iMGP ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES FUND MASFX, MASNX

DCI’s strategies employ a systematic portfolio construction process underpinned by a proprietary, fundamental model of credit risk and valuation. DCI’s investment process is designed to exploit information gaps between credit and equity markets and other market inefficiencies to identify and capture mispricing at the individual asset level. The DCI Long-Short Credit Strategy seeks to generate returns from idiosyncratic credit selection, as the strategy systematically curtails rate duration and credit beta exposure. Correlations to systematic market risks including high yield and equity market returns are expected to be minimal, and strategy returns are not expected to be correlated to the returns of other active strategies. The DCI Long-Short Credit Strategy is designed to perform in both low and high volatility environments although returns are expected to be higher in higher volatility environments. DCI targets superior risk-adjusted returns from portfolios of corporate credit assets through the selection of potentially mispriced individual securities. The principal driver of DCI’s strategies is its dynamic proprietary default probability model which incorporates fundamental balance sheet information and real-time information embedded in equity and options markets. DCI’s model uses this information to calculate credit spreads that, when compared to market spreads, identify potential mispricing that can be potentially exploited. Excess returns are anticipated over time as market prices converge to the actual risk levels and fair value pricing of the exposures, as indicated by DCI’s model. DCI’s technology produces timely risk measures for thousands of investments, which are monitored in real-time, providing early warning capabilities and a large universe from which to create portfolios. DCI believes its approach to generating returns is unique in its integration of technology, infrastructure, ongoing research, and credit expertise. DCI believes that the inability of conventional credit approaches to consider equity and other market information systematically, and their propensity to build portfolios around issue weightings, are features that create persistent inefficiencies in the market. These features are largely driven by the qualitative, discretionary style that conventional credit market participants use. While marginal information efficiencies are likely to come about as a natural part of the credit market’s maturation, as long as conventional credit investors dominate the market, exploitable inefficiencies will exist for DCI.

Gundlach and his team at DoubleLine operate under the cardinal mandate of delivering superior risk-adjusted fixed-income returns. They seek to deliver positive absolute returns in excess of an appropriate aggregate fixed-income index with portfolio volatility that is similar to U.S. long-term treasury securities. Investment ideas employed by Gundlach and his team must offer an asymmetric, positively skewed risk-reward profile. As a result, a great deal of their analysis seeks to identify fixed-income securities that they believe offer greater potential payoff than potential loss under multiple scenarios. Ultimately, a combination of risk management, asset allocation, and security selection forms Gundlach’s investment process. There can be no assurance that the fund will achieve its investment objective. Portfolios are constructed with the intent to outperform under a range of future outcomes. DoubleLine’s risk integration process seeks to combine assets that will perform differently in different scenarios so that the overall portfolio generates acceptable performance. This process includes balancing the strength of cash flows from certain asset classes against various potential economic or market risks. When considering a specific investment in any sector, Gundlach’s primary focus is on the predictability of the cash flow generated during an entire interest rate or credit cycle. When volatility is low, he emphasizes securities he expects to generate the best overall return over a cycle rather than simply buying the highest yield at a given point in time. In implementing the Opportunistic Income strategy, Gundlach allocates investments to fixed-income instruments and other investments with no limit on the duration of the portfolio. He may invest in, without limitation, asset-backed securities; domestic and foreign corporate bonds, including high-yield bonds; municipal bonds; bonds or other obligations issued by domestic or foreign governments, including emerging-markets countries; real estate investment trust (REIT) debt securities; and mortgage related securities. Gundlach’s investments in mortgage related securities may at times represent a substantial portion (up to 100%) of the segment allocated to him when certain market conditions exist that Gundlach believes offer potentially attractive risk-adjusted returns. He may, to a limited extent, employ leverage within the Opportunistic Income strategy, which is also being used for other accounts managed by DoubleLine. When investing in mortgage related securities, Gundlach may invest in obligations issued or guaranteed by agencies or instrumentalities of the U.S. Government such as the Government National Mortgage Association, the Federal National Mortgage Association, and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation; collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs) including real estate mortgage investment conduits (REMICS) issued by domestic or foreign private issuers that represent an interest in or are collateralized by mortgage related securities issued by agencies or instrumentalities of the U.S. Government; commercial mortgage backed securities (“CMBS”); obligations issued by private issuers that represent an interest in or are collateralized by whole mortgage loans or mortgage related securities without a government guarantee but typically with some form of private credit enhancement; “interest only” and “principal only” stripped mortgage securities; inverse floating-rate securities; and debt or equity tranches of collateralized debt obligations collateralized by mortgage related securities. Gundlach compares opportunities in other sectors of the global fixed-income market to opportunities available in the mortgage sector with the aim of attempting to construct a portfolio with the most attractive return potential given his risk management objectives.

