# EDGAR Filing Document

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## Series and Classes Contracts Data

### Vident U.S. Bond Strategy ETF (Series ID: S000046801)

| Class ID   | Class Name                    | Ticker Symbol   |
|:---|:---|:---|
| C000146217 | Vident U.S. Bond Strategy ETF | VBND            |

**Vident U.S. Bond Strategy ETF**<sup>TM</sup> <br>**Trading Symbol: VBND** <br>**Listed on: NYSE Arca, Inc.** <br>***Summary Prospectus*** <br>***December 31, 2025***<br>videntam.com <br>

Before you invest, you may want to review the Fund's prospectus and Statement of Additional Information (SAI), which contain more information about the Fund and its risks. The current prospectus and SAI, each dated December 31, 2025, as supplemented from time to time, are incorporated by reference into this Summary Prospectus. You can find the Fund's prospectus, reports to shareholders, and other information about the Fund online at videntam.com/fund-literature. You can also get this information at no cost by calling 1-800-617-0004 or by sending an e-mail request to ETF@usbank.com.

**Investment Objective** 

The Vident U.S. Bond Strategy ETF™ (the "Fund" or the "U.S. Bond ETF") seeks current income and long-term capital appreciation.

**Fees and Expenses of the Fund** 

The following table describes the fees and expenses 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.** 

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| &nbsp;&nbsp;**Annual Fund Operating Expenses** <br>(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) | |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Management Fees | 0.41% |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Other Expenses | 0.00% |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;**Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses** | **0.41%** |

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**Expense Example**

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 continue to 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. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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|:---|:---|:---|:---|
| **1 Year** | **3 Years** | **5 Years** | **10 Years** |
| $42 | $132 | $230 | $518 |

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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. For the fiscal year ended August 31, 2025, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 168% of the average value of its portfolio.

**Principal Investment Strategies of the Fund** 

The Fund is an actively-managed exchange-traded fund ("ETF") that seeks current income and long-term capital appreciation. Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets, plus borrowings for investment purposes, in debt instruments that are principally traded in the United States. For purposes of the Fund's 80% policy, the Fund may utilize the "To Be Announced" ("TBA") markets for U.S. agency mortgage-backed securities ("MBS") investments, invest in dollar-denominated international bonds that are principally traded in the United States, and invest in private credit funds.

The Fund may invest in any core U.S. bond sector, including U.S. Treasuries, U.S. agency securities, MBS, and investment-grade corporate bonds, private credit collateralized loan obligations ("CLOs") and collateralized mortgage obligations ("CMOs"), as well as any non-core bond sector, such as high-yield corporate bonds (also known as "junk bonds"), Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities ("TIPS"), private credit, and dollar-denominated international bonds, but the Fund generally seeks to diversify interest rate and credit risks across all such U.S. bond sectors. Vident Asset Management, the Fund's investment adviser (the "Adviser" or "Vident"), uses its quantitative methodology to select individual securities within each sector, except private credit, based on a combination of yield, duration (*i.e* ., interest rate sensitivity), creditworthiness, and governance factors, rather than amount of debt/bonds outstanding. Within the investment grade and high yield corporate sectors, the strategy seeks to improve corporate bond exposures by screening for

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companies with relatively stronger leadership, governance, and creditworthiness factors. The Fund generally invests in dollar-dominated international bonds of corporate and sovereign debt issuers located only in countries that meet a minimum threshold using the Adviser's "Country Principles Score", a proprietary scoring system that analyzes certain data inputs to evaluate country economic and financial resilience and overall attractiveness of investing in certain countries. The Fund also seeks to improve liquidity by avoiding small issues (par value less than $500 million).

The Fund limits exposure to high-yield corporate bonds, TIPS, private credit, and dollar denominated international bonds to 22%, 17%, 10%, and 22% of the portfolio, respectively. These maximum weights can be exceeded at times due to natural market movement, especially when market values drift over time due to changing market conditions. The Fund may invest debt instruments of any maturity. The Fund's portfolio will generally have an effective duration of five to nine years and will generally have an average credit quality of investment grade.

The Fund may utilize the TBA market for MBS investments. The TBA market allows investors to gain exposure to MBS with certain broad characteristics (maturity, coupon, age) without taking delivery of the actual securities until the settlement day which is once every month. In addition, the Fund may utilize the TBA roll market, in which one sells, in the TBA market, the security for current month settlement, while simultaneously committing to buy the same TBA security for next month settlement. The Fund may utilize the TBA roll market for extended periods of time without taking delivery of the physical securities.

