taxable to you whether you receive them in cash or reinvest them in additional Shares.
Distributions reported by the Funds as “qualified dividend income” are generally taxed to non-corporate shareholders at rates applicable to long-term capital gains, provided holding period and other requirements are met. “Qualified dividend income” generally is income derived from dividends paid by U.S. corporations or certain foreign corporations that are either incorporated in a U.S. possession or eligible for tax benefits under certain U.S. income tax treaties. In addition, dividends that the Funds received in respect of stock of certain foreign corporations may be qualified dividend income if that stock is readily tradable on an established U.S. securities market. Corporate shareholders may be entitled to a dividends received deduction for the portion of dividends they receive from a Fund that are attributable to dividends received by that Fund from U.S. corporations, subject to certain limitations.
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Under recently issued final Treasury Regulations, a RIC that receives business interest income may pass through its net business interest income for purposes of the tax rules applicable to the interest expense limitations under Section 163(j) of the Code. A RIC’s total “Section 163(j) Interest Dividend” for a tax year is limited to the excess of the RIC’s business interest income over the sum of its business interest expense and its other deductions properly allocable to its business interest income. A RIC may, in its discretion, designate all or a portion of ordinary dividends as Section 163(j) Interest Dividends, which would allow the recipient shareholder to treat the designated portion of such dividends as interest income for purposes of determining such shareholder’s interest expense deduction limitation under Section 163(j). This can potentially increase the amount of a shareholder’s interest expense deductible under Section 163(j). In general, to be eligible to treat a Section 163(j) Interest Dividend as interest income, you must have held your shares in a Fund for more than 180 days during the 361-day period beginning on the date that is 180 days before the date on which the share becomes ex-dividend with respect to such dividend. Section 163(j) Interest Dividends, if so designated by a Fund, will be reported to your financial intermediary or otherwise in accordance with the requirements specified by the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”).
Shortly after the close of each calendar year, you will be informed of the amount and character of any distributions received from the Funds.
In general, your distributions are subject to federal income tax for the year in which they are paid. Certain distributions paid in January, however, may be treated as paid on December 31 of the prior year. Distributions are generally taxable even if they are paid from income or gains earned by the Funds before your investment (and thus were included in the Shares’ NAV when you purchased your Shares).
You may wish to avoid investing in the Funds shortly before a dividend or other distribution, because such a distribution will generally be taxable even though it may economically represent a return of a portion of your investment.
If you are neither a resident nor a citizen of the United States or if you are a foreign entity, distributions (other than Capital Gain Dividends) paid to you by the Funds will generally be subject to a U.S. withholding tax at the rate of 30%, unless a lower treaty rate applies. Gains from the sale or other disposition of your Shares generally are not subject to U.S. taxation, unless you are a nonresident alien individual who is physically present in the U.S. for 183 days or more per year. The Funds may, under certain circumstances, report all or a portion of a dividend as an “interest-related dividend” or a “short-term capital gain dividend,” which would generally be exempt from this 30% U.S. withholding tax, provided certain other requirements are met. Different tax consequences may result if you are a foreign shareholder engaged in a trade or business within the United States or if a tax treaty applies.
Under legislation generally known as “FATCA” (the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act), the Funds are required to withhold 30% of certain ordinary dividends they pay to shareholders that are foreign entities and that fail to meet prescribed information reporting or certification requirements.
The Funds (or a financial intermediary, such as a broker, through which a shareholder owns Shares) generally are required to withhold and remit to the U.S. Treasury a percentage of the taxable distributions and sale or redemption proceeds paid to any shareholder who fails to properly furnish a correct taxpayer identification number, who has underreported dividend or interest income, or who fails to certify that he, she or it is not subject to such withholding.
Taxes When Fund Shares are Sold on the Exchange
Any capital gain or loss realized upon a sale of Shares generally is treated as a long-term capital gain or loss if Shares have been held for more than one year and as a short-term capital gain or loss if Shares have been held for one year or less. However, any capital loss on a sale of Shares held for six months or less is treated as long-term capital loss to the extent of Capital Gain Dividends paid with respect to such Shares. Any loss realized on a sale will be disallowed to the extent Shares of a Fund are acquired, including through reinvestment of dividends, within a 61-day period beginning 30 days before and ending 30 days after the disposition of Shares. The ability to deduct capital losses may be limited.
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The cost basis of Shares of the Funds acquired by purchase will generally be based on the amount paid for the Shares and then may be subsequently adjusted for other applicable transactions as required by the Code. The difference between the selling price and the cost basis of Shares generally determines the amount of the capital gain or loss realized on the sale or exchange of Shares. Contact the broker through whom you purchased your Shares to obtain information with respect to the available cost basis reporting methods and elections for your account.
Taxes on Purchases and Redemptions of Creation Units
An AP having the U.S. dollar as its functional currency for U.S. federal income tax purposes who exchanges securities for Creation Units generally recognizes a gain or a loss. The gain or loss will be equal to the difference between the value of the Creation Units at the time of the exchange and the exchanging AP’s aggregate basis in the securities delivered, plus the amount of any cash paid for the Creation Units. An AP who exchanges Creation Units for securities will generally recognize a gain or loss equal to the difference between the exchanging AP’s basis in the Creation Units and the aggregate U.S. dollar market value of the securities received, plus any cash received for such Creation Units. The IRS may assert, however, that a loss that is realized upon an exchange of securities for Creation Units may not be currently deducted under the rules governing “wash sales” (for an AP who does not mark-to-market their holdings), or on the basis that there has been no significant change in economic position. APs exchanging securities should consult their own tax advisor with respect to whether wash sale rules apply and when a loss might be deductible.
Any gain or loss realized upon a creation or redemption of Creation Units will be treated as capital or ordinary gain or loss, depending on the circumstances. Any capital gain or loss realized upon redemption of Creation Units is generally treated as long-term capital gain or loss if Shares have been held for more than one year and as a short-term capital gain or loss if Shares have been held for one year or less.
The Funds may include a payment of cash in addition to, or in place of, the delivery of a basket of securities upon the redemption of Creation Units. The Funds may sell portfolio securities to obtain the cash needed to distribute redemption proceeds. This may cause the Funds to recognize investment income and/or capital gains or losses that they might not have recognized if they had completely satisfied the redemption in-kind. As a result, the Funds may be less tax efficient if they include such a cash payment in the proceeds paid upon the redemption of Creation Units.
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Vigilant Distributors LLC (the “Distributor”) serves as the Funds’ principal underwriter. The Distributor is a broker-dealer registered with the SEC. The Distributor distributes Creation Units for the Funds on an agency basis and does not maintain a secondary market in Shares. The Distributor has no role in determining the policies of the Funds or the securities that are purchased or sold by the Funds. The Distributor’s principal address is [ ].
Information regarding how often Shares of the Funds trade on the Exchange at a price above (i.e., at a premium) or below (i.e., at a discount) the NAV of the Funds is available on the Funds’ website at [___]
OTHER INFORMATION AND ADDITIONAL NOTICES
Certain Conditions on Shareholder Legal Actions
Pursuant to the Trust’s primary governing document, the Second Amended and Restated Agreement and Declaration of Trust, shareholders wishing to pursue a derivative action (a suit brought by a shareholder on behalf of a Fund) are subject to various conditions including that: (i) the Trustees must have a reasonable amount of time to assess the complaining shareholders’ request for action, (ii) at least 10% of shareholders of the applicable Fund must participate in the action (except with respect to claims arising under federal securities laws), and (iii) complaining shareholders must undertake to pay the expenses of advisers that the Trustees engage in consideration of whether to bring an action in the event the Trustees determine not to bring an action (except with respect to claims arising under federal securities laws).
In addition, shareholders wishing to pursue a derivative action (except with respect to claims arising under federal securities law) must bring the compliant. All shareholder legal complaints must be brought in the courts of the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware, or if such court does not have subject matter jurisdiction, any other court with appropriate subject matter jurisdiction in the State of Delaware. For non-federal securities laws claims, this requirement may be inconvenient for some shareholders and may cause such claims to be made in a less favorable forum than otherwise may have been made.
Additional Notices
Shares are not sponsored, endorsed, or promoted by the Exchange. The Exchange makes no representation or warranty, express or implied, to the owners of the Shares. The Exchange is not responsible for, nor has it participated in, the determination of the timing of, prices of, or quantities of the Shares to be issued, nor in the determination or calculation of the equation by which the Shares are redeemable. The Exchange has no obligation or liability to owners of the Shares in connection with the administration, marketing, or trading of the Shares.
Without limiting any of the foregoing, in no event shall the Exchange have any liability for any lost profits or indirect, punitive, special, or consequential damages even if notified of the possibility thereof.
Neither the adviser nor the Funds make any representation or warranty, express or implied, to the owners of Shares or any member of the public regarding the advisability of investing in securities generally or in the Funds particularly.
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Because the Funds have not commenced operations as of the date of this Prospectus, no financial highlights information is available.
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PRIVACY NOTICE
Privacy Statement
Pursuant to SEC Regulation S-P (Privacy of Consumer Financial Information) the Trustees of the Integrity Investment Funds Trust (the “Trust”) have established the following policy regarding information about the Trust’s shareholders. We consider all shareholder data to be private and confidential, and we hold ourselves to the highest standards in its safekeeping and use.
General Statement
The Trust may collect non-public information (e.g., your name, address, e mail address, Social Security Number, Trust holdings (collectively, “Personal Information”)) about shareholders from transactions in Trust shares. The Trust will not release Personal Information about current or former shareholders (except as permitted by law) unless one of the following conditions is met: (i) we receive your prior written consent; (ii) we believe the recipient to be you or your authorized representative; (iii) to service or support the business functions of the Trust (as explained in more detail below), or (iv) we are required by law to release Personal Information to the recipient. The Trust has not and will not in the future give or sell Personal Information about its current or former shareholders to any company, individual, or group (except as permitted by law) and as otherwise provided in this policy.
The Trust may make certain electronic services available to its shareholders and may solicit your email address and contact you by email, telephone or US mail regarding the availability of such services. The Trust may also contact shareholders by email, telephone or US mail in connection with these services, such as to confirm enrollment in electronic shareholder communications or to update your Personal Information. In no event will the Trust transmit your Personal Information via email without your consent.
Use of Personal Information
The Trust will only use Personal Information (i) as necessary to service or maintain shareholder accounts in the ordinary course of business and (ii) to support business functions of the Trust and its affiliated businesses. This means that the Trust may share certain Personal Information, only as permitted by law, with affiliated businesses of the Trust, and that such information may be used for non-Trust-related solicitation. When Personal Information is shared with the Trust’s business affiliates, the Trust may do so without providing you the option of preventing these types of disclosures as permitted by law.
Safeguards Regarding Personal Information
Internally, we also restrict access to Personal Information to those who have a specific need for the records. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with Federal standards to guard Personal Information. Any doubts about the confidentiality of Personal Information, as required by law, are resolved in favor of confidentiality.
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Integrity Quantitative Advisors LLC
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Vigilant Distributors LLC |
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Thompson Hine LLP
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The Funds’ SAI provides additional details about the investments of the Funds and certain other additional information. A current SAI dated [ ], 2026, as supplemented from time to time is on file with the SEC and is herein incorporated by reference into this Prospectus. It is legally considered a part of this Prospectus.
Annual/Semi-Annual Reports: Additional information about the Funds’ investments will be available in the Funds’ annual and semi-annual reports to shareholders, including annual and semi-annual tailored shareholder reports, and in Form N-CSR. In the annual tailored shareholder report you will find a discussion of the market conditions and investment strategies that significantly affected a Fund’s performance.
To make shareholder inquiries, for more detailed information on a Fund, or to request the SAI, annual or semi-annual shareholder reports, or Form N-CSR free of charge, please call the Funds’ Distributor at [ ]. Free copies of a Fund’s shareholder reports, Prospectus and SAI are also available from our website at [ ].
Shareholder reports and other information about the Funds are also available, free of charge, on the EDGAR Database on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov and copies of this information may be obtained, after paying a duplicating fee, by electronic request at the following e-mail address: publicinfo@sec.gov.
No person is authorized to give any information or to make any representations about a Fund and its Shares not contained in this Prospectus and you should not rely on any other information. Read and keep this Prospectus for future reference.
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SUBJECT TO COMPLETION
November 6, 2026
THE INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION IS NOT COMPLETE AND MAY BE CHANGED. WE MAY NOT SELL THESE SECURITIES UNTIL THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION IS EFFECTIVE. THIS STATEMENT OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION IS NOT AN OFFER TO SELL THESE SECURITIES AND IS NOT SOLICITING AN OFFER TO BUY THESE SECURITIES IN ANY STATE WHERE THE OFFER OR SALE IS NOT PERMITTED.
Integrity US All Cap Integrated Factor ETF
Integrity US Large Cap Integrated Factor ETF
Integrity US Small Cap Value Factor ETF
each a series of Integrity Investment Funds Trust
Listed on [ ]
STATEMENT OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
[ ], 2026
This Statement of Additional Information (“SAI”) is not a prospectus and should be read in conjunction with the prospectus dated [ ], 2026, as may be supplemented from time to time (“Prospectus”), of the Integrity US All Cap Integrated Factor ETF, Integrity US Large Cap Integrated Factor ETF, and Integrity US Small Cap Value Factor ETF (each a “Fund”, collectively the “Funds”), each a series of Integrity Investment Funds Trust (the “Trust”). Capitalized terms used herein that are not defined have the same meaning as in the Prospectus, unless otherwise noted.
A copy of the Prospectus may be obtained, without charge, by calling [ ], visiting [ ], or writing to [ ].
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GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE TRUST AND THE FUNDS
The Trust is an open-end management investment company, currently consisting of three investment series. This SAI relates to each Fund. The Trust was organized as a Delaware statutory trust on [ ]. The Trust is registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (together with the rules and regulations adopted thereunder, as amended, the “1940 Act”), as an open-end management investment company, and the offering of each Fund’s shares (“Shares”) is registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). The Trust is governed by its Board of Trustees (the “Board”). Integrity Quantitative Advisors, LLC (the “Adviser”) serves as investment adviser to the Funds. Each Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation.
Each Fund offers and issues Shares at its net asset value (“NAV”) only in aggregations of a specified number of Shares (each, a “Creation Unit”). The Funds generally offer and issue Shares in exchange for a basket of securities (“Deposit Securities”) together with the deposit of a specified cash payment (“Cash Component”). The Trust reserves the right to permit or require the substitution of a “cash in lieu” amount (“Deposit Cash”) to be added to the Cash Component to replace any Deposit Security. Shares are listed on the [__________] (the “Exchange”) and trade on the Exchange at market prices that may differ from the Shares’ NAV. Shares are also redeemable only in Creation Unit aggregations, primarily for a basket of Deposit Securities together with a Cash Component. A Creation Unit of the Funds generally consists of [ ] Shares, though this may change from time to time. As a practical matter, only institutions or large investors purchase or redeem Creation Units. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, Shares are not redeemable securities.
Shares may be issued in advance of receipt of Deposit Securities subject to various conditions, including a requirement to maintain on deposit with the Trust cash at least equal to a specified percentage of the value of the missing Deposit Securities, as set forth in the Participant Agreement (as defined below). The Trust may impose a transaction fee for each creation or redemption. In all cases, such fees will be limited in accordance with the requirements of the SEC applicable to management investment companies offering redeemable securities. As in the case of other publicly traded securities, brokers’ commissions on transactions in the secondary market will be based on negotiated commission rates at customary levels.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT INVESTMENT OBJECTIVES, POLICIES, AND RELATED RISKS
Each Fund’s investment objective and principal investment strategies are described in the Prospectus. The following information supplements, and should be read in conjunction with, the Prospectus. For a description of certain permitted investments, see “Description of Permitted Investments” in this SAI.
Each Fund is actively managed. Under normal conditions, the Integrity US All Cap Integrated Factor ETF invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus borrowings for investment purposes) in equity securities of U.S. issuers listed on U.S. exchanges, emphasizing smaller capitalizations and higher value and profitability characteristics considered together. The Integrity US Large Cap Integrated Factor ETF invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus borrowings for investment purposes) in equity securities of large-capitalization U.S. issuers listed on U.S. exchanges, which the Adviser defines as the largest such issuers that together account for approximately the top 90% of their total market capitalization, emphasizing the smaller capitalizations within that universe and higher value and profitability characteristics considered together. The Integrity US Small Cap Value Factor ETF invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus borrowings for investment purposes) in equity securities of small-capitalization U.S. issuers listed on U.S. exchanges that the Adviser considers to have value characteristics. Each Fund applies a values-based screen maintained by the Adviser. The Adviser uses proprietary quantitative models to rank securities and to construct each Fund’s portfolio and does not rebalance on a fixed schedule. The Adviser may also use derivatives for equity exposure and cash management, may engage in short sales and securities lending, and may invest in other ETFs and pooled investment vehicles, including those received in an in-kind contribution of securities.
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The values-based screen is designed to identify issuers involved in activities the Adviser determines to be incompatible with natural law as determined by Christian moral teaching, including abortion; abortifacients and contraceptives; human embryonic research; artificial reproduction; interventions for sex reassignment; and pornography and other adult entertainment. Identification of an issuer by the screen does not by itself necessarily result in exclusion. The screen is applied at the issuer level and requires judgment regarding the directness and substantiality of an issuer’s connection to an activity, and information may be incomplete, inaccurate or unavailable. Ethical advisers, if engaged, act only in an advisory capacity, have no discretionary authority, and are compensated by the Adviser rather than the Funds.
With respect to each Fund’s investments, unless otherwise noted, if a percentage limitation on investment is adhered to at the time of investment or contract, a subsequent increase or decrease as a result of market movement or redemption will not result in a violation of such investment limitation.
The following are descriptions of each Fund’s permitted investments and investment practices and the associated risk factors. The Funds will only invest in any of the following instruments or engage in any of the following investment practices if such investment or activity is consistent with each Fund’s investment objective and permitted by each Fund’s stated investment policies. Each of the permitted investments described below applies to the Funds unless otherwise noted.
Each Fund is classified as a diversified investment company under the 1940 Act. Each Fund intends to satisfy the asset diversification requirements for qualification as a regulated investment company (“RIC”) under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). See “Federal Income Taxes” below for details.
General Risks. The value of the Funds’ portfolio securities may fluctuate with changes in the financial condition of an issuer or counterparty, changes in specific economic or political conditions that affect a particular security or issuer and changes in general economic or political conditions. An investor in the Funds could lose money over short or long periods of time.
There can be no guarantee that a liquid market for the securities held by the Funds will be maintained. The existence of a liquid trading market for certain securities may depend on whether dealers will make a market in such securities. There can be no assurance that a market will be made or maintained or that any such market will be or remain liquid. The price at which securities may be sold and the value of Shares will be adversely affected if trading markets for the Funds’ portfolio securities are limited or absent, or if bid-ask spreads are wide.
impede trading, subject a Fund to regulatory fines or financial losses, and cause reputational damage. The Funds may also incur additional costs for cyber security risk management purposes. Similar types of cyber security risks are also present for issuers of securities in which each Fund invests, which could result in material adverse consequences for such issuers, and may cause the Funds’ investments in such portfolio companies to lose value.
Absence of Prior Active Market Risk. While each Fund’s Shares are listed on the Exchange, there can be no assurance that an active trading market for Shares will develop or be maintained. The Funds’ distributor does not maintain a secondary market in Shares.
