R6 shares. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain equal to the Total 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:
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 42% 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:
Market Risk. The market values of the Fund’s investments, and therefore the value of the Fund’s shares, will go up and
down, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably. Market risk may affect a single issuer, industry or section of
the economy, or it may affect the market as a whole. The value of the Fund’s investments may go up or down due to general market conditions which are not specifically related to the particular issuer, such as real or perceived adverse economic
conditions, changes in the general outlook for revenues or corporate earnings, changes in interest or currency rates, regional or global instability, natural or environmental disasters, widespread disease or other public health
issues, war, acts of terrorism or adverse investor sentiment generally. During a general downturn in the
financial markets, multiple asset classes may decline in value. When markets perform well, there can be no
assurance that specific investments held by the Fund will rise in value.
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.
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