and therefore are selling below
what the subadviser believes to be their long-term investment value. The
subadviser seeks to invest in undervalued companies with durable franchises,
strong management and the ability to grow their intrinsic value per share.
The subadviser may sell a security for several reasons. A
security may be sold due to a change in the company’s fundamentals or if
the subadviser believes the security is no longer attractively valued. Investments may also be sold if the subadviser identifies a stock that it believes offers a better investment
opportunity.
Principal Risks of Investing in the
Portfolio
As with any mutual fund, there can be no assurance that the Portfolio’s investment goal will be met or that the net return on an investment in
the Portfolio will exceed what could have been obtained through other investment or
savings vehicles. Shares of the Portfolio are not bank deposits and are not guaranteed or insured by any bank, government entity or the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation. If the value of the assets of the Portfolio goes down, you could lose money.
The following is a summary of the principal risks of investing in the Portfolio.
Equity Securities Risk. The Portfolio invests principally in equity securities and is therefore subject to the risk that stock prices will fall and may
underperform other asset classes. Individual stock prices fluctuate from day-to-day and may
decline significantly.
Large-Cap
Companies Risk. Large-cap companies tend to be less volatile than companies with smaller market
capitalizations. In exchange for this potentially lower risk, the
Portfolio’s value may not rise as much as the value of portfolios that emphasize smaller companies. Larger, more established companies may be unable to respond quickly to new competitive challenges,
such as changes in technology and consumer tastes. Larger companies also may not
be able to attain the high growth rate of successful smaller companies, particularly during
extended periods of economic expansion.
Mid-Cap Companies Risk. Securities of mid-cap companies are usually more volatile and entail greater risks than securities of large companies.
Management Risk. The Portfolio is subject to management risk because it is an actively-managed investment portfolio. The Portfolio’s portfolio managers apply investment techniques and
risk analyses in making
investment decisions, but there can be no guarantee that these decisions or the individual
securities selected by the portfolio managers will produce the desired results.
Value Investing Risk. The subadviser’s judgment
that a particular security is undervalued in relation to the company’s
fundamental economic value may prove incorrect.
Issuer Risk. The value of a security may decline for a number of reasons directly related to the issuer, such as management performance, financial
leverage and reduced demand for the issuer’s goods and services.
Market Risk. The Portfolio’s share price or the market as a whole can decline for many reasons or be adversely
affected by a number of factors, including, without limitation: weakness in the
broad market, a particular industry, or specific holdings; adverse political, regulatory or economic developments in the United States or abroad; changes in investor psychology; heavy
institutional selling; military confrontations, war, terrorism and other armed
conflicts, disease/virus outbreaks and epidemics; recessions; taxation and
international tax treaties; currency, interest rate and price fluctuations; and other conditions or events. In addition, the subadviser’s assessment of securities held in the
Portfolio may prove incorrect, resulting in losses or poor performance even in a rising
market.
Affiliated Fund
Rebalancing Risk. The Portfolio may be an investment option for other mutual funds for which
SunAmerica Asset Management, LLC (“SunAmerica”) serves as investment
adviser that are managed as “funds of funds.” From time to time, the Portfolio may experience relatively large redemptions or investments due to the rebalancing of a fund of funds. In the
event of such redemptions or investments, the Portfolio could be required to sell
securities or to invest cash at a time when it is not advantageous to do so.
The following bar chart illustrates the risks of investing in
the Portfolio by showing changes in the Portfolio’s performance from
calendar year to calendar year and the table compares the Portfolio’s average annual returns to those of the S&P 500® Index (a broad-based securities market index) and the Russell 1000® Value Index, which is relevant to the Portfolio because it has characteristics similar to the Portfolio’s
investment strategies. Fees and expenses incurred at the contract level are not reflected in
the bar chart or table. If these amounts were reflected,