The term "private credit" refers to lending activity that occurs outside of the broadly-syndicated markets where banks and other traditional lenders place an issuer's debt obligations across a wide range of investors. "Private credit funds" refer to registered funds, business development companies ("BDCs"), and private funds that invest in private credit. For purposes of the Fund's 80% policy, a private credit fund is one that is offered in the U.S. and invests at least 80% of its net assets in private credit. Private credit funds will undergo due diligence by the Adviser with factors, including, but not limited to, manager experience, fund duration, liquidity, sector allocation, and yield.

**Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund** 

The principal risks of investing in the Fund are summarized below. The principal risks are presented in alphabetical order to facilitate finding particular risks and comparing them with other funds. Each risk summarized below is considered a "principal risk" of investing in the Fund, regardless of the order in which it appears. As with any investment, there is a risk that you could lose all or a portion of your investment in the Fund. Some or all of these risks may adversely affect the Fund's net asset value per share ("NAV"), trading price, yield, total return and/or ability to meet its objectives. For more information about the risks of investing in the Fund, see the section in the Fund's Prospectus titled "Additional Information About the Funds".

• **Active Management Risk.** The Fund is actively managed and may not meet its investment objective if the statistical analyses fail to identify the direction or strength of market movements or based on the Adviser's success or failure to implement investment strategies for the Fund. The Fund may invest in complex instruments (each described below), including options and futures contracts. Such instruments may create enhanced risks for the Fund, and the Adviser's ability to control the Fund's level of risk will depend on the Adviser's skill in managing such instruments.

• **Business Development Company ("BDC") Risk** . There are certain risks inherent in investing in BDCs, whose principal business is to invest in, and lend capital or provide services to, privately held companies. The Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the "1940 Act"), imposes certain restraints upon the operations of a BDC. For example, BDCs are required to invest at least 70% of their total assets primarily in securities of private U.S. companies or thinly traded U.S. public companies with market capitalizations of less than $250 million, cash, cash equivalents, U.S. government securities and high-quality debt instruments that mature in one year or less. Generally, little public information exists for private and thinly traded companies, and there is a risk that investors may not be able to make a fully informed investment decision. Additionally, a BDC may incur indebtedness only in amounts such that the BDC's asset coverage equals at least 200% after such incurrence. These limitations on a BDC's asset mix and leverage may have a negative impact on the BDC's ability to raise capital. BDCs generally invest in less mature private companies, which involve greater investment risk than well-established publicly traded companies.

Investments made by BDCs generally are subject to legal and other restrictions on resale and otherwise are less liquid than publicly traded securities. The illiquidity of these investments may make it difficult to sell such investments if the need arises, and if there is a need for a BDC in which the Fund invests to liquidate its portfolio quickly, it may realize a loss on its investments.

Investment advisers to BDCs may be entitled to compensation based on the BDC's performance, which may result in riskier or more speculative investments in an effort to maximize incentive compensation and higher fees. In addition, to the extent that the Fund invests a portion of its assets in BDCs, a shareholder in the Fund not only will bear his or her proportionate share of the expenses of the Fund, but also will bear indirectly the expenses of the BDCs.

• **Call Risk** . During periods of falling interest rates, an issuer of a callable bond held by the Fund may "call" or repay the security before its stated maturity, and the Fund may have to reinvest the proceeds at lower interest rates, resulting in a decline in the Fund's income.

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• **CLO Risk.** CLOs are securities backed by an underlying portfolio of loan obligations. CLOs issue classes or "tranches" that vary in risk and yield and may experience substantial losses due to actual defaults, decrease of market value due to collateral defaults and removal of subordinate tranches, market anticipation of defaults and investor aversion to CLO securities as a class. The risks of investing in CLOs depend largely on the tranche invested in and the type of the underlying loans in the tranche of the CLO in which the Fund invests.

• **CMO Risk.** CMOs are securities backed by an underlying portfolio of mortgages. CMOs are subject to credit risk because underlying loan borrowers may default. CMO default rates tend to be sensitive to overall economic conditions and to localized property vacancy rates and prices. Borrower default rates may be significantly higher than estimated. Certain individual securities may be more sensitive to default rates because payments may be subordinated to other securities of the same issuer. The Sub-Adviser's assessment, or a rating agency's assessment, of borrower credit quality, default rates and loss rates may prove to be overly optimistic. Additionally, CMOs are subject to prepayment risk because the underlying loans held by the issuers may be paid off prior to maturity at faster or lower rates than expected.

