# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001644419
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**Filing Date:** 2025-10
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001398344-25-018912.hdr.sgml**: 20251006

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001398344-25-018912

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 497K

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**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** Northern Lights Fund Trust IV
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001644419

**ORGANIZATION NAME:**
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- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** DE
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 0916

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 497K
- **SEC ACT:** 1933 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 333-204808
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251377183

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
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## Series and Classes Contracts Data

### Sterling Capital Focus Equity ETF (Series ID: S000068966)

| Class ID   | Class Name                        | Ticker Symbol   |
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| C000220403 | Sterling Capital Focus Equity ETF | LCG             |

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| **Summary Prospectus** September 29, 2025 |
| Sterling Capital Focus Equity ETF <br>**LCG** |
| Before you invest, you may want to review the Fund's Prospectus, which contains information about the Fund and its risks. The Fund's Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information, both dated September 29, 2025, are incorporated by reference into this Summary Prospectus. You can find the Fund's Prospectus and other information about the Fund online at www.sterlingcapital.com/etf. You can also get this information at no cost by calling 888-637-7798 or by sending an e-mail request to fundinfo@sterlingcapital.com. |

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**Investment Objective** 

The Sterling Capital Focus Equity ETF (the "Fund") seeks long-term capital appreciation.

**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. 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.

&nbsp;&nbsp;**Annual Fund Operating Expenses** (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)<br>

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| &nbsp;&nbsp;Management Fees | 0.59% |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees  |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;Other Expenses<sup>(1)</sup> | 0.00% |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses | 0.59% |

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<sup>(1)</sup> The Fund's adviser, Sterling Capital Management LLC, has agreed to pay all expenses incurred by the Fund except for the advisory fee, any front-end or contingent deferred loads, brokerage fees and commissions, any Rule 12b-1 fees, acquired fund fees and expenses, fees and expenses associated with investments in other collective investment vehicles or derivative instruments (including for example option and swap fees and expenses), borrowing costs (such as interest and dividend expense on securities sold short), taxes; and extraordinary expenses, such as litigation expenses (which may include indemnification of Fund officers and Trustees, and contractual indemnification of Fund service providers (others than the adviser)).

&nbsp;&nbsp;**Example:**<br>

This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds.

The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell 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. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based upon these assumptions your costs would be:

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| **1 Year**  | **3 Years**  | **5 Years** | **10 Years** |
| $60 | $189 | $329 | $738 |

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&nbsp;&nbsp;**Portfolio Turnover:**<br>

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 Fund 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 fiscal year ended May 31, 2025, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 21% of the average value of its portfolio.

**Principal Investment Strategies:** 

The Fund is an actively managed exchange traded fund ("ETF"). The Fund seeks to outperform the Russell 1000 Growth Index with a portfolio of 15 to 30 stocks. The adviser employs a bottom-up fundamental investment process to select stocks in companies that, in its view, demonstrate potential for sustainable competitive advantages, visible reinvestment opportunities, and have experienced management teams. These companies have the potential for consistent revenue and free cash flow growth, high profitability, strong balance sheets and attractive valuations compared to their peers, although each individual holding may not have all of these qualities. No holding typically is more than 20% of the Fund's portfolio and 60% of the Fund's portfolio generally is comprised of equity securities issued by companies with capitalization in excess of $10 billion. Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of the Fund's net assets plus any borrowing for investment purposes in equity securities.

The adviser uses fundamental research and quantitative screening to identify companies that meet the adviser's criteria set forth above. Quantitative screening metrics may include, but are not limited to, revenue growth, free cash flow growth, return on equity, return on invested capital, interest coverage ratio, net debt to EBITDA, enterprise value to EBITDA, and free cash flow yield. Because of its focused investment strategy, the Fund is non-diversified, meaning that the Fund invests a greater percentage of its assets in significantly fewer securities than a diversified fund.

The Fund's holdings are regularly reviewed by the investment team to determine which holdings have the best return/risk potential. A position is sold when the portfolio manager, with the assistance of the investment team's analysis, determines that the perceived reward for owning the security no longer outpaces the perceived risk, selling the position is necessary to make room for a perceived better position, there is a change in the position's initial thesis or the position's weighting approaches 20% of the Fund's holdings.

