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For Facebook Investors, Controversies Are Still an Afterthought

For Facebook Investors, Controversies Are Still an Afterthought

Ryan Jacob comments on the negative criticism Facebook has been receiving from the media and the strength of its underlying business.

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Date Thursday, 30 September 2021

Dow Jumps 500 Points as Stocks Recover Losses for Week After Fed and Evergrande Worries Fade

Dow Jumps 500 Points as Stocks Recover Losses for Week After Fed and Evergrande Worries Fade

Ryan Jacob comments on the Fed’s recent announcement on tapering the central bank’s bond buying program and raising interest rates in 2022, discussing the market’s preference for certainty and the potential for a generally strong third-quarter earnings season.

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Date Thursday, 23 September 2021

DEDUCED RECKONING: For Some Wall Street Investment Stars, Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

DEDUCED RECKONING: For Some Wall Street Investment Stars, Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

In 1998, Ryan Jacob started his Internet fund (JAMFX) that saw performance up 200% and 570% over the following two years. Now, he has established a new ETF, the Jacob Forward ETF, which incorporates some of his longstanding valuation techniques.

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Date Wednesday, 11 August 2021

JPMorgan Is Boosting Its Active ETFs With a $10 Billion Mutual Fund Switch

JPMorgan Is Boosting Its Active ETFs With a $10 Billion Mutual Fund Switch

Tech investor Ryan Jacob’s recently launched Jacob Forward ETF joins a list of new ETFs in the booming industry.

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Date Wednesday, 11 August 2021

NYSE: What's the Fund?

NYSE: What's the Fund?

Ryan Jacob, CIO at Jacob Funds and Portfolio Manager of the Jacob Forward ETF, discusses JFWD with NYSE's Judy Shaw.

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Date Friday, 27 August 2021

Superstar Fund Managers Are Launching ETFs. Are They Worth the Price?

Superstar Fund Managers Are Launching ETFs. Are They Worth the Price?

Bloomberg names Ryan Jacob as a fund manager with a strong history of performance, highlighting his newly launched Jacob Forward ETF (JFWD) as an actively managed ETF to watch

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Date Friday, 06 August 2021

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Opinions expressed as those of the author or fund manager, are subject to change, are not guaranteed and should not be considered recommendations to buy or sell any security and should not be considered investment advice.

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.

There are risks inherent in investing in the Internet area, particularly with respect to smaller capitalized companies and the high volatility of internet stocks. Small- and Medium-capitalization companies tend to have limited liquidity and greater price volatility than large-capitalization companies. Investments in foreign securities involve greater volatility and political, economic and currency risks and differences in accounting methods. The Internet Fund may invest in debt securities which typically decrease in value when interest rates rise. This risk is usually greater for longer-term debt securities. Investments in micro-capitalization companies may involve greater risks, as these companies ten to have limited product lines, markets and financial or managerial resources. Microcap stocks often also have a more limited trading market, such that the Adviser may not be able to sell stocks at an optimal time or price. In addition, less frequently-traded securities may be subject to more abrupt price movements than securities of larger capitalized companies. The Small Cap Growth Fund invests in smaller companies, which involve additional risks, such as limited liquidity and greater volatility.

Performance data current to the most recent month and quarter end:

Jacob Internet Fund
Jacob Small Cap Growth Fund
Jacob Discovery Fund
Jacob Forward ETF

Top 10 holdings (all for ETF)

Jacob Internet Fund
Jacob Small Cap Growth Fund
Jacob Discovery Fund
Jacob Forward ETF

Carefully consider the Funds' investment objectives, risk factors, charges, and expenses before investing. This and additional information can be found by downloading the Mutual Funds Prospectus or calling 888.522.6239 for a hard copy. Read the prospectus carefully before investing.

The Jacob Internet Fund, Jacob Small Cap Fund, Jacob Discovery Fund and Jacob Forward ETF are distributed by Quasar Distributors, LLC.

Short-term performance may often reflect conditions that are likely not sustainable, and thus such performance may not be repeated in the future. Performance data quoted represents past performance and is no guarantee of future results. Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance data quoted. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than original cost. Returns less than one year are not annualized. For current standard performance, holdings and expenses, click here

*Barron's article "Fund Manager Ryan Jacob Takes On Cathie Wood's Ark Funds with New ETF", July 13, 2021, comparison two ARK Funds to the Jacob Forward ETF. To see a comparison of these funds, please click here.

