Trillium ESG Small/Mid Cap Fund

The Trillium ESG Small/Mid Cap Fund integrates Trillium’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria and financial analysis process to identify small and mid-sized companies positioned to deliver long-term risk adjusted performance.
The Trillium ESG Global Equity Fund is designed to invest primarily in companies Trillium believes are leaders in managing risks and opportunities related to environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria, have above average growth potential, and are reasonably valued.

Trillium ESG Small/Mid Cap Fund
Strategy Overview
The Trillium ESG Small/Mid Cap Fund integrates Trillium’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria and financial analysis process to identify small and mid-sized companies positioned to deliver long-term risk adjusted performance.
Investment Process
Trillium seeks to identify individual companies that satisfy Trillium’s proprietary fundamental and ESG criteria analysis and screening process. In conducting fundamental research, Trillium combines fundamental investment considerations with proprietary ESG criteria analysis and screening. Trillium believes that this integrated approach provides insight into how a company behaves commercially and how it deals with existing and emerging ESG risks and opportunities.
Trillium believes that the best long-term investments for the Fund are found in companies that have above-average financial characteristics and growth potential, while also contributing towards the goals of a sustainable global economy. Trillium believes that a company’s sound understanding of sustainability principles can demonstrate the qualities of innovation and leadership that support the creation of a distinct competitive advantage and the building of long-term value. The Fund does not invest in companies that are primarily engaged in fossil fuel production based on a company’s total gross revenue unless the company demonstrates a plan to transition to a low carbon business model that Trillium finds credible.
Portfolio Managers
Overview
Investor
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Inception Date
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Overall Morningstar Rating

