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WCM Quality Dividend Growth Fund

Investor Class Shares: WQDGX

Institutional Class Shares: WCMYX

Summary Prospectus July 28, 2023

 

Before you invest, you may want to review the Fund’s prospectus, which contains more information about the Fund and its risks. You can find the Fund’s Statutory Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information and other information about the Fund online at https://www.wcminvestfunds.com/quality-dividend-growth-fund. You may also obtain this information at no cost by calling 1-888-988-9801 or by sending an e-mail request to fundliterature@wcminvest.com. The Fund’s Statutory Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information, both dated July 28, 2023, as each may be amended or supplemented, are incorporated by reference into this Summary Prospectus.

 

Investment Objective

 

The investment objective of the WCM Quality Dividend Growth Fund (the “Fund”) is current and growing dividend income and long-term capital appreciation.

 

Fees and Expenses of the Fund

 

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and sell shares of the Fund. You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and example below.

 

   

Investor

Class

Shares

      Institutional
Class
Shares
 
Shareholder Fees
(fees paid directly from your investment)
             
Maximum sales charge (load) imposed on purchases   None       None  
Maximum deferred sales charge (load)   None       None  
Wire fee   $20       $20  
Overnight check delivery fee   $25       $25  
Retirement account fees (annual maintenance fee)   $15       $15  
               
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
             
Management fees     0.65%       0.65%  
Distribution (Rule 12b-1) fee     0.25%       None  
Other expenses1     2.19%       2.19%  
Shareholder service fee 0.15%       0.15%      
All other expenses 2.04%       2.04%      
Total annual fund operating expenses     3.09%       2.84%  
Fees waived and/or expenses reimbursed2     (1.85%)       (1.85%)  
Total annual fund operating expenses after waiving fees and/or reimbursing expenses1, 2     1.24%       0.99%  
                 

 

1“Other Expenses” for the Fund have been estimated for the current fiscal year. Actual expenses may differ from estimates.

 

2The Fund’s advisor has contractually agreed to waive its fees and/or pay for operating expenses of the Fund to ensure that total annual fund operating expenses (excluding any taxes, leverage interest, brokerage commissions, dividend and interest expenses on short sales, acquired fund fees and expenses (as determined in accordance with SEC Form N-1A), professional fees related to services for the collection of foreign tax reclaims, expenses incurred in connection with any merger or reorganization, and extraordinary expenses such as litigation expenses) do not exceed 1.24% and 0.99% of the average daily net assets of the Fund’s Investor Class and Institutional Class shares, respectively. This agreement is in effect until April 30, 2034, and may be terminated before that date only by the Trust’s Board of Trustees. The Fund’s advisor is permitted to seek reimbursement from the Fund, subject to certain limitations, of fees waived or payments made to the Fund for a period ending three full fiscal years after the date of the waiver or payment. This reimbursement may be requested from the Fund if the reimbursement will not cause the Fund’s annual expense ratio to exceed the lesser of (a) the expense limitation in effect at the time such fees were waived or payments made, or (b) the expense limitation in effect at the time of the reimbursement.

 

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Example

 

This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. The example reflects the Fund’s contractual fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement only for the term of the contractual fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement.

 

Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

 

  One Year Three Years
Investor Class $126 $393
Institutional Class $101 $315

 

Portfolio Turnover

 

The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. The Fund is newly-created and, as a result, does not yet have a portfolio turnover rate.

 

Principal Investment Strategies

 

Under normal circumstances, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in the equity securities of U.S. and non-U.S. dividend-paying companies. The Fund primarily invests in the common stock of U.S. companies, as well as depositary receipts of non-U.S. companies in developed market countries. Developed market countries are those countries with high-income economies as classified by the World Bank or included in any of the Morgan Stanley Capital International (“MSCI”) developed markets indices. The Fund’s advisor considers a company to be located in a country if the company has been organized under the laws of, has its principal offices in, or has its securities principally traded in, the country, or if the company derives at least 50% of its revenues or net profits from, or has at least 50% of its assets or production capacities in, the country.

