The fund, under normal market conditions, invests at least 80% of its assets in fixed income securities across a broad group of industries, geographies, and company market capitalizations. These securities, in the opinion of VELA Investment Management, LLC (“the Adviser”), will offer the opportunity for current income, protection of principal, and competitive total return. To achieve these goals, the fund will primarily own corporate bonds of U.S. domiciled companies (both investment grade and below-investment grade, i.e., “high yield” or “junk” bonds) and can also own securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. Government, its agencies or government-sponsored enterprises, money market instruments, mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities, loans, non-rated securities.

While the Adviser will maintain discretion as to the weighting of below-investment grade bonds included in the fund at any point in time, the Adviser expects that under normal market conditions the overall weighted average credit rating of the fund will be investment grade. Investment grade securities are those rated in the Baa3 or higher categories by Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. (“Moody’s”), or in the BBB- or higher categories by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, (“S&P”), or Fitch Ratings Ltd. (“Fitch”) or, if unrated, determined to be of comparable credit quality by the Adviser. Further, under normal market conditions, the fund’s portfolio will maintain an average aggregate modified duration of between zero and three. Modified duration is a measure of a bond price’s sensitivity to a given change in interest rates. Generally, the longer the duration of a bond or portfolio of bonds, the greater the price sensitivity to changing interest rates. As an example, a bond with a modified duration of three is expected to experience a 3% drop in price for every 1% increase in interest rates; conversely, a 1% decline in interest rates is expected to lead to a 3% increase in the price of a bond with duration of three.

The fund attempts to manage its interest rate risk through its management of dollar-weighted average modified duration of the securities in the fund, as well as manage the overall risk of the fund through credit analysis focused on company assets, free cash flow, earnings, economic prospects, and a company’s overall capital structure. The latter includes an understanding of types and maturities of debt, preferred equity, solvency and liquidity ratios, and other metrics and obligations of issuers of bonds held in the fund.

Consistent with the goals of current income, capital preservation and competitive overall total return, the Adviser does not anticipate a high amount of turnover of fund holdings. In most cases, the Adviser will purchase securities intending to hold them to maturity to achieve the outcome expected at the time of investment. However, the Adviser may elect to sell a security based on a similar analysis used prior to an initial investment – primarily, examining the creditworthiness of the issuer and valuation of the security, or to take advantage of what the Adviser believes are better investment opportunities, to raise cash for expenses or redemptions, or to reduce the fund’s exposure to a particular issuer, industry, sector or other factor.