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RAFI Indices Announces Launch of the RACWI US ETF (RAUS)

JOURNAL PAPER: Reimagining Index Funds

PRESS RELEASE: RAFI Indices Announces First ETF: Research Affiliates Deletions ETF (NIXT)

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The Funds’ investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses must be considered carefully before investing. Click here for the NIXT Prospectus and Summary Prospectus. Click here for the RAUS Prospectus and Summary Prospectus. A free hardcopy of any prospectus may be obtained by calling +1.215.330.4476. Read carefully before investing.

Investments involve risk. Principal loss is possible. Redemptions are limited and often commissions are charged on each trade. Unlike mutual funds, ETFs may trade at a premium or discount to their net asset value.

Mid-Capitalization Companies Risk. The securities of mid-capitalization companies may be more vulnerable to adverse issuer, market, political, or economic developments than securities of larger-capitalization companies. The securities of mid-capitalization companies generally trade in lower volumes and are subject to greater and more unpredictable price changes than larger capitalization stocks or the stock market as a whole.

Micro- and Small- Capitalization Companies Risk. Investing in securities of micro- and small- capitalization companies involve greater risk than customarily is associated with investing in larger, more established companies. Micro- and small- capitalization companies often have less predictable earnings, more limited product lines, markets, distribution channels and financial resources, and the management of such companies may be dependent upon one or few people.

Passive Investment Risk. The Fund is not actively managed and the Adviser will not sell shares of an equity security due to current or projected underperformance of a security, industry or sector, unless that security is removed from the Index, sold in connection with a rebalancing of the Index, or sold to comply with the Fund’s investment limitations (for example, to maintain the Fund’s tax status). Maintaining investments regardless of market conditions or the performance of individual investments could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund employed an active strategy.

Other principal risks of investing in the funds include: Risk of Investing in the U.S., Investment Risk, Equity Investing Risk, and Geopolitical/Natural Disaster Risks. For more detailed information about risks inherent in investing in the fund, please review the Prospectus.

In addition, the following risks apply to RAUS:

Large-Capitalization Companies Risk. Large-capitalization companies may trail the returns of the overall stock market. Large capitalization stocks tend to go through cycles of doing better – or worse – than the stock market in general.

New Fund Risk. The Fund is a recently organized management investment company with no operating history. As a result, prospective investors have no track record or history on which to base their investment decision. There can be no assurance that the Fund will grow to or maintain an economically viable size.

Non-Diversification Risk. Because the Fund is non-diversified, it may be more sensitive to economic, business, political or other changes affecting individual issuers or investments than a diversified fund, which may result in greater fluctuation in the value of the Shares and greater risk of loss.

Concentration Risk. The Fund may be susceptible to an increased risk of loss, including losses due to adverse occurrences affecting the Fund more than the market as a whole, to the extent that the Fund’s investments are concentrated in the securities of a particular issuer or issuers, market, industry, group of industries, sector, or asset class.

** Median 30 Day Spread is a calculation of Fund’s median bid-ask spread, expressed as a percentage rounded to the nearest hundredth, computed by: identifying the Fund’s national best bid and national best offer as of the end of each 10 second interval during each trading day of the last 30 calendar days; dividing the difference between each such bid and offer by the midpoint of the national best bid and national best offer; and identifying the median of those values.

*** Basis Points (bps) is a unit of measure used in quoting yields, changes in yields or differences between yields. One basis point is equal to 0.01%, or one one-hundredth of a percent of yield and 100 basis points equals 1%.

¹Tracking Error: The volatility of the difference in returns between a fund and its benchmark. It describes how well a fund tracks its benchmark.

²Cash Flow: The net amount of cash generated and used by a company. Certain ETFs may focus on companies with strong free cash flow as part of their investment strategy.

³RACWI (Research Affiliates Cap-Weighted Index) is a reimagined approach to cap-weighted indexing. It preserves the familiar structure of cap-weighting—simple, scalable, and low-turnover—while changing the way constituents are selected. Instead of letting price momentum dictate index membership, RACWI selects companies based on their economic footprint (fundamental measures of company size) before applying cap-weighting. It seeks to deliver higher returns, lower hidden costs, and better stability, all while looking and behaving almost identically to mainstream indexes.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) does not approve or disapprove of any investment. This material has been distributed for informational purposes only and should not be considered as investment advice or a recommendation of any particular security, strategy or investment product. Information contained herein has been obtained from sources believed to be reliable, but not guaranteed. No part of this material may be reproduced in any form, or referred to in any other publication, without express written permission. References to other funds should not be interpreted as an offer of these securities.

The Funds are distributed by PINE Distributors, LLC. The funds’ investment adviser is Empowered Funds, LLC, which is doing business as ETF Architect. Research Affiliates, LLC serves as the Sub-adviser to the Fund. PINE Distributors, LLC is not affiliated with ETF Architect or Research Affiliates, LLC. Learn more about PINE Distributors LLC at FINRA’s BrokerCheck.

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