Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and/or Expense
Reimbursement in the first year and the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses thereafter.
Although your actual costs may be higher or lower,
based on these assumptions, your costs would be:
|
1
Year |
3
Years |
5
Years |
10
Years |
Class
A |
$41
|
$148
|
$265
|
$607
|
...
|
Class
Y |
$31
|
$116
|
$210
|
$484
|
...
|
Class
R6 |
$31
|
$103
|
$182
|
$415
|
...
|
Portfolio Turnover. The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result
in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual Fund operating expenses or in the Example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s
portfolio turnover rate was 18% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies of the Fund
The Fund invests primarily in money market and fixed income
securities.
The Fund invests in a diversified
portfolio of short duration, investment grade money market and fixed income securities, including: (i) securities issued by the U.S. Government or its agencies; (ii) certificates of deposit and time deposits from U.S. and foreign banks; (iii)
repurchase agreements; (iv) commercial paper; (v) municipal securities; (vi) domestic and foreign corporate debt obligations; (vii) sovereign debt and obligations of supra-national entities; and (viii) money market funds. Fixed income securities may
include instruments with a fixed or floating rate of interest.
The Fund may invest in debt securities of foreign
issuers denominated in U.S. dollars.
The Fund
may engage in repurchase agreement transactions that are collateralized by cash or government securities. In addition, it may engage in repurchase agreement transactions that are collateralized by nongovernment securities such as equity securities
or fixed income securities that are rated investment grade and below investment grade by nationally recognized statistical rating organizations (NRSROs) or unrated securities of comparable quality.
The Fund may purchase asset-backed
securities.
The Fund may also invest in new
debt offerings and securities that are subject to resale restrictions such as those contained in Rule 144A promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, which securities may be illiquid or thinly traded. The Fund’s investments may
include securities that do not produce immediate cash income, such as zero coupon securities and payment-in-kind securities.
The Fund may purchase and sell securities on a
when-issued and delayed delivery basis, which means that the Fund buys or sells a security with payment and delivery taking place in the future. The Fund may also engage in “to be announced” (TBA) transactions, which are transactions in
which a fund buys or sells mortgage-backed securities on a forward commitment basis.
The Fund can invest in derivative instruments
including futures contracts and swap contracts.
The Fund can use futures contracts, including
Treasury and interest rate futures, to increase or reduce its exposure to interest rate changes.
The Fund can use swap contracts, including interest
rate swaps, to hedge or adjust its exposure to interest rates. The Fund can also use swap contracts, including credit default swaps, to create long or short exposure to corporate or sovereign debt securities.
The Fund will invest more than 25% of its net assets
in the financial services sector.
The Fund
will attempt to maintain a dollar-weighted average portfolio duration of less than one year.
The portfolio managers collaborate with teams of
market-specific specialists to implement the Fund’s strategy. Although these specialists provide input in the management of the Fund, the portfolio managers retain responsibility for ensuring the Fund is positioned appropriately in terms of
risk exposures and portfolio structure.
In
general, the portfolio managers will look for attractive risk-reward opportunities and securities that best enable the Fund to achieve its objectives. Decisions to purchase or sell securities are primarily determined by relative value considerations
along with economic and credit-related fundamentals, market supply and demand, market dislocations and situation-specific opportunities. The purchase or sale of securities may also be related to a decision to alter the Fund’s risk exposures
(such as duration, yield curve positioning, and sector exposure), a need to limit or reduce the Fund’s exposure to a particular security or issuer, degradation of an issuer’s credit quality, or general liquidity needs of the Fund.
Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund
As with any mutual fund investment, loss of money is a risk of
investing. An investment in the Fund is not a deposit in a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other governmental agency. The risks associated with an investment in the Fund can increase during
times of significant market volatility. The principal risks of investing in the Fund are:
Asset-Backed Securities Risk. Asset-backed securities are subject to prepayment or call risk, which is the risk that a borrower's payments may be received earlier or later than expected due to changes in prepayment rates on underlying loans, which
could result in the Fund reinvesting these early payments at lower interest rates, thereby reducing the Fund's income. Asset-backed securities also are subject to extension risk, which is the risk that a rise in interest rates could reduce the rate
of prepayments, causing the price of the asset-backed securities and the Fund’s share price to fall.
Changing Fixed Income Market Conditions Risk. The current low interest rate environment was created in part by the Federal Reserve Board (FRB) and certain foreign central banks keeping the federal funds and equivalent foreign rates near historical lows. Increases in
the federal funds and equivalent foreign rates may expose fixed income markets to heightened volatility and reduced liquidity for certain fixed income investments, particularly those with longer maturities. In addition, decreases in fixed income
dealer market-making capacity may also potentially lead to heightened volatility and reduced liquidity in the fixed income markets. As a result, the value of the Fund’s investments and share price may decline. Changes in central bank policies
could also result in higher than normal shareholder redemptions, which could potentially increase portfolio turnover and the Fund’s transaction costs.
Debt Securities Risk. The prices of debt securities held by the Fund will be affected by changes in interest rates, the creditworthiness of the issuer and other factors. An increase in prevailing interest rates typically causes the value of
existing debt securities to fall and often has a greater impact on longer-duration debt securities and higher quality debt securities. Falling interest rates will cause the Fund to reinvest the proceeds of debt securities that have been repaid by
the issuer at lower interest rates. Falling interest rates may also reduce the Fund’s distributable income because interest payments on floating rate debt instruments held by the Fund will decline. The Fund could lose money on investments in
debt securities if the issuer or borrower fails to meet its obligations to make interest payments and/or to repay principal in a timely manner. Changes in an issuer’s financial strength, the market’s perception of such strength or in the
credit rating of the issuer or the security may affect the value of debt securities. The Adviser’s credit analysis may fail to anticipate such changes, which could result in buying a debt security at an inopportune time or failing to sell a
debt security in advance of a price decline or other credit event.
Derivatives Risk.
The value of a derivative instrument depends largely on (and is derived from) the value of an underlying security, currency, commodity, interest rate, index or other asset (each referred to as an