• **Corporate Debt Securities Risk** . Corporate bonds are debt obligations issued by corporations. Corporate bonds are generally used by corporations to borrow money from investors. The investment return of corporate bonds reflects interest earned on the security and changes in the market value of the security. The market value of a corporate bond may be affected by changes in the market rate of interest, the credit rating of the issuer, the issuer's performance and perceptions of the issuer in the marketplace. There is a risk that the issuers of the securities may not be able to meet their obligations on interest or principal payments at the time called for by an instrument.

• **Credit Risk.** Debt issuers and other counterparties may not honor their obligations or may have their debt downgraded by ratings agencies.

• **ETF Risks** . The Fund is an ETF, and, as a result of an ETF's structure, it is exposed to the following risks:

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;◦ *Authorized Participants, Market Makers, and Liquidity Providers Concentration Risk.* The Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may act as Authorized Participants ("APs"). In addition, there may be a limited number of market makers and/or liquidity providers in the marketplace. To the extent either of the following events occur, Shares may trade at a material discount to NAV and possibly face delisting: (i) APs exit the business or otherwise become unable to process creation and/or redemption orders and no other APs step forward to perform these services, or (ii) market makers and/or liquidity providers exit the business or significantly reduce their business activities and no other entities step forward to perform their functions.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;◦ *Cash Redemption Risk* . The Fund's investment strategy may require it to redeem shares for cash or to otherwise include cash as part of its redemption proceeds. The Fund may be required to sell or unwind portfolio investments to obtain the cash needed to distribute redemption proceeds. This may cause the Fund to recognize a capital gain that it might not have recognized if it had made a redemption in-kind. As a result, the Fund may pay out higher annual capital gain distributions than if the in-kind redemption process was used.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;◦ *Costs of Buying or Selling Shares.* Due to the costs of buying or selling Shares, including brokerage commissions imposed by brokers and bid-ask spreads, frequent trading of Shares may significantly reduce investment results and an investment in Shares may not be advisable for investors who anticipate regularly making small investments.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;◦ *Shares May Trade at Prices Other Than NAV.* As with all ETFs, Shares may be bought and sold in the secondary market at market prices. Although it is expected that the market price of Shares will approximate the Fund's NAV, there may be times when the market price of Shares is more than the NAV intra-day (premium) or less than the NAV intra-day (discount) due to supply and demand of Shares or during periods of market volatility. This risk is heightened in times of market volatility, periods of steep market declines, and periods when there is limited trading activity for Shares in the secondary market, in which case such premiums or discounts may be significant.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;◦ *Trading* . Although Shares are listed for trading on NYSE Arca, Inc. (the "Exchange") and may be traded on U.S. exchanges other than the Exchange, there can be no assurance that Shares will trade with any volume, or at all, on any stock exchange. There can be no assurance that an active trading market for such Shares will develop or be maintained. In stressed market conditions, the liquidity of Shares may begin to mirror the liquidity of the Fund's underlying portfolio holdings, which can be significantly less liquid than Shares, and this could lead to differences between the market price of the Shares and the underlying value of those Shares.

• **Extension Risk** . During periods of rising interest rates, certain debt obligations will be paid off substantially more slowly than originally anticipated and the value of those securities may fall sharply, resulting in a decline in the Fund's income and potentially in the value of the Fund's investments.

• **Foreign Securities Risk** . Investments in securities that provide exposure to foreign markets, such as dollar-denominated international bonds that are principally traded in the United States, involve certain risks that may not be present with investments

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in U.S. securities. For example, investments in non-U.S. securities may be subject to risk of loss due to foreign currency fluctuations or adverse political or economic developments even if they are traded in the United States. Foreign securities may have relatively low market liquidity and there may be decreased publicly available information about foreign issuers. Investments in non-U.S. securities also may be subject to withholding or other taxes and may be subject to additional trading, settlement, custodial, and operational risks. Non-U.S. issuers may also be subject to inconsistent and potentially less stringent accounting, auditing, financial reporting and investor protection standards than U.S. issuers. These and other factors can make investments in the Fund more volatile and potentially less liquid than other types of investments.

