As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 27, 2018.
Registration Nos. 2-99356
811-04367
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 20549
FORM N-1A
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 | ☒ | |
Pre-Effective Amendment No. ___ | ☐ | |
Post-Effective Amendment No. 332 | ☒ |
and/or
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940 | ☒ | |
Amendment No. 336 | ☒ |
(Check Appropriate Box or Boxes)
COLUMBIA FUNDS SERIES TRUST I
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
225 Franklin Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02110
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
Registrants Telephone Number, Including Area Code: (800) 345-6611
Christopher O. Petersen, Esq. c/o Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC 225 Franklin Street Boston, Massachusetts 02110 |
Ryan C. Larrenaga, Esq. c/o Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC 225 Franklin Street Boston, Massachusetts 02110 |
(Name and Address of Agents for Service)
Approximate Date of Proposed Public Offering:
It is proposed that this filing will become effective (check appropriate box)
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Immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b) |
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On September 1, 2018 pursuant to paragraph (b) |
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60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1) |
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On (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(1) |
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75 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) |
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On (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) of rule 485 |
If appropriate, check the following box:
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This post-effective amendment designates a new effective date for a previously filed post-effective amendment. |
This Post-Effective Amendment relates solely to the Registrants Columbia Bond Fund, Columbia Corporate Income Fund, Columbia Multi-Asset Income Fund, Columbia Small Cap Value Fund I, Columbia Total Return Bond Fund, Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund and Multi-Manager Directional Alternative Strategies Fund series. Information contained in the Registrants Registration Statement relating to any other series of the Registrant is neither amended nor superseded hereby.
Class | Ticker Symbol | |
A | CNDAX | |
Advisor (Class Adv) (a) | CNDRX | |
C | CNDCX | |
Institutional (Class Inst) (a) | UMMGX | |
Institutional 2 (Class Inst2) (a) | CNFRX | |
Institutional 3 (Class Inst3) (a) | CBFYX | |
R | CBFRX | |
T | CBDWX | |
V | CNDTX |
(a) | Prior to November 1, 2017, Class Adv shares were known as Class R4 shares, Class Inst shares were known as Class Z shares, Class Inst2 shares were known as Class R5 shares, and Class Inst3 shares were known as Class Y shares. |
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(a) | This charge is imposed on certain investments of between $1 million and $50 million redeemed within 18 months after purchase, as follows: 1.00% if redeemed within 12 months after purchase, and 0.50% if redeemed more than 12, but less than 18, months after purchase, with certain limited exceptions. |
(b) | This charge applies to redemptions within 12 months after purchase, with certain limited exceptions. |
(c) | Other expenses have been restated to reflect current transfer agency fees paid by the Fund. |
(d) | Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and certain of its affiliates have contractually agreed to waive fees and/or to reimburse expenses (excluding transaction costs and certain other investment related expenses, interest, taxes, acquired fund fees and expenses, and infrequent and/or unusual expenses) through August 31, 2019, unless sooner terminated at the sole discretion of the Fund’s Board of Trustees. Under this agreement, the Fund’s net operating expenses, subject to applicable exclusions, will not exceed the annual rates of 0.82% for Class A, 0.57% for Class Adv, 1.57% for Class C, 0.57% for Class Inst, 0.46% for Class Inst2, 0.40% for Class Inst3, 1.07% for Class R, 0.82% for Class T and 0.72% for Class V. |
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■ | you invest $10,000 in the applicable class of Fund shares for the periods indicated, |
■ | your investment has a 5% return each year, and |
■ | the Fund’s total annual operating expenses remain the same as shown in the Annual Fund Operating Expenses table above. |
1 year | 3 years | 5 years | 10 years | |
Class A (whether or not shares are redeemed) | $555 | $757 | $976 | $1,605 |
Class Adv (whether or not shares are redeemed) | $ 58 | $217 | $390 | $ 891 |
Class C (assuming redemption of all shares at the end of the period) | $260 | $529 | $924 | $2,028 |
Class C (assuming no redemption of shares) | $160 | $529 | $924 | $2,028 |
Class Inst (whether or not shares are redeemed) | $ 58 | $217 | $390 | $ 891 |
Class Inst2 (whether or not shares are redeemed) | $ 47 | $187 | $339 | $ 781 |
Class Inst3 (whether or not shares are redeemed) | $ 41 | $168 | $306 | $ 709 |
Class R (whether or not shares are redeemed) | $109 | $374 | $660 | $1,475 |
Class T (whether or not shares are redeemed) | $332 | $539 | $763 | $1,407 |
Class V (whether or not shares are redeemed) | $545 | $727 | $925 | $1,494 |
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Year
by Year Total Return (%)
as of December 31 Each Year* |
Best
and Worst Quarterly Returns
During the Period Shown in the Bar Chart |
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Best | 3rd Quarter 2009 | 4.55% |
Worst
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4th Quarter 2016 | -2.79% |
* | Year to Date return as of June 30, 2018: -1.75% |
Share
Class
Inception Date |
1 Year | 5 Years | 10 Years | |
Class Inst | 01/09/1986 | |||
returns before taxes | 3.92% | 2.02% | 4.04% | |
returns after taxes on distributions | 3.02% | 0.49% | 2.41% | |
returns after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund shares | 2.24% | 0.95% | 2.57% | |
Class A returns before taxes | 03/31/2008 | -1.28% | 0.79% | 3.28% |
Class Adv returns before taxes | 11/08/2012 | 3.81% | 2.02% | 4.04% |
Class C returns before taxes | 03/31/2008 | 1.77% | 1.03% | 3.05% |
Class Inst2 returns before taxes | 11/08/2012 | 3.91% | 2.11% | 4.09% |
Class Inst3 returns before taxes | 07/15/2009 | 3.95% | 2.19% | 4.15% |
Class R returns before taxes | 11/16/2011 | 3.28% | 1.49% | 3.45% |
Class T returns before taxes | 09/27/2010 | 1.01% | 1.26% | 3.54% |
Class V returns before taxes | 03/07/2011 | -1.30% | 0.86% | 3.38% |
Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (reflects no deductions for fees, expenses or taxes) | 3.54% | 2.10% | 4.01% |
Portfolio Manager | Title | Role with Fund | Managed Fund Since | |||
Jason Callan | Senior Portfolio Manager and Head of Structured Assets | Lead Portfolio Manager | 2016 | |||
Gene Tannuzzo, CFA | Senior Portfolio Manager | Portfolio Manager | November 2017 |
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Online | Regular Mail | Express Mail | By Telephone | |||
Through October 31, 2018 | Through October 31, 2018 | |||||
columbiathreadneedleus.com/investor/ |
Columbia
Management
Investment Services Corp. P.O. Box 8081 Boston, MA 02266-8081 |
Columbia
Management
Investment Services Corp. c/o DST Asset Manager Solutions, Inc. 30 Dan Road, Suite 8081 Canton, MA 02021-2809 |
800.422.3737 | |||
Regular Mail | Express Mail | |||||
Effective November 1, 2018 | Effective November 1, 2018 | |||||
Columbia
Management
Investment Services Corp. P.O. Box 219104 Kansas City, MO 64121-9104 |
Columbia
Management
Investment Services Corp. c/o DST Asset Manager Solutions, Inc. 430 W 7 th Street, Suite 219104 Kansas City, MO 64105-1407 |
* | Based on the dates noted above, mail received at an incorrect address will be forwarded to the correct address, and will not be processed until received, in “good form,” at the correct address. This may affect the trade date you receive for transaction requests, which may negatively impact the value of your purchase or sale. |
Class | Category of eligible account |
For
accounts other than
systematic investment plan accounts |
For
systematic investment
plan accounts |
Classes
A, C,
T (a) & V (b) |
All accounts other than IRAs | $2,000 | $100 |
IRAs | $1,000 | $100 | |
Classes
Adv
& Inst |
All eligible accounts |
$0,
$1,000 or $2,000
depending upon the category of eligible investor |
$100 |
Classes Inst2 & R | All eligible accounts | None | N/A |
Class Inst3 | All eligible accounts |
$0,
$1,000, $2,000
or $1 million depending upon the category of eligible investor |
$100
(for certain
eligible investors) |
(a) | Class T shares must be purchased through financial intermediaries that, by written agreement with Columbia Management Investment Distributors, Inc., are specifically authorized to sell Class T shares. |
(b) | Class V shares are generally closed to new investors. |
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■ | An interest rate future is a derivative that is an agreement whereby the buyer and seller agree to the future delivery of an interest-bearing instrument on a specific date at a pre-determined price. Examples include Treasury-bill futures, Treasury-bond futures and Eurodollar futures. |
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■ | A credit default swap (including a swap on a credit default index, sometimes referred to as a credit default swap index) is a derivative and special type of swap where one party pays, in effect, an insurance premium through a stream of payments to another party in exchange for the right to receive a specified return upon the occurrence of a particular credit event by one or more third parties, such as bankruptcy, default or a similar event. A credit default swap may be embedded within a structured note or other derivative instrument. Credit default swaps enable an investor to buy or sell protection against such a credit event (such as an issuer’s bankruptcy, restructuring or failure to make timely payments of interest or principal). Credit default swap indices are indices that reflect the performance of a basket of credit default swaps and are subject to the same risks as credit default swaps. If such a default were to occur, any contractual remedies that the Fund may have may be subject to bankruptcy and insolvency laws, which could delay or limit the Fund's recovery. Thus, if the counterparty under a credit default swap defaults on its obligation to make payments thereunder, as a result of its bankruptcy or otherwise, the Fund may lose such payments altogether, or collect only a portion thereof, which collection could involve costs or delays. The Fund’s return from investment in a credit default swap index may not match the return of the referenced index. Further, investment in a credit default swap index could result in losses if the referenced index does not perform as expected. Unexpected changes in the composition of the index may also affect performance of the credit default swap index. If a referenced index has a dramatic intraday move that causes a material decline in the Fund’s net assets, the terms of the Fund’s credit default swap index may permit the counterparty to immediately close out the transaction. In that event, the Fund may be unable to enter into another credit default swap index or otherwise achieve desired exposure, even if the referenced index reverses all or a portion of its intraday move. |
■ | An interest rate swap is a derivative in which two parties agree to exchange interest rate cash flows, based on a specified notional amount from a fixed rate to a floating rate (or vice versa) or from one floating rate to another. Interest rate swaps can be based on various measures of interest rates, including LIBOR, swap rates, treasury rates and foreign interest rates. |
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Columbia Bond Fund | |
Class A | 0.82% |
Class Adv | 0.57% |
Class C | 1.57% |
Class Inst | 0.57% |
Class Inst2 | 0.46% |
Class Inst3 | 0.40% |
Class R | 1.07% |
Class T | 0.82% |
Class V | 0.72% |
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Portfolio Manager | Title | Role with Fund | Managed Fund Since | |||
Jason Callan | Senior Portfolio Manager and Head of Structured Assets | Lead Portfolio Manager | 2016 | |||
Gene Tannuzzo, CFA | Senior Portfolio Manager | Portfolio Manager | November 2017 |
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■ | compensation and other benefits received by the Investment Manager and other Ameriprise Financial affiliates related to the management/administration of a Columbia Fund and the sale of its shares; |
■ | the allocation of, and competition for, investment opportunities among the Fund, other funds and accounts advised/managed by the Investment Manager and other Ameriprise Financial affiliates, or Ameriprise Financial itself and its affiliates; |
■ | separate and potentially divergent management of a Columbia Fund and other funds and accounts advised/managed by the Investment Manager and other Ameriprise Financial affiliates; |
■ | regulatory and other investment restrictions on investment activities of the Investment Manager and other Ameriprise Financial affiliates and accounts advised/managed by them; |
■ | insurance and other relationships of Ameriprise Financial affiliates with companies and other entities in which a Columbia Fund invests; and |
■ | regulatory and other restrictions relating to the sharing of information between Ameriprise Financial and its affiliates, including the Investment Manager, and a Columbia Fund. |
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* | The website references in this prospectus are inactive links and information contained in or otherwise accessible through the referenced websites does not form a part of this prospectus. |
** | Based on the date noted above, mail received at an incorrect address will be forwarded to the correct address, and will not be processed until received, in “good form,” at the correct address. This may affect the trade date you receive for transaction requests, which may negatively impact the value of your purchase or sale. |
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■ | The amount you plan to invest. |
■ | How long you intend to remain invested in the Fund. |
■ | The fees (e.g., sales charge or “load”) and expenses for each share class. |
■ | Whether you may be eligible for a reduction or waiver of sales charges when you buy or sell shares. |
■ | The net asset value (NAV) per share is the price of a share calculated by the Fund every business day. |
■ | The offering price per share is the NAV per share plus any front-end sales charge (or load) that applies. |
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Share Class |
Eligible
Investors
(a)
;
Minimum Initial Investments (b) ; Conversion Features (c) |
Front-End
Sales Charges (d) |
Contingent
Deferred
Sales Charges (CDSCs) (d) |
Sales
Charge
Reductions/Waivers |
Maximum
Distribution
and/or Service Fees (e) |
acting
as broker on behalf of its customer, charges the customer a commission for effecting transactions in Fund shares, provided that the financial intermediary has an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes offering Class Adv shares
within such platform.
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Class C |
Eligibility:
Available to the general public for investment
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None | 1.00% on certain investments redeemed within one year of purchase (h) |
Waivers
: Yes, on Fund distribution reinvestments. For additional waivers, see
Choosing a Share Class – CDSC Waivers – Class A, Class C and Class V
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Distribution
Fee:
0.75%
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Class
Inst |
Eligibility: Available only to certain eligible investors, which are subject to different minimum investment requirements, ranging from $0 to $2,000, including investors who purchase Fund shares through commissionable brokerage platforms where the financial intermediary holds the shares in an omnibus account and, acting as broker on behalf of its customer, charges the customer a commission for effecting transactions in Fund shares, provided that the financial intermediary has an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes offering Class Inst shares within such platform; closed to (i) accounts of financial intermediaries that clear Fund share transactions for their client or customer accounts through designated financial intermediaries and their mutual fund | None | None | N/A | None |
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Share Class |
Eligible
Investors
(a)
;
Minimum Initial Investments (b) ; Conversion Features (c) |
Front-End
Sales Charges (d) |
Contingent
Deferred
Sales Charges (CDSCs) (d) |
Sales
Charge
Reductions/Waivers |
Maximum
Distribution
and/or Service Fees (e) |
trading
platforms that have been given specific written notice from the Transfer Agent of the termination of their eligibility for new purchases of Class Inst shares and (ii) omnibus group retirement plans, subject to certain exceptions
(i)
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Class
Inst2 |
Eligibility:
Available only to (i) certain registered investment advisers and family offices that clear Fund share transactions for their client or customer accounts through designated financial intermediaries and their mutual
fund trading platforms that have been granted specific written authorization from the Transfer Agent with respect to Class
Inst2 eligibility apart from selling, servicing or similar agreements; (ii) omnibus
retirement plans
(i)
; and (iii) institutional investors that are clients of the Columbia Threadneedle Global Institutional Distribution Team that invest
in Class
Inst2 shares for their own account through platforms approved by the Distributor or an affiliate thereof to offer and/or service Class
Inst2 shares within such
platform.
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None | None | N/A | None |
Class
Inst3 |
Eligibility: Available to (i) group retirement plans that maintain plan-level or omnibus accounts with the Fund (i) ; (ii) institutional investors that are clients of the Columbia Threadneedle Global Institutional Distribution Team that invest in Class Inst3 shares for their own account through platforms approved by the Distributor or an affiliate thereof to offer and/or service Class Inst3 shares within such platform; (iii) collective trust funds; (iv) affiliated or unaffiliated mutual funds (e.g., funds operating as funds-of-funds); (v) fee-based platforms of financial intermediaries (or the clearing intermediary they trade through) that have an agreement with the Distributor or an affiliate thereof that specifically authorizes the financial intermediary to offer and/or service Class Inst3 shares within such platform, provided also that Fund shares are held in an omnibus account; (vi) commissionable brokerage platforms where the | None | None | N/A | None |
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Share Class |
Eligible
Investors
(a)
;
Minimum Initial Investments (b) ; Conversion Features (c) |
Front-End
Sales Charges (d) |
Contingent
Deferred
Sales Charges (CDSCs) (d) |
Sales
Charge
Reductions/Waivers |
Maximum
Distribution
and/or Service Fees (e) |
financial
intermediary, acting as broker on behalf of its customer, charges the customer a commission for effecting transactions in Fund shares, provided that the financial intermediary has an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes
offering Class Inst3 shares within such platform and that Fund shares are held in an omnibus account; and (vii) bank trust departments, subject to an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes offering Class Inst3 shares and
provided that Fund shares are held in an omnibus account. In each case above where noted that Fund shares are required to be held in an omnibus account, the Distributor may, in its discretion, determine to waive this requirement.
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Class R |
Eligibility:
Available only to eligible retirement plans, health savings accounts and, in the sole discretion of the Distributor, other types of retirement accounts held through platforms maintained by financial intermediaries
approved by the Distributor
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None | None | N/A |
Series
of CFST & CFST I:
distribution fee of 0.50%
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Class T |
Eligibility
: Available to the general public (purchasing through a Class T Intermediary)
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Per
Transaction
:
2.50% $499,999: 2.00% $999,999: 1.50% 1.00% |
None |
Waivers
: Yes,
(i) on Fund distribution reinvestments; (ii) on exchanges of Class T shares of the Fund from, at the discretion of Class T Intermediaries, another class of shares of the same Fund held in accounts of Class T Intermediaries, provided that (a) the other share class may only be exchanged for Class T shares if your financial intermediary does not offer that other share class on the intermediary’s commission-based platform, and (b) unless waived in the Distributor’s |
Distribution and/or Service Fees : 0.25% |
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Share Class |
Eligible
Investors
(a)
;
Minimum Initial Investments (b) ; Conversion Features (c) |
Front-End
Sales Charges (d) |
Contingent
Deferred
Sales Charges (CDSCs) (d) |
Sales
Charge
Reductions/Waivers |
Maximum
Distribution
and/or Service Fees (e) |
discretion,
shares of the class to be exchanged are held in a networked or omnibus account with the Fund; and
(iii) on purchases within fee-based accounts, provided that the Class T Intermediary has an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes offering Class T shares within the designated fee-based platform. |
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Class V |
Eligibility:
Generally closed to new investors
(i)
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5.75% maximum, declining to 0.00% on investments of $1 million or more |
CDSC
on certain investments of between $1 million and $50 million redeemed within 18 months after purchase, charged as follows:
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Reductions
: Yes, see
Choosing a Share Class — Reductions/Waivers of Sales Charges – Class A and Class V Shares Front-End Sales Charge Reductions
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Service Fee: up to 0.50% |
(a) | For Columbia Government Money Market Fund, new investments must be made in Class A, Class Inst, Class Inst3, Class R or Class T shares, subject to eligibility. Class C shares of Columbia Government Money Market Fund are available as a new investment only to investors in the Distributor's proprietary 401(k) products, provided that such investor is eligible to invest in the class and transact directly with the Fund or the Transfer Agent through a third party administrator or third party recordkeeper. Columbia Government Money Market Fund offers Class Inst2 shares only to facilitate exchanges with other Funds offering such share class. |
(b) | Certain share classes are subject to minimum account balance requirements, as described in Buying, Selling and Exchanging Shares — Transaction Rules and Policies. |
(c) | For more information on the automatic conversion of Class C shares to Class A shares, see Choosing a Share Class - Sales Charges and Commissions - Class C Shares - Automatic Conversion to Class A Shares . |
(d) | Actual front-end sales charges and CDSCs vary among the Funds. For more information on applicable sales charges, see Choosing a Share Class — Sales Charges and Commissions, and for information about certain exceptions to these sales charges, see Choosing a Share Class — Reductions/Waivers of Sales Charges. |
(e) | These are the maximum applicable distribution and/or service fees. Except for Class V shares, these fees are paid under the Fund’s Rule 12b-1 plan. Fee rates and fee components (i.e., the portion of a combined fee that is a distribution or service fee) may vary among Funds. Because these fees are paid out of Fund assets on an ongoing basis, over time these fees will increase the cost of your investment and may cost you more than paying other types of distribution and/or service fees. Although Class A shares of certain series of CFST I are subject to a combined distribution and service fee of up to 0.35%, these Funds currently limit the combined fee to 0.25%. Columbia Government Money Market Fund pays a distribution and service fee of up to 0.10% on Class A shares and up to 0.75% distribution fee on Class C shares. Columbia AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia High Yield Municipal Fund and Columbia Tax-Exempt Fund each pay a service fee of up to 0.20% on Class A and Class C shares. Columbia AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund pays a distribution fee of up to 0.65% on Class C shares. For more information on distribution and service fees, see Choosing a Share Class — Distribution and Service Fees. |
(f) | For Columbia Short Term Municipal Bond Fund, a CDSC of 0.50% is charged on certain investments of $500,000 or more redeemed within 12 months after purchase. The following Funds are not subject to a front-end sales charge or a CDSC on Class A shares: Columbia Government Money Market Fund, Columbia Large Cap Enhanced Core Fund, Columbia Large Cap Index Fund, Columbia Mid Cap Index Fund, Columbia Small Cap Index Fund and Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund. |
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(g) | If you are eligible to invest in Class A shares without a front-end sales charge, you should discuss your options with your financial intermediary. For more information, see Choosing a Share Class – Reductions/Waivers of Sales Charges. |
(h) | There is no CDSC on redemptions from Class C shares of Columbia Government Money Market Fund. |
(i) | These share classes are closed to new accounts, or closed to previously eligible investors, subject to certain conditions, as summarized below and described in more detail under Buying, Selling and Exchanging Shares — Buying Shares — Eligible Investors: |
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■ | depends on the amount you are investing (generally, the larger the investment, the smaller the percentage sales charge), and |
■ | is based on the total amount of your purchase and the value of your account (and any other accounts eligible for aggregation of which you or your financial intermediary notifies the Fund). |
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Class A Shares — Front-End Sales Charge — Breakpoint Schedule* | ||||
Breakpoint Schedule For: |
Dollar
amount of
shares bought (a) |
Sales
charge as a % of the offering price (b) |
Sales
charge as a % of the net amount invested (b) |
Amount
retained by or paid to financial intermediaries as a % of the offering price |
Fixed
Income Funds (except those listed below),
Columbia Multi-Asset Income Fund and Funds-of-Funds (fixed income)* |
$ 0-$49,999 | 4.75% | 4.99% | 4.00% |
$ 50,000–$99,999 | 4.25% | 4.44% | 3.50% | |
$100,000–$249,999 | 3.50% | 3.63% | 3.00% | |
$250,000–$499,999 | 2.50% | 2.56% | 2.15% | |
$500,000–$999,999 | 2.00% | 2.04% | 1.75% | |
$ 1,000,000 or more | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% (c) | |
Tax-Exempt Funds (other than Columbia Short Term Municipal Bond Fund) | $ 0-$99,999 | 3.00% | 3.09% | 2.50% |
$100,000–$249,999 | 2.50% | 2.56% | 2.15% | |
$250,000–$499,999 | 1.50 % | 1.53% | 1.25% | |
$ 500,000 or more | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% (c) | |
Columbia
Absolute Return Currency and Income Fund,
Columbia Floating Rate Fund, Columbia Inflation Protected Securities Fund, Columbia Limited Duration Credit Fund, Columbia Mortgage Opportunities Fund, Columbia Quality Income Fund, and Columbia Total Return Bond Fund |
$ 0-$99,999 | 3.00% | 3.09% | 2.50% |
$100,000–$249,999 | 2.50% | 2.56% | 2.15% | |
$250,000–$499,999 | 2.00% | 2.04% | 1.75% | |
$500,000–$999,999 | 1.50% | 1.52% | 1.25% | |
$ 1,000,000 or more | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% (c) | |
Columbia Short Term Bond Fund | $ 0-$99,999 | 1.00% | 1.01% | 0.75% |
$100,000–$249,999 | 0.75% | 0.76% | 0.50% | |
$250,000–$999,999 | 0.50% | 0.50% | 0.40% | |
$ 1,000,000 or more | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% (c) | |
Columbia Short Term Municipal Bond Fund | $ 0-$99,999 | 1.00% | 1.01% | 0.75% |
$100,000–$249,999 | 0.75% | 0.76% | 0.50% | |
$250,000–$499,999 | 0.50% | 0.50% | 0.40% | |
$ 500,000 or more | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% (c) | |
* | The following Funds are not subject to a front-end sales charge or CDSC on Class A shares: Columbia Government Money Market Fund, Columbia Large Cap Enhanced Core Fund, Columbia Large Cap Index Fund, Columbia Mid Cap Index Fund, Columbia Small Cap Index Fund and Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund. "Funds-of-Funds (equity)" includes Columbia Capital Allocation Aggressive Portfolio, Columbia Capital Allocation Moderate Aggressive Portfolio, Columbia Capital Allocation Moderate Conservative Portfolio, Columbia Capital Allocation Moderate Portfolio and Columbia Global Strategic Equity Fund . "Funds-of-Funds (fixed income)" includes Columbia Capital Allocation Conservative Portfolio and Columbia Income Builder Fund. Columbia Balanced Fund, Columbia Flexible Capital Income Fund and Columbia Global Opportunities Fund are treated as equity Funds for purposes of the table. |
(a) | Purchase amounts and account values may be aggregated among all eligible Fund accounts for the purposes of this table. See Choosing a Share Class — Reductions/Waivers of Sales Charges for a discussion of account value aggregation. |
(b) | Because the offering price is calculated to two decimal places, the dollar amount of the sales charge as a percentage of the offering price and your net amount invested for any particular purchase of Fund shares may be higher or lower depending on whether downward or upward rounding was required during the calculation process. Purchase price includes the sales charge. |
(c) | For information regarding cumulative commissions paid to your financial intermediary when you buy $1 million or more of Class A shares of a Taxable Fund or $500,000 or more of Class A shares of a Tax-Exempt Fund, see Class A Shares — Commissions below. |
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■ | If you purchased Class A shares of any Tax-Exempt Fund (other than Columbia Short Term Municipal Bond Fund and Columbia U.S. Social Bond Fund) without paying a front-end sales charge because your eligible accounts aggregated $500,000 or more at the time of purchase, you will incur a CDSC of 0.75% if you redeem those shares within 12 months after purchase. Subsequent Class A share purchases that bring your aggregate account value to $500,000 or more will also be subject to a CDSC of 0.75% if you redeem those shares within 12 months after purchase. |
■ | If you purchased Class A shares of Columbia Short Term Municipal Bond Fund without paying a front-end sales charge because your eligible accounts aggregated $500,000 or more at the time of purchase, you will incur a CDSC of 0.50% if you redeem those shares within 12 months after purchase. Subsequent Class A share purchases that bring your aggregate account value to $500,000 or more will also be subject to a CDSC of 0.50% if you redeem those shares within 12 months after purchase. |
■ | If you purchased Class A shares of Columbia U.S. Social Bond Fund without paying a front-end sales charge because your eligible accounts aggregated $500,000 or more at the time of purchase, you will incur a CDSC of 0.75% if you redeem those shares within 12 months after purchase. Subsequent Class A share purchases that bring your aggregate account value to $500,000 or more will also be subject to a CDSC of 0.75% if you redeem those shares within 12 months after purchase. |
■ | If you purchased Class A shares of any Taxable Fund without paying a front-end sales charge because your eligible accounts aggregated between $1 million and $50 million at the time of purchase, you will incur a CDSC if you redeem those shares within 18 months after purchase, which is charged as follows: 1.00% CDSC if shares are redeemed within 12 months after purchase; and 0.50% CDSC if shares are redeemed more than 12, but less than 18, months after purchase. Subsequent Class A share purchases that bring your aggregate account value to $1 million or more (but less than $50 million) will also be subject to a CDSC if you redeem them within 18 months after purchase as described in the previous sentence. |
Class A Shares of Tax-Exempt Funds — Commission Schedule (Paid by the Distributor to Financial Intermediaries) | |
Purchase Amount |
Commission
Level*
(as a % of net asset value per share) |
$500,000 – $3,999,999 | 0.75%** |
$4 million – $19,999,999 | 0.50% |
$20 million or more | 0.25% |
* | The commission level applies to the applicable asset level; therefore, for example, for a purchase of $5 million, the Distributor would pay a commission of 0.75% on the first $3,999,999 and 0.50% on the balance. |
** | The commission level on purchases of Class A shares of Columbia Short Term Municipal Bond Fund is: 0.50% on purchases of $500,000 to $19,999,999 and 0.25% on purchases of $20 million or more. |
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Class A Shares of Taxable Funds — Commission Schedule (Paid by the Distributor to Financial Intermediaries)* | |
Purchase Amount |
Commission
Level**
(as a % of net asset value per share) |
$1 million – $2,999,999 | 1.00% |
$3 million – $49,999,999 | 0.50% |
$50 million or more | 0.25% |
* | Not applicable to Funds that do not assess a front-end sales charge. |
** | The commission level applies to the applicable asset level; therefore, for example, for a purchase of $5 million, the Distributor would pay a commission of 1.00% on the first $2,999,999 and 0.50% on the balance. |
■ | Class C share accounts that are Direct-at-Fund Accounts and Networked Accounts for which the Transfer Agent (and not your financial intermediary) sends you Fund account transaction confirmations and statements, convert on or about the 15th day of the month (if the 15th is not a business day, then the next business day thereafter) that they become eligible for automatic conversion provided that the Fund has records that Class C shares have been held for the requisite time period. |
■ | For purposes of determining the month when your Class C shares are eligible for conversion, the start of the holding period is the first day of the month in which your purchase was made. Your financial intermediary may choose a different day of the month to convert Class C shares. Please contact your financial intermediary for more information on calculating the holding period. |
■ | Any shares you received from reinvested distributions on these shares generally will convert to Class A shares at the same time. |
■ | You’ll receive the same dollar value of Class A shares as the Class C shares that were automatically converted. Class C shares that you received from an exchange of Class C shares of another Fund will convert based on the day you bought the original shares. |
■ | No sales charge or other charges apply in connection with this automatic conversion, and conversions are free from U.S. federal income tax. |
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(a) | Because the offering price is calculated to two decimal places, the dollar amount of the sales charge as a percentage of the offering price and your net amount invested for any particular purchase of Fund shares may be higher or lower depending on whether downward or upward rounding was required during the calculation process. Purchase price includes the sales charge. |
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■ | depends on the amount you are investing (generally, the larger the investment, the smaller the percentage sales charge), and |
■ | is based on the total amount of your purchase and the value of your account (and any other accounts eligible for aggregation of which you notify your financial intermediary or, in the case of Direct-at-Fund Accounts (as defined below), you notify the Fund). |
(a) | Purchase amounts and account values are aggregated among all eligible Fund accounts for the purposes of this table. |
(b) | Because the offering price is calculated to two decimal places, the dollar amount of the sales charge as a percentage of the offering price and your net amount invested for any particular purchase of Fund shares may be higher or lower depending on whether downward or upward rounding was required during the calculation process. |
(c) | For more information regarding cumulative commissions paid to your financial intermediary when you buy $1 million or more of Class V shares, see Class V Shares — Commissions below. |
■ | If you purchased Class V shares without a front-end sales charge because your eligible accounts aggregated between $1 million and $50 million at the time of purchase, you will incur a CDSC if you redeem those shares within 18 months after purchase, which is charged as follows: 1.00% CDSC if shares are redeemed within 12 months after purchase, and 0.50% CDSC if shares are redeemed more than 12, but less than 18, months after purchase. |
■ | Subsequent Class V share purchases that bring your aggregate account value to $1 million or more (but less than $50 million) will also be subject to a CDSC if you redeem them within the time periods noted above. |
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Class V Shares — Commission Schedule (Paid by the Distributor to Financial Intermediaries) | |
Purchase
Amount |
Commission
Level*
(as a % of net asset value per share) |
$1 million – $2,999,999 | 1.00% |
$3 million – $49,999,999 | 0.50% |
$50 million or more | 0.25% |
* | The commission level applies to the applicable asset level; therefore, for example, for a purchase of $5 million, the Distributor would pay a commission of 1.00% on the first $2,999,999 and 0.50% on the balance. |
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Repurchases (Reinstatements) | |
Redeemed Share Class | Corresponding Repurchase Class |
Class A | Class A |
Class C | Class C |
Class V | Class V |
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(a) | The maximum distribution and service fees of Class A shares varies among the Funds, as shown in the table below: |
Funds |
Maximum
Class A Distribution Fee |
Maximum
Class A Service Fee |
Maximum
Class A Combined Total |
Series
of CFST and CFST II (other than Columbia
Government Money Market Fund) |
— | — |
0.25%;
these Funds pay a
combined distribution and service fee |
Columbia Government Money Market Fund | — | — | 0.10% |
Columbia AMT-Free Oregon Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia Balanced Fund, Columbia Contrarian Core Fund, Columbia Disciplined Small Core Fund, Columbia Dividend Income Fund, Columbia Global Technology Growth Fund, Columbia Large Cap Growth Fund, Columbia Mid Cap Growth Fund, Columbia Real Estate Equity Fund, Columbia Small Cap Growth Fund I, Columbia Total Return Bond Fund | up to 0.10% | up to 0.25% |
up
to 0.35%; these Funds may
pay distribution and service fees up to a maximum of 0.35% of their average daily net assets attributable to Class A shares (comprised of up to 0.10% for distribution services and up to 0.25% for shareholder liaison services) but currently limit such fees to an aggregate fee of not more than 0.25% for Class A shares |
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Funds |
Maximum
Class A Distribution Fee |
Maximum
Class A Service Fee |
Maximum
Class A Combined Total |
Columbia Adaptive Risk Allocation Fund, Columbia Alternative Beta Fund, Columbia AMT-Free Connecticut Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia AMT-Free Massachusetts Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia AMT-Free New York Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia Bond Fund, Columbia Corporate Income Fund, Columbia Diversified Absolute Return Fund, Columbia Diversified Real Return Fund, Columbia Emerging Markets Fund, Columbia Global Dividend Opportunity Fund, Columbia Global Energy and Natural Resources Fund, Columbia Greater China Fund, Columbia Multi-Asset Income Fund, Columbia Pacific/Asia Fund, Columbia Select Large Cap Growth Fund, Columbia Small Cap Value Fund I, Columbia Strategic California Municipal Income Fund, Columbia Strategic Income Fund, Columbia Strategic New York Municipal Income Fund, Columbia U.S. Social Bond Fund, Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund | — | 0.25% | 0.25% |
Columbia AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia High Yield Municipal Fund, Columbia Tax-Exempt Fund | — | 0.20% | 0.20% |
(b) | The service fees for Class A and Class C shares of certain Funds vary. The annual service fee for Class A and Class C shares of Columbia AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia High Yield Municipal Fund and Columbia Tax-Exempt Fund may equal up to 0.20% of the average daily NAV of all shares of such Fund class. The annual distribution fee for Class C shares for Columbia AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund shall be 0.65% of the average daily net assets of the Fund's Class C shares. The Distributor has voluntarily agreed to waive the service fee for Class A and Class C shares of Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund so that the service fee does not exceed 0.15% annually. This arrangement may be modified or terminated by the Distributor at any time. |
(c) | Fee amounts noted apply to all Funds other than Columbia Government Money Market Fund, which, for each of Class A and Class T shares, pays distribution and service fees of 0.10%, and for Class C shares pays distribution fees of 0.75%. The Distributor has currently agreed not to be reimbursed by the Fund for 0.25% of the 0.50% fee for Class R shares of Columbia Government Money Market Fund. The Distributor has voluntarily agreed to waive the Rule 12b-1 fees it receives from Class A, Class C, Class R and Class T shares of Columbia Government Money Market Fund. This arrangement may be modified or terminated by the Distributor at any time. Compensation paid to financial intermediaries may be suspended to the extent of the Distributor's waiver of the Rule 12b-1 fees on these specific share classes of these Funds. |
(d) | The Distributor has voluntarily agreed to waive a portion of the distribution fee for Class C shares of the following Funds so that the distribution fee does not exceed the specified percentage annually: 0.45% for Columbia AMT-Free Connecticut Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia AMT-Free Massachusetts Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia AMT-Free New York Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia AMT-Free Oregon Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia Strategic California Municipal Income Fund and Columbia Strategic New York Municipal Income Fund; 0.60% for Columbia Corporate Income Fund and Columbia Short Term Bond Fund; 0.65% for Columbia High Yield Municipal Fund and Columbia Tax-Exempt Fund; and 0.70% for Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund. These arrangements may be modified or terminated by the Distributor at any time. |
(e) | Class R shares of series of CFST and CFST I pay a distribution fee pursuant to a Rule 12b-1 plan for Class R shares. The Funds do not have a shareholder service plan for Class R shares. Series of CFST II have a distribution and shareholder service plan for Class R shares, which, prior to the close of business on September 3, 2010, were known as Class R2 shares. For Class R shares of series of CFST II, the maximum fee under the plan reimbursed for distribution expenses is equal on an annual basis to 0.50% of the average daily net assets of the Fund attributable to Class R shares. Of that amount, up to 0.25% may be reimbursed for shareholder service expenses. |
(f) | The combined distribution fee and service fee for Class T shares of series of CFST and CFST I shall not exceed 0.25%. Class T shares of series of CFST II pay a combined distribution and service fee of 0.25%. |
(g) | The shareholder servicing fees for Class V shares are up to 0.50% of average daily net assets attributable to Class V shares for equity Funds and 0.40% for fixed income Funds. In general, the Funds currently limit such fees to a maximum of 0.25% for equity Funds and 0.15% for fixed-income Funds. These fees for Class V shares are not paid pursuant to a Rule 12b-1 plan. See Class V Shareholder Service Fees below for more information. |
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Minimum Account Balance | |
Minimum
Account Balance |
|
For all classes and account types except those listed below |
$250
(None for accounts with
Systematic Investment Plans) |
Individual Retirement Accounts for all classes except those listed below | None |
Class Adv, Class Inst2, Class Inst3 and Class R | None |
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■ | negative impact on the Fund's performance; |
■ | potential dilution of the value of the Fund's shares; |
■ | interference with the efficient management of the Fund's portfolio, such as the need to maintain undesirably large cash positions, the need to use its line of credit or the need to buy or sell securities it otherwise would not have bought or sold; |
■ | losses on the sale of investments resulting from the need to sell securities at less favorable prices; |
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■ | increased taxable gains to the Fund's remaining shareholders resulting from the need to sell securities to meet sell orders; and |
■ | increased brokerage and administrative costs. |
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Minimum Initial Investments | ||
Minimum
Initial Investment (a) |
Minimum
Initial Investment for Accounts with Systematic Investment Plans |
|
For all classes and account types except those listed below | $2,000 | $100 (b) |
Individual Retirement Accounts for all classes except those listed below | $1,000 | $100 (c) |
Group retirement plans | None | N/A |
Class Adv and Class Inst | $0, $1,000 or $2,000 (d) | $100 (d) |
Class Inst2 and Class R | None | N/A |
Class Inst3 | $0, $1,000, $2,000 or $1 million (e) | $100 (e) |
(a) | If your Class A, Class Adv, Class C, Class Inst, Class Inst3 or Class V shares account balance falls below the minimum initial investment amount for any reason, including a market decline, you may be asked to increase it to the minimum initial investment amount or establish a monthly Systematic Investment Plan. If you do not do so, your account will be subject to a $20 annual low balance fee and/or shares may be automatically redeemed and the proceeds mailed to you if the account falls below the minimum account balance. See Buying, Selling and Exchanging Shares — Transaction Rules and Policies above. There is no minimum initial investment in Class A shares for accounts held in an omnibus account on a mutual fund only platform offered through your financial intermediary. |
(b) | Columbia Government Money Market Fund — $2,000 |
(c) | Columbia Government Money Market Fund — $1,000 |
(d) | The minimum initial investment in Class Adv shares is $2,000 ($1,000 for IRAs; $100 for systematic investment plan accounts) for commissionable brokerage platforms where the financial intermediary, acting as broker on behalf of its customers, charges the customer a commission for effecting transactions in Fund shares, provided that the financial intermediary has an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes offering Class Adv shares within such platform; for all other eligible Class Adv share investors (see Buying Shares – Eligible Investors – Class Adv Shares above), there is no minimum initial investment. The minimum initial investment amount for Class Inst shares is $0, $1,000 or $2,000 depending upon the category of eligible investor. See — Class Inst Shares Minimum Initial Investments below. The minimum initial investment amount for systematic investment plan accounts is the same as the amount set forth in the first two rows of the table, as applicable. |
(e) | There is no minimum initial investment in Class Inst3 shares for: group retirement plans that maintain plan-level or omnibus accounts with the Fund; collective trust funds; affiliated or unaffiliated mutual funds (e.g., funds operating as funds-of-funds); and fee-based platforms of financial |
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■ | Any health savings account sponsored by a third party platform. |
■ | Any investor participating in an account sponsored by a financial intermediary or other entity (that provides services to the account) that is paid a fee-based advisory fee by the investor and that is not compensated by the Fund for those services, other than payments for shareholder servicing or sub-accounting performed in place of the Transfer Agent. |
■ | Individual retirement accounts (IRAs) on commissionable brokerage platforms where the financial intermediary, acting as broker on behalf of its customer, charges the customer a commission for effecting transactions in Fund shares, provided that the financial intermediary has an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes offering Class Inst shares within such platform. |
■ | Any current employee of Columbia Management Investment Advisers LLC, the Distributor or the Transfer Agent and immediate family members of any of the foregoing who share the same address are eligible to invest in Class Inst shares through an individual retirement account (IRA). If you maintain your account with a financial intermediary, you must contact that financial intermediary each time you seek to purchase shares to notify them that you qualify for Class Inst shares. If Class Inst shares are not available at your financial intermediary, you may consider opening a Direct-at-Fund Account. It is your obligation to advise your financial intermediary or (in the case of Direct-at-Fund Accounts) the Transfer Agent that you qualify for Class Inst shares; be prepared to provide proof thereof. |
■ | Investors (except investors in individual retirement accounts (IRAs)) who purchase Fund shares through commissionable brokerage platforms where the financial intermediary holds the shares in an omnibus account and, acting as broker on behalf of its customer, charges the customer a commission for effecting transactions in Fund shares provided that the financial intermediary has an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes offering Class Inst shares within such platform. |
■ | Any current employee of Columbia Management Investment Advisers LLC, the Distributor or the Transfer Agent and immediate family members of any of the foregoing who share the same address are eligible to invest in Class Inst shares (other than individual retirement accounts (IRAs), for which the minimum initial investment is $1,000). If you maintain your account with a financial intermediary, you must contact that financial intermediary each time you seek to purchase shares to notify them that you qualify for Class Inst shares. If Class Inst shares are not available |
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at your financial intermediary, you may consider opening a Direct-at-Fund Account. It is your obligation to advise your financial intermediary or (in the case of Direct-at-Fund Accounts) the Transfer Agent that you qualify for Class Inst shares; be prepared to provide proof thereof. |
■ | Certain financial institutions and intermediaries, such as insurance companies, trust companies, banks, endowments, investment companies or foundations, buying shares for their own account, including Ameriprise Financial and its affiliates and/or subsidiaries. |
■ | Bank trust departments that assess their clients an asset-based fee. |
■ | Certain other investors as set forth in more detail in the SAI. |
■ | Once the Transfer Agent or your financial intermediary receives your purchase order in “good form,” your purchase will be made at the Fund’s next calculated public offering price per share, which is the NAV per share plus any sales charge that applies (i.e., the trade date). |
■ | Once the Fund receives your purchase request in “good form,” you cannot cancel it after the market closes. |
■ | You generally buy Class A, Class T and Class V shares at the public offering price per share because purchases of these share classes are generally subject to a front-end sales charge. |
■ | You buy Class Adv, Class C, Class Inst, Class Inst2, Class Inst3 and Class R shares at NAV per share because no front-end sales charge applies to purchases of these share classes. |
■ | The Distributor and the Transfer Agent reserve the right to cancel your order if the Fund does not receive payment within two business days of receiving your purchase order. The Fund will return any payment received for orders that have been cancelled, but no interest will be paid on that money. |
■ | Financial intermediaries are responsible for sending your purchase orders to the Transfer Agent and ensuring that the Fund receives your money on time. |
■ | Shares purchased are recorded on the books of the Fund. The Fund does not issue certificates. |
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■ | Once the Transfer Agent or your financial intermediary receives your redemption order in “good form,” your shares will be sold at the Fund’s next calculated NAV per share (i.e., the trade date). Any applicable CDSC will be deducted from the amount you're selling and the balance will be remitted to you. |
■ | Once the Fund receives your redemption request in “good form,” you cannot cancel it after the market closes. |
■ | If you sell your shares that are held in a Direct-at-Fund Account, we will normally send the redemption proceeds by mail or electronically transfer them to your bank account the next business day after the trade date. Note that your bank may take up to three business days to post an electronic funds transfer from your account. |
■ | If you sell your shares through a financial intermediary, the Funds will normally send the redemption proceeds to your financial intermediary within two business days after the trade date. |
■ | No interest will be paid on uncashed redemption checks. |
■ | Other restrictions may apply to retirement accounts. For information about these restrictions, contact your retirement plan administrator. |
■ | For broker-dealer and wrap fee accounts: The Fund reserves the right to redeem your shares if your account falls below the Fund's minimum initial investment requirement. The Fund will notify your broker-dealer prior to redeeming shares, and will provide details on how to avoid such redemption. |
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■ | Also keep in mind the Funds' Small Account Policy, which is described above in Buying, Selling and Exchanging Shares — Transaction Rules and Policies. |
■ | Exchanges are made at the NAV next calculated (plus any applicable sales charge) after your exchange order is received in “good form” (i.e., the trade date). |
■ | Once the Fund receives your exchange request in “good form,” you cannot cancel it after the market closes. |
■ | The rules for buying shares of a Fund generally apply to exchanges into that Fund, including, if your exchange creates a new Fund account, it must satisfy the minimum investment amount, unless a waiver applies. |
■ | Shares of the purchased Fund may not be used on the same day for another exchange or sale. |
■ | If you exchange shares from Class A shares of Columbia Government Money Market Fund to a non-money market Fund, any further exchanges must be between shares of the same class. For example, if you exchange from Class A shares of Columbia Government Money Market Fund into Class C shares of a non-money market Fund, you may not exchange from Class C shares of that non-money market Fund back to Class A shares of Columbia Government Money Market Fund or Class A shares of any other Fund. |
■ | A sales charge may apply when you exchange shares of a Fund that were not assessed a sales charge at the time you purchased such shares. If you invest through a Direct-at-Fund Account in Columbia Government Money Market Fund, Columbia Large Cap Enhanced Core Fund, Columbia Large Cap Index Fund, Columbia Mid Cap Index Fund, Columbia Small Cap Index Fund, Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund or any other Columbia Fund that does not impose a front-end sales charge and then you exchange into a Fund that does assess a sales charge, your transaction is subject to a front-end sales charge if you exchange into Class A shares and to a CDSC if you exchange into Class C shares of the Columbia Funds. |
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■ | If you purchased Class A shares of a Columbia Fund that imposes a front-end sales charge (and you paid any applicable sales charge) and you then exchange those shares into Columbia Government Money Market Fund, Columbia Large Cap Enhanced Core Fund, Columbia Large Cap Index Fund, Columbia Mid Cap Index Fund, Columbia Small Cap Index Fund, Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund or any other Columbia Fund that does not impose a front-end sales charge, you may exchange that amount to Class A of another Fund in the future, including dividends earned on that amount, without paying a sales charge. |
■ | If your shares are subject to a CDSC, you will not be charged a CDSC upon the exchange of those shares. Any CDSC will be deducted when you sell the shares you received from the exchange. The CDSC imposed at that time will be based on the period that begins when you bought shares of the original Fund and ends when you sell the shares of the Fund you received from the exchange. Any applicable CDSC charged will be the CDSC of the original Fund. |
■ | You may make exchanges only into a Fund that is legally offered and sold in your state of residence. Contact the Transfer Agent or your financial intermediary for more information. |
■ | You generally may make an exchange only into a Fund that is accepting investments. |
■ | The Fund may change or cancel your right to make an exchange by giving the amount of notice required by regulatory authorities (generally 60 days for a material change or cancellation). |
■ | Unless your account is part of a tax-advantaged arrangement, an exchange for shares of another Fund is a taxable event, and you may recognize a gain or loss for tax purposes. |
■ | Changing your investment to a different Fund will be treated as a sale and purchase, and you will be subject to applicable taxes on the sale and sales charges on the purchase of the new Fund. |
■ | Class Inst shares of a Fund may be exchanged for Class A or Class Inst shares of another Fund. In certain circumstances, the front-end sales charge applicable to Class A shares may be waived on exchanges of Class Inst shares for Class A shares. See Buying, Selling and Exchanging Shares — Buying Shares — Eligible Investors — Class Inst Shares for details. |
■ | You may generally exchange Class V shares of a Fund for Class A shares of another Fund if the other Fund does not offer Class V shares. Class V shares exchanged into Class A shares cannot be exchanged back into Class V shares. |
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■ | It can earn income on its investments. Examples of fund income are interest paid on money market instruments and bonds, and dividends paid on common stocks. |
■ | A mutual fund can also have capital gains if the value of its investments increases. While a fund continues to hold an investment, any gain is generally unrealized. If the fund sells an investment, it generally will realize a capital gain if it sells that investment for a higher price than its adjusted cost basis, and will generally realize a capital loss if it sells that investment for a lower price than its adjusted cost basis. Capital gains and losses are either short-term or long-term, depending on whether the fund holds the securities for one year or less (short-term) or more than one year (long-term). |
Declaration and Distribution Schedule | |
Declarations | Daily |
Distributions | Monthly |
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■ | The Fund intends to qualify and to be eligible for treatment each year as a regulated investment company. A regulated investment company generally is not subject to tax at the fund level on income and gains from investments that are distributed to shareholders. However, the Fund's failure to qualify for treatment as a regulated investment company would result in Fund-level taxation, and consequently, a reduction in income available for distribution to you and in the NAV of your shares. Even if the Fund qualifies for treatment as a regulated investment company, the Fund may be subject to federal excise tax on certain undistributed income or gains. |
■ | Otherwise taxable distributions generally are taxable to you when paid, whether they are paid in cash or automatically reinvested in additional Fund shares. Dividends paid in January are deemed paid on December 31 of the prior year if the dividend was declared and payable to shareholders of record in October, November, or December of such prior year. |
■ | Distributions of the Fund's ordinary income and net short-term capital gain, if any, generally are taxable to you as ordinary income. Distributions of the Fund's net long-term capital gain, if any, generally are taxable to you as long-term capital gain. Whether capital gains are long-term or short-term is determined by how long the Fund has owned the investments that generated them, rather than how long you have owned your shares. The Fund expects that distributions will consist primarily of ordinary income. |
■ | From time to time, a distribution from the Fund could constitute a return of capital, which is not taxable to you so long as the amount of the distribution does not exceed your tax basis in your Fund shares. A return of capital reduces your tax basis in your Fund shares, with any amounts exceeding such basis generally taxable as capital gain. |
■ | If you are an individual and you meet certain holding period and other requirements for your Fund shares, a portion of your distributions may be treated as “qualified dividend income” taxable at the lower net long-term capital gain rates instead of the higher ordinary income rates. Qualified dividend income is income attributable to the Fund's dividends received from certain U.S. and foreign corporations, as long as the Fund meets certain holding period and other requirements for the stock producing such dividends. The Fund does not expect a significant portion of Fund distributions to be eligible for treatment as qualified dividend income. |
■ | Certain high-income individuals (as well as estates and trusts) are subject to a 3.8% tax on net investment income. For individuals, the 3.8% tax applies to the lesser of (1) the amount (if any) by which the taxpayer's modified adjusted gross income exceeds certain threshold amounts or (2) the taxpayer's “net investment income.” |
Net investment income generally includes for this purpose dividends, including any capital gain dividends, paid by the Fund, and net gains recognized on the sale, redemption or exchange of shares of the Fund. |
■ | Certain derivative instruments when held in the Fund's portfolio subject the Fund to special tax rules, the effect of which may be to, among other things, accelerate income to the Fund, defer Fund losses, cause adjustments in the holding periods of Fund portfolio securities, or convert capital gains into ordinary income, short-term capital losses into long-term capital losses or long-term capital gains into short-term capital gains. These rules could therefore affect the amount, timing and/or character of distributions to shareholders. |
■ | Generally, a Fund realizes a capital gain or loss on an option when the option expires, or when it is exercised, sold or otherwise terminated. However, if an option is a “section 1256 contract,” which includes most traded options on a broad-based index, and the Fund holds such option at the end of its taxable year, the Fund is deemed to sell such option at fair market value at such time and recognize any gain or loss thereon, which is generally deemed to be 60% long-term and 40% short-term capital gain or loss, as described further in the SAI. |
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■ | Income and proceeds received by the Fund from sources within foreign countries may be subject to foreign taxes. If at the end of the taxable year more than 50% of the value of the Fund's assets consists of securities of foreign corporations, and the Fund makes a special election, you will generally be required to include in your income for U.S. federal income tax purposes your share of the qualifying foreign income taxes paid by the Fund in respect of its foreign portfolio securities. You may be able to claim a foreign tax credit or deduction in respect of this amount, subject to certain limitations. There is no assurance that the Fund will make this election for a taxable year, even if it is eligible to do so. |
■ | A sale, redemption or exchange of Fund shares is a taxable event. This includes redemptions where you are paid in securities. Your sales, redemptions and exchanges of Fund shares (including those paid in securities) usually will result in a taxable capital gain or loss to you, equal to the difference between the amount you receive for your shares (or are deemed to have received in the case of exchanges) and your adjusted tax basis in the shares, which is generally the amount you paid (or are deemed to have paid in the case of exchanges) for them. Any such capital gain or loss generally will be long-term capital gain or loss if you have held your Fund shares for more than one year at the time of sale or exchange. In certain circumstances, capital losses may be converted from short-term to long-term; in other circumstances, capital losses may be disallowed under the “wash sale” rules. |
■ | For sales, redemptions and exchanges of shares that were acquired in a non-qualified account after 2011, the Fund generally is required to report to shareholders and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) cost basis information with respect to those shares. The Fund uses average cost basis as its default method of calculating cost basis. For more information regarding average cost basis reporting, other available cost basis methods, and selecting or changing to a different cost basis method, please see the SAI, columbiathreadneedleus.com, or contact the Fund at 800.345.6611. If you hold Fund shares through a financial intermediary (e.g., a brokerage firm), you should contact your financial intermediary to learn about its cost basis reporting default method and the reporting elections available to your account. |
■ | The Fund is required by federal law to withhold tax on any taxable or tax-exempt distributions and redemption proceeds paid to you (including amounts paid to you in securities and amounts deemed to be paid to you upon an exchange of shares) if: you have not provided a correct TIN or have not certified to the Fund that withholding does not apply, the IRS has notified us that the TIN listed on your account is incorrect according to its records, or the IRS informs the Fund that you are otherwise subject to backup withholding. |
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Net
asset value,
beginning of period |
Net
investment income |
Net
realized and unrealized gain (loss) |
Total
from
investment operations |
Distributions
from net investment income |
Distributions
from net realized gains |
|
Class A | ||||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $8.47 | 0.16 | (0.19) | (0.03) | (0.15) | (0.01) |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 | $8.72 | 0.16 | (0.05) | 0.11 | (0.15) | (0.21) |
Year Ended 4/30/2016 | $8.91 | 0.16 | 0.07 | 0.23 | (0.21) | (0.21) |
Year Ended 4/30/2015 | $8.86 | 0.17 | 0.15 | 0.32 | (0.16) | (0.11) |
Year Ended 4/30/2014 | $9.46 | 0.16 | (0.30) | (0.14) | (0.17) | (0.29) |
Advisor Class | ||||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $8.46 | 0.18 | (0.18) | 0.00 (e) | (0.18) | (0.01) |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 | $8.72 | 0.18 | (0.06) | 0.12 | (0.17) | (0.21) |
Year Ended 4/30/2016 | $8.91 | 0.18 | 0.07 | 0.25 | (0.23) | (0.21) |
Year Ended 4/30/2015 | $8.85 | 0.19 | 0.16 | 0.35 | (0.18) | (0.11) |
Year Ended 4/30/2014 | $9.45 | 0.18 | (0.30) | (0.12) | (0.19) | (0.29) |
Class C | ||||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $8.46 | 0.09 | (0.18) | (0.09) | (0.09) | (0.01) |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 | $8.71 | 0.10 | (0.05) | 0.05 | (0.09) | (0.21) |
Year Ended 4/30/2016 | $8.90 | 0.09 | 0.07 | 0.16 | (0.14) | (0.21) |
Year Ended 4/30/2015 | $8.85 | 0.10 | 0.16 | 0.26 | (0.10) | (0.11) |
Year Ended 4/30/2014 | $9.45 | 0.11 | (0.31) | (0.20) | (0.11) | (0.29) |
Institutional Class | ||||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $8.47 | 0.15 | (0.15) | 0.00 (e) | (0.18) | (0.01) |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 | $8.72 | 0.18 | (0.05) | 0.13 | (0.17) | (0.21) |
Year Ended 4/30/2016 | $8.91 | 0.18 | 0.07 | 0.25 | (0.23) | (0.21) |
Year Ended 4/30/2015 | $8.86 | 0.19 | 0.15 | 0.34 | (0.18) | (0.11) |
Year Ended 4/30/2014 | $9.46 | 0.19 | (0.31) | (0.12) | (0.19) | (0.29) |
Institutional 2 Class | ||||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $8.44 | 0.19 | (0.18) | 0.01 | (0.18) | (0.01) |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 | $8.70 | 0.17 | (0.04) | 0.13 | (0.18) | (0.21) |
Year Ended 4/30/2016 | $8.89 | 0.19 | 0.07 | 0.26 | (0.24) | (0.21) |
Year Ended 4/30/2015 | $8.84 | 0.20 | 0.15 | 0.35 | (0.19) | (0.11) |
Year Ended 4/30/2014 | $9.45 | 0.19 | (0.31) | (0.12) | (0.20) | (0.29) |
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Total
distributions to shareholders |
Net
asset value, end of period |
Total
return |
Total
gross
expense ratio to average net assets (a) |
Total
net
expense ratio to average net assets (a), (b) |
Net
investment
income ratio to average net assets |
Portfolio
turnover |
Net
assets, end of period (000's) |
(0.16) | $8.28 | (0.33%) | 1.00% | 0.86% (c) | 1.84% | 257% | $50,845 |
(0.36) | $8.47 | 1.34% | 0.98% (d) | 0.82% (c), (d) | 1.86% | 375% | $52,029 |
(0.42) | $8.72 | 2.74% | 1.02% | 0.86% (c) | 1.83% | 428% | $55,058 |
(0.27) | $8.91 | 3.63% | 1.01% | 0.90% (c) | 1.85% | 350% | $52,256 |
(0.46) | $8.86 | (1.42%) | 0.98% | 0.96% (c) | 1.83% | 360% | $61,159 |
(0.19) | $8.27 | (0.08%) | 0.75% | 0.61% (c) | 2.09% | 257% | $497 |
(0.38) | $8.46 | 1.48% | 0.73% (d) | 0.57% (c), (d) | 2.10% | 375% | $516 |
(0.44) | $8.72 | 3.01% | 0.77% | 0.61% (c) | 2.07% | 428% | $390 |
(0.29) | $8.91 | 4.00% | 0.76% | 0.64% (c) | 2.12% | 350% | $26 |
(0.48) | $8.85 | (1.18%) | 0.74% | 0.70% (c) | 1.99% | 360% | $28 |
(0.10) | $8.27 | (1.08%) | 1.75% | 1.61% (c) | 1.04% | 257% | $6,001 |
(0.30) | $8.46 | 0.59% | 1.73% (d) | 1.57% (c), (d) | 1.11% | 375% | $9,461 |
(0.35) | $8.71 | 1.98% | 1.77% | 1.61% (c) | 1.08% | 428% | $10,870 |
(0.21) | $8.90 | 2.91% | 1.76% | 1.60% (c) | 1.15% | 350% | $9,406 |
(0.40) | $8.85 | (2.01%) | 1.73% | 1.56% (c) | 1.23% | 360% | $10,917 |
(0.19) | $8.28 | (0.08%) | 0.74% | 0.61% (c) | 1.74% | 257% | $56,556 |
(0.38) | $8.47 | 1.60% | 0.73% (d) | 0.58% (c), (d) | 2.11% | 375% | $369,017 |
(0.44) | $8.72 | 3.00% | 0.77% | 0.61% (c) | 2.08% | 428% | $440,059 |
(0.29) | $8.91 | 3.88% | 0.75% | 0.65% (c) | 2.10% | 350% | $550,803 |
(0.48) | $8.86 | (1.17%) | 0.73% | 0.71% (c) | 2.07% | 360% | $659,538 |
(0.19) | $8.26 | 0.13% | 0.64% | 0.51% | 2.20% | 257% | $864 |
(0.39) | $8.44 | 1.58% | 0.63% (d) | 0.49% (d) | 1.99% | 375% | $735 |
(0.45) | $8.70 | 3.11% | 0.60% | 0.50% | 2.14% | 428% | $52 |
(0.30) | $8.89 | 4.04% | 0.56% | 0.50% | 2.25% | 350% | $413 |
(0.49) | $8.84 | (1.10%) | 0.57% | 0.57% | 2.09% | 360% | $471 |
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Net
asset value,
beginning of period |
Net
investment income |
Net
realized and unrealized gain (loss) |
Total
from
investment operations |
Distributions
from net investment income |
Distributions
from net realized gains |
|
Institutional 3 Class | ||||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $8.48 | 0.21 | (0.19) | 0.02 | (0.19) | (0.01) |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 | $8.74 | 0.19 | (0.05) | 0.14 | (0.19) | (0.21) |
Year Ended 4/30/2016 | $8.92 | 0.19 | 0.09 | 0.28 | (0.25) | (0.21) |
Year Ended 4/30/2015 | $8.87 | 0.20 | 0.15 | 0.35 | (0.19) | (0.11) |
Year Ended 4/30/2014 | $9.47 | 0.20 | (0.30) | (0.10) | (0.21) | (0.29) |
Class R | ||||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $8.47 | 0.13 | (0.18) | (0.05) | (0.13) | (0.01) |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 | $8.72 | 0.14 | (0.05) | 0.09 | (0.13) | (0.21) |
Year Ended 4/30/2016 | $8.91 | 0.14 | 0.07 | 0.21 | (0.19) | (0.21) |
Year Ended 4/30/2015 | $8.86 | 0.14 | 0.16 | 0.30 | (0.14) | (0.11) |
Year Ended 4/30/2014 | $9.46 | 0.14 | (0.31) | (0.17) | (0.14) | (0.29) |
Class T | ||||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $8.48 | 0.16 | (0.19) | (0.03) | (0.15) | (0.01) |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 | $8.73 | 0.16 | (0.05) | 0.11 | (0.15) | (0.21) |
Year Ended 4/30/2016 | $8.92 | 0.16 | 0.07 | 0.23 | (0.21) | (0.21) |
Year Ended 4/30/2015 | $8.87 | 0.17 | 0.15 | 0.32 | (0.16) | (0.11) |
Year Ended 4/30/2014 | $9.47 | 0.17 | (0.31) | (0.14) | (0.17) | (0.29) |
Class V | ||||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $8.46 | 0.16 | (0.18) | (0.02) | (0.16) | (0.01) |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 | $8.71 | 0.17 | (0.05) | 0.12 | (0.16) | (0.21) |
Year Ended 4/30/2016 | $8.90 | 0.17 | 0.07 | 0.24 | (0.22) | (0.21) |
Year Ended 4/30/2015 | $8.85 | 0.17 | 0.16 | 0.33 | (0.17) | (0.11) |
Year Ended 4/30/2014 | $9.45 | 0.17 | (0.30) | (0.13) | (0.18) | (0.29) |
Notes to Financial Highlights | |
(a) | In addition to the fees and expenses that the Fund bears directly, the Fund indirectly bears a pro rata share of the fees and expenses of any other funds in which it invests. Such indirect expenses are not included in the Fund's reported expense ratios. |
(b) | Total net expenses include the impact of certain fee waivers/expense reimbursements made by the Investment Manager and certain of its affiliates, if applicable. |
(c) | The benefits derived from expense reductions had an impact of less than 0.01%. |
(d) | Expenses have been reduced due to a reimbursement of expenses overbilled by a third party. If the reimbursement had been excluded, the expense ratios would have been higher by the percentages shown for each class in the table below. All fee waivers and expense reimbursements by the Investment Manager and its affiliates were applied before giving effect to this third party reimbursement. |
Year Ended | Class A |
Advisor
Class |
Class C |
Institutional
Class |
Institutional
2
Class |
Institutional
3
Class |
Class R | Class T | Class V |
04/30/2017 | 0.04 % | 0.04 % | 0.04 % | 0.03 % | 0.02 % | 0.03 % | 0.03 % | 0.03 % | 0.03 % |
(e) | Rounds to zero. |
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Total
distributions to shareholders |
Net
asset value, end of period |
Total
return |
Total
gross
expense ratio to average net assets (a) |
Total
net
expense ratio to average net assets (a), (b) |
Net
investment
income ratio to average net assets |
Portfolio
turnover |
Net
assets, end of period (000's) |
(0.20) | $8.30 | 0.19% | 0.59% | 0.46% | 2.46% | 257% | $284,876 |
(0.40) | $8.48 | 1.63% | 0.54% (d) | 0.42% (d) | 2.26% | 375% | $29,756 |
(0.46) | $8.74 | 3.28% | 0.56% | 0.45% | 2.24% | 428% | $31,981 |
(0.30) | $8.92 | 4.05% | 0.54% | 0.48% | 2.27% | 350% | $27,155 |
(0.50) | $8.87 | (0.99%) | 0.53% | 0.53% | 2.27% | 360% | $25,147 |
(0.14) | $8.28 | (0.58%) | 1.25% | 1.11% (c) | 1.54% | 257% | $550 |
(0.34) | $8.47 | 1.09% | 1.23% (d) | 1.08% (c), (d) | 1.62% | 375% | $922 |
(0.40) | $8.72 | 2.49% | 1.27% | 1.11% (c) | 1.57% | 428% | $1,750 |
(0.25) | $8.91 | 3.37% | 1.26% | 1.15% (c) | 1.59% | 350% | $2,009 |
(0.43) | $8.86 | (1.66%) | 1.23% | 1.21% (c) | 1.59% | 360% | $2,498 |
(0.16) | $8.29 | (0.33%) | 0.99% | 0.86% (c) | 1.83% | 257% | $9 |
(0.36) | $8.48 | 1.34% | 1.01% (d) | 0.83% (c), (d) | 1.85% | 375% | $10 |
(0.42) | $8.73 | 2.74% | 1.03% | 0.86% (c) | 1.83% | 428% | $10 |
(0.27) | $8.92 | 3.62% | 1.00% | 0.90% (c) | 1.85% | 350% | $10 |
(0.46) | $8.87 | (1.40%) | 0.90% | 0.90% (c) | 1.92% | 360% | $10 |
(0.17) | $8.27 | (0.23%) | 0.90% | 0.76% (c) | 1.92% | 257% | $8,934 |
(0.37) | $8.46 | 1.44% | 0.88% (d) | 0.73% (c), (d) | 1.95% | 375% | $10,139 |
(0.43) | $8.71 | 2.85% | 0.92% | 0.76% (c) | 1.93% | 428% | $10,887 |
(0.28) | $8.90 | 3.73% | 0.91% | 0.80% (c) | 1.95% | 350% | $11,885 |
(0.47) | $8.85 | (1.32%) | 0.88% | 0.86% (c) | 1.94% | 360% | $12,351 |
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■ | Employer-sponsored retirement plans (e.g., 401(k) plans, 457 plans, employer-sponsored 403(b) plans, profit sharing and money purchase pension plans and defined benefit plans). For purposes of this provision, employer-sponsored retirement plans do not include SEP IRAs, Simple IRAs or SAR-SEPs. |
■ | Shares purchased through an Ameriprise Financial Services investment advisory program (if an Advisory or similar share class for such investment advisory program is not available). |
■ | Shares purchased by third party investment advisors on behalf of their advisory clients through Ameriprise Financial Services’ platform (if an Advisory or similar share class for such investment advisory program is not available). |
■ | Shares purchased through reinvestment of dividends and capital gain distributions when purchasing shares of the same Fund (but not any other fund within the same fund family). |
■ | Shares exchanged from Class C shares of the same fund in the month of or following the 10-year anniversary of the purchase date. To the extent that this prospectus elsewhere provides for a waiver with respect to such shares following a shorter holding period, that waiver will apply to exchanges following such shorter period. To the extent that this prospectus elsewhere provides for a waiver with respect to exchanges of Class C shares for load waived shares, that waiver will also apply to such exchanges. |
■ | Employees and registered representatives of Ameriprise Financial Services or its affiliates and their immediate family members. |
■ | Shares purchased by or through qualified accounts (including IRAs, Coverdell Education Savings Accounts, 401(k)s, 403(b) TSCAs subject to ERISA and defined benefit plans) that are held by a covered family member, defined as an Ameriprise financial advisor and/or the advisor’s spouse, advisor’s lineal ascendant (mother, father, grandmother, grandfather, great grandmother, great grandfather), advisor’s lineal descendant (son, step-son, daughter, step-daughter, grandson, granddaughter, great grandson, great granddaughter) or any spouse of a covered family member who is a lineal descendant. |
A-1 | Prospectus 2018 |
■ | Shares purchased from the proceeds of redemptions within the same fund family, provided (1) the repurchase occurs within 90 days following the redemption, (2) the redemption and purchase occur in the same account, and (3) redeemed shares were subject to a front-end or deferred sales load (i.e., rights of reinstatement). |
■ | Rights of Accumulation (ROA) which entitle shareholders to breakpoint discounts will be automatically calculated based on the aggregated holding of fund family assets held by accounts within the purchaser’s household at Merrill Lynch. Eligible fund family assets not held at Merrill Lynch may be included in the ROA calculation only if the shareholder notifies his or her financial advisor about such assets. |
■ | Letters of Intent (LOI) which allow for breakpoint discounts based on anticipated purchases within a fund family, through Merrill Lynch, over a 13-month period of time (if applicable). |
■ | Employer-sponsored retirement, deferred compensation and employee benefit plans (including health savings accounts) and trusts used to fund those plans, provided that the plan is a group plan (more than one participant), the shares are not held in a commission-based brokerage account and shares are held in the name of the plan through an omnibus account |
■ | Shares purchased by or through a 529 Plan |
■ | Shares purchased through a Merrill Lynch affiliated investment advisory program |
■ | Shares purchased by third party investment advisors on behalf of their advisory clients through Merrill Lynch’s platform |
■ | Shares of funds purchased through the Merrill Edge Self-Directed platform |
■ | Shares purchased through reinvestment of capital gains distributions and dividend reinvestment when purchasing shares of the same Fund (but not any other fund within the same fund family) |
■ | Shares exchanged from Class C (i.e., level-load) shares of the same fund in the month of or following the 10-year anniversary of the purchase date |
■ | Employees and registered representatives of Merrill Lynch or its affiliates and their family members |
■ | Directors or Trustees of the Fund, and employees of the Fund’s investment adviser or any of its affiliates, as described in this prospectus |
■ | Shares purchased from the proceeds of redemptions within the same fund family, provided (1) the repurchase occurs within 90 days following the redemption, (2) the redemption and purchase occur in the same account, and (3) redeemed shares were subject to a front-end or deferred sales load (known as Rights of Reinstatement). |
■ | Shares redeemed following the death or disability of the shareholder |
■ | Shares sold as part of a systematic withdrawal plan as described in this prospectus |
■ | Redemptions that constitute a return of excess contributions from an IRA |
■ | Shares sold as part of a required minimum distribution for IRA and retirement accounts due to the shareholder reaching age 70½ |
Prospectus 2018 | A-2 |
■ | Shares sold to pay Merrill Lynch fees but only if the transaction is initiated by Merrill Lynch |
■ | There will be no CDSC charged on the sale of Fund shares acquired through a right of reinstatement |
■ | The redemption of shares held in retirement brokerage accounts, that are exchanged for a lower cost share class due to transfer to a fee based account or platform (applicable to Class A and Class C shares only). |
■ | Employer-sponsored retirement plans (e.g., 401(k) plans, 457 plans, employer-sponsored 403(b) plans, profit sharing and money purchase pension plans and defined benefit plans). For purposes of this provision, employer-sponsored retirement plans do not include SEP IRAs, Simple IRAs, SAR-SEPs or Keogh plans |
■ | Morgan Stanley employee and employee-related accounts according to Morgan Stanley’s account linking rules |
■ | Shares purchased through reinvestment of dividends and capital gains distributions when purchasing shares of the same fund |
■ | Shares purchased through a Morgan Stanley self-directed brokerage account |
■ | Class C (i.e., level-load) shares that are no longer subject to a contingent deferred sales charge and are converted to Class A shares of the same fund pursuant to Morgan Stanley Wealth Management’s share class conversion program |
■ | Shares purchased from the proceeds of redemptions within the same fund family, provided (i) the repurchase occurs within 90 days following the redemption, (ii) the redemption and purchase occur in the same account, and (iii) redeemed shares were subject to a front-end or deferred sales charge. |
■ | Employer-sponsored retirement plans (e.g., 401(k) plans, 457 plans, employer-sponsored 403(b) plans, profit sharing and money purchase pension plans and defined benefit plans). For purposes of this provision, employer-sponsored retirement plans do not include SEP IRAs, Simple IRAs, SAR-SEPs or Keogh plans; however these plans are eligible to purchase Class T shares through a transactional brokerage account. |
■ | Morgan Stanley Wealth Management employee and employee-related accounts according to Morgan Stanley’s account linking rules. |
■ | Mutual fund shares exchanged from an existing position in the same fund as part of a share class conversion instituted by Morgan Stanley Wealth Management. |
A-3 | Prospectus 2018 |
■ | For employer-sponsored retirement plans held through a commissionable brokerage account, Class A shares are available at NAV (i.e., without a sales charge). For this purpose, employer-sponsored retirement plans include, but are not limited to, 401(k) plans, 457 plans, employer-sponsored 403(b) plans, profit sharing and money purchase pension plans and defined benefit plans. For purposes of this provision, employer-sponsored retirement plans do not include SEP IRAs, Simple IRAs, SAR-SEPs or Keogh plans. |
Prospectus 2018 | A-4 |
* | Please note, effective November 1, 2018, the Fund’s mailing address is changed to Columbia Management Investment Services Corp., P.O. Box 219104, Kansas City, MO 64121-9104. |
Class | Ticker Symbol | |
A | LIIAX | |
Advisor (Class Adv) (a) | CIFRX | |
C | CIOCX | |
Institutional (Class Inst) (a) | SRINX | |
Institutional 2 (Class Inst2) (a) | CPIRX | |
Institutional 3 (Class Inst3) (a) | CRIYX | |
T | CPIWX |
(a) | Prior to November 1, 2017, Class Adv shares were known as Class R4 shares, Class Inst shares were known as Class Z shares, Class Inst2 shares were known as Class R5 shares, and Class Inst3 shares were known as Class Y shares. |
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A-1 |
2 | Prospectus 2018 |
(a) | This charge is imposed on certain investments of between $1 million and $50 million redeemed within 18 months after purchase, as follows: 1.00% if redeemed within 12 months after purchase, and 0.50% if redeemed more than 12, but less than 18, months after purchase, with certain limited exceptions. |
(b) | This charge applies to redemptions within 12 months after purchase, with certain limited exceptions. |
(c) | Other expenses have been restated to reflect current transfer agency fees paid by the Fund. |
(d) | Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and certain of its affiliates have contractually agreed to waive fees and/or to reimburse expenses (excluding transaction costs and certain other investment related expenses, interest, taxes, acquired fund fees and expenses, and infrequent and/or unusual expenses) through August 31, 2019, unless sooner terminated at the sole discretion of the Fund’s Board of Trustees. Under this agreement, the Fund’s net operating expenses, subject to applicable exclusions, will not exceed the annual rates of 0.92% for Class A, 0.67% for Class Adv 1.67% for Class C, 0.67% for Class Inst, 0.58% for Class Inst2, 0.53% for Class Inst3 and 0.92% for Class T. The fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements shown in the table for Class Inst2, also reflect the contractual agreement of the Fund’s transfer agent to waive fees and/or to reimburse expenses through August 31, 2019, unless sooner terminated at the sole discretion of the Fund’s Board, so that the Fund’s transfer agency fees do not exceed the annual rate of 0.06% for Class Inst2. |
Prospectus 2018 | 3 |
■ | you invest $10,000 in the applicable class of Fund shares for the periods indicated, |
■ | your investment has a 5% return each year, and |
■ | the Fund’s total annual operating expenses remain the same as shown in the Annual Fund Operating Expenses table above. |
1 year | 3 years | 5 years | 10 years | |
Class A (whether or not shares are redeemed) | $564 | $760 | $973 | $1,583 |
Class Adv (whether or not shares are redeemed) | $ 68 | $221 | $387 | $ 868 |
Class C (assuming redemption of all shares at the end of the period) | $270 | $533 | $920 | $2,006 |
Class C (assuming no redemption of shares) | $170 | $533 | $920 | $2,006 |
Class Inst (whether or not shares are redeemed) | $ 68 | $221 | $387 | $ 868 |
Class Inst2 (whether or not shares are redeemed) | $ 59 | $188 | $328 | $ 737 |
Class Inst3 (whether or not shares are redeemed) | $ 54 | $170 | $296 | $ 665 |
Class T (whether or not shares are redeemed) | $342 | $542 | $760 | $1,385 |
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Year
by Year Total Return (%)
as of December 31 Each Year* |
Best
and Worst Quarterly Returns
During the Period Shown in the Bar Chart |
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Best | 2nd Quarter 2009 | 14.15% |
Worst
|
3rd Quarter 2008 | -7.67% |
* | Year to Date return as of June 30, 2018: -3.35% |
Share
Class
Inception Date |
1 Year | 5 Years | 10 Years | |
Class A | 07/31/2000 | |||
returns before taxes | 0.55% | 1.97% | 5.07% | |
returns after taxes on distributions | -0.52% | 0.56% | 3.38% | |
returns after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund shares | 0.30% | 0.88% | 3.24% | |
Class Adv returns before taxes | 11/08/2012 | 5.95% | 3.25% | 5.86% |
Class C returns before taxes | 07/15/2002 | 4.05% | 2.36% | 4.95% |
Class Inst returns before taxes | 03/05/1986 | 5.95% | 3.23% | 5.85% |
Class Inst2 returns before taxes | 11/08/2012 | 5.96% | 3.36% | 5.91% |
Class Inst3 returns before taxes | 11/08/2012 | 6.11% | 3.41% | 5.95% |
Class T returns before taxes | 09/27/2010 | 2.99% | 2.45% | 5.32% |
Blended Benchmark (consisting of 85% Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Corporate Bond Index and 15% ICE BofAML U.S. Cash Pay High Yield Constrained Index) (reflects no deductions for fees, expenses or taxes) | 6.58% | 3.84% | 6.03% | |
Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Corporate Bond Index (reflects no deductions for fees, expenses or taxes) | 6.42% | 3.48% | 5.65% |
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Portfolio Manager | Title | Role with Fund | Managed Fund Since | |||
Tom Murphy, CFA | Vice President, Senior Portfolio Manager and Head of Investment Grade Credit | Lead Portfolio Manager | 2011 | |||
Timothy Doubek, CFA | Senior Portfolio Manager | Portfolio Manager | 2011 |
Online | Regular Mail | Express Mail | By Telephone | |||
Through October 31, 2018 | Through October 31, 2018 | |||||
columbiathreadneedleus.com/investor/ |
Columbia
Management
Investment Services Corp. P.O. Box 8081 Boston, MA 02266-8081 |
Columbia
Management
Investment Services Corp. c/o DST Asset Manager Solutions, Inc. 30 Dan Road, Suite 8081 Canton, MA 02021-2809 |
800.422.3737 | |||
Regular Mail | Express Mail | |||||
Effective November 1, 2018 | Effective November 1, 2018 | |||||
Columbia
Management
Investment Services Corp. P.O. Box 219104 Kansas City, MO 64121-9104 |
Columbia
Management
Investment Services Corp. c/o DST Asset Manager Solutions, Inc. 430 W 7 th Street, Suite 219104 Kansas City, MO 64105-1407 |
* | Based on the dates noted above, mail received at an incorrect address will be forwarded to the correct address, and will not be processed until received, in “good form,” at the correct address. This may affect the trade date you receive for transaction requests, which may negatively impact the value of your purchase or sale. |
Class | Category of eligible account |
For
accounts other than
systematic investment plan accounts |
For
systematic investment
plan accounts |
Classes A, C & T (a) | All accounts other than IRAs | $2,000 | $100 |
IRAs | $1,000 | $100 | |
Classes Adv & Inst | All eligible accounts |
$0,
$1,000 or $2,000
depending upon the category of eligible investor |
$100 |
Class Inst2 | All eligible accounts | None | N/A |
Class Inst3 | All eligible accounts |
$0,
$1,000, $2,000
or $1 million depending upon the category of eligible investor |
$100
(for certain
eligible investors) |
(a) | Class T shares must be purchased through financial intermediaries that, by written agreement with Columbia Management Investment Distributors, Inc., are specifically authorized to sell Class T shares. |
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■ | An interest rate future is a derivative that is an agreement whereby the buyer and seller agree to the future delivery of an interest-bearing instrument on a specific date at a pre-determined price. Examples include Treasury-bill futures, Treasury-bond futures and Eurodollar futures. |
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Class Inst2 | 0.58% |
Class Inst3 | 0.53% |
Class T | 0.92% |
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Portfolio Manager | Title | Role with Fund | Managed Fund Since | |||
Tom Murphy, CFA | Vice President, Senior Portfolio Manager and Head of Investment Grade Credit | Lead Portfolio Manager | 2011 | |||
Timothy Doubek, CFA | Senior Portfolio Manager | Portfolio Manager | 2011 |
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■ | compensation and other benefits received by the Investment Manager and other Ameriprise Financial affiliates related to the management/administration of a Columbia Fund and the sale of its shares; |
■ | the allocation of, and competition for, investment opportunities among the Fund, other funds and accounts advised/managed by the Investment Manager and other Ameriprise Financial affiliates, or Ameriprise Financial itself and its affiliates; |
■ | separate and potentially divergent management of a Columbia Fund and other funds and accounts advised/managed by the Investment Manager and other Ameriprise Financial affiliates; |
■ | regulatory and other investment restrictions on investment activities of the Investment Manager and other Ameriprise Financial affiliates and accounts advised/managed by them; |
■ | insurance and other relationships of Ameriprise Financial affiliates with companies and other entities in which a Columbia Fund invests; and |
■ | regulatory and other restrictions relating to the sharing of information between Ameriprise Financial and its affiliates, including the Investment Manager, and a Columbia Fund. |
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* | The website references in this prospectus are inactive links and information contained in or otherwise accessible through the referenced websites does not form a part of this prospectus. |
** | Based on the date noted above, mail received at an incorrect address will be forwarded to the correct address, and will not be processed until received, in “good form,” at the correct address. This may affect the trade date you receive for transaction requests, which may negatively impact the value of your purchase or sale. |
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■ | The amount you plan to invest. |
■ | How long you intend to remain invested in the Fund. |
■ | The fees (e.g., sales charge or “load”) and expenses for each share class. |
■ | Whether you may be eligible for a reduction or waiver of sales charges when you buy or sell shares. |
■ | The net asset value (NAV) per share is the price of a share calculated by the Fund every business day. |
■ | The offering price per share is the NAV per share plus any front-end sales charge (or load) that applies. |
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Share Class |
Eligible
Investors
(a)
;
Minimum Initial Investments (b) ; Conversion Features (c) |
Front-End
Sales Charges (d) |
Contingent
Deferred
Sales Charges (CDSCs) (d) |
Sales
Charge
Reductions/Waivers |
Maximum
Distribution
and/or Service Fees (e) |
acting
as broker on behalf of its customer, charges the customer a commission for effecting transactions in Fund shares, provided that the financial intermediary has an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes offering Class Adv shares
within such platform.
|
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Class C |
Eligibility:
Available to the general public for investment
|
None | 1.00% on certain investments redeemed within one year of purchase (h) |
Waivers
: Yes, on Fund distribution reinvestments. For additional waivers, see
Choosing a Share Class – CDSC Waivers – Class A, Class C and Class V
|
Distribution
Fee:
0.75%
|
Class
Inst |
Eligibility: Available only to certain eligible investors, which are subject to different minimum investment requirements, ranging from $0 to $2,000, including investors who purchase Fund shares through commissionable brokerage platforms where the financial intermediary holds the shares in an omnibus account and, acting as broker on behalf of its customer, charges the customer a commission for effecting transactions in Fund shares, provided that the financial intermediary has an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes offering Class Inst shares within such platform; closed to (i) accounts of financial intermediaries that clear Fund share transactions for their client or customer accounts through designated financial intermediaries and their mutual fund | None | None | N/A | None |
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Share Class |
Eligible
Investors
(a)
;
Minimum Initial Investments (b) ; Conversion Features (c) |
Front-End
Sales Charges (d) |
Contingent
Deferred
Sales Charges (CDSCs) (d) |
Sales
Charge
Reductions/Waivers |
Maximum
Distribution
and/or Service Fees (e) |
trading
platforms that have been given specific written notice from the Transfer Agent of the termination of their eligibility for new purchases of Class Inst shares and (ii) omnibus group retirement plans, subject to certain exceptions
(i)
|
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Class
Inst2 |
Eligibility:
Available only to (i) certain registered investment advisers and family offices that clear Fund share transactions for their client or customer accounts through designated financial intermediaries and their mutual
fund trading platforms that have been granted specific written authorization from the Transfer Agent with respect to Class
Inst2 eligibility apart from selling, servicing or similar agreements; (ii) omnibus
retirement plans
(i)
; and (iii) institutional investors that are clients of the Columbia Threadneedle Global Institutional Distribution Team that invest
in Class
Inst2 shares for their own account through platforms approved by the Distributor or an affiliate thereof to offer and/or service Class
Inst2 shares within such
platform.
|
None | None | N/A | None |
Class
Inst3 |
Eligibility: Available to (i) group retirement plans that maintain plan-level or omnibus accounts with the Fund (i) ; (ii) institutional investors that are clients of the Columbia Threadneedle Global Institutional Distribution Team that invest in Class Inst3 shares for their own account through platforms approved by the Distributor or an affiliate thereof to offer and/or service Class Inst3 shares within such platform; (iii) collective trust funds; (iv) affiliated or unaffiliated mutual funds (e.g., funds operating as funds-of-funds); (v) fee-based platforms of financial intermediaries (or the clearing intermediary they trade through) that have an agreement with the Distributor or an affiliate thereof that specifically authorizes the financial intermediary to offer and/or service Class Inst3 shares within such platform, provided also that Fund shares are held in an omnibus account; (vi) commissionable brokerage platforms where the | None | None | N/A | None |
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Share Class |
Eligible
Investors
(a)
;
Minimum Initial Investments (b) ; Conversion Features (c) |
Front-End
Sales Charges (d) |
Contingent
Deferred
Sales Charges (CDSCs) (d) |
Sales
Charge
Reductions/Waivers |
Maximum
Distribution
and/or Service Fees (e) |
financial
intermediary, acting as broker on behalf of its customer, charges the customer a commission for effecting transactions in Fund shares, provided that the financial intermediary has an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes
offering Class Inst3 shares within such platform and that Fund shares are held in an omnibus account; and (vii) bank trust departments, subject to an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes offering Class Inst3 shares and
provided that Fund shares are held in an omnibus account. In each case above where noted that Fund shares are required to be held in an omnibus account, the Distributor may, in its discretion, determine to waive this requirement.
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Class R |
Eligibility:
Available only to eligible retirement plans, health savings accounts and, in the sole discretion of the Distributor, other types of retirement accounts held through platforms maintained by financial intermediaries
approved by the Distributor
|
None | None | N/A |
Series
of CFST & CFST I:
distribution fee of 0.50%
|
Class T |
Eligibility
: Available to the general public (purchasing through a Class T Intermediary)
|
Per
Transaction
:
2.50% $499,999: 2.00% $999,999: 1.50% 1.00% |
None |
Waivers
: Yes,
(i) on Fund distribution reinvestments; (ii) on exchanges of Class T shares of the Fund from, at the discretion of Class T Intermediaries, another class of shares of the same Fund held in accounts of Class T Intermediaries, provided that (a) the other share class may only be exchanged for Class T shares if your financial intermediary does not offer that other share class on the intermediary’s commission-based platform, and (b) unless waived in the Distributor’s |
Distribution and/or Service Fees : 0.25% |
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Share Class |
Eligible
Investors
(a)
;
Minimum Initial Investments (b) ; Conversion Features (c) |
Front-End
Sales Charges (d) |
Contingent
Deferred
Sales Charges (CDSCs) (d) |
Sales
Charge
Reductions/Waivers |
Maximum
Distribution
and/or Service Fees (e) |
discretion,
shares of the class to be exchanged are held in a networked or omnibus account with the Fund; and
(iii) on purchases within fee-based accounts, provided that the Class T Intermediary has an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes offering Class T shares within the designated fee-based platform. |
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Class V |
Eligibility:
Generally closed to new investors
(i)
|
5.75% maximum, declining to 0.00% on investments of $1 million or more |
CDSC
on certain investments of between $1 million and $50 million redeemed within 18 months after purchase, charged as follows:
|
Reductions
: Yes, see
Choosing a Share Class — Reductions/Waivers of Sales Charges – Class A and Class V Shares Front-End Sales Charge Reductions
|
Service Fee: up to 0.50% |
(a) | For Columbia Government Money Market Fund, new investments must be made in Class A, Class Inst, Class Inst3, Class R or Class T shares, subject to eligibility. Class C shares of Columbia Government Money Market Fund are available as a new investment only to investors in the Distributor's proprietary 401(k) products, provided that such investor is eligible to invest in the class and transact directly with the Fund or the Transfer Agent through a third party administrator or third party recordkeeper. Columbia Government Money Market Fund offers Class Inst2 shares only to facilitate exchanges with other Funds offering such share class. |
(b) | Certain share classes are subject to minimum account balance requirements, as described in Buying, Selling and Exchanging Shares — Transaction Rules and Policies. |
(c) | For more information on the automatic conversion of Class C shares to Class A shares, see Choosing a Share Class - Sales Charges and Commissions - Class C Shares - Automatic Conversion to Class A Shares . |
(d) | Actual front-end sales charges and CDSCs vary among the Funds. For more information on applicable sales charges, see Choosing a Share Class — Sales Charges and Commissions, and for information about certain exceptions to these sales charges, see Choosing a Share Class — Reductions/Waivers of Sales Charges. |
(e) | These are the maximum applicable distribution and/or service fees. Except for Class V shares, these fees are paid under the Fund’s Rule 12b-1 plan. Fee rates and fee components (i.e., the portion of a combined fee that is a distribution or service fee) may vary among Funds. Because these fees are paid out of Fund assets on an ongoing basis, over time these fees will increase the cost of your investment and may cost you more than paying other types of distribution and/or service fees. Although Class A shares of certain series of CFST I are subject to a combined distribution and service fee of up to 0.35%, these Funds currently limit the combined fee to 0.25%. Columbia Government Money Market Fund pays a distribution and service fee of up to 0.10% on Class A shares and up to 0.75% distribution fee on Class C shares. Columbia AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia High Yield Municipal Fund and Columbia Tax-Exempt Fund each pay a service fee of up to 0.20% on Class A and Class C shares. Columbia AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund pays a distribution fee of up to 0.65% on Class C shares. For more information on distribution and service fees, see Choosing a Share Class — Distribution and Service Fees. |
(f) | For Columbia Short Term Municipal Bond Fund, a CDSC of 0.50% is charged on certain investments of $500,000 or more redeemed within 12 months after purchase. The following Funds are not subject to a front-end sales charge or a CDSC on Class A shares: Columbia Government Money Market Fund, Columbia Large Cap Enhanced Core Fund, Columbia Large Cap Index Fund, Columbia Mid Cap Index Fund, Columbia Small Cap Index Fund and Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund. |
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(g) | If you are eligible to invest in Class A shares without a front-end sales charge, you should discuss your options with your financial intermediary. For more information, see Choosing a Share Class – Reductions/Waivers of Sales Charges. |
(h) | There is no CDSC on redemptions from Class C shares of Columbia Government Money Market Fund. |
(i) | These share classes are closed to new accounts, or closed to previously eligible investors, subject to certain conditions, as summarized below and described in more detail under Buying, Selling and Exchanging Shares — Buying Shares — Eligible Investors: |
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■ | depends on the amount you are investing (generally, the larger the investment, the smaller the percentage sales charge), and |
■ | is based on the total amount of your purchase and the value of your account (and any other accounts eligible for aggregation of which you or your financial intermediary notifies the Fund). |
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Class A Shares — Front-End Sales Charge — Breakpoint Schedule* | ||||
Breakpoint Schedule For: |
Dollar
amount of
shares bought (a) |
Sales
charge as a % of the offering price (b) |
Sales
charge as a % of the net amount invested (b) |
Amount
retained by or paid to financial intermediaries as a % of the offering price |
Fixed
Income Funds (except those listed below),
Columbia Multi-Asset Income Fund and Funds-of-Funds (fixed income)* |
$ 0-$49,999 | 4.75% | 4.99% | 4.00% |
$ 50,000–$99,999 | 4.25% | 4.44% | 3.50% | |
$100,000–$249,999 | 3.50% | 3.63% | 3.00% | |
$250,000–$499,999 | 2.50% | 2.56% | 2.15% | |
$500,000–$999,999 | 2.00% | 2.04% | 1.75% | |
$ 1,000,000 or more | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% (c) | |
Tax-Exempt Funds (other than Columbia Short Term Municipal Bond Fund) | $ 0-$99,999 | 3.00% | 3.09% | 2.50% |
$100,000–$249,999 | 2.50% | 2.56% | 2.15% | |
$250,000–$499,999 | 1.50 % | 1.53% | 1.25% | |
$ 500,000 or more | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% (c) | |
Columbia
Absolute Return Currency and Income Fund,
Columbia Floating Rate Fund, Columbia Inflation Protected Securities Fund, Columbia Limited Duration Credit Fund, Columbia Mortgage Opportunities Fund, Columbia Quality Income Fund, and Columbia Total Return Bond Fund |
$ 0-$99,999 | 3.00% | 3.09% | 2.50% |
$100,000–$249,999 | 2.50% | 2.56% | 2.15% | |
$250,000–$499,999 | 2.00% | 2.04% | 1.75% | |
$500,000–$999,999 | 1.50% | 1.52% | 1.25% | |
$ 1,000,000 or more | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% (c) | |
Columbia Short Term Bond Fund | $ 0-$99,999 | 1.00% | 1.01% | 0.75% |
$100,000–$249,999 | 0.75% | 0.76% | 0.50% | |
$250,000–$999,999 | 0.50% | 0.50% | 0.40% | |
$ 1,000,000 or more | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% (c) | |
Columbia Short Term Municipal Bond Fund | $ 0-$99,999 | 1.00% | 1.01% | 0.75% |
$100,000–$249,999 | 0.75% | 0.76% | 0.50% | |
$250,000–$499,999 | 0.50% | 0.50% | 0.40% | |
$ 500,000 or more | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% (c) | |
* | The following Funds are not subject to a front-end sales charge or CDSC on Class A shares: Columbia Government Money Market Fund, Columbia Large Cap Enhanced Core Fund, Columbia Large Cap Index Fund, Columbia Mid Cap Index Fund, Columbia Small Cap Index Fund and Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund. "Funds-of-Funds (equity)" includes Columbia Capital Allocation Aggressive Portfolio, Columbia Capital Allocation Moderate Aggressive Portfolio, Columbia Capital Allocation Moderate Conservative Portfolio, Columbia Capital Allocation Moderate Portfolio and Columbia Global Strategic Equity Fund . "Funds-of-Funds (fixed income)" includes Columbia Capital Allocation Conservative Portfolio and Columbia Income Builder Fund. Columbia Balanced Fund, Columbia Flexible Capital Income Fund and Columbia Global Opportunities Fund are treated as equity Funds for purposes of the table. |
(a) | Purchase amounts and account values may be aggregated among all eligible Fund accounts for the purposes of this table. See Choosing a Share Class — Reductions/Waivers of Sales Charges for a discussion of account value aggregation. |
(b) | Because the offering price is calculated to two decimal places, the dollar amount of the sales charge as a percentage of the offering price and your net amount invested for any particular purchase of Fund shares may be higher or lower depending on whether downward or upward rounding was required during the calculation process. Purchase price includes the sales charge. |
(c) | For information regarding cumulative commissions paid to your financial intermediary when you buy $1 million or more of Class A shares of a Taxable Fund or $500,000 or more of Class A shares of a Tax-Exempt Fund, see Class A Shares — Commissions below. |
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■ | If you purchased Class A shares of any Tax-Exempt Fund (other than Columbia Short Term Municipal Bond Fund and Columbia U.S. Social Bond Fund) without paying a front-end sales charge because your eligible accounts aggregated $500,000 or more at the time of purchase, you will incur a CDSC of 0.75% if you redeem those shares within 12 months after purchase. Subsequent Class A share purchases that bring your aggregate account value to $500,000 or more will also be subject to a CDSC of 0.75% if you redeem those shares within 12 months after purchase. |
■ | If you purchased Class A shares of Columbia Short Term Municipal Bond Fund without paying a front-end sales charge because your eligible accounts aggregated $500,000 or more at the time of purchase, you will incur a CDSC of 0.50% if you redeem those shares within 12 months after purchase. Subsequent Class A share purchases that bring your aggregate account value to $500,000 or more will also be subject to a CDSC of 0.50% if you redeem those shares within 12 months after purchase. |
■ | If you purchased Class A shares of Columbia U.S. Social Bond Fund without paying a front-end sales charge because your eligible accounts aggregated $500,000 or more at the time of purchase, you will incur a CDSC of 0.75% if you redeem those shares within 12 months after purchase. Subsequent Class A share purchases that bring your aggregate account value to $500,000 or more will also be subject to a CDSC of 0.75% if you redeem those shares within 12 months after purchase. |
■ | If you purchased Class A shares of any Taxable Fund without paying a front-end sales charge because your eligible accounts aggregated between $1 million and $50 million at the time of purchase, you will incur a CDSC if you redeem those shares within 18 months after purchase, which is charged as follows: 1.00% CDSC if shares are redeemed within 12 months after purchase; and 0.50% CDSC if shares are redeemed more than 12, but less than 18, months after purchase. Subsequent Class A share purchases that bring your aggregate account value to $1 million or more (but less than $50 million) will also be subject to a CDSC if you redeem them within 18 months after purchase as described in the previous sentence. |
Class A Shares of Tax-Exempt Funds — Commission Schedule (Paid by the Distributor to Financial Intermediaries) | |
Purchase Amount |
Commission
Level*
(as a % of net asset value per share) |
$500,000 – $3,999,999 | 0.75%** |
$4 million – $19,999,999 | 0.50% |
$20 million or more | 0.25% |
* | The commission level applies to the applicable asset level; therefore, for example, for a purchase of $5 million, the Distributor would pay a commission of 0.75% on the first $3,999,999 and 0.50% on the balance. |
** | The commission level on purchases of Class A shares of Columbia Short Term Municipal Bond Fund is: 0.50% on purchases of $500,000 to $19,999,999 and 0.25% on purchases of $20 million or more. |
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Class A Shares of Taxable Funds — Commission Schedule (Paid by the Distributor to Financial Intermediaries)* | |
Purchase Amount |
Commission
Level**
(as a % of net asset value per share) |
$1 million – $2,999,999 | 1.00% |
$3 million – $49,999,999 | 0.50% |
$50 million or more | 0.25% |
* | Not applicable to Funds that do not assess a front-end sales charge. |
** | The commission level applies to the applicable asset level; therefore, for example, for a purchase of $5 million, the Distributor would pay a commission of 1.00% on the first $2,999,999 and 0.50% on the balance. |
■ | Class C share accounts that are Direct-at-Fund Accounts and Networked Accounts for which the Transfer Agent (and not your financial intermediary) sends you Fund account transaction confirmations and statements, convert on or about the 15th day of the month (if the 15th is not a business day, then the next business day thereafter) that they become eligible for automatic conversion provided that the Fund has records that Class C shares have been held for the requisite time period. |
■ | For purposes of determining the month when your Class C shares are eligible for conversion, the start of the holding period is the first day of the month in which your purchase was made. Your financial intermediary may choose a different day of the month to convert Class C shares. Please contact your financial intermediary for more information on calculating the holding period. |
■ | Any shares you received from reinvested distributions on these shares generally will convert to Class A shares at the same time. |
■ | You’ll receive the same dollar value of Class A shares as the Class C shares that were automatically converted. Class C shares that you received from an exchange of Class C shares of another Fund will convert based on the day you bought the original shares. |
■ | No sales charge or other charges apply in connection with this automatic conversion, and conversions are free from U.S. federal income tax. |
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(a) | Because the offering price is calculated to two decimal places, the dollar amount of the sales charge as a percentage of the offering price and your net amount invested for any particular purchase of Fund shares may be higher or lower depending on whether downward or upward rounding was required during the calculation process. Purchase price includes the sales charge. |
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■ | depends on the amount you are investing (generally, the larger the investment, the smaller the percentage sales charge), and |
■ | is based on the total amount of your purchase and the value of your account (and any other accounts eligible for aggregation of which you notify your financial intermediary or, in the case of Direct-at-Fund Accounts (as defined below), you notify the Fund). |
(a) | Purchase amounts and account values are aggregated among all eligible Fund accounts for the purposes of this table. |
(b) | Because the offering price is calculated to two decimal places, the dollar amount of the sales charge as a percentage of the offering price and your net amount invested for any particular purchase of Fund shares may be higher or lower depending on whether downward or upward rounding was required during the calculation process. |
(c) | For more information regarding cumulative commissions paid to your financial intermediary when you buy $1 million or more of Class V shares, see Class V Shares — Commissions below. |
■ | If you purchased Class V shares without a front-end sales charge because your eligible accounts aggregated between $1 million and $50 million at the time of purchase, you will incur a CDSC if you redeem those shares within 18 months after purchase, which is charged as follows: 1.00% CDSC if shares are redeemed within 12 months after purchase, and 0.50% CDSC if shares are redeemed more than 12, but less than 18, months after purchase. |
■ | Subsequent Class V share purchases that bring your aggregate account value to $1 million or more (but less than $50 million) will also be subject to a CDSC if you redeem them within the time periods noted above. |
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Class V Shares — Commission Schedule (Paid by the Distributor to Financial Intermediaries) | |
Purchase
Amount |
Commission
Level*
(as a % of net asset value per share) |
$1 million – $2,999,999 | 1.00% |
$3 million – $49,999,999 | 0.50% |
$50 million or more | 0.25% |
* | The commission level applies to the applicable asset level; therefore, for example, for a purchase of $5 million, the Distributor would pay a commission of 1.00% on the first $2,999,999 and 0.50% on the balance. |
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Repurchases (Reinstatements) | |
Redeemed Share Class | Corresponding Repurchase Class |
Class A | Class A |
Class C | Class C |
Class V | Class V |
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(a) | The maximum distribution and service fees of Class A shares varies among the Funds, as shown in the table below: |
Funds |
Maximum
Class A Distribution Fee |
Maximum
Class A Service Fee |
Maximum
Class A Combined Total |
Series
of CFST and CFST II (other than Columbia
Government Money Market Fund) |
— | — |
0.25%;
these Funds pay a
combined distribution and service fee |
Columbia Government Money Market Fund | — | — | 0.10% |
Columbia AMT-Free Oregon Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia Balanced Fund, Columbia Contrarian Core Fund, Columbia Disciplined Small Core Fund, Columbia Dividend Income Fund, Columbia Global Technology Growth Fund, Columbia Large Cap Growth Fund, Columbia Mid Cap Growth Fund, Columbia Real Estate Equity Fund, Columbia Small Cap Growth Fund I, Columbia Total Return Bond Fund | up to 0.10% | up to 0.25% |
up
to 0.35%; these Funds may
pay distribution and service fees up to a maximum of 0.35% of their average daily net assets attributable to Class A shares (comprised of up to 0.10% for distribution services and up to 0.25% for shareholder liaison services) but currently limit such fees to an aggregate fee of not more than 0.25% for Class A shares |
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Funds |
Maximum
Class A Distribution Fee |
Maximum
Class A Service Fee |
Maximum
Class A Combined Total |
Columbia Adaptive Risk Allocation Fund, Columbia Alternative Beta Fund, Columbia AMT-Free Connecticut Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia AMT-Free Massachusetts Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia AMT-Free New York Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia Bond Fund, Columbia Corporate Income Fund, Columbia Diversified Absolute Return Fund, Columbia Diversified Real Return Fund, Columbia Emerging Markets Fund, Columbia Global Dividend Opportunity Fund, Columbia Global Energy and Natural Resources Fund, Columbia Greater China Fund, Columbia Multi-Asset Income Fund, Columbia Pacific/Asia Fund, Columbia Select Large Cap Growth Fund, Columbia Small Cap Value Fund I, Columbia Strategic California Municipal Income Fund, Columbia Strategic Income Fund, Columbia Strategic New York Municipal Income Fund, Columbia U.S. Social Bond Fund, Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund | — | 0.25% | 0.25% |
Columbia AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia High Yield Municipal Fund, Columbia Tax-Exempt Fund | — | 0.20% | 0.20% |
(b) | The service fees for Class A and Class C shares of certain Funds vary. The annual service fee for Class A and Class C shares of Columbia AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia High Yield Municipal Fund and Columbia Tax-Exempt Fund may equal up to 0.20% of the average daily NAV of all shares of such Fund class. The annual distribution fee for Class C shares for Columbia AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund shall be 0.65% of the average daily net assets of the Fund's Class C shares. The Distributor has voluntarily agreed to waive the service fee for Class A and Class C shares of Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund so that the service fee does not exceed 0.15% annually. This arrangement may be modified or terminated by the Distributor at any time. |
(c) | Fee amounts noted apply to all Funds other than Columbia Government Money Market Fund, which, for each of Class A and Class T shares, pays distribution and service fees of 0.10%, and for Class C shares pays distribution fees of 0.75%. The Distributor has currently agreed not to be reimbursed by the Fund for 0.25% of the 0.50% fee for Class R shares of Columbia Government Money Market Fund. The Distributor has voluntarily agreed to waive the Rule 12b-1 fees it receives from Class A, Class C, Class R and Class T shares of Columbia Government Money Market Fund. This arrangement may be modified or terminated by the Distributor at any time. Compensation paid to financial intermediaries may be suspended to the extent of the Distributor's waiver of the Rule 12b-1 fees on these specific share classes of these Funds. |
(d) | The Distributor has voluntarily agreed to waive a portion of the distribution fee for Class C shares of the following Funds so that the distribution fee does not exceed the specified percentage annually: 0.45% for Columbia AMT-Free Connecticut Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia AMT-Free Massachusetts Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia AMT-Free New York Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia AMT-Free Oregon Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia Strategic California Municipal Income Fund and Columbia Strategic New York Municipal Income Fund; 0.60% for Columbia Corporate Income Fund and Columbia Short Term Bond Fund; 0.65% for Columbia High Yield Municipal Fund and Columbia Tax-Exempt Fund; and 0.70% for Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund. These arrangements may be modified or terminated by the Distributor at any time. |
(e) | Class R shares of series of CFST and CFST I pay a distribution fee pursuant to a Rule 12b-1 plan for Class R shares. The Funds do not have a shareholder service plan for Class R shares. Series of CFST II have a distribution and shareholder service plan for Class R shares, which, prior to the close of business on September 3, 2010, were known as Class R2 shares. For Class R shares of series of CFST II, the maximum fee under the plan reimbursed for distribution expenses is equal on an annual basis to 0.50% of the average daily net assets of the Fund attributable to Class R shares. Of that amount, up to 0.25% may be reimbursed for shareholder service expenses. |
(f) | The combined distribution fee and service fee for Class T shares of series of CFST and CFST I shall not exceed 0.25%. Class T shares of series of CFST II pay a combined distribution and service fee of 0.25%. |
(g) | The shareholder servicing fees for Class V shares are up to 0.50% of average daily net assets attributable to Class V shares for equity Funds and 0.40% for fixed income Funds. In general, the Funds currently limit such fees to a maximum of 0.25% for equity Funds and 0.15% for fixed-income Funds. These fees for Class V shares are not paid pursuant to a Rule 12b-1 plan. See Class V Shareholder Service Fees below for more information. |
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Minimum Account Balance | |
Minimum
Account Balance |
|
For all classes and account types except those listed below |
$250
(None for accounts with
Systematic Investment Plans) |
Individual Retirement Accounts for all classes except those listed below | None |
Class Adv, Class Inst2, Class Inst3 and Class R | None |
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■ | negative impact on the Fund's performance; |
■ | potential dilution of the value of the Fund's shares; |
■ | interference with the efficient management of the Fund's portfolio, such as the need to maintain undesirably large cash positions, the need to use its line of credit or the need to buy or sell securities it otherwise would not have bought or sold; |
■ | losses on the sale of investments resulting from the need to sell securities at less favorable prices; |
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■ | increased taxable gains to the Fund's remaining shareholders resulting from the need to sell securities to meet sell orders; and |
■ | increased brokerage and administrative costs. |
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Minimum Initial Investments | ||
Minimum
Initial Investment (a) |
Minimum
Initial Investment for Accounts with Systematic Investment Plans |
|
For all classes and account types except those listed below | $2,000 | $100 (b) |
Individual Retirement Accounts for all classes except those listed below | $1,000 | $100 (c) |
Group retirement plans | None | N/A |
Class Adv and Class Inst | $0, $1,000 or $2,000 (d) | $100 (d) |
Class Inst2 and Class R | None | N/A |
Class Inst3 | $0, $1,000, $2,000 or $1 million (e) | $100 (e) |
(a) | If your Class A, Class Adv, Class C, Class Inst, Class Inst3 or Class V shares account balance falls below the minimum initial investment amount for any reason, including a market decline, you may be asked to increase it to the minimum initial investment amount or establish a monthly Systematic Investment Plan. If you do not do so, your account will be subject to a $20 annual low balance fee and/or shares may be automatically redeemed and the proceeds mailed to you if the account falls below the minimum account balance. See Buying, Selling and Exchanging Shares — Transaction Rules and Policies above. There is no minimum initial investment in Class A shares for accounts held in an omnibus account on a mutual fund only platform offered through your financial intermediary. |
(b) | Columbia Government Money Market Fund — $2,000 |
(c) | Columbia Government Money Market Fund — $1,000 |
(d) | The minimum initial investment in Class Adv shares is $2,000 ($1,000 for IRAs; $100 for systematic investment plan accounts) for commissionable brokerage platforms where the financial intermediary, acting as broker on behalf of its customers, charges the customer a commission for effecting transactions in Fund shares, provided that the financial intermediary has an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes offering Class Adv shares within such platform; for all other eligible Class Adv share investors (see Buying Shares – Eligible Investors – Class Adv Shares above), there is no minimum initial investment. The minimum initial investment amount for Class Inst shares is $0, $1,000 or $2,000 depending upon the category of eligible investor. See — Class Inst Shares Minimum Initial Investments below. The minimum initial investment amount for systematic investment plan accounts is the same as the amount set forth in the first two rows of the table, as applicable. |
(e) | There is no minimum initial investment in Class Inst3 shares for: group retirement plans that maintain plan-level or omnibus accounts with the Fund; collective trust funds; affiliated or unaffiliated mutual funds (e.g., funds operating as funds-of-funds); and fee-based platforms of financial |
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■ | Any health savings account sponsored by a third party platform. |
■ | Any investor participating in an account sponsored by a financial intermediary or other entity (that provides services to the account) that is paid a fee-based advisory fee by the investor and that is not compensated by the Fund for those services, other than payments for shareholder servicing or sub-accounting performed in place of the Transfer Agent. |
■ | Individual retirement accounts (IRAs) on commissionable brokerage platforms where the financial intermediary, acting as broker on behalf of its customer, charges the customer a commission for effecting transactions in Fund shares, provided that the financial intermediary has an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes offering Class Inst shares within such platform. |
■ | Any current employee of Columbia Management Investment Advisers LLC, the Distributor or the Transfer Agent and immediate family members of any of the foregoing who share the same address are eligible to invest in Class Inst shares through an individual retirement account (IRA). If you maintain your account with a financial intermediary, you must contact that financial intermediary each time you seek to purchase shares to notify them that you qualify for Class Inst shares. If Class Inst shares are not available at your financial intermediary, you may consider opening a Direct-at-Fund Account. It is your obligation to advise your financial intermediary or (in the case of Direct-at-Fund Accounts) the Transfer Agent that you qualify for Class Inst shares; be prepared to provide proof thereof. |
■ | Investors (except investors in individual retirement accounts (IRAs)) who purchase Fund shares through commissionable brokerage platforms where the financial intermediary holds the shares in an omnibus account and, acting as broker on behalf of its customer, charges the customer a commission for effecting transactions in Fund shares provided that the financial intermediary has an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes offering Class Inst shares within such platform. |
■ | Any current employee of Columbia Management Investment Advisers LLC, the Distributor or the Transfer Agent and immediate family members of any of the foregoing who share the same address are eligible to invest in Class Inst shares (other than individual retirement accounts (IRAs), for which the minimum initial investment is $1,000). If you maintain your account with a financial intermediary, you must contact that financial intermediary each time you seek to purchase shares to notify them that you qualify for Class Inst shares. If Class Inst shares are not available |
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at your financial intermediary, you may consider opening a Direct-at-Fund Account. It is your obligation to advise your financial intermediary or (in the case of Direct-at-Fund Accounts) the Transfer Agent that you qualify for Class Inst shares; be prepared to provide proof thereof. |
■ | Certain financial institutions and intermediaries, such as insurance companies, trust companies, banks, endowments, investment companies or foundations, buying shares for their own account, including Ameriprise Financial and its affiliates and/or subsidiaries. |
■ | Bank trust departments that assess their clients an asset-based fee. |
■ | Certain other investors as set forth in more detail in the SAI. |
■ | Once the Transfer Agent or your financial intermediary receives your purchase order in “good form,” your purchase will be made at the Fund’s next calculated public offering price per share, which is the NAV per share plus any sales charge that applies (i.e., the trade date). |
■ | Once the Fund receives your purchase request in “good form,” you cannot cancel it after the market closes. |
■ | You generally buy Class A, Class T and Class V shares at the public offering price per share because purchases of these share classes are generally subject to a front-end sales charge. |
■ | You buy Class Adv, Class C, Class Inst, Class Inst2, Class Inst3 and Class R shares at NAV per share because no front-end sales charge applies to purchases of these share classes. |
■ | The Distributor and the Transfer Agent reserve the right to cancel your order if the Fund does not receive payment within two business days of receiving your purchase order. The Fund will return any payment received for orders that have been cancelled, but no interest will be paid on that money. |
■ | Financial intermediaries are responsible for sending your purchase orders to the Transfer Agent and ensuring that the Fund receives your money on time. |
■ | Shares purchased are recorded on the books of the Fund. The Fund does not issue certificates. |
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■ | Once the Transfer Agent or your financial intermediary receives your redemption order in “good form,” your shares will be sold at the Fund’s next calculated NAV per share (i.e., the trade date). Any applicable CDSC will be deducted from the amount you're selling and the balance will be remitted to you. |
■ | Once the Fund receives your redemption request in “good form,” you cannot cancel it after the market closes. |
■ | If you sell your shares that are held in a Direct-at-Fund Account, we will normally send the redemption proceeds by mail or electronically transfer them to your bank account the next business day after the trade date. Note that your bank may take up to three business days to post an electronic funds transfer from your account. |
■ | If you sell your shares through a financial intermediary, the Funds will normally send the redemption proceeds to your financial intermediary within two business days after the trade date. |
■ | No interest will be paid on uncashed redemption checks. |
■ | Other restrictions may apply to retirement accounts. For information about these restrictions, contact your retirement plan administrator. |
■ | For broker-dealer and wrap fee accounts: The Fund reserves the right to redeem your shares if your account falls below the Fund's minimum initial investment requirement. The Fund will notify your broker-dealer prior to redeeming shares, and will provide details on how to avoid such redemption. |
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■ | Also keep in mind the Funds' Small Account Policy, which is described above in Buying, Selling and Exchanging Shares — Transaction Rules and Policies. |
■ | Exchanges are made at the NAV next calculated (plus any applicable sales charge) after your exchange order is received in “good form” (i.e., the trade date). |
■ | Once the Fund receives your exchange request in “good form,” you cannot cancel it after the market closes. |
■ | The rules for buying shares of a Fund generally apply to exchanges into that Fund, including, if your exchange creates a new Fund account, it must satisfy the minimum investment amount, unless a waiver applies. |
■ | Shares of the purchased Fund may not be used on the same day for another exchange or sale. |
■ | If you exchange shares from Class A shares of Columbia Government Money Market Fund to a non-money market Fund, any further exchanges must be between shares of the same class. For example, if you exchange from Class A shares of Columbia Government Money Market Fund into Class C shares of a non-money market Fund, you may not exchange from Class C shares of that non-money market Fund back to Class A shares of Columbia Government Money Market Fund or Class A shares of any other Fund. |
■ | A sales charge may apply when you exchange shares of a Fund that were not assessed a sales charge at the time you purchased such shares. If you invest through a Direct-at-Fund Account in Columbia Government Money Market Fund, Columbia Large Cap Enhanced Core Fund, Columbia Large Cap Index Fund, Columbia Mid Cap Index Fund, Columbia Small Cap Index Fund, Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund or any other Columbia Fund that does not impose a front-end sales charge and then you exchange into a Fund that does assess a sales charge, your transaction is subject to a front-end sales charge if you exchange into Class A shares and to a CDSC if you exchange into Class C shares of the Columbia Funds. |
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■ | If you purchased Class A shares of a Columbia Fund that imposes a front-end sales charge (and you paid any applicable sales charge) and you then exchange those shares into Columbia Government Money Market Fund, Columbia Large Cap Enhanced Core Fund, Columbia Large Cap Index Fund, Columbia Mid Cap Index Fund, Columbia Small Cap Index Fund, Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund or any other Columbia Fund that does not impose a front-end sales charge, you may exchange that amount to Class A of another Fund in the future, including dividends earned on that amount, without paying a sales charge. |
■ | If your shares are subject to a CDSC, you will not be charged a CDSC upon the exchange of those shares. Any CDSC will be deducted when you sell the shares you received from the exchange. The CDSC imposed at that time will be based on the period that begins when you bought shares of the original Fund and ends when you sell the shares of the Fund you received from the exchange. Any applicable CDSC charged will be the CDSC of the original Fund. |
■ | You may make exchanges only into a Fund that is legally offered and sold in your state of residence. Contact the Transfer Agent or your financial intermediary for more information. |
■ | You generally may make an exchange only into a Fund that is accepting investments. |
■ | The Fund may change or cancel your right to make an exchange by giving the amount of notice required by regulatory authorities (generally 60 days for a material change or cancellation). |
■ | Unless your account is part of a tax-advantaged arrangement, an exchange for shares of another Fund is a taxable event, and you may recognize a gain or loss for tax purposes. |
■ | Changing your investment to a different Fund will be treated as a sale and purchase, and you will be subject to applicable taxes on the sale and sales charges on the purchase of the new Fund. |
■ | Class Inst shares of a Fund may be exchanged for Class A or Class Inst shares of another Fund. In certain circumstances, the front-end sales charge applicable to Class A shares may be waived on exchanges of Class Inst shares for Class A shares. See Buying, Selling and Exchanging Shares — Buying Shares — Eligible Investors — Class Inst Shares for details. |
■ | You may generally exchange Class V shares of a Fund for Class A shares of another Fund if the other Fund does not offer Class V shares. Class V shares exchanged into Class A shares cannot be exchanged back into Class V shares. |
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■ | It can earn income on its investments. Examples of fund income are interest paid on money market instruments and bonds, and dividends paid on common stocks. |
■ | A mutual fund can also have capital gains if the value of its investments increases. While a fund continues to hold an investment, any gain is generally unrealized. If the fund sells an investment, it generally will realize a capital gain if it sells that investment for a higher price than its adjusted cost basis, and will generally realize a capital loss if it sells that investment for a lower price than its adjusted cost basis. Capital gains and losses are either short-term or long-term, depending on whether the fund holds the securities for one year or less (short-term) or more than one year (long-term). |
Declaration and Distribution Schedule | |
Declarations | Daily |
Distributions | Monthly |
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■ | The Fund intends to qualify and to be eligible for treatment each year as a regulated investment company. A regulated investment company generally is not subject to tax at the fund level on income and gains from investments that are distributed to shareholders. However, the Fund's failure to qualify for treatment as a regulated investment company would result in Fund-level taxation, and consequently, a reduction in income available for distribution to you and in the NAV of your shares. Even if the Fund qualifies for treatment as a regulated investment company, the Fund may be subject to federal excise tax on certain undistributed income or gains. |
■ | Otherwise taxable distributions generally are taxable to you when paid, whether they are paid in cash or automatically reinvested in additional Fund shares. Dividends paid in January are deemed paid on December 31 of the prior year if the dividend was declared and payable to shareholders of record in October, November, or December of such prior year. |
■ | Distributions of the Fund's ordinary income and net short-term capital gain, if any, generally are taxable to you as ordinary income. Distributions of the Fund's net long-term capital gain, if any, generally are taxable to you as long-term capital gain. Whether capital gains are long-term or short-term is determined by how long the Fund has owned the investments that generated them, rather than how long you have owned your shares. The Fund expects that distributions will consist primarily of ordinary income. |
■ | From time to time, a distribution from the Fund could constitute a return of capital, which is not taxable to you so long as the amount of the distribution does not exceed your tax basis in your Fund shares. A return of capital reduces your tax basis in your Fund shares, with any amounts exceeding such basis generally taxable as capital gain. |
■ | If you are an individual and you meet certain holding period and other requirements for your Fund shares, a portion of your distributions may be treated as “qualified dividend income” taxable at the lower net long-term capital gain rates instead of the higher ordinary income rates. Qualified dividend income is income attributable to the Fund's dividends received from certain U.S. and foreign corporations, as long as the Fund meets certain holding period and other requirements for the stock producing such dividends. The Fund does not expect a significant portion of Fund distributions to be eligible for treatment as qualified dividend income. |
■ | Certain high-income individuals (as well as estates and trusts) are subject to a 3.8% tax on net investment income. For individuals, the 3.8% tax applies to the lesser of (1) the amount (if any) by which the taxpayer's modified adjusted gross income exceeds certain threshold amounts or (2) the taxpayer's “net investment income.” |
Net investment income generally includes for this purpose dividends, including any capital gain dividends, paid by the Fund, and net gains recognized on the sale, redemption or exchange of shares of the Fund. |
■ | Certain derivative instruments when held in the Fund's portfolio subject the Fund to special tax rules, the effect of which may be to, among other things, accelerate income to the Fund, defer Fund losses, cause adjustments in the holding periods of Fund portfolio securities, or convert capital gains into ordinary income, short-term capital losses into long-term capital losses or long-term capital gains into short-term capital gains. These rules could therefore affect the amount, timing and/or character of distributions to shareholders. |
■ | Generally, a Fund realizes a capital gain or loss on an option when the option expires, or when it is exercised, sold or otherwise terminated. However, if an option is a “section 1256 contract,” which includes most traded options on a broad-based index, and the Fund holds such option at the end of its taxable year, the Fund is deemed to sell such option at fair market value at such time and recognize any gain or loss thereon, which is generally deemed to be 60% long-term and 40% short-term capital gain or loss, as described further in the SAI. |
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■ | Income and proceeds received by the Fund from sources within foreign countries may be subject to foreign taxes. If at the end of the taxable year more than 50% of the value of the Fund's assets consists of securities of foreign corporations, and the Fund makes a special election, you will generally be required to include in your income for U.S. federal income tax purposes your share of the qualifying foreign income taxes paid by the Fund in respect of its foreign portfolio securities. You may be able to claim a foreign tax credit or deduction in respect of this amount, subject to certain limitations. There is no assurance that the Fund will make this election for a taxable year, even if it is eligible to do so. |
■ | A sale, redemption or exchange of Fund shares is a taxable event. This includes redemptions where you are paid in securities. Your sales, redemptions and exchanges of Fund shares (including those paid in securities) usually will result in a taxable capital gain or loss to you, equal to the difference between the amount you receive for your shares (or are deemed to have received in the case of exchanges) and your adjusted tax basis in the shares, which is generally the amount you paid (or are deemed to have paid in the case of exchanges) for them. Any such capital gain or loss generally will be long-term capital gain or loss if you have held your Fund shares for more than one year at the time of sale or exchange. In certain circumstances, capital losses may be converted from short-term to long-term; in other circumstances, capital losses may be disallowed under the “wash sale” rules. |
■ | For sales, redemptions and exchanges of shares that were acquired in a non-qualified account after 2011, the Fund generally is required to report to shareholders and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) cost basis information with respect to those shares. The Fund uses average cost basis as its default method of calculating cost basis. For more information regarding average cost basis reporting, other available cost basis methods, and selecting or changing to a different cost basis method, please see the SAI, columbiathreadneedleus.com, or contact the Fund at 800.345.6611. If you hold Fund shares through a financial intermediary (e.g., a brokerage firm), you should contact your financial intermediary to learn about its cost basis reporting default method and the reporting elections available to your account. |
■ | The Fund is required by federal law to withhold tax on any taxable or tax-exempt distributions and redemption proceeds paid to you (including amounts paid to you in securities and amounts deemed to be paid to you upon an exchange of shares) if: you have not provided a correct TIN or have not certified to the Fund that withholding does not apply, the IRS has notified us that the TIN listed on your account is incorrect according to its records, or the IRS informs the Fund that you are otherwise subject to backup withholding. |
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Net
asset value,
beginning of period |
Net
investment income |
Net
realized and unrealized gain (loss) |
Total
from
investment operations |
Distributions
from net investment income |
Distributions
from net realized gains |
|
Class A | ||||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $10.11 | 0.26 | (0.23) | 0.03 | (0.26) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 | $10.00 | 0.26 | 0.11 | 0.37 | (0.26) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2016 | $10.18 | 0.31 | (0.18) | 0.13 | (0.31) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2015 | $10.20 | 0.28 | (0.02) | 0.26 | (0.28) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2014 | $10.67 | 0.29 | (0.14) | 0.15 | (0.29) | (0.33) |
Advisor Class | ||||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $10.10 | 0.28 | (0.23) | 0.05 | (0.28) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 | $9.99 | 0.28 | 0.11 | 0.39 | (0.28) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2016 | $10.16 | 0.33 | (0.17) | 0.16 | (0.33) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2015 | $10.19 | 0.31 | (0.03) | 0.28 | (0.31) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2014 | $10.65 | 0.31 | (0.13) | 0.18 | (0.31) | (0.33) |
Class C | ||||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $10.11 | 0.20 | (0.23) | (0.03) | (0.20) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 | $10.00 | 0.20 | 0.11 | 0.31 | (0.20) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2016 | $10.18 | 0.25 | (0.18) | 0.07 | (0.25) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2015 | $10.20 | 0.22 | (0.02) | 0.20 | (0.22) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2014 | $10.67 | 0.22 | (0.13) | 0.09 | (0.23) | (0.33) |
Institutional Class | ||||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $10.11 | 0.28 | (0.23) | 0.05 | (0.28) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 | $10.00 | 0.28 | 0.11 | 0.39 | (0.28) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2016 | $10.18 | 0.33 | (0.18) | 0.15 | (0.33) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2015 | $10.20 | 0.31 | (0.02) | 0.29 | (0.31) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2014 | $10.67 | 0.31 | (0.14) | 0.17 | (0.31) | (0.33) |
Institutional 2 Class | ||||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $10.09 | 0.29 | (0.22) | 0.07 | (0.29) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 | $9.98 | 0.29 | 0.11 | 0.40 | (0.29) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2016 | $10.16 | 0.34 | (0.18) | 0.16 | (0.34) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2015 | $10.19 | 0.32 | (0.03) | 0.29 | (0.32) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2014 | $10.65 | 0.33 | (0.13) | 0.20 | (0.33) | (0.33) |
Institutional 3 Class | ||||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $10.11 | 0.30 | (0.23) | 0.07 | (0.30) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 | $10.00 | 0.29 | 0.12 | 0.41 | (0.30) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2016 | $10.18 | 0.35 | (0.18) | 0.17 | (0.35) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2015 | $10.20 | 0.33 | (0.02) | 0.31 | (0.33) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2014 | $10.66 | 0.33 | (0.13) | 0.20 | (0.33) | (0.33) |
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Total
distributions to shareholders |
Net
asset value, end of period |
Total
return |
Total
gross
expense ratio to average net assets (a) |
Total
net
expense ratio to average net assets (a), (b) |
Net
investment
income ratio to average net assets |
Portfolio
turnover |
Net
assets, end of period (000's) |
(0.26) | $9.88 | 0.22% | 0.95% | 0.92% (c) | 2.52% | 78% | $63,283 |
(0.26) | $10.11 | 3.72% | 0.98% (d) | 0.91% (c), (d) | 2.56% | 76% | $81,802 |
(0.31) | $10.00 | 1.38% | 1.00% | 0.93% (c) | 3.15% | 50% | $98,149 |
(0.28) | $10.18 | 2.59% | 0.97% | 0.96% (c) | 2.75% | 78% | $129,902 |
(0.62) | $10.20 | 1.60% | 0.96% | 0.96% (c) | 2.80% | 105% | $120,603 |
(0.28) | $9.87 | 0.46% | 0.70% | 0.67% (c) | 2.75% | 78% | $9,009 |
(0.28) | $10.10 | 3.98% | 0.73% (d) | 0.66% (c), (d) | 2.81% | 76% | $12,534 |
(0.33) | $9.99 | 1.73% | 0.75% | 0.68% (c) | 3.42% | 50% | $15,459 |
(0.31) | $10.16 | 2.74% | 0.72% | 0.71% (c) | 3.01% | 78% | $18,384 |
(0.64) | $10.19 | 1.95% | 0.72% | 0.71% (c) | 3.13% | 105% | $11,454 |
(0.20) | $9.88 | (0.38%) | 1.70% | 1.52% (c) | 1.92% | 78% | $7,856 |
(0.20) | $10.11 | 3.10% | 1.73% (d) | 1.51% (c), (d) | 1.96% | 76% | $10,543 |
(0.25) | $10.00 | 0.78% | 1.75% | 1.53% (c) | 2.55% | 50% | $11,740 |
(0.22) | $10.18 | 1.98% | 1.72% | 1.56% (c) | 2.15% | 78% | $15,359 |
(0.56) | $10.20 | 0.99% | 1.71% | 1.56% (c) | 2.20% | 105% | $15,587 |
(0.28) | $9.88 | 0.47% | 0.69% | 0.66% (c) | 2.78% | 78% | $760,048 |
(0.28) | $10.11 | 3.98% | 0.73% (d) | 0.66% (c), (d) | 2.81% | 76% | $586,861 |
(0.33) | $10.00 | 1.64% | 0.75% | 0.68% (c) | 3.40% | 50% | $481,013 |
(0.31) | $10.18 | 2.84% | 0.72% | 0.71% (c) | 3.01% | 78% | $596,908 |
(0.64) | $10.20 | 1.85% | 0.71% | 0.71% (c) | 3.05% | 105% | $462,215 |
(0.29) | $9.87 | 0.67% | 0.59% | 0.57% | 2.86% | 78% | $1,782 |
(0.29) | $10.09 | 4.09% | 0.57% (d) | 0.55% (d) | 2.92% | 76% | $2,076 |
(0.34) | $9.98 | 1.76% | 0.57% | 0.56% | 3.53% | 50% | $1,459 |
(0.32) | $10.16 | 2.89% | 0.57% | 0.57% | 3.14% | 78% | $1,790 |
(0.66) | $10.19 | 2.09% | 0.57% | 0.57% | 3.17% | 105% | $1,630 |
(0.30) | $9.88 | 0.62% | 0.53% | 0.51% | 2.93% | 78% | $622,383 |
(0.30) | $10.11 | 4.14% | 0.54% (d) | 0.51% (d) | 2.91% | 76% | $542,814 |
(0.35) | $10.00 | 1.81% | 0.52% | 0.51% | 3.60% | 50% | $18,312 |
(0.33) | $10.18 | 3.04% | 0.52% | 0.52% | 3.24% | 78% | $12,581 |
(0.66) | $10.20 | 2.14% | 0.51% | 0.51% | 3.30% | 105% | $28 |
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Net
asset value,
beginning of period |
Net
investment income |
Net
realized and unrealized gain (loss) |
Total
from
investment operations |
Distributions
from net investment income |
Distributions
from net realized gains |
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Class T | ||||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $10.11 | 0.26 | (0.23) | 0.03 | (0.26) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 | $10.00 | 0.26 | 0.11 | 0.37 | (0.26) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2016 | $10.18 | 0.30 | (0.17) | 0.13 | (0.31) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2015 | $10.20 | 0.28 | (0.02) | 0.26 | (0.28) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2014 | $10.67 | 0.29 | (0.14) | 0.15 | (0.29) | (0.33) |
Notes to Financial Highlights | |
(a) | In addition to the fees and expenses that the Fund bears directly, the Fund indirectly bears a pro rata share of the fees and expenses of any other funds in which it invests. Such indirect expenses are not included in the Fund's reported expense ratios. |
(b) | Total net expenses include the impact of certain fee waivers/expense reimbursements made by the Investment Manager and certain of its affiliates, if applicable. |
(c) | The benefits derived from expense reductions had an impact of less than 0.01%. |
(d) | Expenses have been reduced due to a reimbursement of expenses overbilled by a third party. If the reimbursement had been excluded, the expense ratios would have been higher by the percentages shown for each class in the table below. All fee waivers and expense reimbursements by the Investment Manager and its affiliates were applied before giving effect to this third party reimbursement. |
Year Ended | Class A |
Advisor
Class |
Class C |
Institutional
Class |
Institutional
2
Class |
Institutional
3
Class |
Class T |
04/30/2017 | 0.01 % | 0.01 % | 0.01 % | 0.01 % | 0.01 % | 0.01 % | 0.01 % |
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Total
distributions to shareholders |
Net
asset value, end of period |
Total
return |
Total
gross
expense ratio to average net assets (a) |
Total
net
expense ratio to average net assets (a), (b) |
Net
investment
income ratio to average net assets |
Portfolio
turnover |
Net
assets, end of period (000's) |
(0.26) | $9.88 | 0.22% | 0.95% | 0.92% (c) | 2.52% | 78% | $351 |
(0.26) | $10.11 | 3.71% | 0.98% (d) | 0.91% (c), (d) | 2.60% | 76% | $656 |
(0.31) | $10.00 | 1.39% | 1.00% | 0.94% (c) | 3.09% | 50% | $33,250 |
(0.28) | $10.18 | 2.59% | 0.97% | 0.96% (c) | 2.75% | 78% | $125,035 |
(0.62) | $10.20 | 1.60% | 0.96% | 0.96% (c) | 2.81% | 105% | $132,166 |
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■ | Employer-sponsored retirement plans (e.g., 401(k) plans, 457 plans, employer-sponsored 403(b) plans, profit sharing and money purchase pension plans and defined benefit plans). For purposes of this provision, employer-sponsored retirement plans do not include SEP IRAs, Simple IRAs or SAR-SEPs. |
■ | Shares purchased through an Ameriprise Financial Services investment advisory program (if an Advisory or similar share class for such investment advisory program is not available). |
■ | Shares purchased by third party investment advisors on behalf of their advisory clients through Ameriprise Financial Services’ platform (if an Advisory or similar share class for such investment advisory program is not available). |
■ | Shares purchased through reinvestment of dividends and capital gain distributions when purchasing shares of the same Fund (but not any other fund within the same fund family). |
■ | Shares exchanged from Class C shares of the same fund in the month of or following the 10-year anniversary of the purchase date. To the extent that this prospectus elsewhere provides for a waiver with respect to such shares following a shorter holding period, that waiver will apply to exchanges following such shorter period. To the extent that this prospectus elsewhere provides for a waiver with respect to exchanges of Class C shares for load waived shares, that waiver will also apply to such exchanges. |
■ | Employees and registered representatives of Ameriprise Financial Services or its affiliates and their immediate family members. |
■ | Shares purchased by or through qualified accounts (including IRAs, Coverdell Education Savings Accounts, 401(k)s, 403(b) TSCAs subject to ERISA and defined benefit plans) that are held by a covered family member, defined as an Ameriprise financial advisor and/or the advisor’s spouse, advisor’s lineal ascendant (mother, father, grandmother, grandfather, great grandmother, great grandfather), advisor’s lineal descendant (son, step-son, daughter, step-daughter, grandson, granddaughter, great grandson, great granddaughter) or any spouse of a covered family member who is a lineal descendant. |
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■ | Shares purchased from the proceeds of redemptions within the same fund family, provided (1) the repurchase occurs within 90 days following the redemption, (2) the redemption and purchase occur in the same account, and (3) redeemed shares were subject to a front-end or deferred sales load (i.e., rights of reinstatement). |
■ | Rights of Accumulation (ROA) which entitle shareholders to breakpoint discounts will be automatically calculated based on the aggregated holding of fund family assets held by accounts within the purchaser’s household at Merrill Lynch. Eligible fund family assets not held at Merrill Lynch may be included in the ROA calculation only if the shareholder notifies his or her financial advisor about such assets. |
■ | Letters of Intent (LOI) which allow for breakpoint discounts based on anticipated purchases within a fund family, through Merrill Lynch, over a 13-month period of time (if applicable). |
■ | Employer-sponsored retirement, deferred compensation and employee benefit plans (including health savings accounts) and trusts used to fund those plans, provided that the plan is a group plan (more than one participant), the shares are not held in a commission-based brokerage account and shares are held in the name of the plan through an omnibus account |
■ | Shares purchased by or through a 529 Plan |
■ | Shares purchased through a Merrill Lynch affiliated investment advisory program |
■ | Shares purchased by third party investment advisors on behalf of their advisory clients through Merrill Lynch’s platform |
■ | Shares of funds purchased through the Merrill Edge Self-Directed platform |
■ | Shares purchased through reinvestment of capital gains distributions and dividend reinvestment when purchasing shares of the same Fund (but not any other fund within the same fund family) |
■ | Shares exchanged from Class C (i.e., level-load) shares of the same fund in the month of or following the 10-year anniversary of the purchase date |
■ | Employees and registered representatives of Merrill Lynch or its affiliates and their family members |
■ | Directors or Trustees of the Fund, and employees of the Fund’s investment adviser or any of its affiliates, as described in this prospectus |
■ | Shares purchased from the proceeds of redemptions within the same fund family, provided (1) the repurchase occurs within 90 days following the redemption, (2) the redemption and purchase occur in the same account, and (3) redeemed shares were subject to a front-end or deferred sales load (known as Rights of Reinstatement). |
■ | Shares redeemed following the death or disability of the shareholder |
■ | Shares sold as part of a systematic withdrawal plan as described in this prospectus |
■ | Redemptions that constitute a return of excess contributions from an IRA |
■ | Shares sold as part of a required minimum distribution for IRA and retirement accounts due to the shareholder reaching age 70½ |
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■ | Shares sold to pay Merrill Lynch fees but only if the transaction is initiated by Merrill Lynch |
■ | There will be no CDSC charged on the sale of Fund shares acquired through a right of reinstatement |
■ | The redemption of shares held in retirement brokerage accounts, that are exchanged for a lower cost share class due to transfer to a fee based account or platform (applicable to Class A and Class C shares only). |
■ | Employer-sponsored retirement plans (e.g., 401(k) plans, 457 plans, employer-sponsored 403(b) plans, profit sharing and money purchase pension plans and defined benefit plans). For purposes of this provision, employer-sponsored retirement plans do not include SEP IRAs, Simple IRAs, SAR-SEPs or Keogh plans |
■ | Morgan Stanley employee and employee-related accounts according to Morgan Stanley’s account linking rules |
■ | Shares purchased through reinvestment of dividends and capital gains distributions when purchasing shares of the same fund |
■ | Shares purchased through a Morgan Stanley self-directed brokerage account |
■ | Class C (i.e., level-load) shares that are no longer subject to a contingent deferred sales charge and are converted to Class A shares of the same fund pursuant to Morgan Stanley Wealth Management’s share class conversion program |
■ | Shares purchased from the proceeds of redemptions within the same fund family, provided (i) the repurchase occurs within 90 days following the redemption, (ii) the redemption and purchase occur in the same account, and (iii) redeemed shares were subject to a front-end or deferred sales charge. |
■ | Employer-sponsored retirement plans (e.g., 401(k) plans, 457 plans, employer-sponsored 403(b) plans, profit sharing and money purchase pension plans and defined benefit plans). For purposes of this provision, employer-sponsored retirement plans do not include SEP IRAs, Simple IRAs, SAR-SEPs or Keogh plans; however these plans are eligible to purchase Class T shares through a transactional brokerage account. |
■ | Morgan Stanley Wealth Management employee and employee-related accounts according to Morgan Stanley’s account linking rules. |
■ | Mutual fund shares exchanged from an existing position in the same fund as part of a share class conversion instituted by Morgan Stanley Wealth Management. |
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■ | For employer-sponsored retirement plans held through a commissionable brokerage account, Class A shares are available at NAV (i.e., without a sales charge). For this purpose, employer-sponsored retirement plans include, but are not limited to, 401(k) plans, 457 plans, employer-sponsored 403(b) plans, profit sharing and money purchase pension plans and defined benefit plans. For purposes of this provision, employer-sponsored retirement plans do not include SEP IRAs, Simple IRAs, SAR-SEPs or Keogh plans. |
Prospectus 2018 | A-4 |
* | Please note, effective November 1, 2018, the Fund’s mailing address is changed to Columbia Management Investment Services Corp., P.O. Box 219104, Kansas City, MO 64121-9104. |
Class | Ticker Symbol | |
A | CLNAX | |
Advisor (Class Adv) (a) | CLNFX | |
C | CLCNX | |
Institutional (Class Inst) (a) | CLNZX | |
Institutional 2 (Class Inst2) (a) | CLNVX | |
Institutional 3 (Class Inst3) (a) | CMUYX | |
T | CLNWX |
(a) | Prior to November 1, 2017, Class Adv shares were known as Class R4 shares, Class Inst shares were known as Class Z shares, Class Inst2 shares were known as Class R5 shares, and Class Inst3 shares were known as Class Y shares. |
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(a) | This charge is imposed on certain investments of between $1 million and $50 million redeemed within 18 months after purchase, as follows: 1.00% if redeemed within 12 months after purchase, and 0.50% if redeemed more than 12, but less than 18, months after purchase, with certain limited exceptions. |
(b) | This charge applies to redemptions within 12 months after purchase, with certain limited exceptions. |
(c) | “Total annual Fund operating expenses” include acquired fund fees and expenses (expenses the Fund incurs indirectly through its investments in other investment companies) and may be higher than “Total Net Expenses” shown in the Financial Highlights section of this prospectus because “Total Net Expenses” do not include acquired fund fees and expenses. |
(d) | Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and certain of its affiliates have contractually agreed to waive fees and/or to reimburse expenses (excluding transaction costs and certain other investment related expenses, interest, taxes and infrequent and/or unusual expenses) through August 31, 2019, unless sooner terminated at the sole discretion of the Fund’s Board of Trustees. Under this agreement, the Fund’s net operating expenses, subject to applicable exclusions, will not exceed the annual rates of 0.99% for Class A, 0.74% for Class Adv, 1.74% for Class C, 0.74% for Class Inst, 0.68% for Class Inst2, 0.62% for Class Inst3 and 0.99% for Class T. |
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■ | you invest $10,000 in the applicable class of Fund shares for the periods indicated, |
■ | your investment has a 5% return each year, and |
■ | the Fund’s total annual operating expenses remain the same as shown in the Annual Fund Operating Expenses table above. |
1 year | 3 years | 5 years | 10 years | |
Class A (whether or not shares are redeemed) | $571 | $838 | $1,126 | $1,942 |
Class Adv (whether or not shares are redeemed) | $ 76 | $303 | $ 549 | $1,255 |
Class C (assuming redemption of all shares at the end of the period) | $277 | $613 | $1,075 | $2,355 |
Class C (assuming no redemption of shares) | $177 | $613 | $1,075 | $2,355 |
Class Inst (whether or not shares are redeemed) | $ 76 | $303 | $ 549 | $1,255 |
Class Inst2 (whether or not shares are redeemed) | $ 69 | $284 | $ 517 | $1,185 |
Class Inst3 (whether or not shares are redeemed) | $ 63 | $265 | $ 484 | $1,115 |
Class T (whether or not shares are redeemed) | $348 | $622 | $ 916 | $1,752 |
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Year
by Year Total Return (%)
as of December 31 Each Year* |
Best
and Worst Quarterly Returns
During the Period Shown in the Bar Chart |
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|
Best | 2nd Quarter 2016 | 4.33% |
Worst
|
4th Quarter 2016 | -0.85% |
* | Year to Date return as of June 30, 2018: -0.54% |
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Share
Class
Inception Date |
1 Year | Life of Fund | |
Class A | 03/27/2015 | ||
returns before taxes | 3.79% | 2.87% | |
returns after taxes on distributions | 1.68% | 0.68% | |
returns after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund shares | 2.15% | 1.17% | |
Class Adv returns before taxes | 03/27/2015 | 9.19% | 4.97% |
Class C returns before taxes | 03/27/2015 | 7.22% | 3.96% |
Class Inst returns before taxes | 03/27/2015 | 9.18% | 5.01% |
Class Inst2 returns before taxes | 03/27/2015 | 9.23% | 5.05% |
Class Inst3 returns before taxes | 03/01/2017 | 9.24% | 4.81% |
Class T returns before taxes | 03/27/2015 | 6.24% | 3.78% |
Blended Benchmark (consisting of 60% Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index and 40% S&P 500 Index) (reflects no deductions for fees, expenses or taxes) | 10.55% | 6.03% | |
Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (reflects no deductions for fees, expenses or taxes) | 3.54% | 1.89% |
Portfolio Manager | Title | Role with Fund | Managed Fund Since | |||
Anwiti Bahuguna, Ph.D. | Senior Portfolio Manager and Head of Multi Asset Strategy | Lead Portfolio Manager | 2015 | |||
Dan Boncarosky, CFA | Portfolio Manager | Portfolio Manager | 2015 |
Online | Regular Mail | Express Mail | By Telephone | |||
Through October 31, 2018 | Through October 31, 2018 | |||||
columbiathreadneedleus.com/investor/ |
Columbia
Management
Investment Services Corp. P.O. Box 8081 Boston, MA 02266-8081 |
Columbia
Management
Investment Services Corp. c/o DST Asset Manager Solutions, Inc. 30 Dan Road, Suite 8081 Canton, MA 02021-2809 |
800.422.3737 | |||
Regular Mail | Express Mail | |||||
Effective November 1, 2018 | Effective November 1, 2018 | |||||
Columbia
Management
Investment Services Corp. P.O. Box 219104 Kansas City, MO 64121-9104 |
Columbia
Management
Investment Services Corp. c/o DST Asset Manager Solutions, Inc. 430 W 7 th Street, Suite 219104 Kansas City, MO 64105-1407 |
* | Based on the dates noted above, mail received at an incorrect address will be forwarded to the correct address, and will not be processed until received, in “good form,” at the correct address. This may affect the trade date you receive for transaction requests, which may negatively impact the value of your purchase or sale. |
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Class | Category of eligible account |
For
accounts other than
systematic investment plan accounts |
For
systematic investment
plan accounts |
Classes A, C & T (a) | All accounts other than IRAs | $2,000 | $100 |
IRAs | $1,000 | $100 | |
Classes Adv & Inst | All eligible accounts |
$0,
$1,000 or $2,000
depending upon the category of eligible investor |
$100 |
Class Inst2 | All eligible accounts | None | N/A |
Class Inst3 | All eligible accounts |
$0,
$1,000, $2,000
or $1 million depending upon the category of eligible investor |
$100
(for certain
eligible investors) |
(a) | Class T shares must be purchased through financial intermediaries that, by written agreement with Columbia Management Investment Distributors, Inc., are specifically authorized to sell Class T shares. |
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■ | An equity future is a derivative that is an agreement for the contract holder to buy or sell a specified amount of an individual equity, a basket of equities or the securities in an equity index on a specified date at a predetermined price. |
■ | An interest rate future is a derivative that is an agreement whereby the buyer and seller agree to the future delivery of an interest-bearing instrument on a specific date at a pre-determined price. Examples include Treasury-bill futures, Treasury-bond futures and Eurodollar futures. |
■ | An equity-linked note (ELN) is a derivative (structured investment) that has principal and/or interest payments based on the value of a single equity security, a basket of equity securities or an index of equity securities, and generally has risks similar to these underlying equity securities. ELNs may be leveraged or unleveraged. An ELN typically provides interest income, thereby offering a yield advantage over investing directly in an underlying equity. The Fund may purchase ELNs that trade on a securities exchange or those that trade on the over-the-counter markets, as well as in privately negotiated transactions with the issuer of the ELN. Investments in ELNs are also subject to liquidity risk, which may make ELNs difficult to sell and value. The liquidity of unlisted ELNs is normally determined by the willingness of the issuer to make a market in the ELN. While the Fund will seek to purchase ELNs only from issuers that it believes to be willing and able to repurchase the ELN at a reasonable price, there can be no assurance that the Fund will be able to sell at such a price. Furthermore, such inability to sell may impair the Fund’s ability to enter into other transactions at a time when doing so might be advantageous. The Fund’s investments in ELNs have the potential to lead to significant losses, including the amount the Fund invested in the ELN, because ELNs are subject to the market and volatility risks associated with their underlying |
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equity. In addition, because ELNs often take the form of unsecured notes of the issuer, the Fund would be subject to the risk that the issuer may default on its obligations under the ELN, thereby subjecting the Fund to the further risk of being too concentrated in the securities (including ELNs) of that issuer. However, the Fund typically considers ELNs alongside other securities of the issuer in its assessment of issuer concentration risk. In addition, ELNs may exhibit price behavior that does not correlate with the underlying securities. ELNs may also be subject to leverage risk. The Fund may or may not hold an ELN until its maturity. |
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Columbia Multi-Asset Income Fund | |
Class A | 0.99% |
Class Adv | 0.74% |
Class C | 1.74% |
Class Inst | 0.74% |
Class Inst2 | 0.68% |
Class Inst3 | 0.62% |
Class T | 0.99% |
Prospectus 2018 | 29 |
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Portfolio Manager | Title | Role with Fund | Managed Fund Since | |||
Anwiti Bahuguna, Ph.D. | Senior Portfolio Manager and Head of Multi Asset Strategy | Lead Portfolio Manager | 2015 | |||
Dan Boncarosky, CFA | Portfolio Manager | Portfolio Manager | 2015 |
Prospectus 2018 | 31 |
■ | compensation and other benefits received by the Investment Manager and other Ameriprise Financial affiliates related to the management/administration of a Columbia Fund and the sale of its shares; |
■ | the allocation of, and competition for, investment opportunities among the Fund, other funds and accounts advised/managed by the Investment Manager and other Ameriprise Financial affiliates, or Ameriprise Financial itself and its affiliates; |
■ | separate and potentially divergent management of a Columbia Fund and other funds and accounts advised/managed by the Investment Manager and other Ameriprise Financial affiliates; |
■ | regulatory and other investment restrictions on investment activities of the Investment Manager and other Ameriprise Financial affiliates and accounts advised/managed by them; |
■ | insurance and other relationships of Ameriprise Financial affiliates with companies and other entities in which a Columbia Fund invests; and |
■ | regulatory and other restrictions relating to the sharing of information between Ameriprise Financial and its affiliates, including the Investment Manager, and a Columbia Fund. |
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* | The website references in this prospectus are inactive links and information contained in or otherwise accessible through the referenced websites does not form a part of this prospectus. |
** | Based on the date noted above, mail received at an incorrect address will be forwarded to the correct address, and will not be processed until received, in “good form,” at the correct address. This may affect the trade date you receive for transaction requests, which may negatively impact the value of your purchase or sale. |
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■ | The amount you plan to invest. |
■ | How long you intend to remain invested in the Fund. |
■ | The fees (e.g., sales charge or “load”) and expenses for each share class. |
■ | Whether you may be eligible for a reduction or waiver of sales charges when you buy or sell shares. |
■ | The net asset value (NAV) per share is the price of a share calculated by the Fund every business day. |
■ | The offering price per share is the NAV per share plus any front-end sales charge (or load) that applies. |
Prospectus 2018 | 35 |
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Share Class |
Eligible
Investors
(a)
;
Minimum Initial Investments (b) ; Conversion Features (c) |
Front-End
Sales Charges (d) |
Contingent
Deferred
Sales Charges (CDSCs) (d) |
Sales
Charge
Reductions/Waivers |
Maximum
Distribution
and/or Service Fees (e) |
acting
as broker on behalf of its customer, charges the customer a commission for effecting transactions in Fund shares, provided that the financial intermediary has an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes offering Class Adv shares
within such platform.
