ASTON/Lake Partners LASSO Alternatives Fund

Investment Strategy

The ASTON/Lake Partners LASSO Alternatives Fund is a Fund-of-Funds that uses the proprietary LASSO® (Long and Short Strategic Opportunities) strategy. LASSO is intended to produce long-term total returns with lower volatility and/or reduced correlations compared with traditional equity and fixed-income strategies across the full market cycle.

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Objective

The Fund seeks to provide long-term total return with reduced correlation to the conventional stock and bond markets.

Risk Considerations

The Fund also incurs the risks of the underlying funds it invests in.  Potential risks include the use of aggressive investment techniques and instruments such as options and futures, derivatives, commodities, credit-risk, leverage, and short-sales that taken alone are generally considered riskier than conventional market strategies. Use of aggressive ETF investment techniques including short sales may expose an underlying fund to potentially dramatic changes (losses) in the value of its portfolio.  Leveraged ETFs seek to provide returns that are a multiple of a benchmark and can increase risk exposure relative to the amount invested and can lead to significantly greater losses than a comparable unleveraged portfolio. Short sales may involve the risk that an underlying fund will incur a loss by subsequently buying a security at a higher price than the price at which the fund previously sold the security short.