A LIPPER(R) FUNDS CLASSIFICATION MEASURES THE SHARE PRICES OF A SPECIFIC GROUP OF MUTUAL FUNDS WITH A PARTICULAR INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE. YOU CANNOT INVEST DIRECTLY IN A LIPPER(R) FUNDS CLASSIFICATION. THE FUNDS INCLUDED IN THE LIPPER(R) MULTI-CAP VALUE FUNDS CLASSIFICATION INVEST IN COMPANIES WITH GOALS SIMILAR TO THE VALUE FUND. THE NUMBER OF FUNDS IN THE LIPPER(R) MULTI-CAP VALUE FUNDS CLASSIFICATION VARIES.

A LIPPER(R) FUNDS CLASSIFICATION MEASURES THE SHARE PRICES OF A SPECIFIC GROUP OF MUTUAL FUNDS WITH A PARTICULAR INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE. YOU CANNOT INVEST DIRECTLY IN A LIPPER(R) FUNDS CLASSIFICATION. THE FUNDS INCLUDED IN THE LIPPER(R) MULTI-CAP GROWTH FUNDS CLASSIFICATION INVEST IN COMPANIES SIMILAR TO THOSE IN WHICH THE GROWTH FUND INVESTS WITH LONG-TERM EARNINGS EXPECTED TO GROW SIGNIFICANTLY FASTER THAN THE EARNINGS OF THE STOCKS REPRESENTED IN THE MAJOR UNMANAGED STOCK INDICES. THE NUMBER OF FUNDS IN THE LIPPER(R) MULTI-CAP GROWTH FUNDS CLASSIFICATION VARIES.

A LIPPER(R) FUNDS CLASSIFICATION MEASURES THE SHARE PRICES OF A SPECIFIC GROUP OF MUTUAL FUNDS WITH A PARTICULAR INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE. YOU CANNOT INVEST DIRECTLY IN A LIPPER(R) FUNDS CLASSIFICATION. THE FUNDS INCLUDED IN THE LIPPER(R) SMALL-CAP VALUE FUNDS CLASSIFICATION INVEST PRIMARILY IN COMPANIES SIMILAR TO THOSE IN WHICH THE BURKENROAD FUND INVESTS, SUCH AS THOSE WITH MARKET CAPITALIZATIONS LESS THAN $2 BILLION AT THE TIME OF PURCHASE. THE NUMBER OF FUNDS IN THE LIPPER(R) SMALL-CAP VALUE FUNDS CLASSIFICATION VARIES.

BUYING OR SELLING SHARES THROUGH A FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARY

You may buy or sell shares of the Funds through accounts with brokers and other institutions that are authorized to place trades in Fund shares for their customers ("authorized institutions"). When you purchase or sell Fund shares through certain authorized institutions (rather than directly from the Funds), you may have to transmit your purchase and sale requests to these authorized institutions at an earlier time for your transaction to become effective that day. This allows these authorized institutions time to process your requests and transmit them to the Funds. Your authorized institution is responsible for transmitting all purchase and redemption requests, investment information, documentation and money to the Funds on time.

Certain financial intermediaries, including certain broker-dealers and shareholder organizations, are authorized to accept purchase and redemption requests for Fund shares. These requests are executed at the NAV next determined after the intermediary receives the request if transmitted to the Funds in accordance with the Funds' procedures and applicable law. These authorized intermediaries are responsible for transmitting requests and delivering funds on a timely basis. If your financial intermediary fails to do so, it may be responsible for any resulting fees or losses.

If you deal directly with a financial intermediary or an authorized institution, you will have to follow their procedures for transacting with the Funds. For more information about how to purchase or sell Fund shares through a financial intermediary or an authorized institution, you should contact them directly. Investors may be charged a fee for purchase and/or redemption transactions effectuated through certain financial intermediaries and authorized institutions.

HOW THE FUNDS CALCULATE NAV

NAV for one Fund share is the value of that share's portion of all of the net assets of the Fund. In calculating NAV, each Fund generally values its investment portfolio at market price. If market prices are not readily available or a Fund reasonably believes that they are unreliable, such as in the case of a security value that has been materially affected by events occurring after the relevant market closes, the Fund is required to price those securities at fair value as determined in good faith using methods approved by the Funds' Board of Trustees. The Funds' determination of a security's fair value price often involves the consideration of a number of subjective factors, and is therefore subject to the unavoidable risk that the value that a Fund assigns to a security may be higher or lower than the security's value would be if a reliable market quotation for the security was readily available.

Although the Funds (except for the Strategic Income Bond Fund) invest primarily in the stocks of U.S. companies that are traded on U.S. exchanges, there may be limited circumstances in which a Fund would price securities at fair value - for example, if the exchange on which a portfolio security is principally traded closed early or if trading in a particular security was halted during the day and did not resume prior to the time the Fund calculated its NAV.

When valuing fixed income securities with remaining maturities of more than 60 days, the Strategic Income Bond Fund uses the value of the security provided by pricing services. The values provided by a pricing service may be based upon market quotations for the same security, securities expected to trade in a similar manner or a pricing matrix. When valuing fixed income securities with remaining maturities of 60 days or less, the Strategic Income Bond Fund uses the security's amortized cost. Amortized cost and the use of a pricing matrix in valuing fixed income securities are forms of fair value pricing.

CLASS                            DOLLAR AMOUNT
Class A Shares                       $1,000
Class C Shares                       $1,000
Trust Class Shares                   $1,000

Your subsequent investments in any Fund must be made in amounts of at least $500.

A Fund may accept investments of smaller amounts at its discretion.

SYSTEMATIC INVESTMENT PLAN (CLASS A AND CLASS C SHARES ONLY)

If you have a checking or savings account with a bank, you may purchase Class A and Class C Shares automatically through regular deductions from your account in amounts of at least $100 per month.

                                                                 YOUR SALES CHARGE AS   YOUR SALES CHARGE AS
                                                                    A PERCENTAGE OF     A PERCENTAGE OF YOUR
FUND                         IF YOUR INVESTMENT IS:                 OFFERING PRICE         NET INVESTMENT
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STRATEGIC INCOME BOND FUND   Less than $50,000                           4.00%                  4.17%
                             $50,000 but less than $100,000              3.25%                  3.36%
                             $100,000 but less than $250,000             2.50%                  2.56%
                             $250,000 but less than $500,000             1.75%                  1.78%
                             $500,000 but less than $1,000,000           1.50%                  1.52%
                             $1,000,000 and over                         0.00%                  0.00%
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VALUE FUND                   Less than $50,000                           5.25%                  5.54%
GROWTH FUND                  $50,000 but less than $100,000              4.50%                  4.71%
BURKENROAD FUND              $100,000 but less than $250,000             3.50%                  3.63%
                             $250,000 but less than $500,000             2.50%                  2.56%
                             $500,000 but less than $1,000,000           2.00%                  2.04%
                             $1,000,000 and over                         0.00%                  0.00%
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You may qualify for a reduced sales charge or a sales charge waiver. If you believe that you may qualify for a reduction or waiver of the sales charge, you should discuss this matter with your broker or other financial intermediary. To qualify for these reductions or waivers, you or your financial intermediary must provide sufficient information at the time of purchase to verify that your purchase qualifies for such treatment. This information could be used to aggregate, for example, holdings in personal or retirement accounts, Fund shares owned by your immediate family members, and holdings in accounts at other brokers or financial intermediaries. The Funds or your financial intermediary may request documentation from you in order to verify your eligibility for a breakpoint discount. This information may include account statements and records regarding Fund shares held at all financial intermediaries by you and members of your immediate family. In addition to breakpoint discounts, the following sections describe other circumstances in which sales charges are waived or otherwise may be reduced.

WAIVER OF FRONT-END SALES CHARGE -- CLASS A SHARES

Certain investors may be eligible for a waiver of the front-end sales charge due to the nature of the investors and/or the reduced sales efforts necessary to obtain their investments. The front-end sales charge will be waived on Class A Shares purchased:

o through reinvestment of dividends and distributions;

o through a H.I.S., Inc. asset allocation account;

o by persons repurchasing shares they redeemed within the last 30 days (see "Repurchase of Class A Shares");

o by directors, employees and retirees of Hancock Bank and its affiliates, and two generations of their respective ascendants, descendants, siblings and spouses;

o by Trustees and officers of The Advisors' Inner Circle Fund II; and

o through dealers, retirement plans, asset allocation programs and financial institutions that, under their dealer agreements with the distributor or otherwise, do not receive any portion of the front-end sales charge.

REPURCHASE OF CLASS A SHARES

You may repurchase any amount of Class A Shares of any Fund at NAV (without the normal front-end sales charge), up to the limit of the value of any amount of Class A Shares (other than those which were purchased with reinvested dividends and distributions) that you redeemed within the past 30 days. In effect, this allows you to reacquire shares that you may have had to redeem, without repaying the front-end sales charge. To exercise this privilege, the Fund must receive your purchase order within 30 days of your redemption. In addition, you must notify your investment professional or institution when you send in your purchase order that you are repurchasing shares. Consult your tax advisor regarding special rules that may apply if you recognize a loss on your original redemption.

REDUCED SALES CHARGES -- CLASS A SHARES

RIGHT OF ACCUMULATION. In calculating the appropriate sales charge rate, this right allows you to add the value of the Class A Shares you already own to the amount that you are currently purchasing. The Funds will combine the value of your current purchases with the current value of any Class A Shares you purchased previously for: (i) your account; (ii) your spouse's account; (iii) a joint account with your spouse; or (iv) your minor children's trust or custodial accounts. A trust purchasing shares for the same trust account, trust or estate also may use this right of accumulation. The Funds will only consider the value of Class A Shares purchased previously that were sold subject to a sales charge. To be entitled to a reduced sales charge based on shares already owned, you must ask for the reduction at the time of purchase. You must provide the Funds with your account number(s) and, if applicable, the account numbers for your spouse and/or children (and provide the children's ages). The Funds may amend or terminate this right of accumulation at any time.

LETTER OF INTENT. You may purchase Class A Shares at the sales charge rate applicable to the total amount of the purchases you intend to make over a 13-month period. In other words, a Letter of Intent allows you to purchase Class A Shares of a Fund over a 13-month period and receive the same sales charge as if you had purchased all the shares at the same time. The Funds will only consider the value of Class A Shares sold subject to a sales charge. As a result, shares of Class A Shares purchased with dividends or distributions will not be included in the calculation. To be entitled to a reduced sales charge based on shares you intend to purchase over the 13-month period, you must send the Funds a Letter of Intent. In calculating the total amount of purchases you may include in your letter purchases made up to 90 days before the date of the Letter. The 13-month period begins on the date of the first purchase, including

those purchases made in the 90-day period before the date of the Letter. Please note that the purchase price of these prior purchases will not be adjusted.

You are not legally bound by the terms of your Letter of Intent to purchase the amount of your shares stated in the Letter. The Letter does, however, authorize the Funds to hold in escrow 5% of the total amount you intend to purchase. If you do not complete the total intended purchase at the end of the 13-month period, the Funds' transfer agent will redeem the necessary portion of the escrowed shares to make up the difference between the reduced rate sales charge (based on the amount you intended to purchase) and the sales charge that would normally apply (based on the actual amount you purchased).

COMBINED PURCHASE/QUANTITY DISCOUNT PRIVILEGE. When calculating the appropriate sales charge rate, the Funds will combine same day purchases of Class A Shares (that are subject to a sales charge) made by you, your spouse and your minor children (under age 21). This combination also applies to Class A Shares you purchase with a Letter of Intent.

GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT SALES CHARGES

Your securities dealer is paid a commission when you buy your shares and is paid a servicing fee as long as you hold your shares. Your securities dealer or servicing agent may receive different levels of compensation depending on which class of shares you buy.

From time to time, some financial institutions, including brokerage firms affiliated with the Adviser, may be reallowed up to the entire sales charge. Firms that receive a reallowance of the entire sales charge may be considered underwriters for the purpose of federal securities law.

The distributor may, from time to time in its sole discretion, institute one or more promotional incentive programs for dealers, which will be paid for by the distributor from any sales charge it receives or from any other source available to it. Under any such program, the distributor may provide cash or non-cash compensation as recognition for past sales or encouragement for future sales that may include merchandise, travel expenses, prizes, meals, lodgings, and gifts that do not exceed $100 per year, per individual.

HOW TO SELL YOUR FUND SHARES

If you own your shares through an account with an investment professional or other institution, contact that investment professional or institution to sell your shares. Your investment professional or institution may charge a fee for its services, in addition to the fees charged by the Fund.

If you would like to sell $100,000 or more of your shares, send your sale proceeds to a third-party or close an account with a value over $100,000, please notify the Funds in writing and include a signature guarantee by a bank or other financial institution (a notarized signature is not sufficient). Additionally, a signature guaranteed letter from you is required if your account registration has changed in the previous 30 days, if funds are being sent to an address other than the address of record, or if the check is made payable to someone other than the account holder.

The sale price of each share will be the NAV next determined after the Funds receive your request.

SYSTEMATIC WITHDRAWAL PLAN (CLASS A AND CLASS C SHARES ONLY)

If you have at least $10,000 in your account, you may use the systematic withdrawal plan. Under the plan you may arrange monthly, quarterly, semi-annual or annual automatic withdrawals of at least $100 from any Fund. The proceeds of each withdrawal will be mailed to you by check or, if you have a checking or savings account with a bank, electronically transferred to your account.

RECEIVING YOUR MONEY

Normally, a Fund will send your sale proceeds within seven Business Days after the Fund receives your request. Your proceeds can be wired to your bank account or sent to you by check. IF YOU RECENTLY PURCHASED YOUR SHARES BY CHECK OR THROUGH AUTOMATED CLEARING HOUSE ("ACH"), REDEMPTION PROCEEDS MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE UNTIL YOUR CHECK HAS CLEARED OR THE ACH TRANSACTION HAS BEEN COMPLETED (WHICH MAY TAKE UP TO 15 DAYS FROM YOUR DATE OF PURCHASE).

REDEMPTIONS IN KIND

The Funds generally pay sale (redemption) proceeds in cash. However, under unusual conditions that make the payment of cash unwise and for the protection of the Funds' remaining shareholders the Funds might pay all or part of your redemption proceeds in liquid securities with a market value equal to the redemption price (redemption in kind). It is highly unlikely that your shares would ever be redeemed in kind, but if they were, you would have to pay transaction costs to sell the securities distributed to you, as well as taxes on any capital gains from the sale as with any redemption. In addition, you will continue to be subject to the risks of any market fluctuation in the value of the securities you receive in kind until you sell them.

CLASS                            DOLLAR AMOUNT
Class A Shares                       $1,000
Class C Shares                       $1,000
Trust Class Shares                   $1,000

A Fund will generally provide at least 60 days' written notice to allow you sufficient time to add to your account and avoid the involuntary redemption of your shares.

SUSPENSION OF YOUR RIGHT TO SELL YOUR SHARES

A Fund may suspend your right to sell your shares during times when trading on the NYSE is restricted or halted, or as otherwise permitted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). More information about this is in the Funds' Statement of Additional Information.

HOW TO EXCHANGE YOUR SHARES

You may exchange shares on any Business Day through your financial institution by mail or telephone. Exchange requests must be for an amount of at least $1,000.

IF YOU RECENTLY PURCHASED SHARES BY CHECK OR THROUGH ACH, YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO EXCHANGE YOUR SHARES UNTIL YOUR CHECK HAS CLEARED OR THE ACH TRANSACTION HAS BEEN COMPLETED (WHICH MAY TAKE UP TO 15 DAYS FROM YOUR DATE OF PURCHASE). This exchange privilege may be changed or canceled at any time upon 30 days' notice.

