# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001414040
**File Stem:** 0001398344-26-006166
**Filing Date:** 2026-4
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001398344-26-006166.hdr.sgml**: 20260406

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001398344-26-006166

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 497K

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 2

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20260406

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20260406

**EFFECTIVENESS DATE**: 20260406

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** ALPS ETF Trust
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001414040

**ORGANIZATION NAME:**
- **EIN:** 000000000
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1130

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 497K
- **SEC ACT:** 1933 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 333-148826
- **FILM NUMBER:** 26841738

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** P.O. Box 328
- **CITY:** Denver
- **STATE:** CO
- **ZIP:** 80201-0328
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 303.623.2577

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** P.O. Box 328
- **CITY:** Denver
- **STATE:** CO
- **ZIP:** 80201-0328

## Series and Classes Contracts Data

### ALPS | BBH Intermediate Municipal Bond ETF (Series ID: S000075318)

| Class ID   | Class Name                                 | Ticker Symbol   |
|:---|:---|:---|
| C000234248 | ALPS | BBH Intermediate Municipal Bond ETF | MNBD            |

<u>ALPS \| BBH Intermediate Municipal Bond ETF<br> (formerly, ALPS Intermediate Municipal Bond ETF)</u> <u>ALPS ETF TRUST</u> <br> NYSE Arca Ticker: MNBD Summary Prospectus March 31, 2026

*Before you invest, you may want to review the Fund's prospectus, which contains more information about the Fund and its risks. You can find the Fund's prospectus and other information about the Fund online at https://www.alpsfunds.com/exchange-traded-funds/MNBD. You can also get this information at no cost by calling 866.675.2639, by sending an e-mail request to info@alpsfunds.com, or by contacting your financial intermediary. The Fund's prospectus and statement of additional information, each dated March 31, 2026, along with the Fund's most recent annual report dated November 30, 2025, are incorporated by reference into this summary prospectus and may be obtained, free of charge, at the website, phone number or e-mail address noted above.* 

INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE

The investment objective of the Fund is to protect investor's capital and generate attractive risk-adjusted returns.

FEES AND EXPENSES OF THE FUND

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and sell shares of the Fund ("Shares"). **You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and example below.** 

Annual Fund Operating Expenses *(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)*

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| &nbsp;&nbsp;Management Fees | 0.44% |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;Other Expenses | 0.00% |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses | 0.44% |

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**Example** 

The following example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the costs of investing in other funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then hold or redeem all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses remain the same each year.

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|  | One <br> Year | Three <br> Years | Five <br> Years | Ten <br> Years |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be: | $45 | $141 | $246 | $554 |

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PORTFOLIO TURNOVER

The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the Example, affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year ended November 30, 2025, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 98% of the average value of the portfolio.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

The Fund seeks to actively achieve its investment objective by applying bottom-up fundamental analysis and investing in a long-term, tax-aware manner. The Fund aims to actively implement the strategy by investing primarily in a diversified portfolio of investment grade municipal bonds rated in the four highest credit ratings categories (AAA to BBB, or equivalent) at the time of purchase by at least one nationally recognized credit rating agency, or, if unrated, deemed to be of comparable quality by Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., through a separately identifiable department, the Fund's sub-adviser ("BBH&Co." or the "Sub-Adviser"). Under normal circumstances, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets, plus any borrowings for investment purposes, in municipal bonds that pay interest that is generally excludable from gross income for federal income tax purposes (except that the interest paid by certain municipal securities may be includable in taxable income for purposes of the federal alternative minimum tax).

The Fund may invest in fixed-, variable- or floating-rate municipal securities issued by states, territories and possessions of the United States and the District of Columbia and their political subdivisions, agencies, and instrumentalities, authorities thereof, and multi-state agencies, issued to obtain funds for various public purposes. These may include general obligation bonds, which typically are backed by the issuer's ability to levy taxes, and revenue bonds, which typically are backed by a stream of revenue from a particular facility or class of facilities or, in some cases, from the proceeds of a special excise or other specific revenue source. Municipal securities also include auction rate municipal securities.