Active Management Risk. Each Fund is actively managed, which means that investment decisions are made based on the investment views of the Adviser. There is no guarantee that the investment views will produce the desired results or expected returns, which may cause a Fund to fail to meet its investment objective or to underperform its benchmark index or funds with similar investment objectives and strategies. Furthermore, active trading that can accompany active management may result in high portfolio turnover, which may have a negative impact on performance. Active trading may result in higher brokerage costs or mark-up charges, which are ultimately passed on to shareholders of the Funds. Active trading may also result in adverse tax consequences. Certain securities or other instruments in which a Fund seeks to invest may not be available in the quantities desired. Additionally, legislative, regulatory, or tax restrictions, policies or developments may affect the investment techniques available to the Adviser in connection with managing the Funds and may also adversely affect the ability of a Fund to achieve its investment objective.
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Authorized Participants, Market Makers, and Liquidity Providers Concentration Risk. The Funds have a limited number of financial institutions that may act as Authorized Participants (“APs”). In addition, there may be a limited number of market makers and/or liquidity providers in the marketplace. To the extent either of the following events occur, Shares may trade at a material discount to NAV and possibly face delisting: (i) APs exit the business or otherwise become unable to process creation and/or redemption orders and no other APs step forward to perform these services, or (ii) market makers and/or liquidity providers exit the business or significantly reduce their business activities and no other entities step forward to perform their functions.
Cyber Security Risk. Investment companies, such as the Funds, and their service providers may be subject to operational and information security risks resulting from cyber attacks. Cyber attacks include, among other behaviors, stealing or corrupting data maintained online or digitally, denial of service attacks on websites, the unauthorized release of confidential information or various other forms of cyber security breaches. Cyber attacks affecting the Funds, the Adviser, custodian, transfer agent, intermediaries and other third-party service providers may adversely impact the Funds. For instance, cyber attacks may interfere with the processing of shareholder transactions, impact a Fund’s ability to calculate its NAV, cause the release of private shareholder information or confidential company information.
Exchange-Traded Fund Structure Risk. Each Fund is structured as an ETF and is therefore subject to special risks. Each Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including disruptions to the creation and redemption processes, losses from trading in secondary markets, extreme market volatility and the potential lack of an active trading market for Shares, any of which may result in Shares trading at a significant premium or discount to NAV. Trading in Shares on the Exchange may be halted due to market conditions, for reasons that, in the view of the Exchange, make trading in Shares inadvisable, or pursuant to the Exchange’s “circuit breaker” rules, and there can be no assurance that the requirements of the Exchange necessary to maintain the listing of a Fund will continue to be met. In times of market stress, market makers may step away from their role in the Shares, and the market for Shares may become less liquid in response to deteriorating liquidity of a Fund’s portfolio, which may lead to significant differences between the market price of the Shares and a Fund’s NAV. Purchases and redemptions of Creation Units primarily with cash, rather than through in-kind delivery of portfolio securities, may cause a Fund to incur brokerage costs or taxable gains or losses that it might not otherwise have incurred, which could decrease that Fund’s NAV to the extent not offset by a transaction fee payable by an AP.
Key Person Risk. Each Fund relies substantially on a single portfolio manager who is principally responsible for that Fund’s investment strategy, security selection and portfolio construction, and who is also responsible for the design and oversight of the Adviser’s quantitative models and for the application of the values-based screens. Although the Adviser may engage a trading sub-adviser to assist with trade execution and related portfolio implementation functions, the Adviser is a newly formed firm with a limited number of employees, and the continued management of each Fund depends substantially on the services of its portfolio manager. The loss of his services, whether through death, disability, departure or otherwise, could adversely affect the Adviser’s ability to manage the Funds in accordance with their investment strategies, could result in a change in the personnel responsible for a Fund, and could cause a Fund to underperform or, in an extreme case, to be liquidated. The Adviser may not be able to attract or retain a qualified replacement on a timely basis or at all. The Adviser has not established, and is not required to establish, any succession or key person insurance arrangement with respect to that individual.
Large Shareholder and Large-Scale Redemption Risk. Certain shareholders, including an AP, a third-party investor, the Adviser or an affiliate of the Adviser, a market maker, or another entity, may from time to time own or manage a substantial amount of Shares or may invest in a Fund and hold its investment for a limited period of time. There can be no assurance that any large shareholder or large group of shareholders would not redeem their investment or that the size of a Fund would be maintained. Redemptions of a large number of Shares may adversely affect a Fund’s liquidity and net assets and, to the extent a Fund permits redemptions in cash, may force that Fund to sell portfolio securities when it might not otherwise do so, which may negatively impact that Fund’s NAV, increase its brokerage costs and/or accelerate the realization of taxable income and/or gains. A Fund also may be required to sell its more liquid investments to meet a large redemption, in which case its remaining assets may be less liquid, more volatile, and more difficult to price. In addition, large purchases of Shares may adversely affect a Fund’s performance to the extent that it is delayed in investing new cash and is required to maintain a larger cash position than it ordinarily would.
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Operational Risk. Each Fund is exposed to operational risk arising from a number of factors, including but not limited to human error, processing and communication errors, errors of a Fund’s service providers, counterparties or other third parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. Each Fund seeks to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may be inadequate for those risks that they are intended to address.
Portfolio Turnover Risk. Due to its investment strategy, a Fund may buy and sell securities frequently. This may result in higher transaction costs and additional capital gains tax liabilities, which may affect a Fund’s performance.
Quantitative Model Risk. Each Fund seeks to pursue its investment objective by using proprietary models that incorporate quantitative analysis. Investments selected using these quantitative models may perform differently than as forecasted due to the factors incorporated into the quantitative models and the weighting of each factor, changes from historical trends, and issues in the construction and implementation of the quantitative models (including, but not limited to, software issues, issues related to the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning, and other technological issues). The information and data used in the quantitative models may be supplied by third parties, and inaccurate or incomplete data may limit the effectiveness of the models. In addition, some of the data that the Adviser uses may be historical data, which may not accurately predict future market movement. There is no guarantee that the Adviser’s use of these quantitative models will result in effective investment decisions for the Funds or enable a Fund to achieve its investment objective.
Recent Market Events. U.S. and international markets have experienced and may continue to experience significant periods of volatility in recent years and months due to a number of economic, political and global macro factors including uncertainty regarding inflation and central banks’ interest rate changes, the possibility of a national or global recession, trade tensions and tariffs, political events, armed conflict, war, and geopolitical conflict.
These developments, as well as other events, could result in further market volatility and negatively affect financial asset prices, the liquidity of certain securities and the normal operations of securities exchanges and other markets, despite government efforts to address market disruptions. As a result, the risk environment remains elevated. The Adviser will monitor developments and seek to manage the Funds in a manner consistent with achieving each Fund’s investment objective, but there can be no assurance that it will be successful in doing so.
Values-Based Screening Risk. Each Fund applies a values-based investment screen grounded in principles of natural law as understood through Christian moral teaching. As a result, a Fund may decline to purchase, or may sell, securities that otherwise satisfy its financial investment criteria, which could cause that Fund to underperform comparable funds that do not apply similar screening criteria. There can be no guarantee that the activities of companies in which a Fund invests, or the conduct of persons associated with those companies, will align (or be perceived to align) with an investor’s interpretation of the moral principles underlying the Funds’ screening methodology. The Funds’ investment process relies, in part, on information provided by third parties, and such information may be inaccurate or outdated. The Adviser may fail to identify all instances in which a company’s activities are inconsistent with a Fund’s screening criteria, which could cause a Fund to inadvertently hold securities of companies that conflict with that Fund’s guidelines, including indirectly through other ETFs or pooled investment vehicles. Conversely, if a company in which a Fund has invested is subsequently determined to engage in activities inconsistent with those criteria, that Fund may be required to sell its securities at a financially disadvantageous time. The Adviser’s determinations require the exercise of judgment, and another manager applying the same moral tradition could reach materially different conclusions. The Adviser may change its determinations, or the criteria on which they rest, at any time without notice to shareholders. No Fund is sponsored, endorsed or reviewed by any church, diocese, religious order or ecclesiastical authority.
Derivatives. Derivatives are financial instruments whose values are based on the value of one or more indicators, such as a security, asset, currency, interest rate, or index. Each Fund’s use of derivatives involves risks different from, and possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other more traditional investments. Moreover, although the value of a derivative is based on an underlying indicator, a derivative does not carry the same rights as would be the case if the Funds invested directly in the underlying securities.
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The SEC adopted new regulations governing the use of derivatives by registered investment companies (“Rule 18f-4”). Rule 18f-4 imposes limits on the amount of derivatives the Funds can enter into, treats derivatives as senior securities, and if each Fund’s use of derivatives is more than a limited specified exposure amount, requires the Funds to establish and maintain a comprehensive derivatives risk management program and appoint a derivatives risk manager. Each Fund expects to limit its derivatives exposure so that it qualifies as a “limited derivatives user” under Rule 18f-4. A limited derivatives user’s derivatives exposure generally may not exceed 10% of its net assets, excluding certain currency and interest rate hedging transactions, and it must adopt and implement policies and procedures reasonably designed to manage its derivatives risks. For these purposes, short sale borrowings are treated as derivatives transactions.
Equity Securities. Equity securities, such as the common stocks of an issuer, are subject to stock market fluctuations and therefore may experience volatile changes in value as market conditions, consumer sentiment or the financial condition of the issuers change. A decrease in value of the equity securities in a Fund’s portfolio may also cause the value of that Fund’s Shares to decline.
An investment in the Funds should be made with an understanding of the risks inherent in an investment in equity securities, including the risk that the financial condition of issuers may become impaired or that the general condition of the stock market may deteriorate (either of which may cause a decrease in the value of each Fund’s portfolio securities and therefore a decrease in the value of Shares). Common stocks are susceptible to general stock market fluctuations and to volatile increases and decreases in value as market confidence and perceptions change. These investor perceptions are based on various and unpredictable factors, including expectations regarding government, economic, monetary and fiscal policies; inflation and interest rates; economic expansion or contraction; and global or regional political, economic, public health, or banking crises.
Holders of common stocks incur more risk than holders of preferred stocks and debt obligations because common stockholders, as owners of the issuer, generally have inferior rights to receive payments from the issuer in comparison with the rights of creditors or holders of debt obligations or preferred stocks. Further, unlike debt securities, which typically have a stated principal amount payable at maturity (whose value, however, is subject to market fluctuations prior thereto), or preferred stocks, which typically have a liquidation preference and which may have stated optional or mandatory redemption provisions, common stocks have neither a fixed principal amount nor a maturity. Common stock values are subject to market fluctuations as long as the common stock remains outstanding.
When-Issued Securities: A when-issued security is one whose terms are available and for which a market exists, but which has not been issued. When a Fund engages in when-issued transactions, it relies on the other party to consummate the sale. If the other party fails to complete the sale, a Fund may miss the opportunity to obtain the security at a favorable price or yield.
When purchasing a security on a when-issued basis, a Fund assumes the rights and risks of ownership of the security, including the risk of price and yield changes. At the time of settlement, the value of the security may be more or less than the purchase price. The yield available in the market when the delivery takes place also may be higher than those obtained in the transaction itself. Because the Funds do not pay for the security until the delivery date, these risks are in addition to the risks associated with its other investments.
Decisions to enter into “when-issued” transactions will be considered on a case-by-case basis when the Adviser believes doing so is consistent with a Fund’s investment objective and strategies. The Funds will segregate cash or liquid securities equal in value to commitments for the when-issued transactions. The Funds will segregate additional liquid assets daily so that the value of such assets is equal to the amount of the commitments.
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Types of Equity Securities
Common Stocks — Common stocks represent units of ownership in a company. Common stocks usually carry voting rights and earn dividends. Unlike preferred stocks, which are described below, dividends on common stocks are not fixed but are declared at the discretion of the company’s board of directors.
Preferred Stocks — Preferred stocks are also units of ownership in a company. Preferred stocks normally have preference over common stock in the payment of dividends and the liquidation of the company. However, in all other respects, preferred stocks are subordinated to the liabilities of the issuer. Unlike common stocks, preferred stocks are generally not entitled to vote on corporate matters. Types of preferred stocks include adjustable-rate preferred stock, fixed dividend preferred stock, perpetual preferred stock, and sinking fund preferred stock.
Generally, the market values of preferred stock with a fixed dividend rate and no conversion element vary inversely with interest rates and perceived credit risk.
Rights and Warrants — A right is a privilege granted to existing shareholders of a corporation to subscribe to shares of a new issue of common stock before it is issued. Rights normally have a short life of usually two to four weeks, are freely transferable and entitle the holder to buy the new common stock at a lower price than the public offering price. Warrants are securities that are usually issued together with a debt security or preferred stock and that give the holder the right to buy a proportionate amount of common stock at a specified price. Warrants are freely transferable and are traded on major exchanges. Unlike rights, warrants normally have a life that is measured in years and entitle the holder to buy common stock of a company at a price that is usually higher than the market price at the time the warrant is issued. Corporations often issue warrants to make the accompanying debt security more attractive.
An investment in warrants and rights may entail greater risks than certain other types of investments. Generally, rights and warrants do not carry the right to receive dividends or exercise voting rights with respect to the underlying securities, and they do not represent any rights in the assets of the issuer. In addition, their value does not necessarily change with the value of the underlying securities, and they cease to have value if they are not exercised on or before their expiration date. Investing in rights and warrants increases the potential profit or loss to be realized from the investment as compared with investing the same amount in the underlying securities.
Smaller Companies — The securities of small- and mid-capitalization companies may be more vulnerable to adverse issuer, market, political, or economic developments than securities of larger-capitalization companies. The securities of small- and mid-capitalization companies generally trade in lower volumes and are subject to greater and more unpredictable price changes than larger capitalization stocks or the stock market as a whole. Some small- or mid-capitalization companies have limited product lines, markets, and financial and managerial resources and tend to concentrate on fewer geographical markets relative to larger capitalization companies. There is typically less publicly available information concerning small- and mid-capitalization companies than for larger, more established companies. Small- and mid-capitalization companies also may be particularly sensitive to changes in interest rates, government regulation, borrowing costs, and earnings.
Exchange-Traded Funds (“ETFs”). The Funds may invest in shares of other investment companies (including ETFs). As the shareholder of another ETF, each Fund would bear, along with other shareholders, its pro rata portion of the other ETF’s expenses, including advisory fees. Such expenses are in addition to the expenses each Fund pays in connection with its own operations. The Funds’ investments in other ETFs may be limited by applicable law. A Fund may also hold shares of ETFs or other pooled investment vehicles that it receives in an in-kind contribution of securities. The Adviser does not control the holdings of those vehicles, which may include securities of issuers that do not meet a Fund’s values-based criteria. The Adviser will seek to dispose of such investments within a reasonable period and, pending disposition, may seek to offset a Fund’s exposure to such issuers, including through short sales.
Disruptions in the markets for the securities underlying ETFs purchased or sold by the Funds could result in losses on investments in ETFs. ETFs also carry the risk that the price each Fund pays or receives may be higher or lower than the ETF’s NAV. ETFs are also subject to certain additional risks, including the risks of illiquidity and of possible trading halts due to market conditions or other reasons, based on the policies of the relevant exchange. ETFs and other investment companies in which the Funds may invest may be leveraged, which would increase the volatility of the Funds’ NAV.
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Futures Contracts. The Funds may purchase and sell exchange-traded equity index futures contracts to obtain equity market exposure and for cash management purposes, for example to equitize cash held pending investment or to meet redemptions. A futures contract is an agreement to buy or sell a specified index or other reference asset at a specified price on a future date; equity index futures are settled in cash. When a Fund enters into a futures contract it is required to deposit initial margin with its futures commission merchant (“FCM”) and to pay or receive variation margin daily as the value of the contract changes. Risks of futures contracts include imperfect correlation between the price of the futures contract and the value of the Fund’s portfolio, the possibility that a liquid secondary market will not exist when the Fund seeks to close a position, leverage (because a small margin deposit may control a large notional amount), and the risk that an FCM or clearing organization becomes insolvent. The Adviser has claimed an exclusion from the definition of “commodity pool operator” under the Commodity Exchange Act with respect to the Funds and, therefore, is not subject to registration or regulation as a commodity pool operator with respect to the Funds.
Illiquid Investments. The Funds may invest up to an aggregate amount of 15% of its net assets in illiquid investments, as such term is defined by Rule 22e-4 under the 1940 Act. The Funds may not invest in illiquid investments if, as a result of such investment, more than 15% of each Fund’s net assets would be invested in illiquid investments. Illiquid investments include securities subject to contractual or other restrictions on resale and other instruments that lack readily available markets. The inability of the Funds to dispose of illiquid investments readily or at a reasonable price could impair each Fund’s ability to raise cash for redemptions or other purposes. The liquidity of securities purchased by the Funds that are eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A, except for certain 144A bonds, will be monitored by the Funds on an ongoing basis. In the event that more than 15% of each Fund’s net assets are invested in illiquid investments, the Funds, in accordance with Rule 22e-4(b)(1)(iv), will report the occurrence to both the Board and the SEC and seek to reduce its holdings of illiquid investments within a reasonable period of time.
Investment Company Securities. The Funds may invest in the securities of other investment companies, including ETFs and money market funds, subject to applicable limitations under Section 12(d)(1) of the 1940 Act and the rules applicable thereunder (including Rule 12d1-4). Investing in another pooled vehicle exposes the Funds to all the risks of that pooled vehicle. Pursuant to Section 12(d)(1), a Fund may invest in the securities of another investment company (the “acquired company”) provided that such Fund, immediately after such purchase or acquisition, does not own in the aggregate: (i) more than 3% of the total outstanding voting stock of the acquired company; (ii) securities issued by the acquired company having an aggregate value in excess of 5% of the value of the total assets of such Fund; or (iii) securities issued by the acquired company and all other investment companies (other than treasury stock of such Fund) having an aggregate value in excess of 10% of the value of the total assets of each Fund. To the extent allowed by law or regulation, the Funds may invest its assets in securities of investment companies that are money market funds in excess of the limits discussed above.
If the Funds invest in and, thus, are shareholders of, another investment company, each Fund’s shareholders will indirectly bear each Fund’s proportionate share of the fees and expenses paid by such other investment company, including advisory fees, in addition to both the management fees payable directly by the Funds to each Fund’s own investment adviser and the other expenses that the Funds bear directly in connection with each Fund’s own operations.
Section 12(d)(1) of the 1940 Act restricts investments by registered investment companies in securities of other registered investment companies, including the Funds. The acquisition of each Fund’s Shares by registered investment companies is subject to the restrictions of Section 12(d)(1) of the 1940 Act, except as may be permitted by exemptive rules under the 1940 Act that permit registered investment companies to invest in the Funds beyond the limits of Section 12(d)(1), subject to certain terms and conditions, including that the registered investment company enter into an agreement with the Funds regarding the terms of the investment.
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The Funds may rely on Section 12(d)(1)(F) and Rule 12d1-3 of the 1940 Act, which provide an exemption from Section 12(d)(1) that allows the Funds to invest all of its assets in other registered funds, including ETFs, if, among other conditions: (a) each Fund, together with its affiliates, acquires no more than three percent of the outstanding voting stock of any acquired fund, and (b) the sales load charged on each Fund’s Shares is no greater than the limits set forth in Rule 2341 of the Rules of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”). Additionally, the Funds may rely on Rule 12d1-4 under the 1940 Act to invest in such other funds in excess of the limits of Section 12(d)(1) if the Funds comply with the terms and conditions of such rule.
Issuer Risk. Changes in the financial condition or credit rating of an issuer or counterparty, changes in specific economic or political conditions that affect a particular type of security or issuer, and changes in general economic or political conditions can affect a security’s or instrument’s value. The values of securities of smaller, less well-known issuers can be more volatile than those of larger issuers. Issuer-specific events can have a negative impact on the value of a Fund.