The exchange privilege is not intended as a vehicle for short-term or excessive trading. Each Fund may suspend or terminate your exchange privilege if you engage in a pattern of exchanges that is excessive, as determined in the sole discretion of the Funds. For more information about the Funds' policy on excessive trading, see "Market Timing Policies and Procedures."

When you exchange shares, you are really selling your shares and buying other Fund shares. So, your sale price and purchase price will be based on the NAV next calculated after the Fund receives your exchange request.

TRUST CLASS SHARES

You may exchange Trust Class Shares of any Hancock Horizon Fund for Trust Class Shares of any other Hancock Horizon Fund.

CLASS A SHARES

You may exchange Class A Shares of any Hancock Horizon Fund for Class A Shares of any other Hancock Horizon Fund. If you exchange shares that you purchased without a sales charge or with a lower sales charge into a Fund with a sales charge or with a higher sales charge, the exchange is subject to an incremental sales charge (E.G., the difference between the lower and higher applicable sales charges). If you exchange shares into a Fund with the same, lower or no sales charge there is no incremental sales charge for the exchange.

CLASS C SHARES

You may exchange Class C Shares of any Hancock Horizon Fund for Class C Shares of any other Hancock Horizon Fund.

TELEPHONE TRANSACTIONS

Purchasing, selling and exchanging Fund shares over the telephone is extremely convenient, but not without risk. Although the Funds have certain safeguards and procedures to confirm the identity of callers and the authenticity of instructions, the Funds are not responsible for any losses or costs incurred by following telephone instructions they reasonably believe to be genuine. If you or your financial institution transact with the Funds over the telephone, you will generally bear the risk of any loss.

DISTRIBUTION OF FUND SHARES

Each Fund offering Class C Shares has adopted a distribution plan that allows Class C Shares of the Fund to pay distribution and service fees for the sale and distribution of shares, and for services provided to Class C shareholders. Because these fees are paid out of a Fund's assets continuously, over time these fees will increase the cost of your investment and may cost you more than paying other types of sales charges. Distribution fees for Class C Shares, as a maximum annual percentage of average daily net assets, are 0.75%.

OTHER POLICIES

MARKET TIMING POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

The Funds are intended for long-term investment purposes only and discourage shareholders from engaging in "market timing" or other types of excessive short-term trading. This frequent trading into and out of the Funds may present risks to the Funds' long-term shareholders, all of which could adversely affect shareholder returns. The risks posed by frequent trading include interfering with the efficient implementation of the Funds' investment strategies, triggering the recognition of taxable gains and losses on the sale of Fund investments, requiring the Funds to maintain higher cash balances to meet redemption requests, and experiencing increased transaction costs.

In addition, because the Burkenroad Fund invests in small cap securities that often may trade in lower volumes, changes to the Fund's holdings in response to frequent trading by certain shareholders may impact the market prices of such relatively thinly traded securities held by the Fund.

The Funds' service providers will take steps reasonably designed to detect and deter frequent trading by shareholders pursuant to the Funds' policies and procedures described in this prospectus and approved by the Funds' Board of Trustees. For purposes of applying these policies, the Funds' service providers will consider the trading history of accounts known to be under common ownership or control to the extent they believe an investor or group of investors is attempting to evade detection under the Funds' policies and procedures by the use of multiple accounts. The Funds' policies and procedures include the following:

o Shareholders are restricted from making more than 1 "round trip" into or out of a Fund per quarter. If a shareholder exceeds this amount, the Fund and/or its service providers may, at their discretion, reject any additional purchase or exchange orders. The Funds define a round trip as a purchase into a Fund by a shareholder, followed by a subsequent redemption out of the Fund, of an amount the Adviser reasonably believes would be harmful or disruptive to the Fund.

o The Strategic Income Bond Fund, Value Fund and Growth Fund assess a redemption fee of 1% on redemptions by shareholders of Class C Shares if sold within one year of their purchase (subject to certain exceptions as discussed below in "Redemption Fees").

o The Burkenroad Fund assesses a redemption fee of 1% on redemptions by shareholders of Class A Shares if sold within one year of their purchase (subject to certain exceptions as discussed below in "Redemption Fees").

o The Funds reserve the right to reject any purchase request by any investor or group of investors for any reason without prior notice, including, in particular, if a Fund or the Adviser reasonably believes that the trading activity would be harmful or disruptive to the Fund.

Each Fund and/or its service providers seek to apply these policies to the best of their abilities uniformly and in a manner they believe is consistent with the interests of the Funds' long-term shareholders. Although these policies are designed to deter frequent trading, none of these measures alone nor all of them taken together eliminate the possibility that frequent trading in a Fund will occur. Systematic purchases and redemptions are exempt from these policies.

Financial intermediaries (such as investment advisers and broker-dealers) often establish omnibus accounts in the Funds for their customers through which transactions are placed. In accordance with Rule 22c-2 under the Investment Company of Act 1940, as amended, the Funds have entered into information sharing agreements with certain financial intermediaries. Under these agreements, a financial intermediary is obligated to: (1) enforce during the term of the agreement, the Funds' market-timing policy; (2) furnish the Funds, upon their request, with information regarding customer trading activities in shares of the Funds; and (3) enforce the Funds' market-timing policy with respect to customers identified by the Funds as having engaged in market timing. When information regarding transactions in the Funds' shares is requested by a Fund and such information is in the possession of a person that is itself a financial intermediary to a financial intermediary (an "indirect intermediary"), any financial intermediary with whom the Funds have an information sharing agreement is obligated to obtain transaction information from the indirect intermediary or, if directed by the Funds, to restrict or prohibit the indirect intermediary from purchasing shares of the Funds on behalf of other persons. Please contact your financial intermediary for more information.

REDEMPTION FEE

In an effort to discourage short-term trading and defray costs incurred by shareholders as a result of same, the Strategic Income Bond Fund, Value Fund and Growth Fund charge a 1% redemption fee on redemptions of Class C Shares if sold within one year of their purchase. In addition, the Burkenroad Fund charges a 1% redemption fee on redemptions of Class A Shares if sold within one year of their purchase. The fee is deducted from the sale proceeds and cannot be paid separately, and any proceeds of the fee are credited to the assets of the Class C Shares of the appropriate Fund or Class A Shares of the Burkenroad Fund. The fee does not apply to shares purchased with reinvested dividends or distributions. The redemption fee is applicable to Class C Shares of the Strategic Income Bond Fund, Value Fund and Growth Fund or Class A Shares of the Burkenroad Fund purchased either directly or through a financial intermediary, such as a broker-dealer. Transactions through financial intermediaries typically are placed with the Funds on an omnibus basis and include both purchase and sale transactions placed on behalf of multiple investors. For this reason, the Funds have undertaken to notify financial intermediaries of their obligation to assess the redemption fee on customer accounts and to collect and remit the proceeds to the Funds. However, due to operational requirements, the intermediaries' methods for tracking and calculating the fee may be inadequate or differ in some respects from those of the Funds.

The redemption fee may not apply to certain categories of redemptions, such as those that the Funds reasonably believe may not raise frequent trading or market timing concerns. These categories include, but are not limited to, the following: (i) participants in certain group retirement plans whose processing systems are incapable of properly applying the redemption fee to underlying shareholders; (ii) redemptions resulting from certain transfers upon the death of a shareholder; (iii) redemptions by certain pension plans as required by law or by regulatory authorities; (iv) systematic redemptions; and (v) retirement loans and withdrawals. The Funds reserve the right to modify or eliminate the redemption fees or waivers at any time.

CUSTOMER IDENTIFICATION AND VERIFICATION

To help the government fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering activities, federal law requires all financial institutions to obtain, verify, and record information that identifies each person who opens an account.

What this means to you: When you open an account, the Funds will ask your name, address, date of birth, and other information that will allow the Funds to identify you. This information is subject to verification to ensure the identity of all persons opening a mutual fund account.

The Funds are required by law to reject your new account application if the required identifying information is not provided.

In certain instances, the Funds are required to collect documents to fulfill their legal obligation. Documents provided in connection with your application will be used solely to establish and verify a customer's identity.

Attempts to collect the missing information required on the application will be performed by either contacting you or, if applicable, your broker. If this information is unable to be obtained within a reasonable timeframe established in the sole discretion of the Funds, your application will be rejected.

Upon receipt of your application in proper form (or upon receipt of all identifying information required on the application), your investment will be accepted and your order will be processed at the NAV next determined.

However, the Funds reserve the right to close or liquidate your account at the then-current day's price and remit proceeds to you via check if they are unable to verify your identity. Attempts to verify your identity will be performed within a reasonable timeframe established in the sole discretion of the Funds (generally, 3 business days). Further, the Funds reserve the right to hold your proceeds until your original check clears the bank, which may take up to 15 days from the date of purchase. In such an instance, you may be subject to a gain or loss on Fund shares and will be subject to corresponding tax implications.

ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING PROGRAM

Customer identification and verification is part of the Funds' overall obligation to deter money laundering under federal law. The Funds have adopted an anti-money laundering compliance program designed to prevent the Funds from being used for money laundering or the financing of terrorist activities. In this regard, the Funds reserve the right to: (i) refuse, cancel or rescind any purchase or exchange order; (ii) freeze any account and/or suspend account services; or (iii) involuntarily close your account in cases of threatening conduct or suspected fraudulent or illegal activity. These actions will be taken when, in the sole discretion of Fund management, they are deemed to be in the best interest of the Funds or in cases when the Funds are requested or compelled to do so by governmental or law enforcement authority. If your account is closed at the request of governmental or law enforcement authority, you may not receive proceeds of the redemption if the Funds are required to withhold such proceeds.

SHAREHOLDER SERVICING ARRANGEMENTS

The Funds may compensate financial intermediaries for providing a variety of services to shareholders. Financial intermediaries include affiliated or unaffiliated brokers, dealers, banks (including bank trust departments), trust companies, registered investment advisers, financial planners, retirement plan administrators, insurance companies, and any other institution having a service, administration, or any similar arrangement with the Fund, its service providers or their respective affiliates. This section and the following section briefly describe how financial intermediaries may be paid for providing these services.

The Funds generally pay financial intermediaries a fee that is based on the assets of the Funds that are attributable to investments by customers of the financial intermediary. The services for which financial intermediaries are compensated may include record-keeping, transaction processing for shareholders' accounts and other shareholder services. In addition to these payments, your financial intermediary may charge you account fees, transaction fees for buying or redeeming shares of the Funds, or other fees for servicing your account. Your financial intermediary should provide a schedule of its fees and services to you upon request.

The Funds, with respect to Class A and Class C Shares, have adopted a shareholder servicing plan that provides that the Fund may pay financial intermediaries for shareholder services in an annual amount not to exceed 0.25% based on the Fund's Class A and Class C Shares' average daily net assets. The Funds does not pay these service fees on shares purchased directly. In addition to payments made directly to financial intermediaries by the Fund, the Adviser or its affiliates may, at their own expense, pay financial intermediaries for these and other services to Fund shareholders, as described in the section below.

PAYMENTS TO FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES

From time to time, the Adviser and/or its affiliates, at their discretion, may make payments to certain affiliated or unaffiliated financial intermediaries to compensate them for the costs associated with distribution, marketing, administration and shareholder servicing support. These payments may be in addition to any Rule 12b-1 fees and/or shareholder servicing payments that are reflected in the fees and expenses listed in the fee table section of this prospectus. These payments are sometimes characterized as "revenue sharing" payments and are made out of the Adviser's and/or its affiliates' own legitimate profits or other resources, and are not paid by the Funds.

A financial intermediary may provide these services with respect to Fund shares sold or held through programs such as retirement plans, qualified tuition programs, fund supermarkets, fee-based advisory or wrap fee programs, bank trust programs, and insurance (E.G., individual or group annuity) programs. In addition, financial intermediaries may receive payments for making shares of the Funds available to their customers or registered representatives, including providing the Funds with "shelf space," placing it on a preferred or recommended fund list, or promoting the Funds in certain sales programs that are sponsored by financial intermediaries. To the extent permitted by SEC and FINRA rules and other applicable laws and regulations, the Adviser and/or its affiliates may pay or allow other promotional incentives or payments to financial intermediaries. For more information please see "Payments to Financial Intermediaries" in the Funds' Statement of Additional Information.

The level of payments to individual financial intermediaries varies in any given year and may be negotiated on the basis of sales of Fund shares, the amount of Fund assets serviced by the financial intermediary or the quality of the financial intermediary's relationship with the Adviser and/or its affiliates. These payments may be more or less than the payments received by the Financial Intermediaries from other mutual funds and may influence a financial intermediary to favor the sales of certain funds or share classes over others. In certain instances, the payments could be significant and may cause a conflict of interest for your financial intermediary. Any such payments will not change the net asset value or price of the Fund's shares. Please contact your financial intermediary for information about any payments it may receive in connection with the sale of Fund shares or the provision of services to Fund shareholders, as well as information about any fees and/or commissions it charges.

A LIPPER(R) FUNDS CLASSIFICATION MEASURES THE SHARE PRICES OF A SPECIFIC GROUP OF MUTUAL FUNDS WITH A PARTICULAR INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE. YOU CANNOT INVEST DIRECTLY IN A LIPPER(R) FUNDS CLASSIFICATION. THE FUNDS INCLUDED IN THE LIPPER(R) SMALL-CAP VALUE FUNDS CLASSIFICATION INVEST PRIMARILY IN COMPANIES SIMILAR TO THOSE IN WHICH THE FUND INVESTS, SUCH AS THOSE WITH MARKET CAPITALIZATIONS LESS THAN $2 BILLION AT THE TIME OF PURCHASE. THE NUMBER OF FUNDS IN THE LIPPER(R) SMALL-CAP VALUE FUNDS CLASSIFICATION VARIES.

BUYING OR SELLING SHARES THROUGH A FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARY

In addition to being able to buy and sell Fund shares directly from the Fund through its transfer agent, you may also buy or sell shares of the Fund through accounts with brokers and other institutions that are authorized to place trades in Fund shares for their customers ("authorized institutions"). When you purchase or sell Fund shares through certain authorized institutions (rather than directly from the Fund), you may have to transmit your purchase and sale requests to these authorized institutions at an earlier time for your transaction to become effective that day. This allows these authorized institutions time to process your requests and transmit them to the Fund. Your authorized institution is responsible for transmitting all purchase and redemption requests, investment information, documentation and money to the Fund on time.

Certain financial intermediaries, including certain broker-dealers and shareholder organizations, are authorized to accept purchase and redemption requests for Fund shares. These requests are executed at the NAV next determined after the intermediary receives the request if transmitted to the Fund in accordance with the Fund's procedures and applicable law. These authorized intermediaries are responsible for transmitting requests and delivering funds on a timely basis. If your financial intermediary fails to do so, it may be responsible for any resulting fees or losses.

If you deal directly with a financial intermediary or an authorized institution, you will have to follow their procedures for transacting with the Fund. For more information about how to purchase or sell Fund shares through a financial intermediary or an authorized institution, you should contact them directly. Investors may be charged a fee for purchase and/or redemption transactions effectuated through certain financial intermediaries and authorized institutions.

HOW THE FUND CALCULATES NAV

NAV for one Fund share is the value of that share's portion of all of the net assets of the Fund. In calculating NAV, the Fund generally values its investment portfolio at market price. If market prices are not readily available or the Fund reasonably believes that they are unreliable, such as in the case of a security value that has been materially affected by events occurring after the relevant market closes, the Fund is required to price those securities at fair value as determined in good faith using methods approved by the Fund's Board of Trustees. The Fund's determination of a security's fair value price often involves the consideration of a number of subjective factors, and is therefore subject to the unavoidable risk that the value that the Fund assigns to a security may be higher or lower than the security's value would be if a reliable market quotation for the security was readily available.