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| **Summary Prospectus** | 1 of 4 | **Sterling Capital Focus Equity ETF** |

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**Principal Investment Risks:** 

*As with all funds, there is a risk that you could lose money through your investment in the Fund. Many factors affect the Fund's net asset value ("NAV") and performance.* 

The following describes the risks the Fund bears with respect to its investments. As with any fund, there is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

*Active Management Risk.* The adviser's judgments about the growth, value or potential appreciation of an investment may prove to be incorrect or fail to have the intended results, which could adversely impact the Fund's performance and cause it to underperform relative to other funds with similar investment goals or relative to its benchmark, or not to achieve its investment goal.

*Authorized Participant Risk.* Only an Authorized Participant may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the Fund. The Fund has a limited number of institutions that may act as Authorized Participants on an agency basis (i.e., on behalf of other market participants). To the extent that Authorized Participants exit the business or are unable to proceed with creation or redemption orders with respect to the Fund and no other Authorized Participant is able to step forward to create or redeem Creation Units (as defined below), Fund shares ("Shares") may be more likely to trade at a premium or discount to NAV and possibly face trading halts or delisting. Authorized Participant concentration risk may be heightened for ETFs that invest in non-U.S. securities or other securities or instruments that have lower trading volumes.

*Company-Specific Risk.* The possibility that a particular stock may lose value due to factors specific to the company itself, including deterioration of its fundamental characteristics, an occurrence of adverse events at the company, or a downturn in its business prospects.

*Equity Securities Risk.* Fluctuations in the value of equity securities held by the Fund will cause the NAV of the Fund and the price of its Shares to fluctuate. Common stock of an issuer in the Fund's portfolio may decline in price if the issuer fails to make anticipated dividend payments. Common stock will be subject to greater dividend risk than preferred stocks or debt instruments of the same issuer. In addition, common stocks have experienced significantly more volatility in returns than other asset classes.

*ETF Structure Risk.* The Fund is structured as an ETF and as a result is subject to special risks, including:

● *Not Individually Redeemable.* Shares are not individually redeemable to retail investors and may be redeemed only by the ETF only to Authorized Participants at NAV in large blocks known as "Creation Units." An Authorized Participant may incur brokerage costs purchasing enough Shares to constitute a Creation Unit.

● *Trading Issues.* An active trading market for Shares may not be developed or maintained. Trading in Shares on NYSE Arca (the "Exchange") may be halted due to market conditions or for reasons that, in the view of the Exchange, make trading in Shares inadvisable, such as extraordinary market volatility. In these circumstances, the Fund may be unable to rebalance its portfolio, may be unable to accurately price its investments and may incur substantial trading losses.

● *Market Price Variance Risk.* The market prices of Shares will fluctuate in response to changes in NAV and supply and demand for Shares. Market prices include a "bid-ask spread" charged by the exchange specialists, market makers or other participants that trade the particular security.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;o The market price of Shares may deviate from the Fund's NAV, particularly during times of market stress, with the result that investors may pay significantly more or significantly less for Shares than the Fund's NAV, which is reflected in the bid and ask price for Shares or in the closing price.

*Growth Investing Risk.* Growth stocks may be more volatile than other stocks because they are more sensitive to investor perceptions of the issuing company's growth potential. Growth-oriented funds will typically underperform when value investing is in favor.

*Investment Style Risk.* There is a possibility that the market segment on which the Fund is primarily invested in, whether growth or value; large-, mid- or small-cap; could underperform other kinds of investments or market averages that include style-focused investments.

*Issuer Risk*. The performance of the Fund depends on the performance of individual securities to which the Fund has exposure. Changes in the financial condition or credit rating of an issuer of those securities may cause the value of the securities to decline.

*Large Market Capitalization Companies Risk.* The value of investments in larger companies may not rise as much as smaller companies, or larger companies may be unable to respond quickly to competitive challenges, such as changes in technology and consumer tastes.

*Market Risk.* The increasing interconnectivity between global economies and financial markets increases the likelihood that events or conditions in one region or financial market may adversely impact issuers in a different region or financial market. Securities in the Fund's portfolio may underperform due to inflation (or expectations for inflation), interest rates, global demand for particular products or resources, natural disasters, climate-change and climate-related events, pandemics, epidemics, terrorism, international conflicts, regulatory events, tariffs or trade wars, and governmental or quasi-governmental actions. The occurrence of global events similar to those in recent years may result in market volatility and may have long term effects on the U.S. financial market.