Large-Capitalization Risk. Investments in large capitalization companies may go in and out of favor based on market and economic conditions and may underperform other market segments. Some large capitalization companies may be unable to respond quickly to new competitive challenges, such as changes in technology and consumer tastes, and may not be able to attain the high growth rate of successful smaller companies, especially during extended periods of economic expansion. As such, returns on investments in stocks of large capitalization companies could trail the returns on investments in stocks of small and mid-capitalization companies.
Mid-Capitalization Companies Risk. Compared to large-capitalization companies, mid-capitalization companies may be less stable and more susceptible to adverse developments, and their securities may be more volatile and less liquid. Large-capitalization companies may be unable to respond quickly to new competitive challenges, such as changes in technology and consumer tastes, and may not be able to attain the high growth rates of successful smaller companies.
Money Market Instruments. The Funds may invest a portion of its assets in high-quality money market instruments on an ongoing basis to provide liquidity or for other reasons. The instruments in which the Funds may invest include: (i) short-term obligations issued by the U.S. Government; (ii) negotiable certificates of deposit (“CDs”), fixed time deposits and bankers’ acceptances of U.S. and foreign banks and similar institutions; (iii) commercial paper rated at the date of purchase “Prime-1” by Moody’s or “A-1+” or “A-1” by S&P or, if unrated, of comparable quality as determined by the Funds; and (iv) repurchase agreements. CDs are short-term negotiable obligations of commercial banks. Time deposits are non-negotiable deposits maintained in banking institutions for specified periods of time at stated interest rates. Banker’s acceptances are time drafts drawn on commercial banks by borrowers, usually in connection with international transactions.
New Adviser Risk. The Adviser was recently formed and has not previously managed a registered investment company. The Funds are the Adviser’s first advisory clients, and the Adviser did not manage any assets prior to the commencement of the Funds’ operations. The Adviser has filed an application for registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission as an investment adviser under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and expects to be registered as an investment adviser prior to the commencement of the Funds’ operations. The Adviser therefore has no record as a manager of a registered fund against which investors may evaluate its ability to manage the Funds, and its personnel, systems, models and compliance program have not been tested through a full market cycle or through the operation of a registered fund. The Adviser’s revenues are expected to consist principally of the unitary management fees it receives from the Funds, and if the Funds do not attract sufficient assets the Adviser may not be able to fund the personnel, technology and research capability it presently contemplates, which could adversely affect its ability to manage the Funds. There can be no assurance that the Adviser will be able to manage the Funds successfully or that it will be able to continue to do so.
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New Fund Risk. A new or smaller fund is subject to the risk that its performance may not represent how the fund is expected to or may perform in the long term. In addition, new funds have limited operating histories for investors to evaluate and new and smaller funds may not attract sufficient assets to achieve investment and trading efficiencies. There can be no assurance that the Fund will achieve an economically viable size, in which case it could ultimately liquidate. The Fund may be liquidated by the Board of Trustees without a shareholder vote. In a liquidation, shareholders of the Fund will receive an amount equal to the Fund’s NAV, after deducting the costs of liquidation, including the transaction costs of disposing of the Fund’s portfolio investments. Receipt of a liquidation distribution may have negative tax consequences for shareholders. Additionally, during the Fund’s liquidation all or a portion of the Fund’s portfolio may be invested in a manner not consistent with its investment objective and investment policies.
Options on Securities. The Funds may purchase and write (i.e., sell) put and call options. Such options may relate to particular securities or stock indices, and may or may not be listed on a domestic or foreign securities exchange and may or may not be issued by the Options Clearing Corporation. Options trading is a highly specialized activity that entails greater than ordinary investment risk. Options may be more volatile than the underlying instruments, and therefore, on a percentage basis, an investment in options may be subject to greater fluctuation than an investment in the underlying instruments themselves.
A call option for a particular security gives the purchaser of the option the right to buy, and the writer (seller) the obligation to sell, the underlying security at the stated exercise price at any time prior to the expiration of the option, regardless of the market price of the security. The premium paid to the writer is in consideration for undertaking the obligation under the option contract. A put option for a particular security gives the purchaser the right to sell the security at the stated exercise price at any time prior to the expiration date of the option, regardless of the market price of the security.
Stock index options are put options and call options on various stock indices. In most respects, they are identical to listed options on common stocks. The primary difference between stock options and index options occurs when index options are exercised. In the case of stock options, the underlying security, common stock, is delivered. However, upon the exercise of an index option, settlement does not occur by delivery of the securities comprising the index. The option holder who exercises the index option receives an amount of cash if the closing level of the stock index upon which the option is based is greater than, in the case of a call, or less than, in the case of a put, the exercise price of the option. This amount of cash is equal to the difference between the closing price of the stock index and the exercise price of the option expressed in dollars times a specified multiple. A stock index fluctuates with changes in the market value of the stocks included in the index. For example, some stock index options are based on a broad market index, such as the Standard & Poor’s 500® Index or the Value Line Composite Index or a narrower market index, such as the Standard & Poor’s 100®. Indices may also be based on an industry or market segment, such as the NYSE Arca Oil Index. Options on stock indices are currently traded on the Chicago Board Options Exchange, the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ OMX PHLX.
Each Fund’s obligation to sell an instrument subject to a call option written by it, or to purchase an instrument subject to a put option written by it, may be terminated prior to the expiration date of the option by the Fund’s execution of a closing purchase transaction, which is effected by purchasing on an exchange an option of the same series (i.e., same underlying instrument, exercise price and expiration date) as the option previously written. A closing purchase transaction will ordinarily be effected to realize a profit on an outstanding option, to prevent an underlying instrument from being called, to permit the sale of the underlying instrument or to permit the writing of a new option containing different terms on such underlying instrument. The cost of such a liquidation purchase plus transactions costs may be greater than the premium received upon the original option, in which event the Funds will have paid a loss in the transaction. There is no assurance that a liquid secondary market will exist for any particular option. An option writer unable to effect a closing purchase transaction will not be able to sell the underlying instrument until the option expires or the optioned instrument is delivered upon exercise. In such circumstances, the writer will be subject to the risk of market decline or appreciation in the instrument during such period.
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If an option purchased by the Funds expires unexercised, the Funds realize a loss equal to the premium paid. If the Funds enter into a closing sale transaction on an option purchased by it, the Funds will realize a gain if the premium received by the Funds on the closing transaction is more than the premium paid to purchase the option, or a loss if it is less. If an option written by the Funds expires on the stipulated expiration date or if the Funds enters into a closing purchase transaction, it will realize a gain (or loss if the cost of a closing purchase transaction exceeds the net premium received when the option is sold). If an option written by a Fund is exercised, the proceeds of the sale will be increased by the net premium originally received and the Fund will realize a gain or loss.
Options on Stock Indexes. Each Fund’s purchase and sale of options on stock indexes will be subject to risks described below under “Transactions in Stock Options.” In addition, the distinctive characteristics of options on stock indexes create certain risks that are not present with stock options.
Since the value of a stock index option depends upon the movements in the level of the stock index, rather than the price of a particular stock, whether the Funds will realize a gain or loss on the purchase or sale of an option on a stock index depends upon movements in the level of stock prices in the stock market generally or in an industry or market segment rather than movements in the price of a particular stock. Accordingly, successful use by the Funds of options on stock indexes is subject to the Adviser’s ability to correctly predict movements in the direction of the stock market generally or of a particular industry or market segment. This requires skills and techniques different from predicting changes in the price of individual stocks.
Stock index prices may be distorted if trading of certain stocks included in the stock index is interrupted. Trading in the stock index options also may be interrupted in certain circumstances, such as if trading were halted in a substantial number of stocks included in the stock index. If this occurred, the Funds would not be able to close out options that it had purchased or written and, if restrictions on exercise were imposed, might not be able to exercise an option that it was holding, which could result in substantial losses to the Funds. It is the policy of each Fund to purchase or write options only on stock indexes that include a number of stocks sufficient to minimize the likelihood of a trading halt in the stock index, for example, the S&P 100 or S&P 500 index option.
Although the markets for certain stock index option contracts have developed rapidly, the markets for other stock index options are still relatively illiquid. The ability to establish and close out positions on such options will be subject to the development and maintenance of a liquid secondary market. It is not certain that this market will develop in all stock index option contracts. The Funds will not purchase or sell stock index option contracts unless and until, in the Adviser’s opinion, the market for such options has developed sufficiently that the risk in connection with these transactions is no greater than the risk in connection with options on stock.
OTC Options. Unlike exchange-traded options, which are standardized with respect to the underlying instrument, expiration date, contract size and strike price, the terms of OTC options (options not traded on exchanges) generally are established through negotiation with the other party to the option contract. While this type of arrangement allows the Funds great flexibility to tailor the option to its needs, OTC options generally involve greater risk than exchange-traded options, which are guaranteed by the clearing organization of the exchanges where they are traded.
REITs. The Funds may invest in securities of real estate investment trusts (“REITs”). REITs are publicly traded corporations or trusts that specialize in acquiring, holding and managing residential, commercial or industrial real estate. A REIT is not taxed at the entity level on income distributed to its shareholders or unitholders if it distributes to shareholders or unitholders at least 90% of its taxable income for each taxable year and complies with regulatory requirements relating to its organization, ownership, assets and income. The Adviser treats REITs as a separate asset class. The Integrity US Large Cap Integrated Factor ETF excludes REITs, and the other Funds systematically underweight or exclude them.
REITs generally can be classified as “Equity REITs,” “Mortgage REITs” and “Hybrid REITs.” An Equity REIT invests the majority of its assets directly in real property and derives its income primarily from rents and from capital gains on real estate appreciation which are realized through property sales. A Mortgage REIT invests the majority of its assets in real estate mortgage loans and services its income primarily from interest payments. A Hybrid REIT combines the characteristics of an Equity REIT and a Mortgage REIT. Although the Funds can invest in all three kinds of REITs, its emphasis is expected to be on investments in Equity REITs.
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Investments in the real estate industry involve particular risks. The real estate industry has been subject to substantial fluctuations and declines on a local, regional and national basis in the past and may continue to be in the future. Real property values, and income from real property continue to be in the future. Real property values and income from real property may decline due to general and local economic conditions, overbuilding and increased competition, increases in property taxes and operating expenses, changes in zoning laws, casualty or condemnation losses, regulatory limitations on rents, changes in neighborhoods and in demographics, increases in market interest rates, or other factors. Factors such as these may adversely affect companies that own and operate real estate directly, companies that lend to such companies, and companies that service the real estate industry.
Direct investments in REITs also involve risks. Equity REITs will be affected by changes in the values of and income from the properties they own, while Mortgage REITs may be affected by the credit quality of the mortgage loans they hold. In addition, REITs are dependent on specialized management skills and on their ability to generate cash flow for operating purposes and to make distributions to shareholders or unitholders REITs may have limited diversification and are subject to risks associated with obtaining financing for real property, as well as to the risk of self-liquidation. REITs also can be adversely affected by their failure to qualify for tax-free pass- through treatment of their income under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or their failure to maintain an exemption from registration under the 1940 Act. By investing in REITs indirectly through the Funds, a shareholder bears not only a proportionate share of the expenses of the Funds, but also may indirectly bear similar expenses of some of the REITs in which it invests.
Repurchase Agreements. The Funds may invest in repurchase agreements with commercial banks, brokers or dealers to generate income from its excess cash balances and to invest securities lending cash collateral. A repurchase agreement is an agreement under which each Fund acquires a financial instrument (e.g., a security issued by the U.S. government or an agency thereof, a banker’s acceptance or a certificate of deposit) from a seller, subject to resale to the seller at an agreed upon price and date (normally, the next Business Day). A repurchase agreement may be considered a loan collateralized by securities. The resale price reflects an agreed upon interest rate effective for the period the instrument is held by a Fund and is unrelated to the interest rate on the underlying instrument.
In these repurchase agreement transactions, the securities acquired by the Funds (including accrued interest earned thereon) must have a total value in excess of the value of the repurchase agreement and are held by the Custodian until repurchased. No more than an aggregate of 15% of each Fund’s net assets will be invested in illiquid investments, including repurchase agreements having maturities longer than seven days and securities subject to legal or contractual restrictions on resale, or for which there are no readily available market quotations.
The use of repurchase agreements involves certain risks. For example, if the other party to the agreement defaults on its obligation to repurchase the underlying security at a time when the value of the security has declined, the Funds may incur a loss upon disposition of the security. If the other party to the agreement becomes insolvent and subject to liquidation or reorganization under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code or other laws, a court may determine that the underlying security is collateral for a loan by the Funds not within the control of the Funds and, therefore, the Funds may not be able to substantiate its interest in the underlying security and may be deemed an unsecured creditor of the other party to the agreement.
Reverse Repurchase Agreements. The Funds may enter into reverse repurchase agreements, which involve the sale of securities held by the Funds subject to its agreement to repurchase the securities at an agreed-upon date or upon demand and at a price reflecting a market rate of interest. Reverse repurchase agreements are subject to each Fund’s limitation on borrowings and may be entered into only with banks or securities dealers or their affiliates. While a reverse repurchase agreement is outstanding, the Funds will maintain the segregation, either on its records or with the Trust’s custodian, of cash or other liquid securities, marked-to-market daily, in an amount at least equal to its obligations under the reverse repurchase agreement.
Reverse repurchase agreements involve the risk that the buyer of the securities sold by the Funds might be unable to deliver them when that Fund seeks to repurchase. If the buyer of securities under a reverse repurchase agreement files for bankruptcy or becomes insolvent, the buyer or trustee or receiver may receive an extension of time to determine whether to enforce each Fund’s obligation to repurchase the securities, and each Fund’s use of the proceeds of the reverse repurchase agreement may effectively be restricted pending such decision.
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Securities Lending. The Funds may lend portfolio securities in an amount up to one-third of its total assets to brokers, dealers and other financial institutions. In a portfolio securities lending transaction, a Fund receives from the borrower an amount equal to the interest paid or the dividends declared on the loaned securities during the term of the loan as well as the interest on the collateral securities, less any fees (such as finders or administrative fees) the Funds pay in arranging the loan. The Funds may share the interest it receives on the collateral securities with the borrower. Loans are subject to termination at the option of the Funds or borrower at any time, and the borrowed securities must be returned when the loan is terminated. The Funds may pay fees to arrange for securities loans.
The SEC currently requires that the following conditions must be met whenever a Fund’s portfolio securities are loaned: (1) the Funds must receive at least 100% cash collateral from the borrower; (2) the borrower must increase such collateral whenever the market value of the securities rises above the level of such collateral; (3) the Fund must be able to terminate the loan at any time; (4) the Funds must receive reasonable interest on the loan, as well as any dividends, interest or other distributions on the loaned securities, and any increase in market value; (5) the Funds may pay only reasonable custodian fees approved by the Board in connection with the loan; (6) while voting rights on the loaned securities may pass to the borrower, the Board must terminate the loan and regain the right to vote the securities if a material event adversely affecting the investment occurs, and (7) the Funds may not loan its portfolio securities so that the value of the loaned securities is more than one-third of its total asset value, including collateral received from such loans. These conditions may be subject to future modification. Such loans will be terminable at any time upon specified notice. The Funds might experience the risk of loss if the institution with which it has engaged in a portfolio loan transaction breaches its agreement with the Funds. In addition, the Funds will not enter into any portfolio security lending arrangement having a duration of longer than one year. The principal risk of portfolio lending is potential default or insolvency of the borrower. In either of these cases, the Funds could experience delays in recovering securities or collateral or could lose all or part of the value of the loaned securities. As part of participating in a lending program, the Funds may be required to invest in collateralized debt or other securities that bear the risk of loss of principal. In addition, all investments made with the collateral received are subject to the risks associated with such investments. If such investments lose value, the Funds will have to cover the loss when repaying the collateral.
Any loans of portfolio securities are fully collateralized based on values that are marked-to-market daily. Any securities that the Funds may receive as collateral will not become part of each Fund’s investment portfolio at the time of the loan and, in the event of a default by the borrower, the Funds will, if permitted by law, dispose of such collateral except for such part thereof that is a security in which the Funds are permitted to invest. During the time securities are on loan, the borrower will pay the Funds any accrued income on those securities, and the Funds may invest the cash collateral and earn income or receive an agreed-upon fee from a borrower that has delivered cash-equivalent collateral.
Short Sales. A Fund may engage in short sales of securities, including to offset its exposure to issuers, held directly or through other ETFs or pooled investment vehicles, that do not meet that Fund’s values-based criteria. In a short sale, a Fund sells a security it does not own and borrows the security to deliver it to the buyer. The Fund is obligated to replace the borrowed security by buying it at the market price at the time of replacement, which may be higher or lower than the price at which the security was sold. Until the security is replaced, the Fund must pay the lender any dividends or interest that accrue and may be required to pay a fee to borrow the security. Losses on a short sale are theoretically unlimited because the price of a security may rise without limit, and a Fund may be unable to close out a short position at an acceptable price or time, for example if the lender recalls the security. Short sale borrowings are treated as derivatives transactions under Rule 18f-4.
Tax Risks. As with any investment, you should consider how your investment in Shares will be taxed. The tax information in the Prospectus and this SAI is provided as general information. You should consult your own tax professional about the tax consequences of an investment in Shares.
Unless your investment in Shares is made through a tax-exempt entity or tax-deferred retirement account, such as an individual retirement account, you need to be aware of the possible tax consequences when the Funds make distributions or you sell Shares.
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Transactions in Stock Options. Purchase and sales of options involve the risk that there will be no market in which to effect a closing transaction. An option position may be closed out only on an exchange that provides a secondary market for an option of the same series or if the transaction was an over-the-counter transaction, through the original broker-dealer. Although the Funds will generally buy and sell options for which there appears to be an active secondary market, there is no assurance that a liquid secondary market on an exchange will exist for any particular option, or at any particular time, and for some options no secondary market on an exchange may exist. If the Funds, as a covered call or put option writer, is unable to effect an offsetting closing transaction in a secondary market, it will, for a call option it has written, not be able to sell the underlying security until the call option expires and, for a put option it has written, not be able to avoid purchasing the underlying security until the put option expires.
U.S. Government Securities. The Funds may invest in U.S. government securities. Securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government or its agencies or instrumentalities include U.S. Treasury securities, which are backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Treasury and which differ only in their interest rates, maturities, and times of issuance. U.S. Treasury bills have initial maturities of one- year or less; U.S. Treasury notes have initial maturities of one to ten years; and U.S. Treasury bonds generally have initial maturities of greater than ten years. Certain U.S. government securities are issued or guaranteed by agencies or instrumentalities of the U.S. government including, but not limited to, obligations of U.S. government agencies or instrumentalities such as the Federal National Mortgage Association (“Fannie Mae”), the Government National Mortgage Association (“Ginnie Mae”), the Small Business Administration, the Federal Farm Credit Administration, the Federal Home Loan Banks, Banks for Cooperatives (including the Central Bank for Cooperatives), the Federal Land Banks, the Federal Intermediate Credit Banks, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Export- Import Bank of the United States, the Commodity Credit Corporation, the Federal Financing Bank, the Student Loan Marketing Association, the National Credit Union Administration and the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation (“Farmer Mac”).