Although the Fund invests primarily in the stocks of U.S. companies that are traded on U.S. exchanges, there may be limited circumstances in which the Fund would price securities at fair value - for example, if the exchange on which a portfolio security is principally traded closed early or if trading in a particular security was halted during the day and did not resume prior to the time the Fund calculated its NAV.

MINIMUM PURCHASES

To purchase Class D Shares of the Fund for the first time, you must invest at least $1,000. Your subsequent investments in the Fund must be made in amounts of at least $500. The Fund may accept investments of smaller amounts at its discretion.

SYSTEMATIC INVESTMENT PLAN

If you have a checking or savings account with a bank, you may purchase Class D Shares automatically through regular deductions from your account in amounts of at least $100 per month.

HOW TO SELL YOUR FUND SHARES

If you own your shares directly, requests to sell shares must be made in writing. Such requests should be mailed to:

Hancock Horizon Funds - Transfer Agent
2600 Citiplace Drive - Suite 100
Baton Rouge, LA 70808

Your redemption will be processed the same day it is received in good order by the transfer agent. Please note that under certain circumstances, described below, a written request to sell shares may also require a signature guarantee. Questions related to selling Fund shares should be directed to the transfer agent at 1-800-738-2625, extension 77966.

If you own your shares through an account with an investment professional or other institution, contact that investment professional or institution to sell your shares. Your investment professional or institution may charge a fee for its services, in addition to the fees charged by the Fund.

If you would like to sell $100,000 or more of your shares, send your sale proceeds to a third-party or you are closing an account with a value over $100,000, please notify the Fund in writing and include a signature guarantee by a bank or other financial institution (a notarized signature is not sufficient). Additionally, a signature guaranteed letter from you is required if your account registration has changed in the previous 30 days, if funds are being sent to an address other than the address of record, or if the check is made payable to someone other than the account holder.

The sale price of each share will be the NAV next determined after the Fund receives your request.

SYSTEMATIC WITHDRAWAL PLAN

If you have at least $10,000 in your account, you may use the systematic withdrawal plan. Under the plan you may arrange monthly, quarterly, semi-annual or annual automatic withdrawals of at least $100 from the Fund. The proceeds of each withdrawal will be mailed to you by check or, if you have a checking or savings account with a bank, electronically transferred to your account.

RECEIVING YOUR MONEY

Normally, the Fund will send your sale proceeds within seven Business Days after the Fund receives your request. Your proceeds can be wired to your bank account or sent to you by check. IF YOU RECENTLY PURCHASED YOUR SHARES BY CHECK OR THROUGH AUTOMATED CLEARING HOUSE ("ACH"), REDEMPTION PROCEEDS MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE UNTIL YOUR CHECK HAS CLEARED OR THE ACH TRANSACTION HAS BEEN COMPLETED (WHICH MAY TAKE UP TO 15 DAYS FROM YOUR DATE OF PURCHASE).

REDEMPTIONS IN KIND

The Fund generally pays sale (redemption) proceeds in cash. However, under unusual conditions that make the payment of cash unwise and for the protection of the Fund's remaining shareholders the Fund might pay all or part of your redemption proceeds in liquid securities with a market value equal to the redemption price (redemption in kind). It is highly unlikely that your shares would ever be redeemed in kind, but if they were, you would have to pay transaction costs to sell the securities distributed to you, as well as taxes on any capital gains from the sale as with any redemption. In addition, you will continue to be subject to the risks of any market fluctuation in the value of the securities you receive in kind until you sell them.

INVOLUNTARY SALES OF YOUR SHARES

If your account balance drops below the required minimum you may be required to sell your shares. The account balance minimum for the Fund is $1,000. The Fund will generally provide at least 60 days' written notice to allow you sufficient time to add to your account and avoid the involuntary redemption of your shares.

SUSPENSION OF YOUR RIGHT TO SELL YOUR SHARES

The Fund may suspend your right to sell your shares during times when trading on the NYSE is restricted or halted, or as otherwise permitted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). More information about this is in the Fund's Statement of Additional Information.

TELEPHONE TRANSACTIONS

Purchasing and selling Fund shares over the telephone is extremely convenient, but not without risk. Although the Fund has certain safeguards and procedures to confirm the identity of callers and the authenticity of instructions, the Fund is not responsible for any losses or costs incurred by following telephone instructions it reasonably believes to be genuine. If you or your financial institution transact with the Fund over the telephone, you will generally bear the risk of any loss.

OTHER POLICIES

MARKET TIMING POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

The Fund is intended for long-term investment purposes only and discourages shareholders from engaging in "market timing" or other types of excessive short-term trading. This frequent trading into and out of the Fund may present risks to the Fund's long-term shareholders, all of which could adversely affect shareholder returns. The risks posed by frequent trading include interfering with the efficient implementation of the Fund's investment strategy, triggering the recognition of taxable gains and losses on the sale of Fund investments, requiring the Fund to maintain higher cash balances to meet redemption requests, and experiencing increased transaction costs.

In addition, because the Fund invests in small cap securities that often may trade in lower volumes, changes to the Fund's holdings in response to frequent trading by certain shareholders may impact the market prices of such relatively thinly traded securities held by the Fund.

The Fund's service providers will take steps reasonably designed to detect and deter frequent trading by shareholders pursuant to the Fund's policies and procedures described in this prospectus and approved by the Fund's Board of Trustees. For purposes of applying these policies, the Fund's service providers will consider the trading history of accounts known to be under common ownership or control to the extent they believe an investor or group of investors is attempting to evade detection under the Fund's policies and procedures by the use of multiple accounts. The Fund's policies and procedures include the following:

o Shareholders are restricted from making more than 1 "round trip" into or out of the Fund per quarter. If a shareholder exceeds this amount, the Fund and/or its service providers may, at their discretion, reject any additional purchase or exchange orders. The Fund defines a round trip as a purchase into the Fund by a shareholder, followed by a subsequent redemption out of the Fund, of an amount the Adviser reasonably believes would be harmful or disruptive to the Fund.

o The Fund assesses a redemption fee of 1% on redemptions by shareholders of Class D Shares if sold within one year of their purchase (subject to certain exceptions as discussed below in "Redemption Fees").

o The Fund reserves the right to reject any purchase request by any investor or group of investors for any reason without prior notice, including, in particular, if the Fund or the Adviser reasonably believes that the trading activity would be harmful or disruptive to the Fund.

The Fund and/or its service providers seek to apply these policies to the best of their abilities uniformly and in a manner they believe is consistent with the interests of the Fund's long-term shareholders. Although these policies are designed to deter frequent trading, none of these measures alone nor all of them taken together eliminate the possibility that frequent trading in the Fund will occur. Purchases made pursuant to a systematic investment plan and redemptions made pursuant to a systematic withdrawal plan are exempt from these policies.

Financial intermediaries (such as investment advisers and broker-dealers) often establish omnibus accounts in the Fund for their customers through which transactions are placed. In accordance with Rule 22c-2 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the "1940 Act"), the Fund has entered into information sharing agreements with certain financial intermediaries. Under these agreements, a financial intermediary is obligated to: (1) enforce during the term of the agreement, the Fund's market-timing policy; (2) furnish the Fund, upon its request, with information regarding customer trading activities in shares of the Fund; and (3) enforce the Fund's market-timing policy with respect to customers identified by the Fund as having engaged in market timing. When information regarding transactions in the Fund's shares is requested by the Fund and such information is in the possession of a person that is itself a financial intermediary to a financial intermediary (an "indirect intermediary"), any financial intermediary with whom the Fund has an information sharing agreement is obligated to obtain transaction information from the indirect intermediary or, if directed by the Fund, to restrict or prohibit the indirect intermediary from purchasing shares of the Fund on behalf of other persons. Please contact your financial intermediary for more information.

REDEMPTION FEE

In an effort to discourage short-term trading and defray costs incurred by shareholders as a result of such trading, the Fund charges a 1% redemption fee on redemptions of Class D Shares if sold within one year of their purchase. The fee is deducted from the sale proceeds and cannot be paid separately, and any proceeds of the fee are credited to the assets of the Class D Shares of the Fund. The fee does not apply to shares purchased with reinvested dividends or distributions. The redemption fee is applicable to Class D Shares purchased either directly or through a financial intermediary, such as a broker-dealer. Transactions through financial intermediaries typically are placed with the Fund on an omnibus basis and include both purchase and sale transactions placed on behalf of multiple investors. For this reason, the Fund has undertaken to notify financial intermediaries of their obligation to assess the redemption fee on customer accounts and to collect and remit the proceeds to the Fund. However, due to operational requirements, the intermediaries' methods for tracking and calculating the fee may be inadequate or differ in some respects from those of the Fund.

The redemption fee may not apply to certain categories of redemptions, such as those that the Fund reasonably believes may not raise frequent trading or market timing concerns. These categories include, but are not limited to, the following: (i) participants in certain group retirement plans whose processing systems are incapable of properly applying the redemption fee to underlying shareholders; (ii) redemptions resulting from certain transfers upon the death of a shareholder; (iii) redemptions by certain pension plans as required by law or by regulatory authorities; (iv) systematic redemptions; and (v) retirement loans and withdrawals. The Fund reserves the right to modify or eliminate the redemption fees or waivers at any time.

CUSTOMER IDENTIFICATION AND VERIFICATION

To help the government fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering activities, federal law requires all financial institutions to obtain, verify, and record information that identifies each person who opens an account.

What this means to you: When you open an account, the Fund will ask your name, address, date of birth, and other information that will allow the Fund to identify you. This information is subject to verification to ensure the identity of all persons opening a mutual fund account.

The Fund is required by law to reject your new account application if the required identifying information is not provided.

In certain instances, the Fund is required to collect documents to fulfill its legal obligation. Documents provided in connection with your application will be used solely to establish and verify a customer's identity.

Attempts to collect the missing information required on the application will be performed by either contacting you or, if applicable, your broker. If this information is unable to be obtained within a reasonable timeframe established in the sole discretion of the Fund, your application will be rejected.

Upon receipt of your application in proper form (or upon receipt of all identifying information required on the application), your investment will be accepted and your order will be processed at the NAV next determined.

However, the Fund reserves the right to close or liquidate your account at the then-current day's price and remit proceeds to you via check if it is unable to verify your identity. Attempts to verify your identity will be performed within a reasonable timeframe established in the sole discretion of the Fund (generally, 3 business days). Further, the Fund reserves the right to hold your proceeds until your original check clears the bank, which may take up to 15 days from the date of purchase. In such an instance, you may be subject to a gain or loss on Fund shares and will be subject to corresponding tax implications.

ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING PROGRAM

Customer identification and verification is part of the Fund's overall obligation to deter money laundering under federal law. The Fund has adopted an anti-money laundering compliance program designed to prevent the Fund from being used for money laundering or the financing of terrorist activities. In this regard, the Fund reserves the right to: (i) refuse, cancel or rescind any purchase order; (ii) freeze any account and/or suspend account services; or
(iii) involuntarily close your account in cases of threatening conduct or suspected fraudulent or illegal activity. These actions will be taken when, in the sole discretion of Fund management, they are deemed to be in the best interest of the Fund or in cases when the Fund is requested or compelled to do so by governmental or law enforcement authority. If your account is closed at the request of governmental or law enforcement authority, you may not receive proceeds of the redemption if the Fund is required to withhold such proceeds.

DISTRIBUTION OF FUND SHARES

The Fund has adopted a distribution plan that allows Class D Shares of the Fund to pay distribution and service fees for the sale and distribution of its shares, and for services provided to shareholders. Because these fees are paid out of the Fund's assets continuously, over time these fees will increase the cost of your investment and may cost you more than paying other types of sales charges. Distribution fees for Class D Shares, as a maximum annual percentage of average daily net assets, are 0.25%.

SHAREHOLDER SERVICING ARRANGEMENTS

The Fund may compensate financial intermediaries for providing a variety of services to shareholders. Financial intermediaries include affiliated or unaffiliated brokers, dealers, banks (including bank trust departments), trust companies, registered investment advisers, financial planners, retirement plan administrators, insurance companies, and any other institution having a service, administration, or any similar arrangement with the Fund, its service providers or their respective affiliates. This section and the following section briefly describe how financial intermediaries may be paid for providing these services.

The Fund generally pays financial intermediaries a fee that is based on the assets of the Fund that are attributable to investments by customers of the financial intermediary. The services for which financial intermediaries are compensated may include record-keeping, transaction processing for shareholders' accounts and other shareholder services. In addition to these payments, your financial intermediary may charge you account fees, transaction fees for buying or redeeming shares of the Fund, or other fees for servicing your account. Your financial intermediary should provide a schedule of its fees and services to you upon request.

The Fund has adopted a shareholder servicing plan that provides that the Fund may pay financial intermediaries for shareholder services in an annual amount not to exceed 0.25% based on average daily net assets. The Fund does not pay these service fees on shares purchased directly. In addition to payments made directly to financial intermediaries by the Fund, the Adviser or its affiliates may, at their own expense, pay financial intermediaries for these and other services to Fund shareholders, as described in the section below.

PAYMENTS TO FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES

From time to time, the Adviser and/or its affiliates, at their discretion, may make payments to certain affiliated or unaffiliated financial intermediaries to compensate them for the costs associated with distribution, marketing, administration and shareholder servicing support. These payments may be in addition to any Rule 12b-1 fees and/or shareholder servicing payments that are reflected in the fees and expenses listed in the fee table section of this prospectus. These payments are sometimes characterized as "revenue sharing" payments and are made out of the Adviser's and/or its affiliates' own legitimate profits or other resources, and are not paid by the Fund. A financial intermediary may provide these services with respect to Fund shares sold or held through programs such as retirement plans, qualified tuition programs, fund supermarkets, fee-based advisory or wrap fee programs, bank trust programs, and insurance (e.g., individual or group annuity) programs. In addition, financial intermediaries may receive payments for making shares of the Fund available to their customers or registered representatives, including providing the Fund with "shelf space," placing it on a preferred or recommended fund list, or promoting the Fund in certain sales programs that are sponsored by financial intermediaries. To the extent permitted by SEC and FINRA rules and other applicable laws and regulations, the Adviser and/or its affiliates may pay or allow other promotional incentives or payments to financial intermediaries. For more information please see "Payments to Financial Intermediaries" in the Fund's Statement of Additional Information.

The level of payments to individual financial intermediaries varies in any given year and may be negotiated on the basis of sales of Fund shares, the amount of Fund assets serviced by the financial intermediary or the quality of the financial intermediary's relationship with the Adviser and/or its affiliates. These payments may be more or less than the payments received by the financial intermediaries from other mutual funds and may influence a financial intermediary to favor the sales of certain funds or share classes over others. In certain instances, the payments could be significant and may cause a conflict of interest for your financial intermediary. Any such payments will not change the net asset value or price of the Fund's shares. Please contact your financial intermediary for information about any payments it may receive in connection with the sale of Fund shares or the provision of services to Fund shareholders, as well as information about any fees and/or commissions it charges.

BUYING OR SELLING SHARES THROUGH A FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARY

You may buy or sell shares of the Fund through accounts with brokers and other institutions that are authorized to place trades in Fund shares for their customers ("authorized institutions"). When you purchase or sell Fund shares through certain authorized institutions (rather than directly from the Fund), you may have to transmit your purchase and sale requests to these authorized institutions at an earlier time for your transaction to become effective that day. This allows these authorized institutions time to process your requests and transmit them to the Fund. Your authorized institution is responsible for transmitting all purchase and redemption requests, investment information, documentation and money to the Fund on time.