• **Government Obligations Risk** . No assurance can be given that the U.S. government will provide financial support to U.S. government-sponsored agencies or instrumentalities where it is not obligated to do so by law, such as the Federal National Mortgage Association ("Fannie Mae") and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation ("Freddie Mac"). Securities issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have historically been supported only by the discretionary authority of the U.S. government. While the U.S. government provides financial support to various U.S. government-sponsored agencies and instrumentalities, such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, no assurance can be given that it will always do so. In September 2008, at the direction of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were placed into conservatorship under the Federal Housing Finance Agency ("FHFA"), an independent regulator, and they remain in such status as of the date of this Prospectus. The U.S. government also took steps to provide additional financial support to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

• **High-Yield Securities Risk** . High-yield securities (also known as "junk bonds") carry a greater degree of risk and are considered speculative by the major credit rating agencies. High-yield securities may be issued by companies that are restructuring, are smaller and less creditworthy, or are more highly indebted than other companies. This means that they may have more difficulty making scheduled payments of principal and interest. Changes in the value of high-yield securities are influenced more by changes in the financial and business position of the issuing company than by changes in interest rates when compared to investment grade securities. High-yield securities have greater volatility because there is less certainty that principal and interest payments will be made as scheduled. The Fund's investments in high-yield securities expose it to a substantial degree of credit risk. These investments are considered speculative under traditional investment standards. Prices of high-yield securities will rise and fall primarily in response to actual or perceived changes in the issuer's financial health, although changes in market interest rates also will affect prices. High-yield securities may experience reduced liquidity and sudden and substantial decreases in price.

• **Interest Rate Risk** . An increase in interest rates may cause the value of fixed-income securities held by the Fund to decline. Securities with longer durations tend to be more sensitive to interest rate changes, usually making them more volatile than securities with shorter durations. For example, the price of a bond with a three-year duration would be expected to drop by approximately 3% in response to a 1% increase in interest rates. Generally, the longer the maturity and duration of a bond, the more sensitive the bond is to interest rate risk.

• **Issuer-Specific Risk** . Issuer-specific events, including changes in the financial condition of an issuer, can have a negative impact on the value of the Fund.

• **Liquidity Risk** . Liquidity risk exists when particular investments are difficult to purchase or sell. This can reduce the Fund's returns because the Fund may be unable to transact at advantageous times or prices.

• **Market Risk** . The trading prices of debt securities and other instruments fluctuate in response to a variety of factors. The Fund's NAV and market price may fluctuate significantly in response to these and other factors. As a result, an investor could lose money over short or long periods of time.

• **Models and Data Risk** . When Models and Data prove to be incorrect or incomplete, any decisions made in reliance thereon expose the Fund to potential risks. Some of the models used by the Adviser for the Fund are predictive in nature. The use of predictive models has inherent risks. For example, such models may incorrectly forecast future behavior, leading to potential losses. In addition, in unforeseen or certain low-probability scenarios (often involving a market disruption of some kind), such models may produce unexpected results, which can result in losses for the Fund. Furthermore, because predictive models are usually constructed based on historical data supplied by third parties, the success of relying on such models may depend heavily on the accuracy and reliability of the supplied historical data.

• **Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Securities Risk** . The Fund may invest in U.S. government agency-backed mortgage- and asset-backed securities. Mortgage- and asset-backed securities are subject to interest rate risk. Modest movements in interest rates (both increases and decreases) may quickly and significantly reduce the value of certain types of these securities. When interest rates fall, mortgage- and asset-backed securities may be subject to prepayment risk. When interest rates rise, certain types of mortgage- and asset-backed securities are subject to extension risk. Mortgage- and asset-backed securities can also be subject to the risk of default on the underlying residential or commercial mortgage(s) or other assets.

• **Other Investment Companies Risk** . The risks of investing in other investment companies, such as registered funds and BDCs, typically reflect the risks of the types of instruments in which the investment company invests. By investing in another investment company, the Fund becomes a shareholder of that investment company and bears its proportionate share of the fees and expenses

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of the investment company. As a result, an investment by the Fund in an investment company could cause the Fund's operating expenses (taking into account indirect expenses such as the fees and expenses of the investment company) to be higher and, in turn, performance to be lower than if it were to invest directly in the instruments underlying the investment company.

