SEC Company Response from CUTLER TRUST (CIK 0000892568) — Sep 10, 2020
CUTLER TRUST (CIK 0000892568)
Date: Sept. 10, 2020 · CIK: 0000892568 · Accession: 0001398344-20-018371
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September 10, 2020
Securities & Exchange Commission
Division of Investment Management
100 F Street NE
Washington, DC 20549
Attention: Anu Dubey
Re: Cutler Equity Fund
The Cutler Trust (“Registrant”)
(SEC File Nos. 811- 07242 and 033- 52850)
Dear Anu Dubey:
On July 17, 2020, the Cutler Trust (the “Trust” or the
“Registrant”) filed a Registration Statement under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940
(the “1940 Act”) on Form N1-A on behalf of Cutler Equity Fund (the “Fund”). In a telephone conversation
on September 1, you provided comments to the Registration Statement to Thompson Hine LLP (“Thompson Hine”). Below,
please find a summary of those comments and the Registrant’s response, which the Registrant has authorized Thompson Hine
to file on its behalf.
Cover
1. Comment: Please revise the Rule 30e-3 legend to comply with Rule 30e-3 of the 1940 Act.
Response: The Registrant has updated the Rule 30e-3 legend
as follows:
You may elect to receive all future reports on paper free of charge.
You can inform the Fund that you wish to continue receiving paper copies of your shareholder reports by contacting the Fund at
1-888-CUTLER4 (1-888-288-5374). If you own shares through a financial intermediary, you may contact your financial intermediary
to continue to receive paper copies of your shareholder reports. Your election to receive reports in paper will apply to all funds
held with the fund complex or at your financial intermediary.
Prospectus
Fee Table
2. Comment: With respect to the Fund’s Fees and Expenses, please consider removing the “Service Fees”
line item.
Response: The Registrant has updated the Fund’s Fees
and Expenses to remove the “Service Fees” line item.
Expense Example
3. Comment: Please delete the language “and that the expense limitation will expire after one year.”
Cassandra.Borchers@ThompsonHine.com Fax: 513.241.4771 Phone: 513.352.6632
Response: The Registrant has made the modification as requested.
Principal Investment Strategies
4. Comment: Please consider revising the Fund’s Principal Investment Strategies to include investments in U.S companies.
Response: The Registrant has revised the third sentence of
the Fund’s Principal Investment Strategies as follows (emphasis supplied):
The Adviser invests primarily in companies domiciled in the United
States and chooses investments in common stocks based on its judgment of fundamental value, which emphasizes stocks that the
Adviser judges to have favorable dividend yields and growth prospects relative to comparable companies.
Principal Investment Risks
5. Comment: Please include additional disclosure on how COVID related events may affect the Fund’s performance. If
not, please explain.
Response: The Fund has included COVID-19 Risk as follows:
COVID-19 Risk
An outbreak of infectious respiratory illness
caused by a novel coronavirus known as COVID-19 was first detected in China in December 2019 and has now been detected globally.
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization announced that it had made the assessment that COVID-19 can be characterized as
a pandemic. The impact of COVID-19, and other infectious illness outbreaks that may arise in the future, could adversely affect
the economies of many nations or the entire global economy, individual issuers and capital markets in ways that cannot necessarily
be foreseen. Public health crises caused by the COVID-19 outbreak may exacerbate other pre-existing political, social and economic
risks in certain countries or globally. The duration of the COVID-19 outbreak and its effects cannot be determined with certainty.
The value of the Fund and the securities in which the Fund invests may be adversely affected by impacts caused by COVID-19 and
other epidemics and pandemics that may arise in the future.
Performance
6. Comment: Please revise the footnotes to the Fee Table to remove footnote 1 because this language is duplicated in the
Performance Summary.
Response: The Registrant has made the modification as requested.
7. Comment: With respect to Redemption Requests, add disclosure regarding in-kind redemptions, including, for example,
whether redemptions in kind will be pro-rata slices of the fund’s portfolio or individual securities or a representative
basket of securities as referenced in the release adopting Rule 22e-4 under the 1940 Act. (release No. 32315, Oct. 13, 2016).
Response: The Registrant has incorporated the following disclosure
into the sub-section “Redemption Requests:”
If the Adviser has no pecuniary interest influencing the selection
of securities, then the Adviser has discretion with respect to the Fund’s redemptions in-kind, subject to its fiduciary duties,
as long as such redemptions in-kind are made in accordance with the Fund’s procedures. If the Adviser has a pecuniary interest
influencing the selection of securities, then the Adviser will (i) submit for the Board’s approval a proposed distribution
method in accordance with the Fund’s procedures, or (ii) distribute each security held by the Fund on a pro rata basis, excluding
certain types of securities such as those that are unregistered, not publicly traded, or for which market quotations are not readily
available, among others pursuant to the Fund’s procedures.
Back Page
8. Comment: With respect to the disclosure, “Neither this Prospectus nor the SAI 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 may not be waived,” please consider removing the language “that may not be waived.”
Response: The Registrant has made the modification as requested.
SAI
9. Comment: With respect to the disclosure regarding advisory fees and/or expense payments recouped, please confirm that
recoupments are reflected in the fee table as a separate line-item or included in Other Expenses and reflected in its gross expenses
as reflected in ADI 2019-09- Performance Fee Issues.
Response: The Registrant confirms that there have been no
recoupments of previously waived advisory fees or expenses reimbursed by the Fund in the last three fiscal years.
Average Annual Total Returns Table
10. Comment: Please clarify whether the introductory sentence is for Class I shares.
Response: The Registrant has modified the introductory sentence
as follows (emphasis supplied):
The table below shows the Fund’s average annual total returns
of its Class I Shares (TICKER: CALEX) for periods ended June 30, 2020.
Financial Statements
11. Comment: On Page 30 of the SAI, please add hyperlinks to the
document that is “incorporated herein by reference”.
Response: The hyperlinks to the Fund’s N-CSR filing
for the fiscal period ended June 30, 2020, were not available at the time of the filing of the registration statement, and will
be included in the Fund’s 485(b) registration statement filing.
Part C
12. Comment: Please confirm the expense waiver agreement, and all other necessary exhibits will be filed by amendment with
the 485(b) filing.
Response: The Registrant confirms that the Expense Limitation
Agreement, and all other necessary exhibits, will be filed by amendment with the 485(b) filing.
If you have any additional questions, or need additional information,
please contact me at 513-352-6632.
Sincerely,
/s/Cassandra W. Borchers, Esq.
Cassandra W. Borchers, Esq.,
Thompson Hine LLP
Copy to: Erich M. Patten, President, The Cutler Trust
Linda J. Hoard, Secretary, The Cutler
Trust