 

The Fund’s investments in depositary receipts may include American, European, Canadian and Global Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”, “EDRs”, “CDRs” and “GDRs”, respectively). ADRs and CDRs are receipts that represent interests in foreign securities held on deposit by U.S. and Canadian banks or trust companies, respectively. EDRs and GDRs have the same qualities as ADRs, except that they may be traded in several international trading markets. The Fund may invest in companies of any market capitalization, although the Fund’s advisor expects to invest mostly in large- and mid-capitalization companies. The Fund may make significant investments in certain industries or a group of industries within a particular sector or sectors from time to time.In pursuing the Fund’s investment objective, the advisor seeks to identify and invest Fund assets in the equity securities of companies that (i) pay attractive yet durable dividends, and (ii) have demonstrated the ability to support sustainable dividend growth. One key measure of a company’s ability to achieve reliable dividend growth is its consistency in generating returns on capital, which is a measure of income produced by a company when compared to capital invested in the company’s operations. In determining whether to buy or sell a portfolio position, the advisor uses bottom-up, fundamental research to evaluate a company’s business and business prospects, market capitalization, valuation, earnings growth, cash flow, return on capital, and historical payment of dividends. The advisor’s investment process seeks to identify companies with dividend-paying cultures, attractive yet durable dividend yields, and consistent dividend growth rates, or those companies exhibiting aggressive, transformational changes in connection with those characteristics. In selecting portfolio securities, the Fund’s advisor also considers other factors including, among others, political risk, monetary policy risk, and regulatory risk.

 

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Principal Risks of Investing

 

Risk is inherent in all investing, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund. A summary description of certain principal risks of investing in the Fund is set forth below. Before you decide whether to invest in the Fund, carefully consider these risk factors associated with investing in the Fund, which may cause investors to lose money. There can be no assurance that the Fund will achieve its investment objective.

 

Market Risk. The market price of a security or instrument may decline, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably, due to general market conditions that are not specifically related to a particular company, such as real or perceived adverse economic or political conditions throughout the world, changes in the general outlook for corporate earnings, changes in interest or currency rates, or adverse investor sentiment generally. In addition, local, regional or global events such as war, acts of terrorism, the spread of infectious illness or other public health issues, or other events could have significant impact on a security or instrument. The market value of a security or instrument also may decline because of factors that affect a particular industry or industries, such as labor shortages or increased production costs and competitive conditions within an industry.

 

Equity Risk. The value of the equity securities held by the Fund may fall due to general market and economic conditions, perceptions regarding the industries in which the issuers of securities held by the Fund participate, or factors relating to specific companies in which the Fund invests.

 

Dividend-Paying Securities Risk. Investing in dividend-paying securities involves the risk that such securities may fall out of favor with investors and underperform the broader market. Companies that issue dividend-paying securities are not required to pay, or to continue to pay, dividends on such securities. It is possible that issuers of the securities held by the Fund will not declare dividends in the future, or will reduce or eliminate the payment of dividends (including reducing or eliminating anticipated accelerations or increases in the payment of dividends) in the future. 

 

Foreign Investment Risk. The prices of foreign securities may be more volatile than the prices of securities of U.S. issuers because of economic and social conditions abroad, political developments, and changes in the regulatory environments of foreign countries. Changes in exchange rates and interest rates, and the imposition of sanctions, confiscations, trade restrictions (including tariffs) and other government restrictions by the United States and/or other governments may adversely affect the values of the Fund’s foreign investments. Foreign companies are generally subject to different legal and accounting standards than U.S. companies, and foreign financial intermediaries may be subject to less supervision and regulation than U.S. financial firms. Foreign securities include ADRs, EDRs, CDRs and GDRs. Unsponsored ADRs, EDRs, CDRs and GDRs are organized independently and without the cooperation of the foreign issuer of the underlying securities, and involve additional risks because U.S. reporting requirements do not apply. In addition, the issuing bank may deduct shareholder distribution, custody, foreign currency exchange, and other fees from the payment of dividends.

