PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT
STRATEGY. Under normal circumstances, the Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by
investing primarily in common stocks of issuers located in the United States. Wellington Management Company LLP (“Wellington Management”), the Fund’s sub-adviser, chooses the Fund’s investments using fundamental research to identify attractive growth companies relative to a variety of characteristics. Although the Fund may invest in stocks of issuers with any market capitalization, the Fund will generally focus on common stocks of large cap companies. The Fund may trade securities actively. The Fund is a non-diversified fund, which means that it may invest its assets in a smaller number of issuers than a diversified fund. The Fund defines large cap securities as companies with market caps within the collective range of the Russell 1000 Index and S&P 500 Index. As of March 31, 2026, this range was approximately $907 million to $4.85 trillion. The market capitalization range of these indices changes over time.
The Fund’s portfolio manager selects stocks from an investment universe
populated by multiple fundamental equity investment teams at the sub-adviser, Wellington Management, with different investment approaches to growth investing. Each fundamental equity team has a distinct investment philosophy and analytical process to identify
securities. The Fund’s investment universe represents a wide range of investment philosophies, companies, industries and market capitalizations. The Fund’s portfolio manager selects a subset of securities from the investable universe for inclusion in the portfolio, seeking to include stocks that the fundamental equity investment teams believe are high conviction or otherwise offer attractive risk-return characteristics. The Fund’s portfolio manager also may invest a portion of the Fund’s assets in securities that the portfolio manager believes may complement the Fund’s total risk profile or support overall portfolio construction targets. The Fund’s portfolio manager does not allocate a set percentage to any investment approach or security but instead seeks a flexible and broad-based Fund profile
consistent with the Fund’s overall focus on growth investing. The portfolio manager also uses quantitative portfolio construction tools as part of their process.
PRINCIPAL RISKS. The principal risks of investing in the Fund are described below. When you sell your shares they may be worth more or less than what you paid for them, which means that you could lose money as a result of your
investment. An investment in the Fund is not a bank deposit and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. As with any fund, there is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its investment objective. For more
information regarding risks and investment matters, please see “Additional Information Regarding Investment Strategies and Risks” in the Fund’s statutory
prospectus.
Market Risk – Market risk is the risk that one or more markets in which the Fund invests will go down in value, including
the possibility that the markets will go down sharply and unpredictably. Securities of a company may decline in value due to its financial prospects and activities,
including certain operational impacts, such as data breaches and cybersecurity attacks. Securities may also decline in value due to general market and economic movements and
trends, including adverse changes to credit markets, or as a result of other events (or threat thereof), such as geopolitical events, natural disasters, or widespread pandemics (such as COVID-19) or other adverse public health developments.
Equity Risk – The risk that the price of equity or equity related securities may decline due to changes in a company’s
financial condition and overall market and economic conditions.
Large Cap Securities Risk
– The securities of large market capitalization companies may underperform other segments of the market because
such companies may be less responsive to competitive challenges and opportunities and may be unable to attain high growth rates during periods of economic
expansion.
Growth Investing
Style Risk – If the sub-adviser incorrectly assesses a company’s prospects for growth or how other investors will
value the company’s growth, then the price of the company’s stock may decrease, or may not increase to the level anticipated by the sub-adviser. In addition,
growth stocks may be more volatile than other stocks because they are more sensitive to investors’ perceptions of the issuing company’s growth potential. Also,
the growth investing style may over time go in and out of favor. At times when the investing style used by the Fund is out of favor, the Fund may underperform other equity funds that use different investing styles.
Active Investment Management
Risk – The risk that, if the sub-adviser’s investment
strategy does not perform as expected, the Fund could underperform its peers or lose money.
Active Trading Risk – Active trading could increase the Fund’s transaction costs and may
increase your tax liability as compared to a fund with less active trading policies. These effects may adversely affect Fund performance.
Quantitative Investing Risk – The value of securities or other investments selected using quantitative analysis can perform differently from
the market as a whole or from their expected performance. This may be as a result of the factors used in the analysis, the weights placed on each factor, and changes in the
historical trends of the factors.