No person has been authorized to give any information or to make any representations other than those contained in this Prospectus and the Funds' Statement of Additional Information ("SAI") dated June 24, 2026 (which is incorporated by reference into this Prospectus and is legally a part of this Prospectus) and, if given or made, such information or representations may not be relied upon as having been authorized by us.
FUND SUMMARY
Amana Equity Income ETF
Investment Objective
Current income and preservation of capital, consistent with Islamic principles. Current income is its primary objective.
Fees and Expenses
This section 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 brokerage commissions and other fees to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and example below.
Shareowner Fees
None.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment):
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Management Fees
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0.76%
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Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees(1)
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0.00%
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Other Expenses(2)
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0.00%
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Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses
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0.76%
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(1)
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Pursuant to a Rule 12b-1 Distribution and Service Plan (the "Plan"), the Fund may bear a Rule 12b-1 fee not to exceed 0.25% per year of the Fund's average daily net assets. However, no such fee is currently paid by the Fund, and the Board of Trustees has not currently approved the commencement of any payments under the Plan.
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(2)
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Based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.
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Example
This example is intended to help investors compare the cost of investing in shares of the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds. The example assumes an investor invests $10,000 in shares of the Fund for the time periods indicated. The example also assumes that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses remain the same. The example does not reflect any brokerage commissions that an investor may pay on purchases and sales of Fund shares. Although actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions, whether an investor does or does not redeem the shares, an investor's expenses would be:
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One Year
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Three Years
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$78
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$243
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Portfolio Turnover
The Fund may have 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 the annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund's performance. Because the Fund had not yet commenced operations prior to the date of this Prospectus, it does not have a portfolio turnover rate to provide.
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Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund invests primarily in dividend-paying common stocks, including foreign stocks. Investment decisions are made in accordance with Islamic principles. Generally, Islamic principles require that investors share in profit and loss, that they receive no usury or interest, and that they do not invest in a business that is prohibited by Islamic principles. To the extent prohibited by Islamic investment principles the Fund does not invest in companies primarily engaged in businesses such as alcohol, tobacco, pork products, pornography, interest-based banks, finance associations and insurers, weapons, and gambling.
The Fund does not make any investments not permitted under Islamic principles, including those that pay interest. Islamic principles discourage speculation. The Fund tends to hold investments for several years. The Fund may invest its uninvested cash in short-term Islamic income-producing investments called murabaha and wakala, as described below.
The Fund principally follows a large-cap value investment style. Common stock purchases are restricted to dividend-paying companies. The Fund seeks companies demonstrating both Islamic and sustainable characteristics.
The Fund's adviser (Saturna Capital Corporation) considers issuers with sustainable characteristics to be those issuers that are more established, consistently profitable, and financially strong, with robust policies in the areas of the environment, social responsibility, and corporate governance (collectively referred to as "sustainability").
Except for murabaha and wakala investments, the adviser employs a sustainable rating system based on its own, as well as third-party, data to identify issuers believed to have lower sustainability risks. The use of third-party data does not include third-party environmental, social, or governance ("ESG") ratings or criteria established by third parties for third-party ratings. The adviser's proprietary scoring system assesses how well a company performs relative to a blend of its industry, sector, and country peers. In addition to the financial considerations discussed above, the adviser considers sustainability practices such as carbon emissions, water usage, renewable energy, and fair labor and supply chain practices. The Fund's sustainability evaluation process considers risks and opportunities holistically, meaning an issuer will not necessarily be excluded from investment due to any one particular factor if the overall analysis results in a favorable evaluation by the adviser. The adviser also uses negative screening to exclude companies primarily engaged in higher sustainability risk businesses, such as companies in the business of fossil fuel exploration, production, or refining, and, to the extent prohibited by Islamic investment principles, companies primarily engaged in businesses such as alcohol, tobacco, pork products, pornography, interest-based banks, finance associations and insurers, weapons, and gambling.
The Fund is "non-diversified," which means that it may invest a larger percentage of its assets in a relatively small number of issuers.
It is the policy of the Fund, under normal circumstances, to invest at least 80% of its total net assets in income-producing equity securities, primarily dividend-paying common stocks.
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Because Islamic principles preclude the use of interest-paying instruments, the Fund's cash positions do not earn interest income. The Fund may invest its cash positions in murabaha and wakala, which are notes and certificates issued for payment by foreign governments, their agencies, and financial institutions in transactions structured to be in accordance with Islamic principles. Murabaha involves a purchase and sale contract, and wakala involves the operation of an account under the Islamic finance principle of wakala (an agency agreement). These investments typically involve the purchase of financial certificates representing investments in tangible assets, project financing, sale and leaseback arrangements, and the distribution of profits (as opposed to the payment of interest) related to the underlying asset or project. Unlike an investment in a bond that represents a promise to pay interest, these investments involve the sharing of profits and losses in the assets or projects financed by the Fund's investment in the notes and certificates. In addition, the Fund may invest cash positions in time deposits with banks that involve underlying purchase and sale agreements to generate the return on the deposit.
For cash management purposes, the Fund will seek to gain exposure to murabaha and wakala investments by investing up to 20% of the Fund's total net assets in a wholly-owned and controlled subsidiary, which is organized under the laws of the Cayman Islands (the "Subsidiary"). The Subsidiary invests in murabaha and wakala investments and may invest in other short-term Islamic income-producing investments. The Fund invests in the Subsidiary in order to gain exposure to murabaha and wakala investments within the limitations of the federal tax law, rules and regulations that apply to "regulated investment companies."
Principal Risks of Investing
As with all funds, investing in the Fund entails risks that could cause the Fund and the Fund's investors to lose money. The principal risks of investing in the Fund are as follows:
Market risk: The value of the Fund's shares rises and falls as the market value of the securities in which the Fund invests goes up and down. Consider investing in the Fund only if you are willing to accept the risk that you may lose money. Fund share prices, yields, and total returns will change with the fluctuations in the securities markets as well as the fortunes of the industries and companies in which the Fund invests.
Investment strategy risk: Islamic principles restrict the Fund's ability to invest in certain market sectors, such as financial companies and conventional fixed-income securities. The adviser believes that Islamic and sustainable investing may mitigate security-specific risks, but the screens used in connection with these strategies reduce the investable universe, which may limit investment opportunities and adversely affect the Fund's performance. Because Islamic principles preclude the use of interest-paying instruments, cash positions do not earn interest income but, to the extent the Fund invests cash in murabaha or wakala, the Fund will share in the distribution of profits (as opposed to the payment of interest) related to any murabaha or wakala investments.
Equity securities risk: Equity securities may experience significant volatility in response to economic or market conditions or adverse events that affect a particular industry, sector, or company. Larger companies may have slower rates of growth as compared to smaller, faster-growing companies. Smaller companies may have more limited financial resources, products, or services, and tend to be more sensitive to changing economic or market conditions.
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Foreign investing risk: The Fund may invest in securities that are not traded in the United States when market conditions or investment opportunities arise that, in the judgment of the adviser, warrant such investment. Investments in the securities of foreign issuers may involve risks in addition to those normally associated with investments in the securities of US issuers. All foreign investments are subject to risks of: (1) foreign political and economic instability; (2) adverse movements in foreign exchange rates; (3) currency devaluation; (4) the imposition or tightening of exchange controls or other limitations on repatriation of foreign capital; (5) changes in foreign governmental attitudes toward private investment, including potential nationalization, increased taxation, or confiscation of assets; and (6) differing reporting, accounting, and auditing standards of foreign countries.
Murabaha risk: A murabaha transaction involves a purchase and deferred-payment resale of an asset. The asset is typically purchased by an Islamic bank as agent for the Fund. The bank, acting as the Fund's agent, immediately resells the asset to a previously identified third party who agrees to repay the Fund's cost for the asset plus a profit. Murabaha investments are subject to market risk (fluctuating prices and exchange rates), credit risk, and operational risk (errors in processes).
Wakala risk: When the Fund invests in wakala, it will be subject to the credit risk of the bank acting as agent, and the risk that the bank will not manage the investment in a profitable manner.
Interest rate risk: The Fund does not invest in interest bearing investments However, since murabaha and wakala are Islamic fixed-income investments, the financial and economic data associated with interest bearing investments similarly affect the yields and returns on murabaha and wakala. Changes in interest rates impact prices of fixed-income and related investments. When interest rates rise, the value of fixed-income investments (paying a lower rate of interest) generally will fall. Investments with shorter terms may have less interest rate risk, but generally have lower returns and, because of the more frequent maturity dates, may involve higher re-investment costs.
Credit risk: Corporate and sovereign issuers of the notes and certificates in which the Fund invests may not be able or willing to make payments when due, which may lead to default or restructuring of the investment. In addition, if the market perceives deterioration in the creditworthiness of an issuer, the value and liquidity of the issuer's securities may decline.
Subsidiary investment risk: By investing in the Subsidiary, the Fund is subject to the risks associated with the Subsidiary's investments. Those investments are similar to the investments that are permitted to be held by the Fund and are subject to the same risks that would apply to similar investments if held directly by the Fund. The Subsidiary is organized under the laws of the Cayman Islands and is not registered with the SEC under the Investment Company Act of 1940. Accordingly, the Fund will not receive all of the protections offered to shareowners of registered investment companies. Changes in the laws of the United States and/or the Cayman Islands could result in the inability of the Fund and/or the Subsidiary to operate as intended, which may negatively affect the Fund and its shareowners.
Tax risk: To qualify as a regulated investment company ("RIC"), the Fund must meet certain requirements concerning the source of its income. The Fund's investment in the Subsidiary is intended to provide exposure to murabaha and wakala in a manner that is consistent with the "qualifying income" requirement applicable to RICs. Failure to qualify as a RIC could subject the Fund to adverse tax consequences, including a federal income tax on its net income at regular corporate rates, as well as a tax to shareowners on such income when distributed as an ordinary dividend.
The tax treatment of the Equity Income ETF's investment in its Subsidiary may be adversely affected by future legislation, court decisions, Treasury Regulations, and/or guidance issued by the Internal Revenue Service that could affect the character, timing, and/ or amount of the Fund's taxable income or any gains or distributions made by the Fund.
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ETF risk: As an exchange-traded fund ("ETF"), the Fund is subject to the following risks:
Authorized Participants Concentration Risk: The Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may act as authorized participants (APs"). Only APs may transact in creation and redemption transactions directly with the Fund, and APs are not obligated to engage in such transactions. To the extent they exit the business or are otherwise unable or unwilling to proceed in creation and redemption transactions with the Fund, such as in times of market stress, and no other authorized participant is able to step forward to create or redeem, trading in Fund shares may be significantly diminished, bid-ask spreads may widen and shares of the Fund may be more likely to trade at a premium or discount to net asset value ("NAV") and possibly face trading halts or delisting. To the extent the Fund invests in securities issued by non-U.S. issuers or other securities or instruments that have lower trading volumes, this risk is heightened.
International Closed Market Trading Risk: Because certain of the Fund's investments trade in markets that are closed when the Fund and the Nasdaq Global Market ("Exchange") are open, there are likely to be deviations between the current prices of such investments and the prices at which such investments are marked for purposes of the Fund's NAV (i.e., the Fund's quote from the closed foreign market). As a result, premiums or discounts to NAV may develop in share prices, and bid-ask spreads may be greater than those experienced by other funds. In addition, shareowners may not be able to purchase or redeem their shares of the Fund, or purchase or sell shares of the Fund on the Exchange, on days when the NAV of the Fund could be significantly affected by events in the relevant non-U.S. markets.
Premium-Discount Risk: There may be times when the market price of the Fund's shares is more than the NAV intra-day (at a premium) or less than the NAV intra-day (at a discount). As a result, shareowners of the Fund may pay more than NAV when purchasing shares and receive less than NAV when selling Fund shares. This risk is heightened in times of market volatility or periods of steep market declines. In such market conditions, market or stop loss orders to sell Fund shares may be executed at prices well below NAV.
Secondary Market Trading Risk: Investors buying or selling shares in the secondary market will normally pay brokerage commissions, which are often a fixed amount and may be a significant proportional cost for investors buying or selling relatively small amounts of shares. Secondary market trading is subject to bid-ask spreads, which is the difference between the highest price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase shares of a fund (bid) and the lowest price a seller is willing to accept for shares (ask) when buying or selling shares in the secondary market, and trading in Fund shares may be halted by the Exchange because of market conditions or other reasons. If a trading halt occurs, a shareowner may temporarily be unable to purchase or sell shares of the Fund. The bid-ask spread, which varies over time, is generally narrower if the Fund has more trading volume and market liquidity and wider if the Fund has less trading volume and market liquidity. In addition, the bid-ask spread can be affected by the liquidity of the Fund's underlying investments and can widen if the Fund's underlying investments become less liquid or illiquid. In addition, although the Fund's shares are listed on the Exchange, there can be no assurance that an active trading market for shares will develop or be maintained, that bid-ask spreads will be narrow, or that the Fund's shares will continue to be listed.
