that may apply for the periods indicated above
under “Fees and Expenses.” Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or
“turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in Annual Fund Operating
Expenses or in the Example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 106.31% of the average value of its
portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund takes long and short positions in large-capitalization companies (i.e., companies with market capitalizations that are similar to those included in the Russell 1000® Growth Index) using the subadviser's dynamic multidimensional investment process that combines human insight and intuition,
finance and behavioral theory, and quantitative and statistical techniques. Approximately 30% of the Fund's net assets will be in short positions (i.e., stocks that the subadviser
deems unattractive), and approximately 130% of the Fund's net assets will be in long positions (i.e., stocks that the subadviser deems attractive), resulting in approximately 100% net equity exposure. To execute this strategy, the Fund currently intends to gain its short equity exposure entirely through the use of swap contracts (e.g., total return swaps) and its long equity exposure, in an amount of approximately 100% of the Fund’s net assets, by investing directly in stocks and, in an amount approximating the amount of the Fund’s short exposure at the time, through the use of swaps. This investment technique creates leverage, which will exaggerate increases or
decreases in the value of the Fund's overall portfolio. There is a risk that the Fund will lose money on both its long positions and its short positions at the same time.
Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in equity
securities issued by large-capitalization companies or derivatives the value of which are linked to equity securities issued by large-capitalization companies.
The Fund employs a growth style of investing. In other words, the Fund seeks companies whose
earnings are expected to grow faster than those of other companies. In selecting stocks for either the Fund's long portfolio or short portfolio, the subadviser employs an evaluation process that focuses on modeling a large number of stocks and proprietary factors, using financial
statements, security analyst forecasts, corporate management signals, economic releases, and security prices. This investment approach is intended to seek diversification across market inefficiencies, securities, industries, and sectors, while seeking to manage risk exposures relative to the Russell 1000® Growth Index. The range of models is designed to allow each portfolio to be diversified across exposures to numerous
potential opportunities. Nevertheless, the Fund may invest in any economic sector and, at times, emphasize one or more particular industries or sectors. The subadviser generally
considers closing a position (either by selling a stock held long or closing a swap position) when its return prediction generated by the models, adjusted for risk and expected transaction costs, is notably surpassed on the positive side for a long position (or on the negative side for a short
position) by another stock's return prediction. The Fund may engage in active and frequent trading of portfolio securities.
The Fund cannot guarantee that it will achieve its investment objective.
As with any fund, the value of the Fund’s investments—and therefore, the value of
Fund shares—may fluctuate. These changes may occur because of:
Equity securities risk– stock markets are
volatile. The price of an equity security fluctuates based on changes in a company’s financial condition and overall market and economic conditions.
Long/short strategy risk – in situations where the Fund takes a long position (i.e., owns a stock outright or gains long exposure through a
swap), the Fund will lose money if the price of the stock declines. In situations where the Fund takes short positions, the Fund will lose money if the price of the stock
increases. It is possible that stocks where the Fund has taken a long position will decline in value at the same time that stocks where the Fund has taken a short position increase
in value, thereby increasing potential losses to the Fund.