Bridge Builder Trust

10/25/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 10/25/2024 13:29

Summary Prospectus by Investment Company - Form 497K

497K

Bridge Builder Municipal High-Income Bond Fund

Summary Prospectus

Ticker: BBMHX October 28, 2024

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, Statement of Additional Information and other information about the Fund online at:

www.bridgebuildermutualfunds.com

You may also obtain this information at no cost by calling 1-855-823-3611 or by e-mail at [email protected]. The Fund's Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information, each dated October 28, 2024, are incorporated by reference into this Summary Prospectus.

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SUMMARY SECTION

Bridge Builder Municipal High-Income Bond Fund

Investment Objective

The investment objective of the Bridge Builder Municipal High-Income Bond Fund (the "Fund" or the "Municipal High-Income Bond Fund") is to provide current income exempt from federal tax.

Fees and Expenses of the Fund

The following table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund. You may pay other fees, such as annual program or administrative fees for participating in Edward Jones Advisory Solutions® ("Advisory Solutions"), Edward Jones Guided Solutions® ("Guided Solutions") or Edward Jones Financial Advisor Managed Solutions ("FA Managed Solutions") (collectively, the "Advisory Programs"), which are not reflected in the table and examples below.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses

(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

Management Fees(1)

0.36 %

Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees

None

Other Expenses(2)

0.07 %

Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses

0.43 %

Less Waivers(1)

(0.23 )%

Net Annual Fund Operating Expenses

0.20 %
(1)

Olive Street Investment Advisers, LLC (the "Adviser") has contractually agreed, until at least October 28, 2025, to waive its management fees to the extent management fees to be paid to the Adviser exceed the management fees the Fund is required to pay the Fund's sub-advisers (i.e., the Adviser does not receive any management fees from the Fund as a result of its waivers). This contractual agreement may not be terminated by the Adviser without the consent of the Board of Trustees (the "Board") of Bridge Builder Trust (the "Trust"), except that the Adviser may terminate the agreement upon written notice to the Trust, effective as of the end of the expense limitation period ending October 28, 2025, if written notice is provided to the Trust by or before a date agreed to by the Board. Such waivers are not subject to reimbursement by the Fund.

(2)

Other Expenses include acquired fund fees and expenses less than 0.01%.

Example

This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then 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 (taking into account the Adviser's agreement to waive management fees until October 28, 2025). Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

1 Year 3 Years 5 Years 10 Years
$20 $115 $218 $520

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 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 most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 19% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

The Fund invests, under normal market conditions, at least 80% of its net assets (plus the amount of borrowings for investment purposes) in municipal securities of any maturity or duration whose interest is exempt from federal income tax. These municipal securities include debt obligations issued by or on behalf of a state or local entity or other qualifying issuer that pay interest that is, in the opinion of bond counsel to the issuer, generally excludable from gross income for federal income tax purposes (except that the interest may be includable in taxable income for certain taxpayers subject to the federal alternative minimum tax ("Federal

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AMT")). Municipal securities may be obligations of a variety of issuers, including state or local entities or other qualifying issuers. Issuers may be states, territories, and possessions of the United States and the District of Columbia and their political subdivisions, agencies, and instrumentalities.

The Fund invests at least 50% of its assets in municipal securities rated Baa1 or lower by Moody's Investors Service, Inc. ("Moody's"), BBB+ or lower by Standard & Poor's Corporation ("S&P"), or an equivalent rating by another nationally recognized securities rating organization ("NRSRO"), or in unrated securities that a sub-adviser of the Fund believes are of comparable quality. Such investments include municipal securities rated below investment grade, also known as "junk bonds," which are municipal securities rated Ba1 or lower by Moody's, BB+ or lower by S&P, or an equivalent rating by another NRSRO, or in unrated securities that a sub-adviser believes are of comparable quality.

The Fund invests in municipal securities including, but not limited to, municipal bonds related to financing projects such as those relating to education, health care, and transportation. The Fund may purchase or sell securities which it is eligible to purchase or sell on a when-issued and delayed-delivery basis and may make contracts to purchase or sell such securities for a fixed price at a future date beyond normal settlement time (forward commitments). The purchase or sale of securities on a when-issued basis or on a delayed delivery basis or through a forward commitment involves the purchase or sale of securities by the Fund at an established price with payment and delivery taking place in the future. The Fund also invests in futures and may buy or sell futures to hedge exposure to risk factors, for speculative purposes or as a substitute for investing in conventional fixed income securities. In addition, the Fund may invest in privately issued securities (e.g., Rule 144A securities) and other investment companies, including open-end or closed-end investment companies and exchange-traded funds ("ETFs") that have characteristics that are consistent with the Fund's investment objective.