Certain financial intermediaries, including certain broker-dealers and shareholder organizations, are authorized to accept purchase and redemption requests for Fund shares. These requests are executed at the NAV next determined after the intermediary receives the request if transmitted to the Fund in accordance with the Fund's procedures and applicable law. These authorized intermediaries are responsible for transmitting requests and delivering funds on a timely basis. If your financial intermediary fails to do so, it may be responsible for any resulting fees or losses.

If you deal directly with a financial intermediary or an authorized institution, you will have to follow their procedures for transacting with the Fund. For more information about how to purchase or sell Fund shares through a financial intermediary or an authorized institution, you should contact them directly. Investors may be charged a fee for purchase and/or redemption transactions effectuated through certain financial intermediaries and authorized institutions.

HOW THE FUND CALCULATES NAV

NAV for one Fund share is the value of that share's portion of the net assets of the Fund.

The Fund generally calculates its NAV using the amortized cost method of valuation to account for any premiums or discounts above or below the face value of any securities that it buys, which is described in detail in the Statement of Additional Information. If it is determined that this method is unreliable during certain market conditions or for other reasons, fair value prices for the Fund's securities may be determined in good faith using procedures approved by the Board of Trustees. The Fund's NAV will normally be at $1.00 per share.

MINIMUM PURCHASES

To purchase Institutional Class Shares of the Fund for the first time, you must invest at least $10,000,000. There is no minimum amount for subsequent investments. The Fund may accept smaller amounts in its sole discretion.

HOW TO SELL YOUR FUND SHARES

If you own your shares through an account with an investment professional or other institution, contact that investment professional or institution to sell your shares. Your investment professional or institution may charge a fee for its services, in addition to the fees charged by the Fund.

The sale price of each share will be the NAV next determined after the Fund receives your request.

RECEIVING YOUR MONEY

Normally, the Fund will send your sale proceeds within seven Business Days after the Fund receives your request. Your proceeds can be wired to your bank account or sent to you by check. IF YOU RECENTLY PURCHASED YOUR SHARES BY CHECK OR THROUGH AUTOMATED CLEARING HOUSE ("ACH"), REDEMPTION PROCEEDS MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE UNTIL YOUR CHECK HAS CLEARED OR THE ACH TRANSACTION HAS BEEN COMPLETED (WHICH MAY TAKE UP TO 15 DAYS FROM YOUR DATE OF PURCHASE).

REDEMPTIONS IN KIND

The Fund generally pays sale (redemption) proceeds in cash. However, under unusual conditions that make the payment of cash unwise and for the protection of the Fund's remaining shareholders the Fund might pay all or part of your redemption proceeds in liquid securities with a market value equal to the redemption price (redemption in kind). It is highly unlikely that your shares would ever be redeemed in kind, but if they were, you would have to pay transaction costs to sell the securities distributed to you, as well as taxes on any capital gains from the sale as with any redemption. In

addition, you will continue to be subject to the risks of any market fluctuation in the value of the securities you receive in kind until you sell them.

INVOLUNTARY SALES OF YOUR SHARES

If your account balance drops below $1,000,000 you may be required to sell your shares. The Fund will generally provide at least 60 days' written notice to allow you sufficient time to add to your account and avoid the involuntary redemption of your shares.

SUSPENSION OF YOUR RIGHT TO SELL YOUR SHARES

The Fund may suspend your right to sell your shares during times when trading on the NYSE is restricted or halted, or as otherwise permitted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). More information about this is in the Fund's Statement of Additional Information.

TELEPHONE TRANSACTIONS

Purchasing and selling Fund shares over the telephone is extremely convenient, but not without risk. Although the Fund has certain safeguards and procedures to confirm the identity of callers and the authenticity of instructions, the Fund is not responsible for any losses or costs incurred by following telephone instructions it reasonably believes to be genuine. If you or your financial institution transact with the Fund over the telephone, you will generally bear the risk of any loss.

OTHER POLICIES

MARKET TIMING POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

The Fund is a money market fund and seeks to provide a high degree of liquidity, current income and a stable net asset value of $1.00 per share. The Fund is designed to serve as a short-term cash equivalent investment for shareholders and, therefore, expects shareholders to engage in frequent purchases and redemptions. Because of the inherently liquid nature of the Fund's investments, and money market instruments in general, and the Fund's intended purpose to serve as a short-term investment vehicle for shareholders, the Fund's Adviser has informed the Board of Trustees that it believes that it would not be in shareholders' best interests to place any limitations on the frequency of shareholder purchases and redemptions into and out of the Fund. As a result, the Board has not adopted a Fund policy and procedures with respect to frequent purchases and redemptions.

Financial intermediaries (such as investment advisers and broker-dealers) often establish omnibus accounts in the Fund for their customers through which transactions are placed. In accordance with Rule 22c-2 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the "1940 Act"), the Fund has entered into information sharing agreements with certain financial intermediaries. Under these agreements, a financial intermediary is obligated to: (1) enforce during the term of the agreement, the Fund's market-timing policy; (2) furnish the Fund, upon its request, with information regarding customer trading activities in shares of the Fund; and (3) enforce the Fund's market-timing policy with respect to customers identified by the Fund as having engaged in market timing. When information regarding transactions in the Fund's shares is requested by the Fund and such information is in the possession of a person that is itself a financial intermediary to a financial intermediary (an "indirect intermediary"), any financial intermediary with whom the Fund has an information sharing agreement is obligated to obtain transaction information from the indirect intermediary or, if directed by the Fund, to restrict or prohibit the indirect intermediary from purchasing shares of the Fund on behalf of other persons. Please contact your financial intermediary for more information.

CUSTOMER IDENTIFICATION AND VERIFICATION

To help the government fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering activities, federal law requires all financial institutions to obtain, verify, and record information that identifies each person who opens an account.

What this means to you: When you open an account, the Fund will ask your name, address, date of birth, and other information that will allow the Fund to identify you. This information is subject to verification to ensure the identity of all persons opening a mutual fund account.

The Fund is required by law to reject your new account application if the required identifying information is not provided.

In certain instances, the Fund is required to collect documents to fulfill its legal obligation. Documents provided in connection with your application will be used solely to establish and verify a customer's identity.

Attempts to collect the missing information required on the application will be performed by either contacting you or, if applicable, your broker. If this information is unable to be obtained within a reasonable timeframe established in the sole discretion of the Fund, your application will be rejected.

Upon receipt of your application in proper form (or upon receipt of all identifying information required on the application), your investment will be accepted and your order will be processed at the NAV next determined.

However, the Fund reserves the right to close or liquidate your account at the then-current day's price and remit proceeds to you via check if it is unable to verify your identity. Attempts to verify your identity will be performed within a reasonable timeframe established in the sole discretion of the Fund (generally, 3 business days). Further, the Fund reserves the right to hold your proceeds until your original check clears the bank, which may take up to 15 days from the date of purchase. In such an instance, you may be subject to a gain or loss on Fund shares and will be subject to corresponding tax implications.

ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING PROGRAM

Customer identification and verification is part of the Fund's overall obligation to deter money laundering under federal law. The Fund has adopted an anti-money laundering compliance program designed to prevent the Fund from being used for money laundering or the financing of terrorist activities. In this regard, the Fund reserves the right to: (i) refuse, cancel or rescind any purchase or exchange order; (ii) freeze any account and/or suspend account services; or (iii) involuntarily close your account in cases of threatening conduct or suspected fraudulent or illegal activity. These actions will be taken when, in the sole discretion of Fund management, they are deemed to be in the best interest of the Fund or in cases when the Fund is requested or compelled to do so by governmental or law enforcement authority. If your account is closed at the request of governmental or law enforcement authority, you may not receive proceeds of the redemption if the Fund is required to withhold such proceeds.

SHAREHOLDER SERVICING ARRANGEMENTS

The Fund may compensate financial intermediaries for providing a variety of services to shareholders. Financial intermediaries include affiliated or unaffiliated brokers, dealers, banks (including bank trust departments), trust companies, registered investment advisers, financial planners, retirement plan administrators, insurance companies, and any other institution having a service, administration, or any similar arrangement with the Fund, its service providers or their respective affiliates. This section and the following section briefly describe how financial intermediaries may be paid for providing these services.

The Fund generally pays financial intermediaries a fee that is based on the assets of the Fund that are attributable to investments by customers of the financial intermediary. The services for which financial intermediaries are compensated may include record-keeping, transaction processing for shareholders' accounts and other shareholder services. In addition to these payments, your financial intermediary may charge you account fees, transaction fees for buying or redeeming shares of the Fund, or other fees for servicing your account. Your financial intermediary should provide a schedule of its fees and services to you upon request. The Fund does not pay these service fees on shares purchased directly. In addition to payments made directly to financial intermediaries by the Fund, the Adviser or its affiliates may, at their own expense, pay financial intermediaries for these and other services to Fund shareholders, as described in the section below.

PAYMENTS TO FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES

From time to time, the Adviser and/or its affiliates, at their discretion, may make payments to certain affiliated or unaffiliated financial intermediaries to compensate them for the costs associated with distribution, marketing, administration and shareholder servicing sup-

port. These payments are sometimes characterized as "revenue sharing" payments and are made out of the Adviser's and/or its affiliates' own legitimate profits or other resources, and are not paid by the Fund. A financial intermediary may provide these services with respect to Fund shares sold or held through programs such as retirement plans, qualified tuition programs, fund supermarkets, fee-based advisory or wrap fee programs, bank trust programs, and insurance (e.g., individual or group annuity) programs. In addition, financial intermediaries may receive payments for making shares of the Fund available to their customers or registered representatives, including providing the Fund with "shelf space," placing it on a preferred or recommended fund list, or promoting the Fund in certain sales programs that are sponsored by financial intermediaries. To the extent permitted by SEC and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ("FINRA") rules and other applicable laws and regulations, the Adviser and/or its affiliates may pay or allow other promotional incentives or payments to financial intermediaries. For more information please see "Payments to Financial Intermediaries" in the Fund's Statement of Additional Information.

The level of payments to individual financial intermediaries varies in any given year and may be negotiated on the basis of sales of Fund shares, the amount of Fund assets serviced by the financial intermediary or the quality of the financial intermediary's relationship with the Adviser and/or its affiliates. These payments may be more or less than the payments received by the financial intermediaries from other mutual funds and may influence a financial intermediary to favor the sales of certain funds or share classes over others. In certain instances, the payments could be significant and may cause a conflict of interest for your financial intermediary. Any such payments will not change the net asset value or price of the Fund's shares. Please contact your financial intermediary for information about any payments it may receive in connection with the sale of Fund shares or the provision of services to Fund shareholders, as well as information about any fees and/or commissions it charges.

BUYING OR SELLING SHARES THROUGH A FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARY

You may buy or sell shares of the Fund through accounts with brokers and other institutions that are authorized to place trades in Fund shares for their customers ("authorized institutions"). When you purchase or sell Fund shares through certain authorized institutions (rather than directly from the Fund), you may have to transmit your purchase and sale requests to these authorized institutions at an earlier time for your transaction to become effective that day. This allows these authorized institutions time to process your requests and transmit them to the Fund. Your authorized institution is responsible for transmitting all purchase and redemption requests, investment information, documentation and money to the Fund on time.

Certain financial intermediaries, including certain broker-dealers and shareholder organizations, are authorized to accept purchase and redemption requests for Fund shares. These requests are executed at the NAV next determined after the intermediary receives the request if transmitted to the Fund in accordance with the Fund's procedures and applicable law. These authorized intermediaries are responsible for transmitting requests and delivering funds on a timely basis. If your financial intermediary fails to do so, it may be responsible for any resulting fees or losses.

If you deal directly with a financial intermediary or an authorized institution, you will have to follow their procedures for transacting with the Fund. For more information about how to purchase or sell Fund shares through a financial intermediary or an authorized institution, you should contact them directly. Investors may be charged a fee for purchase and/or redemption transactions effectuated through certain financial intermediaries and authorized institutions.

HOW THE FUND CALCULATES NAV

NAV for one Fund share is the value of that share's portion of the net assets of the Fund.

The Fund generally calculates its NAV using the amortized cost method of valuation, to account for any premiums or discounts above or below the face value of any securities that it buys, which is described in detail in the Statement of Additional Information. If it is determined that this method is unreliable during certain market conditions or for other reasons, fair value prices for the Fund's securities may be determined in good faith using procedures approved by the Board of Trustees. The Fund's NAV will normally be at $1.00 per share.

MINIMUM PURCHASES

To purchase Class A Shares of the Fund for the first time, you must invest at least $1,000. Your subsequent investments in the Fund must be made in amounts of at least $50. The Fund may accept investments of smaller amounts in its sole discretion.

For Hancock Bank customers investing in Class A Shares of the Fund through a cash management account, Hancock Bank may require cash management account customers to maintain minimum banking account levels in order to participate in the cash management account program. The minimum levels are subject to the terms of your cash management account agreement with Hancock Bank. In general, however, if your banking account falls below the minimum amount, your shares in the Fund may be redeemed or you may be charged additional fees.

HOW TO SELL YOUR FUND SHARES

If you own your shares through an account with an investment professional or other institution, contact that investment professional or institution to sell your shares. Your investment professional or institution may charge a fee for its services, in addition to the fees charged by the Fund.

The sale price of each share will be the NAV next determined after the Fund receives your request.

RECEIVING YOUR MONEY

Normally, the Fund will send your sale proceeds within seven Business Days after the Fund receives your request. Your proceeds can be wired to your bank account or sent to you by check. IF YOU RECENTLY PURCHASED YOUR SHARES BY CHECK OR THROUGH AUTOMATED CLEARING HOUSE ("ACH"), REDEMPTION PROCEEDS MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE UNTIL YOUR CHECK HAS CLEARED OR THE ACH TRANSACTION HAS BEEN COMPLETED (WHICH MAY TAKE UP TO 15 DAYS FROM YOUR DATE OF PURCHASE).

REDEMPTIONS IN KIND

The Fund generally pays sale (redemption) proceeds in cash. However, under unusual conditions that make the payment of cash unwise and for the protection of the Fund's remaining shareholders the Fund might pay all or part of your redemption proceeds in liquid securities with a market value equal to the redemption price (redemption in kind). It is highly unlikely that your shares would ever be redeemed in kind, but if they were, you would have to pay transaction costs to sell the securities distributed to you, as well as taxes on any capital gains from the sale as with any redemption. In addition, you will continue to be subject to the risks of any market fluctuation in the value of the securities you receive in kind until you sell them.

INVOLUNTARY SALES OF YOUR SHARES

If your account balance drops below $1,000 or the minimum level required by your cash management agreement, you may be required to sell your shares. The Fund will generally provide at least 60 days' written notice to allow you sufficient time to add to your account and avoid the involuntary redemption of your shares.

SUSPENSION OF YOUR RIGHT TO SELL YOUR SHARES

The Fund may suspend your right to sell your shares during times when trading on the NYSE is restricted or halted, or as otherwise permitted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). More information about this is in the Fund's Statement of Additional Information.

HOW TO EXCHANGE YOUR SHARES

You may exchange Class A Shares of any Hancock Horizon Fund for Class A Shares of any other Hancock Horizon Fund. You may exchange shares on any Business Day through your financial institution by mail or telephone. Exchange requests must be for an amount of at least $1,000.

If you exchange shares that you purchased without a sales charge or with a lower sales charge into a Fund with a sales charge or with a higher sales charge, the exchange is subject to an incremental sales charge (e.g., the difference between the lower and higher applicable sales charges). If you exchange shares into a fund with the same, lower or no sales charge there is no incremental sales charge for the exchange.

IF YOU RECENTLY PURCHASED SHARES BY CHECK OR THROUGH ACH, YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO EXCHANGE YOUR SHARES UNTIL YOUR CHECK HAS CLEARED OR THE ACH TRANSACTION HAS BEEN COMPLETED (WHICH MAY TAKE UP TO 15 DAYS FROM YOUR DATE OF PURCHASE). This exchange privilege may be changed or canceled at any time upon 30 days' notice.