Morningstar Sustainability Rating

Based on 100% of AUM out of a universe of 1,609. US Equity Mid Cap Category. Sustainability Rating as of 3/31/2025. Applicable for all share classes. Data is based on long positions only.
In the Morningstar Mid Cap Stock Category, TSMDX received an overall rating of 2 stars based on risk-adjusted returns, 3-year rating of 1 star out of 378 funds, 5-year rating of 2 stars out of 351 funds as of 4/30/2025.*
Sustainability Rating:
Based on 100% of AUM out of a universe of 1,608. US Equity Mid Cap Category. Sustainability Rating as of 02/28/2025. Applicable for all share classes. Data is based on long positions only.
Shareholder Services:
Perpetual Americas Funds Trust
Trillium Funds
c/o The Northern Trust Company
P.O. Box 4766
Chicago, Illinois 60680-4766
(866) 260-9549
For Advisors:
Trillium Asset Management
1 Congress Street
Suite 3101
Boston, MA 02114
Portfolio
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Tracking Error (3 years)
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Equities
Cash
Weighed Average Market Cap ($ bil)
Portfolio
Russell 2500
Harmonic Avg fwd P/E (x)
Portfolio
Russell 2500
Weighted Harmonic Avg P/B (x)
Portfolio
Russell 2500
Sector Weightings
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Russell 2500®
Industrials
Financials
Information Technology
Consumer Discretionary
Health Care
Consumer Staples
Real Estate
Materials
Communication Services
Utilities
Energy
Performance
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SINCE INCEPTION (8/31/15)
Institutional - TSMDX
S&P 1000
Russell 25001
Performance data quoted represents past performance; past performance does not guarantee future results. The investment return and principal value of an investment will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Current performance of the fund may be lower or higher than the performance quoted.
* Perpetual Americas Funds Services, as investment adviser to the Fund, has contractually agreed to waive fees and reimburse expenses to the extent that the Gross Expense Ratio (excluding brokerage costs, interest, taxes, dividends, litigation and indemnification expenses, expenses associated with investments in underlying investment companies, and extraordinary expenses) exceeds 0.97% for Institutional Shares until February 1, 2026
1 Effective October 30, 2023, the Fund’s primary benchmark was changed to the Russell 2500® Index. Trillium believes that the Russell 2500® Index reflects the Fund’s investment portfolio of small and mid-sized companies and is more widely used in the marketplace, as well as more familiar to investors, than the S&P 1000® Index.
Documents
Fact Sheet
Fact Sheet
Month End Holdings
Month End Holdings
Quarter-End Performance
Quarter-End Performance
Quarterly Commentary
Quarterly Commentary
Statutory Documents
Statutory Documents
Year-End Capital Gain Distribution
Year-End Capital Gain Distribution
Alpha is a measure of performance on a risk-adjusted basis. Alpha takes the volatility (price risk) of a mutual fund and compares its risk-adjusted performance to a benchmark index. The excess return of the fund relative to the return of the benchmark index is a fund’s alpha. Standard deviation is a measure of the dispersion of a set of data from its mean. The Weighted Average Market Capitalization is a stock market index weighted by the market capitalization of each stock in the index. The Weighted Harmonic Avg P/B is the weighted average of the price/book ratios of all the stocks in a portfolio. The Weighted Harmonic Avg fwd P/E is the ratio of the portfolio’s total market value to the total earnings of the portfolio. The Russell 2500 is a market cap weighted index that includes the smallest 2,500 companies covered in the Russell 3000 universe of United States-based listed equities.
The S&P Indices are widely recognized, unmanaged indices of common stock. The S&P 1000 combines the S&P MidCap 400 and the S&P Small Cap 600, to form a benchmark for the small-mid cap universe of the U.S. equity market. Returns reported reflect the net total return index, which reinvests dividends after the deduction of withholding taxes, using a tax rate applicable to non-resident institutional investors who do not benefit from double taxation treaties.
The S&P 400 Index serves as a barometer for the U.S. mid-cap equities sector. The S&P 600 Index covers a broad range of small cap stocks in theUnited States.
An investment cannot be made directly in an index.
The fund’s investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses must be considered carefully before investing. The statutory and summary prospectuses contain this and other important information about the investment company, and it may be obtained by calling (866) 260-9549, or visiting trilliuminvest.com. Read it carefully before investing.
Fund holdings and sector allocations are subject to change at any time and should not be considered a recommendation to buy or sell any security.References to other mutual funds should not to be considered an offer to buy or sell these securities.
Mutual fund investing involves risk. Principal loss is possible.
Trillium’s ESG Small/Mid Cap Fund may invest in foreign securities, which are subject to the risks of currency fluctuations, political and economic instability and differences in accounting methods. Investing in foreign securities is riskier than investing in domestic securities. The Fund invests in smaller and medium companies, which involve additional risks such as limited liquidity and greater volatility. Trillium’s ESG Small/Mid Cap Fund environmental policy could cause it to make or avoid investments that could result in the portfolio under performing similar funds that do not have an environmental policy. There are no assurances that the fund will achieve its objective and/or strategy. Diversification does not assure a profit or protect against a loss in a declining market.
Trillium ESG Small/Mid Cap Fund is distributed by Perpetual Americas Funds Distributors, LLC