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Class C |
Eligibility:
Available to the general public for investment
|
None | 1.00% on certain investments redeemed within one year of purchase (h) |
Waivers
: Yes, on Fund distribution reinvestments. For additional waivers, see
Choosing a Share Class – CDSC Waivers – Class A, Class C and Class V
|
Distribution
Fee:
0.75%
|
Class
Inst |
Eligibility: Available only to certain eligible investors, which are subject to different minimum investment requirements, ranging from $0 to $2,000, including investors who purchase Fund shares through commissionable brokerage platforms where the financial intermediary holds the shares in an omnibus account and, acting as broker on behalf of its customer, charges the customer a commission for effecting transactions in Fund shares, provided that the financial intermediary has an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes offering Class Inst shares within such platform; closed to (i) accounts of financial intermediaries that clear Fund share transactions for their client or customer accounts through designated financial intermediaries and their mutual fund | None | None | N/A | None |
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Share Class |
Eligible
Investors
(a)
;
Minimum Initial Investments (b) ; Conversion Features (c) |
Front-End
Sales Charges (d) |
Contingent
Deferred
Sales Charges (CDSCs) (d) |
Sales
Charge
Reductions/Waivers |
Maximum
Distribution
and/or Service Fees (e) |
trading
platforms that have been given specific written notice from the Transfer Agent of the termination of their eligibility for new purchases of Class Inst shares and (ii) omnibus group retirement plans, subject to certain exceptions
(i)
|
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Class
Inst2 |
Eligibility:
Available only to (i) certain registered investment advisers and family offices that clear Fund share transactions for their client or customer accounts through designated financial intermediaries and their mutual
fund trading platforms that have been granted specific written authorization from the Transfer Agent with respect to Class
Inst2 eligibility apart from selling, servicing or similar agreements; (ii) omnibus
retirement plans
(i)
; and (iii) institutional investors that are clients of the Columbia Threadneedle Global Institutional Distribution Team that invest
in Class
Inst2 shares for their own account through platforms approved by the Distributor or an affiliate thereof to offer and/or service Class
Inst2 shares within such
platform.
|
None | None | N/A | None |
Class
Inst3 |
Eligibility: Available to (i) group retirement plans that maintain plan-level or omnibus accounts with the Fund (i) ; (ii) institutional investors that are clients of the Columbia Threadneedle Global Institutional Distribution Team that invest in Class Inst3 shares for their own account through platforms approved by the Distributor or an affiliate thereof to offer and/or service Class Inst3 shares within such platform; (iii) collective trust funds; (iv) affiliated or unaffiliated mutual funds (e.g., funds operating as funds-of-funds); (v) fee-based platforms of financial intermediaries (or the clearing intermediary they trade through) that have an agreement with the Distributor or an affiliate thereof that specifically authorizes the financial intermediary to offer and/or service Class Inst3 shares within such platform, provided also that Fund shares are held in an omnibus account; (vi) commissionable brokerage platforms where the | None | None | N/A | None |
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Share Class |
Eligible
Investors
(a)
;
Minimum Initial Investments (b) ; Conversion Features (c) |
Front-End
Sales Charges (d) |
Contingent
Deferred
Sales Charges (CDSCs) (d) |
Sales
Charge
Reductions/Waivers |
Maximum
Distribution
and/or Service Fees (e) |
financial
intermediary, acting as broker on behalf of its customer, charges the customer a commission for effecting transactions in Fund shares, provided that the financial intermediary has an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes
offering Class Inst3 shares within such platform and that Fund shares are held in an omnibus account; and (vii) bank trust departments, subject to an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes offering Class Inst3 shares and
provided that Fund shares are held in an omnibus account. In each case above where noted that Fund shares are required to be held in an omnibus account, the Distributor may, in its discretion, determine to waive this requirement.
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Class R |
Eligibility:
Available only to eligible retirement plans, health savings accounts and, in the sole discretion of the Distributor, other types of retirement accounts held through platforms maintained by financial intermediaries
approved by the Distributor
|
None | None | N/A |
Series
of CFST & CFST I:
distribution fee of 0.50%
|
Class T |
Eligibility
: Available to the general public (purchasing through a Class T Intermediary)
|
Per
Transaction
:
2.50% $499,999: 2.00% $999,999: 1.50% 1.00% |
None |
Waivers
: Yes,
(i) on Fund distribution reinvestments; (ii) on exchanges of Class T shares of the Fund from, at the discretion of Class T Intermediaries, another class of shares of the same Fund held in accounts of Class T Intermediaries, provided that (a) the other share class may only be exchanged for Class T shares if your financial intermediary does not offer that other share class on the intermediary’s commission-based platform, and (b) unless waived in the Distributor’s |
Distribution and/or Service Fees : 0.25% |
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Share Class |
Eligible
Investors
(a)
;
Minimum Initial Investments (b) ; Conversion Features (c) |
Front-End
Sales Charges (d) |
Contingent
Deferred
Sales Charges (CDSCs) (d) |
Sales
Charge
Reductions/Waivers |
Maximum
Distribution
and/or Service Fees (e) |
discretion,
shares of the class to be exchanged are held in a networked or omnibus account with the Fund; and
(iii) on purchases within fee-based accounts, provided that the Class T Intermediary has an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes offering Class T shares within the designated fee-based platform. |
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Class V |
Eligibility:
Generally closed to new investors
(i)
|
5.75% maximum, declining to 0.00% on investments of $1 million or more |
CDSC
on certain investments of between $1 million and $50 million redeemed within 18 months after purchase, charged as follows:
|
Reductions
: Yes, see
Choosing a Share Class — Reductions/Waivers of Sales Charges – Class A and Class V Shares Front-End Sales Charge Reductions
|
Service Fee: up to 0.50% |
(a) | For Columbia Government Money Market Fund, new investments must be made in Class A, Class Inst, Class Inst3, Class R or Class T shares, subject to eligibility. Class C shares of Columbia Government Money Market Fund are available as a new investment only to investors in the Distributor's proprietary 401(k) products, provided that such investor is eligible to invest in the class and transact directly with the Fund or the Transfer Agent through a third party administrator or third party recordkeeper. Columbia Government Money Market Fund offers Class Inst2 shares only to facilitate exchanges with other Funds offering such share class. |
(b) | Certain share classes are subject to minimum account balance requirements, as described in Buying, Selling and Exchanging Shares — Transaction Rules and Policies. |
(c) | For more information on the automatic conversion of Class C shares to Class A shares, see Choosing a Share Class - Sales Charges and Commissions - Class C Shares - Automatic Conversion to Class A Shares . |
(d) | Actual front-end sales charges and CDSCs vary among the Funds. For more information on applicable sales charges, see Choosing a Share Class — Sales Charges and Commissions, and for information about certain exceptions to these sales charges, see Choosing a Share Class — Reductions/Waivers of Sales Charges. |
(e) | These are the maximum applicable distribution and/or service fees. Except for Class V shares, these fees are paid under the Fund’s Rule 12b-1 plan. Fee rates and fee components (i.e., the portion of a combined fee that is a distribution or service fee) may vary among Funds. Because these fees are paid out of Fund assets on an ongoing basis, over time these fees will increase the cost of your investment and may cost you more than paying other types of distribution and/or service fees. Although Class A shares of certain series of CFST I are subject to a combined distribution and service fee of up to 0.35%, these Funds currently limit the combined fee to 0.25%. Columbia Government Money Market Fund pays a distribution and service fee of up to 0.10% on Class A shares and up to 0.75% distribution fee on Class C shares. Columbia AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia High Yield Municipal Fund and Columbia Tax-Exempt Fund each pay a service fee of up to 0.20% on Class A and Class C shares. Columbia AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund pays a distribution fee of up to 0.65% on Class C shares. For more information on distribution and service fees, see Choosing a Share Class — Distribution and Service Fees. |
(f) | For Columbia Short Term Municipal Bond Fund, a CDSC of 0.50% is charged on certain investments of $500,000 or more redeemed within 12 months after purchase. The following Funds are not subject to a front-end sales charge or a CDSC on Class A shares: Columbia Government Money Market Fund, Columbia Large Cap Enhanced Core Fund, Columbia Large Cap Index Fund, Columbia Mid Cap Index Fund, Columbia Small Cap Index Fund and Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund. |
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(g) | If you are eligible to invest in Class A shares without a front-end sales charge, you should discuss your options with your financial intermediary. For more information, see Choosing a Share Class – Reductions/Waivers of Sales Charges. |
(h) | There is no CDSC on redemptions from Class C shares of Columbia Government Money Market Fund. |
(i) | These share classes are closed to new accounts, or closed to previously eligible investors, subject to certain conditions, as summarized below and described in more detail under Buying, Selling and Exchanging Shares — Buying Shares — Eligible Investors: |
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■ | depends on the amount you are investing (generally, the larger the investment, the smaller the percentage sales charge), and |
■ | is based on the total amount of your purchase and the value of your account (and any other accounts eligible for aggregation of which you or your financial intermediary notifies the Fund). |
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Class A Shares — Front-End Sales Charge — Breakpoint Schedule* | ||||
Breakpoint Schedule For: |
Dollar
amount of
shares bought (a) |
Sales
charge as a % of the offering price (b) |
Sales
charge as a % of the net amount invested (b) |
Amount
retained by or paid to financial intermediaries as a % of the offering price |
Fixed
Income Funds (except those listed below),
Columbia Multi-Asset Income Fund and Funds-of-Funds (fixed income)* |
$ 0-$49,999 | 4.75% | 4.99% | 4.00% |
$ 50,000–$99,999 | 4.25% | 4.44% | 3.50% | |
$100,000–$249,999 | 3.50% | 3.63% | 3.00% | |
$250,000–$499,999 | 2.50% | 2.56% | 2.15% | |
$500,000–$999,999 | 2.00% | 2.04% | 1.75% | |
$ 1,000,000 or more | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% (c) | |
Tax-Exempt Funds (other than Columbia Short Term Municipal Bond Fund) | $ 0-$99,999 | 3.00% | 3.09% | 2.50% |
$100,000–$249,999 | 2.50% | 2.56% | 2.15% | |
$250,000–$499,999 | 1.50 % | 1.53% | 1.25% | |
$ 500,000 or more | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% (c) | |
Columbia
Absolute Return Currency and Income Fund,
Columbia Floating Rate Fund, Columbia Inflation Protected Securities Fund, Columbia Limited Duration Credit Fund, Columbia Mortgage Opportunities Fund, Columbia Quality Income Fund, and Columbia Total Return Bond Fund |
$ 0-$99,999 | 3.00% | 3.09% | 2.50% |
$100,000–$249,999 | 2.50% | 2.56% | 2.15% | |
$250,000–$499,999 | 2.00% | 2.04% | 1.75% | |
$500,000–$999,999 | 1.50% | 1.52% | 1.25% | |
$ 1,000,000 or more | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% (c) | |
Columbia Short Term Bond Fund | $ 0-$99,999 | 1.00% | 1.01% | 0.75% |
$100,000–$249,999 | 0.75% | 0.76% | 0.50% | |
$250,000–$999,999 | 0.50% | 0.50% | 0.40% | |
$ 1,000,000 or more | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% (c) | |
Columbia Short Term Municipal Bond Fund | $ 0-$99,999 | 1.00% | 1.01% | 0.75% |
$100,000–$249,999 | 0.75% | 0.76% | 0.50% | |
$250,000–$499,999 | 0.50% | 0.50% | 0.40% | |
$ 500,000 or more | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% (c) | |
* | The following Funds are not subject to a front-end sales charge or CDSC on Class A shares: Columbia Government Money Market Fund, Columbia Large Cap Enhanced Core Fund, Columbia Large Cap Index Fund, Columbia Mid Cap Index Fund, Columbia Small Cap Index Fund and Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund. "Funds-of-Funds (equity)" includes Columbia Capital Allocation Aggressive Portfolio, Columbia Capital Allocation Moderate Aggressive Portfolio, Columbia Capital Allocation Moderate Conservative Portfolio, Columbia Capital Allocation Moderate Portfolio and Columbia Global Strategic Equity Fund . "Funds-of-Funds (fixed income)" includes Columbia Capital Allocation Conservative Portfolio and Columbia Income Builder Fund. Columbia Balanced Fund, Columbia Flexible Capital Income Fund and Columbia Global Opportunities Fund are treated as equity Funds for purposes of the table. |
(a) | Purchase amounts and account values may be aggregated among all eligible Fund accounts for the purposes of this table. See Choosing a Share Class — Reductions/Waivers of Sales Charges for a discussion of account value aggregation. |
(b) | Because the offering price is calculated to two decimal places, the dollar amount of the sales charge as a percentage of the offering price and your net amount invested for any particular purchase of Fund shares may be higher or lower depending on whether downward or upward rounding was required during the calculation process. Purchase price includes the sales charge. |
(c) | For information regarding cumulative commissions paid to your financial intermediary when you buy $1 million or more of Class A shares of a Taxable Fund or $500,000 or more of Class A shares of a Tax-Exempt Fund, see Class A Shares — Commissions below. |
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■ | If you purchased Class A shares of any Tax-Exempt Fund (other than Columbia Short Term Municipal Bond Fund and Columbia U.S. Social Bond Fund) without paying a front-end sales charge because your eligible accounts aggregated $500,000 or more at the time of purchase, you will incur a CDSC of 0.75% if you redeem those shares within 12 months after purchase. Subsequent Class A share purchases that bring your aggregate account value to $500,000 or more will also be subject to a CDSC of 0.75% if you redeem those shares within 12 months after purchase. |
■ | If you purchased Class A shares of Columbia Short Term Municipal Bond Fund without paying a front-end sales charge because your eligible accounts aggregated $500,000 or more at the time of purchase, you will incur a CDSC of 0.50% if you redeem those shares within 12 months after purchase. Subsequent Class A share purchases that bring your aggregate account value to $500,000 or more will also be subject to a CDSC of 0.50% if you redeem those shares within 12 months after purchase. |
■ | If you purchased Class A shares of Columbia U.S. Social Bond Fund without paying a front-end sales charge because your eligible accounts aggregated $500,000 or more at the time of purchase, you will incur a CDSC of 0.75% if you redeem those shares within 12 months after purchase. Subsequent Class A share purchases that bring your aggregate account value to $500,000 or more will also be subject to a CDSC of 0.75% if you redeem those shares within 12 months after purchase. |
■ | If you purchased Class A shares of any Taxable Fund without paying a front-end sales charge because your eligible accounts aggregated between $1 million and $50 million at the time of purchase, you will incur a CDSC if you redeem those shares within 18 months after purchase, which is charged as follows: 1.00% CDSC if shares are redeemed within 12 months after purchase; and 0.50% CDSC if shares are redeemed more than 12, but less than 18, months after purchase. Subsequent Class A share purchases that bring your aggregate account value to $1 million or more (but less than $50 million) will also be subject to a CDSC if you redeem them within 18 months after purchase as described in the previous sentence. |
Class A Shares of Tax-Exempt Funds — Commission Schedule (Paid by the Distributor to Financial Intermediaries) | |
Purchase Amount |
Commission
Level*
(as a % of net asset value per share) |
$500,000 – $3,999,999 | 0.75%** |
$4 million – $19,999,999 | 0.50% |
$20 million or more | 0.25% |
* | The commission level applies to the applicable asset level; therefore, for example, for a purchase of $5 million, the Distributor would pay a commission of 0.75% on the first $3,999,999 and 0.50% on the balance. |
** | The commission level on purchases of Class A shares of Columbia Short Term Municipal Bond Fund is: 0.50% on purchases of $500,000 to $19,999,999 and 0.25% on purchases of $20 million or more. |
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Class A Shares of Taxable Funds — Commission Schedule (Paid by the Distributor to Financial Intermediaries)* | |
Purchase Amount |
Commission
Level**
(as a % of net asset value per share) |
$1 million – $2,999,999 | 1.00% |
$3 million – $49,999,999 | 0.50% |
$50 million or more | 0.25% |
* | Not applicable to Funds that do not assess a front-end sales charge. |
** | The commission level applies to the applicable asset level; therefore, for example, for a purchase of $5 million, the Distributor would pay a commission of 1.00% on the first $2,999,999 and 0.50% on the balance. |
■ | Class C share accounts that are Direct-at-Fund Accounts and Networked Accounts for which the Transfer Agent (and not your financial intermediary) sends you Fund account transaction confirmations and statements, convert on or about the 15th day of the month (if the 15th is not a business day, then the next business day thereafter) that they become eligible for automatic conversion provided that the Fund has records that Class C shares have been held for the requisite time period. |
■ | For purposes of determining the month when your Class C shares are eligible for conversion, the start of the holding period is the first day of the month in which your purchase was made. Your financial intermediary may choose a different day of the month to convert Class C shares. Please contact your financial intermediary for more information on calculating the holding period. |
■ | Any shares you received from reinvested distributions on these shares generally will convert to Class A shares at the same time. |
■ | You’ll receive the same dollar value of Class A shares as the Class C shares that were automatically converted. Class C shares that you received from an exchange of Class C shares of another Fund will convert based on the day you bought the original shares. |
■ | No sales charge or other charges apply in connection with this automatic conversion, and conversions are free from U.S. federal income tax. |
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(a) | Because the offering price is calculated to two decimal places, the dollar amount of the sales charge as a percentage of the offering price and your net amount invested for any particular purchase of Fund shares may be higher or lower depending on whether downward or upward rounding was required during the calculation process. Purchase price includes the sales charge. |
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■ | depends on the amount you are investing (generally, the larger the investment, the smaller the percentage sales charge), and |
■ | is based on the total amount of your purchase and the value of your account (and any other accounts eligible for aggregation of which you notify your financial intermediary or, in the case of Direct-at-Fund Accounts (as defined below), you notify the Fund). |
(a) | Purchase amounts and account values are aggregated among all eligible Fund accounts for the purposes of this table. |
(b) | Because the offering price is calculated to two decimal places, the dollar amount of the sales charge as a percentage of the offering price and your net amount invested for any particular purchase of Fund shares may be higher or lower depending on whether downward or upward rounding was required during the calculation process. |
(c) | For more information regarding cumulative commissions paid to your financial intermediary when you buy $1 million or more of Class V shares, see Class V Shares — Commissions below. |
■ | If you purchased Class V shares without a front-end sales charge because your eligible accounts aggregated between $1 million and $50 million at the time of purchase, you will incur a CDSC if you redeem those shares within 18 months after purchase, which is charged as follows: 1.00% CDSC if shares are redeemed within 12 months after purchase, and 0.50% CDSC if shares are redeemed more than 12, but less than 18, months after purchase. |
■ | Subsequent Class V share purchases that bring your aggregate account value to $1 million or more (but less than $50 million) will also be subject to a CDSC if you redeem them within the time periods noted above. |
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Class V Shares — Commission Schedule (Paid by the Distributor to Financial Intermediaries) | |
Purchase
Amount |
Commission
Level*
(as a % of net asset value per share) |
$1 million – $2,999,999 | 1.00% |
$3 million – $49,999,999 | 0.50% |
$50 million or more | 0.25% |
* | The commission level applies to the applicable asset level; therefore, for example, for a purchase of $5 million, the Distributor would pay a commission of 1.00% on the first $2,999,999 and 0.50% on the balance. |
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Repurchases (Reinstatements) | |
Redeemed Share Class | Corresponding Repurchase Class |
Class A | Class A |
Class C | Class C |
Class V | Class V |
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(a) | The maximum distribution and service fees of Class A shares varies among the Funds, as shown in the table below: |
Funds |
Maximum
Class A Distribution Fee |
Maximum
Class A Service Fee |
Maximum
Class A Combined Total |
Series
of CFST and CFST II (other than Columbia
Government Money Market Fund) |
— | — |
0.25%;
these Funds pay a
combined distribution and service fee |
Columbia Government Money Market Fund | — | — | 0.10% |
Columbia AMT-Free Oregon Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia Balanced Fund, Columbia Contrarian Core Fund, Columbia Disciplined Small Core Fund, Columbia Dividend Income Fund, Columbia Global Technology Growth Fund, Columbia Large Cap Growth Fund, Columbia Mid Cap Growth Fund, Columbia Real Estate Equity Fund, Columbia Small Cap Growth Fund I, Columbia Total Return Bond Fund | up to 0.10% | up to 0.25% |
up
to 0.35%; these Funds may
pay distribution and service fees up to a maximum of 0.35% of their average daily net assets attributable to Class A shares (comprised of up to 0.10% for distribution services and up to 0.25% for shareholder liaison services) but currently limit such fees to an aggregate fee of not more than 0.25% for Class A shares |
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Funds |
Maximum
Class A Distribution Fee |
Maximum
Class A Service Fee |
Maximum
Class A Combined Total |
Columbia Adaptive Risk Allocation Fund, Columbia Alternative Beta Fund, Columbia AMT-Free Connecticut Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia AMT-Free Massachusetts Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia AMT-Free New York Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia Bond Fund, Columbia Corporate Income Fund, Columbia Diversified Absolute Return Fund, Columbia Diversified Real Return Fund, Columbia Emerging Markets Fund, Columbia Global Dividend Opportunity Fund, Columbia Global Energy and Natural Resources Fund, Columbia Greater China Fund, Columbia Multi-Asset Income Fund, Columbia Pacific/Asia Fund, Columbia Select Large Cap Growth Fund, Columbia Small Cap Value Fund I, Columbia Strategic California Municipal Income Fund, Columbia Strategic Income Fund, Columbia Strategic New York Municipal Income Fund, Columbia U.S. Social Bond Fund, Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund | — | 0.25% | 0.25% |
Columbia AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia High Yield Municipal Fund, Columbia Tax-Exempt Fund | — | 0.20% | 0.20% |
(b) | The service fees for Class A and Class C shares of certain Funds vary. The annual service fee for Class A and Class C shares of Columbia AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia High Yield Municipal Fund and Columbia Tax-Exempt Fund may equal up to 0.20% of the average daily NAV of all shares of such Fund class. The annual distribution fee for Class C shares for Columbia AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund shall be 0.65% of the average daily net assets of the Fund's Class C shares. The Distributor has voluntarily agreed to waive the service fee for Class A and Class C shares of Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund so that the service fee does not exceed 0.15% annually. This arrangement may be modified or terminated by the Distributor at any time. |
(c) | Fee amounts noted apply to all Funds other than Columbia Government Money Market Fund, which, for each of Class A and Class T shares, pays distribution and service fees of 0.10%, and for Class C shares pays distribution fees of 0.75%. The Distributor has currently agreed not to be reimbursed by the Fund for 0.25% of the 0.50% fee for Class R shares of Columbia Government Money Market Fund. The Distributor has voluntarily agreed to waive the Rule 12b-1 fees it receives from Class A, Class C, Class R and Class T shares of Columbia Government Money Market Fund. This arrangement may be modified or terminated by the Distributor at any time. Compensation paid to financial intermediaries may be suspended to the extent of the Distributor's waiver of the Rule 12b-1 fees on these specific share classes of these Funds. |
(d) | The Distributor has voluntarily agreed to waive a portion of the distribution fee for Class C shares of the following Funds so that the distribution fee does not exceed the specified percentage annually: 0.45% for Columbia AMT-Free Connecticut Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia AMT-Free Massachusetts Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia AMT-Free New York Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia AMT-Free Oregon Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia Strategic California Municipal Income Fund and Columbia Strategic New York Municipal Income Fund; 0.60% for Columbia Corporate Income Fund and Columbia Short Term Bond Fund; 0.65% for Columbia High Yield Municipal Fund and Columbia Tax-Exempt Fund; and 0.70% for Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund. These arrangements may be modified or terminated by the Distributor at any time. |
(e) | Class R shares of series of CFST and CFST I pay a distribution fee pursuant to a Rule 12b-1 plan for Class R shares. The Funds do not have a shareholder service plan for Class R shares. Series of CFST II have a distribution and shareholder service plan for Class R shares, which, prior to the close of business on September 3, 2010, were known as Class R2 shares. For Class R shares of series of CFST II, the maximum fee under the plan reimbursed for distribution expenses is equal on an annual basis to 0.50% of the average daily net assets of the Fund attributable to Class R shares. Of that amount, up to 0.25% may be reimbursed for shareholder service expenses. |
(f) | The combined distribution fee and service fee for Class T shares of series of CFST and CFST I shall not exceed 0.25%. Class T shares of series of CFST II pay a combined distribution and service fee of 0.25%. |
(g) | The shareholder servicing fees for Class V shares are up to 0.50% of average daily net assets attributable to Class V shares for equity Funds and 0.40% for fixed income Funds. In general, the Funds currently limit such fees to a maximum of 0.25% for equity Funds and 0.15% for fixed-income Funds. These fees for Class V shares are not paid pursuant to a Rule 12b-1 plan. See Class V Shareholder Service Fees below for more information. |
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Minimum Account Balance | |
Minimum
Account Balance |
|
For all classes and account types except those listed below |
$250
(None for accounts with
Systematic Investment Plans) |
Individual Retirement Accounts for all classes except those listed below | None |
Class Adv, Class Inst2, Class Inst3 and Class R | None |
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■ | negative impact on the Fund's performance; |
■ | potential dilution of the value of the Fund's shares; |
■ | interference with the efficient management of the Fund's portfolio, such as the need to maintain undesirably large cash positions, the need to use its line of credit or the need to buy or sell securities it otherwise would not have bought or sold; |
■ | losses on the sale of investments resulting from the need to sell securities at less favorable prices; |
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■ | increased taxable gains to the Fund's remaining shareholders resulting from the need to sell securities to meet sell orders; and |
■ | increased brokerage and administrative costs. |
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Minimum Initial Investments | ||
Minimum
Initial Investment (a) |
Minimum
Initial Investment for Accounts with Systematic Investment Plans |
|
For all classes and account types except those listed below | $2,000 | $100 (b) |
Individual Retirement Accounts for all classes except those listed below | $1,000 | $100 (c) |
Group retirement plans | None | N/A |
Class Adv and Class Inst | $0, $1,000 or $2,000 (d) | $100 (d) |
Class Inst2 and Class R | None | N/A |
Class Inst3 | $0, $1,000, $2,000 or $1 million (e) | $100 (e) |
(a) | If your Class A, Class Adv, Class C, Class Inst, Class Inst3 or Class V shares account balance falls below the minimum initial investment amount for any reason, including a market decline, you may be asked to increase it to the minimum initial investment amount or establish a monthly Systematic Investment Plan. If you do not do so, your account will be subject to a $20 annual low balance fee and/or shares may be automatically redeemed and the proceeds mailed to you if the account falls below the minimum account balance. See Buying, Selling and Exchanging Shares — Transaction Rules and Policies above. There is no minimum initial investment in Class A shares for accounts held in an omnibus account on a mutual fund only platform offered through your financial intermediary. |
(b) | Columbia Government Money Market Fund — $2,000 |
(c) | Columbia Government Money Market Fund — $1,000 |
(d) | The minimum initial investment in Class Adv shares is $2,000 ($1,000 for IRAs; $100 for systematic investment plan accounts) for commissionable brokerage platforms where the financial intermediary, acting as broker on behalf of its customers, charges the customer a commission for effecting transactions in Fund shares, provided that the financial intermediary has an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes offering Class Adv shares within such platform; for all other eligible Class Adv share investors (see Buying Shares – Eligible Investors – Class Adv Shares above), there is no minimum initial investment. The minimum initial investment amount for Class Inst shares is $0, $1,000 or $2,000 depending upon the category of eligible investor. See — Class Inst Shares Minimum Initial Investments below. The minimum initial investment amount for systematic investment plan accounts is the same as the amount set forth in the first two rows of the table, as applicable. |
(e) | There is no minimum initial investment in Class Inst3 shares for: group retirement plans that maintain plan-level or omnibus accounts with the Fund; collective trust funds; affiliated or unaffiliated mutual funds (e.g., funds operating as funds-of-funds); and fee-based platforms of financial |
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■ | Any health savings account sponsored by a third party platform. |
■ | Any investor participating in an account sponsored by a financial intermediary or other entity (that provides services to the account) that is paid a fee-based advisory fee by the investor and that is not compensated by the Fund for those services, other than payments for shareholder servicing or sub-accounting performed in place of the Transfer Agent. |
■ | Individual retirement accounts (IRAs) on commissionable brokerage platforms where the financial intermediary, acting as broker on behalf of its customer, charges the customer a commission for effecting transactions in Fund shares, provided that the financial intermediary has an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes offering Class Inst shares within such platform. |
■ | Any current employee of Columbia Management Investment Advisers LLC, the Distributor or the Transfer Agent and immediate family members of any of the foregoing who share the same address are eligible to invest in Class Inst shares through an individual retirement account (IRA). If you maintain your account with a financial intermediary, you must contact that financial intermediary each time you seek to purchase shares to notify them that you qualify for Class Inst shares. If Class Inst shares are not available at your financial intermediary, you may consider opening a Direct-at-Fund Account. It is your obligation to advise your financial intermediary or (in the case of Direct-at-Fund Accounts) the Transfer Agent that you qualify for Class Inst shares; be prepared to provide proof thereof. |
■ | Investors (except investors in individual retirement accounts (IRAs)) who purchase Fund shares through commissionable brokerage platforms where the financial intermediary holds the shares in an omnibus account and, acting as broker on behalf of its customer, charges the customer a commission for effecting transactions in Fund shares provided that the financial intermediary has an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes offering Class Inst shares within such platform. |
■ | Any current employee of Columbia Management Investment Advisers LLC, the Distributor or the Transfer Agent and immediate family members of any of the foregoing who share the same address are eligible to invest in Class Inst shares (other than individual retirement accounts (IRAs), for which the minimum initial investment is $1,000). If you maintain your account with a financial intermediary, you must contact that financial intermediary each time you seek to purchase shares to notify them that you qualify for Class Inst shares. If Class Inst shares are not available |
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at your financial intermediary, you may consider opening a Direct-at-Fund Account. It is your obligation to advise your financial intermediary or (in the case of Direct-at-Fund Accounts) the Transfer Agent that you qualify for Class Inst shares; be prepared to provide proof thereof. |
■ | Certain financial institutions and intermediaries, such as insurance companies, trust companies, banks, endowments, investment companies or foundations, buying shares for their own account, including Ameriprise Financial and its affiliates and/or subsidiaries. |
■ | Bank trust departments that assess their clients an asset-based fee. |
■ | Certain other investors as set forth in more detail in the SAI. |
■ | Once the Transfer Agent or your financial intermediary receives your purchase order in “good form,” your purchase will be made at the Fund’s next calculated public offering price per share, which is the NAV per share plus any sales charge that applies (i.e., the trade date). |
■ | Once the Fund receives your purchase request in “good form,” you cannot cancel it after the market closes. |
■ | You generally buy Class A, Class T and Class V shares at the public offering price per share because purchases of these share classes are generally subject to a front-end sales charge. |
■ | You buy Class Adv, Class C, Class Inst, Class Inst2, Class Inst3 and Class R shares at NAV per share because no front-end sales charge applies to purchases of these share classes. |
■ | The Distributor and the Transfer Agent reserve the right to cancel your order if the Fund does not receive payment within two business days of receiving your purchase order. The Fund will return any payment received for orders that have been cancelled, but no interest will be paid on that money. |
■ | Financial intermediaries are responsible for sending your purchase orders to the Transfer Agent and ensuring that the Fund receives your money on time. |
■ | Shares purchased are recorded on the books of the Fund. The Fund does not issue certificates. |
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■ | Once the Transfer Agent or your financial intermediary receives your redemption order in “good form,” your shares will be sold at the Fund’s next calculated NAV per share (i.e., the trade date). Any applicable CDSC will be deducted from the amount you're selling and the balance will be remitted to you. |
■ | Once the Fund receives your redemption request in “good form,” you cannot cancel it after the market closes. |
■ | If you sell your shares that are held in a Direct-at-Fund Account, we will normally send the redemption proceeds by mail or electronically transfer them to your bank account the next business day after the trade date. Note that your bank may take up to three business days to post an electronic funds transfer from your account. |
■ | If you sell your shares through a financial intermediary, the Funds will normally send the redemption proceeds to your financial intermediary within two business days after the trade date. |
■ | No interest will be paid on uncashed redemption checks. |
■ | Other restrictions may apply to retirement accounts. For information about these restrictions, contact your retirement plan administrator. |
■ | For broker-dealer and wrap fee accounts: The Fund reserves the right to redeem your shares if your account falls below the Fund's minimum initial investment requirement. The Fund will notify your broker-dealer prior to redeeming shares, and will provide details on how to avoid such redemption. |
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■ | Also keep in mind the Funds' Small Account Policy, which is described above in Buying, Selling and Exchanging Shares — Transaction Rules and Policies. |
■ | Exchanges are made at the NAV next calculated (plus any applicable sales charge) after your exchange order is received in “good form” (i.e., the trade date). |
■ | Once the Fund receives your exchange request in “good form,” you cannot cancel it after the market closes. |
■ | The rules for buying shares of a Fund generally apply to exchanges into that Fund, including, if your exchange creates a new Fund account, it must satisfy the minimum investment amount, unless a waiver applies. |
■ | Shares of the purchased Fund may not be used on the same day for another exchange or sale. |
■ | If you exchange shares from Class A shares of Columbia Government Money Market Fund to a non-money market Fund, any further exchanges must be between shares of the same class. For example, if you exchange from Class A shares of Columbia Government Money Market Fund into Class C shares of a non-money market Fund, you may not exchange from Class C shares of that non-money market Fund back to Class A shares of Columbia Government Money Market Fund or Class A shares of any other Fund. |
■ | A sales charge may apply when you exchange shares of a Fund that were not assessed a sales charge at the time you purchased such shares. If you invest through a Direct-at-Fund Account in Columbia Government Money Market Fund, Columbia Large Cap Enhanced Core Fund, Columbia Large Cap Index Fund, Columbia Mid Cap Index Fund, Columbia Small Cap Index Fund, Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund or any other Columbia Fund that does not impose a front-end sales charge and then you exchange into a Fund that does assess a sales charge, your transaction is subject to a front-end sales charge if you exchange into Class A shares and to a CDSC if you exchange into Class C shares of the Columbia Funds. |
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■ | If you purchased Class A shares of a Columbia Fund that imposes a front-end sales charge (and you paid any applicable sales charge) and you then exchange those shares into Columbia Government Money Market Fund, Columbia Large Cap Enhanced Core Fund, Columbia Large Cap Index Fund, Columbia Mid Cap Index Fund, Columbia Small Cap Index Fund, Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund or any other Columbia Fund that does not impose a front-end sales charge, you may exchange that amount to Class A of another Fund in the future, including dividends earned on that amount, without paying a sales charge. |
■ | If your shares are subject to a CDSC, you will not be charged a CDSC upon the exchange of those shares. Any CDSC will be deducted when you sell the shares you received from the exchange. The CDSC imposed at that time will be based on the period that begins when you bought shares of the original Fund and ends when you sell the shares of the Fund you received from the exchange. Any applicable CDSC charged will be the CDSC of the original Fund. |
■ | You may make exchanges only into a Fund that is legally offered and sold in your state of residence. Contact the Transfer Agent or your financial intermediary for more information. |
■ | You generally may make an exchange only into a Fund that is accepting investments. |
■ | The Fund may change or cancel your right to make an exchange by giving the amount of notice required by regulatory authorities (generally 60 days for a material change or cancellation). |
■ | Unless your account is part of a tax-advantaged arrangement, an exchange for shares of another Fund is a taxable event, and you may recognize a gain or loss for tax purposes. |
■ | Changing your investment to a different Fund will be treated as a sale and purchase, and you will be subject to applicable taxes on the sale and sales charges on the purchase of the new Fund. |
■ | Class Inst shares of a Fund may be exchanged for Class A or Class Inst shares of another Fund. In certain circumstances, the front-end sales charge applicable to Class A shares may be waived on exchanges of Class Inst shares for Class A shares. See Buying, Selling and Exchanging Shares — Buying Shares — Eligible Investors — Class Inst Shares for details. |
■ | You may generally exchange Class V shares of a Fund for Class A shares of another Fund if the other Fund does not offer Class V shares. Class V shares exchanged into Class A shares cannot be exchanged back into Class V shares. |
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■ | It can earn income on its investments. Examples of fund income are interest paid on money market instruments and bonds, and dividends paid on common stocks. |
■ | A mutual fund can also have capital gains if the value of its investments increases. While a fund continues to hold an investment, any gain is generally unrealized. If the fund sells an investment, it generally will realize a capital gain if it sells that investment for a higher price than its adjusted cost basis, and will generally realize a capital loss if it sells that investment for a lower price than its adjusted cost basis. Capital gains and losses are either short-term or long-term, depending on whether the fund holds the securities for one year or less (short-term) or more than one year (long-term). |
Declaration and Distribution Schedule | |
Declarations | Monthly |
Distributions | Monthly |
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■ | The Fund intends to qualify and to be eligible for treatment each year as a regulated investment company. A regulated investment company generally is not subject to tax at the fund level on income and gains from investments that are distributed to shareholders. However, the Fund's failure to qualify for treatment as a regulated investment company would result in Fund-level taxation, and consequently, a reduction in income available for distribution to you and in the NAV of your shares. Even if the Fund qualifies for treatment as a regulated investment company, the Fund may be subject to federal excise tax on certain undistributed income or gains. |
■ | Otherwise taxable distributions generally are taxable to you when paid, whether they are paid in cash or automatically reinvested in additional Fund shares. Dividends paid in January are deemed paid on December 31 of the prior year if the dividend was declared and payable to shareholders of record in October, November, or December of such prior year. |
■ | Distributions of the Fund's ordinary income and net short-term capital gain, if any, generally are taxable to you as ordinary income. Distributions of the Fund's net long-term capital gain, if any, generally are taxable to you as long-term capital gain. Whether capital gains are long-term or short-term is determined by how long the Fund has owned the investments that generated them, rather than how long you have owned your shares. |
■ | From time to time, a distribution from the Fund could constitute a return of capital, which is not taxable to you so long as the amount of the distribution does not exceed your tax basis in your Fund shares. A return of capital reduces your tax basis in your Fund shares, with any amounts exceeding such basis generally taxable as capital gain. |
■ | If you are an individual and you meet certain holding period and other requirements for your Fund shares, a portion of your distributions may be treated as “qualified dividend income” taxable at the lower net long-term capital gain rates instead of the higher ordinary income rates. Qualified dividend income is income attributable to the Fund's dividends received from certain U.S. and foreign corporations, as long as the Fund meets certain holding period and other requirements for the stock producing such dividends. |
■ | Certain high-income individuals (as well as estates and trusts) are subject to a 3.8% tax on net investment income. For individuals, the 3.8% tax applies to the lesser of (1) the amount (if any) by which the taxpayer's modified adjusted gross income exceeds certain threshold amounts or (2) the taxpayer's “net investment income.” |
Net investment income generally includes for this purpose dividends, including any capital gain dividends, paid by the Fund, and net gains recognized on the sale, redemption or exchange of shares of the Fund. |
■ | Certain derivative instruments when held in the Fund's portfolio subject the Fund to special tax rules, the effect of which may be to, among other things, accelerate income to the Fund, defer Fund losses, cause adjustments in the holding periods of Fund portfolio securities, or convert capital gains into ordinary income, short-term capital losses into long-term capital losses or long-term capital gains into short-term capital gains. These rules could therefore affect the amount, timing and/or character of distributions to shareholders. |
■ | Generally, a Fund realizes a capital gain or loss on an option when the option expires, or when it is exercised, sold or otherwise terminated. However, if an option is a “section 1256 contract,” which includes most traded options on a broad-based index, and the Fund holds such option at the end of its taxable year, the Fund is deemed to sell such option at fair market value at such time and recognize any gain or loss thereon, which is generally deemed to be 60% long-term and 40% short-term capital gain or loss, as described further in the SAI. |
■ | Income and proceeds received by the Fund from sources within foreign countries may be subject to foreign taxes. If at the end of the taxable year more than 50% of the value of the Fund's assets consists of securities of foreign corporations, and the Fund makes a special election, you will generally be required to include in your income for |
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U.S. federal income tax purposes your share of the qualifying foreign income taxes paid by the Fund in respect of its foreign portfolio securities. You may be able to claim a foreign tax credit or deduction in respect of this amount, subject to certain limitations. There is no assurance that the Fund will make this election for a taxable year, even if it is eligible to do so. |
■ | A sale, redemption or exchange of Fund shares is a taxable event. This includes redemptions where you are paid in securities. Your sales, redemptions and exchanges of Fund shares (including those paid in securities) usually will result in a taxable capital gain or loss to you, equal to the difference between the amount you receive for your shares (or are deemed to have received in the case of exchanges) and your adjusted tax basis in the shares, which is generally the amount you paid (or are deemed to have paid in the case of exchanges) for them. Any such capital gain or loss generally will be long-term capital gain or loss if you have held your Fund shares for more than one year at the time of sale or exchange. In certain circumstances, capital losses may be converted from short-term to long-term; in other circumstances, capital losses may be disallowed under the “wash sale” rules. |
■ | For sales, redemptions and exchanges of shares that were acquired in a non-qualified account after 2011, the Fund generally is required to report to shareholders and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) cost basis information with respect to those shares. The Fund uses average cost basis as its default method of calculating cost basis. For more information regarding average cost basis reporting, other available cost basis methods, and selecting or changing to a different cost basis method, please see the SAI, columbiathreadneedleus.com, or contact the Fund at 800.345.6611. If you hold Fund shares through a financial intermediary (e.g., a brokerage firm), you should contact your financial intermediary to learn about its cost basis reporting default method and the reporting elections available to your account. |
■ | The Fund is required by federal law to withhold tax on any taxable or tax-exempt distributions and redemption proceeds paid to you (including amounts paid to you in securities and amounts deemed to be paid to you upon an exchange of shares) if: you have not provided a correct TIN or have not certified to the Fund that withholding does not apply, the IRS has notified us that the TIN listed on your account is incorrect according to its records, or the IRS informs the Fund that you are otherwise subject to backup withholding. |
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Net
asset value,
beginning of period |
Net
investment income |
Net
realized and unrealized gain (loss) |
Total
from
investment operations |
Distributions
from net investment income |
|
Class A | |||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $9.78 | 0.53 | (0.31) | 0.22 | (0.46) |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 | $9.43 | 0.56 | 0.26 | 0.82 | (0.47) |
Year Ended 4/30/2016 | $10.05 | 0.57 | (0.65) | (0.08) | (0.54) |
Year Ended 4/30/2015 (c) | $10.00 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.07 | (0.02) |
Advisor Class | |||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $9.78 | 0.56 | (0.31) | 0.25 | (0.49) |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 | $9.43 | 0.61 | 0.23 | 0.84 | (0.49) |
Year Ended 4/30/2016 | $10.05 | 0.56 | (0.62) | (0.06) | (0.56) |
Year Ended 4/30/2015 (e) | $10.00 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.07 | (0.02) |
Class C | |||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $9.78 | 0.46 | (0.31) | 0.15 | (0.39) |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 | $9.43 | 0.49 | 0.26 | 0.75 | (0.40) |
Year Ended 4/30/2016 | $10.05 | 0.48 | (0.63) | (0.15) | (0.47) |
Year Ended 4/30/2015 (f) | $10.00 | 0.02 | 0.04 | 0.06 | (0.01) |
Institutional Class | |||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $9.79 | 0.55 | (0.30) | 0.25 | (0.49) |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 | $9.43 | 0.59 | 0.26 | 0.85 | (0.49) |
Year Ended 4/30/2016 | $10.06 | 0.56 | (0.63) | (0.07) | (0.56) |
Year Ended 4/30/2015 (g) | $10.00 | 0.03 | 0.05 | 0.08 | (0.02) |
Institutional 2 Class | |||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $9.78 | 0.55 | (0.29) | 0.26 | (0.49) |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 | $9.43 | 0.57 | 0.28 | 0.85 | (0.50) |
Year Ended 4/30/2016 | $10.05 | 0.57 | (0.63) | (0.06) | (0.56) |
Year Ended 4/30/2015 (h) | $10.00 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.07 | (0.02) |
Institutional 3 Class | |||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $9.76 | 0.56 | (0.29) | 0.27 | (0.50) |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 (i) | $9.78 | 0.11 | (0.05) (j) | 0.06 | (0.08) |
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Total
distributions to shareholders |
Net
asset value, end of period |
Total
return |
Total
gross
expense ratio to average net assets (a) |
Total
net
expense ratio to average net assets (a), (b) |
Net
investment
income ratio to average net assets |
Portfolio
turnover |
Net
assets, end of period (000's) |
(0.46) | $9.54 | 2.27% | 1.24% | 0.93% | 5.41% | 76% | $1,395 |
(0.47) | $9.78 | 8.88% | 1.27% | 0.94% | 5.83% | 69% | $800 |
(0.54) | $9.43 | (0.62%) | 1.34% | 0.91% | 6.15% | 70% | $138 |
(0.02) | $10.05 | 0.69% | 1.24% (d) | 0.75% (d) | 2.70% (d) | 30% | $10 |
(0.49) | $9.54 | 2.53% | 0.99% | 0.68% | 5.74% | 76% | $362 |
(0.49) | $9.78 | 9.17% | 1.05% | 0.69% | 6.57% | 69% | $160 |
(0.56) | $9.43 | (0.36%) | 1.10% | 0.64% | 5.99% | 70% | $9 |
(0.02) | $10.05 | 0.71% | 0.99% (d) | 0.50% (d) | 3.00% (d) | 30% | $10 |
(0.39) | $9.54 | 1.51% | 1.99% | 1.68% | 4.63% | 76% | $1,019 |
(0.40) | $9.78 | 8.07% | 2.02% | 1.69% | 5.10% | 69% | $668 |
(0.47) | $9.43 | (1.37%) | 2.12% | 1.65% | 5.24% | 70% | $101 |
(0.01) | $10.05 | 0.61% | 1.99% (d) | 1.50% (d) | 2.00% (d) | 30% | $10 |
(0.49) | $9.55 | 2.53% | 0.99% | 0.68% | 5.63% | 76% | $1,571 |
(0.49) | $9.79 | 9.27% | 1.03% | 0.69% | 6.24% | 69% | $1,383 |
(0.56) | $9.43 | (0.47%) | 1.11% | 0.65% | 5.99% | 70% | $313 |
(0.02) | $10.06 | 0.82% | 0.99% (d) | 0.50% (d) | 3.61% (d) | 30% | $315 |
(0.49) | $9.55 | 2.68% | 0.93% | 0.64% | 5.60% | 76% | $10 |
(0.50) | $9.78 | 9.22% | 0.93% | 0.64% | 5.99% | 69% | $13 |
(0.56) | $9.43 | (0.34%) | 1.06% | 0.60% | 6.03% | 70% | $9 |
(0.02) | $10.05 | 0.73% | 0.97% (d) | 0.47% (d) | 3.02% (d) | 30% | $10 |
(0.50) | $9.53 | 2.73% | 0.87% | 0.58% | 5.70% | 76% | $130,926 |
(0.08) | $9.76 | 0.66% | 0.93% (d) | 0.60% (d) | 7.22% (d) | 69% | $127,555 |
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Net
asset value,
beginning of period |
Net
investment income |
Net
realized and unrealized gain (loss) |
Total
from
investment operations |
Distributions
from net investment income |
|
Class T | |||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $9.78 | 0.53 | (0.30) | 0.23 | (0.46) |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 | $9.43 | 0.54 | 0.28 | 0.82 | (0.47) |
Year Ended 4/30/2016 | $10.05 | 0.54 | (0.62) | (0.08) | (0.54) |
Year Ended 4/30/2015 (k) | $10.00 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.07 | (0.02) |
Notes to Financial Highlights | |
(a) | In addition to the fees and expenses that the Fund bears directly, the Fund indirectly bears a pro rata share of the fees and expenses of any other funds in which it invests. Such indirect expenses are not included in the Fund's reported expense ratios. |
(b) | Total net expenses include the impact of certain fee waivers/expense reimbursements made by the Investment Manager and certain of its affiliates, if applicable. |
(c) | Class A shares commenced operations on March 27, 2015. Per share data and total return reflect activity from that date. |
(d) | Annualized. |
(e) | Advisor Class shares commenced operations on March 27, 2015. Per share data and total return reflect activity from that date. |
(f) | Class C shares commenced operations on March 27, 2015. Per share data and total return reflect activity from that date. |
(g) | Institutional Class shares commenced operations on March 27, 2015. Per share data and total return reflect activity from that date. |
(h) | Institutional 2 Class shares commenced operations on March 27, 2015. Per share data and total return reflect activity from that date. |
(i) | Institutional 3 Class shares commenced operations on March 1, 2017. Per share data and total return reflect activity from that date. |
(j) | Calculation of the net gain (loss) per share (both realized and unrealized) does not correlate to the aggregate realized and unrealized gain (loss) presented in the Statement of Operations due to the timing of subscriptions and redemptions of Fund shares in relation to fluctuations in the market value of the portfolio. |
(k) | Class T shares commenced operations on March 27, 2015. Per share data and total return reflect activity from that date. |
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Total
distributions to shareholders |
Net
asset value, end of period |
Total
return |
Total
gross
expense ratio to average net assets (a) |
Total
net
expense ratio to average net assets (a), (b) |
Net
investment
income ratio to average net assets |
Portfolio
turnover |
Net
assets, end of period (000's) |
(0.46) | $9.55 | 2.38% | 1.24% | 0.93% | 5.36% | 76% | $10 |
(0.47) | $9.78 | 8.89% | 1.27% | 0.94% | 5.63% | 69% | $10 |
(0.54) | $9.43 | (0.62%) | 1.35% | 0.89% | 5.75% | 70% | $9 |
(0.02) | $10.05 | 0.69% | 1.24% (d) | 0.75% (d) | 2.75% (d) | 30% | $10 |
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■ | Employer-sponsored retirement plans (e.g., 401(k) plans, 457 plans, employer-sponsored 403(b) plans, profit sharing and money purchase pension plans and defined benefit plans). For purposes of this provision, employer-sponsored retirement plans do not include SEP IRAs, Simple IRAs or SAR-SEPs. |
■ | Shares purchased through an Ameriprise Financial Services investment advisory program (if an Advisory or similar share class for such investment advisory program is not available). |
■ | Shares purchased by third party investment advisors on behalf of their advisory clients through Ameriprise Financial Services’ platform (if an Advisory or similar share class for such investment advisory program is not available). |
■ | Shares purchased through reinvestment of dividends and capital gain distributions when purchasing shares of the same Fund (but not any other fund within the same fund family). |
■ | Shares exchanged from Class C shares of the same fund in the month of or following the 10-year anniversary of the purchase date. To the extent that this prospectus elsewhere provides for a waiver with respect to such shares following a shorter holding period, that waiver will apply to exchanges following such shorter period. To the extent that this prospectus elsewhere provides for a waiver with respect to exchanges of Class C shares for load waived shares, that waiver will also apply to such exchanges. |
■ | Employees and registered representatives of Ameriprise Financial Services or its affiliates and their immediate family members. |
■ | Shares purchased by or through qualified accounts (including IRAs, Coverdell Education Savings Accounts, 401(k)s, 403(b) TSCAs subject to ERISA and defined benefit plans) that are held by a covered family member, defined as an Ameriprise financial advisor and/or the advisor’s spouse, advisor’s lineal ascendant (mother, father, grandmother, grandfather, great grandmother, great grandfather), advisor’s lineal descendant (son, step-son, daughter, step-daughter, grandson, granddaughter, great grandson, great granddaughter) or any spouse of a covered family member who is a lineal descendant. |
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■ | Shares purchased from the proceeds of redemptions within the same fund family, provided (1) the repurchase occurs within 90 days following the redemption, (2) the redemption and purchase occur in the same account, and (3) redeemed shares were subject to a front-end or deferred sales load (i.e., rights of reinstatement). |
■ | Rights of Accumulation (ROA) which entitle shareholders to breakpoint discounts will be automatically calculated based on the aggregated holding of fund family assets held by accounts within the purchaser’s household at Merrill Lynch. Eligible fund family assets not held at Merrill Lynch may be included in the ROA calculation only if the shareholder notifies his or her financial advisor about such assets. |
■ | Letters of Intent (LOI) which allow for breakpoint discounts based on anticipated purchases within a fund family, through Merrill Lynch, over a 13-month period of time (if applicable). |
■ | Employer-sponsored retirement, deferred compensation and employee benefit plans (including health savings accounts) and trusts used to fund those plans, provided that the plan is a group plan (more than one participant), the shares are not held in a commission-based brokerage account and shares are held in the name of the plan through an omnibus account |
■ | Shares purchased by or through a 529 Plan |
■ | Shares purchased through a Merrill Lynch affiliated investment advisory program |
■ | Shares purchased by third party investment advisors on behalf of their advisory clients through Merrill Lynch’s platform |
■ | Shares of funds purchased through the Merrill Edge Self-Directed platform |
■ | Shares purchased through reinvestment of capital gains distributions and dividend reinvestment when purchasing shares of the same Fund (but not any other fund within the same fund family) |
■ | Shares exchanged from Class C (i.e., level-load) shares of the same fund in the month of or following the 10-year anniversary of the purchase date |
■ | Employees and registered representatives of Merrill Lynch or its affiliates and their family members |
■ | Directors or Trustees of the Fund, and employees of the Fund’s investment adviser or any of its affiliates, as described in this prospectus |
■ | Shares purchased from the proceeds of redemptions within the same fund family, provided (1) the repurchase occurs within 90 days following the redemption, (2) the redemption and purchase occur in the same account, and (3) redeemed shares were subject to a front-end or deferred sales load (known as Rights of Reinstatement). |
■ | Shares redeemed following the death or disability of the shareholder |
■ | Shares sold as part of a systematic withdrawal plan as described in this prospectus |
■ | Redemptions that constitute a return of excess contributions from an IRA |
■ | Shares sold as part of a required minimum distribution for IRA and retirement accounts due to the shareholder reaching age 70½ |
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■ | Shares sold to pay Merrill Lynch fees but only if the transaction is initiated by Merrill Lynch |
■ | There will be no CDSC charged on the sale of Fund shares acquired through a right of reinstatement |
■ | The redemption of shares held in retirement brokerage accounts, that are exchanged for a lower cost share class due to transfer to a fee based account or platform (applicable to Class A and Class C shares only). |
■ | Employer-sponsored retirement plans (e.g., 401(k) plans, 457 plans, employer-sponsored 403(b) plans, profit sharing and money purchase pension plans and defined benefit plans). For purposes of this provision, employer-sponsored retirement plans do not include SEP IRAs, Simple IRAs, SAR-SEPs or Keogh plans |
■ | Morgan Stanley employee and employee-related accounts according to Morgan Stanley’s account linking rules |
■ | Shares purchased through reinvestment of dividends and capital gains distributions when purchasing shares of the same fund |
■ | Shares purchased through a Morgan Stanley self-directed brokerage account |
■ | Class C (i.e., level-load) shares that are no longer subject to a contingent deferred sales charge and are converted to Class A shares of the same fund pursuant to Morgan Stanley Wealth Management’s share class conversion program |
■ | Shares purchased from the proceeds of redemptions within the same fund family, provided (i) the repurchase occurs within 90 days following the redemption, (ii) the redemption and purchase occur in the same account, and (iii) redeemed shares were subject to a front-end or deferred sales charge. |
■ | Employer-sponsored retirement plans (e.g., 401(k) plans, 457 plans, employer-sponsored 403(b) plans, profit sharing and money purchase pension plans and defined benefit plans). For purposes of this provision, employer-sponsored retirement plans do not include SEP IRAs, Simple IRAs, SAR-SEPs or Keogh plans; however these plans are eligible to purchase Class T shares through a transactional brokerage account. |
■ | Morgan Stanley Wealth Management employee and employee-related accounts according to Morgan Stanley’s account linking rules. |
■ | Mutual fund shares exchanged from an existing position in the same fund as part of a share class conversion instituted by Morgan Stanley Wealth Management. |
■ | For employer-sponsored retirement plans held through a commissionable brokerage account, Class A shares are available at NAV (i.e., without a sales charge). For this purpose, employer-sponsored retirement plans include, but |
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* | Please note, effective November 1, 2018, the Fund’s mailing address is changed to Columbia Management Investment Services Corp., P.O. Box 219104, Kansas City, MO 64121-9104. |
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A | CSMIX | |
Advisor (Class Adv) (a) | CVVRX | |
C | CSSCX | |
Institutional (Class Inst) (a) | CSCZX | |
Institutional 2 (Class Inst2) (a) | CUURX | |
Institutional 3 (Class Inst3) (a) | CSVYX | |
R | CSVRX | |
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(a) | Prior to November 1, 2017, Class Adv shares were known as Class R4 shares, Class Inst shares were known as Class Z shares, Class Inst2 shares were known as Class R5 shares, and Class Inst3 shares were known as Class Y shares. |
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(a) | This charge is imposed on certain investments of between $1 million and $50 million redeemed within 18 months after purchase, as follows: 1.00% if redeemed within 12 months after purchase, and 0.50% if redeemed more than 12, but less than 18, months after purchase, with certain limited exceptions. |
(b) | This charge applies to redemptions within 12 months after purchase, with certain limited exceptions. |
(c) | Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and certain of its affiliates have contractually agreed to waive fees and/or to reimburse expenses (excluding transaction costs and certain other investment related expenses, interest, taxes, acquired fund fees and expenses, and infrequent and/or unusual expenses) through August 31, 2019, unless sooner terminated at the sole discretion of the Fund’s Board of Trustees. Under this agreement, the Fund’s net operating expenses, subject to applicable exclusions, will not exceed the annual rates of 1.32% for Class A, 1.07% for Class Adv, 2.07% for Class C, 1.07% for Class Inst, 0.94% for Class Inst2, 0.89% for Class Inst3, 1.57% for Class R and 1.32% for Class T. |
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■ | you invest $10,000 in the applicable class of Fund shares for the periods indicated, |
■ | your investment has a 5% return each year, and |
■ | the Fund’s total annual operating expenses remain the same as shown in the Annual Fund Operating Expenses table above. |
1 year | 3 years | 5 years | 10 years | |
Class A (whether or not shares are redeemed) | $702 | $975 | $1,269 | $2,103 |
Class Adv (whether or not shares are redeemed) | $109 | $347 | $ 603 | $1,338 |
Class C (assuming redemption of all shares at the end of the period) | $310 | $655 | $1,126 | $2,429 |
Class C (assuming no redemption of shares) | $210 | $655 | $1,126 | $2,429 |
Class Inst (whether or not shares are redeemed) | $109 | $347 | $ 603 | $1,338 |
Class Inst2 (whether or not shares are redeemed) | $ 96 | $308 | $ 538 | $1,198 |
Class Inst3 (whether or not shares are redeemed) | $ 91 | $292 | $ 511 | $1,139 |
Class R (whether or not shares are redeemed) | $160 | $502 | $ 868 | $1,898 |
Class T (whether or not shares are redeemed) | $381 | $664 | $ 968 | $1,831 |
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Year
by Year Total Return (%)
as of December 31 Each Year* |
Best
and Worst Quarterly Returns
During the Period Shown in the Bar Chart |
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Best | 3rd Quarter 2009 | 20.59% |
Worst
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4th Quarter 2008 | -24.09% |
* | Year to Date return as of June 30, 2018: 3.44% |
Share
Class
Inception Date |
1 Year | 5 Years | 10 Years | |
Class A | 07/25/1986 | |||
returns before taxes | 7.36% | 12.84% | 7.90% | |
returns after taxes on distributions | 4.45% | 9.37% | 5.90% | |
returns after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund shares | 6.26% | 9.46% | 5.97% | |
Class Adv returns before taxes | 11/08/2012 | 14.20% | 14.47% | 8.69% |
Class C returns before taxes | 01/15/1996 | 12.10% | 13.33% | 7.73% |
Class Inst returns before taxes | 07/31/1995 | 14.17% | 14.46% | 8.81% |
Class Inst2 returns before taxes | 11/08/2012 | 14.32% | 14.63% | 8.77% |
Class Inst3 returns before taxes | 07/15/2009 | 14.37% | 14.69% | 8.95% |
Class R returns before taxes | 09/27/2010 | 13.61% | 13.90% | 8.28% |
Russell 2000 Value Index (reflects no deductions for fees, expenses or taxes) | 7.84% | 13.01% | 8.17% |
Portfolio Manager | Title | Role with Fund | Managed Fund Since | |||
Jeremy Javidi, CFA | Senior Portfolio Manager | Portfolio Manager | 2005 |
Online | Regular Mail | Express Mail | By Telephone | |||
Through October 31, 2018 | Through October 31, 2018 |
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Online | Regular Mail | Express Mail | By Telephone | |||
columbiathreadneedleus.com/investor/ |
Columbia
Management
Investment Services Corp. P.O. Box 8081 Boston, MA 02266-8081 |
Columbia
Management
Investment Services Corp. c/o DST Asset Manager Solutions, Inc. 30 Dan Road, Suite 8081 Canton, MA 02021-2809 |
800.422.3737 | |||
Regular Mail | Express Mail | |||||
Effective November 1, 2018 | Effective November 1, 2018 | |||||
Columbia
Management
Investment Services Corp. P.O. Box 219104 Kansas City, MO 64121-9104 |
Columbia
Management
Investment Services Corp. c/o DST Asset Manager Solutions, Inc. 430 W 7 th Street, Suite 219104 Kansas City, MO 64105-1407 |
* | Based on the dates noted above, mail received at an incorrect address will be forwarded to the correct address, and will not be processed until received, in “good form,” at the correct address. This may affect the trade date you receive for transaction requests, which may negatively impact the value of your purchase or sale. |
Class | Category of eligible account |
For
accounts other than
systematic investment plan accounts |
For
systematic investment
plan accounts |
Classes A, C & T (a) | All accounts other than IRAs | $2,000 | $100 |
IRAs | $1,000 | $100 | |
Classes Adv & Inst | All eligible accounts |
$0,
$1,000 or $2,000
depending upon the category of eligible investor |
$100 |
Classes Inst2 & R | All eligible accounts | None | N/A |
Class Inst3 | All eligible accounts |
$0,
$1,000, $2,000
or $1 million depending upon the category of eligible investor |
$100
(for certain
eligible investors) |
(a) | Class T shares must be purchased through financial intermediaries that, by written agreement with Columbia Management Investment Distributors, Inc., are specifically authorized to sell Class T shares. Class T shares of the Fund have not commenced operations as of the date of this prospectus. |
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■ | businesses that are believed to be fundamentally sound and undervalued due to investor indifference, investor misperception of company prospects, or other factors; |
■ | various measures of valuation, including price-to-cash flow, price-to-earnings, price-to-sales, and price-to-book value. The Investment Manager believes that companies with lower valuations are generally more likely to provide opportunities for capital appreciation; |
■ | a company’s current operating margins relative to its historic range and future potential; and/or |
■ | potential indicators of stock price appreciation, such as anticipated earnings growth, company restructuring, changes in management, business model changes, new product opportunities or anticipated improvements in macroeconomic factors. |
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Columbia Small Cap Value Fund I | |
Class Inst2 | 0.94% |
Class Inst3 | 0.89% |
Class R | 1.57% |
Class T | 1.32% |
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Portfolio Manager | Title | Role with Fund | Managed Fund Since | |||
Jeremy Javidi, CFA | Senior Portfolio Manager | Portfolio Manager | 2005 |
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■ | compensation and other benefits received by the Investment Manager and other Ameriprise Financial affiliates related to the management/administration of a Columbia Fund and the sale of its shares; |
■ | the allocation of, and competition for, investment opportunities among the Fund, other funds and accounts advised/managed by the Investment Manager and other Ameriprise Financial affiliates, or Ameriprise Financial itself and its affiliates; |
■ | separate and potentially divergent management of a Columbia Fund and other funds and accounts advised/managed by the Investment Manager and other Ameriprise Financial affiliates; |
■ | regulatory and other investment restrictions on investment activities of the Investment Manager and other Ameriprise Financial affiliates and accounts advised/managed by them; |
■ | insurance and other relationships of Ameriprise Financial affiliates with companies and other entities in which a Columbia Fund invests; and |
■ | regulatory and other restrictions relating to the sharing of information between Ameriprise Financial and its affiliates, including the Investment Manager, and a Columbia Fund. |
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* | The website references in this prospectus are inactive links and information contained in or otherwise accessible through the referenced websites does not form a part of this prospectus. |
** | Based on the date noted above, mail received at an incorrect address will be forwarded to the correct address, and will not be processed until received, in “good form,” at the correct address. This may affect the trade date you receive for transaction requests, which may negatively impact the value of your purchase or sale. |
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■ | The amount you plan to invest. |
■ | How long you intend to remain invested in the Fund. |
■ | The fees (e.g., sales charge or “load”) and expenses for each share class. |
■ | Whether you may be eligible for a reduction or waiver of sales charges when you buy or sell shares. |
■ | The net asset value (NAV) per share is the price of a share calculated by the Fund every business day. |
■ | The offering price per share is the NAV per share plus any front-end sales charge (or load) that applies. |
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Share Class |
Eligible
Investors
(a)
;
Minimum Initial Investments (b) ; Conversion Features (c) |
Front-End
Sales Charges (d) |
Contingent
Deferred
Sales Charges (CDSCs) (d) |
Sales
Charge
Reductions/Waivers |
Maximum
Distribution
and/or Service Fees (e) |
acting
as broker on behalf of its customer, charges the customer a commission for effecting transactions in Fund shares, provided that the financial intermediary has an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes offering Class Adv shares
within such platform.
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Class C |
Eligibility:
Available to the general public for investment
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None | 1.00% on certain investments redeemed within one year of purchase (h) |
Waivers
: Yes, on Fund distribution reinvestments. For additional waivers, see
Choosing a Share Class – CDSC Waivers – Class A, Class C and Class V
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Distribution
Fee:
0.75%
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Class
Inst |
Eligibility: Available only to certain eligible investors, which are subject to different minimum investment requirements, ranging from $0 to $2,000, including investors who purchase Fund shares through commissionable brokerage platforms where the financial intermediary holds the shares in an omnibus account and, acting as broker on behalf of its customer, charges the customer a commission for effecting transactions in Fund shares, provided that the financial intermediary has an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes offering Class Inst shares within such platform; closed to (i) accounts of financial intermediaries that clear Fund share transactions for their client or customer accounts through designated financial intermediaries and their mutual fund | None | None | N/A | None |
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Share Class |
Eligible
Investors
(a)
;
Minimum Initial Investments (b) ; Conversion Features (c) |
Front-End
Sales Charges (d) |
Contingent
Deferred
Sales Charges (CDSCs) (d) |
Sales
Charge
Reductions/Waivers |
Maximum
Distribution
and/or Service Fees (e) |
trading
platforms that have been given specific written notice from the Transfer Agent of the termination of their eligibility for new purchases of Class Inst shares and (ii) omnibus group retirement plans, subject to certain exceptions
(i)
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Class
Inst2 |
Eligibility:
Available only to (i) certain registered investment advisers and family offices that clear Fund share transactions for their client or customer accounts through designated financial intermediaries and their mutual
fund trading platforms that have been granted specific written authorization from the Transfer Agent with respect to Class
Inst2 eligibility apart from selling, servicing or similar agreements; (ii) omnibus
retirement plans
(i)
; and (iii) institutional investors that are clients of the Columbia Threadneedle Global Institutional Distribution Team that invest
in Class
Inst2 shares for their own account through platforms approved by the Distributor or an affiliate thereof to offer and/or service Class
Inst2 shares within such
platform.
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None | None | N/A | None |
Class
Inst3 |
Eligibility: Available to (i) group retirement plans that maintain plan-level or omnibus accounts with the Fund (i) ; (ii) institutional investors that are clients of the Columbia Threadneedle Global Institutional Distribution Team that invest in Class Inst3 shares for their own account through platforms approved by the Distributor or an affiliate thereof to offer and/or service Class Inst3 shares within such platform; (iii) collective trust funds; (iv) affiliated or unaffiliated mutual funds (e.g., funds operating as funds-of-funds); (v) fee-based platforms of financial intermediaries (or the clearing intermediary they trade through) that have an agreement with the Distributor or an affiliate thereof that specifically authorizes the financial intermediary to offer and/or service Class Inst3 shares within such platform, provided also that Fund shares are held in an omnibus account; (vi) commissionable brokerage platforms where the | None | None | N/A | None |
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Share Class |
Eligible
Investors
(a)
;
Minimum Initial Investments (b) ; Conversion Features (c) |
Front-End
Sales Charges (d) |
Contingent
Deferred
Sales Charges (CDSCs) (d) |
Sales
Charge
Reductions/Waivers |
Maximum
Distribution
and/or Service Fees (e) |
financial
intermediary, acting as broker on behalf of its customer, charges the customer a commission for effecting transactions in Fund shares, provided that the financial intermediary has an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes
offering Class Inst3 shares within such platform and that Fund shares are held in an omnibus account; and (vii) bank trust departments, subject to an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes offering Class Inst3 shares and
provided that Fund shares are held in an omnibus account. In each case above where noted that Fund shares are required to be held in an omnibus account, the Distributor may, in its discretion, determine to waive this requirement.
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Class R |
Eligibility:
Available only to eligible retirement plans, health savings accounts and, in the sole discretion of the Distributor, other types of retirement accounts held through platforms maintained by financial intermediaries
approved by the Distributor
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None | None | N/A |
Series
of CFST & CFST I:
distribution fee of 0.50%
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Class T |
Eligibility
: Available to the general public (purchasing through a Class T Intermediary)
|
Per
Transaction
:
2.50% $499,999: 2.00% $999,999: 1.50% 1.00% |
None |
Waivers
: Yes,
(i) on Fund distribution reinvestments; (ii) on exchanges of Class T shares of the Fund from, at the discretion of Class T Intermediaries, another class of shares of the same Fund held in accounts of Class T Intermediaries, provided that (a) the other share class may only be exchanged for Class T shares if your financial intermediary does not offer that other share class on the intermediary’s commission-based platform, and (b) unless waived in the Distributor’s |
Distribution and/or Service Fees : 0.25% |
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Share Class |
Eligible
Investors
(a)
;
Minimum Initial Investments (b) ; Conversion Features (c) |
Front-End
Sales Charges (d) |
Contingent
Deferred
Sales Charges (CDSCs) (d) |
Sales
Charge
Reductions/Waivers |
Maximum
Distribution
and/or Service Fees (e) |
discretion,
shares of the class to be exchanged are held in a networked or omnibus account with the Fund; and
(iii) on purchases within fee-based accounts, provided that the Class T Intermediary has an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes offering Class T shares within the designated fee-based platform. |
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Class V |
Eligibility:
Generally closed to new investors
(i)
|
5.75% maximum, declining to 0.00% on investments of $1 million or more |
CDSC
on certain investments of between $1 million and $50 million redeemed within 18 months after purchase, charged as follows:
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Reductions
: Yes, see
Choosing a Share Class — Reductions/Waivers of Sales Charges – Class A and Class V Shares Front-End Sales Charge Reductions
|
Service Fee: up to 0.50% |
(a) | For Columbia Government Money Market Fund, new investments must be made in Class A, Class Inst, Class Inst3, Class R or Class T shares, subject to eligibility. Class C shares of Columbia Government Money Market Fund are available as a new investment only to investors in the Distributor's proprietary 401(k) products, provided that such investor is eligible to invest in the class and transact directly with the Fund or the Transfer Agent through a third party administrator or third party recordkeeper. Columbia Government Money Market Fund offers Class Inst2 shares only to facilitate exchanges with other Funds offering such share class. |
(b) | Certain share classes are subject to minimum account balance requirements, as described in Buying, Selling and Exchanging Shares — Transaction Rules and Policies. |
(c) | For more information on the automatic conversion of Class C shares to Class A shares, see Choosing a Share Class - Sales Charges and Commissions - Class C Shares - Automatic Conversion to Class A Shares . |
(d) | Actual front-end sales charges and CDSCs vary among the Funds. For more information on applicable sales charges, see Choosing a Share Class — Sales Charges and Commissions, and for information about certain exceptions to these sales charges, see Choosing a Share Class — Reductions/Waivers of Sales Charges. |
(e) | These are the maximum applicable distribution and/or service fees. Except for Class V shares, these fees are paid under the Fund’s Rule 12b-1 plan. Fee rates and fee components (i.e., the portion of a combined fee that is a distribution or service fee) may vary among Funds. Because these fees are paid out of Fund assets on an ongoing basis, over time these fees will increase the cost of your investment and may cost you more than paying other types of distribution and/or service fees. Although Class A shares of certain series of CFST I are subject to a combined distribution and service fee of up to 0.35%, these Funds currently limit the combined fee to 0.25%. Columbia Government Money Market Fund pays a distribution and service fee of up to 0.10% on Class A shares and up to 0.75% distribution fee on Class C shares. Columbia AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia High Yield Municipal Fund and Columbia Tax-Exempt Fund each pay a service fee of up to 0.20% on Class A and Class C shares. Columbia AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund pays a distribution fee of up to 0.65% on Class C shares. For more information on distribution and service fees, see Choosing a Share Class — Distribution and Service Fees. |
(f) | For Columbia Short Term Municipal Bond Fund, a CDSC of 0.50% is charged on certain investments of $500,000 or more redeemed within 12 months after purchase. The following Funds are not subject to a front-end sales charge or a CDSC on Class A shares: Columbia Government Money Market Fund, Columbia Large Cap Enhanced Core Fund, Columbia Large Cap Index Fund, Columbia Mid Cap Index Fund, Columbia Small Cap Index Fund and Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund. |
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(g) | If you are eligible to invest in Class A shares without a front-end sales charge, you should discuss your options with your financial intermediary. For more information, see Choosing a Share Class – Reductions/Waivers of Sales Charges. |
(h) | There is no CDSC on redemptions from Class C shares of Columbia Government Money Market Fund. |
(i) | These share classes are closed to new accounts, or closed to previously eligible investors, subject to certain conditions, as summarized below and described in more detail under Buying, Selling and Exchanging Shares — Buying Shares — Eligible Investors: |
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■ | depends on the amount you are investing (generally, the larger the investment, the smaller the percentage sales charge), and |
■ | is based on the total amount of your purchase and the value of your account (and any other accounts eligible for aggregation of which you or your financial intermediary notifies the Fund). |
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Class A Shares — Front-End Sales Charge — Breakpoint Schedule* | ||||
Breakpoint Schedule For: |
Dollar
amount of
shares bought (a) |
Sales
charge as a % of the offering price (b) |
Sales
charge as a % of the net amount invested (b) |
Amount
retained by or paid to financial intermediaries as a % of the offering price |
Fixed
Income Funds (except those listed below),
Columbia Multi-Asset Income Fund and Funds-of-Funds (fixed income)* |
$ 0-$49,999 | 4.75% | 4.99% | 4.00% |
$ 50,000–$99,999 | 4.25% | 4.44% | 3.50% | |
$100,000–$249,999 | 3.50% | 3.63% | 3.00% | |
$250,000–$499,999 | 2.50% | 2.56% | 2.15% | |
$500,000–$999,999 | 2.00% | 2.04% | 1.75% | |
$ 1,000,000 or more | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% (c) | |
Tax-Exempt Funds (other than Columbia Short Term Municipal Bond Fund) | $ 0-$99,999 | 3.00% | 3.09% | 2.50% |
$100,000–$249,999 | 2.50% | 2.56% | 2.15% | |
$250,000–$499,999 | 1.50 % | 1.53% | 1.25% | |
$ 500,000 or more | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% (c) | |
Columbia
Absolute Return Currency and Income Fund,
Columbia Floating Rate Fund, Columbia Inflation Protected Securities Fund, Columbia Limited Duration Credit Fund, Columbia Mortgage Opportunities Fund, Columbia Quality Income Fund, and Columbia Total Return Bond Fund |
$ 0-$99,999 | 3.00% | 3.09% | 2.50% |
$100,000–$249,999 | 2.50% | 2.56% | 2.15% | |
$250,000–$499,999 | 2.00% | 2.04% | 1.75% | |
$500,000–$999,999 | 1.50% | 1.52% | 1.25% | |
$ 1,000,000 or more | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% (c) | |
Columbia Short Term Bond Fund | $ 0-$99,999 | 1.00% | 1.01% | 0.75% |
$100,000–$249,999 | 0.75% | 0.76% | 0.50% | |
$250,000–$999,999 | 0.50% | 0.50% | 0.40% | |
$ 1,000,000 or more | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% (c) | |
Columbia Short Term Municipal Bond Fund | $ 0-$99,999 | 1.00% | 1.01% | 0.75% |
$100,000–$249,999 | 0.75% | 0.76% | 0.50% | |
$250,000–$499,999 | 0.50% | 0.50% | 0.40% | |
$ 500,000 or more | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% (c) | |
* | The following Funds are not subject to a front-end sales charge or CDSC on Class A shares: Columbia Government Money Market Fund, Columbia Large Cap Enhanced Core Fund, Columbia Large Cap Index Fund, Columbia Mid Cap Index Fund, Columbia Small Cap Index Fund and Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund. "Funds-of-Funds (equity)" includes Columbia Capital Allocation Aggressive Portfolio, Columbia Capital Allocation Moderate Aggressive Portfolio, Columbia Capital Allocation Moderate Conservative Portfolio, Columbia Capital Allocation Moderate Portfolio and Columbia Global Strategic Equity Fund . "Funds-of-Funds (fixed income)" includes Columbia Capital Allocation Conservative Portfolio and Columbia Income Builder Fund. Columbia Balanced Fund, Columbia Flexible Capital Income Fund and Columbia Global Opportunities Fund are treated as equity Funds for purposes of the table. |
(a) | Purchase amounts and account values may be aggregated among all eligible Fund accounts for the purposes of this table. See Choosing a Share Class — Reductions/Waivers of Sales Charges for a discussion of account value aggregation. |
(b) | Because the offering price is calculated to two decimal places, the dollar amount of the sales charge as a percentage of the offering price and your net amount invested for any particular purchase of Fund shares may be higher or lower depending on whether downward or upward rounding was required during the calculation process. Purchase price includes the sales charge. |
(c) | For information regarding cumulative commissions paid to your financial intermediary when you buy $1 million or more of Class A shares of a Taxable Fund or $500,000 or more of Class A shares of a Tax-Exempt Fund, see Class A Shares — Commissions below. |
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■ | If you purchased Class A shares of any Tax-Exempt Fund (other than Columbia Short Term Municipal Bond Fund and Columbia U.S. Social Bond Fund) without paying a front-end sales charge because your eligible accounts aggregated $500,000 or more at the time of purchase, you will incur a CDSC of 0.75% if you redeem those shares within 12 months after purchase. Subsequent Class A share purchases that bring your aggregate account value to $500,000 or more will also be subject to a CDSC of 0.75% if you redeem those shares within 12 months after purchase. |
■ | If you purchased Class A shares of Columbia Short Term Municipal Bond Fund without paying a front-end sales charge because your eligible accounts aggregated $500,000 or more at the time of purchase, you will incur a CDSC of 0.50% if you redeem those shares within 12 months after purchase. Subsequent Class A share purchases that bring your aggregate account value to $500,000 or more will also be subject to a CDSC of 0.50% if you redeem those shares within 12 months after purchase. |
■ | If you purchased Class A shares of Columbia U.S. Social Bond Fund without paying a front-end sales charge because your eligible accounts aggregated $500,000 or more at the time of purchase, you will incur a CDSC of 0.75% if you redeem those shares within 12 months after purchase. Subsequent Class A share purchases that bring your aggregate account value to $500,000 or more will also be subject to a CDSC of 0.75% if you redeem those shares within 12 months after purchase. |
■ | If you purchased Class A shares of any Taxable Fund without paying a front-end sales charge because your eligible accounts aggregated between $1 million and $50 million at the time of purchase, you will incur a CDSC if you redeem those shares within 18 months after purchase, which is charged as follows: 1.00% CDSC if shares are redeemed within 12 months after purchase; and 0.50% CDSC if shares are redeemed more than 12, but less than 18, months after purchase. Subsequent Class A share purchases that bring your aggregate account value to $1 million or more (but less than $50 million) will also be subject to a CDSC if you redeem them within 18 months after purchase as described in the previous sentence. |
Class A Shares of Tax-Exempt Funds — Commission Schedule (Paid by the Distributor to Financial Intermediaries) | |
Purchase Amount |
Commission
Level*
(as a % of net asset value per share) |
$500,000 – $3,999,999 | 0.75%** |
$4 million – $19,999,999 | 0.50% |
$20 million or more | 0.25% |
* | The commission level applies to the applicable asset level; therefore, for example, for a purchase of $5 million, the Distributor would pay a commission of 0.75% on the first $3,999,999 and 0.50% on the balance. |
** | The commission level on purchases of Class A shares of Columbia Short Term Municipal Bond Fund is: 0.50% on purchases of $500,000 to $19,999,999 and 0.25% on purchases of $20 million or more. |
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Class A Shares of Taxable Funds — Commission Schedule (Paid by the Distributor to Financial Intermediaries)* | |
Purchase Amount |
Commission
Level**
(as a % of net asset value per share) |
$1 million – $2,999,999 | 1.00% |
$3 million – $49,999,999 | 0.50% |
$50 million or more | 0.25% |
* | Not applicable to Funds that do not assess a front-end sales charge. |
** | The commission level applies to the applicable asset level; therefore, for example, for a purchase of $5 million, the Distributor would pay a commission of 1.00% on the first $2,999,999 and 0.50% on the balance. |
■ | Class C share accounts that are Direct-at-Fund Accounts and Networked Accounts for which the Transfer Agent (and not your financial intermediary) sends you Fund account transaction confirmations and statements, convert on or about the 15th day of the month (if the 15th is not a business day, then the next business day thereafter) that they become eligible for automatic conversion provided that the Fund has records that Class C shares have been held for the requisite time period. |
■ | For purposes of determining the month when your Class C shares are eligible for conversion, the start of the holding period is the first day of the month in which your purchase was made. Your financial intermediary may choose a different day of the month to convert Class C shares. Please contact your financial intermediary for more information on calculating the holding period. |
■ | Any shares you received from reinvested distributions on these shares generally will convert to Class A shares at the same time. |
■ | You’ll receive the same dollar value of Class A shares as the Class C shares that were automatically converted. Class C shares that you received from an exchange of Class C shares of another Fund will convert based on the day you bought the original shares. |
■ | No sales charge or other charges apply in connection with this automatic conversion, and conversions are free from U.S. federal income tax. |
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(a) | Because the offering price is calculated to two decimal places, the dollar amount of the sales charge as a percentage of the offering price and your net amount invested for any particular purchase of Fund shares may be higher or lower depending on whether downward or upward rounding was required during the calculation process. Purchase price includes the sales charge. |
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■ | depends on the amount you are investing (generally, the larger the investment, the smaller the percentage sales charge), and |
■ | is based on the total amount of your purchase and the value of your account (and any other accounts eligible for aggregation of which you notify your financial intermediary or, in the case of Direct-at-Fund Accounts (as defined below), you notify the Fund). |
(a) | Purchase amounts and account values are aggregated among all eligible Fund accounts for the purposes of this table. |
(b) | Because the offering price is calculated to two decimal places, the dollar amount of the sales charge as a percentage of the offering price and your net amount invested for any particular purchase of Fund shares may be higher or lower depending on whether downward or upward rounding was required during the calculation process. |
(c) | For more information regarding cumulative commissions paid to your financial intermediary when you buy $1 million or more of Class V shares, see Class V Shares — Commissions below. |
■ | If you purchased Class V shares without a front-end sales charge because your eligible accounts aggregated between $1 million and $50 million at the time of purchase, you will incur a CDSC if you redeem those shares within 18 months after purchase, which is charged as follows: 1.00% CDSC if shares are redeemed within 12 months after purchase, and 0.50% CDSC if shares are redeemed more than 12, but less than 18, months after purchase. |
■ | Subsequent Class V share purchases that bring your aggregate account value to $1 million or more (but less than $50 million) will also be subject to a CDSC if you redeem them within the time periods noted above. |
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Class V Shares — Commission Schedule (Paid by the Distributor to Financial Intermediaries) | |
Purchase
Amount |
Commission
Level*
(as a % of net asset value per share) |
$1 million – $2,999,999 | 1.00% |
$3 million – $49,999,999 | 0.50% |
$50 million or more | 0.25% |
* | The commission level applies to the applicable asset level; therefore, for example, for a purchase of $5 million, the Distributor would pay a commission of 1.00% on the first $2,999,999 and 0.50% on the balance. |
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Repurchases (Reinstatements) | |
Redeemed Share Class | Corresponding Repurchase Class |
Class A | Class A |
Class C | Class C |
Class V | Class V |
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(a) | The maximum distribution and service fees of Class A shares varies among the Funds, as shown in the table below: |
Funds |
Maximum
Class A Distribution Fee |
Maximum
Class A Service Fee |
Maximum
Class A Combined Total |
Series
of CFST and CFST II (other than Columbia
Government Money Market Fund) |
— | — |
0.25%;
these Funds pay a
combined distribution and service fee |
Columbia Government Money Market Fund | — | — | 0.10% |
Columbia AMT-Free Oregon Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia Balanced Fund, Columbia Contrarian Core Fund, Columbia Disciplined Small Core Fund, Columbia Dividend Income Fund, Columbia Global Technology Growth Fund, Columbia Large Cap Growth Fund, Columbia Mid Cap Growth Fund, Columbia Real Estate Equity Fund, Columbia Small Cap Growth Fund I, Columbia Total Return Bond Fund | up to 0.10% | up to 0.25% |
up
to 0.35%; these Funds may
pay distribution and service fees up to a maximum of 0.35% of their average daily net assets attributable to Class A shares (comprised of up to 0.10% for distribution services and up to 0.25% for shareholder liaison services) but currently limit such fees to an aggregate fee of not more than 0.25% for Class A shares |
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Funds |
Maximum
Class A Distribution Fee |
Maximum
Class A Service Fee |
Maximum
Class A Combined Total |
Columbia Adaptive Risk Allocation Fund, Columbia Alternative Beta Fund, Columbia AMT-Free Connecticut Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia AMT-Free Massachusetts Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia AMT-Free New York Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia Bond Fund, Columbia Corporate Income Fund, Columbia Diversified Absolute Return Fund, Columbia Diversified Real Return Fund, Columbia Emerging Markets Fund, Columbia Global Dividend Opportunity Fund, Columbia Global Energy and Natural Resources Fund, Columbia Greater China Fund, Columbia Multi-Asset Income Fund, Columbia Pacific/Asia Fund, Columbia Select Large Cap Growth Fund, Columbia Small Cap Value Fund I, Columbia Strategic California Municipal Income Fund, Columbia Strategic Income Fund, Columbia Strategic New York Municipal Income Fund, Columbia U.S. Social Bond Fund, Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund | — | 0.25% | 0.25% |
Columbia AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia High Yield Municipal Fund, Columbia Tax-Exempt Fund | — | 0.20% | 0.20% |
(b) | The service fees for Class A and Class C shares of certain Funds vary. The annual service fee for Class A and Class C shares of Columbia AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia High Yield Municipal Fund and Columbia Tax-Exempt Fund may equal up to 0.20% of the average daily NAV of all shares of such Fund class. The annual distribution fee for Class C shares for Columbia AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund shall be 0.65% of the average daily net assets of the Fund's Class C shares. The Distributor has voluntarily agreed to waive the service fee for Class A and Class C shares of Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund so that the service fee does not exceed 0.15% annually. This arrangement may be modified or terminated by the Distributor at any time. |
(c) | Fee amounts noted apply to all Funds other than Columbia Government Money Market Fund, which, for each of Class A and Class T shares, pays distribution and service fees of 0.10%, and for Class C shares pays distribution fees of 0.75%. The Distributor has currently agreed not to be reimbursed by the Fund for 0.25% of the 0.50% fee for Class R shares of Columbia Government Money Market Fund. The Distributor has voluntarily agreed to waive the Rule 12b-1 fees it receives from Class A, Class C, Class R and Class T shares of Columbia Government Money Market Fund. This arrangement may be modified or terminated by the Distributor at any time. Compensation paid to financial intermediaries may be suspended to the extent of the Distributor's waiver of the Rule 12b-1 fees on these specific share classes of these Funds. |
(d) | The Distributor has voluntarily agreed to waive a portion of the distribution fee for Class C shares of the following Funds so that the distribution fee does not exceed the specified percentage annually: 0.45% for Columbia AMT-Free Connecticut Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia AMT-Free Massachusetts Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia AMT-Free New York Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia AMT-Free Oregon Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia Strategic California Municipal Income Fund and Columbia Strategic New York Municipal Income Fund; 0.60% for Columbia Corporate Income Fund and Columbia Short Term Bond Fund; 0.65% for Columbia High Yield Municipal Fund and Columbia Tax-Exempt Fund; and 0.70% for Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund. These arrangements may be modified or terminated by the Distributor at any time. |
(e) | Class R shares of series of CFST and CFST I pay a distribution fee pursuant to a Rule 12b-1 plan for Class R shares. The Funds do not have a shareholder service plan for Class R shares. Series of CFST II have a distribution and shareholder service plan for Class R shares, which, prior to the close of business on September 3, 2010, were known as Class R2 shares. For Class R shares of series of CFST II, the maximum fee under the plan reimbursed for distribution expenses is equal on an annual basis to 0.50% of the average daily net assets of the Fund attributable to Class R shares. Of that amount, up to 0.25% may be reimbursed for shareholder service expenses. |
(f) | The combined distribution fee and service fee for Class T shares of series of CFST and CFST I shall not exceed 0.25%. Class T shares of series of CFST II pay a combined distribution and service fee of 0.25%. |
(g) | The shareholder servicing fees for Class V shares are up to 0.50% of average daily net assets attributable to Class V shares for equity Funds and 0.40% for fixed income Funds. In general, the Funds currently limit such fees to a maximum of 0.25% for equity Funds and 0.15% for fixed-income Funds. These fees for Class V shares are not paid pursuant to a Rule 12b-1 plan. See Class V Shareholder Service Fees below for more information. |
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Minimum Account Balance | |
Minimum
Account Balance |
|
For all classes and account types except those listed below |
$250
(None for accounts with
Systematic Investment Plans) |
Individual Retirement Accounts for all classes except those listed below | None |
Class Adv, Class Inst2, Class Inst3 and Class R | None |
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■ | negative impact on the Fund's performance; |
■ | potential dilution of the value of the Fund's shares; |
■ | interference with the efficient management of the Fund's portfolio, such as the need to maintain undesirably large cash positions, the need to use its line of credit or the need to buy or sell securities it otherwise would not have bought or sold; |
■ | losses on the sale of investments resulting from the need to sell securities at less favorable prices; |
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■ | increased taxable gains to the Fund's remaining shareholders resulting from the need to sell securities to meet sell orders; and |
■ | increased brokerage and administrative costs. |
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Minimum Initial Investments | ||
Minimum
Initial Investment (a) |
Minimum
Initial Investment for Accounts with Systematic Investment Plans |
|
For all classes and account types except those listed below | $2,000 | $100 (b) |
Individual Retirement Accounts for all classes except those listed below | $1,000 | $100 (c) |
Group retirement plans | None | N/A |
Class Adv and Class Inst | $0, $1,000 or $2,000 (d) | $100 (d) |
Class Inst2 and Class R | None | N/A |
Class Inst3 | $0, $1,000, $2,000 or $1 million (e) | $100 (e) |
(a) | If your Class A, Class Adv, Class C, Class Inst, Class Inst3 or Class V shares account balance falls below the minimum initial investment amount for any reason, including a market decline, you may be asked to increase it to the minimum initial investment amount or establish a monthly Systematic Investment Plan. If you do not do so, your account will be subject to a $20 annual low balance fee and/or shares may be automatically redeemed and the proceeds mailed to you if the account falls below the minimum account balance. See Buying, Selling and Exchanging Shares — Transaction Rules and Policies above. There is no minimum initial investment in Class A shares for accounts held in an omnibus account on a mutual fund only platform offered through your financial intermediary. |
(b) | Columbia Government Money Market Fund — $2,000 |
(c) | Columbia Government Money Market Fund — $1,000 |
(d) | The minimum initial investment in Class Adv shares is $2,000 ($1,000 for IRAs; $100 for systematic investment plan accounts) for commissionable brokerage platforms where the financial intermediary, acting as broker on behalf of its customers, charges the customer a commission for effecting transactions in Fund shares, provided that the financial intermediary has an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes offering Class Adv shares within such platform; for all other eligible Class Adv share investors (see Buying Shares – Eligible Investors – Class Adv Shares above), there is no minimum initial investment. The minimum initial investment amount for Class Inst shares is $0, $1,000 or $2,000 depending upon the category of eligible investor. See — Class Inst Shares Minimum Initial Investments below. The minimum initial investment amount for systematic investment plan accounts is the same as the amount set forth in the first two rows of the table, as applicable. |
(e) | There is no minimum initial investment in Class Inst3 shares for: group retirement plans that maintain plan-level or omnibus accounts with the Fund; collective trust funds; affiliated or unaffiliated mutual funds (e.g., funds operating as funds-of-funds); and fee-based platforms of financial |
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■ | Any health savings account sponsored by a third party platform. |
■ | Any investor participating in an account sponsored by a financial intermediary or other entity (that provides services to the account) that is paid a fee-based advisory fee by the investor and that is not compensated by the Fund for those services, other than payments for shareholder servicing or sub-accounting performed in place of the Transfer Agent. |
■ | Individual retirement accounts (IRAs) on commissionable brokerage platforms where the financial intermediary, acting as broker on behalf of its customer, charges the customer a commission for effecting transactions in Fund shares, provided that the financial intermediary has an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes offering Class Inst shares within such platform. |
■ | Any current employee of Columbia Management Investment Advisers LLC, the Distributor or the Transfer Agent and immediate family members of any of the foregoing who share the same address are eligible to invest in Class Inst shares through an individual retirement account (IRA). If you maintain your account with a financial intermediary, you must contact that financial intermediary each time you seek to purchase shares to notify them that you qualify for Class Inst shares. If Class Inst shares are not available at your financial intermediary, you may consider opening a Direct-at-Fund Account. It is your obligation to advise your financial intermediary or (in the case of Direct-at-Fund Accounts) the Transfer Agent that you qualify for Class Inst shares; be prepared to provide proof thereof. |
■ | Investors (except investors in individual retirement accounts (IRAs)) who purchase Fund shares through commissionable brokerage platforms where the financial intermediary holds the shares in an omnibus account and, acting as broker on behalf of its customer, charges the customer a commission for effecting transactions in Fund shares provided that the financial intermediary has an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes offering Class Inst shares within such platform. |
■ | Any current employee of Columbia Management Investment Advisers LLC, the Distributor or the Transfer Agent and immediate family members of any of the foregoing who share the same address are eligible to invest in Class Inst shares (other than individual retirement accounts (IRAs), for which the minimum initial investment is $1,000). If you maintain your account with a financial intermediary, you must contact that financial intermediary each time you seek to purchase shares to notify them that you qualify for Class Inst shares. If Class Inst shares are not available |
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at your financial intermediary, you may consider opening a Direct-at-Fund Account. It is your obligation to advise your financial intermediary or (in the case of Direct-at-Fund Accounts) the Transfer Agent that you qualify for Class Inst shares; be prepared to provide proof thereof. |
■ | Certain financial institutions and intermediaries, such as insurance companies, trust companies, banks, endowments, investment companies or foundations, buying shares for their own account, including Ameriprise Financial and its affiliates and/or subsidiaries. |
■ | Bank trust departments that assess their clients an asset-based fee. |
■ | Certain other investors as set forth in more detail in the SAI. |
■ | Once the Transfer Agent or your financial intermediary receives your purchase order in “good form,” your purchase will be made at the Fund’s next calculated public offering price per share, which is the NAV per share plus any sales charge that applies (i.e., the trade date). |
■ | Once the Fund receives your purchase request in “good form,” you cannot cancel it after the market closes. |
■ | You generally buy Class A, Class T and Class V shares at the public offering price per share because purchases of these share classes are generally subject to a front-end sales charge. |
■ | You buy Class Adv, Class C, Class Inst, Class Inst2, Class Inst3 and Class R shares at NAV per share because no front-end sales charge applies to purchases of these share classes. |
■ | The Distributor and the Transfer Agent reserve the right to cancel your order if the Fund does not receive payment within two business days of receiving your purchase order. The Fund will return any payment received for orders that have been cancelled, but no interest will be paid on that money. |
■ | Financial intermediaries are responsible for sending your purchase orders to the Transfer Agent and ensuring that the Fund receives your money on time. |
■ | Shares purchased are recorded on the books of the Fund. The Fund does not issue certificates. |
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■ | Once the Transfer Agent or your financial intermediary receives your redemption order in “good form,” your shares will be sold at the Fund’s next calculated NAV per share (i.e., the trade date). Any applicable CDSC will be deducted from the amount you're selling and the balance will be remitted to you. |
■ | Once the Fund receives your redemption request in “good form,” you cannot cancel it after the market closes. |
■ | If you sell your shares that are held in a Direct-at-Fund Account, we will normally send the redemption proceeds by mail or electronically transfer them to your bank account the next business day after the trade date. Note that your bank may take up to three business days to post an electronic funds transfer from your account. |
■ | If you sell your shares through a financial intermediary, the Funds will normally send the redemption proceeds to your financial intermediary within two business days after the trade date. |
■ | No interest will be paid on uncashed redemption checks. |
■ | Other restrictions may apply to retirement accounts. For information about these restrictions, contact your retirement plan administrator. |
■ | For broker-dealer and wrap fee accounts: The Fund reserves the right to redeem your shares if your account falls below the Fund's minimum initial investment requirement. The Fund will notify your broker-dealer prior to redeeming shares, and will provide details on how to avoid such redemption. |
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■ | Also keep in mind the Funds' Small Account Policy, which is described above in Buying, Selling and Exchanging Shares — Transaction Rules and Policies. |
■ | Exchanges are made at the NAV next calculated (plus any applicable sales charge) after your exchange order is received in “good form” (i.e., the trade date). |
■ | Once the Fund receives your exchange request in “good form,” you cannot cancel it after the market closes. |
■ | The rules for buying shares of a Fund generally apply to exchanges into that Fund, including, if your exchange creates a new Fund account, it must satisfy the minimum investment amount, unless a waiver applies. |
■ | Shares of the purchased Fund may not be used on the same day for another exchange or sale. |
■ | If you exchange shares from Class A shares of Columbia Government Money Market Fund to a non-money market Fund, any further exchanges must be between shares of the same class. For example, if you exchange from Class A shares of Columbia Government Money Market Fund into Class C shares of a non-money market Fund, you may not exchange from Class C shares of that non-money market Fund back to Class A shares of Columbia Government Money Market Fund or Class A shares of any other Fund. |
■ | A sales charge may apply when you exchange shares of a Fund that were not assessed a sales charge at the time you purchased such shares. If you invest through a Direct-at-Fund Account in Columbia Government Money Market Fund, Columbia Large Cap Enhanced Core Fund, Columbia Large Cap Index Fund, Columbia Mid Cap Index Fund, Columbia Small Cap Index Fund, Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund or any other Columbia Fund that does not impose a front-end sales charge and then you exchange into a Fund that does assess a sales charge, your transaction is subject to a front-end sales charge if you exchange into Class A shares and to a CDSC if you exchange into Class C shares of the Columbia Funds. |
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■ | If you purchased Class A shares of a Columbia Fund that imposes a front-end sales charge (and you paid any applicable sales charge) and you then exchange those shares into Columbia Government Money Market Fund, Columbia Large Cap Enhanced Core Fund, Columbia Large Cap Index Fund, Columbia Mid Cap Index Fund, Columbia Small Cap Index Fund, Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund or any other Columbia Fund that does not impose a front-end sales charge, you may exchange that amount to Class A of another Fund in the future, including dividends earned on that amount, without paying a sales charge. |
■ | If your shares are subject to a CDSC, you will not be charged a CDSC upon the exchange of those shares. Any CDSC will be deducted when you sell the shares you received from the exchange. The CDSC imposed at that time will be based on the period that begins when you bought shares of the original Fund and ends when you sell the shares of the Fund you received from the exchange. Any applicable CDSC charged will be the CDSC of the original Fund. |
■ | You may make exchanges only into a Fund that is legally offered and sold in your state of residence. Contact the Transfer Agent or your financial intermediary for more information. |
■ | You generally may make an exchange only into a Fund that is accepting investments. |
■ | The Fund may change or cancel your right to make an exchange by giving the amount of notice required by regulatory authorities (generally 60 days for a material change or cancellation). |
■ | Unless your account is part of a tax-advantaged arrangement, an exchange for shares of another Fund is a taxable event, and you may recognize a gain or loss for tax purposes. |
■ | Changing your investment to a different Fund will be treated as a sale and purchase, and you will be subject to applicable taxes on the sale and sales charges on the purchase of the new Fund. |
■ | Class Inst shares of a Fund may be exchanged for Class A or Class Inst shares of another Fund. In certain circumstances, the front-end sales charge applicable to Class A shares may be waived on exchanges of Class Inst shares for Class A shares. See Buying, Selling and Exchanging Shares — Buying Shares — Eligible Investors — Class Inst Shares for details. |
■ | You may generally exchange Class V shares of a Fund for Class A shares of another Fund if the other Fund does not offer Class V shares. Class V shares exchanged into Class A shares cannot be exchanged back into Class V shares. |
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■ | It can earn income on its investments. Examples of fund income are interest paid on money market instruments and bonds, and dividends paid on common stocks. |
■ | A mutual fund can also have capital gains if the value of its investments increases. While a fund continues to hold an investment, any gain is generally unrealized. If the fund sells an investment, it generally will realize a capital gain if it sells that investment for a higher price than its adjusted cost basis, and will generally realize a capital loss if it sells that investment for a lower price than its adjusted cost basis. Capital gains and losses are either short-term or long-term, depending on whether the fund holds the securities for one year or less (short-term) or more than one year (long-term). |
Declaration and Distribution Schedule | |
Declarations | Semiannually |
Distributions | Semiannually |
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■ | The Fund intends to qualify and to be eligible for treatment each year as a regulated investment company. A regulated investment company generally is not subject to tax at the fund level on income and gains from investments that are distributed to shareholders. However, the Fund's failure to qualify for treatment as a regulated investment company would result in Fund-level taxation, and consequently, a reduction in income available for distribution to you and in the NAV of your shares. Even if the Fund qualifies for treatment as a regulated investment company, the Fund may be subject to federal excise tax on certain undistributed income or gains. |
■ | Otherwise taxable distributions generally are taxable to you when paid, whether they are paid in cash or automatically reinvested in additional Fund shares. Dividends paid in January are deemed paid on December 31 of the prior year if the dividend was declared and payable to shareholders of record in October, November, or December of such prior year. |
■ | Distributions of the Fund's ordinary income and net short-term capital gain, if any, generally are taxable to you as ordinary income. Distributions of the Fund's net long-term capital gain, if any, generally are taxable to you as long-term capital gain. Whether capital gains are long-term or short-term is determined by how long the Fund has owned the investments that generated them, rather than how long you have owned your shares. |
■ | From time to time, a distribution from the Fund could constitute a return of capital, which is not taxable to you so long as the amount of the distribution does not exceed your tax basis in your Fund shares. A return of capital reduces your tax basis in your Fund shares, with any amounts exceeding such basis generally taxable as capital gain. |
■ | If you are an individual and you meet certain holding period and other requirements for your Fund shares, a portion of your distributions may be treated as “qualified dividend income” taxable at the lower net long-term capital gain rates instead of the higher ordinary income rates. Qualified dividend income is income attributable to the Fund's dividends received from certain U.S. and foreign corporations, as long as the Fund meets certain holding period and other requirements for the stock producing such dividends. |
■ | Certain high-income individuals (as well as estates and trusts) are subject to a 3.8% tax on net investment income. For individuals, the 3.8% tax applies to the lesser of (1) the amount (if any) by which the taxpayer's modified adjusted gross income exceeds certain threshold amounts or (2) the taxpayer's “net investment income.” |
Net investment income generally includes for this purpose dividends, including any capital gain dividends, paid by the Fund, and net gains recognized on the sale, redemption or exchange of shares of the Fund. |
■ | Certain derivative instruments when held in the Fund's portfolio subject the Fund to special tax rules, the effect of which may be to, among other things, accelerate income to the Fund, defer Fund losses, cause adjustments in the holding periods of Fund portfolio securities, or convert capital gains into ordinary income, short-term capital losses into long-term capital losses or long-term capital gains into short-term capital gains. These rules could therefore affect the amount, timing and/or character of distributions to shareholders. |
■ | Generally, a Fund realizes a capital gain or loss on an option when the option expires, or when it is exercised, sold or otherwise terminated. However, if an option is a “section 1256 contract,” which includes most traded options on a broad-based index, and the Fund holds such option at the end of its taxable year, the Fund is deemed to sell such option at fair market value at such time and recognize any gain or loss thereon, which is generally deemed to be 60% long-term and 40% short-term capital gain or loss, as described further in the SAI. |
■ | Income and proceeds received by the Fund from sources within foreign countries may be subject to foreign taxes. If at the end of the taxable year more than 50% of the value of the Fund's assets consists of securities of foreign corporations, and the Fund makes a special election, you will generally be required to include in your income for |
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U.S. federal income tax purposes your share of the qualifying foreign income taxes paid by the Fund in respect of its foreign portfolio securities. You may be able to claim a foreign tax credit or deduction in respect of this amount, subject to certain limitations. There is no assurance that the Fund will make this election for a taxable year, even if it is eligible to do so. |
■ | A sale, redemption or exchange of Fund shares is a taxable event. This includes redemptions where you are paid in securities. Your sales, redemptions and exchanges of Fund shares (including those paid in securities) usually will result in a taxable capital gain or loss to you, equal to the difference between the amount you receive for your shares (or are deemed to have received in the case of exchanges) and your adjusted tax basis in the shares, which is generally the amount you paid (or are deemed to have paid in the case of exchanges) for them. Any such capital gain or loss generally will be long-term capital gain or loss if you have held your Fund shares for more than one year at the time of sale or exchange. In certain circumstances, capital losses may be converted from short-term to long-term; in other circumstances, capital losses may be disallowed under the “wash sale” rules. |
■ | For sales, redemptions and exchanges of shares that were acquired in a non-qualified account after 2011, the Fund generally is required to report to shareholders and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) cost basis information with respect to those shares. The Fund uses average cost basis as its default method of calculating cost basis. For more information regarding average cost basis reporting, other available cost basis methods, and selecting or changing to a different cost basis method, please see the SAI, columbiathreadneedleus.com, or contact the Fund at 800.345.6611. If you hold Fund shares through a financial intermediary (e.g., a brokerage firm), you should contact your financial intermediary to learn about its cost basis reporting default method and the reporting elections available to your account. |
■ | The Fund is required by federal law to withhold tax on any taxable or tax-exempt distributions and redemption proceeds paid to you (including amounts paid to you in securities and amounts deemed to be paid to you upon an exchange of shares) if: you have not provided a correct TIN or have not certified to the Fund that withholding does not apply, the IRS has notified us that the TIN listed on your account is incorrect according to its records, or the IRS informs the Fund that you are otherwise subject to backup withholding. |
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Net
asset value,
beginning of period |
Net
investment income (loss) |
Net
realized and unrealized gain (loss) |
Total
from
investment operations |
Distributions
from net investment income |
Distributions
from net realized gains |
|
Class A | ||||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $41.62 | (0.03) | 3.95 | 3.92 | (0.01) | (4.83) |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 | $37.50 | 0.05 | 8.85 | 8.90 | (0.06) | (4.72) |
Year Ended 4/30/2016 | $43.03 | 0.11 | (1.13) | (1.02) | (0.12) | (4.39) |
Year Ended 4/30/2015 | $48.23 | 0.13 | 1.32 | 1.45 | (0.18) | (6.47) |
Year Ended 4/30/2014 | $45.66 | 0.14 | 9.96 | 10.10 | (0.30) | (7.23) |
Advisor Class | ||||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $46.89 | 0.10 | 4.48 | 4.58 | (0.08) | (4.83) |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 | $41.66 | 0.15 | 9.94 | 10.09 | (0.14) | (4.72) |
Year Ended 4/30/2016 | $47.24 | 0.24 | (1.24) | (1.00) | (0.19) | (4.39) |
Year Ended 4/30/2015 | $52.31 | 0.27 | 1.43 | 1.70 | (0.30) | (6.47) |
Year Ended 4/30/2014 | $48.96 | 0.27 | 10.73 | 11.00 | (0.42) | (7.23) |
Class C | ||||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $29.86 | (0.24) | 2.76 | 2.52 | — | (4.83) |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 | $28.24 | (0.19) | 6.44 | 6.25 | — | (4.63) |
Year Ended 4/30/2016 | $33.63 | (0.13) | (0.87) | (1.00) | — | (4.39) |
Year Ended 4/30/2015 | $39.24 | (0.17) | 1.03 | 0.86 | — | (6.47) |
Year Ended 4/30/2014 | $38.36 | (0.19) | 8.30 | 8.11 | — | (7.23) |
Institutional Class | ||||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $45.70 | 0.08 | 4.37 | 4.45 | (0.08) | (4.83) |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 | $40.71 | 0.14 | 9.71 | 9.85 | (0.14) | (4.72) |
Year Ended 4/30/2016 | $46.28 | 0.23 | (1.22) | (0.99) | (0.19) | (4.39) |
Year Ended 4/30/2015 | $51.37 | 0.27 | 1.41 | 1.68 | (0.30) | (6.47) |
Year Ended 4/30/2014 | $48.21 | 0.27 | 10.55 | 10.82 | (0.43) | (7.23) |
Institutional 2 Class | ||||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $46.88 | 0.17 | 4.46 | 4.63 | (0.11) | (4.83) |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 | $41.64 | 0.23 | 9.92 | 10.15 | (0.19) | (4.72) |
Year Ended 4/30/2016 | $47.21 | 0.31 | (1.25) | (0.94) | (0.24) | (4.39) |
Year Ended 4/30/2015 | $52.27 | 0.33 | 1.46 | 1.79 | (0.38) | (6.47) |
Year Ended 4/30/2014 | $48.93 | 0.32 | 10.75 | 11.07 | (0.50) | (7.23) |
Institutional 3 Class | ||||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $45.86 | 0.17 | 4.37 | 4.54 | (0.12) | (4.83) |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 | $40.83 | 0.09 | 9.87 | 9.96 | (0.21) | (4.72) |
Year Ended 4/30/2016 | $46.37 | 0.29 | (1.18) | (0.89) | (0.26) | (4.39) |
Year Ended 4/30/2015 | $51.46 | 0.36 | 1.42 | 1.78 | (0.40) | (6.47) |
Year Ended 4/30/2014 | $48.26 | 0.31 | 10.63 | 10.94 | (0.51) | (7.23) |
66 | Prospectus 2018 |
Total
distributions to shareholders |
Net
asset value, end of period |
Total
return |
Total
gross
expense ratio to average net assets (a) |
Total
net
expense ratio to average net assets (a), (b) |
Net
investment
income (loss) ratio to average net assets |
Portfolio
turnover |
Net
assets, end of period (000's) |
(4.84) | $40.70 | 10.03% | 1.35% (c) | 1.33% (c), (d) | (0.07%) | 51% | $248,266 |
(4.78) | $41.62 | 26.02% | 1.38% (c) | 1.37% (c), (d) | 0.12% | 50% | $245,315 |
(4.51) | $37.50 | (2.60%) | 1.36% | 1.36% (d) | 0.29% | 65% | $239,419 |
(6.65) | $43.03 | 3.48% | 1.33% | 1.33% (d) | 0.29% | 42% | $306,663 |
(7.53) | $48.23 | 22.95% | 1.31% (c) | 1.31% (c), (d) | 0.28% | 38% | $411,968 |
(4.91) | $46.56 | 10.34% | 1.10% (c) | 1.08% (c), (d) | 0.20% | 51% | $11,734 |
(4.86) | $46.89 | 26.30% | 1.13% (c) | 1.12% (c), (d) | 0.34% | 50% | $4,729 |
(4.58) | $41.66 | (2.31%) | 1.11% | 1.11% (d) | 0.56% | 65% | $4,007 |
(6.77) | $47.24 | 3.71% | 1.08% | 1.08% (d) | 0.53% | 42% | $9,840 |
(7.65) | $52.31 | 23.26% | 1.06% (c) | 1.06% (c), (d) | 0.51% | 38% | $9,620 |
(4.83) | $27.55 | 9.24% | 2.10% (c) | 2.08% (c), (d) | (0.83%) | 51% | $22,792 |
(4.63) | $29.86 | 25.05% | 2.12% (c) | 2.12% (c), (d) | (0.65%) | 50% | $26,703 |
(4.39) | $28.24 | (3.32%) | 2.12% | 2.11% (d) | (0.45%) | 65% | $26,846 |
(6.47) | $33.63 | 2.72% | 2.08% | 2.08% (d) | (0.47%) | 42% | $32,642 |
(7.23) | $39.24 | 22.03% | 2.06% (c) | 2.06% (c), (d) | (0.48%) | 38% | $37,568 |
(4.91) | $45.24 | 10.32% | 1.10% (c) | 1.08% (c), (d) | 0.17% | 51% | $209,822 |
(4.86) | $45.70 | 26.33% | 1.13% (c) | 1.12% (c), (d) | 0.34% | 50% | $239,246 |
(4.58) | $40.71 | (2.34%) | 1.11% | 1.11% (d) | 0.54% | 65% | $237,720 |
(6.77) | $46.28 | 3.75% | 1.08% | 1.08% (d) | 0.54% | 42% | $654,100 |
(7.66) | $51.37 | 23.24% | 1.06% (c) | 1.06% (c), (d) | 0.53% | 38% | $819,275 |
(4.94) | $46.57 | 10.45% | 0.97% (c) | 0.96% (c) | 0.35% | 51% | $15,739 |
(4.91) | $46.88 | 26.50% | 0.97% (c) | 0.97% (c) | 0.52% | 50% | $9,135 |
(4.63) | $41.64 | (2.19%) | 0.96% | 0.96% | 0.74% | 65% | $7,115 |
(6.85) | $47.21 | 3.90% | 0.93% | 0.93% | 0.67% | 42% | $4,150 |
(7.73) | $52.27 | 23.44% | 0.91% (c) | 0.91% (c) | 0.61% | 38% | $2,494 |
(4.95) | $45.45 | 10.50% | 0.93% (c) | 0.91% (c) | 0.37% | 51% | $115,296 |
(4.93) | $45.86 | 26.57% | 0.92% (c) | 0.92% (c) | 0.22% | 50% | $64,230 |
(4.65) | $40.83 | (2.13%) | 0.91% | 0.91% | 0.70% | 65% | $10,022 |
(6.87) | $46.37 | 3.95% | 0.88% | 0.88% | 0.74% | 42% | $9,261 |
(7.74) | $51.46 | 23.50% | 0.87% (c) | 0.87% (c) | 0.61% | 38% | $10,234 |
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Net
asset value,
beginning of period |
Net
investment income (loss) |
Net
realized and unrealized gain (loss) |
Total
from
investment operations |
Distributions
from net investment income |
Distributions
from net realized gains |
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Class R | ||||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $41.63 | (0.13) | 3.94 | 3.81 | — | (4.83) |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 | $37.54 | (0.06) | 8.87 | 8.81 | — | (4.72) |
Year Ended 4/30/2016 | $43.09 | 0.02 | (1.13) | (1.11) | (0.05) | (4.39) |
Year Ended 4/30/2015 | $48.28 | 0.01 | 1.32 | 1.33 | (0.05) | (6.47) |
Year Ended 4/30/2014 | $45.70 | 0.01 | 9.98 | 9.99 | (0.18) | (7.23) |
Notes to Financial Highlights | |
(a) | In addition to the fees and expenses that the Fund bears directly, the Fund indirectly bears a pro rata share of the fees and expenses of any other funds in which it invests. Such indirect expenses are not included in the Fund's reported expense ratios. |
(b) | Total net expenses include the impact of certain fee waivers/expense reimbursements made by the Investment Manager and certain of its affiliates, if applicable. |
(c) | Ratios include line of credit interest expense which is less than 0.01%. |
(d) | The benefits derived from expense reductions had an impact of less than 0.01%. |
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Total
distributions to shareholders |
Net
asset value, end of period |
Total
return |
Total
gross
expense ratio to average net assets (a) |
Total
net
expense ratio to average net assets (a), (b) |
Net
investment
income (loss) ratio to average net assets |
Portfolio
turnover |
Net
assets, end of period (000's) |
(4.83) | $40.61 | 9.77% | 1.60% (c) | 1.58% (c), (d) | (0.31%) | 51% | $3,790 |
(4.72) | $41.63 | 25.71% | 1.63% (c) | 1.62% (c), (d) | (0.15%) | 50% | $3,032 |
(4.44) | $37.54 | (2.83%) | 1.61% | 1.61% (d) | 0.06% | 65% | $2,760 |
(6.52) | $43.09 | 3.22% | 1.58% | 1.58% (d) | 0.01% | 42% | $3,671 |
(7.41) | $48.28 | 22.65% | 1.56% (c) | 1.56% (c), (d) | 0.01% | 38% | $3,360 |
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■ | Employer-sponsored retirement plans (e.g., 401(k) plans, 457 plans, employer-sponsored 403(b) plans, profit sharing and money purchase pension plans and defined benefit plans). For purposes of this provision, employer-sponsored retirement plans do not include SEP IRAs, Simple IRAs or SAR-SEPs. |
■ | Shares purchased through an Ameriprise Financial Services investment advisory program (if an Advisory or similar share class for such investment advisory program is not available). |
■ | Shares purchased by third party investment advisors on behalf of their advisory clients through Ameriprise Financial Services’ platform (if an Advisory or similar share class for such investment advisory program is not available). |
■ | Shares purchased through reinvestment of dividends and capital gain distributions when purchasing shares of the same Fund (but not any other fund within the same fund family). |
■ | Shares exchanged from Class C shares of the same fund in the month of or following the 10-year anniversary of the purchase date. To the extent that this prospectus elsewhere provides for a waiver with respect to such shares following a shorter holding period, that waiver will apply to exchanges following such shorter period. To the extent that this prospectus elsewhere provides for a waiver with respect to exchanges of Class C shares for load waived shares, that waiver will also apply to such exchanges. |
■ | Employees and registered representatives of Ameriprise Financial Services or its affiliates and their immediate family members. |
■ | Shares purchased by or through qualified accounts (including IRAs, Coverdell Education Savings Accounts, 401(k)s, 403(b) TSCAs subject to ERISA and defined benefit plans) that are held by a covered family member, defined as an Ameriprise financial advisor and/or the advisor’s spouse, advisor’s lineal ascendant (mother, father, grandmother, grandfather, great grandmother, great grandfather), advisor’s lineal descendant (son, step-son, daughter, step-daughter, grandson, granddaughter, great grandson, great granddaughter) or any spouse of a covered family member who is a lineal descendant. |
A-1 | Prospectus 2018 |
■ | Shares purchased from the proceeds of redemptions within the same fund family, provided (1) the repurchase occurs within 90 days following the redemption, (2) the redemption and purchase occur in the same account, and (3) redeemed shares were subject to a front-end or deferred sales load (i.e., rights of reinstatement). |
■ | Rights of Accumulation (ROA) which entitle shareholders to breakpoint discounts will be automatically calculated based on the aggregated holding of fund family assets held by accounts within the purchaser’s household at Merrill Lynch. Eligible fund family assets not held at Merrill Lynch may be included in the ROA calculation only if the shareholder notifies his or her financial advisor about such assets. |
■ | Letters of Intent (LOI) which allow for breakpoint discounts based on anticipated purchases within a fund family, through Merrill Lynch, over a 13-month period of time (if applicable). |
■ | Employer-sponsored retirement, deferred compensation and employee benefit plans (including health savings accounts) and trusts used to fund those plans, provided that the plan is a group plan (more than one participant), the shares are not held in a commission-based brokerage account and shares are held in the name of the plan through an omnibus account |
■ | Shares purchased by or through a 529 Plan |
■ | Shares purchased through a Merrill Lynch affiliated investment advisory program |
■ | Shares purchased by third party investment advisors on behalf of their advisory clients through Merrill Lynch’s platform |
■ | Shares of funds purchased through the Merrill Edge Self-Directed platform |
■ | Shares purchased through reinvestment of capital gains distributions and dividend reinvestment when purchasing shares of the same Fund (but not any other fund within the same fund family) |
■ | Shares exchanged from Class C (i.e., level-load) shares of the same fund in the month of or following the 10-year anniversary of the purchase date |
■ | Employees and registered representatives of Merrill Lynch or its affiliates and their family members |
■ | Directors or Trustees of the Fund, and employees of the Fund’s investment adviser or any of its affiliates, as described in this prospectus |
■ | Shares purchased from the proceeds of redemptions within the same fund family, provided (1) the repurchase occurs within 90 days following the redemption, (2) the redemption and purchase occur in the same account, and (3) redeemed shares were subject to a front-end or deferred sales load (known as Rights of Reinstatement). |
■ | Shares redeemed following the death or disability of the shareholder |
■ | Shares sold as part of a systematic withdrawal plan as described in this prospectus |
■ | Redemptions that constitute a return of excess contributions from an IRA |
■ | Shares sold as part of a required minimum distribution for IRA and retirement accounts due to the shareholder reaching age 70½ |
Prospectus 2018 | A-2 |
■ | Shares sold to pay Merrill Lynch fees but only if the transaction is initiated by Merrill Lynch |
■ | There will be no CDSC charged on the sale of Fund shares acquired through a right of reinstatement |
■ | The redemption of shares held in retirement brokerage accounts, that are exchanged for a lower cost share class due to transfer to a fee based account or platform (applicable to Class A and Class C shares only). |
■ | Employer-sponsored retirement plans (e.g., 401(k) plans, 457 plans, employer-sponsored 403(b) plans, profit sharing and money purchase pension plans and defined benefit plans). For purposes of this provision, employer-sponsored retirement plans do not include SEP IRAs, Simple IRAs, SAR-SEPs or Keogh plans |
■ | Morgan Stanley employee and employee-related accounts according to Morgan Stanley’s account linking rules |
■ | Shares purchased through reinvestment of dividends and capital gains distributions when purchasing shares of the same fund |
■ | Shares purchased through a Morgan Stanley self-directed brokerage account |
■ | Class C (i.e., level-load) shares that are no longer subject to a contingent deferred sales charge and are converted to Class A shares of the same fund pursuant to Morgan Stanley Wealth Management’s share class conversion program |
■ | Shares purchased from the proceeds of redemptions within the same fund family, provided (i) the repurchase occurs within 90 days following the redemption, (ii) the redemption and purchase occur in the same account, and (iii) redeemed shares were subject to a front-end or deferred sales charge. |
■ | Employer-sponsored retirement plans (e.g., 401(k) plans, 457 plans, employer-sponsored 403(b) plans, profit sharing and money purchase pension plans and defined benefit plans). For purposes of this provision, employer-sponsored retirement plans do not include SEP IRAs, Simple IRAs, SAR-SEPs or Keogh plans; however these plans are eligible to purchase Class T shares through a transactional brokerage account. |
■ | Morgan Stanley Wealth Management employee and employee-related accounts according to Morgan Stanley’s account linking rules. |
■ | Mutual fund shares exchanged from an existing position in the same fund as part of a share class conversion instituted by Morgan Stanley Wealth Management. |
A-3 | Prospectus 2018 |
■ | For employer-sponsored retirement plans held through a commissionable brokerage account, Class A shares are available at NAV (i.e., without a sales charge). For this purpose, employer-sponsored retirement plans include, but are not limited to, 401(k) plans, 457 plans, employer-sponsored 403(b) plans, profit sharing and money purchase pension plans and defined benefit plans. For purposes of this provision, employer-sponsored retirement plans do not include SEP IRAs, Simple IRAs, SAR-SEPs or Keogh plans. |
Prospectus 2018 | A-4 |
* | Please note, effective November 1, 2018, the Fund’s mailing address is changed to Columbia Management Investment Services Corp., P.O. Box 219104, Kansas City, MO 64121-9104. |
Class | Ticker Symbol | |
A | LIBAX | |
Advisor (Class Adv) (a) | CBNRX | |
C | LIBCX | |
Institutional (Class Inst) (a) | SRBFX | |
Institutional 2 (Class Inst2) (a) | CTBRX | |
Institutional 3 (Class Inst3) (a) | CTBYX | |
R | CIBRX | |
T | CIBWX |
(a) | Prior to November 1, 2017, Class Adv shares were known as Class R4 shares, Class Inst shares were known as Class Z shares, Class Inst2 shares were known as Class R5 shares, and Class Inst3 shares were known as Class Y shares. |
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(a) | This charge is imposed on certain investments of between $1 million and $50 million redeemed within 18 months after purchase, as follows: 1.00% if redeemed within 12 months after purchase, and 0.50% if redeemed more than 12, but less than 18, months after purchase, with certain limited exceptions. |
(b) | This charge applies to redemptions within 12 months after purchase, with certain limited exceptions. |
(c) | Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and certain of its affiliates have contractually agreed to waive fees and/or to reimburse expenses (excluding transaction costs and certain other investment related expenses, interest, taxes, acquired fund fees and expenses, and infrequent and/or unusual expenses) through August 31, 2019, unless sooner terminated at the sole discretion of the Fund’s Board of Trustees. Under this agreement, the Fund’s net operating expenses, subject to applicable exclusions, will not exceed the annual rates of 0.86% for Class A, 0.61% for Class Adv, 1.61% for Class C, 0.61% for Class Inst, 0.52% for Class Inst2, 0.48% for Class Inst3, 1.11% for Class R and 0.86% for Class T. |
Prospectus 2018 | 3 |
■ | you invest $10,000 in the applicable class of Fund shares for the periods indicated, |
■ | your investment has a 5% return each year, and |
■ | the Fund’s total annual operating expenses remain the same as shown in the Annual Fund Operating Expenses table above. |
1 year | 3 years | 5 years | 10 years | |
Class A (whether or not shares are redeemed) | $385 | $577 | $784 | $1,382 |
Class Adv (whether or not shares are redeemed) | $ 62 | $206 | $363 | $ 818 |
Class C (assuming redemption of all shares at the end of the period) | $264 | $519 | $897 | $1,961 |
Class C (assuming no redemption of shares) | $164 | $519 | $897 | $1,961 |
Class Inst (whether or not shares are redeemed) | $ 62 | $206 | $363 | $ 818 |
Class Inst2 (whether or not shares are redeemed) | $ 53 | $180 | $318 | $ 720 |
Class Inst3 (whether or not shares are redeemed) | $ 49 | $163 | $287 | $ 649 |
Class R (whether or not shares are redeemed) | $113 | $364 | $634 | $1,405 |
Class T (whether or not shares are redeemed) | $336 | $528 | $737 | $1,337 |
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Year
by Year Total Return (%)
as of December 31 Each Year* |
Best
and Worst Quarterly Returns
During the Period Shown in the Bar Chart |
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|
Best | 2nd Quarter 2009 | 8.13% |
Worst
|
3rd Quarter 2008 | -5.30% |
* | Year to Date return as of June 30, 2018: -0.95% |
10 | Prospectus 2018 |
Share
Class
Inception Date |
1 Year | 5 Years | 10 Years | |
Class A | 07/31/2000 | |||
returns before taxes | 0.43% | 1.51% | 3.97% | |
returns after taxes on distributions | -0.66% | 0.27% | 2.49% | |
returns after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund shares | 0.24% | 0.61% | 2.48% | |
Class Adv returns before taxes | 11/08/2012 | 3.95% | 2.38% | 4.55% |
Class C returns before taxes | 02/01/2002 | 1.80% | 1.43% | 3.62% |
Class Inst returns before taxes | 12/05/1978 | 3.83% | 2.38% | 4.55% |
Class Inst2 returns before taxes | 11/08/2012 | 3.89% | 2.45% | 4.58% |
Class Inst3 returns before taxes | 11/08/2012 | 3.95% | 2.50% | 4.61% |
Class R returns before taxes | 01/23/2006 | 3.32% | 1.87% | 4.03% |
Class T returns before taxes | 09/27/2010 | 0.87% | 1.59% | 4.04% |
Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (reflects no deductions for fees, expenses or taxes) | 3.54% | 2.10% | 4.01% |
Portfolio Manager | Title | Role with Fund | Managed Fund Since | |||
Jason Callan | Senior Portfolio Manager and Head of Structured Assets | Lead Portfolio Manager | 2016 | |||
Gene Tannuzzo, CFA | Senior Portfolio Manager | Portfolio Manager | November 2017 |
Online | Regular Mail | Express Mail | By Telephone | |||
Through October 31, 2018 | Through October 31, 2018 | |||||
columbiathreadneedleus.com/investor/ |
Columbia
Management
Investment Services Corp. P.O. Box 8081 Boston, MA 02266-8081 |
Columbia
Management
Investment Services Corp. c/o DST Asset Manager Solutions, Inc. 30 Dan Road, Suite 8081 Canton, MA 02021-2809 |
800.422.3737 | |||
Regular Mail | Express Mail | |||||
Effective November 1, 2018 | Effective November 1, 2018 | |||||
Columbia
Management
Investment Services Corp. P.O. Box 219104 Kansas City, MO 64121-9104 |
Columbia
Management
Investment Services Corp. c/o DST Asset Manager Solutions, Inc. 430 W 7 th Street, Suite 219104 Kansas City, MO 64105-1407 |
* | Based on the dates noted above, mail received at an incorrect address will be forwarded to the correct address, and will not be processed until received, in “good form,” at the correct address. This may affect the trade date you receive for transaction requests, which may negatively impact the value of your purchase or sale. |
Prospectus 2018 | 11 |
Class | Category of eligible account |
For
accounts other than
systematic investment plan accounts |
For
systematic investment
plan accounts |
Classes A, C & T (a) | All accounts other than IRAs | $2,000 | $100 |
IRAs | $1,000 | $100 | |
Classes Adv & Inst | All eligible accounts |
$0,
$1,000 or $2,000
depending upon the category of eligible investor |
$100 |
Classes Inst2 & R | All eligible accounts | None | N/A |
Class Inst3 | All eligible accounts |
$0,
$1,000, $2,000
or $1 million depending upon the category of eligible investor |
$100
(for certain
eligible investors) |
(a) | Class T shares must be purchased through financial intermediaries that, by written agreement with Columbia Management Investment Distributors, Inc., are specifically authorized to sell Class T shares. |
12 | Prospectus 2018 |
Prospectus 2018 | 13 |
14 | Prospectus 2018 |
■ | An interest rate future is a derivative that is an agreement whereby the buyer and seller agree to the future delivery of an interest-bearing instrument on a specific date at a pre-determined price. Examples include Treasury-bill futures, Treasury-bond futures and Eurodollar futures. |
Prospectus 2018 | 15 |
■ | A credit default swap (including a swap on a credit default index, sometimes referred to as a credit default swap index) is a derivative and special type of swap where one party pays, in effect, an insurance premium through a stream of payments to another party in exchange for the right to receive a specified return upon the occurrence of a particular credit event by one or more third parties, such as bankruptcy, default or a similar event. A credit default swap may be embedded within a structured note or other derivative instrument. Credit default swaps enable an investor to buy or sell protection against such a credit event (such as an issuer’s bankruptcy, restructuring or failure to make timely payments of interest or principal). Credit default swap indices are indices that reflect the performance of a basket of credit default swaps and are subject to the same risks as credit default swaps. If such a default were to occur, any contractual remedies that the Fund may have may be subject to bankruptcy and insolvency laws, which could delay or limit the Fund's recovery. Thus, if the counterparty under a credit default swap defaults on its obligation to make payments thereunder, as a result of its bankruptcy or otherwise, the Fund may lose such payments altogether, or collect only a portion thereof, which collection could involve costs or delays. The Fund’s return from investment in a credit default swap index may not match the return of the referenced index. Further, investment in a credit default swap index could result in losses if the referenced index does not perform as expected. Unexpected changes in the composition of the index may also affect performance of the credit default swap index. If a referenced index has a dramatic intraday move that causes a material decline in the Fund’s net assets, the terms of the Fund’s credit default swap index may permit the counterparty to immediately close out the transaction. In that event, the Fund may be unable to enter into another credit default swap index or otherwise achieve desired exposure, even if the referenced index reverses all or a portion of its intraday move. |
■ | An interest rate swap is a derivative in which two parties agree to exchange interest rate cash flows, based on a specified notional amount from a fixed rate to a floating rate (or vice versa) or from one floating rate to another. Interest rate swaps can be based on various measures of interest rates, including LIBOR, swap rates, treasury rates and foreign interest rates. |
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Columbia Total Return Bond Fund | |
Class A | 0.86% |
Class Adv | 0.61% |
Class C | 1.61% |
Class Inst | 0.61% |
Class Inst2 | 0.52% |
Class Inst3 | 0.48% |
Class R | 1.11% |
Class T | 0.86% |
24 | Prospectus 2018 |
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Portfolio Manager | Title | Role with Fund | Managed Fund Since | |||
Jason Callan | Senior Portfolio Manager and Head of Structured Assets | Lead Portfolio Manager | 2016 | |||
Gene Tannuzzo, CFA | Senior Portfolio Manager | Portfolio Manager | November 2017 |
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■ | compensation and other benefits received by the Investment Manager and other Ameriprise Financial affiliates related to the management/administration of a Columbia Fund and the sale of its shares; |
■ | the allocation of, and competition for, investment opportunities among the Fund, other funds and accounts advised/managed by the Investment Manager and other Ameriprise Financial affiliates, or Ameriprise Financial itself and its affiliates; |
■ | separate and potentially divergent management of a Columbia Fund and other funds and accounts advised/managed by the Investment Manager and other Ameriprise Financial affiliates; |
■ | regulatory and other investment restrictions on investment activities of the Investment Manager and other Ameriprise Financial affiliates and accounts advised/managed by them; |
■ | insurance and other relationships of Ameriprise Financial affiliates with companies and other entities in which a Columbia Fund invests; and |
■ | regulatory and other restrictions relating to the sharing of information between Ameriprise Financial and its affiliates, including the Investment Manager, and a Columbia Fund. |
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* | The website references in this prospectus are inactive links and information contained in or otherwise accessible through the referenced websites does not form a part of this prospectus. |
** | Based on the date noted above, mail received at an incorrect address will be forwarded to the correct address, and will not be processed until received, in “good form,” at the correct address. This may affect the trade date you receive for transaction requests, which may negatively impact the value of your purchase or sale. |
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■ | The amount you plan to invest. |
■ | How long you intend to remain invested in the Fund. |
■ | The fees (e.g., sales charge or “load”) and expenses for each share class. |
■ | Whether you may be eligible for a reduction or waiver of sales charges when you buy or sell shares. |
■ | The net asset value (NAV) per share is the price of a share calculated by the Fund every business day. |
■ | The offering price per share is the NAV per share plus any front-end sales charge (or load) that applies. |
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Share Class |
Eligible
Investors
(a)
;
Minimum Initial Investments (b) ; Conversion Features (c) |
Front-End
Sales Charges (d) |
Contingent
Deferred
Sales Charges (CDSCs) (d) |
Sales
Charge
Reductions/Waivers |
Maximum
Distribution
and/or Service Fees (e) |
acting
as broker on behalf of its customer, charges the customer a commission for effecting transactions in Fund shares, provided that the financial intermediary has an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes offering Class Adv shares
within such platform.
