result, investments in emerging
market securities tend to be more volatile than investments in developed countries.
Growth Stock Risk. Growth stocks may lack the dividend
yield associated with value stocks that can cushion total return in a bear
market. Also, growth stocks normally carry a higher price/earnings ratio than many other stocks. Consequently, if earnings expectations are not met, the market price of growth stocks will
often decline more than other stocks.
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.
Active Trading Risk. The Portfolio may engage in frequent trading of securities to achieve its investment goal. Active trading may result in high portfolio turnover and correspondingly greater
brokerage commissions and other transaction costs, which will be borne directly by the Portfolio and could affect its performance. During periods of increased market volatility,
active trading may be more pronounced.
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.
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.
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 MSCI World Index (net) (a broad-based securities market 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,
returns would be less than those shown. Of course, past performance is not necessarily an indication of how the Portfolio will perform in the future.