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Cash Transactions Risk: The Fund may effect redemptions partly or wholly for cash, rather than through in-kind distributions of securities. Accordingly, the Fund may be required to sell portfolio securities in order to obtain the cash needed to distribute redemption proceeds and it may recognize gains on sales of portfolio holdings. As a result, an investment in the Fund may be less tax-efficient than an investment in an ETF that primarily or wholly effects redemptions in-kind. Moreover, cash transactions may have to be carried out over several days if the securities markets are relatively illiquid at the time the Fund must sell securities and may involve considerable brokerage fees and taxes. These brokerage fees and taxes, which will be higher than if the Fund redeemed its shares principally in-kind, may be passed on to APs in the form of transaction fees. As a result, the spreads between the bid and the offered prices of the Fund's shares may be wider than those of shares of ETFs that primarily or wholly transact in-kind.
Large Shareowner Risk: Certain shareowners may own a substantial amount of the Fund's shares. Redemptions by large shareowners could have a significant negative impact on the Fund and transactions on the Exchange by large shareowners may have a material upward or downward effect on the market price of the shares.
Non-Diversified fund risk: The Fund may invest a relatively high percentage of its assets in a single issuer or a limited number of issuers. As a result, the Fund's performance will be more vulnerable to changes in market value of a single issuer or group of issuers and more susceptible to risks associated with a single adverse economic, political, regulatory or other occurrence affecting one or more of these issuers. The Fund may experience greater performance volatility than a fund that is more broadly invested.
New fund risk: The Fund is new and does not have shares outstanding as of the date of this Prospectus. The Fund may not be successful in implementing its investment strategy, and its investment strategy may not be successful under all future market conditions, either of which could result in the Fund being liquidated at some future time without shareowner approval and/or at a time that may not be favorable for certain shareowners. New funds may not attract sufficient assets to achieve investment, trading or other efficiencies and, if the Fund does not grow in size, it will be at greater risk than larger funds of wider bid-ask spreads for its shares, trading at a greater premium or discount to NAV and/or a stop to trading.
Performance
The Fund had not commenced operations as of the date of this Prospectus. Performance information will be available in the Prospectus after the Fund has been in operation for one full calendar year. When provided, the information will provide some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing how the Fund's average annual returns compare with a broad measure of market performance. Past performance does not necessarily indicate how the Fund will perform in the future. Updated performance information will be available at https://www.saturna.com/products/etf-performance.
Investment Adviser
Saturna Capital Corporation is the Fund's investment adviser ("adviser").
Portfolio Managers
Mr. Monem A. Salam MBA, executive vice president and portfolio manager at Saturna Capital Corporation, has been primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the Fund since its inception. Mr. Bryce R. Fegley MS, CFA®, CIPM®, and Mr. Levi Stewart Zurbrugg MBA, CFA®, CPA®, each of whom is a senior investment analyst and portfolio manager of Saturna Capital Corporation, have been deputy portfolio managers for the Fund since its inception.
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Sub-Adviser
Vident Asset Management is the Fund's sub-adviser. The sub-adviser is responsible for trading portfolio securities for the Fund, including selecting broker-dealers to execute purchase and sale transactions and monitoring of Fund trading activity, subject to the oversight of the adviser and the Fund's board of trustees.
Portfolio Managers
Mr. Austin Wen, CFA®and Ms. Devin Ryder CFA®, both Senior Portfolio Managers of the sub-adviser, have sub-advised the Fund since its inception.
Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares
Individual shares of the Fund may only be bought and sold in secondary market transactions through a broker or dealer at a market price. Because the shares trade at market prices rather than NAV, shares may trade at a price greater than NAV (premium) or less than NAV (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 (i.e., the bid-ask spread). Investors can find information on the Fund's NAV, market price, premiums and discounts, and bid-ask spread at https://www.saturna.com/products/etf-performance.
Tax Information
Any distributions you receive from the Fund may be taxed as ordinary income, qualified dividend income, or capital gains, unless you are investing through a tax-deferred arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an IRA. Investment in the Fund through such an arrangement may be taxed later upon withdrawal of monies from the arrangement.
Purchases Through Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase shares through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the adviser or other related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of Fund 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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Amana Growth ETF
Investment Objective
Long-term capital growth, consistent with Islamic principles.
Fees and Expenses
This section 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 brokerage commissions and other fees to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and example below.
Shareowner Fees
None.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment):
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Management Fees
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0.61%
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Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees(1)
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0.00%
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Other Expenses(2)
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0.00%
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Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses
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0.61%
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(1)
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Pursuant to a Rule 12b-1 Distribution and Service Plan (the "Plan"), the Fund may bear a Rule 12b-1 fee not to exceed 0.25% per year of the Fund's average daily net assets. However, no such fee is currently paid by the Fund, and the Board of Trustees has not currently approved the commencement of any payments under the Plan.
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(2)
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Based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.
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Example
This example is intended to help investors compare the cost of investing in shares of the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds. The example assumes an investor invests $10,000 in shares of the Fund for the time periods indicated. The example also assumes that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses remain the same. The example does not reflect any brokerage commissions that an investor may pay on purchases and sales of Fund shares. Although actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions, whether an investor does or does not redeem the shares, an investor's expenses would be:
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One Year
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Three Years
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$62
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$195
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Portfolio Turnover
The Fund may have 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 the annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund's performance. Because the Fund had not yet commenced operations prior to the date of this Prospectus, it does not have a portfolio turnover rate to provide.
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Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund invests in common stocks, including foreign stocks. Investment decisions are made in accordance with Islamic principles. Generally, Islamic principles require that investors share in profit and loss, that they receive no usury or interest, and that they do not invest in a business that is prohibited by Islamic principles. To the extent prohibited by Islamic investment principles the Fund does not invest in companies primarily engaged in businesses such as alcohol, tobacco, pork products, pornography, interest-based banks, finance associations and insurers, weapons, and gambling.
The Fund does not make any investments not permitted under Islamic principles, including those that pay interest. Islamic principles discourage speculation. The Fund tends to hold investments for several years.
It is the policy of the Fund, under normal circumstances, to invest at least 80% of total net assets in common stocks that the adviser believes exhibit growth characteristics. The adviser considers a stock to exhibit growth characteristics if, at the time of investment, the stock's anticipated revenue, earnings, or cash flow growth rate exceeds the nominal growth rate of the U.S. economy over a horizon of at least three years. The Fund principally follows a large-cap growth investment style. The Fund may also invest in smaller and less seasoned companies. The Fund seeks companies demonstrating both Islamic and sustainable characteristics.
The Fund's adviser considers issuers with sustainable characteristics to be those issuers that are more established, consistently profitable, and financially strong, with robust policies in the areas of the environment, social responsibility, and corporate governance (collectively referred to as "sustainability").
The adviser employs a sustainable rating system based on its own, as well as third-party, data to identify issuers believed to have lower sustainability risks. The use of third-party data does not include third-party environmental, social, or governance ("ESG") ratings or criteria established by third parties for third-party ratings. The adviser's proprietary scoring system assesses how well a company performs relative to a blend of its industry, sector, and country peers. In addition to the financial considerations discussed above, the adviser considers sustainability practices such as carbon emissions, water usage, renewable energy, and fair labor and supply chain practices. The Fund's sustainability evaluation process considers risks and opportunities holistically, meaning an issuer will not necessarily be excluded from investment due to any one particular factor if the overall analysis results in a favorable evaluation by the adviser. The adviser also uses negative screening to exclude companies primarily engaged in higher sustainability risk businesses, such as companies in the business of fossil fuel exploration, production, or refining, and, to the extent prohibited by Islamic investment principles, companies primarily engaged in businesses such as alcohol, tobacco, pork products, pornography, interest-based banks, finance associations and insurers, weapons, and gambling.
The Fund is "non-diversified," which means that it may invest a larger percentage of its assets in a relatively small number of issuers.
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Principal Risks of Investing
As with all funds, investing in the Fund entails risks that could cause the Fund and the Fund's investors to lose money. The principal risks of investing in the Fund are as follows:
Market risk: The value of the Fund's shares rises and falls as the market value of the securities in which the Fund invests goes up and down. Consider investing in the Fund only if you are willing to accept the risk that you may lose money. Fund share prices, yields, and total returns will change with the fluctuations in the securities markets as well as the fortunes of the industries and companies in which the Fund invests.
Investment strategy risk: Islamic principles restrict the Fund's ability to invest in certain market sectors, such as financial companies and conventional fixed-income securities. The adviser believes that Islamic and sustainable investing may mitigate security-specific risks, but the screens used in connection with these strategies reduce the investable universe, which may limit investment opportunities and adversely affect the Fund's performance. Because Islamic principles preclude the use of interest-paying instruments, cash positions do not earn income.
Equity securities risk: Equity securities may experience significant volatility in response to economic or market conditions or adverse events that affect a particular industry, sector, or company. Larger companies may have slower rates of growth as compared to smaller, faster-growing companies, and at times may be out of favor with investors. Smaller companies may have more limited financial resources, products, or services, and tend to be more sensitive to changing economic or market conditions. The Fund also tends to favor growth stocks, which tend to trade based on future earnings expectations, and may be more volatile, especially when market expectations are not met.
Small-cap risk: The smaller and less seasoned companies that may be in the Fund have a greater risk of price volatility. Growth stocks, which can be priced on future expectations rather than current results, may decline substantially when expectations are not met or general market conditions weaken.
Foreign investing risk: The Fund may invest in securities that are not traded in the United States when market conditions or investment opportunities arise that, in the judgment of the investment adviser, warrant such investment. Investments in the securities of foreign issuers may involve risks in addition to those normally associated with investments in the securities of US issuers. All foreign investments are subject to risks of: (1) foreign political and economic instability; (2) adverse movements in foreign exchange rates; (3) currency devaluation; (4) the imposition or tightening of exchange controls or other limitations on repatriation of foreign capital; (5) changes in foreign governmental attitudes toward private investment, including potential nationalization, increased taxation, or confiscation of assets; and (6) differing reporting, accounting, and auditing standards of foreign countries.
Sector risk: From time to time, based on market or economic conditions, the Fund may have significant positions in one or more sectors of the market. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may be more volatile, and may perform differently, than the broader market. The industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political, or regulatory events which may cause the Fund's returns to suffer.
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Technology sector risk: The Fund's investments in technology companies exposes the Fund to risks. For example, rapid advances in science and technology might cause existing products to become obsolete, and the Fund's returns could suffer to the extent it holds an affected company's shares. A number of technology companies engaged in consumer-facing activities are potentially subject to more aggressive government regulation and intervention in their traditional business activities. This fact may affect a company's overall profitability and cause its stock price to be more volatile. Additionally, technology companies are dependent upon consumer and business acceptance as new technologies evolve.
ETF risk: As an exchange-traded fund ("ETF"), the Fund is subject to the following risks:
Authorized Participants Concentration Risk: The Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may act as authorized participants ("APs"). Only APs may transact in creation and redemption transactions directly with the Fund, and APs are not obligated to engage in such transactions. To the extent they exit the business or are otherwise unable or unwilling to proceed in creation and redemption transactions with the Fund, such as in times of market stress, and no other authorized participant is able to step forward to create or redeem, trading in Fund shares may be significantly diminished, bid-ask spreads may widen and shares of the Fund may be more likely to trade at a premium or discount to net asset value ("NAV") and possibly face trading halts or delisting. To the extent the Fund invests in securities issued by non-U.S. issuers or other securities or instruments that have lower trading volumes, this risk is heightened.
International Closed Market Trading Risk: Because certain of the Fund's investments trade in markets that are closed when the Fund and the Nasdaq Global Market ("Exchange") are open, there are likely to be deviations between the current prices of such investments and the prices at which such investments are marked for purposes of the Fund's NAV (i.e., the Fund's quote from the closed foreign market). As a result, premiums or discounts to NAV may develop in share prices, and bid-ask spreads may be greater than those experienced by other funds. In addition, shareowners may not be able to purchase or redeem their shares of the Fund, or purchase or sell shares of the Fund on the Exchange, on days when the NAV of the Fund could be significantly affected by events in the relevant non-U.S. markets.
Premium-Discount Risk: There may be times when the market price of the Fund's shares is more than the NAV intra-day (at a premium) or less than the NAV intra-day (at a discount). As a result, shareowners of the Fund may pay more than NAV when purchasing shares and receive less than NAV when selling Fund shares. This risk is heightened in times of market volatility or periods of steep market declines. In such market conditions, market or stop loss orders to sell Fund shares may be executed at prices well below NAV.
Secondary Market Trading Risk: Investors buying or selling shares in the secondary market will normally pay brokerage commissions, which are often a fixed amount and may be a significant proportional cost for investors buying or selling relatively small amounts of shares. Secondary market trading is subject to bid-ask spreads, which is the difference between the highest price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase shares of a fund (bid) and the lowest price a seller is willing to accept for shares (ask) when buying or selling shares in the secondary market, and trading in Fund shares may be halted by the Exchange because of market conditions or other reasons. If a trading halt occurs, a shareowner may temporarily be unable to purchase or sell shares of the Fund. The bid-ask spread, which varies over time, is generally narrower if the Fund has more trading volume and market liquidity and wider if the Fund has less trading volume and market liquidity. In addition, the bid-ask spread can be affected by the liquidity of the Fund's underlying investments and can widen if the Fund's underlying investments become less liquid or illiquid. In addition, although the Fund's shares are listed on the Exchange, there can be no assurance that an active trading market for shares will develop or be maintained, that bid-ask spreads will be narrow, or that the Fund's shares will continue to be listed.