The Fund may also invest up to 20% of its total assets in securities that are not municipal securities, if, in the opinion of the Sub-Adviser, these securities will enhance after-tax returns for Fund investors. Non-municipal securities investments may include notes and bonds issued by domestic and foreign corporations and financial institutions and the U.S. Government, its agencies and guaranteed issuers. In addition, the Fund may purchase asset-backed securities, mortgage backed securities, auction rate securities and other sovereign debt when the Sub-Adviser believes that the additional returns from these securities justify the risk of allocations to these asset classes. Under normal circumstances, the Fund portfolio's dollar weighted average duration is expected to be between 3 and 7 years.

The Fund may invest in money market instruments, repurchase agreements and derivative instruments, including futures, swaps and options, to hedge its investments or to seek to enhance returns.

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The Fund will not invest 25% or more of total assets in municipal obligations relating to similar types of projects or with other similar economic, business, or political characteristics (such as bonds of airport facilities or healthcare providers). For purposes of this policy, securities of the U.S. Government, its agencies, or instrumentalities and municipal obligations backed by the credit of governmental entities are not subject to this 25% limit. The Fund may invest more than 25% of its total assets in municipal securities whose issuers are located in any one state.

Embedded within the Sub-Adviser's overall investment approach is the consideration of environmental, social, and/or governance ("ESG") criteria as one of several factors that the Sub-Adviser may deem to be material to an obligor or sector. The Sub-Adviser defines ESG as a set of environmental, social and governance factors that are considered when evaluating the creditworthiness of an obligor. Examples of environmental criteria may include an obligor's carbon footprint or resiliency after a natural disaster. Examples of social considerations may include an obligor's labor relations, tax policies and affordability. Governance examples may include the consideration of an obligor's quality and timeliness of disclosures, long-term planning or governmental practices. A less favorable ESG profile may not preclude the Fund from investing in a bond of an obligor, as the consideration of ESG factors is not more influential than the consideration of other investment criteria.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

*Investors should consider the following risk factors and special considerations associated with investing in the Fund, which may cause you to lose money. The relative significance of each risk factor summarized below may change over time and you should review each risk factor carefully because any one or more of these risk factors may result in losses to the Fund.* 

**Investment Risk.** An investment in the Fund is subject to investment risk, including the possible loss of the entire principal amount that you invest.

**Market Risk.** The values of a security may decline due to general market conditions that are not specifically related to a particular company or issuer, such as real or perceived adverse economic, political and social conditions, inflation (or expectations for inflation), changes in the general outlook for corporate earnings, changes in interest or currency rates, recessions, supply chain disruptions, or adverse investor sentiment generally.

**Interest Rate Risk.** When interest rates rise, the value of fixed income securities held by the Fund are likely to decrease. Securities with longer durations tend to be more sensitive to interest rate changes, making them more volatile than securities with shorter durations. The Fund may face a heightened level of interest rate risk due to certain changes in monetary policy, such as interest rate changes by the Federal Reserve. Rising interest rates may also lead to decreased liquidity in the bond markets, making it more difficult for the Fund to value or sell its bond investments at any given time.

**Illiquid Investment Risk.** Illiquid investment risk exists when a particular instrument is difficult to purchase or sell. Size of a transaction or illiquid markets may be factors.

**Credit/Default Risk.** Credit risk is the risk that issuers or guarantors of debt instruments or the counterparty to a derivatives contract, repurchase agreement or loan of portfolio securities is unable or unwilling to make timely interest and/or principal payments or otherwise honor its obligations. Credit rating downgrades and defaults (failure to make interest or principal payment) may potentially reduce the Fund's income and Share price.

**Municipal Issuer Risk.** The Fund invests principally in municipal securities. The value of municipal securities may be affected by uncertainties in the municipal market related to legislation or litigation involving the taxation of municipal securities or the rights of municipal securities holders in the event of a default or bankruptcy. If a security's structure fails to function as intended, the security could become taxable or decline in value. Additionally, issuers of municipal obligations may not be able to make timely payments because of general economic downturns or increased governmental costs.