• **Prepayment Risk** . This is the risk that a borrower will prepay some or the entire principal owed to the Fund. If that happens, the Fund may have to replace the security by investing the proceeds in a security with a lower yield. This could reduce the share price and income distributions of the Fund.

• **Private Credit Risk** . Investments in private securities are not traded in public markets, are illiquid, can be subject to various restrictions on resale, and there can be no assurance that the Fund or a private credit fund will be able to realize the value of such investments in a timely manner. Additionally, private credit investments can range in credit quality depending on security-specific factors, including total leverage, amount of leverage senior to the security in question, variability in the issuer's cash flows, the size of the issuer, the quality of assets securing debt and the degree to which such assets cover the subject company's debt obligations. The companies in which the Fund invests directly or indirectly may be leveraged, often as a result of leveraged buyouts or other recapitalization transactions, and often will not be rated by national credit rating agencies.

• **Private Fund Risk** . The Fund's investments in private funds require it to bear a pro rata share of the vehicles' expenses, including management and performance fees. The fees the Fund pays to invest in a private fund may be higher than if the manager of the private fund managed the Fund's assets directly. The performance fees paid by certain private funds potentially create an incentive for its manager to make investments that are riskier and/or more speculative than those it might have made in the absence of a performance fee. Furthermore, private funds are subject to specific risks, depending on the nature of the vehicle, including the frequency and amount of redemptions paid to the Fund, and also may employ leverage such that their returns are more than one times that of their benchmark which could amplify losses suffered by the Fund when compared to unleveraged investments. With respect to the frequency and amounts of redemptions paid to the Fund, there is no guarantee that the Fund will be paid all or any of the redemption amount at the time requested. Further, a private fund can suspend redemptions or pay a pro-rata portion of redemption requests if the general partner or its respective board deems it in the best interest of its shareholders. Shareholders of private funds are not entitled to the protections of the 1940 Act. Private fund may permit redemptions only quarterly (or less frequently) and these withdrawal limitations restrict the Adviser's ability to terminate investments in private funds. If values are falling, the Fund may not be able to sell its private funds and the value of Fund shares will decline. These characteristics present additional risks for shareholders.

• **Sector Risk** . To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors of the economy, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors.

• **TBA Securities and Rolls Risk** . TBA transactions are subject to increased credit risk and increased overall investment exposure. TBA rolls involve the risk that the Fund's counterparty will be unable to deliver the mortgage-backed securities underlying the TBA roll at the fixed time. If the buyer files for bankruptcy or becomes insolvent, the buyer or its representative may ask for and receive an extension of time to decide whether to enforce the Fund's repurchase obligation. In addition, the Fund earns interest by investing the transaction proceeds during the roll period. TBA roll transactions may have the effect of creating leverage in the Fund's portfolio.

• **TIPS Risk** . The value of TIPS generally fluctuates in response to inflationary concerns. As inflationary concerns decrease, TIPS will become less attractive and less valuable.

• **U.S. Government Securities Risk** . U.S. government securities are subject to price fluctuations and to default in the event that an agency or instrumentality defaults on an obligation not backed by the full faith and credit of the United States.

• **Valuation of Private Funds Risk** . Private funds are not publicly traded. Accordingly, the Adviser may consider information provided by the institutional manager to determine the estimated value of the Fund's investment therein. The valuation provided by an institutional manager as of a specific date may vary from the actual sale price that may be obtained if such investment were sold to a third party, if a secondary market for such investment existed. Accordingly, there can be no assurance that the stated NAV of the Fund, as calculated based on such information, will be accurate on any given date, nor can there be any assurance that the sale of any property would be at a price equivalent to the last estimated value of such property.

**Performance** 

The following performance information indicates some of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows the Fund's performance for the calendar years ended December 31. The table illustrates how the Fund's average annual returns for the 1-year, 5-year, and 10-year periods compare with those of the FTSE US Broad Investment Grade Bond Index, a broad measure of U.S. bond market performance, and the blended returns of the Vident Core U.S. Bond Index and Vident Core U.S. Bond Strategy Index, the Fund's former underlying indices. The Fund's past performance, before and after taxes, does not necessarily indicate how it will perform in the future. Updated performance information is available on the Fund's website at www.videntam.com.