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Cash Transactions Risk: The Fund may effect redemptions partly or wholly for cash, rather than through in-kind distributions of securities. Accordingly, the Fund may be required to sell portfolio securities in order to obtain the cash needed to distribute redemption proceeds and it may recognize gains on sales of portfolio holdings. As a result, an investment in the Fund may be less tax-efficient than an investment in an ETF that primarily or wholly effects redemptions in-kind. Moreover, cash transactions may have to be carried out over several days if the securities markets are relatively illiquid at the time the Fund must sell securities and may involve considerable brokerage fees and taxes. These brokerage fees and taxes, which will be higher than if the Fund redeemed its shares principally in-kind, may be passed on to APs in the form of transaction fees. As a result, the spreads between the bid and the offered prices of the Fund's shares may be wider than those of shares of ETFs that primarily or wholly transact in-kind.
Large Shareowner Risk: Certain shareowners may own a substantial amount of the Fund's shares. Redemptions by large shareowners could have a significant negative impact on the Fund and transactions on the Exchange by large shareowners may have a material upward or downward effect on the market price of the shares.
Non-Diversified fund risk: The Fund may invest a relatively high percentage of its assets in a single issuer or a limited number of issuers. As a result, the Fund's performance will be more vulnerable to changes in market value of a single issuer or group of issuers and more susceptible to risks associated with a single adverse economic, political, regulatory or other occurrence affecting one or more of these issuers. The Fund may experience greater performance volatility than a fund that is more broadly invested.
New fund risk: The Fund is new and does not have shares outstanding as of the date of this Prospectus. The Fund may not be successful in implementing its investment strategy, and its investment strategy may not be successful under all future market conditions, either of which could result in the Fund being liquidated at some future time without shareowner approval and/or at a time that may not be favorable for certain shareowners. New funds may not attract sufficient assets to achieve investment, trading or other efficiencies and, if the Fund does not grow in size, it will be at greater risk than larger funds of wider bid-ask spreads for its shares, trading at a greater premium or discount to NAV and/or a stop to trading.
Performance
The Fund had not commenced operations as of the date of this Prospectus. Performance information will be available in the Prospectus after the Fund has been in operation for one full calendar year. When provided, the information will provide some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing how the Fund's average annual returns compare with a broad measure of market performance. Past performance does not necessarily indicate how the Fund will perform in the future. Updated performance information will be available at https://www.saturna.com/products/etf-performance.
Investment Adviser
Saturna Capital Corporation is the Fund's investment adviser ("adviser").
Portfolio Managers
Mr. Scott F. Klimo CFA®, chief investment officer at Saturna Capital Corporation, has been primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the Fund since its inception. Mr. Monem A. Salam MBA, executive vice president and portfolio manager at Saturna Capital Corporation, and Mr. Jason S. Mitchell MBA, a senior investment analyst of Saturna Capital Corporation, have been deputy portfolio managers of the Fund since its inception.
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Sub-Adviser
Vident Asset Management is the Fund's sub-adviser. The sub-adviser is responsible for trading portfolio securities for the Fund, including selecting broker-dealers to execute purchase and sale transactions and monitoring of Fund trading activity, subject to the oversight of the adviser and the Fund's board of trustees.
Portfolio Managers
Mr. Austin Wen, CFA®and Ms. Devin Ryder CFA®, both Senior Portfolio Managers of the sub-adviser, have sub-advised the Fund since its inception.
Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares
Individual shares of the Fund may only be bought and sold in secondary market transactions through a broker or dealer at a market price. Because the shares trade at market prices rather than NAV, shares may trade at a price greater than NAV (premium) or less than NAV (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 (i.e., the bid-ask spread). Investors can find information on the Fund's NAV, market price, premiums and discounts, and bid-ask spread at https://www.saturna.com/products/etf-performance.
Tax Information
Any distributions you receive from the Fund may be taxed as ordinary income, qualified dividend income, or capital gains, unless you are investing through a tax-deferred arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an IRA. Investment in the Fund through such an arrangement may be taxed later upon withdrawal of monies from the arrangement.
Purchases Through Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase shares through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the adviser or other related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of Fund 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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Amana Developing World ETF
Investment Objective
Long-term capital growth, consistent with Islamic principles.
Fees and Expenses
This section 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 brokerage commissions and other fees to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and example below.
Shareowner Fees
None.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment):
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Management Fees
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0.91%
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0.00%
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0.00%
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0.91%
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Pursuant to a Rule 12b-1 Distribution and Service Plan (the "Plan"), the Fund may bear a Rule 12b-1 fee not to exceed 0.25% per year of the Fund's average daily net assets. However, no such fee is currently paid by the Fund, and the Board of Trustees has not currently approved the commencement of any payments under the Plan.
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Based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.
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Example
This example is intended to help investors compare the cost of investing in shares of the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds. The example assumes an investor invests $10,000 in shares of the Fund for the time periods indicated. The example also assumes that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses remain the same. The example does not reflect any brokerage commissions that an investor may pay on purchases and sales of Fund shares. Although actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions, whether an investor does or does not redeem the shares, an investor's expenses would be:
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One Year
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Three Years
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$93
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$290
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Portfolio Turnover
The Fund may have 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 the annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund's performance. Because the Fund had not yet commenced operations prior to the date of this Prospectus, it does not have a portfolio turnover rate to provide.
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Principal Investment Strategies
Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of total net assets in common stocks of companies with significant exposure to countries with developing economies and/or markets. A company has significant exposure to countries with developing economies if: (i) 50% or more of the company's production assets are located outside the United States; (ii) 50% or more of the company's revenues are generated outside the United States; or (iii) the company is organized or maintains its principal place of business in countries with developing economies and/or markets. Production assets are the property or equipment used by a company. Investment decisions are made in accordance with Islamic principles. Generally, Islamic principles require that investors share in profit and loss, that they receive no usury or interest, and that they do not invest in a business that is prohibited by Islamic principles. To the extent prohibited by Islamic investment principles the Fund does not invest in companies primarily engaged in businesses such as alcohol, tobacco, pork products, pornography, interest-based banks, finance associations and insurers, weapons, and gambling.
The Fund does not make any investments not permitted under Islamic principles, including those that pay interest. Islamic principles discourage speculation. The Fund tends to hold investments for several years.
By allowing investments in companies headquartered in more advanced economies yet having the majority of production assets or revenues in the developing world, the Fund seeks to reduce its foreign investing risk.
The Fund principally follows a large-cap value investment style. The Fund seeks companies demonstrating both Islamic and sustainable characteristics.
The Fund's adviser (Saturna Capital Corporation) considers issuers with sustainable characteristics to be those issuers that are more established, consistently profitable, and financially strong, with robust policies in the areas of the environment, social responsibility, and corporate governance (collectively referred to as "sustainability").
The adviser employs a sustainable rating system based on its own, as well as third-party, data to identify issuers believed to have lower sustainability risks. The use of third-party data does not include third-party environmental, social, or governance ("ESG") ratings or criteria established by third parties for third-party ratings. The adviser's proprietary scoring system assesses how well a company performs relative to a blend of its industry, sector, and country peers. In addition to the financial considerations discussed above, the adviser considers sustainability practices such as carbon emissions, water usage, renewable energy, and fair labor and supply chain practices. The Fund's sustainability evaluation process considers risks and opportunities holistically, meaning an issuer will not necessarily be excluded from investment due to any one particular factor if the overall analysis results in a favorable evaluation by the adviser. The adviser also uses negative screening to exclude companies primarily engaged in higher sustainability risk businesses, such as companies in the business of fossil fuel exploration, production, or refining, and, to the extent prohibited by Islamic investment principles, companies primarily engaged in businesses such as alcohol, tobacco, pork products, pornography, interest-based banks, finance associations and insurers, weapons, and gambling.
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The Fund is "non-diversified," which means that it may invest a larger percentage of its assets in a relatively small number of issuers.
In determining whether a country is part of the developing world, the Fund's adviser will consider such factors as the country's per capita gross domestic product, the percentage of the country's economy that is industrialized, market capitalization as a percentage of gross domestic product, the overall regulatory environment, and limits on foreign ownership and restrictions on repatriation of initial capital or income.
Through reference to data provided by various globally recognized organizations such as the International Monetary Fund, The World Bank, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the adviser maintains a list of countries it considers to have developing economies and/or markets. The list, which changes over time, currently includes: Argentina, Bahrain, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Ecuador, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Oman, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam, and United Arab Emirates.
Principal Risks of Investing
As with all funds, investing in the Fund entails risks that could cause the Fund and the Fund's investors to lose money. The principal risks of investing in the Fund are as follows:
Market risk: The value of the Fund's shares rises and falls as the market value of the securities in which the Fund invests goes up and down. Consider investing in the Fund only if you are willing to accept the risk that you may lose money. Fund share prices, yields, and total returns will change with the fluctuations in the securities markets as well as the fortunes of the industries and companies in which the Fund invests.
Investment strategy risk: Islamic principles restrict the Fund's ability to invest in certain market sectors, such as financial companies and conventional fixed-income securities. The adviser believes that Islamic and sustainable investing may mitigate security-specific risks, but the screens used in connection with these strategies reduce the investable universe, which may limit investment opportunities and adversely affect the Fund's performance. Because Islamic principles preclude the use of interest-paying instruments, cash positions do not earn income.
Equity securities risk: Equity securities may experience significant volatility in response to economic or market conditions or adverse events that affect a particular industry, sector, or company. Larger companies may have slower rates of growth as compared to smaller, faster-growing companies. Smaller companies may have more limited financial resources, products, or services, and tend to be more sensitive to changing economic or market conditions.
Developing world and foreign investing risk: Investments in the securities of foreign issuers may involve risks in addition to those normally associated with investments in the securities of US issuers. All foreign investments are subject to risks of: (1) foreign political and economic instability; (2) adverse movements in foreign exchange rates; (3) currency devaluation; (4) the imposition or tightening of exchange controls or other limitations on repatriation of foreign capital; (5) changes in foreign governmental attitudes toward private investment, including potential nationalization, increased taxation, or confiscation of assets; and (6) differing reporting, accounting, and auditing standards of foreign countries. In developing markets, these risks are magnified by less mature political systems and weaker corporate governance standards than typically found in the developed world.
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ETF risk: As an exchange-traded fund ("ETF"), the Fund is subject to the following risks:
Authorized Participants Concentration Risk: The Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may act as authorized participants ("APs"). Only APs may transact in creation and redemption transactions directly with the Fund, and APs are not obligated to engage in such transactions. To the extent they exit the business or are otherwise unable or unwilling to proceed in creation and redemption transactions with the Fund, such as in times of market stress, and no other authorized participant is able to step forward to create or redeem, trading in Fund shares may be significantly diminished, bid-ask spreads may widen and shares of the Fund may be more likely to trade at a premium or discount to net asset value ("NAV") and possibly face trading halts or delisting. To the extent the Fund invests in securities issued by non-U.S. issuers or other securities or instruments that have lower trading volumes, this risk is heightened.
International Closed Market Trading Risk: Because certain of the Fund's investments trade in markets that are closed when the Fund and the Nasdaq Global Market ("Exchange") are open, there are likely to be deviations between the current prices of such investments and the prices at which such investments are marked for purposes of the Fund's NAV (i.e., the Fund's quote from the closed foreign market). As a result, premiums or discounts to NAV may develop in share prices, and bid-ask spreads may be greater than those experienced by other funds. In addition, shareowners may not be able to purchase or redeem their shares of the Fund, or purchase or sell shares of the Fund on the Exchange, on days when the NAV of the Fund could be significantly affected by events in the relevant non-U.S. markets.
Premium-Discount Risk: There may be times when the market price of the Fund's shares is more than the NAV intra-day (at a premium) or less than the NAV intra-day (at a discount). As a result, shareowners of the Fund may pay more than NAV when purchasing shares and receive less than NAV when selling Fund shares. This risk is heightened in times of market volatility or periods of steep market declines. In such market conditions, market or stop loss orders to sell Fund shares may be executed at prices well below NAV.
Secondary Market Trading Risk: Investors buying or selling shares in the secondary market will normally pay brokerage commissions, which are often a fixed amount and may be a significant proportional cost for investors buying or selling relatively small amounts of shares. Secondary market trading is subject to bid-ask spreads, which is the difference between the highest price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase shares of a fund (bid) and the lowest price a seller is willing to accept for shares (ask) when buying or selling shares in the secondary market, and trading in Fund shares may be halted by the Exchange because of market conditions or other reasons. If a trading halt occurs, a shareowner may temporarily be unable to purchase or sell shares of the Fund. The bid-ask spread, which varies over time, is generally narrower if the Fund has more trading volume and market liquidity and wider if the Fund has less trading volume and market liquidity. In addition, the bid-ask spread can be affected by the liquidity of the Fund's underlying investments and can widen if the Fund's underlying investments become less liquid or illiquid. In addition, although the Fund's shares are listed on the Exchange, there can be no assurance that an active trading market for shares will develop or be maintained, that bid-ask spreads will be narrow, or that the Fund's shares will continue to be listed.
