Ohio National Fund, Inc. |
SUMMARY PROSPECTUS |
May 1, 2023 |
ON U.S. Low Volatility Portfolio |
Before you invest, you may want to review the fund’s prospectus, which contains more information about the fund and its risks. You can find the fund’s prospectus, reports to shareholders and other information about the fund online at https://funddocs.filepoint.com/ohionationalfund. You can also get this information at no cost by calling 1-800-366-6654 or by sending an e-mail request to annuityservice@ohionational.com. The fund’s prospectus and statement of additional information, both dated May 1, 2023, as may be supplemented from time to time, are incorporated by reference into this Summary Prospectus. |
Investment Objective
Seeks capital appreciation.
Fees and Expenses of the Portfolio
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and sell shares of the Portfolio. You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and example below. The table does not reflect fees or expenses that may be charged in connection with variable contracts issued by the insurance companies which offer the Portfolio as an underlying investment option. If such charges were included, the following fees and expenses would be higher.
Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment): —
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment): |
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Management Fees |
0.57% |
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees |
None |
Other expenses |
0.04% |
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses* |
0.61% |
* |
The expense information in the table has been restated to reflect current fees as if they had been in effect during the previous fiscal year to reflect a reduction in the Management Fees effective August 19, 2022. |
Example. This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing your variable contract assets in the Portfolio with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Portfolio for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your shares at the end of those periods. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. The costs indicated below do not reflect the additional expenses of variable contracts. These costs would be higher if variable contract charges were added. 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 |
$62 |
$195 |
$340 |
$762 |
Portfolio Turnover. The Portfolio pays transaction costs, such as commissions and custodial trading fees, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the Example, affect the Portfolio’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Portfolio’s portfolio turnover rate was 78% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies
The Portfolio invests, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes, if any) in U.S. common stocks of companies included in the S&P 500® Index, utilizing Intech Investment Management LLC’s (“Intech”) mathematical investment process. The Portfolio only invests in common stocks of companies that compose the S&P 500® Index. A small allocation to cash is maintained for liquidity purposes only. The S&P 500® Index is an unmanaged index of 500 stocks that is generally representative of the performance of larger companies in the United States. Over time, and under normal market conditions, the Portfolio seeks to achieve returns similar to the S&P 500® Index (the Portfolio’s benchmark index) over the long-term, with lower absolute volatility than the S&P 500® Index. In this context, absolute volatility refers to the variation in the returns of the Portfolio and the benchmark index. The Portfolio is a diversified fund.
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Due to the defensive nature of the Portfolio and given the objective of minimizing the Portfolio’s absolute risk, the Portfolio tends to overweight some sectors which are considered to be defensive. As a result, the Portfolio will tend to underperform in a market environment in which defensive sectors underperform.
The Portfolio pursues its investment objective by applying a mathematical investment process to construct an investment portfolio from the universe of stocks within the S&P 500® Index. The goal of this process is to combine stocks that individually have higher relative volatility and lower correlations with each other in an effort to reduce the Portfolio’s absolute volatility, while still generating returns similar to the S&P 500® Index over a full market cycle. Although the Portfolio may underperform its benchmark index in sustained up markets, this strategy seeks to minimize losses in down markets.
In applying this strategy, Intech establishes target proportions of its holdings from stocks within the S&P 500® Index using an optimization process designed to determine the most effective weightings of each stock in the Portfolio. The optimization uses proprietary estimates of volatility and correlation. Within certain risk controls, the optimization’s objective is to minimize the absolute risk of the Portfolio while generating returns similar to the S&P 500® Index over the long-term. Once Intech determines such proportions and the Portfolio’s investments are selected, the Portfolio is periodically rebalanced to the set target proportions and re-optimized. The optimization and rebalancing follow a regular schedule reflecting the right balance between capturing a trading profit through rebalancing and controlling trading costs. The rebalancing techniques used by Intech may result in a higher relative portfolio turnover rate compared to a “buy and hold” strategy.