**Municipal Revenue Sector Risk.** The Fund will not invest 25% or more of its total assets in any one municipal revenue sector relating to bonds backed by revenues from similar types of projects (such as those relating to higher education, healthcare, housing, airports or utilities) or with other similar economic, business, or political characteristics. However, as the Fund's exposure to such similar projects increases, the Fund will also become more sensitive to adverse economic, business or political developments relevant to these projects.

**Geographic Risk.** From time to time the Fund may have a significant position in municipal securities whose issuers are located in a particular state. Under these circumstances, changes in the economic conditions in that state are likely to affect the Fund's investments and performance.

**Taxation Risk.** The Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") has announced that holders of tax-exempt bonds such as the Fund have certain risks if the bonds were issued in connection with abusive transactions, refinancing irregularities, or the misuse of proceeds from the bond offering. Failure of municipal obligations to qualify for tax-exempt status, either at issuance or as a result of a deemed reissuance, may adversely affect the Fund and its shareholders, including its ability to distribute exempt-interest dividends. While the Fund endeavors to purchase only bona fide tax-exempt bonds, there is a risk that a bond may be reclassified by the IRS as a taxable bond creating taxable income for the Fund and its shareholders. In this case, the Fund might be required to send to you and file with the IRS information returns for prior calendar years reclassifying some of its exempt-interest dividends as taxable dividends. To qualify to pay exempt-interest dividends, which are treated as items of interest excludable from gross income for federal income tax purposes, at least 50% of the value of the total assets of the Fund must consist of obligations exempt from regular income tax as of the close of each quarter of the Fund's taxable year. If the proportion of taxable investments held by the Fund exceeds 50% of the Fund's total assets as of the close of any quarter of any Fund taxable year, the Fund will not for that taxable year satisfy the general eligibility test that otherwise permits it to pay exempt-interest dividends. Additionally, the Fund is generally not a suitable investment for individual retirement accounts, for

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**Shareholder Concentration Risk.** Asset allocation decisions, particularly large redemptions, made by a financial intermediary whose discretionary clients make up a large percentage of the Fund's shareholders may adversely impact remaining Fund shareholders.

**Active Management Risk.** The Fund is subject to management risk because it is an actively managed portfolio. In managing the Fund's portfolio securities, the Sub-Adviser will apply investment techniques and risk analyses in making investment decisions for the Fund, but there can be no guarantee that these will produce the desired results. The Sub-Adviser's decisions relating to the Fund's duration may also affect the Fund's yield, and in unusual circumstances may affect its share price. To the extent that the Sub-Adviser anticipates interest rates imprecisely, the Fund's yield at times could lag those of other similarly managed funds.

**Call Risk.** If the securities in which the Fund invests are redeemed by the issuer before maturity the Fund may have to reinvest the proceeds in securities that pay a lower interest rate, which may decrease the Fund's yield. This will most likely happen when interest rates are declining.

**Derivatives Risk.** Derivatives are financial contracts whose value depends on, or is derived from, the value of an underlying asset or index. Risks are different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments. Risks include illiquid investment risk, interest rate risk, market risk, credit risk, risk of mis-pricing or improper valuation and the risk of miscorrelation. The Fund could lose more than the principal amount invested.

**New Fund Risk.** The Fund currently has fewer assets than larger funds, and like other relatively new funds, large inflows and outflows may impact the Fund's market exposure for limited periods of time. This impact may be positive or negative, depending on the direction of market movement during the period affected.

**Fluctuation of Net Asset Value.** The NAV of the Fund's Shares will generally fluctuate with changes in the market value of the Fund's holdings. The market prices of the Shares will generally fluctuate in accordance with changes in NAV as well as the relative supply of and demand for the Shares on the NYSE Arca. Neither the Adviser nor the Sub-Adviser can predict whether the Shares will trade below, at or above their NAV. To the extent securities held by the Fund trade in a market that is closed when the exchange on which the Fund's shares trade is open, there may be deviations between the current price of a security and the last quoted price for the security in the closed foreign market. These deviations may in turn lead to wider bid-ask spreads or premiums/discounts for Fund shares with the result that investors may receive less than the underlying value of the Fund shares when they sell their Fund shares or pay more than the underlying value of the Fund shares when they purchase their Fund shares.