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Cash Transactions Risk: The Fund may effect redemptions partly or wholly for cash, rather than through in-kind distributions of securities. Accordingly, the Fund may be required to sell portfolio securities in order to obtain the cash needed to distribute redemption proceeds and it may recognize gains on sales of portfolio holdings. As a result, an investment in the Fund may be less tax-efficient than an investment in an ETF that primarily or wholly effects redemptions in-kind. Moreover, cash transactions may have to be carried out over several days if the securities markets are relatively illiquid at the time the Fund must sell securities and may involve considerable brokerage fees and taxes. These brokerage fees and taxes, which will be higher than if the Fund redeemed its shares principally in-kind, may be passed on to APs in the form of transaction fees. As a result, the spreads between the bid and the offered prices of the Fund's shares may be wider than those of shares of ETFs that primarily or wholly transact in-kind.
Large Shareowner Risk: Certain shareowners may own a substantial amount of the Fund's shares. Redemptions by large shareowners could have a significant negative impact on the Fund and transactions on the Exchange by large shareowners may have a material upward or downward effect on the market price of the shares.
Non-Diversified fund risk: The Fund may invest a relatively high percentage of its assets in a single issuer or a limited number of issuers. As a result, the Fund's performance will be more vulnerable to changes in market value of a single issuer or group of issuers and more susceptible to risks associated with a single adverse economic, political, regulatory or other occurrence affecting one or more of these issuers. The Fund may experience greater performance volatility than a fund that is more broadly invested.
New fund risk: The Fund is new and does not have shares outstanding as of the date of this Prospectus. The Fund may not be successful in implementing its investment strategy, and its investment strategy may not be successful under all future market conditions, either of which could result in the Fund being liquidated at some future time without shareowner approval and/or at a time that may not be favorable for certain shareowners. New funds may not attract sufficient assets to achieve investment, trading or other efficiencies and, if the Fund does not grow in size, it will be at greater risk than larger funds of wider bid-ask spreads for its shares, trading at a greater premium or discount to NAV and/or a stop to trading.
Performance
The Fund had not commenced operations as of the date of this Prospectus. Performance information will be available in the Prospectus after the Fund has been in operation for one full calendar year. When provided, the information will provide some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing how the Fund's average annual returns compare with a broad measure of market performance. Past performance does not necessarily indicate how the Fund will perform in the future. Updated performance information will be available at https://www.saturna.com/products/etf-performance.
Investment Adviser
Saturna Capital Corporation is the Fund's investment adviser ("adviser").
Portfolio Managers
Mr. Monem A. Salam MBA, executive vice president and portfolio manager at Saturna Capital Corporation, has been primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the Fund since its inception. Mr. Levi Stewart Zurbrugg MBA, CFA®, CPA®, a senior investment analyst and portfolio manager at Saturna Capital Corporation, has been deputy portfolio manager for the Fund since its inception.
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Sub-Adviser
Vident Asset Management is the Fund's sub-adviser. The sub-adviser is responsible for trading portfolio securities for the Fund, including selecting broker-dealers to execute purchase and sale transactions and monitoring of Fund trading activity, subject to the oversight of the adviser and the Fund's board of trustees.
Portfolio Managers
Mr. Austin Wen, CFA® and Ms. Devin Ryder CFA®, both Senior Portfolio Managers of the sub-adviser, have sub-advised the Fund since its inception.
Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares
Individual shares of the Fund may only be bought and sold in secondary market transactions through a broker or dealer at a market price. Because the shares trade at market prices rather than NAV, shares may trade at a price greater than NAV (premium) or less than NAV (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 (i.e., the bid-ask spread). Investors can find information on the Fund's NAV, market price, premiums and discounts, and bid-ask spread at https://www.saturna.com/products/etf-performance.
Tax Information
Any distributions you receive from the Fund may be taxed as ordinary income, qualified dividend income, or capital gains, unless you are investing through a tax-deferred arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an IRA. Investment in the Fund through such an arrangement may be taxed later upon withdrawal of monies from the arrangement.
Purchases Through Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase shares through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the adviser or other related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of Fund 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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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE FUNDS
Investment Objective
The objectives of the Equity Income ETF are current income and preservation of capital, consistent with Islamic principles; current income is its primary objective.
The primary objective of the Growth ETF is long-term capital growth, consistent with Islamic principles.
The primary objective of the Developing World ETF is long-term capital growth, consistent with Islamic principles.
There can be no guarantee that the particular investment objectives of a Fund will be realized. These investment objectives may only be changed with approval by vote of a majority of the outstanding shares of a Fund.
Additional Information About the Funds' Principal Investment Strategies
The Amana ETFs are designed to provide investment alternatives that are consistent with Islamic principles. Generally, Islamic principles require that investors share in profit and loss, that they receive no usury or interest, and that they do not invest in a business that is prohibited by Islamic principles. To the extent prohibited by Islamic investment principles the Funds do not invest in companies primarily engaged in businesses such as tobacco, alcoholic beverages, pornography, insurance, gambling, pork products, and interest-based insurers, banks or finance associations.
The Funds do not make any investments that pay interest. Islamic principles discourage speculation, and the Funds tend to hold investments for several years. The Equity Income ETF may invest its uninvested cash in short-term Islamic income-producing investments called murabaha and wakala.
These criteria limit investment selection and income-earning opportunities more than is customary for mutual funds.
The Funds' investment adviser, Saturna Capital Corporation, selects investments based on its own security selection policies and compliance policies and procedures. The adviser engages Amanie Advisors Sdn Bhd, a leading consultant specializing in Islamic finance, who reviews, and consults on, the investment adviser's compliance policies and procedures so that the investment adviser can ensure that the Funds' investments meet the requirements of the Islamic faith.
The Amana ETFs favor investing in companies trading for less than the adviser's assessment of intrinsic value, which typically means companies with relatively low price/earning multiples, strong balance sheets, and proven businesses. Once a Fund holds a position in a company, the Fund actively monitors market conditions, industry developments, and other factors that may affect the company or the Fund's rationale for holding the investment. Although the Funds consider valuation when monitoring their investments, a Fund may not necessarily liquidate a position solely because of relatively high valuation. The Funds actively monitor their investment portfolios but do not engage in high turnover or speculative trading. The Equity Income, Growth, and Developing World ETFs seek companies demonstrating both Islamic and sustainable characteristics. To the extent prohibited by Islamic principles or the adviser's sustainability criteria, the adviser uses negative screening to exclude issuers primarily engaged in the following activities:
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• Alcohol
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• Interest-based banks
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• Financial associations and insurers
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• Gambling
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In selecting equity securities, the adviser employs a sustainable rating system based on its own, as well as third-party, data to identify issuers believed to have robust policies in the areas of the environment, social responsibility, and corporate governance (collectively referred to as "sustainability") to identify issuers believed to have lower sustainability risks.
The use of third-party data does not include third-party environmental, social, or governance ("ESG") ratings or criteria established by third parties for third-party ratings. The adviser's proprietary scoring system assesses how well a company performs relative to a blend of its industry, sector, and country peers. In addition to financial and non-financial sustainability considerations (such as carbon emissions, water usage, renewable energy, and fair labor and supply chain practices), the adviser's sustainability evaluation process considers risks and opportunities holistically, meaning an issuer will not necessarily be excluded from investment due to any one particular factor if the overall analysis results in a favorable evaluation by the adviser. The adviser positively screens for issuers that show management stability, capability, and diversity, low debt, strong balance sheets, high-quality operations, cash flow, and a long-term focus. With respect to Islamic fixed income securities, the adviser's securities analysts utilize the foregoing process as inputs into the adviser's fundamental analysis of the sustainability risks of Islamic fixed income securities in choosing securities that comply with the Funds' sustainability screening. The exclusion of fossil fuel exploration, production or refining does not apply to the Funds' Islamic fixed income investments.
During uncertain or adverse market, economic, political, or other conditions, or the unavailability of attractive investment opportunities, a Fund may adopt a temporary defensive position. The Funds cannot invest in interest-paying instruments frequently used by other funds for this purpose. When markets are unattractive or attractive investments are unavailable, the adviser chooses between continuing to follow the Funds' investment policies or converting securities to cash or cash equivalents for temporary, defensive purposes. This choice is based on the adviser's evaluation of market conditions and a Fund's portfolio holdings. Temporary defensive holdings will be non-interest bearing and may, in whole or in part, not be insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). In the event a Fund takes such a position, it may not be able to achieve its investment objective.
Equity Income ETF
It is the policy of the Equity Income ETF, under normal circumstances, to invest at least 80% of its total net assets in income-producing equity securities, primarily dividend-paying common stocks. The Equity Income ETF may invest in foreign securities. Typically, foreign securities are equity or debt securities issued by entities organized, domiciled, or with a principal executive office outside the United States, such as foreign corporations and governments. Foreign securities may trade in U.S. or foreign securities markets. A fund may make foreign investments either directly by purchasing foreign securities or indirectly by purchasing depositary receipts or depositary shares of similar instruments (depositary receipts) for foreign securities. Direct investments in foreign securities may be made either on foreign securities exchanges or in the over-the-counter (OTC) markets.
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The Fund is non-diversified and may invest a larger percentage of its assets in fewer issuers, which may cause the Fund to experience more volatility than diversified funds.
While cash assets do not contribute to the Equity Income ETF's primary objective of current income, they do assist its secondary objective of preservation of capital. The Fund intends to manage its cash positions by investing in short-term Islamic income-producing investments.
Growth ETF
It is the policy of the Growth ETF, under normal circumstances, to invest at least 80% of total net assets in common stocks that the adviser believes exhibit growth characteristics. The adviser considers a stock to exhibit growth characteristics if, at the time of investment, the stock's anticipated revenue, earnings, or cash flow growth rate exceeds the nominal growth rate of the U.S. economy over a horizon of at least three years. The Growth ETF may invest in foreign securities. Typically, foreign securities are equity or debt securities issued by entities organized, domiciled, or with a principal executive office outside the United States, such as foreign corporations and governments. Foreign securities may trade in U.S. or foreign securities markets. A fund may make foreign investments either directly by purchasing foreign securities or indirectly by purchasing depositary receipts or depositary shares of similar instruments (depositary receipts) for foreign securities. Direct investments in foreign securities may be made either on foreign securities exchanges or in the over-the-counter (OTC) markets.
The Fund is non-diversified and may invest a larger percentage of its assets in fewer issuers, which may cause the Fund to experience more volatility than diversified funds.
Cash assets may contribute to the Growth ETF's objective of long-term capital growth by reducing capital losses that might have occurred had the Growth ETF been fully invested during periods of market decline.
Developing World ETF
It is the policy of the Developing World ETF, under normal circumstances, to invest at least 80% of total net assets in common stocks of companies with significant exposure to countries with developing economies and/or markets.
The Developing World ETF may invest in equity securities of any company, regardless of where it is based, if the adviser determines that the company has significant exposure to countries with developing economies and/or markets. A company has significant exposure to countries with developing economies if: (i) 50% or more of the company's production assets are located outside the United States; (ii) 50% or more of the company's revenues are generated outside the United States; or (iii) the company is organized or maintains its principal place of business in countries with developing economies and/or markets.
Through reference to data provided by various globally recognized organizations such as the International Monetary Fund, The World Bank, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the adviser maintains a list of countries it considers to have developing economies and/or markets. The list, which changes over time, currently includes Argentina, Bahrain, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Ecuador, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Oman, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam, and United Arab Emirates.
The Fund is non-diversified and may invest a larger percentage of its assets in fewer issuers, which may cause the Fund to experience more volatility than diversified funds.
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Cash assets may contribute to the Developing World ETF's objective of long-term capital growth by reducing capital losses that might have occurred had the Developing World ETF been fully invested during periods of market decline.
Equity Income ETF - Investments in Wholly-Owned Subsidiary
The Equity Income ETF may invest up to 20% of its total net assets in its Subsidiary for the purpose of gaining exposure to Islamic income-producing investments (murabaha and wakala) for its cash positions. Under normal conditions, the Fund's Subsidiary, whose principal investment strategy and risks are identical to those of the Equity Income ETF, invests in murabaha, and wakala. The Subsidiary complies with provisions of the Investment Company Act of 1940 relating to affiliated transactions and custody (Section 17). The Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, limits the investments of the Equity Income ETF, in its Subsidiary to no more than 25% of the Fund's total net assets, as measured at the end of each quarter of the Fund's taxable year. The Subsidiary is organized under the laws of the Cayman Islands and is wholly-owned and controlled by the Fund. The Equity Income ETF invests in its Subsidiary in order to gain exposure to the investment returns of murabaha, and wakala within the limitations of the federal tax law requirements applicable to regulated investment companies. The Subsidiary is accounted for on a consolidated basis with the Fund. The Equity Income ETF complies with the provisions of the Investment Company Act of 1940 governing investment policies (Section 8) on an aggregate basis with its Subsidiary and, in particular, with the same requirements relating to liquidity, and the timing and method of valuation of portfolio investments and shares described elsewhere in this Prospectus and in the Statement of Additional Information (SAI). The Equity Income ETF complies with the provisions of the Investment Company Act of 1940 governing capital structure and leverage (Section 18) on an aggregate basis with its Subsidiary so that the Fund treats the Subsidiary's debt as its own for purposes of Section 18.