Some obligations issued or guaranteed by U.S. government agencies and instrumentalities, including, for example, Ginnie Mae pass- through certificates, are supported by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Treasury. Other obligations issued by or guaranteed by federal agencies, such as those securities issued by Fannie Mae, are supported by the discretionary authority of the U.S. government to purchase certain obligations of the federal agency, while other obligations issued by or guaranteed by federal agencies, such as those of the Federal Home Loan Banks, are supported by the right of the issuer to borrow from the U.S. Treasury. While the U.S. government provides financial support to such U.S. government-sponsored federal agencies, no assurance can be given that the U.S. government will always do so, since the U.S. government is not so obligated by law. U.S. Treasury notes and bonds typically pay coupon interest semi-annually and repay the principal at maturity.
Value Securities Risk. Value securities are those issued by companies that may be perceived as undervalued. Such securities may decline in price or fail to appreciate for long periods of time, and they may never realize their full potential value. Value securities may underperform growth securities and other types of assets as well as the overall stock market. Value securities may go in and out of favor over time, which could affect the performance of the Fund.
Future Developments. The Board may, in the future, authorize the Funds to invest in securities contracts and investments other than those listed in this SAI and in the Funds’ Prospectus, provided they are consistent with each Fund’s investment objective and do not violate any investment restrictions or policies.
The Trust has adopted the following investment restrictions as fundamental policies with respect to the Funds. These restrictions cannot be changed with respect to the Funds without the approval of the holders of a majority of each Fund’s outstanding voting securities. For the purposes of the 1940 Act, a “majority of outstanding shares” means the vote of the lesser of: (1) 67% or more of the voting securities of the Funds present at the meeting if the holders of more than 50% of each Fund’s outstanding voting securities are present or represented by proxy; or (2) more than 50% of the outstanding voting securities of the Funds.
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Except with the approval of a majority of the outstanding voting securities, the Funds may not:
| 1. | Purchase the securities of any issuer (other than securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. Government or any of its agencies or instrumentalities) if, as a result, more than 25% of the Fund’s total assets would be invested in the securities of companies whose principal business activities are in the same industry or group of industries. |
| 2. | Issue senior securities, except as permitted under the 1940 Act. |
| 3. | Borrow money, except as permitted under the 1940 Act. |
| 4. | Lend any security or make any other loan except as permitted under the 1940 Act. This means that no more than 331/3% of its total assets would be lent to other parties. This limitation does not apply to purchases of debt securities or to repurchase agreements, or to acquisitions of loans, loan participations or other forms of debt instruments, permissible under each Fund’s investment policies. |
| 5. | Purchase or sell real estate unless acquired as a result of ownership of securities or other instruments (but this shall not prevent the Funds from investing in securities or other instruments backed by real estate, real estate investment trusts or securities of companies engaged in the real estate business). |
| 6. | Purchase or sell physical commodities unless acquired as a result of ownership of securities or other instruments (but this shall not prevent the Funds from purchasing or selling options and futures contracts or from investing in securities or other instruments backed by physical commodities). |
| 7. | Act as an underwriter of another issuer’s securities, except to the extent that the Funds may be considered an underwriter within the meaning of the Securities Act in the disposition of portfolio securities. |
If a percentage limitation is adhered to at the time of investment or contract, a later increase or decrease in percentage resulting from any change in value or total or net assets will not result in a violation of such restriction, except that the percentage limitation with respect to the borrowing of money will be observed continuously.
Non-Fundamental Policies. Each Fund’s investment objective and its policy to invest, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of its net assets (plus borrowings for investment purposes) in the type of investments suggested by its name are non-fundamental and may be changed by the Board without shareholder approval upon 60 days’ prior written notice to shareholders.
Shares are listed for trading and trade throughout the day on the Exchange.
There can be no assurance that the Funds will continue to meet the requirements of the Exchange necessary to maintain the listing of Shares. The Exchange will consider the suspension of trading in, and will initiate delisting proceedings of, the Shares if any of the requirements set forth in the Exchange rules, including compliance with Rule 6c-11(c) under the 1940 Act, are not continuously maintained or such other event shall occur or condition shall exist that, in the opinion of the Exchange, makes further dealings on the Exchange inadvisable. The Exchange will remove the Shares of the Funds from listing and trading upon termination of the Funds.
The Trust reserves the right to adjust the price levels of Shares in the future to help maintain convenient trading ranges for investors. Any adjustments would be accomplished through stock splits or reverse stock splits, which would have no effect on the net assets of the Funds.
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Board Responsibilities. The management and affairs of the Trust and its series are overseen by the Board, which elects the officers of the Trust who are responsible for administering the day-to-day operations of the Trust and the Funds. The Board has approved contracts, as described below, under which certain companies provide essential services to the Trust.
The day-to-day business of the Trust, including the management of risk, is performed by third-party service providers, such as the Adviser, the Distributor, and the Administrator. The Board is responsible for overseeing the Trust’s service providers and, thus, has oversight responsibility with respect to risk management performed by those service providers. Risk management seeks to identify and address risks, i.e., events or circumstances that could have material adverse effects on the business, operations, shareholder services, investment performance or reputation of the Funds. The Funds and its service providers employ a variety of processes, procedures and controls to identify such events or circumstances, to lessen the probability of their occurrence and/or to mitigate the effects of such events or circumstances if they do occur. Each service provider is responsible for one or more discrete aspects of the Trust’s business (e.g., the Adviser is responsible for the day-to-day management of each Fund’s portfolio investments) and, consequently, for managing the risks associated with that business. The Board has emphasized to the Funds’ service providers the importance of maintaining vigorous risk management.
The Board’s role in risk oversight begins before the inception of the Funds, at which time certain of the Funds’ service providers present the Board with information concerning the investment objective, strategies, and risks of a Fund as well as proposed investment limitations for the Fund. Additionally, the Adviser will provide the Board with an overview of, among other things, its investment philosophy, brokerage practices, and compliance infrastructure. Thereafter, the Board continues its oversight function as various personnel, including the Trust’s Chief Compliance Officer and other service providers such as the Funds’ independent registered public accounting firm, make periodic reports to the Audit Committee or to the Board with respect to various aspects of risk management. The Board and the Audit Committee oversee efforts by management and service providers to manage risks to which each Fund may be exposed.
The Board is responsible for overseeing the nature, extent, and quality of the services provided to the Funds by the Adviser and receives information about those services at its regular meetings. In addition, on an annual basis (following the initial two-year period), in connection with its consideration of whether to renew the Investment Advisory Agreement with the Adviser, the Board or its designee may meet with the Adviser to review such services. Among other things, the Board regularly considers the Adviser’s adherence to each Fund’s investment restrictions and compliance with various Fund policies and procedures and with applicable securities regulations. The Board also reviews information about each Fund’s performance and each Fund’s investments, including, for example, portfolio holdings schedules.
The Trust’s Chief Compliance Officer reports regularly to the Board to review and discuss compliance issues and Funds and Adviser risk assessments. At least annually, the Trust’s Chief Compliance Officer provides the Board with a report reviewing the adequacy and effectiveness of the Trust’s policies and procedures and those of its service providers, including the Adviser. The report addresses the operation of the policies and procedures of the Trust and each service provider since the date of the last report; any material changes to the policies and procedures since the date of the last report; any recommendations for material changes to the policies and procedures; and any material compliance matters since the date of the last report.
The Board receives reports from each Fund’s service providers regarding operational risks and risks related to the valuation and liquidity of portfolio securities. Annually, each Fund’s independent registered public accounting firm reviews with the Audit Committee its audit of each Fund’s financial statements, focusing on major areas of risk encountered by the Funds and noting any significant deficiencies or material weaknesses in each Fund’s internal controls. Additionally, in connection with its oversight function, the Board oversees each Fund management’s implementation of disclosure controls and procedures, which are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Trust in its periodic reports with the SEC is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the required time periods. The Board also oversees the Trust’s internal controls over financial reporting, which comprise policies and procedures designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of the Trust’s financial reporting and the preparation of the Trust’s financial statements.
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From their review of these reports and discussions with the Adviser, the Chief Compliance Officer, independent registered public accounting firm and other service providers, the Board and the Audit Committee learn in detail about the material risks of the Funds, thereby facilitating a dialogue about how management and service providers identify and mitigate those risks.
The Board recognizes that not all risks that may affect the Funds can be identified and/or quantified, that it may not be practical or cost- effective to eliminate or mitigate certain risks, that it may be necessary to bear certain risks (such as investment-related risks) to achieve each Fund’s goals, and that the processes, procedures and controls employed to address certain risks may be limited in their effectiveness. Moreover, reports received by the Board as to risk management matters are typically summaries of the relevant information. Most of each Fund’s investment management and business affairs are carried out by or through the Adviser and other service providers, each of which has an independent interest in risk management but whose policies and the methods by which one or more risk management functions are carried out may differ from the Funds’ and each other’s in the setting of priorities, the resources available or the effectiveness of relevant controls. As a result of the foregoing and other factors, the Board’s ability to monitor and manage risk, as a practical matter, is subject to limitations.
Members of the Board. There are [ ] members of the Board, [ ] of whom are not interested persons of the Trust, as that term is defined in the 1940 Act (the “Independent Trustees”). [ ] serves as Chairman of the Board.
Information about each Trustee of the Trust is set forth below. The address of each Trustee of the Trust is [ ].
| Name, Year of Birth, and Position(s) held with the Trust |
Length of |
Principal Occupation(s) During Past Five Years |
Number
of Portfolios in the Fund Complex Overseen(1) |
Other Directorships Held by Trustee During Past Five Years |
| [ ] | [ ] | [ ] | [ ] | [ ] |
| [ ] | [ ] | [ ] | [ ] | [ ] |
| [ ] | [ ] | [ ] | [ ] | [ ] |
| [ ] | [ ] | [ ] | [ ] | [ ] |
| (1) | The term “Fund Complex” means two or more registered investment companies that hold themselves out to investors as related companies for purposes of investment and investor services; or have a common investment adviser or that have an investment adviser that is an affiliated person of the investment adviser of any of the other registered investment companies. For the purposes of this table, all series of the Trust ([ ] funds, including the Funds) are included in the Fund Complex. |
| (2) | [ ]. |
Individual Trustee Qualifications. The Trust has concluded that each of the Trustees should serve on the Board because of their ability to review and understand information about the Funds provided to them by management, to identify and request other information they may deem relevant to the performance of their duties, to question management and other service providers regarding material factors bearing on the management and administration of the Funds, and to exercise their business judgment in a manner that serves the best interests of the Funds’ shareholders. The Trust has concluded that each of the Trustees should serve as a Trustee based on his or her own experience, qualifications, attributes and skills as described below.
[ ].
[ ].
[ ].
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In its periodic assessment of the effectiveness of the Board, the Board considers the complementary individual skills and experience of the individual Trustees primarily in the broader context of the Board’s overall composition so that the Board, as a body, possesses the appropriate (and appropriately diverse) skills and experience to oversee the business of the funds.
Board Committees. The Board has established the following standing committees of the Board:
Audit Committee. The Board has a standing Audit Committee that is composed of each of the Independent Trustees of the Trust. The Audit Committee operates under a written charter approved by the Board. The principal responsibilities of the Audit Committee include: recommending which firm to engage as the Funds’ independent registered public accounting firm and whether to terminate this relationship; reviewing the independent registered public accounting firm’s compensation, the proposed scope and terms of its engagement, and the firm’s independence; pre-approving audit and non-audit services provided by the Funds’ independent registered public accounting firm to the Trust and certain other affiliated entities; serving as a channel of communication between the independent registered public accounting firm and the Trustees; reviewing the results of each external audit, including any qualifications in the independent registered public accounting firm’s opinion, any related management letter, management’s responses to recommendations made by the independent registered public accounting firm in connection with the audit, reports submitted to the Committee by the internal auditing department of the Trust’s Administrator that are material to the Trust as a whole, if any, and management’s responses to any such reports; reviewing the Funds’ audited financial statements and considering any significant disputes between the Trust’s management and the independent registered public accounting firm that arose in connection with the preparation of those financial statements; considering, in consultation with the independent registered public accounting firm and the Trust’s senior internal accounting executive, if any, the independent registered public accounting firm’s report on the adequacy of the Trust’s internal financial controls; reviewing, in consultation with the Funds’ independent registered public accounting firm, major changes regarding auditing and accounting principles and practices to be followed when preparing the Funds’ financial statements; and other audit related matters.
Nominating Committee. The Board has a standing Nominating Committee that is composed of each of the Independent Trustees of the Trust. The Nominating Committee operates under a written charter approved by the Board. The principal responsibility of the Nominating Committee is to consider, recommend and nominate candidates to fill vacancies on the Trust’s Board, if any. The Nominating Committee generally will not consider nominees recommended by shareholders. The Nominating Committee meets periodically, as necessary. During the past fiscal year, the Nominating Committee did not meet.
Principal Officers of the Trust
The officers of the Trust conduct and supervise its daily business. The address of each officer of the Trust is [ ]. Additional information about the Trust’s officers is as follows:
| Officer’s Name, and Year of Birth |
Position(s) Held with the Trust |
Length of Time Served |
Principal Occupation(s) During The Past Five Years |
| [ ] | [ ] | [ ] | [ ] |
| [ ] | [ ] | [ ] | [ ] |
| [ ] | [ ] | [ ] | [ ] |
| [ ] | [ ] | [ ] | [ ] |
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Trustee Ownership of Shares. The Funds are required to show the dollar amount ranges of each Trustee’s “beneficial ownership” of Shares and each other series of the Trust as of the end of the most recently completed calendar year. Dollar amount ranges disclosed are established by the SEC. “Beneficial ownership” is determined in accordance with Rule 16a-1(a)(2) under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”).
As of [ ], [ ] owned Shares of the Funds.
Board Compensation. The Independent Trustees receive compensation and reimbursement of expenses as determined by the Trust. The Trust has no pension or retirement plan.
Independent Trustee fees are paid by the Adviser of each series of the Trust through the applicable Adviser’s unitary management fee, and not by the Funds. Trustee compensation does not include reimbursed out-of-pocket expenses in connection with attendance at meetings.
The following table shows the compensation earned by each Trustee during the past fiscal year of the Funds:
| Name | Aggregate Compensation From Funds |
Total Compensation From Fund Complex Paid to Trustees |
| Interested Trustees | ||
| [ ] | ||
| Independent Trustees | ||
| [ ] | ||
| [ ] | ||
PRINCIPAL SHAREHOLDERS, CONTROL PERSONS, AND MANAGEMENT OWNERSHIP
A principal shareholder is any person who owns of record or beneficially 5% or more of the outstanding Shares of a Fund. A control person is a shareholder that owns beneficially or through controlled companies more than 25% of the voting securities of a company or acknowledges the existence of control. Shareholders owning voting securities in excess of 25% may determine the outcome of any matter affecting and voted on by shareholders of a Fund.
The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) or its nominee is the record owner of all outstanding shares and is recognized as the owner of all shares for all purposes. Investors owning shares are beneficial owners as shown on the records of DTC or its participants.
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The Trust, the Adviser and the Distributor (as defined under “The Distributor”) have each adopted codes of ethics pursuant to Rule 17j- 1 of the 1940 Act. These codes of ethics are designed to prevent affiliated persons of the Trust, the Adviser and the Distributor from engaging in deceptive, manipulative or fraudulent activities in connection with securities held or to be acquired by the Funds (which may also be held by persons subject to the codes of ethics). Each Code of Ethics permits personnel subject to that Code of Ethics to invest in securities for their personal investment accounts, subject to certain limitations, including limitations related to securities that may be purchased or held by the Funds.
There can be no assurance that the codes of ethics will be effective in preventing such activities. Each code of ethics may be examined at the office of the SEC in Washington, D.C. or on the Internet at the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov.
The Funds have delegated proxy voting responsibilities to the Adviser, subject to the Board’s oversight. In delegating proxy responsibilities, the Board has directed that proxies be voted consistent with the Funds’ and their respective shareholders’ best interests and in compliance with all applicable proxy voting rules and regulations. The Adviser has adopted proxy voting policies and procedures (“Proxy Voting Policies”) that are designed to vote proxies in the best economic interests of each Fund’s shareholders and consistently with each Fund’s values-based investment approach. The Adviser may engage a proxy advisory firm to provide research, voting recommendations under guidelines adopted by the Adviser, recordkeeping and vote-execution services. A copy of the Adviser’s Proxy Voting Policies is set forth in Appendix A to this SAI. The Trust’s Chief Compliance Officer is responsible for monitoring the effectiveness of the Proxy Voting Policies. The Proxy Voting Policies have been approved by the Trust as the policies and procedures that the Adviser will use when voting proxies on behalf of a Fund.
The Proxy Voting Policies address, among other things, material conflicts of interest that may arise between the interests of the Funds and the interests of the Adviser. The Proxy Voting Policies will ensure that all issues brought to shareholders are analyzed in light of the Adviser’s fiduciary responsibilities.
When available, information on how the Funds voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the most recent 12-month period ended June 30 will be available (1) without charge, upon request, by calling the Distributor at [ ] and (2) on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.
Investment Adviser
Integrity Quantitative Advisors, LLC (the “Adviser”), located at 120 N. Hale St., Suite 300, Wheaton, Illinois 60187, serves as the investment adviser to the Funds. The Adviser is a Delaware limited liability company. The Adviser was organized in Illinois in June 2025 and converted to a Delaware limited liability company in January 2026. The Adviser has filed an application for registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission as an investment adviser under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and expects to be registered as an investment adviser prior to the commencement of the Funds’ operations. The Funds are the Adviser’s first advisory clients, and the Adviser did not manage any assets prior to the commencement of the Funds’ operations. The Funds are the first registered investment companies advised by the Adviser, and the Adviser did not manage client assets on a discretionary basis prior to the commencement of the Funds’ operations. The Adviser also provides values-based screening research to third parties. Will Weicher and Peter Weicher co-own the outstanding LLC operating interest of the Adviser.
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Trading Sub-Adviser
[____________], located at [ ], serves as trading sub-adviser to each Fund pursuant to a sub-advisory agreement among the Trust, on behalf of each Fund, the Adviser and the Trading Sub-Adviser (the “Sub-Advisory Agreement”). Subject to the oversight of the Adviser and the Board, the Trading Sub-Adviser is responsible for implementing the target portfolios provided by the Adviser, including trade execution and related trading services. The Trading Sub-Adviser does not exercise discretion over the selection of portfolio securities, the construction of the target portfolios, or the application of the Adviser’s values-based screens, each of which remains the responsibility of the Adviser. The Adviser, and not the Funds, pays the Trading Sub-Adviser a fee for its services out of the unitary management fee the Adviser receives. With respect to each Fund, the Adviser pays the Trading Sub-Adviser an annual fee at the rate of [ ]. A discussion regarding the Board’s approval of the Sub-Advisory Agreement with respect to each Fund will be available in the Funds’ first Form N-CSR filing.
Pursuant to the Investment Advisory Agreement, each Fund pays the Adviser a unitary management fee, which is calculated daily and paid monthly, at an annual rate of [ ]% of each Fund’s average daily net assets. Out of the unitary management fee, the Adviser has agreed to pay substantially all expenses of the Funds, including the cost of transfer agency, custody, fund administration, securities lending and other non-distribution related services necessary for the Funds to operate, except for: the fee paid to the Adviser pursuant to the Investment Advisory Agreement, interest charges on any borrowings, dividends and other expenses on securities sold short, taxes, brokerage commissions and other expenses incurred in placing orders for the purchase and sale of securities and other investment instruments, acquired fund fees and expenses, accrued deferred tax liability, distribution fees and expenses paid by a Fund under any distribution plan adopted pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act, litigation expenses and other non-routine or extraordinary expenses.
