ADVISORSHARES GLOBAL ECHO ETF (NYSE Arca Ticker: GIVE)

SUMMARY PROSPECTUS – November 1, 2015

Before you invest in the AdvisorShares Fund, you may want to review the Fund’s prospectus and statement of additional information, which contain more information about the Fund and the risks of investing in the Fund. The Fund’s current prospectus and statement of additional information, each dated November 1, 2015, as supplemented from time to time, are incorporated by reference into this summary prospectus. You can find the Fund’s prospectus and statement of additional information, as well as other information about the Fund, online at http://advisorshares.com/fund/give. You may also obtain this information at no charge by calling 877.843.3831 or by sending an email request to info@advisorshares.com.

INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE

The AdvisorShares Global Echo ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to achieve long-term capital appreciation with an emphasis on absolute (positive) returns and low sensitivity to traditional financial market indices, such as the S&P 500 Index, over a full market cycle.

FUND FEES AND EXPENSES

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund. Most investors will incur customary brokerage commissions when buying or selling shares of the Fund, which are not reflected in the table 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 FEES	1.10%
DISTRIBUTION (12b-1) FEES	0.00%
OTHER EXPENSES	0.40%
TOTAL ANNUAL OPERATING EXPENSES	1.50%

 EXAMPLE

This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the shares of the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds. This Example does not take into account creation or redemption transaction fees, or the brokerage commissions that you pay when purchasing or selling shares of the Fund. If these fees and commissions were included, your costs would be higher.

The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell 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.  Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

	1 YEAR	3 YEARS	5 YEARS	10 YEARS
AdvisorShares Global Echo ETF	$153	$474	$818	$1,791

PORTFOLIO TURNOVER

The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in Total Annual Operating Expenses or in the Example, affect the Fund’s performance. This rate excludes the value of portfolio securities received or delivered as a result of in-kind creations or redemptions of the Fund’s shares. During the most recent fiscal year ended June 30, 2015, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 68% of the average value of its portfolio.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

The Fund is a multi-manager, multi-strategy, broadly diversified, actively managed exchange-traded fund (“ETF”) with a focus on Sustainable Investing. Sustainable Investing generally refers to an investment methodology that takes into consideration economic, environmental, technology, and a variety of social factors when making investment decisions. Accordingly, the Fund is designed as a core allocation that proactively seeks Sustainable Investment-themed investment opportunities that may socially and environmentally benefit the earth, with a focus on water, clean energy, community development, innovation and other sustainable themes across asset classes. Sustainable Investment themes that the Fund may pursue include, but are not limited to, the following: economic themes (e.g., corporate governance, risk and crisis management, community investment, energy efficiency, food, green building); environmental themes (e.g., air, water, earth); technology themes (e.g., mobility, renewable energy, technology, access); and social themes (e.g., human health, occupational health and safety).

The Fund’s namesake is the Global Echo Foundation, a charitable foundation co-founded by Philippe Cousteau, Jr. The Global Echo Foundation’s mission is to promote sustainable development across a number of different themes, including social, environmental, and entrepreneurship. The Fund was designed to pursue sustainable investment opportunities among the same themes, thereby promoting the Global Echo Foundation’s mission of increased sustainable development. To further support the Global Echo Foundation, the Fund will make regular monetary contributions to the Foundation. The Global Echo Foundation will not participate in or have any influence on the day-to-day operations of the Fund or the Advisor’s and Sub-Advisors’ management of the Fund.

The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by allocating a portion of the Fund’s assets to each of the Fund’s Sub-Advisors, who will employ their respective investment strategies to generate absolute returns over a full market cycle. Generally, a full market cycle consists of a bull market followed by a bear market and a return to a bull market, or vice versa. Initially, an equal proportion of the Fund’s assets were allocated to each Sub-Advisor to obtain the desired exposure to the strategies described below. The allocation among Sub-Advisors will vary over time in response to a variety of factors, including prevailing market conditions. The Advisor has designated Baldwin Brothers Inc. (“Baldwin”) to allocate and monitor the allocation of the Fund’s assets to each Sub-Advisor to ensure that the Fund’s portfolio maintains the proper investment exposure to seek to achieve its investment objective. Each Sub-Advisor will seek to identify and invest either directly or indirectly through other ETFs, in securities of companies that are making a positive impact in the world and reflect Sustainable Investment themes, including corporate sustainability. The Fund’s investments in companies that practice corporate sustainability provide an additional layer of diversification because such investments are designed to increase long-term shareholder value. Companies focused on corporate sustainability also can provide more attractive risk return profiles for investors, and can leverage various other Sustainable Investment themes.