 

Market Capitalization Risk. Larger, more established companies may be unable to attain the high growth rates of successful, smaller companies during periods of economic expansion. Securities of mid-capitalization companies tend to be more volatile and less liquid than securities of larger companies. The securities of mid-capitalization companies may be subject to more abrupt or erratic market movements and may have lower trading volumes or more erratic trading than securities of larger, more established companies or market averages in general. In addition, such companies typically are more likely to be adversely affected than large capitalization companies by changes in earning results, business prospects, investor expectations or poor economic or market conditions.

 

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Management and Strategy Risk. The value of your investment depends on the judgment of the Fund’s advisor about the quality, relative yield, value or market trends affecting a particular security, industry, sector or region, which may prove to be incorrect.

 

Sector Focus Risk. The Fund may invest a larger portion of its assets in one or more sectors than many other mutual funds, and thus will be more susceptible to negative events affecting those sectors.

 

Recent Market Events. Periods of market volatility may occur in response to market events and other economic, political, and global macro factors. For example, in recent years the COVID-19 pandemic, the large expansion of government deficits and debt as a result of government actions to mitigate the effects of the pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the rise of inflation have resulted in extreme volatility in the global economy and in global financial markets. These and other similar events could be prolonged and could adversely affect the value and liquidity of the Fund’s investments, impair the Fund’s ability to satisfy redemption requests, and negatively impact the Fund’s performance.

 

No Operating History. The Fund is newly organized and has no operating history. As a result, prospective investors have no track record or history on which to base their investment decisions.

 

Cybersecurity Risk. Cybersecurity incidents may allow an unauthorized party to gain access to Fund assets, customer data (including private shareholder information), or proprietary information, or cause the Fund, the Fund’s advisor, and/or other service providers (including custodians, sub-custodians, transfer agents and financial intermediaries) to suffer data breaches, data corruption or loss of operational functionality. In an extreme case, a shareholder’s ability to exchange or redeem Fund shares may be affected. Issuers of securities in which the Fund invests are also subject to cybersecurity risks, and the value of those securities could decline if the issuers experience cybersecurity incidents.

 

Performance

 

The Fund is new and does not have a full calendar year performance record to compare against other mutual funds or broad measures of securities market performance such as indices. Performance information will be available after the Fund has been in operation for one calendar year.

 

Investment Advisor

 

WCM Investment Management, LLC (the “Advisor” or “WCM”)

 

Portfolio Managers

 

The portfolio management team is comprised of Cameron K. Martin, Portfolio Manager, and Reid C. Weaver, CFA, Portfolio Manager. Messrs. Martin and Weaver have served as portfolio managers of the Fund since its inception in July 2023. The members of the portfolio management team are jointly and primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the Fund’s portfolio.

 

Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares

 

To purchase shares of the Fund, you must invest at least the minimum amount.

 

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  Investor Class Institutional Class
Minimum Investments To Open Your Account To Add to Your Account To Open Your Account To Add to Your Account
Direct Regular Accounts $1,000 $100 $100,000 $5,000
Direct Retirement Accounts $1,000 $100 $100,000 $5,000
Automatic Investment Plan $100 $50 $5,000 $2,500
Gift Account For Minors $1,000 $500 $100,000 $5,000

 

Fund shares are redeemable on any business day the New York Stock Exchange (the “NYSE”) is open for business, by written request or by telephone.

 

Tax Information

 

The Fund’s distributions are generally taxable, and will ordinarily be taxed as ordinary income, qualified dividend income or capital gains, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account. Shareholders investing through such tax-advantaged arrangements may be taxed later upon withdrawal of monies from those arrangements.

 

Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries

 

If you purchase shares of the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Fund and its related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of Fund shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.

 

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