Barrow Funds Quality Meets Value Report - December 2016

Barrow Funds

Description

BARROW FUNDS Value Principles  Private Equity Perspective Help Yourself, We’ll Handle the Rest Our commitment to transparency, and to giving you and your advisors the tools they need to have long-term conviction in our approach even when the chips are down, contribute to our desire to share more, not less, about our portfolio. While we strive to avoid the pitfalls of biased investor behavior by focusing on strictly objective, dispassionate, time-tested metrics for assessing quality and value across the stock market, we can’t help but feel pride when we look at the fundamental characteristics of our underlying operating businesses. We don’t expect everyone will relish as much as we do the opportunity to own companies that have strong cash flows and hefty operating margins, but that is just the point. We do it so you don’t have to, and as part of our offering, we want to give you the information we think will help you stick with your commitment to us, with conviction, through thick and thin. We’ll do our best to handle the rest. Disclosure Mutual fund investing involves risk.

Principal loss is possible. The Fund’s investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses must be considered carefully before investing. The prospectus contains this and other important information about the Fund and may be obtained by calling 1-877-767-6633.

Read it carefully before investing. Distributed by Ultimus Fund Distributors, LLC. The returns of the Fund shown for periods prior to its inception date are the returns of the predecessor, the Barrow Street Fund LP, an unregistered limited partnership managed by the portfolio managers of the Barrow Value Opportunity Fund (the “Predecessor Private Fund”). The Predecessor Private Fund was reorganized into Institutional Class shares on August 30, 2013, the date that the Value Opportunity Fund commenced operations.

The returns of the Investor Class shown for periods prior to August 30, 2013 are the returns of the Predecessor Private Fund. The Value Opportunity Fund has been managed in the same style and by the same portfolio managers since the Predecessor Private Fund’s inception on December 31, 2008. The Value Opportunity Fund’s investment goals, policies, guidelines and restrictions are, in all material respects, equivalent to the Predecessor Private Fund’s investment goals, policies, guidelines and restrictions. The information shows the Predecessor Private Fund’s annual returns and long-term performance reflecting the actual fees and expenses that were charged when the Value Opportunity Fund was a limited partnership.

The prior performance is net of management fees and other expenses but does not include the effect of the performance fee which was in place until October 7, 2012. From its inception on December 31, 2008 through the date of this prospectus, the Predecessor Private Fund was not subject to certain investment restrictions, diversification requirements and other restrictions of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”) or Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, which, if they had been applicable, might have adversely affected the Value Opportunity Fund’s performance. The S&P 500 Index is an unmanaged index of equity prices and is representative of a broader market and range of securities than is found in the Fund’s portfolio. Investors cannot invest directly in an index. 10 .