# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001612930
**File Stem:** 0001999371-25-012121
**Filing Date:** 2025-8
**Character Count:** 10958
**Document Hash:** 07aeea11953c4ba6323700e8c150679b
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001999371-25-012121.hdr.sgml**: 20250827

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001999371-25-012121

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: DEFA14A

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 1

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20250827

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20250827

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** Angel Oak Funds Trust
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001612930

**ORGANIZATION NAME:**
- **EIN:** 000000000
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** DE
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 0131

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** DEFA14A
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 811-22980
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251264497

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 3344 PEACHTREE ROAD NE, SUITE 1725
- **CITY:** ATLANTA
- **STATE:** GA
- **ZIP:** 30326
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 404-953-4900

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 3344 PEACHTREE ROAD NE, SUITE 1725
- **CITY:** ATLANTA
- **STATE:** GA
- **ZIP:** 30326

## Series and Classes Contracts Data

### Angel Oak Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF (Series ID: S000083813)

| Class ID   | Class Name                               | Ticker Symbol   |
|:---|:---|:---|
| C000247830 | Angel Oak Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF | MBS             |

**UNITED STATES**

**SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION**

**Washington, D.C. 20549**

**SCHEDULE 14A**

**SCHEDULE 14A INFORMATION**

Proxy Statement Pursuant to Section 14(a)

of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Amendment No.)

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☐ Preliminary Proxy Statement

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☐ Definitive Proxy Statement

☒ Definitive Additional Materials

☐ Soliciting Material Under to §240.14a-12

**Angel Oak Funds Trust**

(Name of Registrant as Specified In Its Charter)

(Name of Person(s) Filing Proxy Statement, if other than the Registrant)

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☒ No fee required. <br> ☐ Fee computed on table below per Exchange Act Rules 14a-6(i)(1) and 0-11.

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**ANGEL OAK FUNDS TRUST<br>(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)<br>Angel Oak Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF**

**3344 Peachtree Road NE, Suite 1725<br>Atlanta, Georgia 30326**<br>(404) 953-4900

August 27, 2025

Dear Shareholder of Angel Oak Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF (the "Fund"), a series of Angel Oak Funds Trust (the "Trust"),

**No action is required as you have previously voted your shares.** 

Enclosed are materials concerning the adjourned Special Meeting of Shareholders (the "Meeting") of the Fund, which is now scheduled to meet on Friday, September 26, 2025.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;•**IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO CHANGE YOUR VOTE, NO ACTION IS NECESSARY.** Unless we receive instructions from you to the contrary, we will vote your shares according to your previous instructions on any previously submitted proxy card(s) or pursuant to any instructions previously submitted by telephone or through the internet.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;•**IF YOU WISH TO CHANGE YOUR VOTE,** please just complete, sign, date and return the Fund's proxy card included with the Proxy Statement for the Meeting filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on May 14, 2025.

**As you may recall from previous mailings, the Board of Trustees of the Trust recommends that Fund shareholders vote to approve a new investment advisory agreement.** Angel Oak Capital Advisors, LLC ("Angel Oak"), the Fund's adviser, has a pending change in ownership of its ultimate parent (the "Transaction") that requires a new investment advisory agreement (the "New Investment Advisory Agreement") between Angel Oak and the Trust, in order for Angel Oak to continue as the Fund's adviser. Please know that the Transaction will not result in material changes to the day-to-day management and operations of the Fund or result in any fee increases. For Angel Oak to continue as the Fund's adviser, Fund shareholders, like yourself, need to approve the New Investment Advisory Agreement.

If you have any questions about the proposal or the voting instructions, please call EQ Fund Solutions, LLC toll free at (866) 521-4198.

Sincerely,

Adam Langley<br>President of the Trust

**ANGEL OAK FUNDS TRUST<br>(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)<br>Angel Oak Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF**

**3344 Peachtree Road NE, Suite 1725<br>Atlanta, Georgia 30326**<br>(404) 953-4900

**NOTICE OF ADJOURNED SPECIAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS**

Dear Shareholder:

I am writing to notify you that the special meeting of Shareholders of Angel Oak Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF (the "Fund"), a series of Angel Oak Funds Trust (the "Trust"), originally scheduled for June 26, 2025, has been adjourned to a new date of Friday, September 26, 2025 at 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time (the "Meeting"). The Meeting will be held at the offices of Angel Oak Capital Advisors, LLC ("Angel Oak"), 3344 Peachtree Road NE, Suite 1725, Atlanta, Georgia 30326. At the Meeting, shareholders will be asked to vote on the following proposal:

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1.To approve a new investment advisory agreement between the Trust, on behalf of the Fund, and Angel Oak.