The Equity Income ETF does not intend to create or to acquire primary control of any entity which primarily engages in investment activities in securities or other assets, other than entities wholly-owned by the Fund ("primarily controlled" means (1) the registered fund controls the unregistered entity within the meaning of Section 2(a)(9) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, and (2) the registered fund's control of the unregistered entity is greater than that of any other person).
The Equity Income ETF is the sole shareowner of its Subsidiary and does not expect shares of its Subsidiary to be offered or sold to other investors.
Additional Information about the Funds' Principal Risks
All investments, including those in ETFs, entail risks that could cause a Fund and the Fund's investors to lose money. The risks identified below are the principal risks of investing in the Funds. The summary section for each Fund lists the principal risks applicable to the Fund.
Investing in securities entails both market risks and risk of price variation in individual securities. Islamic principles restrict the Funds' ability to invest in certain stocks and market sectors, such as financial companies and conventional fixed-income securities. This may limit investment opportunities and may adversely affect the Funds' performance.
Equity Income ETF, Growth ETF, and Developing World ETF
Sustainable investing risk: Applying sustainability criteria ("Sustainability Criteria") to the investment process may exclude or reduce exposure to securities of certain issuers, which could limit the Funds' opportunity set compared to funds that do not use Sustainability Criteria, and the Funds' performance may at times be better or worse than the performance of funds that do not use Sustainability Criteria. Sustainability Criteria data, including data obtained from third-party providers, may be incomplete, inaccurate, inconsistent, or unavailable, which could adversely affect the analysis of a particular investment. It is possible that the investments identified by the Funds' adviser (Saturna Capital Corporation) as being aligned with its Sustainability Criteria will not perform as expected. The adviser could sell such positions at a disadvantageous time if an issuer no longer meets the Sustainability Criteria. While the adviser's views on Sustainability Criteria comport with Islamic investment principles, investors may differ in their view of Sustainability Criteria. Thus, the Funds may invest in issuers that do not reflect the views of any particular investor. The regulatory landscape with respect to Sustainability Criteria is still under development. Future regulations and/or rules adopted by applicable regulators could require the Funds to change or adjust their investment process with respect to the Sustainability Criteria. The adviser does not apply Sustainability Criteria to the Islamic income-producing investments (murabaha and wakala).
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Non-Diversified fund risk: A non-diversified Fund may invest a relatively high percentage of its assets in a single issuer or a limited number of issuers. As a result, the Fund's performance will be more vulnerable to changes in market value of a single issuer or group of issuers and more susceptible to risks associated with a single adverse economic, political, regulatory or other occurrence affecting one or more of these issuers. The Fund may experience greater performance volatility than a fund that is more broadly invested.
Growth ETF, Developing World ETF
Growth investing: The Funds may invest primarily in growth stocks, which may be more volatile than slower-growing value stocks. Growth stocks typically trade at higher multiples of current earnings than other stocks, which may lead to inflated prices. Growth stocks often are more sensitive to market fluctuations than other securities because their market prices are highly sensitive to future earnings expectations. At times when it appears that these expectations may not be met, growth stocks' prices typically fall, and declines may be significant when a stock had been supported by significant investor speculation. During market cycles when growth investing is out of favor, selling growth stocks at desired prices may be more difficult.
Developing World ETF
Developing market risk: Investing in countries of the developing world may involve risks in addition to and greater than those generally associated with investing in developed countries. For instance, developing countries may have less developed legal and accounting systems. The governments of these countries may be more unstable and more likely to impose capital controls, nationalize a company or industry, place restrictions on foreign ownership and on withdrawing sale proceeds of securities from the country, and/or impose punitive taxes that could adversely affect security prices. In addition, the economies of these countries may be dependent on relatively few industries that are more susceptible to local and global changes. Securities markets in these countries are also relatively small and have substantially lower trading volumes. As a result, securities issued in these countries may be more volatile and less liquid than securities issued in countries with more developed economies or markets.
All Funds
Market risk: The market value of securities will fluctuate, sometimes significantly and unpredictably. The securities markets are also susceptible to data imprecision, technology malfunctions, operational errors, and similar factors that may adversely affect a single issuer, a group of issuers, an industry, or the market as a whole. Changes in value may be temporary or may last for extended periods. A slow-growing economy, or an inflationary or a recessionary environment, may adversely impact securities markets and prices of securities in which the Funds invest. Economies and financial markets throughout the world are becoming increasingly interconnected. Local, regional, or global events such as civil disobedience, insurrection, war, acts of terrorism, the spread of infectious disease or other public health issues, or other events could have a significant impact on the Funds and their investments. As a result, events or conditions that impact the economies or securities markets may adversely impact the Funds even if they are not invested primarily in those economies or markets.
Active management risk: Despite strategies designed to achieve the Funds' investment objectives, the value of investments will change with market conditions. Securities selected for the Funds may not perform as Saturna Capital Corporation, the Funds' adviser, expects. Additionally, securities selected may cause the Funds to underperform relative to other funds with similar investment objectives and strategies. There is no guarantee that the adviser will effectively assess the Funds' portfolio characteristics and it is possible that its judgments regarding the Funds' exposures may prove incorrect. In addition, actions taken to manage the Funds' exposures, including risk, may be ineffective and/or cause the Funds to underperform.
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Fundamental investing risk: A fundamental investment approach uses research and analysis of a variety of factors to select securities. That research and analysis may be incorrect or, if correct, may not be reflected by the market. Fundamental analysis is inherently subject to the risk of nobody being able to identify all the relevant factors. In addition, the macro-economic factors considered by the Funds' adviser may be difficult to evaluate or implement. Fundamental investing is also inherently subject to differences between the prices of securities and their value as determined by a fundamental investment approach. A fundamental investment approach may cause the Funds to underperform other funds with similar investment objectives and investment strategies even in a rising market.
Significant positions risk: The Funds invest according to varying investment objectives, and no Fund attempts to replicate a broad index. Seeking to outperform both broad indices and other funds, the Funds generally overweight positions in various sectors, industries, and issuers. In pursuing its respective investment objectives, for example, the Growth ETF may overweight the technology sector. Significant positions in sectors, industries, and issuers will wax and wane over time. Adverse developments in a Fund's holdings may have a greater impact on a Fund that has an overweight position than a fund or index that is not similarly overweight a sector, industry, or issuer.
The types of investments favored by the markets also change over time, and a Fund's investment style may hinder its comparative returns. Inflationary periods tend to favor newer, more volatile issuers than those that weather recessions and deflation. The Amana ETFs' investment style allows significant positions in established issuers, industries, and sectors and they may underperform during periods of loose fiscal and monetary policies.
Foreign investing risk: Investments in the securities of foreign issuers may involve risks in addition to those normally associated with investments in the securities of US issuers. All foreign investments are subject to risks of: (1) foreign political and economic instability; (2) adverse movements in foreign exchange rates; (3) currency devaluation; (4) the imposition or tightening of exchange controls or other limitations on repatriation of foreign capital; (5) changes in foreign governmental attitudes toward private investment, including potential nationalization, increased taxation, or confiscation of assets; and (6) differing reporting, accounting, and auditing standards of foreign countries. In developing markets, these risks are magnified by less mature political systems and weaker corporate governance standards than typically found in the developed world.
Credit risk: Investing in certificates, notes, and similar securities subjects the Funds to credit risk, which is the risk that a security issuer may not be able pay its obligations when due, thus reducing the value of a Fund's portfolio holdings.
Interest rate risk: The Funds do not invest in interest bearing investments. However, since murabaha and wakala are Islamic fixed-income investments, the financial and economic data associated with interest bearing investments similarly affect the yields and returns on murabaha and wakala. Investing in securities related to the fixed-income markets subjects the Funds to interest rate risk, which is the risk that a rise in prevailing interest rates generally causes the price of such securities to fall.
Subsidiary risk (Equity Income ETF only): By investing in a Subsidiary, the Fund is subject to the risks associated with the Subsidiary's investments. The Subsidiary is not registered with the SEC as an investment company under the 1940 Act, and is not subject to the investor protections of the 1940 Act. As an investor in its respective Subsidiary, the Fund does not have the same protections offered to shareowners of registered investment companies.
The Fund and its Subsidiary may not be able to operate as described in this Prospectus in the event of changes to the laws of the United States or the Cayman Islands. If the laws of the Cayman Islands required the Subsidiary to pay taxes to a governmental authority, the Fund would be likely to suffer decreased returns. The tax treatment of the Fund's investments in the Subsidiary may be adversely affected by future legislation, court decisions, Treasury Regulations and/or guidance issued by the IRS that could affect whether income derived from such investments is "qualifying income" under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code, or otherwise affect the character, timing, and/or amount of the Funds' taxable income or any gains or distributions made by the Fund.
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Tax risk (Equity Income ETF only): To qualify as a regulated investment company ("RIC"), a Fund must meet certain requirements concerning the source of its income. The Fund's investment in its Subsidiary is intended to provide exposure to investments in a manner that is consistent with the "qualifying income" requirement applicable to RICs. Failure to qualify as a RIC could subject a Fund to adverse tax consequences, including a federal income tax on its net income at regular corporate rates, as well as a tax to shareowners on such income when distributed as an ordinary dividend.
The Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") has issued regulations providing that income inclusions from a RIC subsidiary such as each Subsidiary will constitute qualifying income for the RIC whether or not the income is distributed to the RIC. These regulations are consistent with the conclusions in private letter rulings the IRS had previously issued, and they remove the uncertainty that existed as a result of earlier proposed regulations providing that only distributions a subsidiary makes to the RIC out of its earnings and profits for the applicable tax year would so qualify. The tax treatment of a Fund's investment in its respective Subsidiary may be adversely affected by future legislation, court decisions, Treasury Regulations, and/ or guidance issued by the IRS that could affect whether income derived from such investments is "qualifying income" under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code or otherwise affect the character, timing, and/ or amount of a Fund's taxable income or any gains or distributions made by a Fund.
Murabaha risk (Equity Income ETF only): The Fund may invest in murabaha. A murabaha transaction involves a purchase and deferred-payment resale of an asset. The asset is typically purchased by an Islamic bank as agent for the Fund. The bank, acting as the Fund's agent, immediately resells the asset to a previously identified third party who agrees to repay the Fund's cost for the asset plus a profit. Murabaha investments are subject to market risk (fluctuating prices and exchange rates), credit risk, and operational risk (errors in processes).
Wakala risk (Equity Income ETF only): The Fund may invest in wakala. Wakala, which means "agency agreement" are Islamic finance instruments. Typically, a bank, as agent, raises funds for investment in various activities. As agent, the bank monitors these investment activities. The bank and investors, like the Fund, share in the profit and risk of loss with respect to these investment activities.
ETF risk: As ETFs, the Funds are subject to the following risks:
Authorized Participants Concentration Risk: The Funds may have a limited number of financial institutions that may act as APs. Only APs who have entered into agreements with the Funds' distributor may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the Funds. To the extent that those APs exit the business or are unable to process creation and/or redemption orders, and no other AP is able to step forward to create and redeem in either of those cases, Fund shares may trade like closed-end fund shares at a discount to NAV and possibly face delisting from the Exchange.
Cash Transactions Risk: The Funds may effect creations and redemptions partly or wholly for cash, rather than through in-kind distributions of securities. To the extent a Fund effects creations and redemptions partly or wholly in cash, an investment in the Fund may be less tax-efficient than an investment in an ETF that effects creations and redemptions primarily or wholly in-kind. ETFs generally are able to make in-kind redemptions and thereby avoid being taxed on gains on the distributed portfolio securities at the Fund level. Because a Fund may effect redemptions partly or wholly for cash, rather than in-kind, it may be required to sell portfolio securities in order to obtain the cash needed to distribute redemption proceeds, which involves transaction costs. If the Fund realizes a gain on these sales, the Fund generally will be required to recognize a gain it might not otherwise have recognized, or to recognize such gain sooner than would otherwise be required if it were to distribute portfolio securities in-kind. The Fund generally distributes these gains to shareowners to avoid capital gains taxes at the Fund level and the need to otherwise comply with the special tax rules that apply to such gains. This strategy may cause shareowners to be subject to tax on gains to which they would not otherwise be subject, or at an earlier date than if they had made an investment in a different ETF. Moreover, cash transactions may have to be carried out over several days if the securities markets are relatively illiquid at the time the Fund must sell securities and may involve considerable brokerage fees and taxes. These brokerage fees and taxes, which will be higher than if the Fund sold and redeemed its shares principally in-kind, will be passed on to purchasers and redeemers of Creation Units in the form of creation and redemption transaction fees. As a result of these factors, the spreads between the bid and the offered prices of a Fund's shares may be wider than those of shares of ETFs that primarily or wholly transact in-kind.
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International Closed Market Trading Risk: Because certain of the Funds' investments trade in markets that are closed when the Funds and Exchange are open, there are likely to be deviations between the current prices of such investments and the prices at which such investments are marked for purposes of a Fund's NAV. As a result, shares may appear to trade at a significant discount or premium to NAV.
