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&lt;p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" align="center"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Arial" size="3"&gt;&lt;b&gt;COLUMBIA CAPITAL ALLOCATION MODERATE CONSERVATIVE PORTFOLIO &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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Effective immediately, the section of each prospectus for Columbia Capital Allocation Moderate Aggressive Portfolio entitled &lt;b&gt;"Principal Investment Strategies"&lt;/b&gt; is modified by deleting the table entitled "Asset Class Exposures" and replacing it with the following:
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Capital Allocation Moderate Conservative Portfolio&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-size:12px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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investments in derivative instruments. Market appreciation or depreciation may cause the Fund to be temporarily outside the ranges identified in the table. The Investment Manager may modify the target allocation ranges only with the approval of the
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style="font-family:Arial" size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;COLUMBIA CAPITAL ALLOCATION MODERATE CONSERVATIVE PORTFOLIO &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" align="center"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Arial" size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;(each a

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&lt;p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" align="center"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Arial" size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Funds&amp;#146; prospectuses dated June&amp;nbsp;1, 2012 and November&amp;nbsp;8, 2012, as supplemented &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</columbia:SupplementTextBlock_03>
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