The table below is reserved for advisory fees paid by the Funds for fiscal periods ended [ ], as applicable to each Fund:
| Fund | ||||||||||||
| Integrity US All Cap Integrated Factor ETF | [ ] | [ ] | [ ] | |||||||||
| Integrity US Large Cap Integrated Factor ETF | [ ] | [ ] | [ ] | |||||||||
| Integrity US Small Cap Value Factor ETF | [ ] | [ ] | [ ] | |||||||||
| * | [ ]. |
The Investment Advisory Agreement with respect to the Funds will continue in force for an initial period of two years. Thereafter, the Investment Advisory Agreement will be renewable from year to year with respect to the Funds, so long as its continuance is approved at least annually (1) by the vote, cast in person at a meeting called for that purpose, of a majority of those Trustees who are not “interested persons” of the Adviser or the Trust; and (2) by the majority vote of either the full Board or the vote of a majority of the outstanding Shares of the Funds. The Investment Advisory Agreement automatically terminates on assignment and is terminable on a 60-day written notice either by the Trust or the Adviser.
The Adviser shall not be liable to the Trust or any shareholder for anything done or omitted by it, except acts or omissions involving willful misfeasance, bad faith, gross negligence or reckless disregard of the duties imposed upon it by its agreement with the Trust or for any losses that may be sustained in the purchase, holding or sale of any security.
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Peter J. Weicher serves as the portfolio manager of each Fund and has served in that capacity since each Fund commenced operations in [ ] 2026.
Compensation
The Portfolio Manager receives a fixed base salary and a discretionary bonus that is not tied to the performance of the Funds. Mr. Weicher is also an owner of the Adviser and, as such, participates in the Adviser’s profits, which are derived principally from the management fees paid by the Funds.
Share Ownership
The Funds are required to show the dollar ranges of the portfolio managers’ “beneficial ownership” of Shares of the Funds as of the end of the most recently completed fiscal year or a more recent date for a new portfolio manager. Dollar amount ranges disclosed are established by the SEC. “Beneficial ownership” is determined in accordance with Rule 16a-1(a)(2) under the Exchange Act. As of [ ], 2026, the Portfolio Manager did not beneficially own any Shares of the Funds.
Other Accounts
In addition to the Funds, the Portfolio Manager managed the following other accounts as of [ ], 2026, none of which were subject to a performance fee:
| Registered Investment Companies | Other Pooled Investment Vehicles | Other Accounts | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Portfolio Manager | Number of Accounts | Total Assets in the Accounts (in millions) | Number of Accounts | Total Assets in the Accounts | Number of Accounts | Total Assets in the Accounts | ||||||||||||||||||
| Peter J. Weicher | [ ] | [ ] | [ ] | [ ] | [ ] | [ ] | ||||||||||||||||||
Conflicts of Interest
The Portfolio Manager’s management of “other accounts” may give rise to potential conflicts of interest in connection with their management of the Fund’s investments, on the one hand, and the investments of the other accounts, on the other. The other accounts may have the same investment objective as the Funds. Therefore, a potential conflict of interest may arise as a result of the identical investment objective, whereby the Portfolio Manager could favor one account over another. Another potential conflict could include the Portfolio Manager’s knowledge about the size, timing and possible market impact of Fund trades, whereby the Portfolio Manager could use this information to the advantage of other accounts and to the disadvantage of the Funds.
The Adviser develops values-based screening research and may provide that research, including lists of issuers it has identified for exclusion, to third parties, including other investment advisers and their clients. Third parties that receive the Adviser’s research may trade in the same securities as the Funds, before, at the same time as, or after the Funds, which could adversely affect the prices at which the Funds buy or sell securities. The Adviser’s research business may also create an incentive for the Adviser to make screening determinations that are commercially attractive to its research clients. The Adviser has adopted policies and procedures reasonably designed to treat the Funds fairly, to prevent the misuse of information about the Funds’ portfolio transactions, and to ensure that screening determinations for the Funds are made solely in the interest of the Funds and their shareholders.
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The Trust and Vigilant Distributors LLC (the “Distributor”) are parties to a distribution agreement (“Distribution Agreement”), whereby the Distributor acts as principal underwriter for each series of the Trust, including the Funds, and distributes Shares. Shares are continuously offered for sale by the Distributor only in Creation Units. The Distributor will not distribute Shares in amounts less than a Creation Unit and does not maintain a secondary market in Shares. The principal business address of the Distributor is [ ].
Under the Distribution Agreement, the Distributor, as agent for the Trust, will review orders for the purchase and redemption of Creation Units, provided that any subscriptions and orders will not be binding on the Trust until accepted by the Trust. The Distributor is a broker- dealer registered under the Exchange Act and a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”).
The Distributor may also enter into agreements with securities dealers (“Soliciting Dealers”) who will solicit purchases of Creation Units of Shares. Such Soliciting Dealers may also be Authorized Participants (as discussed in “Procedures for Purchase of Creation Units” below) or DTC participants (as defined below).
The Distribution Agreement will continue for two years from its effective date and is renewable annually thereafter. The continuance of the Distribution Agreement must be specifically approved at least annually (i) by the vote of the Trustees or by a vote of the shareholders of the Funds and (ii) by the vote of a majority of the Independent Trustees who have no direct or indirect financial interest in the operations of the Distribution Agreement or any related agreement, cast in person at a meeting called for the purpose of voting on such approval. The Distribution Agreement is terminable without penalty by the Trust on 60 days’ written notice when authorized either by majority vote of its outstanding voting Shares or by a vote of a majority of its Board (including a majority of the Independent Trustees), or by the Distributor on 60 days’ written notice, and will automatically terminate in the event of its assignment. The Distribution Agreement provides that in the absence of willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence on the part of the Distributor, or reckless disregard by it of its obligations thereunder, the Distributor shall not be liable for any action or failure to act in accordance with its duties thereunder.
Intermediary Compensation. The Adviser, or its affiliates, out of their own resources and not out of Fund assets (i.e., without additional cost to a Fund or its shareholders), may pay certain broker dealers, banks and other financial intermediaries (“Intermediaries”) for certain activities related to the Funds, including participation in activities that are designed to make Intermediaries more knowledgeable about exchange traded products, including the Funds, or for other activities, such as marketing and educational training or support. These arrangements are not financed by the Funds and, thus, do not result in increased Funds expenses. They are not reflected in the fees and expenses listed in the fees and expenses sections of the Funds’ Prospectus and they do not change the price paid by investors for the purchase of Shares or the amount received by a shareholder as proceeds from the redemption of Shares.
Such compensation may be paid to Intermediaries that provide services to the Funds, including marketing and education support (such as through conferences, webinars and printed communications). The Adviser periodically assesses the advisability of continuing to make these payments. Payments to an Intermediary may be significant to the Intermediary, and amounts that Intermediaries pay to your adviser, broker or other investment professional, if any, may also be significant to such adviser, broker or investment professional. Because an Intermediary may make decisions about what investment options it will make available or recommend, and what services to provide in connection with various products, based on payments it receives or is eligible to receive, such payments create conflicts of interest between the Intermediary and its clients. For example, these financial incentives may cause the Intermediary to recommend the Funds over other investments. The same conflict of interest exists with respect to your financial adviser, broker or investment professional if he or she receives similar payments from his or her Intermediary firm.
Intermediary information is current only as of the date of this SAI. Please contact your adviser, broker, or other investment professional for more information regarding any payments his or her Intermediary firm may receive. Any payments made by the Adviser or its affiliates to an Intermediary may create the incentive for an Intermediary to encourage customers to buy Shares.
If you have any additional questions, please call [ ].
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THE ADMINISTRATOR, CUSTODIAN, AND TRANSFER AGENT
[U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC, doing business as U.S. Bank Global Fund Services], located at [615 East Michigan Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202], serves as the Funds’ administrator and fund accountant.
Pursuant to an Administration and Fund Accounting Agreement between the Trust and [U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC, doing business as U.S. Bank Global Fund Services], the administrator provides the Trust with administrative and management services (other than investment advisory services) and accounting services, including portfolio accounting services, tax accounting services and furnishing financial reports. In this capacity, the administrator does not have any responsibility or authority for the management of the Funds, the determination of investment policy, or for any matter pertaining to the distribution of Shares. As compensation for the administration, accounting and management services, the Adviser pays the administrator a fee based on the Funds’ average daily net assets, subject to a minimum annual fee. The administrator also is entitled to certain out-of-pocket expenses for the services mentioned above.
Pursuant to a Custody Agreement, [U.S. Bank, N.A.] (the “Custodian”), located at [1555 N. Rivercenter Drive, Suite 302, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53212], serves as the Custodian of the Funds’ assets. The Custodian holds and administers the assets in each Fund’s portfolio. Pursuant to the Custody Agreement, the Custodian receives an annual fee from the Adviser based on the Funds’ total average daily net assets, subject to a minimum annual fee, and certain settlement charges. The Custodian also is entitled to certain out-of-pocket expenses.
Pursuant to a Transfer Agency Agreement, [U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC] (in such capacity, the “Transfer Agent”) serves as Transfer Agent for the Funds. Pursuant to the Transfer Agency Agreement, the Transfer Agent receives an annual fee from the Adviser.
Thompson Hine LLP, located at [ ], serves as legal counsel for the Trust.
INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
[ ], located at [ ], serves as the independent registered public accounting firm for the Funds. Its services include auditing the Funds’ financial statements.
PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS DISCLOSURE POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
The Board has adopted a policy regarding the disclosure of information about each Fund’s security holdings. Each Fund’s entire portfolio holdings are publicly disseminated each day each Fund is open for business and may be available through financial reporting and news services, including publicly available internet web sites. In addition, the composition of the Deposit Securities (as defined below) is publicly disseminated daily prior to the opening of the Exchange via the National Securities Clearing Corporation (“NSCC”).
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The Declaration of Trust authorizes the issuance of an unlimited number of funds and Shares. Each Share represents an equal proportionate interest in the Funds with each other Share. Shares are entitled upon liquidation to a pro rata share in the net assets of the Funds. Shareholders have no preemptive rights. The Declaration of Trust provides that the Trustees may create additional series or classes of Shares. All consideration received by the Trust for shares of any additional funds and all assets in which such consideration is invested would belong to that fund and would be subject to the liabilities related thereto. Share certificates representing Shares will not be issued. Shares, when issued, are fully paid and non-assessable.
Each Share has one vote with respect to matters upon which a shareholder vote is required, consistent with the requirements of the 1940 Act and the rules promulgated thereunder. Shares of all funds of the Trust vote together as a single class, except that if the matter being voted on affects only a particular fund it will be voted on only by that fund and if a matter affects a particular fund differently from other funds, that fund will vote separately on such matter. As a Delaware statutory trust, the Trust is not required, and does not intend, to hold annual meetings of shareholders. Approval of shareholders will be sought, however, for certain changes in the operation of the Trust and for the election of Trustees under certain circumstances. Upon the written request of shareholders owning at least 10% of the Trust’s Shares, the Trust will call for a meeting of shareholders to consider the removal of one or more Trustees and other certain matters. In the event that such a meeting is requested, the Trust will provide appropriate assistance and information to the shareholders requesting the meeting.
Under the Declaration of Trust, the Trustees have the power to liquidate the Funds without shareholder approval. While the Trustees have no present intention of exercising this power, they may do so if the Funds fail to reach a viable size within a reasonable amount of time or for such other reasons as may be determined by the Board.
LIMITATION OF TRUSTEE LIABILITY
The Agreement and Declaration of Trust (“Declaration of Trust”) provides that a Trustee shall be liable only for his or her own willful misfeasance, bad faith, gross negligence or reckless disregard of the duties involved in the conduct of the office of Trustee, and shall not be liable for errors of judgment or mistakes of fact or law. The Trustees shall not be responsible or liable in any event for any neglect or wrong-doing of any officer, agent, employee, adviser or principal underwriter of the Trust, nor shall any Trustee be responsible for the act or omission of any other Trustee. The Declaration of Trust also provides that the Trust shall indemnify each person who is, or has been, a Trustee, officer, employee or agent of the Trust, any person who is serving or has served at the Trust’s request as a Trustee, officer, trustee, employee or agent of another organization in which the Trust has any interest as a shareholder, creditor or otherwise to the extent and in the manner provided in the Amended and Restated By-laws. However, nothing in the Declaration of Trust shall protect or indemnify a Trustee against any liability for his or her willful misfeasance, bad faith, gross negligence, or reckless disregard of the duties involved in the conduct of the office of Trustee. Nothing contained in this section attempts to disclaim a Trustee’s individual liability in any manner inconsistent with the federal securities laws.
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The policy of the Trust regarding purchases and sales of securities for the Funds is that primary consideration will be given to obtaining the most favorable prices and efficient executions of transactions. Consistent with this policy, when securities transactions are effected on a stock exchange, the Trust’s policy is to pay commissions which are considered fair and reasonable without necessarily determining that the lowest possible commissions are paid in all circumstances. The Trust believes that a requirement always to seek the lowest possible commission cost could impede effective portfolio management and preclude the Funds from obtaining a high quality of brokerage and research services. In seeking to determine the reasonableness of brokerage commissions paid in any transaction, the Adviser will rely upon its experience and knowledge regarding commissions generally charged by various brokers and on its judgment in evaluating the brokerage services received from the broker effecting the transaction. Such determinations are necessarily subjective and imprecise, as in most cases, an exact dollar value for those services is not ascertainable. The Trust has adopted policies and procedures that prohibit the consideration of sales of Shares as a factor in the selection of a broker or dealer to execute its portfolio transactions.
The Trading Sub-Adviser, subject to the oversight of the Adviser and the Board, is responsible for selecting broker-dealers and placing orders for the Funds’ portfolio transactions in accordance with the policies described below. References in this section to the Adviser’s selection of broker-dealers and execution of transactions include the Trading Sub-Adviser.
The Adviser owes a fiduciary duty to its clients to seek to provide best execution on trades effected. In selecting a broker-dealer for each specific transaction, the Adviser chooses the broker-dealer deemed most capable of providing the services necessary to obtain the most favorable execution. “Best execution” is generally understood to mean the most favorable cost or net proceeds reasonably obtainable under the circumstances. The full range of brokerage services applicable to a particular transaction may be considered when making this judgment, which may include, but is not limited to: liquidity, price, commission, timing, aggregated trades, capable floor brokers or traders, competent block trading coverage, ability to position, capital strength and stability, reliable and accurate communications and settlement processing, use of automation, knowledge of other buyers or sellers, arbitrage skills, administrative ability, underwriting and provision of information on a particular security or market in which the transaction is to occur. The specific criteria will vary depending upon the nature of the transaction, the market in which it is executed, and the extent to which it is possible to select from among multiple broker-dealers. The Adviser will also use electronic crossing networks (“ECNs”) when appropriate.
Subject to the foregoing policies, brokers or dealers selected to execute each Fund’s portfolio transactions may include the Funds’ Authorized Participants (as discussed in “Procedures for Purchase of Creation Units” below) or their affiliates. An Authorized Participant or its affiliates may be selected to execute each Fund’s portfolio transactions in conjunction with an all-cash creation unit order or an order including “cash-in-lieu” (as described below under “Purchase and Redemption of Shares in Creation Units”), so long as such selection is in keeping with the foregoing policies. As described below under “Purchase and Redemption of Shares in Creation Units — Creation Transaction Fee” and “Redemption Transaction Fee”, the Funds may determine to not charge a variable fee on certain orders when the Adviser has determined that doing so is in the best interests of the Funds shareholders, e.g., for creation orders that facilitate the rebalance of the Funds’ portfolio in a more tax efficient manner than could be achieved without such order, even if the decision to not charge a variable fee could be viewed as benefiting the Authorized Participant or its affiliate selected to execute the Funds’ portfolio transactions in connection with such orders.
The Adviser and the Trading Sub-Adviser do not currently intend to cause the Funds to pay higher commissions in exchange for research or brokerage services (“soft dollars”). If they do so in the future, it would be in accordance with Section 28(e) of the Exchange Act and the Trust’s policies and procedures, and this SAI would be updated accordingly.
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Portfolio turnover may vary from year to year, as well as within a year. The Adviser does not rebalance the Funds on a fixed schedule. Instead, it trades flexibly and opportunistically to maintain each Fund’s intended exposures while seeking to avoid unnecessary transaction costs and portfolio turnover. High turnover rates are likely to result in comparatively greater brokerage expenses. The overall reasonableness of brokerage commissions is evaluated by the Adviser based upon its knowledge of available information as to the general level of commissions paid by other institutional investors for comparable services.
DTC acts as securities depositary for Shares. Shares are represented by securities registered in the name of DTC or its nominee, Cede & Co., and deposited with, or on behalf of, DTC. Except in limited circumstances set forth below, certificates will not be issued for Shares.
DTC is a limited-purpose trust company that was created to hold securities of its participants (the “DTC Participants”) and to facilitate the clearance and settlement of securities transactions among the DTC Participants in such securities through electronic book-entry changes in accounts of the DTC Participants, thereby eliminating the need for physical movement of securities certificates. DTC Participants include securities brokers and dealers, banks, trust companies, clearing corporations and certain other organizations, some of whom (and/or their representatives) own DTC. More specifically, DTC is owned by a number of its DTC Participants and by the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) and FINRA. Access to the DTC system is also available to others such as banks, brokers, dealers, and trust companies that clear through or maintain a custodial relationship with a DTC Participant, either directly or indirectly (the “Indirect Participants”).
Beneficial ownership of Shares is limited to DTC Participants, Indirect Participants, and persons holding interests through DTC Participants and Indirect Participants. Ownership of beneficial interests in Shares (owners of such beneficial interests are referred to in this SAI as “Beneficial Owners”) is shown on, and the transfer of ownership is effected only through, records maintained by DTC (with respect to DTC Participants) and on the records of DTC Participants (with respect to Indirect Participants and Beneficial Owners that are not DTC Participants). Beneficial Owners will receive from or through the DTC Participant a written confirmation relating to their purchase of Shares. The Trust recognizes DTC or its nominee as the record owner of all Shares for all purposes. Beneficial Owners of Shares are not entitled to have Shares registered in their names and will not receive or be entitled to physical delivery of Share certificates. Each Beneficial Owner must rely on the procedures of DTC and any DTC Participant and/or Indirect Participant through which such Beneficial Owner holds its interests, to exercise any rights of a holder of Shares.
Conveyance of all notices, statements, and other communications to Beneficial Owners is effected as follows. DTC will make available to the Trust upon request and for a fee a listing of Shares held by each DTC Participant. The Trust shall obtain from each such DTC Participant the number of Beneficial Owners holding Shares, directly or indirectly, through such DTC Participant. The Trust shall provide each such DTC Participant with copies of such notice, statement, or other communication, in such form, number and at such place as such DTC Participant may reasonably request, in order that such notice, statement or communication may be transmitted by such DTC Participant, directly or indirectly, to such Beneficial Owners. In addition, the Trust shall pay to each such DTC Participant a fair and reasonable amount as reimbursement for the expenses attendant to such transmittal, all subject to applicable statutory and regulatory requirements.
Share distributions shall be made to DTC or its nominee, Cede & Co., as the registered holder of all Shares. DTC or its nominee, upon receipt of any such distributions, shall credit immediately DTC Participants’ accounts with payments in amounts proportionate to their respective beneficial interests in the Funds as shown on the records of DTC or its nominee. Payments by DTC Participants to Indirect Participants and Beneficial Owners of Shares held through such DTC Participants will be governed by standing instructions and customary practices, as is now the case with securities held for the accounts of customers in bearer form or registered in a “street name,” and will be the responsibility of such DTC Participants.