Large Shareowner Risk: Certain shareowners may own a substantial amount of a Fund's shares. In addition, a third party investor, an authorized participant, a lead market maker, or another entity may invest in a Fund and hold its investment for a limited period of time solely to facilitate commencement of the Fund or to facilitate the Fund's achieving a specified size or scale. There can be no assurance that any large shareowner would not redeem its investment. Dispositions of a large number of shares by these shareowners may adversely affect a Fund's liquidity and net assets to the extent such transactions are executed directly with the Fund in the form of redemptions through an authorized participant, rather than executed in the secondary market. These redemptions may also force a Fund to sell portfolio securities when it might not otherwise do so, which may negatively impact the Fund's NAV and increase the Fund's brokerage costs. To the extent these large shareowners transact in Fund shares on the secondary market, such transactions may account for a large percentage of the trading volume on the Exchange and may, therefore, have a material upward or downward effect on the market price of the shares.
Premium-Discount Risk: The Funds' shares may trade above or below their NAV. Accordingly, investors may pay more than NAV when purchasing shares or receive less than NAV when selling shares. The NAV of a Fund will generally fluctuate with changes in the market value of the Fund's holdings. The market prices of shares, however, will generally fluctuate in accordance with changes in NAV as well as the relative supply of, and demand for, shares on the Exchange. The trading price of shares may deviate significantly from NAV during periods of market volatility. Price differences may be due, in large part, to the fact that supply and demand forces at work in the secondary trading market for shares will be closely related to, but not identical to, the same forces influencing the prices of the securities held by a Fund. The market price of shares may also fluctuate in accordance with changes in the liquidity, or the perceived liquidity, of a Fund's holdings, and a decrease, or a perceived decrease, in such liquidity may lead to increased divergence between the shares' market price and NAV. Such divergence is more likely under stressed market conditions.
Secondary Market Trading Risk: Investors buying or selling Fund shares in the secondary market will generally pay brokerage commissions or other charges imposed by brokers as determined by that broker. Brokerage commissions are often a fixed amount and may be a significant proportional cost for investors seeking to buy or sell relatively small amounts of shares. In addition, secondary market investors will also incur the cost of the difference between the price that an investor is willing to pay for shares (the "bid" price) and the price at which an investor is willing to sell shares (the "ask" price). This difference in bid and ask prices is often referred to as the "spread" or "bid/ask spread." The bid/ask spread varies over time for shares based on trading volume and market liquidity, and is generally lower if shares have more trading volume and market liquidity and higher if shares have little trading volume and market liquidity. Further, increased market volatility may cause increased bid/ask spreads. Although shares are listed on the Exchange, there can be no assurance that an active or liquid trading market for them will develop or be maintained or that the shares will continue to be listed. Market makers are not obligated to make a market, nor are APs obligated to purchase shares. In times of market stress, market makers and APs can refrain from these activities and any such absences can lead to greater premiums and discounts. In addition, trading in Fund shares on the Exchange may be halted due to market conditions or for reasons that, in the view of the Exchange, make trading in shares inadvisable. Further, trading in shares on the Exchange is subject to trading halts caused by extraordinary market volatility pursuant to the Exchange "circuit breaker" rules. There can be no assurance that the requirements of the Exchange necessary to maintain the listing of a Fund will continue to be met or will remain unchanged.
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Operational Risk (All Funds)
An investment in an Amana ETF, like any fund, can involve operational risks arising from factors such as processing errors, human errors, inadequate or failed internal or external processes, failure in systems and technology, changes in personnel, and errors caused by third-party service providers. A Fund may be affected by international, US, state, or local political events, including the action or inaction of governments, their instrumentalities, or quasi-governmental organizations, which may negatively impact economic conditions and businesses' operating environments. Future government regulation and/or intervention could also change the way in which a Fund is regulated or affect the expenses incurred directly by a Fund. Regulatory uncertainty and political or governmental action or inaction may affect the value of a Fund's investments, and limit and/or preclude a Fund's ability to achieve its investment objective. Other disruptive events may include, but are not limited to, natural disasters, public health events, labor shortages, supply chain interruptions, and other destabilizing events that adversely affect a Fund's, or their service providers' ability to conduct business. The Funds seek to minimize such events through controls and oversight, but there may still be events or failures that could cause losses to the Funds. In addition, as the use of technology increases, the Funds may be more susceptible to operational risks through intentional and unintentional breaches in cyber security. A breach in cyber security may cause the Funds or their service providers to lose proprietary information or operational capacity or suffer data corruption. As a result, the Funds may incur regulatory penalties, reputational damage, additional compliance costs associated with corrective measures, and/or financial loss. The Funds and their service providers may also maintain sensitive information (including relating to personally identifiable information of investors) and a cyber security breach may cause such information to be lost, improperly accessed, used, or disclosed.
Please refer to the Funds' Statement of Additional Information for further details about the risks of investing in the Funds.
INVESTMENT ADVISER
Saturna Capital Corporation, 1300 N. State Street, Bellingham, Washington 98225, is each Fund's investment adviser and administrator ("adviser"). Founded in 1989, Saturna Capital Corporation has approximately $10.5 billion in assets under management. It is also the adviser to four other mutual funds that are series of Amana Mutual Funds Trust, to another investment company, Saturna Investment Trust, and to separately managed accounts.
The adviser is responsible for overseeing the management and business affairs of the Funds, and has discretion to purchase and sell securities in accordance with the Funds' respective objectives, policies, and restrictions, subject to the authority of and supervision by the Board of Trustees. The adviser continuously reviews, supervises, and administers the Funds' investment programs. The adviser has entered into an investment advisory agreement ("Advisory Agreement") with respect to each Fund. Pursuant to that Advisory Agreement, each Fund pays the adviser an annual advisory fee based on its average daily net assets for the services and facilities it provides payable at the annual rates set forth below:
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Advisory Fee
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Amana Equity Income ETF
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0.76 %
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Amana Growth ETF
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0.61 %
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Amana Developing World ETF
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0.91 %
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The adviser agrees to pay all expenses of the Funds, except for the (i) the compensation payable to the adviser under the Advisory Agreement, (ii) payments under a Fund's Rule 12b-1 plan, if applicable, (iii) brokerage and similar portfolio management expenses, (iv) acquired fund fees and expenses, (v) liquidation or termination expenses, (vi) taxes (including, but not limited to, income, excise, transaction, transfer and withholding taxes), and (vii) litigation expenses and other extraordinary expenses (including litigation to which the Trust or a Fund may be a party and indemnification of the Trustees and officers with respect thereto).
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A discussion regarding the basis for the Board of Trustees' approval of the Advisory Agreement with respect to each will be available in the Funds' Form N-CSR for the period ending November 30, 2026.
SUB-ADVISER
Vident Advisory, LLC, 1125 Sanctuary Parkway, Suite 515, Alpharetta, Georgia 30009, serves as the sub-adviser to each Fund. As of April 30, 2026, the sub-adviser had approximately $25.6 billion under management. The sub-adviser is responsible for trading portfolio securities for each Fund, including selecting broker-dealers to execute purchase and sale transactions or in connection with any rebalancing or reconstitution of the portfolio, pre- and post-trade compliance, and monitoring of Fund trading activity, subject to the oversight of the adviser and the Fund's board of trustees.
The adviser has entered into an investment sub-advisory agreement ("Sub-Advisory Agreement") with respect to each Fund. Pursuant to that Sub-Advisory Agreement, the adviser will pay the sub-adviser an annual minimum fee of $40,000 (waived for the first six months) and:
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04% for Fund assets up to $250 million;
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03% for Fund assets between $250 and $500 million; and
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02% for Fund assets above $500 million
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A discussion regarding the basis for the Board of Trustees' approval of the Sub-Advisory Agreement with respect to each will be available in the Funds' Form N-CSR for the period ending November 30, 2026.
Neither this Prospectus nor the Statement of Additional Information is intended to give rise to any contract rights or other rights in any shareholder, other than any rights conferred explicitly by federal or state securities laws that have not been waived. The Funds enter into contractual arrangements with various parties, including, among others, the adviser, who provide services to the Funds. Shareowners are not parties to, or intended to be third party beneficiaries of, those contractual arrangements. Where shareowners are not third party beneficiaries of contractual arrangements, those contractual arrangements cannot be enforced by shareowners acting on their own behalf.
PORTFOLIO MANAGERS
Mr. Scott Klimo CFA®, chief investment officer at Saturna Capital Corporation, joined the firm in 2012 and has been a portfolio manager primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the Growth ETF since its inception.
Mr. Monem A. Salam MBA is executive vice president, a director, and a global portfolio manager for Saturna Capital Corporation. He joined the firm in 2003 and has been a portfolio manager of the Equity Income ETF since its inception, a portfolio manager of the Developing World ETF since its inception, and a deputy portfolio manager of the Growth ETF since its inception.
Mr. Bryce R. Fegley MS, CFA®, CIPM®, is a senior investment analyst and portfolio manager for Saturna Capital Corporation. He joined the firm in 2001 and has been a deputy portfolio manager for the Equity Income ETF since its inception.
Mr. Levi Stewart Zurbrugg MBA, CFA®, CPA®, is a senior investment analyst and portfolio manager for Saturna Capital Corporation. He joined the firm in 2019 and has been a deputy portfolio manager of the Equity Income ETF and the Developing World ETF since the Funds' inception.
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Mr. Jason S. Mitchell MBA, a senior investment analyst of Saturna Capital Corporation, joined the firm in 2025 and has been deputy portfolio manager of the Growth ETF since its inception. Prior to joining Saturna Capital Corporation, Mr. Mitchell served as a portfolio manager/analyst at Cercano Asset Management from 2022-2024 and served as Director and Senior Analyst at Bank of America Securities Japan from 2018-2021.
Mr. Austin Wen, CFA® and Ms. Devin Ryder CFA®, both senior portfolio managers of the sub-adviser, have sub-advised each Fund since its inception. Mr. Wen has over a decade of investment experience, specializing in portfolio management and trading of equity, derivative, and commodities-based portfolios, as well as risk monitoring and investment analysis. Ms. Ryder has over five years of industry experience.
See the Statement of Additional Information for a discussion of their compensation, other accounts managed, and ownership of Amana ETFs and other funds they manage.
OTHER SERVICE PROVIDERS
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. serves as the transfer agent and custodian to the Funds. The transfer agent and custodian maintains in separate accounts cash, securities and other assets of the Funds, keeps all necessary accounts and records, and provides other services.
Paralel Distributors LLC ("Distributor") serves as the Fund's distributor. Shares in less than Creation Units are not distributed by the Distributor, and the Distributor does not maintain a secondary market in the shares of the Fund.
BUYING AND SELLING FUND SHARES
Shares of the Funds may be purchased or redeemed directly from a Fund only in Creation Units or multiples thereof. Only a broker-dealer (an "Authorized Participant" or "AP") that enters into an Authorized Participant Agreement with the Funds' Distributor may engage in creation and redemption transactions directly with the Funds. Purchases and redemptions directly with the Funds must follow the Funds' procedures, and are subject to transaction fees, which are described in the SAI. Orders for such transactions may be rejected or delayed if they are not submitted in good order and subject to the other conditions set forth in this Prospectus and the SAI. Please see the SAI for more information about purchases and redemptions of Creation Units.
Once purchased (i.e., created) by an AP, Fund shares are listed on the Exchange and trade in the secondary market. When you buy or sell a Fund's shares in the secondary market, you will pay or receive the market price. The price at which you buy or sell shares (i.e., the market price) may be more or less than the NAV of the shares. Unless imposed by your broker, there is no minimum dollar amount you must invest in a Fund and no minimum number of shares you must buy. Shares can be bought and sold throughout the trading day like other publicly traded securities. Most investors will buy and sell shares through a broker and, thus, will incur customary brokerage commissions and charges when buying or selling shares. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, shares are not redeemable by the Funds.
The secondary markets are closed on weekends and also are generally closed on the following holidays: New Year's Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Presidents' Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day (observed), Juneteenth National Independence Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day.
When the Exchange is open, shares will be listed and traded on the Exchange under the following symbols:
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Amana Equity Income ETF
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AMEI
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AMGR
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AMEM
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For more information on how to buy and sell shares of the Funds, please contact your broker or dealer, or call (800) 728-8762 or visit www.Amanafunds.com.
VALUATION OF FUND SHARES
The net asset value per share of each Fund is the total value of Fund assets attributable to shares of the Fund minus the liabilities attributable to the Fund, divided by the total number of shares outstanding for the Fund. Because the value of a Fund's portfolio securities changes every business day, its net asset value usually changes as well.
Each Fund computes its daily net asset value using market prices as of the close of trading on the New York Stock Exchange (generally 4 p.m. Eastern time). Fund net asset value is not determined on the days when New York Stock Exchange trading is closed (typically weekends and US national holidays). Securities traded on a national securities exchange and over-the-counter securities are valued at the last reported sale price on the valuation day. Securities for which there are no sales are valued at the latest bid price. Occasionally there may be days without a readily available market price for a security. When this occurs, a fair value for such security is determined in good faith under the direction of the Board of Trustees. The Board of Trustees has designated the adviser (Saturna Capital Corporation) as each Fund's valuation designee to perform fair value functions in accordance with valuation policies and procedures adopted by the adviser, subject to the Board of Trustees' oversight. Using fair value to price a security may result in a value different from the security's most recent closing price and from the prices used by other funds to calculate their share prices.