*Non-Diversified Risk.* The Fund intends to invest in a variety of securities and instruments, but the Fund is considered to be non-diversified, which means that it may invest more of its assets in the securities of a single issuer or a smaller number of issuers than if it were a diversified fund. As a result, the Fund may be more exposed to the risks associated with and developments affecting an individual issuer or a smaller number of issuers than a fund that invests more widely. This may increase the Fund's volatility and cause the performance of a relatively smaller number of issuers to have a greater impact on the Fund's performance.

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| **Summary Prospectus** | 2 of 4 | **Sterling Capital Focus Equity ETF** |

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*Sector Exposure Risk.* The Fund may focus its investments in securities of a particular sector. Economic, legislative or regulatory developments may occur that significantly affect the sector. This may cause the Fund's NAV to fluctuate more than that of a fund that does not focus in a particular sector.

● *Technology Sector Risk.* The Fund may be more susceptible to the particular risks that affect companies in the technology sector than if it were invested in a wider variety of companies in unrelated sectors. Companies in the technology sector are subject to certain risks, including the risk that new services, equipment or technologies will not be accepted by consumers and businesses or will become rapidly obsolete.

**Performance** 

The bar chart and performance table below show the variability of the Fund's returns, which is some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows performance of the Fund's shares for each calendar year since the Fund's inception. The performance table compares the performance of the Fund over time to the performance of broad-based securities market index and a supplemental index. You should be aware that the Fund's past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future. Updated performance information is available at no cost by visiting www.sterlingcapital.com/etf or by calling (888) 228-1872.

&nbsp;&nbsp;**Performance Bar Chart For Calendar Year Ended December 31**<br>

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| Best quarter: | 4th Quarter 2023  | 22.71% |
| Worst quarter: | 2nd Quarter 2022 | (24.31)% |

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The Fund's year-to-date return as of the most recent quarter, which ended June 30, 2025 was 6.43%.

&nbsp;&nbsp;**Performance Table Average Annual Total Returns** <br> (For periods ended December 31, 2024)<br>

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|  | **One <br> Year**  | **Since <br> Inception <br> (8/26/20)** |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;Return before taxes | 4.57% | 4.06% |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;Return after taxes on distributions | 4.57% | 4.06% |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;Return after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund shares | 2.71% | 3.14% |
| Index – Russell 1000<sup>®</sup> Growth Index\* | 33.36% | 15.12% |
| Index – Russell 3000<sup>®</sup> Total Return \*\* | 23.81% | 13.94% |

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\* The Russell 1000<sup>®</sup> Growth Index measures the performance of the large-cap growth segment of the U.S. equity universe. It includes those Russell 1000 companies with higher price-to-book ratios and higher forecasted growth values. You cannot invest directly in the index; unlike the Fund's returns, the index does not reflect any fees or expenses.

\*\* The Russell 3000<sup>®</sup> Index is a capitalization-weighted stock market index, maintained by FTSE Russell, that seeks to be a benchmark of the entire U.S stock market. It measures the performance of the 3,000 largest publicly held companies incorporated in America as measured by total market capitalization, and represents approximately 98% of the American public equity market. You cannot invest directly in the index; unlike the Fund's returns, the index does not reflect any fees or expenses.

**Investment Adviser:** 

Sterling Capital Management LLC

**Portfolio Manager:** 

Colin R. Ducharme, CFA<sup>®</sup> has served as lead portfolio manager of the Fund since the Fund's commencement of operations in 2020.

**Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares:** 

Individual Shares may be purchased and sold in secondary market transactions through a broker dealer or at market price. Shares are listed for trading on the Exchange and trade at market prices rather than NAV. Shares may trade at a price greater than NAV (at a premium), at NAV, or less than NAV (at a discount). An investor may incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase Shares (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"). Information on the Fund's NAV, market price, premiums and discounts, and bid-ask-spreads, is available online at www.sterlingcapital.com/etf.

**Tax Information:** 

The Fund's distributions generally will be taxable as ordinary income or long-term capital gains. A sale of Shares may result in capital gain or loss.

**Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries:** 

If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Adviser or its related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of Shares and 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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| **Summary Prospectus** | 3 of 4 | **Sterling Capital Focus Equity ETF** |

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| **Summary Prospectus** | 4 of 4 | **Sterling Capital Focus Equity ETF** |

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