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The Trust has no responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating to or notices to Beneficial Owners, or payments made on account of beneficial ownership interests in Shares, or for maintaining, supervising, or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership interests, or for any other aspect of the relationship between DTC and the DTC Participants or the relationship between such DTC Participants and the Indirect Participants and Beneficial Owners owning through such DTC Participants.
DTC may determine to discontinue providing its service with respect to the Funds at any time by giving reasonable notice to the Funds and discharging its responsibilities with respect thereto under applicable law. Under such circumstances, the Funds shall take action either to find a replacement for DTC to perform its functions at a comparable cost or, if such replacement is unavailable, to issue and deliver printed certificates representing ownership of Shares, unless the Trust makes other arrangements with respect thereto satisfactory to the Exchange.
PURCHASE AND REDEMPTION OF SHARES IN CREATION UNITS
The Trust issues and sells Shares only in Creation Units on a continuous basis through the Distributor, without a sales load (but subject to transaction fees, if applicable), at their NAV per share next determined after receipt of an order, on any Business Day, in proper form pursuant to the terms of the Authorized Participant Agreement (“Participant Agreement”). The NAV of Shares is calculated each Business Day as of the scheduled close of regular trading on the NYSE, generally 4:00 p.m., Eastern time. The Funds will not issue fractional Creation Units. A “Business Day” is any day on which the NYSE is open for business.
Fund Deposit. The consideration for purchase of a Creation Unit of the Funds generally consists of either (i) the in-kind deposit of a designated portfolio of securities (the “Deposit Securities”) per each Creation Unit and the Cash Component (defined below), computed as described below or (ii) the cash value of the Deposit Securities (“Deposit Cash”) and “Cash Component,” computed as described below. When accepting purchases of Creation Units for cash, the Funds may incur additional costs associated with the acquisition of Deposit Securities that would otherwise be provided by an in-kind purchaser.
Together, the Deposit Securities or Deposit Cash, as applicable, and the Cash Component constitute the “Fund Deposit,” which represents the minimum initial and subsequent investment amount for a Creation Unit of the Funds. The “Cash Component” is an amount equal to the difference between the NAV of Shares (per Creation Unit) and the value of the Deposit Securities or Deposit Cash, as applicable. If the Cash Component is a positive number (i.e., the NAV per Creation Unit exceeds the value of the Deposit Securities or Deposit Cash, as applicable), the Cash Component shall be such positive amount. If the Cash Component is a negative number (i.e., the NAV per Creation Unit is less than the value of the Deposit Securities or Deposit Cash, as applicable), the Cash Component shall be such negative amount and the creator will be entitled to receive cash in an amount equal to the Cash Component. The Cash Component serves the function of compensating for any differences between the NAV per Creation Unit and the value of the Deposit Securities or Deposit Cash, as applicable. Computation of the Cash Component excludes any stamp duty or other similar fees and expenses payable upon transfer of beneficial ownership of the Deposit Securities, if applicable, which shall be the sole responsibility of the Authorized Participant (as defined below).
The Funds, through NSCC, make available on each Business Day, prior to the opening of business on the Exchange (currently 9:30 a.m., Eastern time), the list of the names and the required number of Shares of each Deposit Security or the required amount of Deposit Cash, as applicable, to be included in the current Fund Deposit (based on information at the end of the previous Business Day) for the Funds. The Fund Deposit is subject to any applicable adjustments as described below, to effect purchases of Creation Units of the Funds until such time as the next-announced composition of the Deposit Securities or the required amount of Deposit Cash, as applicable, is made available.
The identity and number of Shares of the Deposit Securities or the amount of Deposit Cash, as applicable, required for the Fund Deposit for a Fund changes as rebalancing adjustments and corporate action events are reflected from time to time by the Adviser with a view to the investment objective of the Funds.
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The Trust reserves the right to permit or require the substitution of Deposit Cash to replace any Deposit Security, which shall be added to the Cash Component, including, without limitation, in situations where the Deposit Security: (i) may not be available in sufficient quantity for delivery; (ii) may not be eligible for transfer through the systems of DTC for corporate securities and municipal securities; (iii) may not be eligible for trading by an Authorized Participant (as defined below) or the investor for which it is acting; (iv) would be restricted under the securities laws or where the delivery of the Deposit Security to the Authorized Participant would result in the disposition of the Deposit Security by the Authorized Participant becoming restricted under the securities laws; or (v) in certain other situations (collectively, “custom orders”). The Trust also reserves the right to permit or require the substitution of Deposit Securities in lieu of Deposit Cash. The adjustments described above will reflect changes, known to the Adviser on the date of announcement to be in effect by the time of delivery of the Fund Deposit, resulting from certain corporate actions.
Procedures for Purchase of Creation Units. To be eligible to place orders with the Distributor to purchase a Creation Unit of the Funds, an entity must be (i) a “Participating Party” (i.e., a broker-dealer or other participant in the clearing process through the Continuous Net Settlement System of the NSCC (the “Clearing Process”)), a clearing agency that is registered with the SEC; or (ii) a DTC Participant (see “Book Entry Only System”). In addition, each Participating Party or DTC Participant (each, an “Authorized Participant”) must execute a Participant Agreement that has been agreed to by the Distributor, and that has been accepted by the Transfer Agent, with respect to purchases and redemptions of Creation Units. Each Authorized Participant will agree, pursuant to the terms of a Participant Agreement, on behalf of itself or any investor on whose behalf it will act, to certain conditions, including that it will pay to the Trust, an amount of cash sufficient to pay the Cash Component together with the creation transaction fee (described below), if applicable, and any other applicable fees and taxes.
All orders to purchase Shares directly from the Funds must be placed for one or more Creation Units and in the manner and by the time set forth in the Participant Agreement and/or applicable order form. The order cut-off time for orders to purchase Creation Units is 4:00 p.m. Eastern time, which time may be modified by the Funds from time-to-time by amendment to the Participant Agreement and/or applicable order form. In the case of custom orders, the order must be received by the Distributor no later than [3:00] p.m. Eastern time, or such earlier time as may be designated by the Funds and disclosed to Authorized Participants. The date on which an order to purchase Creation Units (or an order to redeem Creation Units, as set forth below) is received and accepted is referred to as the “Order Placement Date.”
An Authorized Participant may require an investor to make certain representations or enter into agreements with respect to the order (e.g., to provide for payments of cash, when required). Investors should be aware that their particular broker may not have executed a Participant Agreement and that, therefore, orders to purchase Shares directly from the Funds in Creation Units have to be placed by the investor’s broker through an Authorized Participant that has executed a Participant Agreement. In such cases there may be additional charges to such investor. At any given time, there may be only a limited number of broker-dealers that have executed a Participant Agreement and only a small number of such Authorized Participants may have international capabilities.
On days when the Exchange closes earlier than normal, the Funds may require orders to create Creation Units to be placed earlier in the day. In addition, if a market or markets on which each Fund’s investments are primarily traded is closed, the Funds will also generally not accept orders on such day(s). Orders must be transmitted by an Authorized Participant by telephone or other transmission method acceptable to the Distributor pursuant to procedures set forth in the Participant Agreement and in accordance with the applicable order form. On behalf of the Funds, the Distributor will notify the Custodian of such order. The Custodian will then provide such information to the appropriate local sub-custodian(s). Those placing orders through an Authorized Participant should allow sufficient time to permit proper submission of the purchase order to the Distributor by the cut-off time on such Business Day. Economic or market disruptions or changes, or telephone or other communication failure may impede the ability to reach the Distributor or an Authorized Participant.
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Fund Deposits must be delivered by an Authorized Participant through the Federal Reserve System (for cash) or through DTC (for corporate securities), through a sub-custody agent (for foreign securities) and/or through such other arrangements allowed by the Trust or its agents. With respect to foreign Deposit Securities, the Custodian shall cause the sub-custodian of the Funds to maintain an account into which the Authorized Participant shall deliver, on behalf of itself or the party on whose behalf it is acting, such Deposit Securities (or Deposit Cash for all or a part of such securities, as permitted or required), with any appropriate adjustments as advised by the Trust. Foreign Deposit Securities must be delivered to an account maintained at the applicable local sub-custodian. The Fund Deposit transfer must be ordered by the Authorized Participant in a timely fashion so as to ensure the delivery of the requisite number of Deposit Securities or Deposit Cash, as applicable, to the account of the Funds or its agents by no later than 12:00 p.m. Eastern time (or such other time as specified by the Trust) on the Settlement Date. If the Funds or its agents do not receive all of the Deposit Securities, or the required Deposit Cash in lieu thereof, by such time, then the order may be deemed rejected and the Authorized Participant shall be liable to the Funds for losses, if any, resulting therefrom. The “Settlement Date” for the Funds is generally the Business Day immediately after the Order Placement Date. All questions as to the number of Deposit Securities or Deposit Cash to be delivered, as applicable, and the validity, form and eligibility (including time of receipt) for the deposit of any tendered securities or cash, as applicable, will be determined by the Trust, whose determination shall be final and binding. The amount of cash represented by the Cash Component must be transferred directly to the Custodian through the Federal Reserve Bank wire transfer system in a timely manner so as to be received by the Custodian no later than the Settlement Date. If the Cash Component and the Deposit Securities or Deposit Cash, as applicable, are not received by the Custodian in a timely manner by the Settlement Date, the creation order may be cancelled. Upon written notice to the Distributor, such canceled order may be resubmitted the following Business Day using the Fund Deposit as newly constituted to reflect the then current NAV of the Funds.
The order shall be deemed to be received on the Business Day on which the order is placed provided that the order is placed in proper form prior to the applicable cut-off time and the federal funds in the appropriate amount are deposited with the Custodian on the Settlement Date. If the order is not placed in proper form as required, or federal funds in the appropriate amount are not received on the Settlement Date, then the order may be deemed to be rejected and the Authorized Participant shall be liable to the Funds for losses, if any, resulting therefrom. A creation request is considered to be in “proper form” if all procedures set forth in the Participant Agreement, order form and this SAI are properly followed.
Issuance of a Creation Unit. Except as provided in this SAI, Creation Units will not be issued until the transfer of good title to the Trust of the Deposit Securities or payment of Deposit Cash, as applicable, and the payment of the Cash Component have been completed. When the sub-custodian has confirmed to the Custodian that the required Deposit Securities (or the cash value thereof) have been delivered to the account of the relevant sub-custodian or sub-custodians, the Distributor and the Adviser shall be notified of such delivery, and the Trust will issue and cause the delivery of the Creation Units. The delivery of Creation Units so created generally will occur no later than the Business Day immediately following the day on which the purchase order is deemed received by the Distributor. The Authorized Participant shall be liable to the Funds for losses, if any, resulting from unsettled orders.
Creation Units may be purchased in advance of receipt by the Trust of all or a portion of the applicable Deposit Securities as described below. In these circumstances, the initial deposit will have a value greater than the NAV of Shares on the date the order is placed in proper form since, in addition to available Deposit Securities, cash must be deposited in an amount equal to the sum of (i) the Cash Component, plus (ii) an additional amount of cash equal to a percentage of the value as set forth in the Participant Agreement, of the undelivered Deposit Securities (the “Additional Cash Deposit”), which shall be maintained in a separate non-interest bearing collateral account. The Authorized Participant must deposit with the Custodian the Additional Cash Deposit, as applicable, by 12:00 p.m. Eastern time (or such other time as specified by the Trust) on the Settlement Date. If the Funds or its agents do not receive the Additional Cash Deposit in the appropriate amount, by such time, then the order may be deemed rejected and the Authorized Participant shall be liable to the Funds for losses, if any, resulting therefrom. An additional amount of cash shall be required to be deposited with the Trust, pending delivery of the missing Deposit Securities to the extent necessary to maintain the Additional Cash Deposit with the Trust in an amount at least equal to the applicable percentage, as set forth in the Participant Agreement, of the daily market value of the missing
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Deposit Securities. The Participant Agreement will permit the Trust to buy the missing Deposit Securities at any time. Authorized Participants will be liable to the Trust for the costs incurred by the Trust in connection with any such purchases. These costs will be deemed to include the amount by which the actual purchase price of the Deposit Securities exceeds the value of such Deposit Securities on the day the purchase order was deemed received by the Distributor plus the brokerage and related transaction costs associated with such purchases. The Trust will return any unused portion of the Additional Cash Deposit once all of the missing Deposit Securities have been properly received by the Custodian or purchased by the Trust and deposited into the Trust. In addition, a transaction fee, as described below under “Creation Transaction Fee,” may be charged. The delivery of Creation Units so created generally will occur no later than the Settlement Date.
Acceptance of Orders of Creation Units. The Trust reserves the right to reject an order for Creation Units transmitted to it by the Distributor with respect to the Funds including, without limitation, if (a) the order is not in proper form; (b) the Deposit Securities or Deposit Cash, as applicable, delivered by the Participant are not as disseminated through the facilities of the NSCC for that date by the Custodian; (c) the investor(s), upon obtaining Shares ordered, would own 80% or more of the currently outstanding Shares of the Funds; (d) the acceptance of the Fund Deposit would, in the opinion of counsel, be unlawful; (e) the acceptance or receipt of the order for a Creation Unit would, in the opinion of counsel to the Trust, be unlawful; or (f) in the event that circumstances outside the control of the Trust, the Custodian, the Transfer Agent and/or the Adviser make it for all practical purposes not feasible to process orders for Creation Units.
Examples of such circumstances include acts of God or public service or utility problems such as fires, floods, extreme weather conditions and power outages resulting in telephone, telecopy and computer failures; market conditions or activities causing trading halts; systems failures involving computer or other information systems affecting the Trust, the Distributor, the Custodian, a sub- custodian, the Transfer Agent, DTC, NSCC, Federal Reserve System, or any other participant in the creation process, and other extraordinary events. The Distributor shall notify a prospective creator of a Creation Unit and/or the Authorized Participant acting on behalf of the creator of a Creation Unit of its rejection of the order of such person. The Trust, the Transfer Agent, the Custodian, any sub-custodian and the Distributor are under no duty, however, to give notification of any defects or irregularities in the delivery of Fund Deposits nor shall either of them incur any liability for the failure to give any such notification. The Trust, the Transfer Agent, the Custodian and the Distributor shall not be liable for the rejection of any purchase order for Creation Units.
All questions as to the number of Shares of each security in the Deposit Securities and the validity, form, eligibility and acceptance for deposit of any securities to be delivered shall be determined by the Trust, and the Trust’s determination shall be final and binding.
Creation Transaction Fee. A fixed purchase (i.e., creation) transaction fee, payable to the Funds’ custodian, may be imposed for the transfer and other transaction costs associated with the purchase of Creation Units (“Creation Order Costs”). The standard fixed creation transaction fee for the Funds, regardless of the number of Creation Units created in the transaction, can be found in the table below. The Funds may adjust the standard fixed creation transaction fee from time to time. The fixed creation fee may be waived on certain orders if the Funds’ custodian has determined to waive some or all of the Creation Order Costs associated with the order or another party, such as the Adviser, has agreed to pay such fee.
In addition, a variable fee, payable to the Funds, of up to the maximum percentage listed in the table below of the value of the Creation Units subject to the transaction may be imposed for cash purchases, non-standard orders, or partial cash purchases of Creation Units. The variable charge is primarily designed to cover additional costs (e.g., brokerage, taxes, spreads, slippage costs) involved with buying the securities with cash. The Funds may determine to not charge a variable fee on certain orders when the Adviser has determined that doing so benefits the Funds and its shareholders (e.g., for creation orders that facilitate the rebalance of the Funds’ portfolio in a more tax efficient manner than could be achieved without such order).
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| Name of Funds | Fixed Creation Transaction Fee (In-Kind) | Fixed Creation Transaction Fee (Cash) | Maximum Variable Transaction Fee | |||||||||
| Integrity US All Cap Integrated Factor ETF | [ ] | [ ] | [ ] | |||||||||
| Integrity US Large Cap Integrated Factor ETF | [ ] | [ ] | [ ] | |||||||||
| Integrity US Small Cap Value Factor ETF | [ ] | [ ] | [ ] | |||||||||
Investors who use the services of a broker or other such intermediary may be charged a fee for such services. Investors are responsible for the fixed costs of transferring the Fund Securities from the Trust to their account or on their order.
Risks of Purchasing Creation Units. There are certain legal risks unique to investors purchasing Creation Units directly from the Funds. Because Shares may be issued on an ongoing basis, a “distribution” of Shares could be occurring at any time. Certain activities that a shareholder performs as a dealer could, depending on the circumstances, result in the shareholder being deemed a participant in the distribution in a manner that could render the shareholder a statutory underwriter and subject to the prospectus delivery and liability provisions of the Securities Act. For example, a shareholder could be deemed a statutory underwriter if it purchases Creation Units from the Funds, breaks them down into the constituent Shares, and sells those Shares directly to customers, or if a shareholder chooses to couple the creation of a supply of new Shares with an active selling effort involving solicitation of secondary-market demand for Shares. Whether a person is an underwriter depends upon all of the facts and circumstances pertaining to that person’s activities, and the examples mentioned here should not be considered a complete description of all the activities that could cause you to be deemed an underwriter.
Dealers who are not “underwriters” but are participating in a distribution (as opposed to engaging in ordinary secondary-market transactions), and thus dealing with Shares as part of an “unsold allotment” within the meaning of Section 4(a)(3)(C) of the Securities Act, will be unable to take advantage of the prospectus delivery exemption provided by Section 4(a)(3) of the Securities Act.
Redemption. Shares may be redeemed only in Creation Units at their NAV next determined after receipt of a redemption request in proper form by the Funds through the Transfer Agent and only on a Business Day. EXCEPT UPON LIQUIDATION OF THE FUND, THE TRUST WILL NOT REDEEM SHARES IN AMOUNTS LESS THAN CREATION UNITS. Investors must accumulate enough Shares in the secondary market to constitute a Creation Unit to have such Shares redeemed by the Trust. There can be no assurance, however, that there will be sufficient liquidity in the public trading market at any time to permit assembly of a Creation Unit. Investors should expect to incur brokerage and other costs in connection with assembling a sufficient number of Shares to constitute a redeemable Creation Unit.
With respect to the Funds, the Custodian, through the NSCC, makes available prior to the opening of business on the Exchange (currently 9:30 a.m., Eastern time) on each Business Day, the list of the names and Share quantities of the Fund’s portfolio securities that will be applicable (subject to possible amendment or correction) to redemption requests received in proper form (as defined below) on that day (“Fund Securities”). Fund Securities received on redemption may not be identical to Deposit Securities.
Redemption proceeds for a Creation Unit are paid either in-kind or in cash, or combination thereof, as determined by the Trust. With respect to in-kind redemptions of the Funds, redemption proceeds for a Creation Unit will consist of Fund Securities—as announced by the Custodian on the Business Day of the request for redemption received in proper form plus cash in an amount equal to the difference between the NAV of Shares being redeemed, as next determined after a receipt of a request in proper form, and the value of the Fund Securities (the “Cash Redemption Amount”), less a fixed redemption transaction fee, as applicable, as set forth below. In the event that the Fund Securities have a value greater than the NAV of Shares, a compensating cash payment equal to the differential is required to be made by or through an Authorized Participant by the redeeming shareholder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the Trust’s discretion, an Authorized Participant may receive the corresponding cash value of the securities in lieu of the in-kind securities value representing one or more Fund Securities.
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Redemption Transaction Fee. A fixed redemption transaction fee, payable to the Funds’ custodian, may be imposed for the transfer and other transaction costs associated with the redemption of Creation Units (“Redemption Order Costs”). The standard fixed redemption transaction fee for the Fund, regardless of the number of Creation Units redeemed in the transaction, can be found in the table below. The Funds may adjust the redemption transaction fee from time to time. The fixed redemption fee may be waived on certain orders if the Funds’ custodian has determined to waive some or all of the Redemption Order Costs associated with the order or another party, such as the Adviser, has agreed to pay such fee.
