REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 | File No. 333-140812 |
Pre-Effective Amendment No. | □ |
Post-Effective Amendment No. 28 | ☑ |
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940 | File No. 811-05701 |
Amendment No. 110 | ☑ |
This supplement updates certain information contained in your prospectus. Please read it and keep it with your prospectus for future reference. |
1. | Effective on or about September 7, 2021, the name of the investment option is updated as indicated below: |
CURRENT NAME | UPDATED NAME |
Nationwide Variable Insurance Trust – NVIT Core Plus Bond Fund | Nationwide Variable Insurance Trust – NVIT BNY Mellon Core Plus Bond Fund |
2. | Effective on or about September 24, 2021, the following underlying mutual fund is added as investment option under the contract. The underlying mutual fund is added to the bulleted list on the cover of the prospectus and Appendix A: Underlying Mutual Fund Information: |
• | Nationwide Variable Insurance Trust – NVIT BNY Mellon Core Plus Bond Fund: Class P |
Investment Advisor: | Nationwide Fund Advisors |
Sub-advisor: | Insight North America LLC |
Investment Objective: | The Fund seeks long-term total return consistent with reasonable risk by investing in investment-grade fixed-income securities. |
3. | Effective on or about September 24, 2021, the following underlying mutual fund is no longer available to receive transfers or new purchase payments. The underlying mutual fund is removed from the bulleted list on the cover of the prospectus and Appendix A: Underlying Mutual Fund Information: |
• | Nationwide Variable Insurance Trust - NVIT BNY Mellon Core Plus Bond Fund: Class II |
Investment Advisor: | Nationwide Fund Advisors |
Sub-advisor: | Insight North America LLC |
Investment Objective: | The Fund seeks long-term total return consistent with reasonable risk by investing in investment-grade fixed-income securities. |
A) | Financial Statements |
1) | Nationwide Variable Account-4: |
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. | |
Statements of Assets, Liabilities and Contract Owners’ Equity as of December 31, 2020. | |
Statements of Operations for the year ended December 31, 2020. | |
Statements of Changes in Contract Owners’ Equity for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019. | |
Notes to Financial Statements. | |
2) | Nationwide Life Insurance Company: |
Independent Auditors’ Report. | |
Statutory Statements of Admitted Assets, Liabilities, Capital and Surplus as of December 31, 2020 and 2019. | |
Statutory Statements of Operations for the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018. | |
Statutory Statements of Changes in Capital and Surplus for the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018. | |
Statutory Statements of Cash Flow for the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018. | |
Notes to Statutory Financial Statements. |
B) | Exhibits |
7) | Not Applicable. |
8) | Form of Participation Agreements – |
President and Chief Operating Officer and Director | Carter, John L. |
Executive Vice President-Chief Human Resources Officer | Clements, Vinita J. |
Executive Vice President-Chief Information Officer | Fowler, James R. |
Executive Vice President and Director | Thresher, Mark R. |
Senior Vice President-NF Strategic Customer Solutions | Ambrozy, Tina S. |
Senior Vice President-Marketing Management - Financial Services | Bair, Ann S. |
Senior Vice President-Head of Taxation | Biesecker, Pamela A. |
Senior Vice President-Chief Investment Officer | Coleman, Joel L. |
Senior Vice President-Nationwide Financial Services Legal | Dankovic, Rae Ann |
Senior Vice President-External Affairs | English, Steven M. |
Senior Vice President-Chief Financial Officer and Director | Frommeyer, Timothy G. |
Senior Vice President-Chief Financial Officer - Nationwide Financial and Director | Ginnan, Steven A. |
Senior Vice President-Human Resources - P&C | Hairston, Mia S. |
Senior Vice President-Annuity Distribution | Hawley, Craig A. |
Senior Vice President-Nationwide Annuity and Director | Henderson, Eric S. |
Senior Vice President and Treasurer | LaPaul, David |
Senior Vice President-IT Chief Financial Officer, Procurement & BTO | O'Brien, Kevin G. |
Senior Vice President-Corporate Solutions | Perez, Juan J. |
Senior Vice President-Retirement Plan Sales | Ramey, Scott |
Senior Vice President | Rich, Sandra L. |