|
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Class C |
Eligibility:
Available to the general public for investment
|
None | 1.00% on certain investments redeemed within one year of purchase (h) |
Waivers
: Yes, on Fund distribution reinvestments. For additional waivers, see
Choosing a Share Class – CDSC Waivers – Class A, Class C and Class V
|
Distribution
Fee:
0.75%
|
Class
Inst |
Eligibility: Available only to certain eligible investors, which are subject to different minimum investment requirements, ranging from $0 to $2,000, including investors who purchase Fund shares through commissionable brokerage platforms where the financial intermediary holds the shares in an omnibus account and, acting as broker on behalf of its customer, charges the customer a commission for effecting transactions in Fund shares, provided that the financial intermediary has an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes offering Class Inst shares within such platform; closed to (i) accounts of financial intermediaries that clear Fund share transactions for their client or customer accounts through designated financial intermediaries and their mutual fund | None | None | N/A | None |
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Share Class |
Eligible
Investors
(a)
;
Minimum Initial Investments (b) ; Conversion Features (c) |
Front-End
Sales Charges (d) |
Contingent
Deferred
Sales Charges (CDSCs) (d) |
Sales
Charge
Reductions/Waivers |
Maximum
Distribution
and/or Service Fees (e) |
trading
platforms that have been given specific written notice from the Transfer Agent of the termination of their eligibility for new purchases of Class Inst shares and (ii) omnibus group retirement plans, subject to certain exceptions
(i)
|
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Class
Inst2 |
Eligibility:
Available only to (i) certain registered investment advisers and family offices that clear Fund share transactions for their client or customer accounts through designated financial intermediaries and their mutual
fund trading platforms that have been granted specific written authorization from the Transfer Agent with respect to Class
Inst2 eligibility apart from selling, servicing or similar agreements; (ii) omnibus
retirement plans
(i)
; and (iii) institutional investors that are clients of the Columbia Threadneedle Global Institutional Distribution Team that invest
in Class
Inst2 shares for their own account through platforms approved by the Distributor or an affiliate thereof to offer and/or service Class
Inst2 shares within such
platform.
|
None | None | N/A | None |
Class
Inst3 |
Eligibility: Available to (i) group retirement plans that maintain plan-level or omnibus accounts with the Fund (i) ; (ii) institutional investors that are clients of the Columbia Threadneedle Global Institutional Distribution Team that invest in Class Inst3 shares for their own account through platforms approved by the Distributor or an affiliate thereof to offer and/or service Class Inst3 shares within such platform; (iii) collective trust funds; (iv) affiliated or unaffiliated mutual funds (e.g., funds operating as funds-of-funds); (v) fee-based platforms of financial intermediaries (or the clearing intermediary they trade through) that have an agreement with the Distributor or an affiliate thereof that specifically authorizes the financial intermediary to offer and/or service Class Inst3 shares within such platform, provided also that Fund shares are held in an omnibus account; (vi) commissionable brokerage platforms where the | None | None | N/A | None |
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Share Class |
Eligible
Investors
(a)
;
Minimum Initial Investments (b) ; Conversion Features (c) |
Front-End
Sales Charges (d) |
Contingent
Deferred
Sales Charges (CDSCs) (d) |
Sales
Charge
Reductions/Waivers |
Maximum
Distribution
and/or Service Fees (e) |
financial
intermediary, acting as broker on behalf of its customer, charges the customer a commission for effecting transactions in Fund shares, provided that the financial intermediary has an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes
offering Class Inst3 shares within such platform and that Fund shares are held in an omnibus account; and (vii) bank trust departments, subject to an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes offering Class Inst3 shares and
provided that Fund shares are held in an omnibus account. In each case above where noted that Fund shares are required to be held in an omnibus account, the Distributor may, in its discretion, determine to waive this requirement.
|
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Class R |
Eligibility:
Available only to eligible retirement plans, health savings accounts and, in the sole discretion of the Distributor, other types of retirement accounts held through platforms maintained by financial intermediaries
approved by the Distributor
|
None | None | N/A |
Series
of CFST & CFST I:
distribution fee of 0.50%
|
Class T |
Eligibility
: Available to the general public (purchasing through a Class T Intermediary)
|
Per
Transaction
:
2.50% $499,999: 2.00% $999,999: 1.50% 1.00% |
None |
Waivers
: Yes,
(i) on Fund distribution reinvestments; (ii) on exchanges of Class T shares of the Fund from, at the discretion of Class T Intermediaries, another class of shares of the same Fund held in accounts of Class T Intermediaries, provided that (a) the other share class may only be exchanged for Class T shares if your financial intermediary does not offer that other share class on the intermediary’s commission-based platform, and (b) unless waived in the Distributor’s |
Distribution and/or Service Fees : 0.25% |
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Share Class |
Eligible
Investors
(a)
;
Minimum Initial Investments (b) ; Conversion Features (c) |
Front-End
Sales Charges (d) |
Contingent
Deferred
Sales Charges (CDSCs) (d) |
Sales
Charge
Reductions/Waivers |
Maximum
Distribution
and/or Service Fees (e) |
discretion,
shares of the class to be exchanged are held in a networked or omnibus account with the Fund; and
(iii) on purchases within fee-based accounts, provided that the Class T Intermediary has an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes offering Class T shares within the designated fee-based platform. |
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Class V |
Eligibility:
Generally closed to new investors
(i)
|
5.75% maximum, declining to 0.00% on investments of $1 million or more |
CDSC
on certain investments of between $1 million and $50 million redeemed within 18 months after purchase, charged as follows:
|
Reductions
: Yes, see
Choosing a Share Class — Reductions/Waivers of Sales Charges – Class A and Class V Shares Front-End Sales Charge Reductions
|
Service Fee: up to 0.50% |
(a) | For Columbia Government Money Market Fund, new investments must be made in Class A, Class Inst, Class Inst3, Class R or Class T shares, subject to eligibility. Class C shares of Columbia Government Money Market Fund are available as a new investment only to investors in the Distributor's proprietary 401(k) products, provided that such investor is eligible to invest in the class and transact directly with the Fund or the Transfer Agent through a third party administrator or third party recordkeeper. Columbia Government Money Market Fund offers Class Inst2 shares only to facilitate exchanges with other Funds offering such share class. |
(b) | Certain share classes are subject to minimum account balance requirements, as described in Buying, Selling and Exchanging Shares — Transaction Rules and Policies. |
(c) | For more information on the automatic conversion of Class C shares to Class A shares, see Choosing a Share Class - Sales Charges and Commissions - Class C Shares - Automatic Conversion to Class A Shares . |
(d) | Actual front-end sales charges and CDSCs vary among the Funds. For more information on applicable sales charges, see Choosing a Share Class — Sales Charges and Commissions, and for information about certain exceptions to these sales charges, see Choosing a Share Class — Reductions/Waivers of Sales Charges. |
(e) | These are the maximum applicable distribution and/or service fees. Except for Class V shares, these fees are paid under the Fund’s Rule 12b-1 plan. Fee rates and fee components (i.e., the portion of a combined fee that is a distribution or service fee) may vary among Funds. Because these fees are paid out of Fund assets on an ongoing basis, over time these fees will increase the cost of your investment and may cost you more than paying other types of distribution and/or service fees. Although Class A shares of certain series of CFST I are subject to a combined distribution and service fee of up to 0.35%, these Funds currently limit the combined fee to 0.25%. Columbia Government Money Market Fund pays a distribution and service fee of up to 0.10% on Class A shares and up to 0.75% distribution fee on Class C shares. Columbia AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia High Yield Municipal Fund and Columbia Tax-Exempt Fund each pay a service fee of up to 0.20% on Class A and Class C shares. Columbia AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund pays a distribution fee of up to 0.65% on Class C shares. For more information on distribution and service fees, see Choosing a Share Class — Distribution and Service Fees. |
(f) | For Columbia Short Term Municipal Bond Fund, a CDSC of 0.50% is charged on certain investments of $500,000 or more redeemed within 12 months after purchase. The following Funds are not subject to a front-end sales charge or a CDSC on Class A shares: Columbia Government Money Market Fund, Columbia Large Cap Enhanced Core Fund, Columbia Large Cap Index Fund, Columbia Mid Cap Index Fund, Columbia Small Cap Index Fund and Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund. |
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(g) | If you are eligible to invest in Class A shares without a front-end sales charge, you should discuss your options with your financial intermediary. For more information, see Choosing a Share Class – Reductions/Waivers of Sales Charges. |
(h) | There is no CDSC on redemptions from Class C shares of Columbia Government Money Market Fund. |
(i) | These share classes are closed to new accounts, or closed to previously eligible investors, subject to certain conditions, as summarized below and described in more detail under Buying, Selling and Exchanging Shares — Buying Shares — Eligible Investors: |
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■ | depends on the amount you are investing (generally, the larger the investment, the smaller the percentage sales charge), and |
■ | is based on the total amount of your purchase and the value of your account (and any other accounts eligible for aggregation of which you or your financial intermediary notifies the Fund). |
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Class A Shares — Front-End Sales Charge — Breakpoint Schedule* | ||||
Breakpoint Schedule For: |
Dollar
amount of
shares bought (a) |
Sales
charge as a % of the offering price (b) |
Sales
charge as a % of the net amount invested (b) |
Amount
retained by or paid to financial intermediaries as a % of the offering price |
Fixed
Income Funds (except those listed below),
Columbia Multi-Asset Income Fund and Funds-of-Funds (fixed income)* |
$ 0-$49,999 | 4.75% | 4.99% | 4.00% |
$ 50,000–$99,999 | 4.25% | 4.44% | 3.50% | |
$100,000–$249,999 | 3.50% | 3.63% | 3.00% | |
$250,000–$499,999 | 2.50% | 2.56% | 2.15% | |
$500,000–$999,999 | 2.00% | 2.04% | 1.75% | |
$ 1,000,000 or more | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% (c) | |
Tax-Exempt Funds (other than Columbia Short Term Municipal Bond Fund) | $ 0-$99,999 | 3.00% | 3.09% | 2.50% |
$100,000–$249,999 | 2.50% | 2.56% | 2.15% | |
$250,000–$499,999 | 1.50 % | 1.53% | 1.25% | |
$ 500,000 or more | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% (c) | |
Columbia
Absolute Return Currency and Income Fund,
Columbia Floating Rate Fund, Columbia Inflation Protected Securities Fund, Columbia Limited Duration Credit Fund, Columbia Mortgage Opportunities Fund, Columbia Quality Income Fund, and Columbia Total Return Bond Fund |
$ 0-$99,999 | 3.00% | 3.09% | 2.50% |
$100,000–$249,999 | 2.50% | 2.56% | 2.15% | |
$250,000–$499,999 | 2.00% | 2.04% | 1.75% | |
$500,000–$999,999 | 1.50% | 1.52% | 1.25% | |
$ 1,000,000 or more | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% (c) | |
Columbia Short Term Bond Fund | $ 0-$99,999 | 1.00% | 1.01% | 0.75% |
$100,000–$249,999 | 0.75% | 0.76% | 0.50% | |
$250,000–$999,999 | 0.50% | 0.50% | 0.40% | |
$ 1,000,000 or more | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% (c) | |
Columbia Short Term Municipal Bond Fund | $ 0-$99,999 | 1.00% | 1.01% | 0.75% |
$100,000–$249,999 | 0.75% | 0.76% | 0.50% | |
$250,000–$499,999 | 0.50% | 0.50% | 0.40% | |
$ 500,000 or more | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% (c) | |
* | The following Funds are not subject to a front-end sales charge or CDSC on Class A shares: Columbia Government Money Market Fund, Columbia Large Cap Enhanced Core Fund, Columbia Large Cap Index Fund, Columbia Mid Cap Index Fund, Columbia Small Cap Index Fund and Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund. "Funds-of-Funds (equity)" includes Columbia Capital Allocation Aggressive Portfolio, Columbia Capital Allocation Moderate Aggressive Portfolio, Columbia Capital Allocation Moderate Conservative Portfolio, Columbia Capital Allocation Moderate Portfolio and Columbia Global Strategic Equity Fund . "Funds-of-Funds (fixed income)" includes Columbia Capital Allocation Conservative Portfolio and Columbia Income Builder Fund. Columbia Balanced Fund, Columbia Flexible Capital Income Fund and Columbia Global Opportunities Fund are treated as equity Funds for purposes of the table. |
(a) | Purchase amounts and account values may be aggregated among all eligible Fund accounts for the purposes of this table. See Choosing a Share Class — Reductions/Waivers of Sales Charges for a discussion of account value aggregation. |
(b) | Because the offering price is calculated to two decimal places, the dollar amount of the sales charge as a percentage of the offering price and your net amount invested for any particular purchase of Fund shares may be higher or lower depending on whether downward or upward rounding was required during the calculation process. Purchase price includes the sales charge. |
(c) | For information regarding cumulative commissions paid to your financial intermediary when you buy $1 million or more of Class A shares of a Taxable Fund or $500,000 or more of Class A shares of a Tax-Exempt Fund, see Class A Shares — Commissions below. |
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■ | If you purchased Class A shares of any Tax-Exempt Fund (other than Columbia Short Term Municipal Bond Fund and Columbia U.S. Social Bond Fund) without paying a front-end sales charge because your eligible accounts aggregated $500,000 or more at the time of purchase, you will incur a CDSC of 0.75% if you redeem those shares within 12 months after purchase. Subsequent Class A share purchases that bring your aggregate account value to $500,000 or more will also be subject to a CDSC of 0.75% if you redeem those shares within 12 months after purchase. |
■ | If you purchased Class A shares of Columbia Short Term Municipal Bond Fund without paying a front-end sales charge because your eligible accounts aggregated $500,000 or more at the time of purchase, you will incur a CDSC of 0.50% if you redeem those shares within 12 months after purchase. Subsequent Class A share purchases that bring your aggregate account value to $500,000 or more will also be subject to a CDSC of 0.50% if you redeem those shares within 12 months after purchase. |
■ | If you purchased Class A shares of Columbia U.S. Social Bond Fund without paying a front-end sales charge because your eligible accounts aggregated $500,000 or more at the time of purchase, you will incur a CDSC of 0.75% if you redeem those shares within 12 months after purchase. Subsequent Class A share purchases that bring your aggregate account value to $500,000 or more will also be subject to a CDSC of 0.75% if you redeem those shares within 12 months after purchase. |
■ | If you purchased Class A shares of any Taxable Fund without paying a front-end sales charge because your eligible accounts aggregated between $1 million and $50 million at the time of purchase, you will incur a CDSC if you redeem those shares within 18 months after purchase, which is charged as follows: 1.00% CDSC if shares are redeemed within 12 months after purchase; and 0.50% CDSC if shares are redeemed more than 12, but less than 18, months after purchase. Subsequent Class A share purchases that bring your aggregate account value to $1 million or more (but less than $50 million) will also be subject to a CDSC if you redeem them within 18 months after purchase as described in the previous sentence. |
Class A Shares of Tax-Exempt Funds — Commission Schedule (Paid by the Distributor to Financial Intermediaries) | |
Purchase Amount |
Commission
Level*
(as a % of net asset value per share) |
$500,000 – $3,999,999 | 0.75%** |
$4 million – $19,999,999 | 0.50% |
$20 million or more | 0.25% |
* | The commission level applies to the applicable asset level; therefore, for example, for a purchase of $5 million, the Distributor would pay a commission of 0.75% on the first $3,999,999 and 0.50% on the balance. |
** | The commission level on purchases of Class A shares of Columbia Short Term Municipal Bond Fund is: 0.50% on purchases of $500,000 to $19,999,999 and 0.25% on purchases of $20 million or more. |
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Class A Shares of Taxable Funds — Commission Schedule (Paid by the Distributor to Financial Intermediaries)* | |
Purchase Amount |
Commission
Level**
(as a % of net asset value per share) |
$1 million – $2,999,999 | 1.00% |
$3 million – $49,999,999 | 0.50% |
$50 million or more | 0.25% |
* | Not applicable to Funds that do not assess a front-end sales charge. |
** | The commission level applies to the applicable asset level; therefore, for example, for a purchase of $5 million, the Distributor would pay a commission of 1.00% on the first $2,999,999 and 0.50% on the balance. |
■ | Class C share accounts that are Direct-at-Fund Accounts and Networked Accounts for which the Transfer Agent (and not your financial intermediary) sends you Fund account transaction confirmations and statements, convert on or about the 15th day of the month (if the 15th is not a business day, then the next business day thereafter) that they become eligible for automatic conversion provided that the Fund has records that Class C shares have been held for the requisite time period. |
■ | For purposes of determining the month when your Class C shares are eligible for conversion, the start of the holding period is the first day of the month in which your purchase was made. Your financial intermediary may choose a different day of the month to convert Class C shares. Please contact your financial intermediary for more information on calculating the holding period. |
■ | Any shares you received from reinvested distributions on these shares generally will convert to Class A shares at the same time. |
■ | You’ll receive the same dollar value of Class A shares as the Class C shares that were automatically converted. Class C shares that you received from an exchange of Class C shares of another Fund will convert based on the day you bought the original shares. |
■ | No sales charge or other charges apply in connection with this automatic conversion, and conversions are free from U.S. federal income tax. |
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(a) | Because the offering price is calculated to two decimal places, the dollar amount of the sales charge as a percentage of the offering price and your net amount invested for any particular purchase of Fund shares may be higher or lower depending on whether downward or upward rounding was required during the calculation process. Purchase price includes the sales charge. |
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■ | depends on the amount you are investing (generally, the larger the investment, the smaller the percentage sales charge), and |
■ | is based on the total amount of your purchase and the value of your account (and any other accounts eligible for aggregation of which you notify your financial intermediary or, in the case of Direct-at-Fund Accounts (as defined below), you notify the Fund). |
(a) | Purchase amounts and account values are aggregated among all eligible Fund accounts for the purposes of this table. |
(b) | Because the offering price is calculated to two decimal places, the dollar amount of the sales charge as a percentage of the offering price and your net amount invested for any particular purchase of Fund shares may be higher or lower depending on whether downward or upward rounding was required during the calculation process. |
(c) | For more information regarding cumulative commissions paid to your financial intermediary when you buy $1 million or more of Class V shares, see Class V Shares — Commissions below. |
■ | If you purchased Class V shares without a front-end sales charge because your eligible accounts aggregated between $1 million and $50 million at the time of purchase, you will incur a CDSC if you redeem those shares within 18 months after purchase, which is charged as follows: 1.00% CDSC if shares are redeemed within 12 months after purchase, and 0.50% CDSC if shares are redeemed more than 12, but less than 18, months after purchase. |
■ | Subsequent Class V share purchases that bring your aggregate account value to $1 million or more (but less than $50 million) will also be subject to a CDSC if you redeem them within the time periods noted above. |
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Class V Shares — Commission Schedule (Paid by the Distributor to Financial Intermediaries) | |
Purchase
Amount |
Commission
Level*
(as a % of net asset value per share) |
$1 million – $2,999,999 | 1.00% |
$3 million – $49,999,999 | 0.50% |
$50 million or more | 0.25% |
* | The commission level applies to the applicable asset level; therefore, for example, for a purchase of $5 million, the Distributor would pay a commission of 1.00% on the first $2,999,999 and 0.50% on the balance. |
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Repurchases (Reinstatements) | |
Redeemed Share Class | Corresponding Repurchase Class |
Class A | Class A |
Class C | Class C |
Class V | Class V |
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(a) | The maximum distribution and service fees of Class A shares varies among the Funds, as shown in the table below: |
Funds |
Maximum
Class A Distribution Fee |
Maximum
Class A Service Fee |
Maximum
Class A Combined Total |
Series
of CFST and CFST II (other than Columbia
Government Money Market Fund) |
— | — |
0.25%;
these Funds pay a
combined distribution and service fee |
Columbia Government Money Market Fund | — | — | 0.10% |
Columbia AMT-Free Oregon Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia Balanced Fund, Columbia Contrarian Core Fund, Columbia Disciplined Small Core Fund, Columbia Dividend Income Fund, Columbia Global Technology Growth Fund, Columbia Large Cap Growth Fund, Columbia Mid Cap Growth Fund, Columbia Real Estate Equity Fund, Columbia Small Cap Growth Fund I, Columbia Total Return Bond Fund | up to 0.10% | up to 0.25% |
up
to 0.35%; these Funds may
pay distribution and service fees up to a maximum of 0.35% of their average daily net assets attributable to Class A shares (comprised of up to 0.10% for distribution services and up to 0.25% for shareholder liaison services) but currently limit such fees to an aggregate fee of not more than 0.25% for Class A shares |
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Funds |
Maximum
Class A Distribution Fee |
Maximum
Class A Service Fee |
Maximum
Class A Combined Total |
Columbia Adaptive Risk Allocation Fund, Columbia Alternative Beta Fund, Columbia AMT-Free Connecticut Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia AMT-Free Massachusetts Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia AMT-Free New York Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia Bond Fund, Columbia Corporate Income Fund, Columbia Diversified Absolute Return Fund, Columbia Diversified Real Return Fund, Columbia Emerging Markets Fund, Columbia Global Dividend Opportunity Fund, Columbia Global Energy and Natural Resources Fund, Columbia Greater China Fund, Columbia Multi-Asset Income Fund, Columbia Pacific/Asia Fund, Columbia Select Large Cap Growth Fund, Columbia Small Cap Value Fund I, Columbia Strategic California Municipal Income Fund, Columbia Strategic Income Fund, Columbia Strategic New York Municipal Income Fund, Columbia U.S. Social Bond Fund, Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund | — | 0.25% | 0.25% |
Columbia AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia High Yield Municipal Fund, Columbia Tax-Exempt Fund | — | 0.20% | 0.20% |
(b) | The service fees for Class A and Class C shares of certain Funds vary. The annual service fee for Class A and Class C shares of Columbia AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia High Yield Municipal Fund and Columbia Tax-Exempt Fund may equal up to 0.20% of the average daily NAV of all shares of such Fund class. The annual distribution fee for Class C shares for Columbia AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund shall be 0.65% of the average daily net assets of the Fund's Class C shares. The Distributor has voluntarily agreed to waive the service fee for Class A and Class C shares of Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund so that the service fee does not exceed 0.15% annually. This arrangement may be modified or terminated by the Distributor at any time. |
(c) | Fee amounts noted apply to all Funds other than Columbia Government Money Market Fund, which, for each of Class A and Class T shares, pays distribution and service fees of 0.10%, and for Class C shares pays distribution fees of 0.75%. The Distributor has currently agreed not to be reimbursed by the Fund for 0.25% of the 0.50% fee for Class R shares of Columbia Government Money Market Fund. The Distributor has voluntarily agreed to waive the Rule 12b-1 fees it receives from Class A, Class C, Class R and Class T shares of Columbia Government Money Market Fund. This arrangement may be modified or terminated by the Distributor at any time. Compensation paid to financial intermediaries may be suspended to the extent of the Distributor's waiver of the Rule 12b-1 fees on these specific share classes of these Funds. |
(d) | The Distributor has voluntarily agreed to waive a portion of the distribution fee for Class C shares of the following Funds so that the distribution fee does not exceed the specified percentage annually: 0.45% for Columbia AMT-Free Connecticut Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia AMT-Free Massachusetts Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia AMT-Free New York Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia AMT-Free Oregon Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia Strategic California Municipal Income Fund and Columbia Strategic New York Municipal Income Fund; 0.60% for Columbia Corporate Income Fund and Columbia Short Term Bond Fund; 0.65% for Columbia High Yield Municipal Fund and Columbia Tax-Exempt Fund; and 0.70% for Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund. These arrangements may be modified or terminated by the Distributor at any time. |
(e) | Class R shares of series of CFST and CFST I pay a distribution fee pursuant to a Rule 12b-1 plan for Class R shares. The Funds do not have a shareholder service plan for Class R shares. Series of CFST II have a distribution and shareholder service plan for Class R shares, which, prior to the close of business on September 3, 2010, were known as Class R2 shares. For Class R shares of series of CFST II, the maximum fee under the plan reimbursed for distribution expenses is equal on an annual basis to 0.50% of the average daily net assets of the Fund attributable to Class R shares. Of that amount, up to 0.25% may be reimbursed for shareholder service expenses. |
(f) | The combined distribution fee and service fee for Class T shares of series of CFST and CFST I shall not exceed 0.25%. Class T shares of series of CFST II pay a combined distribution and service fee of 0.25%. |
(g) | The shareholder servicing fees for Class V shares are up to 0.50% of average daily net assets attributable to Class V shares for equity Funds and 0.40% for fixed income Funds. In general, the Funds currently limit such fees to a maximum of 0.25% for equity Funds and 0.15% for fixed-income Funds. These fees for Class V shares are not paid pursuant to a Rule 12b-1 plan. See Class V Shareholder Service Fees below for more information. |
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Minimum Account Balance | |
Minimum
Account Balance |
|
For all classes and account types except those listed below |
$250
(None for accounts with
Systematic Investment Plans) |
Individual Retirement Accounts for all classes except those listed below | None |
Class Adv, Class Inst2, Class Inst3 and Class R | None |
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■ | negative impact on the Fund's performance; |
■ | potential dilution of the value of the Fund's shares; |
■ | interference with the efficient management of the Fund's portfolio, such as the need to maintain undesirably large cash positions, the need to use its line of credit or the need to buy or sell securities it otherwise would not have bought or sold; |
■ | losses on the sale of investments resulting from the need to sell securities at less favorable prices; |
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■ | increased taxable gains to the Fund's remaining shareholders resulting from the need to sell securities to meet sell orders; and |
■ | increased brokerage and administrative costs. |
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Minimum Initial Investments | ||
Minimum
Initial Investment (a) |
Minimum
Initial Investment for Accounts with Systematic Investment Plans |
|
For all classes and account types except those listed below | $2,000 | $100 (b) |
Individual Retirement Accounts for all classes except those listed below | $1,000 | $100 (c) |
Group retirement plans | None | N/A |
Class Adv and Class Inst | $0, $1,000 or $2,000 (d) | $100 (d) |
Class Inst2 and Class R | None | N/A |
Class Inst3 | $0, $1,000, $2,000 or $1 million (e) | $100 (e) |
(a) | If your Class A, Class Adv, Class C, Class Inst, Class Inst3 or Class V shares account balance falls below the minimum initial investment amount for any reason, including a market decline, you may be asked to increase it to the minimum initial investment amount or establish a monthly Systematic Investment Plan. If you do not do so, your account will be subject to a $20 annual low balance fee and/or shares may be automatically redeemed and the proceeds mailed to you if the account falls below the minimum account balance. See Buying, Selling and Exchanging Shares — Transaction Rules and Policies above. There is no minimum initial investment in Class A shares for accounts held in an omnibus account on a mutual fund only platform offered through your financial intermediary. |
(b) | Columbia Government Money Market Fund — $2,000 |
(c) | Columbia Government Money Market Fund — $1,000 |
(d) | The minimum initial investment in Class Adv shares is $2,000 ($1,000 for IRAs; $100 for systematic investment plan accounts) for commissionable brokerage platforms where the financial intermediary, acting as broker on behalf of its customers, charges the customer a commission for effecting transactions in Fund shares, provided that the financial intermediary has an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes offering Class Adv shares within such platform; for all other eligible Class Adv share investors (see Buying Shares – Eligible Investors – Class Adv Shares above), there is no minimum initial investment. The minimum initial investment amount for Class Inst shares is $0, $1,000 or $2,000 depending upon the category of eligible investor. See — Class Inst Shares Minimum Initial Investments below. The minimum initial investment amount for systematic investment plan accounts is the same as the amount set forth in the first two rows of the table, as applicable. |
(e) | There is no minimum initial investment in Class Inst3 shares for: group retirement plans that maintain plan-level or omnibus accounts with the Fund; collective trust funds; affiliated or unaffiliated mutual funds (e.g., funds operating as funds-of-funds); and fee-based platforms of financial |
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■ | Any health savings account sponsored by a third party platform. |
■ | Any investor participating in an account sponsored by a financial intermediary or other entity (that provides services to the account) that is paid a fee-based advisory fee by the investor and that is not compensated by the Fund for those services, other than payments for shareholder servicing or sub-accounting performed in place of the Transfer Agent. |
■ | Individual retirement accounts (IRAs) on commissionable brokerage platforms where the financial intermediary, acting as broker on behalf of its customer, charges the customer a commission for effecting transactions in Fund shares, provided that the financial intermediary has an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes offering Class Inst shares within such platform. |
■ | Any current employee of Columbia Management Investment Advisers LLC, the Distributor or the Transfer Agent and immediate family members of any of the foregoing who share the same address are eligible to invest in Class Inst shares through an individual retirement account (IRA). If you maintain your account with a financial intermediary, you must contact that financial intermediary each time you seek to purchase shares to notify them that you qualify for Class Inst shares. If Class Inst shares are not available at your financial intermediary, you may consider opening a Direct-at-Fund Account. It is your obligation to advise your financial intermediary or (in the case of Direct-at-Fund Accounts) the Transfer Agent that you qualify for Class Inst shares; be prepared to provide proof thereof. |
■ | Investors (except investors in individual retirement accounts (IRAs)) who purchase Fund shares through commissionable brokerage platforms where the financial intermediary holds the shares in an omnibus account and, acting as broker on behalf of its customer, charges the customer a commission for effecting transactions in Fund shares provided that the financial intermediary has an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes offering Class Inst shares within such platform. |
■ | Any current employee of Columbia Management Investment Advisers LLC, the Distributor or the Transfer Agent and immediate family members of any of the foregoing who share the same address are eligible to invest in Class Inst shares (other than individual retirement accounts (IRAs), for which the minimum initial investment is $1,000). If you maintain your account with a financial intermediary, you must contact that financial intermediary each time you seek to purchase shares to notify them that you qualify for Class Inst shares. If Class Inst shares are not available |
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at your financial intermediary, you may consider opening a Direct-at-Fund Account. It is your obligation to advise your financial intermediary or (in the case of Direct-at-Fund Accounts) the Transfer Agent that you qualify for Class Inst shares; be prepared to provide proof thereof. |
■ | Certain financial institutions and intermediaries, such as insurance companies, trust companies, banks, endowments, investment companies or foundations, buying shares for their own account, including Ameriprise Financial and its affiliates and/or subsidiaries. |
■ | Bank trust departments that assess their clients an asset-based fee. |
■ | Certain other investors as set forth in more detail in the SAI. |
■ | Once the Transfer Agent or your financial intermediary receives your purchase order in “good form,” your purchase will be made at the Fund’s next calculated public offering price per share, which is the NAV per share plus any sales charge that applies (i.e., the trade date). |
■ | Once the Fund receives your purchase request in “good form,” you cannot cancel it after the market closes. |
■ | You generally buy Class A, Class T and Class V shares at the public offering price per share because purchases of these share classes are generally subject to a front-end sales charge. |
■ | You buy Class Adv, Class C, Class Inst, Class Inst2, Class Inst3 and Class R shares at NAV per share because no front-end sales charge applies to purchases of these share classes. |
■ | The Distributor and the Transfer Agent reserve the right to cancel your order if the Fund does not receive payment within two business days of receiving your purchase order. The Fund will return any payment received for orders that have been cancelled, but no interest will be paid on that money. |
■ | Financial intermediaries are responsible for sending your purchase orders to the Transfer Agent and ensuring that the Fund receives your money on time. |
■ | Shares purchased are recorded on the books of the Fund. The Fund does not issue certificates. |
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■ | Once the Transfer Agent or your financial intermediary receives your redemption order in “good form,” your shares will be sold at the Fund’s next calculated NAV per share (i.e., the trade date). Any applicable CDSC will be deducted from the amount you're selling and the balance will be remitted to you. |
■ | Once the Fund receives your redemption request in “good form,” you cannot cancel it after the market closes. |
■ | If you sell your shares that are held in a Direct-at-Fund Account, we will normally send the redemption proceeds by mail or electronically transfer them to your bank account the next business day after the trade date. Note that your bank may take up to three business days to post an electronic funds transfer from your account. |
■ | If you sell your shares through a financial intermediary, the Funds will normally send the redemption proceeds to your financial intermediary within two business days after the trade date. |
■ | No interest will be paid on uncashed redemption checks. |
■ | Other restrictions may apply to retirement accounts. For information about these restrictions, contact your retirement plan administrator. |
■ | For broker-dealer and wrap fee accounts: The Fund reserves the right to redeem your shares if your account falls below the Fund's minimum initial investment requirement. The Fund will notify your broker-dealer prior to redeeming shares, and will provide details on how to avoid such redemption. |
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■ | Also keep in mind the Funds' Small Account Policy, which is described above in Buying, Selling and Exchanging Shares — Transaction Rules and Policies. |
■ | Exchanges are made at the NAV next calculated (plus any applicable sales charge) after your exchange order is received in “good form” (i.e., the trade date). |
■ | Once the Fund receives your exchange request in “good form,” you cannot cancel it after the market closes. |
■ | The rules for buying shares of a Fund generally apply to exchanges into that Fund, including, if your exchange creates a new Fund account, it must satisfy the minimum investment amount, unless a waiver applies. |
■ | Shares of the purchased Fund may not be used on the same day for another exchange or sale. |
■ | If you exchange shares from Class A shares of Columbia Government Money Market Fund to a non-money market Fund, any further exchanges must be between shares of the same class. For example, if you exchange from Class A shares of Columbia Government Money Market Fund into Class C shares of a non-money market Fund, you may not exchange from Class C shares of that non-money market Fund back to Class A shares of Columbia Government Money Market Fund or Class A shares of any other Fund. |
■ | A sales charge may apply when you exchange shares of a Fund that were not assessed a sales charge at the time you purchased such shares. If you invest through a Direct-at-Fund Account in Columbia Government Money Market Fund, Columbia Large Cap Enhanced Core Fund, Columbia Large Cap Index Fund, Columbia Mid Cap Index Fund, Columbia Small Cap Index Fund, Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund or any other Columbia Fund that does not impose a front-end sales charge and then you exchange into a Fund that does assess a sales charge, your transaction is subject to a front-end sales charge if you exchange into Class A shares and to a CDSC if you exchange into Class C shares of the Columbia Funds. |
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■ | If you purchased Class A shares of a Columbia Fund that imposes a front-end sales charge (and you paid any applicable sales charge) and you then exchange those shares into Columbia Government Money Market Fund, Columbia Large Cap Enhanced Core Fund, Columbia Large Cap Index Fund, Columbia Mid Cap Index Fund, Columbia Small Cap Index Fund, Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund or any other Columbia Fund that does not impose a front-end sales charge, you may exchange that amount to Class A of another Fund in the future, including dividends earned on that amount, without paying a sales charge. |
■ | If your shares are subject to a CDSC, you will not be charged a CDSC upon the exchange of those shares. Any CDSC will be deducted when you sell the shares you received from the exchange. The CDSC imposed at that time will be based on the period that begins when you bought shares of the original Fund and ends when you sell the shares of the Fund you received from the exchange. Any applicable CDSC charged will be the CDSC of the original Fund. |
■ | You may make exchanges only into a Fund that is legally offered and sold in your state of residence. Contact the Transfer Agent or your financial intermediary for more information. |
■ | You generally may make an exchange only into a Fund that is accepting investments. |
■ | The Fund may change or cancel your right to make an exchange by giving the amount of notice required by regulatory authorities (generally 60 days for a material change or cancellation). |
■ | Unless your account is part of a tax-advantaged arrangement, an exchange for shares of another Fund is a taxable event, and you may recognize a gain or loss for tax purposes. |
■ | Changing your investment to a different Fund will be treated as a sale and purchase, and you will be subject to applicable taxes on the sale and sales charges on the purchase of the new Fund. |
■ | Class Inst shares of a Fund may be exchanged for Class A or Class Inst shares of another Fund. In certain circumstances, the front-end sales charge applicable to Class A shares may be waived on exchanges of Class Inst shares for Class A shares. See Buying, Selling and Exchanging Shares — Buying Shares — Eligible Investors — Class Inst Shares for details. |
■ | You may generally exchange Class V shares of a Fund for Class A shares of another Fund if the other Fund does not offer Class V shares. Class V shares exchanged into Class A shares cannot be exchanged back into Class V shares. |
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■ | It can earn income on its investments. Examples of fund income are interest paid on money market instruments and bonds, and dividends paid on common stocks. |
■ | A mutual fund can also have capital gains if the value of its investments increases. While a fund continues to hold an investment, any gain is generally unrealized. If the fund sells an investment, it generally will realize a capital gain if it sells that investment for a higher price than its adjusted cost basis, and will generally realize a capital loss if it sells that investment for a lower price than its adjusted cost basis. Capital gains and losses are either short-term or long-term, depending on whether the fund holds the securities for one year or less (short-term) or more than one year (long-term). |
Declaration and Distribution Schedule | |
Declarations | Daily |
Distributions | Monthly |
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■ | The Fund intends to qualify and to be eligible for treatment each year as a regulated investment company. A regulated investment company generally is not subject to tax at the fund level on income and gains from investments that are distributed to shareholders. However, the Fund's failure to qualify for treatment as a regulated investment company would result in Fund-level taxation, and consequently, a reduction in income available for distribution to you and in the NAV of your shares. Even if the Fund qualifies for treatment as a regulated investment company, the Fund may be subject to federal excise tax on certain undistributed income or gains. |
■ | Otherwise taxable distributions generally are taxable to you when paid, whether they are paid in cash or automatically reinvested in additional Fund shares. Dividends paid in January are deemed paid on December 31 of the prior year if the dividend was declared and payable to shareholders of record in October, November, or December of such prior year. |
■ | Distributions of the Fund's ordinary income and net short-term capital gain, if any, generally are taxable to you as ordinary income. Distributions of the Fund's net long-term capital gain, if any, generally are taxable to you as long-term capital gain. Whether capital gains are long-term or short-term is determined by how long the Fund has owned the investments that generated them, rather than how long you have owned your shares. The Fund expects that distributions will consist primarily of ordinary income. |
■ | From time to time, a distribution from the Fund could constitute a return of capital, which is not taxable to you so long as the amount of the distribution does not exceed your tax basis in your Fund shares. A return of capital reduces your tax basis in your Fund shares, with any amounts exceeding such basis generally taxable as capital gain. |
■ | If you are an individual and you meet certain holding period and other requirements for your Fund shares, a portion of your distributions may be treated as “qualified dividend income” taxable at the lower net long-term capital gain rates instead of the higher ordinary income rates. Qualified dividend income is income attributable to the Fund's dividends received from certain U.S. and foreign corporations, as long as the Fund meets certain holding period and other requirements for the stock producing such dividends. The Fund does not expect a significant portion of Fund distributions to be eligible for treatment as qualified dividend income. |
■ | Certain high-income individuals (as well as estates and trusts) are subject to a 3.8% tax on net investment income. For individuals, the 3.8% tax applies to the lesser of (1) the amount (if any) by which the taxpayer's modified adjusted gross income exceeds certain threshold amounts or (2) the taxpayer's “net investment income.” |
Net investment income generally includes for this purpose dividends, including any capital gain dividends, paid by the Fund, and net gains recognized on the sale, redemption or exchange of shares of the Fund. |
■ | Certain derivative instruments when held in the Fund's portfolio subject the Fund to special tax rules, the effect of which may be to, among other things, accelerate income to the Fund, defer Fund losses, cause adjustments in the holding periods of Fund portfolio securities, or convert capital gains into ordinary income, short-term capital losses into long-term capital losses or long-term capital gains into short-term capital gains. These rules could therefore affect the amount, timing and/or character of distributions to shareholders. |
■ | Generally, a Fund realizes a capital gain or loss on an option when the option expires, or when it is exercised, sold or otherwise terminated. However, if an option is a “section 1256 contract,” which includes most traded options on a broad-based index, and the Fund holds such option at the end of its taxable year, the Fund is deemed to sell such option at fair market value at such time and recognize any gain or loss thereon, which is generally deemed to be 60% long-term and 40% short-term capital gain or loss, as described further in the SAI. |
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■ | Income and proceeds received by the Fund from sources within foreign countries may be subject to foreign taxes. If at the end of the taxable year more than 50% of the value of the Fund's assets consists of securities of foreign corporations, and the Fund makes a special election, you will generally be required to include in your income for U.S. federal income tax purposes your share of the qualifying foreign income taxes paid by the Fund in respect of its foreign portfolio securities. You may be able to claim a foreign tax credit or deduction in respect of this amount, subject to certain limitations. There is no assurance that the Fund will make this election for a taxable year, even if it is eligible to do so. |
■ | A sale, redemption or exchange of Fund shares is a taxable event. This includes redemptions where you are paid in securities. Your sales, redemptions and exchanges of Fund shares (including those paid in securities) usually will result in a taxable capital gain or loss to you, equal to the difference between the amount you receive for your shares (or are deemed to have received in the case of exchanges) and your adjusted tax basis in the shares, which is generally the amount you paid (or are deemed to have paid in the case of exchanges) for them. Any such capital gain or loss generally will be long-term capital gain or loss if you have held your Fund shares for more than one year at the time of sale or exchange. In certain circumstances, capital losses may be converted from short-term to long-term; in other circumstances, capital losses may be disallowed under the “wash sale” rules. |
■ | For sales, redemptions and exchanges of shares that were acquired in a non-qualified account after 2011, the Fund generally is required to report to shareholders and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) cost basis information with respect to those shares. The Fund uses average cost basis as its default method of calculating cost basis. For more information regarding average cost basis reporting, other available cost basis methods, and selecting or changing to a different cost basis method, please see the SAI, columbiathreadneedleus.com, or contact the Fund at 800.345.6611. If you hold Fund shares through a financial intermediary (e.g., a brokerage firm), you should contact your financial intermediary to learn about its cost basis reporting default method and the reporting elections available to your account. |
■ | The Fund is required by federal law to withhold tax on any taxable or tax-exempt distributions and redemption proceeds paid to you (including amounts paid to you in securities and amounts deemed to be paid to you upon an exchange of shares) if: you have not provided a correct TIN or have not certified to the Fund that withholding does not apply, the IRS has notified us that the TIN listed on your account is incorrect according to its records, or the IRS informs the Fund that you are otherwise subject to backup withholding. |
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Net
asset value,
beginning of period |
Net
investment income |
Net
realized and unrealized gain (loss) |
Total
from
investment operations |
Distributions
from net investment income |
Distributions
from net realized gains |
Tax
return of capital |
|
Class A | |||||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $9.04 | 0.23 | (0.22) | 0.01 | (0.21) | — | (0.01) |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 | $9.20 | 0.25 | (0.04) | 0.21 | (0.23) | (0.14) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2016 | $9.25 | 0.22 | 0.01 (e) | 0.23 | (0.17) | (0.11) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2015 | $9.15 | 0.23 | 0.09 | 0.32 | (0.22) | — | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2014 | $9.49 | 0.24 | (0.31) | (0.07) | (0.21) | (0.06) | — |
Advisor Class | |||||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $9.02 | 0.25 | (0.21) | 0.04 | (0.23) | — | (0.01) |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 | $9.18 | 0.26 | (0.02) | 0.24 | (0.26) | (0.14) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2016 | $9.24 | 0.24 | 0.00 (e), (f) | 0.24 | (0.19) | (0.11) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2015 | $9.14 | 0.25 | 0.10 | 0.35 | (0.25) | — | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2014 | $9.48 | 0.27 | (0.31) | (0.04) | (0.24) | (0.06) | — |
Class C | |||||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $9.04 | 0.16 | (0.22) | (0.06) | (0.14) | — | (0.01) |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 | $9.20 | 0.18 | (0.04) | 0.14 | (0.16) | (0.14) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2016 | $9.25 | 0.15 | 0.01 (e) | 0.16 | (0.10) | (0.11) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2015 | $9.15 | 0.17 | 0.09 | 0.26 | (0.16) | — | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2014 | $9.49 | 0.19 | (0.31) | (0.12) | (0.16) | (0.06) | — |
Institutional Class | |||||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $9.04 | 0.25 | (0.21) | 0.04 | (0.23) | — | (0.01) |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 | $9.20 | 0.27 | (0.03) | 0.24 | (0.26) | (0.14) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2016 | $9.26 | 0.24 | 0.00 (e), (f) | 0.24 | (0.19) | (0.11) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2015 | $9.15 | 0.25 | 0.11 | 0.36 | (0.25) | — | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2014 | $9.49 | 0.27 | (0.31) | (0.04) | (0.24) | (0.06) | — |
Institutional 2 Class | |||||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $9.03 | 0.26 | (0.22) | 0.04 | (0.24) | — | (0.01) |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 | $9.18 | 0.27 | (0.02) | 0.25 | (0.26) | (0.14) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2016 | $9.24 | 0.25 | 0.00 (e), (f) | 0.25 | (0.20) | (0.11) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2015 | $9.14 | 0.25 | 0.10 | 0.35 | (0.25) | — | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2014 | $9.48 | 0.28 | (0.31) | (0.03) | (0.25) | (0.06) | — |
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Total
distributions to shareholders |
Net
asset value, end of period |
Total
return |
Total
gross
expense ratio to average net assets (a) |
Total
net
expense ratio to average net assets (a), (b) |
Net
investment
income ratio to average net assets |
Portfolio
turnover |
Net
assets, end of period (000's) |
(0.22) | $8.83 | 0.08% | 0.91% | 0.86% (c) | 2.51% | 300% | $711,850 |
(0.37) | $9.04 | 2.37% | 0.89% (d) | 0.84% (c), (d) | 2.70% | 379% | $820,441 |
(0.28) | $9.20 | 2.58% | 0.91% | 0.86% (c) | 2.39% | 458% | $978,460 |
(0.22) | $9.25 | 3.56% | 0.92% | 0.85% (c) | 2.45% | 316% | $1,248,168 |
(0.27) | $9.15 | (0.62%) | 0.91% | 0.85% (c) | 2.67% | 274% | $1,473,961 |
(0.24) | $8.82 | 0.44% | 0.66% | 0.61% (c) | 2.72% | 300% | $6,726 |
(0.40) | $9.02 | 2.63% | 0.63% (d) | 0.59% (c), (d) | 2.87% | 379% | $18,057 |
(0.30) | $9.18 | 2.72% | 0.66% | 0.61% (c) | 2.65% | 458% | $8,265 |
(0.25) | $9.24 | 3.82% | 0.67% | 0.60% (c) | 2.70% | 316% | $7,656 |
(0.30) | $9.14 | (0.38%) | 0.67% | 0.60% (c) | 3.02% | 274% | $7,477 |
(0.15) | $8.83 | (0.67%) | 1.66% | 1.61% (c) | 1.75% | 300% | $38,975 |
(0.30) | $9.04 | 1.61% | 1.64% (d) | 1.59% (c), (d) | 1.95% | 379% | $49,380 |
(0.21) | $9.20 | 1.81% | 1.66% | 1.61% (c) | 1.65% | 458% | $55,975 |
(0.16) | $9.25 | 2.89% | 1.67% | 1.50% (c) | 1.80% | 316% | $60,605 |
(0.22) | $9.15 | (1.21%) | 1.66% | 1.45% (c) | 2.07% | 274% | $64,739 |
(0.24) | $8.84 | 0.44% | 0.66% | 0.61% (c) | 2.76% | 300% | $1,037,101 |
(0.40) | $9.04 | 2.63% | 0.64% (d) | 0.59% (c), (d) | 2.94% | 379% | $1,083,917 |
(0.30) | $9.20 | 2.72% | 0.66% | 0.61% (c) | 2.64% | 458% | $1,078,815 |
(0.25) | $9.26 | 3.93% | 0.67% | 0.60% (c) | 2.69% | 316% | $1,175,483 |
(0.30) | $9.15 | (0.37%) | 0.66% | 0.60% (c) | 2.92% | 274% | $1,289,621 |
(0.25) | $8.82 | 0.38% | 0.58% | 0.55% | 2.82% | 300% | $31,099 |
(0.40) | $9.03 | 2.79% | 0.54% (d) | 0.54% (d) | 2.99% | 379% | $27,782 |
(0.31) | $9.18 | 2.80% | 0.55% | 0.54% | 2.73% | 458% | $22,621 |
(0.25) | $9.24 | 3.89% | 0.55% | 0.54% | 2.74% | 316% | $21,580 |
(0.31) | $9.14 | (0.28%) | 0.51% | 0.50% | 3.15% | 274% | $15,980 |
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Net
asset value,
beginning of period |
Net
investment income |
Net
realized and unrealized gain (loss) |
Total
from
investment operations |
Distributions
from net investment income |
Distributions
from net realized gains |
Tax
return of capital |
|
Institutional 3 Class | |||||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $9.04 | 0.26 | (0.21) | 0.05 | (0.24) | — | (0.01) |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 | $9.20 | 0.24 | 0.01 (e) | 0.25 | (0.27) | (0.14) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2016 | $9.26 | 0.25 | 0.00 (e), (f) | 0.25 | (0.20) | (0.11) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2015 | $9.16 | 0.26 | 0.10 | 0.36 | (0.26) | — | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2014 | $9.49 | 0.29 | (0.31) | (0.02) | (0.25) | (0.06) | — |
Class R | |||||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $9.04 | 0.20 | (0.21) | (0.01) | (0.19) | — | (0.01) |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 | $9.20 | 0.22 | (0.03) | 0.19 | (0.21) | (0.14) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2016 | $9.26 | 0.19 | 0.01 (e) | 0.20 | (0.15) | (0.11) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2015 | $9.15 | 0.20 | 0.11 | 0.31 | (0.20) | — | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2014 | $9.49 | 0.22 | (0.31) | (0.09) | (0.19) | (0.06) | — |
Class T | |||||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $9.03 | 0.23 | (0.21) | 0.02 | (0.21) | — | (0.01) |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 | $9.21 | 0.26 | (0.07) | 0.19 | (0.23) | (0.14) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2016 | $9.26 | 0.22 | 0.01 (e) | 0.23 | (0.17) | (0.11) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2015 | $9.16 | 0.23 | 0.09 | 0.32 | (0.22) | — | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2014 | $9.50 | 0.24 | (0.30) | (0.06) | (0.22) | (0.06) | — |
Notes to Financial Highlights | |
(a) | In addition to the fees and expenses that the Fund bears directly, the Fund indirectly bears a pro rata share of the fees and expenses of any other funds in which it invests. Such indirect expenses are not included in the Fund's reported expense ratios. |
(b) | Total net expenses include the impact of certain fee waivers/expense reimbursements made by the Investment Manager and certain of its affiliates, if applicable. |
(c) | The benefits derived from expense reductions had an impact of less than 0.01%. |
(d) | Expenses have been reduced due to a reimbursement of expenses overbilled by a third party. If the reimbursement had been excluded, the expense ratios would have been higher by the percentages shown for each class in the table below. All fee waivers and expense reimbursements by the Investment Manager and its affiliates were applied before giving effect to this third party reimbursement. |
Year Ended | Class A |
Advisor
Class |
Class C |
Institutional
Class |
Institutional
2
Class |
Institutional
3
Class |
Class R | Class T |
04/30/2017 | 0.02 % | 0.02 % | 0.02 % | 0.02 % | 0.02 % | 0.01 % | 0.02 % | 0.02 % |
(e) | Calculation of the net gain (loss) per share (both realized and unrealized) does not correlate to the aggregate realized and unrealized gain (loss) presented in the Statement of Operations due to the timing of subscriptions and redemptions of Fund shares in relation to fluctuations in the market value of the portfolio. |
(f) | Rounds to zero. |
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Total
distributions to shareholders |
Net
asset value, end of period |
Total
return |
Total
gross
expense ratio to average net assets (a) |
Total
net
expense ratio to average net assets (a), (b) |
Net
investment
income ratio to average net assets |
Portfolio
turnover |
Net
assets, end of period (000's) |
(0.25) | $8.84 | 0.55% | 0.52% | 0.50% | 2.85% | 300% | $272,332 |
(0.41) | $9.04 | 2.74% | 0.50% (d) | 0.50% (d) | 2.70% | 379% | $445,184 |
(0.31) | $9.20 | 2.85% | 0.50% | 0.49% | 2.77% | 458% | $18,086 |
(0.26) | $9.26 | 3.94% | 0.50% | 0.49% | 2.80% | 316% | $18,249 |
(0.31) | $9.16 | (0.17%) | 0.51% | 0.50% | 3.21% | 274% | $15,642 |
(0.20) | $8.83 | (0.17%) | 1.16% | 1.11% (c) | 2.24% | 300% | $1,637 |
(0.35) | $9.04 | 2.12% | 1.14% (d) | 1.09% (c), (d) | 2.43% | 379% | $2,284 |
(0.26) | $9.20 | 2.21% | 1.16% | 1.11% (c) | 2.13% | 458% | $2,407 |
(0.20) | $9.26 | 3.41% | 1.17% | 1.10% (c) | 2.19% | 316% | $2,769 |
(0.25) | $9.15 | (0.87%) | 1.16% | 1.10% (c) | 2.43% | 274% | $2,750 |
(0.22) | $8.83 | 0.19% | 0.91% | 0.86% (c) | 2.49% | 300% | $2,756 |
(0.37) | $9.03 | 2.15% | 0.88% (d) | 0.84% (c), (d) | 2.81% | 379% | $7,178 |
(0.28) | $9.21 | 2.58% | 0.91% | 0.86% (c) | 2.41% | 458% | $562,638 |
(0.22) | $9.26 | 3.56% | 0.92% | 0.85% (c) | 2.45% | 316% | $453,340 |
(0.28) | $9.16 | (0.62%) | 0.91% | 0.85% (c) | 2.68% | 274% | $507,419 |
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■ | Employer-sponsored retirement plans (e.g., 401(k) plans, 457 plans, employer-sponsored 403(b) plans, profit sharing and money purchase pension plans and defined benefit plans). For purposes of this provision, employer-sponsored retirement plans do not include SEP IRAs, Simple IRAs or SAR-SEPs. |
■ | Shares purchased through an Ameriprise Financial Services investment advisory program (if an Advisory or similar share class for such investment advisory program is not available). |
■ | Shares purchased by third party investment advisors on behalf of their advisory clients through Ameriprise Financial Services’ platform (if an Advisory or similar share class for such investment advisory program is not available). |
■ | Shares purchased through reinvestment of dividends and capital gain distributions when purchasing shares of the same Fund (but not any other fund within the same fund family). |
■ | Shares exchanged from Class C shares of the same fund in the month of or following the 10-year anniversary of the purchase date. To the extent that this prospectus elsewhere provides for a waiver with respect to such shares following a shorter holding period, that waiver will apply to exchanges following such shorter period. To the extent that this prospectus elsewhere provides for a waiver with respect to exchanges of Class C shares for load waived shares, that waiver will also apply to such exchanges. |
■ | Employees and registered representatives of Ameriprise Financial Services or its affiliates and their immediate family members. |
■ | Shares purchased by or through qualified accounts (including IRAs, Coverdell Education Savings Accounts, 401(k)s, 403(b) TSCAs subject to ERISA and defined benefit plans) that are held by a covered family member, defined as an Ameriprise financial advisor and/or the advisor’s spouse, advisor’s lineal ascendant (mother, father, grandmother, grandfather, great grandmother, great grandfather), advisor’s lineal descendant (son, step-son, daughter, step-daughter, grandson, granddaughter, great grandson, great granddaughter) or any spouse of a covered family member who is a lineal descendant. |
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■ | Shares purchased from the proceeds of redemptions within the same fund family, provided (1) the repurchase occurs within 90 days following the redemption, (2) the redemption and purchase occur in the same account, and (3) redeemed shares were subject to a front-end or deferred sales load (i.e., rights of reinstatement). |
■ | Rights of Accumulation (ROA) which entitle shareholders to breakpoint discounts will be automatically calculated based on the aggregated holding of fund family assets held by accounts within the purchaser’s household at Merrill Lynch. Eligible fund family assets not held at Merrill Lynch may be included in the ROA calculation only if the shareholder notifies his or her financial advisor about such assets. |
■ | Letters of Intent (LOI) which allow for breakpoint discounts based on anticipated purchases within a fund family, through Merrill Lynch, over a 13-month period of time (if applicable). |
■ | Employer-sponsored retirement, deferred compensation and employee benefit plans (including health savings accounts) and trusts used to fund those plans, provided that the plan is a group plan (more than one participant), the shares are not held in a commission-based brokerage account and shares are held in the name of the plan through an omnibus account |
■ | Shares purchased by or through a 529 Plan |
■ | Shares purchased through a Merrill Lynch affiliated investment advisory program |
■ | Shares purchased by third party investment advisors on behalf of their advisory clients through Merrill Lynch’s platform |
■ | Shares of funds purchased through the Merrill Edge Self-Directed platform |
■ | Shares purchased through reinvestment of capital gains distributions and dividend reinvestment when purchasing shares of the same Fund (but not any other fund within the same fund family) |
■ | Shares exchanged from Class C (i.e., level-load) shares of the same fund in the month of or following the 10-year anniversary of the purchase date |
■ | Employees and registered representatives of Merrill Lynch or its affiliates and their family members |
■ | Directors or Trustees of the Fund, and employees of the Fund’s investment adviser or any of its affiliates, as described in this prospectus |
■ | Shares purchased from the proceeds of redemptions within the same fund family, provided (1) the repurchase occurs within 90 days following the redemption, (2) the redemption and purchase occur in the same account, and (3) redeemed shares were subject to a front-end or deferred sales load (known as Rights of Reinstatement). |
■ | Shares redeemed following the death or disability of the shareholder |
■ | Shares sold as part of a systematic withdrawal plan as described in this prospectus |
■ | Redemptions that constitute a return of excess contributions from an IRA |
■ | Shares sold as part of a required minimum distribution for IRA and retirement accounts due to the shareholder reaching age 70½ |
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■ | Shares sold to pay Merrill Lynch fees but only if the transaction is initiated by Merrill Lynch |
■ | There will be no CDSC charged on the sale of Fund shares acquired through a right of reinstatement |
■ | The redemption of shares held in retirement brokerage accounts, that are exchanged for a lower cost share class due to transfer to a fee based account or platform (applicable to Class A and Class C shares only). |
■ | Employer-sponsored retirement plans (e.g., 401(k) plans, 457 plans, employer-sponsored 403(b) plans, profit sharing and money purchase pension plans and defined benefit plans). For purposes of this provision, employer-sponsored retirement plans do not include SEP IRAs, Simple IRAs, SAR-SEPs or Keogh plans |
■ | Morgan Stanley employee and employee-related accounts according to Morgan Stanley’s account linking rules |
■ | Shares purchased through reinvestment of dividends and capital gains distributions when purchasing shares of the same fund |
■ | Shares purchased through a Morgan Stanley self-directed brokerage account |
■ | Class C (i.e., level-load) shares that are no longer subject to a contingent deferred sales charge and are converted to Class A shares of the same fund pursuant to Morgan Stanley Wealth Management’s share class conversion program |
■ | Shares purchased from the proceeds of redemptions within the same fund family, provided (i) the repurchase occurs within 90 days following the redemption, (ii) the redemption and purchase occur in the same account, and (iii) redeemed shares were subject to a front-end or deferred sales charge. |
■ | Employer-sponsored retirement plans (e.g., 401(k) plans, 457 plans, employer-sponsored 403(b) plans, profit sharing and money purchase pension plans and defined benefit plans). For purposes of this provision, employer-sponsored retirement plans do not include SEP IRAs, Simple IRAs, SAR-SEPs or Keogh plans; however these plans are eligible to purchase Class T shares through a transactional brokerage account. |
■ | Morgan Stanley Wealth Management employee and employee-related accounts according to Morgan Stanley’s account linking rules. |
■ | Mutual fund shares exchanged from an existing position in the same fund as part of a share class conversion instituted by Morgan Stanley Wealth Management. |
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■ | For employer-sponsored retirement plans held through a commissionable brokerage account, Class A shares are available at NAV (i.e., without a sales charge). For this purpose, employer-sponsored retirement plans include, but are not limited to, 401(k) plans, 457 plans, employer-sponsored 403(b) plans, profit sharing and money purchase pension plans and defined benefit plans. For purposes of this provision, employer-sponsored retirement plans do not include SEP IRAs, Simple IRAs, SAR-SEPs or Keogh plans. |
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* | Please note, effective November 1, 2018, the Fund’s mailing address is changed to Columbia Management Investment Services Corp., P.O. Box 219104, Kansas City, MO 64121-9104. |
Class | Ticker Symbol | |
A | LUTAX | |
C | LUTCX | |
Institutional (Class Inst) (a) | IUTIX | |
Institutional 2 (Class Inst2) (a) | CUTRX | |
Institutional 3 (Class Inst3) (a) | CUTYX | |
T | CTIWX |
(a) | Prior to November 1, 2017, Class Inst shares were known as Class Z shares, Class Inst2 shares were known as Class R5 shares, and Class Inst3 shares were known as Class Y shares. |
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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment) | |||
Classes
A, Inst,
Inst2 and Inst3 |
Class C |
Class
T
|
|
Maximum sales charge (load) imposed on purchases (as a % of offering price) | None | None | 2.50% |
Maximum deferred sales charge (load) imposed on redemptions (as a % of the lower of the original purchase price or current net asset value) | None | 1.00% (a) | None |
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) | ||||||
Class A | Class C | Class Inst | Class Inst2 | Class Inst3 | Class T | |
Management fees | 0.40% | 0.40% | 0.40% | 0.40% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
Distribution and/or service (12b-1) fees | 0.25% | 1.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.25% |
Other expenses | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
Total annual Fund operating expenses | 0.65% | 1.40% | 0.40% | 0.40% | 0.40% | 0.65% |
Less: Fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements (b) | (0.20%) | (0.20%) | (0.20%) | (0.20%) | (0.20%) | (0.20%) |
Total annual Fund operating expenses after fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements | 0.45% | 1.20% | 0.20% | 0.20% | 0.20% | 0.45% |
(a) | This charge applies to redemptions within 12 months after purchase, with certain limited exceptions. |
(b) | Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and certain of its affiliates have contractually agreed to waive fees and/or to reimburse expenses (excluding transaction costs and certain other investment related expenses, interest, taxes, acquired fund fees and expenses, and infrequent and/or unusual expenses) through August 31, 2019, unless sooner terminated at the sole discretion of the Fund’s Board of Trustees. Under this agreement, the Fund’s net operating expenses, subject to applicable exclusions, will not exceed the annual rates of 0.45% for Class A, 1.20% for Class C, 0.20% for Class Inst, 0.20% for Class Inst2, 0.20% for Class Inst3 and 0.45% for Class T. |
■ | you invest $10,000 in the applicable class of Fund shares for the periods indicated, |
■ | your investment has a 5% return each year, and |
■ | the Fund’s total annual operating expenses remain the same as shown in the Annual Fund Operating Expenses table above. |
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1 year | 3 years | 5 years | 10 years | |
Class A (whether or not shares are redeemed) | $ 46 | $188 | $342 | $ 791 |
Class C (assuming redemption of all shares at the end of the period) | $222 | $423 | $747 | $1,662 |
Class C (assuming no redemption of shares) | $122 | $423 | $747 | $1,662 |
Class Inst (whether or not shares are redeemed) | $ 20 | $108 | $204 | $ 486 |
Class Inst2 (whether or not shares are redeemed) | $ 20 | $108 | $204 | $ 486 |
Class Inst3 (whether or not shares are redeemed) | $ 20 | $108 | $204 | $ 486 |
Class T (whether or not shares are redeemed) | $295 | $433 | $584 | $1,022 |
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Year
by Year Total Return (%)
as of December 31 Each Year* |
Best
and Worst Quarterly Returns
During the Period Shown in the Bar Chart |
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|
Best | 4th Quarter 2008 | 8.75% |
Worst
|
4th Quarter 2016 | -3.86% |
* | Year to Date return as of June 30, 2018: -1.17% |
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Share
Class
Inception Date |
1 Year | 5 Years | 10 Years | |
Class A | 11/25/2002 | |||
returns before taxes | 1.95% | 0.87% | 2.89% | |
returns after taxes on distributions | 1.34% | 0.20% | 1.95% | |
returns after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund shares | 1.10% | 0.39% | 1.93% | |
Class C returns before taxes | 11/25/2002 | 0.24% | 0.20% | 2.24% |
Class Inst returns before taxes | 06/04/1991 | 2.20% | 1.07% | 3.13% |
Class Inst2 returns before taxes | 11/08/2012 | 2.11% | 1.05% | 3.11% |
Class Inst3 returns before taxes | 03/01/2017 | 2.10% | 1.05% | 3.12% |
Class T returns before taxes | 06/18/2012 | -0.60% | 0.30% | 2.50% |
FTSE USBIG Treasury Index (reflects no deductions for fees, expenses or taxes) | 2.30% | 1.25% | 3.28% |
Portfolio Manager | Title | Role with Fund | Managed Fund Since | |||
Alan Erickson, CFA | Portfolio Manager | Portfolio Manager | 2017 |
Online | Regular Mail | Express Mail | By Telephone | |||
Through October 31, 2018 | Through October 31, 2018 | |||||
columbiathreadneedleus.com/investor/ |
Columbia
Management
Investment Services Corp. P.O. Box 8081 Boston, MA 02266-8081 |
Columbia
Management
Investment Services Corp. c/o DST Asset Manager Solutions, Inc. 30 Dan Road, Suite 8081 Canton, MA 02021-2809 |
800.422.3737 | |||
Regular Mail | Express Mail | |||||
Effective November 1, 2018 | Effective November 1, 2018 | |||||
Columbia
Management
Investment Services Corp. P.O. Box 219104 Kansas City, MO 64121-9104 |
Columbia
Management
Investment Services Corp. c/o DST Asset Manager Solutions, Inc. 430 W 7 th Street, Suite 219104 Kansas City, MO 64105-1407 |
* | Based on the dates noted above, mail received at an incorrect address will be forwarded to the correct address, and will not be processed until received, in “good form,” at the correct address. This may affect the trade date you receive for transaction requests, which may negatively impact the value of your purchase or sale. |
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Class | Category of eligible account |
For
accounts other than
systematic investment plan accounts |
For
systematic investment
plan accounts |
Classes A, C & T (a) | All accounts other than IRAs | $2,000 | $100 |
IRAs | $1,000 | $100 | |
Class Inst | All eligible accounts |
$0,
$1,000 or $2,000
depending upon the category of eligible investor |
$100 |
Class Inst2 | All eligible accounts | None | N/A |
Class Inst3 | All eligible accounts |
$0,
$1,000, $2,000
or $1 million depending upon the category of eligible investor |
$100
(for certain
eligible investors) |
(a) | Class T shares must be purchased through financial intermediaries that, by written agreement with Columbia Management Investment Distributors, Inc., are specifically authorized to sell Class T shares. |
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Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund | |
Class A | 0.45% |
Class C | 1.20% |
Class Inst | 0.20% |
Class Inst2 | 0.20% |
Class Inst3 | 0.20% |
Class T | 0.45% |
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Portfolio Manager | Title | Role with Fund | Managed Fund Since | |||
Alan Erickson, CFA | Portfolio Manager | Portfolio Manager | 2017 |
16 | Prospectus 2018 |
■ | compensation and other benefits received by the Investment Manager and other Ameriprise Financial affiliates related to the management/administration of a Columbia Fund and the sale of its shares; |
■ | the allocation of, and competition for, investment opportunities among the Fund, other funds and accounts advised/managed by the Investment Manager and other Ameriprise Financial affiliates, or Ameriprise Financial itself and its affiliates; |
■ | separate and potentially divergent management of a Columbia Fund and other funds and accounts advised/managed by the Investment Manager and other Ameriprise Financial affiliates; |
■ | regulatory and other investment restrictions on investment activities of the Investment Manager and other Ameriprise Financial affiliates and accounts advised/managed by them; |
■ | insurance and other relationships of Ameriprise Financial affiliates with companies and other entities in which a Columbia Fund invests; and |
■ | regulatory and other restrictions relating to the sharing of information between Ameriprise Financial and its affiliates, including the Investment Manager, and a Columbia Fund. |
Prospectus 2018 | 17 |
* | The website references in this prospectus are inactive links and information contained in or otherwise accessible through the referenced websites does not form a part of this prospectus. |
** | Based on the date noted above, mail received at an incorrect address will be forwarded to the correct address, and will not be processed until received, in “good form,” at the correct address. This may affect the trade date you receive for transaction requests, which may negatively impact the value of your purchase or sale. |
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■ | The amount you plan to invest. |
■ | How long you intend to remain invested in the Fund. |
■ | The fees (e.g., sales charge or “load”) and expenses for each share class. |
■ | Whether you may be eligible for a reduction or waiver of sales charges when you buy or sell shares. |
■ | The net asset value (NAV) per share is the price of a share calculated by the Fund every business day. |
■ | The offering price per share is the NAV per share plus any front-end sales charge (or load) that applies. |
Prospectus 2018 | 19 |
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Share Class |
Eligible
Investors
(a)
;
Minimum Initial Investments (b) ; Conversion Features (c) |
Front-End
Sales Charges (d) |
Contingent
Deferred
Sales Charges (CDSCs) (d) |
Sales
Charge
Reductions/Waivers |
Maximum
Distribution
and/or Service Fees (e) |
acting
as broker on behalf of its customer, charges the customer a commission for effecting transactions in Fund shares, provided that the financial intermediary has an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes offering Class Adv shares
within such platform.
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Class C |
Eligibility:
Available to the general public for investment
|
None | 1.00% on certain investments redeemed within one year of purchase (h) |
Waivers
: Yes, on Fund distribution reinvestments. For additional waivers, see
Choosing a Share Class – CDSC Waivers – Class A, Class C and Class V
|
Distribution
Fee:
0.75%
|
Class
Inst |
Eligibility: Available only to certain eligible investors, which are subject to different minimum investment requirements, ranging from $0 to $2,000, including investors who purchase Fund shares through commissionable brokerage platforms where the financial intermediary holds the shares in an omnibus account and, acting as broker on behalf of its customer, charges the customer a commission for effecting transactions in Fund shares, provided that the financial intermediary has an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes offering Class Inst shares within such platform; closed to (i) accounts of financial intermediaries that clear Fund share transactions for their client or customer accounts through designated financial intermediaries and their mutual fund | None | None | N/A | None |
22 | Prospectus 2018 |
Share Class |
Eligible
Investors
(a)
;
Minimum Initial Investments (b) ; Conversion Features (c) |
Front-End
Sales Charges (d) |
Contingent
Deferred
Sales Charges (CDSCs) (d) |
Sales
Charge
Reductions/Waivers |
Maximum
Distribution
and/or Service Fees (e) |
trading
platforms that have been given specific written notice from the Transfer Agent of the termination of their eligibility for new purchases of Class Inst shares and (ii) omnibus group retirement plans, subject to certain exceptions
(i)
|
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Class
Inst2 |
Eligibility:
Available only to (i) certain registered investment advisers and family offices that clear Fund share transactions for their client or customer accounts through designated financial intermediaries and their mutual
fund trading platforms that have been granted specific written authorization from the Transfer Agent with respect to Class
Inst2 eligibility apart from selling, servicing or similar agreements; (ii) omnibus
retirement plans
(i)
; and (iii) institutional investors that are clients of the Columbia Threadneedle Global Institutional Distribution Team that invest
in Class
Inst2 shares for their own account through platforms approved by the Distributor or an affiliate thereof to offer and/or service Class
Inst2 shares within such
platform.
|
None | None | N/A | None |
Class
Inst3 |
Eligibility: Available to (i) group retirement plans that maintain plan-level or omnibus accounts with the Fund (i) ; (ii) institutional investors that are clients of the Columbia Threadneedle Global Institutional Distribution Team that invest in Class Inst3 shares for their own account through platforms approved by the Distributor or an affiliate thereof to offer and/or service Class Inst3 shares within such platform; (iii) collective trust funds; (iv) affiliated or unaffiliated mutual funds (e.g., funds operating as funds-of-funds); (v) fee-based platforms of financial intermediaries (or the clearing intermediary they trade through) that have an agreement with the Distributor or an affiliate thereof that specifically authorizes the financial intermediary to offer and/or service Class Inst3 shares within such platform, provided also that Fund shares are held in an omnibus account; (vi) commissionable brokerage platforms where the | None | None | N/A | None |
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Share Class |
Eligible
Investors
(a)
;
Minimum Initial Investments (b) ; Conversion Features (c) |
Front-End
Sales Charges (d) |
Contingent
Deferred
Sales Charges (CDSCs) (d) |
Sales
Charge
Reductions/Waivers |
Maximum
Distribution
and/or Service Fees (e) |
financial
intermediary, acting as broker on behalf of its customer, charges the customer a commission for effecting transactions in Fund shares, provided that the financial intermediary has an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes
offering Class Inst3 shares within such platform and that Fund shares are held in an omnibus account; and (vii) bank trust departments, subject to an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes offering Class Inst3 shares and
provided that Fund shares are held in an omnibus account. In each case above where noted that Fund shares are required to be held in an omnibus account, the Distributor may, in its discretion, determine to waive this requirement.