In addition, a variable fee, payable to the Funds, of up to the maximum percentage listed in the table below of the value of the Creation Units subject to the transaction may be imposed for cash redemptions, non-standard orders, or partial cash redemptions (when cash redemptions are available) of Creation Units. The variable charge is primarily designed to cover additional costs (e.g., brokerage, taxes, spreads, slippage costs) involved with selling portfolio securities to satisfy a cash redemption. The Funds may determine to not charge a variable fee on certain orders when the Adviser has determined that doing so benefits the Funds and its shareholders (e.g., for redemption orders that facilitate the rebalance of the Fund’s portfolio in a more tax efficient manner than could be achieved without such order).
| Name of Funds | Fixed Redemption Transaction Fee (In-Kind) | Fixed Redemption Transaction Fee (Cash) | Maximum Variable Transaction Fee | |||||||||
| Integrity US All Cap Integrated Factor ETF | [ ] | [ ] | [ ] | |||||||||
| Integrity US Large Cap Integrated Factor ETF | [ ] | [ ] | [ ] | |||||||||
| Integrity US Small Cap Value Factor ETF | [ ] | [ ] | [ ] | |||||||||
Investors who use the services of a broker or other such intermediary may be charged a fee for such services. Investors are responsible for the fixed costs of transferring the Fund Securities from the Trust to their account or on their order.
Procedures for Redemption of Creation Units.
Orders to redeem Creation Units of the Funds must be submitted in proper form to the Transfer Agent prior to 4:00 p.m. A redemption request is considered to be in “proper form” if (i) an Authorized Participant has transferred or caused to be transferred to the Trust’s Transfer Agent the Creation Unit(s) being redeemed through the book-entry system of DTC so as to be effective by the time as set forth in the Participant Agreement and (ii) a request in form satisfactory to the Trust is received by the Transfer Agent from the Authorized Participant on behalf of itself or another redeeming investor within the time periods specified in the Participant Agreement. If the Transfer Agent does not receive the investor’s Shares through DTC’s facilities by the times and pursuant to the other terms and conditions set forth in the Participant Agreement, the redemption request shall be rejected.
The Authorized Participant must transmit the request for redemption, in the form required by the Trust, to the Transfer Agent in accordance with procedures set forth in the Authorized Participant Agreement. Investors should be aware that their particular broker may not have executed an Authorized Participant Agreement, and that, therefore, requests to redeem Creation Units may have to be placed by the investor’s broker through an Authorized Participant who has executed an Authorized Participant Agreement. Investors making a redemption request should be aware that such request must be in the form specified by such Authorized Participant.
Investors making a request to redeem Creation Units should allow sufficient time to permit proper submission of the request by an Authorized Participant and transfer of the Shares to the Trust’s Transfer Agent; such investors should allow for the additional time that may be required to effect redemptions through their banks, brokers or other financial intermediaries if such intermediaries are not Authorized Participants.
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Additional Redemption Procedures. In connection with taking delivery of Shares of Fund Securities upon redemption of Creation Units, a redeeming shareholder or Authorized Participant acting on behalf of such shareholder must maintain appropriate custody arrangements with a qualified broker-dealer, bank, or other custody providers in each jurisdiction in which any of the Fund Securities are customarily traded, to which account such Fund Securities will be delivered. Deliveries of redemption proceeds generally will be made within one Business Day of the trade date. However, due to the schedule of holidays in certain countries, the different treatment among foreign and U.S. markets of dividend record dates and dividend ex-dates (that is the last date the holder of a security can sell the security and still receive dividends payable on the security sold), and in certain other circumstances, the delivery of in-kind redemption proceeds may take longer than two Business Days after the day on which the redemption request is received in proper form. If neither the redeeming Shareholder nor the Authorized Participant acting on behalf of such redeeming Shareholder has appropriate arrangements to take delivery of the Fund Securities in the applicable foreign jurisdiction and it is not possible to make other such arrangements, or if it is not possible to effect deliveries of the Fund Securities in such jurisdiction, the Trust may, in its discretion, exercise its option to redeem such Shares in cash, and the redeeming Shareholders will be required to receive their redemption proceeds in cash.
In addition, an investor may request a redemption in cash that the Funds may, in its sole discretion, permit. In either case, the investor will receive a cash payment equal to the NAV of its Shares based on the NAV of Shares of the Fund next determined after the redemption request is received in proper form (minus a redemption transaction fee, if applicable, and additional charge for requested cash redemptions specified above, to offset the Trust’s brokerage and other transaction costs associated with the disposition of Fund Securities). The Funds may also, in its sole discretion, upon request of a shareholder, provide such redeemer a portfolio of securities that differs from the exact composition of the Fund Securities but does not differ in NAV.
Redemptions of Shares for Fund Securities will be subject to compliance with applicable federal and state securities laws and the Funds (whether or not it otherwise permits cash redemptions) reserve the right to redeem Creation Units for cash to the extent that the Trust could not lawfully deliver specific Fund Securities upon redemptions or could not do so without first registering the Fund Securities under such laws. An Authorized Participant or an investor for which it is acting subject to a legal restriction with respect to a particular security included in the Fund Securities applicable to the redemption of Creation Units may be paid an equivalent amount of cash. The Authorized Participant may request the redeeming investor of the Shares to complete an order form or to enter into agreements with respect to such matters as compensating cash payment. Further, an Authorized Participant that is not a “qualified institutional buyer,” (“QIB”) as such term is defined under Rule 144A of the Securities Act, will not be able to receive Fund Securities that are restricted securities eligible for resale under Rule 144A. An Authorized Participant may be required by the Trust to provide a written confirmation with respect to QIB status to receive Fund Securities.
The right of redemption may be suspended or the date of payment postponed with respect to the Funds (1) for any period during which the Exchange is closed (other than customary weekend and holiday closings); (2) for any period during which trading on the Exchange is suspended or restricted; (3) for any period during which an emergency exists as a result of which disposal of the Shares of a Fund or determination of the NAV of the Shares is not reasonably practicable; or (4) in such other circumstance as is permitted by the SEC.
NAV per Share for the Funds is computed by dividing the value of the net assets of the Funds (i.e., the value of its total assets less total liabilities) by the total number of Shares outstanding, rounded to the nearest cent. Expenses and fees, including the management fees, are accrued daily and taken into account for purposes of determining NAV. The NAV of the Funds is determined at the scheduled close of the regular trading session on the NYSE (ordinarily 4:00 p.m., Eastern time) on each day that the NYSE is open, provided that fixed-income assets may be valued as of the announced closing time for trading in fixed-income instruments on any day that the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (“SIFMA”) announces an early closing time.
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In calculating the Funds’ NAV per Share, the Funds’ investments are generally valued using market valuations. A market valuation generally means a valuation (i) obtained from an exchange, a pricing service, or a major market maker (or dealer), (ii) based on a price quotation or other equivalent indication of value supplied by an exchange, a pricing service, or a major market maker (or dealer) or (iii) based on amortized cost. In the case of shares of other funds that are not traded on an exchange, a market valuation means such fund’s published NAV per share. The Funds may use various pricing services, or discontinue the use of any pricing service, as approved by the Board from time to time. A price obtained from a pricing service based on such pricing service’s valuation matrix may be considered a market valuation.
When market quotations are not readily available or are deemed unreliable, a Fund’s investments will be valued at fair value as determined in good faith by the Adviser, as the Board’s designated valuation designee pursuant to Rule 2a-5 under the 1940 Act, in accordance with fair valuation policies and procedures approved by the Board. Fair valuation involves subjective judgments, and the fair value of an investment may differ materially from the value that could be realized upon its sale.
The following information supplements and should be read in conjunction with the section in the Prospectus entitled “Dividends, Distributions and Taxes.”
General Policies. Dividends from net investment income, if any, are declared and paid at least annually by the Funds. Distributions of net realized securities gains, if any, generally are declared and paid once a year, but the Funds may make distributions on a more frequent basis to reduce or eliminate federal excise or income taxes or to comply with the distribution requirements of the Code, in all events in a manner consistent with the provisions of the 1940 Act.
Dividends and other distributions on Shares are distributed, as described below, on a pro rata basis to Beneficial Owners of such Shares. Dividend payments are made through DTC Participants and Indirect Participants to Beneficial Owners then of record with proceeds received from the Trust.
The Funds make additional distributions to the extent necessary (i) to distribute the entire annual taxable income of the Funds, plus any net capital gains and (ii) to avoid imposition of the excise tax imposed by Section 4982 of the Code. Management of the Trust reserves the right to declare special dividends if, in its reasonable discretion, such action is necessary or advisable to preserve the Funds’ eligibility for treatment as a RIC or to avoid imposition of income or excise taxes on undistributed income.
Dividend Reinvestment Service. The Trust will not make the DTC book-entry dividend reinvestment service available for use by Beneficial Owners for reinvestment of their cash proceeds, but certain individual broker-dealers may make available the DTC book- entry Dividend Reinvestment Service for use by Beneficial Owners of the Funds through DTC Participants for reinvestment of their dividend distributions. Investors should contact their brokers to ascertain the availability and description of these services. Beneficial Owners should be aware that each broker may require investors to adhere to specific procedures and timetables to participate in the dividend reinvestment service and investors should ascertain from their brokers such necessary details. If this service is available and used, dividend distributions of both income and realized gains will be automatically reinvested in additional whole Shares issued by the Trust of the Funds at NAV per Share. Distributions reinvested in additional Shares will nevertheless be taxable to Beneficial Owners acquiring such additional Shares to the same extent as if such distributions had been received in cash.
The following is only a summary of certain U.S. federal income tax considerations generally affecting the Funds and its shareholders that supplements the discussion in the Prospectus. No attempt is made to present a comprehensive explanation of the federal, state, local or foreign tax treatment of the Funds or its shareholders, and the discussion here and in the Prospectus is not intended to be a substitute for careful tax planning.
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The following general discussion of certain U.S. federal income tax consequences is based on provisions of the Code and the regulations issued thereunder as in effect on the date of this SAI. New legislation, as well as administrative changes or court decisions, may significantly change the conclusions expressed herein, and may have a retroactive effect with respect to the transactions contemplated herein.
Shareholders are urged to consult their own tax advisers regarding the application of the provisions of tax law described in this SAI in light of the particular tax situations of the shareholders and regarding specific questions as to federal, state, foreign or local taxes.
Taxation of the Funds. Each Fund intends to elect and to qualify each year to be treated as a separate RIC under the Code. As such, the Funds should not be subject to federal income taxes on their net investment income and capital gains, if any, to the extent that they timely distribute such income and capital gains to their shareholders. To qualify for treatment as a RIC, the Funds must distribute annually to its shareholders at least the sum of 90% of its net investment income (generally including the excess of net short- term capital gains over net long-term capital losses) and 90% of its net tax-exempt interest income, if any (the “Distribution Requirement”) and also must meet several additional requirements. Among these requirements are the following: (i) at least 90% of the Funds’ gross income each taxable year must be derived from dividends, interest, payments with respect to certain securities loans, gains from the sale or other disposition of stock, securities or foreign currencies, or other income derived with respect to its business of investing in such stock, securities or foreign currencies and net income derived from interests in qualified publicly traded partnerships (the “Qualifying Income Requirement”); and (ii) at the end of each quarter of the Funds’ taxable year, the Funds’ assets must be diversified so that (a) at least 50% of the value of the Fund’s total assets is represented by cash and cash items, U.S. government securities, securities of other RICs, and other securities, with such other securities limited, in respect to any one issuer, to an amount not greater in value than 5% of the value of the Funds’ total assets and to not more than 10% of the outstanding voting securities of such issuer, including the equity securities of a qualified publicly traded partnership, and (b) not more than 25% of the value of its total assets is invested, including through corporations in which the Fund owns a 20% or more voting stock interest, in the securities (other than U.S. government securities or securities of other RICs) of any one issuer, the securities (other than securities of other RICs) of two or more issuers which the Fund controls and which are engaged in the same, similar, or related trades or businesses, or the securities of one or more qualified publicly traded partnerships (the “Diversification Requirement”).
To the extent the Funds make investments that may generate income that is not qualifying income, including certain derivatives, the Funds will seek to restrict the resulting income from such investments so that the Funds’ non-qualifying income does not exceed 10% of its gross income.
Although the Funds intend to distribute substantially all of its net investment income and may distribute their capital gains for any taxable year, the Funds will be subject to federal income taxation to the extent any such income or gains are not distributed. Each Fund is treated as a separate corporation for federal income tax purposes. Each Fund therefore is considered to be a separate entity in determining its treatment under the rules for RICs described herein. The requirements (other than certain organizational requirements) for qualifying RIC status are determined at the fund level rather than at the Trust level.
If a Fund fails to satisfy the Qualifying Income Requirement or the Diversification Requirement in any taxable year, the Funds may be eligible for relief provisions if the failures are due to reasonable cause and not willful neglect and if a penalty tax is paid with respect to each failure to satisfy the applicable requirements. Additionally, relief is provided for certain de minimis failures of the Diversification Requirement where each Fund corrects the failure within a specified period of time. To be eligible for the relief provisions with respect to a failure to meet the Diversification Requirement, the Funds may be required to dispose of certain assets. If these relief provisions were not available to the Funds and it were to fail to qualify for treatment as a RIC for a taxable year, all of its taxable income would be subject to tax at the regular 21% corporate rate without any deduction for distributions to shareholders, and its distributions (including capital gains distributions) generally would be taxable to the shareholders of the Funds as ordinary income dividends, subject to the dividends received deduction for corporate shareholders
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and the lower tax rates on qualified dividend income received by non-corporate shareholders, subject to certain limitations. To requalify for treatment as a RIC in a subsequent taxable year, the Funds would be required to satisfy the RIC qualification requirements for that year and to distribute any earnings and profits from any year in which the Funds failed to qualify for tax treatment as a RIC. If the Funds failed to qualify as a RIC for a period greater than two taxable years, it would generally be required to pay a Fund-level tax on certain net built in gains recognized with respect to certain of its assets upon a disposition of such assets within five years of qualifying as a RIC in a subsequent year. The Board reserves the right not to maintain the qualification of the Funds for treatment as a RIC if it determines such course of action to be beneficial to shareholders. If a Fund determines that it will not qualify as a RIC, the Funds will establish procedures to reflect the anticipated tax liability in the Fund’s NAV.
The Funds may elect to treat part or all of any “qualified late year loss” as if it had been incurred in the succeeding taxable year in determining each Fund’s taxable income, net capital gain, net short-term capital gain, and earnings and profits. The effect of this election is to treat any such “qualified late year loss” as if it had been incurred in the succeeding taxable year in characterizing Fund distributions for any calendar year. A “qualified late year loss” generally includes net capital loss, net long-term capital loss, or net short-term capital loss incurred after October 31 of the current taxable year (commonly referred to as “post-October losses”) and certain other late-year losses.
Capital losses in excess of capital gains (“net capital losses”) are not permitted to be deducted against a RIC’s net investment income. Instead, for U.S. federal income tax purposes, potentially subject to certain limitations, the Funds may carry a net capital loss from any taxable year forward indefinitely to offset its capital gains, if any, in years following the year of the loss. To the extent subsequent capital gains are offset by such losses, they will not result in U.S. federal income tax liability to the Funds and may not be distributed as capital gains to its shareholders. Generally, the Funds may not carry forward any losses other than net capital losses. The carryover of capital losses may be limited under the general loss limitation rules if the Funds experience an ownership change as defined in the Code.
The Funds will be subject to a nondeductible 4% federal excise tax on certain undistributed income if it does not distribute to its shareholders in each calendar year an amount at least equal to 98% of its ordinary income for the calendar year plus 98.2% of its capital gain net income for the one-year period ending on October 31 of that year, subject to an increase for any shortfall in the prior year’s distribution. For this purpose, any ordinary income or capital gain net income retained by the Funds and subject to corporate income tax will be considered to have been distributed. The Funds intend to declare and distribute dividends and distributions in the amounts and at the times necessary to avoid the application of the excise tax, but can make no assurances that all such tax liability will be eliminated. The Funds may in certain circumstances be required to liquidate Fund investments in order to make sufficient distributions to avoid federal excise tax liability at a time when the investment adviser might not otherwise have chosen to do so, and liquidation of investments in such circumstances may affect the ability of the Funds to satisfy the requirement for qualification as a RIC.
If a Fund meets the Distribution Requirement but retains some or all of its income or gains, it will be subject to federal income tax to the extent any such income or gains are not distributed. The Funds may designate certain amounts retained as undistributed net capital gain in a notice to its shareholders, who (i) will be required to include in income for U.S. federal income tax purposes, as long-term capital gain, their proportionate shares of the undistributed amount so designated, (ii) will be entitled to credit their proportionate shares of the income tax paid by the Funds on that undistributed amount against their federal income tax liabilities and to claim refunds to the extent such credits exceed their tax liabilities, and (iii) will be entitled to increase their tax basis, for federal income tax purposes, in their Shares by an amount equal to the excess of the amount of undistributed net capital gain included in their respective income over their respective income tax credits.
Taxation of Shareholders – Distributions. The Funds intend to distribute annually to its shareholders substantially all of its investment company taxable income (computed without regard to the deduction for dividends paid), its net tax-exempt income, if any, and any net capital gain (net recognized long-term capital gains in excess of net recognized short-term capital losses, taking into account any capital loss carryforwards). The distribution of investment company taxable income (as so computed) and net realized capital gain will be taxable to Funds’ shareholders regardless of whether the shareholder receives these distributions in cash or reinvests them in additional Shares.
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The Funds (or your broker) will report to shareholders annually the amounts of dividends paid from ordinary income, the amount of distributions of net capital gain, the portion of dividends which may qualify for the dividends-received deduction for corporations, and the portion of dividends which may qualify for treatment as qualified dividend income, which is taxable to non-corporate shareholders at rates of up to 20%.
Qualified dividend income includes, in general, subject to certain holding period and other requirements, dividend income from taxable domestic corporations and certain foreign corporations. Subject to certain limitations, eligible foreign corporations include those incorporated in possessions of the United States, those incorporated in certain countries with comprehensive tax treaties with the United States, and other foreign corporations if the stock with respect to which the dividends are paid is readily tradable on an established securities market in the United States. Dividends received by the Funds from an ETF, an underlying fund taxable as a RIC, or from a REIT may be treated as qualified dividend income generally only to the extent so reported by such ETF, underlying fund, or REIT, however, dividends received by the Fund from a REIT are generally not treated as qualified dividend income. If 95% or more of the Fund’s gross income (calculated without taking into account net capital gain derived from sales or other dispositions of stock or securities) consists of qualified dividend income, the Funds may report all distributions of such income as qualified dividend income.
Fund dividends will not be treated as qualified dividend income if the Fund does not meet holding period and other requirements with respect to dividend paying stocks in its portfolio, and the shareholder does not meet holding period and other requirements with respect to the Shares on which the dividends were paid.
Distributions by the Funds of its net short-term capital gains will be taxable as ordinary income. Distributions from the Funds’ net capital gain will be taxable to shareholders at long-term capital gains rates, regardless of how long shareholders have held their Shares. Distributions may be subject to state and local taxes.