Senior Vice President-Chief Technology Officer - Nationwide Financial | Richardson, Michael A. |
Senior Vice President-Nationwide Retirement Institute | Rodriguez, Kristi L. |
Senior Vice President-Finance & Strategy Legal and Corporate Secretary | Skingle, Denise L. |
Senior Vice President-Nationwide Life | Snyder, Holly R. |
Senior Vice President-Investment Management Group | Spangler, Michael S. |
Senior Vice President-Retirement Plan Sales | Stevenson, Eric |
Director | Walker, Kirt A. |
Company | Jurisdiction
of Domicile |
Brief Description of Business |
Nationwide Financial Services, Inc. | Delaware | The company acts primarily as a holding company for companies within the Nationwide organization that offer or distribute life insurance, long-term savings and retirement products. |
NFS Distributors, Inc. | Delaware | The company acts primarily as a holding company for Nationwide Financial Services, Inc. companies. |
Nationwide Financial General Agency, Inc. | Pennsylvania | The company is a multi-state licensed insurance agency. |
Nationwide Fund Distributors, LLC | Delaware | The company is a limited purpose broker-dealer. |
Company | Jurisdiction
of Domicile |
Brief Description of Business |
Nationwide Fund Management, LLC | Delaware | The company provides administration, transfer and dividend disbursing agent services to various mutual fund entities. |
Nationwide Retirement Solutions, Inc. | Delaware | The company markets and administers deferred compensation plans for public employees. |
Nationwide Securities, LLC | Delaware | The company is a general purpose broker-dealer and investment adviser registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
Nationwide Trust Company, FSB | Federal | This is a federal savings bank chartered by the Office of Thrift Supervision in the United States Department of Treasury to exercise deposit, lending, agency, custody and fiduciary powers and to engage in activities permissible for federal savings banks under the Home Owners’ Loan Act of 1933. |
Nationwide Financial Services Capital Trust | Delaware | The trust’s sole purpose is to issue and sell certain securities representing individual beneficial interests in the assets of the trust |
Nationwide Life Insurance Company 2 | Ohio | The corporation provides individual life insurance, group and health insurance, fixed and variable annuity products and other life insurance products. |
Jefferson National Financial Corporation3 | Delaware | A stock corporation. The corporation is the holding company of Jefferson National Life Insurance Company, Jefferson National Life Insurance Company of New York, Jefferson National Securities Corporation, and JNF Advisors, Inc., offering annuity products and services. |
Jefferson National Life Insurance Company2,3 | Texas | The company provides life, health and annuity products. |
Jefferson National Life Annuity Company C2,3 | A separate account issuing variable annuity products. | |
Jefferson National Life Annuity Account E2,3 | A separate account issuing variable annuity products. | |
Jefferson National Life Annuity Account F2,3 | A separate account issuing variable annuity products. | |
Jefferson National Life Annuity Account G2,3 | A separate account issuing variable annuity products. | |
Jefferson National Life Insurance Company of New York2,3 | New York | The company provides variable annuity products. |
Jefferson National Life of New York Annuity Account 12,3 | A separate account issuing variable annuity products. | |
Jefferson National Securities Corporation3 | Delaware | The company is a limited purpose broker-dealer and distributor of variable annuities for Jefferson National Life Insurance Company and Jefferson National Life Insurance Company of New York. |
MFS Variable Account2,3 | Ohio | A separate account issuing variable annuity contracts. |
Nationwide Multi-Flex Variable Account2,3 | Ohio | A separate account issuing variable annuity contracts. |
Nationwide Variable Account2,3 | Ohio | A separate account issuing variable annuity contracts. |
Nationwide Variable Account-II2,3 | Ohio | A separate account issuing variable annuity contracts. |
Nationwide Variable Account-32,3 | Ohio | A separate account issuing variable annuity contracts. |
Nationwide Variable Account-42,3 | Ohio | A separate account issuing variable annuity contracts. |
Nationwide Variable Account-52,3 | Ohio | A separate account issuing variable annuity contracts. |