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The Fund's investment objective and strategies changed effective May 9, 2025. Prior to that date, the Fund tracked the performance, before fees and expenses, of the Vident Core U.S. Bond Index <sup>TM</sup> and, prior to January 6, 2016, the Fund tracked the performance, before fees and expenses, of the Vident Core U.S. Bond Strategy Index.

**Calendar Year Total Returns**

![chart-955921ea9a284264b01.jpg](chart-955921ea9a284264b01.jpg)

For the year-to-date period ended September 30, 2025, the Fund's total return was 5.75%. During the period of time shown in the bar chart, the Fund's highest quarterly return was 7.53% for the quarter ended December 31, 2023, and the lowest quarterly return was -6.65% for the quarter ended March 31, 2022.

**Average Annual Total Returns** 

**For the Periods Ended December 31, 2024** 

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| **Vident U.S. Bond Strategy ETF™** | **<u>1 Year</u>** | **<u>5 Years</u>** | **<u>10 Years</u>** |
| Return Before Taxes | 1.52% | -0.24% | 1.27% |
| Return After Taxes on Distributions | -0.26% | -1.39% | 0.16% |
| Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Shares | 0.89% | -0.65% | 0.50% |
| **FTSE US Broad Investment Grade Bond Index** <br>(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes) | 1.27% | -0.33% | 1.36% |
| **Vident Core U.S. Bond Index/Vident Core U.S. Bond Strategy Index**<sup>\*</sup><br>(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes) | 2.00% | 0.41% | 1.98% |

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<sup>\*</sup> Effective May 9, 2025, the Fund changed from a passively-managed index fund into an actively-managed fund. Effective January 6, 2016, the Fund's investment objective changed to track the performance, before fees and expenses, of the Vident Core U.S. Bond Index. Prior to January 6, 2016, the Fund's investment objective was to track the price and total return performance, before fees and expenses, of the Vident Core U.S. Bond Strategy Index. Performance shown for periods prior to January 6, 2016, is that of the Vident Core U.S. Bond Strategy Index.

After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates during the period covered by the table above and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold their Shares through tax-deferred arrangements such as an individual retirement account ("IRA") or other tax-advantaged accounts. In certain cases, the figure representing "Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Shares" may be higher than the other return figures for the same period. A higher after-tax return results when a capital loss occurs upon redemption and provides an assumed tax deduction that benefits the investor.

**Management** 

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| *Adviser:* | Vident Asset Management |
| *Portfolio Managers:* | Jim Iredale, CFA, Senior Portfolio Manager for Vident, has been a portfolio manager of the Fund since April 2015.  |
|  | Jeff Kernagis, CFA, Senior Portfolio Manager for Vident, has been a portfolio manager of the Fund since June 2022. |
|  | Devin Ryder, CFA, Senior Portfolio Manager for Vident, has been a portfolio manager of the Fund since May 2025. |
|  | Adam Longenecker, Director of Quantitative Research for Vident, has been a portfolio manager of the Fund since May 2025. |

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**Purchase and Sale of Shares** 

Shares are listed on the Exchange, and individual Shares may only be bought and sold in the secondary market through brokers at market prices, rather than NAV. Because Shares trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares may trade at a price greater than NAV (premium) or less than NAV (discount).

The Fund issues and redeems Shares at NAV only in large blocks known as "Creation Units," which only APs (typically, broker-dealers) may purchase or redeem. The Fund generally issues and redeems Creation Units in exchange for a portfolio of securities and/or a designated amount of U.S. cash.

Investors 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"). Recent information about the Fund, including its NAV, market price, premiums and discounts, and bid-ask spreads is available on the Fund's website at www.videntam.com.

**Tax Information** 

Fund distributions are generally taxable as ordinary income or capital gains (or a combination), unless your investment is in an IRA or other tax-advantaged account. Distributions on investments made through tax-deferred arrangements may be taxed later upon withdrawal of assets from those accounts.

**Financial Intermediary Compensation** 

If you purchase Shares through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank) (an "Intermediary"), the Adviser or its affiliates may pay Intermediaries for certain activities related to the Fund, including participation in activities that are designed to make Intermediaries more knowledgeable about exchange traded products, including the Fund, or for other activities, such as marketing, educational training or other initiatives related to the sale or promotion of Shares. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the Intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment. Any such arrangements do not result in increased Fund expenses. Ask your salesperson or visit the Intermediary's website for more information.

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