You can get a prospectus and account registration forms by downloading them here, or email your request to us at info@smifund.com for information to be sent through the U.S. Mail. They are also available by calling toll-free 1-877-SMI-FUND. After reading the prospectus carefully, fill out the account registration form and mail it with your initial investment.  The SMI Funds are also available at most leading brokerages.

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Sound Mind Investing Funds	Sound Mind Investing Funds
PO Box 46707	225 Pictoria Dr, Suite 450
Cincinnati, OH 45246	Cincinnati, OH 45246

The Sound Mind Investing Funds are available for purchase at most leading brokerages. To request the Funds be added at a brokerage, email info@smifund.com. If the Fund is not yet available on your brokerage platform, please call the platform and request that the Fund be added. Many brokerage platforms will not add a fund to the platform without shareholder demand.

Call 1-877-764-3863 between 9am and 5pm Eastern Time Monday through Friday to speak to a shareholder services representative about your account. You can also call this number 24 hours a day for current share price information and account balances. In addition, you can access your account information via this website - if you have not signed up already, you simply need to complete a brief registration process, after which we'll mail you your login information. Click here to get started.

Yes. The Sound Mind Investing Funds are no-load mutual funds, so you do not pay a sales charge when you purchase shares.

Those who invest $100 or more per month through the Automatic Investment Plan may open an account with NO minimum initial investment. You can open an account with the Sound Mind Investing Funds with a $500 minimum initial investment.

Yes. You can open an IRA, transfer an existing IRA account from another institution, or even consolidate several existing IRA accounts into one of the Sound Mind Investing Funds' IRA accounts. The Funds offer Traditional, Roth and SEP IRAs.

Yes. Coverdell Education Savings Accounts and Uniform Gift/Transfer to Minors Accounts (UGMA/UTMA) may be opened.

Many news and financial web sites report daily share prices using the fund ticker symbols (SMIDX, SMIFX, and SMILX). While most financial web sites will have the daily share prices for the Funds each evening, many newspapers will not report them. This is because, as funds-of-funds, calculating the daily share price each evening requires us to wait to receive the pricing information from each underlying fund owned. As a result, the Funds are often unable to meet the early reporting deadline required to be included in many newspapers.

The Upgrading strategy has been advocated for many years by the Sound Mind Investing newsletter and has been followed by thousands of newsletter subscribers to implement an upgrading portfolio on their own. However, prior to the launch of the SMI Funds, no vehicle existed for investors who wanted to follow the newsletter's upgrading recommendations, but didn't want the responsibility of implementing the strategy on their own. In early 2004, the newsletter's publisher (Austin Pryor) and executive editor (Mark Biller) began to seriously consider starting an upgrading mutual fund, but ultimately concluded the time demands would be too significant to do so without a partner. In early 2005, a financial management firm named Omnium Capital contacted the newsletter about starting a fund based on the Upgrading investing strategy. After much deliberation, the decision was made to go forward, and Austin, Mark and the Omnium principals formed SMI Advisory Services, LLC, a registered investment advisory firm (the "Adviser"). The Adviser then began the long process of starting the Sound Mind Investing Fund (SMIFX) and serving as the Fund's investment adviser.

Mark Biller, who is the Sound Mind Investing newsletter's executive editor, is a principal of SMI Advisory Services and serves as the Funds' senior portfolio manager. He has worked alongside Austin Pryor, publisher of the Sound Mind Investing newsletter, since January 2000, so you can rest assured the Funds are managed in a way that is consistent with the core investing philosophies advocated in the Sound Mind Investing newsletter. Although Austin is not involved in the day-to-day investment management of the Funds, he does have a significant ownership stake in SMI Advisory Services.

Anthony Ayers, CFA and Eric Collier, CFA are also portfolio managers. You can see their bios here.

When instructed to do so, Reams Asset Management* serves as the subadvisor responsible for managing portions of the Funds' bond portfolios and the cash component of SMI Dynamic Allocation Fund portfolio (when cash is chosen by the strategy).

That's a decision to be made based on your specific needs and financial plan, in consultation with your financial planner if you have one. Here are a few factors to consider in making that decision.

Implementing the strategies on your own with the newsletter will generally be less expensive. The Funds charge an extra layer of expenses on top of the expenses being paid to the underlying funds. You're basically paying a fee to have the Funds' managers implement the strategy for you.

While the Funds charge an extra layer of fees, they do offer certain advantages over implementing the strategies on your own. First, it's much easier and more convenient than managing your own portfolio.

Second, the Funds implement the strategies a little differently than you can and they do add certain enhancements to their versions of the strategies. Plus you get daily professional management of the portfolios. But these advantages may or may not be enough to offset the additional expense of having the Funds implement the strategies on your behalf.

The Funds were designed primarily to help people who want to benefit from the strategies, but don't want to keep up with the process on their own. If that describes you, the Funds will likely be an attractive alternative to manually implementing the strategies in your own portfolio.