The Fund's portfolio is constructed by combining the investment styles and strategies of multiple sub-advisers that have been or will be retained by the Adviser (each a "Sub-adviser"). Each Sub-adviser may use both its own proprietary and external research and securities selection processes to manage its allocated portion of the Fund's assets.

Portfolio securities may be sold at any time. Sales may occur when a Sub-adviser seeks to take advantage of what a Sub-adviser considers to be a better investment opportunity, when a Sub-adviser believes the portfolio securities no longer represent relatively attractive investment opportunities, when a Sub-adviser perceives deterioration in the credit fundamentals of the issuer, or when a Sub-adviser believes that it would be appropriate to do so in order to readjust the duration or asset allocation of its portion of the Fund's investment portfolio.

The Adviser is responsible for determining the amount of Fund assets allocated to each Sub-adviser. The Adviser may allocate Fund assets to the following Sub-advisers: Capital International, Inc. ("Capital International") and T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. ("T. Rowe Price"). The Adviser may adjust allocations to the Sub-advisers at any time or make recommendations to the Board with respect to the hiring, termination, or replacement of a Sub-adviser. Below is a summary of each Sub-adviser's principal investment strategies.

Capital International's Principal Investment Strategies

Capital International's investment philosophy is to seek to invest in attractively priced securities that, in its opinion, represent good, long-term investment opportunities. Capital International uses a system of multiple portfolio managers in managing its allocated portion of the Fund's assets. Under this approach, its allocated portion of the Fund's assets is divided into segments managed by individual portfolio managers. With respect to its allocated portion of the Fund's assets, Capital International primarily invests in municipal securities that provide income exempt from federal personal income tax and may subject certain taxpayers to Federal AMT. In selecting securities for its allocated portion of the Fund's assets, Capital International may accept risks to capital value that it deems prudent to take advantage of opportunities for higher current income on municipal securities in which it invests. Capital International may sell securities when it believes that they no longer represent relatively attractive investment opportunities.

T. Rowe Price's Principal Investment Strategies

T. Rowe Price's active investment management approach emphasizes the value of in-depth fundamental credit research, diversification and risk management practices. By using fundamental research, T. Rowe Price seeks to add value through sector weights (emphasizing higher yielding revenue bonds at the expense of state and local general obligation debt) and issue selection over a full market cycle. The goal of this approach is to build a yield advantage into the portfolio while still taking a risk-conscious approach. Risk management includes managing the portfolio's duration (which is a measurement of the price sensitivity of a bond or bond fund to changes in interest rates), while also focusing on striking a balance between (i) having conviction (and an overweight allocation) in certain sectors and (ii) not being disproportionately dependent on any one sector or portfolio exposure. T. Rowe Price will invest in investment grade bonds, as well as below investment grade bonds.

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Principal Risks

Since the Fund holds securities with fluctuating market prices, the value of the Fund's shares varies as its portfolio securities increase or decrease in value. Therefore, the value of your investment in the Fund could go down as well as up. You may lose money by investing in the Fund. An investment in the Fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The principal risks affecting the Fund that can cause a decline in value are set forth below. The risks are ordered in alphabetical order after the first six risks, although the order of the risk factors does not indicate the significance of any particular risk factor. Any additional risks associated with the Fund's non-principal investments are described in the Statement of Additional Information ("SAI"). The SAI also provides additional information about the risks associated with the Fund's principal investments described herein.

Market Risk. The overall market may perform poorly or the returns from the securities in which the Fund invests may underperform returns from the general securities markets, a particular securities market, or other types of investments. A variety of factors can influence underperformance and can have a significant impact on the Fund and its investments, including regulatory events, inflation, interest rates, government defaults, government shutdowns, war, regional conflicts, acts of terrorism, social unrest, and substantial economic downturn or recessions. In addition, the impact of any epidemic, pandemic, natural disaster, spread of infectious illness or other public health issue, or widespread fear that such events may occur, could negatively affect the global economy, as well as the economies of individual countries, the financial performance of individual companies and sectors, and the markets in general in significant and unforeseen ways. Any such impact could adversely affect the prices and liquidity of the securities and other instruments in which the Fund invests, which in turn could negatively impact the Fund's performance and cause losses on your investment in the Fund.