Steven Romick, Brian Selmo, and Mark Landecker are the portfolio managers responsible for the Contrarian Opportunity strategy, which is the segment of the Alternative Strategies Fund’s assets managed by FPA. It is anticipated that this segment will be managed, to the degree practical, with the intent to replicate elements of private funds and separate accounts also run by FPA. The elements replicated could include investment strategies such as hedging, highly concentrated positions, illiquid and restricted securities, international investments, coupled with the potential for maintaining high levels of liquidity. FPA expects to implement these strategies through investing opportunistically in a wide variety of securities as discussed below. The Contrarian Opportunity strategy leads to investments that offer absolute rather than relative value with an objective of strong risk-adjusted returns. As absolute-return investors, the FPA team seeks genuine bargains rather than relatively attractive securities. The goal is to provide equity-like returns over longer periods (i.e., five to seven years) while seeking to protect against the permanent loss of capital. Attention is directed toward those companies offering the best combination of such quality criteria as strong market share, good management, and high normalized return on capital. A company purchased might not look inexpensive, considering current earnings and return on capital; however, its valuation may reflect such conditions as a weak economy, an increase in raw material costs, a management misstep, or any number of other temporary conditions. The FPA team believes that price drops caused by such developments can, and often do, provide buying opportunities. There can be no assurance that the fund will achieve its investment objective. The FPA team employs the broad mandate of the FPA contrarian strategy to invest across the capital structure, asset classes, market capitalization, industries, and geographies using a wide variety of instruments. The FPA team invests in an opportunistic manner, based on its view of the world and the businesses/situations that it understands. It looks for what is out of favor, taking into account the current landscape and how it might change over time, both organically and through exogenous events. The FPA team emphasizes independent research and spends little time with Wall Street analysts because it prefers to focus its research on interactions with business operators and industry leaders.

Matthew Eagan, Kevin Kearns, and Todd Vandam are the portfolio managers responsible for the Absolute Return Strategy, which is the segment of the Alternative Strategies Fund’s assets managed by Loomis Sayles & Company. The strategy has an absolute-return investment objective, which means that it is not managed relative to an index and that it attempts to achieve positive total returns over a full market cycle with relatively low volatility. The Loomis team intends to pursue its objective by utilizing a flexible investment approach that allocates investments across a global range of investment opportunities related to credit, currencies, and interest rates, while employing risk management strategies designed to mitigate downside risk. There can be no assurance that the fund will achieve its investment objective. The Loomis team may invest up to 75% of the total assets of the segment allocated to it in below investment-grade fixed-income securities (also known as “junk bonds”) and derivatives that have returns related to the returns on below investment-grade fixed-income securities. Under normal market conditions, the Loomis team also may invest up to 75% of the total assets of the segment allocated to it in investments denominated in non- U.S. currencies and related derivatives, including up to 50% in investments denominated in emerging-market currencies and related derivatives. Under normal conditions, the Loomis team may invest up to 20% of the total assets of the segment allocated to it in equity-related securities and derivatives. There is no limit on the amount of preferred securities. The Loomis team expects that exposure to these asset classes will often be obtained substantially through the use of derivative instruments. Currency positions that are intended to hedge the Loomis team’s non-U.S. currency exposure (i.e., currency positions that are not made for investment purposes) will offset positions in the same currency that are made for investment purposes when calculating the limitation on investments in non-U.S. and emerging-market-currency investments because the Loomis team believes that hedging a currency position is likely to negate some or all of the currency risk associated with the original currency position. Restrictions will apply at the time of purchase. The Loomis team’s investment process employs both top- down (macro themes) and bottom-up (security selection) components and uses the resources of the entire Loomis Sayles infrastructure. The Loomis team identifies key macro themes over a 3- and 12-month horizon and assesses top- down risk/return opportunities across the interest rate curve, credit markets, and currencies. The Loomis team draws on the strength and depth of the entire Loomis research team as it evaluates these themes. Fourteen Macro and Market Sector teams support the Loomis team by sharing their sector’s risk/return characteristics and uncovering specific credits that they believe may offer the best return potential. In selecting investments for the Absolute Return Strategy, the Loomis team develops long-term portfolio themes driven by macro-economic indicators. These include secular global economic trends, demographic trends and labor supply, analysis of global capital flows, and assessments of geopolitical factors. The Loomis team then develops shorter-term portfolio strategies based on factors including, but not limited to, economic, credit and Federal Reserve cycles, top-down sector valuations, and bottom-up security valuations. The Loomis team employs active risk management, with a focus on credit, interest rate, and currency risks. Additionally, the Loomis team will use risk management tools in constructing and optimizing the portfolio and seek to manage risk on an ongoing basis. The Loomis team expects to actively evaluate each investment idea based upon its return potential, its level of risk and its fit within the team’s overall macro strategy when deciding whether to buy or sell investments, with the goal of continually optimizing the portfolio.