Sometimes they will, but many times they won't. The Funds select which funds to buy and sell by utilizing the same basic methodology that the newsletter uses to determine which funds to recommend to its subscribers. However, there are some key differences between how the Funds will operate and how newsletter subscribers can implement the strategies on their own.

Regarding Enhanced DAA, the Fund will be in the same asset classes as the newsletter, but there will often be differences in the securities held in each of the asset classes due to the process the Fund uses to select its securities and also due to the process the Fund uses to seek safety during periods of dramatic market change.

Regarding Enhanced Stock Upgrading, the Funds will likely have access at no additional cost to a wide variety of load-waived funds and institutional share classes that the newsletter does not recommend and newsletter subscribers cannot access on their own. This means the Funds are "shopping" in a much wider fund universe than the universe of recommended funds available to the newsletter's subscribers. In addition, the Fund portfolios are constantly monitored, every day, whereas the newsletter recommends portfolio changes just once per month.

As a result of those factors, the Funds will frequently own funds and other securities that are different from those recommended in the newsletter.

The Funds' investments are not screened. While the Funds are based on a strategy and philosophy developed by the Sound Mind Investing newsletter, which is overtly Christian, there's nothing specific to the Funds to make them "Christian" funds per se.

The Sound Mind Investing Funds are designed to be owned instead of the newsletter's recommended funds, not in addition to them. Naturally you're free to use the funds as you see fit, but their purpose is to allow you to buy a single fund and have the managers carry out the full Upgrading or DAA process for you within one of the SMI Funds. So rather than have to buy and sell funds on your own using the monthly newsletter recommendations, you can buy one of the SMI Funds once and forget about it, knowing it will continue to implement the strategy on your behalf without requiring any further effort or attention from you.

The level of diversification you need for your portfolio is something you'll need to determine for yourself. That said, the SMI Funds are potentially a useful "one stop shop" for your investing. Normally you wouldn't want all your money in any single fund. But because these are "funds of funds," the situation here is quite different.

Regarding the SMI Dynamic Allocation Fund, three broad asset classes are typically owned at any point in time. So your ownership of this single fund will always mean you are immediately diversified among at least three different asset classes. Furthermore, within each asset class, at least a portion of that money is typically devoted to some type of investment offering broad exposure to that particular asset class. For example, when U.S. Stocks are part of the Fund’s investments, at least a portion of the Fund will likely be invested in a broad-based instrument like the S&P 500 ETF (SPY or similar), offering broad exposure to the U.S. stock market.

Regarding the Upgrading Funds, both the SMI Fund and the SMI Multi-Strategy Fund each own at least 15 other stock funds within them. So you're really not putting all your eggs in one basket — you're still going to indirectly own at least 15 separate funds, much as an investor would if they were to upgrade on their own using the SMI newsletter's recommendations. The difference is that you can accomplish it with just one purchase through one of the SMI Funds, rather than having to buy 15 or more separate funds on your own. And of course the main benefit is you don't have to keep up with 15 or more funds on your own after that, you can just buy and hold one of the SMI Funds' "fund of funds" and have the process accomplished for you automatically.

You can do either. In many cases it will be slightly less expensive to invest directly with the Sound Mind Investing Funds. Most brokerages charge a transaction fee to buy the Funds, whereas it's free to invest with the Funds directly. That may not be a significant expense if making just a single purchase, but it definitely could be if you plan to add to your account regularly. See the Open An Account page for details. Plus if you invest directly, you will have access to our Stewardship Advisors as well as SMIPlan.com (our online planning tool).

If the Fund is not yet available on your brokerage platform, please call the platform and request that the Fund be added. Many brokerage platforms will not add a fund to the platform without shareholder demand.

Review the prospectus for more complete information, including fees and expenses. Please read it carefully before you invest or send money.

Feel free to email info@smifund.com or call toll-free 1-877-SMI-FUND (877-764-3863) if you have additional questions.

Under Account Listing, go to your Account Page. Select Purchase. Option should be available to add, modify or close an AIP.

All orders must be received before 4pm EST. This applies to transactions among the SMI Funds and transactions involving the money market fund. If an order is received after the cut-off time it will be filled the next business day.

You may also obtain a copy of the Advisor’s proxy voting policy by calling Shareholder Services at (877) 764-3863 to request a copy, or by writing to Ultimus Fund Solutions, LLC, the Funds’ transfer agent, at 225 Pictoria Dr., Suite 450, Cincinnati, Ohio 45246. A copy of the policy will be mailed to you within three days of receipt of your request. You also may obtain a copy from Fund documents filed with the SEC, which are available on the SEC’s web site at www.sec.gov.

A copy of the votes cast by each Fund with respect to portfolio securities for each year ended June 30th will be filed by the Funds with the SEC on Form N-PX. The Funds’ proxy voting records will be available to shareholders free of charge upon request by calling or writing the Funds as described above or from the SEC’s web site.