When you exchange shares, you are really selling your shares and buying other Fund shares. So, your sale price and purchase price will be based on the NAV next calculated after the Fund receives your exchange request.

TELEPHONE TRANSACTIONS

Purchasing, selling and exchanging Fund shares over the telephone is extremely convenient, but not without risk. Although the Fund has certain safeguards and procedures to confirm the identity of callers and the authenticity of instructions, the Fund is not responsible for any losses or costs incurred by following telephone instructions it reasonably believes to be genuine. If you or your financial institution transact with the Fund over the telephone, you will generally bear the risk of any loss.

DISTRIBUTION OF FUND SHARES

The Fund has adopted a distribution plan that allows Class A Shares of the Fund to pay distribution and service fees for the sale and distribution of its shares, and for services provided to shareholders. Because these fees are paid out of the Fund's assets continuously, over time these fees will increase the cost of your investment and may cost you more than paying other types of sales charges. Distribution fees for Class A Shares, as a maximum annual percentage of the Fund's average daily net assets, are 0.25%.

OTHER POLICIES

MARKET TIMING POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

The Fund is a money market fund and seeks to provide a high degree of liquidity, current income and a stable net asset value of $1.00 per share. The Fund is designed to serve as a short-term cash equivalent investment for shareholders and, therefore, expects shareholders to engage in frequent purchases and redemptions. Because of the inherently liquid nature of the Fund's investments, and money market instruments in general, and the Fund's intended purpose to serve as a short-term investment vehicle for shareholders, the Fund's Adviser has informed the Board of Trustees that it believes that it would not be in shareholders' best interests to place any limitations on the frequency of shareholder purchases and redemptions into and out of the Fund. As a result, the Board has not adopted a Fund policy and procedures with respect to frequent purchases and redemptions.

Financial intermediaries (such as investment advisers and broker-dealers) often establish omnibus accounts in the Fund for their customers through which transactions are placed. In accordance with Rule 22c-2 under the 1940 Act, the Fund has entered into information sharing agreements with certain financial intermediaries. Under these agreements, a financial intermediary is obligated to: (1) enforce during the term of the agreement, the Fund's market-timing policy; (2) furnish the Fund, upon its request, with information regarding customer trading activities in shares of the Fund; and (3) enforce the Fund's market-timing policy with respect to customers identified by the Fund as having engaged in market timing. When information regarding transactions in the Fund's shares is requested by the Fund and such information is in the possession of a person that is itself a financial intermediary to a financial intermediary (an "indirect intermediary"), any financial intermediary with whom the Fund has an information sharing agreement is obligated to obtain transaction information from the indirect intermediary or, if directed by the Fund, to restrict or prohibit the indirect intermediary from purchasing shares of the Fund on behalf of other persons. Please contact your financial intermediary for more information.

CUSTOMER IDENTIFICATION AND VERIFICATION

To help the government fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering activities, federal law requires all financial institutions to obtain, verify, and record information that identifies each person who opens an account.

What this means to you: When you open an account, the Fund will ask your name, address, date of birth, and other information that will allow the Fund to identify you. This information is subject to verification to ensure the identity of all persons opening a mutual fund account.

The Fund is required by law to reject your new account application if the required identifying information is not provided.

In certain instances, the Fund is required to collect documents to fulfill its legal obligation. Documents provided in connection with your application will be used solely to establish and verify a customer's identity.

Attempts to collect the missing information required on the application will be performed by either contacting you or, if applicable, your broker. If this information is unable to be obtained within a reasonable timeframe established in the sole discretion of the Fund, your application will be rejected.

Upon receipt of your application in proper form (or upon receipt of all identifying information required on the application), your investment will be accepted and your order will be processed at the NAV next determined.

However, the Fund reserves the right to close or liquidate your account at the then-current day's price and remit proceeds to you via check if it is unable to verify your identity. Attempts to verify your identity will be performed within a reasonable timeframe established in the sole discretion of the Fund (generally, 3 business

days). Further, the Fund reserves the right to hold your proceeds until your original check clears the bank, which may take up to 15 days from the date of purchase. In such an instance, you may be subject to a gain or loss on Fund shares and will be subject to corresponding tax implications.

ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING PROGRAM

Customer identification and verification is part of the Fund's overall obligation to deter money laundering under federal law. The Fund has adopted an anti-money laundering compliance program designed to prevent the Fund from being used for money laundering or the financing of terrorist activities. In this regard, the Fund reserves the right to: (i) refuse, cancel or rescind any purchase or exchange order; (ii) freeze any account and/or suspend account services; or (iii) involuntarily close your account in cases of threatening conduct or suspected fraudulent or illegal activity. These actions will be taken when, in the sole discretion of Fund management, they are deemed to be in the best interest of the Fund or in cases when the Fund is requested or compelled to do so by governmental or law enforcement authority. If your account is closed at the request of governmental or law enforcement authority, you may not receive proceeds of the redemption if the Fund is required to withhold such proceeds.

SHAREHOLDER SERVICING ARRANGEMENTS

The Fund may compensate financial intermediaries for providing a variety of services to shareholders. Financial intermediaries include affiliated or unaffiliated brokers, dealers, banks (including bank trust departments), trust companies, registered investment advisers, financial planners, retirement plan administrators, insurance companies, and any other institution having a service, administration, or any similar arrangement with the Fund, its service providers or their respective affiliates. This section and the following section briefly describe how financial intermediaries may be paid for providing these services.

The Fund generally pays financial intermediaries a fee that is based on the assets of the Fund that are attributable to investments by customers of the financial intermediary. The services for which financial intermediaries are compensated may include record-keeping, transaction processing for shareholders' accounts and other shareholder services. In addition to these payments, your financial intermediary may charge you account fees, transaction fees for buying or redeeming shares of the Fund, or other fees for servicing your account. Your financial intermediary should provide a schedule of its fees and services to you upon request.

The Fund has adopted a shareholder servicing plan that provides that the Fund may pay financial intermediaries for shareholder services in an annual amount not to exceed 0.25% based on average daily net assets. The Fund does not pay these service fees on shares purchased directly. In addition to payments made directly to financial intermediaries by the Fund, the Adviser or its affiliates may, at their own expense, pay financial intermediaries for these and other services to Fund shareholders, as described in the section below.

PAYMENTS TO FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES

From time to time, the Adviser and/or its affiliates, at their discretion, may make payments to certain affiliated or unaffiliated financial intermediaries to compensate them for the costs associated with distribution, marketing, administration and shareholder servicing support. These payments may be in addition to any Rule 12b-1 fees and/or shareholder servicing payments that are reflected in the fees and expenses listed in the fee table section of this prospectus. These payments are sometimes characterized as "revenue sharing" payments and are made out of the Adviser's and/or its affiliates' own legitimate profits or other resources, and are not paid by the Fund. A financial intermediary may provide these services with respect to Fund shares sold or held through programs such as retirement plans, qualified tuition programs, fund supermarkets, fee-based advisory or wrap fee programs, bank trust programs, and insurance (e.g., individual or group annuity) programs. In addition, financial intermediaries may receive payments for making shares of the Fund available to their customers or registered representatives, including providing the Fund with "shelf space," placing it on a preferred or recommended fund list, or promoting the Fund in certain sales programs that are sponsored by financial intermediaries. To the extent permitted by SEC and FINRA rules and other applicable laws and regulations, the Adviser and/or its affiliates may pay or allow other promotional incentives or payments to

financial intermediaries. For more information please see "Payments to Financial Intermediaries" in the Fund's Statement of Additional Information.

The level of payments to individual financial intermediaries varies in any given year and may be negotiated on the basis of sales of Fund shares, the amount of Fund assets serviced by the financial intermediary or the quality of the financial intermediary's relationship with the Adviser and/or its affiliates. These payments may be more or less than the payments received by the financial intermediaries from other mutual funds and may influence a financial intermediary to favor the sales of certain funds or share classes over others. In certain instances, the payments could be significant and may cause a conflict of interest for your financial intermediary. Any such payments will not change the net asset value or price of the Fund's shares. Please contact your financial intermediary for information about any payments it may receive in connection with the sale of Fund shares or the provision of services to Fund shareholders, as well as information about any fees and/or commissions it charges.

BUYING OR SELLING SHARES THROUGH A FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARY

You may buy or sell shares of the Fund through accounts with brokers and other institutions that are authorized to place trades in Fund shares for their customers ("authorized institutions"). When you purchase or sell Fund shares through certain authorized institutions (rather than directly from the Fund), you may have to transmit your purchase and sale requests to these authorized institutions at an earlier time for your transaction to become effective that day. This allows these authorized institutions time to process your requests and transmit them to the Fund. Your authorized institution is responsible for transmitting all purchase and redemption requests, investment information, documentation and money to the Fund on time.

Certain financial intermediaries, including certain broker-dealers and shareholder organizations, are authorized to accept purchase and redemption requests for Fund shares. These requests are executed at the NAV next determined after the intermediary receives the request if transmitted to the Fund in accordance with the Fund's procedures and applicable law. These authorized intermediaries are responsible for transmitting requests and delivering funds on a timely basis. If your financial intermediary fails to do so, it may be responsible for any resulting fees or losses.

If you deal directly with a financial intermediary or an authorized institution, you will have to follow their procedures for transacting with the Fund. For more information about how to purchase or sell Fund shares through a financial intermediary or an authorized institution, you should contact them directly. Investors may be charged a fee for purchase and/or redemption transactions effectuated through certain financial intermediaries and authorized institutions.

HOW THE FUND CALCULATES NAV

NAV for one Fund share is the value of that share's portion of the net assets of the Fund.

The Fund generally calculates its NAV using the amortized cost method of valuation, to account for any premiums or discounts above or below the face value of any securities that it buys, which is described in detail in the Statement of Additional Information. If it is determined that this method is unreliable during certain market conditions or for other reasons, fair value prices for the Fund's securities may be determined in good faith using procedures approved by the Board of Trustees. The Fund's NAV will normally be at $1.00 per share.

HOW TO SELL YOUR FUND SHARES

If you own your shares through an account with an investment professional or other institution, contact that investment professional or institution to sell your shares. Your investment professional or institution may charge a fee for its services, in addition to the fees charged by the Fund.

The sale price of each share will be the NAV next determined after the Fund receives your request.

RECEIVING YOUR MONEY

Normally, the Fund will send your sale proceeds within seven Business Days after the Fund receives your request. Your proceeds can be wired to your bank account or sent to you by check. IF YOU RECENTLY PURCHASED YOUR SHARES BY CHECK OR THROUGH AUTOMATED CLEARING HOUSE ("ACH"), REDEMPTION PROCEEDS MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE UNTIL YOUR CHECK HAS CLEARED OR THE ACH TRANSACTION HAS BEEN COMPLETED (WHICH MAY TAKE UP TO 15 DAYS FROM YOUR DATE OF PURCHASE).

REDEMPTIONS IN KIND

The Fund generally pays sale (redemption) proceeds in cash. However, under unusual conditions that make the payment of cash unwise and for the protection of the Fund's remaining shareholders the Fund might pay all or part of your redemption proceeds in liquid securities with a market value equal to the redemption price (redemption in kind). It is highly unlikely that your shares would ever be redeemed in kind, but if they were, you would have to pay transaction costs to sell the securities distributed to you, as well as taxes on any capital gains from the sale as with any redemption. In addition, you will continue to be subject to the risks of any market fluctuation in the value of the securities you receive in kind until you sell them.

SUSPENSION OF YOUR RIGHT TO SELL YOUR SHARES

The Fund may suspend your right to sell your shares during times when trading on the NYSE is restricted or halted, or as otherwise permitted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). More information about this is in the Fund's Statement of Additional Information.

HOW TO EXCHANGE YOUR SHARES

You may exchange Trust Class Shares of any Hancock Horizon Fund for Trust Class Shares of any other Hancock Horizon Fund. You may exchange shares on any Business Day through your financial institution by mail or telephone. Exchange requests must be for an amount of at least $1,000.

IF YOU RECENTLY PURCHASED SHARES BY CHECK OR THROUGH ACH, YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO EXCHANGE YOUR SHARES UNTIL YOUR CHECK HAS CLEARED OR THE ACH TRANSACTION HAS BEEN COMPLETED (WHICH MAY TAKE UP TO 15 DAYS FROM YOUR DATE OF PURCHASE). This exchange privilege may be changed or canceled at any time upon 30 days' notice.

When you exchange shares, you are really selling your shares and buying other Fund shares. So, your sale price and purchase price will be based on the NAV next calculated after the Fund receives your exchange request.

OTHER POLICIES

MARKET TIMING POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

The Fund is a money market fund and seeks to provide a high degree of liquidity, current income and a stable net asset value of $1.00 per share. The Fund is designed to serve as a short-term cash equivalent investment for shareholders and, therefore, expects shareholders to engage in frequent purchases and redemptions. Because of the inherently liquid nature of the Fund's investments, and money market instruments in general, and the Fund's intended purpose to serve as a short-term investment vehicle for shareholders, the Fund's Adviser has informed the Board of Trustees that it believes that it would not be in shareholders' best interests to place any limitations on the frequency of shareholder purchases and redemptions into and out of the Fund. As a result, the Board has not adopted a Fund policy and procedures with respect to frequent purchases and redemptions.

Financial intermediaries (such as investment advisers and broker-dealers) often establish omnibus accounts in the Fund for their customers through which transactions are placed. In accordance with Rule 22c-2 under the 1940 Act, the Fund has entered into information sharing agreements with certain financial intermediaries. Under these agreements, a financial intermediary is obligated to: (1) enforce during the term of the agreement, the Fund's market-timing policy; (2) furnish the Fund, upon its request, with information regarding customer trading activities in shares of the Fund; and (3) enforce the Fund's market-timing policy with respect to customers identified by the Fund as having engaged in market timing. When information regarding transactions in the Fund's shares is requested by the Fund and such information is in the possession of a person that is itself a financial intermediary to a financial intermediary (an "indirect intermediary"), any financial intermediary with whom the Fund has an information sharing agreement is obligated to obtain transaction information from the indirect intermediary or, if directed by the Fund, to restrict or prohibit the indirect intermediary from purchasing shares of the Fund on behalf of other persons. Please contact your financial intermediary for more information.

CUSTOMER IDENTIFICATION AND VERIFICATION

To help the government fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering activities, federal law requires all financial institutions to obtain, verify, and record information that identifies each person who opens an account.

What this means to you: When you open an account, the Fund will ask your name, address, date of birth, and other information that will allow the Fund to identify you. This information is subject to verification to ensure the identity of all persons opening a mutual fund account.

The Fund is required by law to reject your new account application if the required identifying information is not provided.

In certain instances, the Fund is required to collect documents to fulfill its legal obligation. Documents provided in connection with your application will be used solely to establish and verify a customer's identity.

Attempts to collect the missing information required on the application will be performed by either contacting you or, if applicable, your broker. If this information is unable to be obtained within a reasonable timeframe established in the sole discretion of the Fund, your application will be rejected.

Upon receipt of your application in proper form (or upon receipt of all identifying information required on the application), your investment will be accepted and your order will be processed at the NAV next determined.

However, the Fund reserves the right to close or liquidate your account at the then-current day's price and remit proceeds to you via check if it is unable to verify your identity. Attempts to verify your identity will be performed within a reasonable timeframe established in the sole discretion of the Fund (generally, 3 business days). Further, the Fund reserves the right to hold your proceeds until your original check clears the bank, which may take up to 15 days from the date of purchase. In such an instance, you may be subject to a gain or loss on Fund shares and will be subject to corresponding tax implications.

ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING PROGRAM

Customer identification and verification is part of the Fund's overall obligation to deter money laundering under federal law. The Fund has adopted an anti-money laundering compliance program designed to prevent the Fund from being used for money laundering or the financing of terrorist activities. In this regard, the Fund reserves the right to: (i) refuse, cancel or rescind any purchase or exchange order; (ii) freeze any account and/or suspend account services; or (iii) involuntarily close your account in cases of threatening conduct or suspected fraudulent or illegal activity. These actions will be taken when, in the sole discretion of Fund management, they are deemed to be in the best interest of the Fund or in cases when the Fund is requested or compelled to do so by governmental or law enforcement authority. If your account is closed at the request of governmental or law enforcement authority, you may not receive proceeds of the redemption if the Fund is required to withhold such proceeds.

SHAREHOLDER SERVICING ARRANGEMENTS

The Fund may compensate financial intermediaries for providing a variety of services to shareholders. Financial intermediaries include affiliated or unaffiliated brokers, dealers, banks (including bank trust departments), trust companies, registered investment advisers, financial planners, retirement plan administrators, insurance companies, and any other institution having a service, administration, or any similar arrangement with the Fund, its service providers or their respective affiliates. This section and the following section briefly describe how financial intermediaries may be paid for providing these services.

The Fund generally pays financial intermediaries a fee that is based on the assets of the Fund that are attributable to investments by customers of the financial intermediary. The services for which financial intermediaries are compensated may include record-keeping, transaction processing for shareholders' accounts and other shareholder services. In addition to these payments, your financial intermediary may charge you account fees, transaction fees for buying or redeeming shares of the Fund, or other fees for servicing your account. Your financial intermediary should provide a schedule of its fees and services to you upon request. The Fund does not pay these service fees on shares purchased directly. In addition to payments made directly to financial intermediaries by the Fund, the Adviser or its affiliates may, at their own expense, pay financial intermediaries for these and other services to Fund shareholders, as described in the section below.

PAYMENTS TO FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES

From time to time, the Adviser and/or its affiliates, at their discretion, may make payments to certain affiliated or unaffiliated financial intermediaries to compensate them for the costs associated with distribution, marketing, administration and shareholder servicing support. These payments are sometimes characterized as "revenue sharing" payments and are made out of the Adviser's and/or its affiliates' own legitimate profits or other resources, and are not paid by the Fund. A financial intermediary may provide these services with respect to Fund shares sold or held through programs such as retire-

ment plans, qualified tuition programs, fund supermarkets, fee-based advisory or wrap fee programs, bank trust programs, and insurance (e.g., individual or group annuity) programs. In addition, financial intermediaries may receive payments for making shares of the Fund available to their customers or registered representatives, including providing the Fund with "shelf space," placing it on a preferred or recommended fund list, or promoting the Fund in certain sales programs that are sponsored by financial intermediaries. To the extent permitted by SEC and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ("FINRA") rules and other applicable laws and regulations, the Adviser and/or its affiliates may pay or allow other promotional incentives or payments to financial intermediaries. For more information please see "Payments to Financial Intermediaries" in the Fund's Statement of Additional Information.

The level of payments to individual financial intermediaries varies in any given year and may be negotiated on the basis of sales of Fund shares, the amount of Fund assets serviced by the financial intermediary or the quality of the financial intermediary's relationship with the Adviser and/or its affiliates. These payments may be more or less than the payments received by the financial intermediaries from other mutual funds and may influence a financial intermediary to favor the sales of certain funds or share classes over others. In certain instances, the payments could be significant and may cause a conflict of interest for your financial intermediary. Any such payments will not change the net asset value or price of the Fund's shares. Please contact your financial intermediary for information about any payments it may receive in connection with the sale of Fund shares or the provision of services to Fund shareholders, as well as information about any fees and/or commissions it charges.

CALCULATING YOUR SHARE PRICE

When you buy shares, you pay the "offering price" for the shares. The offering price is the NAV per share plus any sales charge applicable to the purchase. When you sell shares you receive the NAV minus any applicable Contingent Deferred Sales Charges ("CDSC") and redemption fee.

You may buy or sell shares of a Fund on each day the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE") is open for business (a "Business Day"). Requests to buy and sell shares of a Fund are processed at the NAV next computed after the Fund receives and accepts your order. The Funds calculate NAV once each Business Day as of the regularly scheduled close of normal trading on the NYSE (normally, 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time). To receive the NAV on any given day, the Fund must receive your order in good form (meaning that it is complete and contains all necessary information, and has all supporting documentation such as proper signature guarantees, IRA rollover forms, etc.) before the close of trading on the NYSE that day. Otherwise, you will receive the NAV that is calculated at the close of trading on the following Business Day if the NYSE is open for trading that day. If the NYSE closes early -- such as on days in advance of certain generally observed holidays -- each Fund will calculate NAV as of the earlier closing time.

The Funds calculate their NAV by adding the total value of their assets, subtracting their liabilities and then dividing the result by the number of shares outstanding. In calculating NAV, the Funds generally

value their investment portfolios at market price. If market prices are not readily available or the Funds reasonably believe that they are unreliable, such as in the case of a security value that has been materially affected by events occurring after the relevant market closes, the Funds are required to price those securities at fair value as determined in good faith using methods approved by the Board of Trustees. A Fund's determination of a security's fair value price often involves the consideration of a number of subjective factors, and is therefore subject to the unavoidable risk that the value that a Fund assigns to a security may be higher or lower than the security's value would be if a reliable market quotation for the security was readily available.

BUYING OR SELLING SHARES THROUGH A FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARY

In addition to being able to buy and sell Fund shares directly from a Fund through its transfer agent, you may also buy or sell shares of a Fund through accounts with brokers and other institutions that are authorized to place trades in Fund shares for their customers ("authorized institutions"). When you purchase or sell Fund shares through certain authorized institutions (rather than directly from the Fund), you may have to transmit your purchase and sale requests to these authorized institutions at an earlier time for your transaction to become effective that day. This allows these authorized institutions time to process your requests and transmit them to the Fund. Your authorized institution is responsible for transmitting all purchase and redemption requests, investment information, documentation and money to the Fund on time.

Certain financial intermediaries, including certain broker-dealers and shareholder organizations, are authorized to accept purchase and redemption requests for Fund shares. These requests are executed at the NAV next determined after the intermediary receives the request if transmitted to the Funds' transfer agent in accordance with the Funds' procedures and applicable law. These authorized intermediaries are responsible for transmitting requests and delivering funds on a timely basis. If your financial intermediary fails to do so, it may be responsible for any resulting fees or losses.

If you deal directly with a financial intermediary or an authorized institution, you will have to follow their procedures for transacting with the Funds. For more information about how to purchase or sell Fund shares through a financial intermediary or an authorized institution, you should contact them directly. Investors may be charged a fee for purchase and/or redemption transactions effectuated through certain financial intermediaries and authorized institutions.

                                           YOUR SALES CHARGE AS A   YOUR SALES CHARGE AS A   BROKER REALLOWANCE
                                                 PERCENTAGE               PERCENTAGE             PERCENTAGE
CLASS A  SHARES   IF YOUR INVESTMENT IS:      OF OFFERING PRICE     OF YOUR NET INVESTMENT   OF OFFERING PRICE
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                  LESS THAN $100,000                4.75%                    4.99%                  4.28%
                  $100,000 BUT LESS THAN
                  $250,000                          3.75%                    3.90%                  3.38%
                  $250,000 BUT LESS THAN
                  $500,000                          2.75%                    2.83%                  2.48%
                  $500,000 BUT LESS THAN
                  $1,000,000                        2.00%                    2.04%                  1.80%
                  $1,000,000 AND OVER(1)            None                     None                   None

(1) Even though you do not pay a front-end sales charge on purchases of $1,000,000 or more, these purchases may be subject to a contingent deferred sales charge ("CDSC") if redeemed within 12 months of purchase. The CDSC is used to reimburse the Adviser for paying dealers a sales commission up to a total of 1.00% of the purchase price of your investment in connection with your purchase. See "Contingent Deferred Sales Charge (CDCS) --Class A Shares."

You may qualify for reduced sales charges or sales charge waivers. If you believe that you may qualify for a reduction or waiver of the sales charge, you should discuss this matter with your broker or other financial intermediary. To qualify for these reductions or waivers, you or your financial intermediary must provide sufficient information at the time of purchase to verify that your purchase qualifies for such treatment. This information could be used to aggregate, for example, holdings in retirement accounts, Fund shares owned by your immediate family members, and holdings in accounts at other brokers or financial intermediaries. In addition to breakpoint discounts, the following sections describe other circumstances in which sales charges are waived or otherwise may be reduced. See "Reduced Sales Charges" on the following page.

WAIVER OF FRONT-END SALES CHARGE - CLASS A SHARES

The front-end sales charge will be waived on Class A Shares purchased:

o through reinvestment of dividends and distributions;

o through a Hennion & Walsh asset allocation account advised by the Adviser or one of its affiliates;

o by persons repurchasing shares they redeemed within the last 90 days (see "Repurchase of Class A Shares");

o by investors who purchase shares with redemption proceeds (but only to the extent of such redemption proceeds) from another investment company within 90 days of such redemption, provided that the investors paid either a front-end or contingent deferred sales charge on the original shares redeemed;

o by employees, and members of their immediate family, of the Adviser and its affiliates;

o by employees and retirees of the Administrator or Distributor;

o by Trustees and officers of The Advisors' Inner Circle Fund II;

o by persons reinvesting distributions from qualified employee benefit retirement plans and rollovers from individual retirement accounts ("IRAs") previously with the Adviser;

o by persons investing an amount less than or equal to the value of an account distribution when an account for which a bank affiliated with the Adviser acted in a fiduciary, administrative, custodial or investment advisory capacity is closed; or

o through dealers, retirement plans, asset allocation programs and financial institutions that, under their dealer agreements with the Distributor or otherwise, do not receive any portion of the front-end sales charge.

REPURCHASE OF CLASS A SHARES

You may repurchase any amount of Class A Shares of any Fund at NAV (without the normal front-end sales charge), up to the limit of the value of any amount of Class A Shares (other than those which were purchased with reinvested dividends and distributions) that you redeemed within the past 90 days. In effect, this allows you to reacquire shares that you may have had to redeem, without repaying the front-end sales charge. To exercise this privilege, the Fund must receive your purchase order within 90 days of your redemption. In addition, you must notify the Fund when you send in your purchase order that you

are repurchasing shares. Certain tax rules may limit your ability to recognize a loss on the redemption of your Class A Shares, and you should consult your tax advisor if recognizing such a loss is important to you.

REDUCED SALES CHARGE - CLASS A SHARES

In addition to the above described reductions in initial sales charges for purchases over a certain dollar size, you may also be eligible to participate in one or more of the programs described below to lower your initial sales charge. To be eligible to participate in these programs, you must inform your broker-dealer or financial advisor at the time you purchase shares that you would like to participate in one or more of the programs and provide information necessary to determine your eligibility to participate, including the account number(s) and names in which your accounts are registered at the time of purchase. In addition, a Fund or its agent may request account statements if it is unable to verify your account information.

RIGHTS OF ACCUMULATION

In calculating the appropriate sales charge rate, this right allows you to add the value of the Class A Shares you already own to the amount that you are currently purchasing. The Fund will combine the value of your current purchases with the current value of any Class A Shares you purchased previously for (i) your account, (ii) your spouse's account, (iii) a joint account with your spouse, or (iv) your minor children's trust or custodial accounts. A fiduciary purchasing shares for the same fiduciary account, trust or estate may also use this right of accumulation. If your investment qualifies for a reduced sales load due to accumulation of purchases, you must notify the Transfer Agent at the time of purchase of the existence of other accounts and/or holdings eligible to be aggregated to reduce or eliminate the sales load. You may be required to provide records, such as account statements, regarding the Fund shares held by you or related accounts at the Fund or at other financial intermediaries in order to verify your eligibility for a breakpoint discount. You will receive the reduced sales load only on the additional purchases and not retroactively on previous purchases. The Fund may amend or terminate this right of accumulation at any time.

LETTER OF INTENT

You may purchase Class A Shares at the sales charge rate applicable to the total amount of the purchases you intend to make over a 13-month period. In other words, a Letter of Intent allows you to purchase Class A Shares of a Fund over a 13-month period and receive the same sales charge as if you had purchased all the shares at the same time. The Fund will only consider the value of Class A Shares sold subject to a sales charge. As a result, shares of the Class A Shares purchased with dividends or distributions will not be included in the calculation. To be entitled to a reduced sales charge on the purchase of Class A Shares based on shares you intend to purchase over the 13-month period, you must send the Fund a Letter of Intent. In calculating the total amount of purchases, you may include in your Letter purchases made up to 90 days before the date of the Letter. Purchases resulting from the reinvestment of dividends and capital gains do not apply toward fulfillment of the Letter. The 13-month period begins on the date of the first purchase, including those purchases made in the 90-day period before the date of the Letter. Please note that the purchase price of these prior purchases will not be adjusted.

You are not legally bound by the terms of your Letter of Intent to purchase the amount of your shares stated in the Letter. The Letter does, however, authorize the Fund to hold in escrow 5% of the total amount you intend to purchase. If you do not complete the total intended purchase of Class A Shares at the end of the 13-month period, the Fund's transfer agent will redeem the necessary portion of the escrowed shares to make up the difference between the reduced rate sales charge (based on the amount you intended to purchase) and the sales charge that would normally apply (based on the actual amount you purchased).

COMBINED PURCHASE/QUANTITY DISCOUNT PRIVILEGE

When calculating the appropriate sales charge rate, a Fund will combine same-day purchases of Class A Shares (that are subject to a sales charge) made by you, your spouse and your minor children (under age 21). This combination also applies to Class A Shares you purchase with a Letter of Intent.

PURCHASERS QUALIFYING FOR REDUCTIONS IN INITIAL SALES CHARGES

Only certain persons or groups are eligible for the reductions in initial sales charges described in the preceding section. These qualified purchasers include the following:

o an individual, his or her spouse, or children residing in the same household;

o any trust established exclusively for the benefit of an individual;

o a trustee or fiduciary purchasing for a single trust, estate or fiduciary account; and

o any organized group of persons, whether or not incorporated, purchasing Fund shares, provided that (i) the organization has been in existence for at least six months; and (ii) the organization has some purpose other than the purchase at a discount of redeemable securities of a registered investment company.

Investors or dealers seeking to qualify orders for a reduced initial sales charge must identify such orders at the time of purchase and, if necessary, support their qualification for the reduced charge with appropriate documentation. Appropriate documentation includes, without limitation, account statements regarding shares of a Fund held in all accounts (E.G., retirement accounts) by the investor, and, if applicable, his or her spouse and children residing in the same household, including accounts at broker-dealers or other financial intermediaries different than the broker-dealer of record for the current purchase of Fund shares. The distributor reserves the right to determine whether any purchaser is entitled, by virtue of the foregoing, to the reduced initial sales charge. No person or entity may distribute shares of the Funds without payment of the applicable sales charge other than to persons or entities who qualify for a reduction in the sales charge as provided herein.

GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT SALES CHARGES

Your securities dealer is paid a commission when you buy your shares and is paid a servicing fee as long as you hold your shares. Your securities dealer or servicing agent may receive different levels of compensation depending on which class of shares you buy. From time to time, some financial institutions, including brokerage firms affiliated with the Adviser or the Distributor, may be reallowed up to the entire sales charge. Firms that receive a reallowance of the entire sales charge may be considered underwriters for the purpose of federal securities law.