The Fund invests primarily in U.S. and foreign equity securities, American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”), fixed income securities, including municipal bonds, and affiliated and unaffiliated ETFs. The Fund may take both long and short positions in any of these investments. A long position is the purchase of an investment with the expectation that it will rise in value. A short position is the sale of a borrowed investment with the expectation that it will decline in value. The Fund may invest up to 65% (and intends to always invest at least 15%) of its net assets in domestic and foreign fixed income securities. The Fund may invest in securities of any capitalization range and may employ one or more investment styles (from growth to value) at any time as necessary to seek to achieve the Fund’s investment objective. The Fund may invest up to 20% of its net assets in futures, options on futures, and currency forwards to gain market exposure and/or hedge against market declines.

Each Sub-Advisor will determine whether to buy or sell an investment for the Fund’s portfolio by applying one or more of the following strategies:

Core Strategies

○ Fixed Income Strategies. Fixed income strategies consist of investment strategies that invest primarily in debt securities of domestic and foreign governments, agencies, and instrumentalities, municipalities, and companies of all maturities and qualities (including “junk bonds” and up to 15% of the Fund’s total assets in defaulted debt securities), TIPS (Treasury Inflation Protected Securities), and ETFs that provide exposure to fixed income securities or strategies.  Debt securities of foreign governments are sometimes referred to as sovereign debt obligations and may be issued or guaranteed by foreign governments or their agencies.  The Fund may invest in mortgage-backed securities, collateralized mortgage obligations, asset-backed securities, and other mortgage related securities.  Fixed income strategies also may involve hedging through the use of investments in other ETFs to enhance risk-adjusted return.

○ Equity Strategies. Equity strategies consist of both domestic and international/emerging markets strategies.  The domestic equity strategies seek to invest in securities of companies that the Sub-Advisor believes will outperform other equities securities over the long term.  The international/emerging markets equity strategies seek to invest in securities of undervalued international companies through ADRs that provide the Fund with exposure to businesses outside of the U.S. and that are attractively priced relative to their economic fundamentals.  Both U.S. and international investments are selected using fundamental analysis of factors such as earnings, cash flows, and valuations based upon them, and are diversified among the economic and industry sectors in the S&P 500^® Index, the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) ACWI Index, MSCI Europe, Australasia and Far East Index, and MSCI Emerging Markets Index.

Alternative Strategies

○ Long/Short and Hedging Strategies. Alternative strategies consist of strategies that combine short sales of equities (including shares of ETFs) or purchase of shares of inverse ETFs.  As such, long/short strategies may utilize securities that seek to track indexes on markets, sectors, strategies and/or industries to hedge against potential adverse movements in security prices.  The Fund may implement multiple variations of long/short and hedging strategies.  The basic long/short equity strategies generally seek to increase net long exposure in a bull market and decrease net long exposure, by holding high concentrations in cash or investing 100% short, in a bear market.

PRINCIPAL RISKS OF INVESTING IN THE FUND

The Fund is subject to a number of risks, as described below, that may affect the value of its shares, including the possible loss of money. As with any fund, there is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its investment objective.

American Depositary Receipt Risk. ADRs have the same currency and economic risks as the underlying non-U.S. shares they represent. They are affected by the risks associated with non-U.S. securities, such as changes in political or economic conditions of other countries and changes in the exchange rates of foreign currencies. In addition, investments in ADRs may be less liquid than the underlying securities in their primary trading market.

Credit Risk. The Fund could lose money if the issuer or guarantor of a debt instrument in which the Fund invests becomes unwilling or unable to make timely principal and/or interest payments or to otherwise meet its obligations. Credit risk is heightened to the extent the Fund invests in high-yield securities.

Currency Risk. The Fund’s indirect and direct exposure to foreign currencies subjects the Fund to the risk that those currencies will decline in value relative to the U.S. dollar.

Derivatives Risk.  Derivatives may be riskier than other types of investments because they may be more sensitive to changes in economic or market conditions than other types of investments and could result in losses that significantly exceed the Fund’s original investment. A derivative is a financial contract the value of which depends on, or is derived from, the value of a financial asset (such as stock, bond or currency), a physical asset (such as gold), or a market index (such as the S&P 500 Index). Many derivatives create leverage, thereby causing the Fund to be more volatile than it would be had it not invested in derivatives. Derivatives also expose the Fund to counterparty risk (the risk that the derivative counterparty will not fulfill its contractual obligations) and to credit risk. Moreover, there are specific risks associated with the Fund’s use of futures contracts and related options, including the following: (1) the success of a hedging strategy may depend on the ability to predict movements in the prices of individual securities, fluctuations in markets, and movements in interest rates; (2) there may be an imperfect or no correlation between the changes in market value of the securities held by the Fund and the prices of futures and options on futures; (3) there may not be a liquid secondary market for a futures contract or option; (4) trading restrictions or limitations may be imposed by an exchange; and (5) government regulations may restrict trading in futures contracts and options on futures. In addition, some strategies reduce the Fund’s exposure to price fluctuations, while others tend to increase its market exposure.