In accordance with the by-laws of the Trust, the board of trustees of the Trust has established a new record date of August 18, 2025 (the "New Record Date") for the adjourned Meeting. Only shareholders of record at the close of business on the New Record Date are entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the adjourned Meeting (and any further adjournments thereof).

The information in this letter amends the Notice of a Special Meeting of Shareholders (the "Original Notice") and the Proxy Statement for the Meeting, each of which were filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on May 14, 2025 (the "Proxy Statement") and any other information about the Meeting. Because you were a shareholder on April 28, 2025 (the "Original Record Date"), you previously received the Original Notice and the Proxy Statement. In response to the Proxy Statement:

**YOU HAVE PREVIOUSLY VOTED YOUR SHARES**

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;•**IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO CHANGE YOUR VOTE, NO ACTION IS NECESSARY.** Unless we receive instructions from you to the contrary, we will vote your shares according to your previous instructions on any previously submitted proxy card(s) or pursuant to any instructions previously submitted by telephone or through the internet.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;•**IF YOU WISH TO CHANGE YOUR VOTE,** please just complete, sign, date and return the Fund's proxy card included with the Proxy Statement for the Meeting filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on May 14, 2025.

**As you may recall from previous mailings, the Board of Trustees of the Trust recommends that Fund shareholders vote to approve a new investment advisory agreement.** Angel Oak Capital Advisors, LLC ("Angel Oak"), the Fund's adviser, has a pending change in ownership of its ultimate parent (the "Transaction") that requires a new investment advisory agreement (the "New Investment Advisory Agreement") between Angel Oak and the Trust, in order for Angel Oak to continue as the Fund's adviser. Please know that the Transaction will not result in material changes to the day-to-day management and operations of the Fund or result in any fee increases. For Angel Oak to continue as the Fund's adviser, Fund shareholders, like yourself, need to approve the New Investment Advisory Agreement.

The number of outstanding shares of the Fund, as of the close of business on the New Record Date, is

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| **Name of the Fund** | **Shares Outstanding** |
|  Angel Oak Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF | 16,706,336 |

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As of the New Record Date: no shareholder beneficially owned more than 5% of the Fund, except as provided in Appendix A to this notice.

To the extent the information in the Original Notice and Proxy Statement has not been amended by this letter, such information remains applicable to this solicitation of proxies and the Meeting.

If you would like another copy of the Proxy Statement please go to the following hyperlink: <br>https://vote.proxyonline.com/angeloak/docs/specialmeeting2025.pdf**.** If you have any questions about the proposals or the voting instructions, please call EQ Fund Solutions, LLC toll free at (866) 521-4198.

Sincerely,

Adam Langley<br>President of the Trust

**Appendix A – Control Persons and Principal Shareholders**

A principal shareholder is any person who owns (either of record or beneficially) 5% or more of the outstanding shares of any class of the Fund. A control person under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, is one who owns, either directly or indirectly, more than 25% of the voting securities of the Fund or acknowledges the existence of such control. A control person can have a significant impact on the outcome of a shareholder vote. As of the New Record Date, the shareholders indicated below were known to the Fund to be a control person Fund. The Fund has no principal shareholder.

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| **Name and Address of the Beneficial Owner** | **Share Class** | **Amounts of <br>Shares Owned** | **Percentage of <br>the Class** |
|  Charles Schwab & Co. Inc.<br> 2423 E. Lincoln Drive<br> Phoenix, AZ 85016 | N/A | 7602816 | 45.51% |
|  National Financial Services LLC<br> 499 Washington Boulevard<br> Jersey City, NJ 07310 | N/A | 4961543 | 29.70% |
|  U.S. Bank N.A.<br> 1555 N. Rivercenter Drive, Suite 302<br> Milwaukee, WI 53212 | N/A | 2375516 | 14.22% |

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