Foreign markets may close before the time as of which the share price is computed. Because of this, events occurring after the close of a foreign market and before the share price computation may have a material effect on foreign security prices. Foreign securities may trade on weekends or other days when the Funds do not price their shares. As a result, the value of these securities may change on days when Fund shares cannot be purchased or redeemed.
The Equity Income ETF may invest up to 20% of its total assets in its Subsidiary for the purpose of investing its cash positions. The Subsidiary offers to redeem all or a portion of its shares every Business Day. The value of the Subsidiary's shares will fluctuate with the value of its portfolio investments. The Subsidiary uses the same pricing and valuation methodologies described above to price its shares.
Additional information about portfolio security valuation, including foreign securities, is contained in the Fund's Statement of Additional Information (SAI).
PREMIUM/DISCOUNT INFORMATION
Information showing the number of days the market price of a Fund's shares was greater than the Fund's NAV per share (i.e., at a premium) and the number of days it was less than the Fund's NAV per share (i.e., at a discount) for various time periods will be available by visiting the Funds' website at https://www.saturna.com/products/etf-performance. The premium and discount information contained on the website will represent past performance and cannot be used to predict future results.
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FUND WEBSITE AND DISCLOSURE OF PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS
The Funds maintain a website at https://www.saturna.com/products/etf-performance. Among other things, this website includes this Prospectus and the SAI, and will include the Fund's annual and semi-annual reports (when available), certain market price information about shares, daily NAV and a historical comparison of the shares' market prices to NAV.
In addition, each day the Funds are open for business, each Fund's full portfolio holdings as of the close of the previous day are disseminated through the website. A description of the Funds' policies and procedures with respect to the disclosure of the Funds' portfolio holdings is available in the Funds' Statement of Additional Information (SAI).
ACTIVE INVESTORS AND MARKET TIMING
The Trust's Board of Trustees has determined not to adopt policies and procedures designed to prevent or monitor for frequent purchases and redemptions of the Funds' shares because each Fund sells and redeems its shares at NAV only in Creation Units pursuant to the terms of an Authorized Participant Agreement between the Authorized Participant ("AP") and the Distributor, and such direct trading between a Fund and APs is critical to ensuring that the Fund's shares trade at or close to NAV. Further, the vast majority of trading in Fund shares occurs on the secondary market, which does not involve the Funds directly and therefore does not cause the Funds to experience many of the harmful effects of market timing, such as dilution and disruption of portfolio management. In addition, each Fund imposes a transaction fee on Creation Unit transactions, which is designed to offset transfer and other transaction costs incurred by the Fund in connection with the issuance and redemption of Creation Units and may employ fair valuation pricing to minimize potential dilution from market timing. The Funds reserve the right to reject any purchase order at any time and reserves the right to impose restrictions on disruptive, excessive, or short-term trading.
INVESTMENTS BY REGISTERED INVESTMENT COMPANIES
Section 12(d)(1) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 ("1940 Act") restricts investments by investment companies in the securities of other investment companies, including shares of the Funds. Registered investment companies are permitted to invest in the Funds beyond the limits set forth in Section 12(d)(1) in reliance on rules adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission, particularly Rule 12d1-4 under the 1940 Act, or any other applicable exemptive relief.
CONTINUOUS OFFERING
The method by which Creation Units of Fund shares are created and traded may raise certain issues under applicable securities laws. Because new Creation Units of shares are issued and sold by the Funds on an ongoing basis, a "distribution," as such term is used in the Securities Act, may occur at any point. Broker-dealers and other persons are cautioned that some activities on their part may, depending on the circumstances, result in their being deemed participants in a distribution in a manner which could render them statutory underwriters and subject them to the prospectus delivery requirement and liability provisions of the Securities Act.
For example, a broker-dealer firm or its client may be deemed a statutory underwriter if it takes Creation Units after placing an order with the Distributor, breaks them down into constituent shares and sells the shares directly to customers or if it chooses to couple the creation of a supply of new shares with an active selling effort involving solicitation of secondary market demand for shares. A determination of whether one is an underwriter for purposes of the Securities Act must take into account all the facts and circumstances pertaining to the activities of the broker-dealer or its client in the particular case, and the examples mentioned above should not be considered a complete description of all the activities that could lead to a characterization as an underwriter.
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Broker-dealer firms should also note that dealers who are not "underwriters" but are effecting transactions in shares, whether or not participating in the distribution of shares, are generally required to deliver a Prospectus. This is in addition to any obligation of dealers to deliver a Prospectus when acting as underwriters. This is because the prospectus delivery exemption in Section 4(3) of the Securities Act is not available in respect of such transactions as a result of Section 24(d) of the 1940 Act. As a result, broker-dealer firms should note that dealers who are not "underwriters" but are participating in a distribution (as contrasted with engaging in ordinary secondary market transactions) and thus dealing with the shares that are part of an overallotment within the meaning of Section 4(3)(C) of the Securities Act, will be unable to take advantage of the prospectus delivery exemption provided by Section 4(3) of the Securities Act. For delivery of prospectuses to exchange members, the prospectus delivery mechanism of Rule 153 under the Securities Act is only available with respect to transactions on a national exchange.
PAYMENTS TO BROKER-DEALERS AND OTHER FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES
If you purchase shares of a Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the adviser or an affiliate may pay the intermediary for marketing activities or other services related to the sale or promotion of the Fund. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other financial intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary's website for more information.
DISTRIBUTION AND SERVICE PLAN
Each Fund has adopted a distribution and service plan ("Plan") pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act. Under the Plan, each Fund is authorized to pay distribution fees to the Distributor and other firms that provide distribution and shareowner services ("Service Providers"). If a Service Provider provides such services, the Fund may pay fees at an annual rate not to exceed 0.25% of average daily net assets, pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act.
No distribution or service fees are currently paid by the Funds, however, and there are no current plans to impose these fees. In the event Rule 12b-1 fees are charged, over time they would increase the cost of an investment in the Fund because they would be paid on an ongoing basis.
DIVIDENDS, OTHER DISTRIBUTIONS AND TAXES
Fund Distributions
Each Fund generally pays out dividends from its net investment income, if any, and distributes its net capital gains, if any, to shareowners at least annually. A Fund typically earns dividends from stocks in which it invests and may generate net gains from certain foreign currency transactions. These amounts, net of expenses, are distributed to Fund shareowners as "income dividends." A Fund realizes capital gains or losses whenever it sells securities. Net long-term capital gains are distributed to shareowners as "capital gain dividends."
Brokers may make available to their customers who own shares the DTC book-entry dividend reinvestment service. To determine whether this service is available and whether there is a commission or other charge for using this service, consult your broker. Brokers may require a Fund's shareowners to adhere to specific procedures and timetables. If this service is available and used, dividend distributions of both net income and net realized gains will be automatically reinvested in additional whole shares purchased in the secondary market. Without this service, investors would receive all their distributions in cash.
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Taxes
The following is a summary of the material federal income tax considerations applicable to an investment in shares. This summary is based on the Code and the regulations thereunder as in effect on the date of this Prospectus and judicial and administrative interpretations thereof publicly available at that date, all of which are subject to change, possibly with retroactive effect. In addition, this summary assumes that a shareowner holds shares as "capital assets" (within the meaning of the Code) and does not hold shares in connection with a trade or business. This summary does not address all potential federal income tax considerations possibly applicable to shareowners who hold shares through a partnership (or other pass-through entity) or to shareowners subject to special tax rules. Prospective shareowners are urged to consult their own tax advisors with respect to the specific federal, state, local, and foreign tax consequences of investing in shares based on their particular circumstances.
As with any investment, you should consider how your investment in shares will be taxed. Unless your investment in shares is made through a tax-exempt entity or tax-deferred arrangement, such as an IRA or 401(k) plan, you need to be aware of the possible tax consequences when the Fund makes distributions and when you sell your shares.
Federal Income Tax Status of the Funds
Each Fund intends to qualify for its first and each subsequent taxable year, to be treated as a "regulated investment company" under Subchapter M of Chapter 1 of Subtitle A of the Code. As such, a Fund (but not its shareowners) generally pays no federal income tax on the net income and net realized gains it distributes to its shareowners.
Taxes on Distributions
Distributions from a Fund's net investment income (other than "qualified dividend income" ("QDI")), including distributions of the Fund's net realized short-term capital gains and certain foreign currency gains, if any, are taxable to you as ordinary income. Distributions by a Fund of net long-term capital gains in excess of net short-term capital loss ("net capital gain") are taxable to you as long-term capital gains, regardless of how long you have held the Fund's shares. Distributions by a Fund that qualify as QDI are taxable to you at long-term capital gain rates (which are lower than the rates for ordinary income). In order for a distribution to you by a Fund to be treated as QDI, (1) the Fund itself must receive QDI from domestic corporations and certain qualified foreign corporations, (2) the Fund must meet holding period and other requirements with respect to the stocks on which the QDI was paid, and (3) you must meet similar requirements with respect to the Fund's shares. In general, your distributions are subject to federal income tax for the calendar year when they are paid; certain distributions paid in January, however, may be treated as paid on December 31 of the prior year. Income dividends and capital gain distributions paid to an individual, estate, or trust from the Fund will be subject to a 3.8% tax on the lesser of the shareowner's (a) "net investment income" or (b) "modified adjusted gross income" exceeding $200,000 (or $250,000 if married and filing jointly) ("Investment Income Tax").
If you buy shares of a Fund just before a distribution, you will be subject to tax on the entire amount of the taxable distribution you receive. Distributions are taxable to you even if they are paid from income or gain earned by the Fund before your investment (and thus were included in the price you paid for your shares). Any gain resulting from the sale or exchange of shares generally will be taxable as long-term or short-term gain, depending upon how long you have held the shares.
A Fund may be subject to foreign withholding or other foreign taxes, which in some cases can be significant, on any income or gain from investments in foreign stocks or securities. In that case, the Fund's total return on those securities would be decreased. The Fund may generally deduct these taxes in computing its taxable income. Rather than deducting these foreign taxes, if a Fund invests more than 50% of its assets in the stock or securities of foreign corporations at the end of its taxable year it may make an election to treat a proportionate amount of eligible foreign taxes as constituting a taxable distribution to each shareowner, which would, subject to certain limitations, generally allow the shareowners to either (i) credit that proportionate amount of taxes against U.S. federal income tax liability as a foreign tax credit or (ii) take that amount as an itemized deduction.
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Although in some cases a Fund may be able to apply for a refund of a portion of such taxes, the ability to successfully obtain such a refund may be uncertain.
If you are a resident or a citizen of the United States, back-up withholding will apply to your distributions and proceeds of sales of shares if you have not provided a correct social security or other taxpayer identification number and made other required certifications or if otherwise required by the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS").
Taxes on Exchange-Listed Shares Sales
Any capital gain or loss realized upon a sale of shares is generally treated as long-term capital gain or loss if the shares have been held for more than one year and as short-term capital gain or loss if the shares have been held for one year or less. Gains recognized from the sale or exchange of shares will be subject to the Investment Income Tax. Capital loss realized on the sale or exchange of shares held for six months or less will be treated as long-term capital loss to the extent of any capital gain dividends received by the shareowner. The ability to deduct capital losses may be limited.
Taxes on Purchase and Redemption of Creation Units
An Authorized Participant who exchanges equity securities for one or more Creation Unit(s) generally will recognize a gain or a loss. The gain or loss will be equal to the difference between the market value of the Creation Unit(s) at the time and the exchanger's aggregate basis in the securities surrendered and any cash paid. An Authorized Participant who exchanges one or more Creation Unit(s) for equity securities will generally recognize a gain or loss equal to the difference between the exchanger's basis in the Creation Unit(s) and the aggregate market value of the securities received and any cash received on the redemption. The IRS, however, may assert that a loss realized upon an exchange of securities for Creation Units cannot be deducted, on the grounds that under such a transaction there has been no significant change in economic position. Persons exchanging securities should consult their own tax advisors with respect to whether and when such a loss might be deductible.
Any capital gain or loss realized upon redemption of a Creation Unit is generally treated as long-term capital gain or loss if the shares in the Creation Unit have been held for more than one year and as a short-term capital gain or loss if those shares have been held for one year or less.
If you purchase or redeem Creation Units, you will be sent a confirmation statement showing the number of shares and at what price you purchased or redeemed them.
Additional Information
Shareowners that are non-resident aliens or foreign entities will generally be subject to withholding of U.S. federal income tax at the rate of 30% of all ordinary dividends if there is no applicable tax treaty or if they are claiming reduced withholding under a tax treaty and have not properly completed and signed the appropriate IRS Form W-8. Provided that the appropriate IRS Form W-8 is properly completed and provided to the applicable withholding agent, long-term capital gains distributions and proceeds of sales are not subject to withholding for foreign shareowners. An exception from withholding also applies to properly reported "interest-related dividends" and "short-term capital gain dividends."