Emerging Markets Risk. Certain of the Fund’s investments will expose the Fund’s portfolio to the risks of investing in emerging markets. Emerging markets, which consist of countries or markets with low to middle income economies as classified by the World Bank and other countries or markets with similar characteristics as determined by the Advisor, can be subject to greater social, economic, regulatory, and political uncertainties and can be extremely volatile.

Equity Risk. The prices of equity securities rise and fall daily. These price movements may result from factors affecting individual issuers, industries or the securities market as a whole. In addition, equity markets tend to move in cycles which may cause stock prices to fall over short or extended periods of time.

Exchange-Traded Fund Risk. Through its investments in other ETFs, the Fund is subject to the risks associated with the ETFs’ investments, including the possibility that the value of the securities held by an ETF could decrease. These risks include any combination of the risks described in this section.

Fixed Income Securities Risk. Fixed income securities are subject to the risk that securities could lose value because of interest rate changes. Fixed income securities with longer maturities are subject to greater price shifts as a result of interest rate changes than fixed income securities with shorter maturities. Fixed income securities also are subject to prepayment and credit risks.

Foreign Investment Risk. The Fund’s investments in securities of foreign issuers, including ADRs, may involve certain risks that are greater than those associated with investments in securities of U.S. issuers. These include risks of adverse changes in foreign economic, political, regulatory and other conditions; changes in currency exchange rates or exchange control regulations (including limitations on currency movements and exchanges); differing accounting, auditing, financial reporting and legal standards and practices; differing securities market structures; and higher transaction costs. In addition, the securities of some foreign companies may be less liquid and, at times, more volatile than securities of comparable U.S. companies.

High-Yield Securities Risk. High-yield securities or “junk bonds” are subject to a greater risk of loss of income and principal than higher grade debt securities. The Fund’s investment in high yield securities also subjects the Fund to greater levels of interest rate, credit and liquidity risk than funds that do not invest in such securities. Issuers of junk bonds are often highly leveraged and are more vulnerable to changes in the economy. These securities are considered predominately speculative with respect to the issuer’s continuing ability to make principal and interest payments.

Issuer Risk. The value of a debt security may decrease for a number of reasons directly related to the issuer of such security, such as management performance, financial leverage and reduced demand of the issuer’s goods or services.

Liquidity Risk.  Liquidity risk exists when particular Fund investments are difficult to purchase or sell. This can reduce the Fund’s returns because the Fund may be unable to transact at advantageous times or prices. 

Management Risk.  The Sub-Advisors continuously evaluate the Fund’s holdings, purchases and sales with a view to achieving the Fund’s investment objective. However, the achievement of the stated investment objective cannot be guaranteed. The Sub-Advisors’ judgment about the markets, the economy, or companies may not anticipate actual market movements, economic conditions or company performance, and these judgments may affect the return on your investment.

Market Risk. Due to market conditions, the value of the Fund’s investments may fluctuate significantly from day to day.  Price fluctuations may be temporary or may last for extended periods. This volatility may cause the value of your investment in the Fund to decrease.

Mortgage-Backed Securities Risk. Impairment of the value of collateral underlying a mortgage-backed security (for example, due to non-payment of loans) may result in a reduction in the value of such security.

Prepayment Risk. The Fund may invest in mortgage-related securities, which, like other debt securities, may be paid off early when the issuer of a debt security can repay the principal prior to a security’s maturity. If interest rates are falling, the Fund may have to reinvest the unanticipated proceeds at lower interest rates, resulting in a decline in the Fund’s income.

Short Sales Risk. Short sales are transactions in which the Fund sells a security it does not own. To complete the transaction, the Fund must borrow the security to make delivery to the buyer. The Fund is then obligated to replace the security borrowed by purchasing the security at the market price at the time of replacement. The price at such time may be higher or lower than the price at which the security was sold by the Fund. If the underlying security goes down in price between the time the Fund sells the security and buys it back, the Fund will realize a gain on the transaction. Conversely, if the underlying security goes up in price during the period, the Fund will realize a loss on the transaction. Any such loss is increased by the amount of premium or interest the Fund must pay to the lender of the security. Likewise, any gain will be decreased by the amount of premium or interest the Fund must pay to the lender of the security. Because a short position loses value as the security’s price increases, the loss on a short sale is theoretically unlimited. Short sales involve leverage because the Fund borrows securities and then sells them, effectively leveraging its assets. The use of leverage may magnify gains or losses for the Fund.