**Risk of Cash Transactions.** Unlike many ETFs, the Fund primarily effects creations and redemptions partly or wholly for cash, rather than in-kind. Because the Fund may effect redemptions for cash, it may be required to sell portfolio securities in order to obtain the cash needed to distribute redemption proceeds. As a result, an investment in the Fund may be less tax-efficient than an investment in a more conventional ETF, which may avoid realizing capital gains by making only in-kind redemptions. Moreover, cash transactions entail higher transaction costs than in-kind transactions, which costs may be passed on to purchasers and redeemers of Creation Units in the form of creation and redemption transaction fees.

**ESG Integration Risk.** Integrating ESG analysis into the investment process carries the risk that the Fund may perform differently from, and may underperform, funds that do not integrate ESG into their analysis, or funds that evaluate different ESG characteristics. ESG characteristics are not the only factors considered and as a result, the Fund's investments may not have favorable ESG characteristics or high ESG ratings.

FUND PERFORMANCE

The following bar chart and table provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund's performance from year to year and by showing how the Fund's average annual returns for certain time periods compare with the average annual returns of the Fund's benchmark index, and an index that represents a broad measure of market performance.

The Fund's past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future.

Total return figures assume reinvestment of dividends and capital gains distributions and include the effect of the Fund's recurring expenses. Updated performance information is available online at www.alpsfunds.com or by calling 866.759.5679.

**Annual Total Returns** <br> *(calendar years ended 12/31)* 

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| Highest Quarterly Return | 6.50% | 12/31/23 |
| Lowest Quarterly Return | -2.47% | 9/30/23 |

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The after-tax returns presented in the table below are calculated using highest historical individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Your actual after-tax returns will depend on your specific tax situation and may differ from those shown below. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold Shares of the Fund through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.

**Average Annual Total Returns** <br> *For periods ended December 31, 2025* 

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|  | 1 Year | Since<br> Inception<br> (May 19, <br> 2022) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;Return Before Taxes | 5.42% | 4.75% |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;Return After Taxes on Distributions | 5.13% | 4.33% |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares | 4.32% | 4.09% |
| Bloomberg Municipal Bond 1-15 Year Blend Index\****(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)*** | 5.18% | 3.81% |
| Bloomberg Municipal Bond Index\*<sup>,‡</sup>***(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)*** | 4.25% | 3.81% |

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*\** *Index performance shown in the table is the total return, which assumes reinvestment of any dividends and distributions during the time periods shown.* 

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*‡* *Broad-based securities market index.* 

INVESTMENT ADVISER AND SUB-ADVISER

ALPS Advisors, Inc. ("ALPS Advisors" or the "Adviser") is the investment adviser to the Fund. Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., through a separately identifiable department, is the sub-adviser to the Fund.

PORTFOLIO MANAGERS

Gregory S. Steier, Principal of BBH&Co., is the Fund's portfolio manager. Mr. Steier has served in such capacity since inception of the Fund.

PURCHASE AND REDEMPTION OF SHARES

Individual Shares may only be purchased and sold in secondary market transactions through a broker or dealer at a market price. Shares are listed for trading on the NYSE Arca under the ticker symbol MNBD and, because Shares trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares may trade at a price greater than or less than NAV.

An investor may incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase Shares of the Fund (bid) and the lowest price a seller is willing to accept for Shares (ask) when buying or selling Shares in the secondary market (the "bid/ask spread").

Recent information, including information about the Fund's NAV, market price, premiums and discounts, and the bid/ask spreads, is included on the Fund's website at www.alpsfunds.com.

TAX INFORMATION

The Fund's distributions of interest on municipal obligations generally are not subject to federal income tax; however, the Fund may distribute taxable dividends, including distributions of short-term capital gains, and long-term capital gains. In addition, interest on certain obligations may be subject to the federal alternative minimum tax. To the extent that the Fund's distributions are derived from interest on obligations that are not exempt from applicable state and local taxes, such distributions will be subject to such state and local taxes.

PAYMENTS TO BROKER-DEALERS AND OTHER FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES

If you purchase Shares through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary, the Adviser, Sub-Adviser, or other related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of Shares or related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary's website for more information.

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