Interest Rate Risk. The value of fixed income securities may decline because of increases in interest rates or rise because of decreases in interest rates. The value of a fixed income security with greater duration will be more sensitive to changes in interest rates than a similar security with shorter duration. The prices of fixed income securities with shorter duration generally will be less affected by changes in interest rates than the prices of fixed income securities with greater duration. A low interest rate environment may present greater interest rate risk, because there may be a greater likelihood of rates increasing and rates may increase more rapidly. Fluctuations in interest rates may also affect the liquidity of the fixed-income securities held by the Fund. As a result, it is possible that the Fund would, during these conditions, maintain a substantial portion of its assets in cash, on which it may earn little, if any, income. Changes in monetary policy made by central banks and/or their governments or changes in economic conditions may affect the level of interest rates, which could have sudden or unpredictable effects on the markets. A sudden or unpredictable rise or decline in interest rates may cause volatility and reduced liquidity in the markets, which could make it more difficult for the Fund to sell its investments at a time when it may be advantageous to do so and could cause the value of the Fund's investments to decline, potentially suddenly and significantly.

Credit Risk. Credit risk is the risk that the issuer of a bond will fail to make payments when due or default completely. If the issuer of the bond experiences an actual or anticipated deterioration in credit quality, the price of the bond may be negatively impacted. The degree of credit risk depends on the financial condition of the issuer and the terms of the bond.

Municipal Securities Risk. The value of the Fund's investments in municipal securities may be adversely affected by unfavorable legislative or political developments and economic developments that impact the financial condition of municipal issuers. For example, a credit rating downgrade, bond default, or bankruptcy involving an issuer within a particular state or territory could affect the market values and marketability of many or all municipal obligations of that state or territory. Additionally, the relative amount of publicly available information about the financial condition of municipal securities issuers is generally less than that for corporate securities.

Liquidity Risk. Low trading volume, a lack of a market maker, or contractual or legal restrictions may limit the Fund's ability to value securities or prevent the Fund from selling securities or closing derivative positions at desirable times or prices.

Active Management Risk. The Fund is actively managed with discretion and may underperform market indices, including relevant benchmark indices, or other mutual funds with similar investment objectives. In addition, to the extent that a Sub-adviser's investment strategy uses a quantitative investment model to evaluate and recommend investment decisions for the Fund, the Fund can perform differently from the market as a whole based on the factors used in the model, the weight placed on each factor and changes from the factors' historical trends.

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Counterparty Risk. When the Fund enters into an investment contract, such as a derivative or a repurchase agreement, the Fund is exposed to the risk that the other party may be unable or unwilling to fulfill its obligations, which could adversely impact the value of the Fund.

Derivatives Risk. An investment in derivatives (such as futures contracts) may not perform as anticipated by the Sub-advisers, may not be able to be closed out at a favorable time or price, or may increase the Fund's volatility. Derivatives may create investment leverage so that when a derivative is used as a substitute for or alternative to a direct cash investment, the transaction may not provide a return that corresponds precisely with that of the cash investment, or when used for hedging purposes, the derivative may not provide the anticipated protection, causing the Fund to lose money on both the derivative and the exposure the Fund sought to hedge. Increases and decreases in the value of the Fund's portfolio may be magnified when the Fund uses leverage. Derivatives are also subject to correlation risk, which is the risk that changes in the value of the derivative may not correlate perfectly with the underlying asset, rate or index. The Fund's use of derivatives is also subject to market risk and liquidity risk, which are described above.

High Yield Securities Risk. High yield, or "junk," securities involve greater risks of default or downgrade and are more volatile than investment grade securities because the prospect for repayment of principal and interest of these securities is speculative. High-yield securities also may be less liquid than higher quality investments. These securities may offer higher returns, but there is no guarantee that an investment in these securities will result in a high rate of return.

Investment Company and Exchange-Traded Fund Risk. An investment company, including an ETF, in which the Fund invests may not achieve its investment objective or execute its investment strategies effectively. Large purchase or redemption activity by shareholders of such an investment company might negatively affect the value of the investment company's shares. The Fund must also pay its pro rata portion of an investment company's fees and expenses.