Sustainable Investments Risk. The Fund’s investments in sustainable investment theme issuers may subject the Fund to the risk that the securities of such issuers will underperform other economic sectors or the market as a whole.

Trading Risk. Shares of the Fund may trade above or below their net asset value (“NAV”). The trading price of the Fund’s shares may deviate significantly from their NAV during periods of market volatility. In addition, trading in shares of the Fund may be halted because of market conditions or for reasons that, in view of the NYSE Arca, Inc. (the “Exchange”), make trading in shares inadvisable.

FUND PERFORMANCE

The bar chart and table that follow show how the Fund has performed on a calendar year basis provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The table also shows how the Fund’s performance compares to the MSCI World Index and the Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index. The MSCI World Index is an unmanaged free float-adjusted market capitalization weighted index that is designed to measure the equity market performance of developed markets. The Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index measures the performance of the U.S. investment grade bond market. Both the bar chart and the table assume the reinvestment of all dividends and distributions. Past performance (before and after taxes) does not necessarily indicate how the Fund will perform in the future.

Updated performance information is available on the Fund’s website at www.advisorshares.com.

Calendar Year Total Return

 

The Fund’s year-to-date total return as of September 30, 2015 was -5.95%.

Best and Worst Quarter Returns (for the period reflected in the bar chart above)

	Return		Quarter/Year
Highest Return	6.23	%	4Q/2013
Lowest Return	-1.47	%	3Q/2014

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL RETURNS FOR THE PERIODS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2014

AdvisorShares Global Echo ETF	1 Year		Since Inception (5/23/2012)
Return Before Taxes Based on NAV	4.66	%	9.72	%
Return After Taxes on Distributions 1	4.43	%	9.56	%
Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares 1	2.64	%	7.46	%
MSCI World Index (Reflects no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes)	4.94	%	17.31	%
Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index(Reflects no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes)	5.97	%	2.34	%

¹ After-tax returns are calculated using the highest historical individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on your tax situation and may differ from those shown and are not relevant if you hold your shares through tax-advantaged arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. In some cases the return after taxes may exceed the return before taxes due to an assumed tax benefit from any losses on a sale of Fund shares at the end of the measurement period.

MANAGEMENT

Name	Title	Investment Strategy
AdvisorShares Investments, LLC	Advisor	Asset Allocation
Baldwin Brothers Inc.	Sub-Advisor	Asset Allocation Core Equity Strategies
Community Capital Management, Inc.	Sub-Advisor	Core Fixed Income Strategies
Reynders, McVeigh Capital Management, LLC	Sub-Advisor	Core Equity Strategies

PORTFOLIO MANAGERS

Name and Title		Length of Service with Sub-Advisor
Baldwin Brothers Inc.
·	Adam Seitchik, Chief Investment Officer of Arjuna Capital, the Sustainable Wealth Management Platform at Baldwin Brothers Inc.	since 2011
Community Capital Management, Inc.
·	Michelle Rogers, Executive Vice President and Senior Portfolio Manager	since 2003
·	Julie Egan, Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager	since 2009
·	Elliot Gilfarb, Portfolio Manager	since 2006
Reynders, McVeigh Capital Management, LLC
·	Charlton Reynders, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer	since 2006
·	Patrick McVeigh, President and Chief Investment Officer	since 2006

PURCHASE AND SALE OF FUND SHARES

The Fund issues and redeems shares on a continuous basis at NAV only in a large specified number of shares called a “Creation Unit.” The shares of the Fund that trade on the Exchange are “created” at their NAV by market makers, large investors and institutions only in block-size Creation Units of at least 25,000 shares. A “creator” enters into an authorized participant agreement (“Participant Agreement”) with the Distributor or uses a Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) participant who has executed a Participant Agreement (an “Authorized Participant”), and deposits into the Fund a portfolio of securities closely approximating the holdings of the Fund and a specified amount of cash, together totaling the NAV of the Creation Unit(s), in exchange for 25,000 shares of the Fund (or multiples thereof).

Individual Fund shares may only be purchased and sold in secondary market transactions through brokers. The shares of the Fund are listed on the Exchange and, because shares trade at market price rather than at NAV, shares may trade at a value greater than or less than their NAV.

TAX INFORMATION

The Fund intends to make distributions that may be taxed as ordinary income, qualified dividend income or capital gains (or a combination thereof), unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account (“IRA”), which may be taxed upon withdrawal.

PAYMENTS TO BROKER-DEALERS AND OTHER FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES

Investors purchasing shares in the secondary market through a brokerage account or with the assistance of a broker may be subject to brokerage commissions and charges. If you purchase Fund shares through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Fund, the Advisor or a Sub-Advisor may pay the intermediary for the sale of Fund shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing broker-dealers or other intermediaries and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.