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Class R |
Eligibility:
Available only to eligible retirement plans, health savings accounts and, in the sole discretion of the Distributor, other types of retirement accounts held through platforms maintained by financial intermediaries
approved by the Distributor
|
None | None | N/A |
Series
of CFST & CFST I:
distribution fee of 0.50%
|
Class T |
Eligibility
: Available to the general public (purchasing through a Class T Intermediary)
|
Per
Transaction
:
2.50% $499,999: 2.00% $999,999: 1.50% 1.00% |
None |
Waivers
: Yes,
(i) on Fund distribution reinvestments; (ii) on exchanges of Class T shares of the Fund from, at the discretion of Class T Intermediaries, another class of shares of the same Fund held in accounts of Class T Intermediaries, provided that (a) the other share class may only be exchanged for Class T shares if your financial intermediary does not offer that other share class on the intermediary’s commission-based platform, and (b) unless waived in the Distributor’s |
Distribution and/or Service Fees : 0.25% |
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Share Class |
Eligible
Investors
(a)
;
Minimum Initial Investments (b) ; Conversion Features (c) |
Front-End
Sales Charges (d) |
Contingent
Deferred
Sales Charges (CDSCs) (d) |
Sales
Charge
Reductions/Waivers |
Maximum
Distribution
and/or Service Fees (e) |
discretion,
shares of the class to be exchanged are held in a networked or omnibus account with the Fund; and
(iii) on purchases within fee-based accounts, provided that the Class T Intermediary has an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes offering Class T shares within the designated fee-based platform. |
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Class V |
Eligibility:
Generally closed to new investors
(i)
|
5.75% maximum, declining to 0.00% on investments of $1 million or more |
CDSC
on certain investments of between $1 million and $50 million redeemed within 18 months after purchase, charged as follows:
|
Reductions
: Yes, see
Choosing a Share Class — Reductions/Waivers of Sales Charges – Class A and Class V Shares Front-End Sales Charge Reductions
|
Service Fee: up to 0.50% |
(a) | For Columbia Government Money Market Fund, new investments must be made in Class A, Class Inst, Class Inst3, Class R or Class T shares, subject to eligibility. Class C shares of Columbia Government Money Market Fund are available as a new investment only to investors in the Distributor's proprietary 401(k) products, provided that such investor is eligible to invest in the class and transact directly with the Fund or the Transfer Agent through a third party administrator or third party recordkeeper. Columbia Government Money Market Fund offers Class Inst2 shares only to facilitate exchanges with other Funds offering such share class. |
(b) | Certain share classes are subject to minimum account balance requirements, as described in Buying, Selling and Exchanging Shares — Transaction Rules and Policies. |
(c) | For more information on the automatic conversion of Class C shares to Class A shares, see Choosing a Share Class - Sales Charges and Commissions - Class C Shares - Automatic Conversion to Class A Shares . |
(d) | Actual front-end sales charges and CDSCs vary among the Funds. For more information on applicable sales charges, see Choosing a Share Class — Sales Charges and Commissions, and for information about certain exceptions to these sales charges, see Choosing a Share Class — Reductions/Waivers of Sales Charges. |
(e) | These are the maximum applicable distribution and/or service fees. Except for Class V shares, these fees are paid under the Fund’s Rule 12b-1 plan. Fee rates and fee components (i.e., the portion of a combined fee that is a distribution or service fee) may vary among Funds. Because these fees are paid out of Fund assets on an ongoing basis, over time these fees will increase the cost of your investment and may cost you more than paying other types of distribution and/or service fees. Although Class A shares of certain series of CFST I are subject to a combined distribution and service fee of up to 0.35%, these Funds currently limit the combined fee to 0.25%. Columbia Government Money Market Fund pays a distribution and service fee of up to 0.10% on Class A shares and up to 0.75% distribution fee on Class C shares. Columbia AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia High Yield Municipal Fund and Columbia Tax-Exempt Fund each pay a service fee of up to 0.20% on Class A and Class C shares. Columbia AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund pays a distribution fee of up to 0.65% on Class C shares. For more information on distribution and service fees, see Choosing a Share Class — Distribution and Service Fees. |
(f) | For Columbia Short Term Municipal Bond Fund, a CDSC of 0.50% is charged on certain investments of $500,000 or more redeemed within 12 months after purchase. The following Funds are not subject to a front-end sales charge or a CDSC on Class A shares: Columbia Government Money Market Fund, Columbia Large Cap Enhanced Core Fund, Columbia Large Cap Index Fund, Columbia Mid Cap Index Fund, Columbia Small Cap Index Fund and Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund. |
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(g) | If you are eligible to invest in Class A shares without a front-end sales charge, you should discuss your options with your financial intermediary. For more information, see Choosing a Share Class – Reductions/Waivers of Sales Charges. |
(h) | There is no CDSC on redemptions from Class C shares of Columbia Government Money Market Fund. |
(i) | These share classes are closed to new accounts, or closed to previously eligible investors, subject to certain conditions, as summarized below and described in more detail under Buying, Selling and Exchanging Shares — Buying Shares — Eligible Investors: |
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■ | depends on the amount you are investing (generally, the larger the investment, the smaller the percentage sales charge), and |
■ | is based on the total amount of your purchase and the value of your account (and any other accounts eligible for aggregation of which you or your financial intermediary notifies the Fund). |
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Class A Shares — Front-End Sales Charge — Breakpoint Schedule* | ||||
Breakpoint Schedule For: |
Dollar
amount of
shares bought (a) |
Sales
charge as a % of the offering price (b) |
Sales
charge as a % of the net amount invested (b) |
Amount
retained by or paid to financial intermediaries as a % of the offering price |
Fixed
Income Funds (except those listed below),
Columbia Multi-Asset Income Fund and Funds-of-Funds (fixed income)* |
$ 0-$49,999 | 4.75% | 4.99% | 4.00% |
$ 50,000–$99,999 | 4.25% | 4.44% | 3.50% | |
$100,000–$249,999 | 3.50% | 3.63% | 3.00% | |
$250,000–$499,999 | 2.50% | 2.56% | 2.15% | |
$500,000–$999,999 | 2.00% | 2.04% | 1.75% | |
$ 1,000,000 or more | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% (c) | |
Tax-Exempt Funds (other than Columbia Short Term Municipal Bond Fund) | $ 0-$99,999 | 3.00% | 3.09% | 2.50% |
$100,000–$249,999 | 2.50% | 2.56% | 2.15% | |
$250,000–$499,999 | 1.50 % | 1.53% | 1.25% | |
$ 500,000 or more | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% (c) | |
Columbia
Absolute Return Currency and Income Fund,
Columbia Floating Rate Fund, Columbia Inflation Protected Securities Fund, Columbia Limited Duration Credit Fund, Columbia Mortgage Opportunities Fund, Columbia Quality Income Fund, and Columbia Total Return Bond Fund |
$ 0-$99,999 | 3.00% | 3.09% | 2.50% |
$100,000–$249,999 | 2.50% | 2.56% | 2.15% | |
$250,000–$499,999 | 2.00% | 2.04% | 1.75% | |
$500,000–$999,999 | 1.50% | 1.52% | 1.25% | |
$ 1,000,000 or more | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% (c) | |
Columbia Short Term Bond Fund | $ 0-$99,999 | 1.00% | 1.01% | 0.75% |
$100,000–$249,999 | 0.75% | 0.76% | 0.50% | |
$250,000–$999,999 | 0.50% | 0.50% | 0.40% | |
$ 1,000,000 or more | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% (c) | |
Columbia Short Term Municipal Bond Fund | $ 0-$99,999 | 1.00% | 1.01% | 0.75% |
$100,000–$249,999 | 0.75% | 0.76% | 0.50% | |
$250,000–$499,999 | 0.50% | 0.50% | 0.40% | |
$ 500,000 or more | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% (c) | |
* | The following Funds are not subject to a front-end sales charge or CDSC on Class A shares: Columbia Government Money Market Fund, Columbia Large Cap Enhanced Core Fund, Columbia Large Cap Index Fund, Columbia Mid Cap Index Fund, Columbia Small Cap Index Fund and Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund. "Funds-of-Funds (equity)" includes Columbia Capital Allocation Aggressive Portfolio, Columbia Capital Allocation Moderate Aggressive Portfolio, Columbia Capital Allocation Moderate Conservative Portfolio, Columbia Capital Allocation Moderate Portfolio and Columbia Global Strategic Equity Fund . "Funds-of-Funds (fixed income)" includes Columbia Capital Allocation Conservative Portfolio and Columbia Income Builder Fund. Columbia Balanced Fund, Columbia Flexible Capital Income Fund and Columbia Global Opportunities Fund are treated as equity Funds for purposes of the table. |
(a) | Purchase amounts and account values may be aggregated among all eligible Fund accounts for the purposes of this table. See Choosing a Share Class — Reductions/Waivers of Sales Charges for a discussion of account value aggregation. |
(b) | Because the offering price is calculated to two decimal places, the dollar amount of the sales charge as a percentage of the offering price and your net amount invested for any particular purchase of Fund shares may be higher or lower depending on whether downward or upward rounding was required during the calculation process. Purchase price includes the sales charge. |
(c) | For information regarding cumulative commissions paid to your financial intermediary when you buy $1 million or more of Class A shares of a Taxable Fund or $500,000 or more of Class A shares of a Tax-Exempt Fund, see Class A Shares — Commissions below. |
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■ | If you purchased Class A shares of any Tax-Exempt Fund (other than Columbia Short Term Municipal Bond Fund and Columbia U.S. Social Bond Fund) without paying a front-end sales charge because your eligible accounts aggregated $500,000 or more at the time of purchase, you will incur a CDSC of 0.75% if you redeem those shares within 12 months after purchase. Subsequent Class A share purchases that bring your aggregate account value to $500,000 or more will also be subject to a CDSC of 0.75% if you redeem those shares within 12 months after purchase. |
■ | If you purchased Class A shares of Columbia Short Term Municipal Bond Fund without paying a front-end sales charge because your eligible accounts aggregated $500,000 or more at the time of purchase, you will incur a CDSC of 0.50% if you redeem those shares within 12 months after purchase. Subsequent Class A share purchases that bring your aggregate account value to $500,000 or more will also be subject to a CDSC of 0.50% if you redeem those shares within 12 months after purchase. |
■ | If you purchased Class A shares of Columbia U.S. Social Bond Fund without paying a front-end sales charge because your eligible accounts aggregated $500,000 or more at the time of purchase, you will incur a CDSC of 0.75% if you redeem those shares within 12 months after purchase. Subsequent Class A share purchases that bring your aggregate account value to $500,000 or more will also be subject to a CDSC of 0.75% if you redeem those shares within 12 months after purchase. |
■ | If you purchased Class A shares of any Taxable Fund without paying a front-end sales charge because your eligible accounts aggregated between $1 million and $50 million at the time of purchase, you will incur a CDSC if you redeem those shares within 18 months after purchase, which is charged as follows: 1.00% CDSC if shares are redeemed within 12 months after purchase; and 0.50% CDSC if shares are redeemed more than 12, but less than 18, months after purchase. Subsequent Class A share purchases that bring your aggregate account value to $1 million or more (but less than $50 million) will also be subject to a CDSC if you redeem them within 18 months after purchase as described in the previous sentence. |
Class A Shares of Tax-Exempt Funds — Commission Schedule (Paid by the Distributor to Financial Intermediaries) | |
Purchase Amount |
Commission
Level*
(as a % of net asset value per share) |
$500,000 – $3,999,999 | 0.75%** |
$4 million – $19,999,999 | 0.50% |
$20 million or more | 0.25% |
* | The commission level applies to the applicable asset level; therefore, for example, for a purchase of $5 million, the Distributor would pay a commission of 0.75% on the first $3,999,999 and 0.50% on the balance. |
** | The commission level on purchases of Class A shares of Columbia Short Term Municipal Bond Fund is: 0.50% on purchases of $500,000 to $19,999,999 and 0.25% on purchases of $20 million or more. |
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Class A Shares of Taxable Funds — Commission Schedule (Paid by the Distributor to Financial Intermediaries)* | |
Purchase Amount |
Commission
Level**
(as a % of net asset value per share) |
$1 million – $2,999,999 | 1.00% |
$3 million – $49,999,999 | 0.50% |
$50 million or more | 0.25% |
* | Not applicable to Funds that do not assess a front-end sales charge. |
** | The commission level applies to the applicable asset level; therefore, for example, for a purchase of $5 million, the Distributor would pay a commission of 1.00% on the first $2,999,999 and 0.50% on the balance. |
■ | Class C share accounts that are Direct-at-Fund Accounts and Networked Accounts for which the Transfer Agent (and not your financial intermediary) sends you Fund account transaction confirmations and statements, convert on or about the 15th day of the month (if the 15th is not a business day, then the next business day thereafter) that they become eligible for automatic conversion provided that the Fund has records that Class C shares have been held for the requisite time period. |
■ | For purposes of determining the month when your Class C shares are eligible for conversion, the start of the holding period is the first day of the month in which your purchase was made. Your financial intermediary may choose a different day of the month to convert Class C shares. Please contact your financial intermediary for more information on calculating the holding period. |
■ | Any shares you received from reinvested distributions on these shares generally will convert to Class A shares at the same time. |
■ | You’ll receive the same dollar value of Class A shares as the Class C shares that were automatically converted. Class C shares that you received from an exchange of Class C shares of another Fund will convert based on the day you bought the original shares. |
■ | No sales charge or other charges apply in connection with this automatic conversion, and conversions are free from U.S. federal income tax. |
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(a) | Because the offering price is calculated to two decimal places, the dollar amount of the sales charge as a percentage of the offering price and your net amount invested for any particular purchase of Fund shares may be higher or lower depending on whether downward or upward rounding was required during the calculation process. Purchase price includes the sales charge. |
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■ | depends on the amount you are investing (generally, the larger the investment, the smaller the percentage sales charge), and |
■ | is based on the total amount of your purchase and the value of your account (and any other accounts eligible for aggregation of which you notify your financial intermediary or, in the case of Direct-at-Fund Accounts (as defined below), you notify the Fund). |
(a) | Purchase amounts and account values are aggregated among all eligible Fund accounts for the purposes of this table. |
(b) | Because the offering price is calculated to two decimal places, the dollar amount of the sales charge as a percentage of the offering price and your net amount invested for any particular purchase of Fund shares may be higher or lower depending on whether downward or upward rounding was required during the calculation process. |
(c) | For more information regarding cumulative commissions paid to your financial intermediary when you buy $1 million or more of Class V shares, see Class V Shares — Commissions below. |
■ | If you purchased Class V shares without a front-end sales charge because your eligible accounts aggregated between $1 million and $50 million at the time of purchase, you will incur a CDSC if you redeem those shares within 18 months after purchase, which is charged as follows: 1.00% CDSC if shares are redeemed within 12 months after purchase, and 0.50% CDSC if shares are redeemed more than 12, but less than 18, months after purchase. |
■ | Subsequent Class V share purchases that bring your aggregate account value to $1 million or more (but less than $50 million) will also be subject to a CDSC if you redeem them within the time periods noted above. |
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Class V Shares — Commission Schedule (Paid by the Distributor to Financial Intermediaries) | |
Purchase
Amount |
Commission
Level*
(as a % of net asset value per share) |
$1 million – $2,999,999 | 1.00% |
$3 million – $49,999,999 | 0.50% |
$50 million or more | 0.25% |
* | The commission level applies to the applicable asset level; therefore, for example, for a purchase of $5 million, the Distributor would pay a commission of 1.00% on the first $2,999,999 and 0.50% on the balance. |
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Repurchases (Reinstatements) | |
Redeemed Share Class | Corresponding Repurchase Class |
Class A | Class A |
Class C | Class C |
Class V | Class V |
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(a) | The maximum distribution and service fees of Class A shares varies among the Funds, as shown in the table below: |
Funds |
Maximum
Class A Distribution Fee |
Maximum
Class A Service Fee |
Maximum
Class A Combined Total |
Series
of CFST and CFST II (other than Columbia
Government Money Market Fund) |
— | — |
0.25%;
these Funds pay a
combined distribution and service fee |
Columbia Government Money Market Fund | — | — | 0.10% |
Columbia AMT-Free Oregon Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia Balanced Fund, Columbia Contrarian Core Fund, Columbia Disciplined Small Core Fund, Columbia Dividend Income Fund, Columbia Global Technology Growth Fund, Columbia Large Cap Growth Fund, Columbia Mid Cap Growth Fund, Columbia Real Estate Equity Fund, Columbia Small Cap Growth Fund I, Columbia Total Return Bond Fund | up to 0.10% | up to 0.25% |
up
to 0.35%; these Funds may
pay distribution and service fees up to a maximum of 0.35% of their average daily net assets attributable to Class A shares (comprised of up to 0.10% for distribution services and up to 0.25% for shareholder liaison services) but currently limit such fees to an aggregate fee of not more than 0.25% for Class A shares |
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Funds |
Maximum
Class A Distribution Fee |
Maximum
Class A Service Fee |
Maximum
Class A Combined Total |
Columbia Adaptive Risk Allocation Fund, Columbia Alternative Beta Fund, Columbia AMT-Free Connecticut Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia AMT-Free Massachusetts Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia AMT-Free New York Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia Bond Fund, Columbia Corporate Income Fund, Columbia Diversified Absolute Return Fund, Columbia Diversified Real Return Fund, Columbia Emerging Markets Fund, Columbia Global Dividend Opportunity Fund, Columbia Global Energy and Natural Resources Fund, Columbia Greater China Fund, Columbia Multi-Asset Income Fund, Columbia Pacific/Asia Fund, Columbia Select Large Cap Growth Fund, Columbia Small Cap Value Fund I, Columbia Strategic California Municipal Income Fund, Columbia Strategic Income Fund, Columbia Strategic New York Municipal Income Fund, Columbia U.S. Social Bond Fund, Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund | — | 0.25% | 0.25% |
Columbia AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia High Yield Municipal Fund, Columbia Tax-Exempt Fund | — | 0.20% | 0.20% |
(b) | The service fees for Class A and Class C shares of certain Funds vary. The annual service fee for Class A and Class C shares of Columbia AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia High Yield Municipal Fund and Columbia Tax-Exempt Fund may equal up to 0.20% of the average daily NAV of all shares of such Fund class. The annual distribution fee for Class C shares for Columbia AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund shall be 0.65% of the average daily net assets of the Fund's Class C shares. The Distributor has voluntarily agreed to waive the service fee for Class A and Class C shares of Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund so that the service fee does not exceed 0.15% annually. This arrangement may be modified or terminated by the Distributor at any time. |
(c) | Fee amounts noted apply to all Funds other than Columbia Government Money Market Fund, which, for each of Class A and Class T shares, pays distribution and service fees of 0.10%, and for Class C shares pays distribution fees of 0.75%. The Distributor has currently agreed not to be reimbursed by the Fund for 0.25% of the 0.50% fee for Class R shares of Columbia Government Money Market Fund. The Distributor has voluntarily agreed to waive the Rule 12b-1 fees it receives from Class A, Class C, Class R and Class T shares of Columbia Government Money Market Fund. This arrangement may be modified or terminated by the Distributor at any time. Compensation paid to financial intermediaries may be suspended to the extent of the Distributor's waiver of the Rule 12b-1 fees on these specific share classes of these Funds. |
(d) | The Distributor has voluntarily agreed to waive a portion of the distribution fee for Class C shares of the following Funds so that the distribution fee does not exceed the specified percentage annually: 0.45% for Columbia AMT-Free Connecticut Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia AMT-Free Massachusetts Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia AMT-Free New York Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia AMT-Free Oregon Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Columbia Strategic California Municipal Income Fund and Columbia Strategic New York Municipal Income Fund; 0.60% for Columbia Corporate Income Fund and Columbia Short Term Bond Fund; 0.65% for Columbia High Yield Municipal Fund and Columbia Tax-Exempt Fund; and 0.70% for Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund. These arrangements may be modified or terminated by the Distributor at any time. |
(e) | Class R shares of series of CFST and CFST I pay a distribution fee pursuant to a Rule 12b-1 plan for Class R shares. The Funds do not have a shareholder service plan for Class R shares. Series of CFST II have a distribution and shareholder service plan for Class R shares, which, prior to the close of business on September 3, 2010, were known as Class R2 shares. For Class R shares of series of CFST II, the maximum fee under the plan reimbursed for distribution expenses is equal on an annual basis to 0.50% of the average daily net assets of the Fund attributable to Class R shares. Of that amount, up to 0.25% may be reimbursed for shareholder service expenses. |
(f) | The combined distribution fee and service fee for Class T shares of series of CFST and CFST I shall not exceed 0.25%. Class T shares of series of CFST II pay a combined distribution and service fee of 0.25%. |
(g) | The shareholder servicing fees for Class V shares are up to 0.50% of average daily net assets attributable to Class V shares for equity Funds and 0.40% for fixed income Funds. In general, the Funds currently limit such fees to a maximum of 0.25% for equity Funds and 0.15% for fixed-income Funds. These fees for Class V shares are not paid pursuant to a Rule 12b-1 plan. See Class V Shareholder Service Fees below for more information. |
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Minimum Account Balance | |
Minimum
Account Balance |
|
For all classes and account types except those listed below |
$250
(None for accounts with
Systematic Investment Plans) |
Individual Retirement Accounts for all classes except those listed below | None |
Class Adv, Class Inst2, Class Inst3 and Class R | None |
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■ | negative impact on the Fund's performance; |
■ | potential dilution of the value of the Fund's shares; |
■ | interference with the efficient management of the Fund's portfolio, such as the need to maintain undesirably large cash positions, the need to use its line of credit or the need to buy or sell securities it otherwise would not have bought or sold; |
■ | losses on the sale of investments resulting from the need to sell securities at less favorable prices; |
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■ | increased taxable gains to the Fund's remaining shareholders resulting from the need to sell securities to meet sell orders; and |
■ | increased brokerage and administrative costs. |
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Minimum Initial Investments | ||
Minimum
Initial Investment (a) |
Minimum
Initial Investment for Accounts with Systematic Investment Plans |
|
For all classes and account types except those listed below | $2,000 | $100 (b) |
Individual Retirement Accounts for all classes except those listed below | $1,000 | $100 (c) |
Group retirement plans | None | N/A |
Class Adv and Class Inst | $0, $1,000 or $2,000 (d) | $100 (d) |
Class Inst2 and Class R | None | N/A |
Class Inst3 | $0, $1,000, $2,000 or $1 million (e) | $100 (e) |
(a) | If your Class A, Class Adv, Class C, Class Inst, Class Inst3 or Class V shares account balance falls below the minimum initial investment amount for any reason, including a market decline, you may be asked to increase it to the minimum initial investment amount or establish a monthly Systematic Investment Plan. If you do not do so, your account will be subject to a $20 annual low balance fee and/or shares may be automatically redeemed and the proceeds mailed to you if the account falls below the minimum account balance. See Buying, Selling and Exchanging Shares — Transaction Rules and Policies above. There is no minimum initial investment in Class A shares for accounts held in an omnibus account on a mutual fund only platform offered through your financial intermediary. |
(b) | Columbia Government Money Market Fund — $2,000 |
(c) | Columbia Government Money Market Fund — $1,000 |
(d) | The minimum initial investment in Class Adv shares is $2,000 ($1,000 for IRAs; $100 for systematic investment plan accounts) for commissionable brokerage platforms where the financial intermediary, acting as broker on behalf of its customers, charges the customer a commission for effecting transactions in Fund shares, provided that the financial intermediary has an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes offering Class Adv shares within such platform; for all other eligible Class Adv share investors (see Buying Shares – Eligible Investors – Class Adv Shares above), there is no minimum initial investment. The minimum initial investment amount for Class Inst shares is $0, $1,000 or $2,000 depending upon the category of eligible investor. See — Class Inst Shares Minimum Initial Investments below. The minimum initial investment amount for systematic investment plan accounts is the same as the amount set forth in the first two rows of the table, as applicable. |
(e) | There is no minimum initial investment in Class Inst3 shares for: group retirement plans that maintain plan-level or omnibus accounts with the Fund; collective trust funds; affiliated or unaffiliated mutual funds (e.g., funds operating as funds-of-funds); and fee-based platforms of financial |
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■ | Any health savings account sponsored by a third party platform. |
■ | Any investor participating in an account sponsored by a financial intermediary or other entity (that provides services to the account) that is paid a fee-based advisory fee by the investor and that is not compensated by the Fund for those services, other than payments for shareholder servicing or sub-accounting performed in place of the Transfer Agent. |
■ | Individual retirement accounts (IRAs) on commissionable brokerage platforms where the financial intermediary, acting as broker on behalf of its customer, charges the customer a commission for effecting transactions in Fund shares, provided that the financial intermediary has an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes offering Class Inst shares within such platform. |
■ | Any current employee of Columbia Management Investment Advisers LLC, the Distributor or the Transfer Agent and immediate family members of any of the foregoing who share the same address are eligible to invest in Class Inst shares through an individual retirement account (IRA). If you maintain your account with a financial intermediary, you must contact that financial intermediary each time you seek to purchase shares to notify them that you qualify for Class Inst shares. If Class Inst shares are not available at your financial intermediary, you may consider opening a Direct-at-Fund Account. It is your obligation to advise your financial intermediary or (in the case of Direct-at-Fund Accounts) the Transfer Agent that you qualify for Class Inst shares; be prepared to provide proof thereof. |
■ | Investors (except investors in individual retirement accounts (IRAs)) who purchase Fund shares through commissionable brokerage platforms where the financial intermediary holds the shares in an omnibus account and, acting as broker on behalf of its customer, charges the customer a commission for effecting transactions in Fund shares provided that the financial intermediary has an agreement with the Distributor that specifically authorizes offering Class Inst shares within such platform. |
■ | Any current employee of Columbia Management Investment Advisers LLC, the Distributor or the Transfer Agent and immediate family members of any of the foregoing who share the same address are eligible to invest in Class Inst shares (other than individual retirement accounts (IRAs), for which the minimum initial investment is $1,000). If you maintain your account with a financial intermediary, you must contact that financial intermediary each time you seek to purchase shares to notify them that you qualify for Class Inst shares. If Class Inst shares are not available |
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at your financial intermediary, you may consider opening a Direct-at-Fund Account. It is your obligation to advise your financial intermediary or (in the case of Direct-at-Fund Accounts) the Transfer Agent that you qualify for Class Inst shares; be prepared to provide proof thereof. |
■ | Certain financial institutions and intermediaries, such as insurance companies, trust companies, banks, endowments, investment companies or foundations, buying shares for their own account, including Ameriprise Financial and its affiliates and/or subsidiaries. |
■ | Bank trust departments that assess their clients an asset-based fee. |
■ | Certain other investors as set forth in more detail in the SAI. |
■ | Once the Transfer Agent or your financial intermediary receives your purchase order in “good form,” your purchase will be made at the Fund’s next calculated public offering price per share, which is the NAV per share plus any sales charge that applies (i.e., the trade date). |
■ | Once the Fund receives your purchase request in “good form,” you cannot cancel it after the market closes. |
■ | You generally buy Class A, Class T and Class V shares at the public offering price per share because purchases of these share classes are generally subject to a front-end sales charge. |
■ | You buy Class Adv, Class C, Class Inst, Class Inst2, Class Inst3 and Class R shares at NAV per share because no front-end sales charge applies to purchases of these share classes. |
■ | The Distributor and the Transfer Agent reserve the right to cancel your order if the Fund does not receive payment within two business days of receiving your purchase order. The Fund will return any payment received for orders that have been cancelled, but no interest will be paid on that money. |
■ | Financial intermediaries are responsible for sending your purchase orders to the Transfer Agent and ensuring that the Fund receives your money on time. |
■ | Shares purchased are recorded on the books of the Fund. The Fund does not issue certificates. |
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■ | Once the Transfer Agent or your financial intermediary receives your redemption order in “good form,” your shares will be sold at the Fund’s next calculated NAV per share (i.e., the trade date). Any applicable CDSC will be deducted from the amount you're selling and the balance will be remitted to you. |
■ | Once the Fund receives your redemption request in “good form,” you cannot cancel it after the market closes. |
■ | If you sell your shares that are held in a Direct-at-Fund Account, we will normally send the redemption proceeds by mail or electronically transfer them to your bank account the next business day after the trade date. Note that your bank may take up to three business days to post an electronic funds transfer from your account. |
■ | If you sell your shares through a financial intermediary, the Funds will normally send the redemption proceeds to your financial intermediary within two business days after the trade date. |
■ | No interest will be paid on uncashed redemption checks. |
■ | Other restrictions may apply to retirement accounts. For information about these restrictions, contact your retirement plan administrator. |
■ | For broker-dealer and wrap fee accounts: The Fund reserves the right to redeem your shares if your account falls below the Fund's minimum initial investment requirement. The Fund will notify your broker-dealer prior to redeeming shares, and will provide details on how to avoid such redemption. |
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■ | Also keep in mind the Funds' Small Account Policy, which is described above in Buying, Selling and Exchanging Shares — Transaction Rules and Policies. |
■ | Exchanges are made at the NAV next calculated (plus any applicable sales charge) after your exchange order is received in “good form” (i.e., the trade date). |
■ | Once the Fund receives your exchange request in “good form,” you cannot cancel it after the market closes. |
■ | The rules for buying shares of a Fund generally apply to exchanges into that Fund, including, if your exchange creates a new Fund account, it must satisfy the minimum investment amount, unless a waiver applies. |
■ | Shares of the purchased Fund may not be used on the same day for another exchange or sale. |
■ | If you exchange shares from Class A shares of Columbia Government Money Market Fund to a non-money market Fund, any further exchanges must be between shares of the same class. For example, if you exchange from Class A shares of Columbia Government Money Market Fund into Class C shares of a non-money market Fund, you may not exchange from Class C shares of that non-money market Fund back to Class A shares of Columbia Government Money Market Fund or Class A shares of any other Fund. |
■ | A sales charge may apply when you exchange shares of a Fund that were not assessed a sales charge at the time you purchased such shares. If you invest through a Direct-at-Fund Account in Columbia Government Money Market Fund, Columbia Large Cap Enhanced Core Fund, Columbia Large Cap Index Fund, Columbia Mid Cap Index Fund, Columbia Small Cap Index Fund, Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund or any other Columbia Fund that does not impose a front-end sales charge and then you exchange into a Fund that does assess a sales charge, your transaction is subject to a front-end sales charge if you exchange into Class A shares and to a CDSC if you exchange into Class C shares of the Columbia Funds. |
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■ | If you purchased Class A shares of a Columbia Fund that imposes a front-end sales charge (and you paid any applicable sales charge) and you then exchange those shares into Columbia Government Money Market Fund, Columbia Large Cap Enhanced Core Fund, Columbia Large Cap Index Fund, Columbia Mid Cap Index Fund, Columbia Small Cap Index Fund, Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund or any other Columbia Fund that does not impose a front-end sales charge, you may exchange that amount to Class A of another Fund in the future, including dividends earned on that amount, without paying a sales charge. |
■ | If your shares are subject to a CDSC, you will not be charged a CDSC upon the exchange of those shares. Any CDSC will be deducted when you sell the shares you received from the exchange. The CDSC imposed at that time will be based on the period that begins when you bought shares of the original Fund and ends when you sell the shares of the Fund you received from the exchange. Any applicable CDSC charged will be the CDSC of the original Fund. |
■ | You may make exchanges only into a Fund that is legally offered and sold in your state of residence. Contact the Transfer Agent or your financial intermediary for more information. |
■ | You generally may make an exchange only into a Fund that is accepting investments. |
■ | The Fund may change or cancel your right to make an exchange by giving the amount of notice required by regulatory authorities (generally 60 days for a material change or cancellation). |
■ | Unless your account is part of a tax-advantaged arrangement, an exchange for shares of another Fund is a taxable event, and you may recognize a gain or loss for tax purposes. |
■ | Changing your investment to a different Fund will be treated as a sale and purchase, and you will be subject to applicable taxes on the sale and sales charges on the purchase of the new Fund. |
■ | Class Inst shares of a Fund may be exchanged for Class A or Class Inst shares of another Fund. In certain circumstances, the front-end sales charge applicable to Class A shares may be waived on exchanges of Class Inst shares for Class A shares. See Buying, Selling and Exchanging Shares — Buying Shares — Eligible Investors — Class Inst Shares for details. |
■ | You may generally exchange Class V shares of a Fund for Class A shares of another Fund if the other Fund does not offer Class V shares. Class V shares exchanged into Class A shares cannot be exchanged back into Class V shares. |
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■ | It can earn income on its investments. Examples of fund income are interest paid on money market instruments and bonds, and dividends paid on common stocks. |
■ | A mutual fund can also have capital gains if the value of its investments increases. While a fund continues to hold an investment, any gain is generally unrealized. If the fund sells an investment, it generally will realize a capital gain if it sells that investment for a higher price than its adjusted cost basis, and will generally realize a capital loss if it sells that investment for a lower price than its adjusted cost basis. Capital gains and losses are either short-term or long-term, depending on whether the fund holds the securities for one year or less (short-term) or more than one year (long-term). |
Declaration and Distribution Schedule | |
Declarations | Daily |
Distributions | Monthly |
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■ | The Fund intends to qualify and to be eligible for treatment each year as a regulated investment company. A regulated investment company generally is not subject to tax at the fund level on income and gains from investments that are distributed to shareholders. However, the Fund's failure to qualify for treatment as a regulated investment company would result in Fund-level taxation, and consequently, a reduction in income available for distribution to you and in the NAV of your shares. Even if the Fund qualifies for treatment as a regulated investment company, the Fund may be subject to federal excise tax on certain undistributed income or gains. |
■ | Otherwise taxable distributions generally are taxable to you when paid, whether they are paid in cash or automatically reinvested in additional Fund shares. Dividends paid in January are deemed paid on December 31 of the prior year if the dividend was declared and payable to shareholders of record in October, November, or December of such prior year. |
■ | Distributions of the Fund's ordinary income and net short-term capital gain, if any, generally are taxable to you as ordinary income. Distributions of the Fund's net long-term capital gain, if any, generally are taxable to you as long-term capital gain. Whether capital gains are long-term or short-term is determined by how long the Fund has owned the investments that generated them, rather than how long you have owned your shares. The Fund expects that distributions will consist primarily of ordinary income. |
■ | From time to time, a distribution from the Fund could constitute a return of capital, which is not taxable to you so long as the amount of the distribution does not exceed your tax basis in your Fund shares. A return of capital reduces your tax basis in your Fund shares, with any amounts exceeding such basis generally taxable as capital gain. |
■ | If you are an individual and you meet certain holding period and other requirements for your Fund shares, a portion of your distributions may be treated as “qualified dividend income” taxable at the lower net long-term capital gain rates instead of the higher ordinary income rates. Qualified dividend income is income attributable to the Fund's dividends received from certain U.S. and foreign corporations, as long as the Fund meets certain holding period and other requirements for the stock producing such dividends. The Fund does not expect a significant portion of Fund distributions to be eligible for treatment as qualified dividend income. |
■ | Certain high-income individuals (as well as estates and trusts) are subject to a 3.8% tax on net investment income. For individuals, the 3.8% tax applies to the lesser of (1) the amount (if any) by which the taxpayer's modified adjusted gross income exceeds certain threshold amounts or (2) the taxpayer's “net investment income.” |
Net investment income generally includes for this purpose dividends, including any capital gain dividends, paid by the Fund, and net gains recognized on the sale, redemption or exchange of shares of the Fund. |
■ | Certain derivative instruments when held in the Fund's portfolio subject the Fund to special tax rules, the effect of which may be to, among other things, accelerate income to the Fund, defer Fund losses, cause adjustments in the holding periods of Fund portfolio securities, or convert capital gains into ordinary income, short-term capital losses into long-term capital losses or long-term capital gains into short-term capital gains. These rules could therefore affect the amount, timing and/or character of distributions to shareholders. |
■ | Generally, a Fund realizes a capital gain or loss on an option when the option expires, or when it is exercised, sold or otherwise terminated. However, if an option is a “section 1256 contract,” which includes most traded options on a broad-based index, and the Fund holds such option at the end of its taxable year, the Fund is deemed to sell such option at fair market value at such time and recognize any gain or loss thereon, which is generally deemed to be 60% long-term and 40% short-term capital gain or loss, as described further in the SAI. |
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■ | Income and proceeds received by the Fund from sources within foreign countries may be subject to foreign taxes. If at the end of the taxable year more than 50% of the value of the Fund's assets consists of securities of foreign corporations, and the Fund makes a special election, you will generally be required to include in your income for U.S. federal income tax purposes your share of the qualifying foreign income taxes paid by the Fund in respect of its foreign portfolio securities. You may be able to claim a foreign tax credit or deduction in respect of this amount, subject to certain limitations. There is no assurance that the Fund will make this election for a taxable year, even if it is eligible to do so. |
■ | A sale, redemption or exchange of Fund shares is a taxable event. This includes redemptions where you are paid in securities. Your sales, redemptions and exchanges of Fund shares (including those paid in securities) usually will result in a taxable capital gain or loss to you, equal to the difference between the amount you receive for your shares (or are deemed to have received in the case of exchanges) and your adjusted tax basis in the shares, which is generally the amount you paid (or are deemed to have paid in the case of exchanges) for them. Any such capital gain or loss generally will be long-term capital gain or loss if you have held your Fund shares for more than one year at the time of sale or exchange. In certain circumstances, capital losses may be converted from short-term to long-term; in other circumstances, capital losses may be disallowed under the “wash sale” rules. |
■ | For sales, redemptions and exchanges of shares that were acquired in a non-qualified account after 2011, the Fund generally is required to report to shareholders and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) cost basis information with respect to those shares. The Fund uses average cost basis as its default method of calculating cost basis. For more information regarding average cost basis reporting, other available cost basis methods, and selecting or changing to a different cost basis method, please see the SAI, columbiathreadneedleus.com, or contact the Fund at 800.345.6611. If you hold Fund shares through a financial intermediary (e.g., a brokerage firm), you should contact your financial intermediary to learn about its cost basis reporting default method and the reporting elections available to your account. |
■ | The Fund is required by federal law to withhold tax on any taxable or tax-exempt distributions and redemption proceeds paid to you (including amounts paid to you in securities and amounts deemed to be paid to you upon an exchange of shares) if: you have not provided a correct TIN or have not certified to the Fund that withholding does not apply, the IRS has notified us that the TIN listed on your account is incorrect according to its records, or the IRS informs the Fund that you are otherwise subject to backup withholding. |
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Net
asset value,
beginning of period |
Net
investment income |
Net
realized and unrealized gain (loss) |
Total
from
investment operations |
Distributions
from net investment income |
Distributions
from net realized gains |
|
Class A | ||||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $11.06 | 0.16 | (0.31) | (0.15) | (0.16) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 | $11.34 | 0.14 | (0.25) | (0.11) | (0.14) | (0.03) |
Year Ended 4/30/2016 | $11.28 | 0.14 | 0.12 | 0.26 | (0.14) | (0.06) |
Year Ended 4/30/2015 | $11.03 | 0.15 | 0.26 | 0.41 | (0.15) | (0.01) |
Year Ended 4/30/2014 | $11.52 | 0.14 | (0.36) | (0.22) | (0.15) | (0.12) |
Class C | ||||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $11.06 | 0.09 | (0.31) | (0.22) | (0.09) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 | $11.34 | 0.06 | (0.24) | (0.18) | (0.07) | (0.03) |
Year Ended 4/30/2016 | $11.28 | 0.07 | 0.12 | 0.19 | (0.07) | (0.06) |
Year Ended 4/30/2015 | $11.02 | 0.07 | 0.27 | 0.34 | (0.07) | (0.01) |
Year Ended 4/30/2014 | $11.52 | 0.07 | (0.37) | (0.30) | (0.08) | (0.12) |
Institutional Class | ||||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $11.06 | 0.18 | (0.31) | (0.13) | (0.18) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 | $11.34 | 0.16 | (0.25) | (0.09) | (0.16) | (0.03) |
Year Ended 4/30/2016 | $11.28 | 0.16 | 0.12 | 0.28 | (0.16) | (0.06) |
Year Ended 4/30/2015 | $11.02 | 0.17 | 0.27 | 0.44 | (0.17) | (0.01) |
Year Ended 4/30/2014 | $11.52 | 0.17 | (0.38) | (0.21) | (0.17) | (0.12) |
Institutional 2 Class | ||||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $11.04 | 0.18 | (0.31) | (0.13) | (0.18) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 | $11.32 | 0.16 | (0.25) | (0.09) | (0.16) | (0.03) |
Year Ended 4/30/2016 | $11.26 | 0.16 | 0.12 | 0.28 | (0.16) | (0.06) |
Year Ended 4/30/2015 | $11.01 | 0.17 | 0.26 | 0.43 | (0.17) | (0.01) |
Year Ended 4/30/2014 | $11.51 | 0.17 | (0.38) | (0.21) | (0.17) | (0.12) |
Institutional 3 Class | ||||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $11.13 | 0.18 | (0.32) | (0.14) | (0.18) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 (d) | $11.02 | 0.03 | 0.11 (e) | 0.14 | (0.03) | — |
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Total
distributions to shareholders |
Net
asset value, end of period |
Total
return |
Total
gross
expense ratio to average net assets (a) |
Total
net
expense ratio to average net assets (a), (b) |
Net
investment
income ratio to average net assets |
Portfolio
turnover |
Net
assets, end of period (000's) |
(0.16) | $10.75 | (1.35%) | 0.65% | 0.35% (c) | 1.49% | 27% | $45,074 |
(0.17) | $11.06 | (0.94%) | 0.65% | 0.35% (c) | 1.27% | 50% | $48,312 |
(0.20) | $11.34 | 2.38% | 0.66% | 0.35% (c) | 1.30% | 91% | $41,893 |
(0.16) | $11.28 | 3.70% | 0.66% | 0.38% (c) | 1.33% | 65% | $31,946 |
(0.27) | $11.03 | (1.92%) | 0.66% | 0.45% (c) | 1.24% | 76% | $22,163 |
(0.09) | $10.75 | (2.03%) | 1.41% | 1.05% (c) | 0.78% | 27% | $4,143 |
(0.10) | $11.06 | (1.63%) | 1.40% | 1.05% (c) | 0.56% | 50% | $6,938 |
(0.13) | $11.34 | 1.67% | 1.41% | 1.05% (c) | 0.59% | 91% | $9,892 |
(0.08) | $11.28 | 3.11% | 1.41% | 1.05% (c) | 0.66% | 65% | $7,124 |
(0.20) | $11.02 | (2.59%) | 1.41% | 1.05% (c) | 0.64% | 76% | $6,417 |
(0.18) | $10.75 | (1.20%) | 0.40% | 0.20% (c) | 1.64% | 27% | $392,889 |
(0.19) | $11.06 | (0.79%) | 0.40% | 0.20% (c) | 1.42% | 50% | $380,519 |
(0.22) | $11.34 | 2.54% | 0.41% | 0.20% (c) | 1.44% | 91% | $274,641 |
(0.18) | $11.28 | 3.98% | 0.41% | 0.20% (c) | 1.51% | 65% | $247,434 |
(0.29) | $11.02 | (1.76%) | 0.41% | 0.20% (c) | 1.49% | 76% | $194,297 |
(0.18) | $10.73 | (1.20%) | 0.40% | 0.20% | 1.65% | 27% | $30,710 |
(0.19) | $11.04 | (0.80%) | 0.41% | 0.20% | 1.45% | 50% | $24,839 |
(0.22) | $11.32 | 2.54% | 0.41% | 0.20% | 1.45% | 91% | $3,906 |
(0.18) | $11.26 | 3.89% | 0.41% | 0.20% | 1.50% | 65% | $2,600 |
(0.29) | $11.01 | (1.76%) | 0.41% | 0.20% | 1.52% | 76% | $1,431 |
(0.18) | $10.81 | (1.27%) | 0.40% | 0.20% | 1.66% | 27% | $401,768 |
(0.03) | $11.13 | 1.24% | 0.40% (f) | 0.20% (f) | 1.52% (f) | 50% | $252,341 |
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Net
asset value,
beginning of period |
Net
investment income |
Net
realized and unrealized gain (loss) |
Total
from
investment operations |
Distributions
from net investment income |
Distributions
from net realized gains |
|
Class T | ||||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $11.06 | 0.15 | (0.32) | (0.17) | (0.15) | — |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 | $11.33 | 0.13 | (0.24) | (0.11) | (0.13) | (0.03) |
Year Ended 4/30/2016 | $11.27 | 0.13 | 0.12 | 0.25 | (0.13) | (0.06) |
Year Ended 4/30/2015 | $11.02 | 0.13 | 0.27 | 0.40 | (0.14) | (0.01) |
Year Ended 4/30/2014 | $11.52 | 0.14 | (0.37) | (0.23) | (0.15) | (0.12) |
Notes to Financial Highlights | |
(a) | In addition to the fees and expenses that the Fund bears directly, the Fund indirectly bears a pro rata share of the fees and expenses of any other funds in which it invests. Such indirect expenses are not included in the Fund's reported expense ratios. |
(b) | Total net expenses include the impact of certain fee waivers/expense reimbursements made by the Investment Manager and certain of its affiliates, if applicable. |
(c) | The benefits derived from expense reductions had an impact of less than 0.01%. |
(d) | Institutional 3 Class shares commenced operations on March 1, 2017. Per share data and total return reflect activity from that date. |
(e) | Calculation of the net gain (loss) per share (both realized and unrealized) does not correlate to the aggregate realized and unrealized gain (loss) presented in the Statement of Operations due to the timing of subscriptions and redemptions of Fund shares in relation to fluctuations in the market value of the portfolio. |
(f) | Annualized. |
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Total
distributions to shareholders |
Net
asset value, end of period |
Total
return |
Total
gross
expense ratio to average net assets (a) |
Total
net
expense ratio to average net assets (a), (b) |
Net
investment
income ratio to average net assets |
Portfolio
turnover |
Net
assets, end of period (000's) |
(0.15) | $10.74 | (1.53%) | 0.66% | 0.45% (c) | 1.37% | 27% | $640 |
(0.16) | $11.06 | (0.95%) | 0.65% | 0.45% (c) | 1.15% | 50% | $1,913 |
(0.19) | $11.33 | 2.28% | 0.65% | 0.45% (c) | 1.17% | 91% | $225,255 |
(0.15) | $11.27 | 3.63% | 0.65% | 0.45% (c) | 1.20% | 65% | $74,873 |
(0.27) | $11.02 | (2.00%) | 0.66% | 0.45% (c) | 1.24% | 76% | $12,167 |
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■ | Employer-sponsored retirement plans (e.g., 401(k) plans, 457 plans, employer-sponsored 403(b) plans, profit sharing and money purchase pension plans and defined benefit plans). For purposes of this provision, employer-sponsored retirement plans do not include SEP IRAs, Simple IRAs or SAR-SEPs. |
■ | Shares purchased through an Ameriprise Financial Services investment advisory program (if an Advisory or similar share class for such investment advisory program is not available). |
■ | Shares purchased by third party investment advisors on behalf of their advisory clients through Ameriprise Financial Services’ platform (if an Advisory or similar share class for such investment advisory program is not available). |
■ | Shares purchased through reinvestment of dividends and capital gain distributions when purchasing shares of the same Fund (but not any other fund within the same fund family). |
■ | Shares exchanged from Class C shares of the same fund in the month of or following the 10-year anniversary of the purchase date. To the extent that this prospectus elsewhere provides for a waiver with respect to such shares following a shorter holding period, that waiver will apply to exchanges following such shorter period. To the extent that this prospectus elsewhere provides for a waiver with respect to exchanges of Class C shares for load waived shares, that waiver will also apply to such exchanges. |
■ | Employees and registered representatives of Ameriprise Financial Services or its affiliates and their immediate family members. |
■ | Shares purchased by or through qualified accounts (including IRAs, Coverdell Education Savings Accounts, 401(k)s, 403(b) TSCAs subject to ERISA and defined benefit plans) that are held by a covered family member, defined as an Ameriprise financial advisor and/or the advisor’s spouse, advisor’s lineal ascendant (mother, father, grandmother, grandfather, great grandmother, great grandfather), advisor’s lineal descendant (son, step-son, daughter, step-daughter, grandson, granddaughter, great grandson, great granddaughter) or any spouse of a covered family member who is a lineal descendant. |
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■ | Shares purchased from the proceeds of redemptions within the same fund family, provided (1) the repurchase occurs within 90 days following the redemption, (2) the redemption and purchase occur in the same account, and (3) redeemed shares were subject to a front-end or deferred sales load (i.e., rights of reinstatement). |
■ | Rights of Accumulation (ROA) which entitle shareholders to breakpoint discounts will be automatically calculated based on the aggregated holding of fund family assets held by accounts within the purchaser’s household at Merrill Lynch. Eligible fund family assets not held at Merrill Lynch may be included in the ROA calculation only if the shareholder notifies his or her financial advisor about such assets. |
■ | Letters of Intent (LOI) which allow for breakpoint discounts based on anticipated purchases within a fund family, through Merrill Lynch, over a 13-month period of time (if applicable). |
■ | Employer-sponsored retirement, deferred compensation and employee benefit plans (including health savings accounts) and trusts used to fund those plans, provided that the plan is a group plan (more than one participant), the shares are not held in a commission-based brokerage account and shares are held in the name of the plan through an omnibus account |
■ | Shares purchased by or through a 529 Plan |
■ | Shares purchased through a Merrill Lynch affiliated investment advisory program |
■ | Shares purchased by third party investment advisors on behalf of their advisory clients through Merrill Lynch’s platform |
■ | Shares of funds purchased through the Merrill Edge Self-Directed platform |
■ | Shares purchased through reinvestment of capital gains distributions and dividend reinvestment when purchasing shares of the same Fund (but not any other fund within the same fund family) |
■ | Shares exchanged from Class C (i.e., level-load) shares of the same fund in the month of or following the 10-year anniversary of the purchase date |
■ | Employees and registered representatives of Merrill Lynch or its affiliates and their family members |
■ | Directors or Trustees of the Fund, and employees of the Fund’s investment adviser or any of its affiliates, as described in this prospectus |
■ | Shares purchased from the proceeds of redemptions within the same fund family, provided (1) the repurchase occurs within 90 days following the redemption, (2) the redemption and purchase occur in the same account, and (3) redeemed shares were subject to a front-end or deferred sales load (known as Rights of Reinstatement). |
■ | Shares redeemed following the death or disability of the shareholder |
■ | Shares sold as part of a systematic withdrawal plan as described in this prospectus |
■ | Redemptions that constitute a return of excess contributions from an IRA |
■ | Shares sold as part of a required minimum distribution for IRA and retirement accounts due to the shareholder reaching age 70½ |
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■ | Shares sold to pay Merrill Lynch fees but only if the transaction is initiated by Merrill Lynch |
■ | There will be no CDSC charged on the sale of Fund shares acquired through a right of reinstatement |
■ | The redemption of shares held in retirement brokerage accounts, that are exchanged for a lower cost share class due to transfer to a fee based account or platform (applicable to Class A and Class C shares only). |
■ | Employer-sponsored retirement plans (e.g., 401(k) plans, 457 plans, employer-sponsored 403(b) plans, profit sharing and money purchase pension plans and defined benefit plans). For purposes of this provision, employer-sponsored retirement plans do not include SEP IRAs, Simple IRAs, SAR-SEPs or Keogh plans |
■ | Morgan Stanley employee and employee-related accounts according to Morgan Stanley’s account linking rules |
■ | Shares purchased through reinvestment of dividends and capital gains distributions when purchasing shares of the same fund |
■ | Shares purchased through a Morgan Stanley self-directed brokerage account |
■ | Class C (i.e., level-load) shares that are no longer subject to a contingent deferred sales charge and are converted to Class A shares of the same fund pursuant to Morgan Stanley Wealth Management’s share class conversion program |
■ | Shares purchased from the proceeds of redemptions within the same fund family, provided (i) the repurchase occurs within 90 days following the redemption, (ii) the redemption and purchase occur in the same account, and (iii) redeemed shares were subject to a front-end or deferred sales charge. |
■ | Employer-sponsored retirement plans (e.g., 401(k) plans, 457 plans, employer-sponsored 403(b) plans, profit sharing and money purchase pension plans and defined benefit plans). For purposes of this provision, employer-sponsored retirement plans do not include SEP IRAs, Simple IRAs, SAR-SEPs or Keogh plans; however these plans are eligible to purchase Class T shares through a transactional brokerage account. |
■ | Morgan Stanley Wealth Management employee and employee-related accounts according to Morgan Stanley’s account linking rules. |
■ | Mutual fund shares exchanged from an existing position in the same fund as part of a share class conversion instituted by Morgan Stanley Wealth Management. |
A-3 | Prospectus 2018 |
■ | For employer-sponsored retirement plans held through a commissionable brokerage account, Class A shares are available at NAV (i.e., without a sales charge). For this purpose, employer-sponsored retirement plans include, but are not limited to, 401(k) plans, 457 plans, employer-sponsored 403(b) plans, profit sharing and money purchase pension plans and defined benefit plans. For purposes of this provision, employer-sponsored retirement plans do not include SEP IRAs, Simple IRAs, SAR-SEPs or Keogh plans. |
Prospectus 2018 | A-4 |
* | Please note, effective November 1, 2018, the Fund’s mailing address is changed to Columbia Management Investment Services Corp., P.O. Box 219104, Kansas City, MO 64121-9104. |
Class | Ticker Symbol | |
A | CDAAX | |
Institutional (Class Inst) (a) | CDAZX |
(a) | Prior to November 1, 2017, Class Inst shares were known as Class Z shares. |
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14 |
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16 |
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16 |
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16 |
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17 |
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17 |
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20 |
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34 |
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38 |
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41 |
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42 |
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43 |
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43 |
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44 |
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45 |
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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment) | ||
Class A | Class Inst | |
Maximum sales charge (load) imposed on purchases (as a % of offering price) | None | None |
Maximum deferred sales charge (load) imposed on redemptions (as a % of the lower of the original purchase price or current net asset value) | None | None |
(a) | Other expenses have been restated to reflect current fees paid by the Fund. |
(b) | Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and certain of its affiliates have contractually agreed to waive fees and/or to reimburse expenses (excluding transaction costs and certain other investment related expenses, dividend expenses and borrowing costs on securities sold short, interest, taxes, acquired fund fees and expenses, and infrequent and/or unusual expenses) through August 31, 2019, unless sooner terminated at the sole discretion of the Fund’s Board of Trustees. Under this agreement, the Fund’s net operating expenses, subject to applicable exclusions, will not exceed the annual rates of 2.16% for Class A and 1.91% for Class Inst. |
■ | you invest $10,000 in the applicable class of Fund shares for the periods indicated, |
■ | your investment has a 5% return each year, and |
■ | the Fund’s total annual operating expenses remain the same as shown in the Annual Fund Operating Expenses table above. |
1 year | 3 years | 5 years | 10 years | |
Class A (whether or not shares are redeemed) | $258 | $804 | $1,376 | $2,931 |
Class Inst (whether or not shares are redeemed) | $233 | $729 | $1,251 | $2,682 |
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Year
by Year Total Return (%)
as of December 31 Each Year* |
Best
and Worst Quarterly Returns
During the Period Shown in the Bar Chart |
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Best | 3rd Quarter 2017 | 4.27% |
Worst
|
2nd Quarter 2017 | 1.70% |
* | Year to Date return as of June 30, 2018: -4.18% |
Share
Class
Inception Date |
1 Year | Life of Fund | |
Class A | 10/17/2016 | ||
returns before taxes | 12.88% | 12.92% | |
returns after taxes on distributions | 11.02% | 11.36% | |
returns after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund shares | 7.81% | 9.41% | |
Class Inst returns before taxes | 01/03/2017 | 13.12% | 13.12% |
HFRX Equity Hedge Index (reflects no deductions for fees, expenses or taxes) | 9.98% | 9.44% | |
Wilshire Liquid Alternative Equity Hedge Index (reflects no deductions for fees, expenses or taxes) | 7.59% | 8.24% | |
MSCI World Index (Net) (reflects reinvested dividends net of withholding taxes but reflects no deductions for fees, expenses or other taxes) | 22.40% | 22.26% |
Portfolio Manager | Title | Role with Fund | Managed Fund Since | |||
Joseph Feeney, Jr., CFA | Co-Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of Boston Partners | Co-Portfolio Manager | 2016 | |||
Eric Connerly, CFA | Director of Quantitative Research of Boston Partners | Co-Portfolio Manager | 2016 |
Portfolio Manager | Title | Role with Fund | Managed Fund Since | |||
Michele L. Aghassi, Ph.D. | Portfolio Manager and Principal of AQR | Co-Portfolio Manager | 2016 | |||
Andrea Frazzini, Ph.D., M.S. | Portfolio Manager and Principal of AQR | Co-Portfolio Manager | 2016 | |||
Jacques A. Friedman, M.S. | Portfolio Manager and Principal of AQR | Co-Portfolio Manager | 2016 |
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Portfolio Manager | Title | Role with Fund | Managed Fund Since | |||
Harindra de Silva, CFA | President/Portfolio Manager of Analytic | Co-Portfolio Manager | 2016 | |||
Dennis Bein, CFA | Chief Investment Officer/Portfolio Manager of Analytic | Co-Portfolio Manager | 2016 | |||
David Krider, CFA | Portfolio Manager of Analytic | Co-Portfolio Manager | 2016 |
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■ | Value indicators identify investments that appear cheap based on fundamental measures, often as a result of lack of favor. Examples of value indicators include using price-to-earnings and price-to-book ratios for choosing individual equities. |
■ | Momentum indicators identify investments with strong recent performance. Examples of momentum indicators include simple price momentum for choosing individual equities. |
■ | Quality indicators identify stable companies in good business health, including those with strong profitability and stable earnings. |
■ | In addition to these three main indicators, AQR may use a number of additional quantitative indicators based on the Adviser’s proprietary research. AQR may add or modify the economic indicators employed in selecting portfolio holdings from time to time. |
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■ | A forward foreign currency contract is a derivative (forward contract) in which the underlying reference is a country's or region’s currency. The Fund may agree to buy or sell a country's or region’s currency at a specific price on a specific date in the future. These instruments may fall in value (sometimes dramatically) due to foreign market downswings or foreign currency value fluctuations, subjecting the Fund to foreign currency risk (the risk that Fund performance may be negatively impacted by foreign currency strength or weakness relative to the U.S. dollar, particularly if the Fund exposes a significant percentage of its assets to currencies other than the U.S. dollar). Unanticipated changes in the currency markets could result in reduced performance for the Fund. When the Fund converts its foreign currencies into U.S. dollars, it may incur currency conversion costs due to the spread between the prices at which it may buy and sell various currencies in the market. Forward foreign currency contracts that settle net in cash are also considered to be swap agreements under applicable U.S. law and references to forward contracts in the prospectus also include currency swap contracts. |
■ | A forward interest rate agreement is a derivative whereby the buyer locks in an interest rate at a future settlement date. If the interest rate on the settlement date exceeds the lock rate, the buyer pays the seller the difference between the two rates (based on the notional value of the agreement). If the lock rate exceeds the interest rate on the settlement date, the seller pays the buyer the difference between the two rates (based on the notional value of the agreement). The Fund may act as a buyer or a seller. |
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■ | A bond (or debt instrument) future is a derivative that is an agreement for the contract holder to buy or sell a bond or other debt instrument, a basket of bonds or other debt instrument, or the bonds or other debt instruments in an index on a specified date at a predetermined price. The buyer (long position) of a bond future is obliged to buy the underlying reference at the agreed price on expiry of the future. |
■ | A currency future , also an FX future or foreign exchange future, is a derivative that is an agreement to exchange one currency for another at a specified date in the future at a price (exchange rate) that is fixed on the purchase date. |
■ | An equity future is a derivative that is an agreement for the contract holder to buy or sell a specified amount of an individual equity, a basket of equities or the securities in an equity index on a specified date at a predetermined price. |
■ | An interest rate future is a derivative that is an agreement whereby the buyer and seller agree to the future delivery of an interest-bearing instrument on a specific date at a pre-determined price. Examples include Treasury-bill futures, Treasury-bond futures and Eurodollar futures. |
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■ | Contracts for differences are swap arrangements in which the parties agree that their return (or loss) will be based on the relative performance of two different groups or baskets of securities or other instruments. Often, one or both baskets will be an established securities index. The Fund’s return will be based on changes in value of theoretical long futures positions in the securities comprising one basket (with an aggregate face value equal to the notional amount of the contract for differences) and theoretical short futures positions in the securities comprising the other basket. The Fund also may use actual long and short futures positions and achieve similar market exposure by netting the payment obligations of the two contracts. If the short basket outperforms the long basket, the Fund will realize a loss – even in circumstances when the securities in both the long and short baskets appreciate in value. |
■ | A credit default swap (including a swap on a credit default index, sometimes referred to as a credit default swap index) is a derivative and special type of swap where one party pays, in effect, an insurance premium through a stream of payments to another party in exchange for the right to receive a specified return upon the occurrence of a particular credit event by one or more third parties, such as bankruptcy, default or a similar event. A credit default swap may be embedded within a structured note or other derivative instrument. Credit default swaps enable an investor to buy or sell protection against such a credit event (such as an issuer’s bankruptcy, restructuring or failure to make timely payments of interest or principal). Credit default swap indices are indices that reflect the performance of a basket of credit default swaps and are subject to the same risks as credit default swaps. If such a default were to occur, any contractual remedies that the Fund may have may be subject to bankruptcy and insolvency laws, which could delay or limit the Fund's recovery. Thus, if the counterparty under a credit default swap defaults on its obligation to make payments thereunder, as a result of its bankruptcy or otherwise, the Fund may lose such payments altogether, or collect only a portion thereof, which collection could involve costs or delays. The Fund’s return from investment in a credit default swap index may not match the return of the referenced index. Further, investment in a credit default swap index could result in losses if the referenced index does not perform as expected. Unexpected changes in the composition of the index may also affect performance of the credit default swap index. If a referenced index has a dramatic intraday move that causes a material decline in the Fund’s net assets, the terms of the Fund’s credit default swap index may permit the counterparty to immediately close out the transaction. In that event, the Fund may be unable to enter into another credit default swap index or otherwise achieve desired exposure, even if the referenced index reverses all or a portion of its intraday move. |
■ | An interest rate swap is a derivative in which two parties agree to exchange interest rate cash flows, based on a specified notional amount from a fixed rate to a floating rate (or vice versa) or from one floating rate to another. Interest rate swaps can be based on various measures of interest rates, including LIBOR, swap rates, treasury rates and foreign interest rates. |
■ | Total return swaps are derivative swap transactions in which one party agrees to pay the other party an amount equal to the total return of a defined underlying reference during a specified period of time. In return, the other party would make periodic payments based on a fixed or variable interest rate or on the total return of a different underlying reference. |
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Multi-Manager Directional Alternative Strategies Fund | |
Class A | 2.16% |
Class Inst | 1.91% |
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Portfolio Manager | Title | Role with Fund | Managed Fund Since | |||
Joseph Feeney, Jr., CFA | Co-Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of Boston Partners | Co-Portfolio Manager | 2016 | |||
Eric Connerly, CFA | Director of Quantitative Research of Boston Partners | Co-Portfolio Manager | 2016 |
Portfolio Manager | Title | Role with Fund | Managed Fund Since | |||
Michele L. Aghassi, Ph.D. | Portfolio Manager and Principal of AQR | Co-Portfolio Manager | 2016 | |||
Andrea Frazzini, Ph.D., M.S. | Portfolio Manager and Principal of AQR | Co-Portfolio Manager | 2016 | |||
Jacques A. Friedman, M.S. | Portfolio Manager and Principal of AQR | Co-Portfolio Manager | 2016 |
Portfolio Manager | Title | Role with Fund | Managed Fund Since | |||
Harindra de Silva, CFA | President/Portfolio Manager of Analytic | Co-Portfolio Manager | 2016 | |||
Dennis Bein, CFA | Chief Investment Officer/Portfolio Manager of Analytic | Co-Portfolio Manager | 2016 | |||
David Krider, CFA | Portfolio Manager of Analytic | Co-Portfolio Manager | 2016 |
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■ | compensation and other benefits received by the Investment Manager and other Ameriprise Financial affiliates related to the management/administration of a Columbia Fund and the sale of its shares; |
■ | the allocation of, and competition for, investment opportunities among the Fund, other funds and accounts advised/managed by the Investment Manager and other Ameriprise Financial affiliates, or Ameriprise Financial itself and its affiliates; |
■ | separate and potentially divergent management of a Columbia Fund and other funds and accounts advised/managed by the Investment Manager and other Ameriprise Financial affiliates; |
■ | regulatory and other investment restrictions on investment activities of the Investment Manager and other Ameriprise Financial affiliates and accounts advised/managed by them; |
■ | insurance and other relationships of Ameriprise Financial affiliates with companies and other entities in which a Columbia Fund invests; and |
■ | regulatory and other restrictions relating to the sharing of information between Ameriprise Financial and its affiliates, including the Investment Manager, and a Columbia Fund. |
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* | The website references in this prospectus are inactive links and information contained in or otherwise accessible through the referenced websites does not form a part of this prospectus. |
** | Based on the date noted above, mail received at an incorrect address will be forwarded to the correct address, and will not be processed until received, in “good form,” at the correct address. This may affect the trade date you receive for transaction requests, which may negatively impact the value of your purchase or sale. |
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Eligible
Investors
and Minimum Initial Investments (a) |
Investment
Limits |
Conversion
Features |
Front-End
Sales Charges |
Contingent
Deferred Sales Charges (CDSCs) |
Maximum
Distribution and Service Fees |
Class A shares of the Fund are available only through certain wrap fee programs sponsored and/or managed by Ameriprise Financial or its affiliates. Eligible investors are subject to a minimum initial investment requirement of $100. | None | None | None | None |
0.25%
distribution
and/or service fees |
Class Inst shares of the Fund are available only through certain wrap fee programs sponsored and/or managed by Ameriprise Financial or its affiliates. Eligible investors are subject to a minimum initial investment requirement of $100. | None | None | None | None | None |
(a) | See Buying, Selling and Exchanging Shares — Transaction Rules and Policies for more details on the eligible investors and minimum initial and subsequent investment and account balance requirements. |
Distribution
Fee |
Service
Fee |
Combined
Total |
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Class A | up to 0.25% | up to 0.25% | 0.25% |
Class Inst | none | none | none |
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■ | negative impact on the Fund's performance; |
■ | potential dilution of the value of the Fund's shares; |
■ | interference with the efficient management of the Fund's portfolio, such as the need to maintain undesirably large cash positions, the need to use its line of credit or the need to buy or sell securities it otherwise would not have bought or sold; |
■ | losses on the sale of investments resulting from the need to sell securities at less favorable prices; |
■ | increased taxable gains to the Fund's remaining shareholders resulting from the need to sell securities to meet sell orders; and |
■ | increased brokerage and administrative costs. |
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■ | Once the Transfer Agent or your financial intermediary receives your buy order in “good form,” your purchase will be made at the next calculated public offering price per share, which is the net asset value per share plus any sales charge that applies (i.e., the trade date). |
■ | Once the Fund receives your purchase request in “good form,” you cannot cancel it after the market closes. |
■ | You generally buy shares of Multi-Manager Strategies Funds at NAV per share because no front-end sales charge applies to purchases of shares of Multi-Manager Strategies Funds. |
■ | The Distributor and the Transfer Agent reserve the right to cancel your order if the Fund does not receive payment within two business days of receiving your purchase order. The Fund will return any payment received for orders that have been cancelled, but no interest will be paid on that money. |
■ | Financial intermediaries are responsible for sending your purchase orders to the Transfer Agent and ensuring that the Fund receives your money on time. |
■ | Shares purchased are recorded on the books of the Fund. The Fund does not issue certificates. |
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■ | Once the Transfer Agent or your financial intermediary receives your redemption order in “good form,” your shares will be sold at the next calculated NAV per share (i.e., the trade date). |
■ | Once the Fund receives your redemption request in “good form,” you cannot cancel it after the market closes. |
■ | If you sell your shares that are held in a Direct-at-Fund Account, we will normally send the redemption proceeds by mail or electronically transfer them to your bank account the next business day after the trade date. Note that your bank may take up to three business days to post an electronic funds transfer from your account. |
■ | If you sell your shares through a financial intermediary, the Funds will normally send the redemption proceeds to your financial intermediary within two business days after the trade date. |
■ | No interest will be paid on uncashed redemption checks. |
■ | Other restrictions may apply to retirement accounts. For information about these restrictions, contact your retirement plan administrator. |
■ | For broker-dealer and wrap fee accounts: The Fund reserves the right to redeem your shares if your account falls below the Fund's minimum initial investment requirement. The Fund will notify your broker-dealer prior to redeeming shares, and will provide details on how to avoid such redemption. |
■ | Also keep in mind the Funds' Small Account Policy, which is described above in Buying, Selling and Exchanging Shares — Transaction Rules and Policies. |
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■ | Exchanges are made at the NAV next calculated after your exchange order is received in “good form” (i.e., the trade date). |
■ | Once the Fund receives your exchange request in “good form,” you cannot cancel it after the market closes. |
■ | The rules for buying shares of a Fund generally apply to exchanges into that Fund, including, if your exchange creates a new Fund account, it must satisfy the minimum investment amount, unless a waiver applies. |
■ | Shares of the purchased Fund may not be used on the same day for another exchange or sale. |
■ | You may make exchanges only into a Fund that is legally offered and sold in your state of residence. Contact the Transfer Agent or your financial intermediary for more information. |
■ | You generally may make an exchange only into a Fund that is accepting investments. |
■ | The Fund may change or cancel your right to make an exchange by giving the amount of notice required by regulatory authorities (generally 60 days for a material change or cancellation). |
■ | Unless your account is part of a tax-advantaged arrangement, an exchange for shares of another Fund is a taxable event, and you may recognize a gain or loss for tax purposes. |
■ | You may only exchange shares of a Multi-Manager Strategies Fund for the same class of shares of another Multi-Manager Strategies Fund. |
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■ | It can earn income on its investments. Examples of fund income are interest paid on money market instruments and bonds, and dividends paid on common stocks. |
■ | A mutual fund can also have capital gains if the value of its investments increases. While a fund continues to hold an investment, any gain is generally unrealized. If the fund sells an investment, it generally will realize a capital gain if it sells that investment for a higher price than its adjusted cost basis, and will generally realize a capital loss if it sells that investment for a lower price than its adjusted cost basis. Capital gains and losses are either short-term or long-term, depending on whether the fund holds the securities for one year or less (short-term) or more than one year (long-term). |
Declaration and Distribution Schedule | |
Declarations | Annually |
Distributions | Annually |
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■ | The Fund intends to qualify and to be eligible for treatment each year as a regulated investment company. A regulated investment company generally is not subject to tax at the fund level on income and gains from investments that are distributed to shareholders. However, the Fund's failure to qualify for treatment as a regulated investment company would result in Fund-level taxation, and consequently, a reduction in income available for distribution to you and in the NAV of your shares. Even if the Fund qualifies for treatment as a regulated investment company, the Fund may be subject to federal excise tax on certain undistributed income or gains. |
■ | Otherwise taxable distributions generally are taxable to you when paid, whether they are paid in cash or automatically reinvested in additional Fund shares. Dividends paid in January are deemed paid on December 31 of the prior year if the dividend was declared and payable to shareholders of record in October, November, or December of such prior year. |
■ | Distributions of the Fund's ordinary income and net short-term capital gain, if any, generally are taxable to you as ordinary income. Distributions of the Fund's net long-term capital gain, if any, generally are taxable to you as long-term capital gain. Whether capital gains are long-term or short-term is determined by how long the Fund has owned the investments that generated them, rather than how long you have owned your shares. |
■ | From time to time, a distribution from the Fund could constitute a return of capital, which is not taxable to you so long as the amount of the distribution does not exceed your tax basis in your Fund shares. A return of capital reduces your tax basis in your Fund shares, with any amounts exceeding such basis generally taxable as capital gain. |
■ | If you are an individual and you meet certain holding period and other requirements for your Fund shares, a portion of your distributions may be treated as “qualified dividend income” taxable at the lower net long-term capital gain rates instead of the higher ordinary income rates. Qualified dividend income is income attributable to the Fund's dividends received from certain U.S. and foreign corporations, as long as the Fund meets certain holding period and other requirements for the stock producing such dividends. |
■ | Certain high-income individuals (as well as estates and trusts) are subject to a 3.8% tax on net investment income. For individuals, the 3.8% tax applies to the lesser of (1) the amount (if any) by which the taxpayer's modified adjusted gross income exceeds certain threshold amounts or (2) the taxpayer's “net investment income.” |
Net investment income generally includes for this purpose dividends, including any capital gain dividends, paid by the Fund, and net gains recognized on the sale, redemption or exchange of shares of the Fund. |
■ | Certain derivative instruments when held in the Fund's portfolio subject the Fund to special tax rules, the effect of which may be to, among other things, accelerate income to the Fund, defer Fund losses, cause adjustments in the holding periods of Fund portfolio securities, or convert capital gains into ordinary income, short-term capital losses into long-term capital losses or long-term capital gains into short-term capital gains. These rules could therefore affect the amount, timing and/or character of distributions to shareholders. |
■ | Generally, a Fund realizes a capital gain or loss on an option when the option expires, or when it is exercised, sold or otherwise terminated. However, if an option is a “section 1256 contract,” which includes most traded options on a broad-based index, and the Fund holds such option at the end of its taxable year, the Fund is deemed to sell such option at fair market value at such time and recognize any gain or loss thereon, which is generally deemed to be 60% long-term and 40% short-term capital gain or loss, as described further in the SAI. |
■ | Income and proceeds received by the Fund from sources within foreign countries may be subject to foreign taxes. If at the end of the taxable year more than 50% of the value of the Fund's assets consists of securities of foreign corporations, and the Fund makes a special election, you will generally be required to include in your income for |
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U.S. federal income tax purposes your share of the qualifying foreign income taxes paid by the Fund in respect of its foreign portfolio securities. You may be able to claim a foreign tax credit or deduction in respect of this amount, subject to certain limitations. There is no assurance that the Fund will make this election for a taxable year, even if it is eligible to do so. |
■ | A sale, redemption or exchange of Fund shares is a taxable event. This includes redemptions where you are paid in securities. Your sales, redemptions and exchanges of Fund shares (including those paid in securities) usually will result in a taxable capital gain or loss to you, equal to the difference between the amount you receive for your shares (or are deemed to have received in the case of exchanges) and your adjusted tax basis in the shares, which is generally the amount you paid (or are deemed to have paid in the case of exchanges) for them. Any such capital gain or loss generally will be long-term capital gain or loss if you have held your Fund shares for more than one year at the time of sale or exchange. In certain circumstances, capital losses may be converted from short-term to long-term; in other circumstances, capital losses may be disallowed under the “wash sale” rules. |
■ | For sales, redemptions and exchanges of shares that were acquired in a non-qualified account after 2011, the Fund generally is required to report to shareholders and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) cost basis information with respect to those shares. The Fund uses average cost basis as its default method of calculating cost basis. For more information regarding average cost basis reporting, other available cost basis methods, and selecting or changing to a different cost basis method, please see the SAI, columbiathreadneedleus.com, or contact the Fund at 800.345.6611. If you hold Fund shares through a financial intermediary (e.g., a brokerage firm), you should contact your financial intermediary to learn about its cost basis reporting default method and the reporting elections available to your account. |
■ | The Fund is required by federal law to withhold tax on any taxable or tax-exempt distributions and redemption proceeds paid to you (including amounts paid to you in securities and amounts deemed to be paid to you upon an exchange of shares) if: you have not provided a correct TIN or have not certified to the Fund that withholding does not apply, the IRS has notified us that the TIN listed on your account is incorrect according to its records, or the IRS informs the Fund that you are otherwise subject to backup withholding. |
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Net
asset value,
beginning of period |
Net
investment income (loss) |
Net
realized and unrealized gain |
Total
from
investment operations |
Distributions
from net investment income |
Distributions
from net realized gains |
|
Class A | ||||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $10.62 | (0.11) | 0.91 | 0.80 | (0.13) | (0.43) |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 (d) | $10.00 | (0.07) | 0.70 | 0.63 | (0.01) | — |
Institutional Class | ||||||
Year Ended 4/30/2018 | $10.60 | (0.09) | 0.92 | 0.83 | (0.18) | (0.43) |
Year Ended 4/30/2017 (f) | $10.25 | (0.01) | 0.36 | 0.35 | — | — |
Notes to Financial Highlights | |
(a) | In addition to the fees and expenses that the Fund bears directly, the Fund indirectly bears a pro rata share of the fees and expenses of any other funds in which it invests. Such indirect expenses are not included in the Fund's reported expense ratios. |
(b) | Total net expenses include the impact of certain fee waivers/expense reimbursements made by the Investment Manager and certain of its affiliates, if applicable. |
(c) | Ratios include dividends and interest on securities sold short. If dividends and interest on securities sold short had been excluded, expenses would have been lower by: |
Class | 4/30/2018 | 4/30/2017 |
Class A | 0.47% | 0.54% |
Institutional Class | 0.40% | 0.46% |
(d) | Class A shares commenced operations on October 17, 2016. Per share data and total return reflect activity from that date. |
(e) | Annualized. |
(f) | Institutional Class shares commenced operations on January 3, 2017. Per share data and total return reflect activity from that date. |
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Total
distributions to shareholders |
Net
asset value, end of period |
Total
return |
Total
gross
expense ratio to average net assets (a) |
Total
net
expense ratio to average net assets (a), (b) |
Net
investment
income (loss) ratio to average net assets |
Portfolio
turnover |
Net
assets, end of period (000's) |
(0.56) | $10.86 | 7.46% | 2.61% (c) | 2.61% (c) | (0.98%) | 158% | $805 |
(0.01) | $10.62 | 6.27% | 2.82% (c), (e) | 2.81% (c), (e) | (1.32%) (e) | 100% | $1,939 |
(0.61) | $10.82 | 7.67% | 2.36% (c) | 2.36% (c) | (0.83%) | 158% | $290,666 |
— | $10.60 | 3.41% | 2.49% (c), (e) | 2.29% (c), (e) | (0.05%) (e) | 100% | $1,049,952 |
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* | Please note, effective November 1, 2018, the Fund’s mailing address is changed to Columbia Management Investment Services Corp., P.O. Box 219104, Kansas City, MO 64121-9104. |
Columbia Pacific/Asia Fund | ||
Class A: CASAX | Class Adv: CPRAX | Class C: CASCX |
Class Inst: USPAX | Class Inst3: CPAYX | Class T: CPAWX |
Columbia Real Estate Equity Fund | ||
Class A: CREAX | Class Adv: CRERX | Class C: CRECX |
Class Inst: CREEX | Class Inst2: CRRVX | Class Inst3: CREYX |
Class R: CRSRX | Class T: CREWX | |
Columbia Select Large Cap Growth Fund | ||
Class A: ELGAX | Class Adv: CSRRX | Class C: ELGCX |
Class Inst: UMLGX | Class Inst2: CGTRX | Class Inst3: CCWRX |
Class R: URLGX | Class T: CSLWX | |
Columbia Small Cap Growth Fund I | ||
Class A: CGOAX | Class Adv: CHHRX | Class C: CGOCX |
Class Inst: CMSCX | Class Inst2: CSCRX | Class Inst3: CSGYX |
Class R: CCRIX | Class T*: — | |
Columbia Small Cap Value Fund I | ||
Class A: CSMIX | Class Adv: CVVRX | Class C: CSSCX |
Class Inst: CSCZX | Class Inst2: CUURX | Class Inst3: CSVYX |
Class R: CSVRX | Class T*: — | |
Columbia Solutions Aggressive Portfolio | ||
Columbia Solutions Conservative Portfolio | ||
Columbia Strategic California Municipal Income Fund | ||
Class A: CLMPX | Class Adv: CCARX | Class C: CCAOX |
Class Inst: CCAZX | Class Inst2: CCAUX | Class Inst3: CCXYX |
Columbia Strategic Income Fund | ||
Class A: COSIX | Class Adv: CMNRX | Class C: CLSCX |
Class Inst: LSIZX | Class Inst2: CTIVX | Class Inst3: CPHUX |
Class R: CSNRX | Class T: CTTWX | |
Columbia Strategic New York Municipal Income Fund | ||
Class A: COLNX | Class Adv: CNYEX | Class C: CNYCX |
Class Inst: CNYZX | Class Inst2: CNYRX | Class Inst3: CNTYX |
Columbia Tax-Exempt Fund | ||
Class A: COLTX | Class Adv: CTERX | Class C: COLCX |
Class Inst: CTEZX | Class Inst2: CADMX | Class Inst3: CTEYX |
Columbia Total Return Bond Fund | ||
Class A: LIBAX | Class Adv: CBNRX | Class C: LIBCX |
Class Inst: SRBFX | Class Inst2: CTBRX | Class Inst3: CTBYX |
Class R: CIBRX | Class T: CIBWX | |
Columbia U.S. Social Bond Fund | ||
Class A: CONAX | Class Adv: CONFX | Class C: CONCX |
Class Inst: CONZX | Class Inst2: COVNX | Class Inst3: CONYX |
Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund | ||
Class A: LUTAX | Class C: LUTCX | Class Inst: IUTIX |
Class Inst2: CUTRX | Class Inst3: CUTYX | Class T: CTIWX |
Multi-Manager Alternative Strategies Fund | ||
Class A: CPASX | Class Inst: CZAMX | |
Multi-Manager Directional Alternative Strategies Fund | ||
Class A: CDAAX | Class Inst: CDAZX | |
Multi-Manager Growth Strategies Fund | ||
Class A: CSLGX | Class Inst: CZMGX | |
Multi-Manager International Equity Strategies Fund | ||
Class Inst: CMIEX | ||
Multi-Manager Small Cap Equity Strategies Fund | ||
Class A: CSCEX | Class Inst: CZMSX | |
Multi-Manager Total Return Bond Strategies Fund | ||
Class A: CMCPX | Class Inst: CTRZX |
* | This share class is not currently available for purchase. |
** | The Fund’s Board of Trustees has approved a Plan of Liquidation and Termination pursuant to which the Fund is expected to be liquidated on or |
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Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 1 |
■ | the organization of the Trust; |
■ | the Funds' investments; |
■ | the Funds' investment adviser, investment subadviser(s) (if any) and other service providers, including roles and relationships of Ameriprise Financial and its affiliates, and conflicts of interest; |
■ | the governance of the Funds; |
■ | the Funds' brokerage practices; |
■ | the share classes offered by the Funds; |
■ | the purchase, redemption and pricing of Fund shares; and |
■ | the application of U.S. federal income tax laws. |
1933 Act | Securities Act of 1933, as amended |
1934 Act | Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended |
1940 Act | Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended |
Adaptive Retirement Funds | The Funds within the Columbia Funds Complex that include “Adaptive Retirement” within the fund name. |
AlphaSimplex | AlphaSimplex Group, LLC |
Analytic Investors | Analytic Investors, LLC |
Administrative Services Agreement | The Administrative Services Agreement, as amended, if applicable, between the Trust, on behalf of the Funds, and the Investment Manager |
Ameriprise Financial | Ameriprise Financial, Inc. |
AQR | AQR Capital Management, LLC |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 2 |
Arrowstreet | Arrowstreet Capital, Limited Partnership |
Baillie Gifford | Baillie Gifford Overseas Limited |
Bank of America | Bank of America Corporation |
BMO | BMO Asset Management Corp. |
Board | The Trust’s Board of Trustees |
Boston Partners | Boston Partners, a d.b.a. of Boston Partners Global Investors, Inc. |
Business Day | Any day on which the NYSE is open for business. A business day typically ends at the close of regular trading on the NYSE, usually at 4:00 p.m. Eastern time. If the NYSE is scheduled to close early, the business day will be considered to end as of the time of the NYSE’s scheduled close. The Fund will not treat an intraday unscheduled disruption in NYSE trading or an intraday unscheduled closing as a close of regular trading on the NYSE for these purposes and will price its shares as of the regularly scheduled closing time for that day (typically, 4:00 p.m. Eastern time). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the NAV of Fund shares may be determined at such other time or times (in addition to or in lieu of the time set forth above) as the Fund’s Board may approve or ratify. On holidays and other days when the NYSE is closed, the Fund's NAV is not calculated and the Fund does not accept buy or sell orders. However, the value of the Fund's assets may still be affected on such days to the extent that the Fund holds foreign securities that trade on days that foreign securities markets are open. |
Causeway | Causeway Capital Management LLC |
CEA | Commodity Exchange Act |
CFST | Columbia Funds Series Trust |
CFST I | Columbia Funds Series Trust I |
CFST II | Columbia Funds Series Trust II |
CFTC | The United States Commodities Futures Trading Commission |
CMOs | Collateralized mortgage obligations |
Code | Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended |
Codes of Ethics | The codes of ethics adopted by the Funds, the Investment Manager, Columbia Management Investment Distributors, Inc. and/or any sub-adviser, as applicable, pursuant to Rule 17j-1 under the 1940 Act |
Columbia Funds or Columbia Funds Complex | The fund complex, including the Funds, that is comprised of the registered investment companies, including traditional mutual funds, closed-end funds, and ETFs, advised by the Investment Manager or its affiliates |
Columbia Management | Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC |
Conestoga | Conestoga Capital Advisors, LLC |
Custodian | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. |
DGHM | Dalton, Greiner, Hartman, Maher & Co., LLC |
Distribution Agreement | The Distribution Agreement between the Trust, on behalf of its Funds, and the Distributor |
Distribution Plan(s) | One or more of the plans adopted by the Board pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act for the distribution of the Funds’ shares |
Distributor | Columbia Management Investment Distributors, Inc. |
DST | DST Asset Manager Solutions, Inc. |
EAM | EAM Investors, LLC |
FDIC | Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation |
Federated | Federated Investment Management Company |
FHLMC | The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation |
Fitch | Fitch, Inc. |
FNMA | Federal National Mortgage Association |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 3 |
The Fund(s) or a Fund | One or more of the open-end management investment companies listed on the front cover of this SAI |
GNMA | Government National Mortgage Association |
Independent Trustees | The Trustees of the Board who are not “interested persons” (as defined in the 1940 Act) of the Funds |
Interested Trustees | The Trustees of the Board who are currently deemed to be “interested persons” (as defined in the 1940 Act) of the Funds |
Investment Management Services Agreement | The Investment Management Services Agreement, as amended, if applicable, between the Trust, on behalf of its Funds, and the Investment Manager |
Investment Manager | Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC |
IRS | United States Internal Revenue Service |
JPMorgan | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., the Funds' custodian |
LIBOR | London Interbank Offered Rate |
Loomis Sayles | Loomis, Sayles & Company, L.P. |
Los Angeles Capital | Los Angeles Capital Management and Equity Research, Inc. |
Manulife | Manulife Asset Management (US) LLC |
Management Agreement | The Management Agreements, as amended, if applicable, between the Trust, on behalf of the Funds, and the Investment Manager |
Moody’s | Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. |
Multi-Manager Strategies Funds | Multi-Manager Alternative Strategies Fund, Multi-Manager Directional Alternative Strategies Fund, Multi-Manager Growth Strategies Fund, Multi-Manager International Equity Strategies Fund, Multi-Manager Small Cap Equity Strategies Fund, Multi-Manager Total Return Bond Strategies Fund and Multi-Manager Value Strategies Fund. Shares of the Multi-Manager Strategies Funds are offered only through certain wrap fee programs sponsored and/or managed by Ameriprise Financial, Inc. or its affiliates. |
NASDAQ | National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations system |
NAV | Net asset value per share of a Fund |
NRSRO | Nationally recognized statistical ratings organization (such as, for example, Moody’s, Fitch or S&P) |
NSCC | National Securities Clearing Corporation |
NYSE | New York Stock Exchange |
PGIM | PGIM, Inc., the asset management arm of Prudential Financial, Inc. |
PwC | PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP |
REIT | Real estate investment trust |
REMIC | Real estate mortgage investment conduit |
RIC | A “regulated investment company,” as such term is used in the Code |
S&P | Standard & Poor’s, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. (“Standard & Poor’s” and “S&P” are trademarks of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. and have been licensed for use by the Investment Manager. The Columbia Funds are not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by Standard & Poor’s and Standard & Poor’s makes no representation regarding the advisability of investing in the Columbia Funds) |
SAI | This Statement of Additional Information, as amended and supplemented from time-to-time |
SEC | United States Securities and Exchange Commission |
Shares | Shares of a Fund |
Solution Series Funds | Columbia Solutions Aggressive Portfolio and Columbia Solutions Conservative Portfolio |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 4 |
Subadvisory Agreement | The Subadvisory Agreement among the Trust on behalf of the Fund(s), the Investment Manager and a Fund’s investment subadviser(s), as the context may require |
Subsidiary | One or more wholly-owned subsidiaries of a Fund |
TCW | TCW Investment Management Company LLC |
Threadneedle | Threadneedle International Limited |
Transfer Agency Agreement | The Transfer and Dividend Disbursing Agent Agreement between the Trust, on behalf of its Funds, and the Transfer Agent |
Transfer Agent | Columbia Management Investment Services Corp. |
Trustee(s) | One or more members of the Board |
Trust | Columbia Funds Series Trust I, the registered investment company in the Columbia Funds Complex to which this SAI relates |
VP – Managed Volatility Funds | Any variable portfolio fund that includes the words “Managed Risk,” “Managed Volatility,” or “U.S. Flexible” as part of the Fund’s name |
Wasatch | Wasatch Advisors Inc |
Water Island | Water Island Capital, LLC |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 5 |
Fund Name: | Referred to as: | |
CMG Ultra Short Term Bond Fund | Ultra Short Term Bond Fund | |
Columbia Adaptive Retirement 2020 Fund | Adaptive Retirement 2020 Fund | |
Columbia Adaptive Retirement 2025 Fund | Adaptive Retirement 2025 Fund | |
Columbia Adaptive Retirement 2030 Fund | Adaptive Retirement 2030 Fund | |
Columbia Adaptive Retirement 2035 Fund | Adaptive Retirement 2035 Fund | |
Columbia Adaptive Retirement 2040 Fund | Adaptive Retirement 2040 Fund | |
Columbia Adaptive Retirement 2045 Fund | Adaptive Retirement 2045 Fund | |
Columbia Adaptive Retirement 2050 Fund | Adaptive Retirement 2050 Fund | |
Columbia Adaptive Retirement 2055 Fund | Adaptive Retirement 2055 Fund | |
Columbia Adaptive Retirement 2060 Fund | Adaptive Retirement 2060 Fund | |
Columbia Adaptive Risk Allocation Fund | Adaptive Risk Allocation Fund | |
Columbia Alternative Beta Fund | Alternative Beta Fund | |
Columbia AMT-Free Connecticut Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | AMT-Free CT Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | |
Columbia AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | |
Columbia AMT-Free Massachusetts Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | AMT-Free MA Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | |
Columbia AMT-Free New York Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | AMT-Free NY Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | |
Columbia AMT-Free Oregon Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | AMT-Free OR Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | |
Columbia Balanced Fund | Balanced Fund | |
Columbia Bond Fund | Bond Fund | |
Columbia Contrarian Core Fund | Contrarian Core Fund | |
Columbia Corporate Income Fund | Corporate Income Fund | |
Columbia Disciplined Small Core Fund | Disciplined Small Core Fund | |
Columbia Diversified Absolute Return Fund | Diversified Absolute Return Fund | |
Columbia Diversified Real Return Fund | Diversified Real Return Fund | |
Columbia Dividend Income Fund | Dividend Income Fund | |
Columbia Emerging Markets Fund | Emerging Markets Fund | |
Columbia Global Dividend Opportunity Fund | Global Dividend Opportunity Fund | |
Columbia Global Energy and Natural Resources Fund | Global Energy and Natural Resources Fund | |
Columbia Global Technology Growth Fund | Global Technology Growth Fund | |
Columbia Greater China Fund | Greater China Fund | |
Columbia High Yield Municipal Fund | HY Municipal Fund | |
Columbia Large Cap Growth Fund | Large Cap Growth Fund | |
Columbia Mid Cap Growth Fund | Mid Cap Growth Fund | |
Columbia Multi-Asset Income Fund | Multi-Asset Income Fund | |
Columbia Pacific/Asia Fund | Pacific/Asia Fund | |
Columbia Real Estate Equity Fund | Real Estate Equity Fund | |
Columbia Select Large Cap Growth Fund | Select Large Cap Growth Fund | |
Columbia Small Cap Growth Fund I | Small Cap Growth Fund I | |
Columbia Small Cap Value Fund I | Small Cap Value Fund I | |
Columbia Solutions Aggressive Portfolio | Solutions Aggressive Portfolio | |
Columbia Solutions Conservative Portfolio | Solutions Conservative Portfolio | |
Columbia Strategic California Municipal Income Fund | Strategic CA Municipal Income Fund | |
Columbia Strategic Income Fund | Strategic Income Fund |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 6 |
Fund Name: | Referred to as: | |
Columbia Strategic New York Municipal Income Fund | Strategic NY Municipal Income Fund | |
Columbia Tax-Exempt Fund | Tax-Exempt Fund | |
Columbia Total Return Bond Fund | Total Return Bond Fund | |
Columbia U.S. Social Bond Fund | U.S. Social Bond Fund | |
Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund | U.S. Treasury Index Fund | |
Multi-Manager Alternative Strategies Fund | MM Alternative Strategies Fund | |
Multi-Manager Directional Alternative Strategies Fund | MM Directional Alternative Strategies Fund | |
Multi-Manager Growth Strategies Fund | MM Growth Strategies Fund | |
Multi-Manager International Equity Strategies Fund | MM International Equity Strategies Fund | |
Multi-Manager Small Cap Equity Strategies Fund | MM Small Cap Equity Strategies Fund | |
Multi-Manager Total Return Bond Fund | MM Total Return Bond Strategies Fund |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 7 |
Fund | Fiscal Year End | Prospectus Date |
Date
Began
Operations* |
Diversified** | Fund Investment Category*** |
Adaptive Retirement 2020 Fund | March 31 | 8/1/2018 | 10/24/2017 | No | Fund-of-funds – alternative |
Adaptive Retirement 2025 Fund | March 31 | 8/1/2018 | 4/4/2018 | No | Fund-of-funds – alternative |
Adaptive Retirement 2030 Fund | March 31 | 8/1/2018 | 10/24/2017 | No | Fund-of-funds – alternative |
Adaptive Retirement 2035 Fund | March 31 | 8/1/2018 | 4/4/2018 | No | Fund-of-funds – alternative |
Adaptive Retirement 2040 Fund | March 31 | 8/1/2018 | 10/24/2017 | No | Fund-of-funds – alternative |
Adaptive Retirement 2045 Fund | March 31 | 8/1/2018 | 4/4/2018 | No | Fund-of-funds – alternative |
Adaptive Retirement 2050 Fund | March 31 | 8/1/2018 | 10/24/2017 | No | Fund-of-funds – alternative |
Adaptive Retirement 2055 Fund | March 31 | 8/1/2018 | 4/4/2018 | No | Fund-of-funds – alternative |
Adaptive Retirement 2060 Fund | March 31 | 8/1/2018 | 10/24/2017 | No | Fund-of-funds – alternative |
Adaptive Risk Allocation Fund | May 31 | 8/1/2017 | 6/19/2012 | No | Alternative |
Alternative Beta Fund | May 31 | 10/1/2017 | 1/28/2015 | No | Alternative |
AMT-Free CT Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | October 31 | 3/1/2018 | 8/1/1994 | No | Tax-exempt fixed-income |
AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | October 31 | 3/1/2018 | 6/14/1993 | Yes | Tax-exempt fixed-income |
AMT-Free MA Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | October 31 | 3/1/2018 | 6/14/1993 | No | Tax-exempt fixed-income |
AMT-Free NY Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | October 31 | 3/1/2018 | 12/31/1991 | No | Tax-exempt fixed-income |
AMT-Free OR Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | July 31 | 11/1/2017 | 7/2/1984 | Yes | Tax-exempt fixed-income |
Balanced Fund | August 31 | 1/1/2018 | 10/1/1991 | Yes | Equity/Taxable fixed-income |
Bond Fund | April 30 | 9/1/2018 | 1/9/1986 | Yes | Taxable fixed-income |
Contrarian Core Fund | August 31 | 1/1/2018 | 12/14/1992 | Yes | Equity |
Corporate Income Fund | April 30 | 9/1/2018 | 3/5/1986 | Yes | Taxable fixed-income |
Disciplined Small Core Fund | August 31 | 1/1/2018 | 12/14/1992 | Yes | Equity |
Diversified Absolute Return Fund | May 31 | 10/1/2017 | 2/19/2015 | Yes | Alternative |
Diversified Real Return Fund | January 31 | 6/1/2018 | 3/11/2014 | Yes | Fund-of-funds-fixed income |
Dividend Income Fund | May 31 | 10/1/2017 | 3/4/1998 | Yes | Equity |
Emerging Markets Fund | August 31 | 1/1/2018 | 1/2/1998 | Yes | Equity |
Global Dividend Opportunity Fund | August 31 | 1/1/2018 | 11/9/2000 | Yes | Equity |
Global Energy and Natural Resources Fund | August 31 | 1/1/2018 | 12/31/1992 | No | Equity |
Global Technology Growth Fund | August 31 | 1/1/2018 | 11/9/2000 | Yes | Equity |
Greater China Fund | August 31 | 1/1/2018 | 5/16/1997 | No | Equity |
HY Municipal Fund | May 31 | 10/1/2017 | 3/5/1984 | Yes | Tax-exempt fixed-income |
Large Cap Growth Fund | July 31 | 11/1/2017 | 12/14/1990 | Yes | Equity |
Mid Cap Growth Fund | August 31 | 1/1/2018 | 11/20/1985 | Yes | Equity |
MM Alternative Strategies Fund | August 31 | 1/1/2018 | 4/23/2012 | No | Alternative |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 8 |
Fund | Fiscal Year End | Prospectus Date |
Date
Began
Operations* |
Diversified** | Fund Investment Category*** |
MM Directional Alternative Strategies Fund | April 30 | 9/1/2018 | 10/17/2016 | No | Alternative |
MM Growth Strategies Fund | March 31 | 8/1/2018 | 4/20/2012 | Yes | Equity |
MM International Equity Strategies Fund | August 31 | 5/7/2018 | 5/17/2018 | Yes | Equity |
MM Small Cap Equity Strategies Fund | August 31 | 1/1/2018 | 4/20/2012 | Yes | Equity |
MM Total Return Bond Strategies Fund | August 31 | 1/1/2018 | 4/20/2012 | Yes | Taxable fixed-income |
Multi-Asset Income Fund | April 30 | 9/1/2018 | 3/27/2015 | Yes | Flexible |
Pacific/Asia Fund | March 31 | 8/1/2018 | 12/31/1992 | Yes | Equity |
Real Estate Equity Fund | December 31 | 5/1/2018 | 4/1/1994 | No | Equity |
Select Large Cap Growth Fund | March 31 | 8/1/2018 | 10/1/1997 | Yes | Equity |
Small Cap Growth Fund I | August 31 | 1/1/2018 | 10/1/1996 | Yes | Equity |
Small Cap Value Fund I | April 30 | 9/1/2018 | 7/25/1986 | Yes | Equity |
Solutions Aggressive Portfolio | March 31 | 8/1/2018 | 10/24/2017 | No | Alternative |
Solutions Conservative Portfolio | March 31 | 8/1/2018 | 10/24/2017 | No | Alternative |
Strategic CA Municipal Income Fund | October 31 | 3/1/2018 | 6/16/1986 | No | Tax-exempt fixed-income |
Strategic Income Fund | August 31 (a) | 1/1/2018 | 4/21/1977 | Yes | Taxable fixed-income |
Strategic NY Municipal Income Fund | October 31 | 3/1/2018 | 9/26/1986 | No | Tax-exempt fixed-income |
Tax-Exempt Fund | July 31 | 11/1/2017 | 11/21/1978 | Yes | Tax-exempt fixed-income |
Total Return Bond Fund | April 30 | 9/1/2018 | 12/5/1978 | Yes | Taxable fixed-income |
U.S. Social Bond Fund | July 31 | 11/1/2017 | 3/26/2015 | No | Tax-exempt fixed-income |
U.S. Treasury Index Fund | April 30 | 9/1/2018 | 6/4/1991 | Yes | Taxable fixed-income |
Ultra Short Term Bond Fund | July 31 | 11/1/2017 | 3/8/2004 | Yes | Taxable fixed-income |
* | Certain Funds reorganized into series of the Trust. The date of operations for these Funds represents the date on which the predecessor funds began operation. |
** | A “diversified” Fund may not, with respect to 75% of its total assets, invest more than 5% of its total assets in securities of any one issuer or purchase more than 10% of the outstanding voting securities of any one issuer, except obligations issued or guaranteed by the U.S. Government, its agencies or instrumentalities and except securities of other investment companies. A “non-diversified” Fund may invest a greater percentage of its total assets in the securities of fewer issuers than a “diversified” fund, which increases the risk that a change in the value of any one investment held by the Fund could affect the overall value of the Fund more than it would affect that of a “diversified” fund holding a greater number of investments. Accordingly, a “non-diversified” Fund’s value will likely be more volatile than the value of a more diversified fund. |
*** | The Fund Investment Category is used as a convenient way to describe Funds in this SAI and should not be deemed a description of the Fund’s principal investment strategies, which are described in the Fund’s prospectus. |
Fund | Effective Date of Name Change | Previous Fund Name |
Adaptive Risk Allocation | October 1, 2014 | Columbia Risk Allocation Fund |
Alternative Beta Fund | October 1, 2016 | Columbia Adaptive Alternatives Fund |
AMT-Free CT Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | July 7, 2014 | Columbia Connecticut Intermediate Municipal Bond Fund |
AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | July 7, 2014 | Columbia Intermediate Municipal Bond Fund |
AMT-Free MA Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | July 7, 2014 | Columbia Massachusetts Intermediate Municipal Bond Fund |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 9 |
Fund | Effective Date of Name Change | Previous Fund Name |
AMT-Free NY Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | July 7, 2014 | Columbia New York Intermediate Municipal Bond Fund |
AMT-Free OR Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | July 7, 2014 | Columbia Oregon Intermediate Municipal Bond Fund |
Disciplined Small Core Fund | April 18, 2016 | Columbia Small Cap Core Fund |
Global Energy and Natural Resources Fund | August 5, 2013 | Columbia Energy and Natural Resources Fund |
Global Technology Growth Fund | July 7, 2014 | Columbia Technology Fund |
MM Alternative Strategies Fund |
February
28, 2017
October 12, 2016 |
Active
Portfolios
®
Multi-Manager Alternatives Fund
Active Portfolios ® Multi-Manager Alternative Strategies Fund |
MM Directional Alternative Strategies Fund | February 28, 2017 | Active Portfolios ® Multi-Manager Directional Alternatives Fund |
MM Growth Strategies Fund |
February
28, 2017
December 11, 2013 |
Active
Portfolios
®
Multi-Manager Growth Fund
Columbia Active Portfolios ® – Select Large Cap Growth Fund |
MM Small Cap Equity Strategies Fund | February 28, 2017 | Active Portfolios ® Multi-Manager Small Cap Equity Strategies Fund |
MM Total Return Bond Strategies Fund |
February
28, 2017
April 11, 2016 |
Active
Portfolios
®
Multi-Manager Total Return Bond Fund
Active Portfolios ® Multi-Manager Core Plus Bond Fund |
Strategic CA Municipal Income Fund | January 22, 2018 | Columbia California Tax-Exempt Fund |
Strategic NY Municipal Income Fund | January 22, 2018 | Columbia New York Tax-Exempt Fund |
Total Return Bond Fund | February 19, 2016 | Columbia Intermediate Bond Fund |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 10 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 11 |
A. | Buy or sell real estate |
A1 – | The Fund may not purchase or sell real estate, except each Fund may: (i) purchase securities of issuers which deal or invest in real estate, (ii) purchase securities which are secured by real estate or interests in real estate and (iii) hold and dispose of real estate or interests in real estate acquired through the exercise of its rights as a holder of securities which are secured by real estate or interests therein. |
A2 – | The Fund will not buy or sell real estate, unless acquired as a result of ownership of securities or other instruments, except this shall not prevent the Fund from investing in: (i) securities or other instruments backed by real estate or interests in real estate, (ii) securities or other instruments of issuers or entities that deal in real estate or are engaged in the real estate business, (iii) real estate investment trusts (REITs) or entities similar to REITs formed under the laws of non-U.S. countries or (iv) real estate or interests in real estate acquired through the exercise of its rights as a holder of securities secured by real estate or interests therein. |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 12 |
B. | Buy or sell physical commodities |
B1 – | The Fund may not purchase or sell commodities, except that each Fund may to the extent consistent with its investment objective: (i) invest in securities of companies that purchase or sell commodities or which invest in such programs, (ii) purchase and sell options, forward contracts, futures contracts, and options on futures contracts and (iii) enter into swap contracts and other financial transactions relating to commodities. (a) This limitation does not apply to foreign currency transactions including without limitation forward currency contracts. |
B2 – | The Fund may invest up to 25% of its total assets in one or more wholly-owned subsidiaries that may invest in commodities, thereby indirectly gaining exposure to commodities, and may, to the extent consistent with its investment objective, (i) invest in securities of companies that purchase or sell commodities or which invest in such programs, (ii) purchase and sell options, forward contracts, futures contracts, and options on futures contracts and (iii) enter into swap contracts and other financial transactions relating to commodities. (a) This policy does not limit foreign currency transactions including without limitation forward currency contracts. |
B3 – | The Fund will not purchase or sell commodities, except to the extent permitted by applicable law from time to time. |
B4 – | The Fund will not purchase or sell commodities, except to the extent permitted by the 1940 Act, the rules and regulations thereunder and any applicable exemptive relief, as interpreted or modified by regulatory authority having jurisdiction, from time to time. |
B5 – | The Fund will not purchase or sell commodities, except to the extent permitted by the 1940 Act, the rules and regulations thereunder and any applicable exemptive relief. |
(a) | For purposes of the fundamental investment policy on buying and selling physical commodities above, at the time of the establishment of the restriction for certain Funds, swap contracts on financial instruments or rates were not within the understanding of the term “commodities.” Notwithstanding any federal legislation or regulatory action by the CFTC that subjects such swaps to regulation by the CFTC, these Funds will not consider such instruments to be commodities for purposes of this restriction. |
C. | Issuer Diversification* |
C1 – | The Fund may not purchase securities (except securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. Government, its agencies or instrumentalities) of any one issuer if, as a result, more than 5% of its total assets will be invested in the securities of such issuer or it would own more than 10% of the voting securities of such issuer, except that: (i) up to 25% of its total assets may be invested without regard to these limitations and (ii) a Fund’s assets may be invested in the securities of one or more management investment companies to the extent permitted by the 1940 Act, the rules and regulations thereunder, or any applicable exemptive relief. |
C2 – | The Fund may not, as a matter of fundamental policy, purchase securities (except securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. Government, its agencies or instrumentalities) of any one issuer if, as a result, more than 5% of its total assets will be invested in the securities of such issuer or it would own more than 10% of the voting securities of such issuer, except that: (i) up to 50% of its total assets may be invested without regard to these limitations and (ii) the Fund’s assets may be invested in the securities of one or more management investment companies to the extent permitted by the 1940 Act, the rules and regulations thereunder, or any applicable exemptive relief. |
C3 – | The Fund will not make any investment inconsistent with its classification as a diversified company under the 1940 Act. |
C4 – | The Fund will not purchase securities (except securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. Government, its agencies or instrumentalities) of any one issuer if, as a result, more than 5% of its total assets will be invested in the securities of such issuer or it would own more than 10% of the voting securities of such issuer, except that: (a) up to 25% of its total assets may be invested without regard to these limitations; and (b) a Fund’s assets may be invested in the securities of one or more management investment companies to the extent permitted by the 1940 Act, the rules and regulations thereunder, or any applicable exemptive relief, as interpreted or modified by regulatory authority having jurisdiction, from time to time. |
C5 – | The Fund will not purchase securities (except securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. Government, its agencies or instrumentalities) of any one issuer if, as a result, more than 5% of its total assets will be invested in the securities of such issuer or it would own more than 10% of the voting securities of such issuer, except that: (a) up to 25% of its total assets may be invested without regard to these limitations; and (b) a Fund’s assets may be invested in the securities of one or more management investment companies to the extent permitted by the 1940 Act, the rules and regulations thereunder, or any applicable exemptive relief. |
* | For purposes of applying the limitation set forth in its issuer diversification policy above, a Fund does not consider futures or swaps central counterparties, where the Fund has exposure to such central counterparties in the course of making investments in futures and securities, to be issuers. |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 13 |
D. | Concentration* |
D1 – | The Fund may not purchase any securities which would cause 25% or more of the value of its total assets at the time of purchase to be invested in the securities of one or more issuers conducting their principal business activities in the same industry, provided that: (i) there is no limitation with respect to obligations issued or guaranteed by the U.S. Government, any state or territory of the United States or any of their agencies, instrumentalities or political subdivisions; and (ii) notwithstanding this limitation or any other fundamental investment limitation, assets may be invested in the securities of one or more management investment companies or subsidiaries to the extent permitted by the 1940 Act, the rules and regulations thereunder and any applicable exemptive relief. |
D2 – | The Fund may not purchase any securities which would cause 25% or more of the value of its total assets at the time of purchase to be invested in the securities of one or more issuers conducting their principal business activities in the same industry, provided that: (i) there is no limitation with respect to obligations issued or guaranteed by the U.S. Government, any state or territory of the United States or any of their agencies, instrumentalities or political subdivisions; (ii) notwithstanding this limitation or any other fundamental investment limitation, assets may be invested in the securities of one or more management investment companies or subsidiaries to the extent permitted by the 1940 Act, the rules and regulations thereunder and any applicable exemptive relief; and (iii) under normal market conditions, the Fund will invest at least 25% of the value of its total assets at the time of purchase in the securities of issuers conducting their principal business activities in the energy and other natural resources groups of industries. (a) |
D3 – | The Fund will invest at least 65% of the value of its total assets in securities of companies principally engaged in the real estate industry. |
D4 – | The Fund will, under normal market conditions, invest at least 25% of the value of its total assets at the time of purchase in the securities of issuers conducting their principal business activities in the technology and related group of industries, provided that: (i) there is no limitation with respect to obligations issued or guaranteed by the U.S. Government, any state or territory of the United States or any of their agencies, instrumentalities or political subdivisions; and (ii) notwithstanding this limitation or any other fundamental investment limitation, assets may be invested in the securities of one or more management investment companies or subsidiaries to the extent permitted by the 1940 Act, the rules and regulations thereunder and any applicable exemptive relief. |
D5 – | The Fund may not purchase any securities which would cause 25% or more of the value of its total assets at the time of purchase to be invested in the securities of one or more issuers conducting their principal business activities in the same industry, provided that: (i) there is no limitation with respect to obligations issued or guaranteed by the U.S. Government, any state, municipality or territory of the United States, or any of their agencies, instrumentalities or political subdivisions; and (ii) notwithstanding this limitation or any other fundamental investment limitation, assets may be invested in the securities of one or more management investment companies or subsidiaries to the extent permitted by the 1940 Act, the rules and regulations thereunder and any applicable exemptive relief. The Fund will consider the concentration policies of any underlying funds in which it invests when evaluating compliance with its concentration policy. |
D6 – | The Fund will not purchase any securities which would cause 25% or more of the value of its total assets at the time of purchase to be invested in the securities of one or more issuers conducting their principal business activities in the same industry, provided that: (i) there is no limitation with respect to obligations issued or guaranteed by the U.S. Government, any state, municipality or territory of the United States or any of their agencies, instrumentalities or political subdivisions; and (ii) notwithstanding this limitation or any other fundamental investment limitation, assets may be invested in the securities of one or more investment companies or subsidiaries to the extent permitted by the 1940 Act, the rules and regulations thereunder and any applicable exemptive relief, as interpreted or modified by regulatory authority having jurisdiction, from time to time. The Fund will consider the concentration policies of any underlying funds in which it invests when evaluating compliance with its concentration policy. |
D7 – | The Fund will not purchase any securities which would cause 25% or more of the value of its total assets at the time of purchase to be invested in the securities of one or more issuers conducting their principal business activities in the same industry, provided that: (i) there is no limitation with respect to obligations issued or guaranteed by the U.S. Government, any state or territory of the United States or any of their agencies, instrumentalities or political subdivisions; and (ii) notwithstanding this limitation or any other fundamental investment limitation, assets may be invested in the securities of one or more investment companies or subsidiaries to the extent permitted by the 1940 Act, the rules and regulations thereunder and any applicable exemptive relief. |
* | For purposes of applying the limitation set forth in its concentration policy, above, a Fund will generally use the industry classifications provided by the Global Industry Classification System (GICS) for classification of issuers of equity securities and the classifications provided |
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by the Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index for classification of issues of fixed-income securities. To the extent that a Fund’s concentration policy requires the Fund to consider the concentration policies of any underlying funds in which it invests, the Fund will consider the portfolio positions at the time of purchase, which in the case of unaffiliated underlying funds is based on portfolio information made publicly available by them. A Fund does not consider futures or swaps clearinghouses or securities clearinghouses, where the Fund has exposure to such clearinghouses in the course of making investments in futures and securities, to be part of any industry. |
(a) | In determining whether Global Energy and Natural Resources Fund has invested at least 25% of the value of its total assets in the securities of one or more issuers conducting their principal business activities in the energy and other natural resources groups of industries, the Investment Manager currently uses the GICS produced by S&P and MSCI Inc. The Investment Manager currently considers companies in each of the indicated GICS industry groups to be within the energy and other natural resources groups of industries: (i) Energy, (ii) Utilities, and (iii) Materials, but limited to companies in the following GICS industries and sub-industries: the Chemicals industry (companies that primarily produce or distribute industrial and basic chemicals, including the Commodity Chemicals, Diversified Chemicals, Fertilizers & Agriculture Chemicals, Industrial Gases, and Specialty Chemicals sub-industries), the Metals & Mining industry (companies that primarily produce, process, extract, or distribute precious or basic metals or minerals, including the Aluminum, Diversified Metals & Mining, Gold, Precious Metals & Minerals, and Steel sub-industries), and the Paper & Forest Products industry (companies that primarily cultivate or manufacture timber or wood-related products or paper products, including the Forest Products and Paper Products sub-industries). |
E. | Invest 80% |
E1 – | The Fund will, under normal circumstances, invest at least 80% of its total assets in state bonds, subject to applicable state requirements. |
E2 – | Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of net assets in municipal securities that pay interest exempt from federal income tax (including the federal alternative minimum tax) and Connecticut individual income tax. These securities are issued by the State of Connecticut and its political subdivisions, agencies, authorities and instrumentalities, by other qualified issuers (such as Guam, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands) and by mutual funds that invest in such securities. Dividends derived from interest on municipal securities other than such securities will generally be exempt from regular federal income tax (including the federal alternative minimum tax) but subject to Connecticut personal income tax. The Fund may comply with this 80% policy by investing in a partnership, trust or regulated investment company which invests in such securities, in which case the Fund’s investment in such entity shall be deemed to be an investment in the underlying securities in the same proportion as such entity’s investment in such securities bears to its net assets. |
E3 – | As a matter of fundamental policy, under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of net assets in municipal securities that pay interest exempt from federal income tax (including the federal alternative minimum tax). These securities are issued by states and their political subdivisions, agencies, authorities and instrumentalities, by other qualified issuers (such as Guam, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands) and by mutual funds that invest in such securities. The Fund may comply with this 80% policy by investing in a partnership, trust, or regulated investment company which invests in such securities, in which case the Fund’s investment in such entity shall be deemed to be an investment in the underlying securities in the same proportion as such entity’s investment in such securities bears to its net assets. |
E4 – | Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of net assets in municipal securities that pay interest exempt from federal income tax (including the federal alternative minimum tax) and Massachusetts individual income tax. These securities are issued by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and its political subdivisions, agencies, authorities and instrumentalities, by other qualified issuers (such as Guam, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands) and by mutual funds that invest in such securities. Dividends derived from interest on municipal securities other than such securities will generally be exempt from regular federal income tax (including the federal alternative minimum tax) but may be subject to Massachusetts personal income tax. The Fund may comply with this 80% policy by investing in a partnership, trust, or regulated investment company which invests in such securities, in which case the Fund’s investment in such entity shall be deemed to be an investment in the underlying securities in the same proportion as such entity’s investment in such securities bears to its net assets. |
E5 – | As a matter of fundamental policy, under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of net assets in municipal securities that pay interest exempt from federal income tax (including the federal alternative minimum tax) and New York State individual income tax. These securities are issued by the State of New York and its political subdivisions, agencies, authorities and instrumentalities and by other qualified issuers (such as Guam, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands). Dividends derived from interest on municipal securities other than such securities will generally be exempt from regular federal income tax (including the federal alternative minimum tax) but may be subject to New York State and New York City personal income tax. The Fund may comply with this 80% policy by investing in a partnership, trust or regulated investment company which invests in such securities, in which case the Fund’s investment in such entity shall be deemed to be an investment in the underlying securities in the same proportion as such entity’s investment in such securities bears to its net assets. |
E6 – | Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in municipal securities issued by the State of Oregon and its political subdivisions, agencies, authorities and instrumentalities. |
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E7 – | Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in equity securities of companies principally engaged in the real estate industry, including REITs. |
E8 – | Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its total assets in tax-exempt bonds. |
E9 – | Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of net assets in equity securities (including, but not limited to, common stocks, preferred stocks and securities convertible into common or preferred stocks) of technology companies that may benefit from technological improvements, advancements or developments. |
F. | Act as an underwriter |
F1 – | The Fund may not underwrite any issue of securities issued by other persons within the meaning of the 1933 Act except when it might be deemed to be an underwriter either: (i) in connection with the disposition of a portfolio security; or (ii) in connection with the purchase of securities directly from the issuer thereof in accordance with the Fund’s investment objective. This restriction shall not limit the Fund’s ability to invest in securities issued by other registered investment companies. |
F2 – | The Fund will not underwrite any issue of securities issued by other persons within the meaning of the 1933 Act except when it might be deemed to be an underwriter either: (i) in connection with the disposition of a portfolio security; or (ii) in connection with the purchase of securities directly from the issuer where the Fund later resells such securities. This restriction shall not limit the Fund’s ability to invest in securities issued by other registered investment companies. |
G. | Lending |
G1 – | The Fund may not make loans, except to the extent permitted by the 1940 Act, the rules and regulations thereunder and any applicable exemptive relief. |
G2 – | The Fund will not make loans, except to the extent permitted by the 1940 Act, the rules and regulations thereunder and any applicable exemptive relief, as interpreted or modified by regulatory authority having jurisdiction, from time to time. |
G3 – | The Fund will not make loans, except to the extent permitted by the 1940 Act, the rules and regulations thereunder and any applicable exemptive relief. |
H. | Borrowing |
H1 – | The Fund may not borrow money except to the extent permitted by the 1940 Act, the rules and regulations thereunder and any applicable exemptive relief. |
H2 – | The Fund will not borrow money except to the extent permitted by the 1940 Act, the rules and regulations thereunder and any applicable exemptive relief, as interpreted or modified by regulatory authority having jurisdiction, from time to time. |
H3 – | The Fund will not borrow money except to the extent permitted by the 1940 Act, the rules and regulations thereunder and any applicable exemptive relief. |
I. | Issue senior securities |
I1 – | The Fund may not issue senior securities, except as permitted under the 1940 Act, the rules and regulations thereunder and any applicable exemptive relief. |
I2 – | The Fund will not issue senior securities, except as permitted under the 1940 Act, the rules and regulations thereunder and any applicable exemptive relief, as interpreted or modified by regulatory authority having jurisdiction, from time to time. |
I3 – | The Fund will not issue senior securities, except as permitted under the 1940 Act, the rules and regulations thereunder and any applicable exemptive relief. |
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■ | Bond Fund may invest up to 25% of its assets in dollar-denominated debt securities issued by foreign governments, companies or other entities. |
■ | Balanced Fund, Contrarian Core Fund and Dividend Income Fund each may invest up to 20% of its net assets in foreign securities. |
■ | Disciplined Small Core Fund, Large Cap Growth Fund, Mid Cap Growth Fund, Small Cap Growth Fund I and Small Cap Value Fund I each may invest up to 20% of its total assets in foreign securities. |
■ | Up to 25% of the net assets of MM Total Return Bond Strategies Fund may be invested in foreign investments, which may include investments in non-U.S. dollar denominated securities, as well as investments in emerging markets securities. |
■ | MM Small Cap Equity Strategies Fund may invest up to 25% of its net assets in foreign investments. |
■ | Ultra Short Term Bond Fund may invest up to 20% of its total assets in dollar-denominated foreign debt securities. |
■ | Each Fund (other than those Funds listed below) may not sell securities short, except as permitted by the 1940 Act, the rules and regulations thereunder and any applicable exemptive relief. |
■ | The following Funds may not sell securities short: AMT-Free OR Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Balanced Fund, Bond Fund, Emerging Markets Fund, Global Dividend Opportunity Fund, Global Energy and Natural Resources Fund, Global Technology Growth Fund, Mid Cap Growth Fund, MM Growth Strategies Fund, MM Total Return Bond Strategies Fund Pacific/Asia Fund, Real Estate Equity Fund, Select Large Cap Growth Fund and Small Cap Growth Fund I. |
■ | Tax-Exempt Fund may not have a short position, unless the Fund owns, or owns rights (exercisable without payment) to acquire, an equal amount of such securities. |
■ | Tax-Exempt Fund may not purchase securities on margin, but may receive short-term credit to clear securities transactions and may make initial or maintenance margin deposits in connection with futures transactions. |
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Type of Investment | Alternative and Fund-of-Funds – Alternative |
Equity
and Flexible |
Funds-of-Funds
– Equity and Fixed Income |
Taxable
Fixed Income (a) |
Tax-Exempt
Fixed Income |
Asset-Backed Securities | • | • | • | • | • |
Bank Obligations (Domestic and Foreign) | • | • | • | • | • |
Collateralized Bond Obligations | • | • | • | • | • |
Commercial Paper | • | • | • | • | • |
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Type of Investment | Alternative and Fund-of-Funds – Alternative |
Equity
and Flexible |
Funds-of-Funds
– Equity and Fixed Income |
Taxable
Fixed Income (a) |
Tax-Exempt
Fixed Income |
Common Stock | • | • | • | • | — |
Convertible Securities | • | • | • | • | • |
Corporate Debt Securities | • | • | • | • | • |
Custody Receipts and Trust Certificates | • | • | • | • | • |
Debt Obligations | • | • | • | • | • |
Depositary Receipts | • | • | • | • | — |
Derivatives | • | • | • | • | • |
Dollar Rolls | • | • | • | • | • |
Exchange-Traded Notes | • | • | • | • | • |
Foreign Currency Transactions | • | • | • | • | • |
Foreign Securities | • | • | • | • | • |
Guaranteed Investment Contracts (Funding Agreements) | • | • | • | • | • |
High-Yield Securities | • | • | • | • | • |
Illiquid Securities | • | • | • | • | • |
Inflation Protected Securities | • | • | • | • | • |
Initial Public Offerings | • | • | • | • | • |
Inverse Floaters | • | • | • | • | • |
Investments in Other Investment Companies (Including ETFs) | • | • | • | • | • |
Listed Private Equity Funds | • | • | • | • | • |
Money Market Instruments | • | • | • | • | • |
Mortgage-Backed Securities | • | • | • | • | • |
Municipal Securities | • | • | • | • | • |
Participation Interests | • | • | • | • | • |
Partnership Securities | • | • | • | • | • |
Preferred Stock | • | • | • | • | • |
Private Placement and Other Restricted Securities | • | • | • | • | • |
Real Estate Investment Trusts | • | • | • | • | • |
Repurchase Agreements | • | • | • | • | • |
Reverse Repurchase Agreements | • | • | • | • | • |
Short Sales (b) | • | • | • | • | • |
Sovereign Debt | • | • | • | • | • |
Standby Commitments | • | • | • | • | • |
U.S. Government and Related Obligations | • | • | • | • | • |
Variable and Floating Rate Obligations | • | • | • | • | • |
Warrants and Rights | • | • | • | • | • |
(a) | Total Return Bond Fund is not authorized to purchase common stock or bank obligations. U.S. Treasury Index Fund is not authorized to purchase asset-backed securities, bank obligations, convertible securities, corporate debt obligations (other than money market instruments), depositary receipts, dollar rolls, foreign currency transactions, foreign securities, guaranteed investment contracts, inverse floaters, high-yield securities, mortgage-backed securities, municipal securities, participation interests, partnership securities, REITs, reverse repurchase agreements, short sales, sovereign debt and standby commitments. Ultra Short Term Bond is not authorized to purchase common stock, foreign currency transactions and short sales. |
(b) | See Fundamental and Non-Fundamental Investment Policies for Funds that are not permitted to sell securities short. |
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■ | A forward foreign currency contract is a derivative (forward contract) in which the underlying reference is a country's or region’s currency. The Fund may agree to buy or sell a country's or region’s currency at a specific price on a specific date in the future. These instruments may fall in value (sometimes dramatically) due to foreign market downswings or foreign currency value fluctuations, subjecting the Fund to foreign currency risk (the risk that Fund performance may be negatively impacted by foreign currency strength or weakness relative to the U.S. dollar, particularly if the Fund exposes a significant percentage of its assets to currencies other than the U.S. dollar). The effectiveness of any currency hedging strategy by a Fund may be reduced by the Fund’s inability to precisely match forward contract amounts and the value of securities involved. Forward foreign currency contracts used for hedging may also limit any potential gain that might result from an increase or decrease in the value of the currency. The Fund may use these instruments to gain leveraged exposure to currencies, which is a speculative investment practice that increases the Fund's risk exposure and the possibility of losses. Unanticipated changes in the currency markets could result in reduced performance for the Fund. When the Fund converts its foreign currencies into U.S. dollars, it may incur currency conversion costs due to the spread between the prices at which it may buy and sell various currencies in the market. Forward foreign currency contracts that settle net in cash are also considered to be swap agreements under applicable U.S. law and references to forward contracts in the prospectus also include currency swap contracts. |
■ | A forward interest rate agreement is a derivative whereby the buyer locks in an interest rate at a future settlement date. If the interest rate on the settlement date exceeds the lock rate, the buyer pays the seller the difference between the two rates (based on the notional value of the agreement). If the lock rate exceeds the interest rate on the settlement date, the seller pays the buyer the difference between the two rates (based on the notional value of the agreement). The Fund may act as a buyer or a seller. |
■ | A bond (or debt instrument) future is a derivative that is an agreement for the contract holder to buy or sell a bond or other debt instrument, a basket of bonds or other debt instrument, or the bonds or other debt instruments in an index on a specified date at a predetermined price. The buyer (long position) of a bond future is obliged to buy the underlying reference at the agreed price on expiry of the future. |
■ | A commodity-linked future is a derivative that is an agreement to buy or sell one or more commodities (such as crude oil, gasoline and natural gas), basket of commodities or indices of commodity futures at a specific date in the future at a specific price. |
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■ | A currency future , also an FX future or foreign exchange future, is a derivative that is an agreement to exchange one currency for another at a specified date in the future at a price (exchange rate) that is fixed on the purchase date. |
■ | An equity future is a derivative that is an agreement for the contract holder to buy or sell a specified amount of an individual equity, a basket of equities or the securities in an equity index on a specified date at a predetermined price. |
■ | An interest rate future is a derivative that is an agreement whereby the buyer and seller agree to the future delivery of an interest-bearing instrument on a specific date at a pre-determined price. Examples include Treasury-bill futures, Treasury-bond futures and Eurodollar futures. |
■ | A commodity-linked structured note is a derivative (structured investment) that has principal and/or interest payments based on the market price of one or more particular commodities (such as crude oil, gasoline and natural gas), a basket of commodities, indices of commodity futures or other economic variable. If payment of interest on a commodity-linked structured note is linked to the value of a particular commodity, basket of commodities, commodity index or other economic |
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variable, the Fund might receive lower interest payments (or not receive any of the interest due) on its investments if there is a loss of value in the underlying reference. Further, to the extent that the amount of principal to be repaid upon maturity is linked to the value of a particular commodity, basket of commodities, commodity index or other economic variable, the Fund might not receive a portion (or any) of the principal at maturity of the investment or upon earlier exchange. At any time, the risk of loss associated with a particular structured note in the Fund’s portfolio may be significantly higher than the value of the note. A liquid secondary market may not exist for the commodity-linked structured notes held in the Fund’s portfolio, which may make it difficult for the notes to be sold at a price acceptable to the portfolio manager(s) or for the Fund to accurately value them. |
■ | Structured investments include collateralized debt obligations which are debt instruments that are collateralized by the underlying cash flows of a pool of financial assets or receivables. |
■ | An equity-linked note (ELN) is a derivative (structured investment) that has principal and/or interest payments based on the value of a single equity security, a basket of equity securities or an index of equity securities, and generally has risks similar to these underlying equity securities. ELNs may be leveraged or unleveraged. An ELN typically provides interest income, thereby offering a yield advantage over investing directly in an underlying equity. The Fund may purchase ELNs that trade on a securities exchange or those that trade on the over-the-counter markets, as well as in privately negotiated transactions with the issuer of the ELN. Investments in ELNs are also subject to liquidity risk, which may make ELNs difficult to sell and value. The liquidity of unlisted ELNs is normally determined by the willingness of the issuer to make a market in the ELN. While the Fund will seek to purchase ELNs only from issuers that it believes to be willing and able to repurchase the ELN at a reasonable price, there can be no assurance that the Fund will be able to sell at such a price. Furthermore, such inability to sell may impair the Fund’s ability to enter into other transactions at a time when doing so might be advantageous. The Fund’s investments in ELNs have the potential to lead to significant losses, including the amount the Fund invested in the ELN, because ELNs are subject to the market and volatility risks associated with their underlying equity. In addition, because ELNs often take the form of unsecured notes of the issuer, the Fund would be subject to the risk that the issuer may default on its obligations under the ELN, thereby subjecting the Fund to the further risk of being too concentrated in the securities (including ELNs) of that issuer. However, the Fund typically considers ELNs alongside other securities of the issuer in its assessment of issuer concentration risk. In addition, ELNs may exhibit price behavior that does not correlate with the underlying securities. ELNs may also be subject to leverage risk (the risk that losses may be greater than the amount invested). The Fund may or may not hold an ELN until its maturity. ELNs also include participation notes. |
■ | A commodity-linked swap is a derivative (swap) that is an agreement where the underlying reference is the market price of one or more particular commodities (such as crude oil, gasoline and natural gas), basket of commodities or indices of commodity futures. |
■ | Contracts for differences are swap arrangements in which the parties agree that their return (or loss) will be based on the relative performance of two different groups or baskets of securities or other instruments. Often, one or both baskets will be an established securities index. The Fund’s return will be based on changes in value of theoretical long futures positions in the securities comprising one basket (with an aggregate face value equal to the notional amount of the contract for differences) and theoretical short futures positions in the securities comprising the other basket. The Fund also may use actual long and short futures positions and achieve similar market exposure by netting the payment obligations of the two contracts. If the short basket outperforms the long basket, the Fund will realize a loss – even in circumstances when the securities in both the long and short baskets appreciate in value. |
■ | A credit default swap (including a swap on a credit default index, sometimes referred to as a credit default swap index) is a derivative and special type of swap where one party pays, in effect, an insurance premium through a stream of payments to another party in exchange for the right to receive a specified return upon the occurrence of a particular credit event by one or more third parties, such as bankruptcy, default or a similar event. A credit default swap may be embedded within a structured note or other derivative instrument. Credit default swaps enable an investor to buy or sell protection against such a credit event (such as an issuer’s bankruptcy, restructuring or failure to make timely payments of interest or principal). Credit default |
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swap indices are indices that reflect the performance of a basket of credit default swaps and are subject to the same risks as credit default swaps. If such a default were to occur, any contractual remedies that the Fund may have may be subject to bankruptcy and insolvency laws, which could delay or limit the Fund's recovery. Thus, if the counterparty under a credit default swap defaults on its obligation to make payments thereunder, as a result of its bankruptcy or otherwise, the Fund may lose such payments altogether, or collect only a portion thereof, which collection could involve costs or delays. The Fund’s return from investment in a credit default swap index may not match the return of the referenced index. Further, investment in a credit default swap index could result in losses if the referenced index does not perform as expected. Unexpected changes in the composition of the index may also affect performance of the credit default swap index. If a referenced index has a dramatic intraday move that causes a material decline in the Fund’s net assets, the terms of the Fund’s credit default swap index may permit the counterparty to immediately close out the transaction. In that event, the Fund may be unable to enter into another credit default swap index or otherwise achieve desired exposure, even if the referenced index reverses all or a portion of its intraday move. |
■ | An inflation rate swap is a derivative typically used to transfer inflation risk from one party to another through an exchange of cash flows. In an inflation rate swap, one party pays a fixed rate on a notional principal amount, while the other party pays a floating rate linked to an inflation index, such as the Consumer Price Index (CPI). |
■ | An interest rate swap is a derivative in which two parties agree to exchange interest rate cash flows, based on a specified notional amount from a fixed rate to a floating rate (or vice versa) or from one floating rate to another. Interest rate swaps can be based on various measures of interest rates, including LIBOR, swap rates, treasury rates and foreign interest rates. |
■ | Total return swaps are derivative swap transactions in which one party agrees to pay the other party an amount equal to the total return of a defined underlying reference during a specified period of time. In return, the other party would make periodic payments based on a fixed or variable interest rate or on the total return of a different underlying reference. |
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Fund |
Assets
(millions) |
Annual
rate at
each asset level |
Management
Agreement
Effective Date |
Alternative Beta Fund (a) | $0 - $500 | 0.960% | 10/1/2016 |
>$500 - $1,000 | 0.955% | ||
>$1,000 - $3,000 | 0.950% | ||
>$3,000 - $12,000 | 0.940% | ||
>$12,000 | 0.930% | ||
AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | $0 - $500 | 0.480% | 3/1/2016 |
Tax-Exempt Fund | >$500 - $1,000 | 0.475% | 12/1/2015 |
U.S. Social Bond Fund (b) | >$1,000 - $2,000 | 0.445% | 12/1/2015 |
>$2,000 - $3,000 | 0.420% | ||
>$3,000 - $6,000 | 0.385% | ||
>$6,000 - $9,000 | 0.360% | ||
>$9,000 - $10,000 | 0.350% | ||
>$10,000 - $12,000 | 0.340% | ||
>$12,000 - $15,000 | 0.330% | ||
>$15,000 - $24,000 | 0.320% | ||
>$24,000 - $50,000 | 0.300% | ||
>$50,000 | 0.290% | ||
AMT-Free OR Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | $0 - $250 | 0.470% | 12/1/2015 |
AMT-Free CT Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | >$250 - $500 | 0.465% | 3/1/2016 |
AMT-Free MA Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | >$500 - $1,000 | 0.415% | 3/1/2016 |
AMT-Free NY Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | >$1,000 - $3,000 | 0.380% | 3/1/2016 |
Strategic CA Municipal Income Fund | >$3,000 - $6,000 | 0.340% | 3/1/2016 |
Strategic NY Municipal Income Fund | >$6,000 - $7,500 | 0.330% | 3/1/2016 |
>$7,500 - $12,000 | 0.320% | ||
>$12,000 | 0.310% | ||
Balanced Fund | $0 - $500 | 0.720% | 1/1/2016 |
Dividend Income Fund | >$500 - $1,000 | 0.670% | 10/1/2015 |
>$1,000 - $1,500 | 0.620% | ||
>$1,500 - $3,000 | 0.570% | ||
>$3,000 - $6,000 | 0.550% | ||
>$6,000 - $12,000 | 0.530% | ||
>$12,000 | 0.520% | ||
Bond Fund | $0 - $500 | 0.500% | 9/1/2015 |
Corporate Income Fund | >$500 - $1,000 | 0.495% | 9/1/2015 |
MM Total Return Bond Strategies Fund | >$1,000 - $2,000 | 0.480% | 9/1/2015 |
Total Return Bond Fund | >$2,000 - $3,000 | 0.460% | 9/1/2015 |
>$3,000 - $6,000 | 0.450% | ||
>$6,000 - $7,500 | 0.430% | ||
>$7,500 - $9,000 | 0.415% | ||
>$9,000 - $12,000 | 0.410% | ||
>$12,000 - $20,000 | 0.390% | ||
>$20,000 - $24,000 | 0.380% | ||
>$24,000 - $50,000 | 0.360% | ||
>$50,000 | 0.340% | ||
Contrarian Core Fund | $0 - $500 | 0.770% | 1/1/2016 |
Global Dividend Opportunity Fund | >$500 - $1,000 | 0.720% | 1/1/2016 |
Large Cap Growth Fund | >$1,000 - $1,500 | 0.670% | 12/1/2015 |
MM Growth Strategies Fund | >$1,500 - $3,000 | 0.620% | 8/1/2015 |
Select Large Cap Growth Fund | >$3,000 - $6,000 | 0.600% | 8/1/2015 |
>$6,000 - $12,000 | 0.580% | ||
>$12,000 | 0.570% |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 88 |
Fund |
Assets
(millions) |
Annual
rate at
each asset level |
Management
Agreement
Effective Date |
Disciplined Small Core Fund (c) | $0 - $500 | 0.850% | 7/1/2017 |
>$500 - $1,000 | 0.800% | ||
>$1,000 - $3,000 | 0.750% | ||
>$3,000 - $12,000 | 0.740% | ||
>$12,000 | 0.730% | ||
Diversified Absolute Return Fund (a) | $0 - $500 | 1.180% | 10/1/2015 |
>$500 - $1,000 | 1.130% | ||
>$1,000 - $3,000 | 1.100% | ||
>$3,000 - $6,000 | 1.070% | ||
>$6,000 - $12,000 | 1.040% | ||
>$12,000 | 1.030% | ||
Emerging Markets Fund (c) | $0 - $500 | 1.100% | 7/1/2017 |
>$500 - $1,000 | 1.060% | ||
>$1,000 - $1,500 | 0.870% | ||
>$1,500 - $3,000 | 0.820% | ||
>$3,000 - $6,000 | 0.770% | ||
>$6,000 - $12,000 | 0.720% | ||
>$12,000 | 0.700% | ||
Global Energy and Natural Resources Fund | $0 - $1,000 | 0.750% | 1/1/2016 |
>$1,000 - $1,500 | 0.670% | ||
>$1,500 - $3,000 | 0.620% | ||
>$3,000 - $6,000 | 0.600% | ||
>$6,000 | 0.580% | ||
Global Technology Growth Fund | $0 - $500 | 0.870% | 1/1/2016 |
>$500 - $1,000 | 0.820% | ||
>$1,000 | 0.770% | ||
Greater China Fund | $0 - $1,000 | 0.950% | 1/1/2016 |
Pacific/Asia Fund | >$1,000 - $1,500 | 0.870% | 8/1/2015 |
>$1,500 - $3,000 | 0.820% | ||
>$3,000 - $6,000 | 0.770% | ||
>$6,000 | 0.720% | ||
HY Municipal Fund | $0 - $500 | 0.540% | 10/1/2015 |
>$500 - $1,000 | 0.535% | ||
>$1,000 - $2,000 | 0.505% | ||
>$2,000 - $3,000 | 0.480% | ||
>$3,000 - $6,000 | 0.445% | ||
>$6,000 - $7,500 | 0.420% | ||
>$7,500 - $10,000 | 0.410% | ||
>$10,000 - $12,000 | 0.400% | ||
>$12,000 - $15,000 | 0.390% | ||
>$15,000 - $24,000 | 0.380% | ||
>$24,000 - $50,000 | 0.360% | ||
>$50,000 | 0.340% | ||
Mid Cap Growth Fund | $0 - $500 | 0.820% | 1/1/2016 |
>$500 - $1,000 | 0.770% | ||
>$1,000 - $1,500 | 0.720% | ||
>$1,500 - $3,000 | 0.670% | ||
>$3,000 - $12,000 | 0.660% | ||
>$12,000 | 0.650% | ||
MM Alternative Strategies Fund (a) | $0 - $500 | 1.100% | 1/1/2016 |
>$500 - $1,000 | 1.050% | ||
>$1,000 - $3,000 | 1.020% | ||
>$3,000 - $6,000 | 0.990% | ||
>$6,000 - $12,000 | 0.960% | ||
> $12,000 | 0.950% | ||
MM Directional Alternative Strategies Fund | All assets | 1.60% | 8/17/2016 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 89 |
Fund |
Assets
(millions) |
Annual
rate at
each asset level |
Management
Agreement
Effective Date |
MM International Equity Strategies Fund | $0 - $500 | 0.870% | 3/7/2018 |
>$500 - $1,000 | 0.820% | ||
>$1,000 - $1,500 | 0.770% | ||
>$1,500 - $3,000 | 0.720% | ||
>$3,000 - $6,000 | 0.700% | ||
>$6,000 - $12,000 | 0.680% | ||
>$12,000 | 0.670% | ||
MM Small Cap Equity Strategies Fund (c) | $0 - $500 | 0.870% | 7/1/2017 |
Small Cap Growth Fund I | >$500 - $1,000 | 0.820% | 1/1/2016 |
Small Cap Value Fund I | >$1,000 - $3,000 | 0.770% | 9/1/2015 |
>$3,000 - $12,000 | 0.760% | ||
>$12,000 | 0.750% | ||
Multi-Asset Income Fund | $0 - $500 | 0.660% | 9/1/2015 |
>$500 - $1,000 | 0.625% | ||
>$1,000 - $1,500 | 0.610% | ||
>$1,500 - $3,000 | 0.600% | ||
>$3,000 - $6,000 | 0.570% | ||
>$6,000 - $12,000 | 0.545% | ||
>$12,000 | 0.510% | ||
Real Estate Equity Fund | $0 - $500 | 0.750% | 5/1/2016 |
>$500 - $1,000 | 0.745% | ||
>$1,000 - $1,500 | 0.720% | ||
>$1,500 - $3,000 | 0.670% | ||
>$3,000 | 0.660% | ||
Solutions Aggressive Portfolio | All assets | 0.00% | 8/16/2017 |
Solutions Conservative Portfolio | |||
Strategic Income Fund | $0 - $500 | 0.600% | 3/1/2016 |
>$500 - $1,000 | 0.590% | ||
>$1,000 - $2,000 | 0.575% | ||
>$2,000 - $3,000 | 0.555% | ||
>$3,000 - $6,000 | 0.530% | ||
>$6,000 - $7,500 | 0.505% | ||
>$7,500 - $9,000 | 0.490% | ||
>$9,000 - $10,000 | 0.481% | ||
>$10,000 - $12,000 | 0.469% | ||
>$12,000 - $15,000 | 0.459% | ||
>$15,000 - $20,000 | 0.449% | ||
>$20,000 - $24,000 | 0.433% | ||
>$24,000 - $50,000 | 0.414% | ||
>$50,000 | 0.393% | ||
U.S. Treasury Index Fund (d) | All assets | 0.400% | 9/1/2015 |
Ultra Short Term Bond Fund (e) | All assets | 0.250% | 12/1/2015 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 90 |
Asset Category |
Assets
(millions) |
Annual
rate at
each asset level |
Management
Agreement
Effective Date |
Category 1 : Assets invested in affiliated mutual funds, exchange- traded funds and closed-end funds that pay a management services fee (or an investment management services fee, as applicable) to the Investment Manager. | $0 - $500 | 0.060% | 10/1/2015 |
>$500 - $1,000 | 0.055% | ||
>$1,000 - $3,000 | 0.050% | ||
>$3,000 - $12,000 | 0.040% | ||
>$12,000 | 0.030% | ||
Category 2 : Assets invested in exchange-traded funds and mutual funds that are not managed by the Investment Manager or its affiliates. | $0 - $500 | 0.160% | |
>$500 - $1,000 | 0.155% | ||
>$1,000 - $3,000 | 0.150% | ||
>$3,000 - $12,000 | 0.140% | ||
>$12,000 | 0.130% | ||
Category 3 : Securities, instruments and other assets not described above, including without limitation affiliated mutual funds, exchange-traded funds and closed-end funds that do not pay a management services fee (or an investment management services fee, as applicable) to the Investment Manager, third party closed-end funds, derivatives and individual securities. | $0 - $500 | 0.760% | |
>$500 - $1,000 | 0.745% | ||
>$1,000 - $1,500 | 0.730% | ||
>$1,500 - $3,000 | 0.720% | ||
>$3,000 - $6,000 | 0.690% | ||
>$6,000 - $12,000 | 0.665% | ||
>$12,000 | 0.630% |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 91 |
Management Services Fees | |||
2018 | 2017 | 2016 | |
For Funds with fiscal period ending January 31 | |||
Diversified Real Return Fund | $1,565 | $1,750 | N/A |
For Funds with fiscal period ending March 31 | |||
Adaptive Retirement 2020 Fund | 9,712 (a) | N/A | N/A |
Adaptive Retirement 2025 Fund (b) | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Adaptive Retirement 2030 Fund | 19,631 (a) | N/A | N/A |
Adaptive Retirement 2035 Fund (b) | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Adaptive Retirement 2040 Fund | 1,987 (a) | N/A | N/A |
Adaptive Retirement 2045 Fund (b) | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Adaptive Retirement 2050 Fund | 1,970 (a) | N/A | N/A |
Adaptive Retirement 2055 Fund (b) | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Adaptive Retirement 2060 Fund | 1,978 (a) | N/A | N/A |
MM Growth Strategies Fund | 17,359,656 | 15,336,414 | $10,774,541 |
Pacific/Asia Fund | 2,134,750 | 2,101,261 | 1,466,562 |
Select Large Cap Growth Fund | 27,276,189 | 32,224,821 | 27,503,236 |
Solutions Aggressive Portfolio (c) | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Solutions Conservative Portfolio (c) | N/A | N/A | N/A |
For Funds with fiscal period ending April 30 | |||
Bond Fund | 2,235,758 | 2,601,726 | 1,850,973 |
Corporate Income Fund | 6,472,921 | 5,913,133 | 4,120,977 |
MM Directional Alternative Strategies Fund | 14,976,807 | 8,637,630 (d) | N/A |
Multi-Asset Income Fund | 894,672 | 767,760 | 387,936 |
Small Cap Value Fund I | 5,297,823 | 5,104,454 | 4,030,575 |
Total Return Bond Fund | 11,472,735 | 13,987,904 | 10,476,193 |
U.S. Treasury Index Fund | 2,926,477 | 3,182,138 | 1,480,882 |
2017 | 2016 | 2015 | |
For Funds with fiscal period ending May 31 | |||
Adaptive Risk Allocation Fund | 8,000,497 | 2,017,753 | N/A |
Alternative Beta Fund | 2,938,737 | 1,360,397 | N/A |
Diversified Absolute Return Fund | 1,158,838 | 1,189,076 | N/A |
Dividend Income Fund | 54,720,306 | 31,592,477 | N/A |
HY Municipal Fund | 4,668,440 | 3,193,770 | N/A |
For Funds with fiscal period ending July 31 | |||
AMT-Free OR Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | 2,152,358 | 1,434,255 | N/A |
Large Cap Growth Fund | 22,327,952 | 14,487,605 | N/A |
Tax-Exempt Fund | 17,289,123 | 11,938,008 | N/A |
U.S. Social Bond Fund | 177,410 | 98,416 | N/A |
Ultra Short Term Bond Fund | 4,331,299 | 2,387,448 | N/A |
For Funds with fiscal period ending August 31 | |||
Balanced Fund | 37,000,407 | 18,729,563 | N/A |
Contrarian Core Fund | 62,449,221 | 32,688,864 | N/A |
Disciplined Small Core Fund | 2,120,260 | 1,772,071 | N/A |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 92 |
Management Services Fees | |||
2017 | 2016 | 2015 | |
Emerging Markets Fund | $13,852,430 | $8,354,982 | N/A |
Global Dividend Opportunity Fund | 4,563,064 | 3,221,310 | N/A |
Global Energy and Natural Resources Fund | 1,792,602 | 1,170,361 | N/A |
Global Technology Growth Fund | 5,448,440 | 2,823,794 | N/A |
Greater China Fund | 1,044,824 | 727,251 | N/A |
Mid Cap Growth Fund | 13,635,837 | 9,262,706 | N/A |
MM Alternative Strategies Fund | 6,656,052 | 5,482,144 | N/A |
MM International Equity Strategies Fund (e) | N/A | N/A | N/A |
MM Small Cap Equity Strategies Fund | 8,560,553 | 7,075,706 | N/A |
MM Total Return Bond Strategies Fund | 30,955,796 | 18,227,573 | N/A |
Small Cap Growth Fund I | 3,547,326 | 2,314,637 | N/A |
Strategic Income Fund | 15,719,912 (f) | 10,820,358 | N/A |
For Funds with fiscal period ending October 31 | |||
AMT-Free CT Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | 629,541 | 505,837 | N/A |
AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | 9,519,597 | 7,342,461 | N/A |
AMT-Free MA Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | 1,209,330 | 933,954 | N/A |
AMT-Free NY Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | 1,183,001 | 920,201 | N/A |
Strategic CA Municipal Income Fund | 2,411,432 | 1,731,638 | N/A |
Strategic NY Municipal Income Fund | 1,028,510 | 713,605 | N/A |
For Funds with fiscal period ending December 31 | |||
Real Estate Equity Fund | 3,484,436 | 2,757,449 | N/A |
(a) | For the period from October 24, 2017 (commencement of operations) to March 31, 2018. |
(b) | The Fund commenced operations on April 4, 2018, and therefore has no reporting information for periods prior to such date. |
(c) | The Solution Series Funds do not pay a management services fee. |
(d) | For the period from October 17, 2016 (commencement of operations) to April 30, 2017. |
(e) | No historical information is given for the Fund because the Fund had not commenced operations as of the date of this SAI. |
(f) | The Fund changed its fiscal year end in 2017 from October 31 to August 31. For the fiscal year ended in 2017, the information shown is for the period from November 1, 2016 to August 31, 2017. |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 93 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 94 |
Investment Advisory Services Fees | |||||
Fund | |||||
HY Municipal Fund | N/A | 1,326,979 | 3,742,648 | ||
For Funds with fiscal period ending July 31 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | ||
AMT-Free OR Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | N/A | 599,072 | 1,802,859 | ||
Large Cap Growth Fund | N/A | 6,999,213 | 20,114,401 | ||
Tax-Exempt Fund | N/A | 5,125,319 | 15,029,336 | ||
U.S. Social Bond Fund | N/A | 33,567 | 26,951 (c) | ||
Ultra Short Term Bond Fund | N/A | 1,224,265 | 4,102,773 | ||
For Funds with fiscal period ending August 31 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | ||
Balanced Fund | N/A | 6,697,690 | 15,376,747 | ||
Contrarian Core Fund | N/A | 12,844,105 | 33,944,896 | ||
Disciplined Small Core Fund | N/A | 1,296,456 | 7,204,789 | ||
Emerging Markets Fund | N/A | 3,910,352 | 14,725,495 | ||
Global Dividend Opportunity Fund | N/A | 1,654,873 | 5,854,673 | ||
Global Energy and Natural Resources Fund | N/A | 555,215 | 2,082,111 | ||
Global Technology Growth Fund | N/A | 1,315,278 | 2,604,481 | ||
Greater China Fund | N/A | 405,805 | 1,277,028 | ||
Mid Cap Growth Fund | N/A | 4,700,583 | 15,395,981 | ||
MM Alternative Strategies Fund | N/A | 2,594,022 | 7,820,583 | ||
MM Small Cap Equity Strategies Fund | N/A | 3,830,983 | 6,947,679 | ||
MM Total Return Bond Strategies Fund | N/A | 7,029,420 | 19,958,476 | ||
Small Cap Growth Fund I | N/A | 1,248,693 | 5,347,823 | ||
Strategic Income Fund (d) | N/A | 4,071,702 | 10,818,719 | ||
For Funds with fiscal period ending October 31 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | ||
AMT-Free CT Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | N/A | 211,065 | 634,771 | ||
AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | N/A | 2,934,748 | 8,483,272 | ||
AMT-Free MA Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | N/A | 391,155 | 1,171,729 | ||
AMT-Free NY Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | N/A | 370,479 | 1,072,538 | ||
Strategic CA Municipal Income Fund | N/A | 701,751 | 1,959,863 | ||
Strategic NY Municipal Income Fund | N/A | 256,900 | 709,903 | ||
For Funds with fiscal period ending December 31 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | ||
Real Estate Equity Fund | N/A | 1,126,073 | 3,776,529 |
(a) | For the period from January 27, 2015 (commencement of operations) to May 31, 2015. |
(b) | For the period from February 19, 2015 (commencement of operations) to May 31, 2015. |
(c) | For the period from March 26, 2015 (commencement of operations) to July 31, 2015. |
(d) | The Fund changed its fiscal year end in 2017 from October 31 to August 31. |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 95 |
Fund | Subadviser |
Parent
Company/Other Information |
Fee Schedule |
For Funds with fiscal period ending January 31 | |||
Diversified Real Return Fund |
Threadneedle
(since commencement of operations) |
A | 0.00% for all assets (a) |
For Funds with fiscal period ending March 31 | |||
MM Growth Strategies Fund |
Loomis
Sayles
(effective December 11, 2013) |
B | 0.27% for all assets |
Los
Angeles Capital
(effective February 7, 2017) |
M | 0.30% on the first $100 million declining to 0.13% as assets increase |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 96 |
Fund | Subadviser |
Parent
Company/Other Information |
Fee Schedule |
For Funds with fiscal period ending April 30 | |||
MM Directional Alternative Strategies Fund |
Boston
Partners
(since commencement of operations) |
K | 0.95% for all assets |
AQR
(since commencement of operations) |
C | 0.90% on the first $100 million declining to 0.85% as assets increase | |
Analytic
Investors
(since commencement of operations) |
L | 0.750% on the first $20 million declining to 0.625% as assets increase | |
Threadneedle
(since commencement of operations) |
A | 0.72% for all assets | |
Multi-Asset Income Fund |
Threadneedle
(since commencement of operations) |
A | 0.16% for all assets |
For Funds with fiscal period ending May 31 | |||
Alternative Beta Fund |
Threadneedle
(since commencement of operations) |
A | 0.45% for all assets |
Diversified Absolute Return Fund |
Threadneedle
(since commencement of operations) |
A | 0.45% for all assets |
For Funds with fiscal period ending July 31 | |||
U.S. Social Bond Fund |
Threadneedle
(since commencement of operations) |
A | 0.16% for all assets |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 97 |
Fund | Subadviser |
Parent
Company/Other Information |
Fee Schedule |
For Funds with fiscal period ending August 31 | |||
MM Alternative Strategies Fund |
AlphaSimplex
(effective May 23, 2018) |
R | 0.60% on the first $500 million declining to 0.50% as assets increase |
AQR
(since commencement of operations) |
C | 0.65% on the first $500 million declining to 0.50% as assets increase (b) | |
Manulife (effective September 13, 2017) | N | 0.35% on the first $20 million declining to 0.25% as assets increase | |
TCW
(effective March 29, 2017) |
E | 0.30% on the first $500 million declining to 0.15% as assets increase | |
Water
Island
(since commencement of operations) |
D | 0.70% on the first $50 million declining to 0.60% as assets increase | |
MM International Equity Strategies Fund |
Arrowstreet
(since commencement of operations) |
O | 0.65% on the first $100 million declining to 0.38% as assets increase |
Baillie
Gifford
(since commencement of operations) |
P | 0.60% on the first $25 million declining to 0.25% as assets increase | |
Causeway
(since commencement of operations) |
Q | 0.40% on the first $500 million declining to 0.35% as assets increase | |
Threadneedle
(since commencement of operations) |
A | 0.336% for all assets | |
MM Small Cap Equity Strategies Fund |
BMO
(c)
(effective May 1, 2017) |
I | 0.30% on the first $200 million, declining to 0.20% as assets increase (b) |
Conestoga
(effective October 1, 2012) |
F | 0.48% on all assets | |
DGHM
(since commencement of operations) |
G | 0.65% of the first $50 million declining to 0.35% as assets increase up to $200 million, thereafter 0.45% | |
EAM
(since commencement of operations) |
H | 0.50% of the first $100 million declining to 0.40% as assets increase | |
MM Total Return Bond Strategies Fund |
Loomis
Sayles
(effective April 11, 2016) |
B | 0.15% on the first $500 million and 0.08% as assets increase |
PGIM
Fixed Income
(effective May 16, 2016) |
J | 0.20% on the first $300 million declining to 0.09% as assets increase | |
TCW
(since commencement of operations) |
E | 0.18% on the first $500 million declining to 0.05% as assets increase (b) |
(a) | The Fund invests substantially all of its assets in affiliated underlying funds, for which the Investment Manager is not paid management services fees and, therefore, the subadvisory fee rate is 0.00%. |
(b) | The fee is calculated based on the combined net assets of certain Columbia Funds subject to the subadviser’s investment management. |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 98 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 99 |
(a) | For the period from February 7, 2017 to March 31, 2017. |
(b) | For the period from October 17, 2016 (commencement of operations) to April 30, 2017. |
(c) | The subadviser began managing the Fund after its last fiscal year end; therefore there are no fees to report. |
(d) | For the period from April 11, 2016 to August 31, 2016. |
(e) | For the period from May 16, 2016 to August 31, 2016. |
Other Accounts Managed (Excluding the Fund) |
Ownership
of Fund Shares |
Potential
Conflicts of Interest |
Structure
of Compensation |
||||
Fund |
Portfolio
Manager |
Number
and Type of Account* |
Approximate
Total Net Assets |
Performance-
Based Accounts** |
|||
For Funds with fiscal year ending January 31 – Information is as of January 31, 2018, unless otherwise noted | |||||||
Diversified
Real Return Fund |
Anwiti Bahuguna |
22
RICs
19 PIVs 17 other accounts |
$73.46
billion
$2.89 billion $102.84 million |
None | None |
Columbia
Management |
Columbia
Management |
Dan Boncarosky |
8
RICs
8 other accounts |
$6.48
billion
$2.30 million |
None | None |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 100 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 101 |
Other Accounts Managed (Excluding the Fund) |
Ownership
of Fund Shares |
Potential
Conflicts of Interest |
Structure
of Compensation |
||||
Fund |
Portfolio
Manager |
Number
and Type of Account* |
Approximate
Total Net Assets |
Performance-
Based Accounts** |
|||
MM
Growth Strategies
Fund |
Columbia
Management:
Thomas M. Galvin |
6 RICs 2 PIVs 1,305 other accounts |
$4.89 billion $553.26 million $3.98 billion |
3 other accounts ($0.76 B) |
None |
Columbia Management |
Columbia Management |
Richard A. Carter |
6
RICs
2 PIVs 1,306 other accounts |
$4.89
billion
$553.26 million $3.96 billion |
3
other accounts
($0.76 B) |
None | |||
Todd D. Herget |
6
RICs
2 PIVs 1,309 other accounts |
$4.89
billion
$553.26 million $3.96 billion |
3
other accounts
($0.76 B) |
None | |||
Loomis
Sayles:
Aziz Hamzaogullari |
18 RICs 11 PIVs 114 other accounts |
$21.89 billion $4.62 billion $17.74 billion |
2 PIVs ($749.00 M) |
None |
Loomis Sayles |
Loomis Sayles |
|
Los
Angeles Capital:
Thomas Stevens |
13 RICs 14 PIVs 41 other accounts |
$6.98 billion $7.13 billion $14.54 billion |
1 RIC ($3.38 B) 4 PIVs ($4.15 B) 5 other accounts ($7.70 B) |
None |
Los Angeles Capital |
Los Angeles Capital |
|
Hal Reynolds |
13
RICs
14 PIVs 41 other accounts |
$6.98
billion
$7.13 billion $14.54 billion |
1
RIC
($3.38 B) 4 PIVs ($4.15 B) 5 other accounts ($7.70 B) |
None | |||
Daniel Allen |
9
RICs
14 PIVs 41 other accounts |
$2.94
billion
$17.13 billion $14.54 billion |
4
PIVs
($4.15 B) 5 other accounts ($7.70 B) |
None | |||
Daniel Arche |
1
RIC
5 PIVs 14 other accounts |
$1.62
billion
$4.39 billion $2.15 billion |
2
PIVs
($3.43 B) |
None | |||
Pacific/
Asia Fund |
Jasmine
(Weili)
Huang |
4
RICs
2 PIVs 12 other accounts |
$2.45
billion
$676.27 million $733.55 million |
None |
$10,001
–
$50,000 (b) |
Columbia
Management |
Columbia
Management |
Daisuke Nomoto |
3
RICs
2 PIVs 3 other accounts |
$1.33
billion
$1.10 billion $1.13 million |
None |
$100,001
–
$500,000 (a) $100,001 – $500,000 (b) |
|||
Christine Seng |
1
RIC
1 PIV 1 other account |
$39.14
million
$191.00 million $22.17 million |
None | None (c) | Threadneedle | Threadneedle |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 102 |
Other Accounts Managed (Excluding the Fund) |
Ownership
of Fund Shares |
Potential
Conflicts of Interest |
Structure
of Compensation |
||||
Fund |
Portfolio
Manager |
Number
and Type of Account* |
Approximate
Total Net Assets |
Performance-
Based Accounts** |
|||
Select
Large
Cap Growth Fund |
Thomas M. Galvin |
6
RICs
2 PIVs 1,305 other accounts |
$1.64
billion
$553.26 million $3.98 billion |
3
other accounts
($0.76 B) |
Over
$1,000,000 (a) $100,001 – $500,000 (b) |
Columbia
Management |
Columbia
Management |
Richard A. Carter |
6
RICs
2 PIVs 1306 other accounts |
$1.64
billion
$553.26 million $3.96 billion |
3
other accounts
($0.76 B) |
$10,001
–
$50,000 (a) $100,001 – $500,000 (b) |
|||
Todd D. Herget |
6
RICs
2 PIVs 1,309 other accounts |
$1.64
billion
$553.26 million $3.96 billion |
3
other accounts
($0.76 B) |
$100,001
–
$500,000 (b) |
|||
Solutions Aggressive Portfolio | Joshua Kutin (e) |
20
RICs
7 PIVs 8 other accounts |
$10.25
billion
$11.81 million $36.84 million |
None | None | Columbia Management | Columbia Management |
Alexander Wilkinson (e) |
8
RICs
1 other account |
$376.70
million
$0.008 million |
None | None | |||
Solutions Conservative Portfolio | Joshua Kutin (e) |
20
RICs
7 PIVs 8 other accounts |
$10.25
billion
$11.81 million $36.84 million |
None | None | Columbia Management | Columbia Management |
Alexander Wilkinson (e) |
8
RICs
1 other account |
$375.32
million
$0.008 million |
None | None | |||
For Funds with fiscal year ending April 30 – Information is as of April 30, 2018, unless otherwise noted | |||||||
Bond Fund | Gene Tannuzzo |
9
RICs
1 PIV 74 other accounts |
$12.74
billion
$62.56 million $2.05 billion |
None | None |
Columbia
Management |
Columbia
Management |
Jason Callan |
10
RICs
3 PIVs 4 other accounts |
$14.55
billion
$118.53 million $1.67 million |
None | None | |||
Corporate
Income Fund |
Tom Murphy |
12
RICs
22 PIVs 34 other accounts |
$3.16
billion
$15.48 billion $5.06 billion |
None | None |
Columbia
Management |
Columbia
Management |
Tim Doubek |
11
RICs
33 other accounts |
$3.11
billion
$4.78 billion |
None |
$10,001
–
$50,000 (b) |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 103 |
Other Accounts Managed (Excluding the Fund) |
Ownership
of Fund Shares |
Potential
Conflicts of Interest |
Structure
of Compensation |
||||
Fund |
Portfolio
Manager |
Number
and Type of Account* |
Approximate
Total Net Assets |
Performance-
Based Accounts** |
|||
MM
Directional
Alternative Strategies Fund |
Boston
Partners:
Joseph Feeney |
4 RICs 5 PIVs 34 other accounts |
$862.83 million $4.42 billion $11.11 billion |
None |
None |
Boston Partners |
Boston Partners |
Eric Connerly | 1 other account | $6.94 billion | None | None | |||
AQR:
Michele L. Aghassi |
21 RICs 19 PIVs 18 other accounts |
$13.93 billion $12.21 billion $5.80 billion |
16 PIVs ($9.25 B) 6 other accounts ($2.32 B) |
None |
AQR |
AQR |
|
Andrea Frazzini |
39
RICs
29 PIVs 40 other accounts |
$26.16
billion
$19.78 billion $20.68 billion |
26
PIVs
($16.81 B) 12 other accounts ($3.10 B) |
None | |||
Jacques A. Friedman |
48
RICs
44 PIVs 118 other accounts |
$35.51
billion
$25.01 billion $66.61 billion |
39
PIVs
($21.97 B) 38 other accounts ($19.03 B) |
None | |||
Analytic
Investors:
Harindra de Silva |
20 RICs 22 PIVs 27 other accounts |
$8.71 billion $6.49 billion $7.04 billion |
4 PIVs ($475.40 M) 2 other accounts ($313.40 M) |
None |
Analytic Investors |
Analytic Investors |
|
Dennis Bein |
17
RICs
21 PIVs 26 other accounts |
$7.54
billion
$6.48 billion $6.63 billion |
4
PIVs
($475.40 M) 2 other accounts ($313.40 M) |
None | |||
David Krider |
6
RICs
14 PIVs 10 other accounts |
$2.92
billion
$3.67 billion $2.36 billion |
3
PIVs
($68.10 M) 1 other account ($30.00 M) |
None | |||
Multi-Asset
Income Fund |
Anwiti Bahuguna |
22
RICs
19 PIVs 17 other accounts |
$69.70
billion
$2.89 billion $98.31 million |
None |
$10,001
–
$50,000 (b) |
Columbia
Management |
Columbia
Management |
Dan Boncarosky |
8
RICs
8 other accounts |
$6.01
billion
$2.15 million |
None |
$1
–
$10,000 (b) |
|||
Joshua Kutin |
24
RICs
7 PIVs 8 other accounts |
$10.17
billion
$11.83 million $36.13 million |
None | None | |||
Small
Cap
Value Fund I |
Jeremy Javidi |
1
RIC
1 PIV 10 other accounts |
$364.85
million
$163.32 million $46.43 million |
None |
$500,001
–
$1,000,000 (a) $10,001 – $50,000 (b) |
Columbia
Management |
Columbia
Management |
Total
Return
Bond Fund |
Gene Tannuzzo |
9
RICs
1 PIV 74 other accounts |
$11.05
billion
$62.56 million $2.05 billion |
None |
$50,001
–
$100,000 (a) |
Columbia
Management |
Columbia
Management |
Jason Callan |
10
RICs
3 PIVs 4 other accounts |
$12.86
billion
$118.53 million $1.67 million |
None | None | |||
U.S.