Investment Strategy Risk. There is no assurance the Fund's investment objective will be achieved. Investment decisions may not produce the expected results. The value of the Fund may decline, and the Fund may underperform other funds with similar objectives or strategies.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than, and can perform differently from, the market as a whole or other similar securities.

Multi-Manager and Multi-Style Management Risk. The Fund allocates its assets to multiple Sub-advisers believed to have complementary styles. These investment styles, at times, may not be complementary and could result in more exposure to certain types of securities. Because portions of the Fund's assets are managed by different Sub-advisers using different styles, the Fund could engage in overlapping or conflicting securities transactions. Overlapping transactions could lead to multiple Sub-advisers purchasing the same or similar securities at the same time, potentially leading to the Fund holding a more concentrated position in these securities. Conversely, certain Sub-advisers may be purchasing securities at the same time other Sub-advisers may be selling those same securities, which may lead to higher transaction expenses compared to a fund using a single investment management style.

Municipal Revenue Bond Risk. Municipal revenue bonds are used to finance municipal projects that generate revenue. These types of bonds may be more sensitive to adverse economic, business or political developments than other types of municipal bonds. In addition, if the specified revenues from a project do not materialize, there is a risk that the bonds may not be repaid. As a result, the municipal revenue bonds in which the Fund invests may entail greater credit risk than the Fund's investments in other types of municipal bonds. Moreover, a change that affects one project, such as proposed legislation on the financing of the project, a shortage of the materials needed for the project, or a declining need for the project, would likely affect all similar projects, thereby increasing the Fund's market risk.

New Fund Risk. Because the Fund is new, investors in the Fund bear the risk that the Fund may not be successful in implementing its investment strategy, may not employ a successful investment strategy, or may fail to attract sufficient assets under management to realize economies of scale, any of which could result in the Fund being liquidated at any time without shareholder approval and at a time that may not be favorable for all shareholders. Such liquidation could have negative tax consequences for shareholders and will cause shareholders to incur expenses of liquidation.

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Prepayment and Extension Risk. When interest rates fall, issuers of high interest debt obligations, as well as issuers of callable bonds, may pay off the debts earlier than expected (prepayment risk), and the Fund may have to reinvest the proceeds at lower yields. When interest rates rise, issuers of lower interest debt obligations may pay off the debts later than expected (extension risk), thus keeping the Fund's assets tied up in lower interest debt obligations.

Private Activity Bonds Risk. Municipalities and other public authorities issue private activity bonds to finance development of industrial facilities for use by a private enterprise. The private enterprise pays the principal and interest on the bond and the issuing authority does not pledge its full faith, credit, and taxing power for repayment. The private enterprise can have a substantially different credit profile than the municipality or public authority. The Fund's investments in private activity bonds may subject certain shareholders to the Federal AMT.

Privately Issued Securities Risk. Investments in privately issued securities (e.g., Rule 144A securities) may be less liquid than in publicly traded securities. Although these securities may be resold in privately negotiated transactions, the prices realized from these sales could be less than those originally paid by the Fund or less than what may be considered the fair value of such securities. Furthermore, companies with securities that are not publicly traded are not subject to the disclosure and other investor protection requirements that might be applicable if the securities were publicly traded.

Redemption Risk. The Fund may experience losses or realize taxable gains when selling securities to meet redemption requests. This risk is greater for larger redemption requests or redemption requests during adverse market conditions. Large redemptions of the Fund's shares may force the Fund to sell securities at times when it would not otherwise do so, and may cause the Fund's portfolio turnover rate and transaction costs to rise, which may negatively affect the Fund's performance and have adverse tax consequences for Fund shareholders.

Regulatory and Judicial Risk. The regulation of security markets, transactions and portfolio companies is subject to change. Such regulatory changes and judicial actions could have a substantial adverse effect on the Fund's performance.

Reinvestment Risk. Cash flows from fixed income securities are generally reinvested at current market rates. A decline in market rates may result in less attractive reinvestment opportunities and affect the Fund's ability to meet its investment objective.

