Mutual Fund Summary Prospectus (497k)
02 March 2013 - 1:57AM
Edgar (US Regulatory)
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31, 2012
Effective March 1, 2013, the section titled Principal Investment Strategies will be
deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:
Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests primarily (at least
80% of its net assets, plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes) in bonds, such as:
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U.S. government securities (securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government or its agencies or instrumentalities), including zero coupon
securities.
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residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities.
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asset-backed securities.
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corporate debt obligations, including obligations issued by special-purpose entities that are backed by corporate debt obligations.
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Up to 20% of the Funds total assets may be invested in securities rated lower than investment grade
or unrated securities of comparable quality as determined by the Funds sub-adviser (securities commonly referred to as high yield or junk bonds). The Fund will not invest in securities rated lower than CCC at the time
of purchase or in unrated securities of equivalent quality.
The Fund may invest up to 35% of its total assets in debt
obligations of foreign corporations and foreign governments. However, no more than 10% of the Funds total assets may be invested in debt obligations of corporations and governments that are located in emerging market countries. A country is
considered to have an emerging market if it has a relatively low gross national product per capita compared to the worlds major economies, and the potential for rapid economic growth, provided that no issuer included in the
Funds current benchmark index will be considered to be located in an emerging market country.
Up to 10% of the
Funds total assets may have non-U.S. dollar currency exposure from non-U.S. dollar denominated securities and currency derivatives, calculated on an absolute notional basis (i.e., adding together the absolute value of net long and net short
exposures to non-U.S. dollar currencies).
The Funds sub-adviser selects securities using a top-down
approach, which begins with the formulation of the sub-advisers general economic outlook. Following this, various sectors and industries are analyzed and selected for investment. Finally, the sub-adviser selects individual securities within
these sectors or industries.
The Fund invests primarily in bonds rated investment grade at the time of purchase by a
nationally recognized statistical rating organization or in unrated securities of comparable quality. As noted above, however, up to 20% of the Funds total assets may
be invested in securities that are rated lower than investment grade at the time of purchase or that are unrated and of comparable quality. Quality determinations regarding unrated securities
will be made by the Funds sub-adviser. If the rating of a security is reduced or the credit quality of an unrated security declines after purchase, the Fund is not required to sell the security, but may consider doing so. Unrated securities
will not exceed 25% of the Funds total assets.
Under normal market conditions the Fund attempts to maintain a weighted
average effective maturity for its portfolio securities of fifteen years or less and an average effective duration of three to eight years. The Funds weighted average effective maturity and average effective duration are measures of how the
Fund may react to interest rate changes.
To generate additional income, the Fund may invest up to 25% of its total assets in
dollar roll transactions. In a dollar roll transaction, the Fund sells mortgage-backed securities for delivery in the current month while contracting with the same party to repurchase similar securities at a future date.
The Fund may utilize the following derivatives: options; futures contracts; options on futures contracts; interest rate caps, collars,
and floors; foreign currency contracts; options on foreign currencies; swap agreements, including swap agreements on interest rates, currency rates, security indexes and specific securities, and credit default swap agreements; and options on the
foregoing types of swap agreements. The Fund may enter into standardized derivatives contracts traded on domestic or foreign securities exchanges, boards of trade, or similar entities, and non-standardized derivatives contracts traded in the
over-the-counter (OTC) market. The Fund may use these derivatives in an attempt to manage market risk, currency risk, credit risk and yield curve risk, to manage the effective maturity or duration of securities in the Funds
portfolio or for speculative purposes in an effort to increase the Funds yield or to enhance returns. The Fund may also use derivatives to gain exposure to non-dollar denominated securities markets to the extent it does not do so through
direct investments. The use of a derivative is speculative if the Fund is primarily seeking to enhance returns, rather than offset the risk of other positions. The Fund may not use any derivative to gain exposure to a security or type of security
that it would be prohibited by its investment restrictions from purchasing directly.
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