In the case of corporate shareholders, certain dividends received by the Funds from U.S. corporations (generally, dividends received by the Funds in respect of any share of stock (1) with a tax holding period of at least 46 days during the 91-day period beginning on the date that is 45 days before the date on which the stock becomes ex-dividend as to that dividend and (2) that is held in an unleveraged position) and distributed and appropriately so reported by the Funds may be eligible for the 50% dividends received deduction. Certain preferred stock must have a holding period of at least 91 days during the 181-day period beginning on the date that is 90 days before the date on which the stock becomes ex-dividend as to that dividend to be eligible. Capital gain dividends distributed to the Funds from other RICs are not eligible for the dividends received deduction. To qualify for the deduction, corporate shareholders must meet the minimum holding period requirement stated above with respect to their Shares, taking into account any holding period reductions from certain hedging or other transactions or positions that diminish their risk of loss with respect to their Shares, and, if they borrow to acquire or otherwise incur debt attributable to Shares, they may be denied a portion of the dividends received deduction with respect to those Shares.
Under recently issued final Treasury Regulations, a RIC that receives business interest income may pass through its net business interest income for purposes of the tax rules applicable to the interest expense limitations under Section 163(j) of the Code. A RIC’s total “Section 163(j) Interest Dividend” for a tax year is limited to the excess of the RIC’s business interest income over the sum of its business interest expense and its other deductions properly allocable to its business interest income. A RIC may, in its discretion, designate all or a portion of ordinary dividends as Section 163(j) Interest Dividends, which would allow the recipient shareholder to treat the designated portion of such dividends as interest income for purposes of determining such shareholder’s interest expense deduction limitation under Section 163(j). This can potentially increase the amount of a shareholder’s interest expense deductible under Section 163(j). In general, to be eligible to treat a Section 163(j) Interest Dividend as interest income, you must have held your shares in the Funds for more than 180 days during the 361-day period beginning on the date that is 180 days before the date on which the share becomes ex-dividend with respect to such dividend. Section 163(j) Interest Dividends, if so designated by the Funds, will be reported to your financial intermediary or otherwise in accordance with the requirements specified by the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”).
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Although dividends generally will be treated as distributed when paid, any dividend declared by the Funds in October, November or December and payable to shareholders of record in such a month that is paid during the following January will be treated for U.S. federal income tax purposes as received by shareholders on December 31 of the calendar year in which it was declared.
Shareholders who have not held Shares for a full year should be aware that the Funds may report and distribute, as ordinary dividends or capital gain dividends, a percentage of income that is not equal to the percentage of each Fund’s ordinary income or net capital gain, respectively, actually earned during the applicable shareholder’s period of investment in the Funds. A taxable shareholder may wish to avoid investing in the Funds shortly before a dividend or other distribution, because the distribution will generally be taxable even though it may economically represent a return of a portion of the shareholder’s investment.
To the extent that the Funds make a distribution of income received by the Funds in lieu of dividends (a “substitute payment”) with respect to securities on loan pursuant to a securities lending transaction, such income will not constitute qualified dividend income to individual shareholders and will not be eligible for the dividends received deduction for corporate shareholders.
If the Funds’ distributions exceed its earnings and profits, all or a portion of the distributions made for a taxable year may be recharacterized as a return of capital to shareholders. A return of capital distribution will generally not be taxable, but will reduce each shareholder’s cost basis in the Funds and result in a higher capital gain or lower capital loss when the Shares on which the distribution was received are sold. After a shareholder’s basis in the Shares has been reduced to zero, distributions in excess of earnings and profits will be treated as gain from the sale of the shareholder’s Shares.
Taxation of Shareholders – Sale, Redemption, or Exchange of Shares. A sale, redemption, or exchange of Shares may give rise to a gain or loss. For tax purposes, an exchange of your Fund shares for shares of a different fund is the same as a sale. In general, any gain or loss realized upon a taxable disposition of Shares will be treated as long-term capital gain or loss if Shares have been held for more than 12 months. Otherwise, the gain or loss on the taxable disposition of Shares will generally be treated as short-term capital gain or loss. Any loss realized upon a taxable disposition of Shares held for six months or less will be treated as long-term capital loss, rather than short-term capital loss, to the extent of any amounts treated as distributions to the shareholder of long-term capital gain (including any amounts credited to the shareholder as undistributed capital gains). All or a portion of any loss realized upon a taxable disposition of Shares may be disallowed if substantially identical Shares are acquired (through the reinvestment of dividends or otherwise) within a 61-day period beginning 30 days before and ending 30 days after the disposition. In such a case, the basis of the newly acquired Shares will be adjusted to reflect the disallowed loss.
The cost basis of Shares acquired by purchase will generally be based on the amount paid for Shares and then may be subsequently adjusted for other applicable transactions as required by the Code. The difference between the selling price and the cost basis of Shares generally determines the amount of the capital gain or loss realized on the sale or exchange of Shares. Contact the broker through whom you purchased your Shares to obtain information with respect to the available cost basis reporting methods and elections for your account.
An Authorized Participant who exchanges securities for Creation Units generally will recognize a gain or a loss. The gain or loss will be equal to the difference between the market value of the Creation Units at the time and the sum of the exchanger’s aggregate basis in the securities surrendered plus the amount of cash paid for such Creation Units. A person who redeems Creation Units will generally recognize a gain or loss equal to the difference between the exchanger’s basis in the Creation Units and the sum of the aggregate market value of any securities received plus the amount of any cash received for such Creation Units. The ability of Authorized Participants to receive a full or partial cash redemption of Creation Units of the Funds may limit the tax efficiency of such Fund. The IRS, however, may assert that a loss realized upon an exchange of securities for Creation Units cannot currently be deducted under the rules governing “wash sales” (for a person who does not mark-to-market its portfolio) or on the basis that there has been no significant change in economic position.
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Any gain or loss realized upon a creation or redemption of Creation Units will be treated as capital or ordinary gain or loss, depending on the circumstances. Any capital gain or loss realized upon the creation of Creation Units will generally be treated as long-term capital gain or loss if the securities exchanged for such Creation Units have been held for more than one year. Any capital gain or loss realized upon the redemption of Creation Units will generally be treated as long-term capital gain or loss if Shares comprising the Creation Units have been held for more than one year. Otherwise, such capital gains or losses will generally be treated as short-term capital gains or losses. Any capital loss upon a redemption of Creation Units held for six months or less may be treated as long-term capital loss to the extent of any amounts treated as distributions to the applicable Authorized Participant of long-term capital gain with respect to the Creation Units (including any amounts credited to the Authorized Participant as undistributed capital gains).
The Trust, on behalf of the Funds, has the right to reject an order for Creation Units if the purchaser (or a group of purchasers) would, upon obtaining the Creation Units so ordered, own 80% or more of the outstanding Shares and if, pursuant to Section 351 of the Code, the Funds would have a basis in the deposit securities different from the market value of such securities on the date of deposit. The Trust also has the right to require the provision of information necessary to determine beneficial Share ownership for purposes of the 80% determination. If a Fund does issue Creation Units to a purchaser (or a group of purchasers) that would, upon obtaining the Creation Units so ordered, own 80% or more of the outstanding Shares, the purchaser (or a group of purchasers) will not recognize gain or loss upon the exchange of securities for Creation Units.
Authorized Participants purchasing or redeeming Creation Units should consult their own tax advisers with respect to the tax treatment of any creation or redemption transaction and whether the wash sales rule applies and when a loss may be deductible.
Taxation of Shareholders – Net Investment Income Tax. U.S. individuals with adjusted gross income (subject to certain adjustments) exceeding certain threshold amounts ($250,000 if married filing jointly or if considered a “surviving spouse” for federal income tax purposes, $125,000 if married filing separately, and $200,000 in other cases) are subject to a 3.8% tax on all or a portion of their “net investment income,” which includes taxable interest, dividends, and certain capital gains (generally including capital gain distributions and capital gains realized on the sale of Shares). This 3.8% tax also applies to all or a portion of the undistributed net investment income of certain shareholders that are estates and trusts.
Taxation of Fund Investments. Certain of the Funds’ investments may be subject to complex provisions of the Code (including provisions relating to hedging transactions, straddles, integrated transactions, foreign currency contracts, forward foreign currency contracts, and notional principal contracts) that, among other things, may affect the Funds’ ability to qualify as a RIC, affect the character of gains and losses realized by the Funds (e.g., may affect whether gains or losses are ordinary or capital), accelerate recognition of income to the Funds and defer losses. These rules could therefore affect the character, amount and timing of distributions to shareholders. These provisions also may require the Funds to mark to market certain types of positions in its portfolio (i.e., treat them as if they were closed out) which may cause the Funds to recognize income without the Funds receiving cash with which to make distributions in amounts sufficient to enable the Funds to satisfy the RIC distribution requirements for avoiding income and excise taxes. The Funds intend to monitor its transactions, intends to make appropriate tax elections, and intends to make appropriate entries in its books and records in order to mitigate the effect of these rules and preserve the Funds’ qualification for treatment as a RIC. To the extent the Funds invest in an underlying fund that is taxable as a RIC, the rules applicable to the tax treatment of complex securities will also apply to the underlying funds that also invest in such complex securities and investments.
Backup Withholding. The Funds will be required in certain cases to withhold (as “backup withholding”) on amounts payable to any shareholder who (1) fails to provide a correct taxpayer identification number certified under penalty of perjury; (2) is subject to backup withholding by the IRS for failure to properly report all payments of interest or dividends; (3) fails to provide a certified statement that he or she is not subject to “backup withholding”; or (4) fails to provide a certified statement that he or she is a U.S. person (including a U.S. resident alien). The backup withholding rate is currently 24%. Backup withholding is not an additional tax and any amounts withheld may be credited against the shareholder’s ultimate U.S. tax liability. Backup withholding will not be applied to payments that have been subject to the 30% withholding tax on shareholders who are neither citizens nor permanent residents of the U.S.
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Non-U.S. Shareholders. Any non-U.S. investors in the Funds may be subject to U.S. withholding and estate tax and are encouraged to consult their tax advisers prior to investing in the Funds. Foreign shareholders (i.e., nonresident alien individuals and foreign corporations, partnerships, trusts and estates) are generally subject to U.S. withholding tax at the rate of 30% (or a lower tax treaty rate) on distributions derived from taxable ordinary income. The Funds may, under certain circumstances, report all or a portion of a dividend as an “interest-related dividend” or a “short-term capital gain dividend,” which would generally be exempt from this 30% U.S. withholding tax, provided certain other requirements are met. Short-term capital gain dividends received by a nonresident alien individual who is present in the U.S. for a period or periods aggregating 183 days or more during the taxable year are not exempt from this 30% withholding tax. Gains realized by foreign shareholders from the sale or other disposition of Shares generally are not subject to U.S. taxation, unless the recipient is an individual who is physically present in the U.S. for 183 days or more per year. Foreign shareholders who fail to provide an applicable IRS form may be subject to backup withholding on certain payments from the Funds. Backup withholding will not be applied to payments that are subject to the 30% (or lower applicable treaty rate) withholding tax described in this paragraph. Different tax consequences may result if the foreign shareholder is engaged in a trade or business within the United States. In addition, the tax consequences to a foreign shareholder entitled to claim the benefits of a tax treaty may be different than those described above.
Under legislation generally known as “FATCA” (the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act), the Funds are required to withhold 30% of certain ordinary dividends it pays to shareholders that fail to meet prescribed information reporting or certification requirements. In general, no such withholding will be required with respect to a U.S. person or non-U.S. person that timely provides the certifications required by a fund or its agent on a valid IRS Form W-9 or applicable series of IRS Form W-8, respectively. Shareholders potentially subject to withholding include foreign financial institutions (“FFIs”), such as non-U.S. investment funds, and non-financial foreign entities (“NFFEs”). To avoid withholding under FATCA, an FFI generally must enter into an information sharing agreement with the IRS in which it agrees to report certain identifying information (including name, address, and taxpayer identification number) with respect to its U.S. account holders (which, in the case of an entity shareholder, may include its direct and indirect U.S. owners), and an NFFE generally must identify and provide other required information to the Funds or other withholding agent regarding its U.S. owners, if any. Such non-U.S. shareholders also may fall into certain exempt, excepted or deemed compliant categories as established by regulations and other guidance. A non-U.S. shareholder resident or doing business in a country that has entered into an intergovernmental agreement with the United States to implement FATCA will be exempt from FATCA withholding provided that the shareholder and the applicable foreign government comply with the terms of the agreement.
A non-U.S. entity that invests in the Funds will need to provide the Funds with documentation properly certifying the entity’s status under FATCA in order to avoid FATCA withholding. Non-U.S. investors in the Funds should consult their tax advisors in this regard.
Tax-Exempt Shareholders. Certain tax-exempt shareholders, including qualified pension plans, individual retirement accounts, salary deferral arrangements, 401(k) plans, and other tax-exempt entities, generally are exempt from federal income taxation except with respect to their unrelated business taxable income (“UBTI”). Tax-exempt entities are not permitted to offset losses from one unrelated trade or business against the income or gain of another unrelated trade or business. Certain net losses incurred prior to January 1, 2018 are permitted to offset gain and income created by an unrelated trade or business, if otherwise available. Under current law, the Funds generally serve to block UBTI from being realized by its tax-exempt shareholders with respect to their shares of Fund income. However, notwithstanding the foregoing, tax-exempt shareholders could realize UBTI by virtue of their investment in the Funds if, for example, (i) the Funds invest in residual interests of Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduits (“REMICs”), (ii) the Funds invest in a REIT that is a taxable mortgage pool (“TMP”) or that has a subsidiary that is a TMP or that invests in the residual interest of a REMIC, or (iii) Shares constitute debt-financed property in the hands of the tax-exempt shareholders within the meaning of section 514(b) of the Code. Charitable remainder trusts are subject to special rules and should consult their tax advisers. The IRS has issued guidance with respect to these issues and prospective shareholders, especially charitable remainder trusts, are strongly encouraged to consult with their tax advisers regarding these issues.
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The Funds’ shares held in a tax-qualified retirement account will generally not be subject to federal taxation on income and capital gains distributions from the Funds until a shareholder begins receiving payments from their retirement account. Because each shareholder’s tax situation is different, shareholders should consult their tax advisors with specific reference to their own tax situations, including their state, local, and foreign tax liabilities.
Certain Potential Tax Reporting Requirements. Under U.S. Treasury regulations, if a shareholder recognizes a loss on disposition of Shares of $2 million or more for an individual shareholder or $10 million or more for a corporate shareholder (or certain greater amounts over a combination of years), the shareholder must file with the IRS a disclosure statement on IRS Form 8886. Direct shareholders of portfolio securities are in many cases excepted from this reporting requirement, but under current guidance, shareholders of a RIC are not excepted. Significant penalties may be imposed for the failure to comply with the reporting requirements. The fact that a loss is reportable under these regulations does not affect the legal determination of whether the taxpayer’s treatment of the loss is proper. Shareholders should consult their tax advisers to determine the applicability of these regulations in light of their individual circumstances.
Other Issues. In those states which have income tax laws, the tax treatment of Funds and of Fund shareholders with respect to distributions by the Funds may differ from federal tax treatment.
[The Funds’ audited statement of assets and liabilities as of [ ], 2026 and the report of [ ], the Funds’ independent registered public accounting firm, thereon will be included in this SAI by pre-effective amendment.]
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APPENDIX A
Proxy Voting Policies
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PART C: OTHER INFORMATION
Item 28. Exhibits
| (a) | (1) | Certificate of Trust dated July 17, 2026, as filed with the State of Delaware on July 17, 2026, for Integrity Investment Funds Trust (the “Registrant” or “Trust”)1 |
| (2) | Agreement and Declaration of Trust of the Registrant1 | |
| (b) | (1) | By-Laws of the Registrant1 |
| (c) | Not applicable. | |
| (d) | (1) | Investment Advisory Agreement between the Registrant and Integrity Quantitative Advisors LLC 2 |
| (2) | Investment Trading Sub-Advisory Agreement between the Registrant and [ ]2 | |
| (e) | Distribution Agreement between the Registrant and Distributor2 | |
| (f) | Not applicable. | |
| (g) | Custody Agreement between the Registrant and Custodian2 | |
| (h) | (1) | Administration and Fund Accounting Agreement between the Registrant and Administrator2 |
| (2) | Transfer Agency Agreement between the Registrant and Transfer Agent2 | |
| (i) | Opinion and Consent of Counsel2 | |
| (j) | Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm2 | |
| (k) | Not applicable. | |
| (l) | Not applicable | |
| (m) | Distribution and Service Plan2 | |
| (n) | Not applicable. | |
| (o) | Powers of Attorney2 | |
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| (p) | (1) | Code of Ethics of the Registrant2 |
| (2) | Code of Ethics of Integrity Quantitative Advisors LLC2 | |
| (3) | Code of Ethics of [ ]2 | |
| (4) | Code of Ethics of Vigilant Distributors LLC2 |
| 1 | Filed within. |
| 2 | To be filed by subsequent amendment. |
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Item 29. Persons Controlled by or Under Common Control with the Fund
Not applicable.
Item 30. Indemnification
Pursuant to Section 6.5 of Article VI of the Agreement and Declaration of Trust (the “Declaration”), every person who is, or has been, a Trustee, officer, or employee of the Trust, including persons who serve at the request of the Trust as directors, trustees, officers, employees or agents of another organization in which the Trust has an interest as a shareholder, creditor or otherwise (“Covered Person”), shall be indemnified by the Trust or the applicable Series to the fullest extent permitted by law against liability and against all expenses reasonably incurred or paid by him in connection with any claim, action, suit or proceeding, whether civil or criminal, in which he becomes involved as a party or otherwise by virtue of his being or having been such a Trustee, director, officer, employee or agent and against amounts paid or incurred by him in settlement thereof. No indemnification shall be provided under the Declaration to a Covered Person to the extent such indemnification is prohibited by applicable federal law.
Insofar as indemnification for liability arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
Item 31. Business and Other Connections of the Investment Adviser
See “Management” in the Prospectus and “Investment Adviser” in the Statement of Additional Information. Information as to the directors and officers of Integrity Quantitative Advisors, LLC (the “Adviser”) and [ ] (the “Trading Sub-Adviser”) is included in their respective Forms ADV filed with the SEC and is incorporated herein by reference thereto.
Item 32. Principal Underwriters
| (a) | Vigilant Distributors LLC (the “Distributor”) serves as principal underwriter for the following investment companies registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended: [ ] |
| (b) | The following are the Officers and Managers of the Distributor, the Registrant’s underwriter. The Distributor’s main business address is [ ]. |
| Name | Address | Position with Underwriter | Position with Registrant | |||
| [ ] | [ ] | [ ] | [ ] |
| (c) | Not applicable. |
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Item 33. Location of Accounts and Records
The books, accounts and other documents required by Section 31(a) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and the rules promulgated thereunder are maintained in the physical possession of Integrity Quantitative Advisors, LLC, 120 N. Hale St., Suite 300, Wheaton, Illinois 60187; [ ] (Trading Sub-Adviser), [ ]; [ ](administrator, fund accountant and transfer agent); and [ ](custodian). Vigilant Distributors LLC, [ ], maintains all records relating to its services as Distributor of the Registrant at [ ].
Item 34. Management Services
Not applicable.
Item 35. Undertakings
Not applicable.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, the Registrant certifies that it has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Wheaton, Illinois, on the 6th day of November, 2026.
| Integrity Investment Funds Trust | ||
| By: | /s/ William F. Weicher | |
| Name: | William F. Weicher | |
| Title: | Trustee | |
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in their indicated capacities.
| Signature | Title | Date | ||
| /s/ William F. Weicher | Trustee | November 6, 2026 | ||
| William F. Weicher |
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Exhibit Index
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