The Distributor may, from time to time in its sole discretion, institute one or more promotional incentive programs for dealers, which will be paid for by the Distributor from any sales charge it receives or from any other source available to it. Under any such program, the Distributor may provide cash or non-cash compensation as recognition for past sales or encouragement for future sales that may include the following: merchandise, travel expenses, prizes, meals and lodgings, and gifts that do not exceed $100 per year, per individual.

CONTINGENT DEFERRED SALES CHARGES (CDSC) -- CLASS A SHARES

You will not pay a front-end sales charge if you purchase $1,000,000 or more of Class A Shares. In these circumstances, the offering price of Class A Shares is the NAV. If you purchase $1,000,000 or more of Class A Shares and sell your shares within 12 months after your purchase, you may pay a CDSC of 1.00% on the lesser of (1) the NAV of the shares at the time of purchase or (2) the NAV of the shares next calculated after the Fund receives your sale request. The sales charge does not apply to shares you purchase through reinvestment of dividends or distributions. So, you never pay a deferred sales charge on any increase in your investment above the initial offering price. This sales charge does not apply to exchanges of Class A Shares of one Fund for Class A Shares of another Fund. The CDSC is used to reimburse the Adviser for paying dealers a sales commission up to a total of 1.00% of the purchase price of your investment in connection with your purchase.

PAYMENT OF REDEMPTION PROCEEDS

Redemption proceeds can be mailed to your account address, sent to your bank by ACH transfer or wired to your bank account (proceeds wired to your bank account will be subject to a $15 fee). The Funds will pay for all shares redeemed within seven days after they receive a redemption request in proper form, meaning that it is complete and contains all necessary information, and has all supporting documentation (such as proper Medallion signature guarantees, IRA rollover forms, etc.). The Funds may require that signatures be guaranteed by a bank or member firm of a national securities exchange. Medallion signature guarantees are for the protection of shareholders. Before they grant a redemption request, the Funds may require a shareholder to furnish additional legal documents to insure proper authorization. If you redeem shares that were recently purchased by check or through ACH, you will not receive your redemption proceeds until the check has cleared or the ACH transaction has been completed, which may take up to 15 days from the purchase date.

IN-KIND TRANSACTIONS

Under certain conditions and at the Funds' discretion, you may pay for shares of the Funds with securities instead of cash. The Funds generally pay sale (redemption) proceeds in cash. However, under unusual conditions that make the payment of cash unwise and for the protection of the Funds' remaining shareholders, the Funds might pay all or part of your redemption proceeds in liquid securities with a market value equal to the redemption price (redemption in kind). It is highly unlikely that your shares would ever be redeemed in kind, but if they were you would have to pay transaction costs to sell the securities distributed to you, as well as taxes on any capital gains from the sale as with any redemption. In addition, you would continue to be subject to the risks of any market fluctuation in the value of the securities you receive in kind until you sold them.

INVOLUNTARY REDEMPTIONS OF YOUR SHARES

If your account balance drops below $500 because of redemptions, you may be required to sell your shares. The Funds will provide you at least 30 days' written notice to give you sufficient time to add to your account and avoid the need to sell your shares. If your shares are redeemed for this reason within 7 calendar days of their purchase, the redemption fee will not be applied.

SUSPENSION OF YOUR RIGHT TO SELL YOUR SHARES

The Funds may suspend your right to sell your shares during times when trading on the NYSE is restricted or halted, or otherwise as permitted by the SEC. More information about this is in the Statement of Additional Information.

TELEPHONE TRANSACTIONS

Purchasing and selling Fund shares over the telephone is extremely convenient, but not without risk. Although the Funds have certain safeguards and procedures to confirm the identity of callers and the authenticity of instructions, the Funds are not responsible for any losses or costs incurred by following telephone instructions it reasonably believes to be genuine. If you or your financial intermediary transact with the Funds over the telephone, you will generally bear the risk of any loss.

DISTRIBUTION AND SHAREHOLDER SERVICING ARRANGEMENTS

DISTRIBUTION OF FUND SHARES

The Funds have adopted a distribution plan for Class A Shares that allows the Funds to pay distribution for the sale and distribution of their shares, and for distributor services provided to shareholders. Because these fees are paid out of the Funds' assets continuously, over time these fees will increase the cost of your investment and may cost you more than paying other types of sales charges. The maximum annual distribution fee for Class A Shares is 0.25%.

SHAREHOLDER SERVICING ARRANGEMENTS

The Funds may compensate financial intermediaries for providing a variety of services to shareholders. Financial intermediaries include affiliated or unaffiliated brokers, dealers, banks (including bank trust departments), trust companies, registered investment advisers, financial planners, retirement plan administrators, insurance companies, and any other institution having a service, administration, or any similar arrangement with the Funds, their service providers or their respective affiliates. This section and the following section briefly describe how financial intermediaries may be paid for providing these services.

The Funds generally pay financial intermediaries a fee that is based on the assets of the Funds that are attributable to investments by customers of the financial intermediary. The services for which financial intermediaries are compensated may include record-keeping, transaction processing for shareholders' accounts and other shareholder services. In addition to these payments, your financial intermediary may charge you account fees, transaction fees for buying or redeeming shares of a Fund, or other fees for servicing your account. Your financial intermediary should provide a schedule of its fees and services to you upon request. The Funds do not pay these service fees on shares purchased directly. In addition to payments made directly to financial intermediaries by the Funds, the Adviser or its affiliates may, at their own expense, pay financial intermediaries for these and other services to Fund shareholders, as described in the section below.

PAYMENTS TO FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES

From time to time, the Adviser and/or its affiliates, at their discretion, may make payments to certain affiliated or unaffiliated financial intermediaries to compensate them for the costs associated with distribution, marketing, administration and shareholder servicing support. These payments may be in addition to any Rule 12b-1 fees that are reflected in the fees and expenses listed in the fee table section of this prospectus. These payments are sometimes characterized as "revenue sharing" payments and are made out of the Adviser's and/or its affiliates' own legitimate profits or other resources, and are not paid by the Funds. A financial intermediary may provide these services with respect to Fund shares sold or held through programs such as retirement plans, qualified tuition programs, fund supermarkets, fee-based advisory or wrap fee programs, bank trust programs, and insurance (E.G., individual or group annuity) programs. In addition, financial intermediaries may receive payments for making shares of the Funds available to their customers or registered representatives, including providing the Funds with "shelf space," placing it on a preferred or recommended fund list, or promoting the Funds in certain sales programs that are sponsored by financial intermediaries. To the extent permitted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ("FINRA") rules and other applicable laws and regulations, the Adviser and/or its affiliates may pay or allow other promotional incentives or payments to financial intermediaries. For more information please see "Payments to Financial Intermediaries" in the Funds' Statement of Additional Information.

The level of payments to individual financial intermediaries varies in any given year and may be negotiated on the basis of sales of Fund shares, the amount of Fund assets serviced by the financial

intermediary or the quality of the financial intermediary's relationship with the Adviser and/or its affiliates. These payments may be more or less than the payments received by the financial intermediaries from other mutual funds and may influence a financial intermediary to favor the sales of certain funds or share classes over others. In certain instances, the payments could be significant and may cause a conflict of interest for your financial intermediary. Any such payments will not change the net asset value or price of a Fund's shares. Please contact your financial intermediary for information about any payments it may receive in connection with the sale of Fund shares or the provision of services to Fund shareholders, as well as information about any fees and/or commissions it charges.

OTHER POLICIES

MARKET TIMING POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

The Funds are intended for long-term investment purposes only and discourage shareholders from engaging in "market timing" or other types of excessive short-term trading. This frequent trading into and out of a Fund may present risks to the Fund's long-term shareholders, all of which could adversely affect shareholder returns. The risks posed by frequent trading include interfering with the efficient implementation of each Fund's investment strategies, triggering the recognition of taxable gains and losses on the sale of Fund investments, requiring the Fund to maintain higher cash balances to meet redemption requests, and experiencing increased transaction costs. In addition, because the Funds indirectly invest in foreign securities traded primarily on markets that close prior to the time the Funds determine their NAV, the risks posed by frequent trading may have a greater potential to dilute the value of Fund shares held by long-term shareholders than Funds investing in U.S. securities.

In instances where a significant event that affects the value of one or more foreign securities held by an underlying ETF takes place after the close of the primary foreign market, but before the time that the Fund determines its NAV, certain investors may seek to take advantage of the fact that there will be a delay in the adjustment of the market price for a security caused by this event until the foreign market reopens (sometimes referred to as "price" or "time zone" arbitrage). Shareholders who attempt this type of arbitrage may dilute the value of the Fund's shares by virtue of their Fund share transaction, if those prices reflect the fair value of the foreign securities. Although the Funds have procedures designed to determine the fair value of foreign securities for purposes of calculating their NAV when such an event has occurred, fair value pricing, because it involves judgments which are inherently subjective, may not always eliminate the risk of price arbitrage.

For more information on how the Funds use fair value pricing, see "Calculating Your Share Price." The Funds' service providers will take steps reasonably designed to detect and deter frequent trading by shareholders pursuant to the Funds' policies and procedures described in this prospectus and approved by the Funds' Board of Trustees. For purposes of applying these policies, the Funds' service providers may consider the trading history of accounts under common ownership or control. The Funds' policies and procedures include:

o Shareholders are restricted from making more than five "round trips" including exchanges into or out of a Fund per calendar year. If a shareholder exceeds this amount, the Fund and/or its service providers may, at their discretion, reject any additional purchase orders. The Funds define a round trip as a purchase into a Fund by a shareholder, followed by a subsequent redemption out of the Fund, of an amount the Adviser reasonably believes would be harmful or disruptive to the Fund.

o The Funds assess a redemption fee of 2.00% on redemptions by shareholders of Fund shares held for less than 7 calendar days (subject to certain exceptions as discussed in "Redemption Fee").

o The Funds reserve the right to reject any purchase request by any investor or group of investors for any reason without prior notice, including, in particular, if a Fund or its Adviser reasonably believes that the trading activity would be harmful or disruptive to the Fund.

The Funds and/or their service providers seek to apply these policies to the best of their abilities uniformly and in a manner they believe is consistent with the interests of the Funds' long-term shareholders. Although these policies are designed to deter frequent trading, none of these measures alone nor all of them taken together eliminate the possibility that frequent trading in the Funds will occur. Systematic purchases and redemptions are exempt from these policies.

Financial intermediaries (such as investment advisers and broker-dealers) often establish omnibus accounts in the Funds for their customers through which transactions are placed. In accordance with Rule 22c-2 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the "1940 Act"), the Funds have entered into information sharing agreements with certain financial intermediaries. Under these agreements, a financial intermediary is obligated to: (1) enforce during the term of the agreement, the Funds' market-timing policy; (2) furnish the Funds, upon its request, with information regarding customer trading activities in shares of the Funds; and (3) enforce the Funds' market-timing policy with respect to customers identified by the Funds as having engaged in market timing. When information regarding transactions in the Funds' shares is requested by a Fund and such information is in the possession of a person that is itself a financial intermediary to a financial intermediary (an "indirect intermediary"), any financial intermediary with whom the Funds have an information sharing agreement is obligated to obtain transaction information from the indirect intermediary or, if directed by the Funds, to restrict or prohibit the indirect intermediary from purchasing shares of the Funds on behalf of other persons. Please contact your financial intermediary for more information.

REDEMPTION FEE

In an effort to discourage short-term trading and defray costs incurred by shareholders as a result of such trading, each Fund charges a 2.00% redemption fee on redemptions of shares that have been held for less than 7 days. The fee is deducted from the sale proceeds and cannot be paid separately, and any proceeds of the fee are credited to the assets of the Fund. The fee does not apply to the exchange of shares or shares purchased with reinvested dividends or distributions. In determining how long shares of a Fund have been held, the Fund assumes that shares held by the investor the longest period of time will be sold first. The redemption fee is applicable to Fund shares purchased either directly or through a financial intermediary, such as a broker-dealer. Transactions through financial intermediaries typically are placed with the Funds on an omnibus basis and include both purchase and sale transactions placed on behalf of multiple investors. The Funds request that financial intermediaries assess the redemption fee on customer accounts and collect and remit the proceeds to the Funds. However, the Funds recognize that due to operational requirements, the intermediaries' methods for tracking and calculating the fee may be inadequate or differ in some respects from the Funds'.

Each Fund reserves the right to waive the redemption fee in its discretion where it believes such waiver is in the best interests of the Fund, including certain categories of redemptions that the Fund reasonably believes may not raise frequent trading or market timing concerns. These categories include, but are not limited to, the following: (i) participants in certain group retirement plans whose processing systems are incapable of properly applying the redemption fee to underlying shareholders; (ii) redemptions resulting from certain transfers upon the death of a shareholder; (iii) redemptions by certain pension plans as required by law or by regulatory authorities; (iv) failed verifications; (v) involuntary redemptions; and

(vi) retirement loans and withdrawals. The redemption fee will not be applied on redemptions made within the 7 calendar day period because the account does not meet the applicable minimum account size or because the Fund is unable to verify the accountholder's identity within a reasonable time after the account is opened.

CUSTOMER IDENTIFICATION AND VERIFICATION

To help the government fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering activities, federal law requires all financial institutions to obtain, verify, and record information that identifies each person who opens an account.

What this means to you: When you open an account, the Funds will ask your name, address, date of birth, and other information that will allow the Funds to identify you. This information is subject to verification to ensure the identity of all persons opening a mutual fund account.

The Funds are required by law to reject your new account application if the required identifying information is not provided.

In certain instances, the Funds are required to collect documents to fulfill their legal obligation. Documents provided in connection with your application will be used solely to establish and verify a customer's identity.

Attempts to collect the missing information required on the application will be performed by either contacting you or, if applicable, your broker. If this information is unable to be obtained within a reasonable timeframe established in the sole discretion of the Funds, your application will be rejected.

Upon receipt of your application in proper form (or upon receipt of all identifying information required on the application), your investment will be accepted and your order will be processed at the next-determined NAV per share.

However, each Fund reserves the right to close or liquidate your account at the NAV next determined and remit proceeds to you via check if it is unable to verify your identity. Attempts to verify your identity will be performed within a reasonable timeframe established in the sole discretion of the Fund. Further, each Fund reserves the right to hold your proceeds until your original check clears the bank, which may take up to 15 days from the date of purchase. In such an instance, you may be subject to a gain or loss on Fund shares and will be subject to corresponding tax implications. If your account is closed for this reason, the redemption fee will not be applied. You will not be entitled to recover any sales charges paid in connection with your purchase of Fund Shares.

ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING PROGRAM

Customer identification and verification is part of the Funds' overall obligation to deter money laundering under federal law. The Funds have adopted an anti-money laundering compliance program designed to prevent the Funds from being used for money laundering or the financing of illegal activities. In this regard, the Funds reserve the right to: (i) refuse, cancel or rescind any purchase or exchange order; (ii) freeze any account and/or suspend account services; or (iii) involuntarily close your account in cases of threatening conduct or suspected fraudulent or illegal activity. These actions will be taken when, in the sole discretion of Fund management, they are deemed to be in the best interest of a Fund or in cases when a Fund is requested or compelled to do so by governmental or law enforcement authority. If your account is closed at the request of governmental or law enforcement authority, you may not receive proceeds of the redemption if the Funds are required to withhold such proceeds.

CALCULATING YOUR SHARE PRICE

You may buy or sell shares of a Fund on each day the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE") is open at a price equal to its NAV next computed after it receives and accepts your order. The Funds calculate NAV once each day the NYSE is open for business (a "Business Day") as of the regularly scheduled close of normal trading on the NYSE (normally, 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time). To receive the NAV on any given day, the Fund must receive your order in good form (meaning that it is complete and contains all necessary information, and has all supporting documentation such as proper signature guarantees, IRA rollover forms, etc.) before the close of trading on the NYSE that day. Otherwise, you will receive the NAV that is calculated at the close of trading on the following Business Day if the NYSE is open for trading that day. If the NYSE closes early -- such as on days in advance of certain generally observed holidays -- the Funds will calculate NAV as of the earlier closing time.