Treasury
Index Fund |
Alan Erickson |
1
RIC
46 other accounts |
$3.72
million
$2.87 billion |
None |
$10,001
–
$50,000 (b) |
Columbia
Management |
Columbia
Management |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 104 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 105 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 106 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 107 |
Other Accounts Managed (Excluding the Fund) |
Ownership
of Fund Shares |
Potential
Conflicts of Interest |
Structure
of Compensation |
||||
Fund |
Portfolio
Manager |
Number
and Type of Account* |
Approximate
Total Net Assets |
Performance-
Based Accounts** |
|||
MM
Alternative Strategies
Fund |
AlphaSimplex:
Alexander Healy (t) |
6 RICs 2 PIVs 7 other accounts |
$5.00 billion $372.30 million $553.70 million |
None |
None |
AlphaSimplex |
AlphaSimplex |
Kathryn Kaminski (t) |
2
RICs
2 PIVs 3 other accounts |
$3.30
billion
$372.30 million $506.20 million |
None | None | |||
Philippe Lüdi (t) |
4
RICs
2 PIVs 3 other accounts |
$4.79
billion
$372.30 million $506.20 million |
None | None | |||
John Perry (t) |
2
RICs
2 PIVs 3 other accounts |
$3.30
billion
$372.30 million $506.20 million |
None | None | |||
Robert Rickard (t) |
5
RICs
2 PIVs |
$4.90
billion
$372.30 million |
None | None | |||
Robert Sinnott (t) |
2
RICs
2 PIVs 3 other accounts |
$3.30
billion
$372.30 million $506.20 million |
None | None | |||
AQR:
Clifford S. Asness |
39 RICs 52 PIVs 77 other accounts |
$26.57 billion $30.99 billion $40.14 billion |
43 PIVs ($25.05 B) 28 other accounts ($11.69 B) |
None |
AQR |
AQR |
|
Brian K. Hurst |
13
RICs
60 PIVs 22 other accounts |
$18.49
billion
$36.15 billion $13.86 billion |
52
PIVs
($29.98 B) 6 other accounts ($5.23 B) |
None | |||
John M. Liew |
21
RICs
40 PIVs 32 other accounts |
$21.99
billion
$24.54 billion $17.07 billion |
34
PIVs
($18.40 B) 11 other accounts ($6.22 B) |
None | |||
Yao Hua Ooi |
12
RICs
49 PIVs 3 other accounts |
$18.29
billion
$27.95 billion $1.29 billion |
44
PIVs
($24.36 B) 2 other accounts ($1.01 B) |
None | |||
Ari Levine |
7
RICs
42 PIVs 9 other accounts |
$13.62
billion
$28.08 billion $4.97 billion |
39
PIVs
($23.88 B) 3 other accounts ($1.50 B) |
None |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 108 |
Other Accounts Managed (Excluding the Fund) |
Ownership
of Fund Shares |
Potential
Conflicts of Interest |
Structure
of Compensation |
||||
Fund |
Portfolio
Manager |
Number
and Type of Account* |
Approximate
Total Net Assets |
Performance-
Based Accounts** |
|||
MM
Alternative Strategies
Fund (continued) |
Manulife:
Daniel Janis III (d) |
5 RICs 34 PIVs 15 other accounts |
$13.12 billion $17.68 billion $10.07 billion |
2 other accounts ($6.84 B) |
None |
Manulife |
Manulife |
Christopher Chapman (d) |
4
RICs
32 PIVs 15 other accounts |
$12.76
billion
$17.38 billion $10.07 billion |
2
other accounts
($6.84 B) |
None | |||
Thomas Goggins (d) |
4
RICs
31 PIVs 15 other accounts |
$12.85
billion
$17.25 billion $10.07 billion |
2
other accounts
($6.84 B) |
None | |||
Kisoo Park (d) |
4
RICs
33 PIVs 15 other accounts |
$12.85
billion
$17.39 billion $10.07 billion |
2
other accounts
($6.84 B) |
None | |||
TCW:
Tad Rivelle |
30 RICs 51 PIVs 240 other accounts |
$115.97 billion $12.20 billion $38.81 billion |
24 PIVs ($1.61 B) 8 other accounts ($3.98 B) |
None |
TCW |
TCW |
|
Stephen M. Kane |
33
RICs
55 PIVs 240 other accounts |
$107.90
billion
$13.76 billion $38.81 billion |
24
PIVs
($1.61 B) 8 other accounts ($3.98 B) |
None | |||
Laird
R.
Landmann |
30
RICs
51 PIVs 240 other accounts |
$107.84
billion
$12.23 billion $38.81 billion |
24
PIVs
($1.61 B) 8 other accounts ($3.98 B) |
None | |||
Bryan Whalen |
28
RICs
50 PIVs 240 other accounts |
$115.95
billion
$12.10 billion $38.81 billion |
24
PIVs
($1.61 B) 8 other accounts ($3.98 B) |
None | |||
Water
Island:
Edward Chen |
2 RICs |
$136.00 million |
None |
None |
Water Island |
Water Island |
|
Gregory Loprete |
3
RICs
|
$520.00 billion | None | None | |||
Todd W. Munn |
3
RICs
|
$2.35 billion | None | None | |||
Roger
P.
Foltynowicz |
3
RICs
|
$2.35 billion | None | None |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 109 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 110 |
Other Accounts Managed (Excluding the Fund) |
Ownership
of Fund Shares |
Potential
Conflicts of Interest |
Structure
of Compensation |
||||
Fund |
Portfolio
Manager |
Number
and Type of Account* |
Approximate
Total Net Assets |
Performance-
Based Accounts** |
|||
MM
Intl Equity Strategies Fund (continued) |
Causeway:
Sarah Ketterer (l) |
16
RICs
22 PIVs 124 other accounts |
$17.71
billion
$6.05 billion $25.96 billion |
6
other accounts
($1.51 B) |
None |
Causeway |
Causeway |
Harry Hartford (l) |
16
RICs
22 PIVs 102 other accounts |
$17.71
billion
$6.05 billion $25.87 billion |
6
other accounts
($1.51 B) |
None | |||
James Doyle (l) |
16
RICs
22 PIVs 102 other accounts |
$17.71
billion
$6.05 billion $25.87 billion |
6
other accounts
($1.51 B) |
None | |||
Conor Muldoon (l) |
16
RICs
22 PIVs 104 other accounts |
$17.71
billion
$6.05 billion $25.87 billion |
6
other accounts
($1.51 B) |
None | |||
Alessandro Valentini (l) |
16
RICs
22 PIVs 98 other accounts |
$17.71
billion
$6.05 billion $25.86 billion |
6
other accounts
($1.51 B) |
None | |||
Jonathan Eng (l) |
16
RICs
22 PIVs 99 other accounts |
$17.71
billion
$6.05 billion $25.87 billion |
6
other accounts
($1.51 B) |
None | |||
Foster Corwith (l) |
16
RICs
22 PIVs 97 other accounts |
$17.71
billion
$6.05 billion $25.87 billion |
6
other accounts
($1.51 B) |
None | |||
Ellen Lee (l) |
16
RICs
22 PIVs 97 other accounts |
$17.71
billion
$6.05 billion $25.86 billion |
6
other accounts
($1.51 B) |
None |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 111 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 112 |
Other Accounts Managed (Excluding the Fund) |
Ownership
of Fund Shares |
Potential
Conflicts of Interest |
Structure
of Compensation |
||||
Fund |
Portfolio
Manager |
Number
and Type of Account* |
Approximate
Total Net Assets |
Performance-
Based Accounts** |
|||
MM Total Return Bond Strategies Fund |
Loomis
Sayles:
Christopher Harms |
3 RICs 4 PIVs 151 other accounts |
$1.25 billion $1.68 billion $13.18 billion |
None |
None |
Loomis Sayles |
Loomis Sayles |
Clifton Rowe |
3
RICs
5 PIVs 145 other accounts |
$1.25
billion
$1.71 billion $13.41 billion |
None | None | |||
Kurt Wagner |
3
RICs
9 PIVs 165 other accounts |
$1.25
billion
$11.24 billion $17.57 billion |
2
other accounts
($4.72 B) |
None | |||
PGIM:
Michael Collins |
29 RICs 13 PIVs 76 other accounts |
$61.88 billion $10.54 billion $23.00 billion |
None |
None |
PGIM |
PGIM |
|
Robert Tipp |
24
RICs
19 PIVs 89 other accounts |
$34.75
billion
$8.23 billion $22.21 billion |
1
PIV
($8.23 B) |
None | |||
Richard Piccirillo |
38
RICs
27 PIVs 132 other accounts |
$53.26
billion
$12.68 billion $53.51 billion |
2
PIVs
($12.68 B) |
None | |||
Gregory Peters |
14
RICs
11 PIVs 40 other accounts |
$46.76
billion
$4.77 billion $22.06 billion |
None | None | |||
MM Total Return Bond Strategies Fund (continued) |
TCW:
Tad Rivelle |
30 RICs 51 PIVs 240 other accounts |
$116.07 billion $12.20 billion $38.81 billion |
24 PIVs ($1.61 B) 8 other accounts ($3.98 B) |
None |
TCW |
TCW |
Stephen M. Kane |
33
RICs
55 PIVs 240 other accounts |
$108.00
billion
$13.76 billion $38.81 billion |
24
PIVs
($1.61 B) 8 other accounts ($3.98 B) |
None | |||
Laird
R.
Landmann |
30
RICs
51 PIVs 240 other accounts |
$107.84
billion
$12.23 billion $38.81 billion |
24
PIVs
($1.61 B) 8 other accounts ($3.98 B) |
None | |||
Bryan Whalen |
28
RICs
50 PIVs 240 other accounts |
$116.05
billion
$12.10 billion $38.81 billion |
24
PIVs
($1.61 B) 8 other accounts ($3.98 B) |
None | |||
Small
Cap
Growth Fund I |
Daniel Cole |
1
RIC
6 other accounts |
$28.93
million
$3.88 million |
None | $10,001-$50,000 (b) |
Columbia
Management |
Columbia
Management |
Wayne
M.
Collette |
1
RIC
1 PIV 6 other accounts |
$28.93
million
$4.60 million $5.08 million |
None | $10,001-$50,000 (b) | |||
Lawrence W. Lin |
1
RIC
1 PIV 9 other accounts |
$28.93
million
$4.60 million $2.38 million |
None |
$10,001
–
$50,000 (a) $1–$10,000 (b) |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 113 |
Other Accounts Managed (Excluding the Fund) |
Ownership
of Fund Shares |
Potential
Conflicts of Interest |
Structure
of Compensation |
||||
Fund |
Portfolio
Manager |
Number
and Type of Account* |
Approximate
Total Net Assets |
Performance-
Based Accounts** |
|||
Strategic
Income Fund |
Jason Callan (f) |
9
RICs
7 PIVs 4 other accounts |
$14.85
billion
$15.48 billion $0.84 million |
None | None |
Columbia
Management |
Columbia
Management |
Colin Lundgren |
2
RICs
71 other accounts |
$1.40
billion
$1.20 billion |
None |
$100,001
–
$500,000 (b) |
|||
Gene Tannuzzo |
4
RICs
76 other accounts |
$1.61
billion
$1.24 billion |
None |
$100,001
–
$500,000 (a) $100,001 – $500,000 (b) |
|||
For Funds with fiscal year ending October 31 – Information is as of October 31, 2017, unless otherwise noted | |||||||
AMT-Free
CT
Intermediate Muni Bond Fund |
Paul F. Fuchs |
10
RICs
4 other accounts |
$3.93
billion
$1.96 million |
None | None |
Columbia
Management |
Columbia
Management |
Deborah Vargo (f) | 127 other accounts | $1.68 billion |
124
other accounts
($1.66 B) |
None | |||
AMT-Free
Intermediate Muni Bond Fund |
Paul F. Fuchs |
10
RICs
4 other accounts |
$2.09
billion
$1.96 million |
None |
$10,001
–
$50,000 (a)(o) $10,001 – $50,000 (b) |
Columbia
Management |
Columbia
Management |
Deborah Vargo (f) | 127 other accounts | $1.68 billion |
124
other accounts
($1.66 B) |
None | |||
AMT-Free
MA
Intermediate Muni Bond Fund |
Paul F. Fuchs |
10
RICs
4 other accounts |
$3.80
billion
$1.96 million |
None |
$10,001
–
$50,000 (a)(o) |
Columbia
Management |
Columbia
Management |
Deborah Vargo (f) | 127 other accounts | $1.68 billion |
124
other accounts
($1.66 B) |
$1-$10,000
(a)
$1-$10,000 (b) |
|||
AMT-Free
NY
Intermediate Muni Bond Fund |
Paul F. Fuchs |
10
RICs
4 other accounts |
$3.81
billion
$1.96 million |
None | None |
Columbia
Management |
Columbia
Management |
Deborah Vargo (f) | 127 other accounts | $1.68 billion |
124
other accounts
($1.66 B) |
None | |||
Strategic
CA Municipal Income
Fund |
Catherine
Stienstra |
5
RICs
2 PIVs 3 other accounts |
$4.07
billion
$1.76 billion $1.01 million |
None | None |
Columbia
Management |
Columbia
Management |
Anders Myhran |
3
RICs
2 PIVs 3 other accounts |
$2.21
billion
$1.76 billion $4.23 million |
None | None | |||
Strategic
NY Municipal Income
Fund |
Catherine
Stienstra |
5
RICs
2 PIVs 3 other accounts |
$4.36
billion
$1.76 billion $1.01 million |
None | None |
Columbia
Management |
Columbia
Management |
Anders Myhran |
3
RICs
2 PIVs 3 other accounts |
$2.51
billion
$1.76 billion $4.23 million |
None | None | |||
For Funds with fiscal year ending December 31 – Information is as of December 31, 2017, unless otherwise noted | |||||||
Real
Estate
Equity Fund |
Arthur J. Hurley |
2
RICs
9 other accounts |
$166.15
million
$2.02 million |
None |
$1
–
$10,000 (a) $10,001 – $50,000 (b) |
Columbia
Management |
Columbia
Management |
* | RIC refers to a Registered Investment Company; PIV refers to a Pooled Investment Vehicle. |
** | Number and type of accounts for which the advisory fee paid is based in part or wholly on performance and the aggregate net assets in those accounts. |
(a) | Excludes any notional investments. |
(b) | Notional investments through a deferred compensation account. |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 114 |
(c) | The Fund is available for sale only in the U.S. The portfolio managers do not reside in the U.S. and therefore do not hold any shares of the Fund. |
(d) | The portfolio manager began managing the Fund after its last fiscal year end; reporting information is provided as of September 30, 2017. |
(e) | The portfolio manager began managing the Fund on October 24, 2017 (commencement of operations). |
(f) | The portfolio manager began managing the Fund after its last fiscal year end. |
(g) | The portfolio manager began managing the Fund after its last fiscal year end; reporting information is provided as of October 31, 2017. |
(h) | Reporting information is provided as of October 31, 2017. |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 115 |
AlphaSimplex : AlphaSimplex and its investment personnel provide investment management services to multiple portfolios for multiple clients. AlphaSimplex may purchase or sell securities for one client portfolio and not another client portfolio, and the performance of securities purchased for one portfolio may vary from the performance of securities purchased for other portfolios. In addition, client account structures may have fee structures, such as performance-based fees, that differ. The firm has adopted and implemented a Statement of Policy and Procedures Regarding Allocation Among Investment Advisory Clients intended to address conflicts of interest relating to the management of multiple accounts, including accounts with multiple fee arrangements, and the allocation of investment opportunities. AlphaSimplex reviews investment decisions for the purpose of ensuring that all accounts with substantially similar investment objectives are treated equitably. The performance of similarly managed accounts is also regularly compared to determine whether there are any unexplained significant discrepancies. Finally, AlphaSimplex has adopted trade allocation procedures that require equitable allocation of trade orders for a particular security among participating accounts. The implementation of these procedures is monitored by AlphaSimplex’s Chief Compliance Officer. |
In addition, AlphaSimplex is aware of the potential for a conflict of interest in cases where AlphaSimplex, a related person or any of their employees, buys or sells securities recommended by AlphaSimplex to the clients. AlphaSimplex, in recognition of its fiduciary obligations to its clients and its desire to maintain its high ethical standards, has adopted a Code of Ethics containing provisions designed to prevent improper personal trading, identify conflicts of interest and provide a means to resolve any actual or potential conflict in favor of the client. AlphaSimplex requires all employees to obtain preclearance of personal securities transactions (other than certain exempted transactions as set forth in the Code of Ethics). |
Analytic Investors : Analytic Investors and its officers, employees and beneficial owners shall be free from time to time to acquire, possess, manage, and dispose of securities or other investment assets for their own accounts, for the accounts of their families, for the account of any entity in which they have a beneficial interest or for the accounts of others for whom they may provide investment advisory, brokerage or other services (collectively, “Managed Accounts”), in transactions which may or may not correspond with transactions effected or positions held in the fund. It is understood that when Analytic Investors determines that it would be appropriate for the fund and one or more Managed Accounts to participate in an investment opportunity, Analytic Investors will seek to execute orders for the fund and for such Managed Accounts on a basis which it considers equitable, but that equality of treatment of the fund and other Managed Accounts is not assured. In such situations, Analytic Investors may (but is not be required to) place orders for the fund and each other Managed Account simultaneously and if all such orders are not filled at the same price, Analytic Investors may cause the fund and each Managed Account to pay or receive the average of the prices at which the orders were filled. If all such orders cannot be fully executed under prevailing market conditions, Analytic Investors may allocate the securities traded among the fund and other Managed Accounts in a manner which it considers equitable, taking into account the size of the order placed for the fund and each other Managed Account as well as any other factors which it deems relevant. |
Certain of the Managed Accounts that Analytic Investors advises may sell securities short, including securities with respect to which other Managed Accounts hold long positions. The portfolio managers and traders for these Managed Accounts are not separated from the rest of Analytic Investors’ investment personnel and therefore have access to full information about Analytic Investors’ investment research and the investment decisions and strategies being employed for the Managed Accounts. These Managed Accounts pay Analytic Investors management fees at rates comparable to and in some cases lower than those paid by the fund and other Managed Accounts. Analytic Investors also receives a significant share of any profits earned by certain of the Managed Accounts as incentive compensation. As a result, Analytic Investors may have a conflict between its own interests and the interests of other Analytic Investors investment advisory clients in managing the portfolios of certain of these Managed Accounts. |
AQR: Each of the portfolio managers is also responsible for managing other accounts in addition to the Funds, including other accounts of AQR, or its affiliates. Other accounts may include, without limitation, separately managed accounts for foundations, endowments, pension plans, and high net-worth families; registered investment companies; unregistered investment companies relying on either Section 3(c)(1) or Section 3(c)(7) of the 1940 Act (such companies are commonly referred to as “hedge funds”); foreign investment companies; and may also include accounts or investments managed or made by the portfolio managers in a personal or other capacity (“Proprietary Accounts”). Management of other accounts in addition to the Funds can present certain conflicts of interest, as described below. From time to time, potential conflicts of interest may arise between a portfolio manager’s management of the investments of the Funds, on the one hand, and the management of other accounts (including, for purposes of this discussion, other Funds and Proprietary Accounts), on the other. The other accounts might have similar investment objectives or strategies as the Funds, or otherwise hold, purchase, or sell securities that are eligible to be held, purchased or sold by the Funds. Because of their positions with the Funds, the |
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portfolio managers know the size, timing and possible market impact of the Funds' trades. A potential conflict of interest exists where portfolio managers could use this information to the advantage of other accounts they manage and to the possible detriment of the Funds. |
A number of potential conflicts of interest may arise as a result of AQR’s or the portfolio manager’s management of a number of accounts with similar investment strategies. Often, an investment opportunity may be suitable for both the Funds and other accounts, but may not be available in sufficient quantities for both the Funds and the other accounts to participate fully. Similarly, there may be limited opportunity to sell an investment held by the Funds and another account. In circumstances where the amount of total exposure to a strategy or investment type across accounts is, in the opinion of AQR, capacity constrained, the availability of the strategy or investment type for the Funds and other accounts may be reduced in AQR’s discretion. The Funds may therefore have reduced exposure to a capacity constrained strategy or investment type, which could adversely affect the Funds' returns. AQR is not obligated to allocate capacity pro rata and may take its financial interests into account when allocating capacity among the Funds and other accounts. Among other things, capacity constraints in a particular strategy or investment type could cause the Funds to close to all or certain new investors. |
Another conflict could arise where different account guidelines and/or differences within particular investment strategies lead to the use of different investment practices for portfolios with a similar investment strategy. AQR will not necessarily purchase or sell the same instruments at the same time or in the same direction (particularly if different accounts have different strategies), or in the same proportionate amounts for all eligible accounts (particularly if different accounts have materially different amounts of capital under management, different amounts of investable cash available, different investment restrictions, or different risk tolerances). As a result, although AQR manages numerous accounts and/or portfolios with similar or identical investment objectives, or may manage accounts with different objectives that trade in the same instruments, the portfolio decisions relating to these accounts, and the performance resulting from such decisions, may differ from account to account. AQR may, from time to time, implement new trading strategies or participate in new trading strategies for some but not all accounts, including the Funds. Strategies may not be implemented in the same manner among accounts where they are employed, even if the strategy is consistent with the objectives of such accounts. |
Whenever decisions are made to buy or sell investments by the Funds and one or more other accounts simultaneously, AQR or the portfolio managers may aggregate the purchases and sales of the investments and will allocate the transactions in a manner that it believes to be equitable under the circumstances. To this end, AQR has adopted policies and procedures that are intended to assure that investment opportunities are allocated equitably among accounts over time. As a result of the allocations, there may be instances where the Funds will not participate in a transaction that is allocated among other accounts or the Funds may not be allocated the full amount of the investments sought to be traded. These aggregation and allocation policies could have a detrimental effect on the price or amount of the investments available to the Funds from time to time. Subject to applicable laws and/or account restrictions, AQR may buy, sell or hold securities for other accounts while entering into a different or opposite investment decision for the Funds. |
To the extent that the Funds hold interests in an issuer that are different (or more senior or junior) than those held by other accounts, AQR may be presented with investment decisions where the outcome would benefit one account and would not benefit or would harm the other account. Furthermore, it is possible that the Funds' interest may be subordinated or otherwise adversely impacted by virtue of such other accounts’ involvement and actions relating to their investment. In addition, when the Funds and other accounts hold investments in the same issuer (including at the same place in the capital structure), the Funds may be prohibited by applicable law from participating in restructurings, work-outs or other activities related to its investment in the issuer. As a result, the Funds may not be permitted by law to make the same investment decisions as other accounts in the same or similar situations even if AQR believes it would be in the Funds' best economic interests to do so. The Funds may be prohibited by applicable law from investing in an issuer (or an affiliate) that other accounts are also investing in or currently invest in even if AQR believes it would be in the best economic interests of the Funds to do so. Furthermore, entering into certain transactions that are not deemed prohibited by law when made may potentially lead to a condition that raises regulatory or legal concerns in the future. This may be the case, for example, with issuers that AQR considers to be at risk of default and restructuring or work-outs with debt holders, which may include the Funds and other accounts. In some cases, to avoid the potential of future prohibited transactions, AQR may avoid allocating an investment opportunity to the Funds that it would otherwise recommend, subject to AQR’s then-current allocation policy and any applicable exemptions. |
AQR and the Funds' portfolio managers may also face a conflict of interest where some accounts pay higher fees to AQR than others, as they may have an incentive to favor accounts with the potential for greater fees. For instance, the entitlement to a performance fee in managing one or more accounts may create an incentive for AQR to take risks in managing assets that it would not otherwise take in the absence of such arrangements. Additionally, since performance fees reward AQR for |
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performance in accounts which are subject to such fees, AQR may have an incentive to favor these accounts over those that have only fixed asset-based fees, such as the Funds, with respect to areas such as trading opportunities, trade allocation, and allocation of new investment opportunities. |
AQR has implemented specific policies and procedures (e.g., a code of ethics and trade allocation policies) that seek to address potential conflicts of interest that may arise in connection with the management of the Funds and other accounts and that are designed to ensure that all client accounts are treated fairly and equitably over time. |
Arrowstreet: Arrowstreet offers institutional investors a select range of equity investment strategies: long-only, alpha extension and long/short. |
Arrowstreet’s investment strategies are managed by a cohesive investment team. Individual strategies are not managed by individual investment professionals but rather all strategies are managed by the same team of investment professionals. This team approach to trading is designed to ensure that all research ideas and opinions are shared at the same time among all accounts without systematically favoring any one account over another. Arrowstreet manages a large number of client accounts and, as a result, potential conflicts of interest may arise from time to time. As a result, Arrowstreet has established a number of policies and procedures designed to mitigate and/or eliminate potential conflicts. Arrowstreet has established policies and procedures with respect to trade execution, aggregation and allocation. In addition, Arrowstreet maintains a comprehensive code of ethics addressing potential conflicts that could arise between Arrowstreet and its employees and its clients. |
Arrowstreet believes that its policies and procedures are reasonably designed to address potential conflicts of interest. |
Baillie Gifford : In addition to managing the Funds, individual portfolio managers are commonly responsible for managing other registered investment companies, other pooled investment vehicles and/or other accounts. These other accounts may have similar investment strategies to the Funds. Potential conflicts between the portfolio management of the Funds and the portfolio manager’s other accounts are managed by the Manager using allocation policies and procedures, and internal review processes. The Manager has developed trade allocation systems and controls to ensure that no one client, regardless of type, is intentionally favored at the expense of another. Allocation policies are designed to address potential conflicts in situations where two or more funds or accounts participate in investment decisions involving the same securities. |
BMO: A conflict of interest may arise as a result of a portfolio manager being responsible for multiple accounts, including the Fund, which may have different investment guidelines and objectives. In addition to the Fund, these accounts may include other mutual funds managed on an advisory or subadvisory basis, separate accounts, and collective trust accounts. An investment opportunity may be suitable for a Fund as well as for any of the other managed accounts. However, the investment may not be available in sufficient quantity for all of the accounts to participate fully. In addition, there may be limited opportunity to sell an investment held by a Fund and the other accounts. The other accounts may have similar investment objectives or strategies as the Fund, they may track the same benchmarks or indexes as the Fund tracks, and they may sell securities that are eligible to be held, sold or purchased by the Fund. A portfolio manager may be responsible for accounts that have different advisory fee schedules, which may create the incentive for the portfolio manager to favor one account over another in terms of access to investment opportunities. A portfolio manager also may manage accounts whose investment objectives and policies differ from those of the Fund, which may cause the portfolio manager to effect trading in one account that may have an adverse effect on the value of the holdings within another account, including a Fund. |
To address and manage these potential conflicts of interest, BMO has adopted compliance policies and procedures to allocate investment opportunities and to ensure that each of its clients is treated on a fair and equitable basis. Such policies and procedures include, but are not limited to, trade allocation and trade aggregation policies, cross trading policies, portfolio manager assignment practices, and oversight by investment management, and/or compliance departments. |
Boston Partners: Boston Partners owes its clients a duty of loyalty and monitors situations in which the interests of its advisory clients may be in conflict with its own interests. Boston Partners identifies business practices that may cause a conflict of interest between it and its clients, discloses such conflicts of interest to clients and develops reasonable procedures to mitigate such conflicts. |
Boston Partners has identified the following potential conflicts of interest and the measures it uses to address these matters: |
Equitable
Treatment of Accounts
Boston Partners recognizes that potential conflicts may arise from the side-by-side management of registered investment companies and “investment accounts,” which include privately offered funds and separately managed accounts of individuals and institutional investors. Where Boston Partners’ separately managed accounts are charged performance fees, portfolio managers may be inclined to take investment risks that are outside the scope of such client’s investment objectives and strategy. In addition, since Boston Partners’ private investment funds charge performance fees and share those fees with portfolio managers, such portfolio managers may also be inclined to take additional investment risks. Boston Partners maintains a Trade Allocation and Aggregation Policy as well as a Simultaneous Management Policy to ensure that client |
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accounts are treated equitably. The Compliance Department (“CD”) reviews allocations and dispersion regularly, and accounts within the same strategy are precluded from simultaneously holding a security long and short. There are certain circumstances that would permit a long/short portfolio to take a contra position in a security that is held in another strategy. This happens very infrequently and the contra position is generally not related to the fundamental views of the security (i.e. – initiating a long position in a security at year-end to take advantage of tax-loss selling as a short term investment, or initiating a position based solely on its relative weight in the benchmark to manage investment risk). However in certain situations, the investment constraints of a strategy, including but not limited to country, region, industry or benchmark, may result in a different investment thesis for the same security. Each situation is fully vetted and approved by the firm’s Chief Investment Officer or his designee. Risk Management performs periodic reviews to ensure the product complies with the investment strategy and defined risk parameters. |
Furthermore, since Boston Partners charges a performance fee on certain accounts, and in particular these accounts may receive “new issues” allocations, Boston Partners has a conflict of interest in allocating new issues to these accounts. Boston Partners maintains an IPO Allocation Policy and the CD assists in, and/or reviews, the allocation of new issues to ensure that IPOS are being allocated among all eligible accounts in an equitable manner. |
Utilizing
Brokerage to Advantage Boston Partners
Boston Partners does not place trades through affiliated brokers. Securities trades are executed through brokerage firms with which Boston Partners maintains other advantageous relationships, such as soft dollars. In these cases, the broker may expect commission business in return. Boston Partners has established a Trade Management Oversight Committee to evaluate brokerage services and to review commissions paid to brokers. In addition, Boston Partners maintains a Best Execution Policy and a Soft Dollar Policy to assist in its monitoring efforts. Boston Partners also identifies affiliates of the investment companies for which it acts as investment adviser or sub adviser to ensure it is trading in accordance with applicable rules and regulations. |
Directed
Brokerage
Boston Partners faces an inherent conflict since it is in a position to direct client transactions to a broker or dealer in exchange for distribution capacity. Boston Partners maintains policies which prohibit its traders from considering a broker-dealer’s distribution capacity for promoting or selling Boston Partners’ separate account services, mutual funds, or proprietary funds (collectively “Boston Partners’ Services”) during the broker selection process. Nor will Boston Partners compensate any broker either directly or indirectly by directing brokerage transactions to that broker for consideration in selling Boston Partners’ Services. |
Mixed Use
Allocations and Use of Soft Dollars to Benefit Adviser
Soft dollar services which have a “mixed use” allocation present a conflict of interest when determining the allocation between those services that primarily benefit Boston Partners’ clients and those that primarily benefit Boston Partners. In addition, a conflict of interest exists when Boston Partners uses soft dollars to pay expenses that would normally be paid by Boston Partners. Boston Partners has developed soft dollar policies which require it to make a good faith allocation of “mixed use” services and to document its analysis. In addition, the CD reviews all requests for soft dollars to ensure inclusion under the safe harbor of Section 28 (e) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”). |
Trade Errors
A conflict arises when an investment adviser requests a broker/dealer to absorb the cost of a trade error in return for increased trading and/or commissions. Boston Partners prohibits correcting a trade error for any quid pro quo with a broker and has procedures for the proper correction of trade errors. |
Principal
Transactions
A principal transaction occurs when an investment adviser, acting for the account of itself or an affiliate buys a security from, or sells a security to a client. An inherent conflict of interest exists since an adviser has an opportunity to transfer unwanted securities from its account to a client's account, sell securities to a client’s account at prices above the market, or transfer more favorably priced securities from a client account to its account. Boston Partners generally does not permit the selling of a security from one client account and the purchasing of the same security in another client account if Boston Partners has a principal interest in one of the accounts at the time of the transaction. Additionally, Boston Partners requires that clients give consent by signing subscription agreements to purchase a pooled investment vehicle in which Boston Partners or a related entity has an interest. |
Cross Trades
Cross transactions between clients create an inherent conflict of interest because Boston Partners has a duty to obtain the most favorable price for both the selling client and the purchasing client. Boston Partners generally does not engage in cross trading, however Boston Partners has procedures to ensure that any cross trade is in the best interests of all clients. |
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Affiliated
Investments
Potential conflicts exist if Boston Partners directs client investments into affiliated vehicles in order to increase the size of these vehicles and thereby increase its compensation by (a) lowering overall expenses of the vehicle, some of which Boston Partners may have responsibility for; (b) permitting greater marketing of the vehicle which will generate greater fee revenue for Boston Partners; or (c) allowing Boston Partners or an affiliate to redeem its investment capital in such vehicle. To mitigate any detriment to the client, Boston Partners has product suitability procedures and will obtain a client’s consent prior to investing client assets in an affiliated vehicle. |
Proprietary
Trading Opportunities
Employees are in a position to take investment opportunities for themselves or Boston Partners before such opportunities are executed on behalf of clients. Employees have a duty to advance Boston Partners’ client interests before Boston Partners interests or their personal interests. Boston Partners must assure that employees do not favor their own or Boston Partners’ accounts. The Code of Ethics (“the Code”) includes procedures on ethical conduct and personal trading, including preclearance and blackout procedures, to which all employees are subject. |
Insider
Trading/Non-Public Information
Employees are in a position to learn material nonpublic information. Such employees are in a position to trade in their personal accounts on such information, to the potential disadvantage of client accounts. The Code addresses insider trading including permissible activities. Employees certify, at least annually, that they are in compliance with the Code. |
Boston Partners periodically discusses securities which may be held in client accounts with external investment professionals when sourcing and analyzing investment ideas. These discussions may include but are not limited to economic factors, market outlook, sector and industry views, and general and/or specific information regarding securities. Discussion of specific securities creates a conflict which could disadvantage Boston Partners’ clients if the external parties were to act upon this information, including but not limited to front-running and scalping either particular securities or numerous securities in a similar sector to the extent such information is known about Boston Partners’ holdings. Boston Partners has policies prohibiting discussion of client investments for non-business purposes and has outlined permissible activities as well as certain other prohibitions when sourcing investment ideas for business purposes. |
Value-Added
Investors
A senior executive from a public company or a private company that is a hedge fund, broker-dealer, investment adviser, or investment bank, (collectively “VAIs”), may invest in Boston Partners’ private funds. A conflict exists if Boston Partners invests in companies affiliated with a VAI or if a VAI who works at a private company provide material non-public information to Boston Partners or vice versa. Both of these conflicts raise issues with respect to information sharing. Boston Partners has procedures to: i) identify these individuals through its annual outside businesses questionnaire, its annual compliance questionnaire, review of new account start-up documents, and its 5130 and 5131 questionnaires, and ii) monitor conflicts these persons present through its pre-trade compliance system and/or email surveillance. |
Selective
Disclosure
Selective disclosure occurs when material information is given to a single investor, or a limited group of investors, and not to all investors at the same time. This practice may allow one set of investors to profit on undisclosed information prior to giving others the same opportunity. In order to prevent this conflict of interest, Boston Partners has procedures regarding the dissemination of account holdings. |
Valuation of
Client Accounts
Because Boston Partners calculates its own advisory fees, it has an incentive to over-value such accounts to either increase the fees payable by the client, or to conceal poor performance for an incentive fee. Boston Partners has several safeguards in place to mitigate this conflict. Boston Partners has a policy for the valuation of securities. Boston Partners’ Operations Department (“Operations”) reconciles cash, assets, and prices for all client accounts with the client’s custodian bank’s records on a monthly basis. Finally, as part of Boston Partners annual financial review, external auditors review a sample of client fee invoices. |
Representing
Clients
At times, clients may request Boston Partners represent their interests in class action litigation, bankruptcies or other matters. Boston Partners’ expertise lies in investment management and has an inherent conflict of interest if cast in any other role. When possible, Boston Partners’ investment management agreements include provisions that Boston Partners will not act on behalf of the client in class actions, bankruptcies or matters of litigation. |
Outside Business
Activities
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Partners requires all employees to disclose any outside employment to the CD, who, in conjunction with the employee’s supervisor and the Director of HR, will identify any potential conflicts. In the event that a resolution to the conflict cannot be reached, the employee may be asked to terminate either his outside employment or his position with Boston Partners. |
Business Gifts and
Entertainment
Boston Partners employees periodically give or receive gifts from clients. Boston Partners employees host clients or receive entertainment provided by a client. Such gifts or entertainment may be considered efforts to gain unfair advantage. Boston Partners maintains a gifts and entertainment policy and has developed a “Q&A” guide for employees regarding certain types of gifts and entertainment. Generally, employees are not permitted to give or receive gifts of more than $100 in value, per person, per year. Entertainment that is normal or customary in the industry is considered appropriate. Employees should consult the CD if they are unsure about a particular gift or value of entertainment. |
Illegal or
Unethical Behavior
Unethical or illegal conduct by employees damages Boston Partners’ ability to meet its fiduciary duties to clients. Employees are required to report to management any actual or suspected illegal or unethical conduct on the part of other employees of which they become aware or any situations in which they are concerned about the “best course of action.” In addition, employees are required to certify annually that they are in compliance with this Manual. Regardless of whether a government inquiry occurs, Boston Partners views seriously any violation of this Manual. Disciplinary sanctions may be imposed on any employee committing a violation of this Manual. |
Proxy Voting
Boston Partners’ proxy voting authority for its clients, puts it in a position where its interests may conflict with the best interests of its clients when determining how to vote. Boston Partners has a proxy voting policy and has engaged an outside vendor to execute proxies according to this policy. Boston Partners has a procedure to handle conflicts of interest which may arise in voting client securities. |
Consulting
Relationships
Boston Partners may purchase software, educational programs and peer group information from consulting firms that represent Boston Partners clients. Due to the lack of payment transparency, these relationships could give rise to improper activity on the part of the investment adviser or the consultant. Products purchased from consultants must serve a legitimate need for Boston Partners’ business and may not be acquired to influence a consultant’s recommendation of Boston Partners. |
Causeway: The portfolio managers also manage their own personal accounts and other accounts, including accounts for corporations, pension plans, public retirement plans, sovereign wealth funds, superannuation funds, Taft-Hartley pension plans, endowments and foundations, mutual funds and other collective investment vehicles, charities, private trusts and funds, wrap fee programs, and other institutions (collectively, “Other Accounts”). In managing certain of the Other Accounts, the portfolio managers employ investment strategies similar to those used in managing the Fund, subject to certain variations in investment restrictions. The portfolio managers purchase and sell securities for the Fund that they also recommend to Other Accounts. The portfolio managers at times give advice or take action with respect to certain accounts that differs from the advice given other accounts with similar investment strategies. Certain of the Other Accounts may pay higher or lower management fee rates than the Fund or pay performance-based fees to Causeway. All of the portfolio managers have personal investments in one or more mutual funds sponsored and managed by Causeway. Ms. Ketterer and Mr. Hartford each holds (through estate planning vehicles) a controlling voting interest in Causeway’s parent holding company and Messrs. Doyle, Eng, Muldoon, Corwith and Valentini, and Ms. Lee (directly or through estate planning vehicles) have minority ownership interests in Causeway’s parent holding company. | |
Actual or potential conflicts of interest arise from the portfolio managers’ management responsibilities with respect to the Other Accounts and their own personal accounts. These responsibilities may cause portfolio managers to devote unequal time and attention across client accounts and the differing fees, incentives and relationships with the various accounts provide incentives to favor certain accounts. Causeway has written compliance policies and procedures designed to mitigate or manage these conflicts of interest. These include policies and procedures to seek fair and equitable allocation of investment opportunities (including IPOs and new issues) and trade allocations among all client accounts and policies and procedures concerning the disclosure and use of portfolio transaction information. Causeway also has a Code of Ethics which, among other things, limits personal trading by portfolio managers and other employees of Causeway. There is no guarantee that any such policies or procedures will cover every situation in which a conflict of interest arises. |
Columbia Management: Like other investment professionals with multiple clients, a Fund’s portfolio manager(s) may face certain potential conflicts of interest in connection with managing both the Fund and other accounts at the same time. The Investment Manager and the Funds have adopted compliance policies and procedures that attempt to address certain of the potential conflicts that portfolio managers face in this regard. Certain of these conflicts of interest are summarized below. |
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The management of accounts with different advisory fee rates and/or fee structures, including accounts that pay advisory fees based on account performance (performance fee accounts), may raise potential conflicts of interest for a portfolio manager by creating an incentive to favor higher fee accounts. | |
Potential conflicts of interest also may arise when a portfolio manager has personal investments in other accounts that may create an incentive to favor those accounts. As a general matter and subject to the Investment Manager’s Code of Ethics and certain limited exceptions, the Investment Manager’s investment professionals do not have the opportunity to invest in client accounts, other than the funds. | |
A portfolio manager who is responsible for managing multiple funds and/or accounts may devote unequal time and attention to the management of those Funds and/or accounts. The effects of this potential conflict may be more pronounced where Funds and/or accounts managed by a particular portfolio manager have different investment strategies. | |
A portfolio manager may be able to select or influence the selection of the broker/dealers that are used to execute securities transactions for the Funds. A portfolio manager’s decision as to the selection of broker/dealers could produce disproportionate costs and benefits among the Funds and the other accounts the portfolio manager manages. | |
A potential conflict of interest may arise when a portfolio manager buys or sells the same securities for a Fund and other accounts. On occasions when a portfolio manager considers the purchase or sale of a security to be in the best interests of a Fund as well as other accounts, the Investment Manager’s trading desk may, to the extent consistent with applicable laws and regulations, aggregate the securities to be sold or bought in order to obtain the best execution and lower brokerage commissions, if any. Aggregation of trades may create the potential for unfairness to a Fund or another account if a portfolio manager favors one account over another in allocating the securities bought or sold. The Investment Manager and its Participating Affiliates (including Threadneedle) may coordinate their trading operations for certain types of securities and transactions pursuant to personnel-sharing agreements or similar intercompany arrangements. However, typically the Investment Manager does not coordinate trading activities with a Participating Affiliate with respect to accounts of that Participating Affiliate unless such Participating Affiliate is also providing trading services for accounts managed by the Investment Manager. Similarly, a Participating Affiliate typically does not coordinate trading activities with the Investment Manager with respect to accounts of the Investment Manager unless the Investment Manager is also providing trading services for accounts managed by such Participating Affiliate. As a result, it is possible that the Investment Manager and its Participating Affiliates may trade in the same instruments at the same time, in the same or opposite direction or in different sequence, which could negatively impact the prices paid by the Fund on such instruments. Additionally, in circumstances where trading services are being provided on a coordinated basis for the Investment Manager’s accounts (including the Funds) and the accounts of one or more Participating Affiliates in accordance with applicable law, it is possible that the allocation opportunities available to the Funds may be decreased, especially for less actively traded securities, or orders may take longer to execute, which may negatively impact Fund performance. | |
“Cross trades,” in which a portfolio manager sells a particular security held by a Fund to another account (potentially saving transaction costs for both accounts), could involve a potential conflict of interest if, for example, a portfolio manager is permitted to sell a security from one account to another account at a higher price than an independent third party would pay. The Investment Manager and the Funds have adopted compliance procedures that provide that any transactions between a Fund and another account managed by the Investment Manager are to be made at a current market price, consistent with applicable laws and regulations. | |
Another potential conflict of interest may arise based on the different investment objectives and strategies of a Fund and other accounts managed by its portfolio manager(s). Depending on another account’s objectives and other factors, a portfolio manager may give advice to and make decisions for a Fund that may differ from advice given, or the timing or nature of decisions made, with respect to another account. A portfolio manager’s investment decisions are the product of many factors in addition to basic suitability for the particular account involved. Thus, a portfolio manager may buy or sell a particular security for certain accounts, and not for a Fund, even though it could have been bought or sold for the Fund at the same time. A portfolio manager also may buy a particular security for one or more accounts when one or more other accounts are selling the security (including short sales). There may be circumstances when a portfolio manager’s purchases or sales of portfolio securities for one or more accounts may have an adverse effect on other accounts, including the Funds. | |
To the extent a Fund invests in underlying funds, a portfolio manager will be subject to the potential conflicts of interest described in Potential Conflicts of Interest – Columbia Management – FOF (Fund-of-Funds) below. | |
A Fund’s portfolio manager(s) also may have other potential conflicts of interest in managing the Fund, and the description above is not a complete description of every conflict that could exist in managing the Fund and other accounts. Many of the potential conflicts of interest to which the Investment Manager’s portfolio managers are subject are essentially the same or similar to the potential conflicts of interest related to the investment management activities of the Investment Manager and its affiliates. |
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Columbia Management – FoF (Fund-of-Funds): Management of funds-of-funds differs from that of the other Funds. The portfolio management process is set forth generally below and in more detail in the Funds’ prospectus. | |
Portfolio managers of the fund-of-funds may be involved in determining each funds-of-fund’s allocation among the three main asset classes (equity, fixed income and cash) and the allocation among investment categories within each asset class, as well as each funds-of-fund’s allocation among the underlying funds. |
■ | Because of the structure of the funds-of-funds, the potential conflicts of interest for the portfolio managers may be different than the potential conflicts of interest for portfolio managers who manage other Funds. |
■ | The Investment Manager and its affiliates may receive higher compensation as a result of allocations to underlying funds with higher fees. |
Conestoga: Like other investment professionals with multiple clients, portfolio managers may face certain potential conflicts of interest in connection with managing both the portion of the Fund’s assets allocated to Conestoga (Conestoga’s Sleeve) and other accounts at the same time. Conestoga has adopted compliance policies and procedures that attempt to address certain of the potential conflicts that Conestoga’s portfolio managers face in this regard. Certain of those conflicts of interest are summarized below. | |
The management of accounts with different advisory or sub-advisory fee rates and/or fee and expense structures may raise certain potential conflicts of interest for a portfolio manager by creating an incentive to favor higher fee, or higher profit margin accounts. | |
Potential conflicts of interest also may arise when a portfolio manager has personal investments in other accounts that may create an incentive to favor those accounts. A portfolio manager who is responsible for managing multiple funds and/or accounts may devote unequal time and attention to the management of those funds and/or accounts. The effects of this potential conflict may be more pronounced where funds and/or accounts managed by a particular portfolio manager have different investment strategies. | |
A portfolio manager may be able to select or influence the selection of the broker-dealers that are used to execute securities transactions for a fund. A portfolio manager’s decision as to the selection of broker-dealers could produce disproportionate costs and benefits among Conestoga’s Sleeve and the other accounts the portfolio manager manages. | |
A potential conflict of interest may arise when a portfolio manager buys or sells the same securities for the Conestoga’s Sleeve and other accounts. On occasions when a portfolio manager considers the purchase or sale of a security to be in the best interests of Conestoga’s Sleeve as well as other accounts, the Conestoga’s trading desk may, to the extent consistent with applicable laws and regulations, aggregate the securities to be sold or bought in order to obtain the best execution and lower brokerage commissions, if any. Aggregation of trades may create the potential for unfairness to Conestoga’s Sleeve or the Fund or another account if a portfolio manager favors one account over another in allocating the securities bought or sold. | |
“Cross trades,” in which a portfolio manager sells a particular security held by Conestoga’s Sleeve to another account (potentially saving transaction costs for both accounts), could involve a potential conflict of interest if, for example, a portfolio manager is permitted to sell a security from one account to another account at a higher price than an independent third party would pay. The Investment Manager has adopted compliance procedures that provide that any transactions between the Fund and another account managed by Conestoga are to be made at a current market price, consistent with applicable laws and regulations. | |
Another potential conflict of interest may arise based on the different investment objectives and strategies of Conestoga’s Sleeve and other accounts managed by its portfolio manager(s). Depending on another account’s objectives and other factors, a portfolio manager may give advice to and make decisions for Conestoga’s Sleeve that may differ from advice |
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given, or the timing or nature of decisions made, with respect to another account. A portfolio manager’s investment decisions are the product of many factors in addition to basic suitability for the particular account involved. Thus, a portfolio manager may buy or sell a particular security for certain accounts, and not for Conestoga’s Sleeve, even though it could have been bought or sold for Conestoga’s Sleeve at the same time. A portfolio manager also may buy a particular security for one or more accounts when one or more other accounts are selling the security. There may be circumstances when a portfolio manager’s purchases or sales of portfolio securities for one or more accounts may have an adverse effect on other accounts, including the Fund. | |
The portfolio manager(s) also may have other potential conflicts of interest in managing Conestoga’s Sleeve, and the description above is not a complete description of every conflict that could exist in managing Conestoga’s Sleeve and other accounts. Many of the potential conflicts of interest to which the Conestoga’s portfolio managers are subject are essentially the same or similar to the potential conflicts of interest related to the investment management activities of the Investment Manager or other subadvisers of the Fund. | |
Columbia WAM: Like other investment professionals with multiple clients, a Fund’s portfolio manager(s) may face certain potential conflicts of interest in connection with managing both the Fund and other accounts at the same time. Columbia WAM and the Funds have adopted compliance policies and procedures that attempt to address certain of the potential conflicts that portfolio managers face in this regard. Certain of these conflicts of interest are summarized below. | |
The management of accounts with different advisory fee rates and/or fee structures may raise potential conflicts of interest for a portfolio manager by creating an incentive to favor higher fee accounts. | |
Potential conflicts of interest also may arise when a portfolio manager has personal investments in other accounts that may create an incentive to favor those accounts. As a general matter and subject to the Investment Manager’s Code of Ethics and certain limited exceptions, the Investment Manager’s investment professionals do not have the opportunity to invest in client accounts, other than the funds managed by Columbia WAM. | |
A portfolio manager who is responsible for managing multiple funds and/or accounts may devote unequal time and attention to the management of those funds and/or accounts. The effects of this potential conflict may be more pronounced where funds and/or accounts managed by a particular portfolio manager have different investment strategies. | |
A portfolio manager may be able to select or influence the selection of the broker/dealers that are used to execute securities transactions for the Funds. A portfolio manager’s decision as to the selection of broker/dealers could produce disproportionate costs and benefits among the Funds and the other accounts the portfolio manager manages. | |
A potential conflict of interest may arise when a portfolio manager buys or sells the same securities for a Fund and other accounts. On occasions when a portfolio manager considers the purchase or sale of a security to be in the best interests of a Fund as well as other accounts, Columbia WAM’s trading desk may, to the extent consistent with applicable laws and regulations, aggregate the securities to be sold or bought in order to obtain the best execution and lower brokerage commissions, if any. Aggregation of trades may create the potential for unfairness to a Fund or another account if a portfolio manager favors one account over another in allocating the securities bought or sold. | |
“Cross trades,” in which a portfolio manager sells a particular security held by a Fund to another account (potentially saving transaction costs for both accounts), could involve a potential conflict of interest if, for example, a portfolio manager is permitted to sell a security from one account to another account at a higher price than an independent third party would pay. Columbia WAM and the Funds have adopted compliance procedures that provide that any transactions between the Fund and another account managed by Columbia WAM are to be made at an independent current market price, consistent with applicable laws and regulation. | |
Another potential conflict of interest may arise based on the different investment objectives and strategies of a Fund and other accounts managed by its portfolio manager(s). Depending on another account’s objectives and other factors, a portfolio manager may give advice to and make decisions for a Fund that may differ from advice given, or the timing or nature of decisions made, with respect to another account. A portfolio manager’s investment decisions are the product of many factors in addition to basic suitability for the particular account involved. Thus, a portfolio manager may buy or sell a particular security for certain accounts, and not for a Fund, even though it could have been bought or sold for the Fund at the same time. A portfolio manager also may buy a particular security for one or more accounts when one or more other accounts are selling the security (including short sales). There may be circumstances when a portfolio manager’s purchases or sales of portfolio securities for one or more accounts may have an adverse effect on other accounts, including the Funds. | |
A Fund’s portfolio manager(s) also may have other potential conflicts of interest in managing the Fund, and the description above is not a complete description of every conflict that could be deemed to exist in managing both the Fund and other accounts. Many of the potential conflicts of interest to which Columbia WAM’s portfolio managers are subject are essentially the same as or similar to the potential conflicts of interest related to the investment management activities of Columbia WAM and its affiliates. |
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DGHM: The portfolio managers’ management of “other accounts” may give rise to potential conflicts of interest in connection with their management of the investments of the portion of the Fund’s assets allocated to DGHM (DGHM’s Sleeve), on the one hand, and the investments of the other accounts, on the other. The other accounts include hedge funds, separately managed private clients and discretionary 401(k) accounts (“Other Accounts”). The Other Accounts might have similar investment objectives as the Fund, be compared to the same index as the Fund, or otherwise hold, purchase, or sell securities that are eligible to be held, purchased, or sold by DGHM’s Sleeve. | |
Knowledge of the Timing and Size of Fund Trades . A potential conflict of interest may arise as a result of the portfolio managers’ day-to-day management of DGHM’s Sleeve. The portfolio managers know the size and timing of trades for DGHM’s Sleeve and the Other Accounts, and may be able to predict the market impact of the DGHM’s Sleeve trades. It is theoretically possible that the portfolio managers could use this information to the advantage of Other Accounts they manage and to the possible detriment of DGHM’s Sleeve, or vice versa. | |
Investment Opportunities. DGHM provides investment supervisory services for a number of investment products that have varying investment guidelines. The same portfolio management team works across all investment products. Differences in the compensation structures of DGHM’s investment products may give rise to a conflict of interest by creating an incentive for DGHM to allocate the investment opportunities it believes might be the most profitable to the client accounts where it might benefit the most from the investment gains. |
EAM: The portfolio manager is responsible for managing other accounts invested in the same strategy as the portion of the Fund’s assets allocated to EAM (EAM’s Sleeve). These other accounts include separately managed accounts for pension funds. In addition, other EAM portfolio managers manage accounts which have similar investment strategies and may invest in some of the same securities as EAM’s Sleeve or the Fund. | |
From time to time, potential conflicts of interest may arise between the portfolio manager’s management of the investments of EAM’s Sleeve, on the one hand, and the management of other accounts, on the other. For example, an investment opportunity may be suitable for both EAM’s Sleeve and other accounts, but may not be available in sufficient quantities for both EAM’s Sleeve and the other accounts to participate fully. Similarly, there may be limited opportunity to sell an investment held by EAM’s Sleeve and another account. Whenever decisions are made to buy or sell securities by EAM’s Sleeve and one or more of the other accounts simultaneously, EAM or the portfolio managers may aggregate the purchases and sales of the securities and will allocate the securities transactions in a manner that it believes to be equitable under the circumstances. As a result of the allocations, there may be instances when EAM’s Sleeve will not participate in a transaction that is allocated among other accounts or that may not be allocated the full amount of the securities sought to be traded. Another potential conflict may arise when a portfolio manager may have an incentive to allocate opportunities to an account where EAM and the portfolio manager have a greater financial incentive, such as a performance fee account. | |
EAM has implemented specific policies and procedures ( e.g. , a code of ethics and trade allocation policies) that seek to address these potential conflicts. | |
Loomis Sayles: Conflicts of interest may arise in the allocation of investment opportunities and the allocation of aggregated orders among the Funds and other accounts managed by the portfolio managers. A portfolio manager potentially could give favorable treatment to some accounts for a variety of reasons, including favoring larger accounts, accounts that pay higher fees, accounts that pay performance-based fees, accounts of affiliated companies and accounts in which the portfolio manager has an interest. Such favorable treatment could lead to more favorable investment opportunities or allocations for some accounts. Loomis Sayles makes investment decisions for all accounts (including institutional accounts, mutual funds, hedge funds and affiliated accounts) based on each account’s availability of other comparable investment opportunities and Loomis Sayles’ desire to treat all accounts fairly and equitably over time. Loomis Sayles maintains trade allocation and aggregation policies and procedures to address these potential conflicts. Conflicts of interest also may arise to the extent a portfolio manager short sells a stock in one client account but holds that stock long in other accounts, including the Funds, or sells a stock for some accounts while buying the stock for others, and through the use of “soft dollar arrangements,” which are discussed in Loomis Sayles’ Brokerage Allocation Policies and Procedures and Loomis Sayles’ Trade Aggregation and Allocation Policies and Procedures. |
Los Angeles Capital : Los Angeles Capital has implemented policies and procedures, including brokerage and trade allocation policies and procedures, which the firm believes are reasonably designed to address the potential for conflicts of interest associated with managing portfolios for multiple clients and that seek to treat all clients fairly and equally over time. Client accounts are managed independent of one another in accordance with client specific mandates, restrictions, and instructions as outlined in the investment management agreement. This can result in investment positions or actions taken for one client account that differ from those taken in another client account. Accordingly, one client account can engage in short sales of or take a short position in an investment that at the same time is owned or being purchased long by another client account. These positions and actions can adversely affect or benefit different clients at different times. |
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Since client accounts have different investment strategies, objectives, restrictions, constraints, launch dates, and overlapping benchmark constituents, it is possible that Los Angeles Capital may be purchasing or holding a security for one account and simultaneously selling the same security for another account. Additionally, it is possible for the Firm to purchase or sell the same security for different accounts during the same trading day but at differing execution prices. This is because trade waves created using Los Angeles Capital’s Wave Optimization algorithm are often specific to a particular account and use live market prices as a primary wave creation determinant. A wave traded for one account or group of accounts at a particular time in the day may have a different profit/loss profile (trade decision variable) than a wave traded for another account or group of accounts at a different time of the same day, but the same security may be traded as part of both waves, resulting in different trade execution prices. |
While each client account is managed individually, Los Angeles Capital may, at any given time, purchase and/or sell the same security in a block that is allocated among multiple accounts. There are a number of variables that can influence a decision to aggregate purchases or sales into a block, including but not limited to, liquidity, client trading directives, regulatory limitations, and cash flows. When there is decision making on whether to include or exclude certain accounts from a block transaction, there is always the potential for conflicts of interest. Los Angeles Capital’s policies and procedures in allocating trades are structured to treat all clients fairly. |
Los Angeles Capital is not required to aggregate any particular trade. For example, an account with directed brokerage may not participate in certain block trades. |
Los Angeles Capital’s portfolio managers may manage accounts that are charged a performance-based fee alongside accounts with standard asset-based fee schedules. While performance-based fee arrangements may be viewed as creating an incentive to favor certain accounts over others in the allocation of investment opportunities, Los Angeles Capital has designed and implemented procedures to ensure that all clients are treated fairly and equally, and to prevent conflicts from influencing the allocation of investment opportunities. Performance fees are not allocated to specific employees or groups of employees at the firm. Further, Los Angeles Capital employs a quantitative investment process which utilizes the firm’s proprietary investment model technology to identify securities and construct accounts. Finally, clients’ fee schedules do not factor into the account construction process which mitigates the risks otherwise associated with accounts that provide performance fees. |
Based on a variety of factors including the strategy, guidelines, and turnover goals employed by each account, Los Angeles Capital determines the trading frequency of an account with most accounts trading weekly and others less frequently. In a typical week, Los Angeles Capital will begin by trading its U.S. strategy accounts followed by its non-U.S. strategy accounts. An account’s rebalance cycle is dependent on the account’s strategy. Rebalances for U.S. strategy accounts are regularly rotated and generally begin on the same day, while the order of non-U.S. strategy account rebalances may be regularly rotated over several days. The firm’s proprietary accounts, which are invested in liquid securities, may be traded in rotation with client accounts or on a particular day of the week depending on liquidity, size, model constraints, and resource constraints. Investment personnel of the firm or its affiliates may be permitted to be commercially or professionally involved with an issuer of securities. Any potential conflicts of interest from such involvement would be monitored for compliance with the firm’s Code of Ethics. |
Los Angeles Capital has adopted a Code of Ethics that includes procedures on ethical conduct and personal trading and requires pre-clearance authorization from both the Trading and Compliance Departments for certain personal security transactions. Investment personnel of Los Angeles Capital or its affiliate may be permitted to be commercially or professionally involved with an issuer of securities. There is a potential risk that Los Angeles Capital personnel may place their own interests (resulting from outside employment/directorships) ahead of the interests of Los Angeles Capital clients. Before engaging in any outside business activity, employees must obtain approval of the Chief Compliance Officer as well as other personnel. Any potential conflicts of interest from such involvement are monitored for compliance with Los Angeles Capital’s Code of Ethics. The Code of Ethics also prohibits from soliciting, giving or accepting inappropriate gifts and entertainment. |
Manulife : When a portfolio manager is responsible for the management of more than one account, the potential arises for the portfolio manager to favor one account over another. The principal types of potential conflicts of interest that may arise are discussed below. For the reasons outlined below, the Fund does not believe that any material conflicts are likely to arise out of a portfolio manager‘s responsibility for the management of the Fund as well as one or more other accounts. Manulife has adopted procedures that are intended to monitor compliance with the policies referred to in the following paragraphs. Generally, the risks of such conflicts of interests are increased to the extent that a portfolio manager has a financial incentive to favor one account over another. Manulife has structured their compensation arrangements in a manner that is intended to limit such potential for conflicts of interests. See ―Compensation of Portfolio Managers below. |
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A portfolio manager could favor one account over another in allocating new investment opportunities that have limited supply, such as initial public offerings and private placements. If, for example, an initial public offering that was expected to appreciate in value significantly shortly after the offering was allocated to a single account, that account may be expected to have better investment performance than other accounts that did not receive an allocation on the initial public offering. Manulife has policies that require a portfolio manager to allocate such investment opportunities in an equitable manner and generally to allocate such investments proportionately among all accounts with similar investment objectives. | |
A portfolio manager could favor one account over another in the order in which trades for the accounts are placed. If a portfolio manager determines to purchase a security for more than one account in an aggregate amount that may influence the market price of the security, accounts that purchased or sold the security first may receive a more favorable price than accounts that made subsequent transactions. The less liquid the market for the security or the greater the percentage that the proposed aggregate purchases or sales represent of average daily trading volume, the greater the potential for accounts that make subsequent purchases or sales to receive a less favorable price. When a portfolio manager intends to trade the same security for more than one account, the policies of Manulife generally require that such trades be “bunched”, which means that the trades for the individual accounts are aggregated and each account receives the same price. There are some types of accounts as to which bunching may not be possible for contractual reasons (such as directed brokerage arrangements). Circumstances may also arise where the trader believes that bunching the orders may not result in the best possible price. Where those accounts or circumstances are involved, Manulife will place the order in a manner intended to result in as favorable a price as possible for such client. | |
A portfolio manager could favor an account if the portfolio manager‘s compensation is tied to the performance of that account rather than all accounts managed by the portfolio manager. If, for example, the portfolio manager receives a bonus based upon the performance of certain accounts relative to a benchmark while other accounts are disregarded for this purpose, the portfolio manager will have a financial incentive to seek to have the accounts that determine the portfolio manager‘s bonus achieve the best possible performance to the possible detriment of other accounts. Similarly, if Manulife receives a performance-based advisory fee, the portfolio manager may favor that account, whether or not the performance of that account directly determines the portfolio manager‘s compensation. The investment performance on specific accounts is not a factor in determining the portfolio manager‘s compensation. Neither the Advisor nor Manulife receives a performance-based fee with respect to any of the accounts managed by the portfolio managers. | |
A portfolio manager could favor an account if the portfolio manager has a beneficial interest in the account, in order to benefit a large client or to compensate a client that had poor returns. For example, if the portfolio manager held an interest in an investment partnership that was one of the accounts managed by the portfolio manager, the portfolio manager would have an economic incentive to favor the account in which the portfolio manager held an interest. Manulife imposes certain trading restrictions and reporting requirements for accounts in which a portfolio manager or certain family members have a personal interest in order to confirm that such accounts are not favored over other accounts. | |
If the different accounts have materially and potentially conflicting investment objectives or strategies, a conflict of interest may arise. For example, if a portfolio manager purchases a security for one account and sells the same security short for another account, such trading pattern could disadvantage either the account that is long or short. In making portfolio manager assignments, Manulife seeks to avoid such potentially conflicting situations. However, where a portfolio manager is responsible for accounts with differing investment objectives and policies, it is possible that the portfolio manager will conclude that it is in the best interest of one account to sell a portfolio security while another account continues to hold or increase the holding in such security. |
PGIM : Like other investment advisers, PGIM Fixed Income is subject to various conflicts of interest in the ordinary course of its business. PGIM Fixed Income strives to identify potential risks, including conflicts of interest, that are inherent in its business, and conducts annual conflict of interest reviews. When actual or potential conflicts of interest are identified, PGIM Fixed Income seeks to address such conflicts through one or more of the following methods: | |
elimination of the conflict; | |
disclosure of the conflict; or | |
management of the conflict through the adoption of appropriate policies, procedures or other mitigants. | |
PGIM Fixed Income follows the policies of Prudential Financial on business ethics, personal securities trading by investment personnel, and information barriers. PGIM Fixed Income has adopted a code of ethics, allocation policies and conflicts of interest policies, among others, and has adopted supervisory procedures to monitor compliance with its policies. PGIM Fixed Income cannot guarantee, however, that its policies and procedures will detect and prevent, or result in the disclosure of, each and every situation in which a conflict may arise. |
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Side-by-Side Management of Accounts and Related Conflicts of Interest. PGIM Fixed Income’s side-by-side management of multiple accounts can create conflicts of interest. Examples are detailed below, followed by a discussion of how PGIM Fixed Income addresses these conflicts. | |
Performance Fees - PGIM Fixed Income manages accounts with asset-based fees alongside accounts with performance-based fees. | |
This side-by-side management may be deemed to create an incentive for PGIM Fixed Income and its investment professionals to favor one account over another. Specifically, PGIM Fixed Income or its affiliates could be considered to have the incentive to favor accounts for which PGIM Fixed Income or an affiliate receives performance fees, and possibly take greater investment risks in those accounts, in order to bolster performance and increase its fees. | |
Affiliated accounts - PGIM Fixed Income manages accounts on behalf of its affiliates as well as unaffiliated accounts. PGIM Fixed Income could be considered to have an incentive to favor accounts of affiliates over others. | |
Large accounts - large accounts typically generate more revenue than do smaller accounts and certain of PGIM Fixed Income’s strategies have higher fees than others. As a result, a portfolio manager could be considered to have an incentive when allocating scarce investment opportunities to favor accounts that pay a higher fee or generate more income for PGIM Fixed Income. | |
Long only and long/short accounts - PGIM Fixed Income manages accounts that only allow it to hold securities long as well as accounts that permit short selling. PGIM Fixed Income may, therefore, sell a security short in some client accounts while holding the same security long in other client accounts. These short sales could reduce the value of the securities held in the long only accounts. In addition, purchases for long only accounts could have a negative impact on the short positions. | |
Securities of the same kind or class - PGIM Fixed Income sometimes buys or sells for one client account securities of the same kind or class that are purchased or sold for another client at prices that may be different. PGIM Fixed Income may also, at any time, execute trades of securities of the same kind or class in one direction for an account and in the opposite direction for another account due to differences in investment strategy or client direction. Different strategies trading in the same securities or types of securities may appear as inconsistencies in PGIM Fixed Income’s management of multiple accounts side-by-side. | |
Financial interests of investment professionals - PGIM Fixed Income investment professionals may invest in certain investment vehicles that it manages, including mutual funds and private funds. Also, certain of these investment vehicles are options under the 401(k) and deferred compensation plans offered by Prudential Financial, Inc. In addition, the value of grants under PGIM Fixed Income’s long-term incentive plan and targeted long-term incentive plan is affected by the performance of certain client accounts. As a result, PGIM Fixed Income investment professionals may have financial interests in accounts managed by PGIM Fixed Income or that are related to the performance of certain client accounts. | |
Non-discretionary accounts - PGIM Fixed Income provides non-discretionary investment advice to some clients and manages others on a discretionary basis. Trades in non-discretionary accounts could occur before, in concert with, or after PGIM Fixed Income executes similar trades in its discretionary accounts. The non-discretionary clients may be disadvantaged if PGIM Fixed Income delivers investment advice to them after it initiates trading for the discretionary clients, or vice versa. | |
How PGIM Fixed Income Addresses These Conflicts of Interest. PGIM Fixed Income has developed policies and procedures designed to address the conflicts of interest with respect to its different types of side-by-side management described above. | |
The chief investment officer/head of PGIM Fixed Income periodically reviews and compares performance and performance attribution for each client account within its various strategies during meetings typically attended by members of PGIM Fixed Income’s senior leadership team, chief compliance officer or his designee, and senior portfolio managers. | |
In keeping with PGIM Fixed Income’s fiduciary obligations, its policy with respect to trade aggregation and allocation is to treat all of its accounts fairly and equitably over time. PGIM Fixed Income’s trade management oversight committee, which generally meets quarterly, is responsible for providing oversight with respect to trade aggregation and allocation. Its compliance group periodically reviews a sampling of new issue allocations and related documentation to confirm compliance with the trade aggregation and allocation procedures. In addition, the compliance and investment risk management groups review forensic reports regarding new issue and secondary trade activity on a quarterly basis. This forensic analysis includes such data as the: (i) number of new issues allocated in the strategy; (ii) size of new issue allocations to each portfolio in the strategy;(iii) profitability of new issue transactions; and (iv) portfolio turnover. The results of these analyses are reviewed and discussed at PGIM Fixed Income’s trade management oversight committee meetings. The procedures above are designed to detect patterns and anomalies in PGIM Fixed Income’s side-by-side management and trading so that it may assess and improve its processes. |
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PGIM Fixed Income has procedures that specifically address its side-by-side management of long/short and long only portfolios. These procedures address potential conflicts that could arise from differing positions between long/short and long only portfolios. In addition, lending opportunities with respect to securities for which the market is demanding a slight premium rate over normal market rates are allocated to long only accounts prior to allocating the opportunities to long/short accounts. | |
Conflicts Related to PGIM Fixed Income’s Affiliations. As an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Prudential Financial, Inc., PGIM Fixed Income is part of a diversified, global financial services organization. PGIM Fixed Income is affiliated with many types of U.S. and non-U.S. financial service providers, including insurance companies, broker-dealers, commodity trading advisors, commodity pool operators and other investment advisers. Some of its employees are officers of some of these affiliates. | |
Conflicts Arising Out of Legal Restrictions. PGIM Fixed Income may be restricted by law, regulation, contract or other constraints as to how much, if any, of a particular security it may purchase or sell on behalf of a client, and as to the timing of such purchase or sale. Sometimes these restrictions apply as a result of its relationship with Prudential Financial, Inc. and its other affiliates. For example, PGIM Fixed Income does not purchase securities issued by Prudential Financial, Inc. for client accounts. In addition, PGIM Fixed Income’s holdings of a security on behalf of its clients are required, under some SEC rules, to be aggregated with the holdings of that security by other Prudential Financial, Inc. affiliates. These holdings could, on an aggregate basis, exceed certain reporting or ownership thresholds . Prudential Financial, Inc. tracks these aggregated holdings and may restrict purchases to avoid exceeding these thresholds because of the potential consequences to Prudential Financial, Inc. if such thresholds are exceeded. In addition, PGIM Fixed Income could receive material, non-public information with respect to a particular issuer and, as a result, be unable to execute transactions in securities of that issuer for its clients. For example, PGIM Fixed Income’s bank loan team often invests in private bank loans in connection with which the borrower provides material, non-public information, resulting in restrictions on trading securities issued by those borrowers. PGIM Fixed Income has procedures in place to carefully consider whether to intentionally accept material, non-public information with respect to certain issuers. PGIM Fixed Income is generally able to avoid receiving material, non-public information from its affiliates and other units within PGIM by maintaining information barriers. In some instances, it may create an isolated information barrier around a small number of its employees so that material, non-public information received by such employees is not attributed to the rest of PGIM Fixed Income. | |
Conflicts Related to Outside Business Activity. From time to time, certain of PGIM Fixed Income employees or officers may engage in outside business activity, including outside directorships. Any outside business activity is subject to prior approval pursuant to PGIM Fixed Income’s personal conflicts of interest and outside business activities policy. Actual and potential conflicts of interest are analyzed during such approval process. PGIM Fixed Income could be restricted in trading the securities of certain issuers in client portfolios in the unlikely event that an employee or officer, as a result of outside business activity, obtains material, non-public information regarding an issuer. | |
Conflicts Related to Investment of Client Assets in Affiliated Funds. PGIM Fixed Income may invest client assets in funds that it manages or subadvises for an affiliate. PGIM Fixed Income may also invest cash collateral from securities lending transactions in these funds. These investments benefit both PGIM Fixed Income and its affiliate. | |
PICA General Account. Because of the substantial size of the general account of The Prudential Insurance Company of America (PICA), trading by PICA’s general account, including PGIM Fixed Income’s trades on behalf of the account, may affect market prices. Although PGIM Fixed Income does not expect that PICA’s general account will execute transactions that will move a market frequently, and generally only in response to unusual market or issuer events, the execution of these transactions could have an adverse effect on transactions for or positions held by other clients. | |
Conflicts Related to Co-investment by Affiliates. PGIM Fixed Income affiliates may provide initial funding or otherwise invest in vehicles it manages. When an affiliate provides “seed capital” or other capital for a fund, it may do so with the intention of redeeming all or part of its interest at a future point in time or when it deems that sufficient additional capital has been invested in that fund. | |
The timing of a redemption by an affiliate could benefit the affiliate. For example, the fund may be more liquid at the time of the affiliate’s redemption than it is at times when other investors may wish to withdraw all or part of their interests. | |
In addition, a consequence of any withdrawal of a significant amount, including by an affiliate, is that investors remaining in the fund will bear a proportionately higher share of fund expenses following the redemption. | |
PGIM Fixed Income could also face a conflict if the interests of an affiliated investor in a fund it manages diverge from those of the fund or other investors. For example, PGIM Fixed Income affiliates, from time to time, hedge some or all of the risks associated with their investments in certain funds PGIM Fixed Income manages. PGIM Fixed Income may provide assistance in connection with this hedging activity. |
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PGIM Fixed Income believes that these conflicts are mitigated by its allocation policies and procedures, its supervisory review of accounts and its procedures with respect to side-by-side management of long only and long-short accounts. | |
Conflicts Arising Out of Industry Activities. PGIM Fixed Income and its affiliates have service agreements with various vendors that are also investment consultants. Under these agreements, PGIM Fixed Income or its affiliates compensate the vendors for certain services, including software, market data and technology services. PGIM Fixed Income’s clients may also retain these vendors as investment consultants. The existence of these service agreements may provide an incentive for the investment consultants to favor PGIM Fixed Income when they advise their clients. PGIM Fixed Income does not, however, condition its purchase of services from consultants upon their recommending PGIM Fixed Income to their clients. PGIM Fixed Income will provide clients with information about services that it obtains from these consultants upon request. | |
PGIM Fixed Income retains third party advisors and other service providers to provide various services for PGIM Fixed Income as well as for funds that PGIM Fixed Income manages or subadvises. A service provider may provide services to PGIM Fixed Income or one of PGIM Fixed Income’s funds while also providing services to other PGIM units, other PGIM-advised funds, or affiliates of PGIM, and may negotiate rates in the context of the overall relationship. PGIM Fixed Income may benefit from negotiated fee rates offered to its funds and vice versa. There is no assurance, however, that PGIM Fixed Income will be able to obtain advantageous fee rates from a given service provider negotiated by its affiliates based on their relationship with the service provider, or that PGIM Fixed Income will know of such negotiated fee rates. | |
Conflicts Related to Securities Holdings and Other Financial Interests. | |
Securities Holdings. Prudential Financial, Inc., PICA, PGIM Fixed Income and other affiliates of PGIM at times have financial interests in, or relationships with, companies whose securities PGIM Fixed Income holds, purchases or sells in its client accounts. Certain of these interests and relationships are material to PGIM Fixed Income or to the Prudential enterprise. At any time, these interests and relationships could be inconsistent or in potential or actual conflict with positions held or actions taken by us on behalf of PGIM Fixed Income’s client accounts. For example: | |
PGIM Fixed Income invests in the securities of one or more clients for the accounts of other clients. | |
PGIM Fixed Income’s affiliates sell various products and/or services to certain companies whose securities we purchase and sell for PGIM Fixed Income clients. | |
PGIM Fixed Income invests in the debt securities of companies whose equity is held by its affiliates. | |
PGIM Fixed Income’s affiliates hold public and private debt and equity securities of a large number of issuers and may invest in some of the same companies as other client accounts but at different levels in the capital structure. For example: | |
Affiliated accounts can hold the senior debt of an issuer whose subordinated debt is held by PGIM Fixed Income’s clients or hold secured debt of an issuer whose public unsecured debt is held in client accounts. In the event of restructuring or insolvency, the affiliated accounts as holders of senior debt may exercise remedies and take other actions that are not in the interest of, or are adverse to, other clients that are the holders of junior debt. | |
To the extent permitted by applicable law, PGIM Fixed Income may also invest client assets in offerings of securities the proceeds of which are used to repay debt obligations held in affiliated accounts or other client accounts. PGIM Fixed Income’s interest in having the debt repaid creates a conflict of interest. PGIM Fixed Income has adopted a refinancing policy to address this conflict. | |
Certain of PGIM Fixed Income’s affiliates (as well as directors or officers of its affiliates) are officers or directors of issuers in which PGIM Fixed Income invests from time to time. These issuers may also be service providers to PGIM Fixed Income or its affiliates. | |
In addition, PGIM Fixed Income may invest client assets in securities backed by commercial mortgage loans that were originated or are serviced by an affiliate. | |
In general, conflicts related to the financial interests described above are addressed by the fact that PGIM Fixed Income makes investment decisions for each client independently considering the best economic interests of such client. | |
Conflicts Related to the Offer and Sale of Securities. Certain of PGIM Fixed Income’s employees may offer and sell securities of, and interests in, commingled funds that it manages or subadvises. There is an incentive for PGIM Fixed Income’s employees to offer these securities to investors regardless of whether the investment is appropriate for such investor since increased assets in these vehicles will result in increased advisory fees to it. In addition, such sales could result in increased compensation to the employee. | |
Conflicts Related to Long-Term Compensation. The performance of many client accounts is not reflected in the calculation of changes in the value of participation interests under PGIM Fixed Income’s long-term incentive plan. This may be because the composite representing the strategy in which the account is managed is not one of the composites included in the calculation or because the account is excluded from a specified composite due to guideline restrictions or other factors. In |
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addition, the performance of only a small number of our investment strategies is covered under PGIM Fixed Income’s targeted long-term incentive plan. As a result of the long-term incentive plan and targeted long-term incentive plan, PGIM Fixed Income’s portfolio managers from time to time have financial interests related to the investment performance of some, but not all, of the accounts they manage. To address potential conflicts related to these financial interests, PGIM Fixed Income has procedures, including trade allocation and supervisory review procedures, designed to confirm that each of its client accounts is managed in a manner that is consistent with PGIM Fixed Income’s fiduciary obligations, as well as with the account’s investment objectives, investment strategies and restrictions. For example, PGIM Fixed Income’s chief investment officer/head reviews performance among similarly managed accounts on a quarterly basis during meetings typically attended by members of PGIM Fixed Income’s senior leadership team, chief compliance officer or his designee, and senior portfolio managers. | |
Conflicts Related to Trading – Personal Trading by Employees. Personal trading by PGIM Fixed Income employees creates a conflict when they are trading the same securities or types of securities as PGIM Fixed Income trades on behalf of its clients. This conflict is mitigated by PGIM Fixed Income’s personal trading standards and procedures. | |
In general, conflicts related to the securities holdings and financial interests described above are addressed by the fact that PGIM Fixed Income makes investment decisions for each client independently considering the best economic interests of such client. | |
Conflicts Related to Valuation and Fees. | |
When client accounts hold illiquid or difficult to value investments, PGIM Fixed Income faces a conflict of interest when making recommendations regarding the value of such investments since its management fees are generally based on the value of assets under management. PGIM Fixed Income believes that its valuation policies and procedures mitigate this conflict effectively and enable it to value client assets fairly and in a manner that is consistent with the client’s best interests. In addition, single client account clients often calculate fees based on the valuation of assets provided by their custodian or administrator. | |
Conflicts Related to Securities Lending Fees | |
When PGIM Fixed Income manages a client account and also serves as securities lending agent for the account, it could be considered to have the incentive to invest in securities that would yield higher securities lending rates. | |
TCW: TCW has policies and controls to avoid and/or mitigate conflicts of interest across its businesses. The policies and procedures in TCW’s Code of Ethics (the “Code”) serve to address or mitigate both conflicts of interest and the appearance of any conflict of interest. The Code contains several restrictions and procedures designed to eliminate conflicts of interest relating to personal investment transactions, including (i) reporting account openings, changes, or closings (including accounts in which an Access Person has a "beneficial interest"), (ii) pre-clearance of non-exempt personal investment transactions (make a personal trade request for Securities) and (iii) the completion of timely required reporting (Initial Holdings Report, Quarterly Transactions Report, Annual Holdings Report and Annual Certificate of Compliance). | |
In addition, the Code addresses potential conflicts of interest through its policies on insider trading, anti-corruption, an employee’s outside business activities, political activities and contributions, confidentiality and whistleblower provisions. | |
Conflicts of interest may also arise in the management of accounts and investment vehicles. These conflicts may raise questions that would allow TCW to allocate investment opportunities in a way that favors certain accounts or investment vehicles over other accounts or investment vehicles, or incentivize a TCW portfolio manager to receive greater compensation with regard to the management of certain account or investment vehicles. TCW may give advice or take action with certain accounts or investment vehicles that could differ from the advice given or action taken on other accounts or investment vehicles. When an investment opportunity is suitable for more than one account or investment vehicle, such investments will be allocated in a manner that is fair and equitable under the circumstances to all TCW clients. As such, TCW has adopted compliance policies and procedures in its Portfolio Management Policy that helps to identify a conflict of interest and then specifies how a conflict of interest is managed. TCW’s Trading and Brokerage Policy also discusses the process of timing and method of allocations, and addresses how the firm handles affiliate transactions. | |
The respective Equity and Fixed Income Trading and Allocation Committees review trading activities on behalf of client accounts, including the allocation of investment opportunities and address any issues with regard to side-by-side management in order to ensure that all of TCW’s clients are treated on a fair and equitable basis. Further, the Portfolio Analytics Committee reviews TCW’s investment strategies, evaluates various analytics to facilitate risk assessment, changes to performance composites and benchmarks and monitors the implementation and maintenance of the Global Investment Performance Standards or GIPS® compliance. | |
TCW’s approach to handling conflicts of interest is multi-layered starting with its policies and procedures, reporting and pre-clearance processes and oversight by various committees. |
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Threadneedle: Threadneedle portfolio managers may manage one or more mutual funds as well as other types of accounts, including proprietary accounts, separate accounts for institutions, and other pooled investment vehicles. Portfolio managers make investment decisions for an account or portfolio based on its investment objectives and policies, and other relevant investment considerations. A portfolio manager may manage a separate account or other pooled investment vehicle whose fees may be materially greater than the management fees paid by the Fund and may include a performance-based fee. Management of multiple funds and accounts may create potential conflicts of interest relating to the allocation of investment opportunities, and the aggregation and allocation of trades. In addition, a portfolio manager’s responsibilities at Threadneedle include working as a securities analyst. This dual role may give rise to conflicts with respect to making investment decisions for accounts that he/she manages versus communicating his/her analyses to other portfolio managers concerning securities that he/she follows as an analyst. | |
Threadneedle has a fiduciary responsibility to all of the clients for which it manages accounts. Threadneedle seeks to provide best execution of all securities transactions and to aggregate securities transactions and then allocate securities to client accounts in a fair and timely manner. Threadneedle has developed policies and procedures, including brokerage and trade allocation policies and procedures, designed to mitigate and manage the potential conflicts of interest that may arise from the management of multiple types of accounts for multiple clients. |
Water Island:
Water Island’s portfolio managers may face certain potential conflicts of interest in connection with their responsibility for managing multiple similar accounts. Other accounts may include, without limitation:
separately managed accounts, registered investment companies, unregistered investment companies such as pooled investment vehicles and hedge funds, and proprietary accounts. Management of multiple accounts can present certain conflicts of interest,
including variation in compensation across accounts, conflicts that may arise from the purchase or sale of similar securities for more than one account, conflicts arising from transactions between accounts, conflicts arising from transactions
involving ‘pilot’ funds, and conflicts arising from the selection of brokers and dealers to effect transactions. Water Island’s compliance team has implemented trading and allocation policies and oversight procedures in order to
closely monitor and ensure equitable treatment of all accounts to address these conflicts.
Variation in Compensation - A potential conflict of interest related to variation in compensation may arise where the financial or other benefits available to the portfolio manager differ among the accounts that they manage. A portfolio manager might be motivated to help certain accounts over others if the structure of the investment adviser’s management fee and/or the portfolio manager’s compensation differs among accounts (such as where certain accounts pay higher management fees or performance-based management fees), or if the portfolio manager or Water Island has a greater financial interest in one or more of the accounts. Similarly, the desire to maintain or raise assets under management or to enhance the portfolio manager’s performance record or to derive other rewards, financial or otherwise, could influence the portfolio manager to lend preferential treatment to those accounts that could most significantly benefit the portfolio manager. Purchase or Sale of Securities for More Than One Account - To address these and other potential conflicts of interest, Water Island has implemented policies and procedures designed to allocate securities among the various accounts it advises in a fair and equitable manner over time. In addition, Water Island has implemented processes for monitoring the effectiveness of these policies and procedures, including periodic reviews of allocations by its compliance department so as to help ensure equitable treatment. Water Island has also adopted policies and procedures to address certain additional conflicts specifically, as further described below. Cross Trades - “Cross trades,” in which one account sells a particular security to another account (saving transaction costs for both accounts), may also pose a potential conflict of interest. Conflicts may arise if, for example, one account is permitted to sell a security to another account at a higher price than an independent third party would pay, or if such trades result in more attractive investments being allocated to higher-fee accounts. In an effort to address this potential conflict of interest, Water Island has adopted compliance procedures that, consistent with applicable law, include Rule 17a-7 under the 1940 Act, provide that any transactions between the advised accounts are to be made for cash without payment of any commission, spread, or other type of brokerage costs and at an independent current market price. Proposed cross trade must be reviewed and approved by Water Island’s compliance department prior to execution. Pilot Funds - Water Island may from time to time establish “pilot” or “incubator” funds for the purpose of testing proposed investment strategies or products prior to accepting assets from outside investors. These pilot accounts may be in the form of registered investment companies, private funds such as partnerships, or separate accounts. Typically, Water Island or an affiliate supplies the funding for these accounts. Employees of Water Island, including the portfolio manager(s), may also invest in certain pilot accounts. Pilot funds and accounts may, and frequently do, invest in the same securities as the other accounts managed by Water Island. In an effort to address this potential conflict of interest, Water Island has adopted a policy to treat pilot accounts in the same manner as client accounts for purposes of trading allocation – neither favoring nor disfavoring them. For example, pilot accounts would be included in the daily block trade aggregation procedures alongside client accounts (except that pilot accounts do not participate in initial public offerings). |
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Selection of Brokers/Dealers - A portfolio manager may be able to select or influence the selection of the broker/dealers that are used to execute securities transactions. In addition to executing trades, some brokers and dealers provide Water Island with brokerage and research services (as those terms are defined in Section 28(e) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”)), which may result in the payment of higher brokerage fees than might have otherwise be available. These services may be more beneficial to certain accounts than to others. In order to be assured of continuing to receive services considered of value to its clients, Water Island has adopted a brokerage allocation policy embodying the concepts of Section 28(e) of the Exchange Act. A portfolio manager’s decision as to the selection of brokers and dealers could yield disproportionate costs and benefits among the accounts that they manage, although the payment of brokerage commissions is always subject to the requirement that Water Island determine in good faith that the commissions are reasonable in relation to the value of the brokerage and research services provided. |
The portfolio managers may also face other potential conflicts of interest in the management of multiple similar accounts, and the examples above are not intended to provide an exhaustive list or complete description of every conflict that may arise. |
AlphaSimplex : All AlphaSimplex investment professionals receive compensation according to a merit-based incentives structure. In addition to receiving competitive base salaries, employees are eligible for performance bonuses, which are based on both individual and firm performance. Performance is assessed on an annual basis by department heads. AlphaSimplex considers a number of factors—including risk-adjusted performance and intellectual contribution—when determining the bonus compensation of its investment professionals. Key professionals who have made significant and lasting contributions to the firm are invited to participate in a supplemental bonus pool reserved for partners of the firm. Partners are awarded claims on specific percentages of the firm’s annual profits. |
The Compensation Committee of the AlphaSimplex Board of Directors approves all bonus and partnership awards based on the recommendations of management. The total bonus pool is comprised of a staff bonus pool, which is generally set at 100% of base salaries, and a separate pool for partners, which is funded with any remainder and allocated among the partners based on their partnership interests. Accordingly, variable compensation makes up a significant portion of total remuneration, particularly for senior managers, whose bonuses can amount to between 100% and 600% of base compensation. To retain talent, AlphaSimplex defers a significant portion of bonus amounts for key professionals for up to three years. The deferred portion of bonuses is invested across all the strategies managed by AlphaSimplex. Finally, as a condition of employment, all AlphaSimplex employees agree to abide by non-compete/non-solicit/non-disclosure agreements. These agreements provide for a 12–36 month non-compete period in the event an employee leaves the firm. |
Portfolio manager compensation is a function of firm-wide profitability. Since AlphaSimplex’s approach to investment management is quantitative and systematic, Fund shareholder interests are less dependent on day-to-day portfolio manager decisions, but more a function of overall model performance over longer time periods. Therefore, strong long-term Fund performance goes hand-in-hand with long-term firm profitability and portfolio manager compensation. |
Analytic Investors: The compensation structure for WellsCap’s portfolio managers includes a competitive fixed base salary plus variable incentives, payable annually and over a longer term period. WellsCap participates in third party investment management compensation surveys in order to provide WellsCap with market-based compensation information to help support individual pay decisions.Incentive bonuses are typically tied to relative, pre-tax investment performance of all accounts under his or her management within acceptable risk parameters. Relative investment performance is generally evaluated for 1- 3- and 5- year performance results, with a predominant weighting on the 3- and 5- year time periods, versus the relevant benchmarks and/or peer groups consistent with the investment style. This evaluation takes into account relative performance of the accounts to each account’s individual benchmark and/or the relative composite performance of all accounts to one or more relevant benchmarks consistent with the overall investment style. Research analysts are evaluated on the overall team's relative investment performance as well as the performance and quality of their individual research. |
AQR : The compensation for each of the portfolio managers that is a Principal of AQR is in the form of distributions based on the net income generated by AQR and each Principal’s relative ownership in AQR. Net income distributions are a function of assets under management and performance of the funds and accounts managed by AQR. A Principal’s relative ownership in AQR is based on cumulative research, leadership and other contributions to AQR. There is no direct linkage between assets under management, performance and compensation. However, there is an indirect linkage in that superior performance tends to attract assets and thus increase revenues. Each portfolio manager is also eligible to participate in AQR’s 401(k) retirement plan which is offered to all employees of AQR. |
Arrowstreet : Arrowstreet’s compensation system is designed to attract, motivate and retain talented professionals. Arrowstreet’s compensation structure for investment professionals consists of a competitive base salary and bonus. Bonuses are paid on an annual basis. Bonus targets are set for each individual at each review period, typically the start of every year. |
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Baillie Gifford : Compensation arrangements within the Manager vary depending upon whether the individual is an employee or partner of Baillie Gifford & Co. | |
Employees of Baillie Gifford & Co. | |
A portfolio manager’s compensation generally consists of: | |
— base salary; | |
— a company-wide all staff bonus; | |
— a performance related bonus; and | |
— the standard retirement benefits and health and welfare benefits available to all Baillie Gifford & Co. employees. | |
A portfolio manager’s base salary is determined by the manager’s experience and performance in the role, taking into account the ongoing compensation benchmark analyses, and is generally a fixed amount that may change as a result of an annual review, upon assumption of new duties, or when a market adjustment of the position occurs. | |
A portfolio manager’s performance related bonus is determined by team and individual performance. Team performance will generally be measured on investment performance over a three or five year basis and is based on performance targets that are set and reviewed annually by the Chief of Investment Staff. | |
Individual performance will be determined by the individual’s line manager at the annual appraisal at which staff are assessed against key competencies and pre-agreed objectives. The bonus is paid on an annual basis. | |
A proportion of the performance related bonus is mandatorily deferred. Currently recipients defer between 20% and 40% of their performance related bonus. Awards will be deferred over a period of three years and will be invested in a range of funds managed by the Baillie Gifford Group. | |
Partners of Baillie Gifford & Co. | |
Jonathan Bates, Angus Franklin and Donald Farquharson are partners of Baillie Gifford & Co. | |
The remuneration of Baillie Gifford & Co. partners comprises Baillie Gifford & Co. partnership profits, which are distributed as: | |
— base salary; and | |
— a share of the partnership profits. | |
The profit share is calculated as a percentage of total partnership profits based on seniority and role within Baillie Gifford & Co. The basis for the profit share is detailed in the Baillie Gifford & Co. Partnership Agreement. | |
The main staff benefits such as pension schemes are not available to partners and therefore partners provide for benefits from their own personal funds. Partners in their first few years additionally receive a bonus. The bonuses are calculated in the same way as those for staff but exclude the deferred element. A proportion of the bonus paid will be retained to be used to buy capital shares in the partnership. |
BMO: Compensation for BMO’s portfolio managers consists of base salary, which is monitored to ensure competitiveness in the external marketplace. In addition to base salary, portfolio managers have a portion of their compensation tied to the investment performance of client accounts. The formula for each professional varies according to their level of portfolio responsibility and seniority. Investment professionals also may receive bonuses of restricted share units or other units linked to the performance of the Bank of Montreal, the indirect owner of BMO Asset Management Corp. |
Boston Partners : All investment professionals receive a compensation package comprised of an industry competitive base salary and a discretionary bonus and long-term incentives. Through our bonus program, key investment professionals are rewarded primarily for strong investment performance. |
Typically, bonuses are based upon a combination of one or more of the following four criteria: |
1. Individual Contribution: an evaluation of the professional’s individual contribution based on the expectations established at the beginning of each year; |
2. Product Investment Performance: performance of the investment product(s) with which the individual is involved versus the pre-designed index, based on the excess return; |
3. Investment Team Performance: the financial results of the investment group; and |
4. Firm-wide Performance: the overall financial performance of Boston Partners. |
Boston Partners professional compensation consultants with asset management expertise to annually review our practices to ensure that they remain highly competitive. |
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Causeway : Ms. Ketterer and Mr. Hartford, the chief executive officer and president of Causeway, respectively, receive annual salary and are entitled, as controlling owners of the firm’s parent holding company, to distributions of the holding company’s profits based on their ownership interests. They do not receive incentive compensation. The other portfolio managers receive salary and may receive incentive compensation (including potential cash, awards of growth units, or awards of equity units). Portfolio managers also receive, directly or through estate planning vehicles, distributions of profits based on their minority ownership interests in the firm’s parent holding company. Causeway’s Operating Committee, weighing a variety of objective and subjective factors, determines salary and incentive compensation and, subject to approval of the holding company’s Board of Managers, may award equity units. Portfolios are team-managed and salary and incentive compensation are not based on the specific performance the Fund or any single client account managed by Causeway. The performance of stocks selected for Fund and client portfolios within a particular industry or sector over a multi-year period relative to appropriate benchmarks will be relevant for portfolio managers assigned to that industry or sector. Causeway takes into account both quantitative and qualitative factors when determining the amount of incentive compensation awarded, including the following factors: individual research contribution, portfolio and team management contribution, group research contribution, and client service and recruiting contribution. | |
Columbia Management : Portfolio manager direct compensation is typically comprised of a base salary, and an annual incentive award that is paid either in the form of a cash bonus if the size of the award is under a specified threshold, or, if the size of the award is over a specified threshold, the award is paid in a combination of a cash bonus, an equity incentive award, and deferred compensation. Equity incentive awards are made in the form of Ameriprise Financial restricted stock, or for more senior employees both Ameriprise Financial restricted stock and stock options. The investment return credited on deferred compensation is based on the performance of specified Columbia Funds, in most cases including the Columbia Funds the portfolio manager manages. | |
Base salary is typically determined based on market data relevant to the employee’s position, as well as other factors including internal equity. Base salaries are reviewed annually, and increases are typically given as promotional increases, internal equity adjustments, or market adjustments. | |
Annual incentive awards are variable and are based on (1) an evaluation of the employee’s investment performance and (2) the results of a peer and/or management review of the employee, which takes into account skills and attributes such as team participation, investment process, communication, and professionalism. Scorecards are used to measure performance of Columbia Funds and other accounts managed by the employee versus benchmarks and/or peer groups. Performance versus benchmark and peer group is generally weighted for the rolling one, three, and five year periods. One year performance is weighted 10%, three year performance is weighted 60%, and five year performance is weighted 30%. Relative asset size is a key determinant for fund weighting on a scorecard. Typically, weighting would be proportional to actual assets. Consideration may also be given to performance in managing client assets in sectors and industries assigned to the employee as part of his/her investment team responsibilities, where applicable. For leaders who also have group management responsibilities, another factor in their evaluation is an assessment of the group’s overall investment performance. | |
Equity incentive awards are designed to align participants’ interests with those of the shareholders of Ameriprise Financial. Equity incentive awards vest over multiple years, so they help retain employees. | |
Deferred compensation awards are designed to align participants’ interests with the investors in the Columbia Funds and other accounts they manage. The value of the deferral account is based on the performance of Columbia Funds. Employees have the option of selecting from various Columbia Funds for their deferral account, however portfolio managers must allocate a minimum of 25% of their incentive awarded through the deferral program to the Columbia Fund(s) they manage. Deferrals vest over multiple years, so they help retain employees. | |
Exceptions to this general approach to bonuses exist for certain teams and individuals. Funding for the bonus pool is determined by management and depends on, among other factors, the levels of compensation generally in the investment management industry taking into account investment performance (based on market compensation data) and both Ameriprise Financial and Columbia Management profitability for the year, which is largely determined by assets under management. | |
For all employees the benefit programs generally are the same, and are competitive within the financial services industry. Employees participate in a wide variety of plans, including options in Medical, Dental, Vision, Health Care and Dependent Spending Accounts, Life Insurance, Long Term Disability Insurance, 401(k), and a cash balance pension plan. |
Conestoga: Each of the Fund’s portfolio managers is a partner of Conestoga. As such, each portfolio manager receives a share of Conestoga’s annual profits, as specified in the manager’s partnership agreement with Conestoga, from Conestoga’s management of the Fund and all other accounts. |
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Columbia WAM: Portfolio manager direct compensation is typically comprised of a base salary and an annual incentive award that is paid in a combination of a cash bonus, deferred compensation tied to the performance of specified Columbia Funds, and Ameriprise Financial equity incentive awards. | |
Base salary is typically determined based on market data relevant to the position, as well as other factors including tenure in the organization and broad contribution to the business. Base salaries are reviewed annually, and increases are typically given as promotional increases, internal equitable adjustments or market adjustments. | |
Annual incentive awards are variable and are based on (i) an evaluation of the individual’s investment performance relating to the funds or accounts the individual manages and, if applicable, relating to the individual’s work as an investment research analyst, and (ii) the results of a peer and/or management review of the individual, taking into account attributes such as team participation, investment process, communications, and professionalism. Investment performance of portfolios versus benchmark and/or peer group is generally weighted for the rolling one-, three- and five-year periods, with an emphasis on three-year performance. Consideration is given to the amount of assets the individual manages, and where multiple portfolios are managed, the relative weighting by assets is taken into account to assess overall performance. Where the individual also has responsibility as a research analyst, an assessment of their performance in that role is also taken into account. For leaders who have group management responsibilities, an assessment of the group’s overall investment performance is another factor considered. | |
Individual awards are determined by Columbia WAM’s senior management, subject to review by Columbia Management and Ameriprise Financial, from an aggregate annual incentive pool allocated by Columbia Management to Columbia WAM. Funding for the pool is determined annually by Columbia Management and Ameriprise Financial taking into account historical pool amounts, investment performance, Columbia WAM assets under management, and Columbia Management and Ameriprise Financial profitability for the year. | |
Deferred compensation awards are designed to align participants’ interests with those of investors in the Funds and other accounts they manage. The value of a deferred account is adjusted based on the performance of the funds selected by the participant from a list of specified Columbia Funds. Portfolio managers must allocate at least 50% of their deferred incentive awards to Columbia Acorn Funds, with at least 25% allocated to the specific Columbia Acorn Funds they manage. Deferrals vest over multiple years, so they help to retain employees. | |
Equity incentive awards are designed to align participants’ interests with those of the shareholders of Ameriprise Financial. Equity incentive awards vest over multiple years, so they help to retain employees. | |
Portfolio managers and other employees of Columbia WAM participate in a wide variety of benefit programs, including retirement savings and health insurance plans. | |
DGHM: The portfolio managers’ compensation varies with the general success of the firm. Each portfolio manager’s compensation consists of a fixed annual salary, plus additional remuneration based on assets under management. The portfolio managers’ compensation is not directly linked to the performance of the Fund or other accounts managed by the firm, although positive performance and growth in managed assets are factors that may contribute to distributable profits and assets under management. |
EAM: The portfolio manager’s compensation is comprised of a base salary, a revenue allocation and firm profit allocation. The salary is in-line with industry specific benchmarks. The revenue allocation is based on firm-wide revenue while the profit allocation is based on firm-wide profitability. There is no direct linkage between performance and compensation, however, there is an indirect linkage as superior performance tends to attract and retain assets and consequently increase revenues and profitability. |
Loomis Sayles: Loomis Sayles believes that portfolio manager compensation should be driven primarily by the delivery of consistent and superior long-term performance for its clients. Portfolio manager compensation is made up primarily of three main components: base salary, variable compensation and a long-term incentive program. Although portfolio manager compensation is not directly tied to assets under management, a portfolio manager’s base salary and/or variable compensation potential may reflect the amount of assets for which the manager is responsible relative to other portfolio managers. Loomis Sayles also offers a profit sharing plan. Base salary is a fixed amount based on a combination of factors, including industry experience, firm experience, job performance and market considerations. Variable compensation is an incentive-based component and generally represents a significant multiple of base salary. Variable compensation is based on four factors: investment performance, profit growth of the firm, profit growth of the manager’s business unit and personal conduct. Investment performance is the primary component of total variable compensation and generally represents at least 60% of the total for fixed-income managers and 70% for equity managers. The other three factors are used to determine the remainder of variable compensation, subject to the discretion of the Chief Investment Officer (“CIO”) and senior management. The CIO and senior management evaluate these other factors annually. |
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Equity Managers . While mutual fund performance and asset size do not directly contribute to the compensation calculation, investment performance for equity managers is measured by comparing the performance of Loomis Sayles’ institutional composites to the performance of the applicable Morningstar peer group and/or the Lipper universe. Generally speaking the performance of the respective product’s fund is compared against the applicable Morningstar peer group and/or the Lipper universe. To the extent the majority of assets managed in the fund strategy are for institutional separate accounts, the Evestment Alliance institutional peer group will also be used as an additional comparison. In situations where substantially all of the assets for the strategy are institutional, the institutional peer group will be used as the primary method of comparison. A manager’s performance relative to the peer group for the 1, 3 and 5 year periods, (3 and 5 or 10 years for large cap growth, all cap growth and global growth), or since the start of the manager’s tenure, if shorter, is used to calculate the amount of variable compensation payable due to performance. Longer-term performance is typically weighted more than shorter-term performance (1 year or 3 years for large cap growth, all cap growth and global growth). In addition, the performance measurement for equity compensation usually incorporates a consistency metric using longer term (3, 5, etc.) rolling returns compared to the peer group over a sustained measurement period (5, 7, etc.); however, the exact method may be adjusted to a product’s particular style. If a manager is responsible for more than one product, the rankings of each product are weighted based on relative revenue of accounts represented in each product. An external benchmark is used as a secondary comparison. The external benchmark used for the MM Growth Strategies Fund is the Russell 1000 Growth Index. Mr. Hamzaogullari also receives additional compensation based on revenue and performance hurdles for his strategies, and performance fee based compensation as portfolio manager for a private investment fund. | |
In cases where the institutional peer groups are used, Loomis Sayles believes they represent the most competitive product universe while closely matching the investment styles offered by the Loomis Sayles fund. | |
Fixed-Income Managers. While mutual fund performance and asset size do not directly contribute to the compensation calculation, investment performance for fixed-income managers is measured by comparing the performance of Loomis Sayles’ institutional composite (pre-tax and net of fees) in the manager’s style to the performance of an external benchmark and a customized peer group. The external benchmark used for the investment style utilized by each fund is noted below. The customized peer group is created by Loomis Sayles and is made up of institutional managers in the particular investment style. A manager’s relative performance for the past five years, or seven years for some products, is used to calculate the amount of variable compensation payable due to performance. To ensure consistency, Loomis Sayles analyzes the five or seven year performance on a rolling three year basis. If a manager is responsible for more than one product, the rankings of each product are weighted based on relative revenue size of accounts represented in each product. Loomis Sayles uses both an external benchmark and a customized peer group as a point of comparison for fixed-income manager performance because it believes they represent an appropriate combination of the competitive fixed-income product universe and the investment styles offered by Loomis Sayles. The external benchmark used for the MM Total Return Bond Strategies Fund is the Barclays U.S. Aggregate Index. | |
In addition to the compensation described above, portfolio managers may receive additional compensation based on the overall growth of their strategies. | |
General. Most mutual funds do not directly contribute to a portfolio manager’s overall compensation because Loomis Sayles’ uses the performance of the portfolio manager’s institutional accounts compared to an institutional peer group. However, each fund managed by Loomis Sayles employs strategies endorsed by Loomis Sayles and fits into the product category for the relevant investment style. Loomis Sayles may adjust compensation if there is significant dispersion among the returns of the composite and accounts not included in the composite. | |
Loomis Sayles has developed and implemented two distinct long-term incentive plans to attract and retain investment talent. The plans supplement existing compensation. The first plan has several important components distinguishing it from traditional equity ownership plans: |
■ | the plan grants units that entitle participants to an annual payment based on a percentage of company earnings above an established threshold; |
■ | upon retirement, a participant will receive a multi-year payout for his or her vested units; and |
■ | participation is contingent upon signing an award agreement, which includes a non-compete covenant. |
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Los Angeles Capital: Los Angeles Capital’s portfolio managers participate in a competitive compensation program that is aimed at attracting and retaining talented employees with an emphasis on disciplined risk management, ethics and compliance-centered behavior. No component of Los Angeles Capital’s compensation policy or payment scheme is tied directly to the performance of one or more client portfolios or funds. |
Each of Los Angeles Capital’s portfolio managers receives a base salary fixed from year to year. In addition, the portfolio managers participate in Los Angeles Capital’s profit sharing plan. The aggregate amount of the contribution to Los Angeles Capital’s profit sharing plan is based on overall firm profitability with amounts paid to individual employees based on their relative overall compensation. Each of the portfolio managers also are shareholders of Los Angeles Capital and receive compensation based upon the firm’s overall profits. Certain portfolio managers are also eligible to receive a discretionary bonus from Los Angeles Capital. |
Manulife : Manulife Asset Management has designed its compensation plan to effectively attract, retain and reward top investment talent. The incentive plan is designed to align and reward investment teams that deliver consistent value added performance for the company’s client and partners through world-class investment strategies and solutions. | |
Investment professionals are compensated with a combination of base salary and incentives as detailed below. | |
Base salaries | |
Base salaries are market-based and salary ranges are periodically reviewed. Individual salary adjustments are based on individual performance against mutually-agreed-upon objectives and development of technical skills. | |
Incentives — Short- and Long-Term | |
All investment professionals (including portfolio managers, analysts and traders) are eligible for participation in a short and long term investment incentive plan. These incentives are tied to performance against various objective and subjective measures, including: | |
Investment Performance — Performance of portfolios managed by the investment team. This is the most heavily weighted factor and it is measured relative to an appropriate benchmark or universe over established time periods. | |
Financial Performance — Performance of Manulife Asset Management and its parent corporation. | |
Non-Investment Performance — Derived from the contributions an investment professional brings to Manulife Asset Management. | |
Awards under this plan include: | |
Annual Cash Awards | |
Deferred Incentives — One hundred percent of this portion of the award is invested in strategies managed by the team/individual as well as other Manulife Asset Management strategies. | |
Manulife equity awards — Investment professionals that are considered officers of Manulife receive a portion of their award in Manulife Restricted Share Units (RSUs) or stock options. This plan is based on the value of the underlying common shares of Manulife. |
PGIM : The base salary of an investment professional in the PGIM Fixed Income unit of PGIM is based on market data relative to similar positions as well as the past performance, years of experience and scope of responsibility of the individual. Incentive compensation, including the annual cash bonus, the long-term equity grant and grants under PGIM Fixed Income’s long-term incentive plans, is primarily based on such person’s contribution to PGIM Fixed Income’s goal of providing investment performance to clients consistent with portfolio objectives, guidelines and risk parameters and market-based data such as compensation trends and levels of overall compensation for similar positions in the asset management industry. In addition, an investment professional’s qualitative contributions to the organization and its commercial success are considered in determining incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not solely based on the performance of, or value of assets in, any single account or group of client accounts. |
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An investment professional’s annual cash bonus is paid from an annual incentive pool. The pool is developed as a percentage of PGIM Fixed Income’s operating income and the percentage used to calculate the pool may be refined by factors such as: | |
- business initiatives; | |
- the number of investment professionals receiving a related peer group compensation; and | |
- investment performance of portfolios: (i) relative to appropriate peer groups and/or (ii) as measured against relevant investment indices. | |
Long-term compensation consists of Prudential Financial restricted stock and grants under the long-term incentive plan and targeted long-term incentive plan. Grants under the long-term incentive plan and targeted long-term incentive plan are participation interests in notional accounts with a beginning value of a specified dollar amount. For the long-term incentive plan, the value attributed to these notional accounts increases or decreases over a defined period of time based, in part, on the performance of investment composites representing a number of PGIM Fixed Income’s investment strategies. With respect to targeted long-term incentive awards, the value attributed to the notional accounts increases or decreases over a defined period of time based on the performance of either (i) a long-short investment composite or (ii) a commingled investment vehicle. An investment composite is an aggregation of accounts with similar investment strategies. The long-term incentive plan is designed to more closely align compensation with investment performance and the growth of PGIM Fixed Income’s business. In addition, the targeted long-term incentive plan is designed to align the interests of certain of PGIM Fixed Income’s investment professionals with the performance of a particular long-short composite or commingled investment vehicle. The chief investment officer/head of PGIM Fixed Income also receives (i) performance shares which represent the right to receive shares of Prudential Financial, Inc. common stock conditioned upon, and subject to, the achievement of specified financial performance goals by Prudential Financial, Inc.; (ii) book value units which track the book value per share of Prudential Financial, Inc.; and (iii) Prudential Financial, Inc. stock options. Each of the restricted stock, long-term incentive plan grants, performance shares and book value units and stock options is subject to vesting requirements. | |
TCW: The overall objective of TCW’s compensation program for portfolio managers is to attract experienced and expert investment professionals and to retain them over the long-term. Compensation is comprised of several components which, in the aggregate, are designed to achieve these objectives and to reward the portfolio managers for their contributions to the successful performance of the accounts they manage. Portfolio managers are compensated through a combination of base salary, fee sharing based compensation (“fee sharing”), bonus and equity incentive participation in TCW’s parent company (“equity incentives”). Fee sharing and equity incentives generally represent most of the portfolio managers’ compensation. In some cases, portfolio managers are eligible for discretionary bonuses. | |
Salary. Salary is agreed to with portfolio managers at the time of employment and is reviewed from time to time. It does not change significantly and often does not constitute a significant part of a portfolio manager’s compensation. | |
Fee Sharing. Fee sharing for investment professionals is based on revenues generated by accounts in the investment strategy area for which the investment professionals are responsible. In most cases, revenues are allocated to a pool and fee sharing compensation is allocated among members of the investment team after the deduction of certain expenses (including compensation over a threshold level) related to the strategy group. The allocations are based on the investment professionals’ contribution to TCW and its clients, including qualitative and quantitative contributions. | |
In general, the same fee sharing percentage is used to compensate a portfolio manager for investment services related to a Fund is generally the same as that used to compensate portfolio managers for other client accounts in the same strategy managed by TWC or an affiliate of TCW (collectively, “the TCW Group”). In some cases, the fee sharing pool includes revenues related to more than one product, in which case each participant in the pool is entitled to fee sharing derived from his or her contributions to all the included products. | |
Investment professionals are not directly compensated for generating performance fees. In some cases, the fee sharing pool is subject to fluctuation based on the relative pre-tax performance of the investment strategy composite returns, net of fees and expenses, to that of the benchmark. The measurement of performance relative to the benchmark can be based on single year or multiple year metrics, or a combination thereof. The benchmark used is the one associated with the Fund managed by the portfolio manager as disclosed in the prospectus. Benchmarks vary from strategy to strategy but, within a given strategy, the same benchmark applies to all accounts, including the Funds. | |
Discretionary Bonus/Guaranteed Minimums. Discretionary bonuses may be paid out of an investment team’s fee sharing pool, as determined by the supervisor(s) in the department. In other cases where portfolio managers do not receive fee sharing or where it is determined that the combination of salary and fee sharing does not adequately compensate the portfolio manager, discretionary bonuses may be paid by the applicable TCW entity. Also, pursuant to contractual arrangements, some portfolio managers received minimum bonuses. |
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Equity Incentives. Management believes that equity ownership aligns the interests of portfolio managers with the interests of the firm and its clients. Accordingly, TCW Group’s key investment professionals participate in equity incentives through ownership or participation in restricted unit plans that vest over time or unit appreciation plans of TCW’s parent company. The plans include the Fixed Income Retention Plan, Restricted Unit Plan and 2013 Equity Unit Incentive Plan. | |
Under the Fixed Income Retention Plan, certain portfolio managers in the fixed income area were awarded cash and/or partnership units in TCW’s parent company, either on a contractually-determined basis or on a discretionary basis. Awards under this plan were made in 2010 that vest over time. | |
Under the Restricted Unit Plan, certain portfolio managers in the fixed income and equity areas may be awarded partnership units in TCW’s parent company. Awards under this plan have vested over time, subject to satisfaction of performance criteria. | |
Under the 2013 Equity Unit Incentive Plan, certain portfolio managers in the fixed income and equity areas may be awarded options to acquire partnership units in TCW’s parent company with a strike price equal to the fair market value of the option at the date of grant. The options granted under this plan are subject to vesting and other conditions. | |
Other Plans and Compensation Vehicles. Portfolio managers may also elect to participate in the applicable TCW Group’s 401(k) plan, to which they may contribute a portion of their pre- and post-tax compensation to the plan for investment on a tax-deferred basis. |
Threadneedle: Direct compensation is typically comprised of a base salary, and an annual incentive award that is paid either in the form of a cash bonus if the size of the award is under a specified threshold, or, if the size of the award is over a specified threshold, the award is paid in a combination of a cash bonus, an equity incentive award, and deferred compensation. Equity incentive awards are made in the form of Ameriprise Financial restricted stock, or for more senior employees both Ameriprise Financial restricted stock and stock options. The investment return credited on deferred compensation is based on the performance of specified Threadneedle funds, in most cases including the funds the portfolio manager manages. | |
Base salary is typically determined based on market data relevant to the employee’s position, as well as other factors including internal equity. Base salaries are reviewed annually, and increases are typically given as promotional increases, internal equity adjustments, or market adjustments. | |
Annual incentive awards and pool funding are variable and are designed to reward: |
■ | Investment performance, both at the individual and team levels |
■ | Client requirements, in particular the alignment with clients through a mandatory deferral into the company’s own products |
■ | Team cooperation and Values |
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Water Island: Investment professionals are compensated with salary and a bonus based on individual performance, both relative and absolute fund performance, and profitability of Water Island. Profit sharing in Water Island may also be included as potential compensation. In addition, Water Island believes employee ownership and the opportunity for all employees to hold ownership interests in Water Island fosters teamwork and encourages longevity in tenure. Ownership shares may be issued to employees based on tenure, position, and contribution to Water Island. Water Island’s policies help ensure that the financial interests of its key investment personnel are aligned with its clients’ financial interests. Water Island also expends efforts to help ensure it attracts and retains key investment talent. Its goal is to focus its employees on long-term rather than short-term performance and to encourage employee retention. |
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Administrative Services Fees | |||
2017 | 2016 | 2015 | |
Diversified Absolute Return Fund | N/A | $29,280 | $23,286 (b) |
Dividend Income Fund | N/A | 1,293,409 | 3,998,779 |
HY Municipal Fund | N/A | 192,012 | 542,532 |
For Funds with fiscal period ending July 31 | |||
AMT-Free OR Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | N/A | 101,527 | 305,465 |
Large Cap Growth Fund | N/A | 584,102 | 1,688,311 |
Tax-Exempt Fund | N/A | 815,484 | 2,394,304 |
U.S. Social Bond Fund | N/A | 4,699 | 3,773 (c) |
Ultra Short Term Bond Fund (d) | N/A | 0 | 0 |
For Funds with fiscal period ending August 31 | |||
Balanced Fund | N/A | 605,430 | 1,412,144 |
Contrarian Core Fund | N/A | 1,004,339 | 2,679,269 |
Disciplined Small Core Fund | N/A | 131,266 | 727,538 |
Emerging Markets Fund | N/A | 292,437 | 1,140,095 |
Global Dividend Opportunity Fund | N/A | 139,005 | 490,647 |
Global Energy and Natural Resources Fund | N/A | 48,280 | 181,053 |
Global Technology Growth Fund | N/A | 0 | 0 |
Greater China Fund | N/A | 37,315 | 117,428 |
Mid Cap Growth Fund | N/A | 365,736 | 1,201,473 |
MM Alternative Strategies Fund | N/A | 202,111 | 609,318 |
MM Small Cap Equity Strategies Fund | N/A | 349,312 | 638,594 |
MM Total Return Bond Strategies Fund | N/A | 985,615 | 2,809,022 |
Small Cap Growth Fund I | N/A | 126,449 | 540,729 |
Strategic Income Fund (e) | N/A | 497,333 | 1,322,802 |
For Funds with fiscal period ending October 31 | |||
AMT-Free CT Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | N/A | 36,936 | 111,085 |
AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | N/A | 472,435 | 1,364,016 |
AMT-Free MA Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | N/A | 67,735 | 202,872 |
AMT-Free NY Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | N/A | 64,375 | 186,753 |
Strategic CA Municipal Income Fund | N/A | 119,000 | 331,278 |
Strategic NY Municipal Income Fund | N/A | 44,957 | 124,233 |
For Funds with fiscal period ending December 31 | |||
Real Estate Equity Fund | N/A | 97,784 | 325,962 |
(a) | For the period from January 27, 2015 (commencement of operations) to May 31, 2015. |
(b) | For the period from February 19, 2015 (commencement of operations) to May 31, 2015. |
(c) | For the period from March 26, 2015 (commencement of operations) to July 31, 2015. |
(d) | The Fund did not pay an administrative services fee under the Administrative Services Agreement because payment for such services was included in its Unitary Fee. |
(e) | The Fund changed its fiscal year end in 2017 from October 31 to August 31. |
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Sales Charges Paid to Distributor |
Amount
Retained by Distributor
After Paying Commissions |
|||||
Fund | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 |
Small Cap Value Fund I | $212,213 | $131,831 | $57,953 | $40,107 | $18,936 | $8,670 |
Total Return Bond Fund | 213,934 | 274,811 | 240,913 | 34,828 | 42,933 | 38,295 |
U.S. Treasury Index Fund | 101 | 14,460 | 2,677 | 101 | 14,460 | 2,677 |
2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | |
For Funds with fiscal period ending May 31 | ||||||
Adaptive Risk Allocation Fund | 824,604 | 368,923 | 616,767 | 130,410 | 75,668 | 89,399 |
Alternative Beta Fund | 18,446 | 48,909 | 9,733 (d) | 4,827 | 7,683 | 1,415 (d) |
Diversified Absolute Return Fund | 2,953 | 3,037 | 0 (e) | 440 | 410 | 0 (e) |
Dividend Income Fund | 3,212,909 | 1,845,108 | 1,603,065 | 515,080 | 292,895 | 263,988 |
HY Municipal Fund | 234,286 | 244,719 | 361,055 | 71,094 | 46,510 | 58,286 |
For Funds with fiscal period ending July 31 | ||||||
AMT-Free OR Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | 90,822 | 94,063 | 72,678 | 34,931 | 15,790 | 11,662 |
Large Cap Growth Fund | 661,707 | 1,084,362 | 1,005,649 | 106,233 | 173,619 | 150,091 |
Tax-Exempt Fund | 964,733 | 1,261,223 | 1,557,740 | 165,347 | 206,688 | 239,816 |
U.S. Social Bond Fund | 32,350 | 11,261 | 0 (f) | 5,010 | 1,697 | 0 (f) |
Ultra Short Term Bond Fund | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
For Funds with fiscal period ending August 31 | ||||||
Balanced Fund | 8,664,928 | 10,975,587 | 6,281,355 | 1,490,728 | 1,701,137 | 951,730 |
Contrarian Core Fund | 3,965,905 | 4,193,236 | 4,190,663 | 645,801 | 658,542 | 612,550 |
Disciplined Small Core Fund | 25,856 | 24,451 | 57,817 | 4,520 | 4,216 | 12,448 |
Emerging Markets Fund | 223,934 | 158,125 | 223,116 | 32,578 | 23,619 | 33,697 |
Global Dividend Opportunity Fund | 35,778 | 43,430 | 90,766 | 5,599 | 7,019 | 14,294 |
Global Energy and Natural Resources Fund | 92,604 | 213,270 | 319,897 | 16,283 | 32,963 | 49,263 |
Global Technology Growth Fund | 879,116 | 562,528 | 509,917 | 134,413 | 118,082 | 74,714 |
Greater China Fund | 29,426 | 27,322 | 112,545 | 5,747 | 11,040 | 21,019 |
Mid Cap Growth Fund | 217,798 | 358,920 | 317,206 | 31,978 | 54,093 | 48,677 |
MM Alternative Strategies Fund | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
MM International Equity Strategies Fund (g) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
MM Small Cap Equity Strategies Fund | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
MM Total Return Bond Strategies Fund | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Small Cap Growth Fund I | 66,191 | 36,703 | 29,677 | 9,736 | 5,534 | 4,679 |
Strategic Income Fund | 1,790,951 (h) | 2,239,469 | 1,355,201 | 338,759 (h) | 392,648 | 219,886 |
For Funds with fiscal period ending October 31 | ||||||
AMT-Free CT Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | 1,061 | 11,020 | 12,062 | 269 | 1,792 | 2,755 |
AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | 74,333 | 117,184 | 148,524 | 17,765 | 20,121 | 29,051 |
AMT-Free MA Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | 9,879 | 30,867 | 11,664 | 3,949 | 8,906 | 2,118 |
AMT-Free NY Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | 23,280 | 48,490 | 21,110 | 11,685 | 11,913 | 4,309 |
Strategic CA Municipal Income Fund | 116,611 | 148,911 | 143,676 | 38,512 | 27,312 | 23,774 |
Strategic NY Municipal Income Fund | 67,190 | 168,081 | 60,483 | 29,229 | 29,102 | 9,753 |
For Funds with fiscal period ending December 31 | ||||||
Real Estate Equity Fund | 46,550 | 129,130 | 115,646 | 7,791 | 18,689 | 23,378 |
(a) | For the period from October 24, 2017 (commencement of operations) to March 31, 2018. |
(b) | The Fund commenced operations on April 4, 2018, and therefore has no reporting information for periods prior to such date. |
(c) | For the period from October 17, 2016 (commencement of operations) to April 30, 2017. |
(d) | For the period from January 27, 2015 (commencement of operations) to May 31, 2015. |
(e) | For the period from February 19, 2015 (commencement of operations) to May 31, 2015. |
(f) | For the period from March 26, 2015 (commencement of operations) to July 31, 2015. |
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(g) | No historical information is given for the Fund because the Fund had not commenced operations as of the date of this SAI. |
(h) | The Fund changed its fiscal year end in 2017 from October 31 to August 31. For the fiscal year ended in 2017, the information shown is for the period from November 1, 2016 to August 31, 2017. |
Distribution Fee | Service Fee | Combined Total | |
Class A | up to 0.10% | 0.25% | Up to 0.25% (a)(b) |
Class A for Multi-Manager Strategies Funds | up to 0.25% | up to 0.25% | 0.25% (c) |
Class Adv | None | None | None |
Class C | 0.75% | 0.25% | 1.00% (b)(d) |
Class Inst | None | None | None |
Class Inst2 | None | None | None |
Class Inst3 | None | None | None |
Class E | 0.10% | 0.25% | 0.35% |
Class R | 0.50% | — (e) | 0.50% |
Class T | up to 0.25% | up to 0.25% | 0.25% (f) |
Class V | None | 0.50% (g) | 0.50% (g) |
Shares of Ultra Short Term Bond Fund | None | None | None |
(a) | As shown in the table below, the maximum distribution and service fees of Class A shares varies among the Funds. |
Funds |
Class
A
Distribution Fee |
Class
A
Service Fee |
Class
A
Combined Total |
Adaptive Risk Allocation Fund, Alternative Beta Fund, AMT-Free CT Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, AMT-Free MA Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, AMT-Free NY Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Bond Fund, Corporate Income Fund, Diversified Absolute Return Fund, Diversified Real Return Fund; Emerging Markets Fund, Global Dividend Opportunity Fund, Global Energy and Natural Resources Fund, Greater China Fund, Multi-Asset Income Fund, Pacific/Asia Fund, Select Large Cap Growth Fund, Small Cap Value Fund I, Strategic CA Municipal Income Fund, Strategic Income Fund, Strategic NY Municipal Income Fund, U.S. Social Bond Fund and U.S. Treasury Index Fund | — | 0.25% | 0.25% |
AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, HY Municipal Fund and Tax-Exempt Fund | — | 0.20% | 0.20% |
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Funds |
Class
A
Distribution Fee |
Class
A
Service Fee |
Class
A
Combined Total |
AMT-Free OR Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Balanced Fund, Contrarian Core Fund, Disciplined Small Core Fund, Dividend Income Fund, Global Technology Growth Fund, Large Cap Growth Fund, Mid Cap Growth Fund, Real Estate Equity Fund, Small Cap Growth Fund I and Total Return Bond Fund | up to 0.10% | up to 0.25% | Up to 0.35%; these Funds may pay distribution and service fees up to a maximum of 0.35% of their average daily net assets attributable to Class A shares but currently limit such fees to an aggregate fee of not more than 0.25% |
(b) | The annual service fee for Class A and Class C shares of HY Municipal Fund, AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund and Tax-Exempt Fund may equal up to 0.20% of the average daily net asset value of all shares of such Fund class. The annual distribution fee for Class C shares for AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund shall be 0.65% of the average daily net assets of the Fund’s Class C shares. The Distributor has voluntarily agreed to waive the Service Fee for Class A and Class C shares of U.S. Treasury Index Fund so that the Service Fee does not exceed 0.15% annually. This arrangement may be modified by the Distributor at any time. |
(c) | Class A shares of Multi-Manager Strategies Funds may pay distribution and service fees up to a maximum of 0.25% of the Fund’s average daily net assets attributable to Class A shares (comprised of up to 0.25% for distribution services and up to 0.25% for shareholder liaison services). |
(d) | The Distributor has voluntarily agreed to waive a portion of the distribution fee for Class C shares of the following Funds so that the distribution fee does not exceed the specified percentage annually: 0.45% for AMT-Free CT Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, AMT-Free MA Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, AMT-Free NY Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, AMT-Free OR Intermediate Muni Bond Fund, Strategic CA Municipal Income Fund and Strategic NY Municipal Income Fund; 0.60% for Corporate Income Fund; 0.65% for HY Municipal Fund and Tax-Exempt Fund; and 0.70% for U.S. Treasury Index Fund. These arrangements may be modified or terminated by the Distributor at any time. |
(f) | The combined distribution fee and service fee for Class T shares shall not exceed 0.25%. |
(g) | The shareholder servicing fees for Class V shares are up to 0.50% of average daily net assets attributable to Class V shares for equity Funds and 0.40% for fixed income Funds. In general, the Funds currently limit such fees to a maximum of 0.25% for equity Funds and 0.15% for fixed income Funds. These fees for Class V shares are not paid pursuant to a Rule 12b-1 plan. See Class V Shares Shareholder Service Fees below for more information. |
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Fund | Class A | Class C | Class R | Class T | Class V |
For Funds with fiscal period ending January 31 | |||||
Diversified Real Return Fund | $198 | $574 | N/A | $23 | N/A |
For Funds with fiscal period ending March 31 | |||||
MM Growth Strategies Fund | 31,224 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Pacific/Asia Fund | 9,528 | 12,041 | N/A | 8 | N/A |
Select Large Cap Growth Fund | 1,083,340 | 1,478,086 | $67,135 | 531 | N/A |
For Funds with fiscal period ending April 30 | |||||
Bond Fund | 131,733 | 76,836 | 3,677 | 25 | $14,709 |
Corporate Income Fund | 178,666 | 77,740 | N/A | 1,169 | N/A |
MM Directional Alternative Strategies Fund | 2,754 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Multi-Asset Income Fund | 3,019 | 9,397 | N/A | 25 | N/A |
Small Cap Value Fund I | 633,918 | 243,609 | 18,836 | N/A | N/A |
Total Return Bond Fund | 1,950,891 | 443,726 | 10,364 | 10,704 | N/A |
U.S. Treasury Index Fund | 73,219 | 46,063 | N/A | 2,620 | N/A |
For Funds with fiscal period ending May 31 | |||||
Adaptive Risk Allocation Fund | 384,411 | 780,436 | 15,933 | 1,550,105 | N/A |
Alternative Beta Fund | 34,800 | 16,453 | 46 | 489,200 | N/A |
Diversified Absolute Return Fund | 357 | 142 | N/A | 27,871 | N/A |
Dividend Income Fund | 5,750,410 | 7,385,509 | 463,216 | 224 | 190,638 |
HY Municipal Fund | 340,902 | 502,733 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
For Funds with fiscal period ending July 31 | |||||
AMT-Free OR Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | 125,634 | 184,831 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Large Cap Growth Fund (a) | 4,419,525 | 1,024,524 | 137,651 | 154,824 | 456,438 |
Tax-Exempt Fund | 6,155,287 | 974,695 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
U.S. Social Bond Fund | 9,416 | 7,169 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Ultra Short Term Bond Fund | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
For Funds with fiscal period ending August 31 | |||||
Balanced Fund | 7,569,839 | 14,108,132 | 490,083 | 2 | N/A |
Contrarian Core Fund | 6,061,118 | 7,086,541 | 569,474 | 165,466 | 371,584 |
Disciplined Small Core Fund | 154,484 | 130,463 | N/A | 459 | 146,821 |
Emerging Markets Fund | 615,340 | 193,689 | 50,187 | 90,096 | N/A |
Global Dividend Opportunity Fund | 259,598 | 90,701 | 8,339 | 5 | N/A |
Global Energy and Natural Resources Fund | 221,768 | 145,380 | 45,637 | N/A | N/A |
Global Technology Growth Fund | 469,830 | 753,103 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Greater China Fund | 143,698 | 95,013 | N/A | 5 | N/A |
Mid Cap Growth Fund | 2,117,819 | 437,457 | 77,454 | 340 | 54,239 |
MM Alternative Strategies Fund | 891,194 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
MM Small Cap Equity Strategies Fund | 1,303,432 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
MM Total Return Bond Strategies Fund | 8,847,864 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Small Cap Growth Fund I | 444,679 | 129,421 | 7,051 | N/A | N/A |
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Fund | Class A | Class C | Class R | Class T | Class V |
Strategic Income Fund (b) | $2,848,122 | $2,719,573 | $24,995 | $21 | N/A |
For Funds with fiscal period ending October 31 | |||||
AMT-Free CT Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | 19,635 | 33,438 | N/A | N/A | $16,176 |
AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | 417,368 | 429,322 | N/A | 15 (c) | 20,260 |
AMT-Free MA Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | 49,870 | 62,131 | N/A | N/A | 26,998 |
AMT-Free NY Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | 45,609 | 139,124 | N/A | N/A | 10,047 |
Strategic CA Municipal Income Fund | 867,098 | 346,116 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Strategic NY Municipal Income Fund | 370,617 | 203,124 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
For Funds with fiscal period ending December 31 | |||||
Real Estate Equity Fund | 245,000 | 152,136 | 36,081 | 51 | N/A |
(a) | The Fund paid distribution and/or service fees of $51,598 for Class E shares and $8,388 for Class F shares for the fiscal year ended 2017. |
(b) | The Fund changed its fiscal year end in 2017 from October 31 to August 31. For the fiscal year ended in 2017, the information shown is for the period from November 1, 2016 to August 31, 2017. |
(c) | For the period from April 3, 2017 to October 31, 2017. |
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Amounts Reimbursed | |||
2017 | 2016 | 2015 | |
Alternative Beta Fund | $183,218 | $976,916 | $335,108 (d) |
Diversified Absolute Return Fund | 354,486 | 392,299 | 90,008 (e) |
Dividend Income Fund | 0 | 0 | 0 |
HY Municipal Fund | 570,809 | 788,955 | 770,550 |
For Funds with fiscal period ending July 31 | |||
AMT-Free OR Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | 0 | 39,812 | 153,915 |
Large Cap Growth Fund | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tax-Exempt Fund | 0 | 0 | 0 |
U.S. Social Bond Fund | 207,641 | 217,320 | 69,661 (f) |
Ultra Short Term Bond Fund | 88,030 | 83,758 | 93,709 |
For Funds with fiscal period ending August 31 | |||
Balanced Fund | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Contrarian Core Fund | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Disciplined Small Core Fund | 104,936 | 38,331 | 0 |
Emerging Markets Fund | 277,910 | 0 | 0 |
Global Dividend Opportunity Fund | 803,209 | 767,205 | 446,626 |
Global Energy and Natural Resources Fund | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Global Technology Growth Fund | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Greater China Fund | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mid Cap Growth Fund | 0 | 0 | 0 |
MM Alternative Strategies Fund | 0 | 0 | 0 |
MM International Equity Strategies Fund | N/A (g) | N/A (g) | N/A (g) |
MM Small Cap Equity Strategies Fund | 2,192,588 | 1,786,978 | 1,694,733 |
MM Total Return Bond Strategies Fund | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Small Cap Growth Fund I | 186,196 | 135,594 | 0 |
Strategic Income Fund | 0 (h) | 97,786 | 627,722 |
For Funds with fiscal period ending October 31 | |||
AMT-Free CT Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | 201,139 | 277,658 | 288,981 |
AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | 1,306,973 | 2,078,361 | 2,569,822 |
AMT-Free MA Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | 311,514 | 446,678 | 462,338 |
AMT-Free NY Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | 430,003 | 591,994 | 576,794 |
Strategic CA Municipal Income Fund | 75,096 | 348,734 | 457,819 |
Strategic NY Municipal Income Fund | 122,135 | 226,407 | 244,644 |
For Funds with fiscal period ending December 31 | |||
Real Estate Equity Fund | 0 | 0 | 0 |
(a) | For the period from October 24, 2017 (commencement of operations) to March 31, 2018. |
(b) | The Fund commenced operations on April 4, 2018, and therefore has no reporting information for periods prior to such date. |
(c) | For the period from October 17, 2016 (commencement of operations) to April 30, 2017. |
(d) | For the period from January 27, 2015 (commencement of operations) to May 31, 2015. |
(e) | For the period from February 19, 2015 (commencement of operations) to May 31, 2015. |
(f) | For the period from March 26, 2015 (commencement of operations) to July 31, 2015. |
(g) | No historical information is given for the Fund because the Fund had not commenced operations as of the date of this SAI. |
(h) | The Fund changed its fiscal year end in 2017 from October 31 to August 31. For the fiscal year ended in 2017, the information shown is for the period from November 1, 2016 to August 31, 2017. |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 152 |
(a) | For the period from January 27, 2015 (commencement of operations) to May 31, 2015. |
(b) | The Fund changed its fiscal year end in 2017 from October 31 to August 31. For the fiscal year ended in 2017, the information shown is for the period from November 1, 2016 to August 31, 2017. |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 153 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 154 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 155 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 156 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 157 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 158 |
Name, address, year of birth |
Position
held with Subsidiary
and length of service |
Principal occupation during past five years |
Anthony
P. Haugen
807 Ameriprise Financial Center, Minneapolis, MN 55474-2405 Born 1964 |
Director
since
November 2013 |
Vice
President – Finance, Ameriprise Financial, Inc.
since June 2004 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 159 |
Name, address, year of birth |
Position
held with Subsidiary
and length of service |
Principal occupation during past five years |
Amy
K. Johnson
5228 Ameriprise Financial Center Minneapolis, MN 55474-2405 Born 1965 |
Director
since
November 2013 |
See Fund Governance – Fund Officers . |
Christopher
O. Petersen
5228 Ameriprise Financial Center Minneapolis, MN 55474-2405 Born 1970 |
Director
since
January 2015 |
See Fund Governance – Fund Officers . |
Subsidiary |
Assets
(millions) |
Annual
rate at
each asset level (a) |
ASGM Offshore Fund, Ltd. | $0 - $500 | 1.100% |
ASMF Offshore Fund, Ltd. | >$500 - $1,000 | 1.050% |
(Subsidiaries of MM Alternative Strategies Fund) | >$1,000 - $3,000 | 1.020% |
>$3,000 - $6,000 | 0.990% | |
>$6,000 - $12,000 | 0.960% | |
>$12,000 | 0.950% | |
CAAF Offshore Fund, Ltd. | $0 - $500 | 0.960% |
(Subsidiary of Alternative Beta Fund) | >$500 - $1,000 | 0.955% |
>$1,000 - $3,000 | 0.950% | |
>$3,000 - $12,000 | 0.940% | |
>$12,000 | 0.930% | |
CDARF1 Offshore Fund, Ltd. | $0 - $500 | 1.180% |
CDARF2 Offshore Fund, Ltd. | >$500 - $1,000 | 1.130% |
CDARF3 Offshore Fund, Ltd. | >$1,000 - $3,000 | 1.100% |
(Subsidiaries of Diversified Absolute Return Fund) | >$3,000 - $6,000 | 1.070% |
>$6,000 - $12,000 | 1.040% | |
>$12,000 | 1.030% |
(a) | When calculating asset levels for purposes of determining fee rate breakpoints, asset levels are based on aggregate net assets of the Fund and the Parent Fund. When calculating the fee payable under this agreement, the annual rates are based on a percentage of the daily net assets of the Fund. |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 160 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 161 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 162 |
Name, Address, Year of Birth | Position Held with the Trust and Length of Service |
Principal
Occupation(s)
During the Past Five Years and Other Relevant Professional Experience |
Number
of Funds in the Columbia Funds Complex Overseen |
Other
Directorships
Held by Trustee During the Past Five Years |
Committee Assignments |
David
M. Moffett
c/o Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC, 225 Franklin Street, Mail Drop BX32 05228, Boston, MA 02110 1952 |
Trustee
2011 |
Retired; Consultant to Bridgewater and Associates | 71 | Director, CSX Corporation (transportation suppliers); Genworth Financial, Inc. (financial and insurance products and services); Paypal Holdings Inc. (payment and data processing services); Trustee, University of Oklahoma Foundation; former Director, eBay Inc. (online trading community), 2007-2015; and former Director, CIT Bank, CIT Group Inc. (commercial and consumer finance), 2010-2016 | Compliance, Audit, Investment Oversight Committee #1 |
John
J. Neuhauser
c/o Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC, 225 Franklin Street, Mail Drop BX32 05228, Boston, MA 02110 1943 |
Trustee
1984 |
President, Saint Michael’s College since August 2007; Director or Trustee of several non-profit organizations, including University of Vermont Medical Center; Academic Vice President and Dean of Faculties, Boston College from August 1999 to October 2005; University Professor, Boston College from November 2005 to August 2007 | 71 | Liberty All-Star Equity Fund and Liberty All-Star Growth Fund (closed-end funds) | Advisory Fees & Expenses, Product and Distribution, Investment Oversight Committee #2 |
Patrick
J. Simpson
c/o Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC, 225 Franklin Street, Mail Drop BX32 05228, Boston, MA 02110 1944 |
Trustee
2000 |
Of Counsel, Perkins Coie LLP (law firm) since 2015; Partner, Perkins Coie LLP from 1988 to 2014 | 71 | None | Advisory Fees & Expenses, Audit, Governance, Investment Oversight Committee #1 |
Anne-Lee
Verville
c/o Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC, 225 Franklin Street, Mail Drop BX32 05228, Boston, MA 02110 1945 |
Trustee
1998 |
Retired. General Manager, Global Education Industry from 1994 to 1997, President – Application Systems Division from 1991 to 1994, Chief Financial Officer – US Marketing & Services from 1988 to 1991, and Chief Information Officer from 1987 to 1988, IBM Corporation (computer and technology) | 71 | Enesco Group, Inc. (producer of giftware and home and garden decor products) from 2001 to 2006 | Audit, Compliance, Investment Oversight Committee #1 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 163 |
Name, Address, Year of Birth | Position Held with the Funds and Length of Service |
Principal
Occupation(s)
During the Past Five Years and Other Relevant Professional Experience |
Number
of Funds in the Columbia Funds Complex Overseen |
Other
Directorships
Held by Trustee During the Past Five Years |
Committee Assignments |
J.
