Definitive Materials Filed by Investment Companies. (497)
October 21 2021 - 11:52AM
Edgar (US Regulatory)
Rule 497(e)
Registration Nos. 333-184918 and 811-22767
First Trust Exchange-Traded
AlphaDEX Fund
First Trust Exchange-Traded
AlphaDEX Fund II
First Trust Exchange-Traded
Fund
First Trust Exchange-Traded
Fund II
First Trust Exchange-Traded
Fund III
First Trust Exchange-Traded
Fund IV
First Trust Exchange-Traded
Fund V
First Trust Exchange-Traded
Fund VI
First Trust Exchange-Traded
Fund VII
First Trust Exchange-Traded
Fund VIII
First Trust Series Fund
First Trust Variable
Insurance Trust
(the “Trusts,” and each
series of the Trusts, a “Fund”)
Supplement To
each Fund’s Statement of Additional Information
October 21, 2021
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
in each Fund’s Statement of Additional Information, effective November 1, 2021, Denise M. Keefe will serve as an Independent Trustee
(as such term is defined in each Fund’s Statement of Additional Information) of each Trust’s Board of Trustees (collectively,
the “Board”), and will serve as a member of the following Board Committees: the Nominating and Governance Committee,
the Valuation Committee and the Audit Committee.
The following is a statement of Ms. Keefe’s
present position and principal occupations during the past five years, the number of portfolios she oversees and the other directorships
she has held during the past five years. Ms. Keefe has been elected for an indefinite term.
Name and
Year of Birth
|
Position
and Offices
with Trust
|
Term of
Office and
Year First
Elected or
Appointed
|
Principal Occupations
During Past 5 Years
|
Number of
Portfolios
in the First
Trust Fund
Complex
Overseen
by Trustee
|
Other
Trusteeships or
Directorships
Held by
Trustee
During the
Past 5 Years
|
Denise M. Keefe
1964
|
Trustee
|
•
Indefinite term
•
2021
|
Executive Vice President, Advocate Aurora Health and President, Advocate Aurora Continuing Health Division (Integrated Healthcare System)
|
214 Portfolios
|
Director and Board Chair of Advocate Home Health Services, Advocate Home Care Products and Advocate Hospice; Director and Board Chair of Aurora At Home (since 2018); Director of Advocate Physician Partners Accountable Care Organization; Director and Board Chair of RML Long Term Acute Care Hospitals; and Director of Senior Helpers (since 2021)
|
Denise M. Keefe is Executive Vice President
of Advocate Aurora Health and President of Advocate Aurora Continuing Health Division (together, “Advocate”), one of
the largest integrated healthcare systems in the U.S. serving Illinois and Wisconsin. Ms. Keefe has been employed by Advocate since 1993
and is responsible for the Continuing Health Division’s strategic direction, fiscal management, business development, revenue enhancement,
operational efficiencies, and human resource management of 4,000 employees. Ms. Keefe also currently serves on the boards of several organizations
within the Advocate Aurora Continuing Health Division and other health care organizations, including RML Long Term Acute Care Hospitals
(since 2014) and Senior Helpers (since 2021). Prior thereto, Ms. Keefe was Corporate Vice President, Marketing and Business Development
for the Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (1989 – 1992) and a former Board Member of Sherman West Court Skilled Nursing Facility.
As of October 21, 2021, Ms. Keefe did not
beneficially own any equity securities of any registered investment companies overseen by the Board, and Ms. Keefe and her immediate family
members did not own beneficially or of record any class of securities of an investment advisor or principal underwriter of the Funds or
any person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by or under common control with an investment advisor or principal underwriter
of the Funds.
Please Keep this Supplement
with your Fund
Statement of
Additional Information for Future Reference
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