The Funds calculate their NAV by adding the total value of their assets, subtracting their liabilities and then dividing the result by the number of shares outstanding. In calculating NAV, the Funds generally value their investment portfolios at market price. If market prices are not readily available or the Funds reasonably believe that they are unreliable, such as in the case of a security value that has been materially affected by events occurring after the relevant market closes, the Funds are required to price those securities at fair value as determined in good faith using methods approved by the Board of Trustees. The Funds' determination of a security's fair value price often involves the consideration of a number of subjective factors, and is therefore subject to the unavoidable risk that the value that the Funds assign to a

security may be higher or lower than the security's value would be if a reliable market quotation for the security was readily available.

BUYING OR SELLING SHARES THROUGH A FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARY

In addition to being able to buy and sell Fund shares directly from a Fund through its transfer agent, you may also buy or sell shares of a Fund through accounts with brokers and other institutions that are authorized to place trades in Fund shares for their customers ("authorized institutions"). When you purchase or sell Fund shares through certain authorized institutions (rather than directly from the Fund), you may have to transmit your purchase and sale requests to these authorized institutions at an earlier time for your transaction to become effective that day. This allows these authorized institutions time to process your requests and transmit them to the Fund. Your authorized institution is responsible for transmitting all purchase and redemption requests, investment information, documentation and money to the Fund on time.

Certain financial intermediaries, including certain broker-dealers and shareholder organizations, are authorized to accept purchase and redemption requests for Fund shares. These requests are executed at the NAV next determined after the intermediary receives the request if transmitted to the Funds' transfer agent in accordance with the Funds' procedures and applicable law. These authorized intermediaries are responsible for transmitting requests and delivering funds on a timely basis. If your financial intermediary fails to do so, it may be responsible for any resulting fees or losses.

If you deal directly with a financial intermediary or an authorized institution, you will have to follow their procedures for transacting with the Funds. For more information about how to purchase or sell Fund shares through a financial intermediary or an authorized institution, you should contact them directly. Investors may be charged a fee for purchase and/or redemption transactions effectuated through certain financial intermediaries and authorized institutions.

PAYMENT OF REDEMPTION PROCEEDS

Redemption proceeds can be mailed to your account address, sent to your bank by ACH transfer or wired to your bank account (proceeds wired to your bank account will be subject to a $15 fee). The Funds will pay for all shares redeemed within seven days after they receive a redemption request in proper form, meaning that it is complete and contains all necessary information, and has all supporting documentation (such as proper Medallion signature guarantees, IRA rollover forms, etc.). The Funds may require that signatures be guaranteed by a bank or member firm of a national securities exchange. Medallion signature guarantees are for the protection of shareholders. Before they grant a redemption request, the Funds may require a shareholder to furnish additional legal documents to insure proper authorization. If you redeem shares that were recently purchased by check or through ACH, you will not receive your redemption proceeds until the check has cleared or the ACH transaction has been completed, which may take up to 15 days from the purchase date.

IN-KIND TRANSACTIONS

Under certain conditions and at the Funds' discretion, you may pay for shares of the Funds with securities instead of cash. The Funds generally pay sale (redemption) proceeds in cash. However, under unusual conditions that make the payment of cash unwise and for the protection of the Funds' remaining shareholders, the Funds might pay all or part of your redemption proceeds in liquid securities with a market value equal to the redemption price (redemption in kind). It is highly unlikely that your shares

would ever be redeemed in kind, but if they were you would have to pay transaction costs to sell the securities distributed to you, as well as taxes on any capital gains from the sale as with any redemption. In addition, you would continue to be subject to the risks of any market fluctuation in the value of the securities you receive in kind until you sold them.

INVOLUNTARY REDEMPTIONS OF YOUR SHARES

If your account balance drops below $500 because of redemptions, you may be required to sell your shares. The Funds will provide you at least 30 days' written notice to give you sufficient time to add to your account and avoid the need to sell your shares. If your shares are redeemed for this reason within 7 calendar days of their purchase, the redemption fee will not be applied.

SUSPENSION OF YOUR RIGHT TO SELL YOUR SHARES

The Funds may suspend your right to sell your shares during times when trading on the NYSE is restricted or halted, or otherwise as permitted by the SEC. More information about this is in the Statement of Additional Information.

TELEPHONE TRANSACTIONS

Purchasing and selling Fund shares over the telephone is extremely convenient, but not without risk. Although the Funds have certain safeguards and procedures to confirm the identity of callers and the authenticity of instructions, the Funds are not responsible for any losses or costs incurred by following telephone instructions it reasonably believes to be genuine. If you or your financial intermediary transact with the Funds over the telephone, you will generally bear the risk of any loss.

SHAREHOLDER SERVICING ARRANGEMENTS

The Funds may compensate financial intermediaries for providing a variety of services to shareholders. Financial intermediaries include affiliated or unaffiliated brokers, dealers, banks (including bank trust departments), trust companies, registered investment advisers, financial planners, retirement plan administrators, insurance companies, and any other institution having a service, administration, or any similar arrangement with the Funds, their service providers or their respective affiliates. This section and the following section briefly describe how financial intermediaries may be paid for providing these services.

The Funds generally pay financial intermediaries a fee that is based on the assets of the Funds that are attributable to investments by customers of the financial intermediary. The services for which financial intermediaries are compensated may include record-keeping, transaction processing for shareholders' accounts and other shareholder services. In addition to these payments, your financial intermediary may charge you account fees, transaction fees for buying or redeeming shares of a Fund, or other fees for servicing your account. Your financial intermediary should provide a schedule of its fees and services to you upon request. The Funds do not pay these service fees on shares purchased directly. In addition to payments made directly to financial intermediaries by the Funds, the Adviser or its affiliates may, at their own expense, pay financial intermediaries for these and other services to Fund shareholders, as described in the section below.

PAYMENTS TO FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES

From time to time, the Adviser and/or its affiliates, at their discretion, may make payments to certain affiliated or unaffiliated financial intermediaries to compensate them for the costs associated with distribution, marketing, administration and shareholder servicing support. These payments are sometimes characterized as "revenue sharing" payments and are made out of the Adviser's and/or its affiliates' own legitimate profits or other resources, and are not paid by the Funds. A financial intermediary may provide these services with respect to Fund shares sold or held through programs such as retirement plans, qualified tuition programs, fund supermarkets, fee-based advisory or wrap fee programs, bank trust programs, and insurance (E.G., individual or group annuity) programs. In addition, financial intermediaries may receive payments for making shares of the Funds available to their customers or registered representatives, including providing the Funds with "shelf space," placing it on a preferred or recommended fund list, or promoting the Fund in certain sales programs that are sponsored by financial intermediaries. To the extent permitted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ("FINRA") rules and other applicable laws and regulations, the Adviser and/or its affiliates may pay or allow other promotional incentives or payments to financial intermediaries. For more information please see "Payments to Financial Intermediaries" in the Funds' Statement of Additional Information.

The level of payments to individual financial intermediaries varies in any given year and may be negotiated on the basis of sales of Fund shares, the amount of Fund assets serviced by the financial intermediary or the quality of the financial intermediary's relationship with the Adviser and/or its affiliates. These payments may be more or less than the payments received by the financial intermediaries from other mutual funds and may influence a financial intermediary to favor the sales of certain funds or share classes over others. In certain instances, the payments could be significant and may cause a conflict of interest for your financial intermediary. Any such payments will not change the net asset value or price of a Fund's shares. Please contact your financial intermediary for information about any payments it may receive in connection with the sale of Fund shares or the provision of services to Fund shareholders, as well as information about any fees and/or commissions it charges.

OTHER POLICIES

MARKET TIMING POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

The Funds are intended for long-term investment purposes only and discourage shareholders from engaging in "market timing" or other types of excessive short-term trading. This frequent trading into and out of a Fund may present risks to the Fund's long-term shareholders, all of which could adversely affect shareholder returns. The risks posed by frequent trading include interfering with the efficient implementation of each Fund's investment strategies, triggering the recognition of taxable gains and losses on the sale of Fund investments, requiring the Fund to maintain higher cash balances to meet redemption requests, and experiencing increased transaction costs. In addition, because the Funds indirectly invest in foreign securities traded primarily on markets that close prior to the time the Funds determine their NAV, the risks posed by frequent trading may have a greater potential to dilute the value of Fund shares held by long-term shareholders than Funds investing in U.S. securities.

In instances where a significant event that affects the value of one or more foreign securities held by an underlying ETF takes place after the close of the primary foreign market, but before the time that the Fund determines its NAV, certain investors may seek to take advantage of the fact that there will be a delay in the adjustment of the market price for a security caused by this event until the foreign market reopens (sometimes referred to as "price" or "time zone" arbitrage). Shareholders who attempt this type

of arbitrage may dilute the value of the Fund's shares by virtue of their Fund share transaction, if those prices reflect the fair value of the foreign securities. Although the Funds have procedures designed to determine the fair value of foreign securities for purposes of calculating their NAV when such an event has occurred, fair value pricing, because it involves judgments which are inherently subjective, may not always eliminate the risk of price arbitrage.

For more information on how the Funds use fair value pricing, see "Calculating Your Share Price." The Funds' service providers will take steps reasonably designed to detect and deter frequent trading by shareholders pursuant to the Funds' policies and procedures described in this prospectus and approved by the Funds' Board of Trustees. For purposes of applying these policies, the Funds' service providers may consider the trading history of accounts under common ownership or control. The Funds' policies and procedures include:

o Shareholders are restricted from making more than five "round trips" including exchanges into or out of a Fund per calendar year. If a shareholder exceeds this amount, the Fund and/or its service providers may, at their discretion, reject any additional purchase orders. The Funds define a round trip as a purchase into a Fund by a shareholder, followed by a subsequent redemption out of the Fund, of an amount the Adviser reasonably believes would be harmful or disruptive to the Fund.

o The Funds assess a redemption fee of 2.00% on redemptions by shareholders of Fund shares held for less than 7 calendar days (subject to certain exceptions as discussed in "Redemption Fee").

o The Funds reserve the right to reject any purchase request by any investor or group of investors for any reason without prior notice, including, in particular, if a Fund or its Adviser reasonably believes that the trading activity would be harmful or disruptive to the Fund.

The Funds and/or their service providers seek to apply these policies to the best of their abilities uniformly and in a manner they believe is consistent with the interests of the Funds' long-term shareholders. Although these policies are designed to deter frequent trading, none of these measures alone nor all of them taken together eliminate the possibility that frequent trading in the Funds will occur. Systematic purchases and redemptions are exempt from these policies.

Financial intermediaries (such as investment advisers and broker-dealers) often establish omnibus accounts in the Funds for their customers through which transactions are placed. In accordance with Rule 22c-2 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the "1940 Act"), the Funds have entered into information sharing agreements with certain financial intermediaries. Under these agreements, a financial intermediary is obligated to: (1) enforce during the term of the agreement, the Funds' market-timing policy; (2) furnish the Funds, upon its request, with information regarding customer trading activities in shares of the Funds; and (3) enforce the Funds' market-timing policy with respect to customers identified by the Funds as having engaged in market timing. When information regarding transactions in the Funds' shares is requested by a Fund and such information is in the possession of a person that is itself a financial intermediary to a financial intermediary (an "indirect intermediary"), any financial intermediary with whom the Funds have an information sharing agreement is obligated to obtain transaction information from the indirect intermediary or, if directed by the Funds, to restrict or prohibit the indirect intermediary from purchasing shares of the Funds on behalf of other persons. Please contact your financial intermediary for more information.

REDEMPTION FEE

In an effort to discourage short-term trading and defray costs incurred by shareholders as a result of such trading, each Fund charges a 2.00% redemption fee on redemptions of shares that have been held for less

than 7 days. The fee is deducted from the sale proceeds and cannot be paid separately, and any proceeds of the fee are credited to the assets of the Fund. The fee does not apply to the exchange of shares or shares purchased with reinvested dividends or distributions. In determining how long shares of a Fund have been held, the Fund assumes that shares held by the investor the longest period of time will be sold first. The redemption fee is applicable to Fund shares purchased either directly or through a financial intermediary, such as a broker-dealer. Transactions through financial intermediaries typically are placed with the Funds on an omnibus basis and include both purchase and sale transactions placed on behalf of multiple investors. The Funds request that financial intermediaries assess the redemption fee on customer accounts and collect and remit the proceeds to the Funds. However, the Funds recognize that due to operational requirements, the intermediaries' methods for tracking and calculating the fee may be inadequate or differ in some respects from the Funds'.

Each Fund reserves the right to waive the redemption fee in its discretion where it believes such waiver is in the best interests of the Fund, including certain categories of redemptions that the Fund reasonably believes may not raise frequent trading or market timing concerns. These categories include, but are not limited to, the following: (i) participants in certain group retirement plans whose processing systems are incapable of properly applying the redemption fee to underlying shareholders; (ii) redemptions resulting from certain transfers upon the death of a shareholder; (iii) redemptions by certain pension plans as required by law or by regulatory authorities; (iv) failed verifications; (v) involuntary redemptions; and (vi) retirement loans and withdrawals. The redemption fee will not be applied on redemptions made within the 7 calendar day period because the account does not meet the applicable minimum account size or because the Fund is unable to verify the accountholder's identity within a reasonable time after the account is opened.

CUSTOMER IDENTIFICATION AND VERIFICATION

To help the government fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering activities, federal law requires all financial institutions to obtain, verify, and record information that identifies each person who opens an account.

What this means to you: When you open an account, the Funds will ask your name, address, date of birth, and other information that will allow the Funds to identify you. This information is subject to verification to ensure the identity of all persons opening a mutual fund account.

The Funds are required by law to reject your new account application if the required identifying information is not provided.

In certain instances, the Funds are required to collect documents to fulfill their legal obligation. Documents provided in connection with your application will be used solely to establish and verify a customer's identity.

Attempts to collect the missing information required on the application will be performed by either contacting you or, if applicable, your broker. If this information is unable to be obtained within a reasonable timeframe established in the sole discretion of the Funds, your application will be rejected.

Upon receipt of your application in proper form (or upon receipt of all identifying information required on the application), your investment will be accepted and your order will be processed at the next-determined NAV per share.

However, each Fund reserves the right to close or liquidate your account at the NAV next determined and remit proceeds to you via check if it is unable to verify your identity. Attempts to verify your identity

will be performed within a reasonable timeframe established in the sole discretion of the Fund. Further, each Fund reserves the right to hold your proceeds until your original check clears the bank, which may take up to 15 days from the date of purchase. In such an instance, you may be subject to a gain or loss on Fund shares and will be subject to corresponding tax implications. If your account is closed for this reason, the redemption fee will not be applied. You will not be entitled to recover any sales charges paid in connection with your purchase of Fund Shares.

ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING PROGRAM

Customer identification and verification is part of the Funds' overall obligation to deter money laundering under federal law. The Funds have adopted an anti-money laundering compliance program designed to prevent the Funds from being used for money laundering or the financing of illegal activities. In this regard, the Funds reserve the right to: (i) refuse, cancel or rescind any purchase or exchange order; (ii) freeze any account and/or suspend account services; or (iii) involuntarily close your account in cases of threatening conduct or suspected fraudulent or illegal activity. These actions will be taken when, in the sole discretion of Fund management, they are deemed to be in the best interest of a Fund or in cases when a Fund is requested or compelled to do so by governmental or law enforcement authority. If your account is closed at the request of governmental or law enforcement authority, you may not receive proceeds of the redemption if the Funds are required to withhold such proceeds.