DEFINITIONS

Automatic Investment Plans do not assure a profit and do not protect against a loss in declining markets.

Basis Points refers to a common unit of measure for interest rates and other percentages in finance. One basis point is equal to 1/100th of 1%, or 0.01%, or 0.0001, and is used to denote the percentage change in a financial instrument.

Cash flow measures the cash generating capability of a company by adding non-cash charges (e.g. depreciation) and interest expense to pretax income.

Dow Jones Industrial Average is an unmanaged index of common stocks comprised of major industrial companies and assumes reinvestment of dividends.

Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization (EBITDA) is essentially net income with interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization added back to it, and can be used to analyze and compare profitability between companies and industries because it eliminates the effects of financing and accounting decisions.

*Estimated earnings per shares growth rate is not a measure of the Fund's future performance. Earnings growth for a fund holding does not guarantee a corresponding increase in the market value of the Fund.

Market Capitalization: The total dollar market value of all of a company's outstanding shares. Market capitalization is calculated by multiplying a company's shares outstanding by the current market price of one share. The investment community uses this figure to determine a company's size, as opposed to sales or total asset figures.

Price-Earnings Ratio - P/E Ratio: A valuation ratio of a company's current share price compared to its per-share earnings. Calculated as: Market Value per Share / Earnings per Share (EPS)

References to other mutual funds should not to be considered an offer of these securities.

INDEXES

You cannot invest directly in an index.

NASDAQ-100 is a stock market index made up of 103 equity securities issued by 100 of the largest non-financial companies listed on the Nasdaq stock market. It is a modified capitalization-weighted index.

NASDAQ Composite Index is a market capitalization-weighted index that is designed to represent the performance of the National Market System which includes over 5,000 stocks traded only over-the-counter and not on an exchange.

Nasdaq Index: Nasdaq is a global electronic marketplace for buying and selling securities, as well as the benchmark index for U.S. technology stocks. Nasdaq was created by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) to enable investors to trade securities on a computerized, speedy and transparent system, and commenced operations on February 8, 1971. The term "Nasdaq" is also used to refer to the Nasdaq Composite, an index of more than 3,000 stocks listed on the Nasdaq exchange that includes the world's foremost technology and biotech giants such as Apple, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Amazon, Intel and Amgen.

NYSE FANG+ is an equal-dollar weighted index and has only 10 top global stocks in the index, in addition to the FAANG stocks.

Russell 3000 Index is a capitalization-weighted stock market index, maintained by FTSE Russell, that seeks to be a benchmark of the entire U.S stock market.

Russell MicroCap Growth Index measures the performance of the microcap segment of the U.S. equity market. Microcap stocks make up less than 3% of the U.S. equity market (by market cap) and consist of the smallest 1,000 securities in the small-cap Russell 2000® Index, plus the next 1,000 smallest eligible securities by market cap.

S&P 500 Index is a broad based unmanaged index of 500 stocks, which is widely recognized as representative of the equity market in general.

Important Risk Information

Carefully consider the Funds' investment objectives, risk factors, charges, and expenses before investing. This and additional information can be found in the Jacob Forward ETF's prospectus. Read the prospectus carefully before investing.

Investing involves risk, including possible loss of principal. Investments made in small and mid-capitalization companies may be more volatile and less liquid due to limited resources or product lines and more sensitive to economic factors. Market or economic factors impacting information technology companies that rely heavily on technological advances could have a significant effect on the value of the Fund’s investments. The risks of investing in foreign companies, including those located in emerging market countries, can increase the potential for losses in the Fund and may include currency fluctuations, political and economic instability, less government regulation, less publicly available information, limited trading markets, differences in financial reporting standards, including recordkeeping standards, and less stringent regulation of securities markets.

The Fund is actively managed. An investment in the Fund is subject to the risk that the investment techniques and risk analyses applied by the Adviser will not produce the desired results. The Fund is a recently organized investment company with a limited operating history. Please see the prospectus for details of these and other risks.

Jacob Forward ETF has the same risks as the underlying securities traded on the exchange throughout the day. Redemptions are limited and often commissions are charged on every trade.

Shares of any ETF are bought and sold at market price (not NAV), may trade at a discount or premium to NAV and are not individually redeemed from the funds. Brokerage commissions will reduce returns.

Diversification does not eliminate the risk of experiencing investment loss.

Distributed by Quasar Distributors, LLC.