Kevin Connaughton
c/o Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC, 225 Franklin Street, Mail Drop BX32 05228, Boston, MA 02110 1964 |
Independent
Trustee Consultant
2016 |
Independent Trustee Consultant, Columbia Funds since March 2016; Adjunct Professor of Finance, Bentley University since November 2017; Managing Director and General Manager of Mutual Fund Products, Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC from May 2010 to February 2015; President, Columbia Funds from 2009 to 2015; and senior officer of Columbia Funds and affiliated funds from 2003 to 2015 | 71 | Director, The Autism Project since March 2015; former Trustee, New Century Portfolios, March 2015 – December 2017; formerly on Board of Governors, Gateway Healthcare, January 2016 – December 2017 | Product and Distribution, Advisory Fees & Expenses, Audit, Investment Oversight Committees #1 & #2 |
Natalie
A. Trunow
c/o Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC, 225 Franklin Street, Mail Drop BX32 05228, Boston, MA 02110 1967 |
Independent
Trustee Consultant
2016 |
Independent Trustee Consultant, Columbia Funds since September 2016; Chief Executive Officer, Millennial Portfolio Solutions LLC (asset management and consulting services) since January 2016; Director of Investments, Casey Family Programs from April 2016 to September 2016; Senior Vice President and Chief Investment Officer, Calvert Investments from August 2008 to January 2016; Section Head and Portfolio Manager, General Motors Asset Management from June 1997 to August 2008 | 71 | Director, Health Services for Children with Special Needs, Inc.; Director, Guidewell Financial Solutions | Product and Distribution, Advisory Fees & Expenses, Compliance, Investment Oversight Committees #1 & #2 |
* | J. Kevin Connaughton was appointed consultant to the Independent Trustees effective March 1, 2016. Natalie A. Trunow was appointed consultant to the Independent Trustees effective September 1, 2016. Shareholders of the Funds are expected to be asked to elect each of Mr. Connaughton and Ms. Trunow as a Trustee at a future shareholder meeting. |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 164 |
Name,
Address,
Year of Birth |
Position
Held
with the Trust and Length of Service |
Principal
Occupation(s)
During the Past Five Years and Other Relevant Professional Experience |
Number
of
Funds in the Columbia Funds Complex Overseen |
Other Directorships Held by Trustee During the Past Five Years |
Committee
Assignments |
William
F. Truscott
c/o Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC, 225 Franklin St. Boston, MA 02110 1960 |
Trustee
2012 |
Chairman of the Board and President, Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC since May 2010 and February 2012, respectively; Chief Executive Officer, Global Asset Management, Ameriprise Financial, Inc. since September 2012 (previously Chief Executive Officer, U.S. Asset Management & President, Annuities, May 2010 - September 2012); Director and Chief Executive Officer, Columbia Management Investment Distributors, Inc. since May 2010 and February 2012, respectively; Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, RiverSource Distributors, Inc. since 2006; Director, Threadneedle Asset Management Holdings, SARL since 2014; President and Chief Executive Officer, Ameriprise Certificate Company, 2006 - August 2012. | 196 | Chairman of the Board, Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC since May 2010; Director, Columbia Management Investment Distributors, Inc. since May 2010; former Director, Ameriprise Certificate Company, 2006 - January 2013 | None |
* | Interested person (as defined under the 1940 Act) by reason of being an officer, director, security holder and/or employee of the Investment Manager or Ameriprise Financial. |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 165 |
Name,
Address
and Year of Birth |
Position
and Year
First Appointed to Position for any Fund in the Columbia Funds Complex or a Predecessor Thereof |
Principal Occupation(s) During Past Five Years |
Paul
B. Goucher
100 Park Avenue New York, NY 10017 Born 1968 |
Senior Vice President (2011) and Assistant Secretary (2008) | Senior Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, Ameriprise Financial, Inc. since January 2017 (previously Vice President and Lead Chief Counsel, November 2008 – January 2017 and January 2013 – January 2017, respectively); Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Assistant Secretary, Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC since May 2010. |
Thomas
P. McGuire
225 Franklin Street Boston, MA 02110 Born 1972 |
Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer (2012) | Vice President – Asset Management Compliance, Ameriprise Financial, Inc., since May 2010; Chief Compliance Officer, Ameriprise Certificate Company since September 2010. |
Colin
Moore
225 Franklin Street Boston, MA 02110 Born 1958 |
Senior Vice President (2010) | Executive Vice President and Global Chief Investment Officer, Ameriprise Financial, Inc., since July 2013; Executive Vice President and Global Chief Investment Officer, Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC since July 2013. |
Ryan
C. Larrenaga
225 Franklin Street Boston, MA 02110 Born 1970 |
Senior Vice President (2017), Chief Legal Officer (2017) and Secretary (2015) | Vice President and Chief Counsel, Ameriprise Financial, Inc. since August 2018 (previously, Vice President and Group Counsel, August 2011 – August 2018); officer of Columbia Funds and affiliated funds since 2005. |
Michael
E. DeFao
225 Franklin Street Boston, MA 02110 Born 1968 |
Vice President (2011) and Assistant Secretary (2010) | Vice President and Chief Counsel, Ameriprise Financial, Inc. since May 2010. |
Amy
Johnson
5228 Ameriprise Financial Center Minneapolis, MN 55474 Born 1965 |
Vice President (2006) | Managing Director and Global Head of Operations, Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC since April 2016 (previously Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer, 2010 – 2016). |
Lyn
Kephart-Strong
5228 Ameriprise Financial Center Minneapolis, MN 55474 Born 1960 |
Vice President (2015) | President, Columbia Management Investment Services Corp. since October 2014; Vice President & Resolution Officer, Ameriprise Trust Company since August 2009. |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 166 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 167 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 168 |
Fiscal Period |
Audit
Committee |
Governance
Committee |
Advisory
Fees
& Expenses Committee |
Compliance
Committee |
Investment
Oversight Committee |
Product
&
Distribution Committee |
For
the fiscal year
ending January 31, 2018 |
5 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 11 | 5 |
For
the fiscal year
ending March 31, 2018 |
5 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 5 |
For
the fiscal year
ending April 30, 2018 |
5 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 12 | 5 |
For
the fiscal year
ending May 31, 2017 |
6 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 4 |
For
the fiscal year
ending July 31, 2017 |
7 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 5 |
For
the fiscal year
ending August 31, 2017 |
7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 12 | 5 |
For
the fiscal year
ending October 31, 2017 |
5 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 4 |
For
the fiscal year
ending December 31, 2017 |
6 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 12 | 5 |
Fund | Carrig | Hacker | Lukitsh | Moffett | Neuhauser | Simpson | Verville |
Adaptive Retirement 2020 Fund | A | A | A | A | A | A | A |
Adaptive Retirement 2025 Fund | A | A | A | A | A | A | A |
Adaptive Retirement 2030 Fund | A | A | A | A | A | A | A |
Adaptive Retirement 2035 Fund | A | A | A | A | A | A | A |
Adaptive Retirement 2040 Fund | A | A | A | A | A | A | A |
Adaptive Retirement 2045 Fund | A | A | A | A | A | A | A |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 169 |
Fund | Carrig | Hacker | Lukitsh | Moffett | Neuhauser | Simpson | Verville |
Adaptive Retirement 2050 Fund | A | A | A | A | A | A | A |
Adaptive Retirement 2055 Fund | A | A | A | A | A | A | A |
Adaptive Retirement 2060 Fund | A | A | A | A | A | A | A |
Adaptive Risk Allocation Fund | A | E | A | A | A | A | A |
Alternative Beta Fund | A | A | A | A | A | A | A |
AMT-Free CT Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | A | A | A | A | A | A | A |
AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | A | A | A | A | A | A | A |
AMT-Free MA Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | A | A | A | A | A | A | A |
AMT-Free NY Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | A | A | A | A | A | A | A |
AMT-Free OR Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | A | A | A | A | A | A | A |
Balanced Fund | A | A | A | A | A | D | E (a) |
Bond Fund | A | A | A | A | A | A | C (a) |
Contrarian Core Fund | E | A | A | A | A | A | A |
Corporate Income Fund | D (a) | A | A | A | A | A | A |
Disciplined Small Core Fund | A | A | A | A | A | A | A |
Diversified Absolute Return Fund | A | A | A | A | A | A | A |
Diversified Real Return Fund | A | A | A | A | A | A | A |
Dividend Income Fund | E (a) | A | A | A | A | E (a) | D (a) |
Emerging Markets Fund | A | E | A | A | A | E (a) | A |
Global Dividend Opportunity Fund | A | A | A | A | A | A | A |
Global Energy and Natural Resources Fund | A | A | A | A | A | D (a) | A |
Global Technology Growth Fund | A | A | E | E (a) | A | A | A |
Greater China Fund | A | E | A | A | A | A | A |
High Yield Municipal Fund | A | A | A | A | A | A | A |
Large Cap Growth Fund | D | A | A | A | A | E (a) | D (a) |
Mid Cap Growth Fund | A | A | A | A | A | B | A |
MM Alternative Strategies Fund | A | A | A | A | A | A | A |
MM Directional Alternative Strategies Fund | A | A | A | A | A | A | A |
MM Growth Strategies Fund | A | A | A | A | A | A | A |
MM International Equity Strategies Fund | A | A | A | A | A | A | A |
MM Small Cap Equity Strategies Fund | A | A | A | A | A | A | A |
MM Total Return Bond Strategies Fund | A | A | A | A | A | A | A |
Multi-Asset Income Fund | A | A | A | A | A | A | A |
Pacific/Asia Fund | A | A | A | A | A | A | A |
Real Estate Equity Fund | A | A | A | A | A | E (a) | A |
Select Large Cap Growth Fund | D | E | A | A | A | A | A |
Small Cap Growth Fund I | A | A | A | A | A | E (a) | A |
Small Cap Value Fund I | A | A | A | A | E | E (a) | A |
Solutions Aggressive Portfolio | A | A | A | A | A | A | A |
Solutions Conservative Portfolio | A | A | A | A | A | A | A |
Strategic CA Municipal Income Fund | A | A | A | A | A | A | A |
Strategic Income Fund | A | A | A | A | A | A | D (a) |
Strategic NY Municipal Income Fund | A | A | A | A | A | A | A |
Tax-Exempt Fund | A | A | A | A | E | A | A |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 170 |
Fund | Carrig | Hacker | Lukitsh | Moffett | Neuhauser | Simpson | Verville |
Total Return Bond Fund | A | A | A | A | A | E (a) | A |
U.S. Social Bond Fund | A | A | A | A | A | A | A |
U.S. Treasury Index Fund | A | A | A | A | A | A | A |
Ultra Short Term Bond Fund | A | A | A | A | A | A | A |
Aggregate Dollar Range of Equity Securities in all Funds in the Columbia Funds Complex Overseen by the Trustee | E (a) | E | E | E (a) | E | E (a) | E (a) |
(a) | Includes the value of compensation payable under a Deferred Compensation Plan that is determined as if the amounts deferred had been invested, as of the date of deferral, in shares of one or more funds in the Columbia Funds Complex overseen by the Trustee as specified by the Trustee. |
Fund | Connaughton | Trunow |
Adaptive Retirement 2020 Fund | A | A |
Adaptive Retirement 2025 Fund | A | A |
Adaptive Retirement 2030 Fund | A | A |
Adaptive Retirement 2035 Fund | A | A |
Adaptive Retirement 2040 Fund | A | A |
Adaptive Retirement 2045 Fund | A | A |
Adaptive Retirement 2050 Fund | A | A |
Adaptive Retirement 2055 Fund | A | A |
Adaptive Retirement 2060 Fund | A | A |
Adaptive Risk Allocation Fund | A | A |
Alternative Beta Fund | A | A |
AMT-Free CT Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | A | A |
AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | A | A |
AMT-Free MA Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | A | A |
AMT-Free NY Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | A | A |
AMT-Free OR Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | A | A |
Balanced Fund | C | A |
Bond Fund | A | A |
Contrarian Core Fund | E | A |
Corporate Income Fund | A | A |
Disciplined Small Core Fund | A | A |
Diversified Absolute Return Fund | A | A |
Diversified Real Return Fund | A | A |
Dividend Income Fund | A | A |
Emerging Markets Fund | D | A |
Global Dividend Opportunity Fund | A | A |
Global Energy and Natural Resources Fund | A | A |
Global Technology Growth Fund | A | A |
Greater China Fund | A | A |
High Yield Municipal Fund | A | A |
Large Cap Growth Fund | A | A |
Mid Cap Growth Fund | A | A |
MM Alternative Strategies Fund | A | A |
MM Directional Alternative Strategies Fund | A | A |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 171 |
Fund | Connaughton | Trunow |
MM Growth Strategies Fund | A | A |
MM International Equity Strategies Fund | A | A |
MM Small Cap Equity Strategies Fund | A | A |
MM Total Return Bond Strategies Fund | A | A |
Multi-Asset Income Fund | A | A |
Pacific/Asia Fund | A | A |
Real Estate Equity Fund | A | A |
Select Large Cap Growth Fund | E | A |
Small Cap Growth Fund I | A | A |
Small Cap Value Fund I | A | A |
Solutions Aggressive Portfolio | A | A |
Solutions Conservative Portfolio | A | A |
Strategic CA Municipal Income Fund | A | A |
Strategic Income Fund | E | A |
Strategic NY Municipal Income Fund | A | A |
Tax-Exempt Fund | A | A |
Total Return Bond Fund | A | A |
U.S. Social Bond Fund | A | A |
U.S. Treasury Index Fund | A | A |
Ultra Short Term Bond Fund | A | A |
Aggregate
Dollar Range of Equity Securities in all Funds in the
Columbia Funds Complex Overseen by the Consultant |
E | A |
Fund | Truscott |
Adaptive Retirement 2020 Fund | A |
Adaptive Retirement 2025 Fund | A |
Adaptive Retirement 2030 Fund | A |
Adaptive Retirement 2035 Fund | A |
Adaptive Retirement 2040 Fund | A |
Adaptive Retirement 2045 Fund | A |
Adaptive Retirement 2050 Fund | A |
Adaptive Retirement 2055 Fund | A |
Adaptive Retirement 2060 Fund | A |
Adaptive Risk Allocation Fund | E |
Alternative Beta Fund | E |
AMT-Free CT Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | A |
AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | A |
AMT-Free MA Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | A |
AMT-Free NY Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | A |
AMT-Free OR Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | A |
Balanced Fund | A |
Bond Fund | A |
Contrarian Core Fund | E (a) |
Corporate Income Fund | B |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 172 |
Fund | Truscott |
Disciplined Small Core Fund | A |
Diversified Absolute Return Fund | A |
Diversified Real Return Fund | A |
Dividend Income Fund | A |
Emerging Markets Fund | D |
Global Dividend Opportunity Fund | A |
Global Energy and Natural Resources Fund | A |
Global Technology Growth Fund | A |
Greater China Fund | A |
High Yield Municipal Fund | E |
Large Cap Growth Fund | D |
Mid Cap Growth Fund | A |
MM Alternative Strategies Fund | A |
MM Directional Alternative Strategies Fund | A |
MM Growth Strategies Fund | A |
MM International Equity Strategies Fund | A |
MM Small Cap Equity Strategies Fund | A |
MM Total Return Bond Strategies Fund | A |
Multi-Asset Income Fund | A |
Pacific/Asia Fund | A |
Real Estate Equity Fund | A |
Select Large Cap Growth Fund | E |
Small Cap Growth Fund I | A |
Small Cap Value Fund I | A |
Solutions Aggressive Portfolio | A |
Solutions Conservative Portfolio | A |
Strategic CA Municipal Income Fund | A |
Strategic Income Fund | E |
Strategic NY Municipal Income Fund | A |
Tax-Exempt Fund | A |
Total Return Bond Fund | C |
U.S. Social Bond Fund | A |
U.S. Treasury Index Fund | B |
Ultra Short Term Bond Fund | A |
Aggregate
Dollar Range of Equity Securities in all Funds in the
Columbia Funds Complex Overseen by the Trustee |
E (a) |
(a) | Includes notional investments through a deferred compensation account. Mr. Truscott’s deferred compensation plan is separate from that of the Independent Trustees (for these purposes, including Mr. Connaughton and Ms. Trunow, as Consultants to the Independent Trustees). |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 173 |
(a) | Includes any portion of cash compensation Trustees elected to defer during the fiscal period. |
(b) | The Trustees may elect to defer a portion of the total cash compensation payable. Additional information regarding the Deferred Compensation Plan is described below. |
(c) | Mr. Nelson served as Trustee until December 31, 2017, and stopped receiving compensation from the Funds and the Columbia Funds Complex as of such date. |
(d) | Mr. Connaughton receives compensation from the Funds for serving as a consultant to the Independent Trustees at an annual rate of $280,000 (effective in 2018). |
(e) | Ms. Trunow receives compensation from the Funds for serving as a consultant to the Independent Trustees at an annual rate of $280,000 (effective in 2018). |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 174 |
Fund | Aggregate Compensation from Fund | |||||||||||
Independent Trustees | Consultant to Independent Trustees | |||||||||||
Janet
L.
Carrig (a) |
Douglas
A.
Hacker |
Nancy
T.
Lukitsh |
William
E.
Mayer (h) |
David
M.
Moffett (b) |
Charles
R.
Nelson (c) |
John
J.
Neuhauser |
Patrick
J.
Simpson (d) |
Anne-Lee
Verville (e) |
J.
Kevin
Connaughton (f) |
Natalie
A.
Trunow (g) |
||
For Funds with fiscal period ending January 31 | ||||||||||||
Diversified Real Return Fund | $1,742 | $2,389 | $1,689 | N/A | $1,671 | $1,398 | $1,717 | $1,812 | $1,674 | $1,461 | $1,461 | |
Amount Deferred | $1,742 | $0 | $0 | N/A | $247 | $0 | $0 | $884 | $0 | $0 | $873 | |
For Funds with fiscal period ending March 31 | ||||||||||||
Adaptive Retirement 2020 Fund (i) | $484 | $608 | $470 | N/A | $365 | $114 | $477 | $484 | $458 | $356 | $356 | |
Amount Deferred | $484 | $0 | $0 | N/A | $352 | $0 | $0 | $249 | $0 | $0 | $222 | |
Adaptive Retirement 2025 Fund (j) | $1,383 | $1,943 | $1,419 | N/A | $1,440 | N/A | $1,442 | $1,442 | $1,407 | $1,335 | $1,335 | |
Amount Deferred | $1,383 | $0 | $0 | N/A | $1,440 | N/A | $0 | $560 | $0 | $0 | $834 | |
Adaptive Retirement 2030 Fund (i) | $487 | $611 | $473 | N/A | $367 | $115 | $480 | $487 | $461 | $358 | $358 | |
Amount Deferred | $487 | $0 | $0 | N/A | $354 | $0 | $0 | $251 | $0 | $0 | $224 | |
Adaptive Retirement 2035 Fund (j) | $1,383 | $1,943 | $1,419 | N/A | $1,440 | N/A | $1,442 | $1,442 | $1,407 | $1,335 | $1,335 | |
Amount Deferred | $1,383 | $0 | $0 | N/A | $1,440 | N/A | $0 | $560 | $0 | $0 | $834 | |
Adaptive Retirement 2040 Fund (i) | $482 | $604 | $468 | N/A | $363 | $114 | $474 | $482 | $455 | $354 | $354 | |
Amount Deferred | $482 | $0 | $0 | N/A | $350 | $0 | $0 | $248 | $0 | $0 | $221 | |
Adaptive Retirement 2045 Fund (j) | $1,383 | $1,943 | $1,419 | N/A | $1,440 | N/A | $1,442 | $1,442 | $1,407 | $1,335 | $1,335 | |
Amount Deferred | $1,383 | $0 | $0 | N/A | $1,440 | N/A | $0 | $560 | $0 | $0 | $834 | |
Adaptive Retirement 2050 Fund (i) | $482 | $604 | $468 | N/A | $363 | $114 | $474 | $482 | $455 | $354 | $354 | |
Amount Deferred | $482 | $0 | $0 | N/A | $350 | $0 | $0 | $248 | $0 | $0 | $221 | |
Adaptive Retirement 2055 Fund (j) | $1,383 | $1,943 | $1,419 | N/A | $1,440 | N/A | $1,442 | $1,442 | $1,407 | $1,335 | $1,335 | |
Amount Deferred | $1,383 | $0 | $0 | N/A | $1,440 | N/A | $0 | $560 | $0 | $0 | $834 | |
Adaptive Retirement 2060 Fund (i) | $482 | $604 | $468 | N/A | $363 | $114 | $474 | $482 | $455 | $354 | $354 | |
Amount Deferred | $482 | $0 | $0 | N/A | $350 | $0 | $0 | $248 | $0 | $0 | $221 | |
MM Growth Strategies Fund | $7,173 | $9,753 | $6,927 | N/A | $6,747 | $5,153 | $7,041 | $7,403 | $6,818 | $5,956 | $5,956 | |
Amount Deferred | $7,173 | $0 | $0 | N/A | $1,562 | $0 | $0 | $3,613 | $0 | $0 | $3,563 | |
Pacific/Asia Fund | $2,224 | $3,031 | $2,149 | N/A | $2,106 | $1,626 | $2,185 | $2,297 | $2,114 | $1,855 | $1,855 | |
Amount Deferred | $2,224 | $0 | $0 | N/A | $455 | $0 | $0 | $1,117 | $0 | $0 | $1,108 | |
Select Large Cap Growth Fund | $11,056 | $15,077 | $10,693 | N/A | $10,487 | $8,126 | $10,871 | $11,421 | $10,520 | $9,245 | $9,245 | |
Amount Deferred | $11,056 | $0 | $0 | N/A | $2,221 | $0 | $0 | $5,546 | $0 | $0 | $5,520 | |
Solutions Aggressive Portfolio (i) | $485 | $609 | $471 | N/A | $365 | $115 | $478 | $485 | $459 | $357 | $357 | |
Amount Deferred | $485 | $0 | $0 | N/A | $353 | $0 | $0 | $229 | $0 | $0 | $223 | |
Solutions Conservative Portfolio (i) | $486 | $609 | $472 | N/A | $366 | $115 | $478 | $486 | $459 | $357 | $357 | |
Amount Deferred | $486 | $0 | $0 | N/A | $353 | $0 | $0 | $250 | $0 | $0 | $223 | |
For Funds with fiscal period ending April 30 | ||||||||||||
Bond Fund | $2,517 | $3,514 | $2,432 | N/A | $2,395 | $1,463 | $2,474 | $2,625 | $2,409 | $2,250 | $2,250 | |
Amount Deferred | $2,517 | $0 | $0 | N/A | $948 | $0 | $0 | $1,176 | $0 | $0 | $1,364 | |
Corporate Income Fund | $4,183 | $5,847 | $4,047 | N/A | $3,978 | $2,368 | $4,117 | $4,363 | $4,011 | $3,760 | $3,760 | |
Amount Deferred | $4,183 | $0 | $0 | N/A | $1,650 | $0 | $0 | $1,940 | $0 | $0 | $2,282 | |
Intermediate Bond Fund | $6,402 | $8,940 | $6,191 | N/A | $6,081 | $3,702 | $6,298 | $6,674 | $6,130 | $5,734 | $5,734 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 175 |
Fund | Aggregate Compensation from Fund | |||||||||||
Independent Trustees | Consultant to Independent Trustees | |||||||||||
Janet
L.
Carrig (a) |
Douglas
A.
Hacker |
Nancy
T.
Lukitsh |
William
E.
Mayer (h) |
David
M.
Moffett (b) |
Charles
R.
Nelson (c) |
John
J.
Neuhauser |
Patrick
J.
Simpson (d) |
Anne-Lee
Verville (e) |
J.
Kevin
Connaughton (f) |
Natalie
A.
Trunow (g) |
||
Amount Deferred | $6,402 | $0 | $0 | N/A | $2,434 | $0 | $0 | $2,982 | $0 | $0 | $3,477 | |
MM Directional Alternative Strat Fund | $3,621 | $5,046 | $3,500 | N/A | $3,423 | $2,150 | $3,560 | $3,768 | $3,458 | $3,229 | $3,229 | |
Amount Deferred | $3,621 | $0 | $0 | N/A | $1,309 | $0 | $0 | $1,690 | $0 | $0 | $1,957 | |
Multi-Asset Income Fund | $1,883 | $2,627 | $1,819 | N/A | $1,792 | $1,088 | $1,850 | $1,963 | $1,802 | $1,682 | $1,682 | |
Amount Deferred | $1,883 | $0 | $0 | N/A | $716 | $0 | $0 | $880 | $0 | $0 | $1,020 | |
Small Cap Value Fund I | $2,828 | $3,949 | $2,735 | N/A | $2,687 | $1,605 | $2,782 | $2,948 | $2,710 | $2,537 | $2,537 | |
Amount Deferred | $2,828 | $0 | $0 | N/A | $1,109 | $0 | $0 | $1,314 | $0 | $0 | $1,540 | |
U.S. Treasury Index Fund | $3,034 | $4,241 | $2,934 | N/A | $2,888 | $1,739 | $2,985 | $3,166 | $2,908 | $2,723 | $2,723 | |
Amount Deferred | $3,034 | $0 | $0 | N/A | $1,173 | $0 | $0 | $1,411 | $0 | $0 | $1,652 | |
For Funds with fiscal period ending May 31 | ||||||||||||
Adaptive Risk Allocation Fund | $3,664 | $5,429 | $3,716 | $1,535 | $3,730 | $3,513 | $3,807 | $3,926 | $3,654 | $3,542 | $3,007 | |
Amount Deferred | $3,664 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $1,583 | $0 | $0 | $1,777 | $0 | $0 | $1,232 | |
Alternative Beta Fund | $2,087 | $3,099 | $2,107 | $1,018 | $2,117 | $1,987 | $2,159 | $2,233 | $2,077 | $2,011 | $1,656 | |
Amount Deferred | $2,087 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $1,048 | $0 | $0 | $1,009 | $0 | $0 | $623 | |
Diversified Absolute Return Fund | $1,735 | $2,576 | $1,745 | $917 | $1,755 | $1,643 | $1,788 | $1,854 | $1,723 | $1,664 | $1,340 | |
Amount Deferred | $1,735 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $943 | $0 | $0 | $839 | $0 | $0 | $477 | |
Dividend Income Fund | $20,289 | $30,057 | $20,443 | $10,111 | $20,558 | $19,277 | $20,944 | $21,685 | $20,169 | $19,442 | $15,844 | |
Amount Deferred | $20,289 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $10,412 | $0 | $0 | $9,849 | $0 | $0 | $5,886 | |
HY Municipal Fund | $3,265 | $4,855 | $3,287 | $1,729 | $3,308 | $3,097 | $3,369 | $3,491 | $3,246 | $3,144 | $2,532 | |
Amount Deferred | $3,265 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $1,781 | $0 | $0 | $1,574 | $0 | $0 | $902 | |
For Funds with fiscal period ending July 31 | ||||||||||||
AMT-Free OR Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | $2,561 | $3,711 | $2,475 | $768 | $2,553 | $2,359 | $2,535 | $2,691 | $2,429 | $2,369 | $2,286 | |
Amount Deferred | $2,561 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $705 | $0 | $0 | $1,252 | $0 | $0 | $1,025 | |
Large Cap Growth Fund | $8,481 | $12,274 | $8,188 | $2,449 | $8,472 | $7,804 | $8,386 | $8,907 | $8,035 | $7,822 | $7,549 | |
Amount Deferred | $8,481 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $2,336 | $0 | $0 | $4,155 | $0 | $0 | $3,388 | |
Tax-Exempt Fund | $9,862 | $14,294 | $9,540 | $2,988 | $9,837 | $9,086 | $9,774 | $10,368 | $9,361 | $9,121 | $8,793 | |
Amount Deferred | $9,862 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $2,849 | $0 | $0 | $4,832 | $0 | $0 | $3,892 | |
U.S. Social Bond Fund | $1,688 | $2,446 | $1,630 | $482 | $1,688 | $1,554 | $1,670 | $1,773 | $1,599 | $1,560 | $1,507 | |
Amount Deferred | $1,688 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $460 | $0 | $0 | $825 | $0 | $0 | $679 | |
Ultra Short Term Bond Fund | $5,095 | $7,376 | $4,930 | $1,352 | $5,109 | $4,704 | $5,049 | $5,352 | $4,839 | $4,726 | $4,561 | |
Amount Deferred | $5,095 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $1,297 | $0 | $0 | $2,482 | $0 | $0 | $2,104 | |
For Funds with fiscal period ending August 31 | ||||||||||||
Balanced Fund | $14,434 | $20,825 | $13,930 | $2,758 | $14,714 | $13,311 | $14,256 | $15,385 | $13,795 | $13,049 | $12,601 | |
Amount Deferred | $14,434 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $2,837 | $0 | $0 | $7,456 | $0 | $0 | $5,834 | |
Contrarian Core Fund | $22,425 | $32,543 | $21,679 | $4,611 | $22,870 | $20,681 | $22,196 | $23,933 | $21,478 | $20,521 | $19,799 | |
Amount Deferred | $22,425 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $4,735 | $0 | $0 | $11,472 | $0 | $0 | $8,991 | |
Disciplined Small Core Fund | $2,148 | $3,131 | $2,077 | $466 | $2,190 | $1,979 | $2,128 | $2,295 | $2,059 | $1,980 | $1,912 | |
Amount Deferred | $2,148 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $477 | $0 | $0 | $1,092 | $0 | $0 | $856 | |
Emerging Markets Fund | $4,260 | $6,208 | $4,123 | $919 | $4,348 | $3,930 | $4,223 | $4,551 | $4,086 | $3,929 | $3,791 | |
Amount Deferred | $4,260 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $945 | $0 | $0 | $2,165 | $0 | $0 | $1,700 | |
Global Dividend Opportunity Fund | $2,873 | $4,181 | $2,776 | $616 | $2,929 | $2,646 | $2,843 | $3,069 | $2,751 | $2,638 | $2,547 | |
Amount Deferred | $2,873 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $630 | $0 | $0 | $1,466 | $0 | $0 | $1,143 | |
Global Energy and Natural Resources Fund | $2,129 | $3,099 | $2,058 | $454 | $2,171 | $1,962 | $2,108 | $2,274 | $2,039 | $1,957 | $1,890 | |
Amount Deferred | $2,129 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $465 | $0 | $0 | $1,084 | $0 | $0 | $849 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 176 |
Fund | Aggregate Compensation from Fund | |||||||||||
Independent Trustees | Consultant to Independent Trustees | |||||||||||
Janet
L.
Carrig (a) |
Douglas
A.
Hacker |
Nancy
T.
Lukitsh |
William
E.
Mayer (h) |
David
M.
Moffett (b) |
Charles
R.
Nelson (c) |
John
J.
Neuhauser |
Patrick
J.
Simpson (d) |
Anne-Lee
Verville (e) |
J.
Kevin
Connaughton (f) |
Natalie
A.
Trunow (g) |
||
Global Technology Growth Fund | $2,890 | $4,173 | $2,784 | $571 | $2,945 | $2,660 | $2,850 | $3,082 | $2,758 | $2,609 | $2,521 | |
Amount Deferred | $2,890 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $586 | $0 | $0 | $1,495 | $0 | $0 | $1,155 | |
Greater China Fund | $1,857 | $2,700 | $1,793 | $396 | $1,893 | $1,710 | $1,837 | $1,983 | $1,777 | $1,701 | $1,643 | |
Amount Deferred | $1,857 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $405 | $0 | $0 | $949 | $0 | $0 | $739 | |
Mid Cap Growth Fund | $5,374 | $7,823 | $5,195 | $1,153 | $5,479 | $4,951 | $5,320 | $5,740 | $5,148 | $4,942 | $4,770 | |
Amount Deferred | $5,374 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $1,180 | $0 | $0 | $2,737 | $0 | $0 | $2,140 | |
MM Alternative Strategies Fund | $2,922 | $4,277 | $2,829 | $670 | $2,981 | $2,692 | $2,898 | $3,125 | $2,804 | $2,713 | $2,619 | |
Amount Deferred | $2,922 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $685 | $0 | $0 | $1,477 | $0 | $0 | $1,152 | |
MM International Equity Strategies Fund (k) | $441 | $565 | $435 | N/A | $446 | N/A | $441 | $453 | $435 | $329 | $329 | |
Amount Deferred | $441 | $0 | $0 | N/A | $446 | N/A | $0 | $235 | $0 | $0 | $206 | |
MM Small Cap Equity Strategies Fund | $3,612 | $5,257 | $3,482 | $788 | $3,675 | $3,319 | $3,566 | $3,860 | $3,454 | $3,316 | $3,201 | |
Amount Deferred | $3,612 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $800 | $0 | $0 | $1,845 | $0 | $0 | $1,429 | |
MM Total Return Bond Strategies Fund | $15,482 | $22,475 | $14,965 | $3,195 | $15,786 | $14,272 | $15,321 | $16,527 | $14,818 | $14,147 | $13,669 | |
Amount Deferred | $15,482 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $3,277 | $0 | $0 | $7,924 | $0 | $0 | $6,196 | |
Small Cap Growth Fund I | $2,470 | $3,590 | $2,386 | $522 | $2,518 | $2,275 | $2,443 | $2,637 | $2,364 | $2,262 | $2,185 | |
Amount Deferred | $2,470 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $534 | $0 | $0 | $1,262 | $0 | $0 | $984 | |
Strategic Income Fund (l) | $8,220 | $11,911 | $7,943 | $1,652 | $8,384 | $7,584 | $8,132 | $8,771 | $7,869 | $7,502 | $7,237 | |
Amount Deferred | $8,220 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $1,699 | $0 | $0 | $4,216 | $0 | $0 | $3,311 | |
For Funds with fiscal period ending October 31 | ||||||||||||
AMT-Free CT Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | $1,986 | $2,807 | $1,966 | $117 | $2,061 | $1,892 | $2,000 | $2,099 | $1,942 | $1,780 | $1,719 | |
Amount Deferred | $1,986 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $131 | $0 | $0 | $1,020 | $0 | $0 | $1,011 | |
AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | $6,159 | $8,723 | $6,114 | $398 | $6,396 | $5,884 | $6,219 | $6,515 | $6,038 | $5,563 | $5,354 | |
Amount Deferred | $6,159 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $446 | $0 | $0 | $3,156 | $0 | $0 | $3,149 | |
AMT-Free MA Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | $2,250 | $3,180 | $2,228 | $134 | $2,334 | $2,144 | $2,266 | $2,377 | $2,201 | $2,018 | $1,948 | |
Amount Deferred | $2,250 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $150 | $0 | $0 | $1,155 | $0 | $0 | $1,146 | |
AMT-Free NY Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | $2,239 | $3,165 | $2,217 | $134 | $2,323 | $2,134 | $2,255 | $2,366 | $2,190 | $2,009 | $1,939 | |
Amount Deferred | $2,239 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $150 | $0 | $0 | $1,150 | $0 | $0 | $1,140 | |
Strategic CA Municipal Income Fund | $2,801 | $3,960 | $2,774 | $167 | $2,907 | $2,670 | $2,822 | $2,960 | $2,740 | $2,515 | $2,427 | |
Amount Deferred | $2,801 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $187 | $0 | $0 | $1,437 | $0 | $0 | $1,428 | |
Strategic NY Municipal Income Fund | $2,162 | $3,055 | $2,140 | $127 | $2,243 | $2,059 | $2,177 | $2,284 | $2,114 | $1,938 | $1,872 | |
Amount Deferred | $2,162 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $142 | $0 | $0 | $1,110 | $0 | $0 | $1,101 | |
For Funds with fiscal period ending December 31 | ||||||||||||
Real Estate Equity Fund | $2,798 | $3,886 | $2,724 | $0 | $2,704 | $2,605 | $2,771 | $2,915 | $2,697 | $2,485 | $2,398 | |
Amount Deferred | $2,798 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $1,410 | $0 | $0 | $1,411 |
(a) | As of December 31, 2017, the value of Ms. Carrig’s account under the deferred compensation plan was $1,797,467. |
(b) | As of December 31, 2017, the value of Mr. Moffett's account under the deferred compensation plan was $663,429. |
(c) | Mr. Nelson served as Trustee until December 31, 2017, and stopped receiving compensation from the Funds and the Columbia Funds Complex as of such date. |
(d) | As of December 31, 2017, the value of Mr. Simpson’s account under the deferred compensation plan was $2,616,428. |
(e) | As of December 31, 2017, the value of Ms. Verville’s account under the deferred compensation plan was $632,556. |
(f) | Mr. Connaughton receives compensation from the Funds for serving as a consultant to the Independent Trustees at an annual rate of $280,000 (effective in 2018). |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 177 |
(g) | Beginning with the fiscal year ended September 30, 2017, Ms. Trunow was a consultant to the Independent Trustees for the full period shown in the table above. For fiscal years ended prior to September 30, 2017, payments to Ms. Trunow are for the period from September 1, 2016 (when she was first appointed consultant to the Independent Trustees) through the applicable fiscal year end. Ms. Trunow receives compensation from the Funds for serving as a consultant to the Independent Trustees at an annual rate of $280,000 (effective in 2018). As of December 31, 2017, the value of Ms. Trunow’s account under the deferred compensation plan was $165,093. |
(h) | Mr. Mayer served as Trustee until December 31, 2016, and stopped receiving compensation from the Funds and the Columbia Funds Complex as of such date. |
(i) | For the period from October 24, 2017 (commencement of operations) to March 31, 2018. |
(j) | The Fund was expected to commence operations on or about April 5, 2018. The compensation shown for the Fund is the estimated amount that will be paid from April 5, 2018 to March 31, 2019. |
(k) | The Fund is expected to commence operations on or about May 17, 2018. The compensation shown for the Fund is the estimated amount that will be paid from May 17, 2018 to August 31, 2018. |
(l) | The Fund changed its fiscal year end in 2017 from October 31 to August 31. For the fiscal year ended in 2017, the information shown is for the period from November 1, 2016 to August 31, 2017. |
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Total Brokerage Commissions | |||
Fund | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 |
Solutions Aggressive Portfolio | $1,192 (a) | N/A | N/A |
Solutions Conservative Portfolio | 617 (a) | N/A | N/A |
For Funds with fiscal period ending April 30 | |||
Bond Fund | 18,020 | $18,287 | $23,846 |
Corporate Income Fund | 65,595 | 69,484 | 54,070 |
MM Directional Alternative Strategies Fund | 1,248,899 | 930,710 (c) | N/A |
Multi-Asset Income Fund | 25,991 | 21,643 | 22,078 |
Small Cap Value Fund I | 982,446 | 1,212,265 | 1,960,857 |
Total Return Bond Fund | 136,340 | 225,810 | 167,980 |
U.S. Treasury Index Fund | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Fund | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 |
For Funds with fiscal period ending May 31 | |||
Adaptive Risk Allocation Fund | 627,857 | 239,119 | 210,129 |
Alternative Beta Fund | 17,770 | 46,588 | 23,795 (d) |
Diversified Absolute Return Fund | 104,102 | 2,293,997 | 618,976 (e) |
Dividend Income Fund | 1,356,544 | 1,853,862 | 2,285,197 |
HY Municipal Fund | 0 | 0 | 0 |
For Funds with fiscal period ending July 31 | |||
AMT-Free OR Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Large Cap Growth Fund | 926,115 | 1,107,524 | 1,344,066 |
Tax-Exempt Fund | 4,550 | 0 | 0 |
U.S. Social Bond Fund | 332 | 13 | 0 (f) |
Ultra Short Term Bond Fund | 0 | 0 | 0 |
For Funds with fiscal period ending August 31 | |||
Balanced Fund | 1,764,194 | 1,567,482 | 827,182 |
Contrarian Core Fund | 4,479,950 | 3,952,735 | 2,566,680 |
Disciplined Small Core Fund | 382,628 | 1,236,808 | 821,155 |
Emerging Markets Fund | 2,969,418 | 3,765,444 | 4,498,397 |
Global Dividend Opportunity Fund | 459,504 | 853,746 | 1,119,280 |
Global Energy and Natural Resources Fund | 103,062 | 112,438 | 265,939 |
Global Technology Growth Fund | 379,605 | 328,663 | 333,197 |
Greater China Fund | 139,256 | 136,815 | 268,667 |
Mid Cap Growth Fund | 2,081,806 | 2,710,169 | 2,311,420 |
MM Alternative Strategies Fund | 1,110,334 | 1,059,559 | 1,427,187 |
MM International Equity Strategies Fund (g) | N/A | N/A | N/A |
MM Small Cap Equity Strategies Fund | 1,730,634 | 3,051,542 | 1,967,401 |
MM Total Return Bond Strategies Fund | 420,658 | 489,671 | 210,419 |
Small Cap Growth Fund I | 1,207,610 | 1,065,842 | 1,711,624 |
Strategic Income Fund | 262,921 (h) | 178,818 | 129,182 |
For Funds with fiscal period ending October 31 | |||
AMT-Free CT Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | 0 | 0 | 0 |
AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | 0 | 0 | 0 |
AMT-Free MA Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 183 |
Total Brokerage Commissions | |||
Fund | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 |
AMT-Free NY Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | $0 | $0 | $0 |
Strategic CA Municipal Income Fund | 0 | 1,232 | 0 |
Strategic NY Municipal Income Fund | 0 | 809 | 0 |
For Funds with fiscal period ending December 31 | |||
Real Estate Equity Fund | 275,028 | 245,905 | 284,239 |
(a) | For the period from October 24, 2017 (commencement of operations) to March 31, 2018. |
(b) | The Fund commenced operations on April 4, 2018, and therefore has no reporting information for periods prior to such date. |
(c) | For the period from October 17, 2016 (commencement of operations) to April 30, 2017. |
(d) | For the period from January 27, 2015 (commencement of operations) to May 31, 2015. |
(e) | For the period from February 19, 2015 (commencement of operations) to May 31, 2015. |
(f) | For the period from March 26, 2015 (commencement of operations) to July 31, 2015. |
(g) | No historical information is given for the Fund because the Fund had not commenced operations as of the date of this SAI. |
(h) | The Fund changed its fiscal year end in 2017 from October 31 to August 31. For the fiscal year ended in 2017, the information shown is for the period from November 1, 2016 to August 31, 2017. |
Brokerage directed for research | ||
Fund | Amount of Transactions | Amount of Commissions Imputed or Paid |
For Funds with fiscal period ending January 31 | ||
Diversified Real Return Fund | $0 | $0 |
For Funds with fiscal period ending March 31 | ||
Adaptive Retirement 2020 Fund | 0 (a) | 0 (a) |
Adaptive Retirement 2025 Fund (b) | 0 | 0 |
Adaptive Retirement 2025 Fund (b) | 0 | 0 |
Adaptive Retirement 2025 Fund | 0 | 0 |
Adaptive Retirement 2025 Fund | 0 | 0 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 184 |
Brokerage directed for research | ||
Fund | Amount of Transactions | Amount of Commissions Imputed or Paid |
Adaptive Retirement 2030 Fund | $0 (a) | $0 (a) |
Adaptive Retirement 2035 Fund (b) | 0 | 0 |
Adaptive Retirement 2035 Fund (b) | 0 | 0 |
Adaptive Retirement 2035 Fund | 0 | 0 |
Adaptive Retirement 2035 Fund | 0 | 0 |
Adaptive Retirement 2040 Fund | 0 (a) | 0 (a) |
Adaptive Retirement 2045 Fund (b) | 0 | 0 |
Adaptive Retirement 2045 Fund (b) | 0 | 0 |
Adaptive Retirement 2045 Fund | 0 | 0 |
Adaptive Retirement 2045 Fund | 0 | 0 |
Adaptive Retirement 2050 Fund | 0 (a) | 0 (a) |
Adaptive Retirement 2055 Fund (b) | 0 | 0 |
Adaptive Retirement 2055 Fund (b) | 0 | 0 |
Adaptive Retirement 2055 Fund | 0 | 0 |
Adaptive Retirement 2055 Fund | 0 | 0 |
Adaptive Retirement 2060 Fund | 0 (a) | 0 (a) |
MM Growth Strategies Fund | 2,713,771,023 | 348,324 |
Pacific/Asia Fund | 32,886,874 | 38,475 |
Select Large Cap Growth Fund | 2,569,198,532 | 600,968 |
Solutions Aggressive Portfolio | 0 (a) | 0 (a) |
Solutions Conservative Portfolio | 0 (a) | 0 (a) |
For Funds with fiscal period ending April 30 | ||
Bond Fund | 0 | 0 |
Corporate Income Fund | 0 | 0 |
MM Directional Alternative Strategies Fund | 992,747,975 | 432,344 |
Multi-Asset Income Fund | 7,926,513 | 4,838 |
Small Cap Value Fund I | 195,853,315 | 306,980 |
Total Return Bond Fund | 0 | 0 |
U.S. Treasury Index Fund | 0 | 0 |
For Funds with fiscal period ending May 31 | ||
Adaptive Risk Allocation Fund | 0 | 0 |
Alternative Beta Fund | 0 | 0 |
Diversified Absolute Return Fund | 18,981,941 | 6,358 |
Dividend Income Fund | 2,058,851,738 | 873,880 |
HY Municipal Fund | 0 | 0 |
For Funds with fiscal period ending July 31 | ||
AMT-Free OR Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | 0 | 0 |
Large Cap Growth Fund | 1,006,812,328 | 356,717 |
Tax-Exempt Fund | 0 | 0 |
U.S. Social Bond Fund | 0 | 0 |
Ultra Short Term Bond Fund | 0 | 0 |
For Funds with fiscal period ending August 31 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 185 |
Brokerage directed for research | ||
Fund | Amount of Transactions | Amount of Commissions Imputed or Paid |
Balanced Fund | $1,762,235,353 | $721,726 |
Contrarian Core Fund | 4,525,483,379 | 1,864,970 |
Disciplined Small Core Fund | 127,145,134 | 123,710 |
Emerging Markets Fund | 289,983,785 | 467,673 |
Global Dividend Opportunity Fund | 220,480,966 | 136,298 |
Global Energy and Natural Resources Fund | 38,278,873 | 30,887 |
Global Technology Growth Fund | 122,882,265 | 76,386 |
Greater China Fund | 18,766,331 | 24,877 |
Mid Cap Growth Fund | 1,193,894,857 | 639,990 |
MM Alternative Strategies Fund | 1,740,450,417 | 368,432 |
MM International Equity Strategies Fund | N/A (c) | N/A (c) |
MM Small Cap Equity Strategies Fund | 338,013,806 | 165,451 |
MM Total Return Bond Strategies Fund | 0 | 0 |
Small Cap Growth Fund I | 540,188,659 | 389,932 |
Strategic Income Fund (d) | 0 | 0 |
For Funds with fiscal period ending October 31 | ||
AMT-Free CT Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | 0 | 0 |
AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | 0 | 0 |
AMT-Free MA Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | 0 | 0 |
AMT-Free NY Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | 0 | 0 |
Strategic CA Municipal Income Fund | 0 | 0 |
Strategic NY Municipal Income Fund | 0 | 0 |
For Funds with fiscal period ending December 31 | ||
Real Estate Equity Fund | 84,231,748 | 49,915 |
(a) | For the period from October 24, 2017 (commencement of operations) to March 31, 2018. |
(b) | The Fund commenced operations on April 4, 2018, and therefore has no reporting information for periods prior to such date. |
(c) | No historical information is given for the Fund because the Fund had not commenced operations as of the date of this SAI. |
(d) | The Fund changed its fiscal year end in 2017 from October 31 to August 31. For the fiscal year ended in 2017, the information shown is for the period from November 1, 2016 to August 31, 2017. |
Fund | Issuer |
Value
of securities owned
at end of fiscal period |
For Funds with fiscal period ending January 31, 2018 | ||
Diversified Real Return | None | N/A |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 186 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 187 |
Fund | Issuer |
Value
of securities owned
at end of fiscal period |
Total Return Bond Fund | Citigroup, Inc. | $95,964 |
Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust | $2,122,257 | |
Citigroup Mortgage Loan Trust, Inc. | $19,404,676 | |
Credit Suisse Mortgage Capital Certificates | $30,739,279 | |
Credit Suisse Mortgage Trust | $2,677,677 | |
Credit Suisse Mortgage Capital Trust | $8,825,919 | |
JPMorgan Chase & Co. | $14,613,976 | |
JPMorgan Resecuritization Trust | $4,124,489 | |
Morgan Stanley Capital I Trust | $4,120,133 | |
Morgan Stanley Re-Remic Trust | $588,127 | |
Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill Lynch Trust | $2,424,013 | |
U.S. Treasury Index Fund | None | N/A |
For Funds with fiscal period ending May 31, 2017 | ||
Adaptive Risk Allocation Fund | None | N/A |
Alternative Beta Fund | None | N/A |
Diversified Absolute Return Fund | Affiliated Managers Group, Inc. | $(87,848) |
Citigroup, Inc. | $829,402 | |
Franklin Resources, Inc. | $(52,279) | |
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. | $112,179 | |
JPMorgan Chase & Co. | $998,576 | |
JPMorgan Chase Capital XXI | $297,905 | |
JPMorgan Chase Capital XXIII | $395,973 | |
Legg Mason, Inc. (subsidiary) | $(49,148) | |
Morgan Stanley | $98,840 | |
Dividend Income Fund | JPMorgan Chase & Co. | $330,243,000 |
PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.(The) | $155,832,327 | |
High Yield Municipal Fund | None | N/A |
For Funds with fiscal period ending July 31, 2017 | ||
AMT-Free OR Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | None | N/A |
Large Cap Growth Fund | The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. | $40,104,459 |
Tax-Exempt Fund | None | N/A |
U.S. Social Bond Fund | None | N/A |
Ultra Short Term Bond Fund | Citigroup, Inc. | $14,112,420 |
Credit Suisse AG | $6,001,596 | |
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. | $13,218,790 | |
JPMorgan Chase & Co. | $16,140,000 | |
JPMorgan Chase Commercial Mortgage Securities Trust | $5,568,485 | |
JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities Trust | $3,487,250 | |
Morgan Stanley | $12,093,300 | |
Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill Lynch Trust | $844,680 | |
PNC Bank NA | $10,438,324 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 188 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 189 |
Fund | Issuer |
Value
of securities owned
at end of fiscal period |
MM Total Return Bond Strategies Fund | The Bear Stearns Companies LLC | $7,531,037 |
Chase Issuance Trust | $20,858,408 | |
Citigroup, Inc. | $67,483,868 | |
Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust | $24,318,679 | |
Citigroup Mortgage Loan Trust, Inc. | $4,185,120 | |
Credit Suisse Mortgage Capital Certificates | $16,611,611 | |
Credit Suisse Group Funding | $7,054,442 | |
Credit Suisse Mortgage Capital Trust | $14,283,501 | |
E*TRADE Financial Corp. | $3,426,983 | |
GS Mortgage Securities Trust | $36,331,604 | |
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. | $64,765,439 | |
Jefferies Group LLC | $3,793,086 | |
JPMorgan Chase & Co. | $87,329,783 | |
JPMorgan Chase Bank NA | $2,614,364 | |
JPMorgan Chase Capital XXI | $17,190,288 | |
JPMorgan Chase Commercial Mortgage Securities Trust | $20,566,156 | |
JPMorgan Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities Trust | $44,577 | |
JPMorgan Mortgage Trust | $1,247,320 | |
JPMorgan Resecuritization Trust | $4,675,762 | |
Lehman XS Trust | $5,379,190 | |
Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. | $2,118,154 | |
Banc of America Merrill Lynch Commercial Mortgage, Inc. | $1,734,164 | |
Morgan Stanley | $55,077,027 | |
Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill Lynch Trust | $3,635,832 | |
Morgan Stanley Capital I Trust | $13,742,600 | |
Morgan Stanley Mortgage Loan Trust | $4,363,742 | |
Morgan Stanley Re-Remic Trust | $1,072,558 | |
Morgan Stanley Resecuritization Trust | $492,732 | |
PNC Bank NA | $10,192,742 | |
Stifel Financial Corp. | $1,780,987 | |
Small Cap Growth Fund I | None | N/A |
Strategic Income Fund | Citigroup, Inc. | $7,039,145 |
Citigroup Mortgage Loan Trust, Inc. | $15,369,616 | |
Credit Suisse Mortgage Capital Certificates | $90,317,642 | |
Jefferies Resecuritization Trust | $513,679 | |
Banc of America Merrill Lynch Commercial Mortgage, Inc. | $11,687,429 | |
For Funds with fiscal period ending October 31, 2017 | ||
AMT-Free CT Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | None | N/A |
AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | None | N/A |
AMT-Free MA Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | None | N/A |
AMT-Free NY Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | None | N/A |
Strategic CA Municipal Income Fund | None | N/A |
Strategic NY Municipal Income Fund | None | N/A |
For Funds with fiscal period ending December 31, 2017 | ||
Real Estate Equity Fund | None | N/A |
(a) | No historical information is given for the Fund because the Fund had not commenced operations as of the date of this SAI. |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 190 |
Fund | Predecessor Fund | For periods prior to: | ||
Bond Fund | Excelsior Core Bond Fund, a series of Excelsior Funds, Inc. | March 31, 2008 | ||
Emerging Markets Fund | Excelsior Emerging Markets Fund, a series of Excelsior Funds, Inc. | March 31, 2008 | ||
Global Energy and Natural Resources Fund | Excelsior Energy and Natural Resources Fund, a series of Excelsior Funds, Inc. | March 31, 2008 | ||
Pacific/Asia Fund | Excelsior Pacific/Asia Fund, a series of Excelsior Funds, Inc. | March 31, 2008 | ||
Select Large Cap Growth Fund | Excelsior Large Cap Growth Fund, a series of Excelsior Funds, Inc. | March 31, 2008 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 191 |
■ | For equity, alternative and flexible funds (other than the equity funds identified below) and funds-of-funds (equity and fixed income), a complete list of Fund portfolio holdings as of month-end is posted approximately, but no earlier than, 15 calendar days after such month-end. |
■ | For Columbia Small Cap Growth Fund I and Columbia Variable Portfolio – Small Company Growth Fund, a complete list of Fund portfolio holdings as of month-end is posted approximately, but no earlier than, 30 calendar days after such month-end. |
■ | For fixed-income Funds (other than money market funds), a complete list of Fund portfolio holdings as of calendar quarter-end is posted approximately, but no earlier than, 30 calendar days after such quarter-end. |
■ | For money market Funds, a complete list of Fund portfolio holdings as of month-end is posted no later than five business days after such month-end. Such month-end holdings are continuously available on the website for at least six months, together with a link to an SEC webpage where a user of the website may obtain access to the Fund’s most recent 12 months of publicly available filings on Form N-MFP. Money market Fund portfolio holdings information posted on the website, at minimum, includes with respect to each holding, the name of the issuer, the category of investment ( e.g. , Treasury debt, government agency debt, asset backed commercial paper, structured investment vehicle note), the CUSIP number (if any), the principal amount, the maturity date (as determined under Rule 2a-7 for purposes of calculating weighted average maturity), the final maturity date (if different from the maturity date previously described), coupon or yield and the value. The money market Funds will also disclose on the website its overall weighted average maturity, weighted average life maturity, percentage of daily liquid assets, percentage of weekly liquid assets and daily inflows and outflows. |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 192 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 193 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 194 |
Identity of Recipient | Conditions/restrictions on use of information |
Frequency
of
Disclosure |
||
FactSet Research Systems, Inc. | Used for provision of quantitative analytics, charting and fundamental data and for portfolio analytics. Used to cover product and marketing developments related to index funds, ETFs, index derivatives, and other sophisticated investment strategies. | Daily or Monthly | ||
Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. | Used as portfolio accounting system. | Daily | ||
Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P., as agent to KPMG LLP | Holdings by Columbia Contrarian Core Fund and Columbia High Yield Bond Fund in certain audit clients of KPMG LLP to assist the accounting firm in complying with its regulatory obligations relating to independence of its audit clients. | Monthly | ||
Harte-Hanks | Used for printing of prospectuses, factsheets, annual and semi-annual reports. | As Needed | ||
Imagine Print Solutions | Used for commercial printing. | Daily, Monthly and Quarterly | ||
Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) | Used for proxy voting administration and research on proxy matters. | Daily | ||
Intex Solutions Inc. | Used to provide mortgage analytics. | Periodic | ||
Investment Technology Group, Inc. | Used to evaluate and assess trading activity, execution and practices. | Quarterly | ||
Investor Tools | Used for municipal bond analytics, research and decision support. | As Needed | ||
JDP Marketing Services | Used to write or edit Columbia Fund shareholder reports, quarterly fund commentaries, and communications, including shareholder letters and management’s discussion of Columbia Fund performance. | Monthly, as needed | ||
John Roberts, Inc. | Used for commercial printing. | Daily, Monthly and Quarterly | ||
Kendall Press | Used for commercial printing. | As Needed | ||
Kynex | Used to provide portfolio attribution reports for the Columbia Convertible Securities Fund. Used also for portfolio analytics. | Daily | ||
Malaspina Communications | Used to facilitate writing management’s discussion of Columbia Fund performance for Columbia Fund shareholder reports and periodic marketing communications. | Monthly | ||
Markit | Used for an asset database for analytics and investor reporting. Used to reconcile client commission trades with broker-dealers. | As Needed and Monthly | ||
Merrill Corporation | Used for printing of prospectuses, factsheets, annual and semi-annual reports. | As Needed | ||
MoneyMate, Inc. | Used to report returns and analytics to client facing materials. | Monthly | ||
Morningstar, Inc. | Used for independent research and ranking of funds. Used also for statistical analysis. | Monthly, Quarterly or As Needed |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 195 |
Identity of Recipient | Conditions/restrictions on use of information |
Frequency
of
Disclosure |
||
MSCI, Inc. | Used as a hosted portfolio management platform designed for research, reporting, strategy development, portfolio construction and performance and risk attribution, and used for risk analysis and reporting. | Daily | ||
Print Craft | Used to assemble kits and mailing that include the fact sheets. | As Needed | ||
R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. | Used to provide printing and mailing services for prospectuses, annual and semi-annual reports and supplements. Used for commercial printing. | As Needed | ||
RegEd, Inc. | Used to review external and certain internal communications prior to dissemination. | Daily | ||
SEI Investments Company | Used for trading wrap accounts and to reconcile wrap accounts. | Daily | ||
SS&C Technologies, Inc. | Used to translate account positions for reconciliations. | Daily | ||
Sustainalytics US Inc. | Used to affirm and validate social scoring methodology of Columbia U.S. Social Bond Fund’s investment strategy. | Quarterly | ||
S.W.I.F.T. Scrl. | Used to send trade messages via SWIFT to custodians. | Daily | ||
Thomson Reuters | Used for statistical analysis. | Monthly | ||
Threadneedle Investments | Used by portfolio managers and research analysts in supporting certain management strategies, and by shared support partners (legal, operations, compliance, risk, etc.) to provide Fund maintenance and development. | As Needed | ||
Universal Wilde | Used to provide printing and mailing services for prospectuses, annual and semi-annual reports, and supplements. | As Needed | ||
Visions, Inc. | Used for commercial printing. | Daily, Monthly and Quarterly | ||
Wilshire Associates, Inc. | Used to provide daily performance attribution reporting based on daily holdings to the investment and investment analytics teams. | Daily | ||
Wolters Kluwer | Used to perform tax calculations specific to wash sales and used to analyze tax straddles (diminution of risk). | Monthly |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 196 |
Identity of Recipient | Conditions/restrictions on use of information |
Frequency
of
Disclosure |
||
Barclays Capital, Inc. | Used by certain subadvisers for portfolio and risk analytics. | Daily | ||
Bloomberg, L.P. | Used by certain subadvisers for attribution analysis, and for trade order management and compliance. | Daily | ||
BNY Mellon, N.A. | Used by certain subadvisers for back office asset servicing. | Daily | ||
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. | Used by certain subadvisers for FX trade execution for non-US trades. Used by certain subadvisers for trade matching and SWIFT messaging. | Daily | ||
Charles River Development, Ltd. | Used by certain subadvisers for order management, for order management and compliance, and for OMS trading system and compliance. | Daily | ||
Charles River Systems, Inc | Used by certain subadvisers for trading and compliance systems. | Daily | ||
Client Service Specialists, Inc. | Used by certain subadvisers for operational and reconciliation services. | Monthly | ||
Eagle Investment Systems, LLC | Used by certain subadvisers for portfolio accounting systems. | Daily | ||
Electra Information Systems, Inc. | Used by certain subadvisers for daily reconciliation of positions and transactions for outside custodians. Used by certain subadvisers for portfolio holdings reconciliation. Used by certain subadvisers for monthly audited client statements for market value reconciliations. Used by certain subadvisers for automated reconciliation services. | Daily or Monthly | ||
Ernst & Young, LLP | Used by certain subadvisers to provide general audit services. | Semi-annually | ||
eVestment Alliance, LLC | Used by certain subadvisers to provide representative holdings to databases. | Quarterly | ||
FactSet Research Systems, Inc. | Used by certain subadvisers for analytical and statistical information, for portfolio attribution, for portfolio and risk analytics and for database systems for portfolio analytics. | Daily | ||
Fidelity ActionsXchange, Inc. | Used by certain subadvisers for corporate actions processing. | Daily | ||
Financial Recovery Technologies, LLC | Used by certain subadvisers for class action monitoring. | Quarterly | ||
Flextrade Systems, Inc. | Used by certain subadvisers for execution management. | Daily | ||
FX Connect, LLC | Used by certain subadvisers for FX order routing services. | Daily | ||
FX Transparency, LLC | Used by certain subadvisers for trade execution services. | Quarterly | ||
Glass, Lewis & Company, LLC | Used by certain subadvisers for proxy voting services. | Daily |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 197 |
Identity of Recipient | Conditions/restrictions on use of information |
Frequency
of
Disclosure |
||
IHS Markit, Ltd. | Used by certain subadvisers for confirming and settling bank loan trades. Used by certain subadvisers to match Credit Default Swaps and Interest Rate Swaps. | Daily | ||
Infinit-O Global, Ltd. | Used by certain subadvisers for reconciling cash and positions. | Daily | ||
Instinet Holdings, Inc. | Used by certain subadvisers for execution management. | Daily | ||
Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. | Used by certain subadvisers for proxy voting services and for proxy research and recordkeeping services. | Daily | ||
Interactive Data Corporation | Used by certain subadvisers as a pricing vendor. | Daily | ||
ITG Solutions Network, Inc. | Used by certain subadvisers for transaction cost analyses. | Monthly | ||
Investment Technology Group, Inc. | Used by certain subadvisers for transaction cost analysis. | Daily | ||
JPMorgan Chase & Co. | Used by certain subadvisers for custodian services. | Daily | ||
LexisNexis Corp. | Used by certain subadvisers for compliance global watchlist services. | Weekly | ||
MSCI, Inc. | Used by certain subadvisers for portfolio analytics and analysis. | Daily | ||
Northern Trust Corporation | Used by certain subadvisers for settlement, accounting, reconciliation and performance. | Daily | ||
Omgeo, LLC | Used by certain subadvisers for trade settlement. Used by certain subadvisers for block trade confirmations. Used by certain subadvisers for electronically providing allocations to counterparties, and electronic trade matching and affirmation of confirms. Used by certain subadvisers for automated trade matching service. | Daily | ||
Seismic Software, Inc. | Used by certain subadvisers to automate quarterly updates. | Quarterly | ||
SS&C Technologies, Inc. | Used by certain subadvisers for SWIFT messaging and reconciliation, and for accounting. Used by certain subadvisers for data aggregation. | Daily | ||
State Street Bank and Trust Company | Used by certain subadvisers for middle office management. | Daily | ||
Trade Informatics, LLC | Used by certain subadvisers for equity trading transaction cost analysis. | Daily | ||
Tradeweb Markets, LLC | Used by certain subadvisers for confirmation of TBAs, Treasuries and Discount Notes. | Daily | ||
TradingScreen, Inc. | Used by certain subadvisers for FX trading matching and SWIFT messaging. | Daily | ||
Traiana, Inc. | Used by certain subadvisers for block trade confirmation between Charles River and ISDA counterparty. | Daily |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 198 |
Identity of Recipient | Conditions/restrictions on use of information |
Frequency
of
Disclosure |
||
TriOptima, AB | Used by certain subadvisers for back office reconciliation. Used by certain subadvisers for daily reconciliations on collateral management. | Daily | ||
Vermeg, N.V. | Used by certain subadvisers for the management of swap counterparty exposure. | Daily | ||
William O’Neil & Co., Inc. | Used by certain subadvisers for analytical and statistical information. | Daily |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 199 |
■ | ADP Broker-Dealer, Inc. |
■ | American Enterprise Investment Services Inc.* |
■ | American United Life Insurance Co. |
■ | Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.* |
■ | Ascensus, Inc. |
■ | AXA Advisors |
■ | AXA Equitable Life Insurance |
■ | Bank of America, N.A. |
■ | Benefit Plan Administrators |
■ | Benefit Trust |
■ | BMO Harris Bank (f/k/a Marshall & Illsley Trust Company) |
■ | BNY Mellon, N.A. |
■ | Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. |
■ | Charles Schwab Trust Co. |
■ | Conduent HR Services LLC |
■ | Davenport & Company |
■ | Daily Access Concepts, Inc. |
■ | Digital Retirement Solutions |
■ | Edward D. Jones & Co., LP |
■ | ExpertPlan |
■ | Fidelity Brokerage Services, Inc. |
■ | Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Co. |
■ | First Mercantile Trust Co. |
■ | Guardian Insurance and Annuity Company Inc. |
■ | Genworth Life and Annuity Insurance Company |
■ | Genworth Life Insurance Co. of New York |
■ | Goldman Sachs & Co. |
■ | GWFS Equities, Inc. |
■ | Hartford Life Insurance Company |
■ | HD Vest |
■ | Hewitt Associates LLC |
■ | ICMA Retirement Corporation |
■ | Janney Montgomery Scott, Inc. |
■ | JJB Hilliard Lyons |
■ | JP Morgan Chase Bank |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 200 |
■ | John Hancock Life Insurance Company (USA) |
■ | John Hancock Life Insurance Company of New York |
■ | John Hancock Trust Company |
■ | Lincoln Life & Annuity Company of New York |
■ | Lincoln National Life Insurance Company |
■ | Lincoln Retirement Services |
■ | LPL Financial Corporation |
■ | Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company |
■ | Mercer HR Services, LLC |
■ | Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated |
■ | Mid Atlantic Capital Corporation |
■ | Minnesota Life Insurance Co. |
■ | Morgan Stanley Smith Barney |
■ | MSCS Financial Services Division of Broadridge Business Process Outsourcing LLC |
■ | National Financial Services |
■ | Nationwide Investment Services |
■ | Newport Retirement Services, Inc. |
■ | New York State Deferred Compensation Plan |
■ | Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. |
■ | Plan Administrators, Inc. |
■ | PNC Bank |
■ | Principal Life Insurance Company of America |
■ | Prudential Insurance Company of America |
■ | Prudential Retirement Insurance & Annuity Company |
■ | Pershing LLC |
■ | Raymond James & Associates |
■ | RBC Capital Markets |
■ | Reliance Trust |
■ | Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. |
■ | Sammons Retirement Solutions |
■ | SEI Private Trust Company |
■ | Standard Insurance Company |
■ | Stifel Nicolaus & Co. |
■ | TD Ameritrade Clearing, Inc. |
■ | TD Ameritrade Trust Company |
■ | The Retirement Plan Company |
■ | Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America |
■ | Transamerica Advisors Life Insurance Company |
■ | Transamerica Advisors Life Insurance Company of New York |
■ | Transamerica Financial Life Insurance Company |
■ | T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. |
■ | UBS Financial Services, Inc. |
■ | Unified Trust Company, N.A. |
■ | Upromise Investments, Inc. |
■ | US Bank NA |
■ | Vanguard Group, Inc. |
■ | VALIC Retirement Services Company |
■ | Voya Retirement Insurance and Annuity Company |
■ | Voya Institutional Plan Services, LLP |
■ | Voya Investments Distributors, LLC |
■ | Voya Financial Partners, LLC |
■ | Wells Fargo Clearing Services, LLC |
■ | Wells Fargo Advisors |
■ | Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. |
■ | Wilmington Trust Retirement & Institutional Services Company |
* | Ameriprise Financial affiliate |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 201 |
■ | AIG Advisor Group |
■ | Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.* |
■ | AXA Advisors, LLC |
■ | Bank of America, N.A. |
■ | Cetera Financial Group, Inc. |
■ | Citigroup Global Markets Inc./Citibank |
■ | Commonwealth Financial Network |
■ | J.J.B. Hilliard, W.L. Lyons, Inc. |
■ | Lincoln Financial Advisors Corp. |
■ | LPL Financial Corporation |
■ | Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated |
■ | Morgan Stanley Smith Barney |
■ | Northwestern Mutual Investment Services, LLC |
■ | Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. |
■ | PNC Investments |
■ | Raymond James & Associates, Inc. |
■ | Raymond James Financial Services, Inc. |
■ | RBC Capital Markets |
■ | UBS Financial Services Inc. |
■ | Unified Trust Company, N.A. |
■ | US Bancorp Investments, Inc. |
■ | Vanguard Marketing Corp. |
■ | Voya Financial Advisors, LLC |
■ | Wells Fargo Advisors |
■ | Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network, LLC |
■ | Wells Fargo Clearing Services, LLC |
* | Ameriprise Financial affiliate |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 202 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 203 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 204 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 205 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 206 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 207 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 208 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 209 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 210 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 211 |
Fund |
Total
Capital Loss Carryovers |
Amount Expiring in | Amount not Expiring | |||
2018 | 2019 | Short-term | Long-term | |||
For Funds with fiscal period ending January 31 | ||||||
Diversified Real Return Fund | $1,027,960 | $0 | $0 | $6,556 | $1,021,404 | |
For Funds with fiscal period ending April 30 | ||||||
Multi-Asset Income Fund | $4,602,508 | $0 | $0 | $4,602,508 | $0 | |
Total Return Bond Fund | $2,587,156 | $0 | $0 | $2,587,156 | $0 | |
U.S. Treasury Index Fund | $2,916,730 | $0 | $0 | $2,916,730 | $0 | |
For Funds with fiscal period ending May 31 | ||||||
Alternative Beta Fund | $10,185,772 | $0 | $0 | $9,504,956 | $680,816 | |
Diversified Absolute Return Fund | $2,667,641 | $0 | $0 | $1,675,808 | $991,833 | |
HY Municipal Fund | $42,710,600 | $35,721,468 | $4,244,605 | $1,961,649 | $782,878 | |
For Funds with fiscal period ending July 31 | ||||||
AMT-Free OR Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | $947,711 | $0 | $0 | $947,711 | $0 | |
Tax-Exempt Fund | $23,446,035 | $0 | $7,286,973 | $8,117,805 | $8,041,257 | |
U.S. Social Bond Fund | $258,025 | $0 | $0 | $56,443 | $201,582 | |
Ultra Short Term Bond Fund | $24,288,560 | $1,023,617 | $11,369,928 | $4,055,173 | $7,839,842 | |
For Funds with fiscal period ending August 31 | ||||||
Emerging Markets Fund | $74,781,273 | $0 | $0 | $74,781,273 | $0 | |
Global Dividend Opportunity Fund | $17,051,810 | $0 | $0 | $17,051,810 | $0 | |
Global Energy and Natural Resources Fund | $33,763,919 | $0 | $0 | $3,003,362 | $30,760,557 | |
Greater China Fund | $1,802,252 | $0 | $0 | $1,802,252 | $0 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 212 |
Fund |
Total
Capital Loss Carryovers |
Amount Expiring in | Amount not Expiring | |||
2018 | 2019 | Short-term | Long-term | |||
MM Alternative Strategies Fund | $45,740,767 | $0 | $0 | $10,816,699 | $34,924,068 | |
For Funds with fiscal period ending October 31 | ||||||
AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund | $1,684,697 | $62,558 | $0 | $1,622,139 | $0 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 213 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 214 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 215 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 216 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 217 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 218 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 219 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 220 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 221 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 222 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 223 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 224 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 225 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 226 |
Fund | Class |
Percentage
of Class
Beneficially Owned |
Adaptive Risk Allocation Fund | Class Inst2 | 8.38% |
Alternative Beta Fund | Class Inst2 | 71.44% |
MM Directional Alternative Strategies Fund | Class A | 1.78% |
Multi-Asset Income Fund | Class Inst | 46.57% |
Fund | Shareholder Name and Address | Share Class |
Percentage
of Class |
Percentage
of Fund
(if greater than 25%) |
Diversified Real Return Fund |
COLUMBIA
MGMT INVESTMENT ADVSR LLC
ATTN KATRINA MACBAIN 50807 AMERIPRISE FINANCIAL CTR MINNEAPOLIS MN 55474-0508 |
Class A | 11.37% | 85.67% (a) |
Class Adv | 21.26% | |||
Class C | 17.19% | |||
Class Inst | 99.06% | |||
Class Inst2 | 100.00% | |||
Class Inst3 | 100.00% | |||
Class T | 100.00% | |||
LPL
FINANCIAL
9785 TOWNE CENTRE DR SAN DIEGO CA 92121-1968 |
Class A | 65.56% | N/A | |
PERSHING
LLC
1 PERSHING PLZ JERSEY CITY NJ 07399-0002 |
Class A | 9.34% | N/A | |
Class Adv | 78.74% | |||
Class C | 82.81% | |||
WELDON
L WEBER III
6226 GEORGIA DR CORPUS CHRISTI TX 78414-3664 |
Class A | 6.07% | N/A |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 227 |
Fund | Shareholder Name and Address | Share Class |
Percentage
of Class |
Percentage
of Fund
(if greater than 25%) |
MM Growth Strategies Fund |
AMERICAN
ENTERPRISE INVESTMENT SVC
707 2ND AVE S MINNEAPOLIS MN 55402-2405 |
Class A | 99.97% | 100.00% |
Class Inst | 100.00% | |||
Pacific/Asia Fund |
AMERICAN
ENTERPRISE INVESTMENT SVC
707 2ND AVE S MINNEAPOLIS MN 55402-2405 |
Class A | 35.52% | N/A |
Class C | 16.63% | |||
CHARLES
SCHWAB & CO INC
SPECIAL CUSTODY A/C FOR BENEFIT OF CUSTOMERS ATTN MUTUAL FUNDS 101 MONTGOMERY ST SAN FRANCISCO CA 94104-4151 |
Class A | 7.15% | N/A | |
COLUMBIA
MGMT INVESTMENT ADVSR LLC
ATTN KATRINA MACBAIN 50807 AMERIPRISE FINANCIAL CTR MINNEAPOLIS MN 55474-0508 |
Class T | 100.00% | 83.36% (a) | |
FIIOC
FBO
100 MAGELLAN WAY # KW1C COVINGTON KY 41015-1987 |
Class Adv | 23.60% | N/A | |
JPMCB
NA AS CUST FOR THE SC529 PLAN
COLUMBIA MODERATE GROWTH 529 PORTFOLIO 4 CHASE METROTECH CENTER 3RD FLOOR BROOKLYN NY 11201 DALLAS TX 75254 |
Class Inst | 80.40% | N/A (a) | |
JPMCB
NA CUST FOR
COLUMBIA CAPITAL ALLOCATION AGGRESSIVE PORTFOLIO 4 CHASE METROTECH CENTER 3RD FLOOR BROOKLYN NY 11245-0003 |
Class Inst3 | 18.81% | N/A (a) | |
JPMCB
NA CUST FOR
COLUMBIA CAPITAL ALLOCATION MODERATE AGGRESSIVE PORTFOLIO 4 CHASE METROTECH CENTER 3RD FLOOR BROOKLYN NY 11245-0003 |
Class Inst3 | 45.00% | N/A (a) | |
JPMCB
NA CUST FOR
COLUMBIA CAPITAL ALLOCATION MODERATE PORTFOLIO 4 CHASE METROTECH CENTER 3RD FLOOR BROOKLYN NY 11245-0003 |
Class Inst3 | 25.42% | N/A (a) | |
LPL
FINANCIAL
9785 TOWNE CENTRE DR SAN DIEGO CA 92121-1968 |
Class A | 6.95% | N/A | |
MERRILL
LYNCH PIERCE FENNER&SMITH
FOR SOLE BENFIT OF ITS CUSTOMERS 4800 DEER LAKE DR E JACKSONVILLE FL 32246-6484 |
Class Inst3 | 6.42% | N/A | |
MORGAN
STANLEY SMITH BARNEY
HARBORSIDE FINANCIAL CENTER PLAZA 2, 3RD FLOOR JERSEY CITY NJ 07311 |
Class C | 14.34% | N/A | |
NATIONAL
FINANCIAL SERVICES LLC
FEBO CUSTOMERS MUTUAL FUNDS 200 LIBERTY STREET 1WFC NEW YORK NY 10281-1003 |
Class A | 5.74% | N/A | |
Class Adv | 11.87% | |||
PERSHING
LLC
1 PERSHING PLZ JERSEY CITY NJ 07399-0002 |
Class A | 13.93% | N/A | |
Class Adv | 61.91% | |||
Class C | 6.48% |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 228 |
Fund | Shareholder Name and Address | Share Class |
Percentage
of Class |
Percentage
of Fund
(if greater than 25%) |
WELLS
FARGO CLEARING SERVICES LLC
SPECIAL CUSTODY ACCT FOR THE EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT OF CUSTOMER 2801 MARKET ST SAINT LOUIS MO 63103-2523 |
Class A | 11.41% | N/A | |
Class C | 27.23% | |||
Select Large Cap Growth Fund |
AMERICAN
ENTERPRISE INVESTMENT SVC
707 2ND AVE S MINNEAPOLIS MN 55402-2405 |
Class A | 13.51% | N/A |
Class C | 11.92% | |||
Class Inst | 11.08% | |||
Class T | 98.83% | |||
ASCENSUS
TRUST COMPANY FBO
WALTERS CONTROLS, INC 401(K) PLAN PO BOX 10758 FARGO ND 58106-0758 |
Class R | 12.84% | N/A | |
CHARLES
SCHWAB & CO INC
SPECIAL CUSTODY A/C FOR BENEFIT OF CUSTOMERS ATTN MUTUAL FUNDS 101 MONTGOMERY ST SAN FRANCISCO CA 94104-4151 |
Class C | 5.48% | N/A | |
Class Inst | 5.48% | |||
Class Inst2 | 6.55% | |||
DCGT
AS TTEE AND/OR CUST
FBO PLIC VARIOUS RETIREMENT PLANS OMNIBUS ATTN NPIO TRADE DESK 711 HIGH ST DES MOINES IA 50392-0001 |
Class R | 17.82% | N/A | |
EDWARD
D JONES & CO
FOR THE BENEFIT OF CUSTOMERS 12555 MANCHESTER RD SAINT LOUIS MO 63131-3729 |
Class Inst3 | 20.91% | N/A | |
FIIOC
FBO
100 MAGELLAN WAY # KW1C COVINGTON KY 41015-1987 |
Class R | 6.31% | N/A | |
GREAT-WEST
TRUST COMPANY LLC TTEE F
RECORDKEEPING FOR LARGE BENEFIT PL 8525 E ORCHARD RD GREENWOOD VLG CO 80111-5002 |
Class Adv | 6.20% | N/A | |
Class R | 19.01% | |||
JPMCB
NA CUST FOR
COLUMBIA CAPITAL ALLOCATION MODERATE AGGRESSIVE PORTFOLIO 4 CHASE METROTECH CENTER 3RD FLOOR BROOKLYN NY 11245-0003 |
Class Inst3 | 6.31% | N/A (a) | |
MERRILL
LYNCH PIERCE FENNER&SMITH
FOR SOLE BENFIT OF ITS CUSTOMERS 4800 DEER LAKE DR E JACKSONVILLE FL 32246-6484 |
Class A | 5.37% | N/A | |
Class C | 13.89% | |||
Class Inst | 9.60% | |||
Class Inst3 | 63.24% | |||
MID
ATLANTIC TRUST COMPANY FBO
1251 WATERFRONT PL STE 525 PITTSBURGH PA 15222-4228 |
Class R | 11.56% | N/A | |
MORGAN
STANLEY SMITH BARNEY
HARBORSIDE FINANCIAL CENTER PLAZA 2, 3RD FLOOR JERSEY CITY NJ 07311 |
Class A | 6.28% | N/A | |
Class C | 21.36% | |||
Class Inst | 22.36% | |||
NATIONAL
FINANCIAL SERVICES LLC
FEBO CUSTOMERS MUTUAL FUNDS 200 LIBERTY STREET 1WFC NEW YORK NY 10281-1003 |
Class A | 46.31% | N/A | |
Class Adv | 63.08% | |||
Class C | 16.75% | |||
Class Inst | 7.30% | |||
Class Inst2 | 80.12% | |||
NATIONWIDE
TRUST COMPANY/FSB
C/O IPO PORTFOLIO ACCOUNTING PO BOX 182029 COLUMBUS OH 43218-2029 |
Class Inst2 | 7.92% | N/A |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 229 |
Fund | Shareholder Name and Address | Share Class |
Percentage
of Class |
Percentage
of Fund
(if greater than 25%) |
PERSHING
LLC
1 PERSHING PLZ JERSEY CITY NJ 07399-0002 |
Class Adv | 17.75% | N/A | |
RELIANCE
TRUST CO CUST
FBO MASSMUTUAL OMNIBUS PLL/SMF PO BOX 48529 ATLANTA GA 30362-1529 |
Class R | 15.52% | N/A | |
UBS
WM USA
SPEC CDY A/C EXCL BEN CUST 1000 HARBOR BLVD WEEHAWKEN NJ 07086-6761 |
Class C | 7.10% | N/A | |
Class Inst | 9.00% | |||
VANGUARD
FDUCIARY TRUST CO
PO BOX 2600 ATTN: OUTSIDE FUNDS VALLEY FORGE PA 19482-2600 |
Class Adv | 7.92% | N/A | |
WELLS
FARGO CLEARING SERVICES LLC
SPECIAL CUSTODY ACCT FOR THE EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT OF CUSTOMER 2801 MARKET ST SAINT LOUIS MO 63103-2523 |
Class C | 8.74% | N/A | |
Class Inst | 6.34% |
Fund | Shareholder Name and Address | Share Class |
Percentage
of Class |
Percentage
of Fund
(if greater than 25%) |
Bond Fund |
AMERICAN
ENTERPRISE INVESTMENT SVC
707 2ND AVE S MINNEAPOLIS MN 55402-2405 |
Class A | 14.81% | N/A |
Class C | 34.63% | |||
Class Inst | 8.38% | |||
ASCENSUS
TRUST COMPANY FBO
PO BOX 10758 FARGO ND 58106-0758 |
Class C | 18.42% | N/A | |
Class Inst2 | 15.09% | |||
Class R | 38.90% | |||
CHARLES
SCHWAB & CO INC
SPECIAL CUSTODY A/C FBO CUSTOMERS ATTN MUTUAL FUND DEPT 101 MONTGOMERY ST SAN FRANCISCO CA 94104-4151 |
Class Inst | 16.19% | N/A | |
Class Inst2 | 18.62% | |||
COLUMBIA
MGMT INVESTMENT ADVSR LLC
ATTN KATRINA MACBAIN 50807 AMERIPRISE FINANCIAL CTR MINNEAPOLIS MN 55474-0508 |
Class T | 100.00% | N/A (a) | |
EDWARD
D JONES & CO
FOR THE BENEFIT OF CUSTOMERS 12555 MANCHESTER RD SAINT LOUIS MO 63131-3729 |
Class A | 6.23% | N/A | |
LPL
FINANCIAL
9785 TOWNE CENTRE DR SAN DIEGO CA 92121-1968 |
Class A | 7.72% | N/A | |
Class C | 5.42% | |||
MERRILL
LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER
& SMITH INC FOR THE SOLE BENEFIT OF ITS CUSTOMERS ATTENTION SERVICE TEAM 4800 DEER LAKE DR E FL 3 JACKSONVILLE FL 32246-6484 |
Class A | 24.89% | 74.52% | |
Class C | 6.39% | |||
Class Inst | 12.93% | |||
Class Inst3 | 99.29% | |||
Class V | 20.08% | |||
MID
ATLANTIC TRUST COMPANY FBO
1251 WATERFRONT PL STE 525 PITTSBURGH PA 15222-4228 |
Class R | 61.08% | N/A |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 230 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 231 |
Fund | Shareholder Name and Address | Share Class |
Percentage
of Class |
Percentage
of Fund
(if greater than 25%) |
JPMCB
NA CUST FOR
COLUMBIA INCOME BUILDER FUND 4 CHASE METROTECH CENTER 3RD FLOOR BROOKLYN NY 11245-0003 |
Class Inst3 | 23.53% | N/A (a) | |
JPMCB
NA CUST FOR SC529 PLAN
COLUMBIA COLLEGE 529 PORTFOLIO 4 CHASE METROTECH CENTER 3RD FLOOR BROOKLYN NY 11245-0003 |
Class Inst | 5.39% | N/A (a) | |
MERRILL
LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER
& SMITH INC FOR THE SOLE BENEFIT OF ITS CUSTOMERS ATTENTION SERVICE TEAM 4800 DEER LAKE DR E FL 3 JACKSONVILLE FL 32246-6484 |
Class A | 7.01% | N/A | |
Class Adv | 18.26% | |||
Class C | 8.64% | |||
Class Inst | 18.71% | |||
MORGAN
STANLEY SMITH BARNEY
HARBORSIDE FINANCIAL CENTER PLAZA 2, 3RD FLOOR JERSEY CITY NJ 07311 |
Class C | 5.42% | N/A | |
NATIONAL
FINANCIAL SERVICES LLC
FEBO CUSTOMERS MUTUAL FUNDS 200 LIBERTY STREET 1WFC NEW YORK NY 10281-1003 |
Class A | 5.04% | N/A | |
Class Adv | 8.63% | |||
Class C | 7.93% | |||
Class Inst2 | 21.75% | |||
PERSHING
LLC
1 PERSHING PLZ JERSEY CITY NJ 07399-0002 |
Class Adv | 58.02% | N/A | |
Class C | 12.49% | |||
Class Inst2 | 33.01% | |||
RELIANCE
TRUST COMPANY FBO
MASSMUTUAL REGISTERED PRODUCT PO BOX 28004 ATLANTA GA 30358-0004 |
Class Adv | 12.31% | N/A | |
WELLS
FARGO CLEARING SERVICES LLC
SPECIAL CUSTODY ACCT FOR THE EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT OF CUSTOMER 2801 MARKET ST SAINT LOUIS MO 63103-2523 |
Class A | 6.22% | N/A | |
Class C | 5.44% | |||
MM Directional Alternative Strategies Fund |
AMERICAN
ENTERPRISE INVESTMENT SVC
707 2ND AVE S MINNEAPOLIS MN 55402-2405 |
Class A | 98.21% | 99.99% |
Class Inst | 100.00% | |||
Multi-Asset Income Fund |
CHARLES
SCHWAB & CO INC
SPECIAL CUSTODY A/C FBO CUSTOMERS ATTN MUTUAL FUND DEPT 101 MONTGOMERY ST SAN FRANCISCO CA 94104-4151 |
Class A | 22.30% | N/A |
COLUMBIA
MGMT INVESTMENT ADVSR LLC
ATTN KATRINA MACBAIN 50807 AMERIPRISE FINANCIAL CTR MINNEAPOLIS MN 55474-0508 |
Class Inst2 | 100.00% | 95.37% (a) | |
Class T | 100.00% | |||
JAMES
C CHERON
PATRICIA B CHERON 4608 REBECCA BLVD METAIRIE LA 70003-7624 |
Class Inst | 5.76% | N/A | |
JPMCB
NA CUST FOR
COLUMBIA CAPITAL ALLOCATION CONSERVATIVE PORTFOLIO 4 CHASE METROTECH CENTER 3RD FLOOR BROOKLYN NY 11245-0003 |
Class Inst3 | 6.66% | N/A (a) | |
JPMCB
NA CUST FOR
COLUMBIA CAPITAL ALLOCATION MODERATE AGGRESSIVE PORTFOLIO 4 CHASE METROTECH CENTER 3RD FLOOR BROOKLYN NY 11245-0003 |
Class Inst3 | 38.15% | N/A (a) |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 232 |
Fund | Shareholder Name and Address | Share Class |
Percentage
of Class |
Percentage
of Fund
(if greater than 25%) |
JPMCB
NA CUST FOR
COLUMBIA CAPITAL ALLOCATION MODERATE CONSERVATIVE PORTFOLIO 4 CHASE METROTECH CENTER 3RD FLOOR BROOKLYN NY 11245-0003 |
Class Inst3 | 14.75% | N/A (a) | |
JPMCB
NA CUST FOR
COLUMBIA CAPITAL ALLOCATION MODERATE PORTFOLIO 4 CHASE METROTECH CENTER 3RD FLOOR BROOKLYN NY 11245-0003 |
Class Inst3 | 28.14% | N/A (a) | |
JPMCB
NA CUST FOR COLUMBIA CAPITAL
ALLOCATION AGGRESSIVE PORTFOLIO 4 CHASE METROTECH CENTER 3RD FLOOR BROOKLYN NY 11245-0003 |
Class Inst3 | 11.00% | N/A (a) | |
LPL
FINANCIAL
9785 TOWNE CENTRE DR SAN DIEGO CA 92121-1968 |
Class A | 15.22% | N/A | |
NATIONAL
FINANCIAL SERVICES LLC
FEBO CUSTOMERS MUTUAL FUNDS 200 LIBERTY STREET 1WFC NEW YORK NY 10281-1003 |
Class A | 12.51% | N/A | |
Class Adv | 7.00% | |||
PERSHING
LLC
1 PERSHING PLZ JERSEY CITY NJ 07399-0002 |
Class A | 17.52% | N/A | |
Class Adv | 91.39% | |||
Class C | 26.52% | |||
RAYMOND
JAMES
FBO OMNIBUS FOR MUTUAL FUNDS ATTN: COURTNEY WALLER 880 CARILLON PKWY ST PETERSBURG FL 33716-1100 |
Class A | 7.48% | N/A | |
Class C | 61.66% | |||
Class Inst | 19.69% | |||
STIFEL
NICOLAUS & CO INC
EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT OF CUSTOMERS 501 N BROADWAY SAINT LOUIS MO 63102-2188 |
Class A | 11.26% | N/A | |
UMB
BANK NA
CUST IRA FBO DOUGLAS A HACKER 18172 LAGOS WAY NAPLES FL 34110-2762 |
Class Inst | 46.57% | N/A | |
UMB
BANK NA
CUST IRA FBO JEFFREY L KNIGHT 15 SYLVAN LN WESTON MA 02493-1027 |
Class Inst | 20.44% | N/A | |
UMB
BANK NA
CUST IRA FBO JOHN D HARRIS 24018 WILLOW ROSE DR SPRING TX 77389-1746 |
Class A | 6.25% | N/A | |
Small Cap Value Fund I |
AMERICAN
ENTERPRISE INVESTMENT SVC
707 2ND AVE S MINNEAPOLIS MN 55402-2405 |
Class A | 10.29% | N/A |
Class C | 17.82% | |||
Class Inst | 7.13% | |||
CAPITAL
BANK & TRUST CO TRUSTEE FBO
C/O FASCORE LLC 8515 E ORCHARD RD # 2T2 GREENWOOD VLG CO 80111-5002 |
Class R | 65.76% | N/A | |
CHARLES
SCHWAB & CO INC
SPECIAL CUSTODY A/C FBO CUSTOMERS ATTN MUTUAL FUND DEPT 101 MONTGOMERY ST SAN FRANCISCO CA 94104-4151 |
Class A | 6.19% | N/A |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 233 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 234 |
Fund | Shareholder Name and Address | Share Class |
Percentage
of Class |
Percentage
of Fund
(if greater than 25%) |
Total Return Bond Fund |
AMERICAN
ENTERPRISE INVESTMENT SVC
707 2ND AVE S MINNEAPOLIS MN 55402-2405 |
Class A | 82.89% | 35.78% |
Class C | 52.97% | |||
Class Inst | 13.43% | |||
Class T | 99.63% | |||
ASCENSUS
TRUST COMPANY FBO
PO BOX 10758 FARGO ND 58106-0758 |
Class R | 16.97% | N/A | |
CAPITAL
BANK & TRUST CO TRUSTEE FBO
C/O FASCORE LLC 8515 E ORCHARD RD # 2T2 GREENWOOD VLG CO 80111-5002 |
Class Inst2 | 20.49% | N/A | |
CHARLES
SCHWAB & CO INC
SPECIAL CUSTODY A/C FBO CUSTOMERS ATTN MUTUAL FUND DEPT 101 MONTGOMERY ST SAN FRANCISCO CA 94104-4151 |
Class Inst | 7.14% | N/A | |
Class Inst2 | 17.59% | |||
CHRISTINA
PFLEIDER & TOM PFLEIDER T
FBO META DYNAMIC INC 401K PSP C/O FASCORE LLC 8515 E ORCHARD RD # 2T2 GREENWOOD VLG CO 80111-5002 |
Class R | 13.44% | N/A | |
JPMCB
NA CUST FOR
COLUMBIA CAPITAL ALLOCATION CONSERVATIVE PORTFOLIO 4 CHASE METROTECH CENTER 3RD FLOOR BROOKLYN NY 11245-0003 |
Class Inst3 | 5.87% | N/A (a) | |
JPMCB
NA CUST FOR
COLUMBIA CAPITAL ALLOCATION MODERATE CONSERVATIVE PORTFOLIO 4 CHASE METROTECH CENTER 3RD FLOOR BROOKLYN NY 11245-0003 |
Class Inst3 | 11.45% | N/A (a) | |
JPMCB
NA CUST FOR
COLUMBIA CAPITAL ALLOCATION MODERATE PORTFOLIO 4 CHASE METROTECH CENTER 3RD FLOOR BROOKLYN NY 11245-0003 |
Class Inst3 | 77.33% | N/A (a) | |
JPMCB
NA CUST FOR SC529 PLAN
COLUMBIA COLLEGE 529 PORTFOLIO 4 CHASE METROTECH CENTER 3RD FLOOR BROOKLYN NY 11245-0003 |
Class Inst | 24.42% | N/A (a) | |
LANCE
HUMPHREY TRUSTEE FBO
C/O FASCORE LLC HUMPHREY COMPANY PROFIT SHARING & 8515 E ORCHARD RD # 2T2 GREENWOOD VLG CO 80111-5002 |
Class R | 11.11% | N/A | |
MATRIX
TRUST COMPANY CUST FBO
717 17TH ST STE 1300 DENVER CO 80202-3304 |
Class R | 17.43% | N/A | |
MERRILL
LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER
& SMITH INC FOR THE SOLE BENEFIT OF ITS CUSTOMERS ATTENTION SERVICE TEAM 4800 DEER LAKE DR E FL 3 JACKSONVILLE FL 32246-6484 |
Class Adv | 7.40% | N/A | |
Class C | 7.55% | |||
Class Inst | 31.93% | |||
MID
ATLANTIC TRUST COMPANY FBO
1251 WATERFRONT PL STE 525 PITTSBURGH PA 15222-4228 |
Class R | 11.69% | N/A | |
MORGAN
STANLEY SMITH BARNEY
HARBORSIDE FINANCIAL CENTER PLAZA 2, 3RD FLOOR JERSEY CITY NJ 07311 |
Class C | 9.70% | N/A |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 235 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 236 |
Fund | Shareholder Name and Address | Share Class |
Percentage
of Class |
Percentage
of Fund
(if greater than 25%) |
Adaptive Risk Allocation Fund |
AMERICAN
ENTERPRISE INVESTMENT SVC
707 2ND AVE S MINNEAPOLIS MN 55402-2405 |
Class A
|
65.94% | 89.76% |
Class C | 67.85% | |||
Class T | 99.83% | |||
Class Z | 93.69% | |||
CHARLES
SCHWAB & CO INC
CUST A/C FOR THE EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT ATTENTION MUTUAL FUNDS 101 MONTGOMERY ST SAN FRANCISCO CA 94104-4151 |
Class R4
|
29.57% | N/A | |
Class R5 | 25.01% | |||
COLUMBIA
MGMT INVESTMENT ADVSR LLC
ATTN KATRINA MACBAIN 50807 AMERIPRISE FINANCIAL CTR MINNEAPOLIS MN 55474-0508 |
Class K
|
100.00% | N/A (a) | |
Class Y | 100.00% | |||
MERRILL
LYNCH PIERCE FENNER
& SMITH INC FOR THE SOLE BENEFIT OF ITS CUSTOMERS ATTENTION SERVICE TEAM 4800 DEER LAKE DR E FL 3 JACKSONVILLE FL 32246-6484 |
Class A
|
6.18% | N/A | |
MORGAN
STANLEY SMITH BARNEY
HARBORSIDE FINANCIAL CENTER PLAZA 2, 3RD FLOOR JERSEY CITY NJ 07311 |
Class A
|
7.68% | N/A | |
Class C | 7.45% | |||
NATIONAL
FINANCIAL SERVICES LLC
FEBO CUSTOMERS MUTUAL FUNDS 200 LIBERTY STREET 1WFC NEW YORK NY 10281-1003 |
Class A
|
6.14% | N/A | |
Class R | 94.70% | |||
Class R4 | 23.52% | |||
Class R5 | 39.03% |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 237 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 238 |
Fund | Shareholder Name and Address | Share Class |
Percentage
of Class |
Percentage
of Fund
(if greater than 25%) |
COLUMBIA
MGMT INVESTMENT ADVSR LLC
ATTN KATRINA MACBAIN 50807 AMERIPRISE FINANCIAL CTR MINNEAPOLIS MN 55474-0508 |
Class A
|
9.88% | 97.56% (a) | |
Class C | 70.11% | |||
Class R4 | 100.00% | |||
Class R5 | 100.00% | |||
Class T | 11.15% | |||
DONNA
C KNIGHT & JEFFREY L KNIGHT
TTEES DONNA C KNIGHT LIVING TRUST 15 SYLVAN LN WESTON MA 02493-1027 |
Class Z
|
39.59% | N/A | |
JPMCB
NA CUST FOR
COLUMBIA CAPITAL ALLOCATION AGGRESSIVE PORTFOLIO 14201 N DALLAS PKWY FL 13 DALLAS TX 75254-2916 |
Class Y
|
8.98% | N/A | |
JPMCB
NA CUST FOR
COLUMBIA CAPITAL ALLOCATION CONSERVATIVE PORTFOLIO 14201 N DALLAS PKWY FL 13 DALLAS TX 75254-2916 |
Class Y
|
5.09% | N/A | |
JPMCB
NA CUST FOR
COLUMBIA CAPITAL ALLOCATION MODERATE AGGRESSIVE PORTFOLIO 14201 N DALLAS PKWY FL 13 DALLAS TX 75254-2916 |
Class Y
|
32.01% | N/A | |
JPMCB
NA CUST FOR
COLUMBIA CAPITAL ALLOCATION MODERATE CONSERVATIVE PORTFOLIO 14201 N DALLAS PKWY FL 13 DALLAS TX 75254-2916 |
Class Y
|
11.76% | N/A | |
JPMCB
NA CUST FOR
COLUMBIA CAPITAL ALLOCATION MODERATE PORTFOLIO 14201 N DALLAS PKWY FL 13 DALLAS TX 75254-2916 |
Class Y
|
26.66% | N/A | |
JPMCB
NA CUST FOR
COLUMBIA GLOBAL OPPORTUNITIES FUND 14201 N DALLAS PKWY FL 13 DALLAS TX 75254-2916 |
Class Y
|
13.95% | N/A | |
LPL
FINANCIAL
9785 TOWNE CENTRE DR SAN DIEGO CA 92121-1968 |
Class Z
|
36.21% | N/A | |
STATE
STREET BK & TR IRA
JUSTIN D PITTMAN 1623 EUCLID AVE JOPLIN MO 64801-1308 |
Class C
|
29.89% | N/A | |
Dividend Income Fund |
AMERICAN
ENTERPRISE INVESTMENT SVC
707 2ND AVE S MINNEAPOLIS MN 55402-2405 |
Class A
|
14.58% | N/A |
Class C | 16.42% | |||
Class T | 95.15% | |||
Class Z | 18.69% | |||
CHARLES
SCHWAB & CO INC
CUST A/C FOR THE EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT ATTENTION MUTUAL FUNDS 101 MONTGOMERY ST SAN FRANCISCO CA 94104-4151 |
Class A
|
7.07% | N/A | |
Class R5 | 21.64% | |||
Class V | 8.17% | |||
Class Z | 7.88% | |||
DCGT
AS TTEE AND /OR CUST
FBO PLIC VARIOUS RETIREMENT PLANS OMNIBUS ATTN NPIO TRADE DESK 711 HIGH ST DES MOINES IA 50392-0001 |
Class R
|
6.34% | N/A |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 239 |
Fund | Shareholder Name and Address | Share Class |
Percentage
of Class |
Percentage
of Fund
(if greater than 25%) |
EQUITABLE
LIFE FOR SA NO65
ON BEHALF OF VARIOUS 401K EXPEDITER PLANS 1290 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS NEW YORK NY 10104-0101 |
Class R
|
54.02% | N/A | |
GREAT
WEST TRUST CO
FBO RETIREMENT PLANS 8515 E ORCHARD RD 2T2 GREENWOOD VLG CO 80111-5002 |
Class R4
|
6.98% | N/A | |
LPL
FINANCIAL
9785 TOWNE CENTRE DR SAN DIEGO CA 92121-1968 |
Class C
|
5.30% | N/A | |
Class Z | 5.21% | |||
MERRILL
LYNCH PIERCE FENNER
& SMITH INC FOR THE SOLE BENEFIT OF ITS CUSTOMERS ATTENTION SERVICE TEAM 4800 DEER LAKE DR E FL 3 JACKSONVILLE FL 32246-6484 |
Class A
|
9.86% | N/A | |
Class C | 12.62% | |||
Class R | 10.34% | |||
Class R4 | 6.12% | |||
Class V | 17.40% | |||
Class Y | 73.28% | |||
Class Z | 7.46% | |||
MORGAN
STANLEY SMITH BARNEY
HARBORSIDE FINANCIAL CENTER PLAZA 2, 3RD FLOOR JERSEY CITY NJ 07311 |
Class C
|
11.73% | N/A | |
Class Z | 5.09% | |||
NATIONAL
FINANCIAL SERVICES LLC
FEBO CUSTOMERS MUTUAL FUNDS 200 LIBERTY STREET 1WFC NEW YORK NY 10281-1003 |
Class A
|
20.65% | N/A | |
Class C | 8.47% | |||
Class R4 | 40.58% | |||
Class R5 | 21.23% | |||
Class Y | 9.23% | |||
Class Z | 16.76% | |||
PERSHING
LLC
1 PERSHING PLZ JERSEY CITY NJ 07399-0002 |
Class A
|
5.58% | N/A | |
Class C | 7.19% | |||
Class R4 | 22.92% | |||
PIMS/PRUDENTIAL
RETIREMENT
AS NOMINEE FOR THE TTEE/CUST ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON HOSPITAL 379 CAMPUS DRIVE SOMERSET NJ 08873-1161 |
Class R5
|
6.74% | N/A | |
RAYMOND
JAMES
FBO OMNIBUS FOR MUTUAL FUNDS HOUSE ACCT FIRM ATTN: COURTNEY WALLER 880 CARILLON PKWY ST PETERSBURG FL 33716-1100 |
Class C
|
9.99% | N/A | |
Class Z | 15.30% | |||
RELIANCE
TRUST CO CUST
FBO MASSMUTUAL OMNIBUS PO BOX 48529 ATLANTA GA 30362-1529 |
Class R5
|
12.60% | N/A | |
TD
AMERITRADE INC FOR THE
EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT OF OUR CLIENTS PO BOX 2226 OMAHA NE 68103-2226 |
Class R5
|
7.02% | N/A | |
UBS
WM USA
SPEC CDY A/C EXCL BEN CUST 1000 HARBOR BLVD WEEHAWKEN NJ 07086-6761 |
Class C
|
6.81% | N/A | |
WELLS
FARGO CLEARING SERVICES LLC
SPECIAL CUSTODY ACCT FOR THE EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT OF CUSTOMER 2801 MARKET ST SAINT LOUIS MO 63103-2523 |
Class C
|
11.27% | N/A |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 240 |
Fund | Shareholder Name and Address | Share Class |
Percentage
of Class |
Percentage
of Fund
(if greater than 25%) |
HY Municipal Fund |
AMERICAN
ENTERPRISE INVESTMENT SVC
707 2ND AVE S MINNEAPOLIS MN 55402-2405 |
Class A
|
28.06% | N/A |
Class C | 24.68% | |||
Class Z | 7.40% | |||
CHARLES
SCHWAB & CO INC
CUST A/C FOR THE EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT ATTENTION MUTUAL FUNDS 101 MONTGOMERY ST SAN FRANCISCO CA 94104-4151 |
Class A
|
6.31% | N/A | |
Class R5 | 17.18% | |||
COLUMBIA
MGMT INVESTMENT ADVSR LLC
ATTN KATRINA MACBAIN 50807 AMERIPRISE FINANCIAL CTR MINNEAPOLIS MN 55474-0508 |
Class Y
|
43.18% | N/A (a) | |
MERRILL
LYNCH PIERCE FENNER
& SMITH INC FOR THE SOLE BENEFIT OF ITS CUSTOMERS ATTENTION SERVICE TEAM 4800 DEER LAKE DR E FL 3 JACKSONVILLE FL 32246-6484 |
Class A
|
8.59% | 48.02% | |
Class C | 6.72% | |||
Class Z | 61.31% | |||
MORGAN
STANLEY SMITH BARNEY
HARBORSIDE FINANCIAL CENTER PLAZA 2, 3RD FLOOR JERSEY CITY NJ 07311 |
Class A
|
14.76% | N/A | |
Class C | 12.36% | |||
NATIONAL
FINANCIAL SERVICES LLC
FEBO CUSTOMERS MUTUAL FUNDS 200 LIBERTY STREET 1WFC NEW YORK NY 10281-1003 |
Class A
|
6.43% | N/A | |
Class R4 | 47.76% | |||
Class R5 | 35.38% | |||
PERSHING
LLC
1 PERSHING PLZ JERSEY CITY NJ 07399-0002 |
Class R4
|
51.34% | N/A | |
Class R5 | 45.58% | |||
Class Y | 56.74% | |||
RAYMOND
JAMES
FBO OMNIBUS FOR MUTUAL FUNDS HOUSE ACCT FIRM ATTN: COURTNEY WALLER 880 CARILLON PKWY ST PETERSBURG FL 33716-1100 |
Class A
|
9.49% | N/A | |
Class C | 18.59% | |||
UBS
WM USA
SPEC CDY A/C EXCL BEN CUST 1000 HARBOR BLVD WEEHAWKEN NJ 07086-6761 |
Class C
|
6.76% | N/A | |
WELLS
FARGO CLEARING SERVICES LLC
SPECIAL CUSTODY ACCT FOR THE EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT OF CUSTOMER 2801 MARKET ST SAINT LOUIS MO 63103-2523 |
Class A
|
6.53% | N/A | |
Class C | 18.50% |
Fund | Shareholder Name and Address | Share Class |
Percentage
of Class |
Percentage
of Fund
(if greater than 25%) |
AMT-Free OR Intermediate Muni Bond Fund |
AMERICAN
ENTERPRISE INVESTMENT SVC
707 2ND AVE S MINNEAPOLIS MN 55402-2405 |
Class A | 8.10% | N/A |
Class C | 17.44% | |||
CHARLES
SCHWAB & CO INC
SPECIAL CUSTODY A/C FBO CUSTOMERS ATTN MUTUAL FUND DEPT 101 MONTGOMERY ST SAN FRANCISCO CA 94104-4151 |
Class A | 10.69% | N/A | |
Class Inst2 | 70.69% | |||
Class Inst | 14.22% |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 241 |
Fund | Shareholder Name and Address | Share Class |
Percentage
of Class |
Percentage
of Fund
(if greater than 25%) |
EDWARD
D JONES & CO
FOR THE BENEFIT OF CUSTOMERS 12555 MANCHESTER RD SAINT LOUIS MO 63131-3729 |
Class A | 36.98% | N/A | |
Class C | 10.80% | |||
Class Inst3 | 99.66% | |||
MERRILL
LYNCH PIERCE FENNER &
SMITH INC FOR THE SOLE BENEFIT OF IT S CUSTOM 4800 DEER LAKE DR E JACKSONVILLE FL 32246-6484 |
Class C | 7.62% | N/A | |
Class Inst | 8.55% | |||
MORGAN
STANLEY SMITH BARNEY
HARBORSIDE FINANCIAL CENTER PLAZA 2, 3RD FLOOR JERSEY CITY NJ 07311 |
Class C | 18.75% | N/A | |
NATIONAL
FINANCIAL SERVICES LLC
FEBO CUSTOMERS MUTUAL FUNDS 200 LIBERTY STREET 1WFC NEW YORK NY 10281-1003 |
Class A | 6.83% | N/A | |
Class Adv | 11.16% | |||
Class Inst2 | 5.73% | |||
PERSHING
LLC
1 PERSHING PLZ JERSEY CITY NJ 07399-0002 |
Class Adv | 87.25% | N/A | |
RAYMOND
JAMES
FBO OMNIBUS FOR MUTUAL FUNDS HOUSE ACCT FIRM ATTN: COURTNEY WALLER 880 CARILLON PKWY ST PETERSBURG FL 33716-1100 |
Class A | 6.23% | N/A | |
TD
AMERITRADE INC FOR THE
EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT OF OUR CLIENTS PO BOX 2226 OMAHA NE 68103-2226 |
Class Inst2 | 23.44% | N/A | |
UBS
WM USA
SPEC CDY A/C EXCL BEN 1000 HARBOR BLVD WEEHAWKEN NJ 07086-6761 |
Class A | 7.27% | N/A | |
WELLS
FARGO CLEARING SERVICES LLC
SPECIAL CUSTODY ACCT FOR THE EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT OF CUSTOMER 2801 MARKET ST SAINT LOUIS MO 63103-2523 |
Class A | 12.78% | N/A | |
Class C | 29.49% | |||
Large Cap Growth Fund |
AMERICAN
ENTERPRISE INVESTMENT SVC
707 2ND AVE S MINNEAPOLIS MN 55402-2405 |
Class A | 63.58% | 37.84% |
Class C | 35.32% | |||
Class T | 99.67% | |||
Class Inst | 13.72% | |||
CHARLES
SCHWAB & CO INC
SPECIAL CUSTODY A/C FBO CUSTOMERS ATTN MUTUAL FUND DEPT 101 MONTGOMERY ST SAN FRANCISCO CA 94104-4151 |
Class K | 84.10% | N/A | |
Class Adv | 7.00% | |||
Class Inst2 | 81.98% | |||
Class Inst | 8.12% | |||
FIIOC
FBO
100 MAGELLAN WAY #KW1C COVINGTON KY 41015-1987 |
Class Inst2 | 5.97% | N/A | |
JPMCB
NA CUST FOR
COLUMBIA CAPITAL ALLOCATION AGGRESSIVE PORTFOLIO 4 CHASE METROTECH CENTER 3RD FLOOR BROOKLYN NY 11245-0003 |
Class Inst3 | 5.13% | N/A (a) | |
JPMCB
NA CUST FOR
COLUMBIA CAPITAL ALLOCATION MODERATE AGGRESSIVE PORTFOLIO 4 CHASE METROTECH CENTER 3RD FLOOR BROOKLYN NY 11245-0003 |
Class Inst3 | 15.47% | N/A (a) |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 242 |
Fund | Shareholder Name and Address | Share Class |
Percentage
of Class |
Percentage
of Fund
(if greater than 25%) |
JPMCB
NA CUST FOR
COLUMBIA CAPITAL ALLOCATION MODERATE PORTFOLIO 4 CHASE METROTECH CENTER 3RD FLOOR BROOKLYN NY 11245-0003 |
Class Inst3 | 5.54% | N/A (a) | |
JPMCB
NA CUST FOR
COLUMBIA GLOBAL STRATEGIC EQUITY PORTFOLIO 4 CHASE METROTECH CENTER 3RD FLOOR BROOKLYN NY 11245-0003 |
Class Inst3 | 5.70% | N/A (a) | |
MERRILL
LYNCH PIERCE FENNER &
SMITH INC FOR THE SOLE BENEFIT OF IT S CUSTOM 4800 DEER LAKE DR E JACKSONVILLE FL 32246-6484 |
Class C | 6.26% | N/A | |
Class R | 84.28% | |||
Class Adv | 10.86% | |||
Class V | 24.37% | |||
Class Inst3 | 55.09% | |||
MORGAN
STANLEY SMITH BARNEY
HARBORSIDE FINANCIAL CENTER PLAZA 2, 3RD FLOOR JERSEY CITY NJ 07311 |
Class C | 6.64% | N/A | |
NATIONAL
FINANCIAL SERVICES LLC
FEBO CUSTOMERS MUTUAL FUNDS 200 LIBERTY STREET 1WFC NEW YORK NY 10281-1003 |
Class Adv | 56.93% | N/A | |
Class Inst | 7.58% | |||
PERSHING
LLC
1 PERSHING PLZ JERSEY CITY NJ 07399-0002 |
Class Adv | 7.68% | N/A | |
STATE
STREET BANK AND TRUST AS
TRUSTEE AND/OR CUSTODIAN FBO 1 LINCOLN ST BOSTON MA 02111-2901 |
Class Adv | 8.92% | N/A | |
UBS
WM USA
SPEC CDY A/C EXCL BEN 1000 HARBOR BLVD WEEHAWKEN NJ 07086-6761 |
Class C | 8.60% | N/A | |
WELLS
FARGO CLEARING SERVICES LLC
SPECIAL CUSTODY ACCT FOR THE EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT OF CUSTOMER 2801 MARKET ST SAINT LOUIS MO 63103-2523 |
Class C | 7.33% | N/A | |
Class K | 11.01% | |||
Tax-Exempt Fund |
AMERICAN
ENTERPRISE INVESTMENT SVC
707 2ND AVE S MINNEAPOLIS MN 55402-2405 |
Class A | 47.82% | 39.90% |
Class C | 45.04% | |||
Class Inst | 11.76% | |||
CATHAY
LIFE INSURANCE CO LTD
296 JEN-AI ROAD SEC. 4 TAIPEI, 106 TAIWAN R.O.C |
Class Inst | 15.19% | N/A | |
CHARLES
SCHWAB & CO INC
SPECIAL CUSTODY A/C FBO CUSTOMERS ATTN MUTUAL FUND DEPT 101 MONTGOMERY ST SAN FRANCISCO CA 94104-4151 |
Class Inst2 | 26.88% | N/A | |
EDWARD
D JONES & CO
FOR THE BENEFIT OF CUSTOMERS 12555 MANCHESTER RD SAINT LOUIS MO 63131-3729 |
Class A | 11.92% | N/A | |
Class Inst3 | 98.11% | |||
MERRILL
LYNCH PIERCE FENNER &
SMITH INC FOR THE SOLE BENEFIT OF IT S CUSTOM 4800 DEER LAKE DR E JACKSONVILLE FL 32246-6484 |
Class C | 8.35% | N/A | |
Class Inst | 39.02% |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 243 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 244 |
Fund | Shareholder Name and Address | Share Class |
Percentage
of Class |
Percentage
of Fund
(if greater than 25%) |
MERRILL
LYNCH PIERCE FENNER &
SMITH INC FOR THE SOLE BENEFIT OF IT S CUSTOM 4800 DEER LAKE DR E JACKSONVILLE FL 32246-6484 |
Shares | 89.71% | 89.71% |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 245 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 246 |
Fund | Shareholder Name and Address | Share Class |
Percentage
of Class |
Percentage
of Fund
(if greater than 25%) |
MERRILL
LYNCH PIERCE FENNER
& SMITH INC FOR THE SOLE BENEFIT OF ITS CUSTOMERS ATTENTION SERVICE TEAM 4800 DEER LAKE DR E FL 3 JACKSONVILLE FL 32246-6484 |
Class A | 7.71% | N/A | |
Class C | 8.10% | |||
Class Inst | 7.10% | |||
Class Inst3 | 38.68% | |||
Class R | 19.75% | |||
Class V | 28.35% | |||
MORGAN
STANLEY SMITH BARNEY
HARBORSIDE FINANCIAL CENTER PLAZA 2, 3RD FLOOR JERSEY CITY NJ 07311 |
Class C | 10.35% | N/A | |
NATIONAL
FINANCIAL SERVICES LLC
FEBO CUSTOMERS MUTUAL FUNDS 200 LIBERTY STREET 1WFC NEW YORK NY 10281-1003 |
Class A | 10.37% | N/A | |
Class Adv | 47.64% | |||
Class C | 8.13% | |||
Class Inst | 9.56% | |||
Class Inst2 | 45.32% | |||
Class Inst3 | 18.88% | |||
NATIONWIDE
TRUST COMPANY FSB
FBO PARTICIPATING RETIREMENT PLANS NTC-PLNS C/O IPO PORTFOLIO ACCOUNTING PO BOX 182029 COLUMBUS OH 43218-2029 |
Class Inst2 | 16.45% | N/A | |
PERSHING
LLC
1 PERSHING PLZ JERSEY CITY NJ 07399-0002 |
Class Adv | 20.15% | N/A | |
Class C | 7.76% | |||
RAYMOND
JAMES
FBO OMNIBUS FOR MUTUAL FUNDS ATTN: COURTNEY WALLER 880 CARILLON PKWY ST PETERSBURG FL 33716-1100 |
Class C | 7.55% | N/A | |
Class Inst | 5.67% | |||
SAMMONS
FINANCIAL NETWORK LLC
4546 CORPORATE DR STE 100 WEST DES MOINES IA 50266-5911 |
Class R | 35.75% | N/A | |
STANDARD
INSURANCE COMPANY
1100 SW 6TH AVE PORTLAND OR 97204-1093 |
Class Adv | 6.17% | N/A | |
STIFEL
NICOLAUS & CO INC
EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT OF CUSTOMERS 501 N BROADWAY SAINT LOUIS MO 63102-2188 |
Class C | 6.09% | N/A | |
WELLS
FARGO CLEARING SERVICES LLC
SPECIAL CUSTODY ACCT FOR THE EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT OF CUSTOMER 2801 MARKET ST SAINT LOUIS MO 63103-2523 |
Class C | 10.72% | N/A | |
Disciplined Small Core Fund |
AMERICAN
ENTERPRISE INVESTMENT SVC
707 2ND AVE MINNEAPOLIS MN 55402-2405 |
Class A | 18.07% | N/A |
Class C | 19.03% | |||
Class Inst | 12.38% | |||
Class T | 99.21% | |||
ASCENSUS
TRUST COMPANY FBO
PO BOX 10758 FARGO ND 58106-0758 |
Class Adv | 42.68% | N/A | |
Class Inst2 | 29.57% | |||
CHARLES
SCHWAB & CO INC
SPECIAL CUSTODY ACCT FBO CUSTOMERS ATTN MUTUAL FUNDS 101 MONTGOMERY ST SAN FRANCISCO CA 94104-4151 |
Class Inst | 5.47% | N/A |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 247 |
Fund | Shareholder Name and Address | Share Class |
Percentage
of Class |
Percentage
of Fund
(if greater than 25%) |
JPMCB
NA CUST FOR
COLUMBIA CAPITAL ALLOCATION AGGRESSIVE PORTFOLIO 4 CHASE METROTECH CENTER 3RD FLOOR BROOKLYN NY 11245-0003 |
Class Inst3 | 21.95% | N/A | |
JPMCB
NA CUST FOR
COLUMBIA CAPITAL ALLOCATION MODERATE AGGRESSIVE PORTFOLIO 4 CHASE METROTECH CENTER 3RD FLOOR BROOKLYN NY 11245-0003 |
Class Inst3 | 20.89% | N/A | |
JPMCB
NA CUST FOR
COLUMBIA CAPITAL ALLOCATION MODERATE CONSERVATIVE PORTFOLIO 4 CHASE METROTECH CENTER 3RD FLOOR BROOKLYN NY 11245-0003 |
Class Inst3 | 11.25% | N/A | |
JPMCB
NA CUST FOR
COLUMBIA CAPITAL ALLOCATION MODERATE PORTFOLIO 4 CHASE METROTECH CENTER 3RD FLOOR BROOKLYN NY 11245-0003 |
Class Inst3 | 41.49% | N/A | |
MATRIX
TRUST COMPANY FBO
PO BOX 52129 PHOENIX AZ 85072-2129 |
Class Inst | 15.94% | N/A | |
MERRILL
LYNCH PIERCE FENNER
& SMITH INC FOR THE SOLE BENEFIT OF ITS CUSTOMERS ATTENTION SERVICE TEAM 4800 DEER LAKE DR E FL 3 JACKSONVILLE FL 32246-6484 |
Class A | 20.43% | N/A | |
Class C | 11.42% | |||
Class Inst | 29.96% | |||
Class V | 26.83% | |||
MORGAN
STANLEY SMITH BARNEY
HARBORSIDE FINANCIAL CENTER PLAZA 2, 3RD FLOOR JERSEY CITY NJ 07311 |
Class C | 7.17% | N/A | |
NATIONAL
FINANCIAL SERVICES LLC
FEBO CUSTOMERS MUTUAL FUNDS 200 LIBERTY STREET 1WFC NEW YORK NY 10281-1003 |
Class A | 10.46% | N/A | |
Class Adv | 28.65% | |||
Class C | 10.97% | |||
Class Inst | 8.95% | |||
Class Inst2 | 6.90% | |||
Class V | 6.04% | |||
PERSHING
LLC
1 PERSHING PLZ JERSEY CITY NJ 07399-0002 |
Class A | 6.44% | N/A | |
Class Adv | 23.68% | |||
Class C | 10.98% | |||
Class Inst2 | 44.90% | |||
TD
AMERITRADE INC FOR THE
EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT OF OUR CLIENTS PO BOX 2226 OMAHA NE 68103-2226 |
Class Inst2 | 14.08% | N/A | |
UBS
WM USA
SPEC CDY A/C EXCL BEN CUST 1000 HARBOR BLVD WEEHAWKEN NJ 07086-6761 |
Class Inst | 5.49% | N/A | |
WELLS
FARGO CLEARING SERVICES LLC
SPECIAL CUSTODY ACCT FOR THE EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT OF CUSTOMER 2801 MARKET ST SAINT LOUIS MO 63103-2523 |
Class C | 19.09% | N/A | |
Emerging Markets Fund |
AMERICAN
ENTERPRISE INVESTMENT SVC
707 2ND AVE MINNEAPOLIS MN 55402-2405 |
Class A | 71.40% | N/A |
Class C | 42.73% | |||
Class Inst | 25.66% | |||
Class T | 98.38% |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 248 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 249 |
Fund | Shareholder Name and Address | Share Class |
Percentage
of Class |
Percentage
of Fund
(if greater than 25%) |
CHARLES
SCHWAB & CO INC
SPECIAL CUSTODY ACCT FBO CUSTOMERS ATTN MUTUAL FUNDS 101 MONTGOMERY ST SAN FRANCISCO CA 94104-4151 |
Class A | 9.21% | N/A | |
Class C | 8.83% | |||
Class Inst | 6.99% | |||
COLUMBIA
MGMT INVESTMENT ADVSR LLC
ATTN KATRINA MACBAIN 50807 AMERIPRISE FINANCIAL CTR MINNEAPOLIS MN 55474-0508 |
Class T | 100.00% | N/A (a) | |
FIIOC
FBO
100 MAGELLAN WAY (KW1C) COVINGTON KY 41015-1987 |
Class Adv | 75.78% | N/A | |
Class R | 5.43% | |||
JPMCB
NA CUST FOR
COLUMBIA GLOBAL STRATEGIC EQUITY PORTFOLIO 4 CHASE METROTECH CENTER 3RD FLOOR BROOKLYN NY 11245-0003 |
Class Inst3 | 61.02% | N/A | |
JPMCB
NA CUST FOR
COLUMBIA INCOME BUILDER FUND 4 CHASE METROTECH CENTER 3RD FLOOR BROOKLYN NY 11245-0003 |
Class Inst3 | 36.82% | N/A | |
LPL
FINANCIAL
9785 TOWNE CENTRE DR SAN DIEGO CA 92121-1968 |
Class C | 10.39% | N/A | |
MERRILL
LYNCH PIERCE FENNER
& SMITH INC FOR THE SOLE BENEFIT OF ITS CUSTOMERS ATTENTION SERVICE TEAM 4800 DEER LAKE DR E FL 3 JACKSONVILLE FL 32246-6484 |
Class A | 6.99% | N/A | |
NATIONAL
FINANCIAL SERVICES LLC
FEBO CUSTOMERS MUTUAL FUNDS 200 LIBERTY STREET 1WFC NEW YORK NY 10281-1003 |
Class A | 7.79% | N/A | |
Class Adv | 8.26% | |||
Class C | 5.49% | |||
PERSHING
LLC
1 PERSHING PLZ JERSEY CITY NJ 07399-0002 |
Class A | 6.89% | N/A | |
Class C | 5.74% | |||
Class Inst2 | 30.02% | |||
RAYMOND
JAMES
FBO OMNIBUS FOR MUTUAL FUNDS ATTN: COURTNEY WALLER 880 CARILLON PKWY ST PETERSBURG FL 33716-1100 |
Class C | 7.52% | N/A | |
RELIANCE
TRUST COMPANY FBO
PO BOX 48529 ATLANTA GA 30362-1529 |
Class R | 85.93% | N/A | |
STATE
STREET BANK
FBO 1 LINCOLN ST BOSTON MA 02111-2901 |
Class Adv | 10.78% | N/A | |
TD
AMERITRADE INC FOR THE
EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT OF OUR CLIENTS PO BOX 2226 OMAHA NE 68103-2226 |
Class Inst2 | 69.53% | N/A | |
UBS
WM USA
SPEC CDY A/C EXCL BEN CUST 1000 HARBOR BLVD WEEHAWKEN NJ 07086-6761 |
Class C | 12.96% | N/A |
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Fund | Shareholder Name and Address | Share Class |
Percentage
of Class |
Percentage
of Fund
(if greater than 25%) |
WELLS
FARGO CLEARING SERVICES LLC
SPECIAL CUSTODY ACCT FOR THE EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT OF CUSTOMER 2801 MARKET ST SAINT LOUIS MO 63103-2523 |
Class A | 5.68% | N/A | |
Global Energy and Natural Resources Fund |
AMERICAN
ENTERPRISE INVESTMENT SVC
707 2ND AVE MINNEAPOLIS MN 55402-2405 |
Class A | 65.46% | 28.23% |
Class C | 29.05% | |||
Class Inst | 10.59% | |||
ASCENSUS
TRUST COMPANY FBO
PO BOX 10758 FARGO ND 58106-0758 |
Class Inst2 | 15.08% | N/A | |
CAPITAL
BANK & TRUST COMPANY TTEE F
8515 E ORCHARD RD # 2T2 GREENWOOD VLG CO 80111-5002 |
Class R | 6.38% | N/A | |
CHARLES
SCHWAB & CO INC
SPECIAL CUSTODY ACCT FBO CUSTOMERS ATTN MUTUAL FUNDS 101 MONTGOMERY ST SAN FRANCISCO CA 94104-4151 |
Class Inst | 32.02% | N/A | |
Class Inst2 | 18.69% | |||
COLUMBIA
MGMT INVESTMENT ADVSR LLC
ATTN KATRINA MACBAIN 50807 AMERIPRISE FINANCIAL CTR MINNEAPOLIS MN 55474-0508 |
Class K | 41.33% | N/A (a) | |
HARTFORD
LIFE INS. CO.