Nationwide Variable Account-62,3 | Ohio | A separate account issuing variable annuity contracts. |
Nationwide Variable Account-72,3 | Ohio | A separate account issuing variable annuity contracts. |
Nationwide Variable Account-82,3 | Ohio | A separate account issuing variable annuity contracts. |
Nationwide Variable Account-92,3 | Ohio | A separate account issuing variable annuity contracts. |
Nationwide Variable Account-102,3 | Ohio | A separate account issuing variable annuity contracts. |
Nationwide Variable Account-112,3 | Ohio | A separate account issuing variable annuity contracts. |
Nationwide Variable Account-122,3 | Ohio | A separate account issuing variable annuity contracts. |
Nationwide Variable Account-132,3 | Ohio | A separate account issuing variable annuity contracts. |
Nationwide Variable Account-142,3 | Ohio | A separate account issuing variable annuity contracts. |
Nationwide Variable Account-152,3 | Ohio | A separate account issuing variable annuity contracts. |
Nationwide Provident VA Separate Account 12,3 | Pennsylvania | A separate account issuing variable annuity contracts. |
Nationwide VLI Separate Account2,3 | Ohio | A separate account issuing variable life insurance policies. |
Company | Jurisdiction
of Domicile |
Brief Description of Business |
Nationwide VLI Separate Account-22,3 | Ohio | A separate account issuing variable life insurance policies. |
Nationwide VLI Separate Account-32,3 | Ohio | A separate account issuing variable life insurance policies. |
Nationwide VLI Separate Account-42,3 | Ohio | A separate account issuing variable life insurance policies. |
Nationwide VLI Separate Account-52,3 | Ohio | A separate account issuing variable life insurance policies. |
Nationwide VLI Separate Account-62,3 | Ohio | A separate account issuing variable life insurance policies. |
Nationwide VLI Separate Account-72,3 | Ohio | A separate account issuing variable life insurance policies. |
Nationwide Provident VLI Separate Account 12,3 | Pennsylvania | A separate account issuing variable life insurance policies. |
Nationwide Investment Services Corporation3 | Oklahoma | This is a limited purpose broker-dealer and distributor of variable annuities and variable life products for Nationwide Life Insurance Company and Nationwide Life and Annuity Insurance Company. The company also provides educational services to retirement plan sponsors and its participants. |
Nationwide Financial Assignment Company3 | Ohio | The company is an administrator of structured settlements. |
Nationwide Investment Advisors, LLC3 | Ohio | The company provides investment advisory services. |
Eagle Captive Reinsurance, LLC3 | Ohio | The company is engaged in the business of insurance |
Nationwide Life and Annuity Insurance Company2,3 | Ohio | The company engages in underwriting life insurance and granting, purchasing and disposing of annuities. |
Nationwide VA Separate Account-A2,3 | Ohio | A separate account issuing variable annuity contracts. |
Nationwide VA Separate Account-B2,3 | Ohio | A separate account issuing variable annuity contracts. |
Nationwide VA Separate Account-C2,3 | Ohio | A separate account issuing variable annuity contracts. |
Nationwide VA Separate Account-D2,3 | Ohio | A separate account issuing variable annuity contracts. |
Nationwide Provident VA Separate Account A2,3 | Delaware | A separate account issuing variable annuity contracts. |
Nationwide VL Separate Account-C2,3 | Ohio | A separate account issuing variable life insurance policies. |
Nationwide VL Separate Account-D2,3 | Ohio | A separate account issuing variable life insurance policies. |
Nationwide VL Separate Account-G2,3 | Ohio | A separate account issuing variable life insurance policies. |
Nationwide Provident VLI Separate Account A2,3 | Delaware | A separate account issuing variable life insurance policies. |
Olentangy Reinsurance, LLC3 | Vermont | The company is a captive life reinsurance company. |
Nationwide SBL, LLC | Ohio | The company is a lender offering securities-back lines of credit. |
Registered Investment Advisors Services, Inc. | Texas | The company is a technology company that facilitates third-party money management services for registered investment advisors |
Nationwide Fund Advisors4 | Delaware | The trust acts as a registered investment advisor. |
1 | This subsidiary/entity is controlled by its immediate parent through contractual association. |
