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The specific changes are shown below.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline"&gt;Summary Prospectus &amp;amp; Prospectus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%"&gt;The following sentence is hereby deleted from the &#x201c;Principal Investment Strategies of the Fund&#x201d; section in the Summary Prospectus and Prospectus for the Fund:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom:6pt;padding-left:18pt;text-align:justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"&gt;The Fund is considered to be non-diversified, which means that it may invest more of its assets in the securities of a single issuer or a smaller number of issuers than if it were a diversified fund.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%"&gt;The following paragraph replaces the abovementioned deleted sentence:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom:6pt;padding-left:18pt;text-align:justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"&gt;The Fund is classified as &#x201c;diversified&#x201d; under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the &#x201c;1940 Act&#x201d;). However, the Fund may become &#x201c;non-diversified&#x201d; solely as a result of a change in the relative market capitalization or index weighting of one or more constituents of the Index.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%"&gt;The risk description below is hereby added under the Summary section entitled &#x201c;Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund&#x201d; for the Fund.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom:6pt;padding-left:18pt;text-align:justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%"&gt;Diversification Risk.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"&gt; The Fund is classified as &#x201c;diversified&#x201d; under the 1940 Act. However, the Fund may become &#x201c;non&#x2011;diversified&#x201d; solely as a result of a change in the relative market capitalization or index weighting of one or more constituents of the Index. Operating as &#x201c;non-diversified&#x201d; may make the Fund more susceptible to adverse developments affecting any single issuer held in its portfolio and may be more susceptible to greater losses because of these developments.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%"&gt;The risk description below is hereby deleted under the Summary section entitled &#x201c;Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund&#x201d; for the Fund.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom:6pt;padding-left:18pt;text-align:justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%"&gt;Non-Diversification Risk. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"&gt;Although the Fund intends to invest in a variety of securities and instruments, the Fund is considered to be non-diversified, which means that it may invest more of its assets in the securities of a single issuer or a smaller number of issuers than if it were a diversified fund. As a result, the Fund may be more exposed to the risks associated with and developments affecting an individual issuer or a smaller number of issuers than a fund that invests more widely. This may increase the Fund&#x2019;s volatility and cause the performance of a relatively smaller number of issuers to have a greater impact on the Fund&#x2019;s performance.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%"&gt;In addition, the reference to &#x201c;Non-Diversification Risk&#x201d; being applicable to the Fund is deleted from the chart beginning on page 232 of the Prospectus. The reference to &#x201c;Diversification Risk&#x201d; being applicable to the Fund is added to the same.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline"&gt;SAI&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%"&gt;The first sentence of the first paragraph in the section entitled &#x201c;DIVERSIFICATION&#x201d; of the SAI is hereby revised as follows:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom:6pt;padding-left:18pt;text-align:justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"&gt;Each of CAFG, COWG, PTLC, PTMC, PTEU, PTIN, TRND, GCOW, COWZ, CALF, ICOW, ECOW, HERD, PWS, PEXL, SZNE, PTBD, ALTL, PAMC and FLRT (collectively, the &#x201c;Diversified Funds&#x201d;) is &#x201c;diversified&#x201d; within the meaning of the 1940 Act. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%"&gt;In addition, the second paragraph in the section entitled &#x201c;DIVERSIFICATION&#x201d; of the SAI is hereby revised as follows:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom:6pt;padding-left:18pt;text-align:justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"&gt;While CAFG, COWG, PTLC, PTMC, PTEU, PTIN, , GCOW, COWZ, CALF, ICOW, ECOW, PWS, PEXL, SZNE, PTBD, ALTL, and PAMC are each &#x201c;diversified&#x201d; within the meaning of the 1940 Act, these Funds may become &#x201c;non-diversified&#x201d; solely as a result of a change in the relative market capitalization or index weighting of one or more constituents of a Fund&#x2019;s Index.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Please retain this Supplement with your Summary Prospectus, Prospectus and SAI for future reference.</oef:SupplementToProspectusTextBlock>
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