SEPARATE ACCOUNT ATTN UIT OPERATIONS PO BOX 2999 HARTFORD CT 06104-2999 |
Class R | 14.22% | N/A | |
JPMCB
NA CUST FOR
COLUMBIA GLOBAL STRATEGIC EQUITY PORTFOLIO 4 CHASE METROTECH CENTER 3RD FLOOR BROOKLYN NY 11245-0003 |
Class Inst3 | 95.73% | N/A | |
MASSACHUSETTS
MUTUAL LIFE INS CO
1295 STATE ST MIP M200-INVST SPRINGFIELD MA 01111-0001 |
Class R | 34.77% | N/A | |
MERRILL
LYNCH PIERCE FENNER
& SMITH INC FOR THE SOLE BENEFIT OF ITS CUSTOMERS ATTENTION SERVICE TEAM 4800 DEER LAKE DR E FL 3 JACKSONVILLE FL 32246-6484 |
Class Adv | 9.01% | N/A | |
Class C | 6.77% | |||
MORGAN
STANLEY SMITH BARNEY
HARBORSIDE FINANCIAL CENTER PLAZA 2, 3RD FLOOR JERSEY CITY NJ 07311 |
Class C | 8.53% | N/A | |
Class Inst | 5.98% | |||
NATIONAL
FINANCIAL SERVICES LLC
FEBO CUSTOMERS MUTUAL FUNDS 200 LIBERTY STREET 1WFC NEW YORK NY 10281-1003 |
Class Inst | 13.87% | N/A | |
Class Inst2 | 49.48% | |||
PERSHING
LLC
1 PERSHING PLZ JERSEY CITY NJ 07399-0002 |
Class Adv | 85.45% | N/A | |
Class C | 9.20% | |||
Class K | 58.67% | |||
RAYMOND
JAMES
FBO OMNIBUS FOR MUTUAL FUNDS ATTN: COURTNEY WALLER 880 CARILLON PKWY ST PETERSBURG FL 33716-1100 |
Class C | 18.62% | N/A |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 251 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 252 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 253 |
Fund | Shareholder Name and Address | Share Class |
Percentage
of Class |
Percentage
of Fund
(if greater than 25%) |
PERSHING
LLC
1 PERSHING PLZ JERSEY CITY NJ 07399-0002 |
Class A | 5.67% | N/A | |
Class Adv | 81.99% | |||
Class C | 10.01% | |||
Class Inst2 | 63.81% | |||
RBC
CAPITAL MARKETS, LLC
MUTUAL FUND OMNIBUS PROCESSING OMNIBUS ATTN MUTUAL FUND OPS MANAGER 510 MARQUETTE AVE S MINNEAPOLIS MN 55402-1110 |
Class Inst | 10.07% | N/A | |
UBS
WM USA
SPEC CDY A/C EXCL BEN CUST 1000 HARBOR BLVD WEEHAWKEN NJ 07086-6761 |
Class C | 5.13% | N/A | |
Class Inst | 6.48% | |||
WELLS
FARGO CLEARING SERVICES LLC
SPECIAL CUSTODY ACCT FOR THE EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT OF CUSTOMER 2801 MARKET ST SAINT LOUIS MO 63103-2523 |
Class A | 9.20% | N/A | |
Class C | 20.40% | |||
Class Inst | 8.89% | |||
Mid Cap Growth Fund |
AMERICAN
ENTERPRISE INVESTMENT SVC
707 2ND AVE MINNEAPOLIS MN 55402-2405 |
Class A | 66.04% | 31.46% |
Class C | 22.41% | |||
Class T | 98.30% | |||
ASCENSUS
TRUST COMPANY FBO
PO BOX 10758 FARGO ND 58106-0758 |
Class R | 7.89% | N/A | |
CAPITAL
BANK & TRUST COMPANY TTEE F
8515 E ORCHARD RD # 2T2 GREENWOOD VLG CO 80111-5002 |
Class Inst2 | 18.35% | N/A | |
CHARLES
SCHWAB & CO INC
SPECIAL CUSTODY ACCT FBO CUSTOMERS ATTN MUTUAL FUNDS 101 MONTGOMERY ST SAN FRANCISCO CA 94104-4151 |
Class C | 5.25% | N/A | |
Class Inst | 11.37% | |||
CHRISTOPHER
J. HUYCK, MD FBO
ARTHRITIS CARE PC 401(K) PROFIT SHARING PLAN & TRUST 2414 15TH ST TROY NY 12180-1701 |
Class K | 8.67% | N/A | |
COUNSEL
TRUST DBA MATC FBO
EAGLE METALCRAFT INC 401K PSP & TRUST 1251 WATERFRONT PL STE 525 PITTSBURGH PA 15222-4228 |
Class K | 22.92% | N/A | |
DCGT
AS TTEE AND/OR CUST
FBO PLIC VARIOUS RETIREMENT PLANS OMNIBUS ATTN NPIO TRADE DESK 711 HIGH ST DES MOINES IA 50392-0001 |
Class R | 10.35% | N/A | |
GREAT-WEST
TRUST COMPANY LLC TTEE F
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS CLIENTS 401K 8515 E ORCHARD RD # 2T2 GREENWOOD VLG CO 80111-5002 |
Class Inst2 | 5.78% | N/A | |
KEITH
B ROSE FBO
ROSE LAW FIRM PLLC 401K PSP & TRUST 501 NEW KARNER RD ALBANY NY 12205-3874 |
Class K | 13.20% | N/A | |
MATRIX
TRUST COMPANY
717 17TH ST STE 1300 DENVER CO 80202-3304 |
Class K | 12.92% | N/A | |
Class R | 10.80% |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 254 |
Fund | Shareholder Name and Address | Share Class |
Percentage
of Class |
Percentage
of Fund
(if greater than 25%) |
MERRILL
LYNCH PIERCE FENNER
& SMITH INC FOR THE SOLE BENEFIT OF ITS CUSTOMERS ATTENTION SERVICE TEAM 4800 DEER LAKE DR E FL 3 JACKSONVILLE FL 32246-6484 |
Class Adv | 14.99% | N/A | |
Class Inst3 | 88.63% | |||
Class R | 47.55% | |||
Class V | 13.40% | |||
MID
ATLANTIC TRUST COMPANY FBO
1251 WATERFRONT PL STE 525 PITTSBURGH PA 15222-4228 |
Class R | 5.77% | N/A | |
MORGAN
STANLEY SMITH BARNEY
HARBORSIDE FINANCIAL CENTER PLAZA 2, 3RD FLOOR JERSEY CITY NJ 07311 |
Class C | 8.80% | N/A | |
NATIONAL
FINANCIAL SERVICES LLC
FEBO CUSTOMERS MUTUAL FUNDS 200 LIBERTY STREET 1WFC NEW YORK NY 10281-1003 |
Class Inst | 15.15% | N/A | |
Class Inst2 | 49.42% | |||
Class Inst3 | 6.17% | |||
Class V | 7.39% | |||
PERSHING
LLC
1 PERSHING PLZ JERSEY CITY NJ 07399-0002 |
Class Adv | 5.62% | N/A | |
Class C | 9.22% | |||
Class K | 41.69% | |||
RAYMOND
JAMES
FBO OMNIBUS FOR MUTUAL FUNDS ATTN: COURTNEY WALLER 880 CARILLON PKWY ST PETERSBURG FL 33716-1100 |
Class C | 7.38% | N/A | |
RELIANCE
TRUST COMPANY FBO
PO BOX 48529 ATLANTA GA 30362-1529 |
Class Inst2 | 9.06% | N/A | |
WELLS
FARGO BANK FBO
1525 W W T HARRIS BLVD CHARLOTTE NC 28262-8522 |
Class Adv | 72.86% | N/A | |
WELLS
FARGO CLEARING SERVICES LLC
SPECIAL CUSTODY ACCT FOR THE EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT OF CUSTOMER 2801 MARKET ST SAINT LOUIS MO 63103-2523 |
Class C | 11.48% | N/A | |
MM Alternative Strategies Fund |
AMERICAN
ENTERPRISE INVESTMENT SVC
707 2ND AVE MINNEAPOLIS MN 55402-2405 |
Class A | 99.88% | 100.00% |
Class Inst | 100.00% | |||
MM Small Cap Equity Strategies Fund |
AMERICAN
ENTERPRISE INVESTMENT SVC
707 2ND AVE MINNEAPOLIS MN 55402-2405 |
Class A | 99.94% | 100.00% |
Class Inst | 100.00% | |||
MM Total Return Bond Strategies Fund |
AMERICAN
ENTERPRISE INVESTMENT SVC
707 2ND AVE MINNEAPOLIS MN 55402-2405 |
Class A | 99.95% | 100.00% |
Class Inst | 100.00% | |||
Small Cap Growth Fund I |
AMERICAN
ENTERPRISE INVESTMENT SVC
707 2ND AVE MINNEAPOLIS MN 55402-2405 |
Class A | 19.79% | N/A |
Class C | 14.56% | |||
ASCENSUS
TRUST COMPANY FBO
PO BOX 10758 FARGO ND 58106-0758 |
Class R | 5.80% | N/A | |
BAND
& CO C/O US BANK NA
1555 N RIVERCENTER DR STE 302 MILWAUKEE WI 53212-3958 |
Class Inst | 5.28% | N/A | |
CHARLES
SCHWAB & CO INC
SPECIAL CUSTODY ACCT FBO CUSTOMERS ATTN MUTUAL FUNDS 101 MONTGOMERY ST SAN FRANCISCO CA 94104-4151 |
Class Inst | 14.35% | N/A |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 255 |
Fund | Shareholder Name and Address | Share Class |
Percentage
of Class |
Percentage
of Fund
(if greater than 25%) |
DCGT
AS TTEE AND/OR CUST
FBO PLIC VARIOUS RETIREMENT PLANS OMNIBUS ATTN NPIO TRADE DESK 711 HIGH ST DES MOINES IA 50392-0001 |
Class R | 6.41% | N/A | |
HEI
HOSPITALITY LLC
FBO EXEC EXCESS OF HEI HOSPITALITY ATTN ERNIE FREEDMAN 101 MERRITT 7 STE 1 NORWALK CT 06851-1060 |
Class R | 12.08% | N/A | |
JPMCB
NA CUST FOR
COLUMBIA CAPITAL ALLOCATION AGGRESSIVE PORTFOLIO 4 CHASE METROTECH CENTER 3RD FLOOR BROOKLYN NY 11245-0003 |
Class Inst3 | 6.43% | N/A | |
JPMCB
NA CUST FOR
COLUMBIA CAPITAL ALLOCATION MODERATE AGGRESSIVE PORTFOLIO 4 CHASE METROTECH CENTER 3RD FLOOR BROOKLYN NY 11245-0003 |
Class Inst3 | 18.16% | N/A | |
JPMCB
NA CUST FOR
COLUMBIA GLOBAL STRATEGIC EQUITY PORTFOLIO 4 CHASE METROTECH CENTER 3RD FLOOR BROOKLYN NY 11245-0003 |
Class Inst3 | 43.27% | N/A | |
MERRILL
LYNCH PIERCE FENNER
& SMITH INC FOR THE SOLE BENEFIT OF ITS CUSTOMERS ATTENTION SERVICE TEAM 4800 DEER LAKE DR E FL 3 JACKSONVILLE FL 32246-6484 |
Class A | 13.66% | N/A | |
Class R | 6.34% | |||
MORGAN
STANLEY SMITH BARNEY
HARBORSIDE FINANCIAL CENTER PLAZA 2, 3RD FLOOR JERSEY CITY NJ 07311 |
Class C | 7.41% | N/A | |
NATIONAL
FINANCIAL SERVICES LLC
FEBO CUSTOMERS MUTUAL FUNDS 200 LIBERTY STREET 1WFC NEW YORK NY 10281-1003 |
Class A | 6.02% | N/A | |
Class Adv | 79.97% | |||
Class C | 7.78% | |||
Class Inst | 5.69% | |||
Class Inst3 | 5.87% | |||
PERSHING
LLC
1 PERSHING PLZ JERSEY CITY NJ 07399-0002 |
Class Adv | 18.65% | N/A | |
Class C | 6.28% | |||
Class K | 85.16% | |||
RAYMOND
JAMES
FBO OMNIBUS FOR MUTUAL FUNDS ATTN: COURTNEY WALLER 880 CARILLON PKWY ST PETERSBURG FL 33716-1100 |
Class C | 6.52% | N/A | |
RELIANCE
TRUST COMPANY FBO
PO BOX 48529 ATLANTA GA 30362-1529 |
Class R | 62.56% | N/A | |
TD
AMERITRADE INC FOR THE
EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT OF OUR CLIENTS PO BOX 2226 OMAHA NE 68103-2226 |
Class Inst2 | 10.71% | N/A | |
VANGUARD
FDUCIARY TRUST CO
PO BOX 2600 VM 613 ATTN: OUTSIDE FUNDS VALLEY FORGE PA 19482-2600 |
Class Inst | 5.55% | N/A | |
Class Inst3 | 18.39% |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 256 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 257 |
Fund | Shareholder Name and Address | Share Class |
Percentage
of Class |
Percentage
of Fund
(if greater than 25%) |
PERSHING
LLC
1 PERSHING PLZ JERSEY CITY NJ 07399-0002 |
Class A | 5.08% | N/A | |
Class Adv | 57.45% | |||
Class C | 5.46% | |||
Class Inst2 | 16.61% | |||
Class K | 88.30% | |||
Class R | 5.44% | |||
RAYMOND
JAMES
FBO OMNIBUS FOR MUTUAL FUNDS ATTN: COURTNEY WALLER 880 CARILLON PKWY ST PETERSBURG FL 33716-1100 |
Class C | 7.87% | N/A | |
Class Inst | 5.81% | |||
UBS
WM USA
SPEC CDY A/C EXCL BEN CUST 1000 HARBOR BLVD WEEHAWKEN NJ 07086-6761 |
Class C | 5.60% | N/A | |
Class Inst | 9.10% | |||
WELLS
FARGO CLEARING SERVICES LLC
SPECIAL CUSTODY ACCT FOR THE EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT OF CUSTOMER 2801 MARKET ST SAINT LOUIS MO 63103-2523 |
Class C | 11.73% | N/A | |
Class Inst | 7.46% |
Fund | Shareholder Name and Address | Share Class |
Percentage
of Class |
Percentage
of Fund
(if greater than 25%) |
AMT-Free CT Intermediate Muni Bond Fund |
AMERICAN
ENTERPRISE INVESTMENT SVC
707 2ND AVE S MINNEAPOLIS MN 55402-2405 |
Class A | 24.53% | N/A |
Class C | 19.67% | |||
CHARLES
SCHWAB & CO INC
SPECIAL CUSTODY ACCT FBO CUSTOMERS ATTN MUTUAL FUNDS 101 MONTGOMERY ST SAN FRANCISCO CA 94104-4151 |
Class A | 12.73% | N/A | |
Class C | 9.53% | |||
COLUMBIA
MGMT INVESTMENT ADVSR LLC
ATTN KATRINA MACBAIN 50807 AMERIPRISE FINANCIAL CTR MINNEAPOLIS MN 55474-0508 |
Class Inst3 | 100.00% | N/A (a) | |
KELLY
F SHACKELFORD
PO BOX 672 NEW CANAAN CT 06840-0672 |
Class V | 15.72% | N/A | |
LPL
FINANCIAL
9785 TOWNE CENTRE DR SAN DIEGO CA 92121-1968 |
Class C | 12.21% | N/A | |
MERRILL
LYNCH PIERCE FENNER
& SMITH INC FOR THE SOLE BENEFIT OF ITS CUSTOMERS 4800 DEER LAKE DR E JACKSONVILLE FL 32246-6484 |
Class A | 24.86% | 78.33% | |
Class Inst | 91.86% | |||
Class V | 17.15% | |||
NATIONAL
FINANCIAL SERVICES LLC
FEBO CUSTOMERS MUTUAL FUNDS 200 LIBERTY STREET 1WFC NEW YORK NY 10281-1003 |
Class Adv | 24.60% | N/A | |
PEOPLE
S SECURITIES INC
FRANK FICKO JR TOD ACCOUNT 15 HARMONY LN MONROE CT 06468-1138 |
Class A | 5.51% | N/A |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 258 |
Fund | Shareholder Name and Address | Share Class |
Percentage
of Class |
Percentage
of Fund
(if greater than 25%) |
PERSHING
LLC
1 PERSHING PLZ JERSEY CITY NJ 07399-0002 |
Class Adv | 71.54% | N/A | |
UBS
WM USA
SPEC CDY A/C EXCL BEN CUST 1000 HARBOR BLVD WEEHAWKEN NJ 07086-6761 |
Class C | 7.58% | N/A | |
WELLS
FARGO CLEARING SERVICES LLC
SPECIAL CUSTODY ACCT FOR THE EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT OF CUSTOMER 2801 MARKET ST SAINT LOUIS MO 63103-2523 |
Class A | 8.61% | N/A | |
Class C | 29.72% | |||
AMT-Free Intermediate Muni Bond Fund |
AMERICAN
ENTERPRISE INVESTMENT SVC
707 2ND AVE S MINNEAPOLIS MN 55402-2405 |
Class A | 52.82% | N/A |
Class C | 31.34% | |||
CHARLES
SCHWAB & CO INC
SPECIAL CUSTODY ACCT FBO CUSTOMERS ATTN MUTUAL FUNDS 101 MONTGOMERY ST SAN FRANCISCO CA 94104-4151 |
Class Inst2 | 19.54% | N/A | |
Class V | 8.52% | |||
COLUMBIA
MGMT INVESTMENT ADVSR LLC
ATTN KATRINA MACBAIN 50807 AMERIPRISE FINANCIAL CTR MINNEAPOLIS MN 55474-0508 |
Class T | 100.00% | N/A (a) | |
EDWARD
D JONES & CO
FOR THE BENEFIT OF CUSTOMERS 12555 MANCHESTER RD SAINT LOUIS MO 63131-3729 |
Class Inst3 | 99.58% | N/A | |
JOHN
J ALMEIDA TR
JOHN J ALMEIDA REVOCABLE TRUST 27 TOPMAST CT JAMESTOWN RI 02835-2227 |
Class V | 7.88% | N/A | |
MERRILL
LYNCH PIERCE FENNER
& SMITH INC FOR THE SOLE BENEFIT OF ITS CUSTOMERS 4800 DEER LAKE DR E JACKSONVILLE FL 32246-6484 |
Class A | 11.36% | 75.43% | |
Class C | 17.60% | |||
Class Inst | 86.46% | |||
Class V | 9.54% | |||
MORGAN
STANLEY SMITH BARNEY
HARBORSIDE FINANCIAL CENTER PLAZA 2, 3RD FLOOR JERSEY CITY NJ 07311 |
Class C | 9.31% | N/A | |
NATIONAL
FINANCIAL SERVICES LLC
FEBO CUSTOMERS MUTUAL FUNDS 200 LIBERTY STREET 1WFC NEW YORK NY 10281-1003 |
Class Adv | 14.24% | N/A | |
Class Inst2 | 38.01% | |||
Class V | 7.73% | |||
PERSHING
LLC
1 PERSHING PLZ JERSEY CITY NJ 07399-0002 |
Class Adv | 84.62% | N/A | |
Class C | 6.28% | |||
Class Inst2 | 12.45% | |||
RAYMOND
JAMES
FBO OMNIBUS FOR MUTUAL FUNDS ATTN: COURTNEY WALLER 880 CARILLON PKWY ST PETERSBURG FL 33716-1100 |
Class A | 5.52% | N/A | |
TD
AMERITRADE INC FOR THE
EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT OF OUR CLIENTS PO BOX 2226 OMAHA NE 68103-2226 |
Class Inst2 | 29.92% | N/A |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 259 |
Fund | Shareholder Name and Address | Share Class |
Percentage
of Class |
Percentage
of Fund
(if greater than 25%) |
UBS
WM USA
SPEC CDY A/C EXCL BEN CUST 1000 HARBOR BLVD WEEHAWKEN NJ 07086-6761 |
Class C | 5.88% | N/A | |
WELLS
FARGO CLEARING SERVICES LLC
SPECIAL CUSTODY ACCT FOR THE EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT OF CUSTOMER 2801 MARKET ST SAINT LOUIS MO 63103-2523 |
Class A | 5.64% | N/A | |
Class C | 13.86% | |||
AMT-Free MA Intermediate Muni Bond Fund |
AMERICAN
ENTERPRISE INVESTMENT SVC
707 2ND AVE S MINNEAPOLIS MN 55402-2405 |
Class A | 17.82% | N/A |
Class C | 37.45% | |||
COLUMBIA
MGMT INVESTMENT ADVSR LLC
ATTN KATRINA MACBAIN 50807 AMERIPRISE FINANCIAL CTR MINNEAPOLIS MN 55474-0508 |
Class Inst2 | 100.00% | N/A (a) | |
Class Inst3 | 9.15% | |||
EDWARD
D JONES & CO
FOR THE BENEFIT OF CUSTOMERS 12555 MANCHESTER RD SAINT LOUIS MO 63131-3729 |
Class Inst3 | 90.85% | N/A | |
MERRILL
LYNCH PIERCE FENNER
& SMITH INC FOR THE SOLE BENEFIT OF ITS CUSTOMERS 4800 DEER LAKE DR E JACKSONVILLE FL 32246-6484 |
Class A | 11.36% | 77.98% | |
Class C | 7.86% | |||
Class Inst | 91.42% | |||
Class V | 44.73% | |||
NATIONAL
FINANCIAL SERVICES LLC
FEBO CUSTOMERS MUTUAL FUNDS 200 LIBERTY STREET 1WFC NEW YORK NY 10281-1003 |
Class A | 11.58% | N/A | |
Class Adv | 78.74% | |||
Class C | 10.67% | |||
Class V | 5.44% | |||
PERSHING
LLC
1 PERSHING PLZ JERSEY CITY NJ 07399-0002 |
Class Adv | 20.98% | N/A | |
RAYMOND
JAMES
FBO OMNIBUS FOR MUTUAL FUNDS ATTN: COURTNEY WALLER 880 CARILLON PKWY ST PETERSBURG FL 33716-1100 |
Class A | 30.65% | N/A | |
Class C | 17.18% | |||
UBS
WM USA
SPEC CDY A/C EXCL BEN CUST 1000 HARBOR BLVD WEEHAWKEN NJ 07086-6761 |
Class A | 6.13% | N/A | |
Class C | 6.30% | |||
WELLS
FARGO CLEARING SERVICES LLC
SPECIAL CUSTODY ACCT FOR THE EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT OF CUSTOMER 2801 MARKET ST SAINT LOUIS MO 63103-2523 |
Class A | 9.79% | N/A | |
Class C | 15.73% | |||
AMT-Free NY Intermediate Muni Bond Fund |
AMERICAN
ENTERPRISE INVESTMENT SVC
707 2ND AVE S MINNEAPOLIS MN 55402-2405 |
Class A | 20.65% | N/A |
Class C | 6.61% | |||
CHARLES
SCHWAB & CO INC
SPECIAL CUSTODY ACCT FBO CUSTOMERS ATTN MUTUAL FUNDS 101 MONTGOMERY ST SAN FRANCISCO CA 94104-4151 |
Class A | 10.04% | N/A | |
EDWARD
D JONES & CO
FOR THE BENEFIT OF CUSTOMERS 12555 MANCHESTER RD SAINT LOUIS MO 63131-3729 |
Class Inst3 | 94.93% | N/A | |
LPL
FINANCIAL
9785 TOWNE CENTRE DR SAN DIEGO CA 92121-1968 |
Class A | 6.16% | N/A |
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Fund | Shareholder Name and Address | Share Class |
Percentage
of Class |
Percentage
of Fund
(if greater than 25%) |
MERRILL
LYNCH PIERCE FENNER
& SMITH INC FOR THE SOLE BENEFIT OF ITS CUSTOMERS 4800 DEER LAKE DR E JACKSONVILLE FL 32246-6484 |
Class A | 16.97% | 71.94% | |
Class C | 28.70% | |||
Class Inst | 81.54% | |||
Class V | 27.20% | |||
MORGAN
STANLEY SMITH BARNEY
HARBORSIDE FINANCIAL CENTER PLAZA 2, 3RD FLOOR JERSEY CITY NJ 07311 |
Class A | 12.78% | N/A | |
Class C | 19.18% | |||
NATIONAL
FINANCIAL SERVICES LLC
FEBO CUSTOMERS MUTUAL FUNDS 200 LIBERTY STREET 1WFC NEW YORK NY 10281-1003 |
Class A | 7.21% | N/A | |
Class Adv | 48.31% | |||
Class C | 6.35% | |||
Class Inst2 | 95.66% | |||
PAUL
E HOWARD &
JUDITH A HOWARD JTWROS PO BOX 649 SCHOHARIE NY 12157-0649 |
Class V | 5.15% | N/A | |
PERSHING
LLC
1 PERSHING PLZ JERSEY CITY NJ 07399-0002 |
Class A | 8.51% | N/A | |
Class Adv | 50.56% | |||
Class C | 7.62% | |||
UBS
WM USA
SPEC CDY A/C EXCL BEN CUST 1000 HARBOR BLVD WEEHAWKEN NJ 07086-6761 |
Class C | 5.42% | N/A | |
WELLS
FARGO CLEARING SERVICES LLC
SPECIAL CUSTODY ACCT FOR THE EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT OF CUSTOMER 2801 MARKET ST SAINT LOUIS MO 63103-2523 |
Class A | 9.31% | N/A | |
Class C | 10.94% | |||
Strategic CA Municipal Income Fund |
AMERICAN
ENTERPRISE INVESTMENT SVC
707 2ND AVE S MINNEAPOLIS MN 55402-2405 |
Class A | 32.63% | 27.17% |
Class C | 19.20% | |||
Class Inst | 16.67% | |||
CHARLES
SCHWAB & CO INC
SPECIAL CUSTODY ACCT FBO CUSTOMERS ATTN MUTUAL FUNDS 101 MONTGOMERY ST SAN FRANCISCO CA 94104-4151 |
Class A | 5.86% | N/A | |
COLUMBIA
MGMT INVESTMENT ADVSR LLC
ATTN KATRINA MACBAIN 50807 AMERIPRISE FINANCIAL CTR MINNEAPOLIS MN 55474-0508 |
Class Inst2 | 8.50% | N/A (a) | |
EDWARD
D JONES & CO
FOR THE BENEFIT OF CUSTOMERS 12555 MANCHESTER RD SAINT LOUIS MO 63131-3729 |
Class Inst3 | 99.71% | N/A | |
LPL
FINANCIAL
9785 TOWNE CENTRE DR SAN DIEGO CA 92121-1968 |
Class Inst | 9.22% | N/A | |
MERRILL
LYNCH PIERCE FENNER
& SMITH INC FOR THE SOLE BENEFIT OF ITS CUSTOMERS 4800 DEER LAKE DR E JACKSONVILLE FL 32246-6484 |
Class A | 11.65% | N/A | |
Class C | 30.85% | |||
Class Inst | 52.48% | |||
MORGAN
STANLEY SMITH BARNEY
HARBORSIDE FINANCIAL CENTER PLAZA 2, 3RD FLOOR JERSEY CITY NJ 07311 |
Class A | 5.64% | N/A | |
Class C | 9.80% | |||
Class Inst | 5.24% |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 261 |
Fund | Shareholder Name and Address | Share Class |
Percentage
of Class |
Percentage
of Fund
(if greater than 25%) |
NATIONAL
FINANCIAL SERVICES LLC
FEBO CUSTOMERS MUTUAL FUNDS 200 LIBERTY STREET 1WFC NEW YORK NY 10281-1003 |
Class Adv | 39.81% | N/A | |
PERSHING
LLC
1 PERSHING PLZ JERSEY CITY NJ 07399-0002 |
Class Adv | 59.37% | N/A | |
Class Inst2 | 28.92% | |||
TD
AMERITRADE INC FOR THE
EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT OF OUR CLIENTS PO BOX 2226 OMAHA NE 68103-2226 |
Class Inst2 | 62.58% | N/A | |
WELLS
FARGO CLEARING SERVICES LLC
SPECIAL CUSTODY ACCT FOR THE EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT OF CUSTOMER 2801 MARKET ST SAINT LOUIS MO 63103-2523 |
Class A | 7.37% | N/A | |
Class C | 14.36% | |||
Class Inst | 5.08% | |||
Strategic NY Municipal Income Fund |
AMERICAN
ENTERPRISE INVESTMENT SVC
707 2ND AVE S MINNEAPOLIS MN 55402-2405 |
Class A | 31.10% | 31.04% |
Class C | 17.37% | |||
Class Inst | 44.19% | |||
CHARLES
SCHWAB & CO INC
SPECIAL CUSTODY ACCT FBO CUSTOMERS ATTN MUTUAL FUNDS 101 MONTGOMERY ST SAN FRANCISCO CA 94104-4151 |
Class Inst2 | 92.46% | N/A | |
COLUMBIA
MGMT INVESTMENT ADVSR LLC
ATTN KATRINA MACBAIN 50807 AMERIPRISE FINANCIAL CTR MINNEAPOLIS MN 55474-0508 |
Class Inst3 | 13.46% | N/A (a) | |
EDWARD
D JONES & CO
FOR THE BENEFIT OF CUSTOMERS 12555 MANCHESTER RD SAINT LOUIS MO 63131-3729 |
Class Inst3 | 46.49% | N/A | |
LPL
FINANCIAL
9785 TOWNE CENTRE DR SAN DIEGO CA 92121-1968 |
Class Inst | 8.78% | N/A | |
MERRILL
LYNCH PIERCE FENNER
& SMITH INC FOR THE SOLE BENEFIT OF ITS CUSTOMERS 4800 DEER LAKE DR E JACKSONVILLE FL 32246-6484 |
Class A | 6.09% | N/A | |
Class C | 18.75% | |||
Class Inst | 20.72% | |||
MORGAN
STANLEY SMITH BARNEY
HARBORSIDE FINANCIAL CENTER PLAZA 2, 3RD FLOOR JERSEY CITY NJ 07311 |
Class C | 11.91% | N/A | |
NATIONAL
FINANCIAL SERVICES LLC
FEBO CUSTOMERS MUTUAL FUNDS 200 LIBERTY STREET 1WFC NEW YORK NY 10281-1003 |
Class Adv | 12.54% | N/A | |
PERSHING
LLC
1 PERSHING PLZ JERSEY CITY NJ 07399-0002 |
Class A | 6.97% | N/A | |
Class Adv | 87.08% | |||
Class C | 9.06% | |||
Class Inst3 | 40.05% | |||
STRAFE
& CO
FBO PO BOX 6924 NEWARK DE 19714-6924 |
Class Inst | 10.68% | N/A |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 262 |
Fund | Shareholder Name and Address | Share Class |
Percentage
of Class |
Percentage
of Fund
(if greater than 25%) |
TD
AMERITRADE INC FOR THE
EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT OF OUR CLIENTS PO BOX 2226 OMAHA NE 68103-2226 |
Class Inst2 | 5.08% | N/A | |
UBS
WM USA
SPEC CDY A/C EXCL BEN CUST 1000 HARBOR BLVD WEEHAWKEN NJ 07086-6761 |
Class C | 5.03% | N/A | |
Class Inst | 7.00% | |||
WELLS
FARGO CLEARING SERVICES LLC
SPECIAL CUSTODY ACCT FOR THE EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT OF CUSTOMER 2801 MARKET ST SAINT LOUIS MO 63103-2523 |
Class A | 7.16% | N/A | |
Class C | 14.31% |
Fund | Shareholder Name and Address | Share Class |
Percentage
of Class |
Percentage
of Fund
(if greater than 25%) |
Real Estate Equity Fund |
AMERICAN
ENTERPRISE INVESTMENT SVC
707 2ND AVE S MINNEAPOLIS MN 55402-2405 |
Class A | 72.27% | N/A |
Class C | 30.31% | |||
Class T | 64.84% | |||
CAPITAL
BANK & TRUST CO TTEE FBO
WESTMORELAND MECHANICAL TESTING & R 8515 E ORCHARD RD # 2T2 GREENWOOD VLG CO 80111-5002 |
Class R | 33.59% | N/A | |
CHARLES
SCHWAB & CO INC
CUST A/C FOR THE EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT ATTENTION MUTUAL FUNDS 101 MONTGOMERY ST SAN FRANCISCO CA 94104-4151 |
Class Adv | 18.73% | N/A | |
Class C | 12.26% | |||
Class Inst | 12.71% | |||
COLUMBIA
MGMT INVESTMENT ADVSR LLC
ATTN KATRINA MACBAIN 50807 AMERIPRISE FINANCIAL CTR MINNEAPOLIS MN 55474-0508 |
Class T | 35.16% | N/A (a) | |
FIIOC
FBO
401(K) PLAN 100 MAGELLAN WAY # KW1C COVINGTON KY 41015-1987 |
Class Adv | 6.05% | N/A | |
JPMCB
NA CUST FOR
COLUMBIA INCOME BUILDER FUND 4 CHASE METROTECH CENTER 3RD FLOOR BROOKLYN NY 11245-0003 |
Class Inst3 | 39.96% | N/A | |
MAC
& CO
ATTN: MUTUAL FUND OPS 500 GRANT STREET PITTSBURGH PA 15219-2502 |
Class Inst2 | 48.43% | N/A | |
MERRILL
LYNCH PIERCE FENNER & SMITH
FBO 4800 DEER LAKE DR E FL 2 JACKSONVILLE FL 32246-6484 |
Class C | 6.72% | N/A | |
Class Inst3 | 59.79% | |||
Class R | 35.07% | |||
NATIONAL
FINANCIAL SERVICES LLC
FEBO CUSTOMERS MUTUAL FUNDS 200 LIBERTY STREET 1WFC NEW YORK NY 10281-1003 |
Class Adv | 30.11% | N/A | |
PERSHING
LLC
1 PERSHING PLZ JERSEY CITY NJ 07399-0002 |
Class Adv | 35.49% | N/A | |
Class Inst2 | 7.48% |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 263 |
Fund | Shareholder Name and Address | Share Class |
Percentage
of Class |
Percentage
of Fund
(if greater than 25%) |
RAYMOND
JAMES
FBO OMNIBUS FOR MUTUAL FUNDS HOUSE ACCT FIRM ATTN: COURTNEY WALLER 880 CARILLON PKWY ST PETERSBURG FL 33716-1100 |
Class C | 8.66% | N/A | |
SEI
PRIVATE TRUST COMPANY
C/O SUNTRUST BANK ATTN MUTUAL FUND ADMIN 1 FREEDOM VALLEY DR OAKS PA 19456-9989 |
Class Inst | 28.92% | N/A | |
TD
AMERITRADE INC FOR THE
EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT OF OUR CLIENTS PO BOX 2226 OMAHA NE 68103-2226 |
Class Adv | 5.30% | N/A | |
VOYA
INSTITUTIONAL TRUST COMPANY
TTEE DAIMLER TRUCKS NORTH AMERICA LLC DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN 30 BRAINTREE HILL OFFICE PARK BRAINTREE MA 02184-8747 |
Class Inst2 | 35.15% | N/A | |
WELLS
FARGO CLEARING SERVICES LLC
SPECIAL CUSTODY ACCT FOR THE EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT OF CUSTOMER 2801 MARKET ST SAINT LOUIS MO 63103-2523 |
Class C | 9.91% | N/A |
(a) | Combination of all share classes of Columbia Management initial capital and/or affiliated funds-of-funds’ investments. |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 264 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | 265 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | A-1 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | A-2 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | A-3 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | A-4 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | B-1 |
■ | effectively exercise their voting rights across the full range of business normally associated with general meetings of a company in line with market best practice (e.g. the election of individual directors, discharge authorities, capital authorities, auditor appointment, major or related party transactions etc). |
■ | place items on the agenda of general meetings, and to propose resolutions subject to reasonable limitations; |
■ | call a meeting of shareholders for the purpose of transacting the legitimate business of the company; and |
■ | Clear, consistent and effective reporting to shareholders is undertaken at regular intervals and that they remain aware of shareholder sentiment on major issues to do with the business, its strategy and performance. Where significant shareholder dissent is emerging or apparent (e.g. through the voting levels seen at General Meetings), boards should act to address that. |
■ | Boards should also allow a reasonable opportunity for the shareholders at a general meeting to ask questions about or make comments on the management of the company, and to ask the external auditor questions related to the audit. |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | B-2 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | B-3 |
■ | subject to proper oversight by the board and regular review (e.g. audit, shareholder approval); |
■ | clearly justified and not be detrimental to the long-term interests of the company; |
■ | undertaken in the normal course of business; |
■ | undertaken on fully commercial terms; |
■ | In line with best practice; and |
■ | In the interests of all shareholders. |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | B-4 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | B-5 |
1. | Clear, simple and understandable; |
2. | Balanced and proportionate, in respect of structure, deliverables, opportunity and the market; |
3. | Aligned with the long-term strategy, related key performance indicators and risk management discipline; |
4. | Linked robustly to the delivery of performance; |
5. | Delivering outcomes that reflect value creation and the shareholder ‘experience’; and |
6. | Structured to avoid pay for failure or the avoidance of accountability to shareholders. |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | B-6 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | B-7 |
■ | the inability or perceived inability of a government authority to collect sufficient tax or other revenues to meet its payment obligations; |
■ | natural disasters and ecological or environmental concerns; |
■ | the introduction of constitutional or statutory limits on a tax-exempt issuer’s ability to raise revenues or increase taxes; |
■ | the inability of an issuer to pay interest on or to repay principal or securities in which the funds invest during recessionary periods; and |
■ | economic or demographic factors that may cause a decrease in tax or other revenues for a government authority or for private operators of publicly financed facilities. |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | C-1 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | C-2 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | C-3 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | C-4 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | C-5 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | C-6 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | C-7 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | C-8 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | C-9 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | D-1 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | D-2 |
■ | Current or retired fund Board members, officers or employees of the funds or Columbia Management or its affiliates (b) ; |
■ | Current or retired Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc. (Ameriprise Financial Services) financial advisors and employees of such financial advisors (b) ; |
■ | Registered representatives and other employees of affiliated or unaffiliated financial intermediaries (and their immediate family members and related trusts or other entities owned by the foregoing) having a selling agreement with the Distributor (b) ; |
■ | Registered broker-dealer firms that have entered into a dealer agreement with the Distributor may buy Class A shares without paying a front-end sales charge for their investment account only; |
■ | Portfolio managers employed by subadvisers of the funds (b) ; |
■ | Partners and employees of outside legal counsel to the funds or to the funds’ directors or trustees who regularly provide advice and services to the funds, or to their directors or trustees; |
■ | Direct rollovers ( i.e. , rollovers of fund shares and not reinvestments of redemption proceeds) from qualified employee benefit plans, provided that the rollover involves a transfer to Class A shares in the same fund; |
■ | Employees or partners of Columbia Wanger Asset Management, LLC; |
■ | Separate accounts established and maintained by an insurance company which are exempt from registration under Section 3(c)(11); |
■ | At a fund’s discretion, front-end sales charges may be waived for shares issued in plans of reorganization, such as mergers, asset acquisitions and exchange offers, to which the fund is a party; |
■ | Purchases by registered representatives and employees (and their immediate family members and related trusts or other entities owned by the foregoing (referred to as “Related Persons”)) of Ameriprise Financial Services and its affiliates; provided that with respect to employees (and their Related Persons) of an affiliate of Ameriprise Financial, such persons must make purchases through an account held at Ameriprise Financial or its affiliates. |
■ | Through or under a wrap fee product or other investment product sponsored by a financial intermediary that charges an account management fee or other managed agency/asset allocation accounts or programs involving fee-based compensation arrangements that have or that clear trades through a financial intermediary that has a selling agreement with the Distributor; |
■ | Through state sponsored college savings plans established under Section 529 of the Internal Revenue Code; |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | S-1 |
■ | Through banks, trust companies and thrift institutions, acting as fiduciaries; or |
■ | Through “employee benefit plans” created under Section 401(a), 401(k), 457 and 403(b), and qualified deferred compensation plans, that have a plan level or omnibus account maintained with the Fund or the Transfer Agent and transact directly with the Fund or the Transfer Agent through a third-party administrator or third-party recordkeeper. This waiver does not apply to accounts held through commissionable brokerage platforms. |
* | Any shareholder with a Direct-at-Fund account (i.e., shares held directly with the Fund through the Transfer Agent) that is eligible to purchase shares without a front-end sales charge by virtue of having qualified for a previous waiver may continue to purchase shares without a front-end sales charge if they no longer qualify under a category described in the prospectus or in this section. Otherwise, you must qualify for a front-end sales charge waiver described in the prospectus or in this section. |
(a) | The Funds no longer accept investments from new or existing investors in Class E shares, except by existing Class E and former Class F shareholders who opened and funded their account prior to September 22, 2006 that may continue to invest in Class E shares (Class F shares automatically converted to Class E shares on July 17, 2017). See the prospectus offering Class E shares of Large Cap Growth Fund (a series of CFST I) for details. |
(b) | Including their spouses or domestic partners, children or step-children, parents, step-parents or legal guardians, and their spouse’s or domestic partner’s parents, step-parents, or legal guardians. |
■ | In the event of the shareholder’s death; |
■ | For which no sales commission or transaction fee was paid to an authorized financial intermediary at the time of purchase; |
■ | Purchased through reinvestment of dividend and capital gain distributions; |
■ | That result from required minimum distributions taken from retirement accounts upon the shareholder’s attainment of age 70½; |
■ | That result from returns of excess contributions made to retirement plans or individual retirement accounts, so long as the financial intermediary returns the applicable portion of any commission paid by the Distributor; |
■ | Of Class A shares of a fund initially purchased by an employee benefit plan; |
■ | Other than Class A shares of a fund initially purchased by an employee benefit plan that are not connected with a plan level termination; |
■ | In connection with the fund’s Small Account Policy (as described in the prospectus); and |
■ | At a fund’s discretion, issued in connection with plans of reorganization, including but not limited to mergers, asset acquisitions and exchange offers, to which the fund is a party. |
■ | Any client of Bank of America or one of its subsidiaries buying shares through an asset management company, trust, fiduciary, retirement plan administration or similar arrangement with Bank of America or the subsidiary. |
■ | Any employee (or family member of an employee) of Bank of America or one of its subsidiaries. |
■ | Any investor buying shares through a Columbia Management state tuition plan organized under Section 529 of the Internal Revenue Code. |
■ | Any trustee or director (or family member of a trustee or director) of a fund distributed by the Distributor. |
■ | Other than for the Multi-Manager Strategies Funds, any shareholder (as well as any family member of a shareholder or person listed on an account registration for any account of the shareholder) who holds Class Inst shares of a fund distributed by the Distributor is eligible to purchase Class Inst shares of other funds distributed by the Distributor, subject to a minimum initial investment of $2,000 ($1,000 for IRAs). If the account in which the shareholder holds Class Inst shares is not eligible to purchase additional Class Inst shares, the shareholder may purchase Class Inst shares in an account maintained directly with the Transfer Agent, subject to a minimum initial investment of $2,000 ($1,000 for IRAs). |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | S-2 |
Statement of Additional Information – September 1, 2018 | S-3 |
PART C. OTHER INFORMATION
Item 28. Exhibits
(a)(1) |
Second Amended and Restated Agreement and Declaration of Trust, dated August 10, 2005, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 40 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (a)(1)), filed on September 16, 2005. | |
(a)(2) |
Amendment No. 1 to Second Amended and Restated Agreement and Declaration of Trust, effective September 19, 2005, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 40 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (a)(2)), filed on September 16, 2005. | |
(a)(3) |
Amendment No. 2 to Second Amended and Restated Agreement and Declaration of Trust, effective December 13, 2017, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 313 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (a)(3)), filed on January 16, 2018. | |
(a)(4) |
Amendment No. 3 to Second Amended and Restated Agreement and Declaration of Trust, effective March 7, 2018, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 318 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (a)(4)), filed on March 29, 2018. | |
(b) |
Amended and Restated By-laws of the Registrant, effective October 20, 2015, are incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 248 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (b)), filed on December 22, 2015. | |
(c) |
Not Applicable. | |
(d)(1) |
Amended and Restated Management Agreement, as of April 25, 2016, between Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC, Columbia Funds Variable Insurance Trust and the Registrant, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 257 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(1)), filed on April 27, 2016. | |
(d)(1)(i) |
Schedule A and Schedule B, as of May 1, 2018, to the Management Agreement between Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC, Columbia Funds Variable Insurance Trust and the Registrant, amended and restated as of April 25, 2016, are incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 76 to Registration Statement No. 033-14954 of Columbia Funds Variable Insurance Trust on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(1)(i)), filed on April 27, 2018. | |
(d)(2) |
Amended and Restated Management Agreement, as of October 25, 2016, between Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC, Columbia Funds Variable Insurance Trust and the Registrant, effective June 16, 2015, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 68 to Registration Statement No. 033-14954 of Columbia Funds Variable Insurance Trust on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(2)), filed on October 31, 2016. | |
(d)(2)(i) |
Schedule A and Schedule B, as of May 1, 2018, to the Management Agreement between Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC, Columbia Funds Variable Insurance Trust and the Registrant, as of October 25, 2016, are incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 76 to Registration Statement No. 033-14954 of Columbia Funds Variable Insurance Trust on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(2)(i)), filed on April 27, 2018. | |
(d)(3) |
Subadvisory Agreement between Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and AQR Capital Management, LLC, dated March 7, 2012, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 196 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(3)), filed on May 30, 2014. |
(d)(3)(i) |
Addendum, dated March 7, 2012, to the Subadvisory Agreement, dated March 7, 2012, between Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and AQR Capital Management, LLC on behalf of Multi-Manager Alternative Strategies Fund is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 196 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(3)(1)), filed on May 30, 2014. | |
(d)(3)(ii) |
Amendment No. 1, dated August 18, 2016 to the Subadvisory Agreement dated March 7, 2012, between Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and AQR Capital Management, LLC on behalf of Multi-Manager Directional Alternative Strategies Fund is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 276 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(3)(ii)), filed on September 30, 2016. | |
(d)(4) |
Subadvisory Agreement between Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and Dalton, Greiner, Hartman, Maher & Co., LLC, dated March 7, 2012, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 196 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(4)), filed on May 30, 2014. | |
(d)(4)(i) |
Amendment No.1, dated June 10, 2015, to the Subadvisory Agreement between Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and Dalton, Greiner, Hartman, Maher & Co., LLC, dated March 7, 2012, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 231 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(6)(i)), filed on June 29, 2015. | |
(d)(5) |
Subadvisory Agreement between Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and EAM Investors, LLC, dated March 7, 2012, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 196 to Registration Statement No. 99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(5)), filed on May 30, 2014. | |
(d)(6) |
Subadvisory Agreement between Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and PGIM, Inc., the asset management arm of Prudential Financial, dated March 9, 2016, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 259 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(6)), filed on May 16, 2016. | |
(d)(7) |
Subadvisory Agreement between Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and TCW Investment Management Company LLC, dated February 6, 2013, last amended January 25, 2017, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 293 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(7)), filed on March 29, 2017. | |
(d)(7)(i) |
Addendum Authorization to Enter Into Over-The-Counter And/Or Exchange Traded Derivatives between Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and TCW Investment Management Company LLC, dated March 7, 2012, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 196 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(7)(1)), filed on May 30, 2014. | |
(d)(8) |
Subadvisory Agreement among Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and Threadneedle International Limited, dated March 5, 2014, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 236 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(10)), filed on August 26, 2015. | |
(d)(8)(i) |
Amendment No. 1, dated December 19, 2014, to the Subadvisory Agreement between Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and Threadneedle International Limited is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 236 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(10)(i)), filed on August 26, 2015. | |
(d)(8)(ii) |
Amendment No. 2, dated March 4, 2015, to the Subadvisory Agreement between Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and Threadneedle International Limited is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 236 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(10)(ii)), filed on August 26, 2015. |
(d)(8)(iii) |
Amendment No. 3, dated June 10, 2015, to the Subadvisory Agreement between Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and Threadneedle International Limited is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 236 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(10)(iii)), filed on August 26, 2015. | |
(d)(8)(iv) |
Amendment No. 4, dated August 17, 2016, to the Subadvisory Agreement between Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and Threadneedle International Limited, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 323 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(8)(iv)), filed on April 26, 2018. | |
(d)(8)(v) |
Form of Amendment No. 5, to the Subadvisory Agreement between Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and Threadneedle International Limited, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 324 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(8)(v)), filed on May 4, 2018. | |
(d)(8)(vi) |
Addendum, dated December 19, 2014, to the Subadvisory Agreement, dated March 5, 2014, between Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and Threadneedle International Limited, pertaining to CDARF1 Offshore Fund Ltd., a subsidiary of Columbia Diversified Absolute Return Fund, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 236 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(10)(iv)), filed on August 26, 2015. | |
(d)(8)(vii) |
Addendum, dated December 19, 2014, to the Subadvisory Agreement, dated March 5, 2014, between Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and Threadneedle International Limited, pertaining to CDARF2 Offshore Fund Ltd., a subsidiary of Columbia Diversified Absolute Return Fund, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 236 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(10)(v)), filed on August 26, 2015. | |
(d)(8)(viii) |
Addendum, dated December 19, 2014, to the Subadvisory Agreement, dated March 5, 2014, between Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and Threadneedle International Limited, pertaining to CDARF3 Offshore Fund Ltd., a subsidiary of Columbia Diversified Absolute Return Fund, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 236 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(10)(vi)), filed on August 26, 2015. | |
(d)(8)(ix) |
Addendum, dated December 19, 2014, to the Subadvisory Agreement, dated March 5, 2014, between Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and Threadneedle International Limited, pertaining to CAAF Offshore Fund Ltd., a subsidiary of Columbia Alternative Beta Fund, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 236 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(10)(vii)), filed on August 26, 2015. | |
(d)(9) |
Subadvisory Agreement between Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and Water Island Capital, LLC, dated March 7, 2012, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 196 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(9)), filed on May 30, 2014. | |
(d)(10) |
Delegation Agreement, dated March 7, 2012, between Dalton, Greiner, Hartman, Maher & Co., LLC and Real Estate Management Services Group, LLC is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 196 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(10)), filed on May 30, 2014. | |
(d)(11) |
Subadvisory Agreement between Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and Conestoga Capital Advisors, LLC, dated June 11, 2014, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 205 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(11)), filed on August 28, 2014. | |
(d)(12) |
Subadvisory Agreement between Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and Loomis, Sayles and Company, L.P., dated December 4, 2013, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 196 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(12)), filed on May 30, 2014. |
(d)(12)(i) |
Amendment No.1, dated March 9, 2016, to the Subadvisory Agreement between Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and Loomis, Sayles and Company, L.P., dated December 4, 2013, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 256 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(14)(i)), filed on April 11, 2016. | |
(d)(13) |
Subadvisory Agreement between Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and BMO Asset Management Corp., dated October 20, 2015, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 243 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(16)), filed on October 26, 2015. | |
(d)(13)(i) |
Amendment No.1, as of May 1, 2017, to the Subadvisory Agreement between Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and BMO Asset Management Corp., dated October 20, 2015, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 295 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(13)(i)), filed on April 26, 2017. | |
(d)(14) |
Subadvisory Agreement between Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and Boston Partners Global Investors Inc., on behalf of Multi-Manager Directional Alternative Strategies Fund, dated August 18, 2016, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 276 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(15)), filed on September 30, 2016. | |
(d)(15) |
Subadvisory Agreement between Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and Analytic Investors, LLC, on behalf of Multi-Manager Directional Alternative Strategies Fund, dated October 3, 2016, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 277 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(16)), filed on October 3, 2016. | |
(d)(16) |
Subadvisory Agreement between Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and Los Angeles Capital Management and Equity Research, Inc., on behalf of Multi-Manager Growth Strategies Fund, effective February 7, 2017, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 288 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(16)), filed on February 7, 2017. | |
(d)(17) |
Subadvisory Agreement between Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and Manulife Asset Management (US) LLC, on behalf of Multi-Manager Alternative Strategies Fund, effective September 13, 2017, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 304 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(17)), filed on September 13, 2017. | |
(d)(18) |
Subadvisory Agreement between Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and Arrowstreet Capital, Limited Partnership, on behalf of Multi-Manager International Equity Strategies Fund, effective May 14, 2018, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 324 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(18)), filed on May 4, 2018. | |
(d)(19) |
Subadvisory Agreement between Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and Baillie Gifford Overseas Limited, on behalf of Multi-Manager International Equity Strategies Fund, effective May 14, 2018, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 324 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(19)), filed on May 4, 2018. | |
(d)(20) |
Subadvisory Agreement between Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and Causeway Capital Management LLC, on behalf of Multi-Manager International Equity Strategies Fund, effective May 14, 2018, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 324 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(20)), filed on May 4, 2018. |
(d)(21) |
Subadvisory Agreement between Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and AlphaSimplex Group, LLC, on behalf of Multi-Manager Alternative Strategies Fund, effective May 23, 2018, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 327 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(21)), filed on May 23, 2018. | |
(d)(21)(i) |
Addendum to the Subadvisory Agreement between Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and AlphaSimplex Group, LLC, on behalf of Multi-Manager Alternative Strategies Fund, effective May 23, 2018, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 327 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(21)(i)), filed on May 23, 2018. | |
(d)(22) |
Management Agreement between Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and CAAF Offshore Fund, Ltd., a subsidiary of Columbia Alternative Beta Fund, effective October 1, 2015, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 239 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(18)), filed on September 28, 2015. | |
(d)(23) |
Management Agreement between Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and CDARF1 Offshore Fund, Ltd., a subsidiary of Columbia Diversified Absolute Return Fund, effective October 1, 2015, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 239 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(19)), filed on September 28, 2015. | |
(d)(24) |
Management Agreement between Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and CDARF2 Offshore Fund, Ltd., a subsidiary of Columbia Diversified Absolute Return Fund, effective October 1, 2015, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 239 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(20)), filed on September 28, 2015. | |
(d)(25) |
Management Agreement between Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and CDARF3 Offshore Fund, Ltd., a subsidiary of Columbia Diversified Absolute Return Fund, effective October 1, 2015, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 239 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(21)), filed on September 28, 2015. | |
(d)(26) |
Management Agreement between Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and ASGM Offshore Fund, Ltd., a subsidiary of Multi-Manager Alternative Strategies Fund, effective January 1, 2016, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 248 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(22)), filed on December 22, 2015. | |
(d)(27) |
Management Agreement between Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and ASMF Offshore Fund, Ltd., a subsidiary of Multi-Manager Alternative Strategies Fund, effective January 1, 2016, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 248 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (d)(23)), filed on December 22, 2015. | |
(e)(1) |
Amended and Restated Distribution Agreement by and between Registrant and Columbia Management Investment Distributors, Inc., dated March 1, 2016, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 256 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (e)(1)), filed on April 11, 2016. | |
(e)(1)(i) |
Restated Schedule I, effective March 7, 2018, and Schedule II to Amended and Restated Distribution Agreement by and between the Registrant and Columbia Management Investment Distributors, Inc., dated March 1, 2016, are incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 324 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (e)(1)(i)), filed on May 4, 2018. | |
(e)(2) |
Form of Mutual Fund Sales Agreement is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 293 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (e)(2)), filed on March 29, 2017. |
(f) |
Form of Deferred Compensation Agreement is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 196 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (f)), filed on May 30, 2014. | |
(g)(1) |
Second Amended and Restated Master Global Custody Agreement between certain Funds and JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A., dated March 7, 2011, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 124 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (g)(2)), filed on April 29, 2011. | |
(g)(2) |
Addendum to Master Global Custody Agreement (related to Multi-Manager Alternative Strategies Fund, Multi-Manager Total Return Bond Strategies Fund, Multi-Manager Small Cap Equity Strategies Fund and Multi-Manager Growth Strategies Fund), dated March 9, 2012, Addendum to Master Global Custody Agreement (related to Columbia Adaptive Risk Allocation Fund), dated June 11, 2012, and Addendum to Master Global Custody Agreement (related to Columbia Diversified Real Return Fund), dated February 25, 2014, are incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 196 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (g)(2)), filed on May 30, 2014. | |
(g)(3) |
Addendum to Master Global Custody Agreement (related to Columbia Alternative Beta Fund and Columbia Diversified Absolute Return Fund), dated January 15, 2015, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 221 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (g)(3)), filed on February 27, 2015. | |
(g)(4) |
Addendum to Master Global Custody Agreement (related to Columbia Multi-Asset Income Fund and Columbia U.S. Social Bond Fund), dated March 18, 2015, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 223 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (g)(4)), filed on March 24, 2015. | |
(g)(5) |
Side letter (related to the China Connect Service on behalf of Columbia Emerging Markets Fund, Columbia Greater China Fund, Columbia Pacific/Asia Fund and Columbia Diversified Absolute Return Fund), dated March 6, 2018, to the Second Amended and Restated Master Global Custody Agreement with JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A., dated March 7, 2011, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 318 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (g)(5)), filed on March 29, 2018. | |
(g)(6) |
Addendum to Master Global Custody Agreement (related to Multi-Manager Directional Alternative Strategies Fund), is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 276 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (g)(6)), filed on September 30, 2016. | |
(g)(7) |
Addendum to Master Global Custody Agreement (related to Columbia Adaptive Retirement 2020 Fund, Columbia Adaptive Retirement 2030 Fund, Columbia Adaptive Retirement 2040 Fund, Columbia Adaptive Retirement 2050 Fund, Columbia Adaptive Retirement 2060 Fund, Columbia Solutions Aggressive Portfolio and Columbia Solutions Conservative Portfolio) is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 308 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (g)(7)), filed on October 20, 2017. | |
(g)(8) |
Addendum to Master Global Custody Agreement (related to Columbia Adaptive Retirement 2025 Fund, Columbia Adaptive Retirement 2035 Fund, Columbia Adaptive Retirement 2045 Fund and Columbia Adaptive Retirement 2055 Fund) is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 318 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (g)(8)), filed on March 29, 2018. | |
(g)(9) |
Addendum to Master Global Custody Agreement (related to Multi-Manager International Equity Strategies Fund) is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 324 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (g)(9)), filed on May 4, 2018. |
(g)(10) |
Addendum, effective April 4, 2016, to the Second Amended and Restated Master Global Custody Agreement with JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A., dated March 7, 2011, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 297 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (g)(7)), filed on May 30, 2017. | |
(h)(1) |
Amended and Restated Transfer and Dividend Disbursing Agent Agreement by and between the Registrant and Columbia Management Investment Services Corp., dated March 1, 2016, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 295 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (h)(1)), filed on April 26, 2017. | |
(h)(1)(i) |
Schedule A and Schedule B, effective July 1, 2018, to the Amended and Restated Transfer and Dividend Disbursing Agent Agreement by and between the Registrant and Columbia Management Investment Services Corp., dated March 1, 2016, are incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 330 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (h)(1)(i)), filed on July 26, 2018. | |
(h)(2) |
Form of Indemnification Agreement is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 46 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (h)(6)), filed on March 24, 2006. | |
(h)(3) |
Amended and Restated Fee Waiver and Expense Cap Agreement, effective July 1, 2016, by and among Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC, Columbia Management Investment Distributors, Inc., Columbia Management Investment Services Corp., the Registrant and Columbia Funds Variable Insurance Trust is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 264 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (h)(4)), filed on June 29, 2016. | |
(h)(3)(i) |
Restated Schedule A, effective May 1, 2018, to the Amended and Restated Fee Waiver and Expense Cap Agreement, effective July 1, 2016, by and among Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC, Columbia Management Investment Distributors, Inc., Columbia Management Investment Services Corp., the Registrant and Columbia Funds Variable Insurance Trust, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 76 to Registration Statement No. 033-14954 of Columbia Funds Variable Insurance Trust on Form N-1A (Exhibit (h)(3)(i)), filed on April 27, 2018. | |
(h)(4) |
Agreement and Plan of Reorganization, dated October 9, 2012, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 175 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (h)(8)), filed on May 30, 2013. | |
(h)(5) |
Agreement and Plan of Reorganization, dated December 20, 2010, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 15 to Registration Statement No. 333-146374 of Columbia Funds Variable Series Trust II on Form N-1A (Exhibit (h)(9)), filed on April 29, 2011. | |
(h)(6) |
Agreement and Plan of Reorganization, dated December 17, 2015, is incorporated by reference to Registration Statement No. 333-208706 of Columbia Funds Series Trust on Form N-14 (Exhibit (4)), filed on December 22, 2015. | |
(h)(7) |
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, as of December 5, 2017, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 328 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (h)(7)), filed on May 29, 2018. | |
(h)(8) |
Master Inter-Fund Lending Agreement, dated May 1, 2018, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 179 to Registration Statement No. 333-131683 of Columbia Funds Series Trust II on Form N-1A (Exhibit (h)(11)), filed on May 25, 2018. | |
(i)(1) |
Opinion of Counsel of Ropes & Gray LLP is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 40 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (i)), filed on September 16, 2005. |
(i)(2) |
Opinion of Counsel of Ropes & Gray LLP is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 68 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (i)(2)), filed on January 16, 2008. | |
(i)(3) |
Opinion of Counsel of Ropes & Gray LLP is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 81 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (i)(3)), filed on November 25, 2008. | |
(i)(4) |
Opinion of Counsel of Ropes & Gray LLP is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 95 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (i)(4)), filed on November 20, 2009. | |
(i)(5) |
Opinion of Counsel of Ropes & Gray LLP is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 143 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (i)(5)), filed on March 14, 2012. | |
(i)(6) |
Opinion of Counsel of Ropes & Gray LLP, with respect to Columbia Adaptive Risk Allocation Fund, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 153 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (I)(6)), filed on June 15, 2012. | |
(i)(7) |
Opinion of Counsel of Ropes & Gray LLP, with respect to Columbia Diversified Real Return Fund, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 190 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (i)(7)), filed on March 10, 2014. | |
(i)(8) |
Opinion of Counsel of Ropes & Gray LLP, with respect to Columbia Alternative Beta Fund and Columbia Diversified Absolute Return Fund, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 219 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (j)(8)), filed on January 27, 2015. | |
(i)(9) |
Opinion of Counsel of Ropes & Gray LLP, with respect to Columbia Multi-Asset Income Fund and Columbia U.S. Social Bond Fund, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 223 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (i)(9)), filed on March 24, 2015. | |
(i)(10) |
Opinion of Counsel of Ropes & Gray LLP, with respect to Multi-Manager Directional Alternative Strategies Fund, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 276 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (i)(10)), filed on September 30, 2016. | |
(i)(11) |
Opinion of Counsel of Ropes & Gray LLP, with respect to Columbia Adaptive Retirement 2020 Fund, Columbia Adaptive Retirement 2030 Fund, Columbia Adaptive Retirement 2040 Fund, Columbia Adaptive Retirement 2050 Fund, Columbia Adaptive Retirement 2060 Fund, Columbia Solutions Aggressive Portfolio and Columbia Solutions Conservative Portfolio, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 308 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (i)(11)), filed on October 20, 2017. | |
(i)(12) |
Opinion of Counsel of Ropes & Gray LLP, with respect to Columbia Adaptive Retirement 2025 Fund, Columbia Adaptive Retirement 2035 Fund, Columbia Adaptive Retirement 2045 Fund and Columbia Adaptive Retirement 2055 Fund, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 313 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (i)(12)), filed on January 16, 2018. | |
(i)(13) |
Opinion of Counsel of Ropes & Gray LLP, with respect to Multi-Manager International Equity Strategies Fund, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 324 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (i)(13)), filed on May 4, 2018. |
(j)(1) |
Consent of Morningstar, Inc., is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 21 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (11)(b)), filed on August 30, 1996. | |
(j)(2) |
Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP is filed herewith as Exhibit (j)(2) to Post-Effective Amendment No. 332 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A. | |
(k) |
Omitted Financial Statements: Not Applicable. | |
(l) |
Initial Capital Agreement: Not Applicable. | |
(m)(1) |
Amended and Restated Distribution Plan, as of March 7, 2018, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 328 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (m)(1)), filed on May 29, 2018. | |
(m)(2) |
Amended and Restated Shareholder Servicing Plan, as of March 7, 2018, for certain Fund share classes of the Registrant, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 328 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (m)(2)), filed on May 29, 2018. | |
(m)(3) |
Amended and Restated Shareholder Services Plan, as of June 14, 2017, for Registrants Class V (formerly known as Class T) shares is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 299 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (m)(3)), filed on July 28, 2017. | |
(m)(4) |
Shareholder Servicing Plan Implementation Agreement, amended and restated as of June 14, 2017, for Registrants Class V (formerly known as Class T) shares between the Registrant and Columbia Management Investment Distributors, Inc., is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 299 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (m)(4)), filed on July 28, 2017. | |
(m)(4)(i) |
Restated Schedule I, effective June 14, 2017, to Shareholder Servicing Plan Implementation Agreement for Registrants Class V (formerly known as Class T) shares between the Registrant and Columbia Management Investment Distributors, Inc., is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 299 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (m)(4)(i)), filed on July 28, 2017. | |
(m)(5) |
Shareholder Servicing Plan Implementation Agreement for certain Fund share classes of the Registrant between the Registrant, Columbia Funds Series Trust and Columbia Management Investment Distributors, Inc., is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 113 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (m)(4)), filed on November 24, 2010. | |
(m)(5)(i) |
Restated Schedule I, dated March 7, 2018, to Shareholder Servicing Plan Implementation Agreement, between the Registrant, Columbia Funds Series Trust and Columbia Management Investment Distributors, Inc., is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 328 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (m)(5)(i)), filed on May 29, 2018. | |
(n) |
Rule 18f 3 Multi-Class Plan, amended and restated as of March 9, 2018, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 328 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (n)), filed on May 29, 2018. | |
(o) |
Reserved. | |
(p)(1) |
Code of Ethics of Columbia Atlantic Board Funds, effective February 2016, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 256 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (p)(1)), filed on April 11, 2016. |
(p)(2) |
Ameriprise Global Asset Management Personal Trading Account Dealing and Code of Ethics Policy, effective December 27, 2017, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 315 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (p)(2)), filed on February 1, 2018. | |
(p)(3) |
Code of Ethics of AQR Capital Management, LLC (a subadviser of Multi-Manager Alternative Strategies Fund and Multi-Manager Directional Alternative Strategies Fund), effective February 2016, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 276 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (p)(3)), filed on September 30, 2016. | |
(p)(4) |
Code of Ethics of Dalton, Greiner, Hartman, Maher & Co., LLC (a subadviser of Multi-Manager Small Cap Equity Strategies Fund), dated February 15, 2018, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 323 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (p)(4)), filed on April 26, 2018. | |
(p)(5) |
Code of Ethics of EAM Investors, LLC (a subadviser of Multi-Manager Small Cap Equity Strategies Fund), effective August 1, 2017, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 323 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (p)(5)), filed on April 26, 2018. | |
(p)(6) |
Code of Ethics of Prudential Financial (for PGIM, Inc., a subadviser of Multi-Manager Total Return Bond Strategies Fund), is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 324 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (p)(6)), filed on May 4, 2018. | |
(p)(7) |
Code of Ethics of TCW Investment Management Company LLC (a subadviser of Multi-Manager Alternative Strategies Fund and Multi-Manager Total Return Bond Strategies Fund), dated December 19, 2017, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 323 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (p)(7)), filed on April 26, 2018. | |
(p)(8) |
Code of Ethics of Water Island Capital, LLC (a subadviser of Multi-Manager Alternative Strategies Fund), dated January 1, 2017, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 323 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (p)(8)), filed on April 26, 2018. | |
(p)(9) |
Code of Ethics of Real Estate Management Services Group, LLC (provides advisory services as delegated by Dalton, Greiner, Hartman, Maher & Co., LLC, a subadviser of Multi-Manager Small Cap Equity Strategies Fund), dated July 1, 2017, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 323 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (p)(9)), filed on April 26, 2018. | |
(p)(10) |
Code of Ethics of Conestoga Capital Advisors, LLC (a subadviser of Multi-Manager Small Cap Equity Strategies Fund), dated July 19, 2016, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 295 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (p)(10)), filed on April 26, 2017. | |
(p)(11) |
Code of Ethics of Loomis, Sayles and Company, L.P. (a subadviser of Multi-Manager Growth Strategies Fund and Multi-Manager Total Return Bond Strategies Fund), effective January 14, 2000, as amended April 18, 2018, is filed herewith as Exhibit (p)(11) to Post-Effective Amendment No. 332 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A. | |
(p)(12) |
Code of Ethics of BMO Asset Management Corp. (a subadviser of Multi-Manager Small Cap Equity Strategies Fund), dated December 2016, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 295 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (p)(12)), filed on April 26, 2017. |
(p)(13) |
Code of Ethics of Boston Partners Global Investors Inc. (a subadviser of Multi-Manager Directional Alternative Strategies Fund), effective May 2018, is filed herewith as Exhibit (p)(13) to Post-Effective Amendment No. 332 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A. | |
(p)(14) |
Code of Ethics of Wells Capital Management, Inc. (for Analytic Investors, LLC, a subadviser of Multi-Manager Directional Alternative Strategies Fund), effective July 2018, is filed herewith as Exhibit (p)(14) to Post-Effective Amendment No. 332 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A. | |
(p)(15) |
Code of Ethics of Los Angeles Capital Management and Equity Research, Inc. (a subadviser of Multi-Manager Growth Strategies Fund), effective December 31, 2017, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 323 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (p)(15)), filed on April 26, 2018. | |
(p)(16) |
Code of Ethics of Manulife Asset Management (US) LLC (a subadviser of Multi-Manager Alternative Strategies Fund), effective September 1, 2017, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 323 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (p)(16)), filed on April 26, 2018. | |
(p)(17) |
Code of Ethics of Arrowstreet Capital, Limited Partnership (a subadviser of Multi-Manager International Equity Strategies Fund), effective April 1, 2017, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 324 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (p)(17)), filed on May 4, 2018. | |
(p)(18) |
Code of Ethics of Baillie Gifford Overseas Limited (a subadviser of Multi-Manager International Equity Strategies Fund), is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 324 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (p)(18)), filed on May 4, 2018. | |
(p)(19) |
Code of Ethics of Causeway Capital Management LLC (a subadviser of Multi-Manager International Equity Strategies Fund), is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 324 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (p)(19)), filed on May 4, 2018. | |
(p)(20) |
Code of Ethics of AlphaSimplex Group, LLC (a subadviser of Multi-Manager Alternative Strategies Fund), is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 327 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (p)(20)), filed on May 23, 2018. | |
(q)(1) |
Trustees Power of Attorney, dated January 1, 2018, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 315 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (q)(1)), filed on February 1, 2018. | |
(q)(2) |
Power of Attorney for Christopher O. Petersen, dated February 16, 2015, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 221 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (q)(7)), filed on February 27, 2015. | |
(q)(3) |
Power of Attorney for Michael G. Clarke, dated May 23, 2016, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 261 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (q)(3)), filed on May 27, 2016. | |
(q)(4) |
Power of Attorney for Amy K. Johnson, dated May 11, 2016, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 261 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (q)(4)), filed on May 27, 2016. |
(q)(5) |
Power of Attorney for Anthony P. Haugen, dated May 11, 2016, is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 261 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (q)(5)), filed on May 27, 2016. |
Item 29. Persons Controlled by or under Common Control with the Registrant
Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC (the investment manager or Columbia Management), as sponsor of the Columbia funds, may make initial capital investments in Columbia funds (seed accounts). Columbia Management also serves as investment manager of certain Columbia funds-of-funds that invest primarily in shares of affiliated funds (the underlying funds). Columbia Management does not make initial capital investments or invest in underlying funds for the purpose of exercising control. However, since these ownership interests may be significant, in excess of 25%, such that Columbia Management may be deemed to control certain Columbia funds, procedures have been put in place to assure that public shareholders determine the outcome of all actions taken at shareholder meetings. Specifically, Columbia Management (which votes proxies for the seed accounts) and the Boards of Trustees of the affiliated funds-of-funds (which votes proxies for the affiliated funds-of-funds) vote on each proposal in the same proportion as the vote of the direct public shareholders vote; provided, however, that if there are no direct public shareholders of an underlying fund or if direct public shareholders represent only a minority interest in an underlying fund, the Fund may cast votes in accordance with instructions from the independent members of the Board.
Item 30. Indemnification
Article Five of the Bylaws of Registrant provides that Registrant shall indemnify each of its trustees and officers (including persons who serve at Registrants request as directors, officers or trustees of another organization in which Registrant has any interest as a shareholder, creditor or otherwise) who are not employees or officers of any investment adviser to Registrant or any affiliated person thereof and its chief compliance officer, regardless of whether such person is an employee or officer of any investment adviser to Registrant or any affiliated person thereof, and may indemnify each of its trustees and officers (including persons who serve at Registrants request as directors, officers or trustees of another organization in which Registrant has any interest as a shareholder, creditor or otherwise) (i.e., those who are employees or officers of any investment adviser to Registrant or any affiliated person thereof) (Covered Persons) under specified circumstances, all as more fully set forth in the Registrants Bylaws, which have been filed as an exhibit to this registration statement.
Section 17(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (1940 Act) provides that no instrument pursuant to which Registrant is organized or administered shall contain any provision which protects or purports to protect any trustee or officer of Registrant against any liability to Registrant or its shareholders to which he or she would otherwise be subject by reason of willful misfeasance, bad faith, gross negligence, or reckless disregard of the duties involved in the conduct of his or her office. In accordance with Section 17(h) of the 1940 Act, no Covered Person is indemnified under the Bylaws against any liability to Registrant or its shareholders by reason of willful misfeasance, bad faith, gross negligence, or reckless disregard of the duties involved in the conduct of the Covered Persons office.
Pursuant to the Distribution Agreement, Columbia Management Investment Distributors, Inc. agrees to indemnify the Registrant, its officers and trustees against claims, demands, liabilities and expenses under specified circumstances, all as more fully set forth in the Registrants Distribution Agreement, which has been filed as an exhibit to the registration statement. The Registrant may be party to other contracts that include indemnification provisions for the benefit of the Registrants trustees and officers.
The trustees and officers of the Registrant and the personnel of the Registrants investment adviser and principal underwriter are insured under an errors and omissions liability insurance policy. Registrants investment adviser, Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC, maintains investment advisory professional liability insurance to insure it, for the benefit of Registrant and its non-interested trustees, against loss arising out of any effort, omission, or breach of any duty owed to Registrant or any series of Registrant by Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC.
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to trustees, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant by the Registrant pursuant to the Registrants organizational instruments or otherwise, the Registrant is aware that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 and, therefore, is unenforceable.
Item 31. Business and Other Connections of the Investment Adviser
To the knowledge of the Registrant, none of the directors or officers of Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC (the Investment Manager), the Registrants investment adviser, or the subadviser to a series of the Registrant, except as set forth below, are or have been, at any time during the Registrants past two fiscal years, engaged in any other business, profession, vocation or employment of a substantial nature.
(a) |
The Investment Manager, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ameriprise Financial, Inc. performs investment advisory services for the Registrant and certain other clients. Information regarding the business of the Investment Manager and certain of its officers is set forth in the Prospectuses and Statements of Additional Information of the Registrants portfolios and is incorporated herein by reference. Information about the business of the Investment Manager and the directors and principal executive officers of the Investment Manager is also included in the Form ADV filed by the Investment Manager (formerly, RiverSource Investments, LLC) with the SEC pursuant to the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (File No. 801-25943), which is incorporated herein by reference. In addition to their position with the Investment Manager, certain directors and officers of the Investment Manager also hold various positions with, and engage in business for, Ameriprise Financial, Inc. or its other subsidiaries. |
(b) |
AlphaSimplex Group, LLC performs investment management services for the Registrant and certain other clients. Information regarding the business of AlphaSimplex Group, LLC and certain of its officers is set forth in the Prospectuses and Statement of Additional Information of the Registrants portfolio(s) subadvised by AlphaSimplex Group, LLC and is incorporated herein by reference. Information about the business of AlphaSimplex Group, LLC and the directors and principal executive officers of AlphaSimplex Group, LLC is also included in the Form ADV filed by AlphaSimplex Group, LLC with the SEC pursuant to the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (File No. 801-62448), which is incorporated herein by reference. |
(c) |
Analytic Investors, LLC performs investment management services for the Registrant and certain other clients. Information regarding the business of Analytic Investors, LLC and certain of its officers is set forth in the Prospectuses and Statement of Additional Information of the Registrants portfolio(s) subadvised by Analytic Investors, LLC and is incorporated herein by reference. Information about the business of Analytic Investors, LLC and the directors and principal executive officers of Analytic Investors, LLC is also included in the Form ADV filed by Analytic Investors, LLC with the SEC pursuant to the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (File No. 801-7082), which is incorporated herein by reference. |
(d) |
AQR Capital Management, LLC performs investment management services for the Registrant and certain other clients. Information regarding the business of AQR Capital Management, LLC and certain of its officers is set forth in the Prospectuses and Statement of Additional Information of the Registrants portfolio(s) subadvised by AQR Capital Management, LLC and is incorporated herein by reference. Information about the business of AQR Capital Management, LLC and the directors and principal executive officers of AQR Capital Management, LLC is also included in the Form ADV filed by AQR Capital Management, LLC with the SEC pursuant to the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (File No. 801-55543), which is incorporated herein by reference. |
(e) |
Arrowstreet Capital, Limited Partnership performs investment management services for the Registrant and certain other clients. Information regarding the business of Arrowstreet Capital, Limited Partnership and certain of its officers is set forth in the Prospectuses and Statement of Additional Information of the Registrants portfolio(s) subadvised by Arrowstreet Capital, Limited Partnership and is incorporated herein by reference. Information about the business of Arrowstreet Capital, Limited Partnership and the directors and principal executive officers of Arrowstreet Capital, Limited Partnership is also included in the Form ADV filed by Arrowstreet Capital, Limited Partnership with the SEC pursuant to the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (File No. 801-56633), which is incorporated herein by reference. |
(f) |
Baillie Gifford Overseas Limited performs investment management services for the Registrant and certain other clients. Information regarding the business of Baillie Gifford Overseas Limited and certain of its officers is set forth in the Prospectuses and Statement of Additional Information of the Registrants portfolio(s) subadvised by Baillie Gifford Overseas Limited and is incorporated herein by reference. Information about the business of Baillie Gifford Overseas Limited and the directors and principal executive officers of Baillie Gifford Overseas Limited is also included in the Form ADV filed by Baillie Gifford Overseas Limited with the SEC pursuant to the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (File No. 801-21051), which is incorporated herein by reference. |
(g) |
Boston Partners Global Investors, Inc. performs investment management services for the Registrant and certain other clients. Information regarding the business of Boston Partners Global Investors, Inc. and certain of its officers is set forth in the Prospectuses and Statement of Additional Information of the Registrants portfolio(s) subadvised by Boston Partners Global Investors, Inc. and is incorporated herein by reference. Information about the business of Boston Partners Global Investors, Inc. and the directors and principal executive officers of Boston Partners Global Investors, Inc. is also included in the Form ADV filed by Boston Partners Global Investors, Inc. with the SEC pursuant to the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (File No. 801-61786), which is incorporated herein by reference. |
(h) |
BMO Asset Management Corp. performs investment management services for the Registrant and certain other clients. Information regarding the business of BMO Asset Management Corp. and certain of its officers is set forth in the Prospectuses and Statement of Additional Information of the Registrants portfolio(s) subadvised by BMO Asset Management Corp. and is incorporated herein by reference. Information about the business of BMO Asset Management Corp. and the directors and principal executive officers of BMO Asset Management Corp. is also included in the Form ADV filed by BMO Asset Management Corp. with the SEC pursuant to the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (File No. 801-35533), which is incorporated herein by reference. |
(i) |
Causeway Capital Management LLC performs investment management services for the Registrant and certain other clients. Information regarding the business of Causeway Capital Management LLC and certain of its officers is set forth in the Prospectuses and Statement of Additional Information of the Registrants portfolio(s) subadvised by Causeway Capital Management LLC and is incorporated herein by reference. Information about the business of Causeway Capital Management LLC and the directors and principal executive officers of Causeway Capital Management LLC is also included in the Form ADV filed by Causeway Capital Management LLC with the SEC pursuant to the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (File No. 801-60343), which is incorporated herein by reference. |
(j) |
Conestoga Capital Advisors, LLC performs investment management services for the Registrant and certain other clients. Information regarding the business of Conestoga Capital Advisors, LLC and certain of its officers is set forth in the Prospectuses and Statement of Additional Information of the Registrants portfolio(s) subadvised by Conestoga Capital Advisors, LLC and is incorporated herein by reference. Information about the business of Conestoga Capital Advisors, LLC and the directors and principal executive officers of Conestoga Capital Advisors, LLC is also included in the Form ADV filed by Conestoga Capital Advisors, LLC with the SEC pursuant to the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (File No. 801-60133), which is incorporated herein by reference. |
(k) |
Dalton, Greiner, Hartman, Maher & Co., LLC performs investment management services for the Registrant and certain other clients. Information regarding the business of Dalton, Greiner, Hartman, Maher & Co., LLC and certain of its officers is set forth in the Prospectuses and Statement of Additional Information of the Registrants portfolio(s) subadvised by Dalton, Greiner, Hartman, Maher & Co., LLC and is incorporated herein by reference. Information about the business of Dalton, Greiner, Hartman, Maher & Co., LLC and the directors and principal executive officers of Dalton, Greiner, Hartman, Maher & Co., LLC is also included in the Form ADV filed by Dalton, Greiner, Hartman, Maher & Co., LLC with the SEC pursuant to the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (File No. 801-62895), which is incorporated herein by reference. |
(l) |
EAM Investors, LLC performs investment management services for the Registrant and certain other clients. Information regarding the business of EAM Investors, LLC and certain of its officers is set forth in the Prospectuses and Statement of Additional Information of the Registrants portfolio(s) subadvised by EAM Investors, LLC and is incorporated herein by reference. Information about the business of EAM Investors, LLC and the directors and principal executive officers of EAM Investors, LLC is also included in the Form ADV filed by EAM Investors, LLC with the SEC pursuant to the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (File No. 801-70305), which is incorporated herein by reference. |
(m) |
Loomis, Sayles and Company, L.P. performs investment management services for the Registrant and certain other clients. Information regarding the business of Loomis, Sayles and Company, L.P. and certain of its officers is set forth in the Prospectuses and Statement of Additional Information of the Registrants portfolio(s) subadvised by Loomis, Sayles and Company, L.P. and is incorporated herein by reference. Information about the business of Loomis, Sayles and Company, L.P. and the directors and principal executive officers of Loomis, Sayles and Company, L.P. is also included in the Form ADV filed by Loomis, Sayles and Company, L.P. with the SEC pursuant to the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (File No. 801-170), which is incorporated herein by reference. |
(n) |
Los Angeles Capital Management and Equity Research, Inc. performs investment management services for the Registrant and certain other clients. Information regarding the business of Los Angeles Capital Management and Equity Research, Inc. and certain of its officers is set forth in the Prospectuses and Statement of Additional Information of the Registrants portfolio(s) subadvised by Los Angeles Capital Management and Equity Research, Inc. and is incorporated herein by reference. Information about the business of Los Angeles Capital Management and Equity Research, Inc. and the directors and principal executive officers of Los Angeles Capital Management and Equity Research, Inc. is also included in the Form ADV filed by Los Angeles Capital Management and Equity Research, Inc. with the SEC pursuant to the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (File No. 801-60934), which is incorporated herein by reference. |
(o) |
Manulife Asset Management (US) LLC performs investment management services for the Registrant and certain other clients. Information regarding the business of Manulife Asset Management (US) LLC and certain of its officers is set forth in the Prospectuses and Statement of Additional Information of the Registrants portfolio(s) subadvised by Manulife Asset Management (US) LLC and is incorporated herein by reference. Information about the business of Manulife Asset Management (US) LLC and the directors and principal executive officers of Manulife Asset Management (US) LLC is also included in the Form ADV filed by Manulife Asset Management (US) LLC with the SEC pursuant to the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (File No. 801-42023), which is incorporated herein by reference. |
(p) |
PGIM, Inc. performs investment management services for the Registrant and certain other clients. Information regarding the business of PGIM, Inc. and certain of its officers is set forth in the Prospectuses and Statement of Additional Information of the Registrants portfolio(s) subadvised by PGIM, Inc. and is incorporated herein by reference. Information about the business of PGIM, Inc. and the directors and principal executive officers of PGIM, Inc. is also included in the Form ADV filed by PGIM, Inc. with the SEC pursuant to the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (File No. 801-22808), which is incorporated herein by reference. |
(q) |
TCW Investment Management Company LLC performs investment management services for the Registrant and certain other clients. Information regarding the business of TCW Investment Management Company LLC and certain of its officers is set forth in the Prospectuses and Statement of Additional Information of the Registrants portfolio(s) subadvised by TCW Investment Management Company LLC and is incorporated herein by reference. Information about the business of TCW Investment Management Company LLC and the directors and principal executive officers of TCW Investment Management Company LLC is also included in the Form ADV filed by TCW Investment Management Company LLC with the SEC pursuant to the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (File No. 801-29075), which is incorporated herein by reference. |
(r) |
Threadneedle International Limited performs investment management services for the Registrant and certain other clients. Information regarding the business of Threadneedle International Limited and certain of its officers is set forth in the Prospectuses and Statement of Additional Information of the Registrants portfolio(s) subadvised by Threadneedle International Limited and is incorporated herein by reference. Information about the business of Threadneedle International Limited and the directors and principal executive officers of Threadneedle International Limited is also included in the Form ADV filed by Threadneedle International Limited with the SEC pursuant to the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (File No. 801-63196), which is incorporated herein by reference. |
(s) |
Water Island Capital, LLC performs investment management services for the Registrant and certain other clients. Information regarding the business of Water Island Capital, LLC and certain of its officers is set forth in the Prospectuses and Statement of Additional Information of the Registrants portfolio(s) subadvised by Water Island Capital, LLC and is incorporated herein by reference. Information about the business of Water Island Capital, LLC and the directors and principal executive officers of Water Island Capital, LLC is also included in the Form ADV filed by Water Island Capital, LLC with the SEC pursuant to the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (File No. 801-57341), which is incorporated herein by reference. |
Item 32. Principal Underwriter
(a) |
Columbia Management Investment Distributors, Inc. acts as principal underwriter for the following investment companies, including the Registrant: |
Columbia Acorn Trust; Columbia Funds Series Trust; Columbia Funds Series Trust I; Columbia Funds Series Trust II; Columbia Funds Variable Series Trust II; Columbia Funds Variable Insurance Trust and Wanger Advisors Trust.
(b) |
As to each director, principal officer or partner of Columbia Management Investment Distributors, Inc. |
Name and Principal Business Address* |
Position and Offices
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Positions and Offices
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William F. Truscott | Chief Executive Officer | Board Member, Senior Vice President | ||
Scott E. Couto | President | None | ||
Joseph Kringdon | Head of Intermediary Distribution | None | ||
Jeffrey J. Scherman | Chief Financial Officer | None | ||
Michael E. DeFao | Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Assistant Secretary | Vice President and Assistant Secretary | ||
Stephen O. Buff | Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer | None | ||
James Bumpus | Vice President National Sales Manager | None | ||
Thomas A. Jones | Vice President and Head of Strategic Relations | None | ||
Gary Rawdon | Vice President Sales Governance and Administration | None | ||
Leslie A. Walstrom | Vice President and U.S. Head of Marketing | None | ||
Daniel J. Beckman | Vice President and Head of U.S. Retail Product | None |
Marc Zeitoun | Vice President, Head of Strategic Beta and Head of Private Client Accounts | None | ||
Thomas R. Moore | Secretary | None | ||
Paul B. Goucher | Vice President and Assistant Secretary | Senior Vice President and Assistant Secretary | ||
Amy L. Hackbarth | Vice President and Assistant Secretary | None | ||
Nancy W. LeDonne | Vice President and Assistant Secretary | None | ||
Ryan C. Larrenaga | Vice President and Assistant Secretary |
Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary |
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Joseph L. DAlessandro | Vice President and Assistant Secretary | Assistant Secretary | ||
Christopher O. Petersen | Vice President and Assistant Secretary | President and Principal Executive Officer | ||
James E. Brefeld, Jr. | Treasurer | None | ||
Michael Tempesta | Anti-Money Laundering Officer and Identity Theft Prevention Officer | None | ||
Kevin Wasp | Ombudsman | None | ||
Kristin Weisser | Conflicts Officer | None |
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The principal business address of Columbia Management Investment Distributors, Inc. is 225 Franklin Street, Boston, MA 02110. |
(c) Not Applicable.
Item 33. Location of Accounts and Records
Persons maintaining physical possession of accounts, books and other documents required to be maintained by Section 31(a) of the 1940 Act and the Rules thereunder include:
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Registrant, 225 Franklin Street, Boston, MA 02110; |
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Registrants investment adviser and administrator, Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC, 225 Franklin Street, Boston, MA 02110; |
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Registrants subadviser, Alpha Simplex Group, LLC, 255 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02142; |
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Registrants subadviser, Analytic Investors, LLC, 555 West Fifth Street, 50th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90013; |
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Registrants subadviser, Arrowstreet Capital, Limited Partnership, 200 Clarendon Street, 30th Floor, Boston, MA 02116; |
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Registrants subadviser, AQR Capital Management, LLC, Two Greenwich Plaza, 3rd Floor, Greenwich, CT 06830; |
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Registrants subadviser, Baillie Gifford Overseas Limited, Calton Square, 1 Greenside Row, Edinburgh, EH1 3AN; |
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Registrants subadviser, Boston Partners Global Investors, Inc., 909 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10022; |
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Registrants subadviser, BMO Asset Management, Corp., 115 South LaSalle Street, 11 th Floor, Chicago, IL, 60603; |
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Registrants subadviser, Causeway Capital Management LLC, 11111 Santa Monica Blvd., 15th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90025; |
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Registrants subadviser, Conestoga Capital Advisors, LLC, 550 East Swedesford Road, Suite 120, Wayne, PA 19087; |
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Registrants subadviser, Dalton, Greiner, Hartman, Maher & Co., 565 Fifth Avenue, Suite 2101, New York, NY 10017; |
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Registrants subadviser, EAM Investors, LLC, 2533 South Coast Highway 101, Suite 240, Cardiff-by-the-Sea, CA 92007; |
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Registrants subadviser, Loomis, Sayles and Company, L.P., One Financial Center, Boston, MA 02111; |
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Registrants subadviser, Los Angeles Capital Management and Equity Research, Inc., 1150 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 200, Los Angeles, CA 90025; |
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Registrants subadviser, Manulife Asset Management (US) LLC, 197 Clarendon St # 4, Boston, MA 02116; |
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Registrants subadviser, PGIM, Inc./Prudential Financial, Inc., 655 Broad Street, Newark, NJ 07102; |
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Registrants subadviser, TCW Investment Management Company LLC, 865 South Figueroa Street, Suite 1800, Los Angeles, CA 90017; |
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Registrants subadviser, Threadneedle International Limited, Cannon Place, 78 Cannon Street, London EC4N 6AG, United Kingdom; |
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Registrants subadviser, Water Island Capital, LLC, 41 Madison Avenue, 42nd floor, New York, NY 10010; |
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Registrants provider of advisory service as delegated by DGHM, Real Estate Management Services Group, LLC, 1100 Fifth Avenue South, Suite 305, Naples, FL 34102; |
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Registrants former subadviser, Eaton Vance Management, Two International Place, Boston, MA 02110; |
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Registrants former subadviser, Federated Investment Management Company, Federated Investors Tower, 1001 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15222-3779; |
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Registrants former subadviser, Nordea Investment Management North America, Inc., 1211 Avenue of the Americas, 23 rd Floor, New York, NY; |
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Registrants former subadviser, RS Investment Management Co. LLC, One Bush Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94104; |
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Registrants former subadviser, Wasatch Advisors Inc, 505 Wakara Way, 3 rd Floor, Salt Lake City, UT 84108; |
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Registrants principal underwriter, Columbia Management Investment Distributors, Inc., 225 Franklin Street, Boston, MA, 02110; |
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Registrants transfer agent, Columbia Management Investment Services Corp., 225 Franklin Street, Boston, MA, 02110; |
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Registrants custodian, JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A., 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza 19 th Floor, New York, NY 10005; and |
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Registrants former custodian, State Street Bank and Trust Company, State Street Financial Center, One Lincoln Street, Boston, MA 02111. |
In addition, Iron Mountain Records Management is an off-site storage facility housing historical records that are no longer required to be maintained on-site. Records stored at this facility include various trading and accounting records, as well as other miscellaneous records. The address for Iron Mountain Records Management is 920 & 950 Apollo Road, Eagan, MN 55121.
Item 34. Management Services
Not Applicable.
Item 35. Undertakings
Not Applicable.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Registrant, COLUMBIA FUNDS SERIES TRUST I, certifies that it meets all of the requirements for effectiveness of this Amendment to its Registration Statement under Rule 485(b) under the Securities Act of 1933 and has duly caused this Amendment to its Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, duly authorized, in the City of Minneapolis, and the State of Minnesota on the 27th day of August, 2018.
COLUMBIA FUNDS SERIES TRUST I | ||
By: | /s/ Christopher O. Petersen | |
Christopher O. Petersen | ||
President |
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Amendment to the Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities indicated on the 27th day of August, 2018.
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Signature |
Capacity |
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/s/ Christopher O. Petersen Christopher O. Petersen |
President (Principal Executive Officer) |
/s/ John J. Neuhauser* John J. Neuhauser |
Trustee | |||
/s/ Michael G. Clarke* Michael G. Clarke |
Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer) Chief Accounting Officer (Principal Accounting Officer) |
/s/ Patrick J. Simpson* Patrick J. Simpson |
Trustee | |||
/s/ Douglas A. Hacker* Douglas A. Hacker |
Chair of the Board |
/s/ William F. Truscott* William F. Truscott |
Trustee | |||
/s/ Janet L. Carrig* Janet L. Carrig |
Trustee |
/s/ Anne-Lee Verville* Anne-Lee Verville |
Trustee | |||
/s/ Nancy T. Lukitsh* Nancy T. Lukitsh |
Trustee | |||||
/s/ David M. Moffett* David M. Moffett |
Trustee |
* | By: | /s/ Joseph DAlessandro | ||
Name: | Joseph DAlessandro** | |||
Attorney-in-fact |
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Executed by Joseph DAlessandro on behalf of Michael G. Clarke pursuant to a Power of Attorney, dated May 23, 2016 and incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 261 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (q)(3)), filed with the Commission on May 27, 2016, and on behalf of each of the Trustees pursuant to a Trustees Power of Attorney, dated January 1, 2018, and incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 315 to Registration Statement No. 2-99356 of the Registrant on Form N-1A (Exhibit (q)(1)), filed with the Commission on February 1, 2018. |
Exhibit Index
(j)(2) |
Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP | |
(p)(11) | Code of Ethics of Loomis, Sayles and Company, L.P. | |
(p)(13) | Code of Ethics of Boston Partners Global Investors Inc. | |
(p)(14) | Code of Ethics of Wells Capital Management, Inc. |
CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
We hereby consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement on Form N-1A of Columbia Funds Series Trust I of our reports dated as indicated in Appendix A, relating to the financial statements and financial highlights, which appear in the Annual Reports on Form N-CSR of the funds indicated in Appendix A for the year ended April 30, 2018. We also consent to the references to us under the headings Financial Highlights, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm and Organization and Management of Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries in such Registration Statement.
/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP |
Minneapolis, Minnesota |
August 27, 2018 |
Appendix A
Fund Name |
Date of Most
Recent Audit Report |
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Columbia Bond Fund |
6/21/2018 | |||
Columbia Small Cap Value Fund I |
6/21/2018 | |||
Columbia U.S. Treasury Index Fund |
6/21/2018 | |||
Columbia Corporate Income Fund |
6/21/2018 | |||
Multi-Manager Directional Alternative Strategies Fund |
6/21/2018 | |||
Columbia Total Return Bond Fund |
6/21/2018 | |||
Columbia Multi-Asset Income Fund |
6/21/2018 |
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LOOMIS, SAYLES & CO., L.P.
Code of Ethics
Policy on Personal Trading and Related Activities by Loomis Sayles Personnel
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EFFECTIVE:
January 14, 2000
AS AMENDED:
April 18, 2018
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Table of Contents
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LOOMIS, SAYLES & CO., L.P.
Code of Ethics
Policy on Personal Trading and Related Activities
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1. INTRODUCTION
This Code of Ethics (Code) has been adopted by Loomis, Sayles & Co., L.P. (Loomis Sayles) to govern certain conduct of Loomis Sayles Supervised Persons and personal trading in securities and related activities of those individuals who have been deemed Access Persons thereunder, and under certain circumstances, those Access Persons family members and others in a similar relationship to them.
The policies in this Code reflect Loomis Sayles desire to detect and prevent not only situations involving actual or potential conflicts of interest or unethical conduct, but also those situations involving even the appearance of these.
2. STATEMENT OF GENERAL PRINCIPLES
It is the policy of Loomis Sayles that no Access Person or Supervised Person as such terms are defined under the Code, (please note that Loomis Sayles treats all employees as Access Persons ) shall engage in any act, practice or course of conduct that would violate the Code, the fiduciary duty owed by Loomis Sayles and its personnel to Loomis Sayles clients, Rule 204A-1 under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended (the Advisers Act), the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (ERISA), or the provisions of Section 17(j) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the Investment Company Act), and Rule 17j-1 there under. It is required that all Access Persons must comply with all applicable laws, rules and regulations including, but not limited to the Federal Securities Laws . The fundamental position of Loomis Sayles is, and has been, that it must at all times place the interests of its clients first. Accordingly, your personal financial transactions (and in some cases, those of your family members and others in a similar relationship to you) and related activities must be conducted consistently with this Code and in such a manner as to avoid any actual or potential conflict of interest or abuse of your position of trust and responsibility.
Without limiting in any manner the fiduciary duty owed by Loomis Sayles to its clients, it should be noted that Loomis Sayles considers it proper that purchases and sales be made by Access Persons in the marketplace of securities owned by Loomis Sayles clients, provided that such securities transactions comply with the spirit of, and the specific restrictions and limitations set forth in the Code. In making personal investment decisions, however, you must exercise extreme care to ensure that the provisions of the Code are not violated and under no circumstances, may an Access Person use the knowledge of Covered Securities purchased or sold by any client of Loomis Sayles or Covered Securities being considered for purchase or sale by any client of Loomis Sayles to profit personally, directly or indirectly, by the market effect of such transactions.
Improper trading activity can constitute a violation of the Code. The Code can also be violated by an Access Persons failure to file required reports, by making inaccurate or misleading reports or statements concerning trading activity, or by opening an account with a non- Select Broker without proper approval as set forth in the Code.
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It is not intended that these policies will specifically address every situation involving personal trading. These policies will be interpreted and applied, and exceptions and amendments will be made, by Loomis Sayles in a manner considered fair and equitable, but in all cases with the view of placing Loomis Sayles clients interests paramount. It also bears emphasis that technical compliance with the procedures, prohibitions and limitations of this Code will not automatically insulate you from scrutiny of, and sanctions for, securities transactions which indicate an abuse of Loomis Sayles fiduciary duty to any of its clients.
You are encouraged to bring any questions you may have about the Code to Personal Trading Compliance .
Personal Trading Compliance , the Chief Compliance Officer and the Loomis Sayles Ethics Committee will review the terms and provisions of the Code at least annually, and make amendments as necessary. Any amendments to the Code will be provided to you.
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A FEW KEY TERMS |
Boldfaced terms have special meaning in this Code. The application of a particular Code requirement to you may hinge on the elements of the definition of these terms. See the Glossary at the end of this Code for definitions of these terms. In order to have a basic understanding of the Code, however, you must have an understanding of the terms Covered Security , Beneficial Ownership and Investment Control as used in the Code.
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Covered Security |
This Code generally relates to transactions in and ownership of an investment that is a Covered Security . Currently, this means any type of equity or debt security (such as common and preferred stocks, and corporate and government bonds or notes), any equivalent (such as ADRs), any derivative, instrument representing, or any rights relating to, a Covered Security , and any closely related security (such as certificates of participation, depository receipts, collateraltrust certificates, put and call options, warrants, and related convertible or exchangeable securities and securities indices). Shares of closed-end funds, municipal obligations and securities issued by agencies and instrumentalities of the U.S. government (e.g. GNMA obligations) are also considered Covered Securities under the Code.
Additionally, the shares of any investment company registered under the Investment Company Act and the shares of any collective investment vehicle (CIV), (e.g. SICAVs, OEICs, UCITs, etc.) that is advised, sub-advised, or distributed by Loomis Sayles, Natixis, or a Natixis affiliate ( Reportable Funds ) are deemed to be Covered Securities for purposes of certain provisions of the Code. Reportable Funds include open-end and closed-end funds and CIVs that are advised, sub-advised, or distributed by Loomis Sayles, Natixis, or a Natixis affiliate, but exclude money market funds. A current list of Reportable Funds is attached as Exhibit One and will be maintained on the firms intranet site under the Legal and Compliance page.
Explanatory Note: | While the definition of Reportable Funds encompasses funds or CIVs that are advised, sub-advised and/or distributed by Natixis and its affiliates, only those funds or CIVs advised or sub-advised by Loomis Sayles (Loomis Advised Fund) are subject to certain trading restrictions of the Code (specifically, the Short-Term Trading Profit and Round Trip Transaction restrictions). Please refer to Section 4.3 and 4.4 of the Code for further explanation of these trading restrictions. Additionally, Exhibit One distinguishes between those funds and CIVs that are only subject to reporting requirements under the Code (all Reportable Funds ), and those that are subject to both the reporting requirements and the aforementioned trading restrictions (Loomis Advised Funds). |
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Shares of exchange traded funds (ETFs) and closed-end funds are deemed to be Covered Securities for the purposes of certain provisions of the Code. Broad based open-ended ETFs with either a market capitalization exceeding U.S. $1 billion OR an average daily trading volume exceeding 1 million shares (over a 90 day period); options on such ETFs, options on the indices of such ETFs; and ETFs that invest 80% of their assets in securities that are not subject to the pre-clearance requirements of the Code, are exempt from certain provisions of the Code ( Exempt ETFs ). A current list of Exempt ETFs is attached as Exhibit Two and will be maintained on the firms intranet site under the Legal and Compliance page.
Explanatory Note: |
Broad based open-ended ETFs are determined by Personal Trading Compliance using Bloomberg data. |
All Access Persons are expected to comply with the spirit of the Code, as well as the specific rules contained in the Code. Therefore, while the lists of Reportable Funds and Exempt ETFs are subject to change, it is ultimately the responsibility of all Access Persons to review these lists which can be found in Exhibit(s) One and Two , prior to making an investment in a Reportable Fund or ETF.
It should be noted that private placements, hedge funds and investment pools are deemed to be Covered Securities for purposes of the Code whether or not advised, sub-advised, or distributed by Loomis Sayles or a Natixis investment adviser. Investments in such securities are discussed under sections 4.12 and 5.2.
Please see Exhibit Three for the application of the Code to a specific Covered Security or instrument, including exemptions from pre-clearance.
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Beneficial Ownership |
The Code governs any Covered Security in which an Access Person has any direct or indirect Beneficial Ownership . Beneficial Ownership for purposes of the Code means a direct or indirect pecuniary interest that is held or shared by you directly or indirectly (through any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise) in a Covered Security . The term pecuniary interest in turn generally means your opportunity directly or indirectly to receive or share in any profit derived from a transaction in a Covered Security, whether or not the Covered Security or the relevant account is in your name and regardless of the type of account (i.e. brokerage account, direct account, or retirement plan account). Although this concept is subject to a variety of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules and interpretations, you should know that you are presumed under the Code to have an indirect pecuniary interest as a result of:
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ownership of a Covered Security by your spouse or minor children; |
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ownership of a Covered Security by a live-in partner who shares your household and combines his/her financial resources in a manner similar to that of married persons; |
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ownership of a Covered Security by your other family members sharing your household (including an adult child, a stepchild, a grandchild, a parent, stepparent, grandparent, sibling, mother- or father-in-law, sister- or brother-in-law, and son- or daughter-in-law); |
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your share ownership, partnership interest or similar interest in Covered Securities held by a corporation, general or limited partnership or similar entity you control; |
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your right to receive dividends or interest from a Covered Security even if that right is separate or separable from the underlying securities; |
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your interest in a Covered Security held for the benefit of you alone or for you and others in a trust or similar arrangement (including any present or future right to income or principal); and |
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your right to acquire a Covered Security through the exercise or conversion of a derivative Covered Security . |
In addition, life events such as marriage, death of a family member (i.e., inheritance), etc. may result in your acquiring Beneficial Ownership and/or Investment Control over accounts previously belonging to others. Therefore, any Covered Security , including Reportable Funds, along with any account that holds or can hold a Covered Security , including Reportable Funds , in which you have a Beneficial Ownership and/or Investment Control, as described in Section 3.2 and Section 3.3 of the Code, resulting from marriage or other life event must be reported to Personal Trading Compliance promptly, and no later than the next applicable quarterly reporting period.
Explanatory Note: | All accounts that hold or can hold a Covered Security in which an Access Person has Beneficial Ownership are subject to the Code (such accounts include, but are not limited to, personal brokerage accounts, mutual fund accounts, accounts of your spouse, accounts of minor children living in your household, Family of Fund accounts, transfer agent accounts holding mutual funds or book entry shares, IRAs, 401Ks, trusts, DRIPs, ESOPs, etc). |
Please see Exhibit Four for specific examples of the types of interests and accounts subject to the Code.
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Investment Control |
The Code governs any Covered Security in which an Access Person has direct or indirect Investment Control . The term Investment Control encompasses any influence (i.e., power to manage, trade, or give instructions concerning the investment disposition of assets in the account or to approve or disapprove transactions in the account), whether sole or shared, direct or indirect, you exercise over the account or Covered Security .
You should know that you are presumed under the Code to have Investment Control as a result of having:
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Investment Control (sole or shared) over your personal brokerage account(s); |
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Investment Control (sole or shared) over an account(s) in the name of your spouse or minor children, unless, you have renounced an interest in your spouses assets (subject to the approval of the Chief Compliance Officer ); |
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Investment Control (sole or shared) over an account(s) in the name of any family member, friend or acquaintance; |
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Involvement in an Investment Club; |
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Trustee power over an account(s); and |
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The existence and/or exercise of a power of attorney over an account. |
Please see Exhibit Four for specific examples of the types of interests and accounts subject to the Code.
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Maintaining Personal Accounts |
All Access Persons who have personal accounts that hold or can hold Covered Securities in which they have direct or indirect Investment Control and Beneficial Ownership are required to maintain such accounts at one of the following firms: Ameriprise, Baird, Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, Charles Schwab, Citi Personal Wealth Management, E*TRADE, Fidelity Investments, Interactive Brokers, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, TD Ameritrade, UBS, Vanguard, or Wells Fargo (collectively, the Select Brokers ). Additionally, an Access Person may only purchase and hold shares of Reportable Funds through either: a Select Broker ; directly from the Reportable Fund through its transfer agent, or through one or more of Loomis Sayles retirement plans, unless an exception to the Select Broker requirement, as described below, is granted.
All Access Persons must receive pre-clearance approval from Personal Trading Compliance prior to the opening of any new personal accounts that can hold Covered Securities in which the Access Person has direct or indirect Investment Control or Beneficial Ownership. This includes Select Broker accounts. In addition, the opening of all reportable accounts must also be reported to Personal Trading Compliance as set forth in Section 6.2 and Section 6.3 of the Code.
Finally, Access Persons must inform the Select Broker or other financial institution of his/her association with Loomis Sayles during the account opening process.
Accounts in which the Access Person only has either Investment Control or Beneficial Ownership ; certain retirement accounts with an Access Persons prior employer; accounts managed by an outside adviser in which the Access Person exercises no investment discretion; accounts in which the Access Person s spouse is employed by another investment firm and must abide by that firms Code of Ethics; and/or the retirement accounts of an Access Persons spouse may be maintained with a firm other than the Select Brokers upon the prior written approval of Personal Trading Compliance or the Chief Compliance Officer. Access Persons are responsible for ensuring that Personal Trading Compliance receives duplicate confirms as and when transactions are executed in such accounts, and statements on a monthly basis, if available, or at least quarterly for non-Select Brokers. In addition, Personal Trading Complianc e or the Chief Compliance Officer may grant exemptions to the Select Broker requirement for accounts not used for general trading purposes such as ESOPs, DRIPs, securities held physically or in book entry form, family of fund accounts or situations in which the Access Person has a reasonable hardship for maintaining their accounts with a Select Broker .
In addition, Access Persons with a residence outside the U.S., while not required to maintain their personal accounts with a Select Broker, must seek approval from Personal Trading Compliance prior to establishing any personal account that holds or can hold Covered Securities in which they have direct or indirect Investment Control or Beneficial Ownership . Such Access Persons are also responsible for ensuring that Personal Trading Compliance receives duplicate
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confirms as and when transactions are executed in the account, and statements on a monthly basis, if available, or at least quarterly. All of the remaining requirements and restrictions of the Code apply to Access Persons with a residence outside the U.S.
Explanatory Note: | While certain accounts may be granted an exemption from certain provisions of the Code, inclusive of the Select Broker requirement, they are still subject to the reporting requirements of the Code and may be subject to the pre-clearance requirements of the Code (e.g. joint accounts) as set forth in Section 4.1 of the Code. The terms of a specific exemption will be outlined in an exemption memorandum which is issued to the Access Person by Personal Trading Compliance. An Access Person s failure to abide by the terms and conditions of an account exemption issued by Personal Trading Compliance could result in a violation of the Code. |
4. SUBSTANTIVE RESTRICTIONS ON PERSONAL TRADING
The following are substantive prohibitions and restrictions on Access Persons personal trading and related activities. In general, the prohibitions set forth below relating to trading activities apply to accounts holding Covered Securities in which an Access Person has Beneficial Ownership and Investment Control .
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Pre-clearance |
Each Access Person must pre-clear through the PTA Pre-clearance System (PTA) all Volitional transactions in Covered Securities (i.e. transactions in which the Access Person has determined the timing as to when the purchase or sale transaction will occur and amount of shares to be purchased or sold) in which he or she has Investment Control and in which he or she has or would acquire Beneficial Ownership . Exceptions to the pre-clearance requirement include, but are not limited to: Open-ended mutual funds and CIVs meeting the criteria described below, Exempt ETFs listed in Exhibit Two , and US Government Agency bonds (i.e. GNMA, FNMA, FHLMC), as set forth in Exhibit(s) Three and Five .
Explanatory Note: | A CIV is exempt from pre-clearance under the following conditions: issues shares that shareholders have the right to redeem on demand; calculates an NAV on a daily basis in a manner consistent with the principles of Section 2(a)(41) of the 1940 Act and Rule 2a-4 thereunder; issues and redeems shares at the NAV next determined after receipt of the relevant purchase or redemption order consistent with the forward pricing principles of Rule 22c-1 under the 1940 Act; and there is no secondary market for the shares of the CIV. |
Explanatory Note: | Futures, options and swap transactions in Covered Securities must be manually pre-cleared by Personal Trading Compliance since PTA cannot handle such transactions. Initial public offerings, private placement transactions, including hedge funds whether or not they are advised, sub-advised, or distributed by Loomis Sayles or a Natixis investment adviser, participation in investment clubs and private pooled vehicles require special pre-clearance as detailed under Sections 4.11, 4.12 and 5.2 of the Code. |
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Explanatory Note: | Broad based open-ended ETFs with either a market capitalization exceeding $1billion OR an average daily trading volume exceeding 1 million shares (over a 90 day period); options on such ETFs, options on the indices of such ETFs; and ETFs that invest 80% of their assets in securities that are not subject to the pre-clearance requirements of the Code, are exempt from the pre-clearance and trading restrictions set forth in Sections 4.1, 4.3, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.9, and 4.10 of the Code. A list of the Exempt ETFs is provided in Exhibit Two of the Code. All closed end-funds, closed-end ETFs,sector based/narrowly defined ETFs and broad based open-ended ETFs with a market capitalization below U.S. $1 billion AND an average daily trading volume below 1 million shares (over a 90 day period) are subject to the pre-clearance and trading restrictions detailed under Section 4 of the Code. | |
All closed-end funds and ETFs, including those Exempt ETFs and their associated options as described above, are subject to the reporting requirements detailed in Section 6 of the Code. |
Any transaction approved pursuant to the pre-clearance request procedures must be executed by the end of the trading day on which it is approved unless Personal Trading Compliance extends the pre-clearance for an additional trading day. If the Access Persons trade has not been executed by the end of the same trading day (or the next trading day in the case of an extension), the pre-clearance will lapse and the Access Person may not trade without again seeking and obtaining pre-clearance of the intended trade.
For Access Persons with a U.S. residence, pre-clearance requests can only be submitted through PTA and/or to Personal Trading Compliance Monday Friday from 9:30am-4:00pm Eastern Standard Time. Access Persons with a residence outside the U.S. will be given separate pre-clearance guidelines instructing them on the availability of PTA and Personal Trading Compliance support hours.
If after pre-clearance is given and before it has lapsed, an Access Person becomes aware that a Covered Security as to which he or she obtained pre-clearance has become the subject of a buy or sell order or is being considered for purchase or sale for a client account, the Access Person who obtained the pre-clearance must consider the pre-clearance revoked and must notify Personal Trading Compliance immediately . If the transaction has already been executed before the Access Person becomes aware of such facts, no violation will be considered to have occurred as a result of the Access Persons transaction.
If an Access Person has actual knowledge that a requested transaction is nevertheless in violation of this Code or any provision thereof, approval of the request will not protect the Access Person s transaction from being considered in violation of the Code. The Chief Compliance Officer or Personal Trading Compliance may deny or revoke pre-clearance for any reason that is deemed to be consistent with the spirit of the Code.