2 | This subsidiary/entity files separate financial statements. |
3 | Information for this subsidiary/entity is included in the consolidated financial statements of its immediate parent. |
4 | This subsidiary/entity is a business trust. |
a) | NISC serves as principal underwriter and general distributor for the following separate investment accounts of Nationwide or its affiliates: |
MFS Variable Account | Nationwide VA Separate Account-C |
Multi-Flex Variable Account | Nationwide VA Separate Account-D |
Nationwide Variable Account | Nationwide VLI Separate Account |
Nationwide Variable Account-II | Nationwide VLI Separate Account-2 |
Nationwide Variable Account-3 | Nationwide VLI Separate Account-3 |
Nationwide Variable Account-4 | Nationwide VLI Separate Account-4 |
Nationwide Variable Account-5 | Nationwide VLI Separate Account-5 |
Nationwide Variable Account-6 | Nationwide VLI Separate Account-6 |
Nationwide Variable Account-7 | Nationwide VLI Separate Account-7 |
Nationwide Variable Account-8 | Nationwide VL Separate Account-C |
Nationwide Variable Account-9 | Nationwide VL Separate Account-D |
Nationwide Variable Account-10 | Nationwide VL Separate Account-G |
Nationwide Variable Account-11 | Nationwide Provident VA Separate Account 1 |
Nationwide Variable Account-12 | Nationwide Provident VA Separate Account A |
Nationwide Variable Account-13 | Nationwide Provident VLI Separate Account 1 |
Nationwide Variable Account-14 | Nationwide Provident VLI Separate Account A |
Nationwide Variable Account-15 | |
Nationwide VA Separate Account-A | |
Nationwide VA Separate Account-B |
b) | Directors and Officers of NISC: |
President and Director | Ambrozy, Tina S. |
Senior Vice President-Head of Taxation | Biesecker, Pamela A. |
Senior Vice President and Secretary | Skingle, Denise L. |
Vice President-Tax | Eppley, Daniel P. |
Vice President and Assistant Secretary | Garman, David A. |
Vice President-Chief Compliance Officer | Rabenstine, James J. |
Vice President-Performance Management & Accounting and Financial Operations | Rothermel, Peter J. |
Associate Vice President and Assistant Treasurer | Conner, David A. |
Associate Vice President and Assistant Treasurer | Hacker, Hope C. |
Associate Vice President and Assistant Secretary | Hartman, Mark E. |
Associate Vice President and Assistant Treasurer | Reese, John A. |
Associate Vice President and Treasurer | Roswell, Ewan T. |
Assistant Secretary | Bowman, Heidi |
Assistant Secretary | Hinze, Keith W. |
Director | Henderson, Eric S. |
Director | Stevenson, Eric |
Name of Principal Underwriter | Net
Underwriting Discounts and Commissions |
Compensation
on Redemption or Annuitization |
Brokerage
Commissions |
Compensation | ||||
Nationwide Investment Services
Corporation |
N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
a) | file a post-effective amendment to this registration statement as frequently as is necessary to ensure that the audited financial statements in the registration statement are never more than 16 months old for so long as payments under the variable annuity contracts may be accepted; |
b) | include either (1) as part of any application to purchase a contract offered by the prospectus, a space that an applicant can check to request a Statement of Additional Information, or (2) a post card or similar written communication affixed to or included in the prospectus that the applicant can remove to send for a Statement of Additional Information; and |
c) | deliver any Statement of Additional Information and any financial statements required to be made available under this form promptly upon written or oral request. |
Nationwide Variable Account-4 |
(Registrant) |
Nationwide Life Insurance Company |
(Depositor) |
By: /s/ Stephen M. Jackson |
Stephen
M. Jackson Attorney-in-Fact |
JOHN L. CARTER | |
John L. Carter, President and Chief Operating Officer, and Director | |
MARK R. THRESHER | |
Mark R. Thresher, Executive Vice President and Director | |
TIMOTHY G. FROMMEYER | |
Timothy G. Frommeyer, Senior Vice President-Chief Financial Officer and Director | |
ERIC S. HENDERSON | |
Eric S. Henderson, Senior Vice President-Nationwide Annuity and Director | |
STEVEN A. GINNAN | |
Steven A. Ginnan, Senior Vice President-Chief Financial Officer-Nationwide Financial and Director | |
KIRT A. WALKER | |
Kirt A. Walker, Director | |
By /s/ Stephen M. Jackson | |
Stephen
M. Jackson Attorney-in-Fact |