Principal Risks
There is no assurance that the Portfolio will meet its investment objective. The value of your investment in the Portfolio and the amount of the return you receive on your investment may fluctuate significantly. You could lose money, or have less return than the market in general, by investing in the Portfolio. The principal risks of investing in the Portfolio are:
Investment Process Risk — The proprietary mathematical investment process used by Intech may not achieve the desired results. In Intech’s history, which spans more than 30 years, Intech’s mathematical investment process has experienced periods of both underperformance and outperformance relative to an identified benchmark index. Even when the proprietary mathematical investment process is working appropriately, Intech expects that there will be periods of underperformance relative to the benchmark index. In particular, Intech’s low volatility strategy may underperform the S&P 500®Index during certain periods of up markets and may not achieve the desired level of protection in down markets. On an occasional basis, Intech makes changes to its mathematical investment process that do not require shareholder notice. These changes may result in changes to the Portfolio, might not provide the intended results, and may adversely impact the Portfolio’s performance.
Market Risk — A security’s price may change in response to changes in conditions in securities markets in general. Markets tend to move in cycles with periods of rising prices and periods of falling prices. They can decline for many reasons, including adverse political or economic developments domestically or abroad, changes in investor psychology, or heavy institutional selling. A significant national or international event, natural disaster or widespread health crisis, such as the COVID-19 global pandemic, could cause substantial market volatility, exchange trading suspensions and closures, severe market dislocations and liquidity constraints, impact the ability to complete redemptions, and affect the Portfolio’s performance.
Sector Risk — Although the Portfolio will not concentrate its investments in specific industries or groups of industries, at times, it may have a significant portion of its assets invested in securities within the same economic sector. Companies in the same economic sector may be similarly affected by economic or market events, making the Portfolio more vulnerable to unfavorable developments than other portfolios that invest more broadly. As the Portfolio’s holdings become more concentrated, it is less able to spread risk and potentially reduce the risk of loss and volatility. In addition, the Portfolio may be overweight or underweight in certain sectors relative to its benchmark index, which may cause the Portfolio’s performance to be more or less sensitive to developments affecting those sectors.
Performance
The accompanying bar chart and table provide some indication of the risks of investing in the Portfolio. They show changes in the Portfolio’s performance for the last year and the Portfolio’s average annual returns for the last one year and since inception compared to those of a broad-based securities market index. The Portfolio’s past performance does not necessarily indicate how it will perform in the future. Variable contract charges are not reflected in the chart or table. If they were, the returns would be less than those shown.
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Since inception, the Portfolio’s highest return for a quarter was 10.54%. That was for the quarter ended on December 31, 2021. The lowest return for a quarter was -8.26%. That was for the quarter ended on June 30, 2022. To obtain performance information up to the most recent month end, call toll free 877.781.6392.
Average Annual Total Returns |
1 Year |
Since 6/25/21 |
ON U.S. Low Volatility Portfolio |
-7.33% |
1.99% |
S&P 500® Index |
-18.11% |
-5.47% |
Management
Ohio National Investments, Inc. serves as the investment adviser for the Portfolio. Intech serves as the investment sub-adviser for the Portfolio. Intech has been a sub-adviser for the Portfolio since August 2022 and prior to the was a sub-subadviser for the Portfolio under a sub-subadvisory agreement with the Portfolio’s former sub-adviser since June 2021. Adrian Banner, Ph.D., Chief Investment Officer of Intech, and Ryan Stever, Ph.D., Deputy Chief Investment Officer of Intech, have been portfolio managers of the Portfolio since June 2021 and September 2022, respectively.
Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares
Shares of the Portfolio are offered only to separate accounts of insurance companies, which use the Portfolio shares as an underlying investment for variable contracts, and to portfolios of the Fund in connection with ONLIC’s and NSLAC’s variable contracts. You may select funds and make transfers among fund options as described in your variable contract prospectus. The separate accounts of the insurance companies may purchase and redeem Portfolio shares, at their net asset value next computed after the receipt of an order to purchase or redeem Portfolio shares, on each day the New York Stock Exchange is open for unrestricted trading. Please read your variable contract prospectus for more information about your variable contract.
Tax Information
The tax treatment of payments made from a variable contract is described in the contract’s prospectus. Generally, contract owners are not taxed on income or gains realized within their contract until they receive payments from the contract.
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