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Good Until Canceled and Limit Orders |
No Access Person shall place a good until canceled, limit or equivalent order with his/her broker except that an Access Person may utilize a day order with a limit so long as the transaction is consistent with provisions of this Code, including the pre-clearance procedures. All orders must expire at the end of the trading day on which they are pre-cleared unless otherwise extended by Personal Trading Compliance.
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Short Term Trading Profits |
No Access Person may profit from the Volitional purchase and sale, or conversely the Volitional sale and purchase, of the same or equivalent Covered Security ( including Loomis Advised Funds) within 60 calendar days (unless the sale involved shares of a Covered Security that were acquired more than 60 days prior). Hardship exceptions may be requested (in advance) from Personal Trading Compliance .
An Access Person may sell a Covered Security (including Loomis Advised Funds ) or cover an existing short position at a loss within 60 calendar days. Such requests must be submitted through the PTA System and to Personal Trading Compliance for approval because the PTA System does not have the capability to determine whether the Covered Security will be sold at a gain or a loss.
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Restrictions on Round Trip Transactions in Loomis Advised Funds |
In addition to the 60 day holding period requirement for purchases and sales of Loomis Advised Funds, an Access Person is prohibited from purchasing, selling and then re-purchasing shares of the same Loomis Advised Fund within a 90 day period (Round Trip Restriction). The Round Trip Restriction does not limit the number of times an Access Person can purchase a Loomis Advised Fund or sell a Loomis Advised Fund during a 90 day period. In fact, subject to the holding period requirement described above, an Access Person can purchase a Loomis Advised Fund (through one or multiple transactions) and can liquidate their position in that fund (through one or several transactions) during a 90 day period. However, an Access Person cannot then reacquire a position in the same Loomis Advised Fund previously sold within the same 90 day period.
The Round Trip Restriction will only apply to Volitional transactions in Loomis Advised Funds . Therefore, shares of Loomis Advised Funds acquired through a dividend reinvestment or dollar cost averaging program, and automatic monthly contributions to the firms 401K plan will not be considered when applying the Round Trip Restriction.
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Finally, all Volitional purchase and sale transactions of Loomis Advised Funds, in any share class and in any employee account (i.e., direct account with the Loomis Advised Fund , Select Broker account, 401K account, etc.) will be matched for purposes of applying the Round Trip Restriction.
Explanatory Note: | Only Loomis Advised Funds are subject to Section 4.4 of the Code. Please refer to Exhibit One for a current list of Loomis Advised Funds . |
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Derivatives |
No Access Person shall use derivatives, including but not limited, to options, futures, swaps or warrants on a Covered Security to evade the restrictions of the Code. In other words, no Access Person may use derivative transactions with respect to a Covered Security if the Code would prohibit the Access Person from taking the same position directly in the underlying Covered Security .
Explanatory Note: | When transacting in derivatives, Access Persons must pre-clear the derivative and the underlying security in PTA as well as receive manual approval from Personal Trading Compliance before executing their transaction. Please note that options on Exempt ETFs and the underlying index of the ETF, as well as futures on currencies, commodities, cash instruments (such as loans or deposits), stock indexes and interest rates do not require pre-clearance, but do require reporting. For more detailed information, please see Section 4.1 of the Code. | |
Explanatory Note: | Futures and Options on virtual currency (e.g., Bitcoin, Ethereum) are exempt from pre-clearance and the Codes trading restrictions, similar to futures and options on other currencies, but they are subject to the Codes reporting requirements. Futures and Options on an Initial Coin Offering require pre-clearance, reporting and are subject to the Codes trading restrictions. | |
Explanatory Note: | Entering into Financial Spread Betting or Contract for Difference transactions, the act of taking a bet on the price movement of a security or underlying index, is strictly prohibited under the Code. |
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Short Sales |
No Access Person may purchase a put option, sell a call option, sell a Covered Security short or otherwise take a short position in a Covered Security then being held long in a Loomis Sayles client account, unless, in the cases of the purchase of a put or sale of a call option, the option is on a broad based index.
Explanatory Note: | If an Access Person seeks pre-clearance to purchase a put option or sell a call option to hedge an existing long position in the same underlying securities, PTC will compare the value of the underlying long position to the option to determine whether the Access Persons net position would be long or short. If short, the option transaction will be denied. |
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Competing with Client Trades |
Except as set forth in Section 4.8, an Access Person may not, directly or indirectly, purchase or sell a Covered Security ( Reportable Funds are not subject to this rule.) when the Access Person knows, or reasonably should have known, that such Covered Securities transaction competes in the market with any actual or considered Covered Securities transaction for any client of Loomis Sayles, or otherwise acts to harm any Loomis Sayles clients Covered Securities transactions.
Generally pre-clearance will be denied if:
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a Covered Security or a closely related Covered Security is the subject of a pending buy or sell order for a Loomis Sayles client until that buy or sell order is executed or withdrawn. |
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the Covered Security is being considered for purchase or sale for a Loomis Sayles client, until that security is no longer under consideration for purchase or sale. |
The PTA System has the information necessary to deny pre-clearance if any of these situations apply. Therefore, if you receive an approval in PTA, you may assume the Covered Security is not being considered for purchase or sale for a client account unless you have actual knowledge to the contrary, in which case the pre-clearance you received is null and void. For Covered Securities requiring manual pre-clearance (i.e. futures, options and other derivative transactions in Covered Securities ), the applicability of such restrictions will be determined by Personal Trading Compliance upon the receipt of the pre-clearance request.
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Large Cap/De Minimis Exemption |
An Access Person who wishes to make a trade in a Covered Security that would otherwise be denied pre-clearance solely because the Covered Security is under consideration or pending execution for a client, as provided in Section 4.7, will nevertheless receive approval when submitted for pre-clearance provided that:
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the issuer of the Covered Security in which the Access Person wishes to transact has a market capitalization exceeding U.S. $5 billion (a Large Cap Security); AND |
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the aggregate amount of the Access Persons transactions in that Large Cap Security on that day across all personal accounts does not exceed $10,000 USD. |
Such transactions will be subject to all other provisions of the Code.
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Investment Person Seven-Day Blackout Rule |
No Investment Person shall, directly or indirectly, purchase or sell any Covered Security ( Reportable Funds are not subject to this rule) within a period of seven (7) calendar days (trade date being day zero) before and after the date that a Loomis Sayles client, with respect to which he or she has the ability to influence investment decisions or has prior investment knowledge regarding associated client activity, has purchased or sold such Covered Security or a closely related
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Covered Security . It is ultimately the Investment Persons responsibility to understand the rules and restrictions of the Code and to know what Covered Securities are being traded in his/her client(s) account(s) or any account(s) with which he/she is associated.
Explanatory Note: | The seven days before element of this restriction is based on the premise that an Investment Person who has the ability to influence investment decisions or has prior investment knowledge regarding associated client activity can normally be expected to know, upon execution of his or her personal trade, whether any client as to which he or she is associated, has traded, or will be trading in the same or closely related Covered Security within seven days of his or her personal trade. Furthermore, an Investment Person who has the ability to influence investment decisions has a fiduciary obligation to recommend and/or affect suitable and attractive trades for clients regardless of whether such trades may cause a prior personal trade to be considered an apparent violation of this restriction. It would constitute a breach of fiduciary duty and a violation of this Code to delay or fail to make any such recommendation or transaction in a client account in order to avoid a conflict with this restriction. | |
It is understood that there may be particular circumstances (i.e. news on an issuer, a client initiated liquidation, subscription or rebalancing) that may occur after an Investment Persons personal trade which gives rise to an opportunity or necessity for an associated client to trade in that Covered Security which did not exist or was not anticipated by that person at the time of that persons personal trade. Personal Trading Compliance will review all extenuating circumstances which may warrant the waiving of any remedial actions in a particular situation involving an inadvertent violation of this restriction. In such cases, an exception to the Investment Person Seven-Day Blackout Rule will be granted upon approval by the Chief Compliance Officer. | ||
The Chief Compliance Officer , or designee thereof, may grant a waiver of the Investment Person Seven-Day Blackout Rule if the Investment Persons proposed transaction is conflicting with client cash flow trading in the same security (i.e., purchases of a broad number of portfolio securities in order to invest a capital addition to the account or sales of a broad number of securities in order to generate proceeds to satisfy a capital withdrawal from the account). Such cash flow transactions are deemed to be non-volitional at the security level since they do not change the weighting of the security being purchased or sold in the clients portfolio. | ||
Explanatory Note: | The trade date of an Investment Persons purchase or sale is deemed to be day zero. Any associated client trade activity executed, in either that Covered Security or a closely related Covered Security , 7 full calendar days before or after an Access Persons trade will be considered a violation of the Investment Person Seven-Day Blackout Rule. For example, if a client account purchased shares of company ABC on May 4th, any Access Person who is associated with that client account cannot trade ABC in a personal account until May 12th without causing a potential conflict with the Investment Person Seven-Day Blackout Rule. |
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Explanatory Note: | While the Investment Person Seven-Day Blackout Rule is designed to address conflicts between Investment Persons and their clients, it is the fiduciary obligation of all Access Persons to not affect trades in their personal account if they have prior knowledge of client trading or pending trading activity in the same or equivalent securities. The personal trade activity of all Access Persons is monitored by Personal Trading Compliance for potential conflicts with client trading activity. |
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Research Recommendations |
The Loomis Sayles Fixed Income Research Analysts issue Buy, Sell, and Hold recommendations on the fixed income securities that they cover. The Loomis Sayles Equity Research Analysts issue price targets and other types of recommendations on the companies they cover, and certain Equity products have their own research analysts that provide recommendations to their respective investment teams. Collectively the fixed income and equity recommendations and equity price targets are hereinafter referred to as Recommendations.
Recommendations are intended to be used for the benefit of the firms clients. It is also understood Access Persons may use Recommendations as a factor in the investment decisions they make in their personal and other brokerage accounts that are covered by the Code. The fact that Recommendations may be used by the firms investment teams for client purposes and Access Persons may use them for personal reasons creates a potential for conflicts of interests. Therefore, the following rules apply to Recommendations :
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During the three (3) business day period before a Research Analyst issues a recommendation on a Covered Security, that the Research Analyst has reason to believe that his/her Recommendation is likely to result in client trading in the Covered Security , the Research Analyst may not purchase or sell said Covered Security for any of his/her personal brokerage accounts or other accounts covered by the Code. |
Explanatory Note: | It is understood that there may be particular circumstances such as a news release, change of circumstance or similar event that may occur after a Research Analysts personal trade which gives rise to a need, or makes it appropriate, for the Research Analyst to issue a Recommendation on said Covered Security . A Research Analys t has an affirmative duty to make unbiased Recommendations and issue reports, both with respect to their timing and substance, without regard to his or her personal interest in the Covered Security . It would constitute a breach of a Research Analysts fiduciary duty and a violation of this Code to delay or fail to issue a Recommendation in order to avoid a conflict with this restriction. | |
Personal Trading Compliance will review any extenuating circumstances which may warrant the waiving of any remedial sanctions in a particular situation involving an inadvertent violation of this restriction. |
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Access Persons are prohibited from using a Recommendation for purposes of transacting in the Covered Security covered by the Recommendation in their personal accounts and other accounts covered by the Code until such time Loomis Sayles clients have completed their transactions in said securities in order to give priority to Loomis Sayles clients best interests. |
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Explanatory Note: | Personal Trading Compliance utilizes various automated reports to monitor Access Persons trading in Covered Securities relative to Recommendations and associated client transactions. It also has various tools to determine whether a Recommendation has been reviewed by an Access Person . An Access Persons trading in a Covered Security following a Recommendation and subsequent client trading in the same security and in the same direction will be deemed a violation of the Code unless Personal Trading Compliance determines otherwise. |
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Initial Public Offerings |
Investing in Initial Public Offerings of Covered Securities is prohibited unless such opportunities are connected with your prior employment compensation (i.e. options, grants, etc.) or your spouses employment compensation. No Access Person may, directly or indirectly, purchase any securities sold in an Initial Public Offering without obtaining prior written approval from the Chief Compliance Officer .
4.12. |
Private Placement Transactions |
No Access Person may, directly or indirectly, purchase any Covered Security offered and sold pursuant to a Private Placement Transaction , including hedge funds, without obtaining the advance written approval of Personal Trading Compliance, the Chief Compliance Officer and the applicable Access Persons supervisor or other appropriate member of senior management. In addition to addressing potential conflicts of interest between the Access Persons Private Placement Transaction and the firms clients best interests, the pre-clearance of Private Placements is designed to determine whether the Access Person may come into possession of material non-public information (MNPI) on a publically traded company as a result of the Private Placement .
A Private Placement Transaction approval must be obtained by completing an automated Private Placement Pre-clearance Form which can be found on the Legal and Compliance Intranet Homepage under Personal Trading Compliance Forms.
Explanatory Note: | If you have been authorized to acquire a Covered Security in a Private Placement Transaction, you must disclose to Personal Trading Compliance if you are involved in a clients subsequent consideration of an investment in the issuer of the Private Placement , even if that investment involves a different type or class of Covered Security . In such circumstances, the decision to purchase securities of the issuer for a client must be independently reviewed by an Investment Person with no personal interest in the issuer. |
The purchase of additional shares, (including mandatory capital calls), or the subsequent sale (partial or full) of a previously approved Private Placement , must receive pre-clearance approval from the Chief Compliance Officer . In addition, all transactions in Private Placements must be reported quarterly and annually as detailed in Section 6 of the Code.
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Explanatory Note: | To submit a pre-clearance request for subsequent trade activity in a Private Placement , Access Persons must complete the automated Private Placement Pre-clearance Form which will be reviewed by Personal Trading Compliance to ensure there are no conflicts with any underlying Code provisions including the Short-Term Trading Rule. |
4.13. |
Insider Trading |
At the start of an Access Persons engagement with Loomis Sayles, and annually thereafter, each Access Person must acknowledge his/her understanding of and compliance with the Loomis Sayles Insider Trading Policies and Procedures. The firms policy is to refrain from trading or recommending trading when in the possession of MNPI.
Some examples of MNPI may include:
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Earnings estimates or dividend changes |
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Positive or negative forthcoming news about an issuer |
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Supplier discontinuances |
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Mergers or acquisitions |
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Regulatory Actions |
If an Access Person receives or believes that he/she may have received MNPI with respect to a company, the Access Person must contact the Chief Compliance Officer or General Counsel immediately, and must not :
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purchase or sell that security in question, including any derivatives of that security; |
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recommend the purchase or sale of that security, including any derivatives of that security; or |
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relate the information to anyone other than the Chief Compliance Officer or General Counsel of Loomis Sayles. |
If it has been determined that an Access Person has obtained MNPI on a particular company, its securities will generally be placed on the firms Restricted List thereby restricting trading by the firms client accounts and Access Persons . The only exception to this policy is with the approval of the Chief Compliance Officer or General Counsel of the firm, and then only in compliance with the firms Firewall Procedures.
Separately, Access Persons must inform Personal Trading Compliance if a spouse, partner and/or immediate family member (Related Person) is an officer and/or director of a publicly traded company in order to enable Personal Trading Compliance to implement special pre-clearance procedures for said Access Persons in order to prevent insider trading in the Related Persons companys securities.
Access Persons should refer to the Loomis Sayles Insider Trading Policies and Procedures which are available on the Legal and Compliance homepage of the firms Intranet, for complete guidance on dealing with MNPI.
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4.14. |
Restricted and Concentration List |
The Loomis Sayles Restricted and Concentration List (Restricted List) is designed to restrict Loomis Sayles and/or Access Persons from trading in or recommending, the securities of companies on the Restricted List for client and/or Access Persons personal accounts. Companies may be added to the Restricted List if Loomis Sayles comes into possession of MNPI about a company. A companys securities can also be added to the Restricted List due to the size of the aggregate position Loomis Sayles clients may have in the company. Finally, there may be regulatory and/or client contractual restrictions that may prevent Loomis Sayles from purchasing securities of its affiliates, and as a result, the securities of all publicly traded affiliates of Loomis Sayles will be added to the Restricted List. No conclusion should be drawn from the addition of an issuer to the Restricted List. The Restricted List is confidential, proprietary information which must not be distributed outside of the firm.
At times, an Access Person may have possession of MNPI on a specific company as a result of his/her being behind a firewall. In such cases, Personal Trading Compliance will create a specialized Restricted List in PTA for the Access Person behind the wall in order to prevent trading in the companys securities until such time as the Chief Compliance Officer has deemed the information in the Access Persons possession to be in the public domain or no longer material.
If a security is added to either the Loomis Sayles firm-wide Restricted List or an individual or group Access Person Restricted List, Access Persons will be restricted from purchasing or selling all securities related to that issuer until such time as the security is removed from the applicable Restricted List. The PTA System has the information necessary to deny pre-clearance if these situations apply.
4.15. |
Loomis Sayles Hedge Funds |
From time to time Loomis Sayles may manage hedge funds, and Access Persons of Loomis Sayles, including the hedge funds investment team and supervisors thereof may make personal investments in such hedge funds. At times, especially during the early stages of a new hedge fund, there may be a limited number of outside investors (i.e., clients and non-employee individual investors) in such funds. In order to mitigate the appearance that investing personally in a hedge fund can potentially be used as a way to benefit from certain trading practices that would otherwise be prohibited by the Code if Access Persons engaged in such trading practices in their personal accounts, investment team members of a hedge fund they manage are individually required to limit their personal investments in such funds to no more than 20% of the hedge funds total assets. In addition, the supervisor of a hedge fund investment team must limit his/her personal investment in such hedge fund to no more than 25% of the hedge funds total assets.
By limiting the personal interests in the hedge fund by their investment teams and their supervisors in this manner, all of the portfolio trading activity of the Loomis Sayles hedge funds is deemed to be exempt from the pre-clearance and trading restrictions of the Code.
4.16. |
Exemptions Granted by the Chief Compliance Officer |
Subject to applicable law, Personal Trading Compliance or the Chief Compliance Officer may from time to time grant exemptions, other than or in addition to those described in Exhibit Five , from the trading restrictions, pre-clearance requirements or other provisions of the Code with respect to particular individuals such as non-employee directors, consultants, temporary employees, interns or independent contractors, and types of transactions or Covered Securities , where, in the opinion of the Chief Compliance Officer , such an exemption is appropriate in light of all the surrounding circumstances.
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5. |
PROHIBITED OR RESTRICTED ACTIVITIES |
5.1. |
Public Company Board Service and Other Affiliations |
To avoid conflicts of interest, MNPI and other compliance and business issues, Loomis Sayles prohibits Access Persons from serving as officers or members of the board of any publicly traded entity. This prohibition does not apply to service as an officer or board member of any parent or subsidiary of Loomis Sayles.
In addition, in order to identify potential conflicts of interests, compliance and business issues, before accepting any service, employment, engagement, connection, association, or affiliation in or within any enterprise, business or otherwise, (herein after, collectively Outside Activity(ies)), an Access Person must obtain the advance written approval of Personal Trading Compliance, the Chief Compliance Officer and the applicable Access Persons supervisor or other appropriate member of senior management.
An Outside Activity approval can be obtained by completing an automated Outside Activity Form which can be found on the Legal and Compliance Intranet Homepage under Personal Trading Compliance Forms. In determining whether to approve such Outside Activity, Personal Trading Compliance and the Chief Compliance Officer will consider whether such service will involve an actual or perceived conflict of interest with client trading, place impediments on Loomis Sayles ability to trade on behalf of clients or otherwise materially interfere with the effective discharge of Loomis Sayles or the Access Person s duties to clients.
Explanatory Note: | Examples of Outside Activities include, but are not limited to, family businesses, acting as an officer, partner or trustee of an organization or trust, political positions, second jobs, professional associations, etc. Outside Activities that are not covered by the Code are activities that involve a charity or foundation, as long as you do not provide investment or financial advice to the organization. Examples would include: volunteer work, homeowners organizations (such as condos or coop boards), or other civic activities. |
5.2. |
Participation in Investment Clubs and Private Pooled Vehicles |
No Access Person shall participate in an investment club or invest in a hedge fund, or similar private organized investment pool (but not an SEC registered open-end mutual fund) without the express permission of Personal Trading Compliance, the Chief Compliance Officer and the applicable Access Persons supervisor or other appropriate member of senior management, whether or not the investment vehicle is advised, sub-advised or distributed by Loomis Sayles or a Natixis investment adviser.
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REPORTING REQUIREMENTS |
6.1. |
Initial Holdings Reporting, Account Disclosure and Acknowledgement of Code |
Within 10 days after becoming an Access Person, each Access Person must file with Personal Trading Compliance , a report of all Covered Securities holdings (including holdings of Reportable Funds ) in which such Access Person has Beneficial Ownership or Investment Control . The information contained therein must be current as of a date not more than 45 days prior to the individual becoming an Access Person .
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Additionally, within 10 days of becoming an Access Person , such Access Person must report all brokerage or other accounts that hold or can hold Covered Securities in which the Access Person has Beneficial Ownership or Investment Control . The information must be as of the date the person became an Access Person . An Access Person can satisfy these reporting requirements by providing Personal Trading Compliance with a current copy of his or her brokerage account or other account statements, which hold or can hold Covered Securities . An automated Initial Code of Ethics Certification and Disclosure Form can be found on the Legal and Compliance Intranet Homepage under Personal Trading Compliance Forms. This form must be completed and submitted to Personal Trading Compliance by the Access Person within 10 days of becoming an Access Person . The content of the Initial Holdings information must include, at a minimum, the title and type of security, the ticker symbol or CUSIP, number of shares, and principal amount of each Covered Security (including Reportable Funds) and the name of any broker, dealer or bank with which the securities are held. With the exception of the Access Persons of Loomis Sayles London and Singapore offices, newly hired Access Persons must close existing non-Select brokerage accounts and transfer the assets to a Select Broker within 30 days of their start date at Loomis Sayles, unless the Access Person receives written approval from Personal Trading Compliance or the Chief Compliance Officer to maintain his/her account(s) at a non - Select Broker.
Explanatory Note: | Loomis Sayles treats all of its employees and certain consultants as Access Persons . Therefore, you are deemed to be an Access Person as of the first day you begin working for the firm. | |
Explanatory Note: | Types of accounts in which Access Persons are required to report include, but are not limited to: personal brokerage accounts, mutual fund accounts, accounts of your spouse, accounts of minor children living in your household, Family of Fund accounts, transfer agent accounts holding mutual funds or book entry shares, IRAs, 401Ks, trusts, DRIPs, ESOPs etc. that either hold or can hold Covered Securities (including Reportable Funds). In addition, physically held shares of Covered Securities must also be reported. An Access Person should contact Personal Trading Compliance if they are unsure as to whether an account or personal investment is subject to reporting under the Code so the account or investment can be properly reviewed. |
At the time of the initial disclosure period, each Access Person must also submit information pertaining to:
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His/her participation in any Outside Activity as described in Section 5.1 of the Code; |
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His/her participation in an Investment Club as described in Section 5.2 of the Code; |
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Holdings in Private Placements including hedge funds; and |
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A Related Person that is an officer and/or director of a publicly traded company; if any. |
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Upon becoming an Access Person, each Access Person will receive a copy of the Code, along with the Loomis Sayles Insider Trading Policies and Procedures and Loomis Sayles Gifts, Business Entertainment and Political Contributions Policies and Procedures. Within the 10 day initial disclosure period and annually thereafter, each Access Person must acknowledge that he or she has received, read and understands the aforementioned policies and recognize that he or she is subject hereto, and certify that he or she will comply with the requirements of each.
6.2. |
Brokerage Confirmations and Brokerage Account Statements |
Each Access Person must notify Personal Trading Compliance immediately upon the opening of an account that holds or may hold Covered Securities (including Reportable Funds ), in which such Access Person has Beneficial Ownership or Investment Control. In addition, if an account has been granted an exemption to the Select Broker requirement and/or the account is unable to be added to the applicable Select Brokers daily electronic broker feed, which supplies PTA with daily executed confirms and positions, Personal Trading Compliance will instruct the broker dealer of the account to provide it with duplicate copies of the accounts confirmations and statements. If the broker dealer cannot provide Personal Trading Compliance with confirms and statements, the Access Person is responsible for providing Personal Trading Compliance with copies of such confirms as and when transactions are executed in the account, and statements on a monthly basis, if available, but no less than quarterly. Upon the opening of an account, an automated Personal Account Information Form must be completed and submitted to Personal Trading Compliance . This form can be found on the Legal and Compliance Intranet Homepage under Personal Trading Compliance Forms.
Explanatory Note: | If the opening of an account is not reported immediately to Personal Trading Compliance , but is reported during the corresponding quarterly certification period, and there has not been any trade activity in the account, then the Access Person will be deemed to have not violated its reporting obligations under this Section of the Code. | |
Explanatory Note: | For those accounts that are maintained at a Select Broker and are eligible for the brokers daily electronic confirm and position feed, Access Persons do not need to provide duplicate confirms and statements to Personal Trading Compliance . However, it is the Access Persons responsibility to accurately review and certify their quarterly transactions and annual holdings information in PTA, and to promptly notify Personal Trading Compliance if there are any discrepancies. |
6.3. |
Quarterly Transaction Reporting and Account Disclosure |
Utilizing PTA, each Access Person must file a report of all Volitional transactions in Covered Securities (including Volitional transactions in Reportable Funds ) made during each calendar quarterly period in which such Access Person has, or by reason of such transaction acquires or disposes of, any Beneficial Ownership of a Covered Security (even if such Access Person has no direct or indirect Investment Control over such Covered Security ), or as to which the Access Person has any direct or indirect Investment Control (even if such Access Person has no Beneficial Ownership in such Covered Security ). Non-volitional transactions in Covered Securities (including Reportable Funds ) such as automatic monthly payroll deductions, changes to future contributions within the Loomis Sayles Retirement Plans, dividend reinvestment programs, dollar cost averaging programs, and transactions made within the Guided Choice Program are still
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subject to the Codes annual reporting requirements. If no transactions in any Covered Securities, required to be reported, were effected during a quarterly period by an Access Person , such Access Person shall nevertheless submit a report through PTA within the time frame specified below stating that no reportable securities transactions were affected. The following information will be available in electronic format for Access Persons to verify on their Quarterly Transaction report:
The date of the transaction, the title of the security, ticker symbol or CUSIP, number of shares, and principal amount of each reportable security, nature of the transaction (i.e., purchase, sale or any other type of acquisition or disposition), the price of the transaction, and the name of the broker, dealer or bank with which the transaction was effected. However, the Access Person is responsible for confirming the accuracy of this information and informing Personal Trading Compliance if his or her reporting information is inaccurate or incomplete.
With the exception of those accounts described in Exhibit Four, Access Persons are also required to report each account that may hold or holds Covered Securities (including accounts that hold or may hold Reportable Funds ) in which such Access Person has Beneficial Ownership or Investment Control that have been opened or closed during the reporting period. In addition, life events such as marriage, death of a family member (i.e., inheritance), etc. may result in your acquiring Beneficial Ownership and/or Investment Control over accounts previously belonging to others. Therefore, any Covered Security , including Reportable Funds, along with any account that holds or can hold a Covered Security, including Reportable Funds, in which you have a Beneficial Ownership and/or Investment Control, as described in Section 3.2 and Section 3.3 of the Code, resulting from marriage or other life event must be reported to Personal Trading Compliance promptly, and no later than the next applicable quarterly reporting period.
Every quarterly report must be submitted no later than thirty (30) calendar days after the close of each calendar quarter.
6.4. |
Annual Reporting |
On an annual basis, as of a date specified by Personal Trading Compliance, each Access Person must file with Personal Trading Compliance a dated annual certification which identifies all holdings in Covered Securities (including Reportable Funds ) in which such Access Person has Beneficial Ownership and/or Investment Control . This reporting requirement also applies to shares of Covered Securities , including shares of Reportable Funds that were acquired during the year in Non-volitional transactions. Additionally, each Access Person must identify all personal accounts which hold or may hold Covered Securities (including Reportable Funds), in which such Access Person has Beneficial Ownership and/or Investment Control . The information in the Annual Package shall reflect holdings in the Access Persons account(s) that are current as of a date specified by Personal Trading Compliance . The following information will be available in electronic format for Access Persons to verify on the Annual Holdings report:
The title of the security, the ticker symbol or CUSIP, number of shares, and principal amount of each Covered Security (including Reportable Funds ) and the name of any broker, dealer or bank with which the securities are held. However, the Access Person is responsible for confirming the accuracy of this information and informing Personal Trading Compliance if his or her reporting information is inaccurate or incomplete.
Furthermore, on an annual basis, each Access Person must acknowledge and certify that during the past year he/she has received, read, understood and complied with the Code, Insider Trading Policies and Procedures, and the Policies and Procedures on Gifts, Business Entertainment,
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and Political Contributions, except as otherwise disclosed in writing to Personal Trading Compliance or the Chief Compliance Officer . Finally, as part of the annual certification, each Access Person must acknowledge and confirm any Outside Activities in which he or she currently participates and any Related Person that is an officer and/or director of a publicly traded company.
All material changes to the Code will be promptly distributed to Access Persons, and also be distributed to Supervised Persons on a quarterly basis. On an annual basis, Supervised Persons will be asked to acknowledge his/her receipt, understanding of and compliance with the Code.
Every annual report must be submitted no later than (45) calendar days after the date specified by Personal Trading Compliance .
6.5. |
Review of Reports by Chief Compliance Officer |
The Chief Compliance Officer shall establish procedures as the Chief Compliance Officer may from time to time determine appropriate for the review of the information required to be compiled under this Code regarding transactions by Access Persons and to report any violations thereof to all necessary parties.
6.6. |
Internal Reporting of Violations to the Chief Compliance Officer |
Prompt internal reporting of any violation of the Code to the Chief Compliance Officer or Personal Trading Compliance is required under Rule 204A-1. While the daily monitoring process undertaken by Personal Trading Compliance is designed to identify any violations of the Code and handle any such violations promptly, Access Persons and Supervised Persons are required to promptly report any violations they learn of resulting from either their own conduct or those of other Access Persons or Supervised Persons to the Chief Compliance Officer or Personal Trading Compliance . It is incumbent upon Loomis Sayles to create an environment that encourages and protects Access Persons or Supervised Persons who report violations. In doing so, individuals have the right to remain anonymous in reporting violations. Furthermore, any form of retaliation against an individual who reports a violation could constitute a further violation of the Code, as deemed appropriate by the Chief Compliance Officer . All Access Persons and Supervised Persons should therefore feel safe to speak freely in reporting any violations.
7. SANCTIONS
Any violation of the substantive or procedural requirements of this Code will result in the imposition of a sanction as set forth in the firms then current Sanctions Policy, or as the Ethics Committee may deem appropriate under the circumstances of the particular violation. These sanctions may include, but are not limited to:
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a letter of caution or warning (i.e. Procedures Notice); |
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payment of a fine, |
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requiring the employee to reverse a trade and realize losses or disgorge any profits; |
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restitution to an affected client; |
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suspension of personal trading privileges; |
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actions affecting employment status, such as suspension of employment without pay, demotion or termination of employment; and |
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referral to the SEC, other civil authorities or criminal authorities. |
Serious violations, including those involving deception, dishonesty or knowing breaches of law or fiduciary duty, will result in one or more of the most severe sanctions regardless of the violators history of prior compliance.
Explanatory Note: | Any violation of the Code, following a first offense whether or not for the same type of violation, will be treated as a subsequent offense. |
Fines, penalties and disgorged profits will be donated to a charity selected by the Loomis Sayles Charitable Giving Committee.
8. RECORDKEEPING REQUIREMENTS
Loomis Sayles shall maintain and preserve records, in an easily accessible place, relating to the Code of the type and in the manner and form and for the time period prescribed from time to time by applicable law. Currently, Loomis Sayles is required by law to maintain and preserve:
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in an easily accessible place, a copy of this Code (and any prior Code of Ethics that was in effect at any time during the past five years) for a period of five years; |
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in an easily accessible place a record of any violation of the Code and of any action taken as a result of such violation for a period of five years following the end of the fiscal year in which the violation occurs; |
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a copy of each report (or information provided in lieu of a report including any manual pre-clearance forms and information relied upon or used for reporting) submitted under the Code for a period of five years, provided that for the first two years such copy must be preserved in an easily accessible place; |
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copies of Access Persons and Supervised Persons written acknowledgment of initial receipt of the Code and his/her annual acknowledgement; |
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in an easily accessible place, a record of the names of all Access Persons within the past five years, even if some of them are no longer Access Persons , the holdings and transactions reports made by these Access Persons, and records of all Access Persons personal securities reports (and duplicate brokerage confirmations or account statements in lieu of these reports); |
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a copy of each report provided to any Investment Company as required by paragraph (c)(2)(ii) of Rule 17j-1 under the 1940 Act or any successor provision for a period of five years following the end of the fiscal year in which such report is made, provided that for the first two years such record shall be preserved in an easily accessible place; and |
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a written record of any decision and the reasons supporting any decision, to approve the purchase by an Access Person of any Covered Security in an Initial Public Offering or Private Placement Transaction or other limited offering for a period of five years following the end of the fiscal year in which the approval is granted. |
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Explanatory Note: | Under Rule 204-2, the standard retention period required for all documents and records listed above is five years, in easily accessible place, the first two years in an appropriate office of Personal Trading Compliance. |
9. MISCELLANEOUS
9.1. |
Confidentiality |
Loomis Sayles will keep information obtained from any Access Person hereunder in strict confidence. Notwithstanding the forgoing, reports of Covered Securities transactions and violations hereunder will be made available to the SEC or any other regulatory or self-regulatory organizations to the extent required by law , rule or regulation, and in certain circumstances, may in Loomis Sayles discretion be made available to other civil and criminal authorities. In addition, information regarding violations of the Code may be provided to clients or former clients of Loomis Sayles that have been directly or indirectly affected by such violations.
9.2. |
Disclosure of Client Trading Knowledge |
No Access Person may, directly or indirectly, communicate to any person who is not an Access Person or other approved agent of Loomis Sayles (e.g., legal counsel) any non-public information relating to any client of Loomis Sayles or any issuer of any Covered Security owned by any client of Loomis Sayles, including, without limitation, the purchase or sale or considered purchase or sale of a Covered Security on behalf of any client of Loomis Sayles, except to the extent necessary to comply with applicable law or to effectuate traditional asset management/operations activities on behalf of the client of Loomis Sayles.
9.3. |
Notice to Access Persons, Investment Persons and Research Analysts as to Code Status |
Personal Trading Compliance will initially determine an employees status as an Access Person, Research Analyst or Investment Person and the client accounts to which Investment Persons should be associated, and will inform such persons of their respective reporting and duties under the Code.
All Access Persons and/or the applicable supervisors thereof, have an obligation to inform Personal Trading Compliance if an Access Persons responsibilities change during the Access Persons tenure at Loomis Sayles.
9.4. |
Notice to Personal Trading Compliance of Engagement of Independent Contractors |
Any Access Person that engages as a non-employee service provider (NESP), such as a consultant, temporary employee, intern or independent contractor shall notify Personal Trading Compliance of this engagement, and provide to Personal Trading Compliance the information necessary to make a determination as to how the Code shall apply to such NESP, if at all.
NESPs are generally not subject to the pre-clearance, trading restrictions and certain reporting provisions of the Code. However, NESPs must receive, review and acknowledge a Code of Ethics Compliance Statement that further describes his/her Code requirements and fiduciary duties while engaged with Loomis Sayles.
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At times, NESPs are contracted to various departments at Loomis Sayles where they may be involved or be privy to the investment process for client accounts or the Loomis Sayles recommendation process. Prior to their engagement, the Loomis Sayles Human Resources Department will notify Personal Trading Compliance of these NESPs and depending on the facts and circumstances, the NESP will be communicated what provisions of the Code will apply to them during their engagement.
9.5. |
Questions and Educational Materials |
Employees are encouraged to bring to Personal Trading Compliance any questions you may have about interpreting or complying with the Code about Covered Securities , accounts that hold or may hold Covered Securities or personal trading activities of you, your family, or household members, your legal and ethical responsibilities, or similar matters that may involve the Code.
Personal Trading Compliance will from time to time circulate educational materials or bulletins or conduct training sessions designed to assist you in understanding and carrying out your duties under the Code. On an annual basis, each Access Person is required to successfully complete the Code of Ethics and Fiduciary Duty Tutorial designed to educate Access Persons on their responsibilities under the Code and other Loomis Sayles policies and procedures that generally apply to all employees.
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GLOSSARY OF TERMS
The boldface terms used throughout this policy have the following meanings:
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Access Person means an access person as defined from time to time in Rule 17j-1 under the 1940 Act or any applicable successor provision. Currently, this means any director, or officer of Loomis Sayles, or any Advisory Person (as defined below) of Loomis Sayles, but does not include any director who is not an officer or employee of Loomis Sayles or its corporate general partner and who meets all of the following conditions: |
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He or she, in connection with his or her regular functions or duties, does not make, participate in or obtain information regarding the purchase or sale of Covered Securities by a registered investment company, and whose functions do not relate to the making of recommendations with respect to such purchases or sales; |
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He or she does not have access to nonpublic information regarding any clients purchase or sale of securities, or nonpublic information regarding the portfolio holdings of any Reportable Fund ; and |
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He or she is not involved in making securities recommendations to clients, and does not have access to such recommendations that are nonpublic. |
Loomis Sayles treats all employees as Access Persons .
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Advisory Person means an advisory person and advisory representative as defined from time to time in Rule 17j-1 under the 1940 Act and Rule 204-2(a)(12) under the Advisers Act, respectively, or any applicable successor provision. Currently, this means (i) every employee of Loomis Sayles (or of any company in a Control relationship to Loomis Sayles), who, in connection with his or her regular functions or duties, makes, participates in, or obtains information regarding the purchase or sale of a Covered Security by Loomis Sayles on behalf of clients, or whose functions relate to the making of any recommendations with respect to such purchases or sales; and (ii) every natural person in a Control relationship to Loomis Sayles who obtains information concerning recommendations made to a client with regard to the purchase or sale of a Covered Security. Advisory Person also includes: (a) any other employee designated by Personal Trading Compliance or the Chief Compliance Officer as an Advisory Person under this Code; (b) any consultant, temporary employee, intern or independent contractor (or similar person) engaged by Loomis Sayles designated as such by Personal Trading Compliance or the Chief Compliance Officer as a result of such persons access to information about the purchase or sale of Covered Securities by Loomis Sayles on behalf of clients (by being present in Loomis Sayles offices, having access to computer data or otherwise). |
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Beneficial Ownership is defined in Section 3.2 of the Code. |
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Chief Compliance Officer refers to the officer or employee of Loomis Sayles designated from time to time by Loomis Sayles to receive and review reports of purchases and sales by Access Persons , and to address issues of personal trading. Personal Trading Compliance means the employee or employees of Loomis Sayles designated from time to time by the General Counsel of Loomis Sayles to receive and review reports of purchases and sales, and to address issues of personal trading, by the Chief Compliance Officer , and to act for the Chief Compliance Officer in the absence of the Chief Compliance Officer . |
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Covered Security is defined in Section 3.1 of the Code. |
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Exempt ETF is defined in Section 3.1 of the Code and a list of such funds is found in Exhibit Two. |
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Federal Securities Laws refers to the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, Title V of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, any rules adopted by the SEC under any of these statutes, the Bank Secrecy Act as it applies to funds and investment advisers, and any rules adopted there under by the SEC or the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and any amendments to the above mentioned statutes. |
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Investment Control is defined in Section 3.3 of the Code. This means control as defined from time to time in Rule 17j-1 under the 1940 Act and Rule 204-2(a)(12) under the Advisers Act or any applicable successor provision. Currently, this means the power to directly or indirectly influence, manage, trade, or give instructions concerning the investment disposition of assets in an account or to approve or disapprove transactions in an account. |
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Initial Public Offering means an initial public offering as defined from time to time in Rule 17j-l under the 1940 Act or any applicable successor provision. Currently, this means any offering of securities registered under the Securities Act of 1933 the issuer of which immediately before the offering, was not subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. |
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Investment Company means any Investment Company registered as such under the 1940 Act and for which Loomis Sayles serves as investment adviser or subadviser or which an affiliate of Loomis Sayles serves as an investment adviser. |
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Investment Person means all Portfolio Managers of Loomis Sayles and other Advisory Persons who assist the Portfolio Managers in making and implementing investment decisions for an Investment Company or other client of Loomis Sayles, including, but not limited to, designated Research Analysts and traders of Loomis Sayles. A person is considered an Investment Person only as to those client accounts or types of client accounts as to which he or she is designated by Personal Trading Compliance or the Chief Compliance Officer as such. As to other accounts, he or she is simply an Access Person . |
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Loomis Advised Fund is any Reportable Fund advised or sub-advised by Loomis Sayles. A list of these funds can be found in Exhibit One . |
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Non-volitional transactions are any transaction in which the employee has not determined the timing as to when the purchase or sale will occur and the amount of shares to be purchased or sold, i.e. changes to future contributions within the Loomis Sayles Retirement Plans, dividend reinvestment programs, dollar cost averaging program, automatic monthly payroll deductions, and any transactions made within the Guided Choice Program. Non-volitional transactions are not subject to the pre-clearance or quarterly reporting requirements under the Code. |
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Portfolio Manager means any individual employed by Loomis Sayles who has been designated as a Portfolio Manager by Loomis Sayles. A person is considered a Portfolio Manager only as to those client accounts as to which he or she is designated by the Chief Compliance Officer as such. As to other client accounts, he or she is simply an Access Person . |
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Private Placement Transaction means a limited offering as defined from time to time in Rule 17j-l under the 1940 Act or any applicable successor provision. Currently, this means an offering exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933 pursuant to Section 4(2) or 4(6) or Rule 504, 505 or 506 under that Act, including hedge funds. |
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Recommendation means any change to a securitys price target or other type of recommendation in the case of an equity Covered Security, or any initial rating or rating change in the case of a fixed income Covered Security in either case issued by a Research Analyst . |
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Reportable Fund is defined in Section 3.1 of the Code, and a list of such funds is found in Exhibit One . |
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Research Analyst means any individual employed by Loomis Sayles who has been designated as a Research Analyst or Research Associate by Loomis Sayles. A person is considered a Research Analyst only as to those Covered Securities which he or she is assigned to cover and about which he or she issues research reports to other Investment Persons or otherwise makes recommendations to Investment Persons beyond publishing their research. As to other securities, he or she is simply an Access Person . |
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Select Broker is defined in Section 3.4 of the Code. |
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Supervised Person is defined in Section 202(a)(25) of the Advisers Act and currently includes any partner, officer, director (or other person occupying a similar status or performing similar functions), or employee of Loomis Sayles, or other person who provides investment advice on behalf of Loomis Sayles and is subject to the supervision and control of Loomis Sayles. |
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Volitional transactions are any transactions in which the employee has determined the timing as to when the purchase or sale transaction will occur and amount of shares to be purchased or sold. Volitional transactions are subject to the pre-clearance and reporting requirements under the Code. |
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COMPLIANCE POLICIES
A. Code of Ethics
Boston Partners has built a reputation for integrity and professionalism among its clients. We value the confidence and trust those clients have placed in us and strive to protect that trust. This Code of Ethics (the Code) is our commitment to protecting our clients trust by establishing formal standards for general personal and professional conduct. Furthermore, this Code does not attempt to identify all potential conflicts of interest or conduct abuses, and violations regarding the spirit of the Code may be subject to disciplinary action. Questions regarding the interpretation of the Code or its application to particular conduct should be addressed with Legal or the CD.
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APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS |
This Code and all sections, unless specifically noted otherwise, apply to all Supervised Persons.
Supervised Persons for purposes of this Code means:
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Directors, and officers of Boston Partners (or other persons occupying a similar status or performing similar functions); |
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Employees of Boston Partners and registered representatives of Boston Partners Securities LLC (collectively Employees); |
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Any other person who provides investment advisory advice on behalf of Boston Partners and is subject to Boston Partners supervision and control; and |
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Certain other persons designated by the CD, such as temporary/contract workers who support our businesses. |
Access Person for purposes of this Code means any Supervised Person:
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Who has access to non-public information regarding any clients purchases or sales of securities, or |
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Who has non-public information regarding the portfolio holdings of any mutual fund, managed account, or private investment fund managed by Boston Partners (client accounts); or |
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Who is involved in making securities recommendations to clients or who has access to such recommendations that are nonpublic; or |
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Who is a director or officer of Boston Partners. Excepted from this requirement are Directors of Boston Partners who are not involved in the day-to-day business activities of the firm or do not have access to confidential information regarding client securities holdings, transactions, or recommendations. Also exempted from this requirement are Boston Partners Funds directors who are not employees of Boston Partners nor have access to confidential information regarding client securities holdings, transactions or recommendations; or |
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Certain other persons designated by the CD, such as temporary/contract workers who support our businesses. |
The CD will notify all individuals of their status as either a Supervised Person or an Access Person.
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STANDARDS OF BUSINESS CONDUCT |
The following principles are intended to guide in the applicability of this Code of Ethics:
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Boston Partners is a fiduciary and its Supervised Persons have a duty to act for the benefit of Boston Partners clients and shall at all times place the financial interests of the client ahead of Boston Partners; |
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Boston Partners holds all Supervised Persons responsible to high standards of integrity, professionalism, and ethical conduct; and |
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Boston Partners fosters a spirit of cohesiveness and teamwork while ensuring the fair treatment of all Supervised Persons. |
C. |
COMPLIANCE WITH FEDERAL SECURITIES LAWS |
All Supervised Persons must comply with applicable federal securities laws. Federal securities laws means the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the Investment Company Act), the Advisers Act, Title V of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, any rules adopted by the Commission under any of these statutes, the Bank Secrecy Act as it applies to funds and investment advisers, and any rules adopted thereunder by the Commission or the Department of the Treasury. The applicable laws are designed to prevent the following practices, which should not be viewed as all-encompassing and are not intended to be exclusive of others.
Supervised Persons must never:
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Defraud any client in any manner; |
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Mislead any client, including by making a statement that omits material facts; |
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Engage in any act, practice or course of conduct which operates or would operate as a fraud or deceit upon any client, including misappropriation of an investment opportunity; |
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Engage in any manipulative practice with respect to any client or security, including price manipulation. |
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CONFLICTS OF INTEREST |
As a fiduciary, Boston Partners has an affirmative duty of care, loyalty, honesty to its clients and a duty of utmost good faith to act in the best interests of Boston Partners clients. Compliance with this fiduciary responsibility can be accomplished by avoiding conflicts of interest and by fully, adequately, and fairly disclosing all material facts concerning any conflict which arises with respect to any client.
The following specific guidelines should not be viewed as all-encompassing and are not intended to be exclusive of others:
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No Supervised Person shall take inappropriate advantage of their position with respect to a client, advancing their position for self-gain. |
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No Supervised Person shall use knowledge about pending or currently considered client securities transactions to profit personally as a result of such transactions. |
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All securities transactions affected for the benefit of a client account shall avoid inappropriate favoritism of one client over another client. |
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All securities transactions affected for the benefit of a Supervised Person shall be conducted in such a manner as to avoid abuse of that individuals position of trust and responsibility. |
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CONFIDENTIALITY |
Boston Partners generates, maintains, and possesses information that it views as proprietary, and it must be held strictly confidential by all Supervised Persons. This information includes, but is not limited to:
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the financial condition and business activity of Boston Partners or any enterprise with which Boston Partners is conducting business. |
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investment management agreements and partnership agreements; |
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client specific information; |
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holdings in client accounts; |
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research analyses and trading strategies; |
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internal communications; |
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legal advice; and |
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computer access codes. |
Supervised Persons may not use proprietary information for their own benefit or for the benefit of any party other than the client. Failure to maintain the confidentiality of this information may have serious detrimental consequences for Boston Partners, its clients, and the Supervised Person who breached the confidence.
In order to safeguard Boston Partners proprietary information, Supervised Persons are expected to abide by the following:
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Never share proprietary information with anyone at Boston Partners except on a needs-to-know basis. |
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Never disclose proprietary information to anyone outside of Boston Partners, except in connection with Boston Partners business and in a manner consistent with the clients interests, or unless required in order to make a statement not misleading, or to otherwise comply with the law. |
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Disclosing proprietary information in connection with Boston Partners business is permissible in accordance with Boston Partners Selective Disclosure Policy, Boston Partners Privacy and Disposal Policy, and Boston Partners Media Policy. |
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Never remove any proprietary information from Boston Partners premises, unless absolutely necessary for business purposes (and, if so, the information must be kept in the possession of the Supervised Person or in a secure place at all times and returned promptly to Boston Partners premises); |
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Exercise caution in displaying documents or discussing information in public places such as in elevators, restaurants, or airplanes, or in the presence of outside vendors or others not employed by Boston Partners; |
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Exercise caution when using e-mail, cellular telephones, facsimile machines or messenger services; |
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Never leave documents containing proprietary information in conference rooms, wastebaskets, or desks, or anywhere else where the information could be seen or retrieved; |
Boston Partners restrictions on the use of proprietary information continue in effect after termination of employment with Boston Partners, unless specific written permission is obtained from the General Counsel. For purposes of clarification, the terms of any separate confidentiality agreement between an Employee and Boston Partners or any of its affiliates shall supersede this general restriction, to the extent applicable.
Federal law protects the ability of whistleblowers to report violations of applicable law. Nothing in any agreement between yourself and Boston Partners shall be interpreted or deemed to limit you in any way from communicating with the Securities and Exchange Commission about any actions that you reasonably believe to be a violation of applicable securities laws or with any other regulatory or enforcement agency about any actions that you reasonably believe to be a violation of any other applicable law.
Any questions regarding policies and procedures on the use of proprietary information should be brought to the attention of the CCO.
F. |
EMPLOYEE PERSONAL SECURITIES MONITORING |
DEFINITIONS
Covered Security shall include any type of equity or debt instrument, including any rights, warrants, derivatives, convertibles, options, puts, calls, straddles, exchange traded funds, shares of closed-end mutual funds, shares of open end mutual funds that are advised or sub advised by Boston Partners, its affiliates or, in general, any interest or investment commonly known as a security.
Non-Covered Security shall include shares of open-ended mutual funds that are not advised or sub-advised by Boston Partners or its affiliates, direct obligations of the US government, bankers acceptances, bank certificates of deposit, commercial paper, high quality short-term debt instruments, including repurchase agreements, which have a maturity at issuance of less than 366 days and that are rated in one of the two highest rating categories by a Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization (NRSRO).
Investment Personnel shall include portfolio managers, research analysts, traders and any other person who provides information or advice to portfolio managers, or who helps execute or implement the portfolio managers decisions as designated by the CD.
Beneficial Interest shall include any Covered Security in which a Supervised Person has an opportunity directly or indirectly to provide or share in any profit derived from a transaction in a Covered Security, including:
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accounts personally held by the Supervised Person; |
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accounts held by the Supervised Persons immediate family members related by blood or marriage sharing the same household; |
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any person or organization (such as an investment club) with whom a Supervised Person has an opportunity to directly or indirectly share in any profit from a transaction in a Covered Security; or |
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any trusts of which a Supervised Person is trustee. |
Designated Broker/Dealer is one who has contracted with Boston Partners to make available Supervised Persons investment accounts, statements and confirmations via electronic download. A list of designated broker/dealers is available upon request from the CD.
Outside Account shall include any Supervised Persons Covered Securities account not held at a Designated Broker/Dealer.
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ACCESS TO SUPERVISED PERSONS ACCOUNTS, CONFIRMATIONS AND STATEMENTS |
Supervised Persons are required to maintain all discretionary or non-discretionary securities or commodities accounts with a Designated Broker/Dealer, unless prior written permission to maintain an Outside Account has been granted by the CD. This includes any account over which the Supervised Person has the power to exercise investment control, including but not limited to accounts in which the Supervised Person has a direct or indirect Beneficial Interest. If an Outside Account is approved, the Supervised Person must instruct their broker to send duplicate statements and confirmations to the CD.
All Supervised Persons whose accounts are custodied outside of Boston Partners Designated Broker/Dealer(s) must instruct their broker to submit copies of confirmations and/or account statements to:
Financial Tracking
2 Sound View Drive, Suite 100
Greenwich, CT 06830
The CD will supervise the review of all confirmations and/or account statements to ensure the required pre-approvals were obtained and to verify the accuracy of the information submitted in the quarterly reports.
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INVESTMENT ACTIVITIES |
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Supervised Persons may not offer investment advice or manage any persons portfolio in which he/she does not have a beneficial interest without prior written approval. |
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Supervised Persons may not participate in an investment club without prior written approval. |
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PRE-CLEARANCE |
Unless otherwise noted, the following provisions apply to all Covered Securities beneficially owned by Supervised Persons:
A. |
Covered Securities Transactions |
Mandatory written/electronic pre-clearance prior to the execution of any transaction involving a Covered Security. The CD may approve transactions. See Section 6 for exemptions.
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Approvals |
Pre-clearance is valid only for the day of approval. If the trade is not executed on the approved date, the pre-clearance process must be repeated prior to execution on the day the transaction is to be effected.
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Initial Public Offering (IPO) Transactions |
Mandatory written/electronic pre-clearance prior to participation in an IPO, except for Government Bonds and Municipal Securities. Approval is determined on a case-by-case basis; documentation supporting the decision rationale will be maintained on all requests.
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Private Limited Opportunity Investments |
Mandatory written/electronic pre-clearance prior to the execution of any private limited opportunity investment in a security. Private limited opportunity investments include, but are not limited to, private investments in hedge funds and Delaware Statutory Trusts, as well as any private business investment in a security, including a family business. Any questions regarding whether or not a particular investment requires written/electronic consent should be addressed with the CD prior to investment. Approval is determined on a case-by-case basis; documentation supporting the decision rationale will be maintained on all requests.
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Short Sales/Cover Shorts/Options |
Mandatory written/electronic pre-clearance prior to execution of any personal transaction involving a short position or option position. Supervised Persons may not sell a security short if it is currently held long in a client account. This prohibition includes writing naked call options or buying naked put options. Approval is determined based on the underlying security and transactions are subject to all blackout policies including the short-term profit prohibition.
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Gifts of Securities |
Gifts of securities do not need pre-clearance but must be reported on quarterly transaction and annual holdings statements. |
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HOLDING PERIODS |
Unless otherwise noted, the following provisions apply to all Covered Securities beneficially owned by Supervised Persons:
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Supervised Persons may not profit from the purchase and sale, or sale and purchase, of the same (or equivalent) securities within 30 calendar days. Equivalent security means any option, warrant, convertible security, stock appreciation right, or similar right with an exercise or conversion privilege at a price related to the subject security or similar securities with a value derived from the value of the subject security. |
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Multiple purchases/sales of the same or equivalent security will be considered on a First-In-First-Out (FIFO) basis. |
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Closing transactions resulting in a loss may be made after a holding period of one day. |
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Trading of a security in both directions (buy/sell or sell/buy), (Day Trading) is prohibited. |
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BLACK OUT PERIODS |
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No purchase or sale of any Covered Security for which an open order currently exists. |
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Investment Personnel are prohibited from purchasing or selling any Covered Security for which they have responsibility for a Client Transaction or should have knowledge that the security may be under active consideration 3 days before a Client Transaction. Transactions are allowed on the third day. |
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Supervised Persons are prohibited from purchasing or selling any Covered Security that is also held in client accounts 3 calendar days after a Client Transaction. Employee trades are allowed on the third day. |
Client Transaction is generally defined as any trade across all or a significant number of portfolios in one strategy whereby the Covered Security: 1) has been newly established, or 2) the percent holding has been increased or decreased, 3) or a new account is being funded and a significant position, as determined by Boston Partners, is being established. |
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EXEMPT TRANSACTIONS |
Outlined below are certain exemptions to the Code; however, such exemptions may be withheld by Boston Partners in its sole discretion. Additional exemptions may be permitted on a case-by-case basis to any provision in this Code when the circumstances of the situation strongly support an exemption.
A. Black Out Period Exemptions
Covered Security transactions for which a Supervised Person has requested and received preclearance from the CD will not be deemed to have violated any blackout period in Section 5 based upon subsequent information or events unless the Supervised Person is the Portfolio Manager or other Investment Person directly responsible for recommending, approving/initiating, or executing the client transaction.
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Pre-Clearance and Black Out Period Exemptions |
The following transactions are exempt from the Pre-Clearance provisions as defined in Section 3 and from the Black Out Period provisions as defined in Section 5.
These transactions are NOT exempt from Holding Period provisions as defined in Section 4 or from the Reporting provisions as defined in Section 7.
1. Purchases and Sales of shares of mutual funds advised or sub-advised by Boston Partners or its affiliates.
2. Purchases and sales involving a long* position in a common stock, exchange-traded fund, or a closed end fund when:
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the market cap is in excess of $3 billion; AND |
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the aggregate share amount executed across all accounts in which the Employee has a Beneficial Interest is 1,000 shares or fewer over a 30-day period. |
* Note, this exemption does not apply to short positions or options.
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Pre-Clearance, Holding, and Black Out Period, Period Exemptions |
The following transactions are exempt from all Pre-Clearance provisions defined in Section 3, Holding Period provisions as defined in Section 4, and Black Out Period provisions as defined in Section 5.
These transactions are NOT exempt from the Reporting provisions as defined in Section 7.
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Covered Security transactions executed on a fully discretionary basis by a Registered Investment Adviser (other than Boston Partners) on behalf of a Supervised Person and a letter stating such is maintained in the file; |
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Purchases and sales of Exchange traded funds (ETFs) or options on ETFs. (*Exemption applies to 30 days hold for profit, does not apply to prohibition of Day Trading. Day Trading of ETFs or options on ETFs is prohibited); |
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Purchases or sales effected in any account over which there is no direct or indirect influence or control; |
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Purchases or sales that are non-volitional such as margin calls, stock splits, stock dividends, bond maturities, automatic dividend reinvestment plans, mergers, consolidations, spin-offs, or other similar corporate reorganizations or distributions generally applicable to all holders of the same class of securities; |
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Systematic investment plans provided the CCO, or designee, has been previously notified of the participation in the plan; |
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Any acquisition of a Covered Security through the exercise of rights issued pro rata to all holders of the class, to the extent such rights were acquired in the issue (and not through the acquisition of transferable rights); |
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Transactions by an Investment Person acting as a portfolio manager for an investment limited partnership or investment company where Boston Partners is the contractual investment adviser and in which the Investment Person has a Beneficial Interest or for or any account in which Boston Partners has a proprietary interest. |
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REPORTING REQUIREMENTS |
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Quarterly Transaction Reports |
All Supervised Persons must submit to the CD a report of every Covered Security transaction, IPO, private limited opportunity investment, and gift of covered securities in which they received/participated or in which they beneficially owned/participated during the calendar quarter no later than 30 days after the end of that quarter.
The report shall include the following:
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The name of the security, the date of the transaction, the interest rate and maturity (if applicable), the number of shares, and the principal amount of each Covered Security involved; |
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The nature of the transaction (i.e., purchase, sale or other type of acquisition or disposition); |
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The price at which the transaction was effected; |
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The name of the broker, dealer, or bank through which the transaction was effected; |
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Factors relevant to a potential conflict of interest, including the existence of any substantial economic relationship between the transaction and securities held or to be acquired by an account managed by Boston Partners; |
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With respect to any account established by an Access Person during the quarter, the name of the broker, dealer, or bank with whom the account was established; |
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The date the account was established; and |
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The date the report was submitted. |
ACCOUNTS HELD AT DESIGNATED BROKER/DEALERS EXCEPTION
For securities transactions for which the CD has direct access through a Designated Broker/Dealer electronic confirmation, such electronic access is deemed to be sufficient reporting to comply with the above requirement although a quarterly certification of completeness is still required. Each Supervised Person must verify that the CD has this required access prior to taking advantage of this exception.
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Initial Holdings Report |
All Access Persons shall disclose to the CD, no later than 10 days after becoming an Access Person, a listing of Covered Securities in which the Access Person has a Beneficial Interest as of a date no more than 45 days before the report is submitted.
The report shall include the following:
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The name of the security, the number of shares, and the principal amount of each Covered Security in which the Access Person had any direct or indirect Beneficial Interest when the person became an Access Person; |
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The name of any broker, dealer, or bank with whom the Access Person maintained an account in which any securities are held for the direct or indirect benefit of the Access Person as of the date the person became an Access Person; and |
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The date the report is submitted. |
The CD will review all Initial Holdings Reports in an effort to monitor potential conflicts of interest and to understand the full nature of the Access Persons current holdings.
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Annual Holdings Reports |
Annually, on a date determined by the CD, Access Persons shall deliver to the CD, a listing of Covered Securities in which the Access Person has a Beneficial Interest that must be current as of a date no more than 45 days before the report is submitted.
The report shall include the following:
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The name of the security, the number of shares, and the principal amount of each Covered Security in which the Access Person had any direct or indirect Beneficial Interest; |
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The name of any broker, dealer, or bank with whom the Access Person maintains an account in which any securities are held for the direct or indirect benefit of the Access Person; and |
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The date the report is submitted. |
The CD will review all Annual Holdings Reports in an effort to monitor potential conflicts of interest and to understand the full nature of the Access Persons current holdings.
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RESTRICTED SECURITIES LIST |
The CD maintains a Restricted Security List (the Restricted List) which includes all securities where a Supervised Person has, or is in a position to receive, material non-public information about a company, such as information about a companys earnings or dividends, as a result of a special relationship between Boston Partners or a Supervised Person and the company.
If a Supervised Person knows or believes they have material, non-public information, they must immediately notify Legal or the CD. The decision whether to place a security on the Restricted List and the amount of time a security will remain on the Restricted List is made by Legal.
If it is determined that the Supervised Person is in possession of material, non-public information, the CD will establish a Protective Wall around the Supervised Person, to the extent reasonably possible. In order to avoid inadvertently imposing greater restrictions on trading than are necessary, a Supervised Person may not discuss this information with anyone without the approval of Legal. In addition, Supervised Persons having access to the Restricted List are to be reminded that the securities on the list are confidential and proprietary and should not be disclosed to anyone without the prior approval of Legal.
When an order is received from a Supervised Persons in a security on the Restricted List, the Preclearance System will automatically flag the transaction. The CD maintains procedures for adding securities to the Restricted List as well as monitoring and removal of those securities from the list.
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ACTIVITY REVIEW |
Supervised Persons are expected to devote their full time and attention to their work responsibilities. Boston Partners may take steps to curtail an individuals trading activity if, in the judgment of the appropriate department manager or the CD, the Supervised Persons trading activity is having or may have an adverse impact on their job performance.
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INSIDER TRADING AND MATERIAL NON-PUBLIC INFORMATION |
Boston Partners has developed the following policies to monitor, restrict if necessary, and educate Supervised Persons with respect to acquiring and investing when in possession of material, non-public information.
Insider trading is generally defined as purchasing or selling securities while in the possession of material, non-public information in violation of a duty not to trade. However, if no duty exists, it is permissible to trade when in possession of this information. The question of duty is complex and depends on facts and circumstances. Situations which could require a fiduciary duty not to act include but are not limited to: information gained directly from corporate insiders or temporary insiders (i.e. officers, directors and employees of a company), information gained from participation on formal or informal creditors committees, and information prohibited from disclosure by confidentiality agreements. Additionally, a misappropriation theory exists whereby an individual who possesses inside information would be prohibited from trading on such information if they are found to owe a duty to a third party and not the corporation whose securities are being traded. You must refer any questions to Legal for a correct interpretation if you believe you may be in possession of material non-public information.
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What is Material Information? |
There is no statutory definition of material information. Information an investor would find useful in deciding whether or when to buy or sell a security is generally material. In most instances, any non-public information that, if announced, could affect the price of the security should be considered to be material information. If you are not sure whether non-public information is material, you must consult Legal.
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What is Non-public Information? |
Non-public information is information that is not generally available to the investing public. Information is public if it is generally available through the media or disclosed in public documents such as corporate filings with the SEC. If it is disclosed in a national business or financial wire service (such as Dow Jones or Bloomberg), in a national news service (such as AP or Reuters), in a newspaper, magazine, on the television, on the radio or in a publicly disseminated disclosure document (such as a proxy statement, quarterly or annual report, or prospectus), consider the information to be public. If the information is not available in the general media or in a public filing, consider the information to be non-public. If you are uncertain as to whether material information is non-public, you must consult Legal.
While Supervised Persons must be especially alert to sensitive information, you may consider information directly from a company representative to be public information unless you know or have reason to believe that such information is not generally available to the investing public. In addition, information you receive from company representatives during a conference call that is open to the investment community is public. The disclosure of this type of information is covered by SEC Regulation FD. Please contact Legal if you have any questions with regard to this Regulation.
Supervised Persons working on a private securities transaction who receive information from a company representative regarding the transaction or who have knowledge of an affiliates private equity transactions should treat the information as non-public. The termination or conclusion of the negotiations in many instances will not change the status of that information.
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Examples of Material, Non-Public Information |
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Material information may be about the issuer itself such as: |
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Information about a companys earnings or dividends, (such as whether they will be increasing or decreasing); |
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any merger, acquisition, tender offer, joint venture or similar transaction involving the company; |
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information about a companys physical assets (e.g., an oil discovery, or an environmental problem); |
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information about a companys personnel (such as a valuable employee leaving or becoming seriously ill); or |
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information about a companys financial status (e.g., any plans or other developments concerning financial restructuring or the issuance or redemption of, or any payments on, any securities). |
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Information may be material that is not directly about a company, if the information is relevant to that company or its products, business, or assets such as: |
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Information that a companys primary supplier is going to increase dramatically the prices it charges; or |
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information that a competitor has just developed a product that may cause sales of a companys products to decrease. |
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Material information may include information about Boston Partners portfolio management activities such as: |
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any information that Boston Partners is considering when assessing whether to purchase or sell a security; |
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any actual purchase or sale decisions; or |
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all client holdings. |
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Boston Partners Use of Material, Non-Public Information |
Supervised Persons may receive or have access to material, non-public information in the course of their work at Boston Partners. Company policy, industry practice and federal and state law establish strict guidelines for the use of material, non-public information. To ensure that Supervised Persons adhere to the applicable laws, Boston Partners has adopted the following policies:
Supervised Persons:
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may not use material, non-public information about an issuer for investment purposes to benefit client or proprietary accounts, for personal gain, or share such information with others for their personal benefit; |
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may not pass material, non-public information about an issuer on to others or recommend that others trade the issuers securities; |
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must treat as confidential all information defined in Section E, Confidentiality, of this Code and preserve the confidentiality of such information and disclose it only as defined in that section; |
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must consider all client holdings as material, nonpublic information. In addition, if a Supervised Person is aware that Boston Partners is considering or actually trading any security for any account it manages, the Supervised Person must regard that as material, nonpublic information. While deemed material, nonpublic information, securities which Boston Partners is considering or actually trading for client accounts may be traded by Boston Partners and are exempt from reporting to Legal, but remain subject to all other confidentiality provisions discussed above in Section E as well as Boston Partners Privacy Policy, Selective Disclosure Policy, and Investment Recommendations Policy; |
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are prohibited from discussing the following when sourcing or analyzing investment ideas with buy-side investment professionals: |
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disclosing whether or not a particular security is held in client accounts; |
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disclosing Boston Partners immediate buy/sell intent with respect to a specific security, or |
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making consensus buy/sell decisions; and |
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for material nonpublic information other than Boston Partners client holdings or transactions must contact Legal immediately and disclose that they are in possession of material nonpublic information and may not communicate such information to anyone without the advance approval of Legal. |
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Penalties for Insider Trading |
Trading securities while in possession of material, nonpublic information or improperly communicating that information to others may expose you to stringent penalties. Criminal sanctions may include a fine of up to $5,000,000 and/or twenty years imprisonment. The SEC can recover the profits gained or losses avoided through the volatile trading, a penalty of up to three times the illicit windfall and an order permanently barring you from the securities industry. Finally, investors seeking to recover damages for insider trading violations may sue you.
Regardless of whether a government inquiry occurs, Boston Partners views seriously any violation of this Policy Statement. Disciplinary sanctions may be imposed on any person committing a violation, including, but not necessarily limited to, censure, suspension, or termination of employment.
6. |
Monitoring |
In addition to maintaining a Restricted List, Boston Partners maintains Value Added Investor Procedures to monitor potential conflicts of interest and potential insider trading due to the nature of these relationships. Furthermore, the CD maintains monitors for instances of insider trading which include, but are not limited to, reviews of personal trading activity and email surveillance.
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Engagement of Research Consultants. |
No research consultant may be engaged by Boston Partners without the prior approval of the Head of Research and the CCO or his delegate in the CD. An engagement of a research consultant must be undertaken with appropriate safeguards to prevent the transmission of inside information from the consultant to Boston Partners. Any engagement of a research consultant shall be pursuant to a written agreement that shall, at a minimum, (i) impose confidentiality obligations on the consultant, (ii) contain an acknowledgement by the Consultant that Boston Partners is not requesting and does not want to be provided with material non-public information regarding any issuer of securities or information the provision of which would breach any duty, and (iii) contain a covenant by the consultant not to provide any material non-public information to Boston Partners. Prior to approval, the CD shall undertake sufficient due diligence to ensure that the consultant is suitable for retention by Boston Partners, including, in particular, that the consultant has in place reasonable procedures to prevent the transmission to Boston Partners of material nonpublic information. Boston Partners personnel should notify any prospective consultant as soon as reasonably possible at the inception of any discussions about the engagement or services that the consultant may perform for Boston Partners that Boston Partners does not wish to receive any material nonpublic information and requests that the consultant not provide any such information.
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GIFTS AND ENTERTAINMENT POLICY |
Supervised Persons should not offer gifts, favors, entertainment or other things of value that could be viewed as overly generous or aimed at influencing decision-making or making a client feel beholden to the firm or the Supervised Person. The following guidelines will further clarify this general principal.
DEFINITIONS:
Gift anything of value, including, but not limited to gratuities, tokens, objects, clothing, or certificates for anything of value. The definition also includes any meal, tickets or admission to events where the person supplying the meal or event is not present.
Entertainment business meals and events such as sporting events, shows, concerts where the person supplying the meal or event is present.
1. GIFTS POLICY
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No Supervised Person shall accept any gift of more than $100 value from any person or entity that does business with or on behalf of a client (or any of its portfolios), or any entity that provides a service to Adviser. Gifts of greater than $100 value are to be declined or returned in order not to compromise the reputation of Adviser or the individual. Gifts valued at less than $100 and considered customary in the industry, are considered appropriate. |
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No Supervised Person shall provide gifts of more than $100 value, per person, per year, to existing clients, prospective clients, or any entity that does business with or on behalf of a client (or any of its portfolios), or any entity that provides a service to Adviser. Gifts valued at less than $100 and considered customary in the industry, are considered appropriate. |
C. |
Generally, a Supervised Person may not accept or provide a gift of cash or cash equivalent, (such as a gift card, gift certificate or gift check). Exceptions are permissible with the approval of a member of Boston Partners Management Committee. |
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Supervised Persons are expressly prohibited from soliciting anything of value from a client, or other entity with which the firm does business. |
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Similarly, Supervised Persons should not agree to provide anything of value that is requested by a client, or other entity with which the firm does business, (such as concert, sporting event or theater tickets,), except that assisting a client or other entity in acquiring tickets for which they intend to pay full value, is permitted under the policy. |
2. ENTERTAINMENT POLICY
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Supervised Persons may engage in normal and customary business entertainment. Entertainment that is extraordinary or extravagant, or that does not pertain to business, is not permitted. |
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Certain rules and regulations enacted by the client or a regulator of the client may exist which prevent any form of gift or entertainment. You must be cognizant of what each client allows, especially pertaining to public funds, where rules may be very stringent by specific. |
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Prior to providing entertainment to a representative of a public entity, contact the CD in order to verify interpretation of state or municipal regulations. |
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STANDARD OF REASONABLENESS |
The terms extraordinary or extravagant, customary in the industry, and normal and customary may be subjective. Reasonableness is a standard that may vary depending on the facts and circumstances. If you have questions regarding a gift or entertainment, contact your Supervisor, or Legal or the CD.
4. RECORDS
Boston Partners must retain records of all gifts and gratuities given or received for a period of three years.
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FOREIGN CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT POLICY |
In addition to Boston Partners internal Code of Ethics, Sales persons soliciting in foreign jurisdictions must be aware of compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).
Anti- bribery Provisions
The FCPA makes it unlawful to bribe foreign government officials to obtain or retain business.
5 Elements:
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Who: The law applies to any individual, firm, officer, director, employee or agent of a firm and any stockholder acting on behalf of a firm. |
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Corrupt intent: The person making the payment must have a corrupt intent and the payment must be intended to induce the recipient to misuse his official position to direct business wrongfully to the payer (or firm.) |
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Payment: Money or anything of value. |
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Recipient: Corrupt payments to a foreign official, a foreign political party or party official, or any candidate for foreign political office. Foreign official means any officer or employee of a foreign government, a public international organization, or any department or agency thereof or any person acting in an official capacity. |
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Business Purpose Test Payments made in order to assist the firm in obtaining or retaining business. Interpreted broadly. |
Exception:
Payments to facilitate or expedite performance of a routine governmental action. Such as: obtaining permits; licenses; or other official documents; processing governmental papers such as visas; providing police protection; mail pick-up and delivery; providing phone service; power and water supply; loading and unloading cargo; protecting perishable products; scheduling inspections.
Procedures:
Gift giving, entertainment and political contribution policies are incorporated in this policy.
Employees may not make payments on behalf of Boston Partners.
In the case of a request for facilitation or other payment by any foreign official, candidate, organization, agency or government or any person acting on their behalf, payment on behalf of BP requires the review and authorization by both the CFO and CLO.
Violations:
Criminal:
Firms may be fined up to $2,000,000.
Individuals may be fined up to $100,000 and imprisonment up to 5 years.
SEC Enforcement:
Fines up to $500,000.
Subject to civil action.
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CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS POLICY |
From time to time, Boston Partners or its Supervised Persons may be asked by a client to make a charitable contribution. To avoid any real or perceived conflict of interests, Boston Partners has adopted the following procedures.
If a contribution is requested by a client, Boston Partners may agree to charitable contributions subject to the following terms.
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The check must be made in Boston Partners name (not the client or the supervised person) |
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Any tax benefit is taken by Boston Partners |
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The contribution does not directly benefit the client |
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The contribution is not made to satisfy a pledge made by the client |
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The contribution must be made payable to the 501c3 Charitable organization (otherwise, the contribution may be subject to LM-10 filing with the DOL) |
Charitable contributions must be pre-approved by your Supervisor.
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POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS POLICY |
From time to time, Boston Partners or its employees may be asked by a client to make political contributions. In addition, Supervised Persons, by their own volition, may seek to make individual political contributions. As an investment manager, Boston Partners is often eligible to manage money on behalf of a state or municipality. To avoid any real or perceived conflict of interests, Boston Partners requires that all personal political contributions be subject to a preclearance policy.
For the purposes of this policy, political contribution includes a direct payment of money or contribution of goods or services to, purchase of a ticket to and costs of hosting a fundraising event for, a campaign organization, volunteer work, or fund raising work done on behalf of, or to benefit, a political campaign organization or candidate.
Certain contributions, even within your voting jurisdiction, may restrict or prohibit Boston Partners from transacting business with a related public entity. If a Supervised Person exceeds the stated contribution guidelines, Boston Partners is prohibited from providing advisory services for compensation to the effected government entity for two years after the contribution.
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FIRM CONTRIBUTIONS |
Boston Partners does not make political contributions.
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INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTIONS |
For all Supervised Persons
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Boston Partners will not reimburse any employee for individual political contributions. In addition, the Boston Partners corporate credit card cannot be used to make contributions. |
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Preclearance is required for all individual contributions to state, municipal and local candidates and campaigns, whether inside or outside your voting jurisdiction. |
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Preapproval is required prior to becoming a member of or contributor to any Political Action Committee (PAC). |
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Preclearance is not required prior to individual personal contributions to national election campaigns, national political parties, or candidates for national office such as president of the US or members of the US Senate or House of Representatives unless the candidate is a current state or municipal office holder. |
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Personal contributions for which preclearance is required will be limited to: |
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$350 per election per year for candidates for whom a supervised person is eligible to vote. |
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$150 per election per year for candidate for whom a supervised person is not eligible to vote. |
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Coordinating or soliciting contributions or payments to elected officials or any state or local political party is prohibited. |
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If a supervised person becomes aware that he or she has exceeded the limitations above, he or she shall contact compliance immediately and the contribution may be required to be returned. |
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If there is a chance that an individual contribution may cause a conflict of interest with Boston Partners business, please consult with the CD. |
Political contribution preclearance can be effectuated through Financial Trackings system.
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OUTSIDE BUSINESS ACTIVITIES |
A potential conflict of interest exists between a Supervised Persons duties to Boston Partners and its clients when individuals are permitted to engage in outside business activities.
Written requests must be submitted to the Supervised Persons supervisor with a copy to the CD prior to a Supervised Person seeking to:
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engage in any outside business activity, or |
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accept any position as an officer or director of any corporation, organization, association, or mutual fund. |
The written request must contain all of the information necessary to review the activity. The request should contain the name of the organization, whether the organization is public or private, profit or non-profit or charitable, the nature of the business, the capacity in which the employee will serve, an identification of any possible conflicts, the term of the contemplated relationships and any compensation to be received. Investment personnel are prohibited from serving on the boards of directors of publicly traded companies.
The CD, in conjunction with the Supervised Persons supervisor and the Director of Human Resources, will review and/or identify any potential conflicts.
If approved, the CD will provide the Supervised Person with written approval. In addition, if applicable, the CD will ensure that a registered representatives Form U-4 is updated with FINRA. In the event that a resolution to the conflict cannot be reached, the Supervised Person may be asked to terminate either his outside employment or his position with Boston Partners.
Finally, upon employment and annually thereafter, Supervised Persons are required to fill out the New Employee/Annual Compliance Acknowledgement Form and accompanying Conflicts Questionnaire (Questionnaire). The Questionnaire requests information regarding a Supervised Persons outside business activities. The CD will verify items reported on the Questionnaire against written requests received throughout the year.
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REPORTING VIOLATIONS |
All Supervised Persons must report violations of this Code promptly to the CD and the General Counsel. Boston Partners is committed to treating all Supervised Persons in a fair and equitable manner.
Individuals are encouraged to voice concerns regarding any personal or professional issue that may impact their ability or the Boston Partners ability to provide a quality product to its clients while operating under the highest standards of integrity. Retaliation against any individual making such a report is prohibited and constitutes a violation of the Code. Any such reports will be treated confidentially to the extent permitted by law and investigated promptly and appropriately. Based on facts and circumstances, the CD may escalate the matter to Boston Partners Management Committee for resolution. Supervised Persons may make use of Boston Partners Global Whistle Blowing Policy.
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ANNUAL REVIEWS AND CERTIFICATIONS |
The CD will review the Code annually and update any provisions and/or attachments which Boston Partners deems require revision.
Upon employment, all Supervised Persons are required to certify that they have:
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Received a copy of the Code; |
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Read and understand all provisions of the Code; and |
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Agreed to comply with all provisions of the Code. |
At the time of any material amendments to this Code, all Supervised Persons are required to:
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Certify they have read and understood the amendments to the Code; and |
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Agree to comply with the amendment and all other provisions of the Code. |
Annually, all Supervised Persons are required to:
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Certify they have read and understand all provisions of the Code; and |
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Agree to comply with all provisions of the Code. |
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SANCTIONS |
Regardless of whether a government inquiry occurs, Boston Partners views seriously any violation of its Code of Ethics. Disciplinary sanctions may be imposed on any Supervised Persons committing a violation, including, but not necessarily limited to, censure, suspension, monetary penalties, or termination of employment.
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FURTHER INFORMATION |
Any Supervised Person that has any questions with regard to the applicability of the provisions of this Code, generally or with regard to any attachment referenced herein, should consult Legal or the CD.
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RECORDKEEPING |
Boston Partners shall maintain the following records at its principal offices as follows:
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This Code and any related procedures, and any code of ethics of Boston Partners that has been in effect during the past five years, shall be maintained in an easily accessible place; |
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A record of any violation of this Code and of any action taken as a result of the violation, to be maintained in an easily accessible place for at least five years after the end of the fiscal year in which the violation occurs; |
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A copy of each report under this Code made by (or duplicate brokerage statements and/or confirmations for the account of) an Access Person, to be maintained for at least five years after the end of the fiscal year in which the report is made or the information is provided, the first two years in an easily accessible place; |
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A copy of each report by the CCO to the Board, to be maintained for at least five years after the end of the fiscal year in which it is made, the first two years in an easily accessible place; and |
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F. A record of any decision, and the reasons supporting the decision, to approve an acquisition by an Investment Person of securities offered in an Initial Public Offering or in a Limited Offering, to be maintained for at least five years after the end of the fiscal year in which the approval is granted. |
WELLS FARGO ASSET MANAGEMENT
CODE OF ETHICS
Effective: 2018
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I NTRODUCTION |
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O VERVIEW | 4 | ||||||
1.1 | Code of Ethics | 4 | ||||||
1.2 | Standards of Business Conduct | 4 | ||||||
1.3 | Applicability of this Code of Ethics | 4 | ||||||
1.4 | Reporting Person Duties | 5 | ||||||
1.5 | Reporting Persons Obligation to Report Violations | 6 | ||||||
1.6 | WFAMs Duties and Responsibilities to Reporting Persons | 7 | ||||||
1.7 | Annual Reports and Certifications | 7 | ||||||
1.8 | Recordkeeping | 8 | ||||||
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R EPORTABLE P ERSONAL S ECURITIES T RANSACTIONS | 9 | ||||||
2.1 | Resolving Conflicts of Interest | 9 | ||||||
2.2 | Reporting Reportable Personal Securities Accounts and Transactions | 9 | ||||||
2.3 | New Accounts | 11 | ||||||
2.4 | Confidentiality | 11 | ||||||
2.5 | Trading Restrictions and Prohibitions | 12 | ||||||
2.6 | How to Pre-Clear Reportable Personal Securities Transactions | 17 | ||||||
2.7 | Summary of What You and your Immediate Family Need to Report Quarterly and Pre-Clear | 18 | ||||||
2.8 | Wells Fargo & Co Securities | 19 | ||||||
2.9 | Ban on Short-Term Trading Profits | 20 | ||||||
2.10 | Employee Compensation Related Accounts | 21 | ||||||
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C ODE V IOLATIONS | 24 | ||||||
3.1 | Investigating Code Violations | 24 | ||||||
3.2 | Penalties | 24 | ||||||
3.3 | Dismissal and/or Referral to Authorities | 25 | ||||||
3.4 | Exceptions to the Code | 26 | ||||||
A PPENDIX A D EFINITIONS |
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A PPENDIX B C OMPLIANCE D EPARTMENT S TAFF L IST |
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A PPENDIX C R EPORTABLE F UNDS |
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INTRODUCTION
This Wells Fargo Asset Management (WFAM) Code of Ethics (the, or this Code) applies to employees, directors, and officers of the following entities, which entities may be referred to collectively herein as WFAM:
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Wells Capital Management Inc., a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) registered investment adviser based in San Francisco, California. |
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Wells Capital Management Singapore, an SEC registered investment adviser based in Singapore that is a separately identifiable department of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. |
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Wells Fargo Asset Management International, an SEC and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) registered investment adviser based in London, England. |
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ECM Asset Management Ltd., an SEC and FCA registered investment adviser based in London, England. |
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Analytic Investors LLC, an SEC registered investment adviser based in Los Angeles, California. |
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Wells Fargo Funds Management LLC (WFFM), an SEC registered investment adviser that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wells Fargo & Company primarily based in San Francisco, California. |
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Wells Fargo Funds Distributor LLC (the Distributor or WFFD), a limited purpose broker- dealer, registered with and regulated by Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the SEC that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wells Fargo & Company (WFC or Wells Fargo & Co.) primarily based in San Francisco, California. |
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Wells Fargo Asset Management Luxembourg S.A. (WFAML) is a Luxembourg management company authorized by the Luxembourg Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) pursuant to chapter 15 of the Law of 17 December 2010 relating to undertakings for collective investment, as may be amended from time to time (Law of 2010), managing Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (UCITS) governed by Directive 2009/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 on the coordination of laws, regulations and administrative provisions relating to undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities, as may be amended from time to time (UCITS Directive). |
Non-WFAM entities that are affiliated persons of WFAM, as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the 1940 Act) may be referred to collectively herein as Non-WFAM Entities.
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OVERVIEW |
1.1 Code of Ethics
WFAM has adopted this Code pursuant to Rule 17j-1 under the 1940 Act, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) Rules 3110, 3210, 3280, and Section 204A of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended (the Advisers Act), and Rule 204A-1 thereunder. This Code establishes standards of business conduct and outlines the policies and procedures that Reporting Persons (as defined in Appendix A) must follow to prevent fraudulent, manipulative or improper practices or transactions. This Code is maintained and enforced by the WFAM Chief Compliance Officer (CCO), the Code of Ethics Team Manager (Code Manager), and the Code of Ethics Team (Code Team) within WFAM. |
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1.2 Standards of Business Conduct |
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Reporting Persons must always observe the highest standards of business conduct and follow all applicable laws and regulations. Reporting Persons may never: |
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Use any device, scheme or artifice to defraud a client; |
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Make any untrue statement of a material fact to a client or mislead a client by omitting to state a material fact; |
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Engage in any act, practice or course of business that would defraud or deceive a client; |
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Engage in any manipulative practice with respect to a client; |
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Engage in any inappropriate trading practices, including price manipulation; or |
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Engage in any transaction or series of transactions that may give the appearance of impropriety. |
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This Code does not attempt to identify all possible fraudulent, manipulative or improper practices or transactions, and literal compliance with each of its specific provisions will not shield Reporting Persons from liability for personal trading or other conduct that violates a fiduciary duty to clients. |
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1.3 Applicability of this Code of Ethics |
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Reporting Persons are subject to all provisions of this Code, except for Section 2.5.B. Investment Professionals are subject to all provisions of this Code, including Section 2.5.B. Please refer to Appendix A for the definitions of these terms. If you have any questions regarding whether you are a Reporting Person or an Investment Professional, please contact the Code Manager or Code Team. Compliance maintains a shared mailbox (COE@wellsfargo.com) for requests, assistance, and ad-hoc issues. |
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Important Note: All references to Reporting Persons and Investment Professionals in the guidelines, prohibitions, restrictions, and duties set forth in this Code should be interpreted to also refer, as the context requires, to Immediate Family Members (as defined in Appendix A) of such persons. You or your should be interpreted to refer, as the context requires, to Reporting Persons or Investment Professionals and/or the Immediate Family Members of such persons.
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All Reporting Persons, as a condition of employment, must acknowledge in writing (or electronically) receipt of this Code and certify, within 30 calendar days of becoming subject to the Code and annually thereafter, that they have read, understand, and will comply with the WFAM Code. Violations of the Code may result in disciplinary actions, including disgorgement, fines and even termination, as determined by the Code Manager and/or senior management.
In addition to this Code, Reporting Persons must comply with separate personal conduct policies (located on WFAM Connect) regarding the following:
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Outside Business Activities; |
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Insider Information/Material Non-Public Information; |
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Gifts and Entertainment; and |
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Political Contributions and Solicitation of Contributions and Payments. |
All Reporting Persons must also comply with policies outlined in the Handbook for Wells Fargo Team Members and the Wells Fargo Code of Ethics and Business Conduct located on Teamworks.
The Code and your fiduciary obligations generally require you to put the interests of WFAM clients ahead of your own. The Code Manager and/or any relevant CCO may review and take appropriate action concerning instances of conduct that, while not necessarily violating the letter of the Code, give the appearance of impropriety.
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Reporting Persons Obligation to Report Violations |
Reporting Persons are expected to report any concerns regarding ethical business conduct, suspected or actual violations of the Code, or any non-compliance with applicable laws, rules, or regulations to the Code Manager or to a member of the WFAM Compliance Department. Reporting Persons may instead contact the Ethics Line (800-382-7250 or https://www.reportlineweb.com/wfelreport) where a report can be made anonymously. Reports will be treated confidentially to the extent reasonably possible and will be investigated promptly and appropriately. No retaliation may be taken against a Reporting Person for providing information in good faith about such violations or concerns.
Examples of violations or concerns that Reporting Persons are expected to report include, but are not limited to:
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Fraud or illegal acts involving any aspect of our business; |
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Concerns about accounting, auditing, or internal accounting control matters; |
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Material misstatements in reports; |
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Any activity that is prohibited by the Code; and |
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Deviations from required controls and procedures that safeguard clients, WFAM, and Wells Fargo. |
1.6 |
WFAMs Duties and Responsibilities to Reporting Persons |
To help Reporting Persons comply with this Code, the Code Manager will:
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Identify and maintain current listings of Reporting Persons and Investment Professionals; |
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Notify Reporting Persons and Investment Professionals in writing of their status as such and the Code requirements; |
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Make a copy of the Code available and require initial and annual certifications that Reporting Persons have read, understand, and will comply with the Code; |
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Make available a revised copy of the Code if there are any amendments to it (and, to the extent possible, prior to their effectiveness) and require Reporting Persons to certify in writing (or electronically) receipt, understanding, and compliance with the revised Code; |
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Periodically compare reported Reportable Personal Securities Transactions with portfolio transaction reports of the WFAM Accounts. Before WFAM determines if a Reporting Person has violated the Code on the basis of this comparison, the Code Team will give the Reporting Person an opportunity to provide an explanation; |
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From time to time, provide training sessions to facilitate compliance with and understanding of the Code and keep records of such sessions and the Reporting Persons in attendance; and |
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Review the Code at least once a year to assess its adequacy and effectiveness. |
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Annual Reports and Certifications |
No less frequently than annually, the relevant CCO or his or her designee shall submit to the Wells Fargo Funds and the Wells Fargo Funds Distributor Boards of Trustees (collectively, the Boards) a written report on behalf of the Covered Companies:
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Describing any issues arising under the Code relating to the particular Covered Company since the last report to the Boards, including, but not limited to, information about material violations of or waivers from the Code and any sanctions imposed in response to material violations, and |
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Certifying that the Code contains procedures reasonably necessary to prevent Reporting Persons from violating it. |
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Recordkeeping |
This Code, a record of each violation of the Code and any action taken as a result of the violation, a copy of each report and certification/acknowledgment made by a Reporting Person pursuant to the Code, lists of all persons required to make and/or review reports under the Code, and a copy of any pre-clearance given or requested pursuant to Section 3 of the Code shall be preserved with the applicable Covered Companys records, as appropriate, for the periods and in the manner required by the rules noted in Section 1.1 above.. To the extent appropriate and permissible, these records may be kept electronically.
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R EPORTABLE P ERSONAL S ECURITIES T RANSACTIONS |
2.1 |
Resolving Conflicts of Interest |
When engaging in Reportable Personal Securities Transactions, there might be conflicts between the interests of a WFAM client or a WFAM Account and a Reporting Persons personal interests. Any conflicts that arise in connection with such Reportable Personal Securities Transactions must be resolved in a manner that does not inappropriately benefit the Reporting Person or adversely affect WFAM clients or WFAM Accounts. Reporting Persons shall always place the financial interests of the WFAM clients and WFAM Accounts before personal financial and business interests.
Examples of inappropriate resolutions of conflicts are:
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Taking an investment opportunity away from a WFAM Account to benefit a portfolio or personal account in which a Reporting Person has Beneficial Ownership; |
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Using your position to take advantage of available investments for yourself; |
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Front running a WFAM Account by trading in Securities (or Equivalent Securities) ahead of the WFAM Account; |
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Taking advantage of information or using WFAM Account portfolio assets to affect the market in a way that personally benefits you or a portfolio or personal account in which you have Beneficial Ownership; and |
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Engaging in any other behavior determined by the CCO to be, or to have the appearance of, an inappropriate resolution of a conflict. |
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Reporting Reportable Personal Securities Accounts and Transactions |
Reporting Persons must report all Reportable Personal Securities Accounts (see definitions in Appendix A) to the Code Team via the applicable TMS (see Section 1.4) along with the Reportable Personal Securities holdings and transactions of Reportable Personal Securities Transactions in those accounts. Reportable Personal Securities Accounts include accounts of Immediate Family Members and accounts in which a Reporting Person is a Beneficial Owner. There are three types of reports: (1) an initial holdings report that is filed upon becoming a Reporting Person or establishing any Reportable Personal Securities Account, (2) a quarterly transaction report, and (3) an annual holdings report.
Each broker-dealer, bank, or fund company, where a Reporting Person has a Reportable Personal Securities Account will receive a request for the WFAM Compliance Department to receive copies of all account statements and confirmations from such accounts. The Code Team will make this request after the accounts are reported via the TMS. All accounts that have the ability to hold Reportable Securities must be included even if the account does not have holdings of Securities at the time of reporting.
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Initial Holdings Report. Within 10 business days of becoming a Reporting Person: |
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All Reportable Personal Securities Accounts and Managed Accounts, including broker name and account number information must be reported by each Reporting Person to the Code of Team via the TMS. |
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A recent statement (electronic or paper) for each Reportable Personal Securities Account and Managed Account must be submitted by each Reporting Person to the Code Team. |
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All holdings of Reportable Securities in Reportable Personal Securities Accounts and Managed Accounts must be inputted by each Reporting Person into an Initial Holdings Report via the applicable TMS. The information in the report must be current as of a date no more than 45 calendar days prior to the date of becoming a Reporting Person. |
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Quarterly Transactions Reports. Within 30 calendar days of each calendar quarter end: |
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Each Reporting Person must supply to the Code Team a report via the TMS showing all Reportable Securities trades made in the Reporting Persons Reportable Personal Securities Accounts during the quarter. A request for this report will be generated by the TMS with notification of due dates sent to Reporting Persons via email and a report must be submitted by each Reporting Person even if there were not any Reportable Securities trades transacted during the quarter. |
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Each Reporting Person must certify as to the correctness and completeness of this report. |
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This report and certification must be submitted to the Code Team by the business day immediately before the weekend or holiday if the 30th day falls on a weekend or holiday. |
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Managed Accounts are not subject to the quarterly transactions reports requirement. |
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Annual Holdings Reports. Within 30 calendar days of each calendar year end: |
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All holdings of Reportable Securities in all Reportable Personal Securities Accounts must be reported by each Reporting Person to the Code Team via the TMS. The information in the report must be current as of a date no more than 45 calendar days prior to when you submit the report. |
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Each Reporting Person must certify as to the correctness and completeness of this report. |
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This report and certification must be submitted to the Code Team by the business day immediately before the weekend or holiday if the 30th day falls on a weekend or holiday. |
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Managed Accounts are not subject to the annual holdings report requirement. |
Any report under this Section may contain a statement that the report shall not be construed as an admission by the Reporting Person making such a report that he or she has any direct or indirect Beneficial Ownership in the Reportable Securities to which the report relates.
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New Accounts |
Each Reporting Person must submit a request for pre-approval of a Reportable Personal Securities Account or Managed Account (including those of Immediate Family Members) to the Code Team within 10 business days of receiving the account number or prior to executing a transaction requiring pre-clearance, whichever occurs first. In addition, pursuant to FINRA Rule 3210, all Reporting Persons that are employees of WFFD (including those accounts where Reporting Persons have a beneficial interest) must obtain approval from WFFD Compliance when opening a Reportable Personal Securities Account or Managed Account (including those of Immediate Family Members) at another broker dealer. This FINRA rule does not apply to the following types of accounts:
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Accounts that exclusively hold unit investment trusts; |
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Accounts that exclusively hold municipal fund securities; |
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Qualified tuition programs (529 accounts); and |
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Non-Reportable Accounts and accounts that exclusively hold non-reportable securities. |
2.4 |
Confidentiality |
WFAM will use reasonable efforts to ensure that the reports submitted to the Code Team as required by this Code are kept confidential. Reports required to be submitted pursuant to the Code will be selectively reviewed by members of the Code Team and possibly senior executives or legal counsel on a periodic basis to seek to identify improper trading activity or patterns of trading and to otherwise seek to verify compliance with this Code. Data and information may be provided to Reportable Fund officers and trustees, and will be provided to government authorities upon request or others if required to do so by law or court order.
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2.5 |
Trading Restrictions and Prohibitions |
A. |
Reporting Persons. All Reporting Persons(including Investment Professionals) and their Immediate Family Members must comply with the following trading restrictions and prohibitions: |
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All Reporting Persons must pre-clear transactions of certain Reportable Securities in Reportable Personal Security Accounts, (including those of Immediate Family Members and accounts for which the Reporting Person is a Beneficial Owner) as described in the table that follows in Section 2.7. |
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60-Day Holding Period for Reportable Fund Shares (open-end and closed-end) Except as noted below, Reporting Persons are required to hold shares of most of the Reportable Funds for at least 60 days. This restriction applies without regard to tax lot considerations. Reporting Persons are prohibited from selling any Reportable Fund shares for 60 days from the date of the most recent purchase. If it is necessary to sell Reportable Fund shares before the 60-day holding period has passed, Reporting Persons must obtain advance written approval from the CCO or the Code Manager. The 60-day holding period does not apply to transactions pursuant to Automatic Investment Plans. The 60-day holding period does not apply to the Adjustable Rate Government Fund, Conservative Income Fund, Ultra Short-Term Income Fund, Ultra Short-Term Municipal Income Fund, and the money market funds. |
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IPOs, Private Placements and Initial Coin Offerings |
Reporting Persons are generally prohibited from purchasing shares in an IPO (an Initial Public Offering (as defined in Appendix A). Reporting Persons must get written approval from the Code Manager before acquiring shares in an IPO, or selling shares that were acquired in an IPO prior to becoming a Reporting Person. Reporting Persons may, subject to pre-clearance requirements, purchase shares in a Private Placement or acquire virtual coins or tokens in an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) that is conducted as a Private Placement as long as the position will be less than a 10% voting interest in the issuer, or 10% of the ICO, and is otherwise permitted under the Policy on Directorships and Other Outside Employment as set forth in the Wells Fargo Code of Ethics and Business Conduct .
Reporting Persons who have been pre-cleared to purchase shares in a Private Placement or acquire virtual coins or tokens in a private placement that is an ICO must disclose that investment to the Code Team when they are involved in the subsequent
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consideration of an investment in the issuer, coins or tokens by WFAM for a client, and WFAMs decision to purchase such Reportable Securities must be independently reviewed by Reporting Persons with no personal interest in the issuer, coins or tokens. To obtain pre-approval please complete the Private Securities Transaction Request Form in the applicable TMS noted in Section 1.4.
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WFC Derivatives |
Reporting Persons must comply with the policies outlined in the Wells Fargo Code of Ethics and Business Conduct which states, You may not invest or engage in derivative or hedging transactions involving Securities issued by Wells Fargo & Co, including but not limited to options contracts (other than employee stock options), puts, calls, short sales, futures contracts, or other similar transactions regardless of whether you have material inside information.
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Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) |
All Reporting Persons must disclose and report all holdings in ETFs. However, purchases or sales of ETFs that follow the following broad based indices do not require pre-clearance: Dow Jones Industrial Average, NASDAQ 100, Russell 2000, Russell 3000, S&P 100, S&P 500, S&P Midcap 400, S&P Europe 350, FTSE 100, FTSE Mid 250, FTSE 350, Hang Seng 100, Deutscher Aktien Index (DAX 30), S&P/TSX 60, Wilshire 5000 and Nikkei 225. ETFs that do not follow these indices must be pre- cleared.
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Wells Fargo Closed-End Funds |
Reporting Persons may not participate in a tender offer made by a closed-end Wells Fargo Fund under the terms of which the number of shares to be purchased is limited to less than all of the outstanding shares of such closed-end Wells Fargo Fund.
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No Reporting Person may purchase or sell shares of any closed-end Wells Fargo Fund within 60 days of the later of: |
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The initial closing of the issuance of shares of such fund; or |
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The final closing of the issuance of shares in connection with an overallotment option. |
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Reporting Persons may purchase or sell shares of closed-end Wells Fargo Funds only during the 10-day period following the release of dividend announcements to the public for such fund, which typically occurs on or about the first of the month. Certain Reporting Persons, who shall be notified by the Legal Department, are required to make filings with the SEC in connection with their purchases and sales of shares of closed-end Wells Fargo Funds. |
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Investment Clubs |
Reporting Persons may not participate in the activities of an Investment Club without the prior approval from the Code Team. Remember that guidelines, prohibitions, restrictions, and duties set forth in this Code should be interpreted to also refer, as the context requires, to Immediate Family Members. Transactions for an Investment Club would need to be pre-cleared and reported as applicable.
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Personal Transactions |
Reporting Persons are prohibited from executing or processing through a Covered Companys direct access software (TA2000 or any other similar software):
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Reporting Persons own personal transactions; |
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Transactions for Immediate Family Members; or |
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Transactions for accounts of other persons for which the Reporting Person or his/her Immediate Family Member have been given investment discretion. |
This provision does not exclude you from trading directly with a broker/dealer or using a broker/dealers software. The foregoing also does not prohibit you from executing or processing transactions in WFC Securities granted to you as compensation through an online program designated by WFC for such purpose.
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Attempts to Manipulate the Market |
Reporting Persons must not execute any transactions intended to raise, lower, or maintain the price of any Reportable Security or to create a false appearance of active trading.
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Excessive Trading |
Excessive Trading in Reportable Personal Securities Accounts is strongly discouraged and Reportable Personal Securities Accounts will be monitored by the Code Team for Excessive Trading activity and may be reported to the relevant CCO. Additional restrictions may be imposed by the Code Team if Excessive Trading is noted in a Reportable Personal Securities Account.
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Currency Accounts (including Cryptocurrencies) |
Reporting Persons do not need to report accounts established to hold foreign currency or cryptocurrencies, provided no Reportable Securities can be held in the account.
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Volcker Rule |
The Volcker Rule is a section of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act that with certain exceptions, (i) prohibits banks and their affiliates from engaging in proprietary trading, and (ii) prohibits banks and their affiliates from investing in or sponsoring hedge funds and private equity funds (i.e., funds that are exempt from registration under Section 3(c)(1) or Section 3(c)(7) of the 1940 Act), also known as Covered Funds. Many foreign funds are also considered Covered Funds under the Volcker Rule. The Volcker Rule contains a number of exemptions and exclusions from the general prohibitions on proprietary trading and sponsoring and investing in Covered Funds. One such exemption is known as the Asset Management Exemption. Wells Fargo may sponsor a Covered Fund pursuant to the Asset Management Exemption so long as it meets certain conditions. One of the conditions is that no Reporting Person or director may acquire or retain an ownership interest in a Covered Fund, unless such Reporting Person or director acquired the ownership interest while directly engaged in providing investment advisory, commodity trading advisory or other services to the Covered Fund. These other services include providing investment advice or investment management services to the fund, and providing such services that enable the provision of investment advice or investment management, including but not limited to:
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Oversight and risk management; |
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Deal origination; |
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Due Diligence; or |
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Administrative or other support services. |
Additionally, any permissible investments cannot be financed by Wells Fargo. Reporting Persons are responsible for not investing in a Covered Fund, except when permitted under the conditions applicable to the Asset Management Exemption. The investors in a Covered Fund will be periodically checked to confirm no impermissible Reporting Persons ownership exists. Reporting Persons looking to make a purchase (initial or subsequent) in a Covered Fund must obtain pre-approval from the Code Team before making the transaction. Please consult your TMS request form for Private Placements for additional guidance.
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B. |
Investment Professionals. All Investment Professionals and their Immediate Family Members must comply with the following additional trading restrictions and prohibitions: |
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Investment Professionals trades are subject to a 15-day blackout restriction: There is a 15-day blackout on inappropriate purchases or sales of Reportable Securities bought or sold by a WFAM Account. This means that purchases and sales of a Reportable Security (or Equivalent Reportable Security) (blackout security) during the 7-day periods immediately preceding and immediately following the date the WFAM Account trades in the blackout security (blackout window) are subject to review by the Code Team in order to determine if the purchase or sale is inappropriate. In such review, any Reportable Personal Securities Transactions in a blackout security during a blackout window will be evaluated and investigated by the Code Team based on each situation. This will include a review of the Investment Professionals role within WFAM and his or her reason(s) for buying or selling. Penalties on trades determined to have been inappropriate may range from no action to potential disgorgement of profits or payment of avoided losses (see Section 3 for Code violations and penalties) or more serious penalties. A blackout security that is inappropriately purchased during a blackout window may be subject to mandatory divestment. Similarly, inappropriate sales of a blackout security during a blackout window may subject the Investment Professional to penalties. |
In the case of a purchase and subsequent mandatory divestment at a higher price, any profits derived upon divestment may be subject to disgorgement; penalties may include a requirement that disgorged profits be donated to charity, with no tax deduction claimed by the Investment Professional. In the case of a sale, penalties may include a requirement that an amount equal to the avoided loss be donated to charity, with no tax deduction claimed by the Investment Professional.
For example, if a WFAM Account trades in a blackout security on July 7, July 15 (the 8th day following the trade date) would be the 1st day Investment Professionals may engage in a Reportable Personal Securities Transaction involving that blackout security. Any purchases and sales in the blackout security made on or after June 30 through July 14, even if pre- cleared, could be subject to mandatory divestment and/or penalties.
Purchases and sales in the security made on or before June 29 (the 8th day before the trade date) would not be within the blackout window.
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The Code Team has full discretion to determine whether any purchase or sale of a blackout security during a blackout window is inappropriate based on each situation.
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Investment Professionals who are Research Analysts may not trade personally any Reportable Security that they cover until 2 business days after the publication of a research note. |
2.6 How to Pre-Clear Reportable Personal Securities Transactions |
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Reporting Persons must follow the steps below to pre-clear trades for themselves and their Immediate Family Members: |
1. Request Authorization. A request for authorization of a transaction that requires pre- clearance must be entered using the applicable TMS (see Section 1.4). Email requests submitted to the respective mailbox noted in Appendix B will only be processed for those Reporting Persons who are on formal leave of absence or on paid time off (PTO). Reporting Persons may only request pre-clearance for market orders or same day limit orders. Verbal pre-clearance requests are not permitted. |
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Dont place an order with your broker until you receive approval to make the trade. |
2. Have The Request Reviewed and Approved . After receiving the electronic request, the TMS will notify Reporting Persons if the trade has been approved or denied. For Reporting Persons on leave of absence or PTO, email responses will be sent with the approval or denial.
3. Trading in Foreign Markets. A request for pre-clearance of a transaction in a local foreign market that has already closed for the day may be granted with authorization to trade on the following day because of time considerations. Approval will only be valid for that following trading day in that local foreign market. |
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4. Approval of Transactions |
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The Request May be Refused. The Code Manager may refuse to authorize a Reporting Persons Reportable Personal Securities Transaction and need not give an explanation for the refusal. Reasons for refusing your Reportable Personal Securities Transactions may be confidential. |
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Authorizations Expire. Any transaction authorization is effective until the close of business of the same trading day for which the authorization is granted (unless the authorization is revoked earlier). If the order for the transaction is not executed within that period, you must obtain a new advance authorization before placing a new transaction order. |
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2.7 |
Summary of What Reporting Persons and their Immediate Family Need to Report Quarterly and Pre-Clear |
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The table below serves as a reference to use in determining what
Reporting Persons need to report on
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Securities Purchased through automatic transactions in Automatic Investment Plans | No | No | ||
Open-End Investment Companies that are not Reportable Funds | No | No | ||
Receipt of unvested grants of WFC stock options, unvested restricted shares and other Securities awarded in WFC employee compensation plans | No | No | ||
Bankers Acceptances, bank certificates of deposit, commercial paper & High Quality Short-Term Debt Instruments, including repurchase agreements | No | No | ||
529 Plans | No | No | ||
Non-WFC 401(k) plans that do not and cannot hold Reportable Funds or Reportable Securities | No | No | ||
Transactions in Managed Accounts | No | No | ||
Cryptocurrencies (e.g., Bitcoin) | No | No | ||
Reportable Securities purchased through Automated Investment Plans | Yes | No | ||
Vesting of WFC options in employee compensation plans or WFC restricted shares | Yes | No | ||
Gifting Reportable Securities to any account outside your Reportable Securities account | Yes | Yes | ||
Receipt of Reportable Securities as a gift | Yes | No | ||
Tender Offers | Yes | Yes |
2.8 |
Wells Fargo & Co. Securities |
Reporting Persons are prohibited from engaging in any transaction in Wells Fargo & Co. securities that is not in compliance with applicable requirements of the Wells Fargo Team Member Code of Ethics and Business Conduct set forth under the heading Avoid Conflicts of InterestPersonal Trading and InvestmentDerivative and Hedging Transactions in Securities Issued by Wells Fargo as may be amended from time to time. A copy of this policy is available on the Wells Fargo & Co. website at: http://portal.teamworks.wellsfargo.com/1/Ethics/Pages/COE.aspx
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2.9 |
Ban on Short-Term Trading Profits |
There is a ban on short-term trading profits. Reporting Persons are not permitted to buy and sell, or sell and buy, the same pre-clearable Reportable Security (or Equivalent Security) within 60 calendar days and make a profit; this will be considered short-term trading.
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This prohibition applies without regard to tax lot. |
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Short sales are subject to the 60-day profit ban. |
If a Reporting Person makes a profit on an involuntary call of an option, those profits are excluded from this ban; however, buying and selling options within 60 calendar days resulting in profits is prohibited. Settlement/expiration date on the opening option transaction must be at least 60 days out.
Sales or purchases made at the original purchase or sale price or at a loss are not prohibited during the 60 calendar day profit holding period.
Reporting Persons may be required to disgorge any profits the Reporting Person makes from any sale before the 60-day period expires.
The ban on short-term trading profits does not apply to transactions that involve:
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Reportable Securities not requiring pre-clearance (e.g., open-end investment companies that are not Reportable Funds, although they typically impose their own restrictions on short-term trading); |
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Same-day sales of Reportable Securities acquired through the exercise of employee stock options or other WFC Securities granted to you as compensation or through the delivery (constructive or otherwise) of previously owned employer stock to pay the exercise price and tax withholding; |
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Commodities, futures (including currency futures), options on futures and options on currencies; |
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Automated purchases and sales that were done as part of an Automatic Investment Plan. However, any self-directed purchases or sales outside the pre-set schedule or allocation of the Automatic Investment Plan, or other changes to the pre-set schedule or allocation of the Automatic Investment Plan, within a 60-day period, are subject to the 60-day ban on short term profit; or |
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Adjustable Rate Government Fund, Conservative Income Fund, Ultra Short-Term Income Fund, Ultra Short-Term Municipal Income Fund, and the money market funds. |
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2.10 |
Employee Compensation Related Accounts |
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401(k) Plans |
Initial Holding Report: Completed in the TMS
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Reporting Persons who have an established Wells Fargo 401(k) plan with a non- zero balance are required to report their 401(k) balances in Reportable Funds or Reportable Securities as part of the Initial Holdings Reporting process. |
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401(k) Plans that are external to Wells Fargo are required to be reported if, regardless of the balance, the plan is capable of holding Reportable Funds or Reportable Securities. |
Quarterly Transaction Report: Completed in the TMS
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Reporting Persons are required to report self-directed transactions in Reportable Funds or Reportable Securities in Wells Fargo 401(k) plans that occurred outside of the previously reported investment allocations. This reporting may be made on behalf of the Reporting Person by the 401(k) plan administration area to the WFAM Compliance Department. |
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Reporting Persons are required to report transactions in Reportable Funds or Reportable Securities in 401(k) plans held outside of Wells Fargo. |
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Reporting Persons are not required to report bi-weekly payroll contributions, periodic company matches, or profit sharing contributions. |
Annual Holdings Report: Completed in the TMS
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Reporting Persons are required to update their holdings in Wells Fargo 401(k) plans in their Annual Holdings Report. This update may be made on behalf of the Reporting Person by the 401(k) plan administration area to the WFAM Department. |
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If an external 401(k) account holds Reportable Funds or Reportable Securities, Reporting Persons are required to update these holdings in their Annual Holdings Report. |
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Wells Fargo Employee Stock Options & Vested Stock Awards |
Initial Holdings Report:
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Reporting Persons are not required to report the grant or vesting of WFC restricted share rights in the Initial Holdings Report. |
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Following the delivery of an Initial Holding Report, when Reporting Persons restricted share rights in WFC stock awarded under the Reporting Persons Long Term Incentive Compensation Plan (LTICP) vest and shares of WFC stock are thereupon delivered to a brokerage account, including the shareowner services account, Reporting Persons are required to report the account holding such shares of WFC stock as a new Reportable Personal Securities Account within the time period specified in Section 2.2, if such account was not previously reported. |
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Reporting Persons are required to report subsequent vested, restricted share rights and shares delivered to any such Reportable Personal Securities Account, including a shareowner services account. |
Quarterly Transaction Report:
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All Reporting Person-directed transactions in LTICP holdings are reportable on the Quarterly Transaction Report, i.e., exercising of WFC options. |
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The exercise of employee stock options is a reportable transaction. |
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Reporting Persons are required to report shares of WFC stock delivered to any Reportable Personal Security Accounts, including a shareowner services account upon vesting of restricted share rights, in Quarterly Transaction Reports, and any prior or subsequent transactions in WFC stock during the reporting period. |
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Reporting Person are not otherwise required to report the grant or vesting of WFC restricted share rights or the vesting of WFC employee stock options. |
Annual Holdings Report:
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Reporting Persons are required to report shares of WFC stock delivered upon vesting or restricted share rights and held in Reportable Personal Security Accounts, such as a shareowner services account. |
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Reporting Persons are not required to report holdings of restricted share rights or employee stock options in LTICP. |
Pre-Clearance:
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Pre-clearance is not required prior to the sale of LTICP restricted shares. |
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The exercise of stock options from LTICP is not pre-clearable in the TMS; however, Reporting Persons are requested to inform the Code Team via an email to COE@wellsfargo.com of the transaction details, as exercising of the options will create an alert in the TMS. |
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Wells Fargo Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) |
Initial Holdings Report:
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An ESPP is a Reportable Personal Securities Account and must be included in a Reporting Persons Initial Holding Report. |
Quarterly Transaction Report:
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Sales of shares acquired under an ESPP are reportable on the Quarterly Transaction Report. |
Annual Holdings Report:
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Reporting Persons are required to update holdings within ESPP accounts in the Annual Holdings Report. |
Pre-Clearance:
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Transactions in an ESPP (WFC stock) do not require pre-clearance. |
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Wells Fargo Health Savings Account (HSA) |
Initial Holdings Report:
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Wells Fargo HSAs are reportable when the balance reaches the threshold that allows the Reporting Person to invest in Reportable Funds. |
Quarterly Transaction Report:
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Sales of shares of Reportable Funds within a Reporting Persons HSA are reportable on the Quarterly Transaction Report. |
Annual Holdings Report:
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Reporting Persons are required to update holdings of balances invested in Reportable Funds within a Reporting Persons HSA in the Annual Holdings Report. |
Pre-Clearance:
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Transactions in an HSA account do not require pre-clearance. |
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Wells Fargo Deferred Compensation Plans |
Wells Fargo Deferred Compensation Plans are not reportable accounts.
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3. |
C ODE V IOLATIONS |
3.1 |
Investigating Code Violations |
The Code Manager or designee is responsible for investigating any suspected violation of the Code. This includes not only instances of violations against the letter of the Code, but also any instances that may give the appearance of impropriety. Reporting Persons are expected to respond to Code Manager inquiries promptly. The Code Manager is responsible for reviewing the results of any investigation of any reported or suspected violation of the Code. The Code Manager will report the results of each investigation to the CCO, as well as the WFAM Ethics Committee. Violations of the Code may also be reported to the Reporting Persons supervisor and human resources as well.
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Penalties |
The Code Manager is responsible for deciding whether a violation is minor, substantive or serious. In determining the seriousness of a violation of this Code, the Code Manager will consider the following factors, among others and will escalate as needed to the WFAM CCO:
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The degree of willfulness of the violation; |
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The severity of the violation; |
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The extent, if any, to which a Reporting Person profited or benefited from the violation; |
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The adverse effect, if any, of the violation on a Covered Company or a WFAM Account; and |
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The Reporting Persons history of prior violation(s) of the Code. |
For purposes of imposing sanctions, violations generally will be counted on a rolling 24 month period. However, the Code Manager (in consultation with the CCO) reserves the right to impose a more severe sanction/penalty depending on the severity of the violation and/or taking into consideration violations dating back more than 24 months.
Any serious offense as described below will be reported to the Wells Fargo Fund Board. All minor and substantive violations will be reported to the Board at least annually. Penalties will be imposed as follows:
Minor Offenses:
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First minor offense 1st Written Notice. |
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Second minor offense 2nd Written Notice. |
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Third minor offense 10 Business Day ban on all personal trading, fine, disgorgement and/or other action. |
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Minor offenses may include, but are not limited to, the following: failure to timely submit quarterly transaction reports, failure to timely complete assigned training, failure to submit signed acknowledgments of Code forms and certifications, excessive (i.e., more than three) late submissions of such documents, and conflicting pre-clear request dates versus actual trade dates or other pre-clearance request errors, or Reportable Securities not covered by the blackout period.
Substantive Offenses:
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First substantive offense Written notice, fine, disgorgement and/or other action. |
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Second substantive offense 30 Business Day ban on all personal trading, fine, disgorgement and/or other action. |
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Third substantive offense 45 Business Day ban on all personal trading, fine, disgorgement and/or other action. |
Substantive offenses may include, but are not limited to, the following: unauthorized purchase/sale of Securities as outlined in this Code, violations of short-term trading for profit (60- day rule), failure to request pre-clearance of transactions as required by the Code, failure to timely report a reportable brokerage account, and violations of the 15-day blackout period. Other actions that may be taken in response to a substantive offense may include termination of employment and/or referral to authorities, depending on the seriousness of the offense.
Serious Offenses:
Engaging in insider trading or related illegal and prohibited activities such as front running and scalping, is considered a serious offense. We will take appropriate steps, which may include fines, termination of employment and/or referral to governmental authorities for prosecution. The CCO and WFAM Ethics Committee will be informed immediately of any serious offenses.
Exceptions:
The Code Team may deviate from the penalties listed in the Code where the CCO and/or WFAM Ethics Committee determines that a more or less severe penalty is appropriate based on the specific circumstances of that case. For example, a first substantive offense may warrant a more severe penalty if it follows two minor offenses. Any deviations from the penalties listed in the Code, and the reasons for such deviations, will be documented and/or maintained in the Code files.
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Dismissal and/or Referral to Authorities |
Repeated violations or a flagrant violation of the Code may result in immediate dismissal from employment. In addition, the Code Manager, the CCO, the WFAM Ethics Committee and/or senior management may determine that a single flagrant violation of the law, such as insider trading, will result in immediate dismissal and referral to authorities.
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3.4 |
Exceptions to the Code |
The Code Manager is responsible for enforcing the Code. The CCO or Code Manager (or his or her designee) may grant certain exceptions to the Code, provided any requests and any approvals granted must be submitted and obtained, respectively, in advance and in writing. The CCO or Code Manager (or his or her designee) may refuse to authorize any request for exception under the Code and is not required to furnish any explanation for the refusal.
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A PPENDIX A
D EFINITIONS
General Note:
The definitions and terms used in the Code are intended to mean the same as they do under the 1940 Act and applicable other Federal Securities Laws. If a definition hereunder conflicts with the definition in the 1940 Act or other Federal Securities Laws, or if a term used in the Code is not defined, you should follow the definitions and meanings in the 1940 Act or other Federal Securities Laws, as applicable.
Automatic Investment Plan | A program that allows a person to purchase or sell Reportable Securities, automatically and on a regular basis in accordance with a pre-determined schedule and allocation, without any further action by the person. An Automatic Investment Plan includes a SIP (systematic investment plan), SWP (systematic withdrawal plan), SPP (stock purchase plan), DRIP (dividend reinvestment plan), or employer-sponsored plan. | |
Beneficial Owner | You are the beneficial owner of any Reportable Securities in which you have a direct or indirect Financial or Pecuniary Interest, whether or not you have the power to buy and sell, or to vote, the securities. | |
In addition, you are the beneficial owner of Reportable Securities in which an Immediate Family Member has a direct or indirect Financial or Pecuniary Interest, whether or not you or the Immediate Family Member has the power to buy and sell, or to vote, the Reportable Securities. For example, you have Beneficial Ownership of securities in trusts of which Immediate Family Members are beneficiaries. | ||
You are also the beneficial owner of Reportable Securities in any account, including but not limited to those of relatives, friends and entities in which you have a non-controlling interest or over which you or an Immediate Family Member exercise investment discretion. Such accounts do not include accounts you manage on behalf of a Covered Company or any other affiliate of Wells Fargo & Co.. |
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Control | The power to exercise a controlling influence over the management or policies of a company, unless the power is solely the result of an official position with such company. Owning 25% or more of a companys outstanding voting securities is presumed to give you control over the company. (See Section 2(a) (9) of the 1940 Act for a complete definition.) | |
Covered Companies | Wells Fargo Funds Management, LLC, Wells Fargo Funds Distributor, LLC, Wells Capital Management Inc., Wells Capital Management Singapore, Wells Fargo Asset Management International, ECM Asset Management Ltd., Wells Fargo Asset Management Luxembourg (WFAML) and Analytic Investors, LLC. | |
Equivalent Security | Any Reportable Security issued by the same entity as the issuer of a subject security that is convertible into the equity security of the issuer. Examples include, but are not limited to, options, rights, stock appreciation rights, warrants and convertible bonds. | |
Excessive Trading | A high number of transactions by any Reporting Person during any month could be considered by the Code Team, in its sole discretion, to be Excessive Trading. The Compliance Department may report any Excessive Trading to WFAMs CCO and/or senior management. | |
Federal Securities Laws | The Securities Act of 1933 (15 U.S.C. 77a-aa), the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78amm), the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (Pub. L. 107-204, 116 Stat. 745 (2002)), the Investment Company Act of 1940 (15 U.S.C. 80a), the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (15 U.S.C. 80b), Title V of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (Pub. L. No. 100-102, 113 Stat. 1338 (1999)), any rules adopted by the SEC under any of these statutes, the Bank Secrecy Act (31 U.S.C. 5311- 5314; 5316-5332) as it applies to funds and investment advisers, and any rules adopted thereunder by the SEC or the Department of the Treasury. |
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Financial or Pecuniary Interest | The opportunity for you or your Immediate Family Member, directly, or indirectly, to profit or share in any profit derived from a transaction in the subject Reportable Securities whether through any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise. This standard looks beyond the record owner of Reportable Securities to reach the substance of a particular arrangement. You not only have a Financial or Pecuniary Interest in Reportable Securities held by you for your own benefit, but also Reportable Securities held (regardless of whether or how they are registered) by others for your benefit, such as Reportable Securities held for you by custodians, brokers, relatives, executors, administrators, or trustees. The term also includes any interest in any Reportable Security owned by an entity directly or indirectly controlled by you, which may include corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, trusts and other types of legal entities. You or your Immediate Family Member likely have a Financial or Pecuniary Interest in: | |
Your accounts or the accounts of Immediate Family Members; |
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A partnership or limited liability company, if you or an Immediate Family Member is a general partner or a managing member; |
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A corporation or similar business entity, if you or an Immediate Family Member has or shares investment control; or |
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A trust, if you or an Immediate Family Member is a beneficiary. |
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High Quality Short-Term Debt Instrument | Any instrument that has a maturity at issuance of less than 366 days and that is rated in one of the two highest rating categories by a nationally recognized statistical rating organization such as Moodys Investors Service. |
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Immediate Family Member | Any of the following persons, including any such relations through adoption, who reside in the same household with you: |
spouse |
grandparent |
mother-in-law |
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domestic partner |
grandchild |
father-in-law |
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parent |
brother |
daughter-in-law |
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stepparent |
sister |
son-in-law |
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child |
sister-in-law |
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stepchild |
brother-in-law |
Immediate Family Member also includes any other relationship that the CCO determines could lead to possible conflicts of interest, diversions of corporate opportunity, or appearances of impropriety. | ||
All references to Reporting Persons and Investment Professionals in the guidelines, prohibitions, restrictions and duties set forth in this Code should be interpreted to also refer, as the context requires, to Immediate Family Members of such persons. | ||
Investment Club | An investment club is a group of people who pool their money to make investments. Usually, investment clubs are organized as partnerships and, after the members study different investments, the group decides to buy or sell based on a majority vote of the members. Club meetings may be educational and/or each member may actively participate in investment decisions. | |
Investment Professional | Any Reporting Person who is a portfolio manager, trader or analyst employed (including as a temporary or contract employee) by WFAM, and any other person designated by the CCO or designee as such given his or her access to current portfolio or trading information for clients. | |
All references to Investment Professionals in the guidelines, prohibitions, restrictions and duties set forth in this Code should be interpreted to also refer, as the context requires, to Immediate Family Members of Investment Professionals. The Code Manager is responsible for maintaining a list of all Investment Professionals and notifying such Investment Professionals of their status. |
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IPO | An initial public offering, or the first sale of a companys securities to public investors. Specifically, it is an offering of securities registered under the Securities Act of 1933, the issuer of which, immediately before registration, was not subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. | |
Managed Account | Any account for which the holder gives, in writing, his/her broker or someone else (other than another Reporting Person) the authority to buy and sell Reportable Securities, either absolutely or subject to certain restrictions, other than pre-approval by any Reportable Person. In other words, the holder gives up the right to decide what Reportable Securities are bought or sold for the account. This includes accounts known as Robo Advisor accounts where account investments and reallocations are done through an automated platform. | |
Non-Public Information | Any information that is not generally available to the general public in widely disseminated media reports, SEC filings, public reports, prospectuses, or similar publications or sources. | |
Private Placement | An offering, including an ICO, that is exempt from registration under Section 4(2) or 4(6) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or Rule 504, Rule 505 or Rule 506 thereunder. | |
Purchase or Sale of a Security | In addition to any acquisition or disposition of a Reportable Security for value, a Purchase or Sale of a Reportable Security includes, among other things, the receipt or giving of a gift or writing of an option to purchase or sell a Reportable Security. |
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Reportable Fund | Reportable Fund means (i) any investment company registered under the 1940 Act, for which a Covered Company serves as an investment adviser as defined in Section 2(a)(20) of that Act, which includes a sub-adviser, or (ii) any investment company registered under the 1940 Act, as amended, whose investment adviser or sub-adviser or principal underwriter controls a Covered Company, is controlled by a Covered Company, or is under common control with a Covered Company; provided, however, that Reportable Fund shall not include an investment company that holds itself out as a money market fund. For purposes of this definition, control has the same meaning as it does in Section 2(a) (9) of the 1940 Act. A list of all Reportable Funds shall be maintained and made available for reference under Reportable Funds under the Code of Ethics tab in the WFAM Compliance Department InvestNet web page. | |
Reporting Person | Reporting Person means (i) any employee, officer or director, and any other persons designated by the CCO or designee, as having access to current trading information for clients, of WFAM, and (ii) any employee (including all temporary or contract employees), officer or director of any Non-WFAM Entities who supports any WFAM business functions and has access to WFAM systems that contain Non-Public Information regarding WFAM client holdings or transactions, and any other person designated by the CCO or designee as such given his or her access to current portfolio or trading information for clients. | |
All references to Reporting Persons in the guidelines, prohibitions, restrictions and duties set forth in this Code should be interpreted to also refer, as the context requires, to Immediate Family Members of Reporting Persons. The Code Manager is responsible for maintaining a list of all Reporting Persons and notifying such Reporting Persons of their status. |
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Reportable Personal Securities Account | Any account that holds Reportable Securities of which you have Beneficial Ownership, other than a Managed Account that holds Reportable Securities and has previously been approved by the Code Manager over which you have no direct influence or Control. A Reportable Personal Securities Account is not limited to Reportable Securities accounts maintained at brokerage firms, but also includes holdings of Reportable Securities owned directly by you or an Immediate Family Member or held through a retirement plan of Wells Fargo or any other employer. | |
Reportable Personal Securities Transaction | A Purchase or Sale of a Reportable Security, of which you acquire or relinquish Beneficial Ownership. | |
Reportable Security/Securities | Any security as defined under Section 2(a)(36) of the 1940 Act or Section 202(a)(18) of the Advisers Act, except that it does not include direct obligations of the U.S. Government, bankers acceptances, bank certificates of deposit, commercial paper, High Quality Short-Term Debt Instruments, including repurchase agreements, shares issued by affiliated or unaffiliated money market mutual funds, or shares issued by open-end registered investment companies other than the Reportable Funds or shares issued by unit investment trusts that are invested exclusively in one or more open-end registered investment companies none of which are Reportable Funds. Reportable Security includes any security issued by closed-end funds and ETFs. | |
WFAM Accounts | Accounts of investment advisory and sub-advisory clients of Covered Companies, including but not limited to registered and unregistered investment companies. |
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A PPENDIX B
C OMPLIANCE D EPARTMENT S TAFF L IST
Please consult Frontier (Reporting Persons that are employees of WFFM/WFFD) or CapZone (Reporting Persons other than employees of WFFM/WFFD) via WFAM Connect for a current list of compliance staff designated to monitoring the Code of Ethics, as wells as for additional Code of Ethics resources including links to each Transaction Monitoring Systems. For Reporting Persons with no access to the above systems, please contact the Code Team at COE@wellsfargo.com.
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A PPENDIX C
R EPORTABLE F UNDS
For Reporting Persons other than employees of WFFM/WFFD, please consult the following link for a list of WFAM Reportable Funds:
https://wellscap.ptaconnect.com/pta/openDocument.do?st=T376-RNOQYRTQ-RIDI-QL31-7SBY- V91VJY6E&name=281_1400097842793.PDF&path=//PTANAS01/Clients/WELLSCA
P/docs/&st=T376-RNOQ-YRTQ-RIDI-QL31-7SBY-V91V-JY6E.
For Reporting Persons who are employees of WFFM/WFFD, please use the following link:
https://wellsfargo.starcompliance.com/Employee#v=details&t=document&id=aafc00a9b4710542495f480d77138eb7.
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