Note: Be sure to read any footnotes or accompanying explanations to make sure that you fully understand the
data the fund provides in the bar chart and table. Also, bear in mind that the bar chart and table for a
multiple-class fund (that offers more than one class of fund shares in the prospectus) will typically show
performance data and returns for only one class.
Fee Table— Following the performance bar chart and annual returns
table, you'll find a table that describes the fund's fees and expenses. These include the shareholder fees and
annual fund operating expenses described in greater detail above. The fee table includes an example that will
help you compare costs among different funds by showing you the costs associated with investing a hypothetical
$10,000 over a 1-, 3-, 5-, and 10-year period.
Financial Highlights— This section, which generally appears towards the back
of the prospectus, contains audited data concerning the fund's financial performance for each of the past
5 years. Here you'll find net asset values (for both the beginning and end of each period), total
returns, and various ratios, including the ratio of expenses to average net assets, the ratio of net
income to average net assets, and the portfolio turnover rate.
Profile
Some mutual funds also furnish investors
with a "profile," which summarizes key information contained in the fund's prospectus, such as the fund's
investment objectives, principal investment strategies, principal risks, performance, fees and expenses,
after-tax returns, identity of the fund's investment adviser, investment requirements, and other
information.
Statement of
Additional Information ("SAI")
Also known as "Part B" of the registration
statement, the SAI explains a fund's operations in greater detail than the prospectus — including the fund's
financial statements and details about the history of the fund, fund policies on borrowing and concentration,
the identity of officers, directors, and persons who control the fund, investment advisory and other
services, brokerage commissions, tax matters, and performance such as yield and average annual total return
information. If you ask, the fund must send you an SAI. The back cover of the fund's prospectus should
contain information on how to obtain the SAI.
Shareholder
Reports
A mutual fund also must provide
shareholders with annual and semi-annual reports within 60 days after the end of the fund's fiscal year and
60 days after the fund's fiscal mid-year. These reports contain a variety of updated financial information, a
list of the fund's portfolio securities, and other information. The information in the shareholder reports
will be current as of the date of the particular report (that is, the last day of the fund's fiscal year for
the annual report, and the last day of the fund's fiscal mid-year for the semi-annual
report).
Investors can obtain all of these
documents by:
Calling or writing to the
fund (all mutual funds have toll-free telephone numbers);
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