Withholding of U.S. tax (at a 30% rate) is required on payments of taxable dividends made to certain non-U.S. entities that fail to comply (or be deemed compliant) with extensive reporting and withholding requirements designed to inform the U.S. Department of the Treasury of U.S.-owned foreign investment accounts. Shareowners may be requested to provide additional information to enable the applicable withholding agent to determine whether withholding is required.
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Distributions from a Fund may also be subject to state, local, and foreign taxes. You should consult your own tax advisor regarding the particular tax consequences of an investment in a Fund.
This section summarizes some of the consequences under current federal tax law of an investment in the Fund. It is not a substitute for personal tax advice. Consult your personal tax advisor about the potential tax consequences of an investment in the Fund under all applicable tax laws.
HOUSEHOLDING POLICY
It is the policy of the Funds to mail only one copy of the prospectus, annual report, semi-annual report and proxy statements to all shareowners who share the same mailing address and share the same last name. You are deemed to consent to this policy unless you specifically revoke this policy and request that separate copies of such documents be mailed to you. In such case, you will begin to receive your own copies within 30 days after our receipt of the revocation. You may request that separate copies of these disclosure documents be mailed to you by writing to us at: Saturna Capital Corporation, 1300 N. State Street, Bellingham, Washington 98225 or calling us at: (800) 728-8762.
Investors who hold their shares through an intermediary are subject to the intermediary's policies. Contact your financial intermediary for any questions you may have.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Neither this Prospectus nor the Statement of Additional Information is intended to give rise to any contract rights or other rights in any shareowner, other than any rights conferred explicitly by federal or state securities laws that have not been waived. The Funds enter into contractual arrangements with various parties, including, among others, the adviser, who provide services to the Funds. Shareowners are not parties to, or intended to be third party beneficiaries of, those contractual arrangements. Where shareowners are not third party beneficiaries of contractual arrangements, those contractual arrangements cannot be enforced by shareowners acting on their own behalf.
FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS
The financial highlights tables, when available, are intended to help you understand the Fund's financial performance for the period of the Fund's operation. The Fund is newly organized and therefore had not yet had any operations as of the date of this Prospectus and does not have financial highlights to present at this time.
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Appendix - Related Performance Information of Similar Accounts
Amana Equity Income ETF
The Amana Equity Income ETF (the "Fund") has recently commenced operations and has no performance history. Saturna Capital Corporation ("Saturna Capital") manages other advisory accounts that have substantially similar investment objectives, policies and investment strategies as the Fund, and the table below provides supplemental performance information for the Halal Equity Income Composite which is a composite of all such accounts (the "Composite"). The Composite performance information does not represent the performance of the Fund. It is provided to illustrate the past performance of Saturna Capital in managing the Composite. In addition, the performance is shown against the Bloomberg 500 Total Return Index (the "Index"). The Fund's portfolio management team is the same team that is responsible for managing the account that constitutes the Composite.
The historical performance data for the Composite should not be considered a substitute for the Fund's performance, and should not be considered an indication of the Fund's future performance. The Composite started in 2006 and at all times has been comprised of one account. The market value of the single account which comprises the Composite has ranged from $53,000,000 as of December 31, 2005 to $2,127,000,000 as of December 31, 2025. Since fees, commissions, and taxes may differ for the Composite and the Fund, performance data for identical periods may differ. The Composite has been constructed in compliance with the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS®) standards. You should not assume that the Fund will have the same performance as the Composite. An investment in the Fund can lose value.
Although the Fund and the Composite have substantially similar investment objectives, policies and investment strategies, differences in asset size and cash flows may result in differences in security selection, relative weightings or differences in the price paid for certain securities. As such, the investments held by the Fund may not be identical to the investments held by the Composite and the future performance of the Fund will differ from the performance of the Composite.
The Composite's net performance information is calculated in accordance with GIPS®, created and administered by the CFA Institute. This method of calculating performance differs from the SEC's standardized methodology that will be used to calculate the Fund's performance and may result in an average annual total return that may be higher than that derived from the SEC's standardized methodology.
AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/2025
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Inception Date
of Composite
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Year to
Date
12/31/2025
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1 Year
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3 Years
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5 Years
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10 Years
|
|
Composite (net of account fees)1
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1/1/2006
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16.65
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16.65
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14.54
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11.05
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11.94
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Bloomberg 500 Total Return Index
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15.40
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15.40
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23.83
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14.17
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15.02
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1 Net of fee numbers are presented net of an annual model fee of 0.75%.
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Composite returns are presented in U.S. dollars and include the reinvestment of dividends and interest. The Fund's return will be reduced by the estimated total expenses of the Fund for its initial fiscal period as presented in the fee table included in this Prospectus, including management fees. The total annual fund operating expenses for the Fund in the fee table are higher than the annual model fee of the Composite, and therefore the Fund's return would have been lower. Composite (net of account fees) returns are calculated using an annual model fee of 0.75%, which is equal to the actual fee, excluding custody fees, incurred by an account in the Halal Equity Income Composite or the highest tier of a fee schedule for an account in the Halal Equity Income Composite, whichever is higher. Periods greater than one year are annualized. Actual expenses may vary among clients with the same investment strategy.
The Index is a float market-cap weighted benchmark of the 500 most highly capitalized US companies.
It is not possible to invest directly in the Index. Unlike the accounts in the Composite (and the Fund), the Index does not incur fees or expenses.
Amana Growth ETF
The Amana Growth ETF (the "Fund") has recently commenced operations and has no performance history. Saturna Capital Corporation ("Saturna Capital") manages other advisory accounts that have substantially similar investment objectives, policies and investment strategies as the Fund, and the table below provides supplemental performance information for the Halal Growth Equity Composite which is a composite of all such accounts (the "Composite"). The Composite performance information does not represent the performance of the Fund. It is provided to illustrate the past performance of Saturna Capital in managing the Composite. In addition, the performance is shown against the Bloomberg 500 Total Return Index (the "Index"). The Fund's portfolio management team is the same team that is responsible for managing the accounts that constitute the Composite.
The historical performance data for the Composite should not be considered a substitute for the Fund's performance, and should not be considered an indication of the Fund's future performance. The Composite started in 2006 and was comprised of one account with $137,000,000 in market value as of December 31, 2005. Since that time, the number of accounts in the Composite has ranged from one to three accounts and the market value of the Composite has ranged from $137,000,000 to, as of December 31, 2025, $5,955,000,000. Since fees, commissions, and taxes may differ for the Composite and the Fund, performance data for identical periods may differ. The Composite has been constructed in compliance with the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS®) standards. You should not assume that the Fund will have the same performance as the Composite. An investment in the Fund can lose value.
The Composite includes accounts that are not registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the "1940 Act"), and therefore are not subject to certain investment restrictions, diversification requirements, and other regulatory requirements imposed by the 1940 Act or by the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. If those accounts had been registered under the 1940 Act, the performance results might have been lower. Although the Fund and the Composite have substantially similar investment objectives, policies and investment strategies, differences in asset size and cash flows may result in differences in security selection, relative weightings or differences in the price paid for certain securities. As such, the investments held by the Fund may not be identical to the investments held by the Composite and the future performance of the Fund will differ from the performance of the Composite.
The Composite's net performance information is calculated in accordance with GIPS®, created and administered by the CFA Institute. This method of calculating performance differs from the SEC's standardized methodology that will be used to calculate the Fund's performance and may result in an average annual total return that may be higher than that derived from the SEC's standardized methodology.
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AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/2025
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|
Inception Date
of
Composite
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Year to
Date
12/31/2025
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1 Year
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3 Years
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5 Years
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10 Years
|
|
Composite (net of account fees) 1
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1/1/2006
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17.74
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17.74
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19.74
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12.79
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16.62
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Bloomberg 500 Total Return Index
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15.40
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15.40
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23.83
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14.17
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15.02
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1 Net of fee numbers are presented net of an annual model fee of 0.75%.
Composite returns are presented in U.S. dollars and include the reinvestment of dividends and interest. The Fund's return will be reduced by the estimated total expenses of the Fund for its initial fiscal period as presented in the fee table included in this Prospectus, including management fees. Composite (net of account fees) returns are calculated using an annual model fee of 0.75%, which is equal to the actual fee, excluding custody fees, incurred by an account in the Halal Growth Equity Composite or the highest tier of a fee schedule for an account in the Halal Growth Equity Composite, whichever is higher. Periods greater than one year are annualized. Actual expenses may vary among clients with the same investment strategy.
The Index is a float market-cap weighted benchmark of the 500 most highly capitalized US companies.
It is not possible to invest directly in the Index. Unlike the accounts in the Composite (and the Fund), the Index does not incur fees or expenses.
Amana Developing World ETF
The Amana Developing World ETF (the "Fund") has recently commenced operations and has no performance history. Saturna Capital Corporation ("Saturna Capital") manages other advisory accounts that have substantially similar investment objectives, policies and investment strategies as the Fund and the table below provides supplemental performance information for the Halal Emerging Market Equity Composite which is a composite of all such accounts (the "Composite"). The Composite performance information does not represent the performance of the Fund. It is provided to illustrate the past performance of Saturna Capital in managing the Composite. In addition, the performance is shown against the Bloomberg Emerging Markets Large, Mid & Small Cap Total Return Index (the "Index"). The Fund's portfolio management team is the same team that is responsible for managing the account that constitutes the Composite.
The historical performance data for the Composite should not be considered a substitute for the Fund's performance, and should not be considered an indication of the Fund's future performance. The Composite started in 2009 and at all times has been comprised of one account. The market value of the single account which comprises the Composite has ranged from $1,400,000, as of December 31, 2009, to $158,000,000, as of December 31, 2025. Since fees, commissions, and taxes may differ for the Composite and the Fund, performance data for identical periods may differ. The Composite has been constructed in compliance with the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS®) standards. You should not assume that the Fund will have the same performance as the Composite. An investment in the Fund can lose value.
Although the Fund and the Composite have substantially similar investment objectives, policies and investment strategies, differences in asset size and cash flows may result in differences in security selection, relative weightings or differences in the price paid for certain securities. As such, the investments held by the Fund may not be identical to the investments held by the Composite and the future performance of the Fund will differ from the performance of the Composite.
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The Composite's net performance information is calculated in accordance with GIPS®, created and administered by the CFA Institute. This method of calculating performance differs from the SEC's standardized methodology that will be used to calculate the Fund's performance and may result in an average annual total return that may be higher than that derived from the SEC's standardized methodology.
AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/2025
|
|
Inception Date
of
Composite
|
Year to
Date
12/31/2025
|
1 Year
|
3 Years
|
5 Years
|
10 Years
|
|
Composite (net of account fees)1
|
10/1/2009
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20.25
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20.25
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13.54
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9.13
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7.11
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Bloomberg Emerging Markets Large, Mid & Small Cap Total Return Index
|
|
28.39
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28.39
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15.10
|
4.51
|
8.92
|
1 Net of fee numbers are presented net of an annual model fee of 0.75%.
Composite returns are presented in U.S. dollars and include the reinvestment of dividends and interest. The Fund's return will be reduced by the estimated total expenses of the Fund for its initial fiscal period as presented in the fee table included in this Prospectus, including management fees. The total annual fund operating expenses for the Fund in the fee table are higher than the annual model fee of the Composite, and therefore the Fund's return would have been lower. Composite (net of account fees) returns are calculated using an annual model fee of 0.75%, which is equal to the actual fee, excluding custody fees, incurred by an account in the Halal Emerging Market Equity Composite or the highest tier of a fee schedule for an account in the Halal Emerging Market Equity Composite, whichever is higher. Periods greater than one year are annualized. Actual expenses may vary among clients with the same investment strategy.
The Index is a float market-cap-weighted equity benchmark that covers the top 99% of market cap of the measured market. It is not possible to invest directly in the Index. Unlike the accounts in the Composite (and the Fund), the Index does not incur fees or expenses.
Additional information about each Fund's investments and operations is available in the Funds' annual and semi-annual shareowner reports and in Form N-CSR. Each Fund's annual report includes a discussion of the market conditions and investment strategies that significantly affected the Fund's performance during its last fiscal year. In Form N-CSR, you will find each Fund's annual and semi-annual financial statements. The Statement of Additional Information (SAI) contains more details, and is incorporated in this Prospectus by reference.
To obtain free copies of these documents and other information, such as the Funds' financial statements, and to make shareowner inquiries, please contact us at:
Saturna Capital Corporation
1300 N. State St., Bellingham, WA 98225
1-800-728-8762 1-800-SATURNA
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Amana Mutual Funds Trust
1-888-732-6262 www.amanafunds.com
Copies of the Statement of Additional Information and the annual and semi-annual reports, and other information such as the Funds' financial statements, are also available on our website, www.amanafunds.com.
Information about each Fund's NAV, market price, premiums and discounts, and bid-ask spreads are available on the Funds' website, https://www.saturna.com/products/etf-performance.
Reports and other information about the Trust are also available on the SEC's EDGAR database (
www.sec.gov) and copies may be obtained, upon payment of a duplicating fee, by e-mail request to
[email protected].
Investment Company Act File # 811-04276.