Tax and Federal AMT Risk. The Fund will rely on the opinion of issuers' bond counsel and, in the case of derivative securities, sponsors' counsel, on the tax-exempt status of interest on municipal bond obligations and payments under tax-exempt derivative securities. Neither the Fund nor its Adviser or Sub-advisers will independently review the bases for those tax opinions, which may ultimately be determined to be incorrect and subject the Fund and its shareholders to substantial tax liabilities. Certain shareholders subject to the Federal AMT may be required to report the Fund's exempt interest distributions in determining their Federal AMT. Exempt-interest dividends may affect the federal corporate alternative minimum tax for certain corporations. The Fund may also not be a suitable investment for individual retirement accounts and other tax-deferred arrangements.

U.S. Government Securities Risk. U.S. government obligations are affected by changes or expected changes in interest rates, among other things. While U.S. Treasury obligations are backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government, such obligations are still subject to credit risk. Securities issued or guaranteed by federal agencies or authorities or U.S. government sponsored instrumentalities or enterprises may or may not be backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government. Moreover, some securities are neither insured nor guaranteed by the U.S. government. The U.S. Department of the Treasury has the authority to provide financial support to certain of these debt obligations, but no assurance can be given that the U.S. government will do so. From time to time, uncertainty regarding the status of negotiations in the U.S. government to increase the statutory debt ceiling and/or failure to increase the statutory debt ceiling could increase the risk that the U.S. government may default on payments on certain U.S. government securities (including those held by the Fund), which could have a material adverse impact on the Fund.

Valuation Risk. Certain investments held by the Fund are generally valued using evaluated prices provided by third-party independent pricing services or, in some cases, using evaluated prices provided by dealers or the Adviser's valuation committee using fair valuation methodologies. The evaluated prices used by the Fund may be different from the evaluated prices or fair value used by other mutual funds or from the evaluated prices at which

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certain Fund's investments are actually bought and sold. The evaluated prices and fair value of certain Fund's investments may be subject to frequent and significant change and will vary depending on the information that is available to the pricing services providing the evaluated prices and the Adviser when it determines the fair value of the investments.

When-Issued, Delayed Delivery, and Forward Commitment Transactions Risk. When-issued transactions, delayed delivery purchases, and forward commitments involve a risk of loss if the value of the securities declines prior to the settlement date. Therefore, these transactions may result in a form of leverage and increase the Fund's overall investment exposure. When the Fund has sold a security on a when-issued, delayed delivery, or forward commitment basis, the Fund does not participate in future gains or losses with respect to the security. These transactions are also subject to counterparty risk, which is described above.

Performance

The Fund does not have performance history for a full calendar year. Once the Fund has completed a full calendar year of operations, a bar chart and table will be included that will provide some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing the variability of the Fund's returns and comparing the Fund's performance to a broad measure of market performance. See the Fund's website www.bridgebuildermutualfunds.com/literature for updated performance information. The Fund's past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future.

Fund Management

Olive Street Investment Advisers, LLC is the investment adviser for the Fund.

Sub-advisers and Portfolio Managers

The Adviser may allocate Fund assets for each investment strategy to the following Sub-advisers, which allocations may be adjusted at any time:

Capital International

Portfolio Managers Position with Capital International Length of Service
to the Fund
Chad M. Rach

Portfolio Manager

Since Inception
Jerome H. Solomon

Portfolio Manager

Since Inception
Courtney K. Wolf

Portfolio Manager

Since Inception

T. Rowe Price

Portfolio Manager Position with T. Rowe Price Length of Service
to the Fund
James M. Murphy, CFA Vice President, Portfolio Manager, Chairman of Investment Advisory Committee Since Inception

Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares

Fund shares are currently available to investors participating in the Advisory Programs, each an investment advisory program sponsored by Edward D. Jones & Co., L.P. ("Edward Jones"), as well as current and former Trustees of the Trust. Advisory Program investors may purchase and sell or redeem Fund shares only from Edward Jones through an Advisory Program. Current and former Trustees of the Trust may purchase and sell or redeem shares directly. There are no initial or subsequent minimum purchase amounts for the Fund. You may purchase or redeem shares of the Fund on any day the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE") is open.

Tax Information

The Fund generally intends to distribute income that is exempt from federal income tax; however, the Fund's distributions may be subject to the Federal AMT, federal income, or capital gains taxation. The Fund may not be a suitable investment for individual retirement accounts and other tax-deferred arrangements.

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