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Water Island Credit Opportunities Fund

Water Island Credit Opportunities Fund

Strategy Overview

Water Island Credit Opportunities Fund, launched in 2012, pursues a non-traditional, catalyst-driven approach to fixed income investing. Our alternative credit-based strategy focuses on a broad range of catalysts and events, such as mergers, refinancings, deep value credit, and regulatory changes through investments in bonds, bank loans, convertibles, and preferred stocks. The fund holds both long and short investments, and may employ convertible arbitrage, merger arbitrage, or capital structure arbitrage techniques in an attempt to exploit security mispricings or inefficiencies. This unconstrained bond fund seeks income and capital growth, targeting returns that are more correlated to the outcomes of specific catalysts or events rather than to overall market direction or interest rates.

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Inception dates: ARCFX and ACFIX, 10/1/12; AGCAX, 6/1/13. Performance greater than one year is annualized. Please visit the glossary for definitions of terms.

Performance quoted represents past performance and does not guarantee future results. Investment return and principal value of an investment will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than the original cost. Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance quoted. Returns shown above include the reinvestment of all dividends and capital gains. Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses for ACFIX, ARCFX, and AGCAX are 1.41%, 1.66%, and 1.66%, respectively. The adviser has contractually agreed to waive fees to limit total annual operating expenses, excluding taxes, interest, dividends on short positions, brokerage commissions, acquired fund fees and expenses, and other costs incurred in connection with the purchase or sale of portfolio securities, for ACFIX, ARCFX, and AGCAX to 0.98%, 1.23%, and 1.23%, respectively, until September 30, 2025, unless terminated earlier by the Board of Trustees. Without such fee waivers, performance numbers would have been reduced. Class A shares have a maximum front-end sales charge of 3.25%. A deferred sales charge of up to 1.00% may be imposed on purchases of $250,000 or more of Class A shares purchased without a front-end sales charge that are redeemed within 18 months of purchase. Please read the prospectus for additional details.

RISKS: Investments are subject to risk, including possible loss of principal. There can be no assurance that the fund will achieve its investment objectives. The fund uses investment techniques and strategies with risks that are different from the risks ordinarily associated with credit investments. Such risks include event-driven risk; merger arbitrage risk (in that the proposed reorganizations in which the fund invests may be renegotiated or terminated, in which case the fund may realize losses); active management risk; credit risk; convertible security risk; liquidity risk; market risk; sector risk; interest rate risk; short sale risk; hedging transaction risk; large shareholder transaction risk; leverage risk; high portfolio turnover risk (which may increase the fund’s brokerage costs, which would reduce performance); counterparty risk; temporary investment/cash management risk; swap risk; options risk; preferred security risk; investment company and ETF risk; derivatives risk; currency risk; and foreign securities risk. Risks may increase volatility, increase costs, and lower performance.

Please note that the fund is offered and sold only to United States residents. The fund is not offered for sale in countries other than the U.S. and its territories. This website should not be considered a solicitation to buy or an offer to sell shares of the funds in any jurisdiction where it would be unlawful under the securities laws of that jurisdiction. The Arbitrage Funds are offered only by prospectus.