The Trillium ESG Global Equity Fund and the Trillium ESG Small/Mid Cap Fund are distributed by Perpetual Americas Funds Distributors, LLC. Perpetual Americas Funds Services serves as investment adviser to the Funds and Trillium Asset Management serves as investment sub-adviser to the Funds.
The Trillium ESG Global Equity Fund and Trillium ESG Small/Mid Cap Fund reorganized into newly established series of Perpetual Americas Funds Trust on October 30, 2023 following shareholder approval (the “Reorganization”). Following the Reorganization, each Fund assumed the financial and performance history of its corresponding predecessor fund, the Trillium ESG Global Equity Fund and Trillium ESG Small/Mid Cap Fund, respectively, each previously a series of Professionally Managed Portfolios.
The Trillium ESG Small/Mid Cap Fund summary prospectus and statutory prospectus and The Trillium ESG Global Equity Fund summary prospectus and statutory prospectus contain more complete information including risks, fees and expenses related to ongoing investment in the Funds. Read carefully before you invest or send money. You may also obtain a hard copy of the statutory prospectus and/or summary prospectus by calling (866) 260-9549.
Mutual fund investing involves risk. Principal loss is possible. The Funds invest in foreign securities which involve political, economic and currency risks, greater volatility and differences in accounting methods. These risks are greater for investments in emerging markets. The Funds may invest in smaller and medium sized companies, which involve additional risks such as limited liquidity and greater volatility. The environmental policy of the Funds could cause it to make or avoid investments that could result in the portfolio underperforming similar funds that do not have an environmental policy. There are no assurances that the Funds will achieve their objective and/or strategy. Diversification does not assure a profit or protect against a loss in a declining market. Earnings growth is not a measure of the Fund’s future performance.
The S&P 1000® Index combines the S&P MidCap 400® and the S&P SmallCap 600® to form an investable benchmark for the mid- to small-cap segment of the United States equity market.
The Russell 2500 Index is a market cap weighted index that includes the smallest 2,500 companies covered in the Russell 3000 universe of United States-based listed equities.
The Trillium ESG Global Equity Fund and the Trillium ESG Small/Mid Cap Fund are offered only to United States residents, and information on this site is intended only for such persons. Nothing on this web site should be considered a solicitation to buy or an offer to sell shares of the Funds in any jurisdiction where the offer or solicitation would be unlawful under the securities laws of such jurisdiction.
Please click here for Trillium ESG Small/Mid Cap Fund holdings. Current and future portfolio holdings and sector allocations are subject to change at any time and are not recommendations to buy or sell any security. Opinions expressed as those of the Funds, are subject to change, are not guaranteed and should not be considered investment advice.
Return on Invested Capital (ROIC): A calculation used to assess a company’s efficiency at allocating the capital under its control to profitable investments. Return on invested capital gives a sense of how well a company is using its money to generate returns.
Cash Flow: The sum of the after-tax profit of a business plus depreciation and other non-cash charges.
The Morningstar Sustainability Rating is intended to measure how well the issuing companies of the securities within a fund’s portfolio holdings are managing their financially material environmental, social and governance, or ESG, risks relative to the fund’s Morningstar Global Category peers. The Morningstar Sustainability Rating calculation is a five-step process. First, each fund with at least 67% of assets covered by a company-level ESG Risk Score from Sustainalytics receives a Morningstar Portfolio Sustainability Score. The Morningstar Portfolio Sustainability Score is an asset-weighted average of company-level ESG Risk Scores. The Portfolio Sustainability Score ranges between 0 to 100, with a higher score indicating that a fund has, on average, more of its assets invested in companies with high ESG Risk. Second, the Historical Sustainability Score is an exponential weighted moving average of the Portfolio Sustainability Scores over the past 12 months. The process rescales the current Portfolio Sustainability Score to reflect the consistency of the scores. The Historical Sustainability Score ranges between 0 to 100, with a higher score indicating that a fund has, on average, more of its assets invested in companies with high ESG Risk, on a consistent historical basis. Third, the Morningstar Sustainability Rating is then assigned to all scored funds within Morningstar Global Categories in which at least thirty (30) funds receive a Historical Sustainability Score and is determined by each fund’s Morningstar Sustainability Rating Score rank within the following distribution: High (highest 10%), Above Average (next 22.5%), Average (next 35%), Below Average (next 22.5%), and Low (lowest 10%). Fourth, then Morningstar applies a 1% rating buffer from the previous month to increase rating stability. This means a fund must move 1% beyond the rating breakpoint to change ratings. Fifth, they adjust downward positive Sustainability Ratings to funds with high ESG Risk scores. The logic is as follows: If Portfolio Sustainability score is above 40, then the fund receives a Low Sustainability Rating. If Portfolio Sustainability score is above 35 and preliminary rating is Average or better, then the fund is downgraded to Below Average. If the Portfolio Sustainability score is above 30 and preliminary rating is Above Average, then the fund is downgraded to Average. If the Portfolio Sustainability score is below 30, then no adjustment is made. The Morningstar Sustainability Rating is depicted by globe icons where High equals 5 globes and Low equals 1 globe. Since a Sustainability Rating is assigned to all funds that meet the above criteria, the rating it is not limited to funds with explicit sustainable or responsible investment mandates. Morningstar updates its Sustainability Ratings monthly. The Portfolio Sustainability Score is calculated when Morningstar receives a new portfolio. Then, the Historical Sustainability Score and the Sustainability Rating is calculated one month and six business days after the reported as-of date of the most recent portfolio. As part of the evaluation process, Morningstar uses Sustainalytics’ ESG scores from the same month as the portfolio as-of date.
Please visit http://morningstar.com/company/sustainability for more detailed information about the Morningstar Sustainability Rating methodology and calculation frequency. Sustainalytics is an independent ESG and corporate governance research, ratings, and analysis firm. Morningstar, Inc. holds a non-controlling ownership interest in Sustainalytics.

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