divspan style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"Avantis Moderate Allocation ETF is a “fund of funds,” meaning that it seeks to achieve its objective by investing in other Avantis exchange-traded funds (ETFs) (collectively, the underlying funds). The underlying funds represent a broadly diversified basket of equity and fixed income securities that seek to select or overweight securities that are expected to have higher returns or better risk characteristics than a passive, market-cap weighted index./span/divdiv style="margin-bottom:3pt;margin-top:3pt"span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"The following table indicates the fund’s target weight and range for allocation among the fund’s major asset classes and shows the underlying funds that comprise each asset class. This information is as of the date of this prospectus./span/divdiv style="margin-bottom:3pt;margin-top:3pt"table style="border-collapse:collapse;display:inline-table;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:70.277%"trtd style="width:1.0%"/tdtd style="width:57.398%"/tdtd style="width:0.1%"/tdtd style="width:1.0%"/tdtd style="width:19.650%"/tdtd style="width:0.1%"/tdtd style="width:1.0%"/tdtd style="width:19.652%"/tdtd style="width:0.1%"/td/trtrtd colspan="3" style="border-bottom:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:0 1pt"/tdtd colspan="3" style="border-bottom:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:112%"Target Weight/span/tdtd colspan="3" style="border-bottom:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-right:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:112%"Target Range/span/td/trtrtd colspan="3" style="background-color:#e5e5e5;border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"divspan style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:112%"U.S. Equity/span/div/tdtd colspan="3" style="background-color:#e5e5e5;border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:112%"47%/span/tdtd colspan="3" style="background-color:#e5e5e5;border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-right:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"divspan style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:112%"40% to 60%/span/div/td/trtrtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"div style="padding-left:9pt"span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%"Avantis U.S. Equity ETF/span/div/tdtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:0 1pt"/tdtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-right:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:0 1pt"/td/trtrtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"div style="padding-left:9pt"span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%"Avantis U.S. Small Cap Equity ETF/span/div/tdtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:0 1pt"/tdtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-right:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:0 1pt"/td/trtrtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"div style="padding-left:9pt"span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%"Avantis U.S. Large Cap Value ETF/span/div/tdtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:0 1pt"/tdtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-right:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:0 1pt"/td/trtrtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"div style="padding-left:9pt"span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%"Avantis U.S. Small Cap Value ETF/span/div/tdtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:0 1pt"/tdtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-right:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:0 1pt"/td/trtrtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:2px 1pt 2px 10pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%"Avantis U.S. Mid Cap Equity ETF/span/tdtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:0 1pt"/tdtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-right:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:0 1pt"/td/trtrtd colspan="3" style="border-bottom:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:2px 1pt 2px 10pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%"Avantis U.S. Mid Cap Value ETF/span/tdtd colspan="3" style="border-bottom:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:0 1pt"/tdtd colspan="3" style="border-bottom:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-right:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:0 1pt"/td/tr/table/divdiv style="margin-bottom:3pt;margin-top:3pt"table style="border-collapse:collapse;display:inline-table;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:70.277%"trtd style="width:1.0%"/tdtd style="width:57.398%"/tdtd style="width:0.1%"/tdtd style="width:1.0%"/tdtd style="width:19.650%"/tdtd style="width:0.1%"/tdtd style="width:1.0%"/tdtd style="width:19.652%"/tdtd style="width:0.1%"/td/trtrtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:0 1pt"/tdtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:112%"Target Weight/span/tdtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-right:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:112%"Target Range/span/td/trtrtd colspan="3" style="background-color:#e5e5e5;border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"divspan style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:112%"Non-U.S. Developed Markets Equity/span/div/tdtd colspan="3" style="background-color:#e5e5e5;border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:112%"12%/span/tdtd colspan="3" style="background-color:#e5e5e5;border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-right:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"divspan style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:112%"7% to 20%/span/div/td/trtrtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:2px 1pt 2px 10pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%"Avantis International Equity ETF/span/tdtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:0 1pt"/tdtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-right:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:0 1pt"/td/trtrtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:2px 1pt 2px 10pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%"Avantis International Large Cap Value ETF/span/tdtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:0 1pt"/tdtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-right:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:0 1pt"/td/trtrtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:2px 1pt 2px 10pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%"Avantis International Small Cap Value ETF/span/tdtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:0 1pt"/tdtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-right:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:0 1pt"/td/trtrtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:2px 1pt 2px 10pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%"Avantis International Small Cap Equity ETF/span/tdtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:0 1pt"/tdtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-right:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:0 1pt"/td/trtrtd colspan="3" style="background-color:#e5e5e5;border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:112%"Emerging Markets Equity/span/tdtd colspan="3" style="background-color:#e5e5e5;border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:112%"6%/span/tdtd colspan="3" style="background-color:#e5e5e5;border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-right:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:112%"3% to 10%/span/td/trtrtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"div style="padding-left:9pt"span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%"Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF/span/div/tdtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:0 1pt"/tdtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-right:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:0 1pt"/td/trtrtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"div style="padding-left:9pt"span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%"Avantis Emerging Markets Value ETF/span/div/tdtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:0 1pt"/tdtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-right:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:0 1pt"/td/trtrtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:2px 1pt 2px 10pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%"Avantis Emerging Markets Small Cap Equity ETF/span/tdtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:0 1pt"/tdtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-right:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:0 1pt"/td/trtrtd colspan="3" style="background-color:#e5e5e5;border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:112%"Sector Equity/span/tdtd colspan="3" style="background-color:#e5e5e5;border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:112%"2%/span/tdtd colspan="3" style="background-color:#e5e5e5;border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-right:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"divspan style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:112%"0% to 5%/span/div/td/trtrtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:2px 1pt 2px 10pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%"Avantis Real Estate ETF/span/tdtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:0 1pt"/tdtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-right:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:0 1pt"/td/trtrtd colspan="3" style="background-color:#e5e5e5;border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"divspan style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:112%"Fixed Income/span/div/tdtd colspan="3" style="background-color:#e5e5e5;border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:112%"33%/span/tdtd colspan="3" style="background-color:#e5e5e5;border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-right:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"divspan style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:112%"30% to 40%/span/div/td/trtrtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:2px 1pt 2px 10pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%"Avantis Short-Term Fixed Income ETF/span/tdtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:0 1pt"/tdtd colspan="3" style="border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-right:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:0 1pt"/td/trtrtd colspan="3" style="border-bottom:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:2px 1pt 2px 10pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%"Avantis Core Fixed Income ETF/span/tdtd colspan="3" style="border-bottom:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:0 1pt"/tdtd colspan="3" style="border-bottom:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-left:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-right:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;border-top:0.25pt solid #b6b6b6;padding:0 1pt"/td/tr/table/divdiv style="margin-bottom:3pt"span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"The managers will allocate to the underlying funds across geographies and investment styles to achieve the desired allocation. /spanspan style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"For the equity portion of the portfolio, the U.S. vs. non-U.S. allocations across geographies will be predicated on each region’s relative market capitalization with a home bias toward the U.S./spanspan style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%" The portfolio managers regularly review the fund’s allocations to determine whether rebalancing is appropriate. To better balance risks in changing market environments and control costs and tax realizations, the portfolio managers may reallocate within the target range when prevailing market conditions and relative performance of certain underlying strategies lead to deviations from the targets. We reserve the right to modify the target ranges and underlying funds from time to time should circumstances warrant a change./span/divThe fund is an actively managed exchange-traded fund (ETF) that does not seek to replicate the performance of a specified index. The portfolio managers continually analyze market and financial data to make buy, sell, and hold decisions.
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