John Orrico, Todd Munn, Roger Foltynowicz, and Gregg Loprete are the portfolio managers responsible for the arbitrage strategy, which is the segment of the Alternative Strategies Fund’s assets managed by Water Island Capital, LLC. The Water Island team seeks to generate long-term returns with low correlation to the equity and bond markets. This objective is pursued by investing in equity and debt securities of companies that are impacted by corporate events such as mergers, acquisitions, restructurings, refinancings, recapitalizations, reorganizations, or other special situations. More specifically, the Water Island team follows any one of three arbitrage strategies: merger arbitrage, convertible arbitrage, or capital structure arbitrage and may invest in both U.S. and non-U.S. securities. The Water Island team intends to focus the portfolio in only their Highest-conviction risk-adjusted ideas across these strategies, and will, to a limited extent, employ leverage within the Arbitrage Strategy. There can be no assurance that the fund will achieve its investment objective. Merger arbitrage is a highly specialized investment approach designed to profit from the successful completion of mergers, takeovers, tender offers, leveraged buyouts, spin offs, liquidations, and other corporate reorganizations. When a merger or acquisition deal is announced, the target’s stock price typically appreciates because the acquirer typically pays a premium relative to the current market price. Until the deal closes, however, the target’s stock price generally trades at a discount to the deal price. This discount is called “the spread.” The spread typically exists because investors demand compensation for the risk that the deal may fail to close and for the time value of money for the time it takes the deal to close. The most common arbitrage activity, and the approach the Water Island team generally will use, involves purchasing the shares of an announced acquisition target company at a discount to their expected value upon completion of the acquisition. The Water Island team may engage in selling securities short when the terms of a proposed acquisition call for the exchange of common stock and/or other securities. In such a case, the common stock of the company to be acquired may be purchased and, at approximately the same time, an equivalent amount of the acquiring company’s common stock and/or other securities may be sold short. The Water Island team may also execute the merger arbitrage strategy by using a company’s debt. Convertible arbitrage is a specialized strategy that seeks to profit from mispricing between a firm’s convertible securities and its underlying equity. The most common convertible arbitrage approach, and the strategy the Water Island team generally will use, matches a long position in the convertible security with a short position in the underlying common stock. The Water Island team seeks to purchase convertible securities at discounts to their expected future values and sell short shares of the underlying common stock in order to mitigate equity market movements. As stock prices rise and the convertible security becomes more equity sensitive, the Water Island team will sell short additional common shares in order to maintain the relationship between the convertible and the underlying common stock. As stock prices fall, the Water Island team will typically buy back a portion of shares it had sold short. Positions are typically designed to earn income from coupon or dividend payments and from the short sale of common stock. Capital structure arbitrage seeks to profit from relative pricing discrepancies between related debt and/or equity securities. For example, the Water Island team may purchase a senior secured security of an issuer and sell short an unsecured security of the same issuer. In this example the trade would be profitable if credit quality spreads widened or if the issuer went bankrupt and the recovery rate for the senior debt was higher. Another example might involve the manager purchasing one class of common stock while selling short a different class of common stock of the same issuer. It is expected that, overtime, the relative mispricing of the securities will disappear, at which point the position will be liquidated. Among these three arbitrage strategies, the primary focus of the Arbitrage Strategy is expected to be merger arbitrage. The Water Island team will typically be long the target’s shares and short the acquirer’s stock (to hedge the market risk where the acquirer is using stock and not cash to fund the acquisition). The Water Island team will also use options in an attempt to hedge deal-specific and market risks, especially in the case of cash-only deals where the team will only long the target’s stock.